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Speaker 1: a big day weekend and in the NBA that we

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Speaker 1: are going to get to now because the All Star

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Speaker 1: Game has come and gone, and look the world is

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Speaker 1: still standing. Ah, let me, everything is fine on Monday, right,

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Speaker 1: it's actually out, Jason, the world well, that is true.

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Speaker 1: They were out fast. Yeah, the Stars and Stripes stood.

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Speaker 1: The world was out fit USA USA. This is a

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Speaker 1: case where I love to say we told you so right.

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Speaker 1: We talked about this on Friday night and when nobody

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Speaker 1: really knew what to expect from the All Star Game.

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Speaker 1: What are we gonna get on Sunday? And what did

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Speaker 1: I say? We're gonna get the best game in years.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna show up for two reasons. One, USA versus

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Speaker 1: the World is a pretty good format. The newness of it.

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Speaker 1: You know, the players are gonna come out fired up

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Speaker 1: for it to an extent. That's gonna be great. Secondly,

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Speaker 1: they know the optics of the NBA have taken a

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Speaker 1: big hit in the last week. The players are smart.

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Speaker 1: They know that. Okay, with all the talk is about

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Speaker 1: tanking and how bad the All Star Game is, we

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Speaker 1: like the All Star Game. We want to keep it going. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go out and we're gonna give a pretty

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Speaker 1: good effort. And they did. The games were close. We

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Speaker 1: saw a great play, but it wasn't at the expense

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Speaker 1: off people's heads and into the net. All right, we

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Speaker 1: didn't get that. We got really good basketball, and we

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Speaker 1: saw hard play. We saw close games except for the

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Speaker 1: final one, and it judged by a success not just

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Speaker 1: because of what we saw and what was said about

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Speaker 1: it after, but the ratings. Eight million people watch blows

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Speaker 1: away the Pro Bowl, which didn't even get two million.

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Speaker 1: Highest rated All Star game in a while. Now, it

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Speaker 1: does help that it's you know, sandwich between sandwich, sandwich

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Speaker 1: between Olympics because everybody is watching NBC. Okay, but still

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Speaker 1: you had eight million people watching the All Star Game.

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Speaker 1: We told you it was going to be a big event,

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Speaker 1: and that's exactly what we saw mission accomplished for the

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Speaker 1: that's the beauty of it is you come into this

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Speaker 1: of things. Victor wembin Yama has been nothing but business

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Speaker 1: as related to these kind of events and knowing he's

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Speaker 1: you also had Anthony Edwards, the unwilling co face of

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Speaker 1: They got Wemby. But there he is time and again

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Speaker 1: his interviews like, yeah, I like cooking the old guys

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Speaker 1: it's the idea of being able to play against guys

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Speaker 1: can you can continue to tweak this. That's the best part.

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Speaker 1: This is not the NBA Finals, it's the All Star Game.

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Speaker 1: how do we make sure we keep getting people coming in? Right?

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Speaker 1: Monday will be you know, you know, fifty cent wing Night.

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Speaker 1: Tuesday is gonna be Ladies Night. Wednesday is going to

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Speaker 1: be you know, Mike Harmon, you know, shows you the

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Speaker 1: and you get to watch them. A lot of shorts. Man,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of shorts, and they're all purple. That's

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Speaker 1: And let's just keep it going year to year and

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Speaker 1: let's not lose all of our viewers. So there is

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Speaker 1: gonna be a tweak to it. And I think they

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Speaker 1: they do going forward. Right, USA versus the World worked. Now,

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Speaker 1: the world got out quick. But it happens when Luca

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Speaker 1: the All Star Game. It's not that, Hey, we brought

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Speaker 1: it back. The players were into it. We had people watch.

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Speaker 1: It's we bought what the fix is for the next

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Speaker 1: two or three years, we bought We kicked that can

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Speaker 1: down the road a long way because the fans bought in.

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Speaker 1: The fans like it, the players like it, and really,

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Speaker 1: as long as the players give an effort like we

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Speaker 1: saw yesterday, the fans are gonna forgive a lot, right,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna it doesn't matter. It's three mini games.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: We just want to see good basketball and see them

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Speaker 1: play and see the best play at the highest level.

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of what we got. Well, I would

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Speaker 1: think part of it you mentioned the sand would effect.

