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Speaker 4: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 5: It is Kentucky Sports Radio Thursday. It is November the

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Speaker 5: twentieth ime. Matt Jones here live at the Ksbar. We

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Speaker 5: are here until noon today. Love to have you come

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Speaker 5: out and say hello. Got my friend here from Carlisle

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Speaker 5: County helped me with the book when I went out

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Speaker 5: to the to the west coast or yeah, west coast

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Speaker 5: of Kentucky.

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Speaker 6: We don't get a lot of Carlisle County people come around.

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Speaker 2: Here out there.

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Speaker 5: State State Champ's right one years run State runner up

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Speaker 5: and like what eighty two eighty three ceilings look at you.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're very proud of it. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And now are they combining the two counties into one school. No,

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Speaker 5: they're not gonna do that. They had talked about it

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Speaker 5: and they fought it.

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Speaker 6: Carl Island on Livingston. What's the other county, Ballard?

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Speaker 5: Carlisle and Ballard that's out on the part of the state.

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Speaker 5: People don't they need to know more about it. Clark's

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Speaker 5: pumping shop fuld line eight five nine two eight oh

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Speaker 5: twenty two eighty seven a vision auto glass text machine

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Speaker 5: seven seven two seven to seven four five two five

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Speaker 5: four in this distion sponsored by the TJ. Smith office

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Speaker 5: you called t J. I'll make them pay. Those are

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Speaker 5: the Mississippi River counties. A lot of people in Kentucky

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Speaker 5: just don't even think about the fact that we have

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Speaker 5: four counties that board the border the river. Big thing

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Speaker 5: is can you get a port? That's what everybody wants

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Speaker 5: to talk about. Can we get a port that's uh,

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Speaker 5: that's that's a.

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Speaker 2: Big issue there.

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Speaker 6: I remember in your book you talked about one of

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Speaker 6: those counties has a bridge that goes to nowhere. It's

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Speaker 6: like just a bridge.

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Speaker 5: Holton County well there's a no, no, no, you're thinking

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Speaker 5: of a different part of the state. This is why

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Speaker 5: I shouldn't let you be part. No, they Fulton County.

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Speaker 5: You have to cross into Missouri or Tennessee. You have

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Speaker 5: to cross into Missouri to get to the other part

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Speaker 5: of Kentucky. We we have a little piece of Kentucky.

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Speaker 5: It's like a little island that's on the other side

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Speaker 5: of Missouri.

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Speaker 6: Which is really strange, very strange.

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Speaker 5: And most people don't know it. So yeah, that's uh,

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Speaker 5: there's a there's an Indian burial ground up there in

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Speaker 5: Ballard County, funny Wick, the Wickham what Wickliffe, Wickliffe Mounds.

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Speaker 5: That's right, it's way out my way, even way farther way. Well,

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Speaker 5: you leave today, you get there Monday. I mean, it's

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Speaker 5: it's far away. For a second there. We thought we

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Speaker 5: had a remote there next week, but Billy had the

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Speaker 5: town rung.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an interesting.

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Speaker 5: That's an interesting US. I don't know if you know

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Speaker 5: about this. We're off topic, but that's okay. Wednesday before Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 5: we are at Don Franklin, Columbia, which we were supposed

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Speaker 5: I said, sure, I can go to Columbia, right, we

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Speaker 2: Dare County before Thanksgiving. So that's next Wednesday.

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Speaker 5: But Billy, on the drive goes, I said, where is

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Speaker 5: that remote next Wednesday? And he said Columbus, Kentucky. And

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Speaker 5: I was like, I don't know where that is. Where's Columbus, Kentucky?

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Speaker 5: Andrew looked it up and it's like out in Ballard County, right,

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Speaker 5: It's it's as far away as you can be. It's

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Speaker 5: four hours and forty five minutes. And I said, Billy,

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Speaker 2: Come back. Kentucky has a game that night. Yeah, they do.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, what do you You expect us to go

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Speaker 5: Way to Columbus, all the way back and do that

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Speaker 2: My family's gonna be here. I can't go all the

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Speaker 5: Columbus nine hours on the road. Billy's like, you agreed

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Speaker 5: go four and a half hours. Well, he had spelled wrong.

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Speaker 5: He had Columbus and Columbia spelled wrong. Well, that's why

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Speaker 5: he does things like bring that suitcase. Is he rights

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Speaker 5: the wrong thing that Columbia has been a good friend

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Speaker 5: with us. I love Columbia's great Columbus. That'd be sure

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Speaker 5: Columbus is the great Taky. There are people listening from

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Speaker 5: Columbus seven seven two seven seven four five two five

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Speaker 5: for you can tell me where we would have stayed

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Speaker 5: or where we would have been population one, one hundred

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Speaker 2: But anyway we are.

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Speaker 5: We're here all right, A lot of stuff to get

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Speaker 5: to our guy, our Irish soccer announcer is gonna join

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Speaker 5: because they played tonight.

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Speaker 6: Did you know that in the NCAA tournament? Okay, I

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Speaker 6: don't know. The commerce tournaments still are in.

