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Speaker 1: Hello, welcome in side hour three The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, the Lakers went

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Speaker 1: about eight minutes in between baskets in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: allowing the Rockets to come back. However, an eleven to

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Speaker 1: two run by La punctuated with the DeAndre eight and

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Speaker 1: Layan has given the Lakers an eight point lead ninety

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Speaker 1: eight to ninety with forty three seconds left in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. And if it was kind of a dull

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Speaker 1: roar over this weekend of hey the Lakers are back,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be an absolute shout with the Lakers are

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Speaker 1: back now after tonight, Well.

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Speaker 4: You get a big putback dunk from DeAndre eight and

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Speaker 4: after three Rockets converge on Lebron James, and then he

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Speaker 4: takes two steps backwards and starts walking like he's eighty

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Speaker 4: five years old as he goes to the salad, either

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Speaker 4: basking in the glory and the excitement of it all

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Speaker 4: and silencing the Houston crowd, or feeling every bit of

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Speaker 4: his his years on the court.

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Speaker 1: Look, this is this is a big run for the

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Speaker 1: Lakers now. They are you know, they're sitting right now

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Speaker 1: in a basic tie with the Rockets for third place

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Speaker 1: in the West. Third place is about as high as

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Speaker 1: anybody thinks you're gonna go. You're gonna have to really

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Speaker 1: hope the Spurs go on a big losing street. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna catch them. So really, the battle to finish third

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Speaker 1: through sixth is a big deal right now. So the

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Speaker 1: Lakers win tonight, they will have a game and a

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Speaker 1: half lead on the Rockets for the uh for the fourth.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's part.

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Speaker 1: It's like a series back to back. Yeah, it's like

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Speaker 1: a series. They have a road back to back. But

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Speaker 1: I will say this for the Lake. You want some

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Speaker 1: good talk about the Lakers about are they really back? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I will of course you're gonna say yes, of course

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Speaker 1: you are. You always say they're back. They could lose

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Speaker 1: eight in a row, but they have a good first

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Speaker 1: quarter and you're like, the Lakers are back.

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Speaker 6: Tell me they're not back right now? Uh.

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Speaker 1: What has been a consistent theme for the Lakers the

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Speaker 1: last few games when they're going in with this, with

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Speaker 1: this run, Lebron with a breakaway slam, dunk, Now ten

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Speaker 1: point lead, this game's over.

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Speaker 6: Lakers are gonna win again.

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Speaker 1: Is you take a look at the offensive responsibility and

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Speaker 1: every offense.

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Speaker 6: No matter.

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Speaker 1: I would say, no matter what kind of talent you have,

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Speaker 1: there needs to be a system, a hierarchy of where

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Speaker 1: the ball goes and who takes the shots and who

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Speaker 1: takes them when, because you can't just throw talent out

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Speaker 1: there and expect it to work right. And for the

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Speaker 1: most part, that's the Lakers have tried to do over

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Speaker 1: the first two thirds to three quarters of this season.

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Speaker 1: All Right, well, no Lebron to start out, so the

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Speaker 1: team is Luca and Austin Reeves getting all the shots,

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Speaker 1: and then when Lebron comes back, we'll figure it out. Right,

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Speaker 1: But what happened before Lebron came back. Things were great

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Speaker 1: because the offense had a flow. Everybody knew what their

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Speaker 1: responsibilities were you knew who was taking the shots. Lebron

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Speaker 1: comes back and what do you do? Does okay, it's

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Speaker 1: still Luca's team. Is Lebron the one a? Does he

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Speaker 1: get more shots than Austin Reeves? How does it work?

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Speaker 1: And it didn't work? But now you see the formula.

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Speaker 1: The last few games the Lakers offensively look defensively, they're

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Speaker 1: still going to struggle because you know, when Luca's on

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Speaker 1: be Reeves and then Lebron as long as he is

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Speaker 1: okay with being that third option and being someone that

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Speaker 1: to be able to make sure the team wins the assists,

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Speaker 1: baskets here or there, being okay with scoring fifteen points

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Speaker 1: a game. Right, that's the best offense for the Lakers win.

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Speaker 1: They have a clear delineation of Luca Reeves. Lebron is

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Speaker 1: the guy that kind of cleans everything up that works,

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Speaker 1: and that's been what the Lakers offense has been the

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Speaker 1: last few nights. And as long as Lebron can stick

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Speaker 1: to that, and you can stick to hey, you're the

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Speaker 1: third option offensively, you gotta be okay with that. As

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Speaker 1: long as Lebron's okay with that, yeah, yeah, the Lakers

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Speaker 1: can beat anybody. Now when you get into the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and defensively, they're gonna get exposed and you gotta go

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Speaker 1: through the Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder, that's just

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Speaker 1: gonna get really difficult. But outside of that, Yeah, as

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Speaker 1: long as the rest of this season, that formula continues

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Speaker 1: for the Lakers, because they need that formula to be

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Speaker 1: able to win. As long as that continues, hey, that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: And there's nights where Lebron maybe is the co option

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Speaker 1: with DeAndre Eighton or Marcus Smart scores twenty one. Lebron's

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Speaker 1: been the key as he has all season. If he's

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Speaker 1: someone that continues to want to demand the basketball, and

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Speaker 1: that interrupts the flow of the offense. The Lakers aren't

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Speaker 1: gonna win. Lebron will get his but the Lakers aren't

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Speaker 1: gonna win. But as long as this is Lebron, we

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Speaker 1: get okay with having the third most shots in the game,

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Speaker 1: being the third leading scorer, being the third option behind

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Speaker 1: Luca and Austin Reeves. Yeah, the Lakers can win some games.

