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Speaker 2: of the Houston Oilers, coached by the Great Bumphillips, finished

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Speaker 2: last in the one mile run during preseason conditioning, and

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Speaker 2: at the press conference, Bumphillips was asked, how do you

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Speaker 3: Phillips looked at the reporter and said.

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess if it's third and a mile, Earl

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Speaker 2: campbellen getting the ball. We're gonna get to the running

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Speaker 3: I will bring some semblance, a little order.

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Speaker 2: To chaos as it comes, as it pertains to the

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Speaker 2: running back saga. But we begin, What a night for

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Speaker 2: the other football spelled futbol. Messy checks it in the

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Speaker 2: fifty fourth minute on nothing scores the goal scores the

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Speaker 2: winning goal. Remember how Laton had that goal in his

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Speaker 2: debut in LA a few years back. These guys are

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Speaker 2: for real, man, what a night for football fut bol?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the World Cup is back is back on

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Speaker 2: as well? Looking for a clever word there. It didn't

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Speaker 2: come up with it, did I? The World Club A

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Speaker 2: good night, folks.

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Speaker 3: You've been a great leads.

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Speaker 2: The World Cup is back and it's about a thirty

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Speaker 2: day event here Lynn August twentieth and I get it.

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Speaker 2: A lot of the great unwashed. We're looking for the

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Speaker 2: women's national team to rack up a lopsided route against

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Speaker 2: Vietnam and their debutants. But they didn't get it. They

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Speaker 2: got a three nothing victory. It wasn't messy, see what

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Speaker 2: I did there. But it wasn't pretty either. It wasn't perfect,

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Speaker 2: But you take the w you take your three points.

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Speaker 2: Sophia Smith the brightest player on the field for the

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Speaker 2: women's team, but if you watched the game, it wasn't crisp.

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Speaker 2: They had chances that never material lines, broken plays, dumping

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Speaker 2: hopeful balls into the Vietnam's box. Many of the shots

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Speaker 2: r un convincing. You almost wonder it stretches if they

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Speaker 2: were playing down to their competition.

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Speaker 3: Not sure. We'll find out.

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Speaker 2: Wednesday when they play at six pm Pacific against the Netherlands,

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Speaker 2: which would be a rematch from the championship of the

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Speaker 2: twenty nine twenty nineteen World Cup, and Netherlands will bring

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Speaker 2: a whole different type of vibe. We will get into

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Speaker 2: that a little bit later as well. Interesting how their manager,

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Speaker 2: the US manager of Vlato, Andonofsky, made some tweaks with

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Speaker 2: his starting lineup and he's sort of measuring the minutes

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Speaker 2: for Rose Level.

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Speaker 3: And Meghan Rapino.

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Speaker 2: And this is a month long tournament, right, so it's

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Speaker 2: a situation where I think you take tonight. Sophie Smith

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Speaker 3: I think she admits they didn't play their best game.

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Speaker 2: Trinity Rodman had a few good plays, Alex Morgan had

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Speaker 2: a nice pass to Sophie Smith, but what stuck out

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Speaker 2: the time. All right, so where do we go from here.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, home dinner, maybe a movie. The real

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Speaker 2: question on everybody's mind is is can the US repeat

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Speaker 2: three peat?

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Speaker 3: No one's ever done that in the history of World

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Speaker 2: I believe Brazil the men's team, if I'm not mistaken,

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Speaker 2: one three of four like fifty six, sixty and sixty eight.

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Speaker 2: And I think a lot of folks feel it's easy

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Speaker 2: to assume the women. You know, it may be a

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Speaker 2: tougher road this year, but they're gonna get there. It's

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Speaker 2: gonna be a sure thing. They'll reach at milestone again.

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Speaker 2: They'll be the first team ever to win three straight

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Speaker 2: which really only propagates to about a twenty nine percent

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Speaker 2: probability of winning the whole thing. Now, having said that,

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Speaker 2: And you know, you but again, you're a little we're

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Speaker 2: for injuries, there's always a chance for bad bounces, penalty

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Speaker 2: calls and dangibles. The Americans are very good, but there

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Speaker 2: why they might not win it. I'm going to start

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Speaker 2: with why they might not win it to set expectations again,

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Speaker 2: start with injuries. Injuries have already badly impacted this team.

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Speaker 2: Back in April, Mallory Swanson before her marriage to cub

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Speaker 2: infielder Dansby Swanson, I remember her name was Mallory Pugh.

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Speaker 2: She suffered a torrent pateteloten and in her left knee

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Speaker 2: the most dangerous offensive threat. She'd scored like seven goals

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Speaker 2: in six Gameslast year she had seven goals in fifteen

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Speaker 2: Attacker Katerina Macario. She suffered a knee injury and was

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Speaker 2: left off the team. And I don't know, I tell

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Speaker 2: you I don't recite these knee injuries and wrote manner

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Speaker 2: with any insensitivity. Trust me, My daughter played Division one

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Speaker 2: really curtailed everything. She made her Olympic development team in

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Speaker 2: two thousand and four. You fourteen, she was on her way.

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Speaker 2: She had sixty one offers, which chose you MV for

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Speaker 2: multiple reasons. Knee injuries kind of ruined it for her.

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Speaker 2: So I believe me. I've had empathy towards these young ladies,

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Speaker 2: but they are also big time players that really would

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Speaker 2: on again. It ends August twentieth, but she don't know.

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Speaker 2: The biggest loss, though, I think for the team is

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Speaker 2: thirty eight years old, but a tremendous steadying force in

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Speaker 2: and her timetable just wasn't going to cooperate. And even

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Speaker 2: have been a great presence as a leader, even in

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Speaker 2: the locker room, a great vibe, the whole deal. But look,

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Speaker 2: she's a center back, and she was very pragmatic. She goes,

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Speaker 2: you can't have a stack that can only play fifteen

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Speaker 2: This is a team that's in transition. Again, these are

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Speaker 2: all the reasons they might not win. No one's ever

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Speaker 2: three peeded. They have fourteen newcomers to the World Cup team.

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Speaker 2: Two years ago at the Tokyo Olympics, they didn't necessarily

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Speaker 2: blend the old and new generations that great. The team

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Speaker 2: finished third. Their coach started five different lineups, they didn't

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Speaker 2: really necessarily gel and there are whispers that coach Andonofski

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Speaker 2: Netherlands Wednesday, six pm. They're going to be far more difficult.

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Speaker 2: The Americans played them to a two to two draw

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Speaker 2: and Tokyo knocked them out on penalty kicks in a quarterfinal.

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Speaker 2: Then they beat Portugal one nothing in a very difficult

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Speaker 2: Americans will advance from Group EE one way or the other.

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Speaker 2: But if they finished second the brackets, you know, they

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: They might face Sweden in the around of sixteen. Sweden's

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Speaker 2: kind of been America's kryptonite in the last few years.

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Speaker 2: They play a very cautious structure behind the ball style,

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Speaker 2: very much as frustrated the US.

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Speaker 3: In the past.

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Speaker 2: They create all kinds of counterattacking opportunities on turnovers. So

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Speaker 2: whether or not the Americans face Sweden, there's other potential

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Speaker 2: speed bumps. Europeans are loaded with talent England beat the

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Speaker 2: split with the US a couple of times. US barely

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Speaker 2: one Australia. They have Sam kurb maybe the best player

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Speaker 2: Every opponent is going to bring their best against the

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Speaker 2: on the women's side are the gold standard, even though

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Speaker 2: they only took the bronze in Tokyo.

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Speaker 3: You get where I'm going.

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Speaker 2: So those are the reasons why the US might not win.

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Speaker 2: Why might they win?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: First and four months, First and foremost, the US does

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Speaker 2: still have more depth than any other team in New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I'm not gonna name the roster, but

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Speaker 2: you'll hear the names, okay, even with first timers like

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Speaker 2: Sophia Smith, Trinity Rodman and if you recognize that last name, yes,

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Speaker 2: she's the daughter of Dennis Rodman, Casey Murphy, Audrey Kingsbury.

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Speaker 2: They have a roster that's not only versatile, but they're deep.

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Speaker 2: And I think they will handle it versity, They will

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Speaker 2: handle challenges. Every player had kind of a different journey

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Speaker 2: to get to that point. They got a really good

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Speaker 2: mix of veterans and younger players, and they're still going

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Speaker 2: to have some power up front even without Swanson. You

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Speaker 2: got Alex Morgan, Sophia Smith who you saw tonight. You'll

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Speaker 2: have other young ladies coming on the bench. So depth

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Speaker 2: is key. But a lot of times stars are what

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Speaker 2: win this tournament. So there's gonna have to be some

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Speaker 2: individual brilliants. There's gonna have to be some experience in leadership.

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Speaker 2: I think Morgan and Rippino, as the tournament goes on,

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Speaker 2: their presence will be invaluable.

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Speaker 3: Right. They may not get.

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Speaker 2: As many minutes as they got in the past, but

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Speaker 2: you know the truth of the matter is that they

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Speaker 2: know what it's like.

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Speaker 3: They know what success looks like.

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Speaker 2: In the World Cup, there's one you know, there's one

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Speaker 2: last thing. And you know people talk about being confident

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Speaker 2: versus cocky. I actually think this women's team has been

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Speaker 2: cocky for a decade. I actually I covered the Me

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Speaker 2: and Him team. I like them way better. They were cool.

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Speaker 2: This team is not cool. They're arrogant and it's it's

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Speaker 2: inherent and it's been traditional, and it's actually kind of

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Speaker 2: nerve them well. They strut their goal celebrations in the

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Speaker 2: past have pissed people off. Some of their postgame quotes

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Speaker 2: are not always very diplomatic. But the US team believes

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Speaker 2: they are the best, and they they braced the pressure

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Speaker 2: and they hate losing, you know, That's.

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Speaker 2: There is this odd narrative that's been floating around the

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Speaker 2: a hard knocks curse? I'll give the history of NFL

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Speaker 3: I'm really looking forward to it now. I know that Robert.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that has floated into the ether

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Speaker 2: You know, we're always looking for curses, the Sports Illustrated

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Speaker 3: Thanks Kevin, Welcome back, Bud.

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Speaker 2: You were out last week, probably conquering the world right,

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Speaker 3: The world try my best at Bernie. You know that's

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Speaker 2: So let me set this up because I have put

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Speaker 2: interchangeable I ever, I saw people going on Twitter using

437
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Speaker 2: my word, and that's fine with me because that's how

438
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Speaker 2: I feel about it. Remember, the game has become basketball

439
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,199
Speaker 2: on turf. Why the evolution of athletes, the evolution of

440
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Speaker 2: creative offense is you put your playmakers out in space

441
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,200
Speaker 2: one on one battles and put them on an island

442
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Speaker 2: and let the best athlete win. Spread the field when

443
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,919
Speaker 2: you're one on one battles, And we now have basketball

444
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Speaker 2: on turf, largely because of the rule changes, but moreover

445
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 2: because of the evolution of athletes. You don't believe me, well,

446
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 2: go back and watch football from twenty five years ago

447
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 2: now linebackers run like defensive backs. Defensive ends run like linebackers.

448
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 2: Used to, these guys get sidelined to sideline. You got

449
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 2: to put your athletes in space. It can no longer

450
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 2: be three yards in a cloud of dust as such.

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Speaker 2: So now the game has become very quarterback centric. You

452
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Speaker 2: play the game through your quarterback. The best way to

453
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Speaker 2: win a ball game in the National Football League is

454
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Speaker 2: to operate from the pocket and complete passes. Now you

455
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 2: need you're running backs to run the ball too, and

456
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,119
Speaker 2: pass protect and even catch the ball out of the

457
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Speaker 2: backfield like Sakwan Barkley did fifty seven balls he caught.

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Speaker 2: It's a complete player. But take a look at Buffalo,

459
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Speaker 2: a very prolific offense. They run their whole offense through

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen. Right, Devin Singletary was a stud.

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Speaker 3: He's gone.

462
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Speaker 2: They draft James Cook, He's not gonna get a heavy load.

463
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Speaker 2: They run the game through the quarterback. Secondly, you've simply

464
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Speaker 2: got a situation now where it's a supplying demand issue.

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Speaker 2: There are more running backs than there are jobs. You

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Speaker 2: have to consider that. And back to my interchangeable. You

467
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Speaker 2: may already know this, but there were two hundred and

468
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Speaker 2: fifty players picked ahead of Isaiah Pacheco, a seventh round

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Speaker 2: back out of Rutgers, before Kansas City said we'll take

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Speaker 2: him seventh round. Two hundred and fifty players picked ahead

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Speaker 2: of him. That did not stop Isaiah Pachecko from being

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Speaker 2: the leading rusher in the Super Bowl. You saw it

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Speaker 2: with your own eyes. Supply and demand. Talk to NFL executives.

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Speaker 2: They don't really believe they've been devalued. They're just an

475
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Speaker 2: imbalance of supplying demand, and they're interchangeable. Not the same

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Speaker 2: with edge rushers, not the same with quarterbacks, not the

477
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Speaker 2: same with elite wide receiver. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 2: just four running backs have been selected in the first

479
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Speaker 2: round the past four drafts. There hasn't been a running

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Speaker 2: back taken higher than twenty fourth overall since twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 2: when the aforementioned New York Giants took the aforementioned Saquon

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Speaker 2: Barkley with the second pick.

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Speaker 3: And let's take a look at that for just a second.

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Speaker 3: They say, you don't.

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Speaker 2: Count anybody else's money, but I'm gonna make an exception

486
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Speaker 2: in this case because I understand everybody said Daniel Jones

487
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Speaker 2: got paid. We'll see how that works. Out this year.

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Speaker 2: I thought he did well last year unto Brian Dable,

489
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Speaker 2: but he didn't get top dollar. He got forty billion

490
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Speaker 2: top dollars, getting fifty two million and on the way up.

491
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Speaker 2: But running backs are counting other people's money because I'm

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Speaker 2: a Saquon Barkley fan. But there's reality, there's there's there

493
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Speaker 2: are objective truths, and there our personal feelings objectively and

494
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Speaker 2: it's my understanding, by the way, And I did not

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Speaker 2: confirm this to a second source, so I when I

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Speaker 2: share what I'm going to share, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: it's one hundred percent true because I didn't confirm with

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Speaker 2: a second source. I had heard Saquon was offered a

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Speaker 2: three year deal thirteen million per that would have put

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Speaker 2: three years thirty nine million.

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Speaker 3: He turned it down.

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Speaker 2: Now if that's true, somebody tweeted at me if you

503
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 2: if you know, please or if you know that's false,

504
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 2: tweet at me at Bernie Frattle. But it looks like

505
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 2: Barkley and he's going to be there week one, all right.

506
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 2: He's pissed off right now, he's bent. He's gonna sit

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00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 2: out part of training camp, maybe all training camp. He'll

508
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Speaker 2: be doing himself and the giants of favor. By doing that,

509
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 2: he's not showing anybody up, believe it or not, it's

510
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 2: not going to do a damn thing. And you know

511
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 2: it's certain your own Le'Veon bel jo. You know he

512
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Speaker 2: apologized earlier in the week.

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Speaker 3: We'll get to that.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'll share that vignette with you toward the

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Speaker 2: end of the show. But here's my point. Let's assume

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Speaker 2: Barkley plays on the franchise tag at ten million. His

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Speaker 2: career earnings will then be after this year and he's

518
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Speaker 2: only twenty six. He turns twenty seven forty million, one

519
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Speaker 2: ninety four thousand dollars. Dalvin Cook, even if he doesn't

520
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 2: play this year, he will have earned thirty nine million,

521
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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Ezekiel Elliott seventy

522
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Speaker 2: one million and change. Add it all up, what does

523
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 2: that add up to? Oh nothing, one hundred and fifty

524
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Speaker 2: five million dollars. We're supposed to take up a collection

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Speaker 2: plate and sing the blues for these guys. I get

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Speaker 2: things to have a context, and I get they want

527
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 2: to get paid, and they want to get paid. Bat

528
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 2: More and Portman want to be rich and Richmond want

529
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 2: to be king and people in hell one ice water

530
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 2: and you're all out of luck, I guess right now.

531
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Speaker 3: But the reality of it is, year after year we're.

532
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Speaker 2: Reminded of this downward spiral and right now, you know months,

533
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Speaker 2: Like quarterbacks, running backs are most valuable during the rookie

534
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Speaker 2: deals when their salaries are low and their production is

535
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 2: theoretically higher because they're fresh. But unlike quarterbacks, the position

536
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 2: is physically demanding, and so some of these guys never

537
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 2: make it to their second and third contracts. That's always

538
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 2: been the case. It's not the reason we're not being

539
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 2: paid right now. So what happened this last week? This

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00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 2: was the stark reminder On Monday, the Giants in Barkley

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Speaker 2: they did not agree on a long term deal before

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Speaker 2: the deadline, and Barkley's a two time pro bowler. Hill

543
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 2: earned ten point one million for this year if he

544
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Speaker 2: elects to play. Same goes for Josh Jacobs. And I

545
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 2: realized that Josh Jacobs led the NFL in rushing last

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Speaker 2: year sixteen hundred and fifty three yards.

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Speaker 3: He's a hell of a player. What was it Raiders record? Again?

548
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Speaker 2: So what are you gonna do? Tony Pollard. I believe him.

549
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 2: The Cowboys will agree on a deal. You'll see him back.

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Speaker 2: They didn't Monday, but I think they'll figure something out.

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Speaker 2: I actually take that back. Pollard always signed his tag, so

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Speaker 2: he'll play with no protest Jacobs in Barkley. We shall

553
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 2: see what we shall see. They both made no secret

554
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 2: of their displeasure. Remember Dalvin Cook twenty seven, he's still unemployed.

555
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 2: He had a productive year last year. Ezekiel Elliott, he

556
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 2: signed the long term deal in twenty nineteen, worth over

557
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Speaker 2: fifteen million per year.

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Speaker 3: He's out of a job.

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Speaker 2: Now why, I'm telling you it can be a blessing

560
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Speaker 2: and a curse to sign that big contract for the

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Speaker 2: team and the player.