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Speaker 5: Gavin Gavin's played, we play in Saint Louis. I think tonight. Okay,

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Speaker 5: he's gonna get us ready for that game. Uh and

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Speaker 5: uh and more. But let's start with you know a

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Speaker 5: story you know, things are kind of a little hectic

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Speaker 5: when people's like grandma's are writing them and asking them

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Speaker 2: Right, yes, yesterday.

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Speaker 5: I won't say it's at its worst, but you see

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Speaker 5: the other side of like, okay, this is the other part.

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Speaker 2: Of dealing with this job. And I think yesterday was that.

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Speaker 5: I mean, people are understandably frustrated about the Michigan State

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Speaker 5: game and lots of complaints, which is also understandable, but

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Speaker 5: then the kind of like okay, what's going on went

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Speaker 6: Me and call yeah, call.

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Speaker 2: Big Blue Nation names.

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Speaker 5: The national media, CNN had an article about how Michigan

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Speaker 5: State was doing the future and Kentucky wasn't, in like

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Speaker 5: a contrast in styles. I didn't even know CNN did sports.

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Speaker 5: You had Gary Parrish, and you had all these guys

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Speaker 5: And then of course, and I you know, I hate

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Speaker 5: to say I told you so, But I told you so.

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Speaker 5: The rumor mill started running wild as to what was

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Speaker 5: going on with the chemistry of this team. I wrote

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Speaker 5: on Twitter that I got nine different stories last night

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Speaker 5: from people who told me they were one hundred percent

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Speaker 5: sure they were true, and some of them were mutually exclusive.

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Speaker 5: They could not have both happened, and I probably believed

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Speaker 5: none of them are true.

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Speaker 2: But everybody had like, you know.

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Speaker 6: Kenny Walker's cousin told me, or it would be like

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Speaker 6: my son's a friend of them, yeah.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I had a lot of friends of the of

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Speaker 5: a lot of that stuff. But I also would say

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Speaker 5: it was inevitable that this would happen, and that Mark

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Speaker 5: Pope did this. Mark Pope did what should be cardinal

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Speaker 5: rule number one as a coach. Do not say something

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Speaker 5: happened and not say what it is okay, or do

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Speaker 5: not like, do not give no answers when people want answers,

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Speaker 5: because when there is silence, people will fill the void.

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Speaker 5: I probably said that to John Caliperry fifty times in

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Speaker 5: those last few years. If you leave silence if you

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Speaker 5: don't tell people the status of players injuries, and if

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Speaker 5: you don't do that stuff, the void will be filled

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Speaker 5: with something. And that has now happened. And that's where

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Speaker 6: You're right, you know, everybody's trying to find an answer,

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Speaker 6: like what's wrong. So when we don't know, they're going

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Speaker 6: to fill that void, like you said, with just any

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Speaker 6: crazy story that you wat you and then it gets

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Speaker 6: passed around and just good gains momentum.

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Speaker 5: And every time it gets set it's like the telephone game. Yes,

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Speaker 5: changed a little bit, and also in people's mind gets

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Speaker 5: more credibility because they're hearing it from a lot of people,

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Speaker 5: even though it's probably the same story, just circling around

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Speaker 5: and hitting everybody.

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Speaker 2: Did you say your parents asked? Or somebody's parents.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I mean it starts going around these message boards.

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Speaker 6: It gets passed around and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 6: everybody believes it. It must be true, saying the church.

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Speaker 2: Bulletin at the Nazarene church. What No, I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't.

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Speaker 5: But that's the kind of thing that you could you

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I was going crazy yesterday. I had people asking me,

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Speaker 7: people I haven't heard from it forever.

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Speaker 2: Hey, is this true? Hey? I heard this, heard this.

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Speaker 7: So and so told me this, And I agree that

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Speaker 7: there's chemistry issues, But some of the rumors out there,

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Speaker 7: I feel like they had a whole UFC fight card

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Speaker 7: of teammates fighting each other. I heard every combination of

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Speaker 7: player on the team fought each other at some point,

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Speaker 7: and you know, all of that can't be true.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to think.

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Speaker 5: Is there anybody I didn't hear any No scenario involved

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Speaker 5: yellowch No, he maybe the one, maybe the one that

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Speaker 5: it was not involved, But I heard a scenario involving

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Speaker 5: I think every other player, maybe Malachi. Maybe it's something

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Speaker 5: about those bench bigs that keeps them out of out

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Speaker 5: of the midge mix. Now there's also the real world ramifications.

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Speaker 5: Our assistant basketball coach responded to one of these on Twitter. So, uh,

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Speaker 5: there's an account called man Boy, which I don't understand

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Speaker 5: why that's the name of the account, but it is.

