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

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Speaker 2: Welcome in everybody, Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday Ertors.

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Speaker 2: Jason Martin, we are broadcasting live from the Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Radio studios. Yes, we are live here at eleven pm

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Speaker 2: Eastern time, eight Pacific. No football, but a great day

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Speaker 2: of college basketball. The NBA is back. We have a

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Speaker 2: thriller at Madison Square Garden. So actually quite a bit

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Speaker 2: going on despite the lack of football on our airwaves.

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Speaker 3: Jason Martin, how you doing, buddy?

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Speaker 4: You get man? I'm doing all right, man. Uh ninety

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Speaker 4: seven eighty four I believe was a score It felt

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Speaker 4: like five minutes ago. And now the Knicks are up

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Speaker 4: too with six seconds left. Like this is this is wild?

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Speaker 4: Like I look down, I'll look back up. It's like, oh,

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Speaker 4: there's a game again. Not only is there a game,

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Speaker 4: but the Rockets have found a way to blow this

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Speaker 4: up eighteen at one point, but being up thirteen deep

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Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter and blowing it's that's good stuff

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Speaker 4: right there, man, Kevin Durant, I was.

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Speaker 2: Gonna say, Kevin Durant's got bigger problems this week than

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Speaker 2: blowing a fourth quarter lead. Uh, yeah, I know, Martin

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Speaker 2: Monzi got into it a little bit in their show.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how much he looked into that.

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Speaker 3: J Martin.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to lead and burning a phone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, burning some bridges a lot, burn it, some bridges,

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Speaker 2: burn it, some friendships. Tough week for KD. Knicks trailer

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Speaker 2: or Knicks up. Excuse me, one five, one oh three,

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Speaker 2: with just seconds left at Medicine Square Garden. We'll see

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Speaker 2: if the Rockets can take care of business. Yeah, Like,

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Speaker 2: you know, I think it was an interesting week. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: we were in All Star break for a good chunk

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Speaker 2: of it. No football, really, really really quiet week in

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Speaker 2: the football world, I should mention, and I think the

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Speaker 2: Seger just did.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't want to start on a down note,

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Speaker 2: but we did just get tragic news just minutes ago

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Speaker 2: that Rondelle Moore, former NFL wide receiver, has passed away

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Speaker 2: at the age.

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Speaker 3: Of twenty five.

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Speaker 2: To say or gave us updates on that, there's nothing

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Speaker 2: for us to say other than you know, sympathy to him,

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Speaker 2: his family, his loved ones. Awful awful, awful news other

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Speaker 2: than that, you know, And I don't mean to do

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Speaker 2: a hard pivot here, but it was, you know, a

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Speaker 3: Where I do want to start.

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Speaker 2: And I know this story in and of itself is

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Speaker 2: about a week old, but I do want to actually

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Speaker 2: start with All Star Weekend, a weekend a week ago.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me.

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Speaker 2: And why I want to start with something that is

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Speaker 2: about a week old is because sometimes in life you

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Speaker 2: just got to take d l And you and I

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Speaker 2: were on air last Saturday, obviously like we always are

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Speaker 2: in this time slot. I think we were justifiably critical

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Speaker 2: of a pretty forgettable All Star Saturday, but you and

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Speaker 2: I were both kind of in that, Yeah, a lousy

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Speaker 2: All Star Saturday is gonna lead into a lousy All

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Speaker 3: I don't know that we got that.

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Speaker 2: I actually thought the product on the court, while somewhat

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Speaker 2: confusing with different teams and scoring systems and whatever, I thought,

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Speaker 2: was largely a success. And so I know everybody listening

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Speaker 2: has heard everybody's opinions here on these Fox Sports radio airwaves,

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Speaker 2: on the new format on All Stars Sunday. But we

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Speaker 2: haven't spoken since that game was played, since those games

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Speaker 2: were played. However, you want to describe it, and I

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Speaker 2: got to give credit where it's due. It came out

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Speaker 2: much better than I thought. I still think it's a

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Speaker 2: byproduct of the players trying more than it is some

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Speaker 2: amazing format that nobody had.

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Speaker 3: Ever thought of before Sunday.

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Speaker 2: But a good product is a good product, and I

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Speaker 2: thought it actually played out pretty well on Sunday for

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Speaker 2: the NBA All Stars.

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Speaker 4: Look completely agree. We agreed on this when we chatted

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Speaker 4: that I was overly pessimistic and it turned out to

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Speaker 4: if any, I was going to watch it, because, like

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Speaker 4: you said, it's a week old. I knew we weren't

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Speaker 4: But what happened was it was just a pretty fun

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Speaker 4: so like, but that part didn't really matter. You got

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Speaker 4: clearly cared on both sides. Maybe not everybody on every team,

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Speaker 4: but you had enough. You certainly had Wemby, which we

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Speaker 4: He seemed to really care about it. It just it

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Speaker 4: had a different feel. And I think the fact that

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Speaker 4: meant that the effort was higher because you couldn't sit

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Speaker 4: for the last twelve minutes. You just had twelve minutes.

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Speaker 4: And so if you're going to try to fix it,

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Speaker 4: this is about as close as you can get. Like,

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Speaker 4: I don't think that you really need to do much else.

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Speaker 4: And I'm not sure that this was an a plus,

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Speaker 4: but I don't know that all Star games can be

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Speaker 4: feeling pretty good and thinking, you know what, the everything

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Speaker 4: much a failure, But the game itself, surprisingly enough, was

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Speaker 2: All Right, So I'm gonna make a really weird analogy.

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Speaker 2: I think you'll get it. But for those who don't

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Speaker 2: just stick with me for half a second. I remember

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Speaker 2: us coming on the Saturday following the release of Happy

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Speaker 2: Gilmour Too.

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Speaker 4: Uh huh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know where I'm going with this.

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Speaker 2: I love that you know exactly where I'm going with

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Speaker 3: And it was a movie.

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Speaker 2: the end result that we all wanted, which was competitive

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Speaker 2: But if the end result, as I said a second ago,

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Speaker 2: there were certainly some guys that you could tell probably

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Speaker 2: I hated that it wasn't a traditional game. Now I'm

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Speaker 2: just happy that we got a good product and however

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Speaker 3: It was fun.

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Speaker 2: It was cool seeing all those guys on the same

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think that it Sometimes you don't have to.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes it's good and I think to happy Gilmour now

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Speaker 4: I don't know what it was about. Even the lighting

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Speaker 4: the antie. One thing that I always campaigned for during

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Speaker 4: But secondarily, they're there to watch a performance. How many plays,

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Speaker 4: Almost never? So I'm not saying you could do this

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Speaker 4: we didn't. We got guys that were out there, and

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Speaker 4: you could tell there were some that were very competitive,

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Speaker 4: and I don't know whether or not the international versus

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Speaker 4: Just don't change it, like, don't continue to tweak it.

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Speaker 4: This works. Just keep on doing this. This is gonna

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Speaker 4: be fine. And unlike Happy Gilmore two, Happy Gilmore Too

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Speaker 4: was fine for some jokes one time, but it unlike

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Speaker 4: the first film, I'm not ever gonna watch the second

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Speaker 4: just blind entertainment, but nothing like super memorable. You know, overall,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was funny. I said that on Monday. Is like,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm trying, who's coming with me?

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Speaker 2: But I do think the All Star, the All Star,

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Speaker 4: Well, man, I think that there is This is a

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Speaker 4: From a business perspective, it is much smarter of him

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Speaker 4: And the reason why is it's always going to be

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Speaker 4: You're gonna talk more about that. It's like we talked

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Speaker 3: No doubt.

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Speaker 2: And for people who you know, want to push back

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody, Fox Sports Radio ertors Jason Martin. We

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Speaker 2: weekend in the NBA, but with the week off for

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Speaker 2: the NBA, it seemed like college basketball did take center stage,

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Speaker 2: and I guess unfortunately, if you're a college basketball fan,

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Speaker 2: Biggest story probably Darren Peterson, potential number one pick out

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Speaker 2: of Kansas, this on again, off again. It's crazy, j Mark,

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Speaker 2: because we started talking about this.

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Speaker 4: You were way ahead of this.

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Speaker 1: I was.

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Speaker 4: You turned me on too. It's not surprising considering your

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Speaker 4: He's not my number one pick. As talented as he is,

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Speaker 4: I just don't know that you can trust what's going

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Speaker 3: Well I'll set it up.

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Speaker 2: And by the way you talk about not your number

438
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Speaker 2: one pick, it is worth noting that on Wednesday night,

439
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,760
Speaker 2: the same night that he pulled himself out of yet

440
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:21,560
Speaker 2: another game, aj To Bonsa, who's currently playing on ESPN

441
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:26,600
Speaker 2: right now BYU and Iowa State. Aj De Bonsa the

442
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Speaker 2: likely most likely person that's going to be the number

443
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Speaker 2: one pick if it's not Darren Peterson. He has played

444
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Speaker 2: twenty minutes in the first half, Jason. He has not

445
00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 2: missed a minute, and this was after playing thirty nine

446
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Speaker 2: minutes in a loss to number four ranked Arizona on

447
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Speaker 2: Wednesday night. So Wednesday night was interesting because, yeah, Darius

448
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Speaker 2: A Cuff from Arkansas scoring forty nine points in a

449
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Speaker 2: double overtime game.

450
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Speaker 4: That was crazy.

451
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Speaker 2: It was crazy, and he did not sit one second.

452
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 2: John played today too, and he played today too. John

453
00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 2: cal Perry said he was in a boot. He turned

454
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Speaker 2: an ankle a week could go at Auburns. So yeah,

455
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 2: this kid, Darius A Cuff, who's gonna be a lottery pick,

456
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 2: doesn't miss a minute in a fifty minute double overtime game.

457
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 2: Aj De Bonsa plays thirty nine minutes against Arizona. And

458
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Speaker 2: then there was the Darren Peterson situation. So I'll be

459
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Speaker 2: quick because Kansas did play today. Now, I don't think

460
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Speaker 2: this helps the Darren Peterson argument because after pulling himself

461
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Speaker 2: out of the game on Thursday, on Wednesday, excuse me,

462
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 2: he did actually play thirty two minutes today in a

463
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Speaker 2: loss to Cincinnati. Now you could sit there and say, wow,

464
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Speaker 2: I mean what, it obviously proves he's not load managing,

465
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Speaker 2: because that's obviously the conversation. I think if you're listening,

466
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Speaker 2: you know the story. I would argue it's actually not

467
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Speaker 2: a good sign at all, because this is now not

468
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Speaker 2: the first time that he has played significant minutes after

469
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Speaker 2: pulling himself out of a game, and so it just

470
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Speaker 2: feels like when games are in control, when he's playing well,

471
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Speaker 2: he always seems to find a way to get on

472
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Speaker 2: the bench and not play. And I've done a terrible

473
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Speaker 2: job setting this up, but I assume anybody listening at

474
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Speaker 2: this hour knows enough of the details. But he pulled

475
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Speaker 2: himself out on Wednesday. Multiple times he's pulled himself out.

476
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Speaker 2: He pulled himself out of a game against number one

477
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Speaker 2: Arizona minutes before tip off with the flu. And to

478
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Speaker 2: your point, Jmart, you know this is a guy that

479
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Speaker 2: talent alone, it feels like would be the number one pick.

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Speaker 5: In the end.

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Speaker 4: Yea, it's sanely good.

482
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Speaker 2: It's question insanely good. The issue is that Kansas now

483
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Speaker 2: has played twenty seven games, he has missed twelve of them.

484
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Speaker 2: And then even in the games that he has played in,

485
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Speaker 2: I would essentially say probably three to four all season long,

486
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Speaker 2: has he basically been available start to finish. It's been

487
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Speaker 2: a bad look. It got worse this week. We have

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Speaker 2: some Bill self sound will play in a minute, but

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Speaker 2: I want to give you the floor first. J March,

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Speaker 2: just to share your thoughts on this as well.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I can't really add to what you said.

492
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Speaker 4: I was gonna mention Bill self before you played the audio.

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Speaker 4: I'll just say this, like the I think that's the

494
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Speaker 4: the worst part of the story is that finally it's

495
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Speaker 4: just it's just I mean, do you want to be there?

496
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Speaker 4: I think the answer is no. I think you feel

497
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Speaker 4: like you need to be there to advertise yourself to

498
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Speaker 4: get to the next level. But these are either you're

499
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Speaker 4: making some serious business decisions that your next employers are

500
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Speaker 4: looking at like, hmm, how much can we depend on

501
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Speaker 4: him to be a team first guy for us if

502
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Speaker 4: something doesn't go his way, So you've got that going on,

503
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Speaker 4: or he has some major, major injury and durability concerns,

504
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Speaker 4: either one of those. Aaron has me looking at AJ

505
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Speaker 4: has me looking at anybody else up top, because I

506
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Speaker 4: don't care how talented you are. If you can't stay

507
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Speaker 4: on the floor for me, or if I can't depend

508
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Speaker 4: on you to be there, then it doesn't matter. Like

509
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Speaker 4: that's absolutely just puerile insanity at that point in time.

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Speaker 4: So I just I look at it from well, let's

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Speaker 4: play selfs audio. We can talk more.

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Speaker 2: After that, all right, So let me give some context

513
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Speaker 2: before we play this. So, Darren Peterson pulled himself out

514
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Speaker 2: of the game on Wednesday night. Kansas played on Saturday.

515
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Speaker 2: This is the lead up to Saturday's game. Bill Self

516
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Speaker 2: seemingly finally having enough after Darren Peterson pulled his pulled

517
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Speaker 2: himself out of the game on Wednesday night.

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Speaker 6: He hasn't finished games. The reasons why they say he

519
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Speaker 6: hasn't finished games is one hundred percent false. But you know,

520
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Speaker 6: the the bottom line is there there is a there

521
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Speaker 6: is a way to change the narrative. Finish now if

522
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Speaker 6: his body allows him to fantastic. If it doesn't allow

523
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Speaker 6: him to, then you know they'll say something again in

524
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Speaker 6: the next game. But but, but but that that that's

525
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Speaker 6: the way to get people to quit talking. It's not

526
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Speaker 6: me saying.

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Speaker 1: It's not fair.

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Speaker 2: So really quickly I thought that was interesting because he

529
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Speaker 2: said the fact is he's not finishing games. What the

530
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Speaker 2: outside people are saying isn't true. But it doesn't change

531
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Speaker 2: the fact that the only way you're gonna get them

532
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Speaker 2: to stop talking about you is to actually finish games.

533
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Speaker 2: I guess what I would say is this is that

534
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Speaker 2: if it really is all outside noise and it's not accurate,

535
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Speaker 2: then like, why isn't he finishing games?

536
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Speaker 5: You know.

537
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Speaker 2: So it's like he says, well, the only way you're

538
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Speaker 2: gonna stop people from doing it is to actually finish games.

539
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Speaker 2: But then he says people are wrong for making accusations.

540
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Speaker 2: But then he says, you do have to finish them.

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Speaker 4: So I think I know what he's doing.

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Speaker 3: He's trying to put a ride the fence.

543
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Speaker 2: He's trying to defend his guy, but then also not

544
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Speaker 2: defend his guy because he's got.

545
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Speaker 3: A piss But he can't say he's pissed.

546
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Speaker 4: But go ahead, here's why you can't say he's ticked

547
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 4: off about this, because he wants the next Aaron Peterson

548
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Speaker 4: to come to Kansas, and he's looking at the future.

549
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 4: He's looking at what's coming next. He's already like he

550
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Speaker 4: knows what Darreon Peterson is or is not at this point,

551
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Speaker 4: whether what he said was accurate. You know, he's the

552
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Speaker 4: only one that knows that for sure. I'm skeptical about

553
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Speaker 4: It's almost like he sort of beat around the bush

554
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,160
Speaker 4: to say, yeah, there's something wrong here. But you understand

555
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Speaker 4: what I have to say as the coach of this team.

556
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 4: But if you want another top flight guy, you cannot

557
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 4: let parents of prospective athletes that have never had more

558
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 4: leverage or power in college than they do right now

559
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 4: to see you throw somebody under the bus. And so

560
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Speaker 4: I don't think that in that case, I think that

561
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Speaker 4: was more preservation for the future of the Kansas program

562
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Speaker 4: that it was necessarily backing up Peterson at least, I

563
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Speaker 4: think that's arguable. But I also reading between it, I

564
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 4: just feel like he's almost trying to call him out.

565
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 4: He's like, dude, I'm trying to protect you here with

566
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Speaker 4: what I'm saying, But if you want people to stop this,

567
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 4: you're the one that has to actually do something about it. So,

568
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Speaker 4: I mean, I think he's very frustrated. I think he's

569
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Speaker 4: right to be Frustrated's and the fans have a right

570
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 4: to be frustrated as well. Like I'm already thinking about

571
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 4: the NCAA tournament. Is that important enough for him to

572
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Speaker 4: be out there?

573
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Speaker 5: Well?

574
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Speaker 4: Real quick?

575
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Speaker 3: Because we got to get to the saga.

576
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Speaker 2: But that's the funny part, because this week was the

577
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Speaker 2: week that it felt like and part of it is

578
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 2: there was no NBA, so it became a national topic,

579
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Speaker 2: and now Steven as talking about it, so it becomes

580
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Speaker 2: a big deal. But that was the funny part to

581
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Speaker 2: me in the lead up to this week, was like, well,

582
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Speaker 2: I mean, as long as he's healthy for the tournament,

583
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Speaker 2: who cares? It's like, well, one, first off, if he's

584
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Speaker 2: healthy for the tournament, one, what have we seen that

585
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Speaker 2: makes us believe that he is going to be He

586
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Speaker 2: He hasn't played six consecutive games healthy all year or

587
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 2: healthy in air quotes all year, but then two in

588
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 2: a lot of ways, if he's awesome in the tournament,

589
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 2: that's actually worse because it just means he's been faking

590
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Speaker 2: an injury the whole time. So I feel like there's

591
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Speaker 2: a lot more meat on this boat. We can come

592
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 2: back discuss it. We can also discuss some other interesting

593
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 2: sound from Mick cronin. Although mc cronin might have got

594
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Speaker 2: the last left tonight. We'll discuss all that next busy

595
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 2: week in college hoops. Before we do, though, today, let's

596
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Speaker 2: get to the news desk. Steve the Seger eleven thirty

597
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Speaker 2: eight Eastern Time, What is trending, sir well?

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Speaker 7: Let's talk about that game at UCLA tonight on Fox TV,

599
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Speaker 7: because it turned out to be thrilling. The Bruins were

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Speaker 7: trailing at home to number ten Illinois thirty three to

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Speaker 7: ten after about the first ten minutes of the game,

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Speaker 7: and it still went overtime. Ucla, with just under five

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Speaker 7: seconds left had to go to the length of the

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Speaker 7: court down one. We'll hear whether they did it on

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Speaker 7: Fox TV, Tim Brando, because remember, Ucla in its history

606
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Speaker 7: has done this before, Tias Edney going the length of

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Speaker 7: the court with five seconds left March Madness nineteen ninety

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Speaker 7: five Solar time, just like Edney ninety five.