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Speaker 3: You know. Insert your own Todd Gurley joke right here.

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Speaker 2: So Rising Tide usually lifts all bolts when it comes

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Speaker 2: to salaries. But for now, I understand that running backs,

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Speaker 2: for the reasons I just explained, are not being invited

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Speaker 2: to the party as it were. All right, So what's

567
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Speaker 2: gonna happen? How long are these guys.

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Speaker 3: Gonna hold out?

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Speaker 2: What are they really gonna do? Are they gonna show

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00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 2: up to camp? They won't lose any money if they

571
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 2: don't show up to camp. They only lose money if

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Speaker 2: they missed the regular season games. And I would say

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Speaker 2: Barkley and Jacobs have two choices. They can play under

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Speaker 2: the Tag, or they can get a job in Naple

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Speaker 2: Autoparts or take the year off. They can't negotiate a

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Speaker 2: new contract until next off season. Now again, I want

577
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 2: to give Barkley's flowers, two time Pro bowler leading rusher

578
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 2: for one of the best ground attacks last year in

579
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Speaker 2: the NFL. Jacob's first time Pro bowler led the NFL

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Speaker 2: in rushing that if they're not getting paid, most other

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Speaker 2: people aren't getting paid. Here's what's interesting, and he took

582
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Speaker 2: a left turn this week. Barkley's situation appears to be

583
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Speaker 2: the most contentious because as a deadline to franchise Tag

584
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 2: players approached, he sort of hit the open market, as

585
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Speaker 2: the Giants said, you know, and us took us case

586
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Speaker 2: to Twitter, and I guess he's taken the New York

587
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Speaker 2: Giants logo off of his Twitter account, and he didn't

588
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,479
Speaker 2: like the fact that he was being portrayed as greedy

589
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 2: that got leaked to the media.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I don't believe he's greedy.

591
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Speaker 2: He wants what he wants. But there's reality. That's why

592
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 2: I said there are objective truths and personal feelings. I

593
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 2: don't think the man's being greedy. He wants what he wants.

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Speaker 2: He wanted at least twenty two million and guaranteed money,

595
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Speaker 2: which would be the combined value of this year's franchise

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Speaker 2: tag and potential tag in twenty twenty four, is part

597
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 2: of his new contract. But when the Giants decline to

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Speaker 2: meet his demands, Barkley says, I'm not reporting to camp.

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00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 3: So there is a part of this.

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Speaker 2: Narrative where running backs individually and collectively, I get it there.

601
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 2: They feel like they get chewed up and spit out,

602
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 2: and teams are increasing and hesitant to draft him in

603
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 2: the first round, so you limit your early career earnings.

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00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 2: Now they're refusing to award them with large second contracts.

605
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:28,239
Speaker 2: Melvin Gordon finally signed today, but even he ran his

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00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 2: mouth says He says, running back is literally the worst

607
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Speaker 2: position to play in the NFL right now, especially for you, buddy,

608
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 2: because you fumble. You fumble more than Carter's has pills

609
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 2: for crying out loud. Maybe hold on to the ball

610
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 2: for once, but look, there are other running backs in

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Speaker 2: the league as well, Derrick Henry stud believing they need

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Speaker 2: him in the Titans. Interestingly enough, you may find this interesting,

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Speaker 2: and this only fuels the narrative as to whether or

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Speaker 2: not the value of running backs can be debated the

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Speaker 2: same way was debated ten years ago Christian McCaffrey left

616
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Speaker 2: the Carolina Panthers. The Carolina Panthers running attack got better.

617
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Speaker 2: The numbers don't lie, Jonathan Taylor spoke out last week,

618
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 2: so and again the narrative gets a little stupid. McCaffrey

619
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Speaker 2: called it criminal. The three of the best players in

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Speaker 2: the entire league re grounds position didn't get paid.

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Speaker 3: Criminal. I thought you had to be smart to go

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Speaker 3: to Stanford. Don't talk like that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, The long and short of it is this, these

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Speaker 2: guys are paid. They're not paid what they want to

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00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 2: be paid because they feel their disrespected. And that's where

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00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 2: we're at in this world. Poor Men want to be rich,

627
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 2: Richmond want to be king. The game has changed. It's

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Speaker 2: basketball on turf. You put athletes in space. Linebackers run

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Speaker 2: like dbs did twenty years ago. Defensive ends run like

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Speaker 2: linebackers did three yards and the cloud of dust doesn't

631
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Speaker 2: do it anymore. The game has run through the quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Things change. Everything changes in the world. We used to

633
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Speaker 2: fight wars with a single shot rifle. Things change. One

634
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 2: thing that never seems to change, although he did give

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00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 2: it four home runs tonight and he still got a

636
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Speaker 2: standing ovation, is the fact that Shoheio Tani continues to

637
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 2: put up ridiculous numbers that completely boggle the mind and

638
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 2: continues to compare favorably with the guy by the name

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Speaker 2: of Babe Ruth. Got to share a couple of those

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Speaker 2: with you. In about three minutes, the phone lines will

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Speaker 2: open up eight seven seven nine nine six six three

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Speaker 2: dial him up. Ethan will take your call. Bernie's Bunkin

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Speaker 2: Bets Backyard Bunking Bets Round two resumes tonight at midnight.

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Speaker 2: The game that Ethan created. He put out the stats

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Speaker 2: on Twitter earlier. So in a couple of minutes here

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Speaker 2: eleven forty five Pacific to forty five am Eastern eight

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Speaker 3: Are they joining it to him?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Sure?

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Speaker 6: Why?

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Speaker 2: I think they just might be I'm Bernie Frattle, coming

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Speaker 2: to you live from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio, TIREC

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Speaker 2: dot Com Studios. Keep it locked right here. You're listening

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Speaker 2: to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Hey, what's up everybody?

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Speaker 7: It's me three time pro bowler LeVar Arrington and I

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Speaker 7: couldn't be more excited to announce a podcast called Up

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Speaker 7: on Game?

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Speaker 3: What is Up on Game?

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Speaker 7: You asked, along with my fellow pro bowler TJ. Huschman

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Speaker 7: Zada and Super Bowl champion Yup, that's right, Plexico Birds.

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Speaker 7: You can only name a show with that type of

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Speaker 7: talent on it.

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Speaker 8: Up on Game.

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Speaker 7: We're going to be sharing our real life experiences loaded

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Speaker 7: with teachable moments. Listen to Up on Game with Me

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Speaker 7: LeVar Arrington, TJ. Huschman Zada, and Plexico Birds on the

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Speaker 7: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts from.

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Speaker 2: All right back in the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio,

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Speaker 2: Come you live from the TIREK dot Com studios here

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. Phone lines are open eight seven seven

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Speaker 2: nine nine six six three six nine eight seven seven

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Speaker 2: ninety nine on Fox Burning his Backyard bunkin Bets season

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Speaker 2: two Round two tonight coming up at midnight. We'll see

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Speaker 2: if Poppy can defend his championship.

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Speaker 9: Uh.

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Speaker 2: And this is the game Ethan created. You'll call in.

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Speaker 2: Of course, you'll get a chance to answer a trivia

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Speaker 2: question and then a chance to place a bet based

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Speaker 2: on the action and the and the contest that Ethan

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Speaker 2: puts forth eight seven seven nine nine six six three

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Speaker 2: six nine eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox don't

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Speaker 2: get shut out. Ethan will take the first six callers.

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Speaker 2: All right, The numbers for Otani and Ruth continue to

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00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 2: be eerily, eerily coincidental.

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Speaker 3: And you you know my position.

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Speaker 2: I've heard Jeff pass his speech, very crafted, very well

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Speaker 2: thought out, very cogent. It's theoretical, you know, trade him,

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Speaker 2: get a Hall, get a herschel Walker Hall.

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Speaker 3: I get it.

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Speaker 2: But you really can't compare trades like this in Major

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Speaker 2: League Baseball to the National Football League and or certainly

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Speaker 2: the NBA, because even if you get prospects, prospects may

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Speaker 2: never get to the big leagues. And I don't want

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Speaker 2: to go down that road. This is show business. I

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Speaker 2: just cannot see trading your show when you make every

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Speaker 2: earnest effort to keep this guy. And if at the

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Speaker 2: end you you know, the group think Echo Chambers losing

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Speaker 2: their mind, Well, you can't let him go for the

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Speaker 2: seventieth rap if they If that's where it ends up,

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Speaker 2: you live with it. But you don't want to be

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Speaker 2: Harry Frozy and Babe Ruth and trade him and for

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Speaker 2: no known in that and never live it down. When

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Speaker 2: they had the equal number of it bats and I

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Speaker 2: don't have that number. Babe Ruth is one hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty ninth home run. Shohei Otani hit his one hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixtieth home run after each of them had pitched

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Speaker 2: ford and fifty five innings in the Major Leagues. Babe

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Speaker 2: Ruth had a one lost record on the mound of

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Speaker 2: thirty five and eighteen, Shoheo Tani thirty five and nineteen.

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Speaker 2: On Real by the Way Monday Night, Shohio Tani became

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Speaker 2: the fifth player since the year two thousand with thirty

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Speaker 2: five home runs in the team's first ninety five games.

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Speaker 2: Barry Bonds did it in twenty oh one, so did

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Speaker 2: Luis Gonzalez of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Aaron Judge did it

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Speaker 2: last year, and in two thirteen, Chris Davis did it

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Speaker 2: rarefied company. So we're not just talking Babe Ruth here.

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Speaker 2: Now we're talking Barry Bombs and Aaron Judge. Then Tuesday night,

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Speaker 2: Shoho Tani was one hit shy of the cycle for

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Speaker 2: the seventh time this season. The last time a player

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Speaker 2: missed the cycle by one hit seven times after only

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Speaker 2: ninety five games was Lugerig in nineteen thirty one. How

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Speaker 2: about one more for the road. Sho Yo Tani is

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Speaker 2: leading the league in true and home runs. If he

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Speaker 2: ends this season in topping both categories, have become the

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Speaker 2: fourth player in Major League Baseball to accomplish that feat.

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Speaker 2: The other three Willie Mays, Mickey Mannele, Jim, Rice Mays, Mantel,

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Speaker 2: Garrett Bonds, Aaron Judge, and Babe Ruth.

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Speaker 3: That is the rarefied air.

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Speaker 2: Shohey O Tani is in in only a sixty year

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Speaker 2: baseball after only ninety five games. Eight seven seven n

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Speaker 2: a not on Fox. Doll him up. The trivia game

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Speaker 2: begins again at midnight. Keep it locked right here. You're

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Speaker 2: listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: out for it it's that time, Round two, Week two

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Speaker 2: of the series two of Ethan's Trivia Game, Ethan Take

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Speaker 2: it Away.

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Speaker 1: We got questions, we got christ who.

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Speaker 10: Will come out on top? We're calling on you. Let's

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Speaker 10: see what you got. It's game time, it's showtime. It's

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Speaker 10: Bernie's backyard Bucks and bats.

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Speaker 5: All right, Bernie, I want to apologize to everybody. I

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Speaker 5: didn't get the standings out till tonight. It was just

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Speaker 5: a crazy week, so it was great to see. We

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Speaker 5: had a new caller named Kurt. He's from California. He

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Speaker 5: had two hundred points, which is great. Brandon from Hawaii

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Speaker 5: finished with two hundred points, and Poppy from San.

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Speaker 8: Diego with a hundred.

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Speaker 5: We got a full slate tonight, six people on the callboard.

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Speaker 8: We start with sir scratch off.

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Speaker 3: Here he answer scratch off. What's up, buddy?

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Speaker 9: What's going on? Buddy? I'll tell you what Ethan man,

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Speaker 9: No fay, he just got it all going man. But

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Speaker 9: let me tell you a faster way. I promised to

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Speaker 9: respect this time. I've been listening this place for a

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Speaker 9: long time, and to show me a justice. I mean,

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Speaker 9: we're always on here, but anyway, the show got me

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Speaker 9: watching this for a long time listening with the Fellas.

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Speaker 9: So one day I finally got to call in and

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Speaker 9: hear talk to a Fellas with Big Leak's already gone,

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Speaker 9: but I was picking on him, and a guy called

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Speaker 9: him for Florida told Ben Mallard if Ben Mallard give

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Speaker 9: him a free ticket because he told off on me

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Speaker 9: calling on these stations. Another show, and I love it,

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Speaker 9: my head because I listened to this show for like

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Speaker 9: twelve hours of night.

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Speaker 8: All right, thank you, all right, here we go.

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Speaker 3: You ready for your question? Sir, scratch off?

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Speaker 8: Listen to it, all right, sir scratch off, Here we go.

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Speaker 5: Who has more Tennis Grand slams Venus or Serena Williams.

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Speaker 9: Ooh, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go, Serena.

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Speaker 3: All right, nicely done.

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Speaker 5: All Right, we're gonna go to your best bet. Your

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Speaker 5: best bet is in the MLB. The Dodgers will play

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Speaker 5: the Rangers tomorrow at one oh five Pacific, four oh

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Speaker 5: five Eastern. Will you be taking the Dodgers or the Rangers?

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Speaker 5: It is Miller for the Dodgers and Dunning for the Rangers.

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Speaker 9: There's something lad My Dodger came last week. I finally

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Speaker 9: got rightned out. But I'm gonna I'm gonna.

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Speaker 6: Go with Rangers.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you, Bobby Miller, I can't go and

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Speaker 2: get some Dodgers right now. Man, they're hot in a

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Speaker 2: Phoenix parking lot and paying the asphalt.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to Dodgers.

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Speaker 9: I mean they are too, I mean they're pretty good too.

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Speaker 9: But the Dodgers, man, you never know what they're gonna do.

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Speaker 2: Right, all right, Well that's true, Thanks sir, scratch off,

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Speaker 2: appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: Man, get some rest.

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Speaker 8: We got all right, we got Poppy from San Diego.

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Speaker 6: Bobby, Hey, Verdy.

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Speaker 3: All right, you ready to roll? Getting that trivia question? Ethan?

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Speaker 8: All right, here we go, Poppy.

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Speaker 5: How many World Cups have the USA women's team won

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Speaker 5: since the start of the tournament in nineteen ninety one?

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Speaker 5: And if you tell me the years, I'll give you

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Speaker 5: an extra one hundred points.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna go with so I know they won

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Speaker 1: last week nineteen.

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Speaker 8: Unfortunate. Unfortunately it's not too Bernie.

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Speaker 2: Well I covered I talked about this in my opening

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Speaker 2: monologue in nineteen ninety nine. The Me and Ham team

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Speaker 2: they won this current teams one crew, they're going for

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Speaker 2: a three peat, and I don't know the other year,

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Speaker 2: but I do know that they had won one World

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Speaker 2: Cup before Meam's team. So I'm gonna go with the

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Speaker 2: number of four titles.

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Speaker 8: Beautiful.

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Speaker 3: Great. I don't have the year.

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Speaker 8: Fifteen and nineteen.

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Speaker 2: I got yeah, no, ninety nine, fifteen and nineteen to

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Speaker 2: n new for sure it was. I just didn't know

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Speaker 2: about ninety one or I'd forgotten.

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Speaker 3: All right, All.

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Speaker 5: Good, alrighty the MLB uh, the Orioles will travel for

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Speaker 5: the second game to Tampa Bay tomorrow to play the

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Speaker 5: Rays for a one ten Pacific four to ten Eastern start.

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Speaker 5: Rodriguez will start for the Orioles. McClanahan will start for

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Speaker 5: the Rays. The over unders currently at eight. Who will

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Speaker 5: you be take? You be taking the over or the under?

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Speaker 8: Poppy?

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Speaker 6: Over under?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, over under eight.

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Speaker 9: They both have pitchers, you know, Baltimore Oriols.

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00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 6: They're hot in the division with the Rays.

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Speaker 9: And you know Rodriguez, he gives up a lot of

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Speaker 9: runs and m krannony.

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00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:14,399
Speaker 2: Gives up low.

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Speaker 9: So I'm gonna go out to go with the over

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Speaker 9: eighty high scoring.

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Speaker 8: All right, Arnie.

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Speaker 2: You know what's interesting is Shean McClanahan has been almost

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Speaker 2: unhittable this year and Baltimore. Okay, I'm gonna go with

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Speaker 2: a hunch. I'm gonna go with the under So good luck, Poppy.

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Speaker 2: One of us gets to be right.

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Speaker 5: Thank you've heard it, Thanks Poppy. All right, on to

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Speaker 5: Brandon from Hawaii. Brandon has been a consistent guy.

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Speaker 2: Here, buddy, Hey, doing pretty good.

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Speaker 6: He's getting closer to football.

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Speaker 8: There you go, all right, Brandon, Here we go.

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Speaker 5: Who is the name of the girl who scored two

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Speaker 5: goals for the USA women's soccer team tonight against Vietnam.

871
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 9: Oh, take a guess to say Rappidolt.

872
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 3: Not Megan.

873
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 2: Rappano is actually younger a lot of Stanford Sophia.

874
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 8: Smith, nice Bernie, all right, cool.

875
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 2: Well, she's been a professional soccer player for a couple

876
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:15,439
Speaker 2: of years now, so.

877
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's very good. I think she's really young. I

878
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 5: think she's like twenty two or something. Crazy, pretty incredible.

879
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 3: All right.

880
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 5: In the FIFA Women's World Cup, we have a five am,

881
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 5: eight a m Pacific game today. Actually we get the

882
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 5: matchup between China and Denmark. Denmark is currently minus one

883
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:38,320
Speaker 5: and a half. Will you be taking China or Denmark?

884
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 5: China minus one and a half at Denmark plus one

885
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 5: and a half.

886
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 9: Give me a Denmark plus one and a half.

887
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 8: Denmark with the points, Bernie.

888
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take the goals well, China plus one and

889
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:56,280
Speaker 2: a half. I think you'll see a defensive struggle before tonight.

890
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 2: A lot of these games were shutouts. There were one

891
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 2: nothing games in Zambia and Japan. They're not on the

892
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 2: board yet. I think team sometimes it starts slow. I

893
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 2: could see that game being closer than people realize. I

894
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 2: do expect Denmark to win, though, so it's a little

895
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 2: bit of a fish bed. But I'll take China plus

896
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 2: the goal and a half.

