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Speaker 1: buying should be. Well, I felt like we were with

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Speaker 1: each other for all of yesterday. I was departing here

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Speaker 1: yesterday saying I will see you, who knows, maybe next

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Speaker 1: week Martin. And then the next thing I know, Martin

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Speaker 1: Weiss is here right now.

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Speaker 2: It's just musical chairs. I mean, Bo's about to take

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Speaker 2: the producer chair over that. He tried to run me

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Speaker 2: out of the update chair yesterday. Now Monsi's in the

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Speaker 2: update chair. You're the constantee. How does that so you

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Speaker 2: just know it all for all the weekend. You're the constant.

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Speaker 2: I just whether it's good or bet you know there's

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Speaker 2: only one constant.

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Speaker 1: Well, I never take any day. I love Martin's work ethic.

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Speaker 1: Here see some people have asked me over the years, Martin,

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Speaker 1: all right, So how do you navigate being in this

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Speaker 1: business for as long as you've been in this business,

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Speaker 1: which right now is thirty five years, And part of

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Speaker 1: it is always saying yes, you know, yes, yes, an

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Speaker 1: you doing it? Yes, yes, and you have the same mindset. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I dare say I am passing the baton

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Speaker 1: to you, Martin as the single most dedicated, hardworking man

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Speaker 1: in this organization.

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Speaker 2: Well, you see, I continue to say yes because the

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Speaker 2: bills keep coming and saying no, no, no, go back

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Speaker 2: to work, boy, get back to it pal. And so

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Speaker 2: as I pulled into the driveway last night, all right,

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Speaker 2: the garage last night, and I got the text from

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Speaker 2: us old Scott Shapiro. He's like, can I put you

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Speaker 2: on call? I was like, please, in fact call me anyway.

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Speaker 2: It's good to get that call. It's when the call

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Speaker 2: stopped coming that you have to.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, we've got four hours coming up here on

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Speaker 1: the show today, and Monsey's here to do the updates.

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Speaker 1: Chase here, what's going on there? What's happening here? What's

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Speaker 1: going on? Chris?

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Speaker 3: It's the it's the usual ten am handoff, just you know,

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Speaker 3: trying to get podcasts posted, chairs moved.

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Speaker 2: But this is This is the Ben Roethlisberger to Le'Veon

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Speaker 2: Bell handoff, which is taking that much longer. He's got

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Speaker 2: the page to standing there behind the offensive line, just chilling.

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Speaker 3: We should try working with the software sometimes, see how

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Speaker 3: fast it takes you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean a lot of it has to

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Speaker 1: do with the fact that everyone is now exhaling after

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Speaker 1: the end of a football season. You know, we look

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Speaker 1: forward to the football season. It's frantic. I know on

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Speaker 1: our Sunday show, the Red Zone Radio, the Rich Ornberger

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Speaker 1: and I have done for years. Monsey's been a big

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Speaker 1: up like we're gonna sit down and we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: there to kick off nine games simultaneously. Let's roll with it,

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Speaker 1: and you keep that pace throughout the football season between

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Speaker 1: let's face it, February is one of those months looking

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Speaker 1: You can think Martin of almost any month and you

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Speaker 1: February obviously is football. But every this has always been

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Speaker 2: But I think that's that's February into March has kind

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Speaker 1: Well, and I'll tell you how it's worked with me

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Speaker 1: I'm a college sports guy. First. Obviously, I love the NFL,

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Speaker 1: And yet it doesn't matter because March Madness is such

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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't do too wait free football? Who

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Speaker 1: asked for this? Well, no one is going to work

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Speaker 1: the next day after that, because it's a full day

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Speaker 1: consumed by your brackets. Steve, those days should be off days.

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Speaker 2: There were two days I vividly remember that were moments

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Speaker 2: the Big Ten Big Ten Tournament, and I let out

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Speaker 1: So we basically had the idea that we my producer

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Speaker 1: oh mother f And this is going out on the air.

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Speaker 1: The board op is trying to dump as much of

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Speaker 2: There's only only twenty five seconds of dump. There's only

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Speaker 1: Can do, right, and all of this is going out

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Speaker 1: does Hartman even know that he's on Mike? This is Crazyville.

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Speaker 1: something like that. He was just like, what happened there?

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Speaker 1: I said, well, you told me to get more outrageous.

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Speaker 1: He was absolutely ballistic, But no, he didn't. He didn't

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Speaker 1: If you want to push me that far, I'll take

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Speaker 1: the messengers steam days, like, dude, you're on the air

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Speaker 1: right now. You stay in the upward and then.

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Speaker 2: That's radio man, and that's radio goals. Steve Hartman, You walked,

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Speaker 2: Like Fred Jones, he was calling the dunk contest, yes,

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Speaker 1: That's what that was.

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Speaker 2: Revitalize the dunk contest is good people who we already

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Speaker 2: in this moment, like as your name is being called

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Speaker 1: No, that's the whole up. Why do you think they

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Speaker 2: The conspiracy theory Martin says, you ready for this, everybody,

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Speaker 2: Jalen Brown is a sneaker free agent. He's not signed

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Speaker 2: he's got his signature shoe. Does Nike say, Yannis, I

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Speaker 2: know you want to do the dunk contest, but you

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Speaker 2: can't because if you lose, people might buy less shoes.

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Speaker 2: Jason Tatum and signature shoe. I know you might want

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Speaker 2: to do it, but if you lose, might lose. You

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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying something about the shoes.

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Speaker 3: What if you blow out your shoe? Like, uh, who's

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Speaker 2: You got a shoe in it stands because it flew

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Speaker 1: Now what now what? I like that theory. I think

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Speaker 2: And you think it, think about the guys, think about

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Speaker 1: All right, So then just eliminate the competition. Listen.

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Speaker 2: I think they really should do. I had this com

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Speaker 2: you know, just to spin off of this. Don't may

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Speaker 2: That's what separates me from the rest of you conspiracy theorists.

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Speaker 2: They should do Team Nike Verse, Team Adidas, team Team

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Speaker 1: Really, that'd be great, But what happens to the losing team?

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Speaker 1: What happens to the losing team? Make a better product,

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Speaker 2: But I think that's why, because big sneakers in the way,

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Speaker 6: that shoe because it's this player but I guess I've

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Speaker 6: been on the other side of it where I'm like, oh,

434
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Speaker 6: the shoes I play volleyball in.

435
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Speaker 7: Are Russell Westbrook shoes that I bought, Yeah, why not?

436
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 7: And it's a kid's shoes so it's colorful. Like people

437
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 7: are like, oh, we aren't you giving the shoes like it's.

438
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Speaker 6: A kid size and I don't think they make them

439
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 6: in men's so sorry about that.

440
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Speaker 7: But yeah, it works out. But I've never not bought

441
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Speaker 7: a shoe because it belonged to someone.

442
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Speaker 6: This theory of yours, Marian, I'm into it.

443
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 7: But what about the three point shooting contest? How is

444
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Speaker 7: that not the same idea? If you lose this, my

445
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 7: sales go down.

446
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, but for whatever reason, we're fine with people losing

447
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 2: a three point contest like Sabrina. I asked you lost

448
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 2: three point contest yesterday and everybody went crazy. They had

449
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 2: a roll out and everything said if you can shoot,

450
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Speaker 2: you can shoot boy or girls.

451
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Speaker 1: Yeah you're not really. I mean it's a jump shot,

452
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Speaker 1: but any of the shoes are not an impact and

453
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Speaker 1: non three point shots yes.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I mean I think what was crazy about Sabrina, which.

455
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Speaker 7: Is the whole time I was like, I was giving

456
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Speaker 7: a lot.

457
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Speaker 6: Of the credit to Steph Curry for doing it, because

458
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Speaker 6: I thought it's a lose lose situation for him. If

459
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Speaker 6: he wins, people are gonna be like, why did you

460
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Speaker 6: have to beat a girl? If he loses, you lost

461
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Speaker 6: to a girl. And it actually became a win win

462
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Speaker 6: situation because Sabrina scored the same amount as the guys

463
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Speaker 6: during the three point shooting contest. I really thought it

464
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Speaker 6: was a win win, which I didn't think.

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Speaker 7: Could be the end.

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Speaker 1: Well, and we're going to get into this on the

467
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Speaker 1: other side, but his whole attitude about the competitioning was amazing, amazing.

468
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Speaker 1: It worked for her and worked for him, worked for

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Speaker 1: the league. Look, the NBA has been keeping the WNBA

470
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Speaker 1: float all these years. Yes, there was a time when

471
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Speaker 1: David Stern. There were some WNBA players that approached David

472
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Speaker 1: Stern about the pay right and his response was swift

473
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Speaker 1: and to the point. Yeah, either accept what we pay

474
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Speaker 1: you or I'll pull the plug on the league today,

475
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: simple as that that those are your two options, right,

476
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Speaker 1: And that was the end of that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So it's nice to see a little change here

478
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Speaker 6: in there. Let's check in with college hoops.

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Speaker 7: We got two.

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Speaker 6: Games going on in top twenty five men's college basketball.

481
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Speaker 6: Number twenty four Florida Atlantic losing to South Florida sixty

482
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Speaker 6: six to forty one with about twelve minutes to go

483
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Speaker 6: in the game. Number two, per Due has a slight

484
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Speaker 6: lead over Ohio State twenty two to nineteen late in

485
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Speaker 6: the first half. And on the ladies' side, just because

486
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Speaker 6: South Carolina has not lost a game this season, they

487
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Speaker 6: are twenty four and zero right now. They're taking on

488
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Speaker 6: Georgia and they are tied at twenty six with six

489
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Speaker 6: minutes to go in the second quarter. No NASCAR today,

490
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Speaker 6: the opening Daytona five hundred. It was supposed to happen

491
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Speaker 6: this afternoon, not happening because of inclement weather. So it's

492
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Speaker 6: going to start tomorrow Monday at four pm Eastern time.

493
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Speaker 6: And we still have the Genesis Invitational going on. Patrick

494
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Speaker 6: Cantley is supposed to tee off in about less than

495
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Speaker 6: an hour or so, and he's in the lead at

496
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Speaker 6: fourteen hunder par overall.

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Speaker 1: Back to you guys, Alli Monsie, thank you very much,

498
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Speaker 1: and by the way, thank you for breakfast again.

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Speaker 7: Yes, I know Marin got to be a part of it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you remember yesterday, Chris is moaning and grow much

501
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Speaker 1: be in here without breakfast, said life, Well we're out breakfast.

502
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and it was Saturday, and I almost didn't bring

503
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Speaker 6: him one, but I told him I'm gonna not bring

504
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Speaker 6: him one.

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Speaker 1: Randomly, very appreciated. I'm speaking for Chris.

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Speaker 3: I was groveling, yes, hands out, hands out in supplication.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you very much, Monton for check in

508
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Speaker 1: with you. A little bit later, Steve Harvey and Martin

509
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Speaker 1: Weiss with you here Fox Sports Sunday. So the I

510
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: ask you a matchup with Steph I thought was interesting

511
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Speaker 1: all around. I agree with what Monzi said. I was thinking, Wow,

512
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Speaker 1: this is sort of a lose lose for Steph. You

513
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 1: know what was interesting. I don't know if you watch

514
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Speaker 1: the whole thing, Martin, but they're doing there. I was

515
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Speaker 1: here on the radio. So they're doing the warm ups

516
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,400
Speaker 1: and she finished her warm ups on the left corner

517
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Speaker 1: and she airballed three of the five shots that she

518
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Speaker 1: put up from that, and that's where she started, and

519
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: she made five for five. Now I'm watching this, they

520
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Speaker 1: get okay, this this woman is a serious shoot. I

521
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Speaker 1: mean I know that. I mean, she's obviously one of

522
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Speaker 1: the big Stars of the w NBA. She puts up

523
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Speaker 1: at twenty six, which was the exact state score the

524
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Speaker 1: Dame put up to win the men's competition. The only

525
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: difference was she was using in a w NBA ball,

526
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Speaker 1: but the distance was identical. They had given her the

527
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Speaker 1: option before the competition to shoot from the WNBA three

528
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Speaker 1: point line. She said, no, I'll shoot from the NBA

529
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Speaker 1: three point line. She used a WNBA ball. But when

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Speaker 1: she posted twenty six and Steph missed a couple of

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Speaker 1: shots early than he hit his last four in a

532
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Speaker 1: row and you know, and you know for him, fortunately

533
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Speaker 1: won the competition. But I thought his added toude was great,

534
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: and I thought it was it was something different. I

535
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Speaker 1: was actually into it and very much engaged in watching

536
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Speaker 1: that competition. And of course down the line you get

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Speaker 1: a Caitlin Clark with her ability to seemingly hit a

538
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Speaker 1: shot from anywhere on the court. I think it's an

539
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Speaker 1: intriguing competition. I said.

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Speaker 2: The only way I thought it wasn't going like I

541
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Speaker 2: get to lose, lose like for Steph. But really the

542
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 2: loss would have been like if if if Sabrina came

543
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Speaker 2: out and only hit like fifteen.

544
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Speaker 1: You know, she like she gets wiped out. If she

545
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Speaker 1: just gets.

546
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Speaker 2: Wiped out annihilated, then Steph can't win either way, because

547
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 2: now you definitely can't lose. But it's like like to

548
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Speaker 2: what how far do I go? You know, how how

549
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 2: many many do I make? Because Steph did come, no

550
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Speaker 2: warm up, no nothing, and hit three or thirty, thirty

551
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Speaker 2: to thirty points whatever through the three point shootout, moneyballs

552
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 2: and so on and so forth. Like you said, Sabrina

553
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Speaker 2: hit twenty six, so she was right there with him,

554
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Speaker 2: But that would have been that would have been this

555
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 2: the poema. Oh, this is uncomfortable if she only hit

556
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Speaker 2: like ten of thirty, like ten of a potential thirty

557
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Speaker 2: and then Steph came out and just cleared the racks of.

558
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Speaker 1: The way that he did. But I mean sure we

559
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 1: used to do that. Then we used to do this

560
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Speaker 1: with all the time.

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Speaker 2: I remember there used to be it would be a

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Speaker 2: WNBA player, an NBA player, and then an NBA like

563
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,959
Speaker 2: alumni player. Then they would play like a three on

564
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 2: three with other teams that represented I have a VID

565
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 2: memory of Ryl Swoops, Katino Mobley, and now I can't

566
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 2: remember who the legend player was.

567
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Speaker 1: But this back where they were both.

568
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 2: Playing in the actual in their perspective, professional leagues and

569
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 2: then playing like three on three. So I don't have

570
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Speaker 2: any issue with integrating the WNBA into the All Star

571
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 2: into the All Star Weekend. I really don't, but I

572
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 2: would say, maybe try to line them up a little

573
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Speaker 2: bit better or integrate the NBA into the WNBA All

574
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Speaker 2: Star Weekend, because I don't WNBA All Star Weekend normally

575
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Speaker 2: is the first weekend of NBA Summer League, which the

576
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 2: whole entire league is in Las Vegas for it.

577
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm watching or put up that twenty six, which

578
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Speaker 1: again was the same thing that Dame Lillard did to

579
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Speaker 1: win the competition, and I'm thinking if they had matched

580
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Speaker 1: up with anyone other than Steph Curry, oh, you think

581
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Speaker 1: that she would have won? Like if they I'll put

582
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Speaker 1: it this way, Steph Curry held his cool, which he

583
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Speaker 1: knew he would he needed to make those last four

584
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Speaker 1: in a row. Sure, Now, if anyone else is in

585
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: that situation, I don't know if they would have held

586
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: up to the pressure. And then how do you handle

587
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: that situation if she meets you? That would have been

588
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Speaker 1: I think if Steph had lost, he could handle it. Right,

589
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: because he's Steph Curry's way beyond that, but a lesser

590
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: star player. I don't know if that would fly. Are

591
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: you into battle the sexiest type of thing? You know?

592
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: Such a weird time for us in America right now,

593
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Speaker 1: where you know there's an argument between the separation of

594
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Speaker 1: the sexes and the inclusion of everybody, so just all

595
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Speaker 1: in one big, happy family. It's hard for me because

596
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Speaker 1: I was there in the very beginning in terms of

597
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: the growth of women's collegiate sports. After Title nine when

598
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Speaker 1: I was at UCLA, the first ever women's final four

599
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Speaker 1: back on it was AIAW was won by UCLA at

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Speaker 1: poly Pavilion. My dear friend Ann Myers was the star

601
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: of the team. They had another great player, Denise Curry,

602
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: on that team. And then years later I was introduced

603
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: to another friend of mine, Sheryl Miller, who I still

604
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: maintained to this day is the best female basketball player

605
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my life. So I've been following

606
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: this for so many years and I keep hearing the

607
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: same complaint time again. Well, you know, it's not the

608
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: men's game, this, that, and everything else. All I know

609
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: is because you were talking earlier about where's the star

610
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: power in men's college basketball. There's no doubt that Kaitlyn

611
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:36,719
Speaker 1: Clark is by far the biggest star in college basketball

612
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: this year. It's not even close. I'll give you that.

613
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: She's filling arenas everywhere she goes.

614
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Speaker 2: I'm not exactly where it falls between Caitlyn Clark and

615
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 2: Juju Watkins. It's definitely in the top. There are two

616
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Speaker 2: of the top five most recognizable college athletes are college

617
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 2: basketball players, I should say, and they're probably not one

618
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Speaker 2: in three.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, after Juju put up fifty one for

620
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: sc and you know, that was like, wow, Okay, she

621
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: could actually pull this thing off. She can go. So

622
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: you know, I felt really good for Sabrina last night

623
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Speaker 1: because she held up under immense pressure. As you mentioned,

624
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Speaker 1: If she had gone out and just gotten obliterated, which

625
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: was potentially the case, going against the greatest shooter of

626
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Speaker 1: all time in Steph Curry and forcing him forcing him

627
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 1: to have to hit those final shots just to edge

628
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: her out, that says a lot about her egg.

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Speaker 2: And you know, keep in mind, Steve, it's not exactly

630
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how much of this one

631
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 2: you were watching live at the moment, but the whole

632
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 2: floor was green, like like I'm not saying that, like

633
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 2: Sabrina would be like, you know, shook by a major

634
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 2: crowd or anything like that, obviously sold out arena. But

635
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 2: how many times are you shooting at three pointer when

636
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 2: the whole floor is lime green and switching back and

637
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 2: forth between lime green and yellow? I mean you only

638
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 2: get a couple of practice rounds for that, you know.

639
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: Impressive to me, very impressive. Well, I mean, and we'll

640
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: see what it does. I mean, is this happened? Is

641
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: this gonna have an impact for you listening out there

642
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: that would just say, not in a million years would

643
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: I watch the WNBA never ever, ever, ever ever, I'm

644
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,719
Speaker 1: never gonna watch a women's basketball game. I don't care

645
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 1: about Caitlin Clark, I don't care about the w NBA.

646
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: But you just saw this, Sabrina and ask you doe

647
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: to doe in a three point shooting contest with the

648
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: greatest shooter ever, Steph Curry. Ever, so maybe you should

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Speaker 1: reconsider some of your viewing habits out there all right now.

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Speaker 1: On the other side, I'm gonna switch gears on you

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Speaker 1: once again. This is how you know I operate, Martin

652
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Speaker 1: so you're you're used to this. You never know where

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Speaker 1: we're going. I had no idea. Oh I know, I'll

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Speaker 1: be here for another three hours, But I do want

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Speaker 1: to get into a sport that is starting right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not get a gay. What I think is a

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Speaker 1: changing of the face of a certain sport, and it's

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Speaker 1: a good change. Let's explain. This is Fox Sports Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvin, Martin Wise, this is Fox Sports Sunday. We

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Speaker 1: are live from the tire rack dot Com studios. We're

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Speaker 1: going to get into what happened in twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: in the NFL and what to look forward to in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four in the next hour. But right now,

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Speaker 1: I just want to touch a little bit Martin on

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Speaker 1: another sport that's just getting started right now. In fact,

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Speaker 1: later this week we're going to get our first spring

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Speaker 1: training exhibition baseball games and the process begins to get

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Speaker 1: ready for another baseball season. And I have to admit

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Speaker 1: last year I had a little treputation. I was a

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Speaker 1: little nervous because they were introducing a bunch of rules changes,

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Speaker 1: and the one that made me most nervous was the

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Speaker 1: pitcher clock because one of the beauties of baseball is

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Speaker 1: there is no clock, at least that used to be

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Speaker 1: the tradition, right, You don't have you know, like in

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Speaker 1: any other sport, you're down twenty points with ten seconds left,

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00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 1: the game is over. But you could be down twenty

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Speaker 1: runs with one out to go, and it's conceivable there

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00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: is a chance that a team could rally and win

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Speaker 1: the game because there is no clock. I went to

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Speaker 1: a Dodger game early in the season and I could

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Speaker 1: not take my eyes off of this clock. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's there's one right behind home played obviously the pitcher

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Speaker 1: can see, and then you have one in the outfield

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Speaker 1: where the hitter can see. And I'm thinking, this is

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Speaker 1: just not gonna work. Well, guess what I was wrong? Wrong, wrong.

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Speaker 1: It was brilliant. It was a stroke of genius. It

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Speaker 1: made the game shorter. I went to afternoon games that

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00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: were barely two hours long, and the games moved. They

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Speaker 1: eliminated the shift so that there was more offense in

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Speaker 1: the games. Every rules changed they made worked. So now

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Speaker 1: here we are a year later, and I find myself,

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Speaker 1: for the first time in a long time, feeling it

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Speaker 1: I'm ready for a baseball season.

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Speaker 2: I'm definitely ready for baseball season. I really enjoyed baseball

695
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Speaker 2: because it's all day, all the time. There's always a

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Speaker 2: baseball game on, especially if you live on the West

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Speaker 2: Coast because they start so early. There's always a baseball

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Speaker 2: game on from start to finish. So it's a great

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Speaker 2: it's a great background noise sport. The one rule that

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Speaker 2: I didn't like, though, and I wish they would. I

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Speaker 2: wish they would consider changing it back. I feel like

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Speaker 2: pitchers should have to throw four balls to intentionally walk somebody,

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Speaker 2: because I mean, we saw Miguel Cabrera hit a home Now,

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Speaker 2: I know I can say if you could, this is

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Speaker 2: one of the things I'd like to say on my

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Speaker 2: show Steve all the time. I know you listened every

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Speaker 2: single Saturday, so you've heard this before.

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Speaker 1: As I'm leaving here, you know I'm locked in with

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Speaker 1: you and VJ.

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Speaker 2: But if you can sit there and name the name

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Speaker 2: specific instances in which something happened that those are called outliers,

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Speaker 2: and they don't normally didn't inform the way you move

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Speaker 2: around and the way you make decisions.

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Speaker 1: But like Miguel Cabrera hit a.

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Speaker 2: Home run on a pitch that was supposed to be

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Speaker 2: like an intentional walk attempt.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes pitchers would.

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00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 2: Lose kind of lose their lose their way after throwing

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Speaker 2: four balls way outside and then having a comeback and

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Speaker 2: strike out the next guy. I thought that was the

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Speaker 2: rest of the rules didn't fundamentally change to me, the

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Speaker 2: game in the same way. Like you said that the clock, right, well,

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Speaker 2: it's not a clock on the entire length of the game.

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Speaker 2: It's more like a shot clock in basketball, right, So

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Speaker 2: there still is no final end of regulation clock, right,

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Speaker 2: it's it's just a shot clock where if you don't

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Speaker 2: if you don't shoot, if you don't throw them, if

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Speaker 2: you don't pitch the ball in a certain time, then

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00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 2: all right, you gotta do it again, and there's a

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Speaker 2: punishment attached to it. But it still didn't change. Like

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Speaker 2: base size, it didn't fundamentally change the game. The shift

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Speaker 2: didn't fundamentally change the game or actually probably changed it.

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Speaker 1: Back to what it waged used to be. But that

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Speaker 1: was the one.

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Speaker 2: I feel like, you have to throw five balls in

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Speaker 2: the dirt intentionally walks away, and.

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Speaker 1: That role is put in several years ago before they

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Speaker 1: introduce more effective rules to actually shorten the games. I

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Speaker 1: remember when they introduced that rule with the idea, well

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Speaker 1: this will help shorten games. They didn't shorten the game

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Speaker 1: at all, not at all, So I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, the most famous incident of how

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Speaker 1: you can use that the Reds were playing the Oakland

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Speaker 1: A's in the World Series nineteen seventy two. Johnny Bench

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Speaker 1: is at the plate, the Hall of Fame catcher of

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Speaker 1: the Reds. Roley Fingers is on the mound, Hall of

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Speaker 1: Famer leaf pitcher for the A's, and they're pitching carefully

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Speaker 1: because they have first base opened. Bench and the cow

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Speaker 1: gets the three to two, and then the catcher, Gene Tennis,

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Speaker 1: stands up and puts his arm out, saying, all right,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to take any chances. We're going to

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Speaker 1: give him the intentional walk. Bench is standing there, he

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Speaker 1: can see that obviously the catcher behind him has stood up.

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Speaker 1: And then instead of throwing wide, Tennis gets back in

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Speaker 1: his crouch and Fingers throws a right down the middle,

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Speaker 1: first strike strike three. Ye're out. It was. It was

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Speaker 1: a great decoy play, one of the great in a

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Speaker 1: World Series game, no less, But they sold Bench that

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Speaker 1: we're gonna finally out, We're gonna just walk it because

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Speaker 1: first base is open. But instead of taking a wide pitch,

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Speaker 1: Tennis gets back in his crouch fingers, throws it right down.

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Speaker 1: The middle bench is just standing there like what just happened?

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Speaker 1: Strike three year out? See, yes, let's see it. And

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Speaker 1: that's fun.

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Speaker 2: Took a little bit of the strategy out of it.

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Speaker 2: It took some of the thought process out of it,

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Speaker 2: because you can't have a three two count, you know what, no.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no on you Yeah, he would go right

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Speaker 1: to first base. I like that idea because again, that

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Speaker 1: rule was put in several years ago when they're trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out ways to quicken the game. But they

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Speaker 1: finally figured it out, and and look, this is a

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Speaker 1: I guess one of the big stories obviously, Well, the

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Speaker 1: biggest story is going to be show Heyo Tani in

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Speaker 1: a Dodgers uniform, and a little bit later maybe we

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Speaker 1: can get into that, because this is going to be Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'll let's do it right now, show Hao Tani. He

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Speaker 1: is still someone that I'm trying to figure out if

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball has figured out how to best utilize

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Speaker 1: this once in a lifetime talent. Are they marketing him

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Speaker 1: in a proper way or does that take care of itself.

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Speaker 1: Now that he takes off an angel's uniform and puts

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Speaker 1: on a doctor.

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Speaker 2: That's about to say. I think it's yet to be determined,

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Speaker 2: but we'll see. Because I know this, I know way

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Speaker 2: more about his spring training now as a Dodger. Apparently

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Speaker 2: he can't keep the ball inside the park than I

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Speaker 2: did when he was at any point in Anaheim.

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Speaker 1: All right, we got a lot of different sports to

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Speaker 1: get to. But on the other side, we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: what just transpired in the NFL in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: what's ahead in twenty four. Keep it right here. This

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Speaker 1: is Fox Sports Sunday. Yes, roll along here on a

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Speaker 1: will not have the Daytona five hundred today. It's been

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Speaker 1: delayed because of inclement weather, so it'll take place tomorrow instead,

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Speaker 1: So that's a loss on this Sunday. We will have

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Speaker 1: the NBA All Star Game later? Is that something you'll

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Speaker 1: be watching Martin? Will you be watching a game where

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Speaker 1: the over unders around three sixty? Does that have interest

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Speaker 1: for you?

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Speaker 2: I think I'm going to be watching this the same

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Speaker 2: way that you know, people who you know just tap

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00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 2: into the super Bowl because it's like the super Bowl party,

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00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 2: you know, so they're like watching I'll be watching the

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Speaker 2: also game similar to that, Like I'll be bringing the

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Speaker 2: bean dip.

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Speaker 1: Is that your favorite? Is that your go to? I

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Speaker 1: mean it would be. I see, I'm not the best cook.

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Speaker 2: I know how to make a few things very well, right, right,

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Speaker 2: and so, but the majority of that is like shrimp

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Speaker 2: and salmon and those types of things, like things that

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Speaker 2: my sister taught me how to make. But when I

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Speaker 2: was trying to out there rough it on my own,

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Speaker 2: Steve Yes, I was having trouble with with with meat

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Speaker 2: like chicken, beef. I'd either under cooking and get sick,

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Speaker 2: all right, burn the me hell out of it, so

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Speaker 2: it would be, you know, it would look like who

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Speaker 2: did it and why after you put it on the plate.

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Speaker 2: So what I started to do, I started to make

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Speaker 2: a lot of vegan food because if you under cook

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Speaker 2: vegan food you can't get sick.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can't get sick.

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Speaker 2: It's just for all you know that's gonna you know,

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Speaker 2: so undercooked black beans aren't going to kill you.

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Speaker 1: Undercooked chicken. So yeah, a lot of beans in your

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Speaker 1: in your diet.

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Speaker 2: Well back when I was out there, uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: in that world, you know.

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Speaker 1: Steak every night. So it's a different world for I know,

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Speaker 1: I've gotten better at the bet all right. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to I want to talk to some NFL in this

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Speaker 1: hour with you, Martin, because we just finished the year

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Speaker 1: and once again, the Kansas City Chiefs are a top

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00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,959
Speaker 1: didn't look that way for much of the season. They underperformed,

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Speaker 1: certainly by their standards, throughout most of the regular most

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Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl so and most of the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how dismal they look in that first half.

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Speaker 1: And when you think about it, we just had Steve

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Speaker 1: Wilkes fired as the defensive coordinator of the Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs or of the defensive coordinator of the San Francisco So

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers after his defense held Patrick Mahomes and

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs the nineteen points in regulation, and one of

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Speaker 1: those touchdowns was a direct result of a punt landing

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00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: on somebody's foot like a gift touchdown, and he gets fired.

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Speaker 1: He gets fired.

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Speaker 2: See this is one of the reasons why I like

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Speaker 2: the CEO head coaches as opposed to the play calling

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Speaker 2: head coaches, because sometimes you get moves like this with

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Speaker 2: the play calling head coaches where it's like, well.

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Speaker 1: This was a definite fall guy scenario.

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Speaker 2: That's absolutely what it was, because you can't fire the

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Speaker 2: offensive coordinator because you are the offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan.