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Speaker 5: It is Mark Maggart. You remember Mark Maggret from Back

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Speaker 5: and Down, another name from the past coming people were

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Speaker 5: coming out. Where were we gonna have TC cat to

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Speaker 5: come back? Like like all the names from the past,

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Speaker 5: are back. Uh, he wrote something sort of It didn't

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Speaker 5: even really seem that that bad to me. It was

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Speaker 5: just like if there are chemistry issues, and then he

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Speaker 5: was he was I think speculating could Garrison leave mid

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Speaker 5: semester or something like that. Jason Hart replies to the comment,

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Speaker 5: and Jason Hart says, I don't normally respond, but chaos

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Speaker 5: in the locker room is false. You're making things up,

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Speaker 5: which is unfortunate. So that's good to hear. But I

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Speaker 5: also don't know if that's the forum to respond to

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Speaker 5: it in. But again, Pope did this Like the reason

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Speaker 5: this is happening is because aa, you brought up the

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Speaker 5: pregame Louisville thing, but then b because kind of the

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Speaker 5: way he was acting after the game against Michigan State.

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Speaker 2: It kind of leads to this, it does.

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Speaker 6: It goes all back to how he handled the whole

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Speaker 5: If you're gonna send the fans Drew on an adventure

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 8: Uh?

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Speaker 2: And he kind of did that.

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Speaker 7: And Pope's had three four speaking opportunities, and only Jason

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Speaker 5: So he speaks at noon today. Yes, that's a little unusual.

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Speaker 2: About? Well? The players did money? This is his one? Oh?

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Speaker 5: Wouldn't you say to him if you were giving pr advice,

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Speaker 2: Or at least tamper down one of.

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Speaker 6: Those See I'm with you. I mean, it is November.

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Speaker 2: And people like.

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Speaker 5: Rumor there's dude, it's while these shows like Love and

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Speaker 2: Kettle Love, Actually you had Love in Kettle Island. That's

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Speaker 6: To Kettle Island where it's Kettle Island, it's up in

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Speaker 5: But but point mean, like it's that's people like that stuff.

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Speaker 2: What do we think about that?

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Speaker 6: I mean, I think there's a little truth to that,

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Speaker 5: Butler were either the first, your store second best player

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Speaker 7: Well, I think the big problem, as we all know,

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Speaker 7: Oway was the best player last year. He's the preseason

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Speaker 5: I think he was our most consistent player and in

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll see. I've been concerned. This is an interesting point.

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Speaker 7: If I say, passed on people in recruiting because they're

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Speaker 5: If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,

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Speaker 5: If I'm nine to two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, uh,

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Speaker 2: And I'm not sure this is the perfect time.

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Speaker 5: But I mean, if they keep losing, yeah, I think

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Speaker 5: I still think if he plays this year, we can

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Speaker 5: and I've said that all summer. Still believe it. I

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Speaker 2: They won on the road at Illinois, great win.

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Speaker 5: Last eight points a game were scored by file On

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Speaker 2: They just could not stop him. He got what he

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Speaker 5: We don't have that guy. And at the end of

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Speaker 6: At least. I felt like if we had Low, he

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Speaker 2: He did it against Louisville.

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Speaker 6: A minute he came on the floor.

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Speaker 7: I just my thing is still Ohway is the big

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Speaker 2: Play to me.

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Speaker 5: Now, that doesn't mean I just felt like he was

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Speaker 5: But against a good team, do I think I mean,

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Speaker 2: Who you want?

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Speaker 7: Here's always games the last week of the season, last year,

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Speaker 7: That is awesome and that is nowhere near on the roster.

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Speaker 2: Listen, I get it.

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Speaker 2: But I still thought he was a dude.

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Speaker 6: You know the Louisville game, that was that hardy guy.

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Speaker 5: There's a difference between a first and the second option,

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Speaker 2: And I don't know if he's that.

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Speaker 5: I'm more confident about what I said yesterday about Mitch

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Speaker 2: This will be his last year. I just want that

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Speaker 6: The Matt Baum to drop yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're going to be getting a new

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Speaker 5: but I just feel like that's.

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Speaker 2: Very very likely.

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Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of things that point to it,

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Speaker 5: including a couple of things just like you know, you

446
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Speaker 5: remember he had a donation thing where he was donating

447
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Speaker 5: so much for that complex and that ends at the

448
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Speaker 5: end of this year, and like, there's just a lot

449
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Speaker 5: of stuff that I think and just talking to people,

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Speaker 5: I think there's good chances and new ad And then.

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Speaker 2: The question would be who is that.

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Speaker 5: My guess is, I think if you had to guess,

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Speaker 5: it would be one of two people, which is either

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Speaker 5: Dwayne Peevee or the guy who has Dwayne Peevee's job now,

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Speaker 5: Mark Hill. I mean my guess is it's probably one

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Speaker 5: of those two guys. And that sort of that consistency continues.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, in the timeline with Michigan and that eight hundred

458
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Speaker 7: thousand a year starting next year, I mean that kind

459
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Speaker 7: of checks out if you're predicting what he would do

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Speaker 7: to wrap up his time.

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Speaker 5: What do you think about that eight hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 5: a year for two years to be the special assistant

463
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Speaker 5: to the president.

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Speaker 2: Give me that job. Yeah, I don't like that assistant

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Speaker 2: to the regional manager.