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Speaker 1: And I will believe then, Frostburg that they're back eighteen

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Ayton with some big buckets inside. Reeves had a

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Speaker 1: terrible shooting night five of eighteen oh for eight from

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Speaker 1: But if you're gonna get Lebron to do the dirty,

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Speaker 1: dirty work, your Draymond Green analogy Marcus Smart getting interviewed

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Speaker 4: Is the team you're battling in the standings And we've

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Speaker 4: seen the Lakers in the last ten games have had

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Speaker 4: three games where they've held opponents to one oh one

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Speaker 4: or less. The other part is in this ten game

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Speaker 4: the scoring averages up five to six points a game.

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Speaker 4: Finding a defensive stop now and again certainly helps. But

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Speaker 4: the most encouraging thing is, again you're beating good teams

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Speaker 4: in this recent run where things are need to coalesce,

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Speaker 4: where you need to show and demonstrate proof of concept,

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Speaker 4: because it's one thing to beat a bunch of bums, right,

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Speaker 4: That's what they did early on. Like wins are wins,

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Speaker 4: You take them as they come.

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Speaker 6: Stop.

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Speaker 4: It's but it's like we're gonna talk about baseball, right,

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Speaker 4: people be like, oh those games in April.

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Speaker 6: It's like no, no, no. When you when you count them

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Speaker 6: all up, you're still.

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Speaker 4: Adding to one hundred and sixty two in baseball, you're

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Speaker 4: still adding to eighty one eighty two here, right, So

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Speaker 4: you need to win somewhere along the stretch. But eventually

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Speaker 4: you're you're gonna need to beat good teams consistently. You'll

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Speaker 4: get to the series, which is a whole other mess.

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Speaker 4: And whether you can coax a full seven games out

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Speaker 4: of DeAndre Eaton, whether you can get Lebron. Look, he'll

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Speaker 4: have days off, but will he be able to play

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Speaker 4: heavy minutes. Will all these guys stay healthy?

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Speaker 6: We or no.

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Speaker 4: But where you're at right now is that you've beaten

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Speaker 4: several really good teams that you're vying for the top

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Speaker 4: of the Western Conference in a row. And that game

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Speaker 4: against the Knicks after a big Saturday night in the

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Speaker 4: Los Angeles. No, no, no, that game was over early.

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Speaker 4: But look, you beat who's on the schedule. They're supposed

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Speaker 4: to be a contender, So that goes in the plus

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Speaker 4: column of the quality wins. Well, it's it's to understand

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Speaker 4: where the Lakers are now. Sometimes we get a little

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Speaker 4: bit too caught up in.

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Speaker 1: Nuance and My New show when it comes to why

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Speaker 1: a team is not playing and what they need. And

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Speaker 1: you know, to understand that part about Lebron, he's got

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Speaker 1: to be the guy that sacrifices, right, He's got to

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Speaker 1: be the guy that sacrifices, right, that's the first part.

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Speaker 1: If he's okay with sacrificing, the Lakers can can be

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Speaker 1: way better. But the other part of it, and this

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Speaker 1: is not anything crazy, is that they traded for Luca

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Speaker 1: a little over a year ago, a right, and they

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Speaker 1: had the back twenty some odd games of the regular season,

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Speaker 1: and then they had an off season, but then Lebron

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Speaker 1: was hurt to start the season. Then Lebron came back,

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Speaker 1: so they had learned to play one way the first

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Speaker 1: twelvesh games of the year. Then they had to play

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Speaker 1: a different way and that didn't go as great as expected.

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Speaker 1: They hit the All Star break, they came back out

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Speaker 1: just need to you need to let stuff bake, right,

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Speaker 1: past few games. Because it's the Knicks Minnesota, they beat Denver,

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Speaker 1: But everything is coming up Lakers now and and those

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Speaker 1: are the two big takeaways is that as long as

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Speaker 1: Lebron is okay, sacrificing and just sometimes the time you

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Speaker 1: need together. Now they're starting to get that gel and

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Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, depending how this goes, now

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Speaker 1: you want something really hot. Depending how this season ends,

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Speaker 1: Let's just say this season ends for the Lakers the

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Speaker 1: best way possible. They get hot down the stretch, they

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Speaker 1: finish third. They beat the Spurs in the Western Conference semis,

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Speaker 1: but they lose in seven games to the Thunder. Is

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Speaker 1: the best possible say because it, dude, trust, it's gonna,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna. It's gonna be hard for them to beat

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Speaker 1: the Spur. No one's gonna beat the Spurs and the Thunder. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but let me just say this. They beat the Spurs,

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Speaker 1: they lose to the Thunder in a really close series,

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Speaker 1: right all of a sudden. Now, wait a minute, do

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Speaker 1: we still want to say goodbye to Lebron James?