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Speaker 1: Or the GM who traded three first round picks to

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Speaker 1: go get Trey Lance. But oh wait, that's because Kyle

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Speaker 1: Shanahan basically is the GM. You know. Don't say that

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Speaker 1: to John. I think I've known John Lynch since he

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Speaker 1: was a student at Stanford, so I still believe he's

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Speaker 1: making a lot of calls. They did have a big

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Speaker 1: argument on whether or not Trey Lance was the guy,

865
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Speaker 1: and you're right about who decided Trey Lance was the guy.

866
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Speaker 1: So I'm looking back on this twenty twenty three season,

867
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Speaker 1: a team that is certainly no shock to win the

868
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Speaker 1: championship based on what we thought before the season, actually

869
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Speaker 1: won the championship, that being the Kansas City Chiefs, when

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00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: I look back on this season, the two teams that

871
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Speaker 1: were in my book clearly the two teams that came

872
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Speaker 1: out of nowhere based on my preseason expectations, one in

873
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Speaker 1: each conference. That would be the Houston Texans in the

874
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Speaker 1: AFC and the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC. I mean,

875
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: I could have made an argument, along with the Arizona

876
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: Cardinals coming into the year that those would be arguably

877
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Speaker 1: the three worst teams in the league. The Texans would

878
00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: have a rookie coach after firing two one and done coaches.

879
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: They would have a rookie quarterback that a lot of

880
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 1: people were suspect odd because overinflated numbers at Ohio State.

881
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: We've seen this play out many times before, and those

882
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: guys had failed to produce any were near at that

883
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Speaker 1: level once they got into the NFL. And as far

884
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Speaker 1: as the Rams are concerned, we have a big list

885
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,919
Speaker 1: here at Fox Sports Radio where all the on air

886
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Speaker 1: people make their predictions on the upcoming season, and one

887
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Speaker 1: of the things we have to predict is who will

888
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: be the worst team in the league. And I had

889
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: the Rams, and I even had a little insight on that.

890
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee, the Rams tight end and I had dinner

891
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: together before the season began with former Ram Eric Dickerson

892
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,919
Speaker 1: and the Overhunner and the Rams wins was like five

893
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: and a half. Oh yeah, And I'm thinking myself, I'm like,

894
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: you guys can't win six games six And he looked

895
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: at me like, we got problems. We got a lot

896
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 1: of problems. There's no depth on this team. If we

897
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Speaker 1: get Stafford to be healthy and we get Aaron Donald

898
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: be healthy, we could win some games. We have no depth,

899
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Speaker 1: we have any injuries, We're done. And there they are

900
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Speaker 1: ten and seven and they make the playoffs.

901
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Speaker 2: And then that's the thing that's funny too, because I

902
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 2: would have agreed with that statement, Oh there's no depth,

903
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:16,240
Speaker 2: there's no depth there. Well, you know, Cooper Cup started

904
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 2: the season on injury reserve, right, you know, with the

905
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 2: degenerative hamstring issue.

906
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: Was like, they're definitely done now.

907
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 2: Then all of a sudden, Pooka Nkua, right, whoever the

908
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 2: hell that is? You know, it just comes out of

909
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 2: byu and into the touchdown.

910
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: Okay, who could have predicted before the season began that too,

911
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: Rams would have two Pro Bowlers named Pooka Nakua and

912
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: Kyron Williams. All right.

913
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 2: I mean if I had told you that the Rams

914
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,879
Speaker 2: would have two Pro Bowlers and none of them would

915
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Speaker 2: have been Matthew Stafford, Aaron Donald or Cooper Cup, you

916
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Speaker 2: would have looked at me like I was crazy.

917
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean they did make it, but Pooka and

918
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: Kyron Williams. But I mean that was the whole point.

919
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: It was like, this is what happens every single year

920
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Things happen again. I'm looking at, Okay,

921
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Speaker 1: maybe Stafford can stay healthy, maybe Aaron Donald and Cooper

922
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 1: Cupp has hurt, blah blah blah, they have nothing else,

923
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Speaker 1: and then there's Pooka Naku and Kien Williams, and all

924
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Rams are a playoff team. Give

925
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Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh a lot of Credit's a hell of a coach.

926
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Speaker 1: So those are the two teams that I looked at, like,

927
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Speaker 1: how did this happen? And by the way, can I

928
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: make a quick note here on the Houston Texans because

929
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure this one out. So Demigo

930
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: Ryans lost NFL Coach of the Year. He actually tied

931
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski, but they gave it to Stefanski because he

932
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Speaker 1: got one more first place vote. There were fifty people

933
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Speaker 1: media people that voted for Coach of the Year each

934
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Speaker 1: of the awards, fifty and they were to fell out first, second,

935
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Speaker 1: and third on their ballot, So he got three spots

936
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Speaker 1: in her about first, second, third. Seven of the fifty

937
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Speaker 1: voters did not have Demico Ryans in their top three.

938
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Speaker 1: How is that possible? How is it possible that you

939
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: could fill out a Coach of the Year ballot for

940
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three and you got three slots and you

941
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Speaker 1: do not have Demico Ryans in your top three?

942
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Speaker 2: Because I think I think it's very much the way

943
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 2: that the NFL MVP goes, where there's no like the

944
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Speaker 2: they are, especially an MVP, to the same extent, they

945
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 2: intentionally leave the description vague as to what you're looking for,

946
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 2: because the NFL Coach of the Year typically is a

947
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 2: guy who took.

948
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 1: Nothing team and made him something, which obviously is what

949
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: Demiico Ryans did, right, But like, if you're telling me

950
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: to but if you're just saying.

951
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 2: Like strict coaching jobs, then you could look at like

952
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 2: a Mike Tomlin, a guy who started uh, you know,

953
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 2: three different quarterbacks and still made the playoffs.

954
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: Well, that was the argument with Stefanski is he loses

955
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: his quarterback, you know, gets Joe Flacco off the.

956
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 2: Couch, right, So, but like to me, that's not what

957
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 2: the coach of the Year is supposed to represent, and

958
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 2: it represents what happened the first time Stefanski won Coach

959
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 2: of the Year when he took a roster who nobody

960
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 2: thought was going to do anything, and all of a

961
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,439
Speaker 2: sudden they are now competing. Like if you had told

962
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 2: me that Todd Bowles got a first place vote, I

963
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 2: wouldn't have blinked twice. Because that Tampa team was was

964
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 2: slated to be one of the worst in football.

965
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,399
Speaker 1: You know what they did all is one a little

966
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:39,399
Speaker 1: playoff game on the road.

967
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 2: That's it, you know, Like that, that to me is

968
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 2: the coach of the year pool that we should be

969
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 2: picking from.

970
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: But like Kyle Shanahan can't win Coach of the Year

971
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: anymore because he's already you know, the team's success is

972
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: supposed to be there. I understand. And then that that

973
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: whether it's valid or not. Once you like Vincelinbar if

974
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: you really want to go back in time, he won

975
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: NFL Coach of the year's first year and then after

976
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: that won five championships, and none of those years was

977
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 1: he coach of the year. Phil Jackson won eleven NBA championships.

978
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: He was coach of the year once one time. So yeah,

979
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:23,760
Speaker 1: I mean, but still for Demigo Ryans to be left

980
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 1: off seven ballots, I would I like to know which

981
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 1: one of those guys justified him not being in the

982
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 1: top three choices. All right, So those are the teams

983
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 1: that to me, really came out of nowhere. So I

984
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 1: want to start off. In fact, on the other side,

985
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:41,840
Speaker 1: I want to get into this because I'm going to

986
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: take some of the bottom feeders based on what happened

987
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, and there's probably at least two

988
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: of these teams that are going to be in the

989
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 1: playoffs next year. It happens every year. It happens every

990
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: single year. So we're gonna break it down. It's gonna happen.

991
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 1: And by the way, this is gonna help you because

992
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: one of the things we do all this offseason, you know,

993
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,399
Speaker 1: prop bets and everything else, you know those over under

994
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 1: preseason predictions on wins. There's gonna be teams that are

995
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: gonna obliterate it. You're gonna be collecting money well before

996
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 1: the season's over by going over which teams are they?

997
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: We're gonna tell you. This is Fox Sports Sunday, Steve

998
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: Harbin and Martin Weiz, this is Fox Sports Sunday, and

999
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: we are live from the tairaq dot com studios. Have

1000
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: a good time once again here and just doing our thing.

1001
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:39,879
Speaker 1: Talking a little bit about what happened in this last

1002
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,400
Speaker 1: season in the NFL. We talked about two teams that

1003
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 1: far exceeded anybody's expectations. Don't be fool. Oh, I knew

1004
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 1: the Texans would be good. I knew the Rams would

1005
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: be a playoff team. Again, Lie, lie, Lie, no chance,

1006
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: I don't What kind of odds do you think you

1007
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: could have had of both those teams finishing ten and

1008
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,439
Speaker 1: seven preseason? Oh? How about that for a two teams

1009
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: over one thousand and one? For sure? Easy, easy and

1010
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: easy over. So this happens every single year. Teams that

1011
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:14,399
Speaker 1: you go into a season saying there's no formula that's

1012
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 1: gonna make that team a winner. Nothing. I mean, you

1013
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: try to think about all the different possibilities that if

1014
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: they all came together. We go back to the Rams,

1015
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:29,439
Speaker 1: Poka Nakua and Kyraen Williams being Pro Bowl players. I mean,

1016
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 1: you don't even know who those players were when the

1017
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: season began. So it happens every year, all right. So

1018
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw some teams out at you, Martin, and

1019
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: I want you to be able to say either no chance,

1020
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 1: no or thinking ah, and then give me a reason why.

1021
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: Let's start with the team at the bottom of the barrel.

1022
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: They were a bad team a year ago, and they

1023
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 1: were even a worse team in twenty twenty three, the

1024
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. No chance. Okay, Now you can't see the

1025
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers going in nine to eight this year? No,

1026
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: you can't see Bryce Young. What was your attitude about

1027
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: Bryce Young coming out of Alabama? Steve, I have a.

1028
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 2: Very simple rubric engrading scale for football players.

1029
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: The more they remind me of me, the more out

1030
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:23,879
Speaker 1: I am.

1031
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 2: I'm about six to two and about two forty, but

1032
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 2: I'm not very It's not I'm not built out of

1033
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,720
Speaker 2: muscle by any stretch, right, and I'm not. I'm about

1034
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 2: an inch taller than where'd you play at height? And

1035
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 2: when I saw Bryce Young last year's Super Bowl, I

1036
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 2: was like, oh wow, he shorter than me and ways

1037
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 2: less than me.

1038
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:48,399
Speaker 1: I'm out.

1039
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 2: That was pretty much it, because I know I don't qualify,

1040
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 2: you know, so I didn't think he did either.

1041
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:56,280
Speaker 1: Well. I remember being in San Diego when they drafted

1042
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: Drew Brees. I met Drew Brees right after the draft,

1043
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: first pick of the second round by the San Diego Chargers,

1044
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 1: and I'm five eleven and I'm standing there face to

1045
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: face the Drew Brees and he is the exact same

1046
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,320
Speaker 1: height as me. He is five to eleven. Hey, listen,

1047
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 1: it's six feet and I'm having this conversation with this guy.

1048
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 1: And that year, guess who the Chargers sign to start

1049
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: every game that year while they had this rookie Drew Brees.

1050
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 1: Doug Flutie. So they signed Doug Flutie, who started every

1051
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 1: game that year for the Chargers. Doug fluti is five

1052
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: eight and a half. And I remember many times sitting

1053
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 1: down with Doug Flutie saying, how is it possible that

1054
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: you can see anything down the field when you have

1055
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: an offensive line that's averaging six to five and they're

1056
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 1: standing up blocking guys that are the same height. You

1057
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: got all those big bot how do you see anything

1058
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 1: he says, here's what you have to understand. I've always

1059
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: been this height, so my perspective, it wasn't like I

1060
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 1: shrunk down and suddenly had to figure out how to

1061
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: navigate suddenly being five to eight and a half five

1062
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:11,400
Speaker 1: now whatever. I've always been this hype, So my perspective

1063
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: in football has never changed. I've always been shorter, so

1064
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 1: my view down the field, looking between bodies, through bodies

1065
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:24,320
Speaker 1: wherever to find my advantage. Plus having a pretty good sense.

1066
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 1: And he had a good arm. I mean, bottom line,

1067
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 1: still have to have an arm, sure, and he had

1068
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 1: an arm, But he goes, that's the whole point. It's

1069
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: not like I was six to two and all of

1070
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 1: a sudden I woke up one damn five eight and

1071
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: a half try to figure it out. So I've always

1072
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:40,839
Speaker 1: seen the field the same way. So when you say, well,

1073
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:42,439
Speaker 1: how do you see the field, I don't know how

1074
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:44,959
Speaker 1: you see the field if you're six five. I only

1075
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 1: know one perspective on the field, and it's never been

1076
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: a problem for me. And that's the same thing with

1077
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 1: Bryce Young Well, but.

1078
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 2: It's not though, because he did wake up one day

1079
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 2: and everybody else was taller and faster and bigger and stronger.

1080
00:55:57,239 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: But the same thing out with Doug Flutie. I have

1081
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: not given up on Bryce Young. I have not given

1082
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: up on this guy.

1083
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 2: And you can point out the two people that it

1084
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 2: worked for three if you want to add in Russell

1085
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 2: Wilson or.

1086
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: Use another one. I don't know. Kyler Murray made the

1087
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl his first two years in the league. Point

1088
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: all of them out. You know what you call those? Steve,

1089
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,360
Speaker 1: you call him outline well, and I believe that he

1090
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:23,320
Speaker 1: is an outlier. I've been watching Bryce Young since high school.

1091
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,359
Speaker 1: This guy has been a stand out at every single level.

1092
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 2: I was calling Bryce Young games when he was at

1093
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 2: Modern Day.

1094
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,839
Speaker 1: I can't give up on the kid. But you've given

1095
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:35,399
Speaker 1: up on him.

1096
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 2: He was at Modern Day, he was at Alabama behind

1097
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 2: it a pro offensive line, playing sometimes not pros on

1098
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:42,760
Speaker 2: the other side.

1099
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: Can he throw the ball accurately? Yeah? Okay, Look, the

1100
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:51,359
Speaker 1: two most important things for a quarterback, Martin, because I've

1101
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 1: been told this by people that coach quarterbacks. The two

1102
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: most important things are the ability to throw the ball

1103
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:02,720
Speaker 1: accurately and the ability to decipher information in an instant.

1104
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:05,839
Speaker 1: In other words, the ability to recognize as soon as

1105
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: the ball is snapped. What to do with the ball?

1106
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:12,360
Speaker 1: Sure to throw it away, eat the ball, whatever it is.

1107
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 1: Those that can make those decisions the quickest are the

1108
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: ones that are going to be most successful. And Bryce Young,

1109
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: I think checks the box in both cases. Where does

1110
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: health follow that list? Well, I mean you have to

1111
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: stay on the field, obviously, and I.

1112
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 2: Think that's As Bryce Young continues to go through his

1113
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 2: professional career, I have wonder about his ability to remain

1114
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 2: healthy as he is getting hit by men that are

1115
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:36,919
Speaker 2: triple the size of him.

1116
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm not going to look. I'm not bold

1117
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: enough to say that Carolina Panthers are going to go

1118
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:44,720
Speaker 1: nine to eight this year, But they won't be two

1119
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 1: and fifteen. They will be a better football team. They'll

1120
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: be better. It was a bad higher. Frank Reich was

1121
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 1: a bad higher. I knew that at the get go.

1122
00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: He was a bad higher. They were sold on Frank Reich.

1123
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 1: The personal thing with Frank I got to know him

1124
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 1: back in the day. Is a nice man. I think

1125
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:05,919
Speaker 1: he's just way over played to be a head coach

1126
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 1: in the league. All right, let me give you another team,

1127
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders four and thirteen. Is this a team

1128
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: that can make the Mighty lead to nine and eight,

1129
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 1: ten and seven and challenge for a postseason spot the

1130
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders.

1131
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 2: Now see, I'm more inclined to lean with the Commanders

1132
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:28,000
Speaker 2: because you asked me about you asked about the Panthers.

1133
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 2: The South is going to be relatively the same. I

1134
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 2: think the Saints will win between seven and nine games,

1135
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 2: the Falcons will win between eight and ten games, the

1136
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 2: Buccaneers will win between seven and nine games, and it

1137
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 2: will be a fight for average. It is a fight

1138
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 2: for B minus in the NFC South. With the NFC East,

1139
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 2: I don't know. The Philadelphia Eagles are in a very

1140
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 2: interesting position here.

1141
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:56,320
Speaker 1: I feel like the Commanders could stick up a little.

1142
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 2: Bit and be it contending for a wildcard spot because

1143
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 2: Giants turned disarray and what's and even when everything seems

1144
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 2: to be in array. I think Brian day Ball another

1145
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 2: former Coach of the Year, because he was able to

1146
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 2: turn this to a bad situation into a.

1147
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 1: Good one and then turn it right back into a

1148
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: bad turn it right back into a bad situation.

1149
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 2: We'll see how he's able to bounce back from what was,

1150
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 2: by all accounts, a disappointing second campaign after going out

1151
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:23,439
Speaker 2: there and winning a playoff game on the road.

1152
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: The New York Giants did it, did twenty four months ago.

1153
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:27,440
Speaker 1: They did that.

1154
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 2: But if the Eagles, which Eagles team is going to

1155
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 2: show up this season? Is it going to be the

1156
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 2: one from the first ten weeks of the year or

1157
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 2: for the last seven weeks of the year.

1158
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 1: Well, you tell me, Martin, look into your crystal ball.

1159
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 1: What you're you're asking me a rhetorical question. What is

1160
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: the answer?

1161
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 2: I think is we're looking more closer to the seven

1162
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 2: the last seven weeks of the year out of Nick

1163
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:54,000
Speaker 2: sieror Yanny and his Eagles, specially who he hires or

1164
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 2: how these assistants work out. But I do think Washington

1165
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 2: is a sleeping giant in terms of the second picking

1166
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 2: the drafted.

1167
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 1: So you have a ton of resources. Either with their.

1168
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 2: Second the number two overall pick, or whatever you move

1169
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 2: off to get, you're gonna get a you know, with

1170
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 2: Jaydon Daniels.

1171
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury make you nervous as your offensive coordinator, I'd say.

1172
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 2: It depends on, Uh, it depends on who they get

1173
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 2: back there. Because if it's one thing he does have,

1174
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 2: he does have an eye for quarterbacks. Cliff Kingsbury, but uh,

1175
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 2: it depends on what they do it two.

1176
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: But I'd say as an offensive coordinator, I think it's

1177
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:29,960
Speaker 1: actually been pretty decent.

1178
01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:34,200
Speaker 2: I think it's when you are responsible for everything that

1179
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 2: a head coach is responsible for.

1180
01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 1: That's where Cliff kind of overstepped his bounds. Well again,

1181
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 1: new ownership, New ownership and me when we knew it

1182
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 1: was a lame duck year obviously of Ron Rivera, which

1183
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,080
Speaker 1: is why it was like, why is Eric b Enemy

1184
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: taking this job? Why are you jumping on a sinking ship?

1185
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 1: Rivera was going to be gone. We knew that. I mean,

1186
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 1: barring some miracle season they were gonna have with Sam

1187
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: Hall as their quarterback, that was just not gonna happen.

1188
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 1: It's not I'll be any of me finds himself without

1189
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:05,760
Speaker 1: a job. Cliff King where he's in. I honestly, I

1190
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 1: think we're going to see a bigger improvement out of

1191
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 1: the Panthers than the Commanders.

1192
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 2: But I think the Commanders have some pretty decent skill

1193
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 2: position players. I know they traded uh, Chase Young and

1194
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 2: Montese sweat away and they got you know, a haul

1195
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:21,280
Speaker 2: back for that. But I think the commanders, to me,

1196
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 2: especially in the NFC East, because that's to me always

1197
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 2: got to look at the division. Who what's going to

1198
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 2: be going on around this team before you're prognosticating what's

1199
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 2: going to happen.

1200
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 1: All right, on the other side, will continue on. We're

1201
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 1: going to take some of the dregs, the bottom feeders

1202
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three in the NFL, and we're going

1203
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:43,960
Speaker 1: to identify, because it happens every year, which teams are

1204
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 1: going to go from the worst into a postseason birth.

1205
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:51,280
Speaker 1: Got to figure this out. We will, But first let's

1206
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 1: find out what is trending right now. Is Monsey is

1207
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 1: back now? Montsey is very excited Martin because her Clippers.

1208
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 1: She he's got a clips hat on today.

1209
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 7: Yes, thank you, credit to Mark Medina.

1210
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: After their three and seven start to the season, are

1211
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 1: thirty three and ten in their last forty three games.

1212
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 1: That'll get it done.

1213
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:14,800
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's very exciting, exciting, And.

1214
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 1: We went we were trying to figure this about if

1215
01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:22,959
Speaker 1: the Clippers actually somehow got the curse out and find

1216
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:26,280
Speaker 1: themselves winning a championship, especially if they're moving into their

1217
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: new arena next year, does that change any of the

1218
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 1: dynamic in terms of interest in the city of Los

1219
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 1: Angeles because most Clipper fans are LA our haters. That's

1220
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 1: how the Clippers created a fan base of any kind,

1221
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:40,880
Speaker 1: because our people that hate the Lakers.

1222
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 2: I hate to break it to you, but no, I

1223
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 2: don't think there'll be any change whatsoever.

1224
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 6: I don't disagree either, but it would just be nice

1225
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 6: to win one anyway.

1226
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 2: Drew Tranquil during the Chiefs parade before everything went sour,

1227
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:56,240
Speaker 2: was shouting how it was way better than Los Angeles, right,

1228
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 2: And I tweeted at the time it was like, you know,

1229
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 2: to be fair, if the Chargers had a raid in LA,

1230
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 2: everybody would just be wondering why traffic was stopped.

1231
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 1: They would have no knowledge. Guys, you were not here

1232
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 1: the Lakers parade in nine because I I almost like

1233
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 1: half m see this event, or do I did six

1234
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:17,240
Speaker 1: hours of radio that day because we were the Laker flagship.

1235
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:21,440
Speaker 1: It started as Staples Center and it then went on

1236
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 1: a path to the Coliseum, which is in downtown LA.

1237
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:31,040
Speaker 1: The coliseum was full. I mean, so the idea that

1238
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:35,840
Speaker 1: LA can't celebrate I mean that that ran leapiers about

1239
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 1: other celebrations because it's freaking LA.

1240
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that LA can't celebrate millions strong. You

1241
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 2: know about the Chargers actually winning something in the city

1242
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 2: that everybody.

1243
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:51,720
Speaker 1: Would say, why is figure? Oh it closed, it's on

1244
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 1: a Tuesday.

1245
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:53,360
Speaker 7: He's right down.

1246
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 1: You could do it with the Dodgers. You could do

1247
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 1: it with the Lakers.

1248
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:57,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I think that. I do think the Clippers.

1249
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 1: The Clippers have their parade.

1250
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 6: If they wanted this year, it would obviously have to

1251
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:05,840
Speaker 6: start at Staple Center, Crypto whatever it is called, because

1252
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 6: that's where they want. I don't know where it would end,

1253
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 6: but they would happen, it would end it.

1254
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 7: Yeah, it make a big circle.

1255
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 6: But yeah, you know, I agree that I don't think

1256
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 6: it would change the culture of LA.

1257
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 2: But to be honest, what I want to know is monsis,

1258
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 2: as a fellow diminutive person, where are you at with

1259
01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 2: Bryce Young? Because I don't both of you all didn't

1260
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:27,400
Speaker 2: wake up and shrink from six to two down to

1261
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 2: your current respective heights. Yeah, but I'm curious of where

1262
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 2: you are a Bryce Young as a fellow short person.

1263
01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:35,760
Speaker 6: You know what you just said of like him getting

1264
01:04:35,840 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 6: hit and getting back up game after game, That's what

1265
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:40,120
Speaker 6: I thought the whole season.

1266
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 7: I was like, this dude looks small. Compared to everybody else.

1267
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:47,560
Speaker 1: He's the smallest quarterback in the life. He looks in statue.

1268
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 6: Because I feel like like to me, Caleb Williams doesn't

1269
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:52,480
Speaker 6: look that big, but he doesn't look like Bryce Young.

1270
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:53,400
Speaker 1: He doesn't look small.

1271
01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:55,080
Speaker 7: He doesn't look small, but he doesn't look big.

1272
01:04:55,440 --> 01:05:00,920
Speaker 1: Even Kyler Murray Board example Young, but he's he looks stuck.

1273
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 7: He does not look as little as Bryce Young.

1274
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 6: So yeah, I hope I hope he doesn't get hit

1275
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 6: as much this upcoming See, yeah, that would help a fellas.

1276
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 6: I thought we were gonna have an upset in college basketball,

1277
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 6: in men's college basketball, but number twenty four, yeap, No,

1278
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 6: it's happening the official upset. Yes, I thought they were

1279
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 6: gonna come back, and I thought it was gonna be

1280
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 6: a lot worse than it was.

1281
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:26,440
Speaker 7: But an official upset.

1282
01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:30,800
Speaker 6: South Florida has beat Number twenty four Florida Atlantic, eighty

1283
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 6: nine to eighty six.

1284
01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:33,240
Speaker 7: Florida Atlantic was.

1285
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 6: Losing by fifteen at halftime. They made a push outscoring.

1286
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:39,240
Speaker 7: South Florida fifty five to forty four in.

1287
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:42,040
Speaker 6: The second half, but they were just three point shore

1288
01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:44,960
Speaker 6: in South Florida with the upset over number twenty four

1289
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:49,560
Speaker 6: Florida Atlantic number two perdue losing to Ohio State fifty

1290
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:52,680
Speaker 6: two forty seven, still ten minutes to go in the game.

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Speaker 6: Now on the lady's side, I gotta mention South Carolina

1292
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:58,640
Speaker 6: number one. South Carolina, they're twenty four and oh this season.

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01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:01,720
Speaker 6: They're currently losing to Georgia at halftime thirty five to

1294
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Speaker 6: twenty eight.

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Speaker 7: So we'll see how that one goes. The top of

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01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:05,280
Speaker 7: the leaderboard at.

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01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 6: The Genesis Invitational has officially teed off. Patrick Canley still

1298
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:11,480
Speaker 6: in the lead. He is even for the day through

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01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:13,160
Speaker 6: his first hole, but he is still in the lead

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01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:14,400
Speaker 6: at fourteen under par.

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01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 7: Overall, we have Luke List.

1302
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:20,280
Speaker 6: And Will Zeltrus one shot back, and no NASCAR today

1303
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 6: on an already slow Sunday, no football, no NASCAR because

1304
01:06:24,440 --> 01:06:27,880
Speaker 6: of inclement weather. So the Daytona five hundred rescheduled to Monday.

1305
01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:30,840
Speaker 6: It's going to start at four pm Eastern time.

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Speaker 1: Back to you guys, well, there's always football because we

1307
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:36,120
Speaker 1: can do that with the NFL. Of course, of course,

1308
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:38,240
Speaker 1: what any spit on the NFL, and it's always an

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01:06:38,360 --> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 1: NFL day, monsie.

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Speaker 7: Thanks, always in an NFL day, Well.

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Speaker 1: It's always an NFL day. We'll check with you a

1312
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 1: little bit later on. We're trying to figure this out.

1313
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: From the bottom feeders in twenty twenty three in the

1314
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 1: NFL will emerge at least two teams that will be

1315
01:06:55,880 --> 01:06:58,600
Speaker 1: out of nowhere breakout teams in twenty twenty four. But

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01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:01,920
Speaker 1: which ones are they? So we are both you know

1317
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:03,920
Speaker 1: not you know we're not going to have a huge

1318
01:07:04,160 --> 01:07:08,959
Speaker 1: breakout prediction for either the Carolina Panthers or the Washington Commanders,

1319
01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 1: although you haven't eliminated Washington from your list as as possible, right,

1320
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:13,120
Speaker 1: I think Washington.

1321
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 2: I mean, you asked me a week after the Super

1322
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:19,480
Speaker 2: Bowl I could see Washington contending for an NFC wildcard spot.

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01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:22,120
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's one team you have on your radar,

1324
01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:25,200
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. I was waiting for you to ask

1325
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:28,920
Speaker 1: me this. Yes, the a Arizona Cardinals, who you know.

1326
01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:34,360
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray came back and we saw glimpses of the

1327
01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 1: guy that we have seen really since he came into

1328
01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:40,960
Speaker 1: the NFL. He made legitimate Pro Bowls, not alternate crap,

1329
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 1: but actual legitimate Pro bowls right out of the box

1330
01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:46,400
Speaker 1: in his NFL career, far exceeding with a lot of

1331
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:48,800
Speaker 1: people thought he was capable of because of his stature,

1332
01:07:49,160 --> 01:07:51,720
Speaker 1: and of course, at one point the Arizona Cardinals during

1333
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 1: one season, we're the hottest team in the league before

1334
01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:58,000
Speaker 1: the Wheels came off. Sure staying with Kyler Murray, which

1335
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:00,640
Speaker 1: I guess is their plan, and I think it's the

1336
01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:04,360
Speaker 1: right plan. Could they have a big bounce back year

1337
01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:07,479
Speaker 1: with a fully healthy Kyler Murray in twenty twenty four.

1338
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:13,240
Speaker 2: I'm in. I'm in as soon. I mean, this team was,

1339
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:16,280
Speaker 2: they had one win without Kyler. Kyler comes back in

1340
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:19,840
Speaker 2: Week ten, they go three and six, I mean three

1341
01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:20,680
Speaker 2: and six with him.

1342
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:22,840
Speaker 1: That was a roster that was one of the worst

1343
01:08:22,920 --> 01:08:23,879
Speaker 1: rosters in football.

1344
01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:29,800
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna improve that roster this offseason. But

1345
01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:32,560
Speaker 2: also I just really liked the way that they competed

1346
01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 2: last season. Pretty much the entire season. They were playing

1347
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:37,920
Speaker 2: teams close. They were they were kind of they were

1348
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:41,200
Speaker 2: to be as devoid of talent as the team was,

1349
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 2: devoid of depth as the team was. I think that

1350
01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:49,960
Speaker 2: they built a great foundation under first year coach Jonathan Gannon.