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Speaker 6: Show up to some functions, shake some hands.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I know somebody else had to approve that contract,

468
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Speaker 5: but it's yet another contract where you go.

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Speaker 7: With you on the candidates. But that eliminates so many people.

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Speaker 7: If he's just gonna be lingering around, if you did

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Speaker 7: want to get a new some new blood or some excitement,

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Speaker 7: no one's gonna want him just sitting in the office

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Speaker 7: in the corner making it her one thousand a year

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Speaker 7: while you're trying to take over an athletic Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean, if you're Dwaye Peevy or Mark Hill and

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Speaker 5: you wanted to come in and like have your own

477
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Speaker 5: game plan, having him sitting over there going.

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Speaker 2: That probably doesn't help. That's true.

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Speaker 5: I think Mitch has done a great job here, but

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Speaker 5: nobody is irreplaceable, right, and so I do hope whenever

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Speaker 5: he steps away, he steps away.

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Speaker 6: Right, Let's let the new guy do his job.

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Speaker 5: Oh, it to the new person to let them do

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Speaker 5: their thing. Yeah, when it's time, we'll take a break.

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Speaker 2: Very back's Chazar TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ.

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Speaker 4: He'll make them pay now.

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Speaker 3: More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 2: Here's Matt Jones, Welcome back and Turny Sports Radio. I

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Speaker 2: was dancing here, sitting here.

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Speaker 6: But nothing.

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Speaker 2: We didn't. Baby, it's is it? It's not button up?

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Speaker 2: But that would be a Mitch Barnhart.

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Speaker 5: That button, baby, Yeah, button the top button.

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Speaker 2: Baby.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna watch Masterpiece Theater. That's the Mitch Marnhart dance.

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Speaker 5: A little different than loosen up my buttons, baby. Kyle says, uh,

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Speaker 5: I usually don't disagree with Matt completely, but Drew is

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Speaker 5: right about away being a huge factor of why we've

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Speaker 5: looked so bad this year. Well, let me be clear,

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Speaker 5: I don't disagree with Drew on that. The reason we'd

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Speaker 5: look bad is it always not playing well. We're Drew

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Speaker 5: and I probably disagree is whether or not always kind

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Speaker 5: of has the potential to be like a number one option,

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Speaker 5: like a star. But we may disagree on that. But

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Speaker 5: is it the case that he is the reason a

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Speaker 5: big reason we're struggling?

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Speaker 2: I completely agree. Let me ask you, Shannon real quick. Yep.

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Speaker 5: The Louisville Bats announced that for six games next year,

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Speaker 5: in the middle of the summer, they're going to change

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Speaker 5: their name to the Louisville Humidity, Right, and their jerseys

511
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Speaker 5: are gonna be orange, and they're going to have sweat

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Speaker 5: stains on them. Yep, and the numbers are gonna have

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Speaker 5: dripping water on it, the Louisville humidity for six games.

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Speaker 5: I put that out. There was a mixed response. Not

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Speaker 5: everybody was negative. Not everybody's positive. I kind of like it,

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Speaker 5: what about you, Shane?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean this is the fun of minor league baseball, right,

518
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Speaker 3: Anything they can do to get people to come out.

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Speaker 3: Usually the dollar beer works fun for me to get

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Speaker 3: me to go to the games.

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Speaker 2: But I like it.

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Speaker 3: You know, for six games there'll be the Louisville humidity,

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Speaker 3: and it'll be something that fans can collect. The sweating

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Speaker 3: baseball logo on a baseball hat.

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Speaker 2: I think I'll buy one of those.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think I'm gonna buy one. I

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Speaker 5: love having the jersey have pre pre proved sweat stains.

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Speaker 2: I'm a fan. What about you?

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Speaker 6: I'm a big fan. The Channon said it. Man, That's

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Speaker 6: what makes minor league baseball's fun and special, when they

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Speaker 6: have their little gimmicks and things they do to try

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Speaker 6: to attract a crowd. You know, the humidity is so awful,

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Speaker 6: that's probably when their crowds are the least. Now they'll

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Speaker 6: do it a week where it'll be hot and sweaty,

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Speaker 6: but people will go just to be a part of this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Louisville site they call Louisville. I don't know what

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Speaker 2: it's called, Like, is.

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Speaker 5: It a heat pocket or a heat It's got a

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Speaker 5: name because it's kind of got a little dip in

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Speaker 5: the valley and you're on the river and all that.

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Speaker 2: There's some there's some name for it.

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Speaker 5: It's like a heat pack or something in that stadium's

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Speaker 5: right there on it.

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Speaker 2: So I kind of like it. Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 2: They got hats, imagine.

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Speaker 7: I mean, you're not gonna wear a baseball jersey around

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Speaker 7: town all the time, but got a nice Louisvill humidity

548
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Speaker 7: hat with sweat dripping down the side. You like, orangs

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Speaker 7: though some people don't like the old love that, but

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Speaker 7: it's better than Louisville red it. The soccer team here,

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Speaker 7: the election sporting they had like a bourbon barrel uniform.