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Speaker 6: Or did? Boy?

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Speaker 1: Did this really work? And Lebron is sacrificing and things

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Speaker 1: are getting a little bit better. He's not gonna take

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Speaker 1: as much money, so we have money to go out

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Speaker 1: and get somebody else.

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Speaker 6: We got it.

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Speaker 1: We can get the other three and d guy that

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Speaker 1: if Lebron is willing to sacrifice, maybe we keep him.

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Speaker 4: So it's a lot to ask because you're gonna have

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Speaker 6: Can you do it for twenty plus the playoffs? Sure?

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna do it for eighty two plus the

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Speaker 1: But I mean, look, it's it's okay if you don't

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Speaker 1: But I'm like I'm saying, say this season ends that

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Speaker 1: but if they fit right now, Luke is not the MVP.

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Speaker 1: Lucas terrific. I'm gonna say it'll be a final.

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: But when you're twelve games back, there's time.

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Speaker 1: When you're twelve get yeah, But the Thunder is still

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Speaker 6: That's just like your opinion. Man.

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Speaker 4: Currently minus one thousand, ninety percent implied probability plus nineteen

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Speaker 4: the Clippers and Nicoley Jokic Kid Cunningham at eighty to one,

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Speaker 4: Luca at one hundred to one as of tonight, That casino,

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Speaker 4: it's a joke then, and tonight Luca recorded his fifty

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Speaker 4: second thirty point game as a Laker, tying James Worthy

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a tie right there. That's a top light

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Speaker 1: a big conversation. Why are they doing well? Lebron is sacrificing,

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Speaker 1: They got their time together. Sometimes it's that simple. And

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Speaker 1: Sure well get a ring if they win, Like, hey,

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Speaker 6: I'm getting a ring?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Coming up next, Hey, we were gonna head to

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Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic, We're doing it. Coming up next with

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Speaker 1: John Paul Morosi, MLB Network insider who was at Italy

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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 7: Hey this is Jason McIntyre. Join me every weekday morning

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Speaker 7: on my podcast Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. This isn't

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Speaker 7: your throat every day. Straight Fire gives you honest opinions

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Speaker 6: And all the best guests.

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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. The United States will take on Venezuela

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Speaker 1: in the WBC Championship tomorrow night. Nolan McClain gets the ball. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: US Now, John Paul, I'm sorry about Italy, my friend.

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Speaker 6: Can you talk about it all?

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Speaker 5: So so my understanding, and I've I've sent word to

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Speaker 1: Now, before we get to the game, now, you got

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Speaker 5: Listen, this reminds me of a as I sip on

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Speaker 5: But but the people that love baseball in that country

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Speaker 5: love this team. The people who are Venezuelan Americans in

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Speaker 5: in Florida love this team. And the players want to

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Speaker 5: do it for their families and for their for their homeland.

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Speaker 5: And you just you have to admire the way that

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Speaker 5: they're dedicated to the to the mission. And uh man,

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Speaker 5: they're playing with a ton of heart and and that

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Speaker 5: ballpark is going to be rocking tomorrow night.

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Speaker 4: How about Aaron Judge with the comment it's bigger and

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Speaker 4: better and in the atmosphere and being big than the

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Speaker 4: World Series.

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Speaker 5: He's right, He's right. I mean, I don't know what

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Speaker 5: more to say. I think he's correct about that. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 5: I've been fortunate to cover the World Series in my career.

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Speaker 5: There's nothing like this, man, There's just nothing like this.

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Speaker 5: The passion. You've seen the number of people that are

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Speaker 5: jumping out of the dugout at every at an RBI

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Speaker 5: single in the first inning. You don't see that in

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Speaker 5: the major league game. And I'm not saying that it's that,

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Speaker 5: it should be that or could be that. This is different.

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Speaker 5: This is this is the passion of this tournament. That

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Speaker 5: is unlike anything else that you see. It's why, it's

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Speaker 5: why we saw three fights in nine seconds at the

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Speaker 5: Four Nations face off in that game in Montreal. There's

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Speaker 5: just different things that happen when you play for your country,

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Speaker 5: and this this is the manifestation of it. So I mean,

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Speaker 5: in terms of now, what is more meaningful that that's

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Speaker 5: probably going to be an athlete for athlete answer for

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Speaker 5: me at the ballpark, it is. It is one thousand

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Speaker 5: percent crazier at the World Baseball classes that has been

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Speaker 5: in the World Series.

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Speaker 1: It just is MLB Network inside of John Paul Morosi

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Speaker 1: with us here, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, live from the

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio studios. All right, now, before we get

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Speaker 1: into tomorrow night, we got to go back to the

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Speaker 1: final lot of last night's game. Perdomo getting punched out

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Speaker 1: on a ball that ABS would likely have overruled and

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Speaker 1: put Perdomo on first and now it's first and third,

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Speaker 1: two outs for Mason Miller and against Renando Tatist Junior.