1351
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:53,479
Speaker 2: I think defensively they're gonna get but again, it's gonna

1352
01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 2: take some building them on that roster. But they're gonna

1353
01:08:56,040 --> 01:08:59,120
Speaker 2: have Kyler Murray back, to have Kyler Murray healthy. And

1354
01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:02,920
Speaker 2: you're right, we did see some glimpses of him coming

1355
01:09:02,960 --> 01:09:04,920
Speaker 2: back in towards the middle of last season, like you said,

1356
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:07,320
Speaker 2: got back Week ten, and so that was his first

1357
01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:11,200
Speaker 2: start was Week ten. But from that moment on, I

1358
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:14,120
Speaker 2: think we were looking at a much more dynamic offense

1359
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:18,439
Speaker 2: and this team of the of the shoot of the

1360
01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:22,280
Speaker 2: four wins they had, three of them were against playoff teams.

1361
01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:25,160
Speaker 1: Well, they beat the Cowboys, yep. They were highly competitive

1362
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:28,880
Speaker 1: against the forty nine ers well in one of their games,

1363
01:09:29,240 --> 01:09:31,080
Speaker 1: and in the second. In the second game they played

1364
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:31,599
Speaker 1: them closer.

1365
01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 2: The first one they lost by twenty, but again that

1366
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:37,320
Speaker 2: was the game. The second time was the game that

1367
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey was so open that he fell down, got up,

1368
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:43,640
Speaker 2: still scored a touchdown. I think some of that is

1369
01:09:43,760 --> 01:09:45,600
Speaker 2: just all right. We gotta get some more Jimmies and

1370
01:09:45,680 --> 01:09:46,320
Speaker 2: Joe's out here.

1371
01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:51,120
Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you on Arizona again because I'm a

1372
01:09:51,160 --> 01:09:54,000
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray fan. And he reminded us again he could

1373
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:56,120
Speaker 1: have come back and just said, look, why am I

1374
01:09:56,200 --> 01:09:59,400
Speaker 1: even coming back? You're planning on moving on for me?

1375
01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:03,400
Speaker 1: And he said, no, this is my team. Get me

1376
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 1: the right pieces and we can get this team back

1377
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:09,160
Speaker 1: into the playoff picture. All right, here's a team that

1378
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:14,040
Speaker 1: I think is going to be, in my opinion, the

1379
01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:18,040
Speaker 1: most challenged team. If I were to pick one team

1380
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:23,080
Speaker 1: from this list today that I say one hundred percent

1381
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:32,439
Speaker 1: no chance of being anywhere near a playoff contender. It's

1382
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:36,759
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. You talk about a roster devoid

1383
01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:42,960
Speaker 1: of talent. I mean, this is the team I look

1384
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:47,840
Speaker 1: at right now trying to formulate some kind of path

1385
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:49,640
Speaker 1: like this would have to happen, or this would have

1386
01:10:49,680 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 1: to happen in order for them to win nine or

1387
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:56,040
Speaker 1: ten games. I don't see it at all. This team

1388
01:10:56,320 --> 01:11:00,800
Speaker 1: in that last game in the rain as Belichick was drowning,

1389
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:04,880
Speaker 1: that is where this franchise is. Can they come back

1390
01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:08,719
Speaker 1: in ten years? I don't know. It's not gonna happen

1391
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:10,720
Speaker 1: this year. It's not gonna happen in two years, not

1392
01:11:10,760 --> 01:11:13,679
Speaker 1: gonna happen in three years. This is this right now,

1393
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:17,439
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is the worst team in the NFL.

1394
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:21,040
Speaker 2: Well, I think off on the offensive side of the ball, yes,

1395
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 2: but I think defensively that Patriots team to me was

1396
01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:27,920
Speaker 2: good like on the on strictly the defensive side of

1397
01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:29,799
Speaker 2: the ball. It was one of the things that was

1398
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 2: was Uh, that's one of the things that was kind

1399
01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 2: of fascinating about the way that Belichick's had the career

1400
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:38,800
Speaker 2: ended because I didn't think he lost his fastball on

1401
01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:42,120
Speaker 2: the defensive side. Now you want to talk about picking players,

1402
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:46,400
Speaker 2: you want to talk about the offense. You want even

1403
01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:48,840
Speaker 2: going back to hiring Joe Judge and Matt Patricia has

1404
01:11:48,920 --> 01:11:53,960
Speaker 2: co offensive coordinators and so like. Yeah, but defensively, they

1405
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:57,720
Speaker 2: lost Matthew Judon last year, they lost Chrischigan Zales last year, and.

1406
01:11:57,720 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 1: Still I had one of the better defenses.

1407
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:02,000
Speaker 2: Are I just this to have an offense that was

1408
01:12:02,120 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 2: abjectly terrible had one of the better defensive units in football?

1409
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:07,000
Speaker 1: Like you know what I mean?

1410
01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:09,800
Speaker 2: Like, it's very easy to play better defense when you're

1411
01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:12,000
Speaker 2: up by forty and all you doing is pass rushing.

1412
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:17,360
Speaker 1: I have a theory about teams like the Patriots, when

1413
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:25,000
Speaker 1: you have a completely inept offense, your opponent knows going

1414
01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:26,880
Speaker 1: into the game, we don't have to do a whole

1415
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:30,479
Speaker 1: lot offensively to win this game. We don't have to

1416
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:33,559
Speaker 1: pull out all stops because they're not going to do

1417
01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 1: anything offensively. Even when the Patriots are playing bad defenses,

1418
01:12:37,320 --> 01:12:40,600
Speaker 1: they couldn't do anything offensively. So I just think that

1419
01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:42,599
Speaker 1: one of the reasons. And that's not to say that

1420
01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:45,120
Speaker 1: the Patriots, you know, didn't play well defensed. So I

1421
01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 1: agree that Belichick knows how to coach a defense. Of

1422
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:53,559
Speaker 1: course he's gone now. But I just think that a

1423
01:12:53,560 --> 01:12:57,599
Speaker 1: lot of teams that are bad that somehow post decent

1424
01:12:57,680 --> 01:13:00,920
Speaker 1: defensive numbers. It's a bit of a deception. It's the

1425
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:04,200
Speaker 1: same way where you see bad teams that have huge

1426
01:13:04,240 --> 01:13:08,559
Speaker 1: offensive numbers. It's a deception, like it's empty points, empty yards.

1427
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:11,559
Speaker 1: You know, for years, like Matthew Stafford was putting up

1428
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:13,880
Speaker 1: these big numbers of lions, Well what does it mean. Sure,

1429
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:16,640
Speaker 1: you're piling up numbers when you're down two scores in

1430
01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:18,800
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and just throwing the ball all over

1431
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:21,040
Speaker 1: the place. I think it's the same thing with defense.

1432
01:13:21,560 --> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 1: So I think that the perception was because they were

1433
01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:26,960
Speaker 1: able to hold their opponents a certain amount of yards

1434
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:30,360
Speaker 1: a certain number of points with their offense doing nothing.

1435
01:13:30,439 --> 01:13:33,680
Speaker 1: I think that was as much a reflection on the

1436
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:35,600
Speaker 1: teams they play in saying, well, we really don't have

1437
01:13:35,680 --> 01:13:36,559
Speaker 1: to do a whole lot.

1438
01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:41,439
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't disagree off the top, but I

1439
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:42,760
Speaker 2: do think though that at.

1440
01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:46,559
Speaker 1: Least how many games was their defenses winning for them? Well?

1441
01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:50,400
Speaker 2: Their offense, like Kayler Clark from Iowa was on the

1442
01:13:50,400 --> 01:13:52,679
Speaker 2: screen right now, their offense was Iowa esque.

1443
01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:57,920
Speaker 1: I mean Iowa football asque. I mean that is still

1444
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:01,120
Speaker 1: the all time story. A team that literally finished last

1445
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:03,320
Speaker 1: dead last, one hundred and thirty out one hundred and

1446
01:14:03,320 --> 01:14:06,679
Speaker 1: thirty in total offense won ten games. That is a miracle.

1447
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:08,960
Speaker 2: I mean absolutely, It's the type of team that only

1448
01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:10,760
Speaker 2: have as a college football But when you I was

1449
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:13,479
Speaker 2: looking looking at the scores, they gave up. It's not

1450
01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:15,679
Speaker 2: like they now, don't get me wrong, they got housed.

1451
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:18,800
Speaker 2: They got housed a few good times, right, But there

1452
01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:21,839
Speaker 2: they gave up thirty oh more than thirty points three times.

1453
01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:24,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, because teams and they have to score thirty points

1454
01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:26,000
Speaker 1: in order to beat the Patriots.

1455
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:28,439
Speaker 2: They had to score thirty points to beat the Commanders

1456
01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:30,599
Speaker 2: last year. But somehow they sure we're doing to justin

1457
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:31,960
Speaker 2: fields to a whole party on.

1458
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:34,880
Speaker 1: Them, mark my words on this one. Mark, So are

1459
01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:37,040
Speaker 1: you are you including the Patriots as a team that

1460
01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:39,439
Speaker 1: could go from four to thirteen to nine and eight.

1461
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:42,719
Speaker 2: Uh No, But again that's the rest of the division

1462
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:46,080
Speaker 2: around them. Okay, I think Buffalo will beat them, I think,

1463
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:48,760
Speaker 2: and who knows. Aaron Rodgers and the Jets come back.

1464
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:51,200
Speaker 2: Now that's a team I think will probably be absolutely terrible.

1465
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:52,559
Speaker 2: Win more with Aaron Rodgers.

1466
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:54,760
Speaker 1: All right. On the other side, I'm gonna give you

1467
01:14:54,920 --> 01:15:02,120
Speaker 1: the most overhyped bad team from twenty twenty three in

1468
01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:05,080
Speaker 1: terms of their expectations for twenty twenty four. This is

1469
01:15:05,120 --> 01:15:09,040
Speaker 1: the most overhyped team in terms of what everyone expects

1470
01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:12,880
Speaker 1: to see in the upcoming season after what we saw

1471
01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:17,719
Speaker 1: this past season. This is Fox Football Sunday, Steve Harban

1472
01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:20,800
Speaker 1: and Martin Wise, Fox Sports Sunday. We are live from

1473
01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:25,280
Speaker 1: the entire rack dot com studios. Chris reminded me that

1474
01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:27,960
Speaker 1: I sort of slipped into that Fox Football Sunday.

1475
01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:30,479
Speaker 3: No, you're reminding me that I don't have football again

1476
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:32,759
Speaker 3: for another month. Yeah, and if I want good football,

1477
01:15:32,800 --> 01:15:34,640
Speaker 3: it's a lot longer of a wait than that.

1478
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:36,679
Speaker 2: You know what, Fellas, This is the time to separate

1479
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:38,920
Speaker 2: the men from the boys, this right here, all right,

1480
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:41,280
Speaker 2: So I need to knuckle up and toughen up.

1481
01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:43,640
Speaker 1: Yeah right, all right, all right, all right. We have

1482
01:15:44,080 --> 01:15:46,080
Speaker 1: a lot of things coming up. We're looking forward to

1483
01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:49,680
Speaker 1: March Mandis, We're looking forward to NBA playoffs down the road.

1484
01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:52,040
Speaker 1: It started the Major League Baseball season, but in the

1485
01:15:52,080 --> 01:15:55,720
Speaker 1: aftermath of the NFL season, we're taking stock of what

1486
01:15:55,800 --> 01:15:59,120
Speaker 1: happened in twenty twenty three and trying to figure out

1487
01:15:59,280 --> 01:16:03,519
Speaker 1: because it happened every single year, a couple of teams

1488
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:08,080
Speaker 1: that look awful one year that suddenly emerges playoff contenders

1489
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:11,080
Speaker 1: the next year. Wo beyond reason, just like the Houston

1490
01:16:11,160 --> 01:16:13,960
Speaker 1: Texans and the Rams try to do try to have

1491
01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:17,200
Speaker 1: done that parlay before the season saying yeah, I'm gonna

1492
01:16:17,240 --> 01:16:19,040
Speaker 1: go to the window and I'm gonna predict both the

1493
01:16:19,120 --> 01:16:21,519
Speaker 1: Texans and the Rams are gonna win ten games each.

1494
01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:25,080
Speaker 1: They'd be laughing at you, like, really, you want to

1495
01:16:25,080 --> 01:16:26,840
Speaker 1: throw your money away? Go ahead, We'll give you any

1496
01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:28,880
Speaker 1: odds you want. And he would have come out a

1497
01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:31,599
Speaker 1: big winner. So we know it's gonna happen again. We've

1498
01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:34,120
Speaker 1: gone through a number of teams. We talked about the Commanders,

1499
01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:36,760
Speaker 1: we talked about the Panthers, talked about the Cardinals, and

1500
01:16:36,800 --> 01:16:41,080
Speaker 1: of course I put the f minus on the Patriots organization.

1501
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:43,519
Speaker 1: Martin wasn't quite with me on that one. I'm gonna

1502
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:45,360
Speaker 1: give you right now the team that is going to

1503
01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:49,679
Speaker 1: be the most hype team up in terms of look

1504
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:52,639
Speaker 1: for this team to have a huge turnaround in twenty

1505
01:16:52,720 --> 01:16:58,200
Speaker 1: twenty four, that would be the Los Angeles Chargers. You

1506
01:16:58,360 --> 01:17:02,360
Speaker 1: hire Jim Harbaugh, he turns it around. I'm like, remind

1507
01:17:02,360 --> 01:17:06,360
Speaker 1: me again, because you're a Michigan guy. What was Jim

1508
01:17:06,479 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 1: Harbaugh's record his first six years at Michigan against Ohio State? Uh?

1509
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:17,840
Speaker 1: Not great, Jim, Yeah, that was ohen six. I mean

1510
01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 1: his entire.

1511
01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:22,320
Speaker 2: Career, he was eleven and twelve against Penn State, Michigan State,

1512
01:17:22,320 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 2: and Ohio State.

1513
01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:25,519
Speaker 1: Right, so only people remember the last three years and

1514
01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:28,920
Speaker 1: suddenly they erased the memory. Then his first six years

1515
01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 1: there no wins against Ohio State. One bull win in

1516
01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:38,360
Speaker 1: those six years. By the way, his postseason record before

1517
01:17:38,439 --> 01:17:41,160
Speaker 1: this run for the National Championship.

1518
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:43,600
Speaker 2: I mean his postseason record is still atrocious, right, it

1519
01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:46,080
Speaker 2: just now has two more wins on it. Yeah, I

1520
01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:48,120
Speaker 2: think I believe bringing it reach out to Tobo to

1521
01:17:48,240 --> 01:17:50,800
Speaker 2: three to three. Yeah, exactly exactly.

1522
01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:53,960
Speaker 1: But don't worry, Steve he's just a winner. Okay. So

1523
01:17:54,479 --> 01:17:57,240
Speaker 1: here's the problem with the Los Angeles Chargers. Well, you

1524
01:17:57,320 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 1: got Jim Harbaugh now and he got Justin her Bert

1525
01:18:01,280 --> 01:18:07,519
Speaker 1: fifty two million over the cap. They are in cap

1526
01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 1: hell like no team in the league right now going

1527
01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:12,600
Speaker 1: into the season. And if you're not quite sure the

1528
01:18:12,680 --> 01:18:15,519
Speaker 1: dynamic of the cab, it's very simple. Before you can

1529
01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:18,000
Speaker 1: do anything in terms of signing players, you have to

1530
01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:23,280
Speaker 1: get under the cap. You're not able to make moves

1531
01:18:24,080 --> 01:18:27,680
Speaker 1: in terms of adding players until you subtract players or

1532
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:33,280
Speaker 1: rework contracts to get under the cap. And one of

1533
01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:36,519
Speaker 1: the problems that you face as an organization, like if

1534
01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:38,759
Speaker 1: you were to go to Justin Herbert Martin and Saarah,

1535
01:18:38,840 --> 01:18:41,000
Speaker 1: we like to rework your deal. He says, fine, I'm

1536
01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:43,439
Speaker 1: open to that. But in order to do so, to

1537
01:18:43,479 --> 01:18:46,160
Speaker 1: backload a contract, you got to give them money up front.

1538
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:50,599
Speaker 1: Where does that money come from the pocket of the owner?

1539
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:55,160
Speaker 1: Chargers have a owner that has no money in his pocket.

1540
01:18:56,040 --> 01:18:59,360
Speaker 1: What are you talking about. He's worth billions of dollars. No,

1541
01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:02,400
Speaker 1: the team, it's worth billions of dollars. But in order

1542
01:19:02,479 --> 01:19:05,680
Speaker 1: to navigate the system, and by the way, he had

1543
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:08,559
Speaker 1: to come out of pocket to pay Jim Harbaugh at

1544
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:12,400
Speaker 1: the mandated league. By the way, I don't know how

1545
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 1: they're going to do it. They're just going to have

1546
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:18,760
Speaker 1: to cut bodies. Khalil Mack gone, Keenan Allen, see you later.

1547
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:20,200
Speaker 1: Mike Williams don.

1548
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:23,040
Speaker 2: Well, definitely one of those two. Keenan Allen and Mike

1549
01:19:23,040 --> 01:19:24,080
Speaker 2: Williams will be out of here.

1550
01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:28,200
Speaker 1: So they have way too many things to do in

1551
01:19:28,320 --> 01:19:31,360
Speaker 1: order to add any measurable help to the team to

1552
01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:34,080
Speaker 1: actually get him bout on track. So the Chargers are

1553
01:19:34,120 --> 01:19:37,680
Speaker 1: a five and twelve team in twenty twenty three, I

1554
01:19:37,720 --> 01:19:40,840
Speaker 1: would predict look very much for the same thing in

1555
01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:41,800
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.

1556
01:19:41,920 --> 01:19:44,720
Speaker 2: Well, I'll just say this, Yeah, Sean Payton and a

1557
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:47,280
Speaker 2: division who coached for like seventeen years in the NFL

1558
01:19:47,320 --> 01:19:51,120
Speaker 2: prior to this, never lost, has never not won more

1559
01:19:51,160 --> 01:19:54,720
Speaker 2: than at least seven games, right, Right, So the thing

1560
01:19:54,760 --> 01:19:58,800
Speaker 2: doesn't fall only finished first, only finished third or fourth

1561
01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 2: than his division four times in his entire career.

1562
01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:04,280
Speaker 1: Right. And then I don't know.

1563
01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:07,400
Speaker 2: If you've watched this big football game last week, but

1564
01:20:07,479 --> 01:20:10,679
Speaker 2: the Kansas City Chiefs I have a feeling they're gonna

1565
01:20:10,720 --> 01:20:12,879
Speaker 2: continue to dominate the AFC West.

1566
01:20:12,680 --> 01:20:13,160
Speaker 1: For a while.

1567
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:15,840
Speaker 2: So you got Hall of Fame coaches Sean Payton in

1568
01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:19,799
Speaker 2: my estimation, definite Hall of Fame coach at quarterback Combo

1569
01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:23,120
Speaker 2: in Kansas City. That's eight of the seventeen games you're

1570
01:20:23,120 --> 01:20:23,840
Speaker 2: gonna play, Steve.

1571
01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, So do not look for the charges and don't

1572
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:30,519
Speaker 1: jump on that bandwagon at least yet. We'll continue on

1573
01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:34,200
Speaker 1: with more of our NFL coverage. This is Fox Sports Sunday,

1574
01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:37,880
Speaker 1: having a fun time as we always do here Sundays

1575
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:41,120
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1581
01:20:56,040 --> 01:21:01,040
Speaker 1: for me when I think about it, because yesterday Moncey

1582
01:21:01,080 --> 01:21:03,840
Speaker 1: Belanos and I did four hours together. And Monty and

1583
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:08,080
Speaker 1: I have worked together for years with her doing updates

1584
01:21:08,160 --> 01:21:12,040
Speaker 1: during our Sunday show. Yeah, and so you know, obviously

1585
01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:14,439
Speaker 1: it's a huge part of the show and everything else.

1586
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:17,840
Speaker 1: But she's in one place and I'm in another place.

1587
01:21:18,960 --> 01:21:23,360
Speaker 1: And in recent months, Martin has been doing double duty

1588
01:21:23,360 --> 01:21:25,519
Speaker 1: here at Fox Sports Radio, where he has his own

1589
01:21:25,560 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 1: show at VJ, but leading up to that show, he

1590
01:21:28,160 --> 01:21:31,720
Speaker 1: sits there for hours doing updates. So it's a very

1591
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:36,200
Speaker 1: similar situation. I am sitting next to someone who I

1592
01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:39,759
Speaker 1: normally look through a pane of glass during the show,

1593
01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:45,080
Speaker 1: and now you're actually next to me. Be careful where

1594
01:21:45,080 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 1: I'll be next. I never know. I don't underestimate anybody

1595
01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:53,680
Speaker 1: that's in this building. Believe me, nobody. I see Bo's here,

1596
01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:56,360
Speaker 1: Hey Bo, how you doing? You mean? Saw you retired

1597
01:21:56,400 --> 01:21:59,320
Speaker 1: your chief's cap that you were wearing yesterday? Now you're

1598
01:21:59,360 --> 01:22:02,360
Speaker 1: back to your face. I am a true blue Dodger fan,

1599
01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:03,200
Speaker 1: which I know you are.

1600
01:22:03,360 --> 01:22:05,160
Speaker 8: Nineteen eighty eight World Series hat right.

1601
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:07,639
Speaker 1: Here, nineteen eighty eight World Series. I was just sharing

1602
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:11,240
Speaker 1: with Martin the story that I still have my ticket

1603
01:22:11,280 --> 01:22:13,799
Speaker 1: stuff from being at Game one of that World Series.

1604
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:16,160
Speaker 1: I was there and I wasn't in the parking lot.

1605
01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 1: I was in my seat, then jumped out of my

1606
01:22:18,560 --> 01:22:20,920
Speaker 1: seat when Kirk Gibson's home and left the park.

1607
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 8: I have a ticket stuff from Kershaw's No Hitter.

1608
01:22:22,840 --> 01:22:26,640
Speaker 1: Somewhere Wow, do you really? I have never seen a

1609
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:29,920
Speaker 1: no hitter. I was working hundreds and hundreds and hundreds

1610
01:22:29,920 --> 01:22:32,400
Speaker 1: of baseball games. I've never been eyewitnessed to another that

1611
01:22:32,479 --> 01:22:33,160
Speaker 1: was crazy.

1612
01:22:33,200 --> 01:22:34,840
Speaker 8: I got paid to be there, so I enjoyed that

1613
01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:35,439
Speaker 8: one very.

1614
01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 1: Much, very nice, very very nice?

1615
01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:37,439
Speaker 6: Are you?

1616
01:22:37,840 --> 01:22:40,400
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen a lot of show hey. We

1617
01:22:40,479 --> 01:22:44,080
Speaker 1: seen more of show hey Otani in a Dodgy uniform

1618
01:22:44,439 --> 01:22:47,439
Speaker 1: just before spring training games have begun than I think

1619
01:22:47,479 --> 01:22:48,960
Speaker 1: we did the entire time he's with then.

1620
01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:50,760
Speaker 8: I mean, I was going to say yesterday, every time

1621
01:22:50,800 --> 01:22:53,720
Speaker 8: the Dodgers post something new with Otani, I remember that

1622
01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:56,559
Speaker 8: he's a Dodger all over again, and that feeling of

1623
01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:58,280
Speaker 8: joy just returns.

1624
01:22:58,680 --> 01:23:02,880
Speaker 1: Last night on my LA Broadcast television broadcasts, we had

1625
01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:08,080
Speaker 1: an interview with Dave Roberts, and one of the questions

1626
01:23:08,120 --> 01:23:13,280
Speaker 1: one of our reporters asked him was, does it lower

1627
01:23:13,439 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 1: expectations for the Dodgers this year because O'tani will not

1628
01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:22,880
Speaker 1: be pitching? And I'm thinking to myself, have you seen

1629
01:23:22,920 --> 01:23:26,160
Speaker 1: the overunner on Dodger wins this year? It's one hundred

1630
01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:29,000
Speaker 1: and three? Have you ever seen a number like that

1631
01:23:29,120 --> 01:23:33,679
Speaker 1: for preseason? That's they're over under one hundred and three,

1632
01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:37,880
Speaker 1: So no, it doesn't lower expectations at all. I do

1633
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:42,439
Speaker 1: believe though, with Otani Notty having to do both, it

1634
01:23:42,479 --> 01:23:44,680
Speaker 1: should help him as a hitter. And then when you're

1635
01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:46,600
Speaker 1: in the same lineup with a Freddie Freeman and the

1636
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:50,080
Speaker 1: Mookie bets, yeah he's I mean he could put up numbers.

1637
01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:51,960
Speaker 8: Yeah, He's never had protection the way he's gonna have

1638
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:52,840
Speaker 8: protection next year.

1639
01:23:53,040 --> 01:23:55,599
Speaker 1: So what is your betting horror? Is he batting third?

1640
01:23:55,720 --> 01:23:57,759
Speaker 1: Is that your d Are you gonna go Mookie Freddie

1641
01:23:58,320 --> 01:23:59,439
Speaker 1: Showhy Yeah?

1642
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:05,439
Speaker 8: I think so, Mookie Freddie Shohey than Munsey, than Smith. Oh,

1643
01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:07,920
Speaker 8: I thought you were gonna have no I put months

1644
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:10,879
Speaker 8: I Max Mounsey with Otani ahead him is gonna be hilarious.

1645
01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:14,080
Speaker 1: But you got Lefty ah yeah, I mean you don't

1646
01:24:14,120 --> 01:24:15,200
Speaker 1: care about.

1647
01:24:15,520 --> 01:24:20,439
Speaker 8: Not really put your best hitters first and then they'll

1648
01:24:20,479 --> 01:24:21,560
Speaker 8: figure it out.

1649
01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:24,040
Speaker 1: Think of what Freddy Freeman is gonna do with show

1650
01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:27,320
Speaker 1: Hay hitting behind him. I mean, are you kidding me?

1651
01:24:27,479 --> 01:24:30,080
Speaker 8: I actually put a season parlay down yesterday and I

1652
01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:32,679
Speaker 8: got Freddie Freeman at like ninety five and a half

1653
01:24:32,840 --> 01:24:35,680
Speaker 8: RBIs and that feels very low to me. So I

1654
01:24:35,680 --> 01:24:37,080
Speaker 8: think that's going to hit pretty easily.

1655
01:24:37,360 --> 01:24:42,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. It's I feel Dave Roberts is

1656
01:24:42,680 --> 01:24:46,000
Speaker 1: someone Martin for me that it's a little rough because

1657
01:24:46,160 --> 01:24:50,160
Speaker 1: I've known him since he played baseball at UCLA. He

1658
01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:52,639
Speaker 1: actually admitted me one time. He actually called my show

1659
01:24:52,680 --> 01:24:55,679
Speaker 1: a couple of times way back in the day, and

1660
01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:59,240
Speaker 1: I root for the guy. But he's like the Clayton

1661
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:04,200
Speaker 1: Kershaw of me, where he has one record in the

1662
01:25:04,240 --> 01:25:07,360
Speaker 1: regular season and then we get into the postseason. I mean,

1663
01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:10,520
Speaker 1: losing consecutive years in the first round to a division

1664
01:25:10,840 --> 01:25:14,960
Speaker 1: team like the Potterys and then the Diamondbacks. Hard to

1665
01:25:15,000 --> 01:25:20,599
Speaker 1: do that is that is not happening. So we'll see

1666
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:22,200
Speaker 1: what happens. But they are definitely going to be a

1667
01:25:22,240 --> 01:25:25,720
Speaker 1: story coming up. We've been talking some NFL football and

1668
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:29,760
Speaker 1: wells we should will continue on here. We're sort of

1669
01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:33,799
Speaker 1: picking out teams right now that really sucked in twenty

1670
01:25:33,880 --> 01:25:36,920
Speaker 1: twenty three and whether or not they're going to be

1671
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:39,320
Speaker 1: a playoff team. I've been saving this team for the

1672
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:42,439
Speaker 1: top of this hour for you because I'm very curious

1673
01:25:42,560 --> 01:25:51,120
Speaker 1: your take on this one team. The New York Jets

1674
01:25:53,080 --> 01:25:56,840
Speaker 1: seven and ten. Ye have Robert Salah with one of

1675
01:25:56,880 --> 01:26:00,880
Speaker 1: the worst current records of any active coach in the NFL.

1676
01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:04,920
Speaker 1: They lost Aaron Rodgers four plays into the season. Their

1677
01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:12,360
Speaker 1: offense never got untracked. Sala's back hackets back, and now

1678
01:26:12,400 --> 01:26:17,080
Speaker 1: we'll find out if Aaron Rodgers is truly back. Are

1679
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:20,559
Speaker 1: you banking on the Jets to be a playoff team

1680
01:26:20,760 --> 01:26:22,080
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four?

1681
01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:26,080
Speaker 2: Look, I was to borrow a phrase that Aaron Rodgers

1682
01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:28,800
Speaker 2: probably laugh at. I was drinking the kool aid on

1683
01:26:28,920 --> 01:26:30,080
Speaker 2: the Jets last season.

1684
01:26:30,200 --> 01:26:32,439
Speaker 1: I watched too much Hard Knocks, didn't you.

1685
01:26:32,479 --> 01:26:37,439
Speaker 2: But also it was like people were discounting Rogers. You know,

1686
01:26:37,479 --> 01:26:40,800
Speaker 2: get a discount double check, Yeah, uh no, But they

1687
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:43,799
Speaker 2: were discounting Rodgers to a point where I just couldn't.

1688
01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:45,240
Speaker 1: I just had to go back to like, Yo, this

1689
01:26:45,280 --> 01:26:48,280
Speaker 1: guy's won two of the last three MVPs, now two

1690
01:26:48,320 --> 01:26:49,680
Speaker 1: of the last four MVPs.

1691
01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:53,160
Speaker 2: But I was like, I get it, he's older, and

1692
01:26:53,240 --> 01:26:55,120
Speaker 2: but he had a broken thumb his last year at

1693
01:26:55,120 --> 01:26:57,920
Speaker 2: Green Bay and they almost made the playoffs. Like he's

1694
01:26:57,960 --> 01:27:01,080
Speaker 2: throwing a bunch of rookie receivers. But the idea that

1695
01:27:01,080 --> 01:27:04,200
Speaker 2: you're gonna build your football franchise in the vision of

1696
01:27:04,240 --> 01:27:07,200
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty

1697
01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:10,200
Speaker 2: four going into twenty twenty five is just not one

1698
01:27:10,240 --> 01:27:14,760
Speaker 2: that I'm not subscribing especially and maybe full disclosure, it

1699
01:27:14,840 --> 01:27:18,800
Speaker 2: very well could be from Aaron Rodgers overload from hearing

1700
01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:21,599
Speaker 2: every day about how he's doing.