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Speaker 1: So every other year you get the Olympics, so there's

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Speaker 1: a help for you. But reality is that you're looking

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Speaker 1: at a one year where there was some semblance of

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Speaker 1: hate watching. I'd love to see the giant pie. How

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Speaker 1: we cut it up because given the amount of oxygen

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Speaker 1: put in coming out of the Super Bowl, and the

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Speaker 1: immediate was all right, the All Star Games coming and

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Speaker 1: it sucks, let's go. And that's all you heard in

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Speaker 1: our business, right, You couldn't avoid it. We talked about

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Speaker 1: the shine the light on. There's been a lot of

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Speaker 1: good basketball in between the tanking. Yes, the Jazz and

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Speaker 1: the pacers and those teams that are fighting for the bottom.

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Speaker 1: How do you fix it? It's a legitimate discussion at

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Speaker 1: Adam Silver. As you watched him, he did that little

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Speaker 1: side step back and forth on any issue. Hey, we're great,

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Speaker 1: everything's good, We're gonna expand oh he keeps selling that.

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Speaker 1: But he's like, you know, he's like he's almost like

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Speaker 1: So everybody loves the Hunger Game, you can. Meanwhile, there's

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Speaker 1: What kind of effort? But you've at least got something

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Speaker 1: in theory for this year you come out of and go,

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Speaker 1: you know, that was pretty good. I hate that we

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Speaker 1: and for those that are even just really casual with

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Speaker 1: it that it's like, hey, they tried, yeah yeah, but

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Speaker 1: but but that's how low the bar is set. It's

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Speaker 1: like we've allowed this this to be to be a

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Speaker 1: circus for the past twenty years. It just got worse

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Speaker 1: and words a little bit worse, a little bit worse,

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Speaker 1: little bit worse. But now hey, all you can do

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Speaker 1: play close gay, Oh hey, guess what, Hey, we kind

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Speaker 1: Oh so wait, so that's the secret, right, Okay, so

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Speaker 1: now you're not gonna ask us to play full games.

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Speaker 1: This whole mini games thing where so, I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: it's when you can hit on something, because who knows

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Speaker 1: what the world is going to be in three years

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Speaker 1: with the NBA, who knows where all Star games are

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Speaker 1: in three years, who knows, or we're taking a year

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Speaker 1: away from it because we're doing this in season tournament.

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Speaker 1: So but to buy two or three years of good publicity,

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Speaker 1: and we figured out the All Star Game, Like that's

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Speaker 1: NBA's play like they figured this out. I mean really,

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Speaker 1: You see that two by four sitting in the car, Buddy,

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Speaker 1: I'm in trouble. Hit him in that his skis like

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Speaker 1: DJ didn't get a Planet of the Apes in While

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Speaker 1: You're at it, or he wasn't a Planet of the

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Speaker 1: that doesn't count. That doesn't count. Come on, man, that

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, dude, I waited, Mike, because you know

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Speaker 1: waited my whole life the reboot. I was going to

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Speaker 1: Mark Come on, man, like that's like that's that's like say, hey,

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Speaker 1: oo fid general Faid, the Shakespearean Kara Khalima. We're going

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Speaker 1: to Khalima. Oh, that's just come on. Deep Roy who

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Speaker 1: long term first, because Jannis spoke at All Star weekend

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Speaker 1: He's staying a member of the Milwaukee Bucks, and if

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Speaker 1: you hear him, tell it, Hey, I love Milwaukee. For now, as.

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Speaker 1: to own the fact that I want to get trade. Oh. Today,

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Speaker 1: as of today, I'm committed to the people. That's like

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban, Guys, I'm not going to Alabama. I don't

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Speaker 1: I'm done with Giannis and his fake Oh. I never

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Speaker 1: wanted to go anywhere, dude. You they tried to trade you.

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Speaker 1: You talked about wanting a trade. You want out, but no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: no no. I want to make sure all the fans

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Speaker 1: fact that I want out. No, no, no, no, no. His agent,

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Speaker 1: Remember he kept plausible deniability, just never from his lips.