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Speaker 6: Where do you come down on this?

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Speaker 1: The final call at the end that sent the Dominican

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Speaker 1: Republic home, Wan Soto said, hey, we prove we were

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Speaker 1: the best team out there. You know, where are you

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Speaker 1: after having twenty four hours to digest this?

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Speaker 5: Disappointed that that's how it ended. And listen, Corey Blazer

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Speaker 5: was trying to make the right call there. It's not

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Speaker 5: you know, it's a missed call, but it's not his fault,

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Speaker 5: if that makes sense. It's just that's the human element

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Speaker 5: of the game, which has been part of it and

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Speaker 5: still will be part of it. By the way, the

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Speaker 5: challenge system is not going to change every pitch ever.

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Speaker 5: But you wanted to be there for the big pitches

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Speaker 5: and and the big misses, and that was a big miss.

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Speaker 5: It just it was. But I think Pools, Albert Pooles

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Speaker 5: had the right approach after the games. And I'm not

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Speaker 5: gonna dwell on the last pitch. It was a great game,

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Speaker 5: and it was and sometimes you win great games, sometimes

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Speaker 5: the lose great games, and and the US was fortunate

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Speaker 5: last night. They they need now for Nolan McLain to

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Speaker 5: be great tomorrow because Venezuela's got the emotion on their side.

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Speaker 5: They are, they are at absolute momentum train right now,

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Speaker 5: and they're gonna have the crowd behind them. They've got

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Speaker 5: the desperation of trying to win behind them. They've got

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Speaker 5: Michael Garcia, his star is rising. That's that's behind them.

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Speaker 5: They've got a lot of really good things going in

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Speaker 5: Venezuela's direction right now. So I just think the US

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Speaker 5: got fortunate Monday. They caught a break. They also caught

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Speaker 5: a break when when Italy beat Mexico to get them

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Speaker 5: in to the final four. So now now I'm here

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Speaker 5: to say that the US needs to make their own

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Speaker 5: luck tomorrow. They're gonna win. They've they've the baseball gods

506
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Speaker 5: have helped them out a couple of times, and now

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Speaker 5: they're in the big game. And now they've got to

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Speaker 5: go out there and win it on their own. And

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Speaker 5: it's it's a coin flip for me. I you know,

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Speaker 5: Venezuel's bullpen worked a ton of innings tonight. They've got

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Speaker 5: Rodriguez tomorrow. He's gonna have to be great, I think

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Speaker 5: for them to win. And McLain probably has to at

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Speaker 5: least give the US three innings that are solid for

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Speaker 5: them to be able to win the game tomorrow. So

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Speaker 5: that may sound like a low bar, but man, this

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Speaker 5: Venezuela lineup is really cooking. So it's gonna be a

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Speaker 5: lot of fun all the way around.

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Speaker 4: John Baumosi our guess MLB network at John Moros j

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Speaker 4: O N M O r O S. I leave out

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Speaker 4: that h because Mom said so. Hi mob I covering

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Speaker 4: his favorite event of all events, the World Baseball Classic,

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Speaker 4: joins us all the time here on the show across

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Speaker 4: the network. We certainly appreciate him and Jason Smith and

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Speaker 4: I here in the Fox Sports Radio studio.

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Speaker 6: So JP.

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Speaker 4: After all of that, Nolan McLain, Uh, big run up

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Speaker 4: last year. We fill a buster it on at a

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Speaker 4: bunch and you touched on it. But in terms of

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Speaker 4: the management, right, get a couple of innings there. I mean,

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Speaker 4: if Tarik Schoble is going to be in uniform hanging

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Speaker 4: out in the dugout, they can still put him in right. Uh,

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Speaker 4: they could just say, hey, you're here, show up man.

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Speaker 5: Man, it's you're right, it is. It is kind of

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Speaker 5: a bummer. The Scooble should be in this game. But

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Speaker 5: he's not. And I get why he's not, But but

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Speaker 5: this is And again, if the US doesn't win it,

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Speaker 5: that'll be the that'll be the the sort of the

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Speaker 5: subplot on it is you know that they would have

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Speaker 5: wanted to see Schooble in it. And and again I'm

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Speaker 5: not I'm not blaming Terrek. I'm not blaming anybody really,

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Speaker 5: it's just the situation that they're in right now about

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Speaker 5: how the how the rest works and how how the

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Speaker 5: tournament is set up right at the start of the season.