1701
01:27:21,720 --> 01:27:24,880
Speaker 1: Dolphin's listening to the dolphin's mate and that's helping Bill

1702
01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:28,599
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers be the NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Obviously,

1703
01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:32,679
Speaker 1: he's number one preseason comeback Player of the year. Will

1704
01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:37,000
Speaker 1: he ultimately follow up Joe Flacco as the NFL's comeback

1705
01:27:37,040 --> 01:27:39,800
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. I don't think so. No, I'm

1706
01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:42,439
Speaker 1: not a believer. I think I'm about as far out

1707
01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:43,479
Speaker 1: as I can be. You know what.

1708
01:27:43,520 --> 01:27:45,479
Speaker 2: Part of the reason why I'm so far out because

1709
01:27:45,479 --> 01:27:48,839
Speaker 2: they kept Zack Wilson last season. They kept Zach Wilson

1710
01:27:48,920 --> 01:27:51,920
Speaker 2: last season. They should if they had moved on completely,

1711
01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:54,519
Speaker 2: that may not have been a lost year. It may

1712
01:27:54,560 --> 01:27:57,320
Speaker 2: not have been a lost year. But somehow the Jets finisher,

1713
01:27:57,360 --> 01:28:00,320
Speaker 2: they got seven wins, and it feels like they were

1714
01:28:00,479 --> 01:28:05,040
Speaker 2: the worst team in football. Think about that. I know

1715
01:28:05,120 --> 01:28:07,760
Speaker 2: it doesn't it make sense, but it feels like I

1716
01:28:07,880 --> 01:28:10,680
Speaker 2: told you, like the Cardinals. They almost doubled the win

1717
01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:13,519
Speaker 2: percentage of the Cardinals. How many Cardinals with four? They

1718
01:28:13,560 --> 01:28:16,800
Speaker 2: almost doubled it, eight with seven. And it feels like

1719
01:28:16,840 --> 01:28:19,000
Speaker 2: those teams were on the same exact line.

1720
01:28:20,640 --> 01:28:22,760
Speaker 1: All right, So if all the teams we talk about, well,

1721
01:28:22,840 --> 01:28:25,559
Speaker 1: there's one more team, one more team I want to mention,

1722
01:28:25,760 --> 01:28:29,320
Speaker 1: and it's not the Bears. Bears were a seven to

1723
01:28:29,320 --> 01:28:33,960
Speaker 1: ten team. Look what the Bears do with the number

1724
01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:36,200
Speaker 1: one pick in the draft is going to have a

1725
01:28:36,240 --> 01:28:39,360
Speaker 1: massive domino effect. Obviously, sure, because you look at the

1726
01:28:39,400 --> 01:28:41,360
Speaker 1: teams at the top of the draft and you can

1727
01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:43,720
Speaker 1: pick out what six or six or seven of the

1728
01:28:43,720 --> 01:28:48,760
Speaker 1: top ten teams all could be looking at quarterback. But

1729
01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:52,479
Speaker 1: I'm not including the Bears. Okay, I almost ask you

1730
01:28:52,520 --> 01:28:57,240
Speaker 1: about the Bears. If the Bears keep the pick and

1731
01:28:57,360 --> 01:29:03,920
Speaker 1: take Caleb Williams and obviously start Caleb Williams at quarterback,

1732
01:29:05,000 --> 01:29:07,080
Speaker 1: will they be better or worse than seven and ten

1733
01:29:07,120 --> 01:29:12,240
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty four with him as a rookie? Worse? Exactly?

1734
01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:17,040
Speaker 2: I think they'd be worse. I think they'd be worse

1735
01:29:17,080 --> 01:29:19,320
Speaker 2: to seven and ten. I mean, the Packers are on

1736
01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:21,320
Speaker 2: the rise in that division. Lions obviously We're in an

1737
01:29:21,360 --> 01:29:24,200
Speaker 2: NFC championship game, So those are going to be four

1738
01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:27,320
Speaker 2: out of your four games. You got guaranteed to play

1739
01:29:27,320 --> 01:29:29,320
Speaker 2: one on a home one and on the road. But

1740
01:29:29,360 --> 01:29:32,519
Speaker 2: then also to the point of like how much better?

1741
01:29:33,400 --> 01:29:36,320
Speaker 2: I mean, Caleb Williams may be very well, maybe the

1742
01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:39,360
Speaker 2: next generational quarterback to come into this league.

1743
01:29:39,400 --> 01:29:41,280
Speaker 1: But we do this less in football than we do

1744
01:29:41,320 --> 01:29:42,080
Speaker 1: in basketball.

1745
01:29:42,400 --> 01:29:45,479
Speaker 2: But like I'm old enough to remember when Trevor Lawrence

1746
01:29:45,560 --> 01:29:47,960
Speaker 2: was the was the uh it was the greatest prospect

1747
01:29:48,080 --> 01:29:50,559
Speaker 2: we've ever seen in all time of history and team.

1748
01:29:50,360 --> 01:29:53,960
Speaker 1: Sports, leading Clems into a national championship as a freshman.

1749
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:57,479
Speaker 2: They don't get me wrong, they know beat Alabama, you know,

1750
01:29:57,600 --> 01:29:58,759
Speaker 2: had some big wins.

1751
01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:02,000
Speaker 1: You know. You know, are you saying that Trevor Lawrence

1752
01:30:02,080 --> 01:30:03,439
Speaker 1: is not going to be that in the NFL?

1753
01:30:03,479 --> 01:30:05,679
Speaker 2: Well, what I am saying is is that right now

1754
01:30:05,720 --> 01:30:07,720
Speaker 2: you'd have a conversation of who's the best quarterback in

1755
01:30:07,760 --> 01:30:08,280
Speaker 2: the division?

1756
01:30:09,439 --> 01:30:13,280
Speaker 1: Him or CJ. Stroud, Right, So it's like we because

1757
01:30:13,280 --> 01:30:16,320
Speaker 1: we do this generation. Are you saying Anthony Richardson is

1758
01:30:16,360 --> 01:30:18,280
Speaker 1: going to pass him up as well? In that division?

1759
01:30:18,479 --> 01:30:19,000
Speaker 1: He could?

1760
01:30:19,560 --> 01:30:24,120
Speaker 2: But we do this every year with these generational prospects. Sure,

1761
01:30:24,160 --> 01:30:27,559
Speaker 2: maybe Trevor, maybe Caleb Williams is you know, the next

1762
01:30:27,680 --> 01:30:31,360
Speaker 2: sun of the moon and the stars. But in the NFL,

1763
01:30:32,160 --> 01:30:34,280
Speaker 2: you don't get any credit for any of the games

1764
01:30:34,280 --> 01:30:36,200
Speaker 2: you played until you get into the league and start

1765
01:30:36,240 --> 01:30:36,760
Speaker 2: playing them.

1766
01:30:36,960 --> 01:30:39,000
Speaker 1: All right, one other team and then we'll fight, you know,

1767
01:30:39,120 --> 01:30:45,439
Speaker 1: make our final choices there which two teams from the

1768
01:30:45,479 --> 01:30:48,599
Speaker 1: depths of twenty twenty three will emerge as playoff teams

1769
01:30:48,600 --> 01:30:51,439
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty So the Mapi's hands and the Buckeyes

1770
01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:54,120
Speaker 1: that pull. That was interesting to listen a little highlight

1771
01:30:54,160 --> 01:30:56,040
Speaker 1: of that game. One of our favorite games going on

1772
01:30:56,120 --> 01:31:00,799
Speaker 1: right now. All right, here we go the New York Giants.

1773
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:05,320
Speaker 1: The New York Giants have been pretty clear despite their

1774
01:31:05,439 --> 01:31:08,639
Speaker 1: premium pick in this year's draft, they're going to hold

1775
01:31:08,680 --> 01:31:11,920
Speaker 1: down with Daniel Jones, who they gave forty million dollars

1776
01:31:11,960 --> 01:31:14,960
Speaker 1: a year in a contract he will continue on and

1777
01:31:15,040 --> 01:31:17,320
Speaker 1: bounce back with a huge bounce back year for the

1778
01:31:17,360 --> 01:31:21,000
Speaker 1: New York Giants or not. This is a playoff team

1779
01:31:21,040 --> 01:31:24,080
Speaker 1: two years ago? Will they be a playoff team in

1780
01:31:24,120 --> 01:31:25,120
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four?

1781
01:31:26,320 --> 01:31:29,880
Speaker 2: Survey says no, no, no.

1782
01:31:30,240 --> 01:31:32,320
Speaker 1: Will they continue their downward trim from a six and

1783
01:31:32,360 --> 01:31:36,160
Speaker 1: eleven season. I think six and eleven feels about right again.

1784
01:31:36,280 --> 01:31:38,960
Speaker 1: For the Giants, Saquon Barkley won't be around all right.

1785
01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:41,240
Speaker 1: So we've covered all these teams. Let me review the

1786
01:31:41,240 --> 01:31:44,439
Speaker 1: teams and you pick out two. We've talked about the Jets,

1787
01:31:44,760 --> 01:31:48,120
Speaker 1: We've talked about the Patriots, we talked about the Chargers,

1788
01:31:48,400 --> 01:31:55,920
Speaker 1: we talked Giants, Commanders, Panthers, and Cardinals. Which two of

1789
01:31:55,960 --> 01:32:00,720
Speaker 1: those teams are you picking right now to be playoff

1790
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:02,599
Speaker 1: teams in twenty twenty four?

1791
01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:07,080
Speaker 2: The one that I feel the most confident on Theirs.

1792
01:32:07,120 --> 01:32:09,200
Speaker 2: On the Cardinals, I think they will be a wild

1793
01:32:09,240 --> 01:32:13,400
Speaker 2: card team at minimum potentially winning a division at San

1794
01:32:13,400 --> 01:32:16,280
Speaker 2: Francisco maybe takes a step back. Deebo Samuel did not

1795
01:32:16,320 --> 01:32:18,400
Speaker 2: impress me in the Super Bowl and leading.

1796
01:32:18,200 --> 01:32:18,680
Speaker 1: Up to it.

1797
01:32:19,200 --> 01:32:22,400
Speaker 2: And you know that team, there's only so long the

1798
01:32:22,400 --> 01:32:23,519
Speaker 2: window can stay open.

1799
01:32:23,800 --> 01:32:24,960
Speaker 1: You know, there's only so long.

1800
01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:28,240
Speaker 2: And they've knocked on the door a lot and no

1801
01:32:28,280 --> 01:32:30,479
Speaker 2: one has come to answer with the ring behind it,

1802
01:32:30,600 --> 01:32:32,400
Speaker 2: you know they have knocked on that door quite a bit.

1803
01:32:32,720 --> 01:32:35,040
Speaker 2: People getting older kidled with only two catches in the

1804
01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:40,040
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. Christian mccaffreys is approaching thirty, so I think

1805
01:32:40,040 --> 01:32:42,439
Speaker 2: the Cardinals have a great shot this season, and the

1806
01:32:42,479 --> 01:32:46,640
Speaker 2: second one forced to pick, I'll go with the Commanders.

1807
01:32:46,800 --> 01:32:48,880
Speaker 1: I know you're sold on those Commanders.

1808
01:32:49,160 --> 01:32:52,680
Speaker 2: I think, Look, if I think they have a lot

1809
01:32:52,680 --> 01:32:55,479
Speaker 2: of talent on that team, I think the I like

1810
01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:58,160
Speaker 2: a lot of skilled players, and I know that they're

1811
01:32:58,400 --> 01:33:00,559
Speaker 2: likely be getting a new quarterback coming in.

1812
01:33:00,960 --> 01:33:02,760
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think.

1813
01:33:03,160 --> 01:33:05,760
Speaker 2: And then, plus NFC East is up and down consistently,

1814
01:33:05,840 --> 01:33:08,840
Speaker 2: a different team wins the division every dog one year.

1815
01:33:10,400 --> 01:33:13,559
Speaker 1: My pick is going to surprise you. But there's a

1816
01:33:13,640 --> 01:33:17,280
Speaker 1: reason for it. Now we say that this happens every year,

1817
01:33:17,439 --> 01:33:20,760
Speaker 1: and it does. I'm not sure any of these teams

1818
01:33:20,760 --> 01:33:24,160
Speaker 1: will actually make the playoffs in twenty twenty four. But

1819
01:33:24,240 --> 01:33:27,200
Speaker 1: the team that will actually, from a wins standpoint, have

1820
01:33:27,280 --> 01:33:32,320
Speaker 1: the biggest improvement year to year will be the Carolina

1821
01:33:32,360 --> 01:33:38,200
Speaker 1: Panthers because of the division they play in. The Buccaneers,

1822
01:33:38,280 --> 01:33:40,920
Speaker 1: it's Baker Mayfield going to repeat what he did last year.

1823
01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:45,880
Speaker 1: The New Orleans Saints as mediocre and nine to eight

1824
01:33:45,880 --> 01:33:48,960
Speaker 1: team as I can possibly think of. The Falcons a

1825
01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:51,760
Speaker 1: restart who knows, maybe a lot of Justin Fields as

1826
01:33:51,800 --> 01:33:55,000
Speaker 1: their quarterback. We'll see what happens there. But I think

1827
01:33:55,040 --> 01:33:57,439
Speaker 1: the Panthers could win eight games this year, it won't

1828
01:33:57,439 --> 01:34:00,320
Speaker 1: be quite enough to get into the postseason from a

1829
01:34:00,360 --> 01:34:05,719
Speaker 1: win standpoint two to eight. Mark it down, the Carolina Panthers.

1830
01:34:05,960 --> 01:34:08,800
Speaker 1: We'll have the biggest year to year win improvement in

1831
01:34:08,880 --> 01:34:11,120
Speaker 1: the NFL. And put it on the board. Put it

1832
01:34:11,160 --> 01:34:13,360
Speaker 1: on the board right there, all right. Coming up on

1833
01:34:13,400 --> 01:34:15,200
Speaker 1: the other side, we're gonna switch gears. Get back to

1834
01:34:15,240 --> 01:34:19,320
Speaker 1: the NBA. It's an All Star NBA Sunday. What does

1835
01:34:19,360 --> 01:34:22,320
Speaker 1: that mean? And where are we going with just a

1836
01:34:22,479 --> 01:34:24,840
Speaker 1: third of the season to go before we get to

1837
01:34:24,880 --> 01:34:26,920
Speaker 1: the playoffs. We're gonna break it down. This is Fox

1838
01:34:26,920 --> 01:34:29,360
Speaker 1: Sports Sunday. You can put it.

1839
01:34:29,320 --> 01:34:30,680
Speaker 7: On the ball.

1840
01:34:30,840 --> 01:34:35,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, Steve Hartman and Martin Weise here Fox Sports Sunday.

1841
01:34:35,560 --> 01:34:38,320
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1848
01:34:54,120 --> 01:34:57,000
Speaker 1: get off the air. All right, we've taken some time

1849
01:34:57,080 --> 01:35:04,240
Speaker 1: out of Let's be honest, it's not the biggest sports day.

1850
01:35:04,960 --> 01:35:07,240
Speaker 1: Could have been bigger with the Daytona five hundred. I mean,

1851
01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:10,920
Speaker 1: that's the biggest race in NASCAR, but that got postponed

1852
01:35:10,920 --> 01:35:11,479
Speaker 1: for the day.

1853
01:35:11,680 --> 01:35:15,040
Speaker 2: I'm not going to put the sport that what is

1854
01:35:15,080 --> 01:35:17,599
Speaker 2: on TV on blast, but I definitely was looking through,

1855
01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:21,400
Speaker 2: like my gambling app is like nothing else on besides

1856
01:35:22,080 --> 01:35:25,679
Speaker 2: this golf replay of the two thousand and six Jerk

1857
01:35:25,720 --> 01:35:26,840
Speaker 2: Classic or whatever it is.

1858
01:35:29,080 --> 01:35:32,320
Speaker 1: We do add the Genesis going on right now at

1859
01:35:32,640 --> 01:35:35,240
Speaker 1: Riviera Country Club, which is too far from where we are.

1860
01:35:35,360 --> 01:35:38,080
Speaker 1: Beautiful day out there holding out the rain. In time,

1861
01:35:38,120 --> 01:35:39,840
Speaker 1: I had a good field. Of course, Tiger Woods had

1862
01:35:39,840 --> 01:35:43,040
Speaker 1: a bail. He got sick. They said he had nothing

1863
01:35:43,080 --> 01:35:45,360
Speaker 1: to do with his back and he just got sick.

1864
01:35:45,880 --> 01:35:46,280
Speaker 1: He did.

1865
01:35:46,439 --> 01:35:48,800
Speaker 2: My good friend Kira Dixon was reporting that there were

1866
01:35:48,960 --> 01:35:52,840
Speaker 2: ambulances and fire trucks there, but Tiger then cleared it

1867
01:35:52,920 --> 01:35:55,080
Speaker 2: up the day after that. He didn't get in any

1868
01:35:55,120 --> 01:35:58,719
Speaker 2: of those ambulances of fire trucks. He had influenza. Yes

1869
01:35:58,840 --> 01:36:03,760
Speaker 2: he didn't have the flu at influenza. Whi's the same thing.

1870
01:36:03,479 --> 01:36:05,839
Speaker 1: All right. I want to get to some NBA. Actually

1871
01:36:05,840 --> 01:36:08,479
Speaker 1: I got the All Star Game. I will say this,

1872
01:36:08,720 --> 01:36:12,360
Speaker 1: here's my thumbs up on the NBA All Star Game.

1873
01:36:12,400 --> 01:36:14,320
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with the actual game, because

1874
01:36:14,320 --> 01:36:19,680
Speaker 1: obviously the game itself is a defensiveless whatever it is.

1875
01:36:20,640 --> 01:36:23,280
Speaker 1: But the way they select the All Stars, I still

1876
01:36:23,640 --> 01:36:26,840
Speaker 1: like it. And let me explain Martin, and I'm gonna

1877
01:36:26,840 --> 01:36:30,360
Speaker 1: go to baseball for a second here. So baseball is

1878
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:36,639
Speaker 1: the Midsummer Classic, okay, And the selection of the All

1879
01:36:36,680 --> 01:36:40,800
Speaker 1: Star team, oftentimes in recent years, is based on what

1880
01:36:40,960 --> 01:36:44,880
Speaker 1: somebody has done for half a season. So you get

1881
01:36:45,080 --> 01:36:47,280
Speaker 1: a pitcher or you get a hitter that you've never

1882
01:36:47,320 --> 01:36:49,960
Speaker 1: heard of before, and they have a hot first half

1883
01:36:50,000 --> 01:36:53,920
Speaker 1: and they are annoyed as an All Star. My name

1884
01:36:53,920 --> 01:36:56,360
Speaker 1: for the baseball All Star Game is the sum Star Game,

1885
01:36:59,160 --> 01:37:02,719
Speaker 1: because they're not All Stars. When I was a kid,

1886
01:37:04,320 --> 01:37:06,960
Speaker 1: no matter what their batting average was at the All

1887
01:37:06,960 --> 01:37:12,360
Speaker 1: Star break, the Willie Mayses, the Hank Aarons, the carl

1888
01:37:12,439 --> 01:37:17,559
Speaker 1: Yas Strimsky's, They're always on the All Star team. Why

1889
01:37:18,360 --> 01:37:22,680
Speaker 1: because they were actually stars. And the only sport that

1890
01:37:22,880 --> 01:37:30,000
Speaker 1: maintains that criteria in choosing their All Star teams is

1891
01:37:30,040 --> 01:37:33,679
Speaker 1: the NBA. The argument again, so why is this guy

1892
01:37:33,720 --> 01:37:36,920
Speaker 1: on the All Star Game every single year? And my

1893
01:37:37,040 --> 01:37:41,920
Speaker 1: answer to that is because he's an actual star. It

1894
01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:44,439
Speaker 1: is very hard to be a first time All Star

1895
01:37:44,600 --> 01:37:46,960
Speaker 1: in the NBA. In fact, this year, I believe there

1896
01:37:46,960 --> 01:37:51,240
Speaker 1: were three. So if the twenty four players selected for

1897
01:37:51,360 --> 01:37:55,639
Speaker 1: the All Star Game, three were first time All Stars,

1898
01:37:56,040 --> 01:37:59,320
Speaker 1: and for me personally, I don't have a problem with that.

1899
01:38:00,479 --> 01:38:02,240
Speaker 1: You know, there was a lot of questions of like

1900
01:38:02,240 --> 01:38:04,720
Speaker 1: why didn't the Sacramento Kings have an All Star? Why

1901
01:38:04,760 --> 01:38:08,240
Speaker 1: would Anthony Davis be an All Star? Why would the Lakers,

1902
01:38:08,240 --> 01:38:10,479
Speaker 1: who were sitting as a nine seed in the West,

1903
01:38:10,720 --> 01:38:13,280
Speaker 1: be rewarded with two All Stars? Well, one got voted

1904
01:38:13,320 --> 01:38:17,120
Speaker 1: in Lebron, but Anthony Davis was added to the team.

1905
01:38:18,160 --> 01:38:21,599
Speaker 1: And my answer is simple, because Anthony Davis is an

1906
01:38:21,640 --> 01:38:28,000
Speaker 1: All Star. He's an actual star player. So that's my criteria.

1907
01:38:28,040 --> 01:38:30,959
Speaker 1: Because it's an exhibition gave the game doesn't really mean anything.

1908
01:38:31,439 --> 01:38:34,600
Speaker 1: But to me, if you're advertising a game to be

1909
01:38:34,640 --> 01:38:39,160
Speaker 1: an All Star game, all Star game, then you can't

1910
01:38:39,200 --> 01:38:42,439
Speaker 1: be like baseball, which is a some star game or

1911
01:38:42,479 --> 01:38:45,840
Speaker 1: a few star game. It needs to be an all

1912
01:38:45,840 --> 01:38:48,360
Speaker 1: star game. And I think the NBA is the closest

1913
01:38:48,360 --> 01:38:52,000
Speaker 1: thing to an actual All Star game.

1914
01:38:52,160 --> 01:38:54,680
Speaker 2: But I think one of the things that ends up

1915
01:38:54,720 --> 01:38:58,680
Speaker 2: happening is when your All Star position is grandfathered in

1916
01:38:58,960 --> 01:39:03,240
Speaker 2: after a certain periodiod in time, then you end up

1917
01:39:03,240 --> 01:39:06,280
Speaker 2: getting a little bit of the more laxadaisical play that

1918
01:39:06,320 --> 01:39:08,759
Speaker 2: we see in the NBA All Star Game as opposed

1919
01:39:08,760 --> 01:39:09,839
Speaker 2: to some of the other sports.

1920
01:39:09,880 --> 01:39:12,640
Speaker 1: Not that anybody is going now. You can watch the

1921
01:39:12,680 --> 01:39:15,640
Speaker 1: Futures Game. If you like that, then what the are

1922
01:39:15,680 --> 01:39:20,840
Speaker 1: the rising Stars or whatever they call it these days. No,

1923
01:39:21,080 --> 01:39:23,680
Speaker 1: but I'm just but I do think that I wish

1924
01:39:23,760 --> 01:39:26,080
Speaker 1: it was a little bit easier for a guy who,

1925
01:39:26,439 --> 01:39:29,720
Speaker 1: like some people don't need to be All Stars, that

1926
01:39:29,800 --> 01:39:30,360
Speaker 1: are all Stars.

1927
01:39:30,400 --> 01:39:31,920
Speaker 2: I don't want to take anybody off the list, but

1928
01:39:31,960 --> 01:39:33,559
Speaker 2: like I think Trey Young probably should be.

1929
01:39:33,880 --> 01:39:36,080
Speaker 1: You know, it is the All Star Game, but well

1930
01:39:36,120 --> 01:39:37,360
Speaker 1: he finally got sucked in.

1931
01:39:38,040 --> 01:39:39,680
Speaker 2: But you know, I think when you look at some

1932
01:39:39,760 --> 01:39:41,519
Speaker 2: of the things that are happening on the court, I

1933
01:39:41,560 --> 01:39:43,720
Speaker 2: don't think it would be the worst. Like, yeah, if

1934
01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:45,599
Speaker 2: the Aaron Fox was in the All Star Game, I'm

1935
01:39:45,640 --> 01:39:48,560
Speaker 2: not gonna blink twice, like but you know, but I

1936
01:39:48,640 --> 01:39:51,080
Speaker 2: will say, like a guy like for example, Klay Thompson,

1937
01:39:51,080 --> 01:39:53,000
Speaker 2: not to take shots at him, but like he's clearly

1938
01:39:53,040 --> 01:39:55,479
Speaker 2: not the same guy that he was earlier in his career.

1939
01:39:55,720 --> 01:39:58,479
Speaker 2: That's well and fine. We don't need to grandfather him

1940
01:39:58,479 --> 01:40:01,519
Speaker 2: in to other All Stars. Appearance is simply because he

1941
01:40:01,680 --> 01:40:03,439
Speaker 2: used to be for quite some time, do you.

1942
01:40:03,600 --> 01:40:05,680
Speaker 1: I mean a couple of years ago, Dwayne Wade and

1943
01:40:05,680 --> 01:40:09,840
Speaker 1: Dirk Novinsky, who had obviously clearly passed their prime, were

1944
01:40:09,880 --> 01:40:12,479
Speaker 1: added to the teams knowing that this was going to

1945
01:40:12,520 --> 01:40:15,160
Speaker 1: be their final season. See that's that's to me an

1946
01:40:15,240 --> 01:40:20,400
Speaker 1: appropriate situation. You're celebrating to future As it turned out,

1947
01:40:20,400 --> 01:40:23,280
Speaker 1: first ballot Hall of famers with one last chance to

1948
01:40:23,320 --> 01:40:27,120
Speaker 1: be there featured at the All Star Game. It's an exhibition,

1949
01:40:28,680 --> 01:40:31,920
Speaker 1: not an exact science. So I like that about the NBA.

1950
01:40:32,520 --> 01:40:33,680
Speaker 1: I just I just know this.

1951
01:40:34,160 --> 01:40:36,479
Speaker 2: I want people to get out here and at least

1952
01:40:36,680 --> 01:40:41,000
Speaker 2: like give a little bit of trying, like a little

1953
01:40:41,040 --> 01:40:43,320
Speaker 2: bit of effort to where it looks like we're like this,

1954
01:40:43,439 --> 01:40:46,120
Speaker 2: give me, just give me a scoach, like a.

1955
01:40:46,040 --> 01:40:49,080
Speaker 1: Pat, like a pat of butter. Just so this that much. Well,

1956
01:40:49,080 --> 01:40:51,400
Speaker 1: you remember they get they they had some gimmicks. Now

1957
01:40:51,479 --> 01:40:55,080
Speaker 1: this is the first year in several years where the

1958
01:40:55,120 --> 01:40:59,080
Speaker 1: player that got the most votes from the fans is

1959
01:40:59,120 --> 01:41:00,920
Speaker 1: not like the cap. I'm a team member. They had

1960
01:41:00,960 --> 01:41:05,040
Speaker 1: a draft the last several years, Team Lebron versus Team Jannaz.

1961
01:41:05,680 --> 01:41:08,519
Speaker 1: That's out. I kind of liked the draft. I didn't.

1962
01:41:08,680 --> 01:41:12,280
Speaker 1: I'd say, like this, it's East versus West. That's how

1963
01:41:12,320 --> 01:41:14,280
Speaker 1: it has been historically.

1964
01:41:15,160 --> 01:41:18,479
Speaker 2: Monti made a point yesterday that I'm go ahead and

1965
01:41:18,560 --> 01:41:21,479
Speaker 2: agree with, though I had to stop it where she

1966
01:41:21,479 --> 01:41:23,559
Speaker 2: said she would get confused because I could tell which

1967
01:41:23,600 --> 01:41:25,240
Speaker 2: team was the East and which team was the West

1968
01:41:25,840 --> 01:41:29,280
Speaker 2: based off their jerseys. But I would love it if

1969
01:41:29,280 --> 01:41:31,439
Speaker 2: we could go back to instead of having the All

1970
01:41:31,479 --> 01:41:34,519
Speaker 2: Star jerseys, if we could go back to teams wearing

1971
01:41:34,520 --> 01:41:36,800
Speaker 2: their own individual jerseys.

1972
01:41:36,439 --> 01:41:38,360
Speaker 1: Road versus road versus home.

1973
01:41:38,520 --> 01:41:41,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what that would require, Steve, for

1974
01:41:41,360 --> 01:41:45,120
Speaker 2: there to be some level of decorum and standard when

1975
01:41:45,160 --> 01:41:46,720
Speaker 2: it comes to these NBA jersey Can.

1976
01:41:46,720 --> 01:41:50,240
Speaker 1: You even identify how many? How many literally how many

1977
01:41:50,439 --> 01:41:56,680
Speaker 1: jerseys right now in the NBA are readily identifiable? I

1978
01:41:56,680 --> 01:41:59,400
Speaker 1: mean I was watching the other day the Milwaukee Bucks

1979
01:42:00,240 --> 01:42:04,679
Speaker 1: and they were in Clipper blue uniforms. You know, those

1980
01:42:04,720 --> 01:42:07,920
Speaker 1: those light blue uniforms the Clippers often wear and the

1981
01:42:07,960 --> 01:42:10,599
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks. Can we turn Monzie on for a second?

1982
01:42:10,600 --> 01:42:10,720
Speaker 4: Ear?

1983
01:42:11,040 --> 01:42:13,439
Speaker 1: And I realized I didn't know it at the moment

1984
01:42:13,479 --> 01:42:15,840
Speaker 1: because I would just flipping through the dial that I

1985
01:42:15,960 --> 01:42:17,519
Speaker 1: was watching the Milwaukee Bucks.

1986
01:42:17,760 --> 01:42:19,479
Speaker 6: I thought the first time I saw them, I thought

1987
01:42:19,479 --> 01:42:22,040
Speaker 6: they were the Dallas Mavericks. Yeah, I thought they were

1988
01:42:22,040 --> 01:42:25,599
Speaker 6: in because they also have like a weird different uniform

1989
01:42:25,880 --> 01:42:27,000
Speaker 6: and I glanced by it and.

1990
01:42:26,880 --> 01:42:29,280
Speaker 7: I was like, those are the Bucks? What are we doing?