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Speaker 3: Ninety four Bruins.

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Speaker 2: I had this on in the back while you were

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Speaker 2: obviously on with Martin and Montzi. Probably couldn't hear it live,

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Speaker 2: but I picked up right away the words Tias Edney

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Speaker 2: came out of his mouth during the play out, our guy,

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Speaker 2: Tim Brando, was an awesome final call.

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Speaker 7: Before the layup actually left the hand exactly what he

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Speaker 7: was thinking and frankly, exactly like that play so many

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Speaker 7: years ago. Ninety five ninety four, Ucla beats tenth ranked

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Speaker 7: Illinois at the buzzer in overtime, Donovan Dent the hero.

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Speaker 7: He had fifteen assists, no turnovers and the game winning basket.

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Speaker 7: In Washington, DC, Number three Duke beat number one Michigan

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Speaker 7: Tonight sixty eight sixty three. Number four Arizona winner at

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Speaker 7: number two Houston seventy three to sixty six. In the

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Speaker 7: late game, it's halftime at number twenty three BYU the

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Speaker 7: Cougars lead number six Iowa State thirty nine to thirty.

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Speaker 7: Cincinnati was a winner at number eight Kansas eighty four

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Speaker 7: sixty eight. Tennessee one at number nineteen Vanderbilt sixty nine

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Speaker 7: sixty five. In the late NBA game at New York,

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Speaker 7: the next came back to beat Houston one o eight

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Speaker 7: to one oh six. The Knicks were down by eighteen

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Speaker 7: early in the fourth quarter. Sacramento one it's eighth straight game,

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Speaker 7: one thirty nine to one twenty two over Sacramento, which

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Speaker 7: is well Sacramento's lost sixteen games in a row. Detroit

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Speaker 7: won it's fifth straight a victory at Chicago, won twenty

634
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Speaker 7: six to one ten. Chicago's lost eight straight home wins.

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Speaker 7: For Miami and New Orleans. Phoenix in double overtime beat

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Speaker 7: Orlando one thirteen to one ten that was on a

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Speaker 7: three pointer at the buzzer of double overtime.

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Speaker 4: They don't tank, man, They're not losers.

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Speaker 7: By Jalen Green, quoting the Phoenix owner. Jalen Green had

640
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Speaker 7: been five for twenty five from the floor until the

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Speaker 7: game winner with a inbound from with a second to go,

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Speaker 7: and he hits it in a fallaway from the corner.

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Speaker 7: Dylan Brooks, though of Phoenix, broke his left hand reportedly

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Speaker 7: in this game, and Devin Booker of the Suns did

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Speaker 7: not play. He's out at least a week with a

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Speaker 7: strained hip. The Dallas Cowboys gave running back Javonte Williams

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Speaker 7: a three year extension. NFL wide receiver Rondell Moore passed

648
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Speaker 7: away in Indiana at the age of twenty. Baseball Hall

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Speaker 7: of Famer Bill Masarowski died at age eighty nine. At

650
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Speaker 7: the Winter Olympics, US skiers took Golden team Ariels Finland

651
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Speaker 7: won the bronze medal in men's hockey. Canadian hockey captain

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Speaker 7: Sidney Crosby practiced today after missing the semifinal due to injury.

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Speaker 7: US men's hockey plays the Olympic final Sunday morning against

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Speaker 7: Canada and in Major League Soccer season openers. They include

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Speaker 7: a Nashville for to one win over New England.

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Speaker 3: Back to you, thank you very much, Steve Saga.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio aer toors Jason Martin, broadcasting live from

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Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Radio Studios. We'll come back talk a

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Speaker 2: little bit about mc cronin and then also do have

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Speaker 2: a question about that team USA Canada hockey game on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Morning, very early Sunday morning.

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Speaker 2: We'll discuss that next Fox Sports Radio.

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

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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio aer tours Jason Martin, broadcasting live from

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Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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Speaker 3: Take it up till.

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Speaker 4: Two a m.

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Speaker 2: Eastern time. Hey, real quick, darn it to Seger left

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Speaker 2: and he's the one with the answer on this. I

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Speaker 2: want to talk to make Corona in half a second.

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Speaker 2: But let me ask you a question. And I know

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Speaker 2: it's probably not feasible because of you know, the closing

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Speaker 2: ceremonies and blah mah blah blah blah. Whoa Yeah, Well, okay,

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Speaker 2: all right, US hockey US versus Canada.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 2: You may have heard they're playing for the Golden Okay,

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Speaker 2: so you're getting up so seven, seven am Central, you'll

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Speaker 2: be out, Okay, So this is the thing. And and

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Speaker 2: I heard Manzi and Martin. I know, I've referenced them

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Speaker 2: a lot, but they do a great show before us.

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Speaker 2: Everybody should listen if they don't, but I heard them

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Speaker 2: talk about this. I know because the because because of

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Speaker 2: how the closing ceremonies are set up, it probably isn't

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Speaker 2: feasible to move the gold medal hockey game. But USA

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Speaker 2: Canada when not only a large percentage of the American

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Speaker 2: audience five am Pacific time, I'm not great at geography,

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Speaker 2: it's also five am Pacific for a big part of

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Speaker 2: the Canadian audience as well. Now shout out to Canada.

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Speaker 2: I would guess that a larger percentage of the West

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Speaker 2: Coast audience will wake up to watch the game on

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Speaker 2: the West Coast there than they will hear in the US.

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Speaker 3: Is there any way? Is there any way?

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Speaker 2: And is there anything that they can do? Because I

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Speaker 2: just feel like, you know, like we use the term

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Speaker 2: like grow the game for like every sport, like women's

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Speaker 2: sports and baseball, and grow the game, and it's like,

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Speaker 2: feel like, if you want us to watch like the

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Speaker 2: signature event of your entire Olympics would be kind of

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Speaker 2: cool if it wasn't on at five am Pacific. And

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Speaker 2: I know I'm being like an angry American that feels

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Speaker 2: like the whole world should revolve around America. I'm pretty

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Speaker 2: sure the US pays more in TV rights for the

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Speaker 2: Olympics than any other country in the world, so maybe

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Speaker 2: the coul accommodate accommodate us a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'm just being too much of an ugly American

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Speaker 2: that expects everything to revolve around us.

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Speaker 4: What do you think I mean, I don't have to

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Speaker 4: add anything. You just said it yourself. No, I know

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Speaker 4: exactly what you're saying, and I think in a perfect

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Speaker 4: world it works. But because it's the Global Games and

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Speaker 4: all these other things, I don't know, it's unfortunate because

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Speaker 4: I mean, you can't do it the way you did

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Speaker 4: it for the Miracle on Ice, for example, because the

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Speaker 4: tape delay thing doesn't work. It'll be known on X

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Speaker 4: It'll be known on social media and everywhere else the

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Speaker 4: second that it happens, so nobody will be able to

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Speaker 4: watch this thing unspoiled, and that kind of defeats the

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Speaker 4: purpose of it. At all. At the very least, it's like, hey,

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Speaker 4: we're overseas, this thing has happening. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 4: there have been some all time classic for example, Australian

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Speaker 4: Open Finals. They're still happening early in the morning, sometimes

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Speaker 4: the Open Championship. You're gonna miss something if it happens overseas.

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Speaker 4: I think the problem here for us is that we're

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Speaker 4: not used to it going this way. Usually it's the

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Speaker 4: rest of the world that has to wake up early

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Speaker 4: to watch WrestleMania or something like that, Whereas we're just

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Speaker 4: not used to that because usually culture and sports in

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Speaker 4: particular do tend to revolve around this country and their schedule,

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Speaker 4: and so I think that that's I think it's more

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Speaker 4: of just this feels inconvenient, you know why, because it

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Speaker 4: is inconvenient. Now I'm with you. I do think that

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Speaker 4: catering to America is always going to be a smart play,

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Speaker 4: even for the Olympics, because a whole lot of people

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Speaker 4: will watch from this country. If you put it in

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Speaker 4: a spot where they can see it. It's already kind

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Speaker 4: of anytime on a Sunday morning is going to be

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Speaker 4: really difficult. But if you had it in Sunday primetime.

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Speaker 4: If you had it Sunday, even in the afternoon, you

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Speaker 4: could still get some I mean, I even think the

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Speaker 4: WNBAH Championship or whatever did decent numbers on a Sunday afternoon,

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Speaker 4: or or maybe that was the College Championship I'm thinking

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Speaker 4: of actually it was. But either way, like there are,

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Speaker 4: there are good and bad times for TV, Sunday early morning,

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Speaker 4: like prior to sunrise, is arguably the worst possible time

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Speaker 4: that this could be happening. It's just really unfortunate because

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Speaker 4: a lot of people then are just not gonna see it.

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Speaker 4: You're not gonna go watch that thing later unless you're

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Speaker 4: told it's an all time classic, which I mean I

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Speaker 4: suppose that it could be. But if it's just kind

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Speaker 4: of an average game and you know the ending, I mean,

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Speaker 4: what are they gonna There's just nothing there, So it's

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Speaker 4: I don't know that you can fix it, but I

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Speaker 4: do think that if there is any way to have

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Speaker 4: done it, you would hope that the Olympics would do that,

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Speaker 4: although you know they may not want to act like

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Speaker 4: they are catering to this country.

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Speaker 2: Really quick disager, I don't know if you can hop

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Speaker 2: on for half a second. I just want to confirm

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Speaker 2: they it's impossible to move the gold medal hockey game

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Speaker 2: because of the schedule of the closing ceremonies.

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Speaker 7: This is literally the last event of the two weeks

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Speaker 7: of the Winter Olympics, and I think it's already going

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Speaker 7: to be nine to thirty local time for the closing ceremonies.

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Speaker 3: Which are not in Milan.

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Speaker 7: It's two hours away from Milan, and you would think

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Speaker 7: that some hockey players are going to participate with their

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Speaker 7: countries in the stadium. It's closing ceremonies. They are Olympic athletes. Nonetheless,

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Speaker 7: there's no way they can move the opening ceremonies to

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Speaker 7: ten thirty eleven at night to start.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is. I do not care about that. I

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Speaker 4: want to be able to No, I get it. There's

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Speaker 4: no fix. It's just an unfortunate reality of the way

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Speaker 4: this is set up.

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Speaker 3: Seger, be honest, you're gonna be up at five am tomorrow.

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Speaker 7: I think that the DVR is one of the greatest

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Speaker 7: inventions in my lifetime, and I am not joking when

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Speaker 7: I say that. As a sports fans. It is so

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Speaker 7: whenever I wake up is when I'm starting, and I'm

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Speaker 7: not turning on the phone.

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Speaker 2: You know what, I just realized. I'm on with Arnie

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Speaker 2: Spander tomorrow. He's definitely gonna want to talk about this.

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Speaker 2: I better make sure to go home.

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Speaker 4: And he's going to be furious.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he will be. I mean, he's furious about it.

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Speaker 3: Everything in the East. It's fine.

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Speaker 7: It's five am.

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Speaker 4: Five tens Arizona. Might have made him feel a little better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 2: I'm stunned that they got to win, especially with Ournie

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Speaker 2: you know, on air this weekend. But yeah, I guess

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Speaker 2: I'm dvring it to US Canada eight am Eastern, five

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Speaker 2: Pacific Sunday closes the winner Olympics.

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio er toors, Jason Martin.

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Speaker 2: Will come back when we do WNBA bigger spotlight. Is

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Speaker 2: that a good thing? Fox Sports Radio.

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

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Speaker 2: Welcome in everybody, hour two tours of Martin. Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: We are broadcasting live. Yes, we are live midnight eastern

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Speaker 2: nine Pacific here in the Fox Sports Radio studios. About

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Speaker 2: twenty minutes from now. Mark Medina, our NBA insider, will

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Speaker 2: join us. Second half of the NBA season started off

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Speaker 2: with a bang on Saturday night, Nicks come back from

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Speaker 2: an eighty point fourth quarter deficit to beat the Rockets

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Speaker 2: at Madison Square Garden. And it was also a busy

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Speaker 2: day in college hoops. By the way, j mart, I,

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Speaker 2: you know, I know, with with kids, with a family,

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Speaker 2: I think I don't want to speak for you, but

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Speaker 2: I think you kinda this is kind of the time

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Speaker 2: of year that you get into college hoops. Did you

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Speaker 2: get a chance to watch both of the top four matchups?

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Speaker 2: I believe actually, I know latest in the regular season

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Speaker 2: that we have had the top four teams all play

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Speaker 2: each other. Arizona in Houston early, Arizona gets the win

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Speaker 2: at Houston, Duke Michigan in DC late with Duke.

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Speaker 3: Getting the victory. Did you get a chance to watch

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Speaker 3: any of it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I caught most of Arizona Houston had some responsibilities

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Speaker 4: during some of the first half, but I watched most

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Speaker 4: of that game. I saw all of Duke Michigan and

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Speaker 4: caught pieces of some other games during the course of

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Speaker 4: the day. I mean, I've kind of been dabbling over

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Speaker 4: the last two three weeks here and there, but yeah,

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Speaker 4: the responsibilities have kind of certainly gotten in the way

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Speaker 4: of a lot of that. But you know, priorities are priorities,

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Speaker 4: but generally, yeah, I mean, I knew with these two

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Speaker 4: matchups especially, it was just like one, two, three, and

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Speaker 4: four all in action, It's like, you hope the Final

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Speaker 4: four is going to be that good. And then you

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Speaker 4: had what I thought was a really hard fought game

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Speaker 4: where Houston just could not buy a shot in the

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Speaker 4: second half and Arizona just kind of outlasted them, and

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Speaker 4: then Michigan Duke was just kind of a war back

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Speaker 4: and forth, and it had a feeling of, you know,

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Speaker 4: an Elite eight match up, a regional finals something like that.

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Speaker 4: I think that's a site, isn't it? Is that a

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Speaker 4: site for a regional?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So I actually I'll say this so I know that

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Speaker 2: no matter what Duke does, there's always going to be criticism,

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00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 2: and you know, pick apart every I thought it was

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00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 2: pretty cool. John Shire basically said, we scheduled this specific

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Speaker 2: game in this specific venue.

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Speaker 3: The East Regional is.

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Speaker 2: In Washington, DC, and they basically said, hey, we hope

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Speaker 2: to be back here in a month from now playing

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Speaker 2: in a Sweet sixteen and Elite eight, and he basically said,

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Speaker 2: you know, we wanted a good opponent, we wanted well

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Speaker 2: obviously what turned into a very good atmosphere. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, they did the kind of fake mock bracket

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Speaker 2: reveal today, which I always say, it's stupid to do

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Speaker 2: it on a Saturday morning when games are going to

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Speaker 2: be played. But essentially, Duke would have been if the

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Speaker 2: bracket was if the season ended today or technically yesterday,

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Speaker 2: Duke would be the number one seed in the East

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Speaker 2: and the games would go through that site. And that

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Speaker 2: was why they played that game specifically in that building.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I mean it just it had a good

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Speaker 4: feel to it. Again, it felt like a big time matchup,

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Speaker 4: It felt like a happening, and I mean I think

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Speaker 4: it lived up to the building. Yeah, both teams making

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Speaker 4: big shots down the stretch. Duke does end up just

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Speaker 4: doing a little bit more, got one extra rebound when

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Speaker 4: they absolutely had to have it, which forced the foul

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Speaker 4: and they were able to kind of handle it there.

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Speaker 4: But those two teams are both really good and I

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Speaker 4: think we already knew that. So the one thing that

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Speaker 4: we saw today is you still have four teams that

870
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 4: any one of whom are talented enough to win the championship,

871
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 4: and all of them just leaving it all out there

872
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 4: for the fans leaving it all out there. It's just

873
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 4: a great showcase for college basketball. And I think it's

874
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 4: exactly what you want if you are that sport going

875
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 4: into this time of year, is to have kind of

876
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 4: a signature weekend when you don't have a ton of

877
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 4: competition in the sporting landscape to take attention away from you.

878
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 2: One hundred percent, two great games. Arizona gets the victory. Also,

879
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 2: Duke gets the victory. It is worth noting, by the way,

880
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 2: in that mock bracket reveal that came out today, Iowa

881
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 2: State was the fourth number one seed along with Arizona Duke.

882
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 3: In Michigan.

883
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 2: Iowa State trailing right now by ten at BYU. We

884
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 2: will get back to college basketball in a moment. So

885
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 2: I laugh because I just realized something in real time.

886
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 2: So the topic that we have slated for right now

887
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 2: now is that there has been a shakeup in the

888
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 2: sports programming world. And you know, Jay Mart, you and

889
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:09,959
Speaker 2: I aren't in the business of criticizing other networks how

890
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 2: to run their you know, whatever they do. But it

891
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:17,240
Speaker 2: was interesting this week obviously for people who don't follow

892
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 2: sports programming on a day to day basis. The major

893
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 2: League Baseball contract with ESPN expired. That means that ESPN's

894
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 2: Sunday Night Baseball is no longer a thing.

895
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 3: It is worth noting.

896
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:31,760
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's official yet, but I believe

897
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 2: NBC has pretty publicly been like, we want a Sunday.

898
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 3: Night Baseball package.

899
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 2: So basically, NBC will have a Sunday Night NFL game

900
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 2: now NBA once the Olympics finishes, and then they'll have

901
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. But I bring it up and why

902
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 2: we're talking about it. ESPN announced this week that they

903
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 2: have made the decision that Sunday will essentially be dedicated

904
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 2: to women's sports in lieu of Major League Baseball NWSL.

905
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 2: That's the Women's Soccer League will be playing during the day,

906
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 2: and then we will get a Sunday night WNBA game.

907
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 2: And first of all, I didn't even think about this

908
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:11,360
Speaker 2: until we came on air, but I chuckled because I'm like,

909
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 2: I just realized, like we're in a WNBA labor to speed,

910
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 2: they might not even have a season, which I should

911
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 2: have probably thought about before we came out air, but

912
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 2: that was why I laughed. But bigger picture, just your

913
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,280
Speaker 2: thoughts on this decision by ESPN.

914
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,479
Speaker 3: I've got a couple, but I know you do as well.

915
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 4: I just I don't know that you need to be

916
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 4: doubling down on something that I have to think you'd

917
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 4: have to trick yourself into believing it's something that's gonna

918
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 4: have staying power for decades and decades. And I think

919
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 4: the bigger problem with it is doing it now in

920
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 4: the absence of baseball that just came off an all

921
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 4: time created World Series, and it's going to be coming

922
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 4: off the World Baseball Classic. You have both of those

923
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 4: two things going for baseball going into this season, I

924
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 4: think the interest level is gonna be ramped up, and

925
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 4: I think there are a lot of people that are

926
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 4: gonna be interested to root against the Dodgers and you know,

927
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 4: other teams as well, but just generally because of, you know,

928
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 4: the feeling of how they have constructed their roster, fair

929
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 4: or unfair. I don't want to raise the iris Steve

930
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 4: Disager by talking to Look, I'm already wary of it.