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Speaker 1: Just you know what, you obviously want to go, but

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Speaker 1: oh hey, I want to make it seem like there's

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Speaker 1: nothing I could do. The Milwaukee Bucks traded me. The

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Speaker 1: Bucks are not gonna look to trade you unless you

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Speaker 1: ask them to. They're not gonna do it right. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna hold onto their superstar as long as possible. So

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Speaker 1: don't sit here and say, oh, you know nothing I

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Speaker 1: can do. They're they're gonna try to trade me. No,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't happen. Stop trying to convince us the stuff

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Speaker 1: that's not true. It's just it's just a load of crap, man.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you saw it work with the Mavericks and

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Speaker 1: they're not gonna do that. Man, That's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: When the trade happens, guess what, we're gonna hear all

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Speaker 1: so much more respect for Yiannis if you would just

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Speaker 1: own the fact that, yeah, it doesn't have to say

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Speaker 1: this is a horrible place. Just hey, I think I've

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Speaker 1: I want to go someplace else. I'll always be a buck,

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Speaker 1: you want to get traded, Yannis, you're breaking everybody's heart. No, dude,

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00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:37,760
Speaker 1: just own it. Own it. You're one of the biggest

426
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Speaker 1: stars in the game and you're walking around like, oh, hey,

427
00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. You've never heard me say anything like

428
00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,320
Speaker 1: all things that you hear coaches saying when they want

429
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Speaker 1: to deny their meeting with other schools. I've never said

430
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Speaker 1: anythink no but your agent and talk like everybody knows. Man,

431
00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,120
Speaker 1: you're not fooling anybody. Just own I. Really, I would

432
00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:55,640
Speaker 1: have so much more respect from me. I would say,

433
00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,840
Speaker 1: just own it, because I can't respect somebody. He says, Ah,

434
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Speaker 1: I just don't want to be hated. Not dude, if

435
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,520
Speaker 1: you want to you want out, man, decisions have consequences,

436
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,960
Speaker 1: be okay with it. You want to get traded, you

437
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:06,919
Speaker 1: say it again. I would have so much more respect

438
00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 1: for if you did that. Y I'll go back to

439
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,960
Speaker 1: his other lie in a second, but certainly for this one,

440
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 1: we keep going. I do like that you tried to

441
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 1: channel your inner Jack Nicholson departed when you started talking

442
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Speaker 1: about rats. But I walk out all bloody. Hey, let's

443
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:26,520
Speaker 1: let's just make sure that we okay, Frank No, So

444
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,920
Speaker 1: you look at what Giannis has done and I'll bring

445
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Speaker 1: back our favorite. He's been a guy that's been battered

446
00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,439
Speaker 1: in our media space, James hard Right. Last week he

447
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,120
Speaker 1: was talking about loyalty and whatever else and everybody clowned him.

448
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:43,400
Speaker 1: It's like, this is the most honest guy that we've

449
00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,160
Speaker 1: seen in all this stuff. Everybody else tries to hide

450
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,119
Speaker 1: Ah at Burner account, that's not me. There's kd Over there.

451
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,560
Speaker 1: You got Yannis, who's I never said anything, even though

452
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 1: we've had pretty much every NBA reporter come through. And

453
00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,560
Speaker 1: then you don't help yourself when you end up potentially

454
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 1: profiting twenty plus million dollars out of partnership with Calshi

455
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,680
Speaker 1: about what your future is. That timing really cuts you

456
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,040
Speaker 1: at the knees on a lot of what you're saying

457
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 1: as related to your trade interest, et cetera. But for

458
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,479
Speaker 1: James Harden, he's always been pretty honest. I'm done with this.

459
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:21,440
Speaker 1: Let me shout out to the guy in the back.

460
00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,800
Speaker 1: You don't have to like it, but he's gone through

461
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 1: his career and he's owning it. If he's the villain

462
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 1: of the stories, he's the villain of the story. Janni's

463
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 1: the second light. He did told his kids that he

464
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,520
Speaker 1: was a better player than Wemby. Yeah, that's a big life.

465
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 1: Come on, Yeah, Well, what are you gonna tell you? Hey, sorry,

466
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,720
Speaker 1: dad's not nearly as good as he is. Well, you

467
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Speaker 1: can't put that out there because it may may submarine

468
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,360
Speaker 1: your trade potential. Two things I want to tell you,

469
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,359
Speaker 1: dad's better than him. And two, if anybody asks you

470
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Speaker 1: if I want to trade, you say I've never heard

471
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,640
Speaker 1: my dad say he wants a trade. Don't say I've

472
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 1: never said it. Say I've never heard me say it.