1991
01:42:29,680 --> 01:42:30,559
Speaker 7: What are we doing?

1992
01:42:30,640 --> 01:42:30,880
Speaker 1: To me?

1993
01:42:30,960 --> 01:42:35,120
Speaker 2: The worst is the Atlanta Hawks have a black and

1994
01:42:35,240 --> 01:42:36,800
Speaker 2: baby blue uniform.

1995
01:42:37,479 --> 01:42:38,360
Speaker 7: I have not seen that.

1996
01:42:38,479 --> 01:42:40,320
Speaker 1: I just can't square.

1997
01:42:40,040 --> 01:42:44,160
Speaker 2: Why they and they all look like high school teams,

1998
01:42:44,240 --> 01:42:46,200
Speaker 2: like I just like the colors are just like where

1999
01:42:46,200 --> 01:42:47,160
Speaker 2: do we come through with this?

2000
01:42:47,760 --> 01:42:50,639
Speaker 1: Like because we used to have like you know, oh yeah.

2001
01:42:50,479 --> 01:42:53,760
Speaker 2: One or two al jerseys? Like who plays? Like what

2002
01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:54,479
Speaker 2: team is that?

2003
01:42:54,640 --> 01:42:56,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're righty to the college.

2004
01:42:56,160 --> 01:42:59,200
Speaker 2: It looks like college. It looks like I'm watching Providence play.

2005
01:42:59,320 --> 01:43:01,240
Speaker 1: By the way, are are you going to see a

2006
01:43:01,400 --> 01:43:03,639
Speaker 1: multi colored court for the game today?

2007
01:43:03,760 --> 01:43:05,360
Speaker 7: No, it's supposed to be on hardwood.

2008
01:43:05,479 --> 01:43:08,000
Speaker 6: It was only the first two events or the first

2009
01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:10,000
Speaker 6: two days of events on that led light.

2010
01:43:10,240 --> 01:43:12,240
Speaker 7: I mean now they're going back to the normal.

2011
01:43:12,080 --> 01:43:14,320
Speaker 1: That n season tournament where they colored the court.

2012
01:43:14,439 --> 01:43:15,679
Speaker 7: Oh that's what you're talking about.

2013
01:43:15,760 --> 01:43:17,479
Speaker 6: No, those were awful, But you know how for the

2014
01:43:17,520 --> 01:43:19,960
Speaker 6: first two days there was like an led court.

2015
01:43:20,040 --> 01:43:22,240
Speaker 7: They're not using that for the game. They're just using

2016
01:43:22,240 --> 01:43:24,280
Speaker 7: a regular hardwood court.

2017
01:43:24,800 --> 01:43:25,280
Speaker 1: Why not?

2018
01:43:25,680 --> 01:43:27,880
Speaker 7: I don't I don't know, I don't know. It makes

2019
01:43:27,880 --> 01:43:28,200
Speaker 7: no sense.

2020
01:43:28,240 --> 01:43:31,120
Speaker 1: Imagine if they had the court they were using yesterday

2021
01:43:31,160 --> 01:43:32,240
Speaker 1: for the actual game.

2022
01:43:32,120 --> 01:43:32,800
Speaker 7: It would be fun.

2023
01:43:33,960 --> 01:43:37,640
Speaker 1: It's unwatchable. See here's the thing. It's watched like a

2024
01:43:37,680 --> 01:43:40,280
Speaker 1: lot of people, because I had some friends that would

2025
01:43:40,360 --> 01:43:45,160
Speaker 1: go to those in season tournament games in person and say, yeah,

2026
01:43:45,320 --> 01:43:50,080
Speaker 1: it looks sort of cool, But on television it was

2027
01:43:50,120 --> 01:43:54,200
Speaker 1: a nightmare. Like you could not watch those games. Yeah,

2028
01:43:54,240 --> 01:43:56,679
Speaker 1: with those full colored courts.

2029
01:43:56,840 --> 01:43:59,200
Speaker 7: You know what was it? The Chicago Bulls that were

2030
01:43:59,320 --> 01:44:02,599
Speaker 7: just like red? It was the worst one. I agree.

2031
01:44:02,680 --> 01:44:04,639
Speaker 7: I agree it was not pleasing to the eye.

2032
01:44:04,680 --> 01:44:06,320
Speaker 1: But other people would say, well, if you're at the game,

2033
01:44:06,320 --> 01:44:08,879
Speaker 1: it actually looks pretty cool. I didn't like the Clippers

2034
01:44:08,880 --> 01:44:10,840
Speaker 1: one either, but the whole.

2035
01:44:10,560 --> 01:44:12,640
Speaker 7: Thing I didn't even remember what it looks like.

2036
01:44:13,040 --> 01:44:14,400
Speaker 1: It was that red and black?

2037
01:44:15,240 --> 01:44:17,760
Speaker 7: Was that the Clippers one? See I've mentally taken it

2038
01:44:17,800 --> 01:44:18,400
Speaker 7: out of my brain.

2039
01:44:18,520 --> 01:44:20,760
Speaker 2: Probably, well, I just it's like, I know, we want

2040
01:44:20,760 --> 01:44:23,320
Speaker 2: to make these things feel like, feel different than the

2041
01:44:23,360 --> 01:44:24,080
Speaker 2: regular season.

2042
01:44:24,200 --> 01:44:27,240
Speaker 1: Why, like, yeah, that's part of my thing. And I

2043
01:44:27,280 --> 01:44:28,360
Speaker 1: don't know if this is just.

2044
01:44:28,479 --> 01:44:30,960
Speaker 2: Like me growing up now and being older, but like

2045
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:33,160
Speaker 2: when I was a kid, I thought the skills competition

2046
01:44:33,320 --> 01:44:34,880
Speaker 2: was the coolest thing ever.

2047
01:44:35,360 --> 01:44:35,680
Speaker 1: You know what.

2048
01:44:35,720 --> 01:44:38,280
Speaker 2: I didn't need the court to light up for me

2049
01:44:38,360 --> 01:44:41,719
Speaker 2: to watch it, Like maybe maybe somebody's shoes were lighting

2050
01:44:41,800 --> 01:44:44,760
Speaker 2: up because they had you know, when you had the

2051
01:44:44,800 --> 01:44:46,679
Speaker 2: shoes where you step and it had a little red.

2052
01:44:46,520 --> 01:44:48,479
Speaker 1: Light flash in the back by the way, did it?

2053
01:44:48,600 --> 01:44:50,200
Speaker 1: It was? It just me? So they had like the

2054
01:44:50,200 --> 01:44:53,559
Speaker 1: team competition for the skills yesterday, and it seemed like

2055
01:44:53,600 --> 01:44:56,920
Speaker 1: at times they were confused. No, it was not just you,

2056
01:44:57,000 --> 01:44:59,040
Speaker 1: because we were sitting here watching like they didn't even know,

2057
01:44:59,120 --> 01:45:00,479
Speaker 1: like what am I supposed to do here?

2058
01:45:00,640 --> 01:45:03,960
Speaker 2: Well, I was doing the show as that's happening, and

2059
01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:05,800
Speaker 2: I was turned to VJ. I said, they don't load

2060
01:45:05,840 --> 01:45:06,200
Speaker 2: the rule.

2061
01:45:06,360 --> 01:45:08,679
Speaker 1: They don't know what they're like, what am I supposed

2062
01:45:08,680 --> 01:45:11,800
Speaker 1: to do next? Here? And then you had a team situation,

2063
01:45:11,920 --> 01:45:14,920
Speaker 1: so it made it even more confusing. I would just

2064
01:45:14,960 --> 01:45:17,479
Speaker 1: relieve when Halliburton hit that half court shot and said,

2065
01:45:17,479 --> 01:45:18,880
Speaker 1: all right, this thing is over. I don't know what

2066
01:45:18,960 --> 01:45:22,800
Speaker 1: I was watching, but it's over. Over all, right, Monts,

2067
01:45:22,960 --> 01:45:23,960
Speaker 1: what's happening out there?

2068
01:45:24,240 --> 01:45:26,759
Speaker 7: Not a lot of stuff, Fellas Martin, I just looked

2069
01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:27,200
Speaker 7: up the court.

2070
01:45:27,240 --> 01:45:29,080
Speaker 6: I think you got confused because I was gonna say

2071
01:45:29,080 --> 01:45:31,559
Speaker 6: I thought the Clippers in season tournament, not that it

2072
01:45:31,600 --> 01:45:34,280
Speaker 6: was great, but it was baby blue and dark blue

2073
01:45:34,320 --> 01:45:36,200
Speaker 6: with this in the middle, the clips in the middle.

2074
01:45:36,560 --> 01:45:37,240
Speaker 7: It wasn't red.

2075
01:45:37,720 --> 01:45:41,280
Speaker 2: Maybe I was watching the Clippers play somebodybody.

2076
01:45:40,439 --> 01:45:42,360
Speaker 7: And then you just got stuck because I agree though

2077
01:45:43,680 --> 01:45:48,040
Speaker 7: the whole and also any all of the ones with

2078
01:45:48,200 --> 01:45:49,240
Speaker 7: red were the worst.

2079
01:45:49,680 --> 01:45:52,439
Speaker 1: The red bulls. The bulls by far was the word.

2080
01:45:52,479 --> 01:45:54,360
Speaker 6: But I'm looking at and it was every time it

2081
01:45:54,400 --> 01:45:56,840
Speaker 6: was all red. It was hard to see it on

2082
01:45:56,880 --> 01:46:00,800
Speaker 6: the TV. Maybe being there in person was better, but yeah, no, no, no,

2083
01:46:01,040 --> 01:46:03,680
Speaker 6: I'm with you Fellas on all of that. All right,

2084
01:46:03,720 --> 01:46:06,959
Speaker 6: So we got some golf going on. Patrick Canley started

2085
01:46:07,040 --> 01:46:08,280
Speaker 6: the fourth round in the lead.

2086
01:46:08,560 --> 01:46:10,839
Speaker 7: He has now fallen to Luke.

2087
01:46:10,720 --> 01:46:13,919
Speaker 6: Liszt, who is in the lead sixteen under par overall.

2088
01:46:14,040 --> 01:46:17,920
Speaker 6: Can'tley is two shots back. Will Zelatorus three shots back.

2089
01:46:17,960 --> 01:46:20,320
Speaker 6: This is the fourth and final round of the Genesis

2090
01:46:20,320 --> 01:46:23,760
Speaker 6: Invitational at the Riviera Country Club. We do have a

2091
01:46:23,800 --> 01:46:25,800
Speaker 6: fun game in hockey, but it hasn't started. It's the

2092
01:46:25,920 --> 01:46:28,000
Speaker 6: Rangers and the Islanders. They're playing at.

2093
01:46:27,880 --> 01:46:31,880
Speaker 7: MetLife Stadium, so this is fun. I'm hoping no.

2094
01:46:32,080 --> 01:46:34,519
Speaker 6: You know, it's on ice, so nobody's gonna have any

2095
01:46:34,960 --> 01:46:37,960
Speaker 6: torn acls or anything like that, or achilles or anything

2096
01:46:38,000 --> 01:46:40,519
Speaker 6: like that because it is at MetLife Stadium.

2097
01:46:40,520 --> 01:46:42,400
Speaker 7: But they were supposed to start at twelve. It hasn't

2098
01:46:42,400 --> 01:46:43,680
Speaker 7: started yet. I'm waiting on it.

2099
01:46:43,720 --> 01:46:46,080
Speaker 6: But this is a fun one at MetLife Stadium between

2100
01:46:46,200 --> 01:46:48,840
Speaker 6: the Rangers and the Islanders. And then we do have

2101
01:46:48,880 --> 01:46:51,000
Speaker 6: some college hoops that have wrapped up. We have a

2102
01:46:51,000 --> 01:46:54,000
Speaker 6: couple of upsets. South Florida held on to beat number

2103
01:46:54,040 --> 01:46:55,960
Speaker 6: twenty four Florida Atlantic eighty nine to.

2104
01:46:55,880 --> 01:47:00,200
Speaker 7: Eighty six, and number two Perdue. Yesterday, the nater I

2105
01:47:00,240 --> 01:47:04,400
Speaker 7: Meant Selection committee put Purdue as an overall number one seed.

2106
01:47:04,560 --> 01:47:05,360
Speaker 1: What could go wrong?

2107
01:47:05,479 --> 01:47:06,479
Speaker 7: What could go wrong?

2108
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:09,880
Speaker 6: Ohio State just fired their head coach four days ago.

2109
01:47:10,520 --> 01:47:13,720
Speaker 6: Ohio State beats number two per Due today seventy three

2110
01:47:14,040 --> 01:47:16,720
Speaker 6: sixty nine was the final in that one.

2111
01:47:16,840 --> 01:47:18,840
Speaker 7: So you can't make this stuff up, guys, you can't

2112
01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:19,519
Speaker 7: make it up, you know.

2113
01:47:19,800 --> 01:47:22,800
Speaker 6: And yeah, All Star Game today a pm Eastern time,

2114
01:47:22,880 --> 01:47:27,080
Speaker 6: and it's actual East versus West, which it should have

2115
01:47:27,120 --> 01:47:27,960
Speaker 6: always stayed that way.

2116
01:47:28,280 --> 01:47:30,760
Speaker 7: It should have never been. Team captains picked their.

2117
01:47:30,640 --> 01:47:32,000
Speaker 1: Tea again, the captain thing.

2118
01:47:32,200 --> 01:47:35,920
Speaker 6: It got confusing, and it just didn't stop when Nicola

2119
01:47:35,960 --> 01:47:37,040
Speaker 6: Jokic is the last pick.

2120
01:47:37,280 --> 01:47:40,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was. That was. That was hilarious last year,

2121
01:47:40,160 --> 01:47:42,839
Speaker 1: Like nobody picks Jokic, nobody picks Jokich.

2122
01:47:42,960 --> 01:47:46,640
Speaker 7: So yeah, I'm happy where it is. But I'm with

2123
01:47:46,680 --> 01:47:50,519
Speaker 7: Martin that they should wear their jerseys. As I said yesterday, even.

2124
01:47:50,400 --> 01:47:53,160
Speaker 6: Though I would find it confusing, I think they should

2125
01:47:53,200 --> 01:47:53,439
Speaker 6: wear this.

2126
01:47:53,600 --> 01:47:56,200
Speaker 1: You think the not picking Jokic the last pick was

2127
01:47:56,520 --> 01:48:01,040
Speaker 1: the player's way of saying, we're to this guy getting

2128
01:48:01,080 --> 01:48:04,400
Speaker 1: all this attention and recognition as supposedly the best player

2129
01:48:04,439 --> 01:48:07,160
Speaker 1: in the league, and then he goes out and says, Okay,

2130
01:48:07,400 --> 01:48:10,520
Speaker 1: how about if I win the championship and completely dominate

2131
01:48:10,560 --> 01:48:11,480
Speaker 1: the postseason?

2132
01:48:11,680 --> 01:48:14,439
Speaker 7: You know, I really don't. I think it was honestly like.

2133
01:48:14,520 --> 01:48:20,280
Speaker 6: This is now a game of tricks and whistles and

2134
01:48:20,400 --> 01:48:23,559
Speaker 6: showy off like whatever we want, and so they were

2135
01:48:23,640 --> 01:48:26,000
Speaker 6: just like this guy is, as we talked about yesterday.

2136
01:48:25,800 --> 01:48:29,400
Speaker 1: Mister fundamental, fundamental like he Duncan was mister fundamental and

2137
01:48:29,439 --> 01:48:30,720
Speaker 1: he won five championships.

2138
01:48:30,760 --> 01:48:32,880
Speaker 6: Look flashy in any way, And I think that's just

2139
01:48:32,960 --> 01:48:35,080
Speaker 6: the idea of the All Star Game, is that it's

2140
01:48:35,200 --> 01:48:38,000
Speaker 6: just this flashy event. I really don't think it was

2141
01:48:38,040 --> 01:48:40,280
Speaker 6: a we're not gonna pick him because he's so good

2142
01:48:40,400 --> 01:48:41,479
Speaker 6: and he annoys us.

2143
01:48:41,479 --> 01:48:43,440
Speaker 7: But maybe you're onto something.

2144
01:48:43,439 --> 01:48:45,400
Speaker 1: By the way you see him dump water on Luca.

2145
01:48:45,840 --> 01:48:46,800
Speaker 7: Yes, I showed you that.

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Speaker 1: I know, Martin, did you see that I missed? So

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01:48:50,439 --> 01:48:52,360
Speaker 1: Luga was speaking, he was sitting in front of him,

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01:48:52,360 --> 01:48:55,879
Speaker 1: Mike speaking to the media, and Yogic came from behind

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Speaker 1: him and dumped water on the back of his neck.

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Speaker 6: And it seems like it was really cold, because could

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01:49:00,400 --> 01:49:03,200
Speaker 6: just like shiver like went in instead.

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Speaker 7: A bad word. And I said to Steve, I was like,

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01:49:04,520 --> 01:49:06,599
Speaker 7: I would not like that prank. If somebody I would

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01:49:06,680 --> 01:49:07,639
Speaker 7: not handle that, She.

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01:49:07,600 --> 01:49:09,720
Speaker 1: Said, I would have gone airborne righte for his neck,

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01:49:11,320 --> 01:49:11,680
Speaker 1: Like I.

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Speaker 6: Guess some pranks, but if you put like ice cold

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01:49:14,120 --> 01:49:15,360
Speaker 6: water down my back when I'm not.

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01:49:15,320 --> 01:49:19,040
Speaker 1: Expecting it, I'll put that on the list.

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Speaker 7: Put the take off, my hoop erians.

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Speaker 1: No one that's gonna happen next. All right, monsie, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much. Once again, we're broadcasting live here from

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Speaker 1: the ti raq dot com studios. All right, if you're

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01:49:29,720 --> 01:49:34,559
Speaker 1: one of those people saying, Hi, I haven't seen any

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Speaker 1: NBA basketball this year because I when football season's on,

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01:49:39,560 --> 01:49:42,360
Speaker 1: that's one hundred percent of my attention, So get me

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01:49:42,439 --> 01:49:44,640
Speaker 1: up to date. Well, here's a little update for you.

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Speaker 1: We had the All Star Game today. Games do not

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Speaker 1: resume until Thursday Thursday. So there's no NBA tomorrow, there's

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Speaker 1: no NBA Tuesday, there's no NBA Wednesday. Well, you talk

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01:49:59,160 --> 01:50:01,880
Speaker 1: about really taking it advantage of grabbing your audience right

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01:50:02,120 --> 01:50:03,400
Speaker 1: after the football season.

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01:50:04,040 --> 01:50:06,080
Speaker 2: The NBA is having more days off of the All

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01:50:06,080 --> 01:50:08,759
Speaker 2: Star break than I had snow days combined at University

2175
01:50:08,800 --> 01:50:09,880
Speaker 2: of Michigan through five years.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy. All right, let me give you a little

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Speaker 1: update in the standings. So in the West, the top

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Speaker 1: two teams in the West are the Minnesota Timberwolves and

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Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Thunder. Those are your top two seeds

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Speaker 1: in the Western Conference. Just like the script makers wrote

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01:50:27,479 --> 01:50:30,280
Speaker 1: it out, right, I mean where the Lakers and the Warriors.

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01:50:30,320 --> 01:50:33,120
Speaker 1: All right, Lakers are nine, Warriors are ten, pulling up

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01:50:33,120 --> 01:50:35,760
Speaker 1: that play in tournament seed. Yeah, that's where they are

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01:50:35,880 --> 01:50:39,479
Speaker 1: right now. You're defending NBA champion Nuggets. Having watched the

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01:50:39,520 --> 01:50:42,240
Speaker 1: Nuggets for much of their season, then they came into

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Speaker 1: the break, by the way, with a three game losing

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01:50:44,200 --> 01:50:47,040
Speaker 1: streak to drop them to the four seed. Clippers are

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Speaker 1: in at number three. The Nuggets already have one of

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01:50:50,560 --> 01:50:52,760
Speaker 1: those looks of a team that shows up when they

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01:50:52,760 --> 01:50:55,360
Speaker 1: feel like they have to. Remember, they go into Boston.

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01:50:55,400 --> 01:50:57,920
Speaker 1: Boston was undefeated at home, sure, and they went in

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Speaker 1: there and beat the Celtics and sort of like, yeah,

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01:51:00,400 --> 01:51:03,040
Speaker 1: just to remind you when we're playing our a game,

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Speaker 1: we're still the team to beat. I haven't shaken my

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01:51:05,520 --> 01:51:09,559
Speaker 1: thoughts at all. I think the Nuggets are still the

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Speaker 1: team to beat in the NBA. You got a healthy

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01:51:13,240 --> 01:51:15,920
Speaker 1: yokicch you got Maray, you got those guys. Now that

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Speaker 1: they have a championship under the belt. The way they

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Speaker 1: just ran right through the playoffs last year, there's no

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01:51:21,040 --> 01:51:25,240
Speaker 1: reason to believe that they have diminished in any respect

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Speaker 1: going into this year's playoffs, unless they have a major injury. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm saving.

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01:51:29,920 --> 01:51:32,840
Speaker 2: Like you said, obviously you put the normal caveats out there,

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01:51:32,880 --> 01:51:35,599
Speaker 2: But no, Jokic is the best player in the NBA

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01:51:35,760 --> 01:51:38,439
Speaker 2: right now. And the thing that's scary about him is

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01:51:38,479 --> 01:51:42,040
Speaker 2: he he does not necessarily put out the same effort

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01:51:42,120 --> 01:51:44,200
Speaker 2: every night. You'll go look at some of those nices like, oh,

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01:51:44,280 --> 01:51:46,200
Speaker 2: Jokis decided to take today off.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't necessarily sit in a lot of times in

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01:51:49,240 --> 01:51:50,679
Speaker 2: the same way that you see a lot of guys

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01:51:50,720 --> 01:51:53,720
Speaker 2: like low managing and so on. But he'll just have

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01:51:53,880 --> 01:51:56,680
Speaker 2: you know, Oh, Jokis took seven shots tonight. Okay, I

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01:51:56,720 --> 01:51:59,599
Speaker 2: guess he's just he wasn't interesting. This is a passing

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01:51:59,640 --> 01:52:01,800
Speaker 2: game for him, but when he wants to turn it on,

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01:52:02,000 --> 01:52:05,160
Speaker 2: I think you're onto something there with Jamal Murray. I

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01:52:05,240 --> 01:52:07,519
Speaker 2: just think that as long as they maintain home court

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01:52:07,560 --> 01:52:10,240
Speaker 2: advantaged throughout the most of the playoffs, like up until

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Speaker 2: maybe Western Conference Finals, they'll be.

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Speaker 1: A good shape. Now, when you talk about teams like Minnesota,

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01:52:16,400 --> 01:52:20,120
Speaker 1: or you talk about a team like Oklahoma City, I mean,

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01:52:20,200 --> 01:52:22,479
Speaker 1: I guess let's start with Oklahoma City here. I mean,

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01:52:22,520 --> 01:52:25,800
Speaker 1: this has been an amazing rebuild for this organization to

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01:52:25,840 --> 01:52:30,120
Speaker 1: get back, and the key was that trade of Paul George.

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01:52:30,600 --> 01:52:33,400
Speaker 1: They got a boatloaded draft picks and they picked up

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01:52:33,400 --> 01:52:37,240
Speaker 1: Shay Gilgess Alexander in that deal, who now has obviously

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01:52:37,400 --> 01:52:40,240
Speaker 1: established themselves not just as an All Star, but literally

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01:52:40,280 --> 01:52:43,599
Speaker 1: an All NBA player. But we still have to figure

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01:52:43,680 --> 01:52:47,600
Speaker 1: out if they suddenly get on a little run in

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01:52:47,640 --> 01:52:53,160
Speaker 1: the postseason, is he capable of stepping up and taking

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01:52:53,160 --> 01:52:55,200
Speaker 1: a team over the top. This is how you have

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01:52:55,240 --> 01:52:58,599
Speaker 1: to divide your stars, right, I mean, I mean when

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01:52:59,360 --> 01:53:02,200
Speaker 1: Steph Kerr he sort of hit the scene. You know,

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01:53:02,280 --> 01:53:04,559
Speaker 1: it was a great story, like, Wow, this Warriors team's

2235
01:53:04,600 --> 01:53:06,479
Speaker 1: winning a lot of games right now, and this guy's

2236
01:53:06,520 --> 01:53:09,120
Speaker 1: firing threes from all over the court. But is that

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01:53:09,160 --> 01:53:12,760
Speaker 1: going to actually translate into a championship? Does he have

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01:53:13,000 --> 01:53:15,960
Speaker 1: that in him? And of course we found out the

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01:53:16,040 --> 01:53:21,960
Speaker 1: answer is a resounding yes. He is that player. Is

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Speaker 1: a shake Gilgess Alexander, that player they can take his

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01:53:26,560 --> 01:53:27,680
Speaker 1: team to a championship.

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01:53:28,120 --> 01:53:30,200
Speaker 2: I think he could definitely be the best player or

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01:53:30,320 --> 01:53:32,679
Speaker 2: one of the top two players on a championship team.

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01:53:33,080 --> 01:53:36,320
Speaker 2: I just wonder about the arrest of that roster, Like

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01:53:36,400 --> 01:53:37,960
Speaker 2: when I think, like you look at you talk about

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01:53:38,000 --> 01:53:40,760
Speaker 2: Staph Well, you know, he did have the two Musketeers

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01:53:40,840 --> 01:53:43,240
Speaker 2: right by side, Klay Thompson, who was locking down any

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01:53:43,240 --> 01:53:45,960
Speaker 2: perimeter defender and Draymond Green, who was one of the

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01:53:45,960 --> 01:53:48,800
Speaker 2: best post defenders even still to this day, even though

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Speaker 2: he's lost a little bit in some of his offensive respects.

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Speaker 2: I wonder about the rest of that team and their

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01:53:54,280 --> 01:53:57,160
Speaker 2: ability to handle, especially some of the more the wing

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01:53:57,240 --> 01:53:58,200
Speaker 2: players in the West.

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Speaker 1: And then there's the Minnesota Timberwolves, and to me, they

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Speaker 1: have more to point to the idea that this could

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Speaker 1: be a championship team. I mean, when you look at

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01:54:13,720 --> 01:54:16,280
Speaker 1: the top three names on that roster, I'm really if

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01:54:16,320 --> 01:54:19,280
Speaker 1: you want to go Mike Conley as well. So you

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01:54:19,360 --> 01:54:22,800
Speaker 1: got Karl Anthony Towns, who, by the way, once again

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01:54:22,960 --> 01:54:26,000
Speaker 1: was challenging in the three point competition. You had that

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01:54:26,120 --> 01:54:28,639
Speaker 1: ridiculous game the other day where you're just firing threes

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01:54:28,680 --> 01:54:31,360
Speaker 1: all over the place. Rudy Gobert, who appeared to be

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01:54:31,400 --> 01:54:33,200
Speaker 1: a bust a year ago, all of a sudden, now

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01:54:33,240 --> 01:54:35,560
Speaker 1: we figure out, wow, maybe that was a good deal.

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01:54:36,360 --> 01:54:39,920
Speaker 1: He is finally bringing to the Timberwolves what they hope

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01:54:40,000 --> 01:54:41,440
Speaker 1: they were going to get. It just it was a

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01:54:41,480 --> 01:54:45,200
Speaker 1: matter of time, you know, with go Beart and Anthony Towns.

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01:54:45,520 --> 01:54:47,520
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony town Is like you had to figure out

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01:54:47,560 --> 01:54:50,040
Speaker 1: the dynamic the two bigs, how do we work together

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01:54:50,080 --> 01:54:51,920
Speaker 1: in the court. They figure that out. But I was

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01:54:51,920 --> 01:54:54,480
Speaker 1: talking about Shay Gillis Alexander, I ask you the same

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01:54:54,520 --> 01:54:59,280
Speaker 1: thing of Anthony Edwards. He's an All Star player. Oh yeah,

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01:54:59,560 --> 01:55:02,520
Speaker 1: but it's almost like it's like the Jason Tatum situation

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01:55:02,640 --> 01:55:06,520
Speaker 1: in Boston. So Jason Tatum is now a consistent All

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01:55:06,640 --> 01:55:10,440
Speaker 1: NBA player, but he hasn't been able to get over

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01:55:10,520 --> 01:55:14,040
Speaker 1: the hump in the postseason. Every time it looks like

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01:55:14,080 --> 01:55:19,240
Speaker 1: he might be right there, he falls short. And we've

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01:55:19,280 --> 01:55:21,120
Speaker 1: seen this with a lot of great players over the year.

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01:55:21,200 --> 01:55:25,200
Speaker 1: James Hardy comes in the nine. Anthony Edwards. Are you

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01:55:25,280 --> 01:55:28,920
Speaker 1: sold on him as a guy that in clutch, final

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01:55:28,960 --> 01:55:30,920
Speaker 1: minutes of a big game he's going to carry his

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01:55:30,960 --> 01:55:31,800
Speaker 1: team over the top.

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Speaker 2: I'm one hundred percent sold on Anthony Edwards, and I

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01:55:35,160 --> 01:55:37,400
Speaker 2: have been really since he got into the league. He

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01:55:37,560 --> 01:55:41,200
Speaker 2: to me, has the temperament of a superstar, Like he's

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01:55:41,280 --> 01:55:43,080
Speaker 2: not too he's not afraid of the moment. He's not

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01:55:43,200 --> 01:55:46,280
Speaker 2: the moment is not ever too big for him, and

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01:55:46,320 --> 01:55:48,720
Speaker 2: he's a guy who's like one hundred percent every night

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01:55:48,760 --> 01:55:49,520
Speaker 2: he's out there.

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01:55:49,440 --> 01:55:50,040
Speaker 1: Type of guy.

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01:55:50,200 --> 01:55:54,280
Speaker 2: Like I've been a major, huge fan of Anthony Edwards

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01:55:54,400 --> 01:55:56,600
Speaker 2: game since he got into the league, and I think

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01:55:56,640 --> 01:55:59,400
Speaker 2: that especially now with this team that he has around him.

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01:55:59,680 --> 01:55:59,840
Speaker 1: Now.