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Speaker 5: But if McClain, if McLain goes out there and has

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Speaker 5: four innings that are excellent, I mean three is obviously

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Speaker 5: I think par for him. If he can get three,

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Speaker 5: that's good. If he gets four, that's excellent. And I

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Speaker 5: think that as long as he has a stable start,

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Speaker 5: then that narrative will go away. But I think if

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Speaker 5: the US struggles early in Venezuela gets all kinds of momentum,

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Speaker 5: when the crowd gets behind them, it'll be something that

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Speaker 5: people say. And again I get why I support and

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Speaker 5: understand why Terrek made the decision he made because he's

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Speaker 5: got to take care of his family and he's doing

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Speaker 5: it for his club and I get that, but that's

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Speaker 5: where this, this tournament is that one last piece of

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Speaker 5: and it's just the timing. There's no other reason than

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Speaker 5: that that you'd like to be able to see guys

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Speaker 5: fully fully extended and hopefully one of these days will

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Speaker 5: get a mid season tournament like this and there will

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Speaker 5: be no excuses on it, nobody when it comes time

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Speaker 5: to who's competing for the for the ultimate prizes.

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Speaker 6: Yet, see, I see that's the thing, John paul Is.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we're ever going to get there because

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Speaker 1: this is still this is still a tournament where here's

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Speaker 1: the United States going to win and Schooble's situation was

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Speaker 1: front and center. Now the Padres are going to be upset.

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Speaker 1: We've already heard that, Hey, they want to manage Mason

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Speaker 1: Miller's workload. It would be another big, high profile appearance

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Speaker 1: from tomorrow night, which he's likely going to pitch again.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like, you know, we still are

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Speaker 1: always going to have Hey, the people who are there,

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Speaker 1: they want to be there, but they're going to always

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Speaker 1: have to balance their decision making as far as the

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Speaker 1: responsibility of their team. Like I want Nolan McClain to

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Speaker 1: throw zero tomorrow night. I don't want them to throw

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Speaker 1: seventy five pitches. I want them to be okay for

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Speaker 1: the start of the season. I think we're always going

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Speaker 1: to fight back between the teams and the players and

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Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic, even if you had the middle

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Speaker 1: of the season, it would happen that way, right.

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Speaker 5: And it's the same conversation with with the Olympics and hockey,

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Speaker 5: and when injuries happen there, it's always okay, they got

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Speaker 5: hurt not playing for you, and you're really sad about it,

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Speaker 5: and I get it, I understand, but we have to

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Speaker 5: at the end of the day, guys. I mean, we're

587
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Speaker 5: we are trying to grow the sport and and you

588
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Speaker 5: think about what's best for the game. I think sometimes

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Speaker 5: you gotta look past Okay, my club, my my financial situation,

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Speaker 5: et cetera. I realized that Terrek is kind of different

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Speaker 5: because he's sitting on potentially the biggest pitching contract in

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Speaker 5: the history of baseball and got a young family, and

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Speaker 5: you got to respect that. You know, he's got to

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Speaker 5: take care of his family. But for the vast majority

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Speaker 5: of players who are not Trek Scooble, who are not

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Speaker 5: in line to make seven or million dollars, you should

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Speaker 5: just play. And and by the way, the players, unless

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Speaker 5: their contracts can't be insured, they have the right to

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Speaker 5: say I'm gonna play. They have they have the right

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Speaker 5: to tell their teams that they're going to play. I

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Speaker 5: can remember stories of guys that were told, oh, you know,

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Speaker 5: don't don't go because we got it. We're putting you

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Speaker 5: in the mix for the opening their roster. And then

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Speaker 5: they don't make the team anyway. So it's like, Okay,

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Speaker 5: you missed out on both things, so play unless unless

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Speaker 5: there's some extenuay circumstance.

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Speaker 6: But I get it.

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Speaker 5: There's there's a number of different financial elements to this.

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Speaker 5: Those never go away. You're exactly right about that, But

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Speaker 5: you have to keep in mind the big picture, and

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Speaker 5: the big picture is the fans pay the salaries. Is

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Speaker 5: everybody connected to the game. The fans love this. We

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Speaker 5: have an obligation to grow the game. We got to

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Speaker 5: grow the game, and there's no better way to do

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Speaker 5: it than with this particular term.

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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John

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Speaker 1: Morosi MLB Network, Fox Sports Radio Insider extraordinaire.

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Speaker 6: John Paul enjoyed the game tomorrow night.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you after it's over, whether you are

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Speaker 1: having decaffeinated espresso or regular espresso because it was so exciting.

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Speaker 5: Hey, either way, you call me anytime. I might not

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Speaker 5: even sleep tomorrow night. You just come to give me

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Speaker 5: a call. And I'm thrilled. The beer on the show

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Speaker 5: with you guys as always.

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Speaker 4: There you go, last one before you go, get more

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Speaker 4: decaf espresso. Get in for tomorrow. Four hundred and eighty

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Speaker 4: six dollars for a single seat.

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Speaker 5: Hey, that's I mean, that's uh. I may I may

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Speaker 5: have paid a little more of that to get up

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Speaker 5: in the men's gold medal game over the Olympics. But

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Speaker 5: that's that's pretty strong right there. That's that is a

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Speaker 5: that is a good investment, and you know what's well worth.

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Speaker 6: It, John Paul, Take it easy, buddy. We'll talk to

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Speaker 6: you after the game tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: All the best, looking forward to it.

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Speaker 6: Thanks so much, DJBaby.