473
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Speaker 1: There's a difference. There's a difference right there. Ever, rad

474
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Speaker 1: on your dad and always keep your mouth shut. I

475
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 1: mean really that you know what, if you don't want

476
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 1: to go anywhere, then put everything to rest right now

477
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,160
Speaker 1: and say I am staying in Milwaukee for the rest

478
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:11,959
Speaker 1: of my career. Say that. That's why I would say

479
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:13,640
Speaker 1: I don't even need I need to know I need

480
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 1: that at this point now, because he wants to be

481
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 1: mousey about all this, like no, then if you don't

482
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 1: want to go anywhere and you're all in and you

483
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 1: keep saying that, I want you to say, I am

484
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 1: not going anywhere. I am finishing my career here in

485
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 1: Milwaukee and I'm excited about it. Say that. But he

486
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 1: won't because he wants out, because he can't even own

487
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 1: the direction he wants his career to go with. Well,

488
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 1: but that's fine, right the long term is by the

489
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 1: end of the season, who knows. And even if you

490
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,959
Speaker 1: want out right now and you've already charted your course

491
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 1: and behind the scenes it's all worked out and whatever else, fine,

492
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 1: But all he had to do was chop off the

493
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 1: as of today. Otherwise it's a nice statement. Might get

494
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 1: a follow up crise just like asked an answered, you know,

495
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 1: committed as it as it stands Hey, here we are

496
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 1: whatever you know, lead the as it stands out. But

497
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 1: I'm committed to the people I work with into my teammate,

498
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 1: and we've got a second half of the season to

499
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 1: go play and just leave it at that, because the

500
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 1: questions are going to keep coming, Like every time he

501
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 1: gets in front of a boat here, it's going to

502
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: be the same thing. Like, you didn't assuage and dissuade

503
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Speaker 1: anybody from asking the question. You didn't take away any

504
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 1: of the fears and lay any of the fears of

505
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 1: bucks people that are going, Hey, I was thinking about

506
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,479
Speaker 1: buying a jersey? Do I buy that? Is he going

507
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 1: to leave those fans? You know? I was thinking about

508
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 1: end of the season. Is he even gonna be playing?

509
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: Or are we going to lose those last couple of

510
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,880
Speaker 1: games for our lottery status? I mean, there's a lot

511
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,640
Speaker 1: going on there. Meanwhile, Lebron James also spoke oh about

512
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 1: it having the solo press conference at the All Star Game,

513
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: where many pundits thought, is he gonna announce he's retiring?

514
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,639
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, that was I can't believe people actually

515
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 1: said that, because if he actually watched him the last

516
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: game the Lakers had, he said, listen, I gotta just

517
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 1: see where I am at after this year mentally, if

518
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 1: I'm good up here, I can keep playing. That's what

519
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 1: he said. So he's not going to suddenly change it

520
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: on Sunday and say, oh yeah, yeah, I'm done. Maybe

521
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,919
Speaker 1: the twenty four Hours is getting clowned for how he

522
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: got that trip in bubble by shame here. Well, he's

523
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 1: just a goofy ass forty one year old kid. Just

524
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,199
Speaker 1: make it from Akron, Just get it from Akron. So

525
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,479
Speaker 1: Lebron is asked about his future, and he gives the

526
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 1: best shake the eight ball result cloud. He asked again later,

527
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 1: still have the same uncertainty about next year? Do you

528
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 1: have an inkling of what you want to do? Yeah,

529
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: I mean I want to live when I know you

530
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 1: guys know, I don't know. I have no idea. I

531
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: just want to just want to live, That's all I

532
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: want to I want to live because he's not living.

533
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 1: Want to live. Not living right now? Won't you let

534
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: me live? I am the captive here in the in

535
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 1: the in the Luca, in the Luca Playbook, I am

536
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 1: the third star now behind Austin Reeves. Right, I'm not

537
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: even getting second billing in this. Now you gotta put

538
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 1: my name at the end. And Lebron James Bronni's getting

539
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 1: more shots up than me. So as soon as you

540
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 1: opt in into that contract, you knew what you signed

541
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: up for. That hole I want to live. That's just

542
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: come on, Lebron. But I have a translation for you, right.

543
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: Translation what it means when he says I'm unsure about

544
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: my future because I can translate for it. The translation is,

545
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,199
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody's gonna want to sign me.

546
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: That's good, and I'm not gonna go through an off

547
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: season of Hey, is Lebron gonna play? Is he not?