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01:56:00,120 --> 01:56:03,800
Speaker 2: One that concerns me on Minnesota is Carl Anthony Towns,

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01:56:04,040 --> 01:56:07,400
Speaker 2: who is known to shrink in some of the brighter lights,

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01:56:07,840 --> 01:56:11,720
Speaker 2: right or moves track and go ahead and like somehow

2298
01:56:11,760 --> 01:56:14,120
Speaker 2: score sixty in the loss. Right, he scored sixty and

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01:56:14,200 --> 01:56:16,160
Speaker 2: was on the bench towards the end of the fourth

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01:56:16,240 --> 01:56:19,040
Speaker 2: quarter because it's like, we're trying to win this game, Carl,

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01:56:19,120 --> 01:56:24,080
Speaker 2: if you're not aware, I think Anthony Edwards is to me, Steve,

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01:56:24,160 --> 01:56:26,680
Speaker 2: I say this, he grew up. He looks like he

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01:56:26,720 --> 01:56:29,640
Speaker 2: grew up playing outside and I like those kind of guys.

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Speaker 1: Well, it'll be very interesting in the Western Conference playoffs

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01:56:33,920 --> 01:56:37,160
Speaker 1: if we go into the postseason where Minnesota is the

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01:56:37,160 --> 01:56:41,400
Speaker 1: one seed in Oklahoma City's the two seed. Yeah, it

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01:56:41,440 --> 01:56:43,320
Speaker 1: will be free, I mean, and then the question is

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01:56:43,360 --> 01:56:45,240
Speaker 1: are they going to live up to that. We'll continue

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01:56:45,240 --> 01:56:47,240
Speaker 1: on as we get ready for the second half of

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Speaker 1: the NBA season. This is Fox Sports Sunday. Steve Hartman,

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01:56:51,680 --> 01:56:54,680
Speaker 1: Martin Wise here on Fox Sports Sunday Live from the

2312
01:56:54,920 --> 01:56:58,520
Speaker 1: tai Iraq dot Com studios, getting ready for the second

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01:56:58,520 --> 01:57:01,040
Speaker 1: half of the NBA season. The All Star Game is

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01:57:01,080 --> 01:57:03,360
Speaker 1: today and again they are not going to resume games

2315
01:57:03,440 --> 01:57:14,320
Speaker 1: until Thursday, Thursday. Why not Tuesday or even Wednesday. These

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01:57:14,360 --> 01:57:17,400
Speaker 1: millennials don't want to work. Steve man oh Man. Well,

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01:57:17,440 --> 01:57:19,480
Speaker 1: one of the rules changes they made in the NBA

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01:57:19,600 --> 01:57:23,080
Speaker 1: this year is working, and that was the sixty five

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01:57:23,160 --> 01:57:27,880
Speaker 1: game rule. So they made a number that said, in

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01:57:28,040 --> 01:57:31,520
Speaker 1: order for you to be eligible for any postseason honors,

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01:57:32,200 --> 01:57:35,600
Speaker 1: any of the awards all NBA teams, you must have

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01:57:35,680 --> 01:57:39,440
Speaker 1: played at least sixty five games. So that means that

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01:57:39,560 --> 01:57:44,440
Speaker 1: one player, Joel Embiid, has been eliminated hundred percent. He's

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01:57:44,480 --> 01:57:47,080
Speaker 1: averaging thirty five points a game. You will not see

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01:57:47,120 --> 01:57:49,760
Speaker 1: him on any All NBA team this year. He will

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01:57:49,760 --> 01:57:54,080
Speaker 1: get no votes for MVP. He is not eligible because

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01:57:54,120 --> 01:57:56,880
Speaker 1: he did not play sixty five games this year. But

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01:57:57,000 --> 01:57:59,920
Speaker 1: what we are seeing, obviously is guys playing more games.

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01:58:00,320 --> 01:58:02,680
Speaker 1: The reason the Clippers are playing so well this year

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01:58:03,200 --> 01:58:07,920
Speaker 1: is that Kawhi Leonard's on the court that helps. It's amazing.

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01:58:07,960 --> 01:58:09,960
Speaker 1: When you actually see Kawhi Leonard, You're like, damn, that

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01:58:09,960 --> 01:58:14,800
Speaker 1: guy's a good player. Where's he been load management? He

2333
01:58:14,920 --> 01:58:17,360
Speaker 1: just takes months off whatever. He was like the king

2334
01:58:17,440 --> 01:58:20,040
Speaker 1: the face of load management. Are you do you like

2335
01:58:20,080 --> 01:58:21,560
Speaker 1: this rule? Oh? I love it.

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01:58:21,760 --> 01:58:25,200
Speaker 2: I love it, and we have it unofficially in football,

2337
01:58:25,840 --> 01:58:28,880
Speaker 2: right Like you'll see guy will be in the MVP conversation,

2338
01:58:29,000 --> 01:58:31,560
Speaker 2: like Lamar Jackson was in the MVP conversation. Then he

2339
01:58:31,640 --> 01:58:34,120
Speaker 2: hurt his knee and guess what, he's no longer in

2340
01:58:34,160 --> 01:58:35,280
Speaker 2: the MVP conversation.

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01:58:35,760 --> 01:58:37,960
Speaker 1: Why because he got hurt? Is it fair?

2342
01:58:38,160 --> 01:58:40,240
Speaker 2: I don't know this is but this is also like

2343
01:58:40,480 --> 01:58:41,640
Speaker 2: he's not there.

2344
01:58:42,200 --> 01:58:45,080
Speaker 1: How valuable could he be? Well? I remember, way back

2345
01:58:45,080 --> 01:58:48,360
Speaker 1: in the day, the NBA players actually voted on the

2346
01:58:48,440 --> 01:58:53,040
Speaker 1: MVP award. People don't know this. The first twenty five

2347
01:58:53,120 --> 01:58:55,800
Speaker 1: years that they had the voting for MVP in the NBA,

2348
01:58:56,360 --> 01:59:01,400
Speaker 1: the players voted for the MVP before they turned it

2349
01:59:01,440 --> 01:59:05,200
Speaker 1: over to the media. And one year Bill Walton with

2350
01:59:05,360 --> 01:59:09,120
Speaker 1: the Portland Trailblazers, they were off to this terrific start

2351
01:59:09,440 --> 01:59:12,720
Speaker 1: and he got hurt. He missed twenty four games that

2352
01:59:12,880 --> 01:59:15,720
Speaker 1: he played fifty eight games and he was the runaway

2353
01:59:15,840 --> 01:59:19,960
Speaker 1: choice of the players still as the most valuable player

2354
01:59:20,040 --> 01:59:23,400
Speaker 1: in the league that year, so his one MVP award

2355
01:59:24,040 --> 01:59:27,920
Speaker 1: he missed twenty four games because of injury. Well, players

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01:59:28,000 --> 01:59:29,480
Speaker 1: voted and they said he's still the MVP.

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Speaker 2: To see Jalen Brown say that he would have liked

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01:59:31,600 --> 01:59:35,280
Speaker 2: to see fifty eight games be the minimum, which you know,

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01:59:35,440 --> 01:59:37,160
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have an issue with that, but I do

2360
01:59:37,200 --> 01:59:39,240
Speaker 2: think the fact that there was there needed to be

2361
01:59:39,320 --> 01:59:41,520
Speaker 2: a minimum, and it should be around one fourth of

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01:59:41,560 --> 01:59:42,200
Speaker 2: games played.

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01:59:42,360 --> 01:59:46,120
Speaker 1: I think though, see I'm a little bet I don't

2364
01:59:46,240 --> 01:59:49,280
Speaker 1: like that kind of discrimination, like in the case of

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Speaker 1: embiedd where he's legitimately hurt. I mean, I understand the

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01:59:53,080 --> 01:59:55,640
Speaker 1: idea of it is, we don't want players just sitting

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01:59:55,640 --> 01:59:58,320
Speaker 1: out games with that load management where suddenly you're missing

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01:59:58,360 --> 02:00:01,200
Speaker 1: twenty games and and you know it has a direct

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Speaker 1: effect on the buck of the owners. I would like

2370
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Speaker 1: to have some kind of revision based on an actual

2371
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Speaker 1: injury keeping you out of games. All right, much more

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Speaker 1: coming up, Stay with us. This is Fox Sports Sunday,

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Speaker 1: com the way tire buying should be. We mentioned that

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Speaker 1: the NBA schedule will resume on Thursday, today, of course

2380
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Speaker 1: being the All Star Game. Also on Thursday, we'll have

2381
02:00:41,240 --> 02:00:46,320
Speaker 1: spring training baseball games, exhibition baseball getting underway. John Paul Morosi,

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Speaker 1: ore Fox Sports Radio MLB Insider is going to be

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Speaker 1: joining us here coming up in about fifteen minutes or so,

2384
02:00:52,880 --> 02:00:55,600
Speaker 1: getting excited about baseball. Both Mart and I have made

2385
02:00:55,640 --> 02:00:59,320
Speaker 1: clear we're very excited about the upcoming of baseball season.

2386
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Speaker 1: We've been talking a little of everything today. We've been

2387
02:01:02,560 --> 02:01:06,240
Speaker 1: rehashing the NFL season that is coming gone already. Our

2388
02:01:06,280 --> 02:01:08,560
Speaker 1: thoughts are set for twenty twenty four. What's going to

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Speaker 1: happen there. We've been talking about the NBA as we

2390
02:01:12,480 --> 02:01:14,800
Speaker 1: get through this All Star break and what's to expect

2391
02:01:14,800 --> 02:01:17,880
Speaker 1: in the second half of the season. Very quickly here

2392
02:01:18,040 --> 02:01:21,920
Speaker 1: we mentioned these two teams, the Minnesota Timberwolves and the

2393
02:01:21,920 --> 02:01:24,520
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City Thunder sitting one to two right now in

2394
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Speaker 1: the Western Conference. Mentioned that you got the Lakers at

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02:01:28,240 --> 02:01:30,600
Speaker 1: nine and the Warriors at ten. By the way they

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Speaker 1: will face each other on Thursday, and both teams actually

2397
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Speaker 1: playing a little better basketball right now, do you buy

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Speaker 1: either one of these teams making any noise in the

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Speaker 1: NBA playoffs, assuming they can even get past the playing round,

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Speaker 1: if they're stuck in the play in round.

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Speaker 2: So, what does noise mean? I mean win around, I

2402
02:01:54,400 --> 02:01:56,360
Speaker 2: mean go to a conference final.

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Speaker 1: What does noise mean? Well, the Lakers made noise a

2404
02:01:58,960 --> 02:02:01,320
Speaker 1: year ago by getting to the conference finals, even though

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02:02:01,320 --> 02:02:04,000
Speaker 1: they got swept by the Nuggets at that point. Do

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Speaker 1: you see any repeat of that?

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Speaker 2: I could see the Lakers getting it in gear. I

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02:02:07,760 --> 02:02:10,640
Speaker 2: don't see the war I think the Warriors are dead

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Speaker 2: men walking. They go as far as Steph goes and

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Speaker 2: I think that's that's a first round exit, our second

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02:02:17,080 --> 02:02:18,000
Speaker 2: round exit at best.

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Speaker 1: Oh, last year we had the Warriors play the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: Well, I did, but I think if de Aaron Fox

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02:02:23,640 --> 02:02:26,720
Speaker 2: doesn't fracture his finger midway through the first round of

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02:02:26,760 --> 02:02:29,600
Speaker 2: the playoffs, I think we would have had another all

2416
02:02:29,600 --> 02:02:32,120
Speaker 2: California series. It would have been like this, the Lakers

2417
02:02:32,120 --> 02:02:32,960
Speaker 2: and the and the Kings.

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Speaker 1: We had this wild rumor about a deal that to me,

2419
02:02:37,440 --> 02:02:42,400
Speaker 1: was the most fantasized trade idea ever I saw. I

2420
02:02:42,400 --> 02:02:49,600
Speaker 1: mean Lebron James. First of all, why would Lebron James

2421
02:02:49,600 --> 02:02:51,680
Speaker 1: want to leave the Lakers to go to the Warriors

2422
02:02:52,440 --> 02:02:56,520
Speaker 1: to play with Steph Curvey? What's the draw of that?

2423
02:02:57,960 --> 02:03:02,000
Speaker 1: They were rivals for four straight NBA finals? Why would

2424
02:03:02,000 --> 02:03:09,000
Speaker 1: he feel compelled to play with Steph Curry? That was

2425
02:03:09,040 --> 02:03:12,840
Speaker 1: ten years ago? It wasn't I mean, I mean, I

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02:03:13,120 --> 02:03:16,320
Speaker 1: I don't the idea of playing with someone you've played

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02:03:16,360 --> 02:03:19,640
Speaker 1: against him, like for you know, fifteen years. Why would

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02:03:19,680 --> 02:03:22,520
Speaker 1: you say, boy, I would love to play with what's

2429
02:03:22,560 --> 02:03:23,320
Speaker 1: the new NBA?

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02:03:23,560 --> 02:03:25,840
Speaker 2: He said, look, hey, let's sign up together. You want

2431
02:03:25,840 --> 02:03:27,040
Speaker 2: to come down here and play with me?

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02:03:27,080 --> 02:03:29,800
Speaker 1: And you had been my foe, You had been a

2433
02:03:29,840 --> 02:03:33,879
Speaker 1: thorn in my side. My single greatest moment was beating

2434
02:03:34,000 --> 02:03:37,720
Speaker 1: you and your seventy three win Warriors team in the NBA.

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02:03:37,720 --> 02:03:40,280
Speaker 1: Why would I want to join forces with him? I mean,

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02:03:40,440 --> 02:03:43,400
Speaker 1: ultimately he didn't. Well, I don't think it was ever

2437
02:03:43,440 --> 02:03:47,040
Speaker 1: on the table, because first, the Lakers would never trade

2438
02:03:47,440 --> 02:03:51,000
Speaker 1: Lebron James of the Golden State Warriors if they were

2439
02:03:51,040 --> 02:03:53,600
Speaker 1: to trade him, he would be to like the New

2440
02:03:53,680 --> 02:03:54,240
Speaker 1: York Knicks.

2441
02:03:54,440 --> 02:03:56,720
Speaker 2: The report saying that Genie said, look, we don't want

2442
02:03:56,720 --> 02:03:58,360
Speaker 2: to trade Tom, but give him a call see if

2443
02:03:58,360 --> 02:03:59,080
Speaker 2: he wants to come.

2444
02:03:59,200 --> 02:04:01,640
Speaker 1: He said, you know what, I don't want to come. No,

2445
02:04:02,480 --> 02:04:04,360
Speaker 1: why would he want to do that. What's a better

2446
02:04:04,400 --> 02:04:07,600
Speaker 1: team right now? The Lakers are the Warriors. The Lakers, Yes,

2447
02:04:08,120 --> 02:04:11,040
Speaker 1: but now that they finally have a coach in Darbnham,

2448
02:04:11,040 --> 02:04:13,720
Speaker 1: how's this guy still have a job. You you made

2449
02:04:13,760 --> 02:04:19,040
Speaker 1: a run to the Western Conference finals with Lebron, Ady

2450
02:04:20,120 --> 02:04:25,800
Speaker 1: d low Reeves and Ruey. That was your lineup and

2451
02:04:25,840 --> 02:04:28,400
Speaker 1: it took him two thirds of a season to figure

2452
02:04:28,440 --> 02:04:30,280
Speaker 1: out maybe we should put those five guys back in

2453
02:04:30,320 --> 02:04:35,720
Speaker 1: the starting lineup. Like that's going on here?

2454
02:04:36,320 --> 02:04:39,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that Lakers fans aren't aren't necessarily happy

2455
02:04:39,000 --> 02:04:39,360
Speaker 2: about it.

2456
02:04:39,600 --> 02:04:42,200
Speaker 1: Maybe he was trying to figure out what different rotation. Hell,

2457
02:04:42,360 --> 02:04:44,720
Speaker 1: he was like, how can I guarantee Torrian Princes in

2458
02:04:44,760 --> 02:04:50,200
Speaker 1: the lineup? Figure it out? How do I guarantee that

2459
02:04:50,320 --> 02:04:52,360
Speaker 1: whatever lineup they put on the court, the one guy

2460
02:04:52,400 --> 02:04:54,640
Speaker 1: that's the constant is Torian Prince. I do think that

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02:04:54,680 --> 02:04:56,960
Speaker 1: specer Dinwood he's gonna end up playing some big medal,

2462
02:04:57,920 --> 02:05:01,520
Speaker 1: I mean Nollik Gabe Vincent unfortunately got hurt. That was unfortunate.

2463
02:05:01,800 --> 02:05:04,400
Speaker 1: I think gay Finson could have given him some quality

2464
02:05:04,600 --> 02:05:08,160
Speaker 1: minutes how to actually play with Dimwitty who went to

2465
02:05:08,200 --> 02:05:11,720
Speaker 1: my high school by the way, Taft High School, Taft, Okay,

2466
02:05:11,840 --> 02:05:15,720
Speaker 1: right down the street also produced Jordan Farmar, two time

2467
02:05:15,840 --> 02:05:20,000
Speaker 1: NBA champion with the Lakers, Jordan Farmar taf tie No.

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02:05:20,120 --> 02:05:22,000
Speaker 1: I think Dinwhittie is going to be a nice addition

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02:05:22,080 --> 02:05:25,760
Speaker 1: for the Lakers, you know. So I was talking about

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02:05:25,800 --> 02:05:29,120
Speaker 1: the idea of like who would be Let me ask

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02:05:29,160 --> 02:05:32,240
Speaker 1: you this, who do you think would be the right

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02:05:32,400 --> 02:05:36,560
Speaker 1: choice if you were to get rid of Darvinham to

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02:05:36,880 --> 02:05:40,600
Speaker 1: coach a Lebron James led Lakers team?

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02:05:40,760 --> 02:05:43,600
Speaker 2: Whoever Lebron James wants to be the head coach. H

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Speaker 2: That's the way you got to ask, the way you

2476
02:05:45,800 --> 02:05:47,680
Speaker 2: got to answer it. It reminds me like when I

2477
02:05:47,760 --> 02:05:49,920
Speaker 2: when I after college, I moved in with my dad

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02:05:49,960 --> 02:05:52,600
Speaker 2: for a while. I was still living, you know, technically

2479
02:05:52,640 --> 02:05:55,080
Speaker 2: at home, but he was never there right so he

2480
02:05:55,120 --> 02:05:57,320
Speaker 2: would literally be gone for weeks and weeks and weeks

2481
02:05:57,360 --> 02:06:00,600
Speaker 2: at a time. So after a while I would put place,

2482
02:06:00,760 --> 02:06:03,440
Speaker 2: put things into places where I wanted them to be, right.

2483
02:06:03,480 --> 02:06:05,200
Speaker 2: You know, it's like, this is where I'm put in

2484
02:06:05,240 --> 02:06:07,840
Speaker 2: the paper towels, this is where I'm doing. And I'm

2485
02:06:07,840 --> 02:06:11,320
Speaker 2: not a messy guy by nature, right, But however, I

2486
02:06:11,360 --> 02:06:14,160
Speaker 2: will come home and when my dad would be coming

2487
02:06:14,160 --> 02:06:17,000
Speaker 2: back in town from two months out, and he'd come

2488
02:06:17,040 --> 02:06:19,280
Speaker 2: back and be like, well, where are the hells where

2489
02:06:19,280 --> 02:06:20,160
Speaker 2: are my socks?

2490
02:06:20,680 --> 02:06:22,600
Speaker 1: Right? They're in the drawer? Well why would they?

2491
02:06:22,640 --> 02:06:24,720
Speaker 2: They were in the same drawd they've always been in,

2492
02:06:25,240 --> 02:06:27,200
Speaker 2: but they're on the right side instead of on the

2493
02:06:27,280 --> 02:06:27,800
Speaker 2: left side.

2494
02:06:28,080 --> 02:06:30,920
Speaker 1: And you know what that was, Steve. It was wrong.

2495
02:06:31,720 --> 02:06:32,320
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

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02:06:32,400 --> 02:06:34,640
Speaker 2: It wasn't dirty, it was wrong. It was in the

2497
02:06:34,680 --> 02:06:37,480
Speaker 2: wrong place. Why would you put the keys there? Because's

2498
02:06:37,480 --> 02:06:39,320
Speaker 2: where I want to put the keys. They're right there

2499
02:06:39,360 --> 02:06:41,160
Speaker 2: on the counter. Now the keys are supposed to go

2500
02:06:41,200 --> 02:06:42,120
Speaker 2: in the kitchen island.

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02:06:42,400 --> 02:06:44,360
Speaker 1: Oh you know why? Because you know what? You know what?

2502
02:06:44,480 --> 02:06:46,440
Speaker 1: You know what. The lesson to learn from all of

2503
02:06:46,480 --> 02:06:47,040
Speaker 1: that is.

2504
02:06:47,880 --> 02:06:50,880
Speaker 2: Is you got right, you got wrong, and then you

2505
02:06:50,920 --> 02:06:54,680
Speaker 2: got who's in charge. Right and right and wrong can

2506
02:06:54,760 --> 02:06:57,800
Speaker 2: slide one way or another depending on who's in charge.

2507
02:06:57,920 --> 02:07:00,000
Speaker 1: So you asked me who who should be coaching the team?

2508
02:07:00,400 --> 02:07:03,360
Speaker 1: Whoever Lebron wants to be coaching the team, because.

2509
02:07:03,040 --> 02:07:06,040
Speaker 2: If it's not if it's not right with Lebron, is

2510
02:07:06,040 --> 02:07:07,480
Speaker 2: not gonna be right with anybody.

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02:07:07,560 --> 02:07:12,080
Speaker 1: Oh, per agree. I am the idea that well a

2512
02:07:12,240 --> 02:07:19,120
Speaker 1: g A. Lebron's running the organization. Yes, yes, he earned

2513
02:07:19,160 --> 02:07:26,160
Speaker 1: that basketball Look at Bill Russell became the first African

2514
02:07:26,200 --> 02:07:29,320
Speaker 1: American head coach in a major North American sport when

2515
02:07:29,320 --> 02:07:32,160
Speaker 1: the Celtics, when he was still playing, made him the

2516
02:07:32,160 --> 02:07:35,640
Speaker 1: coach of the team player coach and the first year

2517
02:07:35,680 --> 02:07:39,680
Speaker 1: he did, their streak of eight straight NBA championships ended.

2518
02:07:40,120 --> 02:07:43,280
Speaker 1: Wilton in the Philadelphia seventy six Ers knocked him up. Seems say,

2519
02:07:43,400 --> 02:07:47,320
Speaker 1: you can't do both. They won the next two NBA championships,

2520
02:07:47,320 --> 02:07:49,640
Speaker 1: the Celtics the last two year was there. I don't

2521
02:07:49,680 --> 02:07:53,480
Speaker 1: understand why people think that can happen today. What's the difference?

2522
02:07:54,160 --> 02:07:57,240
Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, now you dub all this film study

2523
02:07:57,280 --> 02:07:59,960
Speaker 1: and breaking it down, does it seem like to you

2524
02:08:00,080 --> 02:08:02,640
Speaker 1: when you watch a normal NBA game, there's some kind

2525
02:08:02,680 --> 02:08:06,960
Speaker 1: of master strategy going into any of these games. Here's

2526
02:08:07,000 --> 02:08:09,320
Speaker 1: what I see when I watch the NBA. I see

2527
02:08:09,360 --> 02:08:11,960
Speaker 1: defense only one. It has to be played. And I

2528
02:08:12,000 --> 02:08:15,440
Speaker 1: see offensively the same offense on every team where they're

2529
02:08:15,440 --> 02:08:17,720
Speaker 1: just circling ball around to an open guy standing at

2530
02:08:17,720 --> 02:08:20,600
Speaker 1: the three point line. That's essentially the NBA these days.

2531
02:08:20,760 --> 02:08:23,480
Speaker 1: So why wouldn't Lebron coach a team. It's not like

2532
02:08:23,600 --> 02:08:25,440
Speaker 1: football right where you're literal.

2533
02:08:25,840 --> 02:08:29,120
Speaker 2: I mean, you have certain plays that get run in

2534
02:08:29,160 --> 02:08:33,280
Speaker 2: the NBA are certain philosophical ideas. We want to shoot

2535
02:08:33,280 --> 02:08:35,120
Speaker 2: from this place on the court more than we want

2536
02:08:35,120 --> 02:08:36,960
Speaker 2: to shoot from that place on the court, so on

2537
02:08:37,000 --> 02:08:39,400
Speaker 2: and so forth. But like in football, you have teams

2538
02:08:39,400 --> 02:08:42,560
Speaker 2: that are run heavy, you have teams that are pass heavy.

2539
02:08:42,720 --> 02:08:45,840
Speaker 2: The West Coast, they implement short passing when you know

2540
02:08:45,960 --> 02:08:47,760
Speaker 2: five six yards in the air is how we're gonna

2541
02:08:47,760 --> 02:08:48,200
Speaker 2: get down.

2542
02:08:48,400 --> 02:08:50,280
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep a running back on the field. We're

2543
02:08:50,280 --> 02:08:50,800
Speaker 1: gonna be all.

2544
02:08:50,880 --> 02:08:53,600
Speaker 2: We have teams like Sean McVay his first few years

2545
02:08:53,600 --> 02:08:55,120
Speaker 2: in LA where he was like, oh.

2546
02:08:55,000 --> 02:08:58,200
Speaker 1: We're running eleven personnel. This is what we do.

2547
02:08:58,400 --> 02:09:00,240
Speaker 2: We will have one tight end, we will have one

2548
02:09:00,320 --> 02:09:02,880
Speaker 2: running back and everybody else you're going out there to

2549
02:09:02,920 --> 02:09:06,840
Speaker 2: catch a pass, right, that is what we do. Forty

2550
02:09:06,920 --> 02:09:08,720
Speaker 2: nine ers, we're gonna have two. We're gonna have a

2551
02:09:08,720 --> 02:09:11,160
Speaker 2: tight end, full back and running back out here. Whether

2552
02:09:11,200 --> 02:09:14,240
Speaker 2: we're an empty whether we're in a high formation, we're

2553
02:09:14,280 --> 02:09:16,720
Speaker 2: gonna have Kyle u Check on the field. We're gonna

2554
02:09:16,760 --> 02:09:18,560
Speaker 2: have running back on the field, half George Kettle on

2555
02:09:18,560 --> 02:09:20,280
Speaker 2: the field. They don't really do that in the NBA.

2556
02:09:21,600 --> 02:09:22,360
Speaker 2: Don't only do that.

2557
02:09:22,400 --> 02:09:24,640
Speaker 1: It's either it's all about how can we get to

2558
02:09:24,680 --> 02:09:29,120
Speaker 1: the three year layoff? I can remember still watching some

2559
02:09:29,200 --> 02:09:31,240
Speaker 1: of those. How did that work? You're like, it's simple.

2560
02:09:31,320 --> 02:09:33,680
Speaker 1: Bill Russell doesn't like what he sees on the court.

2561
02:09:33,720 --> 02:09:37,440
Speaker 1: He calls a time out, they go to the sidelines,

2562
02:09:37,480 --> 02:09:39,840
Speaker 1: and he talks to his teammates. Now, let's get back

2563
02:09:39,840 --> 02:09:41,440
Speaker 1: out there and play the kind of game that we

2564
02:09:41,520 --> 02:09:44,280
Speaker 1: need to win. This game makes a lot of sense

2565
02:09:44,320 --> 02:09:48,280
Speaker 1: to me. Lebron could obviously do something like that. But

2566
02:09:48,440 --> 02:09:52,440
Speaker 1: I you know, somebody threw out the name Jean Rondo. Yeah,

2567
02:09:52,520 --> 02:09:55,920
Speaker 1: somebody was Bo, But I know remember that, mister Bo Benson.

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Speaker 1: He was all hot on Rondo with no exact where

2569
02:09:58,600 --> 02:10:00,720
Speaker 1: where did you come up with the Rondo name? Out

2570
02:10:00,760 --> 02:10:02,560
Speaker 1: of the blue? To be the next coach of the

2571
02:10:02,600 --> 02:10:05,600
Speaker 1: Lakers if they part ways with Darvin Ham.

2572
02:10:05,640 --> 02:10:07,600
Speaker 8: Well, it's not like I came up with it myself.

2573
02:10:07,640 --> 02:10:09,840
Speaker 8: It's been floated around. But he's just one of the

2574
02:10:09,880 --> 02:10:11,960
Speaker 8: smarter guys to ever play the game. So it makes

2575
02:10:11,960 --> 02:10:12,640
Speaker 8: a ton of sense.

2576
02:10:12,720 --> 02:10:16,120
Speaker 1: Well, I know that's he's a player that Lebron has

2577
02:10:16,240 --> 02:10:18,840
Speaker 1: huge respect for and we saw that winning their Bubble

2578
02:10:18,920 --> 02:10:21,360
Speaker 1: championship a couple of years ago. And he was like

2579
02:10:21,400 --> 02:10:23,560
Speaker 1: a coach on the court. I mean that was pretty

2580
02:10:23,640 --> 02:10:25,960
Speaker 1: much the way he played. Couldn't make freezes, but he

2581
02:10:26,040 --> 02:10:28,760
Speaker 1: could be a coach on the court. So we'll see

2582
02:10:28,760 --> 02:10:31,440
Speaker 1: what happens with those teams. I mean, will we see

2583
02:10:31,480 --> 02:10:34,320
Speaker 1: the Clippers finally make a run? I'm just focused on

2584
02:10:34,360 --> 02:10:37,960
Speaker 1: the Western Conference. Will the Lakers or the Warriors are

2585
02:10:37,960 --> 02:10:41,000
Speaker 1: both emerge from the ashes or are we gonna find

2586
02:10:41,000 --> 02:10:44,040
Speaker 1: out teams like the Timberwolves and the thunder legit and

2587
02:10:44,160 --> 02:10:46,960
Speaker 1: ready to ascend to a championship level? All right? Coming

2588
02:10:47,040 --> 02:10:49,560
Speaker 1: up on the other side, with spring training underway, it's

2589
02:10:49,600 --> 02:10:52,640
Speaker 1: time to get an update from our Major League Baseball

2590
02:10:52,640 --> 02:10:56,960
Speaker 1: insider from Fox Sports Radio. John Paul Morosi will join us.

2591
02:10:57,160 --> 02:11:01,320
Speaker 1: This is Fox Sports Sunday. Steve Hart, Ben Martin Wise

2592
02:11:01,440 --> 02:11:05,000
Speaker 1: Here on Fox Sports Sunday. We are live from the

2593
02:11:05,200 --> 02:11:09,840
Speaker 1: tire IRAQ dot com studios. Well Spring training is well

2594
02:11:09,880 --> 02:11:11,880
Speaker 1: in their way. The actual games are going to start

2595
02:11:12,000 --> 02:11:16,240
Speaker 1: later this week. I'm joining us right now. So man

2596
02:11:16,280 --> 02:11:21,520
Speaker 1: that stands alone. He is our Fox Sports Radio MLB insider.