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Speaker 1: All right, there goes John Paul Morosi. I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: the United States, the big the big issue. I'm you know, now,

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Speaker 1: there's two big issues going in the game tomorrow. Number One,

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Speaker 1: I feel like they have the back end of their

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Speaker 1: bullpen set up. But now Mason Miller's that's interesting. It's

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Speaker 1: up in the air. I'm telling you, man, we're always

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Speaker 1: gonna have that battle. So yeah, they really do need

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Speaker 1: some length of Nolan McClean. And you get to the

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Speaker 1: middle innings, that's gonna be a thing.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 1: I told you at the beginning that the United States

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Speaker 1: bullpen when you get into that middle and that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be where we wind up losing games. And that's still

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Speaker 1: what I'm most nervous about. Just gonna have to score eleven. No,

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Speaker 1: we score eleven. I feel pretty good. Yeah, I feel

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Speaker 1: pretty good about that. Make it nice and easy for

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Speaker 1: Nolan McClean. Time now to find out what's trending in

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Speaker 1: the wide world of sports from someone who's been called

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Speaker 1: the Mason Miller of Fox Sports Radio. Maybe we see

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Speaker 1: them tomorrow, maybe we don't. It's steve to.

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Speaker 3: Say that, David Bednar a little question mark. I thought

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Speaker 3: you were talking about my one hundred and two miles fastball. Yes,

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Speaker 3: threw a curve at me, as it were.

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Speaker 6: That's his change up as one O two.

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Speaker 3: The change up is going to be, Oh my goodness,

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Speaker 3: who do we have out of the pen now? Because

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Speaker 3: if this starter doesn't go the three innings you talked about,

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Speaker 3: that might be a long night out of the penn Fortunately,

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Speaker 3: Venezuela just had to use some relievers already.

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Speaker 6: Tonight we'll see what they have.

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Speaker 3: But in a semifinal in Miami tonight at the World

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Speaker 3: Baseball Classic, Venezuela eliminated Italy four two. The Italians had

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Speaker 3: been five and zero in the tournament save to Daniel Palencia.

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Speaker 3: The Cubs solo homer for a Johnnio Suarez of the

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Speaker 3: Reds three runs in the seventh did the trick three

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Speaker 3: straight RBI singles with two outs. Venezuela has never been

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Speaker 3: in the final. US is in its third straight final.

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Speaker 3: The Americans had won two to one against the Dominican

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Speaker 3: Republic Sunday night in the other semi Venezuela is the

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Speaker 3: team that upset Japan Saturday night, coming from behind, and

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Speaker 3: now it's Saiduardo Rodriguez for Venezuela. Tomorrow night on Fox

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Speaker 3: TV is the US will start Mets pitcher Nolan McLain.

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Speaker 3: The Dodgers name pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto as their opening day

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Speaker 3: starter for March twenty six, which isn't that far away.

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Speaker 3: San Diego pitcher Joe Musgrove will likely start the year

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Speaker 3: on the injured list. The Braves Chris Sale beat Tampa

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Speaker 3: Bay at spring training eleven to two. Today, he pitched

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Speaker 3: six innings, allowed one run, and Rookie of the Year

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Speaker 3: Drake Baldwin of Atlanta had a homer and four RBIs.

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Speaker 3: Detroit's Jack Flaherty gave up five runs in five innings

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Speaker 3: in the tigers thirteen to six victory against Philadelphia, and

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Speaker 3: Minnesota's Joe Ryan defeated Pittsburgh five to one, four innings,

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Speaker 3: six strikeouts.

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Speaker 6: The late games in LA and.

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Speaker 3: The NBA, and the Spurs are holding on against the

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Speaker 3: Clippers one fifteen to one eleven. The Spurs had outscored

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Speaker 3: him by twenty two in the second quarter. There's thirty

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Speaker 3: seconds left in this game. Meanwhile, the Lakers won their

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Speaker 3: six game in a row one hundred to ninety two

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Speaker 3: at Houston. Luka Donsich, player of the Week in the West,

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Speaker 3: had thirty six points. Teammate Austin Reeves from three point

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Speaker 3: range was zero of eight. Chicago sent Memphis to an

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Speaker 3: eight straight loss one thirty two to one. Ozho seven

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Speaker 3: Josh Giddy at Triple double. Golden State won at Washington,

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Speaker 3: which has lost twelve in a row one twenty five

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Speaker 3: one seventeen Warriors. The final christops porzingis at thirty points

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Speaker 3: off the bench at Boston, forty one points for Jalen

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Speaker 3: Brown in a win over Phoenix at Atlanta forty one

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Speaker 3: from Nikhiel Alexander Walker, and a win against Orlando, ending

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Speaker 3: a seven game winning streak in the Magic. The Atlanta

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Speaker 3: Hawks have won ten in a row victories for Portland

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Speaker 3: and New Orleans. Minnesota's Anthony Edwards will miss Tuesday's game

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Speaker 3: with a sore knee. New York's Jalen Brunson is questionable

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Speaker 3: for Tuesday with ankle and neck injuries. Cleveland center Jared

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Speaker 3: Allen will miss the Cavs three game trip this week.