548
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,719
Speaker 1: I'll retire if no one's gonna sign me, but someone

549
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: might sign me, so I might play next year. That's

550
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: why I'm unsure. I don't know if people are gonna

551
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: sign me next year. That's completely why he's saying things

552
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 1: the way he is and having the solo press conference again,

553
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: which he's done before. This is him just he's so

554
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: desperate to keep as much of his power and influence

555
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: as he can when he sees it just leaking out

556
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 1: of him. Where what he says now no longer has

557
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 1: the end all be all attention that we spend. Now,

558
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: Lebron's still a really big story, but it's not the

559
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: end all be all like he used to be. You see,

560
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,640
Speaker 1: he is losing his power and his influence. So any

561
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 1: chance I can grab it and hold on to it,

562
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: I'm going to which is solo press conference, All Star Game.

563
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 1: Not gonna tamp down any anybody wondering about my future.

564
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 1: What I'm gonna be. No, I'm gonna say I don't know,

565
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 1: because clearly that's what it is. Lebron is at that

566
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: point in his career that many aging players are when

567
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: it gets in the off season. Am I gonna go

568
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: win for Lebron James? Do I want to sign him?

569
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 1: Is he worth it? I'm still a top a top

570
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: player in the league. But you have to upset a

571
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: lot of things to bring Lebron James in, And there's

572
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: a lot of that. There's teams out there they're gonna say, Hey,

573
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: Lebron could clearly help us, But is he gonna help

574
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: us at the expense of our growth? Right? Is Lebron

575
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 1: gonna come in, suck all the oxygen out of the

576
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 1: room and suddenly we're not any better than we were? Right?

577
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: If he goes back to Cleveland, is Cleveland gonna be

578
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: a Lebron James away from winning? Well, you look at

579
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: his numbers, how he can affect the box score. You

580
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: can say that, but is he going to take all

581
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: that energy and and and information and and and and

582
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 1: oxygen away from Donovan Mitchell and the rest of the team.

583
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: That's a thing. So I know he's he's saying this

584
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: because he knows his future. He could get signed, but

585
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: it could be it right, this is this is this

586
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: is a big moment for Lebron because we're the certainty

587
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 1: of him playing like I can see him playing in

588
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: another three years because obviously he can play at this level.

589
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: He's still a top twenty ish player in the league.

590
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: You think a guy like that wouldn't have as money

591
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: problems finding a place next year. But it's about the money,

592
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: it's about the fit, it's about not going just anywhere

593
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: to play like There's a lot that goes into it.

594
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: So I see this with Lebron and I take that

595
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: at face value as Yeah, he has no idea what

596
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 1: his market's going to be in the off season. I

597
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,160
Speaker 1: guarantee any team that Rich Paul has talked to where

598
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: back channeled whatever it was. Unofficially, it's all been yeah,

599
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: you know what, Hey, we love Lebron. Lebron's but we

600
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 1: got to talk to you in the off season. We

601
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: can't say, hey, don't worry about it. When that comes,

602
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: we'll be at your door the first day of free

603
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: agency making that phone call at midnight. We're going to

604
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: be there making that call. They can't say that, that's

605
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: why Lebron saying what It's just so many different variables

606
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: in that equation when you get down to who's your

607
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: A list guy right now? Are think it gonna be okay?

608
00:28:55,320 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: With Lebron coming in whatever his quote role is. He

609
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: brings the national sick of fans with him. He brings

610
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: all of that and all of that baggage that goes

611
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: through uh that carry through and take away from what

612
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: you're doing. How many people have to give up their roles.

613
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: How many now have to try to exert more on

614
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: the defensive ends, so they compromise their games to make

615
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: up for the fact that he's in the Kareem Abdul

616
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: Jabbar phase on the defensive end. Once in a while

617
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: you get a big play. Otherwise he's barely getting back

618
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: past half court on a lot of these sequences. So

619
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: you're you're talking about really upsetting the applega and everybody's

620
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: got a price. He's not gonna walk in the door

621
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: for a for a dollar fifty or whatever whatever the

622
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: minimum is for what should say, Hey, I want one

623
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Speaker 1: year and I'll take a million dollars. I'll take the whatever,

624
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: whatever it's going to be. I'll take whatever the littlest

625
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: amount you can pay me so we can get players.

626
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not gonna do He's never done that,

627
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: and that's it. He's not gonna do that. That's why

628
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: the Lakers are where they are right now. Is he

629
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: recognized nobody else was upset in the applecart to bring

630
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: him in, so he opts in and gets his fifty

631
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: three million closer towards ownership, but certainly not helping towards

632
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Speaker 1: do you got for us?