897
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:13,839
Speaker 8: Awesome, all right, Brandon, thanks for calling in.

898
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 2: Thanks buddy, Thanks Brandon, Thanks all right.

899
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 8: Next, we got Nathan from Florida. Nathan.

900
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 6: Hello, all right, Nathan, I'm well.

901
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 3: Thank you.

902
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:26,760
Speaker 8: All right, here we go, Nathan.

903
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 5: I don't know if you've been watching the new Netflix

904
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 5: series that came out.

905
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:31,879
Speaker 8: It's called Quarterback.

906
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 5: I personally think it's some of the best works Netflix

907
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 5: Sports has done or put out. I'm just curious, can

908
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 5: you name one of the three quarterbacks that are featured

909
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,359
Speaker 5: in this series? If you give me all three, I'll

910
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,320
Speaker 5: give you one hundred extra points.

911
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 9: I don't have that to play.

912
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 3: It's all to go with.

913
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:52,280
Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers.

914
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 8: That's a great guess. But unfortunately now Bernie.

915
00:47:56,440 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 2: So yeah, and it's been publicized pretty succinctly, but it's

916
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 2: a Marcus Mariota, Kirk Cousins and Patrick Mahomes and I

917
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:10,359
Speaker 2: gotta tell you, they get into the weeds with these

918
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 2: guys pretty good. It's this, This has got legs, it's

919
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 2: it's a good show.

920
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, I definitely think so. It's pretty cool to see

921
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 5: what they're doing.

922
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:19,319
Speaker 8: All right.

923
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 5: On to Best Bet Sunday and the FIFA's Women's World Cup.

924
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 5: We get Netherlands versus Portugal for a twelve thirty am start.

925
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 5: The Netherlands is currently minus one and a half. We'd

926
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 5: be taking the Netherlands minus one and a half or

927
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 5: Portugal plus one and a half.

928
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:39,320
Speaker 7: Nathan, uh Netherlands, all right, Ernie see, I'm gonna go

929
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:40,439
Speaker 7: with the Netherlands as well.

930
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,240
Speaker 2: I think they're going to be extremely difficult to score against,

931
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 2: so I could I could see the Netherlands hanging that.

932
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 5: Number, all right, both on the same team. That's awesome,

933
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:49,439
Speaker 5: Thanks Nathan.

934
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 3: Thanks Nathan, all right.

935
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 8: Dave from Phoenix.

936
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 2: Dave has been so stellar on this trivia stuff. Man,

937
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 2: what was your temperature in Phoenix today?

938
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:00,399
Speaker 3: Dave?

939
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 6: Well, it was over one hundred and fifteen for I

940
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 6: believe this twenty second straight day, but probably about ten

941
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:07,439
Speaker 6: more days.

942
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 3: So you beat us.

943
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 2: We were only one thirteen today, but we're supposed to

944
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 2: be one fifteen saturdays.

945
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:16,320
Speaker 9: So right now twon's after midnight.

946
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one hundred here right on the nose here.

947
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a little too hot. Eighty five in La

948
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 5: right now. It's still hot for us, maybe like seventy eight.

949
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 2: I don't want to I want to say it was

950
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 2: high here today. I saw two fire hundrants fighting over

951
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 2: a dog.

952
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 5: All right, here we go, best bet, our best our

953
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 5: trivia question. I think he's going to get this one right,

954
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 5: but you know, it just happens to fall on his

955
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,480
Speaker 5: uh when he called in and the question I have

956
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:43,479
Speaker 5: here for number five?

957
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:46,839
Speaker 8: So who is on which team is on.

958
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,800
Speaker 5: Hard knocks for the twenty twenty three preseason in the NFL?

959
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 10: That would be your New York Jude.

960
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 8: There you go, got it?

961
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 3: All right?

962
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 8: Great stuff?

963
00:49:58,239 --> 00:49:58,439
Speaker 3: Dave?

964
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 5: On two best bet it is the Braves versus the

965
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 5: Milwaukee Brewers. For the third matchup in their weekend series

966
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 5: on Sunday eleven am Pacific two p m. Eastern Braves

967
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 5: are minus one and a half. Brewers are plus one

968
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 5: and a half. It's elder for the Braves and is

969
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:20,359
Speaker 5: Itarian for.

970
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 8: Tehran. Yeah, for the Brewers. Who will you be taking?

971
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 2: Okay, you're talking about the Sundays, Gay Sunday.

972
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 3: And you got elder By. Yeah, but if.

973
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 9: I take Atlanta, I've got to give a run and

974
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 9: a half.

975
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 3: No, you don't have to.

976
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 5: No, No, we're doing running out. We're doing line. Yeah,

977
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:47,279
Speaker 5: we're doing one and a half.

978
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're doing the run line. That's important to

979
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 2: know because that's different.

980
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 8: One and a half and plus one and a half

981
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 8: for the Brewers.

982
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a hard one. But I'm gonna go

983
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 3: with the Raves.

984
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 6: And figure out somehow get a bunch of runs and

985
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 6: win by more than one.

986
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:05,760
Speaker 3: All right, Well, it's interesting.

987
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 2: See that's when you if you're gonna bet, you only

988
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 2: want to play lay the run and a half if

989
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 2: you're on the road, because you're gonna you're guaranteed that bat,

990
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 2: that ninth bat in the ninth inning, right, You're guaranteed

991
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 2: nine at bats. But so if you're trailing right, and

992
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 2: if you're trailing in the top of the eighth, you

993
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 2: get the picture. I don't know, man, Julio ty Iran

994
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 2: has been lights out uh lately. I know he's only

995
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 2: two and four. I'm gonna. I'm gonna the Brewers have

996
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 2: played great ball, by the way, and they'll pass two.

997
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna go with the Brewers. I'll take

998
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:37,919
Speaker 2: the free run and a half.

999
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 5: Thanks all right, awesome, Bernie, good luck, Thanks, Dave, good luck, Dave.

1000
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:45,919
Speaker 5: He thank you, Thank you all right, kerb from Florida. Kirk,

1001
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 5: we appreciate you for calling in. You're currently our leader

1002
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 5: with two hundred points.

1003
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 8: How you doing the night?

1004
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 11: Good?

1005
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 9: All right, I'm sorry I said, I said.

1006
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 8: Nathan, it's all right, don't worry about it.

1007
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:01,160
Speaker 2: It's all right. He likes Nathan's out. By the way,

1008
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 2: what part of Florida.

1009
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 3: In, Kurt?

1010
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 9: I think California or Bernie?

1011
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 3: Good night, folks. I haven't even been drinking.

1012
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 8: But you know what, that's my fault.

1013
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 5: I did text in Florida, my bad, Kurt, and I

1014
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 5: rode on the standings California, so that you know, I

1015
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 5: think I need some more coffee.

1016
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 3: What part of California are you from, Sanklimy. Oh, that's right.

1017
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 2: We talked about that last week, Sank Clementy Triton's yep.

1018
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 3: All right, let's roll. Let's roll people, let's roll.

1019
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 5: Here we go, Kurt, what is the date of the

1020
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 5: first NFL game this season? I'll give you a hint.

1021
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 5: It's in September and it's on a Thursday. You just

1022
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 5: got to get the date for me.

1023
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,799
Speaker 6: I'm going to guess September ninth, September ninth.

1024
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 2: Wells September seventh, Thursday. I got it, circle because my

1025
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 2: Lions are seven point underdogs against the Chiefs and six

1026
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,720
Speaker 2: weeks from this Thursday. Can you believe it? The NFL

1027
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:55,399
Speaker 2: is back, the regular season.

1028
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 5: NFL is back, very exciting. All right, onto your best bat, Curt.

1029
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 5: The US Women's FIFA World Cup is continuing this morning.

1030
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 5: France will take on Jamaica at three am Pacific six

1031
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 5: am Eastern. The over under is currently at four and

1032
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 5: a half. Will you be taking the over or the

1033
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 5: under the under?

1034
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 2: I'm taking the under as well.

1035
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,280
Speaker 5: All right, awesome, we appreciate you for calling. Thanks great

1036
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 5: great Bernie.

1037
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 2: All right, thanks to everybody six up, six down. We'll

1038
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 2: head to around three next week. You don't get the

1039
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 2: standings out and appreciate everybody's participation as we roll on.

1040
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 5: And Bernie, I want to give a quick update on

1041
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 5: your stats because I haven't done that in a while,

1042
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 5: because you also just went four for four or actually

1043
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 5: five for five on your trivia, so great start, great stuff.

1044
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 5: And you are currently forty two for forty eight on

1045
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 5: the trivia all time, which is eighty eight percent. And

1046
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 5: on best bets, I got yet for five twenty around

1047
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 5: sixty nine seventy, so great job. And it's fun listening

1048
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 5: to you get these right, and we carry on all.

1049
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 2: Right, very good, thanks to everybody, and obviously another week

1050
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 2: in the books. We'll we'll see what the results are

1051
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 2: for the bets over the weekend and we'll resume next

1052
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:26,720
Speaker 2: Saturday night eleven PM, well, eleven midnight, twelve midnight.

1053
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 3: What did I say?

1054
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 2: Eleven twelve midnight, I'm sorry, twelve midnight Pacific, three am Eastern.

1055
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 3: So there you have it.

1056
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Speaker 2: little because he was from Michigan. He didn't go to

1090
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 2: University of Michigan, to a smaller school, and he'd had

1091
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 2: some ups and downs, but he got to a point

1092
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago where he had proven he

1093
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 2: was not just another NFL player. He was becoming a

1094
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 2: very good, above average NFL linebacker. And this is a

1095
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:56,239
Speaker 2: guy that started out as a fourth round found his

1096
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 2: way in the field. He was a ended up being

1097
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 2: a free agent practice squad guy, and then he ended

1098
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 2: up getting a thirty million dollar contract. And he turned

1099
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 2: twenty eight, thirty million dollar free agent contract. He was

1100
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 2: twenty eight, he was healthy. I'm talking about Blake Martinez,

1101
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 2: and then he quit, which is his right. We've seen

1102
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 2: people do this over the years, the forty nine ers,

1103
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 2: They've had guys retire early. Barry Sanders retired before people

1104
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 2: wanted him to. This is not new. But what Blake

1105
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 2: Martinez quit to go do is where the story starts.

1106
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 2: What does Blake Martinez do these days? He makes a

1107
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 2: ton of money selling Pokemon cards. Yes, you heard that right.

1108
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 2: Former Green Bay linebacker twenty eight years old, walked away

1109
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 2: from a thirty million dollar free agent contract, fourth round pick,

1110
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 2: worked his way into being a very good linebacker, quit

1111
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 2: the game to sell Pomon cards. And it turns out

1112
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 2: this is a very lucrative business, all right. And this

1113
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 2: is a millennial thing. It's a millennial thing that certain

1114
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 2: millennials know more than most folks. But I'm very familiar

1115
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 2: with Pokemon cards. I back in the day, I got

1116
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 2: some for my kids and they had binders full of

1117
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:27,640
Speaker 2: Pokemon cards. But unlike Blake Martinez, I didn't quit my

1118
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 2: job and parlay this into a multimillion dollar business. Apparently,

1119
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 2: Blake Martinez, you heard that right, has turned a side

1120
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 2: hustle into a multi million dollar business after walking away

1121
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:47,040
Speaker 2: from the NFL. Believe it or not, Blake Martinez, you

1122
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:49,600
Speaker 2: know there's no saying nobody does anything by themselves. He's

1123
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 2: the lone ranger at Tonto. You need a team. Blake

1124
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 2: Martinez has hired a staff, a full time staff of

1125
00:58:55,640 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 2: twenty employees, including a lady by the name of Marisius Sneath.

1126
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 2: She's a college soccer player. She streams for Blake's Breaks

1127
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:09,240
Speaker 2: LLC in her off time. And what's interesting is the

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00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 2: individual profits off these cards and off of these various

1129
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 2: deals that he engages in. Martinez off, you know, routinely

1130
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 2: makes a six figure profit.

1131
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 3: So what's interesting.

1132
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 2: I'm sure you remember Pokemon cards, and it's there's a

1133
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 2: bit of nostalgia.

1134
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 3: Here, for lack of a better term.

1135
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 2: A lot of these cards were made in the late

1136
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 2: nineteen nineties in early two thousands. And if you have

1137
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 2: an old and it's the right one Pokemon card that's

1138
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 2: in pristine condition, you know, none of the corners can't

1139
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 2: be bent and can't be faded. An old Pokemon card

1140
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 2: and pristine condition, you can get almost up to a

1141
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:57,240
Speaker 2: million dollars for one card. Now, if you don't believe me,

1142
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 2: and I think this has a been coded, Blake Martinez

1143
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 2: recently sold a rare Pikachu illustrator card for six hundred

1144
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 2: and seventy two thousand dollars. Pokemon cards. Now, the National

1145
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:18,480
Speaker 2: Sports Collector's Convention is going on, and my dear business partner,

1146
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 2: Mike Burkers, no longer with us, basically started the National

1147
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:24,920
Speaker 2: Sports Collector's Convention. I was right by his side in

1148
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one. I remember the Mantal Mickey Mantle card.

1149
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,520
Speaker 2: At one point the rookie Mantle card sold for five thousand.

1150
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 2: It's probably well up to almost a million for a

1151
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 2: Mammal card now. And of course the famous T two

1152
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 2: is six on a Wagoner card, the most expensive card

1153
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,280
Speaker 2: all the time. These are baseball cards. Now we're talking

1154
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:46,600
Speaker 2: Pokemon cards. And his staff of twenty people, and you know,

1155
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:50,920
Speaker 2: led by Blake Martinez, I told you the Pikachu illustrator

1156
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 2: sells for six hundred and seventy two thousand. His company's

1157
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 2: pulled in twelve million dollars and they haven't been in

1158
01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 2: existence a full year yet.

1159
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:02,040
Speaker 3: So there you have it.

1160
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:08,160
Speaker 2: Blake Martinez, former Green Bay packer, current Pokemon mogul, you

1161
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:12,360
Speaker 2: can't make this stuff up, folks coming up. Major League

1162
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 2: Baseball's rules have been a massive success. What now, let's

1163
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,160
Speaker 2: share it with you first, go back to our guy,

1164
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 2: Kevin Figures with the latest all.

1165
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 3: Right, Bernie in.

1166
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 4: On Friday night, Team USA won its opening game at

1167
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 4: the Women's World Cup by the score of three to

1168
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 4: nil over Vietnam. It was their first matchup in group play.

1169
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:31,080
Speaker 4: They will take on the Netherlands on Wednesday night. Currently

1170
01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 4: on FS one in Group C play, Zambia and Japan

1171
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 4: currently scoreless. In the thirtieth minute. There was a goal

1172
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 4: that was taken off of the board under replay review

1173
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:42,080
Speaker 4: for Japan in the twenty first minute after it was

1174
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:44,960
Speaker 4: a termine that they were off sides. Major League Baseball,

1175
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 4: Tasca hernandez ait Ay walk off RBI single, leading Seattle

1176
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 4: to a three to two victory over Toronto. Shohel Tani

1177
01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 4: picked up the victory on the mound for the Angels

1178
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 4: in an eight to five win over Pittsburgh. It was

1179
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:57,680
Speaker 4: the Dodgers eleven in Texas five, as the Rangers had

1180
01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 4: their six game winning streak snapped. Home runs Austin Riley

1181
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:03,480
Speaker 4: and Orlando Arcia helped lead the Braves to a six

1182
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 4: to four victory over Milwaukee. You had victories for the Twins,

1183
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:08,920
Speaker 4: Guardians and Yankees, and golf Brian Harmon as a five

1184
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:11,280
Speaker 4: stroke lead over Tommy Fleetwood through two rounds at the

1185
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 4: Open Championship, Jason DAAs seven strokes back, while Jordan Speed

1186
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 4: his eight shots off the lead, and Lionel Messi scored

1187
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:20,080
Speaker 4: the game winning goal for Inter Miami in his MLS debut.

1188
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:22,760
Speaker 4: It was a two to one victory over a cruz Azul.

1189
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 4: Back to Bernie Fredo, all right, thanks, Kevin.

1190
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 2: So Baseball is enjoying a tremendous renaissance right now. It's

1191
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 2: eleven billion dollar industry. Average attendance is twenty eight thousand

1192
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 2: per game. You're seeing sellouts right and left. You're seeing

1193
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 2: athletic performances right and left. Matter of fact, two weeks ago,

1194
01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:42,400
Speaker 2: we might have had the most electrifying sports bowman of

1195
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:46,200
Speaker 2: the year in a span of two pitches. The Sensation

1196
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 2: in Cincinnati, who no one had ever heard of sixty

1197
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:52,000
Speaker 2: days ago, Ellide La Cruz. He's steal second and third.

1198
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 2: Then his Brewers pitcher, Elvis Perguero, hesitated, Cruz stole home,

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01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 2: so he sold three bases in two pitches, and the

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01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:04,480
Speaker 2: Reds announcer John Sadak, when completely nuts the home crowd

1201
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 2: was deafening.

1202
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:06,880
Speaker 1: He stole, he stole home.

1203
01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 2: The most trillly man in baseball is still second, third

1204
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 2: and home. There you have it, folks, Welcome to the

1205
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:18,040
Speaker 2: new and improved Major League Baseball. Back in March, many

1206
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 2: reporters asked if Major League Baseballs proposed rule changes, which

1207
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:25,400
Speaker 2: obviously the pitch timer, bigger bases to spur more base dealing,

1208
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 2: the ban on defensive shifts, what.

1209
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 3: Would that do?

1210
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:33,880
Speaker 2: How would that affect baseball's watchability, not just in person

1211
01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:36,600
Speaker 2: but on TV. Well, we're at the midway point. Basically,

1212
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:38,840
Speaker 2: we're a little past the midway point, but you know,

1213
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:41,920
Speaker 2: the All Star Game, we're closely in our rearview mirror.

1214
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:46,760
Speaker 2: The answer is an emphatic yes with an exclamation point.