2597
02:11:22,520 --> 02:11:25,880
Speaker 1: And Martin, by the way, as a Michigan guy, you

2598
02:11:25,920 --> 02:11:30,440
Speaker 1: know that John Paul Morosi bleeds Michigan through and through.

2599
02:11:30,720 --> 02:11:33,160
Speaker 1: I know he's a good man for that. Yeah, he's uh,

2600
02:11:33,360 --> 02:11:36,880
Speaker 1: thank you, I mean for Martin, who he did five

2601
02:11:36,920 --> 02:11:41,920
Speaker 1: full years. Now, you detoured to Harvard. I know you

2602
02:11:42,240 --> 02:11:45,280
Speaker 1: don't like to mention that, but did you ever consider

2603
02:11:45,480 --> 02:11:47,880
Speaker 1: going to the University of Michigan, John Paul?

2604
02:11:48,440 --> 02:11:50,960
Speaker 9: Of course I did, and a good afternoon to both

2605
02:11:51,000 --> 02:11:54,560
Speaker 9: of you. I did. A lot of my best friends

2606
02:11:54,600 --> 02:11:58,200
Speaker 9: growing up went to Michigan. My wife went to Michigan,

2607
02:11:58,240 --> 02:12:00,720
Speaker 9: and we were dating during those years. So basically I

2608
02:12:00,720 --> 02:12:05,240
Speaker 9: would fly back or drive back as it were. When

2609
02:12:05,240 --> 02:12:09,080
Speaker 9: I ever had a break from my studies at Harvard

2610
02:12:09,120 --> 02:12:12,360
Speaker 9: had to make sure that it was not all academics.

2611
02:12:12,360 --> 02:12:14,040
Speaker 9: I had to make sure I blended in some fun

2612
02:12:14,440 --> 02:12:16,000
Speaker 9: and the best way that I could do that would

2613
02:12:16,000 --> 02:12:18,080
Speaker 9: be to visit my friends and my girlfriend at the

2614
02:12:18,120 --> 02:12:20,720
Speaker 9: time at Michigan. So I like to think that I

2615
02:12:20,800 --> 02:12:24,640
Speaker 9: spent about as much time on that campus as you

2616
02:12:24,800 --> 02:12:29,280
Speaker 9: can without actually acquiring a degree. And so maybe at

2617
02:12:29,280 --> 02:12:33,240
Speaker 9: this point I'm an honorary Michigan grad or at least

2618
02:12:33,480 --> 02:12:36,600
Speaker 9: a solid towny after all these years. But we were

2619
02:12:36,600 --> 02:12:39,400
Speaker 9: actually on campus today Chrystler Arena. We watched a really

2620
02:12:39,520 --> 02:12:43,440
Speaker 9: entertaining game Michigan Michigan State women's hoops. Of course the

2621
02:12:43,520 --> 02:12:46,280
Speaker 9: same result as a last night's game, with the Spartans

2622
02:12:46,280 --> 02:12:49,440
Speaker 9: being victorious, but wonderful crowd. Great to be there with

2623
02:12:49,440 --> 02:12:52,320
Speaker 9: my daughters. And I want to mention this one quick

2624
02:12:52,360 --> 02:12:55,480
Speaker 9: thing about spring training is you brought me back onto

2625
02:12:55,520 --> 02:12:59,680
Speaker 9: the air here with some like nineteen nineties rock. And

2626
02:12:59,720 --> 02:13:02,520
Speaker 9: when I was watching the Tigers throw their bullpen sessions

2627
02:13:02,520 --> 02:13:05,200
Speaker 9: a couple of days ago in Lakeland, I was struck

2628
02:13:05,240 --> 02:13:08,200
Speaker 9: by how the soundtrack that they were working out to

2629
02:13:09,000 --> 02:13:13,680
Speaker 9: was a lot of nineties alternative rock, which, as I

2630
02:13:13,760 --> 02:13:16,320
Speaker 9: was looking at the pictures on the mounds and watching

2631
02:13:16,360 --> 02:13:18,720
Speaker 9: them work, I said, wait a minute, these guys were

2632
02:13:18,760 --> 02:13:23,080
Speaker 9: all born like nineteen ninety nine, two thousand. To them,

2633
02:13:23,120 --> 02:13:24,520
Speaker 9: this is classic.

2634
02:13:24,160 --> 02:13:25,400
Speaker 1: Rock right exactly.

2635
02:13:25,800 --> 02:13:27,960
Speaker 9: And that was the moment for me where I said,

2636
02:13:28,000 --> 02:13:30,880
Speaker 9: my goodness, but my first spring training in Lakeland was

2637
02:13:30,880 --> 02:13:35,040
Speaker 9: fifteen years ago, and I feel a little bit old

2638
02:13:35,760 --> 02:13:39,440
Speaker 9: watching them and realizing that to them, they were working

2639
02:13:39,440 --> 02:13:42,560
Speaker 9: out to classic rock like what I regarded as Jimmy

2640
02:13:42,600 --> 02:13:46,200
Speaker 9: Hendrix when I was growing up. They regard the music

2641
02:13:46,240 --> 02:13:49,800
Speaker 9: of my youth, and man, that really hits a certain way.

2642
02:13:49,880 --> 02:13:52,040
Speaker 1: All right, Well, then you get to my stage where

2643
02:13:52,120 --> 02:13:55,640
Speaker 1: the first Dodger game my father took me to. The

2644
02:13:55,680 --> 02:13:58,120
Speaker 1: Dodgers starting pitcher was Sandy Kofax.

2645
02:13:58,720 --> 02:14:00,960
Speaker 9: Well, that's a pretty cool thing to be able to say.

2646
02:14:00,720 --> 02:14:03,400
Speaker 1: It was his final season. He won his twentieth game.

2647
02:14:03,440 --> 02:14:05,320
Speaker 1: He beat Ray Washer and the Cardinals four to one.

2648
02:14:05,360 --> 02:14:07,680
Speaker 1: I remember it like was just yesterday.

2649
02:14:07,760 --> 02:14:08,040
Speaker 6: All right.

2650
02:14:08,080 --> 02:14:10,200
Speaker 1: I want to get to some baseball news right now,

2651
02:14:10,880 --> 02:14:13,000
Speaker 1: and I want to start with the Dodgers for a

2652
02:14:13,040 --> 02:14:15,920
Speaker 1: moment here. And it's not about show, hey, it's about Yamamoto.

2653
02:14:16,640 --> 02:14:20,120
Speaker 1: So yesterday he was throwing live VP two the likes

2654
02:14:20,120 --> 02:14:24,920
Speaker 1: of Freddie Freeman, who he baffled. He got a standing

2655
02:14:25,000 --> 02:14:28,480
Speaker 1: not from MOOKI. This is the highest paid pitcher in

2656
02:14:28,560 --> 02:14:31,280
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. He hasn't thrown a single pitch at

2657
02:14:31,280 --> 02:14:34,760
Speaker 1: the mijor League level in an actual game. In the

2658
02:14:34,880 --> 02:14:37,920
Speaker 1: last three seasons, not only did he win the equivalent

2659
02:14:38,120 --> 02:14:40,480
Speaker 1: of the Japanese Cy Young Award, he also won the

2660
02:14:40,560 --> 02:14:44,640
Speaker 1: MVP all three years. What should we expect from Yamamoto

2661
02:14:44,800 --> 02:14:46,320
Speaker 1: in his first year in the major leagues.

2662
02:14:47,400 --> 02:14:53,240
Speaker 9: He's special and this might sound extraordinary, but just bear

2663
02:14:53,280 --> 02:14:58,240
Speaker 9: with me on this. It's entirely possible that in this

2664
02:14:58,400 --> 02:15:02,440
Speaker 9: season his own we're all impact, the overall marginal value

2665
02:15:02,480 --> 02:15:06,200
Speaker 9: that he brings the Dodgers even surpasses what Otani does.

2666
02:15:06,880 --> 02:15:11,000
Speaker 9: And that might sound like blasphemy here, but when you

2667
02:15:11,040 --> 02:15:15,280
Speaker 9: consider how much better Otani will be than what the

2668
02:15:15,360 --> 02:15:17,560
Speaker 9: Dodgers got from the DH spot a year ago, which

2669
02:15:17,600 --> 02:15:20,480
Speaker 9: was pretty good. JD. Martinez was a really good DH

2670
02:15:20,600 --> 02:15:23,560
Speaker 9: last year, and Otani, I would expect, will be better

2671
02:15:23,960 --> 02:15:27,720
Speaker 9: by a certain amount, but not necessarily twice as good

2672
02:15:27,760 --> 02:15:32,320
Speaker 9: as jad Martinez was. Yamamoto, though, I believe, when you

2673
02:15:32,360 --> 02:15:36,040
Speaker 9: consider how many different starting pitchers the Dodgers had to

2674
02:15:36,040 --> 02:15:39,480
Speaker 9: go to last year and the fact that Kershaw is

2675
02:15:39,520 --> 02:15:43,240
Speaker 9: not ready to begin the season, Buehler might not even

2676
02:15:43,280 --> 02:15:48,160
Speaker 9: be ready as well. Early on Yamamoto, his impact over

2677
02:15:48,760 --> 02:15:52,680
Speaker 9: the replacement level player that he's stepping in for I

2678
02:15:52,720 --> 02:15:55,160
Speaker 9: think the delta there will be even higher than what

2679
02:15:55,200 --> 02:15:58,560
Speaker 9: the delta is for Otani. I really believe that for

2680
02:15:58,680 --> 02:16:01,880
Speaker 9: year one. Now, obviously the fullness of the contract once

2681
02:16:01,880 --> 02:16:03,760
Speaker 9: so Tony gets back to doing his two way thing

2682
02:16:03,840 --> 02:16:06,760
Speaker 9: next year is a different story. But you saw it again.

2683
02:16:06,800 --> 02:16:08,880
Speaker 9: It was it was a live VP and we're still

2684
02:16:08,880 --> 02:16:11,560
Speaker 9: in the middle of February. But the stuff that he

2685
02:16:11,720 --> 02:16:16,960
Speaker 9: has and the command that he has is already all

2686
02:16:17,000 --> 02:16:20,000
Speaker 9: star level. And there are those that believe that. When

2687
02:16:20,000 --> 02:16:24,200
Speaker 9: you consider the year one pitching impact of all the

2688
02:16:24,240 --> 02:16:26,560
Speaker 9: great pitchers who have come over from Japan, and that

2689
02:16:26,640 --> 02:16:30,680
Speaker 9: includes Darbish who was a revelation in his first year,

2690
02:16:31,280 --> 02:16:35,680
Speaker 9: Nomo Coodei single last year Tanaka. We've had some great ones,

2691
02:16:35,800 --> 02:16:40,279
Speaker 9: some absolutely great pitchers who have come over from Japan.

2692
02:16:40,959 --> 02:16:44,160
Speaker 9: It is entirely possible to me that in year one

2693
02:16:44,320 --> 02:16:47,080
Speaker 9: that Yamamoto is going to be more impactful than all

2694
02:16:47,160 --> 02:16:48,000
Speaker 9: of them have been.

2695
02:16:48,520 --> 02:16:50,080
Speaker 1: Wow, that somethd it.

2696
02:16:50,400 --> 02:16:53,959
Speaker 2: I'll tell you so John, I want to tell you

2697
02:16:54,120 --> 02:16:56,720
Speaker 2: Steve's talking about his firstball game baseball game was watching

2698
02:16:56,760 --> 02:17:00,160
Speaker 2: Sandy Kofax. My first baseball game as a member of

2699
02:17:00,200 --> 02:17:03,840
Speaker 2: the media was April twenty fourth, twenty thirteen, which you

2700
02:17:03,879 --> 02:17:08,640
Speaker 2: may remember John as Jose Valverde's first last save. With

2701
02:17:09,440 --> 02:17:11,920
Speaker 2: his time coming back to the Tigers, they called they

2702
02:17:11,959 --> 02:17:15,360
Speaker 2: signed to the minor leagues. And in that pregame he

2703
02:17:15,440 --> 02:17:17,840
Speaker 2: said that he had been courted by a few kind

2704
02:17:17,840 --> 02:17:21,760
Speaker 2: of big name teams in bigger cities. But before we

2705
02:17:21,800 --> 02:17:25,040
Speaker 2: got back up to the press box, you said, that's

2706
02:17:25,080 --> 02:17:26,800
Speaker 2: not true, and I turned.

2707
02:17:26,600 --> 02:17:27,880
Speaker 1: To you to ask, how did you know that?

2708
02:17:27,879 --> 02:17:29,680
Speaker 2: He's like, because I just got off the phone with

2709
02:17:29,720 --> 02:17:31,959
Speaker 2: this guy who's the GM of one of the teams,

2710
02:17:32,080 --> 02:17:34,360
Speaker 2: and he was like, yeah, he never never happened.

2711
02:17:34,640 --> 02:17:36,840
Speaker 1: And then how ver Verde ends up getting to say

2712
02:17:36,840 --> 02:17:38,000
Speaker 1: it was me and Jeff Rieger.

2713
02:17:38,040 --> 02:17:41,760
Speaker 2: We're at Jose Valverde's first game back as a Tiger

2714
02:17:41,800 --> 02:17:45,360
Speaker 2: on April twenty fourth, twenty thirteen, and now here we are.

2715
02:17:45,760 --> 02:17:47,640
Speaker 1: But you said you were just at.

2716
02:17:47,440 --> 02:17:51,440
Speaker 2: The at Tigers spring training watching the pitchers and hitters.

2717
02:17:51,520 --> 02:17:53,800
Speaker 1: I've been watching the pitchers pitch right now.

2718
02:17:53,840 --> 02:17:56,440
Speaker 2: They have the third best odds to win the Al

2719
02:17:56,600 --> 02:18:00,320
Speaker 2: Central at plus three twenty five. Twins are the heavy

2720
02:18:00,400 --> 02:18:03,160
Speaker 2: favorite and the Guardians a little bit above them. Do

2721
02:18:03,240 --> 02:18:05,840
Speaker 2: you think that this team goes over there like eighty

2722
02:18:05,959 --> 02:18:08,280
Speaker 2: to one and a half win total. This Tiger team.

2723
02:18:08,400 --> 02:18:10,600
Speaker 2: I know we'll talk about other things in a moment,

2724
02:18:10,640 --> 02:18:13,000
Speaker 2: but that's really the baseball team I grew up covering

2725
02:18:13,040 --> 02:18:14,080
Speaker 2: and care about.

2726
02:18:14,320 --> 02:18:17,199
Speaker 9: Yeah, Martin. Now I think the Tigers win around eighty

2727
02:18:17,240 --> 02:18:19,520
Speaker 9: six to eighty seven games this year. I really believe

2728
02:18:19,560 --> 02:18:25,120
Speaker 9: that they have depths. And to me, the guy to

2729
02:18:25,200 --> 02:18:29,039
Speaker 9: watch in Detroit is Riley Green. If Riley Green stays

2730
02:18:29,080 --> 02:18:31,880
Speaker 9: healthy for the full season, if he plays one hundred

2731
02:18:31,920 --> 02:18:35,160
Speaker 9: and forty five games one hundred and fifty games, which

2732
02:18:35,200 --> 02:18:37,800
Speaker 9: I think is possible that now that he's learned and

2733
02:18:37,840 --> 02:18:39,800
Speaker 9: I spoke with Riley a few days ago about just

2734
02:18:39,840 --> 02:18:42,680
Speaker 9: learning his body more and preparing his body for the

2735
02:18:42,720 --> 02:18:46,200
Speaker 9: demands of the long season. And if he's able to

2736
02:18:46,240 --> 02:18:50,400
Speaker 9: do that, and you see continued progression from Torkelsen. You've

2737
02:18:50,400 --> 02:18:52,560
Speaker 9: brought in a couple of veteran starters and Flaherty and

2738
02:18:52,640 --> 02:18:56,080
Speaker 9: my Ata. This next young group of starters I think

2739
02:18:56,160 --> 02:18:58,959
Speaker 9: is going to be even more prepared with Scooball and

2740
02:18:59,040 --> 02:19:02,640
Speaker 9: Manning and now my is back as well. I like

2741
02:19:02,720 --> 02:19:06,080
Speaker 9: this team. And maybe they had some bullpen help with

2742
02:19:06,120 --> 02:19:10,480
Speaker 9: the deadline to help out fully in Lang, but certainly

2743
02:19:10,520 --> 02:19:13,320
Speaker 9: the Guardians can pitch, and they still have Joziermirez, who

2744
02:19:13,840 --> 02:19:16,279
Speaker 9: who is at the moment the best all round player

2745
02:19:16,280 --> 02:19:19,000
Speaker 9: in the division. Ramirez, I think still is. I don't

2746
02:19:19,040 --> 02:19:22,080
Speaker 9: see anybody better than him. So the Guardians will be

2747
02:19:22,160 --> 02:19:25,160
Speaker 9: heard from the Twins. I look at their team. They've

2748
02:19:25,160 --> 02:19:27,080
Speaker 9: got a lot of promise, and they've got a tremendous

2749
02:19:27,120 --> 02:19:28,800
Speaker 9: rookie who I think will impact them this year in

2750
02:19:28,840 --> 02:19:31,320
Speaker 9: brooks Lee. And they've got Royce Lewis who we saw

2751
02:19:31,320 --> 02:19:33,040
Speaker 9: in the playoffs last year. They're still going to be

2752
02:19:33,080 --> 02:19:36,240
Speaker 9: a really good team. But I think the Tigers pitching

2753
02:19:36,280 --> 02:19:40,440
Speaker 9: depth has now surpassed what the Twins have is rivaling

2754
02:19:40,440 --> 02:19:43,880
Speaker 9: what the Guardians have, and the Tigers position players I

2755
02:19:43,959 --> 02:19:47,720
Speaker 9: believe have a chance to be as good as anybody

2756
02:19:47,720 --> 02:19:50,400
Speaker 9: else is in the division. So the spirit of the team,

2757
02:19:50,480 --> 02:19:53,560
Speaker 9: the chemistry I thought was excellent from being around them,

2758
02:19:54,080 --> 02:19:56,760
Speaker 9: and I really believe it. Martin. I think that the

2759
02:19:56,800 --> 02:19:58,680
Speaker 9: Tigers are going to win the division this year. I

2760
02:19:58,720 --> 02:20:00,840
Speaker 9: know that some people think the maybe a little bit

2761
02:20:00,879 --> 02:20:03,840
Speaker 9: too bullish on them too early, but this team has

2762
02:20:03,840 --> 02:20:06,240
Speaker 9: a lot of energy and a lot of talent, and

2763
02:20:06,640 --> 02:20:09,160
Speaker 9: it's about time to bring playoff baseball back to Detroit

2764
02:20:09,160 --> 02:20:10,359
Speaker 9: for the first time in a decade.

2765
02:20:10,520 --> 02:20:13,480
Speaker 1: One of the major league players that to me is

2766
02:20:13,640 --> 02:20:18,280
Speaker 1: an enigma is Blake Snell. I got to obviously see

2767
02:20:18,320 --> 02:20:21,080
Speaker 1: him as you know Jp denn in San Diego. I

2768
02:20:21,120 --> 02:20:26,360
Speaker 1: love him personally. I like his whole shtick, so to speak.

2769
02:20:26,840 --> 02:20:28,879
Speaker 1: But he has pitched his career in Tampa and he

2770
02:20:28,959 --> 02:20:32,760
Speaker 1: pitched in San Diego, so not exactly Metropolis's obviously. In

2771
02:20:32,800 --> 02:20:35,440
Speaker 1: San Diego though, huge crowds his past year, and he

2772
02:20:35,480 --> 02:20:38,879
Speaker 1: has these two incredible seasons, one in Tampa, one in

2773
02:20:38,959 --> 02:20:41,280
Speaker 1: San Diego where he walks away with a Cy Young Award.

2774
02:20:41,840 --> 02:20:45,320
Speaker 1: For his career, he's never had a complete game, never

2775
02:20:45,320 --> 02:20:48,000
Speaker 1: even pitched him to the ninth any and he's had

2776
02:20:48,320 --> 02:20:51,360
Speaker 1: an average of five innings per start for his entire

2777
02:20:51,560 --> 02:20:54,560
Speaker 1: major league career. I know the Yankees are interested in him,

2778
02:20:54,600 --> 02:20:57,800
Speaker 1: and I would just be so curious to get your thoughts.

2779
02:20:58,400 --> 02:21:01,160
Speaker 1: And how do you think a Blake think Snell would

2780
02:21:01,240 --> 02:21:04,360
Speaker 1: fare under the bright lights of New York.

2781
02:21:05,600 --> 02:21:06,440
Speaker 6: It's a great question.

2782
02:21:06,760 --> 02:21:09,520
Speaker 9: I think that there is still and Boby night Gil's

2783
02:21:09,560 --> 02:21:13,480
Speaker 9: reported that the interest in Blake Snell by the Yankees.

2784
02:21:14,040 --> 02:21:17,600
Speaker 9: He fits there, obviously. I do think that at the

2785
02:21:17,680 --> 02:21:20,800
Speaker 9: end of the day, when you consider the way that

2786
02:21:20,959 --> 02:21:25,600
Speaker 9: teams look at risk and gauge the risk when they

2787
02:21:25,680 --> 02:21:29,840
Speaker 9: sign someone to a long term contract, When you look

2788
02:21:29,879 --> 02:21:32,720
Speaker 9: at someone who led the majors and walks last year,

2789
02:21:33,440 --> 02:21:38,240
Speaker 9: that's a worry, and that many walks when the stuff

2790
02:21:38,879 --> 02:21:42,000
Speaker 9: ticks back a little bit, which is inevitable as players

2791
02:21:42,000 --> 02:21:44,039
Speaker 9: get into their thirties, and he's going to be pitching

2792
02:21:44,080 --> 02:21:48,080
Speaker 9: in his age thirty one season, it just makes teams

2793
02:21:48,160 --> 02:21:52,920
Speaker 9: and owners nervous. That many walks plus an age in

2794
02:21:52,959 --> 02:21:58,200
Speaker 9: your thirties is a concern, and I think that's the

2795
02:21:58,240 --> 02:22:01,640
Speaker 9: perception that he's going to have to back now on

2796
02:22:01,680 --> 02:22:05,920
Speaker 9: a per year basis. Could you see him sign a

2797
02:22:05,959 --> 02:22:09,959
Speaker 9: three year deal worth in the thirties per year. I

2798
02:22:10,000 --> 02:22:11,640
Speaker 9: think that deal's got to be out there for him

2799
02:22:11,680 --> 02:22:15,320
Speaker 9: right now, and maybe even from the Yankees. But the

2800
02:22:15,800 --> 02:22:19,440
Speaker 9: super long term deal six or seven years at thirty

2801
02:22:19,440 --> 02:22:23,360
Speaker 9: million dollars a piece, I just am not sure if

2802
02:22:23,440 --> 02:22:27,360
Speaker 9: teams are comfortable going there and locking themselves in to

2803
02:22:27,480 --> 02:22:30,560
Speaker 9: someone who led the league in walks last year. I

2804
02:22:30,600 --> 02:22:32,520
Speaker 9: realized he also won the cy young and that's why

2805
02:22:32,520 --> 02:22:36,040
Speaker 9: it's so tantalizing. But that's why these jobs are difficult.

2806
02:22:36,160 --> 02:22:39,000
Speaker 9: Why it's hard to be a GM because you're weighing

2807
02:22:39,080 --> 02:22:41,440
Speaker 9: the positive side and saying, wait a minute, how is

2808
02:22:41,959 --> 02:22:46,520
Speaker 9: the reigning Sayung Award winner not worth a six year

2809
02:22:46,560 --> 02:22:48,320
Speaker 9: deal or a five year deal at the very least

2810
02:22:48,520 --> 02:22:51,840
Speaker 9: at thirty million dollars per And the answer is because

2811
02:22:51,879 --> 02:22:53,920
Speaker 9: he led the league in walks, and we're worried about that.

2812
02:22:54,080 --> 02:22:56,280
Speaker 9: And so I think that's why there's the stalemate, why

2813
02:22:56,320 --> 02:22:59,640
Speaker 9: the staring contest is going on between Scott Boris's camp

2814
02:22:59,640 --> 02:23:02,200
Speaker 9: and at the top gms around the game. And so

2815
02:23:02,280 --> 02:23:06,879
Speaker 9: we wait and see once that if I still believe guys,

2816
02:23:06,879 --> 02:23:09,879
Speaker 9: if he gets that asking price down to a three

2817
02:23:09,959 --> 02:23:13,200
Speaker 9: year deal around thirty million dollars, that there would be

2818
02:23:13,280 --> 02:23:17,080
Speaker 9: some significant interest at that price point because at that

2819
02:23:17,200 --> 02:23:19,800
Speaker 9: level you do tend to look more at the positive side.

2820
02:23:19,959 --> 02:23:22,680
Speaker 9: The more years you look at it, the more worried

2821
02:23:22,720 --> 02:23:25,760
Speaker 9: you become about the downside risk. And that downside risk

2822
02:23:25,840 --> 02:23:28,920
Speaker 9: involves that league high walk total.

2823
02:23:29,320 --> 02:23:32,480
Speaker 2: So obviously the Dodgers added two very high profile free

2824
02:23:32,480 --> 02:23:36,640
Speaker 2: agentsies offseason and spending like eighty cut trillion dollars between

2825
02:23:36,760 --> 02:23:38,240
Speaker 2: Otani and Yamamoto.

2826
02:23:38,320 --> 02:23:39,240
Speaker 1: But I'm curious if.

2827
02:23:39,120 --> 02:23:44,680
Speaker 2: There's another uh, that non Dodger free agent acquisition, our

2828
02:23:44,720 --> 02:23:47,720
Speaker 2: off season acquisition that you feel can take a team

2829
02:23:47,959 --> 02:23:50,120
Speaker 2: and put it to the next level. Like, what, guys,

2830
02:23:50,879 --> 02:23:52,840
Speaker 2: do you think we'll jump off the pay or jump

2831
02:23:52,879 --> 02:23:55,160
Speaker 2: off the screen in just a few weeks when we're

2832
02:23:55,440 --> 02:23:56,359
Speaker 2: watching an opening.

2833
02:23:56,200 --> 02:23:59,880
Speaker 9: Day well Sodo New York Yankees. And the reason I

2834
02:24:00,080 --> 02:24:03,360
Speaker 9: say that is he addresses exactly what they needed, that

2835
02:24:03,400 --> 02:24:06,840
Speaker 9: they were already a good ball club. As badly as

2836
02:24:06,840 --> 02:24:12,280
Speaker 9: things went last year with substantial injuries and the rotation

2837
02:24:12,680 --> 02:24:18,080
Speaker 9: not being there, Rodin struggling and not staying healthy, Cortes

2838
02:24:18,280 --> 02:24:22,680
Speaker 9: same thing, they were still a winning team. And if

2839
02:24:22,720 --> 02:24:26,440
Speaker 9: you have a more stable rotation, plus you had one Sodo,

2840
02:24:27,000 --> 02:24:31,119
Speaker 9: it changes everything, not just about Sodo's spot in the lineup,

2841
02:24:31,280 --> 02:24:34,199
Speaker 9: but for Aaron Judge, who I expect will be healthier

2842
02:24:34,240 --> 02:24:36,440
Speaker 9: this year than he was the year ago. I was

2843
02:24:36,440 --> 02:24:40,160
Speaker 9: looking at these numbers recently, Martin the number one, number two,

2844
02:24:40,240 --> 02:24:42,720
Speaker 9: number three hitters in the sport in the last three years,

2845
02:24:42,760 --> 02:24:47,039
Speaker 9: just pure offensive hitting talent based on OPS plus, so

2846
02:24:47,080 --> 02:24:51,200
Speaker 9: adjusted ops. Number one is there in Judge, number two

2847
02:24:51,240 --> 02:24:55,240
Speaker 9: is Otani and number three is Sodo, And so you have,

2848
02:24:55,560 --> 02:24:58,480
Speaker 9: interestingly enough and think about just the way the game

2849
02:24:58,520 --> 02:25:01,560
Speaker 9: has worked. All three of those guys has either entered

2850
02:25:01,600 --> 02:25:04,520
Speaker 9: free agency or changed teams in the last two off seasons,

2851
02:25:04,879 --> 02:25:06,720
Speaker 9: and they are now all playing for either of the

2852
02:25:06,800 --> 02:25:09,680
Speaker 9: Yankees or the Dodgers. At number one and number three

2853
02:25:09,760 --> 02:25:11,680
Speaker 9: are in the same lineup with the Yankees. It's just

2854
02:25:12,800 --> 02:25:17,680
Speaker 9: they we are overlooking. I think how good the Yankees

2855
02:25:17,720 --> 02:25:20,440
Speaker 9: should be when you've got those two stars that is

2856
02:25:20,480 --> 02:25:25,240
Speaker 9: their DNA bring in superstars. They signed Judge, they traded

2857
02:25:25,280 --> 02:25:29,200
Speaker 9: for Sodo. I realize that Soto's future is TVD after

2858
02:25:29,240 --> 02:25:31,920
Speaker 9: the season is over, but my goodness, for at least

2859
02:25:31,920 --> 02:25:34,200
Speaker 9: this one year, it is going to be, to use

2860
02:25:34,240 --> 02:25:39,120
Speaker 9: Garrett Cole's word, magnificent to watch. And I just cannot

2861
02:25:39,160 --> 02:25:40,960
Speaker 9: wait to see what this lineup looks like with all

2862
02:25:40,959 --> 02:25:42,959
Speaker 9: the chances the Aaron Judge is going to have to

2863
02:25:43,040 --> 02:25:45,080
Speaker 9: bat with Jan Soto on base.

2864
02:25:45,320 --> 02:25:48,760
Speaker 1: Well, if the Yankees do assign Blake Snell, they'll have

2865
02:25:48,879 --> 02:25:52,480
Speaker 1: two guys that led the Majors and Walks. Snell and

2866
02:25:52,720 --> 02:25:59,720
Speaker 1: so very different, right, but two guys that led the

2867
02:25:59,760 --> 02:26:02,560
Speaker 1: mad and Walks. You can use that note if indeed

2868
02:26:02,560 --> 02:26:06,160
Speaker 1: they signed Snell. Okay, John Paul I'll tell you what

2869
02:26:06,280 --> 02:26:08,200
Speaker 1: we excited. We're going to get some games by the

2870
02:26:08,200 --> 02:26:09,920
Speaker 1: time that we talk to you next time. We'll see

2871
02:26:09,959 --> 02:26:13,039
Speaker 1: the guys out on the field. Cannot wait. Always appreciate

2872
02:26:13,120 --> 02:26:14,720
Speaker 1: the time. We'll check in with you next week.