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Speaker 7: We remember the Ice I have Legends gear from years

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Speaker 7: ago where they had theme nights. I think it's really

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Speaker 7: really cool that that level of sports, you know, does

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Speaker 7: some gimmick stuff to some more merchandise and get people involved.

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Speaker 4: But you're right, man. It is kind of that Tennessee orange.

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Speaker 3: It's not just It'snessee, it's that puk inside of a

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Speaker 3: pumpkin orange.

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's the orange. But I'm still gonna do it,

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Speaker 5: I think because I I like it. I think it's

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Speaker 5: a cool idea. I wouldn't have thought. I mean, you

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Speaker 5: talk about it creative. Who would have ever thought to

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Speaker 5: call something the humidity?

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Speaker 4: Remember the wild health genomes that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the genomes didn't work for whatever reason, the genomes

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Speaker 5: that that was. I don't know if that was too far,

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Speaker 5: just too nerdy.

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Speaker 6: Counterclock the counterclock.

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Speaker 5: Counter clocks didn't really work either. I didn't know what

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Speaker 5: they meant by that. But now I kind of like

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Speaker 5: the humidity. I think that was a good call.

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Speaker 3: Every game, it's not the entire you know, it's six games,

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Speaker 3: six games.

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Speaker 2: In the hottest time of the year. Two.

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Speaker 7: They had every meteorologist in Louisville at the announcement wearing

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Speaker 7: the jerseys.

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Speaker 2: Oh they did well? Did they keep them separating? The photo?

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Speaker 2: The two hated each other.

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Speaker 7: We're they are I don't know people by faces Weinberg

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Speaker 7: and Bailey.

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Speaker 2: It's a Lexington Louisville thing.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if two Louisville guys hate each other,

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Speaker 5: Wineberg is the Louisville one.

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Speaker 2: I think it's Wineberg and Bailey that have the that

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Speaker 2: have the beef.

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Speaker 7: I don't know my Louisville meteorologists, but that about twelve

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Speaker 7: of them in a photo together wearing.

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Speaker 2: Joe very controversial.

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Speaker 5: And there are people who will take up There were

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Speaker 5: people who will fight you for and against his way.

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Speaker 5: All right, who's up first? Ed?

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Speaker 2: Go ahead? Ed?

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Speaker 8: Hey, good morning, guys, Good morning. I'm astonished that I'm

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Speaker 8: up first.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're here, so don't ruin it.

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Speaker 8: I won't ruin it. Just I wanted to make a

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Speaker 8: couple of three points real quick. Number one, Matt, you

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Speaker 8: are exactly correct. Uh, every good team, since they ain't

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Speaker 8: offer up up till now, every good team has a

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Speaker 8: floor general as a as someone typically the point guard.

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Speaker 8: There's the floor general runs the offense, is in charge

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Speaker 8: on the floor and without Jayalen Lowe, who do we

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Speaker 8: got we don't have one. It could be Aberdeen, but

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Speaker 8: Aberdeen's got to quit trying to be a hero scoring

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Speaker 8: the ball. He's got to facilitate the offense if he's

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Speaker 8: gonna be the point guard.

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Speaker 2: And what second.

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Speaker 8: Second, we don't share the ball. We're watching My wife

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Speaker 8: and I are sitting there watching the Michigan State game, and

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Speaker 8: yellow it who needs to be playing a whole lot

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Speaker 8: more because he hustles and does the little dirty work stuff.

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Speaker 8: It plays good d He was wide open two times

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Speaker 8: in a row down the floor, nobody guarding him within

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Speaker 8: fifteen feet. Alway looks at him, stares at him, never

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Speaker 8: passes him the ball.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I appreciate the call. I think those two things

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Speaker 5: work together. I think those two things. You know, in

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Speaker 5: his very few minutes against Louisville, people remember and understand

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Speaker 5: to believe that the rush three, that was a bad shot,

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Speaker 5: missing the free throw. But he had some dimes in

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Speaker 5: that game, especially early. He had some passes where he

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Speaker 5: found guys and we're gonna miss that. I don't know

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Speaker 5: if Aberdeen's if that's something he can do or not.

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Speaker 5: I think he probably can. You know, oh Way has

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Speaker 5: a tendency to put that head down and go to

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Speaker 5: the basket, and I'm okay with that, but you better finish,

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Speaker 5: you know. If you're gonna do that, you gotta finish.

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Speaker 5: And he hadn't finished like he did last year.

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Speaker 7: Lowe's the only guy in the whole roster who can

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Speaker 7: get anywhere he wants on the court. I mean, we

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Speaker 7: saw that Louisville and he stepped on the baseline at

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Speaker 7: the end. But if he had done that, he've even

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Speaker 7: got down there and had a guy open in the corner.

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Speaker 7: And that is what they're going to miss the most. Aberdeen,

635
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Speaker 7: probably better defensively, might figure out point guard, but he'll

636
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Speaker 7: never be able to do what Low could do and

637
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Speaker 7: just get low and get inside and really go wherever

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Speaker 7: he wanted distribute the ball.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the game changed the minute Low stepped on the floor.