1215
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:50,600
Speaker 2: This is not your boring old baseball that we've seen

1216
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:53,640
Speaker 2: in the last few years. The games are shorter and

1217
01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 2: they're absolutely turbo charged with more action. You've got more offense,

1218
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 2: you've got more base dealing, you don't have as much

1219
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:01,680
Speaker 2: wasting time in the box, you don't have as much

1220
01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 2: fiddling around on the mound. Right, you don't have these

1221
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:09,640
Speaker 2: defensive shifts that are odd to look at and can

1222
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:12,680
Speaker 2: kill a rally. The pitch clock has been hailed as

1223
01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:17,240
Speaker 2: the greatest invention since pizza, and with telecast running half

1224
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:21,160
Speaker 2: an hour shorter, all of a sudden, baseball is fun

1225
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:26,760
Speaker 2: again for the average fan. When day La Cruz stole

1226
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 2: those three bases a couple of weeks ago, there are

1227
01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 2: people that got so emotional they actually it conjured up

1228
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:38,840
Speaker 2: images of the old films of legends like Jackie Robinson

1229
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 2: stealing home because it was thrilling. It's athletic baseball and

1230
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:47,680
Speaker 2: Baseball's partners in Baseball's TV partners believe this is going

1231
01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 2: to continue and be even better in the playoffs. And

1232
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 2: obviously the commissioner, Rob Manfred has beating this jesse. He says,

1233
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 2: we're encouraged by the results of the rule changes and

1234
01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 2: now the improvements have led to a greater fan in game.

1235
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:00,919
Speaker 3: Quote.

1236
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 2: When you see an electric athlete like Ellie Lacruz steal

1237
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 2: three bases on two pitches and thrilling fashion, that is

1238
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:07,960
Speaker 2: what fans love to see, the kind of action on

1239
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:11,800
Speaker 2: the field we want to promote. So baseball has a

1240
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:16,080
Speaker 2: lot of TV partners and their viewership nationally, their live attendance,

1241
01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:20,120
Speaker 2: it's trending upward tremendously. I knew baseball was never did

1242
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:26,520
Speaker 2: I never once believed it was Warner Brothers, Discovery Sports, TBS, ESPN, Fox.

1243
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 2: They've been asking to create a game which produces more

1244
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:33,640
Speaker 2: offense for a long time, and now all of a sudden,

1245
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:36,840
Speaker 2: you got a cavalcade of players that are under twenty

1246
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:38,560
Speaker 2: five years old.

1247
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 3: That are electric.

1248
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 2: Dali La Cruz, Ronald Lecuna junior of the Braves, vlad

1249
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:46,200
Speaker 2: Gerreer junior who just run the who just won the

1250
01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:51,400
Speaker 2: Hormone Derby, Julio Rodriguez, other Mariners. These are guys that

1251
01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:54,960
Speaker 2: are putting butts in seats. There is an absolute renewed

1252
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 2: interest in the sport.

1253
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:55,960
Speaker 3: Now.

1254
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:58,240
Speaker 2: Part of it's because of the pitch clock. If you

1255
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 2: slow the game down by thirty minutes, you've done is

1256
01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:03,560
Speaker 2: you've increased the pace. Every few seconds there's going to

1257
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 2: be action. So everything's better. Defense is better, offense is better,

1258
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 2: pitching is better added up, and so the programmings, you know,

1259
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:17,720
Speaker 2: window is more favorable for fans as well. Numbers don't lie.

1260
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:22,200
Speaker 2: Now baseball is in eleven billion dollar industry, so it's

1261
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:27,200
Speaker 2: not it's not the Bacheter child people were making it

1262
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,560
Speaker 2: out to be. But the pitch clock I think was

1263
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:32,560
Speaker 2: the real game changer. This year's games are averaging two

1264
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 2: hours and thirty eight minutes versus three hours and four

1265
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:38,040
Speaker 2: minutes last season, and this is on track for the

1266
01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:40,960
Speaker 2: fastest games going all the way back to nineteen to

1267
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 2: eighty four one games or two hours and thirty five minutes.

1268
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:46,760
Speaker 2: But again, it's the pace, the cumulative effect of pitchers

1269
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:49,120
Speaker 2: getting the ball and throwing it, batters getting in the box,

1270
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:53,480
Speaker 2: creating more action bit by bit. You know, there are

1271
01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 2: probably two hundred and forty pitches in an average Major

1272
01:06:55,880 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 2: League game, and now you have to get rid of

1273
01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 2: the ball, you have to put the ball in play.

1274
01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:03,560
Speaker 3: So the acumulative effect.

1275
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 2: Of that added up here, save ten seconds here, fifteen

1276
01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 2: seconds here, is a half an hour per game. So

1277
01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:12,040
Speaker 2: it's not Again, it's not just that the game is faster.

1278
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:15,240
Speaker 2: The pace of the game is more brisk, leading to

1279
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 2: more action.

1280
01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:16,800
Speaker 3: Now, it's not perfect.

1281
01:07:17,320 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 2: There have been people complaining, some people complaining, but they're adjusting.

1282
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:24,880
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball is now averaging less than a half

1283
01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:27,920
Speaker 2: a violation per game, and actually now we're to the

1284
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:31,480
Speaker 2: point where sixty percent of all games in Major League

1285
01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:35,000
Speaker 2: Baseball don't have any violations. By either team. But when

1286
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:36,480
Speaker 2: you look at the product on the field, and this

1287
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:39,200
Speaker 2: is what excites fans, this is what excites TV executives.

1288
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:43,200
Speaker 2: Offensive stats, they're virtually up across the board. Batting averager

1289
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:47,959
Speaker 2: up eight points, home runs are up about one per game.

1290
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 2: Stolen bases have arisen about half a stolen base per game.

1291
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:54,480
Speaker 2: Runs per game for both teams are up to over

1292
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:56,680
Speaker 2: nine last year that was just about.

1293
01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 3: Eight and a half.

1294
01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 2: The result, you've got a more compelling TV product by

1295
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:03,919
Speaker 2: almost every metric. TBS is averaging three hundred and thirty

1296
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:07,400
Speaker 2: eight thousand viewers over fourteen telecasts. That's up forty one

1297
01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:10,120
Speaker 2: percent from last season. Tell me that does an execut

1298
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:14,680
Speaker 2: TV executive. The July fourth game between Showhey and the

1299
01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:17,920
Speaker 2: Angels and the San Diego Padres pulled four hundred and

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01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:21,040
Speaker 2: forty eight thousand viewers. That's just a regular regular season game.

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Speaker 2: ESPN center that Baseball holding steady from last year, averaging

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Speaker 2: about one point five million viewers over their fourteen telecasts.

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01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 2: But that's up nine percent from last year's record pace.

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01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:36,960
Speaker 2: By the way, which they are you know MLBtv also

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01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:40,640
Speaker 2: they're in terms of the minutes people log on to

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01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:44,839
Speaker 2: watch they're up as well. On the advertising front. TBS

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Speaker 2: has reported their regular season sales are up twenty percent

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Speaker 2: the network. They've sold out commercial times for all their

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Speaker 2: games in the third quarter. And you've got top spending

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Speaker 2: categories restaurants, food, automobiles, retail, beverages, insurance, they're all on board.

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01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 2: Ange League Baseball says their sponsorship and merchandise sales they're

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01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 2: also headed to record levels. They're projecting a six percent

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01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:10,560
Speaker 2: increase in sponsorship revenue and a fourteen percent boost in

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Speaker 2: sponsorship money. The league also made it clear that the

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Speaker 2: Revolution again wouldn't be televised if you include the World

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Speaker 2: Baseball Class. What do I mean by that? They didn't

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01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:25,640
Speaker 2: have those rules in the World Baseball Class. Okay, they

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01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:29,519
Speaker 2: didn't count that. Now on Baseball's social media accounts as well,

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01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 2: they're getting more views than ever. They're up seventy percent

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01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 2: from last year. People are paying attention to the game.

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01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:40,960
Speaker 2: Then you've got gate receipts. Attendance is up almost nine

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01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:43,400
Speaker 2: percent over last year to an average of twenty eight

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01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:45,479
Speaker 2: eight to thirty two per game. It's almost twenty nineteen.

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01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:49,040
Speaker 2: Think about that. That means the average team, not every team,

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01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:52,000
Speaker 2: the average team's going to draw about two point four

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Speaker 2: million fans. I remember the days when if you drew

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01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:56,720
Speaker 2: a million fans for the year, that was good. Now

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01:09:56,760 --> 01:09:59,479
Speaker 2: it's a long time ago, but you've got about a

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01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:03,559
Speaker 2: dozen fransranchises up over ten percent. Last year Father's Day

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01:10:03,640 --> 01:10:08,200
Speaker 2: Game broke new records. But the real miracle is what's

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01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 2: happening is Baseball is looking at their future fan base

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01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:17,000
Speaker 2: and the numbers don't lie. They are attracting younger fans.

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Speaker 3: Which I knew they would.

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01:10:18,560 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 2: Kids play baseball. It's the most baseball and softball male

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Speaker 2: and female. It's the most youth active played sports in

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01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:29,600
Speaker 2: the country. But what's interesting is now they're watching the

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01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:33,719
Speaker 2: game on TV. Stats show that the viewership among fans

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01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:37,599
Speaker 2: that are under thirty five years old is up fifteen

1339
01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:40,559
Speaker 2: percent this season, and eighty six percent of people between

1340
01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:43,000
Speaker 2: the age of eighteen and twenty four are more likely

1341
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 2: to watch a Major League Baseball game due to the

1342
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:48,559
Speaker 2: rule changes than they ever have in the past. So

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01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:53,320
Speaker 2: baseball flourishing on the field. It's putting viewers back right

1344
01:10:53,439 --> 01:10:56,519
Speaker 2: in the driver's seat as it were.

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01:10:57,200 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 3: Now. One other things Major League.

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01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:01,400
Speaker 2: And their TV partner are looking for is more on

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01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:04,519
Speaker 2: air interaction with their star players, and they've gotten that

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01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 2: this year. During the All Star Game a couple tuesdays ago,

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01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:12,439
Speaker 2: which Fox covered the broadcast crew, they interviewed Shoe O, Tommy,

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01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:18,599
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets, and Freddie Freeman during live play. During live play,

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01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:22,200
Speaker 2: Bets is out right field, get ready and he's talking

1352
01:11:22,280 --> 01:11:25,360
Speaker 2: during the game. Same with Freddy Freeman. But I had

1353
01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:30,120
Speaker 2: to do a double take when I saw Nathan Eovaldi,

1354
01:11:31,400 --> 01:11:35,040
Speaker 2: the American League pitcher. He's chatting with the announcers, getting

1355
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:38,360
Speaker 2: a sign going into his delivery and he's talking with

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01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:42,559
Speaker 2: the announcers and he strikes out Sean Murphy, who's a

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01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:45,960
Speaker 2: good hitter. He's I mean, are you kidding me? The

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01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:49,479
Speaker 2: pitchers in the outfielders and then fielders, these are big

1359
01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:55,679
Speaker 2: name guys. They're carrying on conversations while practicing the craft

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01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:57,320
Speaker 2: in front of millions of people.

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01:11:57,439 --> 01:11:59,839
Speaker 3: So look the network.

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01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:02,679
Speaker 2: They got the virtual pitch clock, they got the umpcam,

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01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:04,639
Speaker 2: they get the batter's I of you. You're seeing hunter

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01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 2: bylling our fastballs. Now, TBS is experimenting with earlier first

1365
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:11,559
Speaker 2: pitch times, more star driven game.

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01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:14,040
Speaker 3: Matchups, and who do they hire recently?

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01:12:14,760 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 2: Derek Jeter Derek Jeter puts butts in seats. He was

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01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:22,800
Speaker 2: a Yankees captain, Hall of Famer, and all of a sudden,

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01:12:22,880 --> 01:12:25,280
Speaker 2: now the pregame show is done on the act. He

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01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:29,800
Speaker 2: got David Ortiz, Kevin Burkhardt, Alex Rodriguez, and now Derek Jeter.

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01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:33,599
Speaker 2: Where has baseball struck out this year?

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01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:34,360
Speaker 3: Nowhere?

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01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 2: And I'm not really a Rob Banfred fan, but he's

1374
01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:41,800
Speaker 2: presiding over a game. And the truth of the matter

1375
01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:47,880
Speaker 2: is that I think is as long as this carries

1376
01:12:47,920 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 2: into the postseason, we know we have a winner. And

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01:12:51,479 --> 01:12:55,360
Speaker 2: the reason I say baseball is still slightly concerned because

1378
01:12:55,360 --> 01:12:58,920
Speaker 2: the World Series TV ratings have faded in the past

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01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:03,439
Speaker 2: few years because baseball is considered currently a regionalized sport.

1380
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:05,960
Speaker 2: Matter of fact, the twenty twenty two World Series between

1381
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:08,920
Speaker 2: Houston and Philadelphia through the second small Saudi and sever

1382
01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:14,160
Speaker 2: only twelve million viewers across the network right Fox. But

1383
01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:19,479
Speaker 2: you know if you have to watch that, if teams

1384
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:22,720
Speaker 2: like Arizona Milwaukee or Minnesota, Miami or Texas they go

1385
01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:25,680
Speaker 2: far into the playoffs, that could be a concern for

1386
01:13:25,760 --> 01:13:29,040
Speaker 2: executives because they're not made considered major markets. But if

1387
01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:30,960
Speaker 2: it ends up being the Dodgers, or the match of

1388
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,800
Speaker 2: the fillies of the Yankees, or you get a daily

1389
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:37,800
Speaker 2: Cruz from the Reds that people want to watch. Is

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01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:42,240
Speaker 2: that could be the game saver in terms of the

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01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:46,639
Speaker 2: World Series in the postseason, getting the same of the same,

1392
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:50,559
Speaker 2: you know, viewership growth that you're seeing in the regular season.

1393
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:54,160
Speaker 2: So where am I going with this? Baseball's real changes

1394
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:56,959
Speaker 2: are a success? What now they continue?

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01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:57,120
Speaker 5: When?

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01:13:57,160 --> 01:14:02,439
Speaker 2: See if it continues through the postsea coming up? Le'Veon

1397
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:04,559
Speaker 2: Bell spoke up this week and oh.

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01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:07,800
Speaker 3: By the way, quick update Northwestern football.

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Speaker 2: the show, I did not think Sa Kwon Barkley will

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Speaker 2: sit out. You may feel like it, you may get

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01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 2: an urge, but take a cue from former NFL running

1415
01:14:56,880 --> 01:15:01,320
Speaker 2: back Le'Veon Bell, who was actually quite candid in public

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01:15:01,680 --> 01:15:05,639
Speaker 2: this past week. Bell now regrets ever leaving the place

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01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:09,080
Speaker 2: where his career started. He posted on a video on

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01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,840
Speaker 2: social media. I think it was last week. In what

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01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:14,600
Speaker 2: he did is he apologized to the people of Pittsburgh.

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01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:17,360
Speaker 2: He apologized to all the Steeler fans and says now

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01:15:17,400 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 2: that he has a chance to look back, hindsight's always

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01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:20,799
Speaker 2: twenty twenty.

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01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:24,280
Speaker 3: He never should have left Pittsburgh. Quote.

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01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:29,240
Speaker 2: I never apologized to the fans for sitting out or

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01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:32,200
Speaker 2: leaving the Steelers. That's what Le'Veon Bell said.

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01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:32,719
Speaker 3: Quote.

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01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:36,440
Speaker 2: I never apologized. So I want to say, I apologize

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01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:39,920
Speaker 2: for leaving the best damn fans there is in this

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01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:43,200
Speaker 2: damn world. I shouldn't have left. I apologized. I should

1430
01:15:43,200 --> 01:15:45,960
Speaker 2: have never left. I apologize. That's my fault.

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01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:47,160
Speaker 3: It's on me.

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01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:51,280
Speaker 2: I believe I believe he's sincere. I believe that's authentic.

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01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 2: I don't believe he's grandstanding. I think he's had a

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01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:57,240
Speaker 2: chance to reflect back, and I believe the Steelers offered

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01:15:57,360 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 2: twenty eight million. Then he sat out a year, ended

1436
01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:02,280
Speaker 2: up going to the Jets. It was never the same.

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01:16:02,520 --> 01:16:05,799
Speaker 2: Bell spent his first five NFL seasons with the Steelers.

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01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:08,640
Speaker 2: He was a two time first team All Pro. But

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01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:10,559
Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen he says, hell with it, I'm sitting

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01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:13,479
Speaker 2: out the entire season rather than signing the franchise tag,

1441
01:16:14,280 --> 01:16:18,599
Speaker 2: and in twenty nineteen he signed a for the time,

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01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:20,559
Speaker 2: it was less than I think he would have gotten

1443
01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:23,599
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh, but he signed what was a fairly lucrative

1444
01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:26,800
Speaker 2: contract with the Jets. But he did not play well

1445
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:30,200
Speaker 2: and he was released during the second season. Then after

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01:16:30,280 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 2: that he kind of bounced around between Kansas City and

1447
01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:38,720
Speaker 2: Baltimore and the Buccaneers, and finally, after he was out

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01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 2: of the NFL, he dabbled in a little boxing and

1449
01:16:43,400 --> 01:16:48,040
Speaker 2: even had a match against Adrian Peterson, and he took

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01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:50,720
Speaker 2: two more boxing matches and I think he won, won

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01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:53,720
Speaker 2: and lost one. So I don't think it ended a

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01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:57,320
Speaker 2: wait for him the way it did. So kudos to

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Speaker 2: Le'Veon Bell for step it up. Finally, nine days after

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01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:05,200
Speaker 2: Northwestern fired Pat Pat Fitzgerald, their coach, their hazing scandal

1455
01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 2: continues to blow up a little bit. We are it

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01:17:09,520 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 2: is being reported allegedly that this spans the last thirty

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01:17:12,320 --> 01:17:15,280
Speaker 2: years of football at Northwestern. A lot of these guys

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01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:18,800
Speaker 2: have lawyered up with a very famous lawyer, and they

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Speaker 2: are alleging that the hazing culture that endured this past

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Speaker 2: year started back when Fitzgerald was a player in the nineties.