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Speaker 6: All right, you guys? So no more games left in

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Speaker 6: college basketball?

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Speaker 1: Number six?

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Speaker 6: Ohi, Iowa. I want to say, Ohio. I don't know why,

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Speaker 6: I'm just like in Ohio mode. So Iowa State upset

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Speaker 6: Number two Houston seventy to sixty seven. The Cyclones outscored

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Speaker 6: the Cougars seventeen to four in the final seven minutes

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Speaker 6: of the game. Senior guard Nate heise had to go

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Speaker 6: ahead three with under a minute left in the game.

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Speaker 6: His sister Taylor Heisee scored a goal against Sweden and

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Speaker 6: Team USA's semifinal victory earlier today. Number three Rankeduke steamrold

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Speaker 6: Syracus one on one sixty four for their thirtieth consecutive

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Speaker 6: home win. Camera Booser finished with twenty two points and

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Speaker 6: twelve boards. In the NFL, the Browns are hiring Atlanta

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Speaker 6: Falcons assistant Mike Grettenburg as their new DC. The Winter Olympics,

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Speaker 6: the US women's hockey team shout out Sweeden five to

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Speaker 6: zero to advance to the gold medal game on Thursday

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Speaker 6: against Canada. And in women's college hoops, thirteenth ranked Iowa

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Speaker 6: defeated Nebraska eighty to sixty seven for their tenth straight

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Speaker 6: twenty win season.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch free Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Are Radio Studios.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, two big time Major League baseball contenders

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Speaker 1: that you can tell spend all their waking moments thinking

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Speaker 1: about the Dodgers. Ooh, two big stories coming up next

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Speaker 1: right here, Jason and Mike, this is Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Ooh contenders. Ooh, I'm not skying tenders, Frostburg, suck it up,

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Speaker 1: what about tenders? Contenders game.

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

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. Getting set spring training pictures and catchers. Yay,

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Speaker 1: my fate. My dad tells me every day, two days

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Speaker 1: the pictures and cat one day to pitchure and cat. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, Dad, I know, I know. Jason. My internet's down. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Alonzo Homer again to that dude, you have to stop

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Speaker 1: sending me pin Alonzo home runs in batting practice, he said,

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Speaker 1: aren't they like the Orioles put it out on Friday

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Speaker 1: like he had a big home run. Oh, here's a

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Speaker 1: moonshot by Alonzo. Frostburg is sending it to me. Look

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Speaker 1: at this home run Alonzo hit in batting practice on Friday.

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Speaker 1: Man Hope is a dangerous thing, but it's also the

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Speaker 1: best of things. Mark Ramsey is in for ty you

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Speaker 1: today on the ones and twos. He's got his socks

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Speaker 1: head on. We're just hoping to lose fewer than one

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Speaker 1: hundred games. Are beloved White Sox this year. That's a

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Speaker 1: good that's a good long run. That's her step. But

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Speaker 1: I like that. Hey, you shut up. Hey, when Alonzo

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Speaker 1: HiT's twenty five home runs and knocks in seventy two runs, Ah,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be awesome spring training. Good luck, good luck

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Speaker 1: uh to T teams now officially you can tell they

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Speaker 1: are obsessed with the Dodgers, and one of them is

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Speaker 1: my team. Manny Machado, A couple of Machada a little

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Speaker 1: bit different. The last couple of days, you've seen a

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Speaker 1: lot of stars talking about different things with Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: Here we are early on in the season. Obviously was

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Speaker 1: going to be a big negotiation. Are we going to

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Speaker 1: see a lockout? A lockout looming? Lockout looming. Here's Manny

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Speaker 1: Machado actually saying wonderful things about the Dodgers, and this

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Speaker 1: has a lot to do with what could be a

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Speaker 1: potential lockout. Tough to see you said you in the

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Speaker 1: same division. What the Dodgers are doing to spend that.

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Speaker 3: Kind of money?

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Speaker 2: Are you kind of used to it right now?

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Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. I mean, honestly, I

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Speaker 3: think every team should be doing it. You know, they

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Speaker 3: figured out a way to do it and great for

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Speaker 3: the game, honestly, So I think every team, every team

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Speaker 3: has the ability to do it. So you know, I hope,

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Speaker 3: you know, all thirty teams could could learn from that.