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Speaker 6: The offense change more efficient, better open looks. For some

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Speaker 6: of the guys that everything changed. Now they don't have that.

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Speaker 6: I mean, Aberdeen's good, but he can't do it at

643
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Speaker 6: that level that locan do it.

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Speaker 7: So if he doesn't play what, the ceiling is much lower.

645
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Speaker 7: The floor is already much lower than I thought it

646
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Speaker 7: would be me too, I've never dreamed a scenario of

647
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Speaker 7: this bad.

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Speaker 2: Without Low.

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Speaker 7: It's hard to imagine them hitting their main objective.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna be you know, I feel like I've said

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Speaker 5: this now three or four times. I'm gonna be interested

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Speaker 5: to see what Pope says. But I am gonna be

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Speaker 5: interested to see what popees is. Yeah, because they whether

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Speaker 5: they say it or not, they know whether or not

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Speaker 5: Low is playing by now right there. Any way, they

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Speaker 5: don't know, No, I think they they've had all their imaging.

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Speaker 5: They know, and we might find out today.

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Speaker 2: It could be it.

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Speaker 5: I mean today, by the time you listen to this podcast,

660
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Speaker 5: it might already be out. But they know if he's

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Speaker 5: gonna play, and if he's not gonna play, part of

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Speaker 5: me wonders if part of the sadness of him is

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Speaker 5: the realization of if he doesn't play, do we have

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Speaker 5: we spend all this money. By the way, I still

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Speaker 5: think they spent twenty two million dollars time.

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Speaker 2: I'm just going on. I've said that forever now.

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Speaker 5: Matt norland Or and other people disagree with me, and

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Speaker 5: I'm not gonna say they're wrong because they have a

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Speaker 5: lot of sources.

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Speaker 2: I just don't I don't buy it.

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Speaker 5: I know people who write those checks, and I don't

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Speaker 5: think they wrote that big a check.

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Speaker 2: So let's just with that said.

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Speaker 5: Though we spent more than most people, maybe more than

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Speaker 5: anyone certainly in the top two, and it doesn't look

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Speaker 5: like that when they play.

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Speaker 6: No, it's gonna be a recurring theme until they start

678
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Speaker 6: playing better. There's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 7: And I'm someone that said the money doesn't matter, but

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Speaker 7: it matters when you're down twenty four and twenty. If

681
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Speaker 7: you lose because the team shot well from three, bad matchup,

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Speaker 7: whatever it's basketball, You've lose. Getting your teeth kicked in

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Speaker 7: and your first two big games is inexcusable for what

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Speaker 7: they spent, whatever it was.

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Speaker 2: But you're right.

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Speaker 6: Like we said yesterday, it is plausible that Pope's attitude

687
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Speaker 6: has been because he knew he knows Low is done

688
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Speaker 6: for the year, and he doesn't know where to go next.

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Speaker 6: How to fix that problem.

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Speaker 5: If he's done for the year, go find a point guard.

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Speaker 5: There's gotta be a big World's got to be one somewhere.

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Speaker 6: Mario's got eligibility left.

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Speaker 2: We need to keep moving. Yeah, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: he's good, though.

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Speaker 7: He's got he's with us. We can't lose Him's.

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Speaker 2: Right, Who's up next, Craig, Craig, Go ahead.

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Speaker 9: Craig, Hey, Fellaws, thanks for taking my call. Appreciate everything

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Speaker 9: you guys are doing. A Couple of comments in the question.

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Speaker 9: When Logan went down the second time, it almost felt like, Uh,

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Speaker 9: it was the worst. It was the worst thing that

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Speaker 9: could happen if we were aspiring to be national champions.

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Speaker 9: I mean, I settled, I settled all my future bets

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Speaker 9: for championship.

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Speaker 2: You've already cashed them all out?

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Speaker 9: Oh, for for being a champion? Yeah, as far as

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Speaker 9: final four, for as far as as far as final

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Speaker 9: four appearances. No, but I don't. I just didn't see

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Speaker 9: any hope in that. Secondly, with Pope and how and

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Speaker 9: how with these two losses, he it is incredibly unsettling

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Speaker 9: to see how despondent he is. Yeah, it almost seems

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Speaker 9: like this job is suddenly becoming too big for him.

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Speaker 9: And let's talk about that.

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Speaker 5: I want to hold I want to I want to

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Speaker 5: hold onto that thought for a second because I do

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Speaker 5: want to talk about that. It was your your you're

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Speaker 5: It's a point Gary Parrish talked about earlier today and

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Speaker 5: I want to go over that. So, Uh, I appreciate

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Speaker 5: the God. I think that's a really good point to raise.

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Speaker 5: If you're a bourbon lover and a UK fan, why

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Speaker 2: That's actually not a good that's shouldn't put that in there.

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Speaker 2: They shouldn't put that in there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I wouldn't even taste me either.

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Speaker 2: That's cool.