2873
02:26:15,120 --> 02:26:18,880
Speaker 9: That's right, Dodgers Padres are going to be playing this

2874
02:26:19,000 --> 02:26:21,840
Speaker 9: week in a real Cactus League game, and I can't

2875
02:26:21,840 --> 02:26:24,320
Speaker 9: wait as well. I'll be there on site. I'll be

2876
02:26:24,360 --> 02:26:27,800
Speaker 9: reporting for Fox Sports Radio two. The Soul Series coming

2877
02:26:27,879 --> 02:26:31,279
Speaker 9: up next month. Dodgers Padres, You guys should call me anytime,

2878
02:26:31,360 --> 02:26:33,240
Speaker 9: day or night. I'm just not planning to sleep for

2879
02:26:33,280 --> 02:26:35,400
Speaker 9: a week. You just call me. Let me know. We'll

2880
02:26:35,400 --> 02:26:36,880
Speaker 9: be talking baseball when I'm on the other side of

2881
02:26:36,920 --> 02:26:37,280
Speaker 9: the world.

2882
02:26:37,680 --> 02:26:40,640
Speaker 1: You know we will call you. I mean, no question

2883
02:26:40,680 --> 02:26:42,480
Speaker 1: about that, JP or the best. We'll talk to you

2884
02:26:42,520 --> 02:26:42,959
Speaker 1: next week.

2885
02:26:43,080 --> 02:26:43,720
Speaker 9: All the best, guys.

2886
02:26:43,720 --> 02:26:46,080
Speaker 1: Thanks all right, John Paul Morosi, our Fox Sports Radio

2887
02:26:46,240 --> 02:26:49,120
Speaker 1: MLB insider joining us right now. That's a Michigan man

2888
02:26:49,879 --> 02:26:52,720
Speaker 1: through and through, good Man, good stock, good stop, and

2889
02:26:53,400 --> 02:26:55,960
Speaker 1: also mister hockey. By the way. He likes to remind

2890
02:26:56,040 --> 02:26:58,000
Speaker 1: us every once in a while, we need hockey news

2891
02:26:58,000 --> 02:26:59,640
Speaker 1: to go to JP as well. Let's find out what

2892
02:26:59,760 --> 02:27:02,440
Speaker 1: is rending right now?

2893
02:27:03,400 --> 02:27:08,480
Speaker 2: Hey, mancies, is Luke still a top the list? Ah?

2894
02:27:08,560 --> 02:27:11,840
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, list at the top? I got it?

2895
02:27:11,920 --> 02:27:15,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, you see how is he? Is he a

2896
02:27:15,640 --> 02:27:17,600
Speaker 1: full fledged update guy?

2897
02:27:17,680 --> 02:27:17,880
Speaker 6: Now?

2898
02:27:18,000 --> 02:27:19,879
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, he's on the roster.

2899
02:27:20,000 --> 02:27:21,760
Speaker 1: He's on the rock like he's a couple.

2900
02:27:21,600 --> 02:27:23,640
Speaker 7: Of weeks he wasn't on the roster. He was just

2901
02:27:23,680 --> 02:27:26,480
Speaker 7: an update anchor. And now it's officially on the roster.

2902
02:27:26,640 --> 02:27:29,959
Speaker 1: Okay, Because I mean they're very different skill sets. I

2903
02:27:30,080 --> 02:27:32,600
Speaker 1: know that. I mean I wouldn't even know, I would

2904
02:27:32,640 --> 02:27:34,160
Speaker 1: have no clue what to do in there.

2905
02:27:34,400 --> 02:27:37,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is a lot different, and sometimes the Internet

2906
02:27:37,560 --> 02:27:39,560
Speaker 6: is not on your side, as Martin and I have

2907
02:27:40,080 --> 02:27:41,240
Speaker 6: you refresh.

2908
02:27:40,800 --> 02:27:42,360
Speaker 7: And then it takes forever and you're like in the

2909
02:27:42,400 --> 02:27:43,359
Speaker 7: middle of an update.

2910
02:27:43,920 --> 02:27:47,680
Speaker 6: It's more stressful, don't you think, Martin, oh the update anchor?

2911
02:27:48,000 --> 02:27:49,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, because well, when.

2912
02:27:49,080 --> 02:27:51,200
Speaker 2: You're hosting the show, you have a list of well,

2913
02:27:51,280 --> 02:27:53,600
Speaker 2: unless you're hosting it with Steve, you have a list

2914
02:27:53,640 --> 02:27:56,280
Speaker 2: of topish that you'll be addressing at some point.

2915
02:27:56,400 --> 02:27:58,119
Speaker 1: Right, you have a general road map.

2916
02:27:58,440 --> 02:28:00,800
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean I'm staying down stands not the whole time.

2917
02:28:00,879 --> 02:28:02,880
Speaker 2: My turn left, my turn right, But at least I

2918
02:28:03,000 --> 02:28:05,560
Speaker 2: know how to get back home exactly the updates. You

2919
02:28:05,560 --> 02:28:06,880
Speaker 2: know what is it today?

2920
02:28:06,879 --> 02:28:08,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. Tiger what said he's sick? All right,

2921
02:28:08,920 --> 02:28:11,880
Speaker 1: I'll throw that in there, as Montsy found out yesterday,

2922
02:28:11,959 --> 02:28:15,240
Speaker 1: not that she didn't already know. That's the way I like.

2923
02:28:15,360 --> 02:28:17,760
Speaker 1: I like to keep my co host on the edge

2924
02:28:17,800 --> 02:28:21,120
Speaker 1: of their seat, right, what's not even during the break

2925
02:28:21,160 --> 02:28:24,640
Speaker 1: it's rare. Occasionally maybe I'll say, by the way, this

2926
02:28:24,760 --> 02:28:26,080
Speaker 1: is yeah, I still don't.

2927
02:28:25,840 --> 02:28:29,600
Speaker 6: Like to do that, right, No, I I love that spontaneity, Martin.

2928
02:28:29,600 --> 02:28:31,320
Speaker 7: When I found out that I was gonna work.

2929
02:28:31,120 --> 02:28:34,359
Speaker 6: With Steve Hartman, I asked Bo Benson, I asked Ryan Berschinger,

2930
02:28:34,480 --> 02:28:36,440
Speaker 6: and they were both like, yeah, we we just let

2931
02:28:36,480 --> 02:28:38,760
Speaker 6: him talk, like he just comes in, takes a seat

2932
02:28:38,800 --> 02:28:40,039
Speaker 6: and he starts talking.

2933
02:28:39,879 --> 02:28:42,680
Speaker 7: And we all go with it and follow my lead,

2934
02:28:42,840 --> 02:28:45,080
Speaker 7: follow the lead. And I didn't mind it.

2935
02:28:45,120 --> 02:28:47,600
Speaker 1: I didn't mind to everyone does such a great job board.

2936
02:28:47,879 --> 02:28:50,119
Speaker 8: To be clear, that does not mean on the air either.

2937
02:28:50,160 --> 02:28:52,439
Speaker 8: Steve Hartman gets talking.

2938
02:28:52,480 --> 02:28:55,560
Speaker 2: It sounds like regular Saturday Today exactly exactly.

2939
02:28:55,640 --> 02:28:58,320
Speaker 1: I like to sit in in the uh update booth,

2940
02:28:58,360 --> 02:29:01,320
Speaker 1: I'm Martin said many times, Isaac, I mean, come on,

2941
02:29:01,400 --> 02:29:02,440
Speaker 1: I terrorise Isaac.

2942
02:29:02,640 --> 02:29:05,320
Speaker 7: You do terrorise Isaac. He sends me pictures all the time.

2943
02:29:05,400 --> 02:29:08,920
Speaker 1: Look, hey, he sends him to his wife as well.

2944
02:29:09,000 --> 02:29:12,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, Allia, Dave, it is twelve fifty nine fifty nine.

2945
02:29:12,200 --> 02:29:15,560
Speaker 1: I'm on in one second. I actually came in super

2946
02:29:15,560 --> 02:29:18,560
Speaker 1: early today for Isaac. I mean I'm on the air

2947
02:29:18,560 --> 02:29:21,360
Speaker 1: at ten West Coast. I came in at eight forty five.

2948
02:29:21,440 --> 02:29:22,440
Speaker 7: Oh that is early.

2949
02:29:22,600 --> 02:29:24,800
Speaker 1: You're here? Really are? Like I said, I need extra

2950
02:29:24,840 --> 02:29:26,400
Speaker 1: time with you. Yeah, I want to hang you know

2951
02:29:26,440 --> 02:29:27,320
Speaker 1: what I talk about you?

2952
02:29:27,560 --> 02:29:27,760
Speaker 4: Oh?

2953
02:29:27,760 --> 02:29:30,000
Speaker 6: I got that when I came in, and Isaac was

2954
02:29:30,120 --> 02:29:33,959
Speaker 6: very excited to chat, to have girl talk currently.

2955
02:29:33,760 --> 02:29:36,040
Speaker 7: In the morning. That's what Isaac wanted to do. No joke,

2956
02:29:36,120 --> 02:29:38,920
Speaker 7: girl talk. Yes, guys, Luke Liss at the top of

2957
02:29:38,920 --> 02:29:39,320
Speaker 7: the list.

2958
02:29:39,360 --> 02:29:41,959
Speaker 6: There we go, Martin Weiss with a joke to start

2959
02:29:42,080 --> 02:29:47,200
Speaker 6: us off fifteen underpar over all Heidiki No, I didn't

2960
02:29:47,240 --> 02:29:49,600
Speaker 6: say that, right, Hideki Matsuyama.

2961
02:29:49,720 --> 02:29:52,000
Speaker 7: That's how it hit Decie, Deki Matsuyama.

2962
02:29:52,080 --> 02:29:53,959
Speaker 1: Deki Matsuyama, thank you, thank you.

2963
02:29:54,040 --> 02:29:57,800
Speaker 6: He and Will z Alatorres along with Xander Shoffley, along

2964
02:29:57,840 --> 02:29:59,000
Speaker 6: with Patrick Kentley.

2965
02:29:59,240 --> 02:30:01,240
Speaker 7: They are all on shot back.

2966
02:30:01,320 --> 02:30:06,200
Speaker 6: So it really is anyone's tournament, the Genesis Invitational. And

2967
02:30:06,240 --> 02:30:09,240
Speaker 6: then let's check in on the stadium series happening at

2968
02:30:09,280 --> 02:30:10,119
Speaker 6: MetLife Stadium.

2969
02:30:10,160 --> 02:30:12,199
Speaker 7: That's right, hockey at MetLife Stadium.

2970
02:30:12,280 --> 02:30:14,400
Speaker 6: So far it's been all Islanders that are beating the

2971
02:30:14,480 --> 02:30:17,920
Speaker 6: Rangers three to one after the first period. And in

2972
02:30:17,920 --> 02:30:20,880
Speaker 6: college hoops, we did have a big upset. Yes, Ohio State,

2973
02:30:20,879 --> 02:30:23,600
Speaker 6: who fired their coach just four days ago, beat number

2974
02:30:23,640 --> 02:30:26,440
Speaker 6: two produce seventy three to sixty nine.

2975
02:30:26,680 --> 02:30:29,279
Speaker 1: Back to you guys, hey, I have a generational question

2976
02:30:29,360 --> 02:30:33,560
Speaker 1: ask of both you Monsey and with Martin here, so

2977
02:30:35,080 --> 02:30:38,760
Speaker 1: you know, every four years or he would leap hears right,

2978
02:30:38,840 --> 02:30:41,600
Speaker 1: and we get the extra day for twenty nine. It's

2979
02:30:41,640 --> 02:30:46,920
Speaker 1: always a presidential election year and it's also an Olympics

2980
02:30:47,000 --> 02:30:50,400
Speaker 1: year in terms of the Summer Games. And as a kid,

2981
02:30:50,480 --> 02:30:53,760
Speaker 1: this was really significant to me. You know, whether it's

2982
02:30:53,800 --> 02:30:57,160
Speaker 1: seventy six, eighty eight, whatever it was, you know, these

2983
02:30:57,160 --> 02:31:01,440
Speaker 1: are every four years something super special. Do the Olympics

2984
02:31:02,840 --> 02:31:06,440
Speaker 1: have any major draw for either one of you guys?

2985
02:31:06,800 --> 02:31:08,000
Speaker 1: The Summer Games?

2986
02:31:08,040 --> 02:31:09,959
Speaker 7: Not really for me.

2987
02:31:10,280 --> 02:31:11,720
Speaker 1: I mean this year they'll be in Paris.

2988
02:31:11,959 --> 02:31:14,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm sure, I mean I'll tune in, but there's

2989
02:31:14,440 --> 02:31:17,840
Speaker 6: nothing like right now, I have no headline in my

2990
02:31:17,879 --> 02:31:19,520
Speaker 6: head of what I would be looking forward to.

2991
02:31:20,840 --> 02:31:23,160
Speaker 2: The thing is MONSI you'll watch the swimming, you know,

2992
02:31:23,240 --> 02:31:27,039
Speaker 2: watch the basketball, and probably something of the track and field.

2993
02:31:27,520 --> 02:31:30,879
Speaker 1: But outside of that, right, I'll tell you it is.

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Speaker 2: It definitely registers more than the Winter Olympics, which I

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Speaker 2: just call going to a country club in the winter.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you're not in the winter sports. Although even

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Speaker 1: that when I now they used to be in the

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Speaker 1: same year. They now stagger them, so you know, they

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Speaker 1: ever every two you know that idea they used to

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Speaker 1: be in the same year. Yeah, I do, mean you're

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Speaker 1: not locked in the mixed doubles, bob sledding. I look

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02:31:53,959 --> 02:31:56,680
Speaker 1: at I am zero in terms of winter sports. I'm

3003
02:31:56,840 --> 02:31:59,039
Speaker 1: a SoCal native, so you know, I don't you know,

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Speaker 1: but I would like downhill skiing. I sort of watched

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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. It was a lot different in

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Speaker 1: those days because they would basically put together highlight packages

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Speaker 1: as opposed to what we now, which is basically sustain

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02:32:10,560 --> 02:32:12,800
Speaker 1: and then you have the different channels. You're gonna watch this,

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02:32:12,879 --> 02:32:15,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna watch that, and it's so they just keep

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Speaker 1: creating sports. One of the new sports are gonna have

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Speaker 1: eventually with the Olympics. Is women's flag football?

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Speaker 7: That'd be fun.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be an Olympic sport. Yeah, Olympic sports.

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Speaker 7: I'm into that. Yeah, but you're right, Marri, like we're

3015
02:32:27,400 --> 02:32:29,840
Speaker 7: gonna watch basketball just because you're.

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Speaker 1: Not in you're not into women's flag football.

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Speaker 6: If I wish women's flag football would have been an

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02:32:34,920 --> 02:32:36,200
Speaker 6: option when I was in high school.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's not true, well, not denying that.

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Speaker 2: What I'm saying women's flag football is gonna get the

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02:32:40,720 --> 02:32:43,199
Speaker 2: same viewerships as speed walking or fencing.

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Speaker 6: I don't disagree with that, but I'm saying I would

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Speaker 6: be interested in watching it, like the first time around.

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Speaker 7: I would want to watch it.

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02:32:48,800 --> 02:32:51,360
Speaker 6: Not saying I'm going to stay interested, but the first

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Speaker 6: time around.

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Speaker 2: So team USA is opening game, the opening the first

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02:32:56,400 --> 02:32:58,840
Speaker 2: match of pool play, you might be locked in, but

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02:32:59,280 --> 02:33:02,680
Speaker 2: I mean you locked into the national to the national championship,

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Speaker 2: the gold medal game where it's Canada verse Uzbekistan.

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Speaker 7: No, I might yeah, like I think the first time around?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so this yeah? See, are you saying you're

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02:33:13,920 --> 02:33:15,720
Speaker 1: not going to be sharing a seat next door to

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Speaker 1: watch it?

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Speaker 2: What I'm saying is over the next summer, and my

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02:33:18,720 --> 02:33:20,920
Speaker 2: co host will be one of them on Saturdays from

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Speaker 2: eight to eleven.

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Speaker 1: Is one of these people who will fool.

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02:33:23,320 --> 02:33:26,080
Speaker 2: Themselves and the thinking that they're really about to watch

3040
02:33:26,080 --> 02:33:30,800
Speaker 2: the individual melay relay medley relay of the swimming.

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02:33:30,520 --> 02:33:33,600
Speaker 1: Is like, look, it's all no one is watching this.

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02:33:34,000 --> 02:33:36,240
Speaker 7: You could be right, yeah, in the grand scheme of things,

3043
02:33:36,360 --> 02:33:38,960
Speaker 7: probably right. I just think there's gonna be a few

3044
02:33:39,000 --> 02:33:41,920
Speaker 7: people that are actually interested. Not but you're right in

3045
02:33:41,959 --> 02:33:42,879
Speaker 7: the grand scheme of things.

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Speaker 1: No, By the way, I make I can't wait to

3047
02:33:45,120 --> 02:33:48,360
Speaker 1: watch the steeple chase. By the way, I have an

3048
02:33:48,440 --> 02:33:50,400
Speaker 1: update on the golf. We have a five way tie

3049
02:33:50,440 --> 02:33:55,800
Speaker 1: right we five wayst has fallen, he fell on, can't

3050
02:33:55,879 --> 02:34:00,000
Speaker 1: lay shot flee Matziyama zalatorus are all tied right now.

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Speaker 7: That's exciting.

3052
02:34:01,320 --> 02:34:04,680
Speaker 1: And we are expecting some rain later today here in

3053
02:34:04,720 --> 02:34:07,160
Speaker 1: southern California, so they need to giddy up right now

3054
02:34:07,200 --> 02:34:09,959
Speaker 1: to get the steed duns. You're right, yeah, so they

3055
02:34:10,000 --> 02:34:13,360
Speaker 1: could be, especially if they go to a playoff. Could

3056
02:34:13,400 --> 02:34:15,440
Speaker 1: get a little nicey with the weather. All right, So

3057
02:34:15,480 --> 02:34:17,280
Speaker 1: we'll keep our eye on that, all right, Monsey, thank

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02:34:17,320 --> 02:34:19,840
Speaker 1: you very much. All right, coming out with the other side,

3059
02:34:19,840 --> 02:34:22,879
Speaker 1: we're going to put some thoughts on what to watch

3060
02:34:22,959 --> 02:34:27,640
Speaker 1: tonight in this NBA All Star Game. This is Fox

3061
02:34:27,680 --> 02:34:32,640
Speaker 1: Sports Sunday, Steve Hartman, Martin Weiss. Yeah, Fox Sports Sunday.

3062
02:34:32,640 --> 02:34:34,960
Speaker 1: I don't know where the time is gone, but once

3063
02:34:35,000 --> 02:34:37,840
Speaker 1: again we're live from the tire raq dot Com studios.

3064
02:34:38,000 --> 02:34:44,080
Speaker 1: Our crew is second to none. Moncey. Yeah, been a

3065
02:34:44,120 --> 02:34:46,720
Speaker 1: remarkable weekend, Monsey. A lot of stuff this week.

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Speaker 7: Yes, great, I should have just slept here, Martin and I.

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02:34:49,720 --> 02:34:53,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean just basically, you guys just switched seat.

3068
02:34:53,680 --> 02:34:56,920
Speaker 7: We really did. We really here all day. I'm here

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02:34:56,959 --> 02:34:57,720
Speaker 7: all day today.

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Speaker 1: We really I've been sitting in this one. See but

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02:35:00,600 --> 02:35:03,440
Speaker 1: yesterday you were sitting where Martin is today, and Martin

3072
02:35:03,560 --> 02:35:07,200
Speaker 1: is sitting where you are today. You guys just switch seats.

3073
02:35:07,360 --> 02:35:08,640
Speaker 7: Yeah, we really did.

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02:35:08,760 --> 02:35:10,920
Speaker 1: That's how it happened over these two days. So I

3075
02:35:10,959 --> 02:35:14,280
Speaker 1: appreciate very much both of you, which you helped me

3076
02:35:14,320 --> 02:35:16,280
Speaker 1: out over the last couple of days, because let's face

3077
02:35:16,320 --> 02:35:19,000
Speaker 1: it right now, post NFL football can be a challenge.

3078
02:35:19,120 --> 02:35:21,040
Speaker 7: Yeah, but you have done by yourself.

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02:35:21,040 --> 02:35:24,839
Speaker 1: See, I can always I could go twenty four hours.

3080
02:35:25,320 --> 02:35:27,760
Speaker 1: I go twenty four hours by myself most of the

3081
02:35:27,760 --> 02:35:31,640
Speaker 1: time anyway. All right, so there's both. Of course, our

3082
02:35:31,640 --> 02:35:35,279
Speaker 1: brilliant producer. Yesterday he was jumping on the chief Span wagon.

3083
02:35:35,680 --> 02:35:38,640
Speaker 1: Today he's back to his Dodger blues. So there's a

3084
02:35:38,640 --> 02:35:43,000
Speaker 1: certain level of normality there. That's mean, well, I mean,

3085
02:35:43,800 --> 02:35:45,640
Speaker 1: you're an Eagles guy. And then he was making some

3086
02:35:45,760 --> 02:35:49,000
Speaker 1: kind of spin on well, you know the chief everyone,

3087
02:35:49,400 --> 02:35:52,439
Speaker 1: how could you not like the Chiefs? I'm like, very easily,

3088
02:35:54,000 --> 02:35:56,360
Speaker 1: you know, how could you not love handle, you know,

3089
02:35:56,440 --> 02:35:58,480
Speaker 1: lovable Andy Reid and you know.

3090
02:36:00,080 --> 02:36:02,760
Speaker 8: Reconnection, the Indy reconnection is obvious.

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02:36:02,480 --> 02:36:04,880
Speaker 1: Okay, obviously, Yeah, but he didn't win any championships for

3092
02:36:04,920 --> 02:36:08,760
Speaker 1: you in Philadelia. Still like the guy, yeah, So and Chris,

3093
02:36:08,800 --> 02:36:12,120
Speaker 1: of course, well very excited. The Montsi brought in some

3094
02:36:12,160 --> 02:36:14,640
Speaker 1: breakfast this morning. That was a big pocket right now.

3095
02:36:16,320 --> 02:36:18,720
Speaker 1: So we were, Chris, we were talking about, you know,

3096
02:36:18,840 --> 02:36:22,840
Speaker 1: teams that are are going to rise from the ashes.

3097
02:36:24,240 --> 02:36:27,000
Speaker 1: The Lions are a team that's going to go into

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02:36:27,320 --> 02:36:30,680
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four with some questions and a lot maybe

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02:36:30,760 --> 02:36:32,760
Speaker 1: has to do with Dan Campbell, you know, after losing

3100
02:36:32,760 --> 02:36:36,720
Speaker 1: that NFC Championship game, reminding his team that you may

3101
02:36:36,720 --> 02:36:41,320
Speaker 1: never actually get back here. Sure, so he's realistic about that.

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Speaker 1: I look at the Packers where they ended up twenty

3103
02:36:47,160 --> 02:36:51,520
Speaker 1: twenty three as basically where the Lions were a year ago.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, it's it's hard not to look at the

3105
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Speaker 3: NFC North and see a division. I mean, obviously we

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Speaker 3: never know until the season, but the Packers are on

3107
02:37:01,120 --> 02:37:04,440
Speaker 3: the up, depending on what the we're assuming. The Bears

3108
02:37:04,440 --> 02:37:07,560
Speaker 3: are going to take the best college prospect at quarterback

3109
02:37:07,720 --> 02:37:11,119
Speaker 3: in a while here in Caleb Williams, and they've already

3110
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Speaker 3: been retooling some of their defense. When they picked up

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02:37:14,080 --> 02:37:15,800
Speaker 3: Monte's sweat middle of the season, we were wondering what

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Speaker 3: they were doing, and I guess we got to see

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Speaker 3: what the Vikings do. They're kind of aging, and we

3114
02:37:20,640 --> 02:37:23,160
Speaker 3: have to figure out Kirk Cousins. But already you're looking

3115
02:37:23,200 --> 02:37:25,480
Speaker 3: at three teams that they're going to be very competitive

3116
02:37:25,480 --> 02:37:28,040
Speaker 3: in that division. So yeah, maybe next year, depending on

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02:37:28,640 --> 02:37:31,240
Speaker 3: how things break. The Lions got a little bit of

3118
02:37:31,320 --> 02:37:33,760
Speaker 3: luck with their health this year as well. Yeah, it's

3119
02:37:33,800 --> 02:37:35,920
Speaker 3: going to be a much tougher road to get back

3120
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Speaker 3: to where the Lions were this in the NFC championship.

3121
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Speaker 1: Martin, did you buy into Jordan Love's season and say,

3122
02:37:43,160 --> 02:37:45,360
Speaker 1: I mean he was second in the league in touchdown passes.

3123
02:37:45,480 --> 02:37:47,400
Speaker 1: He was, but then he let you know, lit up

3124
02:37:47,440 --> 02:37:50,039
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and I had a really good good.

3125
02:37:49,879 --> 02:37:52,120
Speaker 2: The second half of the season. First half of the

3126
02:37:52,160 --> 02:37:54,280
Speaker 2: season was kind of up and down some of the things.

3127
02:37:54,280 --> 02:37:55,800
Speaker 2: And I'm not, like, I don't pretend to be like

3128
02:37:55,800 --> 02:37:59,680
Speaker 2: a quarterback guru whisper or even great evaluator of talent,

3129
02:37:59,760 --> 02:38:01,960
Speaker 2: but he seems to me like he throws a lot

3130
02:38:02,000 --> 02:38:05,160
Speaker 2: of fade away jumpers when he throw, like he's always

3131
02:38:05,160 --> 02:38:08,480
Speaker 2: on his back foot. He's always kind of leaning backwards

3132
02:38:08,480 --> 02:38:10,320
Speaker 2: instead of standing up in rifling balls in.

3133
02:38:10,360 --> 02:38:13,280
Speaker 3: And I have to get the numbers, but his touchdown word,

3134
02:38:13,360 --> 02:38:16,760
Speaker 3: I mean, his turnover worthy play numbers were kind of

3135
02:38:16,800 --> 02:38:18,680
Speaker 3: dicey sometimes something that kind of.

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Speaker 1: Works, but I mean down the stretch, I mean, he

3137
02:38:20,520 --> 02:38:22,279
Speaker 1: had almost no interception.

3138
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Speaker 3: I know, but this is what he did with Nick

3139
02:38:24,120 --> 02:38:26,280
Speaker 3: Foles about ten years ago, where Nick Foles and a

3140
02:38:26,320 --> 02:38:29,119
Speaker 3: lot of turnover worthy plays, but he never turned it over.

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Speaker 1: And we just assumed that was great until it wasn't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I well, it'll be interested and then that's that's the

3143
02:38:34,840 --> 02:38:40,000
Speaker 1: beauty of the NFL because there are certain constants. I mean,

3144
02:38:40,000 --> 02:38:42,959
Speaker 1: we know the Chiefs will be there in some respect

3145
02:38:43,120 --> 02:38:46,119
Speaker 1: next year, and there's certain teams that always seen him.

3146
02:38:46,240 --> 02:38:50,080
Speaker 1: But every year, every year, teams just come out of

3147
02:38:50,280 --> 02:38:53,560
Speaker 1: freaking nowhere. The American dreams. If you work hard enough,

3148
02:38:53,640 --> 02:38:57,720
Speaker 1: you too, all right, So you're gonna leave here, You're

3149
02:38:57,720 --> 02:38:59,600
Speaker 1: gonna hook up with some buddies, and you're gonna be

3150
02:38:59,640 --> 02:39:02,520
Speaker 1: hanging out and actually watching the NBA All Star Game tonight.

3151
02:39:02,840 --> 02:39:05,160
Speaker 2: Again, it'll be like a It'll be like a very

3152
02:39:05,200 --> 02:39:06,840
Speaker 2: small version of a Super Bowl party.

3153
02:39:06,879 --> 02:39:09,040
Speaker 1: It will be on in the background. Do you have

3154
02:39:09,080 --> 02:39:12,039
Speaker 1: a standard fair when you're gathering buddies in terms of

3155
02:39:12,080 --> 02:39:15,840
Speaker 1: what you're drinking and eating as a standard or it

3156
02:39:15,959 --> 02:39:17,480
Speaker 1: varies from the event to event.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Steve, I'm a man, so I go beer

3158
02:39:19,320 --> 02:39:22,240
Speaker 2: and fried foods. Those pretty much pretty much the.

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02:39:22,160 --> 02:39:28,240
Speaker 10: Fair and leans you name fried, that would qualifies. So

3160
02:39:28,440 --> 02:39:31,400
Speaker 10: just anything fried then more or less. Yeah, whatever that

3161
02:39:31,480 --> 02:39:35,560
Speaker 10: say isn't fried though, well you not. Every so often

3162
02:39:35,600 --> 02:39:36,600
Speaker 10: you have to make an exception.

3163
02:39:36,879 --> 02:39:41,840
Speaker 1: That's that's very true. I think back to those days. Yeah, yeah,

3164
02:39:41,959 --> 02:39:44,280
Speaker 1: I wings sound really good to me right now. Man,

3165
02:39:45,200 --> 02:39:47,080
Speaker 1: because I'm with you. I mean, like you say, the

3166
02:39:47,400 --> 02:39:49,720
Speaker 1: All Star Game is going to be something you'll be

3167
02:39:49,840 --> 02:39:52,199
Speaker 1: hanging out talking and look up every once in a while,

3168
02:39:52,280 --> 02:39:55,520
Speaker 1: maybe a little highlight replay or something along those lights.

3169
02:39:55,720 --> 02:39:58,320
Speaker 1: All right, we are done for our day, but much

3170
02:39:58,360 --> 02:40:00,920
Speaker 1: more is coming up. So don't go any where because

3171
02:40:01,000 --> 02:40:03,200
Speaker 1: all the best you're gonna get in sports is right here.

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Speaker 1: This is Fox Sports Radio.