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Speaker 1: If only he ever played for the Dodgers and well, wait, look,

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Speaker 1: I think everybody should do it. Every team is obsessed

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Speaker 1: with the Dodgers and their success. Now, Manny Machado is

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a dual prong thing, is like, hey,

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Speaker 1: we should be doing it too. Why aren't we spending

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Speaker 1: like the Dodgers. I've seen us spend a lot of

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Speaker 1: money before. Now they you go get Costeanos, who was

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Speaker 1: basically a freebie for them. Sure, but you know, so

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Speaker 1: here he is a little bit of Dodgers obsession. But also, hey,

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Speaker 1: I love it. Everybody should be doing it because now

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Speaker 1: this shows you teams are making money and you can't.

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Speaker 1: You can't, you know, turn your pockets out at the

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Speaker 1: negotiating table and say Hey, all of us are not

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Speaker 1: making money. How are guys still getting signed to all

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Speaker 1: these big contracts? If if baseball owners aren't making cash,

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Speaker 1: you can't do this. Like this is the only time

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Speaker 1: I would say the Dodgers are bad for baseball because

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers' success. We can spend all kinds of money.

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Speaker 1: We have a great TV contract week, we figured out

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Speaker 1: a way to do it. We can bring guys that

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Speaker 1: we can spend a lot of money. Now that's bad

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Speaker 1: for baseball. And I say baseball, I mean the image

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Speaker 1: of BA small and baseball from Rob Manford's perspective, because

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Speaker 1: oh man, the Dodgers are showing us that, showing everybody that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we can spend money. Anybody can spend money and try

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Speaker 1: to go win and do it. Anybody can do it.

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Speaker 1: That's the only part where I could say the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: are bad for baseball. Well, and that's the thing, right,

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Speaker 1: This is the classic divide of it, because every player

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Speaker 1: is going to stand up and say, yeah, everybody should

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Speaker 1: be doing this, please do this. And because you want

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Speaker 1: to keep seeing the spending go up and up, and

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Speaker 1: you can call out the individual franchises, White sox pirates

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Speaker 1: go on down the line on the quote smaller squads. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well they're still getting huge checks of national revenue now

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Speaker 1: what they carved out for the Dodgers. Sure as a group,

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Speaker 1: do they look around and go, boy, we really biff

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Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, they do, no question about it. But

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Speaker 1: you're still getting massive checks disseminated based on the luxury

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Speaker 1: tax system that you put in. Maybe that needs to

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Speaker 1: be more punitive. Maybe you need to change how these

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Speaker 1: contrad can get structured in terms of deferments. That's part

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Speaker 1: of your larger CBA that you need to go through.

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Speaker 1: But in the interim, if you've got five to ten

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Speaker 1: teams that are spending about a half of what they

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Speaker 1: get from the national revenue, I'm not even talking about

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Speaker 1: what they get from popcorn sales, parking spots and everything else.

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Speaker 1: If they're only spending half to sixty five percent of

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Speaker 1: what they're getting from the national revenue, that's atrocious and

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Speaker 1: that that's unconscionable in terms of how you run a sport.

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Speaker 1: You're not running a business to win, And that's where

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Speaker 1: we get into the divide of are you running a

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Speaker 1: business or are you actually trying to win a championship?

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Speaker 1: Because the two don't necessarily have to intersect. So there's

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Speaker 1: a contender number one, Dodgers living rent free in their head,

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Speaker 1: and then there's this Dodgers living rent free in the

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Speaker 1: head of Mets owner Steve Cohen, who said a couple

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Speaker 1: of things in the last twenty four hours that make

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Speaker 1: you go. First was that there's not going to be

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Speaker 1: a captain of the Mets as long as he's the owner.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's expecting all Francisco Lindor will be the next captain.

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Speaker 1: He said, No, I let the clubhouse sort it out.

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Speaker 1: As long as I'm the owner, there's no captain. I'm

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Speaker 1: like to walk in with a pool queue and break

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Speaker 1: it in half and say, make it quick. Who wants

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Speaker 1: to see me? Make this pencil disappear? Now, I get that,

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Speaker 1: but you don't need to seem so mad about it.