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Speaker 5: surprise be right back. Welcome back, teke you. Sports Radio

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Speaker 5: AFM nine two to eight zero twenty two eighty seven

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Speaker 5: two five four. Okay, So Gary Parish talked about what

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Speaker 5: the caller said about Mark Pope. Uh, and I really

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Speaker 5: liked what Gary said. Gary sort of went through the

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Speaker 5: progression and he said, Okay, by the end of Cow's

746
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Speaker 5: time here, he was kind of disconnected from the fans.

747
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Speaker 2: I think we all would agree with that.

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Speaker 5: And then he said Mark Pope really made it like

749
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Speaker 5: his goal to become connected with the fans. And Gary

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Speaker 5: even mentioned KSR but the media of the fans. I

751
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 5: think that's completely true. He made that a priority. The

752
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Speaker 5: problem with that and by the way, that was good,

753
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Speaker 5: he needed to do that. But the problem with that is,

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Speaker 5: according to Gary, you feel then when the criticism comes

755
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Speaker 5: right and he's also right about that. You know, one

756
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Speaker 5: of the things that makes being connected to a fan

757
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Speaker 5: base is you got to be amongst them, You got

758
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Speaker 5: to be part of it. And that means you see

759
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Speaker 5: when they come after you. I can relate to that

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Speaker 5: because that's also me. It would be like, you know

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Speaker 5: a lot of times people say I don't care what

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Speaker 5: the general public say is I don't see it. Well

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Speaker 5: I do, and like that's hard when you to be

764
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Speaker 5: really connected, you also have to like almost ingest the criticism.

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Speaker 5: And Gary's point was Mark is now feeling that, right,

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Speaker 5: He's feeling the criticism because he so wants to be

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Speaker 5: connected and that can be hard. And I think that's

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Speaker 5: very true, right, I mean.

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Speaker 2: I I in order to do his job right, he

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Speaker 2: needs to do this.

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Speaker 5: But this is the downside of it, is you can

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Speaker 5: feel when things are not going.

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Speaker 6: For I think a lot of our fan base is

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Speaker 6: feelings about Pope may dictate on what he does in

775
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Speaker 6: the next couple of weeks. How does he battle back

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Speaker 6: from this? What's he gonna say to us? How's he

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Speaker 6: gonna respond? I mean, I am I'm gonna be opening

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Speaker 6: my eyes and listening to what he says today. You know,

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Speaker 6: he always happens right after this show comes out, right

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Speaker 6: at noon, right at noon.

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Speaker 2: Always I would go to all of them, but they

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Speaker 2: put him right at noon. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: He also he hears the criticism. But you know when

784
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Speaker 7: they lost to Georgetown endo in count he was furious, like,

785
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Speaker 7: we do not lose in this arena, Like he gets it,

786
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Speaker 7: which means he also knows we don't lose to Louisville.

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Speaker 7: About twenty years and it would ended up being close.

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Speaker 7: But I mean most the game they were down bad,

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Speaker 7: so he knows how bad he's dropped the ball more

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Speaker 7: than any coach in that spot.

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Speaker 2: Probably would.

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Speaker 5: Let me ask you a question real quick about my

793
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Speaker 5: other team, the Cincinnati Reds. They announced yesterday Elie Dale

794
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 5: la Cruz played half the season last year with a

795
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Speaker 5: partially torn quad, and I was glad to hear that

796
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Speaker 5: because he didn't play very well towards the end and

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Speaker 5: I was worried. But if he had a partially torn quad,

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Speaker 5: I get it now. Some Reds fans are very angry

799
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Speaker 5: and they say, why'd you let him do that? And

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Speaker 5: they're mad at the Reds. How do you let him

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Speaker 5: play with a partially torn quad? What I don't understand, Ryan,

802
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Speaker 5: is like I feel like guys when they get hurt,

803
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Speaker 5: they can't like neither way like people criticizing me the way.

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Speaker 5: If they don't play well, they're not tough. If they

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Speaker 5: do play, why'd you let him play?

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Speaker 2: Yep? Right, I actually think.

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Speaker 5: It's kind of cool that this dude who may one

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Speaker 5: day be worth five hundred million dollars and right now

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Speaker 5: he's playing for eight hundred thousand still wanted to play

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Speaker 5: through a partially torn quad.

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Speaker 6: I give him a lot of credit. You know, if

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Speaker 6: they were out of the playoff picture, maybe he would

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Speaker 6: have shut it down. But he wanted to play to

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Speaker 6: help them. They were fighting for playoffs, about to get

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Speaker 6: in the playoffs, and they did. You know, he wanted

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Speaker 6: to help his team, help his family. Should be praising

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Speaker 6: the guy, I don't think so. Why it's not bad, right?

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Speaker 7: I agree with you that if he hadn't play it

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Speaker 7: and then the playoff push, it'd be rubbed some dirt

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Speaker 7: on it.

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Speaker 2: Why is he just sitting there? Go out there and

822
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Speaker 2: help your team. Yeah, he does that, and you know

823
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Speaker 2: better than me.

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Speaker 7: I don't know how he played during the stretch, but

825
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Speaker 7: they were in that hunt till there was not.