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Speaker 3: That's what's being reported and alleged.

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01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:30,960
Speaker 2: There are a lot of former players that told the

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01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:34,599
Speaker 2: Athletic that he didn't participate. But nonetheless, there were very

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01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:38,599
Speaker 2: team versions of hazing long after it was you know,

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01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 2: popularized at the official training camp in Kenosha, Wisconsin. And

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01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:48,439
Speaker 2: one of the examples was, for instance, players talked about

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01:17:48,439 --> 01:17:51,160
Speaker 2: something called a loof a line, so there'd be naked

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01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:54,719
Speaker 2: offensive linemen would block the way to the showers. And

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01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:57,120
Speaker 2: you know, we talked about the game, the running game

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01:17:57,160 --> 01:18:02,200
Speaker 2: where veteran players would dry hump them and it's gross,

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Speaker 2: it's not.

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Speaker 3: Fun to hear.

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01:18:04,760 --> 01:18:07,360
Speaker 2: And players from the nineties, what's happening now? A lot

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01:18:07,439 --> 01:18:11,080
Speaker 2: of these dudes are in their fifties, and they've expressed

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01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:15,000
Speaker 2: remorse and how the culture evolved after they left. And

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01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:17,160
Speaker 2: I guess along the short of it is where we

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01:18:17,280 --> 01:18:19,120
Speaker 2: like it or not. I don't think this story's over.

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01:18:19,760 --> 01:18:22,880
Speaker 2: There's going to be more to this story coming up.

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Speaker 2: So too bad for Northwestern football. It's a very proud institution.

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01:18:26,840 --> 01:18:30,320
Speaker 2: Too bad for Pat Fitzgerald. You speak about not wanting

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01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:33,519
Speaker 2: condemned a certain way. Boy, this was a rough ending

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01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:34,880
Speaker 2: for a proud school.

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Speaker 3: Coming up, Baseball might have a new idea.

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Speaker 4: am Eastern time. He will be paired with Tommy Fleetwood,

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Speaker 4: who was five shots off the lead. And baseball Friday Night,

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Speaker 4: The Dodgers hammer Texas eleven to five. Austin Riley went

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Speaker 2: it's funny how out of acorns can grow oaks. Out

1529
01:21:17,479 --> 01:21:22,120
Speaker 2: of a simple conversation, something can blossom. And I begin

1530
01:21:22,240 --> 01:21:26,480
Speaker 2: by invoking the names of Ken Griffy Junior, Albert Poolholz

1531
01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:27,720
Speaker 2: and Jim Tomey.

1532
01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:28,320
Speaker 3: And David Ortiz.

1533
01:21:29,600 --> 01:21:33,479
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about an old timers game. I'm talking

1534
01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:38,439
Speaker 2: about something that started with an innocent conversation with Ken

1535
01:21:38,479 --> 01:21:42,160
Speaker 2: Griffy on the MLB Network and then all of a sudden.

1536
01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:44,160
Speaker 2: Within a matter of a few days, it's grown into

1537
01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:48,240
Speaker 2: an idea that has already reached the attention of baseball's

1538
01:21:48,280 --> 01:21:53,679
Speaker 2: powers to be Could it happen? Yes, it could happen

1539
01:21:54,520 --> 01:21:58,200
Speaker 2: because it feels like the legends want it to happen.

1540
01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:00,760
Speaker 2: They don't simply want want it to happen so they

1541
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:04,360
Speaker 2: can swing a bat again. They want it to happen

1542
01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:07,920
Speaker 2: so they can watch their other favorite legends swing the

1543
01:22:07,960 --> 01:22:12,559
Speaker 2: bats again, just like we do. Remember Ken Griffy Junior

1544
01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:16,360
Speaker 2: won the Home Run Derby in nineteen ninety four, nineteen

1545
01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:21,360
Speaker 2: ninety eight, and nineteen ninety nine. So, all of a sudden,

1546
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:26,360
Speaker 2: two Mondays ago, when the Monday afternoon All Star Game

1547
01:22:26,439 --> 01:22:33,360
Speaker 2: festivities in Seattle started, Albert Poolholes jokingly looked at Ken

1548
01:22:33,400 --> 01:22:34,120
Speaker 2: Griffy Jr.

1549
01:22:34,120 --> 01:22:37,600
Speaker 3: Who was mulling around, and said, so you're gonna be

1550
01:22:37,680 --> 01:22:38,679
Speaker 3: in the Home Run Derby tonight.

1551
01:22:39,720 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 2: Griffy joked back, Hey, if you do it, I'll do it.

1552
01:22:42,760 --> 01:22:46,040
Speaker 2: Poolhole said, yeah, let's do it. Why not that all

1553
01:22:46,040 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 2: of a sudden hmm, wait a minute, Wait a minute.

1554
01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:53,800
Speaker 2: Then Griffy started to tell his story about the time

1555
01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:56,720
Speaker 2: as he was a hitting coach for Team USA during

1556
01:22:56,760 --> 01:23:00,679
Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic, and all the players we're daring

1557
01:23:00,760 --> 01:23:02,360
Speaker 2: him to get in the cage to say, can you

1558
01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 2: still do it?

1559
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:03,120
Speaker 3: Can?

1560
01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:06,600
Speaker 2: Can you still do it? Griffy didn't want oky, I

1561
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:09,479
Speaker 2: can still do it. Finally had enough, so he called

1562
01:23:09,479 --> 01:23:13,040
Speaker 2: his wife and said, do me a favor, bring me

1563
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:16,519
Speaker 2: my bat. And the bat had a name. It's called Lucille.

1564
01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:21,160
Speaker 2: You know where it went from there. Okay, the players

1565
01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 2: saw Griffy with the bat, and the trash talk hit

1566
01:23:24,400 --> 01:23:28,000
Speaker 2: another level. Mookie Bets joked, you ain't got it no more.

1567
01:23:28,040 --> 01:23:31,920
Speaker 2: I bet you can't go deep in ten swings. Griffy said,

1568
01:23:31,920 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 2: oh yeah, you'd lose that bet at age fifty three.

1569
01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:43,320
Speaker 2: At age fifty three, Griffy gets into the cage and

1570
01:23:43,400 --> 01:23:44,000
Speaker 2: goes deep.

1571
01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 3: But hold on, there's more.

1572
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:50,880
Speaker 2: The Seven keeps rolling along and MLB's networks. The one

1573
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:54,040
Speaker 2: of their hosts, Greg Amsinger, made the mistake of mentioning

1574
01:23:54,080 --> 01:23:57,200
Speaker 2: that Pete Alonso had a chance to win that night

1575
01:23:57,280 --> 01:24:00,160
Speaker 2: his third derby, which means he could tie gri if

1576
01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:03,360
Speaker 2: he for the most Ever, if you don't think Ken

1577
01:24:03,360 --> 01:24:06,960
Speaker 2: Griffy's competitive, if you don't think he's gonna let that

1578
01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:11,320
Speaker 2: little innocent slip of the tongue go by unchallenged with

1579
01:24:11,479 --> 01:24:15,479
Speaker 2: then you don't know Ken Griffy, and Griffy basically said, hey,

1580
01:24:15,479 --> 01:24:17,400
Speaker 2: if I got a year to prepare for next year,

1581
01:24:17,439 --> 01:24:19,880
Speaker 2: it's just me and Pete. I'll tell you right now,

1582
01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:22,000
Speaker 2: it's like Rocky and Apollo ring the bell in an

1583
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:26,160
Speaker 2: empty cage, ding, ding, Let's go ha. Gota love Griffy

1584
01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:29,920
Speaker 2: for the response and the reference, and am Singer said, whoa,

1585
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:32,160
Speaker 2: you got that much confidence? You really think you could

1586
01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:36,960
Speaker 2: still win this. Griffy said, of course I do. And

1587
01:24:37,040 --> 01:24:41,240
Speaker 2: then it felt like, well, all right, they're just you know,

1588
01:24:41,280 --> 01:24:45,000
Speaker 2: they're talking this, nothing's gonna happen. But all of a sudden,

1589
01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:48,599
Speaker 2: now you know, other players said, I jump.

1590
01:24:48,400 --> 01:24:49,880
Speaker 3: In there too.

1591
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:54,040
Speaker 2: And Jim told me was a great guy who happened

1592
01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:57,600
Speaker 2: to be watching this exchange from his home in Illinois.

1593
01:24:58,880 --> 01:25:00,720
Speaker 2: By the way, Jim told me at six hundred and

1594
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:04,479
Speaker 2: twelve home runs in his career. He reaches for a cell,

1595
01:25:05,400 --> 01:25:08,599
Speaker 2: He texts Amsinger. He says, wait a minute, if Griffy's

1596
01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:11,240
Speaker 2: gonna get ready, how about if I jump in there too.

1597
01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:12,559
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, two.

1598
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:17,880
Speaker 2: Baseball legends within five minutes say they would participate in

1599
01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:18,559
Speaker 2: the home run Derby.

1600
01:25:18,640 --> 01:25:20,080
Speaker 3: The Next day, Albert.

1601
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:23,200
Speaker 2: Poolholes hanging out in front of the MLB Network production

1602
01:25:23,320 --> 01:25:27,360
Speaker 2: trailer and he's talking to Harold Reynolds and maybe start

1603
01:25:27,640 --> 01:25:32,160
Speaker 2: talking about this, you know, home run Derby of dreams

1604
01:25:32,400 --> 01:25:36,200
Speaker 2: right with Griffy, and he mentioned Tomy and pool Hole said,

1605
01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:39,080
Speaker 2: wait a minute, I would do that in a hot second,

1606
01:25:39,120 --> 01:25:42,840
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you got three Legends. Then Poohles

1607
01:25:42,840 --> 01:25:46,479
Speaker 2: walks outside, said, who's he run into, Big Poppy David

1608
01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 2: Ortiz and he lays it out. He says, Poppy, we've

1609
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:51,440
Speaker 2: just had a brainstorm.

1610
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:51,880
Speaker 3: Guess what.

1611
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:58,160
Speaker 2: Pool Holes walks back into the trailer and says, Poppy said,

1612
01:25:58,240 --> 01:26:02,880
Speaker 2: he's all in two. See you got David Ortiz, Luis

1613
01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:05,479
Speaker 2: or Albert Poolholes, Ken Griffy Jr.

1614
01:26:05,520 --> 01:26:08,519
Speaker 3: And Jim Tomey. That's just the start.

1615
01:26:08,720 --> 01:26:13,559
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, why couldn't you have a Legends home

1616
01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:14,240
Speaker 2: run Derby.

1617
01:26:14,280 --> 01:26:16,240
Speaker 3: You've already got four guys right there that said they

1618
01:26:16,240 --> 01:26:20,040
Speaker 3: would jump in. When would you do it? Simple?

1619
01:26:20,360 --> 01:26:23,519
Speaker 2: They're already talking about it. You play the Futures game.

1620
01:26:24,160 --> 01:26:27,160
Speaker 2: Didn't you have the Legends home run Derby Saturday night

1621
01:26:27,240 --> 01:26:32,200
Speaker 2: in primetime? And all of a sudden, like you're gonna

1622
01:26:32,280 --> 01:26:34,200
Speaker 2: you know, you're gonna pack the place out. You put

1623
01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:37,400
Speaker 2: up long chairs by the dugouts and the kids and

1624
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:39,400
Speaker 2: the futures kids and their families. They hang out on

1625
01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:42,040
Speaker 2: the field to watch the home run Derby two and

1626
01:26:42,080 --> 01:26:44,240
Speaker 2: the next thing you know, you've got another made for

1627
01:26:44,360 --> 01:26:48,400
Speaker 2: TV event. Okay, what would the for what would the

1628
01:26:48,400 --> 01:26:53,720
Speaker 2: format be? Well, there actually was a famous old home

1629
01:26:53,800 --> 01:26:58,520
Speaker 2: run derby. Uh the event that was held in the fifties.

1630
01:26:59,520 --> 01:26:59,600
Speaker 6: Uh.

1631
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:01,559
Speaker 2: It was in black and white. You can still find it.

1632
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:03,080
Speaker 2: You can find it on YouTube. Every now and then

1633
01:27:03,080 --> 01:27:05,320
Speaker 2: they'll show one on Major League Baseball Channel. It was

1634
01:27:05,360 --> 01:27:08,160
Speaker 2: kind of cheesy and it was really clunky, but it

1635
01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:11,559
Speaker 2: was classic. And I talked to el Kayline about it once,

1636
01:27:11,600 --> 01:27:14,400
Speaker 2: no joke. He said, Man, it was really great. You

1637
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:15,960
Speaker 2: fly to LA they put you up for a couple

1638
01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:17,880
Speaker 2: hundred for a couple of days and you'd make fifteen

1639
01:27:17,960 --> 01:27:22,320
Speaker 2: hundred bucks. True story, and it'd be like hal Kline

1640
01:27:22,400 --> 01:27:24,760
Speaker 2: versus Hank Aaron and a guy named Mark Scott would

1641
01:27:24,800 --> 01:27:28,240
Speaker 2: interview the guys in between, and they would get like

1642
01:27:28,280 --> 01:27:30,719
Speaker 2: three outs, you know, and then if you know, anything

1643
01:27:30,760 --> 01:27:33,479
Speaker 2: that wasn't the home run wasn't out right, but along

1644
01:27:33,560 --> 01:27:36,840
Speaker 2: The short of it is, they don't want to half

1645
01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:39,120
Speaker 2: fifty three year old guys. Fifty three year old guys

1646
01:27:39,120 --> 01:27:41,920
Speaker 2: trying to take eighty swings in three minutes. Okay, all

1647
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:46,280
Speaker 2: kinds of stuff could go wrong there, but see that's

1648
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:50,120
Speaker 2: where that old fifties show hosted by Mark Scott would work.

1649
01:27:50,160 --> 01:27:52,080
Speaker 2: And if you get a second, google it Google home

1650
01:27:52,120 --> 01:27:54,600
Speaker 2: run derby Mark Scott, I'll guarantee it's coming up. You

1651
01:27:54,720 --> 01:27:56,559
Speaker 2: take a couple of swings, your innings over, then there's

1652
01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:59,120
Speaker 2: plenty of time and rest, and it's head to head.

1653
01:27:59,160 --> 01:28:00,479
Speaker 3: So all of us a sudden.

1654
01:28:01,240 --> 01:28:04,120
Speaker 2: You got guys that can have combined for over thirteen

1655
01:28:04,200 --> 01:28:06,479
Speaker 2: hundred home runs. Hey, wait a minute, we'll do this, man,

1656
01:28:07,160 --> 01:28:09,639
Speaker 2: we'll do this. As a matter of fact, you could

1657
01:28:09,640 --> 01:28:11,679
Speaker 2: even hold a nine inning game and make it a team,

1658
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:14,519
Speaker 2: right like Homie Jim Tomy would hit in the first inning,

1659
01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:18,120
Speaker 2: Griffy hitting the second, Pools in the third, and they

1660
01:28:18,160 --> 01:28:20,200
Speaker 2: would skip three innings and they'd go back and forth

1661
01:28:20,280 --> 01:28:22,559
Speaker 2: and there would be three guys, right, and then you

1662
01:28:22,560 --> 01:28:25,040
Speaker 2: could have a four man team. The first eight innings,

1663
01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:27,800
Speaker 2: each legend gets to hit twice. Then you huddle up

1664
01:28:27,800 --> 01:28:30,120
Speaker 2: and decide which legend represents her team in the all

1665
01:28:30,160 --> 01:28:31,160
Speaker 2: important ninth inning.

1666
01:28:31,600 --> 01:28:33,599
Speaker 3: They're just they're just you.

1667
01:28:33,560 --> 01:28:38,559
Speaker 2: Know, spitballing now, right, But this is a clever idea.

1668
01:28:38,920 --> 01:28:41,920
Speaker 2: I think this might get legs and it might actually happen.

1669
01:28:42,479 --> 01:28:44,800
Speaker 2: So you're by now you're asking yourself, well, how many

1670
01:28:44,840 --> 01:28:47,479
Speaker 2: home runs would these guys hit? Well, look, they would

1671
01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:50,479
Speaker 2: hit home runs. I promise you they would a lot.

1672
01:28:51,400 --> 01:28:55,000
Speaker 2: Tomy hits six twelve. Now, he hasn't played Major League

1673
01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:58,759
Speaker 2: baseball eleven years, and they're not going to hit forty

1674
01:28:58,800 --> 01:29:00,840
Speaker 2: one home runs like who you are Rodriguez did this

1675
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:03,439
Speaker 2: year because they're not even going to get forty one swings.

1676
01:29:04,520 --> 01:29:08,920
Speaker 2: And Griffy, you know, said he wouldn't. Honestly, if he's

1677
01:29:08,920 --> 01:29:10,679
Speaker 2: gonna be serious, he would need four to six months

1678
01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:11,320
Speaker 2: to get ready.

1679
01:29:11,520 --> 01:29:12,360
Speaker 3: But they got a year.

1680
01:29:13,160 --> 01:29:16,040
Speaker 2: And a reporter asked, came, Griffy, when's the last time

1681
01:29:16,040 --> 01:29:18,200
Speaker 2: he jumped into the cage actually tried to hit home run?

1682
01:29:19,040 --> 01:29:21,080
Speaker 2: Or he asked Jim Tomy. He says, A long time ago.

1683
01:29:21,200 --> 01:29:23,720
Speaker 2: But I've hit my son's high school field. I've hit

1684
01:29:23,760 --> 01:29:25,160
Speaker 2: home runs there just recently.

1685
01:29:25,200 --> 01:29:26,000
Speaker 3: But that was a high.

1686
01:29:25,840 --> 01:29:29,840
Speaker 2: School field, different situations, not something I practice every day.

1687
01:29:30,840 --> 01:29:35,680
Speaker 2: So I guarantee it. Tony wouldn't embarrass himself. Neither with Pools,

1688
01:29:36,479 --> 01:29:39,080
Speaker 2: neither would would With Griffy Jr. Neither would any.