931
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to move my earphones away during his

932
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,879
Speaker 4: long segment. He may just come after me, but you're

933
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 4: gonna put on women's basketball when when baseball feels red hot,

934
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:43,879
Speaker 4: to me right now, like they keep on doubling down

935
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:47,359
Speaker 4: on stop trying to make fetch a thing. Guys, we

936
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 4: we again can have the conversation. I think we've even

937
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 4: done it in the last couple of weeks. Caitlin Clark

938
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 4: may never play again. She may never she didn't have

939
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,320
Speaker 4: to play again. She's gonna be just fine. NBC is

940
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 4: already putting her on coverage for the NBA on Sunday nights,

941
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 4: like she's gonna be able to do other stuff or

942
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 4: she can play in other leagues or whatever else, like

943
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 4: unrival what's happening on TV like a week ago. So

944
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 4: you're gonna bet on the WNBA and God bless them

945
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:17,919
Speaker 4: women's soccer on your Sundays, And we're not talking about

946
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 4: Sunday mornings when you're having the gold medal hockey game

947
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 4: in the Winter Olympics, because you can't do anything else

948
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,240
Speaker 4: Sunday afternoon, Sunday evening or pronton real estate for sports,

949
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,879
Speaker 4: and you're not gonna put on baseball coming off that

950
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:36,720
Speaker 4: World Series and the World Baseball Classic. That's a bold strategy, Cotton.

951
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 4: We'll see how it works out for them.

952
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 2: Well, So that's kind of where I Land is a

953
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:45,359
Speaker 2: couple of things. Is one, Now, because NBC did take

954
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 2: that Sunday Night Baseball package, you're gonna be going head

955
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 2: to head with baseball.

956
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 3: That's the other part.

957
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 4: It's not a good point, that's exactly right.

958
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not just like, oh, you know, we just

959
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 2: felt like baseball was overvalued. And for people who don't

960
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 2: remember all the details, it was pretty well reported that

961
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:06,800
Speaker 2: Rob Manfritz basically did not feel like baseball was getting

962
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,280
Speaker 2: its due coverage on the network.

963
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,439
Speaker 3: Hey why do we give you this prime real estate?

964
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:11,399
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah blah.

965
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 2: And then they obviously, you know, they felt like financially

966
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 2: it didn't make sense ESPN for them to keep going.

967
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 2: And so that's part of it too, is that you

968
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 2: are now going to be going head to head against

969
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 2: major League Baseball. And to your point, because that was

970
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 2: one of the first things that I thought of, was

971
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 2: there was probably a time to get out of the

972
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 2: major League baseball business.

973
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 3: I don't know that it's right now.

974
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 4: I don't either.

975
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's you know, with the way the sport is

976
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 2: trending up, you know, and it's not just the Dodgers,

977
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 2: but it's all the ancillary stories around him, the Blue

978
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 2: Jays coming off that incredible run to Game seven of

979
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 2: the World Series, the Mariners were awesome last year, the

980
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 2: Yankees with Aaron Judge. I saw he hit two home

981
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 2: runs today at spring training. So baseball is kind of

982
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 2: having a moment. But then I will also say, there's

983
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 2: the WNBA part of it as well, and listen, I

984
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 2: I hate to keep beating a dead horse on the

985
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 2: topic that in the conversation that we have had. I

986
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 2: know that in Kitlyn Clark's first year in the WNBA,

987
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 2: you could argue that kind of a rising tide raised

988
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 2: all boats, but she was eliminated from the playoffs early.

989
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 2: The ratings reflected that a lot of people did not

990
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 2: care about the sport once she was not part of it.

991
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 2: And then it was very similar last year. She was

992
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 2: in and out of the lineup, she didn't play for

993
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,839
Speaker 2: the back half of the year. The sport as a

994
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:34,959
Speaker 2: whole just felt like it wasn't covered and talked about

995
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 2: as much.

996
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 4: And so.

997
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,760
Speaker 2: It feels like you're putting a lot of eggs into

998
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 2: the assumption that again, not only does she play, but

999
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 2: she plays it. Here's the other part too, And I

1000
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 2: remember I was talking about it. She wasn't playing that

1001
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 2: well when she got hurt. No, so there's a lot

1002
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 2: of variable. So you're betting on women's basketball in general,

1003
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 2: you're betting on Caitlyn Clark ascending, You're betting on Caitlin

1004
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 2: Clark being a rising tide that lifts all boats. It's

1005
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,240
Speaker 2: just a lot of bets, especially at a time that, again,

1006
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:11,800
Speaker 2: baseball is red hot, and again you will be going

1007
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 2: head to head with baseball because it will be on

1008
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 2: ESPN on Sundays going forth.

1009
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the head to head things is someone I

1010
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:19,839
Speaker 4: hadn't even really even thought about. I was just thinking

1011
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 4: of the absence of baseball. But it's not the absence.

1012
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 4: It's gonna be elsewhere. It's not like the games are

1013
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 4: not gonna be played. They're just gonna be on somebody

1014
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,279
Speaker 4: else's network or streaming service. And so the choice is

1015
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 4: gonna have to be made. And I mean, ESPN's gonna

1016
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 4: lose that battle. They just I don't think that I

1017
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,319
Speaker 4: am speaking out a turn and I don't even think

1018
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 4: I'm saying anything particularly profound. They're gonna lose that battle.

1019
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 4: Outside of a very very niche audience, you can continue

1020
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 4: to write all the articles you want to point to

1021
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 4: this attendance and that attendance and this rating and that

1022
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:59,879
Speaker 4: rating to say that everything's on the upswing and that's

1023
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 4: why we're going to expand this league and all this.

1024
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 4: First off, you can't expand a league that doesn't play basketball,

1025
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 4: which is currently the state of things. And like ESPN

1026
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 4: is so like deep in the NBA deal here, and

1027
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 4: like how much airtime they give it, how much time

1028
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,760
Speaker 4: they talk about it on all of the shows, especially

1029
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 4: all the debate shows with the high paid stars, like

1030
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 4: they're very, very deep in there, and it's almost like,

1031
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 4: is the NBA forcing you to make this move? Like

1032
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 4: I'm not saying they are, by the way, I'm just

1033
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 4: something has to explain this, And I don't think from

1034
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 4: a business perspective it makes particular sense. And so why

1035
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 4: why are you doing this? Because I just don't see

1036
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 4: the universe where you look back on this in five

1037
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 4: years and be like, boy, did they bet on the

1038
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 4: right horse? I just don't see it, Aaron. I could

1039
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:52,879
Speaker 4: be wrong, and I'm not rooting one way or the other.

1040
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 4: I just I fail to see the logic in this

1041
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:02,240
Speaker 4: as a smart business decision in an incredibly competitive time

1042
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 4: for live sports.

1043
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I hadn't even thought of this too. I mean,

1044
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 2: so the w NBA season starts in what May April?

1045
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,320
Speaker 4: It starts right, sure, whatever you say.

1046
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:16,720
Speaker 2: Well, it starts right after the college women's basketball season,

1047
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 2: so WNBA, let me.

1048
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 4: See, it's like right after I thought it started right

1049
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 4: after the NBA season, But I guess I'm wrong on that.

1050
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it starts to always remember that we

1051
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 2: got next okay, so it's it's it starts right after

1052
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 2: the Remember they have the women's college season, then they

1053
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 2: have the draft, and then it starts in May. So

1054
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 2: right now it is scheduled. By the way, it's the

1055
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 2: league's thirtieth anniversary this year, so we'll see if a

1056
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 2: season gets played. But fantastic schedule for Friday, May eighth.

1057
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 2: The other thing I was just thinking about, and maybe

1058
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,720
Speaker 2: by then it won't be as big of an issue,

1059
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 2: but there's gonna be some Sundays where you're going head

1060
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 2: to head with the actual NBA as well that time

1061
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 2: of year. Last time I checked, they still have NBA

1062
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 2: Finals games on Sunday and things of that nature. So

1063
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 2: I guess, you know, I don't know if there was

1064
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 2: another real alternative because you don't have baseball. There's not

1065
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,839
Speaker 2: that much else that's live at that time of year.

1066
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, I don't know if you have anything

1067
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 2: else to add, Jmark, But you know, I just I

1068
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 2: look at it, and I say, for a lot of

1069
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 2: different reasons, I can see a very likely scenario where

1070
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 2: it does not work out the way that it's intended.

1071
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 4: The only other thing you can look at and look,

1072
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 4: I haven't seen the specifics. In terms of money, I

1073
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 4: could probably find it. But perhaps this is more of

1074
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,279
Speaker 4: a hey, we understand this is not as big a deal,

1075
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:39,400
Speaker 4: but it's also gonna save us some money in the

1076
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 4: short term because what we have to pay to do

1077
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 4: this is going to be so much less than it

1078
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 4: would be to compete to try and hold on to

1079
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 4: Sunday Night Baseball. And maybe that's the thought. It's more

1080
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 4: of a cost cutting measure than it is we actually

1081
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 4: think we're gonna win in the ratings or win in

1082
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 4: the numbers or ad revenues because of this. I don't know,

1083
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 4: And maybe that doesn't even ma. I'm trying to help

1084
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Speaker 4: them out, like I'm trying to throw them a bone

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Speaker 4: and understand this, but it just again and I think

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00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:08,760
Speaker 4: your point was right. There was a time, a handful

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00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 4: of years ago where this would have made more sense

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Speaker 4: to have gone in another direction. I'm not saying this

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Speaker 4: one specifically, but another direction apart from baseball. But baseball

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00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 4: is not dead right now, far from it. As a

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Speaker 4: matter of fact, there are some worldwide, global stars that

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Speaker 4: everybody will show up to see. The big market teams

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Speaker 4: are relevant, like most of them across the board right now,

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Speaker 4: there's interest just everywhere for baseball. It just seems like

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Speaker 4: this is where you want to get on that train,

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Speaker 4: not get off it.

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Speaker 3: We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 2: That was officially announced this week ESPN using its Sundays

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Speaker 2: to highlight women's sports w NWSL. Excuse me, the National

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00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 2: Women's Soccer League will be in the afternoons WNBA at night.

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00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio aware towards Jason Martin. We are broadcasting

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00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 2: live from the Fix Sports Radio studios. Will come back

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00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:03,439
Speaker 2: when we do.

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Speaker 3: Our buddy Mark Medina will join us.

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00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 2: Cannot wait to hear what Mark has to say about

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00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 2: the state of the NBA heading into the back half.

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Speaker 2: Mark Madina next. Fox Sports Radio, Welcome back, everybody. Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio Er Toards Jason Martin broadcasting from the Fox

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00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,919
Speaker 2: Sports Radio studios. For the best pregame show, be sure

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00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:26,120
Speaker 2: to tune into Fox Sports Radios Countdown to kick Off

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00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 2: the best plays and up to the second injury news.

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00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:36,319
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Speaker 2: right here on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

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00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 2: In just a few minutes, NBA insider Mark Medina will

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00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 2: join us. Before we get to Medina, though, let's get

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00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 2: it over to the news desk. Steve de Sager, What

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00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 2: is trending here at twelve to twenty five Eastern time?

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00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 7: Well, we'll have NBA to get to. But as you

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00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:59,959
Speaker 7: talked about WNBA again, for those who are aware, they're

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00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,959
Speaker 7: regular season start day is May eighth, but they don't

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00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 7: have a new collective bargaining agreement, so we don't know

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00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 7: if the WNBA season is starting. What I did not

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00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 7: realize is WNBA teams all these years have been required

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Speaker 7: to provide housing for their players since the very first

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Speaker 7: CBA was ratified. So in nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 2: Nine I saw this and they're gonna phase it out. Correct,

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Speaker 2: But what does that mean? That's the league proposal, at

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Speaker 2: least they haven't agreed to it. So this league place

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Speaker 2: pays for apartments or what would I don't yeah, what

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00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 2: one bedroom or a stipend for it.

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Speaker 7: And their current proposal is if you're some rookie, then

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Speaker 7: it's a studio apartment. But providing housing for what was

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Speaker 7: just a summer league was a little amazing.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't age.

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Speaker 2: Remember Adriel Reese, I got to pay eight thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: a month from my apartment.

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Speaker 3: What is that about?

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Speaker 4: What was doing?

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Speaker 3: And that was the thing she said, By the way,

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Speaker 3: I'm not making that up. That was a thing she

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Speaker 3: said at some point.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, by the way, very few people in real life

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Speaker 7: pay eight thousand dollars I'm on the for an apartment.

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Speaker 7: Can we just like athletes in general? Can we just

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Speaker 7: bring them into the real world?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, it doesn't happen.

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Speaker 7: As far as collective bargaining agreements, you were talking about

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Speaker 7: the current success of baseball, and there's no denying that

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00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 7: this could be the last year of spring training for

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Speaker 7: a while. Because this is the last year of the

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Speaker 7: current MLB collective bargaining agreement. It expires in December. No

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Speaker 7: guarantee that spring training is going to start on time.

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Speaker 7: And how close will baseball be getting toward a salarycap

1156
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Speaker 7: a year from now? That has really got to be

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Speaker 7: hammered out. And as we've seen, these two sides are

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Speaker 7: not exactly friends. Onto the NBA. Today in Phoenix, in

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Speaker 7: double overtime, the Suns beat Orlando one thirteen to one

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Speaker 7: ten on a three pointer at the buzzer by Jalen Green,

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Speaker 7: who had been five of twenty five shooting from the floor.

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Speaker 7: ESPN points out this is not any the Green's the

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Speaker 7: first player in a decade with a three point game

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Speaker 7: winning buzzer beater in double overtime or later, since Darren

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Speaker 7: Williams in twenty sixteen, So congrats on that. Dylan Brooks

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Speaker 7: of Phoenix reportedly broke his left hand in this game,

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Speaker 7: and Devin Booker of the Suns did not play. He's

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Speaker 7: out at least a week with a strained hip. As

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Speaker 7: for the late game at New York, the Knicks were

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Speaker 7: down to Houston by eighteen early in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 7: and still beat the Rockets one o eight to one

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Speaker 7: oh six. Kevin Durant by the way thirty points in defeat.

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Speaker 7: How many thirty point games does he have in his

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Speaker 7: NBA career? The answer is four hundred and thirty of him.

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Speaker 7: That's top ten all time, and he passed Kareem into

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Speaker 7: the number six slot. Now Lebron James has the most

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Speaker 7: thirty point games five hundred and seventy five, as it

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Speaker 7: turns out, ahead of Michael Jordan, who had a short

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Speaker 7: career and also in the top five, Wilt Malone and

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Speaker 7: Kobe and then Kevin Durant sixth on the list. Miami

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Speaker 7: and New Orleans each one at home. San Antonio did

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Speaker 7: as well. This was a home game in Austin, Texas.

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00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 7: The Spurs won their eighth straight, beating Sacramento one thirty nine,

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Speaker 7: one twenty two victor wimen Yama twenty eight points, fifteen rebounds.

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Speaker 7: The Kings have lost sixteen in a row. Detroit sent

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Speaker 7: Chicago to an eighth straight loss, one twenty six to one.

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Speaker 7: Ten Pistons have won five straight. In the late feature

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Speaker 7: matchup in men's college basketball at number twenty three BYU Cougars,

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Speaker 7: still leading number six ranked Iowa State sixty three fifty

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Speaker 7: four under five minutes to go. Number four Arizona won

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Speaker 7: at number two Houston seventy three sixty six in Washington,

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Speaker 7: d C. It was third ranked Duke over number one

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Speaker 7: Michigan sixty eight sixty three Cincinnati one at Kansas, Tennis

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Speaker 7: C one at Vanderbilt, and UCLA upset number ten Illinois

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Speaker 7: in overtime ninety five ninety four on a layup at

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Speaker 7: the buzzer. And it's just finished on FS one with

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Speaker 7: a win for the home team, with the Nevada beating

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Speaker 7: Utah State eighty to seventy seven. Utah State had been

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Speaker 7: thirteen and two in the Mountain West. Santa Clara now

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Speaker 7: fourteen and two in the West Coast Conference with an

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Speaker 7: easy win at San Francisco. At the Winter Olympics, We've

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Speaker 7: got the US men's hockey team against Canada Sunday morning

1203
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 7: early for some of US the Olympic Final. The Dallas

1204
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Speaker 7: Cowboys gave running back Javonte Williams a three year extension

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01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 7: worth at least sixteen million dollars. You rushed for twelve

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Speaker 7: hundred yards last year. Major League Soccer season openers were

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Speaker 7: tonight for most teams. LAFC was hosting Lionel Messi and

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Speaker 7: Miami so instead of having it in the regular stadium

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Speaker 7: there near usc they put it next door at the

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Speaker 7: La Coliseum. Tonight, LAFC wins three nothing and attendance was

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Speaker 7: over seventy five thousand at the Coliseum, one of the

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Speaker 7: largest crowds MLS has ever had. Reminder Nascars at Atlanta

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Speaker 7: on Sunday on Fox TV again Daytona Winter. Tyler Reddick

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Speaker 7: starts from the poll after qualifying was rained out. No

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Speaker 7: rain in the forecast there in Georgia Sunday, but temperature

1216
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 7: will be in the forties.

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

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio, Fox Sports and to Sunday depending on where

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Speaker 2: you are.

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Speaker 3: Aeron Tors Jason Martin.

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Speaker 2: We are broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 3: This is what we want to do.

1223
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Speaker 2: We want to get right out to the phone lines.

1224
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Speaker 2: Our Fox Sports Radio NBA insider Mark Medina can follow

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Speaker 2: him on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina. He is

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Speaker 2: covering the league and we welcome in. Welcome him in now,

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Speaker 2: Mark Medina.

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Speaker 8: How you doing, my man, Aaron, Jason, I'm doing always well.

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Speaker 8: When we get to connect and talk some hoops here, well, we.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate you joining us. Let's start with a positive.

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Speaker 2: You and I spoke on Monday, but I know you

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Speaker 2: were at All Star weekend last weekend, and yeah, maybe

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01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:43,439
Speaker 2: Saturday wasn't quite you know, it wasn't exactly nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 3: Let's put it that way.