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Speaker 5: He was not his normal self, but he was better

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Speaker 5: than whoever would have replaced it.

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Speaker 2: You know. So what about you, Shing? You're a baseball guy.

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Speaker 3: I mean that that's impressive, especially at his position. You've

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Speaker 3: got to be very athletic at shortstop and then you know,

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Speaker 3: running the bases.

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Speaker 4: I didn't notice that you would think somebody with a partially.

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Speaker 5: He wasn't slower. They were doing that. They were showing

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Speaker 5: during that stretch that he didn't run his fast well now.

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Speaker 2: We know why.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, still faster than well over half the people in

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Speaker 6: the big.

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Speaker 4: Leagues shunting at all on That is impressive.

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Speaker 2: Right, So what's your quad? Is that this thing right here?

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Speaker 6: That's that muscle right there? I think top of your thighs.

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Speaker 5: That's my weakest muscle. It is God, I don't do

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Speaker 5: well with this muscle. This is the muscle. And I

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Speaker 5: start working out that I that it says, okay, what

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Speaker 5: are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Stop? That's that's the muscle.

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Speaker 5: Like when you're doing squads, right, squats Lunges.

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Speaker 2: Lunges are not when Kentucky's losing in games, you got

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Speaker 2: a lunch.

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Speaker 5: If you were to say to me, Matt, what is

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Speaker 5: what is hell? It is a world where you only

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Speaker 5: do lunges.

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Speaker 2: I hate it.

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Speaker 5: I can barely like so so tearing that I can't

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Speaker 5: imagine anything.

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Speaker 2: So you wouldn't have put or done lungees in the

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Speaker 2: first place.

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Speaker 5: When my lunges are sore, I just say I'm not

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Speaker 5: moving this weekend.

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Speaker 2: So so as a quad, I think I'm staying. I'm

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Speaker 2: not playing well Like she had and said.

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Speaker 6: You know, you run every game. That had to kind

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Speaker 6: of hurt every time he was trying to run and

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Speaker 6: you know, beat out a base hit or go to

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Speaker 6: the second base. Deal a baby.

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Speaker 2: Lunges.

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Speaker 6: I hate lunges. That's could be one of the worst things.

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Speaker 6: Ere what are the those those up downs wherever they

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Speaker 6: call those?

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Speaker 5: But those should be illegal? Actually, amen, my my trainers, Sonny.

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Speaker 5: She's a wonderful woman, but she is way too into burpies,

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Speaker 5: and like sometimes I sometimes think, you know, I need

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Speaker 5: to get started again, and then I'm like, she's gonna.

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Speaker 2: Make me do a burpie.

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Speaker 6: Then I'm not going.

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Speaker 2: And I think I would rather sit here. Think he'll

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Speaker 2: do a.

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Speaker 6: It's a terrible thing. It's awful. It's the worst exercise

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Speaker 6: in the history of exercise.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's why we're on a radio show sitting down.

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Speaker 5: Down to Ellie for playing through greed. And I don't understand,

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Speaker 5: my guy, Lance mcallisters, like this shows the Reds are

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Speaker 5: a terrible organization.

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Speaker 6: What do you want to I mean, trying to help

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Speaker 6: the organization play?

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Speaker 5: You just say no, let's play Saint Tots, Santiago Espinal Moore.

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Speaker 2: Who's next, George, George, Go ahead, George.

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Speaker 10: Good morning, gentlemen, I think the the biggest trouble to

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Speaker 10: me is the bait and switch we've had with Mark

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Speaker 10: Pope and his offense. I mean, we were promised a modern,

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Speaker 10: free flowing, you know, shoot a lot of threes ball

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Speaker 10: movement offense, and what I saw against Michigan State was

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Speaker 10: worse than anything we had in Col's last two or

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Speaker 10: three years. I mean, it is completely not what we

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Speaker 10: were promised. It's not what he typically does. He built

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Speaker 10: a roster that can't play the way he wants to play.

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Speaker 10: Issue struggling, it's his issue.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 5: I think the real issue is did you build the

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Speaker 5: right roster?

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Speaker 2: And oh way, what do you like? Why don't you play?

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Speaker 5: Would you start Morino next game?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 7: Yes, I probably would have started him last game. I

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Speaker 7: said on our pregame for Michigan State, Brandon Garrison, this

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Speaker 7: is your last opportunity to prove you deserve that spot,

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Speaker 7: and it did not go well. That clip of him

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Speaker 7: giving up those offensive rebounds is burned into my brain.

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Speaker 7: I can't get it out of there. So yes, I

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Speaker 7: would go Marino. I'd go more Yellovich and Quaintans. We

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Speaker 7: don't really mention him, but he's still projected mid December.

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Speaker 7: That could certainly help when he gets here.

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Speaker 2: That can help Garrison his time.

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Speaker 7: Maybe ticket he went the wrong way, like he's supposed

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Speaker 7: to gonna be better, He got worse.

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Speaker 2: Sprinted in the wrong direction.

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Speaker 5: All right, we're gonna come back out number two here

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