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Speaker 6: With a bad knee.

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Speaker 3: To college hoops, Memphis coach Penny Hardaway will return next season,

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Speaker 3: but Butler head coach Thad Manda retired. Alabama guard Aiden Holloway,

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Speaker 3: who averaged seventeen points per game this year, was arrested

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Speaker 3: on filliny drug charges and remove from campus in the

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Speaker 3: first four On Tuesday night, It's umbc against Howard and

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Speaker 3: then Texas against NC State. Some n games tomorrow as well.

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Speaker 3: Among the five NHL contests tonight, Pittsburgh has won seven

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Speaker 3: to two at Colorado, Utah six to three winner at Dallas.

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Speaker 3: The Kansas City Chiefs acquired quarterback Justin Fields in cash

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Speaker 3: from the Jets for a sixth rounder next year.

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Speaker 6: Back to you, Thank you, STEVEO.

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Speaker 1: So if I could take a lot of things away

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Speaker 1: for your update, Washington's lost twelve in a row, Atlanta's

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Speaker 1: won ten in a row. Maybe it was Trey Young's fault.

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Speaker 1: I mean maybe right, I mean maybe not that.

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Speaker 3: He played all twelve here that maybe it was not

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Speaker 3: that he may play twelve total games the rest of

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Speaker 3: the season here.

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Speaker 6: Maybe it was Trey Young's faul. Thank you, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Mike Carman live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we break down the big quarterback trade

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Speaker 1: in the NFL today. Did the new Sam Darnold just

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Speaker 1: it's really boring. It's why the first two were really boring.

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Speaker 1: Uh, Dougs dead, see you later, Doug, Hey new Doug,

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Speaker 1: Doug's dead?

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Speaker 6: You know what else? This song opened? What this segment?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 6: Thank you, Frostburg recency bias. Lakers are back.

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: So while free agency, and as free agency in the

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Speaker 1: NFL hits its second phase. Big trade made today The

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Speaker 1: Chiefs got their new starting quarterback. I couldn't even sell that.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs got their new backup quarterback who will probably

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Speaker 1: take the snap with the Ones while Patrick Mahomes recuperates

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Speaker 1: from his injury. The Jets trade Justin Fields to the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs for a sixth round pick. They will pay seven

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Speaker 1: million dollars of his ten million dollars that he was

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Speaker 1: due for this year. So when it's all said and done,

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Speaker 1: the dust settles, the Jets are paying about ten million

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Speaker 1: dollars for Gino Smith to be their starting quarterback this year. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so that's where we're not bad. Now, really quick, the

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Speaker 1: Jets have made some nice moves this offseason. They have

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Speaker 1: garnered a lot of assets. They have the big four

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Speaker 1: first picks in the first two rounds this year, same

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Speaker 1: thing next year. They've done a really good.

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Speaker 6: Job of that.

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Speaker 1: Now you gotta make the right picks that it doesn't

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Speaker 1: doesn't automatically come your way. But hey, they've done the

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Speaker 1: right thing so far. They've signed some players. Not crazy

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Speaker 1: about the fact that any they I think they've signed

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Speaker 1: enough guys to maybe win six or seven games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: six seven, it's not gonna get you anywhere. But overall, hey,

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Speaker 1: getting the ad, getting the assets they have, they haven't

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Speaker 1: spent money crazily. Okay, all right, so far now for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Have the Chiefs just gotten the next Sam Donald? Well,

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Speaker 1: by the way, congratulations everybody who took that take today,

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Speaker 1: because we told you a couple of weeks ago. Hey, look,

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Speaker 1: you cannot discount any first round quarterback from potentially being

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Speaker 1: the next Sam Donald. Because Sam Donald was never gonna

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Speaker 1: start again when he signed with the Vikings, it was

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Speaker 1: strictly to back up JJ McCarthy. He only wound up

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Speaker 1: starting because JJ McCart he got hurt. He was the guy,

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Speaker 1: and Sam Donald turned that into a big career move.

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Speaker 1: Obviously the year he had the money, he turned into

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl winning quarterback. Now, uh, Sam Donald, there's only

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Speaker 1: one of him, But you can't say no, because we've

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Speaker 1: seen it justin fields. Now, just like Sam Donald's flamed

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Speaker 1: out of a couple of teams, is he the next

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald? Now, if you ask me on a scal

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Speaker 1: of one to ten, if ten is yes, he could

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Speaker 1: be the next Sam Donald. Be a great quarterback with

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Speaker 1: the right team, in the right system, win a super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: And one is he's the next Zach Wilson. Uh, because

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Speaker 1: you know, leaving the Jets. You know, sometimes you don't

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Speaker 1: always go to better things. I had another contender. Okay,

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Speaker 1: go ahead.

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Speaker 4: Someone gave us Nester over on Instagram thanks at swallowing dome.

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Speaker 1: Mike White. No, Mike White. Remember Mike White. He had

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Speaker 1: a couple of days.