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Speaker 2: Larry Burnabichael Jordan weren't walking through that door, which with

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Speaker 2: a respect to Keisha Johnson, but I felt like Sunday worked.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't perfect. It's you know, j Mart talking to

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Speaker 2: him earlier feels like the same. What was your takeaway

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01:02:59,880 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 2: for put aside Saturday All Star Sunday? What was your

1240
01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 2: takeaway being in the building.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Larin, to be clear, All Stars Saturday, just to

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01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 8: put this on context, was the worst sporting event I've

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01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 8: ever been whow in life. But that set up this

1244
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 8: huge rebound that it's not the best All Star game

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Speaker 8: I ever attended. I loved in twenty eleven when Kobe

1246
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:22,080
Speaker 8: Bryant got his fourth MVP, you know, trying to show

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01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 8: the young guys, hey he's still the guy. You know,

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Speaker 8: It's cool seeing all those different Warrior players team up

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01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:33,120
Speaker 8: with different players. Kobe's last All Star game. But I

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Speaker 8: still think it worked because you at least saw the

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01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:39,440
Speaker 8: competitive juices, you saw players given you know what, So

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01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 8: format change or not. I think at the bottom line

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01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 8: is it only works if the players embrace it. And

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Speaker 8: it helped that victor one. But Yama really really cared

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01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 8: about sending a message that you know, the international stage

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Speaker 8: is here, but everyone else followed suit, whether they're an

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Speaker 8: American star, international star, but that's all that matters. Format west,

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01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:04,000
Speaker 8: this US versus the world, or this you know, the

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Speaker 8: draft that they've done and every so often, or the

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Speaker 8: target score. None of these formats are going to work

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Speaker 8: if the players don't actually care.

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Speaker 4: So was you can do it from a piece of

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01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:17,560
Speaker 4: the pie standpoint or whatever. We talked about women Yanna

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Speaker 4: and the fact that he's a star and cared. I

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01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:22,919
Speaker 4: think that got other guys to say, well, we can't

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Speaker 4: be shown up like this. I don't know if it

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Speaker 4: was more him saying it because of who he is,

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Speaker 4: because I don't know how much of it was because

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Speaker 4: of the international side of it. And I actually think

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Speaker 4: that the idea that the All Star Game at one point,

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Speaker 4: like you'd see some competition a lot in the last

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Speaker 4: ten minutes of a four period game or a four

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Speaker 4: quarter game, whereas here, all you have is twelve minute spurts,

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Speaker 4: so the guys really can't take the time off like

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Speaker 4: you have to. The competitive juice is you don't have

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Speaker 4: enough time to sit back and do nothing for three quarters.

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Speaker 4: So what part of it do you think was the

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Speaker 4: most important to it feeling like a better event overall?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think the most important important part of it

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01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 8: is that Victor wen Binyama set the tone. It wasn't

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01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:11,200
Speaker 8: just his words ahead of time, it was his actions. Literally,

1282
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:14,280
Speaker 8: the first play of the game, he throws down a dunk.

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Speaker 8: Next play of the game he knocks down to three.

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Speaker 8: He's bringing it. And I think you bring up a

1285
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:23,800
Speaker 8: really good point that you know, in past years you

1286
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 8: can build yourself a rhythm. Even in the so called

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01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:30,680
Speaker 8: better days when these games were more competitive, that didn't

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01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:33,080
Speaker 8: really happen till the fourth quarter. You know, the rest

1289
01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 8: of the quarters was just about throwing lobs and having fun.

1290
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:40,280
Speaker 8: But I think here, even with the two shorter spurts.

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01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 8: On one hand, yes, it does make it more challenging

1292
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 8: for a player to build rhythm. I think it forces

1293
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 8: guys to play with more urgency almost. I mean, it's

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01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:55,440
Speaker 8: not overtime overtimes five minutes, but there is kind of

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Speaker 8: a compressed time they have to show, you know what

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Speaker 8: be entertaining, competitive or combination of both, don't go through

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Speaker 8: the motions. And so I think through that aspect it

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01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 8: only helped. But again it starts with the players caring.

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Speaker 8: I think it especially starts with if there is a

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01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:17,000
Speaker 8: star player that shows they're engaged, if it's you know,

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01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:20,080
Speaker 8: guys saying out or you know them going through the motions,

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01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:22,720
Speaker 8: all the other you know, first time all stars will

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01:06:22,720 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 8: probably follow suit.

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Speaker 2: Mark Madina, R Fox Sports Radio NBA Insider is joining us.

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01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 2: Always a pleasure to speak with Mark. Mark a little

1306
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 2: bit off the grid. But I'll ask you so the

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01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:40,040
Speaker 2: Darren Peterson conversation from a more of a college perspective

1308
01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:44,360
Speaker 2: has been a talking point. He's either got some undiagnosed

1309
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 2: injury or he's basically load managing in college, not trying

1310
01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:49,960
Speaker 2: to put you on the spot. Has that trickled up

1311
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:52,480
Speaker 2: to the NBA yet? As far as what should be

1312
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 2: an awesome draft, aj De Bonds is playing right now

1313
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 2: late at BYU, there's some other good players or is

1314
01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 2: that still something that's months away from I'm really kind

1315
01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:03,040
Speaker 2: of being discussed in depth in your.

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Speaker 8: World, They're going to be clear, not putting them on

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01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:08,280
Speaker 8: the spot. I'm here to answer basketball questions, right and

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01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:11,360
Speaker 8: people the things that fans want to know. I think

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01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:13,920
Speaker 8: it's a two parter here, as you probably know better

1320
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 8: than anyone else, teams put together information about all these

1321
01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:22,480
Speaker 8: prospects well in advance. So yeah, they've been data collecting

1322
01:07:22,520 --> 01:07:26,000
Speaker 8: on this injury, and what it means is he's just

1323
01:07:26,040 --> 01:07:29,960
Speaker 8: trying to, you know, be calculated. For the NBA drafters,

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01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:33,320
Speaker 8: this something that's a durability issue. But they get more

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01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:36,440
Speaker 8: and more clarity as the market, you know, as the

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01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 8: March Madness tournament starts, as the off season workouts start,

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01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:44,400
Speaker 8: and so I think spaining it forward, uh, this is

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01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 8: going to be an issue if it's clear that this

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01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:51,160
Speaker 8: is a red sign or red flag about durability issues.

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01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:54,000
Speaker 8: You know that that him being calculated and trying to

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01:07:54,040 --> 01:07:57,440
Speaker 8: position himself in the draft. You know, I think teams

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01:07:57,560 --> 01:08:00,480
Speaker 8: roll their eyes at that, but they're almost used to

1333
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:04,760
Speaker 8: that because of you know, you look at examples of

1334
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:09,200
Speaker 8: how players and their agents organize workouts, etc. I think

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01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 8: the bigger thing is if teams get any sense that

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01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:15,560
Speaker 8: this is a real cause for concern of his body

1337
01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:18,599
Speaker 8: holding up, because on one hand, you can dismiss it, Ah,

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01:08:18,640 --> 01:08:21,920
Speaker 8: he's young, like he's not injury prone. But I think

1339
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:25,200
Speaker 8: the first few years in the league, guys mostly do

1340
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:27,599
Speaker 8: go through a write a passage of you know, hitting

1341
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:31,160
Speaker 8: that proverbial rookie wall and trying to get used to

1342
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 8: more games, fewer you know, nights in between games, all

1343
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:39,280
Speaker 8: that stuff, And if you're showing that kind of lack

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01:08:39,320 --> 01:08:42,920
Speaker 8: of availability in a college season, I think teams could

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01:08:42,920 --> 01:08:46,960
Speaker 8: be hesitant to draft them. But again it is too early,

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01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:48,679
Speaker 8: but they are definitely to keeping notes.

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01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:52,719
Speaker 4: On them, so Mark. Another thing that's certainly a topic

1348
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:56,760
Speaker 4: of conversation right now is tanking, and we're going to

1349
01:08:56,840 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 4: talk about it a little bit later on in the

1350
01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 4: show just amongst ourselves, but with you now Adam Silver

1351
01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:06,240
Speaker 4: saying there's going to be penalties for teams trying to

1352
01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:08,240
Speaker 4: tank next year, there's going to be tanking rules and

1353
01:09:08,280 --> 01:09:11,640
Speaker 4: all this kind of stuff. How how exactly do you

1354
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:15,200
Speaker 4: legislate such a thing, and what kind of penalties are

1355
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:17,800
Speaker 4: we even talking about here specifically? Do you think this

1356
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 4: is actually going to matter or is this more just Hey,

1357
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 4: we're doing all we can so that the optics look

1358
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:26,960
Speaker 4: better for the league. Even though teams are going to

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01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 4: do what teams are going to do.

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Speaker 8: How they legislate it. They talk with the Competition Committee

1361
01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 8: that you have to have a super majority, so twenty

1362
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 8: three out of thirty owners have to sign off on it.

1363
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:44,840
Speaker 8: So that's how it's legislated. Now to the broader point

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01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:47,719
Speaker 8: that you're making, is this a real rifle, a real

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01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:51,439
Speaker 8: legitimate concern or is this kind of overreacting. I think

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01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:54,880
Speaker 8: it's a mix of both. And that's where the challenging

1367
01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:58,080
Speaker 8: part here is the NBA has tried to address tanking

1368
01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:01,160
Speaker 8: almost since its infancy. You know, it used to start

1369
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:05,519
Speaker 8: with the coin flip, and then when they started sensing

1370
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:08,759
Speaker 8: that teams were tanking, they decided to do the lottery

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01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:12,160
Speaker 8: in eighty five because the idea was just because you're

1372
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:14,720
Speaker 8: you have a bad record doesn't guarantee that you're going

1373
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:16,839
Speaker 8: to get a topic. It just means that the odds

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01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:19,640
Speaker 8: are better in your favor. Now they've been tweaking the

1375
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:22,840
Speaker 8: lottery as far as the odds and how proportional it is.

1376
01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:27,280
Speaker 8: But what Spain is forward, what other things that they

1377
01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:30,799
Speaker 8: might do. You know, Adam Silver made it clear last

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01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:33,479
Speaker 8: week at his press commerce they might dop draft picks.

1379
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:37,960
Speaker 8: I think, you know, there's been proposals floated about, you know,

1380
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 8: not allowing repeat teams that you know, get a draft

1381
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:46,160
Speaker 8: pick to be eligible to keep it. But there's also

1382
01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:48,639
Speaker 8: kind of thing that's being thrown against the wall here,

1383
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 8: Like there was proposals about if you were in the

1384
01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:55,960
Speaker 8: playoffs the previous year and now you're a poor record,

1385
01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:58,640
Speaker 8: you're disqualified, And that doesn't make any sense because you

1386
01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:02,400
Speaker 8: look at the Indiana Pacers season that falls under that category.

1387
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:04,519
Speaker 8: But it has to do to do with the fact

1388
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 8: that Tyres Albert had a season ending injury with his achilles.

1389
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:11,760
Speaker 8: So I think everything's fluid, everything's on the table, But

1390
01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:14,519
Speaker 8: I do want to leave you with a few things here.

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01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:18,320
Speaker 8: I've been told that among all the meetings, they've never

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01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:22,040
Speaker 8: discussed eliminating the draft. That's not to say that they won't,

1393
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:25,160
Speaker 8: but they haven't talked about I know the Athletic also

1394
01:11:25,200 --> 01:11:28,960
Speaker 8: report of that. Another item I've been told Tracy McGrady

1395
01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:31,920
Speaker 8: is one of many players that proposed the idea of

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01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:35,599
Speaker 8: having almost another tournament before the end of the season

1397
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 8: for the lottery teams to have to compete for their

1398
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:42,720
Speaker 8: draft pick. The NBA has discussed this idea a lot

1399
01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:46,440
Speaker 8: of times, but it's never gained traction because a skepticism

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01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:49,479
Speaker 8: that players would buy into it, because why would players

1401
01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:53,160
Speaker 8: have any incentive to play and win these tournament games

1402
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 8: just to get theoretically could steal their spot.

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01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:59,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's what I hadn't heard.

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01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:02,080
Speaker 2: And no disrespect to Tracy McGrady, and maybe there's a

1405
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:05,640
Speaker 2: logical explanation, but that it's exactly what you both just

1406
01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:08,599
Speaker 2: said at the same time. Yeah, hey, let's play really

1407
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:10,760
Speaker 2: hard so you can go get a better player than me.

1408
01:12:10,840 --> 01:12:13,120
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, it's like Major League the movie

1409
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 2: come to life.

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01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:14,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a.

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01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:18,040
Speaker 2: Mark last question. We'll let you go. Mark madeIn r

1412
01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:21,840
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio NBA Insider. This is random and I'm

1413
01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:24,400
Speaker 2: throwing it at you. I know you'd never apologize for

1414
01:12:24,439 --> 01:12:26,120
Speaker 2: asking great questions, and this will be a great one,

1415
01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:30,080
Speaker 2: I promise. But give us one storyline. We know the

1416
01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:32,840
Speaker 2: main ones. We know who's at the top, and who's this,

1417
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:35,759
Speaker 2: and who's that. Give us one storyline that maybe people

1418
01:12:35,840 --> 01:12:39,000
Speaker 2: aren't talking enough about. As we go into the second

1419
01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:40,800
Speaker 2: half of the season. We got about a minute left.

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01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:43,960
Speaker 8: Wow, that is a tough question because it seems like

1421
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:46,519
Speaker 8: there's so many storylines that we've all talked about, so

1422
01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:49,760
Speaker 8: I've got to be really selective. How about the Toronto Raptors,

1423
01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:53,920
Speaker 8: right like, they're a playoff caliber team. Brandon Ingram's to

1424
01:12:53,960 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 8: come an All Star? Now is andrew replacement Scottie Barnes

1425
01:12:57,080 --> 01:12:58,880
Speaker 8: All Star? I thought this team was going to be

1426
01:12:58,880 --> 01:13:01,320
Speaker 8: in the lottery this season. You know, they you know,

1427
01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:05,479
Speaker 8: gradually each season torn apart, you know, the championship team

1428
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:09,439
Speaker 8: from twenty nineteen, just to rebuild, luxury taxes, etc. Miss

1429
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:11,439
Speaker 8: I your Sherry's out of the front office. I thought

1430
01:13:11,439 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 8: this would be a transition year. But no, they're in

1431
01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:16,040
Speaker 8: the thick of the East. I don't think they're a contender,

1432
01:13:16,120 --> 01:13:19,120
Speaker 8: but yeah, they're in the playoffs without the plan and

1433
01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:22,080
Speaker 8: they have a good young core that can continue to build,

1434
01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:23,280
Speaker 8: as well as some good veterans.

1435
01:13:23,520 --> 01:13:28,040
Speaker 2: Toronto Raptors currently in fifth place, slated to play James

1436
01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:32,840
Speaker 2: Hardin's Cleveland Cavaliers in Round one. So all right, Mark Medina, Man,

1437
01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 2: this was such a pleasure. You know, we'll be calling

1438
01:13:35,439 --> 01:13:36,920
Speaker 2: on you a lot as we get down the home

1439
01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:39,920
Speaker 2: stretch here in the NBA season. Again, our Fox Sports

1440
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:45,040
Speaker 2: Radio NBA insider Mark g underscore Medina on Twitter. So

1441
01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:47,599
Speaker 2: grateful for your time, Mark, and we will do it again,

1442
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 2: summer Man, Aaron.

1443
01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:51,200
Speaker 8: Jason, appreciate you and looking forward to reconnecting.

1444
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:52,759
Speaker 3: That was Mark Medina.

1445
01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 2: Make sure you're following him on social media again, Mark

1446
01:13:55,320 --> 01:13:56,799
Speaker 2: g underscore Medina.

1447
01:13:56,800 --> 01:13:57,559
Speaker 3: We'll come back.

1448
01:13:57,640 --> 01:14:01,479
Speaker 4: What are you thinking, man, Yeah, that was I didn't

1449
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:04,479
Speaker 4: know that, but yeah, that I'll be laughing during the break.

1450
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:07,639
Speaker 2: No, it's uh, there's some every once in a while

1451
01:14:07,680 --> 01:14:11,040
Speaker 2: that it's almost like the Big Tens twenty four team

1452
01:14:11,120 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 2: college football playoff bracket where it's like you have play

1453
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:16,640
Speaker 2: ins to the play in to the play in, but

1454
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:19,840
Speaker 2: then there's also auto bit and it's like, I am

1455
01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:22,680
Speaker 2: a big proponent of if you can't explain it in

1456
01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:27,839
Speaker 2: one sentence, we're too dumb to figure it out. So anyway,

1457
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:31,240
Speaker 2: that's my problem with the NBA. Uh you know, cup

1458
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:33,280
Speaker 2: if you will, And that's my problem with a lot

1459
01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:34,120
Speaker 2: of things in sports.

1460
01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 3: But yeah, that one right away all three of.

1461
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:39,240
Speaker 2: Us jumped in on like that doesn't really pass the

1462
01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:41,400
Speaker 2: smell test to me, So you know it does pass

1463
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:43,719
Speaker 2: the smell test. Steve Disager, he always has the best

1464
01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:47,080
Speaker 2: news and notes at the top at the bottom of

1465
01:14:47,200 --> 01:14:49,600
Speaker 2: every second hour of our show. Steve Disager with his

1466
01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 2: extended update next Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: I just hope you know the W and B. I

1468
01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:55,800
Speaker 4: don't pay my bills at all.

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01:14:56,200 --> 01:15:00,360
Speaker 3: I don't even think that pays one of my bills. Literally,

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01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think.

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01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:03,680
Speaker 7: I like my work for West Day, I'm gonna do

1472
01:15:03,720 --> 01:15:04,280
Speaker 7: the math for quick.

1473
01:15:05,120 --> 01:15:12,479
Speaker 5: It is more than that, I'm living beyond my means.

1474
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:13,799
Speaker 3: Like y'all think.

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01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:20,599
Speaker 2: That was the Agel Reese reference that I that was from.

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01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:24,559
Speaker 2: I guess I see the video from October of last year.

1477
01:15:25,200 --> 01:15:29,120
Speaker 2: She was on some podcasts and she said, you know.

1478
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:32,440
Speaker 7: Kind of living beyond her means that AK for her apartment.

1479
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 2: You know, you know, I guess everybody else is getting

1480
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 2: housing in the WNBA. She's paying AK a month.

1481
01:15:37,479 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 7: But I know college athletes more and more, they don't

1482
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:43,559
Speaker 7: graduate from college. It's just a pr position at this

1483
01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:46,160
Speaker 7: point for a lot of the stars. But there is

1484
01:15:46,200 --> 01:15:51,479
Speaker 7: something to financial literacy and actually learning real world practical things,

1485
01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:54,559
Speaker 7: not just getting along with people, but actually things that

1486
01:15:54,600 --> 01:15:56,960
Speaker 7: will help you in your life, like financials.

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01:15:57,080 --> 01:15:59,559
Speaker 2: I will give her credit. She acknowledged I'm living beyond

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01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:00,400
Speaker 2: my means and.

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01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:03,519
Speaker 7: Then laughed it off and continued to live the same way.

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01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:07,040
Speaker 7: Can we just say that the superstar of BYU and

1491
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:11,280
Speaker 7: college hoops, AJ Debonca, who's averaging twenty five points per game,

1492
01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:15,080
Speaker 7: just played all forty minutes and twenty third rank BYU

1493
01:16:15,160 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 7: has beaten number six Iowa States seventy nine sixty nine.

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01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:24,200
Speaker 7: Debonce had twenty nine points, ten rebounds, nine assists, just

1495
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:25,200
Speaker 7: two turnovers.

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01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 3: Wows.

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01:16:26,960 --> 01:16:29,840
Speaker 4: But it took him all forty minutes to do that.