1689
01:29:39,120 --> 01:29:41,080
Speaker 3: Neither would pop pig pot. They wouldn't do it right.

1690
01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:44,519
Speaker 2: But then all of a sudden the conversation started to

1691
01:29:45,920 --> 01:29:48,960
Speaker 2: really take root. Like if you throw a pebble in

1692
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:52,080
Speaker 2: a pond and you see the ripples, who might who

1693
01:29:52,160 --> 01:29:56,160
Speaker 2: else might want to do this? Ryan Howard, Prince Fielder,

1694
01:29:57,600 --> 01:30:02,240
Speaker 2: Jason Giambi, Gianna Sispidis. Maybe you could even talk to

1695
01:30:02,360 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 2: Mark McGuire. Maybe, depending on the whole city, you invite

1696
01:30:07,640 --> 01:30:11,479
Speaker 2: a local legend. So I believe the All Star Game

1697
01:30:11,520 --> 01:30:18,880
Speaker 2: is in Texas next year, so you could invite Adrian Beltray.

1698
01:30:18,960 --> 01:30:23,000
Speaker 2: It's in Wrigley Field in twenty twenty five. Might you

1699
01:30:23,080 --> 01:30:27,920
Speaker 2: invite Sammy Sosa? Okay, you're getting the picture now, right,

1700
01:30:29,040 --> 01:30:34,120
Speaker 2: So legends themselves, they have said now they do want

1701
01:30:34,160 --> 01:30:34,559
Speaker 2: to do this.

1702
01:30:35,320 --> 01:30:38,120
Speaker 3: That part will not be the hard part. All right.

1703
01:30:39,280 --> 01:30:42,600
Speaker 2: The Derby can be renewed. I don't know what you

1704
01:30:42,680 --> 01:30:44,760
Speaker 2: do with the NBA Slam Dug contest. It was one

1705
01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:46,839
Speaker 2: this year by a guy from the G League, Mac McClung.

1706
01:30:47,880 --> 01:30:52,760
Speaker 2: And here's the deal because it's in their DNA. Well,

1707
01:30:52,760 --> 01:30:57,040
Speaker 2: you're talking about you know, Griffy and Pooholes, Jim Tomey.

1708
01:30:58,160 --> 01:31:00,439
Speaker 2: They're still a kid at heart who played the game.

1709
01:31:02,920 --> 01:31:06,800
Speaker 2: You know, I played ball. It's been about well, actually

1710
01:31:06,840 --> 01:31:10,240
Speaker 2: went to the batting cage last year and it was fine,

1711
01:31:10,360 --> 01:31:13,880
Speaker 2: no sweat. Now, I was coaching a travel team in

1712
01:31:13,920 --> 01:31:19,840
Speaker 2: Michigan back in the early two thousands, and you know,

1713
01:31:19,920 --> 01:31:23,559
Speaker 2: at that point I hadn't played organized ball maybe Beer

1714
01:31:23,600 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 2: league ball, but hadn't played organized ball in twenty years.

1715
01:31:26,479 --> 01:31:27,880
Speaker 2: I used to get in the cage with the kids

1716
01:31:27,880 --> 01:31:29,240
Speaker 2: and I had a kid, Jeff challenged me to a

1717
01:31:29,240 --> 01:31:30,040
Speaker 2: home run contest.

1718
01:31:30,479 --> 01:31:32,800
Speaker 3: I beat him. And this was on a it was

1719
01:31:32,840 --> 01:31:34,160
Speaker 3: on a high school field.

1720
01:31:34,560 --> 01:31:37,000
Speaker 2: And they were shocked. I hit three or four balls out.

1721
01:31:37,720 --> 01:31:39,479
Speaker 2: But so these guys are good. They're not going to

1722
01:31:39,520 --> 01:31:41,760
Speaker 2: have any trouble. I really, I really believe it. So

1723
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:45,519
Speaker 2: the real question is how does this go from you know,

1724
01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:50,920
Speaker 2: conversation over the water cooler to having it be a reality.

1725
01:31:50,960 --> 01:31:53,479
Speaker 2: I know they got to jump through hoops. They would

1726
01:31:53,479 --> 01:31:56,479
Speaker 2: have to find sponsors, legalities would need to be tied up,

1727
01:31:56,920 --> 01:31:59,040
Speaker 2: and you got to fit one more event into the

1728
01:31:59,080 --> 01:32:01,120
Speaker 2: All Star schedule, and that's a that's a bit of

1729
01:32:01,160 --> 01:32:05,000
Speaker 2: a challenge and there's gonna be a lot of red tape.

1730
01:32:05,600 --> 01:32:09,320
Speaker 2: But see, ironically, what people would have thought would have

1731
01:32:09,320 --> 01:32:11,960
Speaker 2: been the hardest part with just getting guys to compete,

1732
01:32:12,439 --> 01:32:13,840
Speaker 2: and but they'll do it.

1733
01:32:13,880 --> 01:32:16,760
Speaker 3: They want to do it. They already want to call

1734
01:32:16,920 --> 01:32:19,240
Speaker 3: the legends Derby. So you can't tell me.

1735
01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:21,840
Speaker 2: If you see Ortiz and Tommy and Griffy Junior and

1736
01:32:21,840 --> 01:32:25,479
Speaker 2: Poolholes light up the way they did, they're onto something.

1737
01:32:25,720 --> 01:32:26,320
Speaker 3: They need it.

1738
01:32:27,160 --> 01:32:29,240
Speaker 2: I think it could work. This could be a lot

1739
01:32:29,240 --> 01:32:33,200
Speaker 2: of fun. And as for the fans, absolutely, the fans.

1740
01:32:33,600 --> 01:32:37,400
Speaker 2: Woody Allen said it best. Nostalgia is a trap. Fans

1741
01:32:37,479 --> 01:32:39,160
Speaker 2: know what these guys did in their career, and it'd

1742
01:32:39,200 --> 01:32:41,320
Speaker 2: be awesome to put this thing and make.

1743
01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:42,040
Speaker 3: It come to fruition.

1744
01:32:42,160 --> 01:32:48,240
Speaker 2: Okay, there's always going to be opportunities to repackage these,

1745
01:32:48,360 --> 01:32:50,640
Speaker 2: you know, all star game festivities. And the fact that

1746
01:32:50,680 --> 01:32:55,000
Speaker 2: this conversation started so innocently and blossomed and has now

1747
01:32:55,080 --> 01:32:57,120
Speaker 2: gotten the ground swell where there's four guys that want

1748
01:32:57,160 --> 01:32:58,840
Speaker 2: to do it and they're gonna look to recruit more

1749
01:33:00,080 --> 01:33:04,360
Speaker 2: open happens. But that's just my opinion. We're gonna bring

1750
01:33:04,360 --> 01:33:07,840
Speaker 2: in the crew. We got some baseball guys. You got

1751
01:33:07,920 --> 01:33:12,000
Speaker 2: Kevin Crandall and Ethan. I want to get their thoughts.

1752
01:33:12,880 --> 01:33:16,920
Speaker 2: Do they like the idea, would they watch it? Would

1753
01:33:16,920 --> 01:33:22,680
Speaker 2: they have an open mind about it? And most importantly

1754
01:33:23,280 --> 01:33:25,559
Speaker 2: you think the I'll have to make a prediction is

1755
01:33:25,560 --> 01:33:28,600
Speaker 2: if they think this is really going to happen a

1756
01:33:28,760 --> 01:33:32,000
Speaker 2: Legends home run derby? After one would like to see it,

1757
01:33:32,240 --> 01:33:35,000
Speaker 2: See what the crew thinks. I have Bernie Fraddlewick Comedy

1758
01:33:35,080 --> 01:33:37,320
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1759
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1760
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1761
01:33:40,600 --> 01:33:41,559
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1762
01:33:43,560 --> 01:33:45,599
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1763
01:33:45,720 --> 01:33:48,120
Speaker 2: Radio Company Your Life from the Tyrock dot Com studios

1764
01:33:49,000 --> 01:33:52,400
Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas. A lot of stuff to get to.

1765
01:33:53,200 --> 01:33:56,559
Speaker 2: Could a Legends home run derby at the All Star

1766
01:33:56,720 --> 01:34:01,040
Speaker 2: Game become a reality? What started as an innocent conversation

1767
01:34:01,640 --> 01:34:05,479
Speaker 2: has now turned into four all time greats Ken Grafi Jr.

1768
01:34:05,760 --> 01:34:09,800
Speaker 2: Albert Poole's, Jim Tomy and David Ortiz that are on board.

1769
01:34:10,040 --> 01:34:12,200
Speaker 2: They want to do it, and this is just the beginning.

1770
01:34:12,240 --> 01:34:15,280
Speaker 2: There's all kinds of new ideas that's just my opinion.

1771
01:34:15,360 --> 01:34:18,479
Speaker 2: Let's bring in the crew. Kevin figures your thoughts on

1772
01:34:18,520 --> 01:34:19,200
Speaker 2: the concept.

1773
01:34:19,240 --> 01:34:20,800
Speaker 3: Would you watch it? Do you like it? Do you

1774
01:34:20,800 --> 01:34:22,200
Speaker 3: think it can never come to fruition?

1775
01:34:23,240 --> 01:34:25,160
Speaker 4: Well, if you have guys like this who are willing

1776
01:34:25,200 --> 01:34:27,559
Speaker 4: to do it, I think it definitely could come to fruition.

1777
01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:30,120
Speaker 4: And I believe there's a generation of baseball fan you know,

1778
01:34:30,280 --> 01:34:33,200
Speaker 4: like myself, who grew up watching most of these guys,

1779
01:34:33,240 --> 01:34:35,400
Speaker 4: all these guys really in their primes, who will love

1780
01:34:35,439 --> 01:34:38,320
Speaker 4: to watch it. I don't believe that Baseball's All Star

1781
01:34:38,439 --> 01:34:40,280
Speaker 4: weekend or week whatever you want to call it, has

1782
01:34:40,320 --> 01:34:43,000
Speaker 4: gotten as stale as say as the NBA, but it

1783
01:34:43,040 --> 01:34:45,360
Speaker 4: certainly can help to bring in, you know, something new,

1784
01:34:45,439 --> 01:34:48,000
Speaker 4: a little bit of a new flavor, something different, a

1785
01:34:48,000 --> 01:34:50,640
Speaker 4: different format, to also bring back maybe some of the

1786
01:34:50,720 --> 01:34:52,760
Speaker 4: older audience who look sometimes I think it gets a

1787
01:34:52,800 --> 01:34:55,080
Speaker 4: little bit mundane at times with the home run baby.

1788
01:34:55,280 --> 01:34:55,559
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1789
01:34:55,600 --> 01:34:58,320
Speaker 4: So I don't think it's a bad move whatsoever. Major

1790
01:34:58,400 --> 01:35:00,479
Speaker 4: League Baseball where to embrace this. I kind of hope

1791
01:35:00,520 --> 01:35:02,120
Speaker 4: that they do real quickly.

1792
01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:05,840
Speaker 2: I'll tell you, Kevin, I honestly I started on the

1793
01:35:05,840 --> 01:35:08,000
Speaker 2: home run derby back in two thousand and five.

1794
01:35:08,680 --> 01:35:09,240
Speaker 3: I covered that.

1795
01:35:09,360 --> 01:35:13,320
Speaker 2: It was at Kamerica Park in Detroit. Rob Parker was there,

1796
01:35:13,360 --> 01:35:17,880
Speaker 2: Mark Wilson was there, our team and Bobby and Bray.

1797
01:35:17,920 --> 01:35:20,120
Speaker 2: You won it, hit forty four home runs and wrecked

1798
01:35:20,120 --> 01:35:22,800
Speaker 2: the second half of a season. I know Ethan's a

1799
01:35:22,800 --> 01:35:25,840
Speaker 2: Philly guy, He's got to remember that. And after that,

1800
01:35:25,880 --> 01:35:28,040
Speaker 2: I said, wait a minute, now, this is going to

1801
01:35:28,120 --> 01:35:30,320
Speaker 2: discourage players from wanting to be in it.

1802
01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:33,040
Speaker 3: You screw up your swing, you can get hurt.

1803
01:35:32,880 --> 01:35:37,000
Speaker 2: All kinds of things, and it's lost tremendous luster for

1804
01:35:37,040 --> 01:35:39,840
Speaker 2: me after that. And then they've changed the format now

1805
01:35:39,880 --> 01:35:43,160
Speaker 2: so it's more amenable, but you're still taking a ton

1806
01:35:43,200 --> 01:35:46,920
Speaker 2: of swings. And if they were to do this, you

1807
01:35:46,920 --> 01:35:50,160
Speaker 2: would follow the format of that Goofield home run derby

1808
01:35:50,160 --> 01:35:51,880
Speaker 2: back in the fifties, where you play like an inning

1809
01:35:51,960 --> 01:35:53,640
Speaker 2: right once you have three outs, so you're not you

1810
01:35:53,640 --> 01:35:55,400
Speaker 2: can't get that many swings unless you're hit that many

1811
01:35:55,439 --> 01:35:55,960
Speaker 2: home runs.

1812
01:35:58,080 --> 01:35:59,599
Speaker 3: Do you see a downside Kevin in.

1813
01:35:59,520 --> 01:36:02,439
Speaker 4: This, well, I guess the downside would be and I

1814
01:36:02,479 --> 01:36:04,679
Speaker 4: think Jim Tomany brought this up is trying to find

1815
01:36:04,680 --> 01:36:06,600
Speaker 4: a format to where guys who are up there in

1816
01:36:06,680 --> 01:36:09,280
Speaker 4: age who haven't don't have the stamina, having you know,

1817
01:36:09,320 --> 01:36:12,439
Speaker 4: worked out like professional players in years and making sure

1818
01:36:12,479 --> 01:36:14,320
Speaker 4: those guys don't end up getting injured. But there are

1819
01:36:14,360 --> 01:36:17,080
Speaker 4: some concepts, team concepts to find a way to get

1820
01:36:17,160 --> 01:36:19,080
Speaker 4: them to take fewer swings so they don't end up

1821
01:36:19,120 --> 01:36:21,680
Speaker 4: injuring themselves. That will be the really because look, there's

1822
01:36:21,720 --> 01:36:23,559
Speaker 4: no second half of the season for any of these guys.

1823
01:36:24,320 --> 01:36:25,559
Speaker 8: There's nothing to risk there.

1824
01:36:25,880 --> 01:36:28,000
Speaker 4: You just worry about guys who are in their forties

1825
01:36:28,040 --> 01:36:30,599
Speaker 4: and fifties potentially getting hurt from taking a lot of hacks.

1826
01:36:30,720 --> 01:36:32,720
Speaker 2: What do you think about the team concept where you

1827
01:36:32,760 --> 01:36:36,000
Speaker 2: would have two four man teams and they each bat

1828
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:38,720
Speaker 2: twice and then someone bats in the ninth inning, the

1829
01:36:38,760 --> 01:36:41,320
Speaker 2: elected captain of bat nineteen or maybe four two man

1830
01:36:41,360 --> 01:36:43,840
Speaker 2: teams and maybe you have like a team format where

1831
01:36:43,880 --> 01:36:47,160
Speaker 2: they rotate so it's not only one guy's back, but

1832
01:36:47,280 --> 01:36:49,400
Speaker 2: you still get to see the legends play. Let's face it,

1833
01:36:49,680 --> 01:36:53,000
Speaker 2: that's the draw here. Whatdy Allen said it best nostalgia

1834
01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:55,879
Speaker 2: as a trap. You get nostalgically to see these legends

1835
01:36:55,960 --> 01:36:57,000
Speaker 2: play one more time.

1836
01:36:57,120 --> 01:36:58,559
Speaker 3: What do you think about a team concept?

1837
01:36:58,640 --> 01:37:00,639
Speaker 4: I'm all for and I think that's the best way

1838
01:37:00,680 --> 01:37:02,320
Speaker 4: to do it because one thing you would hate to

1839
01:37:02,320 --> 01:37:04,759
Speaker 4: see is one of these great legends end up getting

1840
01:37:04,840 --> 01:37:06,720
Speaker 4: hurt because all of a sudden he's on a hot

1841
01:37:06,720 --> 01:37:08,360
Speaker 4: streak and he gets ten straight home runs and then

1842
01:37:08,360 --> 01:37:11,599
Speaker 4: on number eleven he pulls something. You know, nobody wants

1843
01:37:11,640 --> 01:37:13,080
Speaker 4: to see that. So I think the best way to

1844
01:37:13,080 --> 01:37:15,719
Speaker 4: do this would be a via team format like you described.

1845
01:37:15,920 --> 01:37:18,280
Speaker 2: I do think they get a sponsor, no problem, easily.

1846
01:37:18,320 --> 01:37:20,600
Speaker 2: I could see this following the Futures game. Yeah, I

1847
01:37:20,600 --> 01:37:22,519
Speaker 2: mean you really got to be a wont to follow

1848
01:37:22,560 --> 01:37:25,439
Speaker 2: the Future's game. I do because of certain prospects, but

1849
01:37:25,920 --> 01:37:27,960
Speaker 2: even I only watched two or three innings to get

1850
01:37:28,280 --> 01:37:31,479
Speaker 2: get the gist. All right, crandall your thoughts on the

1851
01:37:32,040 --> 01:37:33,840
Speaker 2: Legends home run derby.

1852
01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:37,040
Speaker 12: Well, I think it's gonna be a great idea, but

1853
01:37:37,080 --> 01:37:42,000
Speaker 12: I think that for the Legends, they should have to

1854
01:37:42,120 --> 01:37:44,640
Speaker 12: agree on it a year in advanced so by a

1855
01:37:44,640 --> 01:37:45,280
Speaker 12: time oh.

1856
01:37:45,120 --> 01:37:47,120
Speaker 3: It's a good point they had hurt, he can't back.

1857
01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:48,599
Speaker 8: Out, can't back out.

1858
01:37:48,960 --> 01:37:51,479
Speaker 12: And then so around time period the All Star weekend

1859
01:37:51,560 --> 01:37:55,080
Speaker 12: twenty twenty four, you already know by that time period

1860
01:37:55,280 --> 01:37:58,760
Speaker 12: who's going to be available for the next year's teams.