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Speaker 4: Remember he had that moment and all of a sudden

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Speaker 4: he was the hottest thing going.

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Speaker 6: You loved him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you started singing about Mike White.

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Speaker 6: Jets moment That wasn't real, real moment. You know, he

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Speaker 6: had a good moment, Jets.

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Speaker 4: This is what it's like, the flash paper thing that

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Speaker 4: a magician does. It lasts for a second ago, oh

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Speaker 4: and then it's.

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Speaker 1: Gone, Jason, Jets moments are very much lower than real moments.

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Speaker 6: They're way low. They're in the negatives. Jets moment.

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Speaker 1: But if you are saying, okay, the ex jet now

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Speaker 1: good scale, right, like leaving the Jets and suddenly you

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Speaker 1: got good, right x Jet now good? If one is

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Speaker 1: Zach Wilson Mike White, where they went somewhere and didn't

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Speaker 1: do anything, and ten is Sam Donald where they went

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Speaker 1: and went to Pro Bowls and won the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: and got paid. My worry that Justin Fields, I'll put

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Speaker 1: him at about a three, A three three, even though

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Speaker 1: he's going to hang with the enemy Andy Reid Kel

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Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker, the third who shook hands and was in

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Speaker 1: the locker room with Sam Donald's well, because that's why

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Speaker 1: he's out of three is because no matter no matter

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Speaker 1: what he does, Patrick Mahomes is the quarterback, so it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter no matter how good he is, Mahomes is

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Speaker 1: gonna be the starter. Now likely he's gonna be back.

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Speaker 1: They're hoping he's back for Week one and his rehab

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Speaker 1: his way ahead of schedule, so Justin Fields will get

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Speaker 1: the snaps in the offseason, get used to the offense.

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Speaker 1: Mahomes doesn't need another offseason of all that. Everything is fine.

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Speaker 1: So no matter what, no matter how good he plays,

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Speaker 1: when Mahomes is ready, he's healthy. So it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: very limited for Justin Fields to impact the Chiefs, but

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Speaker 1: he is going to a better team that will essentially

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Speaker 1: potentially be a Super Bowl favorite. My real worry for

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Speaker 1: Justin Fields is that he can have a nick Foles

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Speaker 1: like impact where he's thrust into a game because Mahomes

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Speaker 1: turns his ankle early and suddenly, hey, they decide to

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Speaker 1: run the football and he runs twenty times for one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty yards and they win a game and

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Speaker 1: they go to the super Bowl, or he's thrust in

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl and they change their game plan. He

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Speaker 1: runs for one hundred and twenty yards and Kenneth Walker

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Speaker 1: runs for hundred twenty yards and the Chiefs win and

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Speaker 1: they carry justin fields off on their shoulders like that's

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Speaker 1: the big that's the only worry I have in that

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Speaker 1: a very small nick Foles like situation. But overall I

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Speaker 1: don't have a lot of concern that that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: I don't really have a lot of concern about that.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's I can't say it's zero. No, it's

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Speaker 1: certainly nice Jet now good, better team, but it's it's

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Speaker 1: low on the scale. Like Sam Darnold going to the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks after the year with this with the Vikings, it was, boy,

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Speaker 1: if this system works again for him? Man, oh crap,

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Speaker 1: did they find something? Man that was worrying?

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Speaker 4: This is not this is not imad JSN they go

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Speaker 4: and pick up Shaheed. You look at what Kenneth Walker

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Speaker 4: the Third and Charbonay did in season, and then Kenneth

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Speaker 4: Walker the third obviously dominating and with that Super Bowl MVP.

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Speaker 4: Uh yeah for the Chiefs, you got Uh, We'll see

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Speaker 4: what he can do as the feature back. Still need

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Speaker 4: to upgrade the receiving core Kelsey comes back for in

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Speaker 4: a restructured, incentive laden deal. I still need to figure

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Speaker 4: out the offensive line. But the potential was there, right

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Speaker 4: the over under was set at ten and a half wins. Uh,

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Speaker 4: and they've gotten a little bit better since. So uh,

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Speaker 4: good luck, Sorry buddy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah no, And if he was not made of lightning

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Speaker 1: strikes twice, I mean, what happens if Justin Fields gets you,

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Speaker 1: if he wins as a backup, if they wins about

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Speaker 1: I don't really care all of a suddach Wills champion.

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Speaker 6: My my worry level is about of the three. It's

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Speaker 6: about the.

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Speaker 4: Present him with a dual signed helmet, one sides of

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Speaker 4: Cheats Fields. Either a Seahawks startled.

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Speaker 1: If it's the AFC title game and Mahomes limps off

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Speaker 1: and he trots on the field in the first quarter,

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Speaker 1: then my worries at a nine and a half, but

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Speaker 1: until that, my worries about it. Yeah, you'll shut your

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Speaker 1: phone off before Frostburg and I get to start sending

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Speaker 1: you message. Coming up next, we get back into the

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Speaker 1: biggest story of the night. That's gonna be the biggest

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Speaker 1: story of the night tomorrow night as well.