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01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:34,599
Speaker 7: Wonder what he's paying for his apartment. You mentioned the

1499
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:37,559
Speaker 7: NBA All Star Game was last weekend, and you would

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01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:40,200
Speaker 7: also talked about NBC and they're trying to with the

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01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:45,840
Speaker 7: sports they have acquired, have Sunday night athletics essentially year round.

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01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:50,800
Speaker 7: They did not put the NBA in primetime last weekend, understandably,

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01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:53,080
Speaker 7: and we'll put it in context, but they did have

1504
01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 7: the largest audience for the NBA All Star Game in

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01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:58,920
Speaker 7: fifteen years, even though it was a Sunday afternoon in

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01:16:59,040 --> 01:17:02,519
Speaker 7: Los Angeles West Coast time. It was over six point

1507
01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:06,040
Speaker 7: seven million TV viewers for that last weekend. With the

1508
01:17:06,080 --> 01:17:09,519
Speaker 7: new format us versus the World, keep in mind that

1509
01:17:09,640 --> 01:17:11,880
Speaker 7: for the weekend they did have a lead in of

1510
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:16,240
Speaker 7: Winter Olympics coverage, and it was Winter Olympics right after NBA.

1511
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:19,800
Speaker 3: There is no way in the world they were going to.

1512
01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:24,080
Speaker 7: Be putting NBA in primetime instead of the Olympics, which

1513
01:17:24,120 --> 01:17:27,839
Speaker 7: have been a cash cow for NBC. All Star Saturday

1514
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:31,400
Speaker 7: last weekend four point four million viewers, which is apparently

1515
01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:35,040
Speaker 7: the best audience they've had for that since twenty seventeen,

1516
01:17:35,160 --> 01:17:37,600
Speaker 7: better than what TNT had been getting for that. But

1517
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:41,360
Speaker 7: I read yesterday that NBC these two weeks of the

1518
01:17:41,400 --> 01:17:44,360
Speaker 7: Winter Olympics, if you include the replays at night and

1519
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:48,560
Speaker 7: USA Network during the day, per day, the Winter Olympics

1520
01:17:48,640 --> 01:17:53,400
Speaker 7: coverage is getting minimum twenty million viewers per day for

1521
01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:57,639
Speaker 7: fourteen straight days. At the Winter Games, today the US

1522
01:17:57,680 --> 01:18:02,160
Speaker 7: skiers took golden team aerials, women's bob's led, and bronze

1523
01:18:02,160 --> 01:18:06,840
Speaker 7: in women's speed skating. Norway's Johannes Klabo has been stunningly

1524
01:18:06,920 --> 01:18:11,559
Speaker 7: good this month. He won every men's cross country skiing event.

1525
01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 7: Today he won his sixth gold in two weeks. This

1526
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:18,040
Speaker 7: is the new record most goals in a single Winter

1527
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:22,280
Speaker 7: Games that includes two team events. In curling, Canada men

1528
01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 7: beat the won the gold in Canada women beat the

1529
01:18:25,479 --> 01:18:27,919
Speaker 7: US ten to seven to take the bronze in their tournament.

1530
01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 7: Finland won the bronze medal in men's hockey, beating Slovakia

1531
01:18:31,479 --> 01:18:33,839
Speaker 7: six to one with four goals in the third period.

1532
01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:37,679
Speaker 7: Finland's actually won five medals in the six Olympics. They've

1533
01:18:37,760 --> 01:18:42,160
Speaker 7: used NHL players and to NHL dominant teams, including all

1534
01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:44,920
Speaker 7: those Canadian stars, will be on the ice tomorrow. We'll

1535
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:48,280
Speaker 7: see about the captain Sidney Crosby for Canada. He did

1536
01:18:48,320 --> 01:18:51,400
Speaker 7: practice today after missing their semi final due to injury.

1537
01:18:51,400 --> 01:18:54,920
Speaker 7: But US against Canada Men's hockey gold medal Olympic final

1538
01:18:55,320 --> 01:18:58,120
Speaker 7: Sunday morning our time. The Americans had won six to

1539
01:18:58,160 --> 01:19:00,920
Speaker 7: two over Slovakia. Last game was five to nothing in

1540
01:19:00,960 --> 01:19:04,240
Speaker 7: the second period. Canada struggled but did win it's semi

1541
01:19:04,320 --> 01:19:07,120
Speaker 7: three to two against Finland after trailing to nothing late

1542
01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:09,799
Speaker 7: in the second. Their game winner came in the final

1543
01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:12,519
Speaker 7: minute of regulation on the power play. The NHL is

1544
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:14,640
Speaker 7: off for the Olympic break. The league will resume its

1545
01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:17,879
Speaker 7: schedule on Wednesday. So about one hundred and fifty NHL

1546
01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:21,479
Speaker 7: players were in Milan to represent their respective countries, most

1547
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:24,040
Speaker 7: our first time Olympians since the NHL was out of

1548
01:19:24,040 --> 01:19:27,679
Speaker 7: the Olympic business for over a decade. Sad note tonight

1549
01:19:27,720 --> 01:19:30,800
Speaker 7: that NFL wide receiver Rondel Moore died at the age

1550
01:19:30,800 --> 01:19:33,760
Speaker 7: of twenty five in Indiana. He starred at Purdue. Moore

1551
01:19:33,800 --> 01:19:36,760
Speaker 7: played three years for the Arizona Cardinals. No cause of

1552
01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:41,040
Speaker 7: death officially given, suicide is suspected. Baseball Hall of Famer

1553
01:19:41,040 --> 01:19:44,160
Speaker 7: Bill Mazeroski died at the age of eighty nine. His

1554
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:47,679
Speaker 7: Game seven homer for Pittsburgh won the nineteen sixty World

1555
01:19:47,680 --> 01:19:50,960
Speaker 7: Series against the Yankees. He was an eight time Gold

1556
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:53,679
Speaker 7: Glove winner. And we did have the first full day

1557
01:19:53,680 --> 01:19:56,680
Speaker 7: of spring training games this year. Today Aaron Judge hit

1558
01:19:56,720 --> 01:20:00,000
Speaker 7: two homers. The Yankees won twenty to three over Detroit,

1559
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:02,599
Speaker 7: and Atlanta was a five to one winner against Tampa

1560
01:20:02,640 --> 01:20:05,200
Speaker 7: Bay's Mikey Stremsky now with the Braves had a homer

1561
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:06,680
Speaker 7: single and a walk back to you.

1562
01:20:07,280 --> 01:20:08,639
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Steve Seger.

1563
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:12,040
Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday into Sunday

1564
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:15,120
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1565
01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:19,360
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1566
01:20:19,360 --> 01:20:23,479
Speaker 2: across Saturday. We'll talk some interesting comments on tanking the

1567
01:20:23,560 --> 01:20:27,559
Speaker 2: Chicago Bears to Indiana. So much left Fox Sports Radio.

1568
01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:30,519
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1569
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:35,320
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1570
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1571
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1572
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1574
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1575
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1576
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1577
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1580
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1583
01:21:22,120 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 2: Let's kind of hit on some stuff for people who

1584
01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:26,439
Speaker 2: missed the top of the show. We did talk a

1585
01:21:26,439 --> 01:21:29,240
Speaker 2: little bit about All Star Weekend, about Darren Peterson and Moore,

1586
01:21:29,720 --> 01:21:33,160
Speaker 2: but let's start with All Star Weekend. Yes, everything concluded

1587
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:36,240
Speaker 2: a week ago. But in our business, I think it's

1588
01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:39,080
Speaker 2: important to have accountability, and you and I were both

1589
01:21:39,120 --> 01:21:42,439
Speaker 2: two guys that basically had I don't even want to

1590
01:21:42,479 --> 01:21:46,480
Speaker 2: say no expectations for the All Star Game on Sunday.

1591
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:49,240
Speaker 2: I think we expected something. It just wasn't gonna be

1592
01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:51,439
Speaker 2: pretty well. I don't want to speak for you. I'll

1593
01:21:51,439 --> 01:21:53,000
Speaker 2: give you the flour in a half a second, I

1594
01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:54,679
Speaker 2: thought the new format worked.

1595
01:21:54,760 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 4: Again.

1596
01:21:55,080 --> 01:21:57,559
Speaker 2: It's a week ago, but just feel like it's our

1597
01:21:57,600 --> 01:21:59,840
Speaker 2: responsibility to come on and say, you know what, out

1598
01:21:59,880 --> 01:22:02,760
Speaker 2: of Silver, you didn't screw this one up as bad

1599
01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:04,280
Speaker 2: as we at least as bad as we.

1600
01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:04,760
Speaker 3: Thought you were.

1601
01:22:04,840 --> 01:22:05,040
Speaker 4: Now.

1602
01:22:05,520 --> 01:22:08,040
Speaker 2: Admittedly, I do think a lot of it was Wemby.

1603
01:22:08,120 --> 01:22:10,240
Speaker 2: We just had Mark Medina on the show about twenty

1604
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:13,120
Speaker 2: minutes ago, and he acknowledged, you know, Wemby stepping up

1605
01:22:13,120 --> 01:22:16,240
Speaker 2: and saying that he was coming out ready to play

1606
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:20,679
Speaker 2: set the tone for everybody else. So I think Wemby

1607
01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:23,439
Speaker 2: gets credit more than the new format. I think Wemby

1608
01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:26,640
Speaker 2: gets credit more than Adam Silver. But we got the

1609
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:29,559
Speaker 2: result that we were all hoping for. It wasn't perfect,

1610
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:32,440
Speaker 2: but the new format seemed to work. The guys were invested,

1611
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:35,920
Speaker 2: and overall, I thought last Sunday was a success and

1612
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:38,600
Speaker 2: a fun watch for the for the NBA, excuse me,

1613
01:22:38,840 --> 01:22:40,360
Speaker 2: which is all any of us were hoping for.

1614
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:42,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was. It was a win for the for

1615
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:46,080
Speaker 4: the NBA after a dismal Saturday where it made total

1616
01:22:46,120 --> 01:22:48,240
Speaker 4: sense for us to come on here and rip the league.

1617
01:22:49,160 --> 01:22:51,920
Speaker 4: It's nice to have been wrong about what Sunday was

1618
01:22:51,960 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 4: gonna be, and it was just an entertaining way to

1619
01:22:55,200 --> 01:22:58,360
Speaker 4: do it. And you know, Mark Medina said, and you

1620
01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:00,880
Speaker 4: said earlier that when Mignon played a key role, and

1621
01:23:00,920 --> 01:23:04,400
Speaker 4: of course I agreed with that. The international side of it,

1622
01:23:04,640 --> 01:23:06,479
Speaker 4: I don't know what role that played, but it was

1623
01:23:06,520 --> 01:23:08,599
Speaker 4: a little bit more interesting. And I actually think the

1624
01:23:08,640 --> 01:23:12,920
Speaker 4: timing to do it happening during the Olympics, when we're

1625
01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:16,719
Speaker 4: already kind of paying attention to international sporting and maybe

1626
01:23:16,760 --> 01:23:18,680
Speaker 4: you're kind of wrapping yourself a little bit more in

1627
01:23:18,720 --> 01:23:21,960
Speaker 4: the flag even than usual. Maybe that even played to

1628
01:23:22,040 --> 01:23:25,080
Speaker 4: the advantage to the timing of it with the Olympics

1629
01:23:25,080 --> 01:23:28,080
Speaker 4: then being on right afterwards may have worked in your favor.

1630
01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:33,719
Speaker 4: But to me, the other part of this that worked

1631
01:23:34,520 --> 01:23:38,759
Speaker 4: is that you eliminated the three quarters of playing around

1632
01:23:38,960 --> 01:23:44,320
Speaker 4: and Harlem globetrottering that you got because basically you gave

1633
01:23:44,400 --> 01:23:47,439
Speaker 4: us four fourth quarters and yet you had the old

1634
01:23:47,479 --> 01:23:49,640
Speaker 4: guys run out of gas in that final game. But

1635
01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 4: those first three games are coming down the big shots

1636
01:23:51,960 --> 01:23:55,120
Speaker 4: at the end, gods are playing hard because you don't

1637
01:23:55,160 --> 01:23:58,559
Speaker 4: have time to mess around. If you care at all,

1638
01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:00,960
Speaker 4: all you gotta do is go hard for those twelve minutes.

1639
01:24:01,439 --> 01:24:04,320
Speaker 4: And it encouraged guys to do it. And when you

1640
01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:09,920
Speaker 4: add that to just the catalyst of Victor Winmgnana, one

1641
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 4: of the sports true superstars and maybe the leader of

1642
01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:17,879
Speaker 4: this next generation, coming out there and making a statement

1643
01:24:17,960 --> 01:24:22,080
Speaker 4: early and setting the tone early, you had a recipe

1644
01:24:22,120 --> 01:24:24,400
Speaker 4: for what you needed. If you were the NBA, this

1645
01:24:24,479 --> 01:24:26,080
Speaker 4: was a big win for them, It really was. I

1646
01:24:26,080 --> 01:24:28,719
Speaker 4: think that it helped. I don't know what the numbers

1647
01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:30,640
Speaker 4: were for the league in their games this week. I

1648
01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:33,680
Speaker 4: don't know how the Saturday night game the Knicks and

1649
01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:37,639
Speaker 4: the Rockets ended up doing, and we'll find out probably

1650
01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:42,400
Speaker 4: next week. But generally speaking, it just the NBA felt alive,

1651
01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:49,000
Speaker 4: maybe for the first time all season because of the

1652
01:24:49,040 --> 01:24:52,160
Speaker 4: All Star Game. It didn't feel like it killed momentum.

1653
01:24:52,320 --> 01:24:55,000
Speaker 4: It may have actually started the season because I think

1654
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:57,559
Speaker 4: that the league entered the All Star Break with about

1655
01:24:57,600 --> 01:24:59,759
Speaker 4: as little momentum as I can remember.

1656
01:25:00,120 --> 01:25:03,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think that's totally fair and it'll remain

1657
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:06,120
Speaker 2: to be seen if they can build on this momentum.

1658
01:25:06,280 --> 01:25:08,360
Speaker 3: We didn't get a fun game at Madison Square Garden.

1659
01:25:08,439 --> 01:25:11,439
Speaker 2: The New York Knicks overcome an eighteen point fourth quarter

1660
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:16,280
Speaker 2: deficit in the what was, of course, the ESPN ABC

1661
01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:19,600
Speaker 2: Game of the night. So we'll see. But yeah, no,

1662
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:22,000
Speaker 2: I think this is where you had to start. I

1663
01:25:22,040 --> 01:25:24,880
Speaker 2: thought there were a few really memorable moments, so it

1664
01:25:24,960 --> 01:25:27,200
Speaker 2: was a net positive. I know I've just said it

1665
01:25:27,240 --> 01:25:28,680
Speaker 2: a few times. I know you just said it. Will

1666
01:25:28,720 --> 01:25:32,000
Speaker 2: see if the league can continue to build momentum. But overall,

1667
01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:34,720
Speaker 2: thought it was a solid, solid, solid weekend for the

1668
01:25:34,840 --> 01:25:37,960
Speaker 2: NBA really quickly since you know, we kind of got

1669
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:40,960
Speaker 2: into it, but we kind of really, I don't want

1670
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:43,120
Speaker 2: to say we didn't get into it. But the Darren

1671
01:25:43,120 --> 01:25:46,920
Speaker 2: Peterson saga, let's revisit that everybody knows, but this is

1672
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:50,559
Speaker 2: the potential projected number one pick in the NBA draft

1673
01:25:50,720 --> 01:25:55,200
Speaker 2: plays and I use that word loosely. At Kansas is

1674
01:25:55,240 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 2: a guy that is insanely talented. But we've now had

1675
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:03,920
Speaker 2: and let me even you know, because I think I

1676
01:26:03,960 --> 01:26:06,240
Speaker 2: know a little bit more about college basketball than maybe some,

1677
01:26:06,360 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 2: So let me let me frame it. All season long, basically,

1678
01:26:09,439 --> 01:26:11,639
Speaker 2: it's been this in and out of the lineup thing.

1679
01:26:12,840 --> 01:26:16,800
Speaker 2: It's certainly early in the season. You wanted to give

1680
01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:19,320
Speaker 2: everybody the benefit of the doubt. You wanted to say, hey,

1681
01:26:19,320 --> 01:26:23,280
Speaker 2: these games don't count, the same, doesn't really matter, get healthy, whatever.

1682
01:26:23,760 --> 01:26:25,639
Speaker 2: But really the last three or four weeks it has

1683
01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:29,960
Speaker 2: certainly taken center stage. Three or so weeks ago was

1684
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:33,920
Speaker 2: the game against BYU and aj Debonsa. He balls out early,

1685
01:26:34,439 --> 01:26:37,479
Speaker 2: goes to the bench early in the second half. They

1686
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:40,840
Speaker 2: say it's cramps. After the game, of course, they show

1687
01:26:40,920 --> 01:26:43,599
Speaker 2: him on the sidelines. He's not getting any treatment, he's

1688
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:46,320
Speaker 2: not getting any stretches, he's not working with the doctors,

1689
01:26:46,360 --> 01:26:49,760
Speaker 2: makes no attempt to come back into the game, even

1690
01:26:49,800 --> 01:26:51,280
Speaker 2: as his team is blowing.

1691
01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:51,559
Speaker 4: A big lead.

1692
01:26:52,160 --> 01:26:55,360
Speaker 2: Then there was the Arizona game, a Monday night, number

1693
01:26:55,360 --> 01:26:58,160
Speaker 2: one team in the country. An hour before tip off,

1694
01:26:58,200 --> 01:27:00,400
Speaker 2: he went through walk through an hour before tip off.

1695
01:27:00,439 --> 01:27:03,800
Speaker 2: The size not to play. The most recent event was

1696
01:27:03,880 --> 01:27:09,880
Speaker 2: Wednesday night at Oklahoma State big first half, second half, starts,

1697
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:13,200
Speaker 2: hits a three, immediately calls to the bench for a sub,

1698
01:27:13,320 --> 01:27:16,000
Speaker 2: does not come back in the game. Bring it up

1699
01:27:16,040 --> 01:27:19,760
Speaker 2: because it has certainly been a topic of conversation. Kansas

1700
01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:24,320
Speaker 2: did play on Saturday felt like a totally lifeless effort,

1701
01:27:24,360 --> 01:27:27,080
Speaker 2: and that was one that I can only speak for myself,

1702
01:27:27,439 --> 01:27:30,839
Speaker 2: but it was Kansas's worst loss ever to an unranked

1703
01:27:30,840 --> 01:27:34,160
Speaker 2: opponent in the ap pole era, and that, to me,

1704
01:27:34,360 --> 01:27:36,720
Speaker 2: the whole effort just felt like a team that had

1705
01:27:36,720 --> 01:27:40,320
Speaker 2: been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Darren

1706
01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:44,240
Speaker 2: Peterson did play thirty two minutes on Saturday. Some would

1707
01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:46,720
Speaker 2: say that proves that he isn't load managing, there's really

1708
01:27:46,760 --> 01:27:49,320
Speaker 2: an injury. I actually think it's the exact opposite. I

1709
01:27:49,320 --> 01:27:52,280
Speaker 2: think it proves why does he always seem to play

1710
01:27:52,280 --> 01:27:55,520
Speaker 2: his biggest minutes immediately after being in the crosshairs.