1861
01:37:58,960 --> 01:38:02,439
Speaker 12: And that way, guys in their forties forty five, they'll

1862
01:38:02,479 --> 01:38:05,439
Speaker 12: have time to be able to train that time period.

1863
01:38:05,479 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 12: You know, some guys going to need about a few months,

1864
01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:11,200
Speaker 12: someone need up to a year. They haven't played in

1865
01:38:11,240 --> 01:38:14,920
Speaker 12: a long time. But having a time period to be

1866
01:38:15,000 --> 01:38:18,240
Speaker 12: able to train and had the team concept, they could

1867
01:38:18,280 --> 01:38:21,080
Speaker 12: avoid injuries and have time for the trainding. So I

1868
01:38:21,080 --> 01:38:25,479
Speaker 12: think it would add nostalgia. And also for these for

1869
01:38:26,880 --> 01:38:31,000
Speaker 12: fans that their other fans that don't really watch as much,

1870
01:38:31,320 --> 01:38:33,960
Speaker 12: they'll be more intrigued All Star weekend if they have

1871
01:38:34,520 --> 01:38:37,200
Speaker 12: the home run derby for the Legends. And also for

1872
01:38:37,680 --> 01:38:40,200
Speaker 12: younger generations that didn't see the kN Griffey's growing up,

1873
01:38:40,479 --> 01:38:42,240
Speaker 12: they'll get to see that, you know, they help in

1874
01:38:42,280 --> 01:38:45,960
Speaker 12: their primes. They'll still be intrigued and add more viewers.

1875
01:38:46,840 --> 01:38:49,000
Speaker 2: That's a good idea for a couple of reasons. And

1876
01:38:49,200 --> 01:38:51,679
Speaker 2: if you think about it, we all know the All

1877
01:38:51,680 --> 01:38:54,040
Speaker 2: Star Game is going to be in Texas next year, right,

1878
01:38:54,080 --> 01:38:57,680
Speaker 2: and so there'll be a theme there and you know,

1879
01:38:58,160 --> 01:39:00,640
Speaker 2: maybe Adrian Blitary is part of.

1880
01:39:00,600 --> 01:39:01,200
Speaker 3: It or something like that.

1881
01:39:01,280 --> 01:39:03,640
Speaker 2: The point is, if you know the teams and you

1882
01:39:03,680 --> 01:39:05,439
Speaker 2: know the players, and they commit to it a year

1883
01:39:05,439 --> 01:39:08,640
Speaker 2: in advance, not only can they formulate their strategies and

1884
01:39:08,680 --> 01:39:09,639
Speaker 2: their teams and get in.

1885
01:39:09,600 --> 01:39:11,200
Speaker 3: Shape, but you can market it.

1886
01:39:11,640 --> 01:39:13,960
Speaker 2: So now you know next year, you know, brought to

1887
01:39:13,960 --> 01:39:16,280
Speaker 2: you by so and so, you got the legends Olmer

1888
01:39:16,280 --> 01:39:18,200
Speaker 2: on Derby and you know the players.

1889
01:39:18,479 --> 01:39:18,559
Speaker 9: No.

1890
01:39:18,600 --> 01:39:22,320
Speaker 2: I like that idea, and so hopefully I would say this, hopefully,

1891
01:39:22,360 --> 01:39:25,720
Speaker 2: if they decide to do this, I hope they first

1892
01:39:25,720 --> 01:39:28,599
Speaker 2: of all, Crandell, do you think they'll They'll get it done.

1893
01:39:28,640 --> 01:39:30,439
Speaker 2: They'll figure out a way to ramro out this.

1894
01:39:30,439 --> 01:39:33,200
Speaker 3: Thing in there. They still got eleven months.

1895
01:39:33,320 --> 01:39:36,400
Speaker 12: Yes, I believe so. I think at this time it

1896
01:39:36,400 --> 01:39:38,800
Speaker 12: will be nosed. They had some minim going on. They

1897
01:39:38,800 --> 01:39:41,439
Speaker 12: had a great All Star weekend this time around. They'll

1898
01:39:41,520 --> 01:39:43,840
Speaker 12: keep that going and make sure they add on to

1899
01:39:43,920 --> 01:39:46,559
Speaker 12: that and have you in more viewership and more excitement

1900
01:39:46,600 --> 01:39:47,160
Speaker 12: for next year.

1901
01:39:47,280 --> 01:39:47,479
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1902
01:39:47,479 --> 01:39:49,320
Speaker 2: I think that they could at least even announced it

1903
01:39:49,360 --> 01:39:53,360
Speaker 2: by the winter meetings in November December. It still gives

1904
01:39:53,400 --> 01:39:56,320
Speaker 2: you eight months to do that and announce it and

1905
01:39:56,360 --> 01:39:58,759
Speaker 2: promote it. And like you said, get the guys in shape.

1906
01:39:59,320 --> 01:40:01,800
Speaker 2: That's a good idea. Ethan, you got the last word

1907
01:40:01,800 --> 01:40:03,200
Speaker 2: on this, man. What are your thoughts?

1908
01:40:03,560 --> 01:40:07,559
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's an interesting idea. I think it'd

1909
01:40:07,600 --> 01:40:10,320
Speaker 5: be good for the fans. That's what I was thinking

1910
01:40:10,360 --> 01:40:12,760
Speaker 5: at first. Honestly, I'm not gonna be I'm gonna be

1911
01:40:12,760 --> 01:40:15,240
Speaker 5: honest here. At first, when you brought this up, I

1912
01:40:15,280 --> 01:40:16,880
Speaker 5: wasn't a big fan. I was like, you know, this

1913
01:40:16,960 --> 01:40:20,679
Speaker 5: sounds ridiculous. But you know, after k Fig and crandall

1914
01:40:20,720 --> 01:40:23,080
Speaker 5: gave their piece, you gave your little introduction, I'm like,

1915
01:40:23,160 --> 01:40:25,840
Speaker 5: you know, I can buy into it.

1916
01:40:26,120 --> 01:40:29,240
Speaker 8: I think it'd be cool to see like players.

1917
01:40:28,760 --> 01:40:32,200
Speaker 5: From you know, my childhood or even before, come back

1918
01:40:32,200 --> 01:40:36,240
Speaker 5: and take some hacks. I understand that whole training stuff

1919
01:40:36,280 --> 01:40:40,759
Speaker 5: and all that good jazz before and after making sure

1920
01:40:40,560 --> 01:40:44,160
Speaker 5: they're all right. But yeah, I think it'd be cool.

1921
01:40:44,160 --> 01:40:46,280
Speaker 5: But that you know, I don't have like a too

1922
01:40:46,280 --> 01:40:48,560
Speaker 5: strong opinion on it. I think I think it'd be

1923
01:40:48,600 --> 01:40:49,519
Speaker 5: cool for the fans.

1924
01:40:50,000 --> 01:40:54,920
Speaker 2: Most importantly, what I get the most kick out of

1925
01:40:55,080 --> 01:40:57,200
Speaker 2: is how this came out of nowhere. It started with

1926
01:40:57,240 --> 01:41:02,320
Speaker 2: an innocent conversation and people Kim griffyd Junior and look, man,

1927
01:41:02,840 --> 01:41:07,280
Speaker 2: it's in your DNA. That competitive juice never goes away.

1928
01:41:07,320 --> 01:41:09,920
Speaker 2: I promise you that he hasn't gone away in my life.

1929
01:41:09,920 --> 01:41:11,720
Speaker 2: And I didn't get to the Big League. So I

1930
01:41:12,160 --> 01:41:15,160
Speaker 2: sure as hell hope these guys do this. This could

1931
01:41:15,200 --> 01:41:18,439
Speaker 2: be just one of another many ideas that creates this

1932
01:41:19,200 --> 01:41:22,320
Speaker 2: continued renaissance in baseball. And you know, I watched the

1933
01:41:22,360 --> 01:41:24,040
Speaker 2: All Star Game. It's the best of the four All

1934
01:41:24,040 --> 01:41:26,280
Speaker 2: Star Games because they actually played defense and even saw

1935
01:41:26,280 --> 01:41:29,559
Speaker 2: the first inning. They're great catches. But since we now

1936
01:41:29,640 --> 01:41:33,120
Speaker 2: see so many games and interleague play and there's three

1937
01:41:33,200 --> 01:41:36,280
Speaker 2: hundred games, you know a year on the luster is gone.

1938
01:41:36,280 --> 01:41:39,519
Speaker 2: Whereas you get all the All Stars together and the NBA,

1939
01:41:39,560 --> 01:41:42,000
Speaker 2: they don't play any defense. In the NHL, same situation.

1940
01:41:42,080 --> 01:41:44,920
Speaker 2: The Pro Bowl is basically canceled now. So along the

1941
01:41:44,920 --> 01:41:47,160
Speaker 2: short of it is baseball is the last bashion. They

1942
01:41:47,160 --> 01:41:49,320
Speaker 2: can make it a whole weekend. And I like the

1943
01:41:49,400 --> 01:41:53,920
Speaker 2: idea coming up. Huge night in soccer, not just messy,

1944
01:41:53,960 --> 01:41:57,560
Speaker 2: but of course the World Cup is underway and we

1945
01:41:57,600 --> 01:42:00,559
Speaker 2: will bring you Chris Purfet's World of Soccer right after

1946
01:42:00,720 --> 01:42:03,200
Speaker 2: we go to our guy Kevin Figures with the ladies.

1947
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Speaker 4: Well talking about the huge night in soccer highlighted by

1948
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Speaker 4: the US women's national team. They began their quest for

1949
01:42:08,120 --> 01:42:10,080
Speaker 4: a three peat at the World Cup, picking up a

1950
01:42:10,080 --> 01:42:12,840
Speaker 4: three nail victory over Vietnam in their first match in

1951
01:42:12,920 --> 01:42:15,880
Speaker 4: group play, Sophia Smith scoring a couple of goals in

1952
01:42:15,920 --> 01:42:19,040
Speaker 4: the first half. Team USA outshot Vietnam twenty eight to nothing.

1953
01:42:19,400 --> 01:42:21,920
Speaker 4: Their next opponent will be the Netherlands on Wednesday night.

1954
01:42:22,080 --> 01:42:24,559
Speaker 4: We do have one game in progress on FS one.

1955
01:42:24,640 --> 01:42:27,439
Speaker 4: Japan now a three toner lead over Zambia in the

1956
01:42:27,520 --> 01:42:30,439
Speaker 4: sixty eighth minute. At the top of the hour on Fox,

1957
01:42:30,479 --> 01:42:33,639
Speaker 4: England will take on Haiti. Major League Baseball Friday night,

1958
01:42:33,640 --> 01:42:35,960
Speaker 4: Shoeyo Tiny struck out nine and allowed five runs and

1959
01:42:36,000 --> 01:42:38,720
Speaker 4: an eight to five Angels win over Pittsburgh. Houston won

1960
01:42:38,800 --> 01:42:40,679
Speaker 4: its third in a row with a victory over Oakland

1961
01:42:40,760 --> 01:42:43,599
Speaker 4: six to four. Seattle walked off Toronto three to two.

1962
01:42:43,680 --> 01:42:46,880
Speaker 4: Dodgers all over Texas eleven to five. Austin Riley went

1963
01:42:46,920 --> 01:42:50,160
Speaker 4: deep for the fourth consecutive game as Atlanta defeated Milwaukee

1964
01:42:50,200 --> 01:42:52,400
Speaker 4: six to four. The Yankees beat the Royals five to

1965
01:42:52,479 --> 01:42:55,479
Speaker 4: four as Aaron Judge took batting practice prior to the game,

1966
01:42:55,760 --> 01:42:58,559
Speaker 4: and a timeline for his potential return could be announced

1967
01:42:58,560 --> 01:43:00,960
Speaker 4: as soon as this weekend. And golf third Round at

1968
01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:03,800
Speaker 4: the US Open. Excuse me, Third Round at the Open Championship,

1969
01:43:03,800 --> 01:43:05,360
Speaker 4: not the US Open or the British Open.

1970
01:43:05,479 --> 01:43:06,960
Speaker 8: Just to the Open underway.

1971
01:43:07,040 --> 01:43:10,479
Speaker 4: Ricky Fatheros, Scotty Cheffer, Adam Scott all just beginning their rounds.

1972
01:43:10,520 --> 01:43:12,960
Speaker 4: Brian Harmon, the leader at ten under, won't hey off

1973
01:43:13,040 --> 01:43:15,800
Speaker 4: until about ten thirty am Eastern time. He'll repair with

1974
01:43:15,840 --> 01:43:18,720
Speaker 4: Tommy Fleetwood, who was five shots off the lead, back

1975
01:43:18,760 --> 01:43:19,720
Speaker 4: to Bernie Fritdo.

1976
01:43:19,640 --> 01:43:21,800
Speaker 2: Evan and I have never understood where they feel so

1977
01:43:23,200 --> 01:43:25,880
Speaker 2: feel the need to remove the name British.

1978
01:43:25,520 --> 01:43:26,120
Speaker 3: From the Open.

1979
01:43:26,240 --> 01:43:28,759
Speaker 8: So sensitive, huh so sensitive?

1980
01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:33,400
Speaker 2: All right, good stuff, buddy, all right, huge night in soccer,

1981
01:43:33,760 --> 01:43:36,719
Speaker 2: the Women's World Cup. He's underweight. Well they three pete.

1982
01:43:36,840 --> 01:43:40,280
Speaker 2: Well they got to w against Vietnam. It wasn't messy,

1983
01:43:40,400 --> 01:43:42,439
Speaker 2: see what they did there, But it wasn't pretty either.

1984
01:43:42,560 --> 01:43:44,240
Speaker 2: It's why at this time every week we bring you

1985
01:43:44,320 --> 01:43:45,559
Speaker 2: Chris Burfetts World of.

1986
01:43:45,560 --> 01:44:02,200
Speaker 11: Soccer, the greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drum.

1987
01:44:02,960 --> 01:44:06,400
Speaker 1: It's all here in this report from the World of Soccer.

1988
01:44:07,600 --> 01:44:11,599
Speaker 2: Well Chris USA got there in w tonight. Sophie Smith

1989
01:44:11,720 --> 01:44:14,240
Speaker 2: is all of a sudden the household name. But I

1990
01:44:14,240 --> 01:44:15,920
Speaker 2: will tell you I do believe they need a lot

1991
01:44:15,960 --> 01:44:18,479
Speaker 2: of improvement ahead of the Netherlands match next Wednesday.

1992
01:44:19,360 --> 01:44:23,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think their lineup is definitely something that really

1993
01:44:23,160 --> 01:44:26,040
Speaker 6: needs a little bit of work work here. I know

1994
01:44:26,120 --> 01:44:29,160
Speaker 6: there's already some criticisms coming. It feels like every time

1995
01:44:29,160 --> 01:44:31,560
Speaker 6: we get a US manager, it's a lot of criticism

1996
01:44:31,600 --> 01:44:32,839
Speaker 6: on how they're setting in the lineups.

1997
01:44:32,880 --> 01:44:33,080
Speaker 3: Right.

1998
01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:36,000
Speaker 6: That kind of shows that we're kind of a lecture

1999
01:44:36,120 --> 01:44:39,440
Speaker 6: soccer country. If we're looking at end of ours Adanovsky

2000
01:44:39,479 --> 01:44:41,439
Speaker 6: in the same way we were looking at Verhalter during

2001
01:44:41,439 --> 01:44:43,640
Speaker 6: the men's World Cup. Here we are again with that.

2002
01:44:43,720 --> 01:44:46,680
Speaker 6: But yeah, that you're absolutely right Sothia Smith. You know,

2003
01:44:46,880 --> 01:44:49,639
Speaker 6: I know everyone loves their well, loves their Alex Morgan,

2004
01:44:50,240 --> 01:44:52,240
Speaker 6: so bea. Smith is supposed to be that next generation

2005
01:44:52,960 --> 01:44:56,120
Speaker 6: of amazing women's strikers. She got on the board twice

2006
01:44:56,160 --> 01:45:00,360
Speaker 6: against Vietnam, Lindsay Horn with the clincher I believe in

2007
01:45:00,560 --> 01:45:05,799
Speaker 6: thirteen minutes remaining in the game as well, good warm up. Again,

2008
01:45:05,840 --> 01:45:08,600
Speaker 6: as we've talked about, this group is very little to

2009
01:45:08,600 --> 01:45:11,200
Speaker 6: write home about, so it is kind of a tune

2010
01:45:11,280 --> 01:45:14,160
Speaker 6: up here and just seeing what these young players can do.

2011
01:45:14,200 --> 01:45:17,200
Speaker 6: But I agree, I don't think they've proven everything they

2012
01:45:17,240 --> 01:45:19,479
Speaker 6: really need to prove against Vietnam, and they're gonna have

2013
01:45:19,479 --> 01:45:21,320
Speaker 6: to work cut out for them to really show that

2014
01:45:21,320 --> 01:45:24,720
Speaker 6: they're ready for the knockout stages here after about two

2015
01:45:24,760 --> 01:45:26,800
Speaker 6: more matches, Chris.

2016
01:45:27,240 --> 01:45:30,639
Speaker 2: The thing for me, the question for the team heading

2017
01:45:30,640 --> 01:45:35,559
Speaker 2: into this tournament, would their offensive attack be able to consistently.

2018
01:45:35,040 --> 01:45:36,320
Speaker 3: Generate quality chances.

2019
01:45:36,400 --> 01:45:38,800
Speaker 2: I know that they had like thirty shots on goal,

2020
01:45:38,840 --> 01:45:42,080
Speaker 2: but really only six or seven were quality chances. And

2021
01:45:42,120 --> 01:45:45,240
Speaker 2: I think the Netherlands is going to be more of

2022
01:45:45,280 --> 01:45:47,280
Speaker 2: a big step up now than I thought earlier.

2023
01:45:47,360 --> 01:45:47,519
Speaker 5: Chris.