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Speaker 1: There's never gonna be a captain as long as I'm around. Wah, whoa, whoa, whoa, dude,

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Speaker 1: it's not like what. It's not like Lindor is gonna

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Speaker 1: overthrow the team and all of a sudden you're out. Like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I get that. You might not want a captain, but

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Speaker 1: I might make enough to buy him out. But why

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Speaker 1: say something like there's never gonna be not as long

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Speaker 1: as I'm around, Like, well, hold on by, you'll keep

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Speaker 1: the mets of destination right here. That don't make people think,

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Speaker 1: oh boy, this guy's this guy's losing it saying oh,

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Speaker 1: as long as I'm around. But the other part is

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Speaker 1: is he was asked about the Dodgers and they're spending spree,

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Speaker 1: because that's a everybody's being asked about Spring Trader the

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Speaker 1: Dodger's spending spree, and he goes, you know I have

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Speaker 1: money too, you know I you know, I got a

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Speaker 1: lot of money too. I'm like, oh, well, it's enough

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Speaker 1: that he's gone to that well multiple times. Yes, look

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Speaker 1: he is. He is absolutely obsessed with the dog. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you this is as the owner of my team.

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Speaker 1: He is absolutely obst with the Dodgers. He has says

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Speaker 1: so many times, I want the same farm system the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers have. I want to be able to replicate their success.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, I get it that the Dodgers are a

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Speaker 1: model franchise to be able to to it. But certain

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Speaker 1: things work in Los Angeles and and certain things work

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Speaker 1: unique to the team, not everything. You can't take them

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Speaker 1: to say, Okay, this is gonna work, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: work in New York. Hey, it's not you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's not a page out of Dale Carnegie to sit

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Speaker 1: here and say, oh, well, we want to make sure

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Speaker 1: I have a great farm system. I mean, everybody wants

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Speaker 1: a great farm system. Okay, it's okay, But the number

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Speaker 1: of times he talks about the Dodgers and references them

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Speaker 1: and and you know, losing to them in the NLCS

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Speaker 1: two years ago is like the worst team to lose to.

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Speaker 1: Because now it's like he's like he's like Saliary and

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Speaker 1: and and amadaeis and I'm obsessed and I can't get

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Speaker 1: away from it, like he really the Dodgers live rent

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Speaker 1: free in his head, and Padres heads too other teams

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Speaker 1: as well. But I mean, this disc goes to show

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Speaker 1: you that what the Dodgers do every single day has

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Speaker 1: ramifications up and down the sport. And it's tough. It's

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Speaker 1: tough for me to see, like, you know, my team,

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Speaker 1: but I'm like, I get it. I understand. I really

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Speaker 1: would have liked Javert versus Jean Valjean as well, the

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Speaker 1: white wavedj Clearly the Mets are less miserable not making

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Speaker 1: the playoffs last year DJ nicely done. But just to

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Speaker 1: that end of I like the obsession. Now you actually

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Speaker 1: have to go do it. You got to go figure

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Speaker 1: out and if you can hire someone away. This is

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Speaker 1: where poaching comes in. What does someone know about the

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Speaker 1: institutional practices and procedures in terms of evaluation. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying you go down the rabbit hole of what you

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Speaker 1: had with the Astros slash Cardinals of hey, let's steal

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Speaker 1: some of those evaluations. No no, no, no no no, we're not

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Speaker 1: hacking systems, but institutional knowledge. How did they start working analytics?

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Speaker 1: What's emphasized because it's not all going to be the

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Speaker 1: same thing, otherwise you'd have more similar results. And in

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Speaker 1: your draft process, do you have enough scouts? Right? All

833
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: of those things have to go in. It's not just

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Speaker 1: writing a big check for a guy to hit six

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Speaker 1: rent free in the heads of just about everybody, but

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Speaker 1: big stuff this weekend of course, the Dodgers man, every

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Speaker 1: every what do the Dodgers do? What do they do?

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Speaker 1: Who are they? How are they spending? What are they doing?

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Speaker 1: Everything is Dodgers, Dodgers, Dodgers man. Just I'm absolutely obsessed

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Speaker 1: with the Dodgers thirty two plus Bobblehead special nights. I'm

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Speaker 1: obsessed with getting as many bobble edges there the NFCS. Buddy,

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Speaker 1: I'll see you with Soto versus Diaz in the ninth

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Speaker 1: inning of the NLCS, and then we'll see who wins.

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Speaker 1: Jason and Mike coming up next, we get back into

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Speaker 1: the biggest NFL story of the day. This is Fox

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