1711
01:27:55,560 --> 01:27:57,800
Speaker 3: It happened after the Arizona game. It happened after the

1712
01:27:57,800 --> 01:27:59,120
Speaker 3: BYU game as well.

1713
01:28:00,640 --> 01:28:03,840
Speaker 2: It's a big talking point, and I think it becomes

1714
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:07,240
Speaker 2: more interesting because, as the Sacred just told, I think

1715
01:28:07,320 --> 01:28:09,160
Speaker 2: the thing Jamar, I know I'm talking long. I promise

1716
01:28:09,160 --> 01:28:10,639
Speaker 2: I'm gonna toss it over to you in a second,

1717
01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:15,760
Speaker 2: But is that there have been years where guys can

1718
01:28:15,800 --> 01:28:18,519
Speaker 2: cut corners get away with stuff because they are so

1719
01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:21,200
Speaker 2: clearly the number one pick in the draft. So, as

1720
01:28:21,240 --> 01:28:24,320
Speaker 2: a quick side story, you know that year that Zion

1721
01:28:24,360 --> 01:28:26,519
Speaker 2: Williamson got hurt late in the season and people were

1722
01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:28,639
Speaker 2: saying that he should just opt out shut it down

1723
01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:31,920
Speaker 2: for the season. He didn't, but it's worth noting that

1724
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:33,800
Speaker 2: year he was going to be the number one pick,

1725
01:28:33,800 --> 01:28:35,880
Speaker 2: whether he shut it down or not. Bring it up

1726
01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:39,400
Speaker 2: because we're coming off of just minutes ago. Aj Debonsa,

1727
01:28:39,800 --> 01:28:42,400
Speaker 2: the presumptive number one pick or number two pick. Him

1728
01:28:42,400 --> 01:28:45,479
Speaker 2: and Darren Peterson, the top of that list, plays all

1729
01:28:45,520 --> 01:28:48,920
Speaker 2: forty minutes twenty nine points, ten rebounds, nine assists against

1730
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 2: the number six team in the country, Iowa State. So

1731
01:28:52,400 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 2: that's a long winded way of me saying it's been

1732
01:28:55,520 --> 01:28:58,520
Speaker 2: a weird week for Darren Peterson. He did play significant

1733
01:28:58,520 --> 01:29:02,240
Speaker 2: minutes on Saturday. It doesn't change the fact that to me,

1734
01:29:02,640 --> 01:29:05,400
Speaker 2: and I'm only speaking for myself, feels like something weird

1735
01:29:05,479 --> 01:29:08,240
Speaker 2: is going on, and I'd have a lot of questions

1736
01:29:08,320 --> 01:29:09,840
Speaker 2: if I had the top pick in the draft.

1737
01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:12,920
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think it's I don't think it's

1738
01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:16,000
Speaker 4: possible for something weird not to be going on just

1739
01:29:16,040 --> 01:29:19,920
Speaker 4: because of one thing. It's weird past all of that.

1740
01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:24,200
Speaker 4: We played the self audio early and coach self basically

1741
01:29:24,840 --> 01:29:28,360
Speaker 4: he was sort of running interference, but not exactly. He

1742
01:29:28,439 --> 01:29:33,400
Speaker 4: was sort of pointing towards Peterson, but carefully kind of

1743
01:29:33,479 --> 01:29:37,720
Speaker 4: curating his words in a way that would ensure that

1744
01:29:37,760 --> 01:29:40,639
Speaker 4: nobody watching that might want to play at Kansas might

1745
01:29:40,720 --> 01:29:43,439
Speaker 4: think that their coach would sell them out if the

1746
01:29:43,479 --> 01:29:46,200
Speaker 4: moment got there. But he was clearly irritated by what

1747
01:29:46,360 --> 01:29:49,439
Speaker 4: was going on. But one other, one thing that I

1748
01:29:49,520 --> 01:29:54,240
Speaker 4: do find interesting about this story at least, and you

1749
01:29:54,280 --> 01:29:56,479
Speaker 4: can correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe I've missed it.

1750
01:29:57,520 --> 01:30:03,080
Speaker 4: There's like nobody coming out to bat for Darren Peterson,

1751
01:30:03,720 --> 01:30:06,840
Speaker 4: Like there's no like where's his camp, where are like

1752
01:30:06,960 --> 01:30:10,040
Speaker 4: the people that are gonna say the positive things or

1753
01:30:10,120 --> 01:30:14,400
Speaker 4: past that he hasn't said a word to my knowledgy either.

1754
01:30:14,479 --> 01:30:17,560
Speaker 2: Can I jump in on this, Yeah, because so I

1755
01:30:17,920 --> 01:30:22,080
Speaker 2: was even saying this before today, but today now there

1756
01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:25,280
Speaker 2: was some pushback from some media members, Oh, it's clear

1757
01:30:25,320 --> 01:30:28,320
Speaker 2: that he's injured, and or oh, you know, there's a

1758
01:30:28,320 --> 01:30:30,360
Speaker 2: lot of people that are talking that don't know what

1759
01:30:30,400 --> 01:30:33,960
Speaker 2: they're talking about. And my response to that would be

1760
01:30:34,520 --> 01:30:40,360
Speaker 2: exactly what you just said, is that if the Peterson

1761
01:30:40,479 --> 01:30:45,800
Speaker 2: camp was asking me for any piece of advice, the

1762
01:30:45,880 --> 01:30:48,840
Speaker 2: only piece of advice I would give is this, no

1763
01:30:48,880 --> 01:30:53,559
Speaker 2: matter what is really going on, release a statement, right

1764
01:30:53,800 --> 01:30:56,120
Speaker 2: and and I'll give you a quick side story, Jmart.

1765
01:30:56,160 --> 01:30:59,280
Speaker 2: But there's another player, probably gonna be a top ten pick.

1766
01:31:00,280 --> 01:31:03,040
Speaker 2: His name's Mickel Brown Junior. He plays at Louisville and

1767
01:31:03,720 --> 01:31:09,480
Speaker 2: middle of the season, very similar situation, weird deal, weird injury,

1768
01:31:09,640 --> 01:31:13,360
Speaker 2: nobody's really quite sure, and all this internet stuff starts

1769
01:31:13,360 --> 01:31:16,519
Speaker 2: popping up about him, and I think because the Darren

1770
01:31:16,560 --> 01:31:20,559
Speaker 2: Peterson stuff was going on in Kansas, people immediately associated, Oh,

1771
01:31:20,600 --> 01:31:22,640
Speaker 2: this kid at Louisville, he's not coming back, He's not

1772
01:31:22,680 --> 01:31:24,479
Speaker 2: dad d da dah this and that. I bring it

1773
01:31:24,560 --> 01:31:27,080
Speaker 2: up because I know some people close to the kid.

1774
01:31:27,080 --> 01:31:30,439
Speaker 2: This is Michel Brown Junior, not Darren Peterson. And they

1775
01:31:30,520 --> 01:31:33,360
Speaker 2: told him, they said, bro, you have to put out

1776
01:31:33,400 --> 01:31:39,520
Speaker 2: a statement. Like everybody is speculating on what's wrong with you, You're.

1777
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:39,679
Speaker 3: The only one that knows what's wrong.

1778
01:31:39,840 --> 01:31:41,840
Speaker 2: And you know, like all of these kids, he's got

1779
01:31:41,880 --> 01:31:44,120
Speaker 2: a PR team around him and an agent, and you

1780
01:31:44,120 --> 01:31:46,280
Speaker 2: know they helped him. I'm sure put together a statement,

1781
01:31:46,320 --> 01:31:49,080
Speaker 2: but basically it came from his social media accounts and

1782
01:31:49,160 --> 01:31:53,960
Speaker 2: it was essentially guys Louisville fans coordination. I love y'all.

1783
01:31:54,080 --> 01:31:56,040
Speaker 2: I can't wait to get back on the court. This

1784
01:31:56,160 --> 01:31:58,479
Speaker 2: injury is bugging me as much as it's bugging you.

1785
01:31:58,600 --> 01:32:01,640
Speaker 2: And I'm paraphrasing, but you get the point. That's all

1786
01:32:01,720 --> 01:32:04,960
Speaker 2: Darren Peterson has to do. That's all he has to do,

1787
01:32:05,120 --> 01:32:05,920
Speaker 2: even if it's.

1788
01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:10,080
Speaker 3: A lie, Even if it's a lie, just say, just say.

1789
01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:13,160
Speaker 4: Just say something. If you don't say something, then someone

1790
01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:15,080
Speaker 4: else is going to tell the story for you, and

1791
01:32:15,120 --> 01:32:18,559
Speaker 4: they may not know the true story, but or or look,

1792
01:32:18,600 --> 01:32:20,599
Speaker 4: get out in front of it and lie like you said,

1793
01:32:20,640 --> 01:32:25,000
Speaker 4: like it because that unfortunately, that is something that happens

1794
01:32:25,520 --> 01:32:27,880
Speaker 4: in real life on this side of the fall. But

1795
01:32:28,600 --> 01:32:30,320
Speaker 4: you look at it from there and it's just like,

1796
01:32:30,920 --> 01:32:35,559
Speaker 4: if you don't control the narrative or give someone a narrative,

1797
01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:38,160
Speaker 4: even though there's always going to be the conspiracy theorist

1798
01:32:38,200 --> 01:32:41,880
Speaker 4: and the contrarians, then we are going to come up

1799
01:32:41,920 --> 01:32:45,479
Speaker 4: with the story that makes sense based on the available evidence.

1800
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:49,960
Speaker 4: And that is not good if you're Darren Peterson, because

1801
01:32:50,520 --> 01:32:55,960
Speaker 4: the available evidence indicates something that would just make us

1802
01:32:56,040 --> 01:32:59,799
Speaker 4: wary of being able to depend on you in the future.

1803
01:33:00,040 --> 01:33:02,439
Speaker 4: And I know what Medina said about the NBA not

1804
01:33:02,520 --> 01:33:05,639
Speaker 4: being too worried if he is, you know, load managing,

1805
01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:07,639
Speaker 4: preparing for the future and all this kind of stuff.

1806
01:33:07,800 --> 01:33:11,000
Speaker 4: And look, we can understand that to some degree, but

1807
01:33:11,280 --> 01:33:14,639
Speaker 4: him not saying any radio silence is the worst possible

1808
01:33:14,680 --> 01:33:18,320
Speaker 4: thing you could do right now, because no one is

1809
01:33:18,400 --> 01:33:21,680
Speaker 4: telling it, even to your point, even the journalists that

1810
01:33:21,720 --> 01:33:24,400
Speaker 4: are coming out now out of nowhere and saying clearly

1811
01:33:24,439 --> 01:33:26,040
Speaker 4: a lot of people don't know what they're talking about.

1812
01:33:26,040 --> 01:33:29,120
Speaker 4: There's obviously an injury or something like that. They're coming

1813
01:33:29,120 --> 01:33:31,680
Speaker 4: out and saying that. They're even saying it in a

1814
01:33:31,680 --> 01:33:35,519
Speaker 4: speculative fashion because there's because there's so much of a

1815
01:33:35,520 --> 01:33:38,600
Speaker 4: cloud of uncertainty around this, you're having to try to

1816
01:33:38,640 --> 01:33:42,200
Speaker 4: make yourself believe something one way or the other. That's

1817
01:33:42,280 --> 01:33:44,200
Speaker 4: just not the way that that's just not the way

1818
01:33:44,200 --> 01:33:47,280
Speaker 4: to go about this, Like this should not be a

1819
01:33:47,320 --> 01:33:52,639
Speaker 4: mystery novel. At this point. It's gotten beyond being weird

1820
01:33:53,120 --> 01:33:57,920
Speaker 4: to being actually irritating, and it has to be infuriating

1821
01:33:57,960 --> 01:33:59,000
Speaker 4: if you're a Kansas fan.

1822
01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:01,320
Speaker 2: And that's exactly the last point I was gonna make

1823
01:34:01,479 --> 01:34:07,400
Speaker 2: is that for him, it's for his own good for

1824
01:34:07,520 --> 01:34:11,040
Speaker 2: him to do that, but it would also take a

1825
01:34:11,040 --> 01:34:14,040
Speaker 2: lot of pressure off of him with Kansas fans, with

1826
01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:16,839
Speaker 2: the media, and it would just get him to stop speaking.

1827
01:34:16,880 --> 01:34:20,000
Speaker 2: And that's what I was thinking about, is even when

1828
01:34:20,040 --> 01:34:23,559
Speaker 2: he has played well, even in the rare games that

1829
01:34:23,560 --> 01:34:26,479
Speaker 2: there have been no issues. I don't remember, and I

1830
01:34:26,479 --> 01:34:29,400
Speaker 2: could be wrong. I haven't watched the post game of

1831
01:34:29,560 --> 01:34:33,000
Speaker 2: all twenty nine Kansas games or whatever they've played this year.

1832
01:34:33,479 --> 01:34:35,400
Speaker 2: I don't know that he's gone to the podium once.

1833
01:34:35,600 --> 01:34:38,679
Speaker 2: And so I know he was at Big twelve Media

1834
01:34:38,760 --> 01:34:40,840
Speaker 2: Days because I remember seeing an interview with him at

1835
01:34:40,840 --> 01:34:43,280
Speaker 2: the time. I don't know that he has done any

1836
01:34:43,439 --> 01:34:48,439
Speaker 2: media since before the season started. And again, it's just

1837
01:34:49,240 --> 01:34:53,759
Speaker 2: he would be doing himself some good services by deciding

1838
01:34:53,800 --> 01:34:55,080
Speaker 2: to just get in front of He doesn't even have

1839
01:34:55,120 --> 01:34:56,880
Speaker 2: to get in front of a camera, release the statement

1840
01:34:56,920 --> 01:34:57,639
Speaker 2: on social media.

1841
01:34:57,800 --> 01:34:59,120
Speaker 3: Everybody's got social media.

1842
01:34:59,160 --> 01:34:59,360
Speaker 4: Now.

1843
01:35:00,160 --> 01:35:02,400
Speaker 2: You know he's got an agent, he's got a PR team,

1844
01:35:02,760 --> 01:35:06,960
Speaker 2: you know, with that agency, go ahead and just release

1845
01:35:07,040 --> 01:35:12,760
Speaker 2: a statement through them. But again, when you don't, it

1846
01:35:12,840 --> 01:35:16,320
Speaker 2: allows everyone else to speculate and tell your story for you.

1847
01:35:16,360 --> 01:35:17,479
Speaker 2: I thought you said that very well.

1848
01:35:17,560 --> 01:35:18,000
Speaker 3: Jmart.

1849
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:19,960
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1850
01:35:20,040 --> 01:35:22,400
Speaker 3: I don't know what else there is to add. It's

1851
01:35:22,600 --> 01:35:24,840
Speaker 3: just it's infuriating.

1852
01:35:24,880 --> 01:35:26,960
Speaker 2: If you're a Kansas fan, you have to be frustrated

1853
01:35:27,640 --> 01:35:29,960
Speaker 2: by the way the players were asked about it after

1854
01:35:30,040 --> 01:35:32,840
Speaker 2: the Oklahoma State game. I haven't heard any audio from

1855
01:35:32,960 --> 01:35:36,200
Speaker 2: today's game if they were asked about it. But whether

1856
01:35:36,840 --> 01:35:40,280
Speaker 2: even if there's nothing wrong, even if there is something

1857
01:35:40,280 --> 01:35:43,280
Speaker 2: wrong with him, excuse me, and they know it, it's

1858
01:35:43,280 --> 01:35:45,000
Speaker 2: still got to be weighing. It's still got to be

1859
01:35:45,000 --> 01:35:47,519
Speaker 2: weighing on them. And let me just throw this last

1860
01:35:47,520 --> 01:35:49,320
Speaker 2: thing on you. Here's another reason to release a statement.

1861
01:35:49,400 --> 01:35:49,879
Speaker 3: Jmart.

1862
01:35:50,120 --> 01:35:53,679
Speaker 2: It's because these NBA teams like, yes, and I understand

1863
01:35:53,760 --> 01:35:56,400
Speaker 2: he's not falling to the thirty seventh pick.

1864
01:35:56,600 --> 01:36:00,280
Speaker 3: But there's only two doors.

1865
01:36:00,000 --> 01:36:04,479
Speaker 2: There's door one in door two with this situation. Door

1866
01:36:04,520 --> 01:36:11,360
Speaker 2: one is there's either some mystery injury that a great

1867
01:36:11,479 --> 01:36:15,599
Speaker 2: medical staff at Kansas can't figure out, or door number two,

1868
01:36:15,640 --> 01:36:18,559
Speaker 2: you're faking it. Neither of those doors is good, and

1869
01:36:18,600 --> 01:36:21,080
Speaker 2: that's more than anything why I think he should be

1870
01:36:21,080 --> 01:36:25,960
Speaker 2: speaking out just so again the narrative doesn't take control

1871
01:36:26,040 --> 01:36:29,200
Speaker 2: the way that it has, But yeah, it is what

1872
01:36:29,280 --> 01:36:29,559
Speaker 2: it is.

1873
01:36:29,840 --> 01:36:32,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, there's almost no damage you can do

1874
01:36:32,400 --> 01:36:36,040
Speaker 4: by talking unless you go to the Niko Yama Liava

1875
01:36:36,120 --> 01:36:41,639
Speaker 4: school of your camp, commenting on decisions that you've made

1876
01:36:42,400 --> 01:36:44,479
Speaker 4: in your career based on where you want to go

1877
01:36:44,520 --> 01:36:49,559
Speaker 4: play to school. But like, there's no real conclusion that

1878
01:36:49,680 --> 01:36:53,519
Speaker 4: you can draw watching this if you are in any

1879
01:36:53,560 --> 01:36:57,519
Speaker 4: way skeptical apart from a dude never wanted to be there.

1880
01:36:57,720 --> 01:36:59,519
Speaker 4: He was only there because he felt like he had

1881
01:36:59,520 --> 01:37:02,120
Speaker 4: to be to go and advertise himself to build his

1882
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:04,439
Speaker 4: name up to be number one in the NBA Draft.

1883
01:37:04,680 --> 01:37:08,880
Speaker 4: And so he's showing you right now. And the the

1884
01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:12,439
Speaker 4: real proof will come in the NCUBA tournament. If this

1885
01:37:12,720 --> 01:37:15,600
Speaker 4: also happens in the tournament, that's going to be a

1886
01:37:15,600 --> 01:37:19,080
Speaker 4: major turning point. Like that's gonna be an unprecedented moment

1887
01:37:19,160 --> 01:37:21,800
Speaker 4: one way or the other in terms of getting some

1888
01:37:21,920 --> 01:37:25,240
Speaker 4: kind of clarity on this. But I mean we've had,

1889
01:37:25,320 --> 01:37:28,439
Speaker 4: you know, you've had the college basketball mercenaries, particularly for

1890
01:37:28,479 --> 01:37:31,599
Speaker 4: a long time, the one and done guys that yeah

1891
01:37:31,680 --> 01:37:35,000
Speaker 4: they played in the Jersey, but you know they're not

1892
01:37:35,040 --> 01:37:37,680
Speaker 4: going to be remembered in the annals of the school

1893
01:37:37,960 --> 01:37:40,559
Speaker 4: for their length of time there and all those kinds

1894
01:37:40,560 --> 01:37:43,320
Speaker 4: of things. But you mentioned Zion Williamson as well, coming

1895
01:37:43,360 --> 01:37:46,280
Speaker 4: back from shoegate to them play in that play in

1896
01:37:46,320 --> 01:37:49,639
Speaker 4: the NCAA tournament. With everything that's happened to Zion since

1897
01:37:50,040 --> 01:37:53,640
Speaker 4: irrelevant to this discussion. But you look at Peterson, It's like,

1898
01:37:54,600 --> 01:37:56,360
Speaker 4: I don't know if he cares about the nc DOUBLEA

1899
01:37:56,400 --> 01:37:59,600
Speaker 4: Tournament either, And I hate to say that about the

1900
01:37:59,600 --> 01:38:03,120
Speaker 4: young men because I don't know him. He's not giving

1901
01:38:03,160 --> 01:38:06,479
Speaker 4: me an opportunity to know him. He's not giving me

1902
01:38:06,560 --> 01:38:10,320
Speaker 4: an opportunity to hear his side of it so that

1903
01:38:10,400 --> 01:38:13,600
Speaker 4: I can then weigh that against what we do know

1904
01:38:13,760 --> 01:38:17,360
Speaker 4: and what we have seen. That's the problem He's given

1905
01:38:17,439 --> 01:38:21,840
Speaker 4: us nothing Like there's no optics that can be drawn

1906
01:38:21,960 --> 01:38:27,120
Speaker 4: that are positive here. At best, at best, he's dealing

1907
01:38:27,120 --> 01:38:31,519
Speaker 4: with an injury. At worst, he's making business decisions that

1908
01:38:31,600 --> 01:38:35,160
Speaker 4: include deceit and a lack of loyalty to the university

1909
01:38:36,160 --> 01:38:38,360
Speaker 4: that is paying him. Like none of that is good.

1910
01:38:38,640 --> 01:38:40,760
Speaker 2: And I'll just add this as well, And this is

1911
01:38:40,800 --> 01:38:43,360
Speaker 2: why you've backed yourself into a corner because I've heard

1912
01:38:43,360 --> 01:38:46,439
Speaker 2: that as well, people saying, well, you know what I mean,

1913
01:38:46,520 --> 01:38:49,320
Speaker 2: as long as he's good for the tournament. No, that's actually,

1914
01:38:49,320 --> 01:38:51,519
Speaker 2: in many ways the worst thing because it just proves

1915
01:38:52,080 --> 01:38:54,760
Speaker 2: you're kind of faking it all year long, right, And

1916
01:38:54,880 --> 01:38:57,760
Speaker 2: so it is a weird situation, and it comes in

1917
01:38:57,840 --> 01:39:01,519
Speaker 2: a season where there are a lot of talented players

1918
01:39:01,560 --> 01:39:03,680
Speaker 2: at the top of the draft. Aj De Bonsa, as

1919
01:39:03,720 --> 01:39:06,720
Speaker 2: I said a minute ago, twenty nine points, ten rebounds,

1920
01:39:06,880 --> 01:39:12,320
Speaker 2: nine assists earlier today against four BYU against number six

1921
01:39:12,439 --> 01:39:16,559
Speaker 2: Iowa State. He is one of the presumptive picks out

1922
01:39:16,560 --> 01:39:21,080
Speaker 2: presumptive top picks, excuse me, outside of Darren Peterson. Also

1923
01:39:21,160 --> 01:39:24,200
Speaker 2: worth noting, by the way, Cam Boozer, who was a

1924
01:39:24,240 --> 01:39:28,280
Speaker 2: top many draft boards as well, had eighteen points, ten rebounds,

1925
01:39:28,360 --> 01:39:31,479
Speaker 2: and seven assists against the number one team in the country,

1926
01:39:31,520 --> 01:39:35,400
Speaker 2: Michigan Wolverines today. So it'll be interesting. It'll be interesting,

1927
01:39:35,439 --> 01:39:37,400
Speaker 2: and I will be curious to see how this saga

1928
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Speaker 2: continues to unfold. But yeah, not a great week for

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Speaker 2: Darren Peterson. Kansas goes did they go? They went one?

1930
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Speaker 2: They went one in one. They're one and two in

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Speaker 2: their last three. Oh, by the way, they got Houston

1932
01:39:51,520 --> 01:39:53,880
Speaker 2: at home on Monday night, So I don't know. If

1933
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Speaker 2: it's a good thing, we'll see him. If a bad thing,

1934
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Speaker 2: we'll see him. But we'll see what happens there. Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio Air towards Jason Martin. We are broadcasting from

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Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Radio Studios. By the way, with the

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Speaker 2: new and improved iHeartRadio app, you can stream us anywhere.

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1940
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Speaker 2: improved iHeart Radio app. Just search Fox Sports Radio in

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1942
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Speaker 2: of your presets in the iHeart app so it will

1944
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Speaker 2: always pop up at the top of your screen.

1945
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Speaker 3: We'll come back when we do.

1946
01:40:26,280 --> 01:40:30,720
Speaker 2: We will stay on the NBA Draft because this tanking

1947
01:40:30,960 --> 01:40:35,040
Speaker 2: thing will not go away. And a surprise voice came

1948
01:40:35,040 --> 01:40:37,960
Speaker 2: to the defensive tanking earlier this week. We'll explain who

1949
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Speaker 2: that is next.

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody, Fox Sports Radio. Err toords Jason mart

1952
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Speaker 2: We are broadcasting live. Yes, we are live one twenty

1953
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Speaker 2: nine Eastern Time from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Speaker 4: Jaymartin.

1955
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Speaker 2: We'll get to Mark Cuban in a second, but for fun.

1956
01:40:54,720 --> 01:40:57,080
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's fun, but I want to

1957
01:40:57,080 --> 01:40:58,920
Speaker 2: play some sound from earlier in the week. We had

1958
01:40:58,920 --> 01:41:00,799
Speaker 2: it on the rundown. We haven't talked about it yet.

1959
01:41:01,120 --> 01:41:07,360
Speaker 2: Mary play mc cronin after the Michigan State game earlier

1960
01:41:07,400 --> 01:41:07,800
Speaker 2: this week.

1961
01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:09,479
Speaker 4: What was your thoughts in the student section?

1962
01:41:09,640 --> 01:41:12,759
Speaker 9: Channing Booker's name, I could give a rats ass about

1963
01:41:12,760 --> 01:41:14,040
Speaker 9: the other team student section.

1964
01:41:14,479 --> 01:41:17,000
Speaker 4: I just got the overall the way that I would

1965
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Speaker 4: like to give you.

1966
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Speaker 9: A kudos for your worst question I've ever been asked.

1967
01:41:23,920 --> 01:41:27,200
Speaker 9: Did you like there should take it the preparation?

1968
01:41:27,880 --> 01:41:29,400
Speaker 4: Do you really think I care about.

1969
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Speaker 1: The other I don't think you care about the other You.

1970
01:41:33,720 --> 01:41:36,519
Speaker 3: Are come on, dude, reason Yes you were.

1971
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Speaker 9: Everybody's standing here listening to everybody.

1972
01:41:39,160 --> 01:41:39,960
Speaker 4: This is on camera.

1973
01:41:40,000 --> 01:41:42,760
Speaker 9: They can hear you. I answered the question. I could

1974
01:41:42,760 --> 01:41:45,000
Speaker 9: give a rat's ass about the other team student section.

1975
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Speaker 9: I coach UCLA. I don't care about the Michigan State

1976
01:41:49,000 --> 01:41:51,240
Speaker 9: student who cares?

1977
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Speaker 4: Jim?

1978
01:41:52,800 --> 01:41:53,920
Speaker 3: Are you raising your voice in me?

1979
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Speaker 4: You're raising your voice of me? Real ound question, bro,

1980
01:41:57,800 --> 01:41:58,360
Speaker 4: real quick.

1981
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Speaker 2: Mc cronin did make a public apology on Friday. That

1982
01:42:03,240 --> 01:42:08,080
Speaker 2: sound came from Tuesday night maybe Wednesday, but he did apologize.

1983
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Speaker 2: UCLA did win it the buzzer tonight in a overtime

1984
01:42:11,960 --> 01:42:14,760
Speaker 2: win over a top ten opponent in Illinois. What did

1985
01:42:14,760 --> 01:42:16,800
Speaker 2: you make when you heard that sound earlier this week?

1986
01:42:18,040 --> 01:42:23,200
Speaker 4: And that's something else. It didn't seem like the reporter

1987
01:42:23,400 --> 01:42:26,640
Speaker 4: was raising his voice. Is that the best question that

1988
01:42:26,720 --> 01:42:30,400
Speaker 4: could have been asked? Probably not, But at the same time,

1989
01:42:30,479 --> 01:42:33,519
Speaker 4: like the reaction to it, it's just just give a

1990
01:42:33,520 --> 01:42:37,080
Speaker 4: candy answer and move on, you know. Maybe, Look, you

1991
01:42:37,120 --> 01:42:40,120
Speaker 4: can catch people in their worst days, and certainly you

1992
01:42:40,120 --> 01:42:41,240
Speaker 4: don't want to be judged.

1993
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Speaker 3: I was gonna say McK cron has been having a

1994
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Speaker 3: lot of worse days.

1995
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Speaker 4: Later than yeah, he has. He has. I would say

1996
01:42:47,720 --> 01:42:50,040
Speaker 4: that it's making him lose his hair, but that's not

1997
01:42:50,160 --> 01:42:52,840
Speaker 4: the case because that's been true for a lot longer.

1998
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Speaker 4: But yeah, it's just like that kind of saltiness, that

1999
01:42:58,280 --> 01:43:01,920
Speaker 4: kind of briskly almost like sand paper news to him,

2000
01:43:02,320 --> 01:43:05,000
Speaker 4: it's just it's not a good look. It's a really

2001
01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:07,400
Speaker 4: bad looking. Like when you go after the media in

2002
01:43:07,560 --> 01:43:10,960
Speaker 4: that way like that, it's just you're gonna get no

2003
01:43:11,120 --> 01:43:15,320
Speaker 4: sympathy at all. It's gonna reflect poorly on you and

2004
01:43:15,360 --> 01:43:18,280
Speaker 4: it's gonna end up being something even if you don't

2005
01:43:18,320 --> 01:43:22,400
Speaker 4: apologize for it, it's gonna be something that ends up

2006
01:43:22,479 --> 01:43:27,360
Speaker 4: costing you more than just look. Kindness goes a long way,

2007
01:43:27,080 --> 01:43:31,200
Speaker 4: and sometimes kindness does not have to be like overt

2008
01:43:31,479 --> 01:43:35,679
Speaker 4: lovey lovey kindness. Sometimes kindness is just holding your tongue

2009
01:43:35,720 --> 01:43:37,840
Speaker 4: in a moment when you're just having a bad time,

2010
01:43:38,000 --> 01:43:42,040
Speaker 4: like things are just not going great today. Everything seems

2011
01:43:42,080 --> 01:43:46,559
Speaker 4: to be just working against me. My best kindness right

2012
01:43:46,600 --> 01:43:49,920
Speaker 4: now is just not to bite your head off. It's

2013
01:43:50,160 --> 01:43:53,640
Speaker 4: just to you know what. That question is really really irritating,

2014
01:43:53,720 --> 01:43:56,360
Speaker 4: and I really don't feel like it right now. So

2015
01:43:56,439 --> 01:43:58,519
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna give you a short answer, like I'm

2016
01:43:58,560 --> 01:44:00,360
Speaker 4: just working that out of my head. I'm not saying

2017
01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:02,640
Speaker 4: you say that stuff out loud, but it's just just

2018
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Speaker 4: give him something basic, give them nothing, and move on

2019
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Speaker 4: and then there's no story. We're not talking about a

2020
01:44:08,520 --> 01:44:11,639
Speaker 4: fan base, we're not talking about you. There's nothing else

2021
01:44:11,680 --> 01:44:14,600
Speaker 4: going on. That I think is the biggest thing is

2022
01:44:14,600 --> 01:44:18,920
Speaker 4: like he made this more difficult by being cantankerous than

2023
01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:22,320
Speaker 4: if he had just been even fake kind or just

2024
01:44:22,439 --> 01:44:24,360
Speaker 4: shown some basic human restraint.

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Speaker 2: Not a good look. Yeah, there's no other way to

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01:44:27,280 --> 01:44:30,600
Speaker 2: put it. It was not a good look, and he

2027
01:44:30,680 --> 01:44:34,160
Speaker 2: did apologize. It is worth noting. But you know, it's

2028
01:44:34,200 --> 01:44:36,280
Speaker 2: like the Darren Peterson thing we just said a second ago.

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01:44:37,400 --> 01:44:42,920
Speaker 2: There is a way that you can handle that without like,

2030
01:44:43,000 --> 01:44:46,120
Speaker 2: there is a way that you can address that you're

2031
01:44:46,120 --> 01:44:49,720
Speaker 2: not happy with the question without acting and saying what

2032
01:44:49,800 --> 01:44:52,680
Speaker 2: he did. Bad look for Mick Cronin what was not

2033
01:44:52,720 --> 01:44:56,360
Speaker 2: a bad look was an overtime win over Illinois. Really quickly,

2034
01:44:56,479 --> 01:44:58,400
Speaker 2: let's switch gears and we'll get the to Sager start

2035
01:44:58,400 --> 01:45:01,960
Speaker 2: to wrap the show. We had Mark Cuban on about

2036
01:45:01,960 --> 01:45:03,839
Speaker 2: an hour ago. We're coming out of All Star Weekend

2037
01:45:04,880 --> 01:45:07,479
Speaker 2: and one of the big things on All Star Weekend

2038
01:45:08,120 --> 01:45:10,800
Speaker 2: that seems to be an issue with the NBA not

2039
01:45:10,920 --> 01:45:12,840
Speaker 2: seems to be. It just is, and it has been

2040
01:45:12,960 --> 01:45:15,840
Speaker 2: as long as I've been following the NBA, is that

2041
01:45:17,640 --> 01:45:20,400
Speaker 2: taking is not not only is it not getting better,

2042
01:45:21,400 --> 01:45:26,160
Speaker 2: it's somehow getting worse. The Utah Jazz, you know, we

2043
01:45:26,640 --> 01:45:29,920
Speaker 2: know right before the All Star break we're resting their

2044
01:45:29,960 --> 01:45:33,519
Speaker 2: starters in the fourth quarter of games, and it became

2045
01:45:34,439 --> 01:45:37,240
Speaker 2: up until the game itself, essentially the talking point of

2046
01:45:37,280 --> 01:45:40,680
Speaker 2: All Star Weekend bring it up because of all not

2047
01:45:40,720 --> 01:45:42,400
Speaker 2: of all people, but you know a guy who actually

2048
01:45:42,439 --> 01:45:45,040
Speaker 2: would have some pretty interesting perspective on it. Mark Cuban

2049
01:45:45,600 --> 01:45:49,960
Speaker 2: was asked about it earlier this week. He said, fans

2050
01:45:50,040 --> 01:45:52,920
Speaker 2: know their team can't win every game. They know only

2051
01:45:52,960 --> 01:45:55,160
Speaker 2: one team can win a ring. What fans care about

2052
01:45:55,360 --> 01:45:58,639
Speaker 2: their teams. What fans that care about their team's record

2053
01:45:58,720 --> 01:46:01,320
Speaker 2: want is hope, hope they will be better and have

2054
01:46:01,439 --> 01:46:03,960
Speaker 2: a chance to compete for the playoffs and then may

2055
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:05,800
Speaker 2: be a ring. The only way to get closer to

2056
01:46:05,960 --> 01:46:09,200
Speaker 2: that is via the draft and trades and caproom. You

2057
01:46:09,240 --> 01:46:12,840
Speaker 2: have a better chance of via improving all three when

2058
01:46:13,200 --> 01:46:18,120
Speaker 2: you tank. So Mark Cuban essentially saying what I did

2059
01:46:18,120 --> 01:46:20,080
Speaker 2: for people who didn't listen to our show last week.

2060
01:46:20,120 --> 01:46:23,599
Speaker 2: I essentially said, I actually don't think it's a big deal.

2061
01:46:23,640 --> 01:46:28,400
Speaker 2: I actually think tanking is largely a victimless crime. I

2062
01:46:28,479 --> 01:46:31,200
Speaker 2: understand fans pay to go to games, but I think

2063
01:46:31,520 --> 01:46:35,000
Speaker 2: most teams that are tanking fans know what they're getting into,

2064
01:46:35,080 --> 01:46:39,240
Speaker 2: either before the season or certainly during the season. And

2065
01:46:39,320 --> 01:46:41,240
Speaker 2: I do wish there was a way the NBA or

2066
01:46:41,280 --> 01:46:46,680
Speaker 2: individual teams could compensate teams. If you know, if in

2067
01:46:46,720 --> 01:46:48,840
Speaker 2: the middle of the year, they clearly go into tank mode.

2068
01:46:48,880 --> 01:46:50,240
Speaker 2: I wish there was a way that, you know, you

2069
01:46:50,240 --> 01:46:53,080
Speaker 2: could get refunds on your tickets or discounts or whatever.

2070
01:46:53,560 --> 01:46:55,280
Speaker 3: I only bring it up to say.

2071
01:46:55,280 --> 01:46:57,240
Speaker 2: Not only do I not think it's a big deal,

2072
01:46:57,280 --> 01:46:59,160
Speaker 2: I think what Mark Cuban said is correct. Is the

2073
01:46:59,200 --> 01:47:02,880
Speaker 2: best way to get the best players is to be

2074
01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:05,160
Speaker 2: bad during the regular season, which allows you to get

2075
01:47:05,160 --> 01:47:07,840
Speaker 2: the best draft picks. I'm talking too much your thoughts

2076
01:47:07,840 --> 01:47:09,920
Speaker 2: on Mark Cuban's comments about tanking.

2077
01:47:10,280 --> 01:47:13,519
Speaker 4: That doesn't surprise me that the man behind Shark Tank

2078
01:47:13,840 --> 01:47:17,000
Speaker 4: is talking about tanking. That's the first thing I thought about.

2079
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:19,040
Speaker 4: It was like, well, maybe he's just talking. Maybe he's

2080
01:47:19,040 --> 01:47:21,200
Speaker 4: doing some brand extension, he's trying to get back involved

2081
01:47:21,240 --> 01:47:24,439
Speaker 4: in Shark Tank. But no, I mean there's a point here, right.

2082
01:47:24,920 --> 01:47:28,479
Speaker 4: I think I may have pressed this hypothetical on our

2083
01:47:28,520 --> 01:47:30,720
Speaker 4: show years ago, and now I'm going to be able

2084
01:47:30,760 --> 01:47:33,680
Speaker 4: to take it in a different direction based on this,

2085
01:47:34,000 --> 01:47:36,800
Speaker 4: and this will actually maybe not reflect what I said

2086
01:47:36,880 --> 01:47:41,400
Speaker 4: last week about tanking. But if we were to run

2087
01:47:41,439 --> 01:47:45,679
Speaker 4: a poll of everybody listening right now across the country,

2088
01:47:47,040 --> 01:47:50,160
Speaker 4: and they're all sports fans, and they all have some

2089
01:47:50,479 --> 01:47:54,759
Speaker 4: dog in the fight in some sport, and we said, Okay,

2090
01:47:55,720 --> 01:47:59,479
Speaker 4: you are guaranteed to win a championship within the next

2091
01:47:59,520 --> 01:48:03,880
Speaker 4: five years, but outside of that and after that, you're

2092
01:48:03,880 --> 01:48:07,800
Speaker 4: going to be irrelevant for the next fifteen Would you

2093
01:48:07,840 --> 01:48:11,600
Speaker 4: take that deal? I think that still a lot of

2094
01:48:11,600 --> 01:48:16,559
Speaker 4: people would say yes, even though the entertainment value might

2095
01:48:16,680 --> 01:48:22,160
Speaker 4: be worse cumulatively. The idea of winning a championship is

2096
01:48:22,200 --> 01:48:25,200
Speaker 4: the ultimate goal for those that play, but it's also

2097
01:48:25,240 --> 01:48:28,200
Speaker 4: the ultimate goal for those who watch. It's what you

2098
01:48:28,320 --> 01:48:30,639
Speaker 4: want from your school, It's what you want from your

2099
01:48:30,680 --> 01:48:34,759
Speaker 4: favorite team, your squad, your people. That's what you want.

2100
01:48:35,200 --> 01:48:39,080
Speaker 4: That's why sports matters, because there are winners and there

2101
01:48:39,120 --> 01:48:42,720
Speaker 4: are losers, and that brings the competitiveness into it. So

2102
01:48:42,800 --> 01:48:48,040
Speaker 4: now let me ask the same hypothetical in reverse and say,

2103
01:48:49,840 --> 01:48:53,599
Speaker 4: I promise you over the next two to three years,

2104
01:48:54,160 --> 01:49:00,000
Speaker 4: you're going to be incredibly irrelevant. But because of that decison,

2105
01:49:00,360 --> 01:49:04,080
Speaker 4: and because of that guarantee, I can also give you

2106
01:49:04,240 --> 01:49:08,120
Speaker 4: pretty solid odds, even if not guarantees, I can give

2107
01:49:08,160 --> 01:49:12,880
Speaker 4: you pretty solid odds that you might get a superstar

2108
01:49:13,040 --> 01:49:16,080
Speaker 4: level player that then might be in your market for

2109
01:49:16,120 --> 01:49:19,800
Speaker 4: a decade and could win multiple championships and it will

2110
01:49:19,800 --> 01:49:24,439
Speaker 4: make you instantly relevant. How would that go? And I

2111
01:49:24,479 --> 01:49:27,559
Speaker 4: don't know the answer to that, but I think that

2112
01:49:28,360 --> 01:49:31,719
Speaker 4: if you ask some of the like if you asked

2113
01:49:32,120 --> 01:49:37,240
Speaker 4: Washington Wizards fans if it would be cool if their

2114
01:49:37,280 --> 01:49:39,639
Speaker 4: ownership came out and said, for the next two three seasons,

2115
01:49:39,640 --> 01:49:41,160
Speaker 4: we're going to do all we can to lose as

2116
01:49:41,200 --> 01:49:44,479
Speaker 4: many games as possible because this strategy ain't working. Even

2117
01:49:44,520 --> 01:49:46,560
Speaker 4: at our best. We were a three seed in the

2118
01:49:46,600 --> 01:49:48,960
Speaker 4: East with John Walld and Bradley Beal. We got to

2119
01:49:49,000 --> 01:49:51,360
Speaker 4: figure out. We got to figure something out, and quite frankly,

2120
01:49:51,479 --> 01:49:53,759
Speaker 4: we've got to bottom out in a way no one's

2121
01:49:53,800 --> 01:49:56,840
Speaker 4: ever bottomed out in this league before, so that we

2122
01:49:56,880 --> 01:49:59,439
Speaker 4: can get the future and give you a team that

2123
01:49:59,479 --> 01:50:02,519
Speaker 4: you really want to root for. I think that although

2124
01:50:02,560 --> 01:50:05,920
Speaker 4: you'd never see that outside of like a truth serum experiment,

2125
01:50:05,960 --> 01:50:09,080
Speaker 4: on all sides, I think the fans would take that deal.

2126
01:50:09,800 --> 01:50:14,360
Speaker 4: And if that is indeed true, then what Mark Cuban

2127
01:50:14,439 --> 01:50:18,320
Speaker 4: is saying is not only right, but it's logical. And

2128
01:50:18,360 --> 01:50:21,360
Speaker 4: so your point about it being a victimless crime, it's

2129
01:50:21,520 --> 01:50:25,720
Speaker 4: we're only victims because we lose the entertainment. And I

2130
01:50:25,760 --> 01:50:29,479
Speaker 4: say we collectively the local market are victims in the

2131
01:50:29,479 --> 01:50:31,799
Speaker 4: short term, but could be winners in the long term.

2132
01:50:32,120 --> 01:50:34,719
Speaker 4: For us, it's just like it's a zero sum game

2133
01:50:34,760 --> 01:50:37,479
Speaker 4: next season. Anytime they play, we can tune out. But

2134
01:50:37,560 --> 01:50:40,439
Speaker 4: that was likely going to be true anyway. So I've

2135
01:50:40,479 --> 01:50:44,120
Speaker 4: softened my idea and my thoughts on tanking based on

2136
01:50:44,200 --> 01:50:48,040
Speaker 4: the fact that if that's the only way that you

2137
01:50:48,080 --> 01:50:52,040
Speaker 4: can get Wemby, then go ahead and do it. The problem, though,

2138
01:50:52,160 --> 01:50:58,320
Speaker 4: is gotta get Wey, yeah, or I don't know, somehow pride.

2139
01:50:58,520 --> 01:51:00,519
Speaker 4: I don't know how this kind of thing happens. But

2140
01:51:01,439 --> 01:51:04,240
Speaker 4: sometimes did Dallas Mavericks get Cooper Flagg.

2141
01:51:04,960 --> 01:51:07,519
Speaker 2: Well, I'll just say this quick, and we can even

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Speaker 2: come back and talk about this. But that is the

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Speaker 2: problem with tanking is you got to you know, look

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Speaker 2: at the Philadelphia seventy six ers. You know, the process

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Speaker 2: was great when he got embied, but then he also

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Speaker 2: drafted Ben Simmons and Markel Folts. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: number one pick in the draft Markel Folts two picks

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Speaker 2: later was Jason Tatum. You take Jason Tatum, the history

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Speaker 2: of the NBA literally might be different. We can actually

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Speaker 2: discuss this more on the back end but let's get

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Speaker 2: into the news desk final time. Steve de Seger, what

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Speaker 2: is trending?

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Speaker 5: Sir?

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Speaker 7: You talk about NBA and Charles Barkley. Among his ideas

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Speaker 7: this week was no team in sports should be allowed

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Speaker 7: to raise ticket prices when they finished under five hundred.

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Speaker 3: Like that shit. I love that.

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Speaker 4: That's great, that's great.

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Speaker 7: The Lakers not one of those under five hundred teams,

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Speaker 7: but nonetheless news this week that they are raising ticket

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Speaker 7: prices for next year. There was a season ticket holder

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Speaker 7: and this is upstairs. These are the three hundred level seats,

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Speaker 7: way above all the suites. Last year, his season tickets

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Speaker 7: were about five thousand, five hundred for the ticket. It's

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Speaker 7: over six thousand for the season. This year, the exact

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Speaker 7: same seat is going to be over nine thousand dollars.

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Speaker 7: She's good next year. The Lakers statement says the updates

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Speaker 7: reflect the current market landscape and demand. Lakers still get

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Speaker 7: great attendance. They're owned by the Dodgers owner. Obviously, the

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Speaker 7: Dodgers get phenomenal attendance. Speaking of attendants, we mentioned the

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Speaker 7: LA Coliseum tonight as a comparison when USC last fall

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Speaker 7: was hosting Michigan College football attendance at a ticket prices

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Speaker 7: were very expensive for that attendant.

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Speaker 2: Ley's going to start taking straight right now. I can

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Speaker 2: feel this.

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Speaker 7: No, although you know if we can accomplish that, sure

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Speaker 7: the LA Coliseum at revamped Place, attendance for the win

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Speaker 7: against Michigan was seventy five thousand, and five hundred. Tonight,

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Speaker 7: MLS he he's an opener seventy five thousand, six hundred

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Speaker 7: and seventy three as LAFC beat Leon Omessi and defending

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Speaker 7: champion Miami in an MLS season opener three nothing. It

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Speaker 7: is the second highest attendance in the history of that league,

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Speaker 7: which has been around thirty years. Nashville won four to

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Speaker 7: one against New England and San Diego five nothing over Montreal.

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Speaker 7: A reminder nascars at Atlanta on Sunday on Fox TV again.

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Speaker 7: Jacob Bridgeman leads Roy McElroy by six strokes in LA

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Speaker 7: after a third round. Sixty four Baseball Hall of Famer

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Speaker 7: Bill Mazerowski passed away at the age of eighty nine.

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Speaker 7: Today was the first full day of spring training games

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Speaker 7: this year. Pittsburgh beat the Orioles eight two. Ryan o'hearnex

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Speaker 7: of Baltimore hit a three run homer Aaron Judge two homers.

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Speaker 7: Yankees won twenty to three over Detroit. The Dodgers beat

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Speaker 7: the Angels fifteen to two. Teoscar Hernandez went three for three,

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Speaker 7: three run scored. Angel fans would have had to watch

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Speaker 7: the Dodgers channel for that one. The Angels are not

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Speaker 7: showing a single spring training game this year.

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Speaker 2: Didn't Artie Morano say this week it's not about winning.

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Speaker 2: He had some quote that was like, the most important

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Speaker 2: thing is not winning, and it was like, why.

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Speaker 3: Are you sure sure about that?

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Speaker 7: That's been the case for the entire time era with

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Speaker 7: him as the owner. Dodgers place utility man key A

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Speaker 7: Hernandez on the sixty day IL after elbow surgery. The

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Speaker 7: Dallas Cowboys gave running back Javonte Williams a three year extension.

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Speaker 7: Titans quarterback cam Ward will resume throwing in two to

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Speaker 7: three weeks after his shoulder injury at the end of

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Speaker 7: last season, according to NFL media. A report in Cleveland

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Speaker 7: says it's doubtful that linebacker Jeremiah Owusu Corramo will ever

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Speaker 7: return after his neck injury. In twenty twenty four, the

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Speaker 7: NFL's annual scouting combine starts Monday. NFL wide receiver Rondel

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Speaker 7: Moore died at the age of twenty five in Indiana.

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Speaker 7: He started at Purdue. Moore played three years for the

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Speaker 7: Arizona Cardinals. No cause of death officially given. Suicide is suspected.

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Speaker 7: At the Winter Olympics, US Skiers took Golden Team Ariels.

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01:54:58,160 --> 01:55:02,600
Speaker 7: Canadian hockey captain Sydney Rosby practiced after missing the semifinal

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Speaker 7: due to injury. US Men against Canada Sunday morning. In

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Speaker 7: the Olympic Final, Finland took the bronze.

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Speaker 4: Today.

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Speaker 7: NBA late game had the Nixon Home down by eighteen

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Speaker 7: early fourth quarter. They still defeated Houston one eight one

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Speaker 7: oh six. Spurs won their eighth straight beating Sacramento, Kings

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Speaker 7: of lost sixteen in a row. Detroit sent the Bowls

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Speaker 7: to an eighth straight loss, and Phoenix in double overtime

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01:55:25,200 --> 01:55:28,080
Speaker 7: beat Orlando on a three pointer at the buzzer. You

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Speaker 7: mentioned Cooper Flag of the mAbs. He will miss another

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Speaker 7: game on Sunday with a sprain foot. Milwaukee's Giannis Antennacumpo

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Speaker 7: still out with the strained calf. Rudy Gobert of Minnesota

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01:55:37,240 --> 01:55:40,040
Speaker 7: was suspended one game for too many flagrant fouls. The

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Speaker 7: Lakers will unveil a statue of pat Riley on Sunday

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01:55:43,240 --> 01:55:47,680
Speaker 7: in La. Tonight, said Pauley Pavilion. UCLA down thirty three

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Speaker 7: ten after about ten minutes, still beat number ten Illinois.

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01:55:51,480 --> 01:55:54,960
Speaker 7: Quite the upset in overtime ninety five ninety four on

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01:55:55,040 --> 01:55:58,440
Speaker 7: a layup at the buzzer in DC. Number three Duke

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01:55:58,600 --> 01:56:02,120
Speaker 7: beat number one Michigan six six three Arizona what at

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Speaker 7: Houston BYU upset number six Iowa State Cincinnati defeated Kansas

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Speaker 7: Tennessee one at Vanderbilt. Back to you, Thank you very much,

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Speaker 7: Steve Segre Sagreb A great evening. I'll actually be back

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Speaker 7: with you tomorrow evening. Chris Plank on softball duty. I'll

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Speaker 7: be with our I'll be in with Arnie Spanier at

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Speaker 7: eleven pm Eastern time. We'll come back, we'll wrap the show.

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Speaker 7: Still a lot to get to. Erin tors Jason Martin, Fox.

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Speaker 3: Sports Trady, Welcome back, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio erin Torris, Jason Martin, we are broadcasting live. Yes,

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Speaker 2: we are live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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Speaker 3: Nine minutes from now.

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Speaker 2: Bernie Fratto of the Bernie Fratto Show follows us cannot

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01:56:44,520 --> 01:56:47,760
Speaker 2: wait to hear what Bernie has to say about a

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01:56:47,960 --> 01:56:50,800
Speaker 2: busy week in sports really quickly. By the way, Ja

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Speaker 2: mart don't know that it's one of the top five

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Speaker 2: hundred stories from this week. But I found the Arty

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Speaker 2: Moreno quote. I misquoted him a little bit, Okay, he says, well,

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01:57:02,880 --> 01:57:07,520
Speaker 2: Jeff Fletcher covers the Orange County Register and asked about,

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01:57:07,600 --> 01:57:10,360
Speaker 2: you know, putting a winning team on the field. Arti

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Speaker 2: Moreno said, according to a survey the Angels conducted it,

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Speaker 2: winning doesn't rank among the top five fan priorities. The

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Speaker 2: quote that was pulled because the rest of it is

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Speaker 2: behind a paywall. The number one thing fans want is affordability.

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01:57:24,040 --> 01:57:27,280
Speaker 2: They want affordability, they want safety, and they want a

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Speaker 2: good experience when they come to the ballpark. Believe it

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Speaker 2: or not, winning is not in their top five. The

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Speaker 2: moms want to be able to afford to bring kids.

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01:57:34,600 --> 01:57:37,720
Speaker 2: Moms make about eighty percent of the decisions. They want

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Speaker 2: to be able to bring their kids and be affordable,

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Speaker 2: and they want safety, and they want to have a

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Speaker 2: good experience so they get all the entertainment stuff or whatever.

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Speaker 2: The purest you know, it's just straight winning.

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Speaker 4: So here's that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Look, if Arty Morena was running a minor league team,

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Speaker 4: he might have a point, like right here in Nashville

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Speaker 4: where I do the show that Nashville sounds in most

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01:58:01,800 --> 01:58:04,520
Speaker 4: minor league teams, I couldn't tell you whether they win

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Speaker 4: or lose on a day to day basis, but I

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Speaker 4: do know it's a good experience. It's a cool place

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Speaker 4: to take a date, it's a cool place to take

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Speaker 4: your family. You don't have to sit and pay attention

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Speaker 4: to every pitch. You know, the merchandise is a little

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01:58:16,480 --> 01:58:19,040
Speaker 4: bit more affordable, Parking is going to be more affordable,

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Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff like that plays into it.

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Speaker 4: But as the owner of a professional sports team.

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Speaker 2: Quiet No, it's it's a bad look. There's no other

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01:58:30,600 --> 01:58:34,240
Speaker 2: way to put it, and it's not what your fans

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Speaker 2: want to hear. And apparently, and part of this had

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01:58:36,800 --> 01:58:38,760
Speaker 2: to do with the local TV deal, but they slashed

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Speaker 2: fifty million dollars in payroll. They're expected to lose fifty

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Speaker 2: million dollars. So yeah, so yeah, that was Alreadie Moreno

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Speaker 2: didn't think would be ending with the Angels. By the way,

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Speaker 2: you're more of a baseball guy than I am. We

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01:58:50,840 --> 01:58:52,960
Speaker 2: talked a little bit of baseball. You fired up for

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Speaker 2: spring training to be here and baseball around the corner?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I definitely am. I don't pay as

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Speaker 4: close of attention to every thing happening in spring training.

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Speaker 4: I'll be following the Braves podcast every day and all

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Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. But I'm excited about the season

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Speaker 4: in general, and I do think that we're gonna get

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Speaker 4: a little bit more of a boost because, man, the

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Speaker 4: WBC is good TV. Man, it really really is. And

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Speaker 4: I am highly looking forward to the World Baseball Classic. No,

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Speaker 4: I am too.

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Speaker 2: I cannot wait for the World Baseball Classic and ended

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Speaker 2: in style a couple of years ago, show Hey striking

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Speaker 2: out Mike Trout to win it for Japan. Show Hey

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Speaker 2: won't pitch in this year's World Baseball Classic, But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think it'll set the stage for a fun baseball

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Speaker 2: season ahead spring training. Pitchers and catchers have reported Aaron

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Speaker 2: Judge today with two home runs, tell you what we.

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Speaker 3: Got to get out of here?

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Speaker 2: J mart want to thank the crew, Mary mack on

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Speaker 2: the board, producer Ian Steve Desager from my partner Jason Martin,

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Speaker 2: do me a favor make sure to download the podcast

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01:59:49,960 --> 01:59:52,200
Speaker 2: to be available shortly after we get off air. Mark

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Speaker 2: Medina joined us. He was great. You know who else

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01:59:55,000 --> 01:59:57,960
Speaker 2: is great? Bernie Fratto of The Bernie Fratto Show. He

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Speaker 2: is coming up next for Jason Martin. I'm here, Torres.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Radio.