2024
01:45:47,600 --> 01:45:50,439
Speaker 2: And if I'm not mistaken, isn't this a rematch of

2025
01:45:50,520 --> 01:45:52,280
Speaker 2: the World Cup final from twenty nineteen.

2026
01:45:53,960 --> 01:45:56,680
Speaker 6: I believe so. Either way, the Netherlands is always a

2027
01:45:56,760 --> 01:45:59,800
Speaker 6: very good team they and I think you know you've

2028
01:45:59,800 --> 01:46:02,360
Speaker 6: had your warm up here. This next one is going

2029
01:46:02,400 --> 01:46:05,120
Speaker 6: to be a lot harder. As you say, Netherlands is

2030
01:46:05,160 --> 01:46:06,960
Speaker 6: probably the one in the group that will give the

2031
01:46:07,080 --> 01:46:11,439
Speaker 6: US the most trouble. I don't see, you know, I

2032
01:46:11,479 --> 01:46:13,920
Speaker 6: don't really. I don't think Portugal is really high up

2033
01:46:13,960 --> 01:46:16,680
Speaker 6: on the women's rankings. We do fear them in the

2034
01:46:16,720 --> 01:46:19,200
Speaker 6: men's side, but they're They're women's team hasn't come as

2035
01:46:19,200 --> 01:46:21,120
Speaker 6: far as some of the other countries. But again that

2036
01:46:21,200 --> 01:46:23,960
Speaker 6: underpins this whole problem is that in the four years

2037
01:46:24,000 --> 01:46:25,800
Speaker 6: since twenty nineteen, the rest of the world has been

2038
01:46:25,800 --> 01:46:29,080
Speaker 6: catching up to the United States. Then not only does

2039
01:46:29,120 --> 01:46:30,880
Speaker 6: the United States have a target on their back going

2040
01:46:30,920 --> 01:46:33,080
Speaker 6: for a three p but there's a lot of other

2041
01:46:33,280 --> 01:46:36,040
Speaker 6: nations out there who have really worked on their women's game.

2042
01:46:36,080 --> 01:46:38,680
Speaker 6: A lot of their women have come through the NDWUFL

2043
01:46:38,720 --> 01:46:43,400
Speaker 6: here in North America and through competitive professional leagues in

2044
01:46:43,400 --> 01:46:46,640
Speaker 6: Europe as well. So it's it's a little bit more

2045
01:46:46,640 --> 01:46:47,799
Speaker 6: of an even playing field.

2046
01:46:48,720 --> 01:46:50,320
Speaker 3: I field like they get out of their group.

2047
01:46:50,320 --> 01:46:54,839
Speaker 2: But would it surprise you if Netherlands walks away with

2048
01:46:54,640 --> 01:46:57,799
Speaker 2: a draw or even upsets the United States Wednesday?

2049
01:46:58,640 --> 01:47:00,840
Speaker 6: I think I think the Netherlands could absolutely beat the

2050
01:47:00,920 --> 01:47:03,160
Speaker 6: United States. There's still a team that's really trying to

2051
01:47:03,160 --> 01:47:06,160
Speaker 6: find their identity here. I think a draw is if

2052
01:47:06,160 --> 01:47:08,360
Speaker 6: always had to put money on anything, I would probably

2053
01:47:08,360 --> 01:47:10,400
Speaker 6: say a draw here just because it feels like you

2054
01:47:10,479 --> 01:47:12,599
Speaker 6: have to still working things out. And I think they

2055
01:47:12,640 --> 01:47:15,280
Speaker 6: know they can comfortably handle Portugal, especially now with the

2056
01:47:15,280 --> 01:47:18,840
Speaker 6: points over Vietnam. But you know they'll they'll have to

2057
01:47:18,920 --> 01:47:20,639
Speaker 6: They'll have to play it smart. They'll have to get

2058
01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:23,120
Speaker 6: some veteran leadership in there as well. I think that,

2059
01:47:23,240 --> 01:47:25,640
Speaker 6: you know, they they leaned on a lot of the

2060
01:47:25,680 --> 01:47:29,160
Speaker 6: young along with young young women in this match against Vietnam,

2061
01:47:29,200 --> 01:47:32,240
Speaker 6: and now I you know, they're going to have to

2062
01:47:31,960 --> 01:47:34,360
Speaker 6: get their veterans out there just to help them, just

2063
01:47:34,360 --> 01:47:36,479
Speaker 6: to show them like, hey, you know, we we've beaten

2064
01:47:36,520 --> 01:47:39,240
Speaker 6: the Netherlands before, we can do it again. Just follow

2065
01:47:39,280 --> 01:47:41,519
Speaker 6: our lead. And that's where, you know, that's where Alex

2066
01:47:41,600 --> 01:47:43,200
Speaker 6: Morgan and Megan or Pino are just going to have

2067
01:47:43,240 --> 01:47:44,280
Speaker 6: to get involved with us.

2068
01:47:44,360 --> 01:47:47,080
Speaker 2: Skin They're going to get less minutes, I think, because

2069
01:47:47,080 --> 01:47:49,559
Speaker 2: certainly we're Pino. But one of the things that sticks

2070
01:47:49,600 --> 01:47:51,479
Speaker 2: out to me that I don't think I've paid enough

2071
01:47:51,520 --> 01:47:54,959
Speaker 2: attention to. They're breaking in fourteen new players and remember

2072
01:47:55,439 --> 01:47:57,519
Speaker 2: the only one the bronze. That women's team only won

2073
01:47:57,560 --> 01:48:00,840
Speaker 2: the bronze at the Tokyo Olympics, and I think part

2074
01:48:00,920 --> 01:48:04,479
Speaker 2: of the issue was meshing the old guard versus the

2075
01:48:04,560 --> 01:48:07,160
Speaker 2: new young players. And I'm not so sure that's going

2076
01:48:07,240 --> 01:48:08,599
Speaker 2: to happen overnight in this tournament.

2077
01:48:08,680 --> 01:48:10,240
Speaker 3: It's just a thought, your thoughts.

2078
01:48:10,560 --> 01:48:12,680
Speaker 6: No, it's been a project for the last you know,

2079
01:48:13,000 --> 01:48:16,120
Speaker 6: for the last couple uh for the last calendar year.

2080
01:48:16,120 --> 01:48:18,920
Speaker 6: Ever since the Olympics, they've been really working on it.

2081
01:48:18,920 --> 01:48:21,160
Speaker 6: And again, I do think the emergence of someone like

2082
01:48:21,200 --> 01:48:24,840
Speaker 6: Sophia Smith and Trinity Rodman and some of these other

2083
01:48:24,920 --> 01:48:27,640
Speaker 6: younger strikers, they do have their answer, like they have

2084
01:48:27,760 --> 01:48:31,240
Speaker 6: their answer for the younger forwards are who are going here,

2085
01:48:31,280 --> 01:48:33,160
Speaker 6: and they just need more time. They need more time

2086
01:48:33,200 --> 01:48:35,600
Speaker 6: in the fire and to really go out there. And

2087
01:48:35,680 --> 01:48:37,559
Speaker 6: again you saw that in Sophia Smith, and I think

2088
01:48:37,600 --> 01:48:39,720
Speaker 6: the next stage is getting a lot more of those

2089
01:48:39,720 --> 01:48:43,040
Speaker 6: younger players more involved and just getting like just I

2090
01:48:43,080 --> 01:48:45,400
Speaker 6: think there is something too that this is for a

2091
01:48:45,400 --> 01:48:46,720
Speaker 6: lot of them. This is their first time in the

2092
01:48:46,720 --> 01:48:49,040
Speaker 6: World Cup. There's and they play it. They've been playing.

2093
01:48:49,080 --> 01:48:52,400
Speaker 6: They played in a fantastic crowd in New Zealand, and

2094
01:48:52,479 --> 01:48:55,519
Speaker 6: they're just going to have to get over the panic

2095
01:48:55,560 --> 01:48:58,439
Speaker 6: of the bright lights and you know, they belong there,

2096
01:48:58,520 --> 01:49:00,559
Speaker 6: the US belongs there, and they need to play like it.

2097
01:49:01,600 --> 01:49:05,320
Speaker 2: So finally, should we not be surprised the flair for

2098
01:49:05,479 --> 01:49:07,719
Speaker 2: the dramatics. Why he's the greatest player in the world.

2099
01:49:08,000 --> 01:49:10,800
Speaker 2: Look what Messi does at his debut in Miami Friday night.

2100
01:49:11,320 --> 01:49:14,200
Speaker 6: Bernie I know you say that sports the greatest samultane

2101
01:49:14,280 --> 01:49:17,080
Speaker 6: earth on earth, and you can script everything except the outcome.

2102
01:49:17,439 --> 01:49:20,639
Speaker 6: Please don't, but you have to. I don't know how

2103
01:49:20,680 --> 01:49:23,200
Speaker 6: I can look at how that happened and not think

2104
01:49:23,240 --> 01:49:26,639
Speaker 6: that there was a script involved, because it's too perfect.

2105
01:49:26,880 --> 01:49:29,840
Speaker 6: Leonel Messi, who a week ago is wander year round

2106
01:49:29,920 --> 01:49:33,479
Speaker 6: publics in Miami doing shopping himself, which by the way,

2107
01:49:33,680 --> 01:49:37,839
Speaker 6: is just fantastic. And then you know, a massive turnout

2108
01:49:37,880 --> 01:49:41,120
Speaker 6: for his date, for his appear at first appearance with

2109
01:49:41,160 --> 01:49:43,479
Speaker 6: the club. And now here we are in the League's Cup,

2110
01:49:43,800 --> 01:49:48,320
Speaker 6: cruz Azul is, you know, entering stoppage time one one

2111
01:49:48,479 --> 01:49:50,439
Speaker 6: draw and it looks like this thing's going to go

2112
01:49:50,439 --> 01:49:53,479
Speaker 6: to penalty kicks and Messi, who got on I didn't

2113
01:49:53,479 --> 01:49:57,040
Speaker 6: play the full game. He gets on the fifty fourth minute, yes,

2114
01:49:57,479 --> 01:50:00,200
Speaker 6: fifty fourth minute, so like he comes in about right

2115
01:50:00,240 --> 01:50:04,680
Speaker 6: after halftime, roaring, applause and everything, and then he's he

2116
01:50:05,080 --> 01:50:07,120
Speaker 6: looks like a men among boys out there. And again

2117
01:50:07,360 --> 01:50:10,240
Speaker 6: Chris A Zool is not MLS. It's Lega MX, which

2118
01:50:10,320 --> 01:50:12,760
Speaker 6: I mean le Ga MXE out on the same stage

2119
01:50:13,200 --> 01:50:15,920
Speaker 6: as MLS. I think they're they're a little bit better

2120
01:50:15,920 --> 01:50:18,640
Speaker 6: when it comes to their quality. But either way, he

2121
01:50:18,760 --> 01:50:21,320
Speaker 6: was he was was trying to make some chances happen,

2122
01:50:21,640 --> 01:50:24,200
Speaker 6: and it really happened until finally night about you know,

2123
01:50:24,560 --> 01:50:27,519
Speaker 6: almost completely end of time, he gets tripped up free

2124
01:50:27,600 --> 01:50:30,240
Speaker 6: kick and it's not even a screamer, Bernie. It was

2125
01:50:30,240 --> 01:50:31,240
Speaker 6: just kind of a very.

2126
01:50:31,000 --> 01:50:32,439
Speaker 9: Casual task and drew it in.

2127
01:50:32,560 --> 01:50:36,040
Speaker 2: No, there's there's an art form to that. But so

2128
01:50:36,280 --> 01:50:38,200
Speaker 2: maybe this scrip was we'll put him in the fifty

2129
01:50:38,200 --> 01:50:40,920
Speaker 2: fourth minute, we'll call a sent piece for him, and

2130
01:50:40,960 --> 01:50:41,920
Speaker 2: then he's got to put it.

2131
01:50:41,880 --> 01:50:42,559
Speaker 3: In that why not?

2132
01:50:43,160 --> 01:50:44,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Well, and then it comes up to a

2133
01:50:44,960 --> 01:50:47,960
Speaker 6: free kick and just over everyone's head to the corner

2134
01:50:48,000 --> 01:50:50,080
Speaker 6: of the goal and the goal and the keeper can't

2135
01:50:50,120 --> 01:50:53,600
Speaker 6: get it. It's literally a buzzer beat it's almost a

2136
01:50:54,080 --> 01:50:57,400
Speaker 6: literally a buzzer beater goal. And because they lost two

2137
01:50:57,400 --> 01:51:00,479
Speaker 6: minutes for stoppage time, so yeah, like there you go,

2138
01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:05,640
Speaker 6: first game, first appearance, game winning goal. Unbelievable.

2139
01:51:05,840 --> 01:51:10,479
Speaker 2: All right, So we've got Denmark China later on this

2140
01:51:10,560 --> 01:51:12,800
Speaker 2: morning England, Haiti, I really keep it.

2141
01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:16,320
Speaker 6: In England starting about an hour, I believe correct, you're.

2142
01:51:16,320 --> 01:51:19,360
Speaker 2: Correct, and Japan is having their way with Zambia. Ford

2143
01:51:19,439 --> 01:51:22,799
Speaker 2: to nothing right now, and Spain took care of business

2144
01:51:22,880 --> 01:51:26,200
Speaker 2: against Costa Rica. So Chris, we'll see in about twenty

2145
01:51:26,200 --> 01:51:28,080
Speaker 2: four hours with obviously more highlights.

2146
01:51:28,960 --> 01:51:31,120
Speaker 6: Absolutely, it's been very fun so far, Bernie and I

2147
01:51:31,160 --> 01:51:33,880
Speaker 6: really enjoyed the Australia and New Zealand openers too.

2148
01:51:34,560 --> 01:51:36,960
Speaker 2: Absolutely good stuff. This is going to be a very

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Speaker 2: competitive tournament, all right, Chris Purfetts World of Soccer. He'll

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Speaker 2: join us Saturday to thirty am Pacific five thirty am

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Speaker 2: Eastern as the Women's.

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Speaker 3: World Cup is underway.

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Speaker 2: Who knows, maybe Messi will deliver a baby Saturday in

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Speaker 2: Miami as the magic continues with Linel Messi.

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Speaker 3: Who was the Who's the Hero?

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Speaker 2: And the Men's World Cup December, which we also covered.

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Speaker 2: Coming up one last time, going to invoke the name

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Speaker 2: Victor when Biama. Now that the dust has settled in

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Speaker 2: the NBA Summer League is over, I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 2: four things I think that Victor when Biana is going

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Speaker 2: to have to adjust if he's going to have success

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Speaker 2: in the NBA. I'm Bernie Frattle come to your live

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Speaker 2: from Las Vegas. Fox Sports Radio, Tact dot Com Studios.

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Speaker 2: Keep it locked to listen to the Bernie Frattle Show

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Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. All right, wrapping it up on

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Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattle Show, come to you live from the

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Tract dot Com studio.

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Speaker 3: For it go any further. I want to thank my

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Speaker 3: broadcast team.

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Speaker 2: They've been with me since eleven pm Pacific on a

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Speaker 2: Friday night. That of course would be Mark Ramsey, our

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Speaker 2: technical producer, Kevin Figures, Molly wopping the up dates, Ethan

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Speaker 2: Miller turning all Dallas, keep Uschool together, and crandall crandall

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Speaker 2: joining us tonight making his Bernie Frattle Show a debut.

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Speaker 2: All right, the dust has settled, and you probably won't

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Speaker 2: hear Victor when Byama's name for at least fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 2: But now that the NBA Summer League is behind us

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Speaker 2: and we are often running for the remainder of the

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Speaker 2: summer and NBA teams won't be in camp for a

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Speaker 2: good another two months, I want to give you my

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Speaker 2: final thoughts on Victor win Bayama and my observations and

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Speaker 2: what do I think he needs to do. What are

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Speaker 2: going to be his biggest adjustments when he gets to

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Speaker 2: the actual NBA. Okay, the summer League is maybe twenty

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Speaker 2: percent of a game. And I agree that the league

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Speaker 2: he played it in France's competitive and physical and a

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Speaker 2: relative basis, but it's not the NBA. And I did

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Speaker 2: see Victor wen Bayama score thirty six points in a

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Speaker 2: G League game here in Las Vegas a few months back. Dude,

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Speaker 2: none of this matters. The NBA is a whole different

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Speaker 2: ballgame and he will find out just like everybody else

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Speaker 2: found out who made the jump. So these are the

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Speaker 2: biggest adjustments that I think Victor wen Byama has to make.

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Speaker 3: One.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna have to deal with the big, bad bodies

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Speaker 2: of some of the opponents he's going to go up against,

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Speaker 2: and with that, he will have issues defensively, rebounding, and

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Speaker 2: I think even playing defense, he frankly struggled to play

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Speaker 2: aggressively on the low block here in Vegas. And this

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Speaker 2: is against guys. Eighty percent of those guys.

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Speaker 3: Won't make it in the NBA. What do you mean

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Speaker 3: playing in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: So Victor wen Byama, less something drafted with changes, is

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Speaker 2: going to be a finesse player. So he's gonna have

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Speaker 2: to find a way to use his finesse to his advantage,

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Speaker 2: especially when it comes to if he monitored, if he

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Speaker 2: wanders into the low block and is expected to play

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Speaker 2: aggressively and actually gets some defensive rebounds while in the

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Speaker 2: low block. Secondly, Wan Bayama is going to have to

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Speaker 2: make an adjustment when it comes to dealing with ballhawking defenders.

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Speaker 2: Wemby he likes to handle the ball. He's good at

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Speaker 2: handling the ball. He likes to make plays for himself.

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Speaker 2: He likes to make plays for others. But during the

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Speaker 2: Summer League, multiple times in just the two games he played,

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Speaker 2: Wemby lost the ball in traffic. So if being a

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Speaker 2: playmaker and handling the ball like a guard is going

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Speaker 2: to be a permanent part of his game and not

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Speaker 2: something that spurs, you know, only allow him to do

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Speaker 2: part of the time, Wemby's got to get much better

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Speaker 2: in dribbling the ball, handling the ball in traffic because

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Speaker 2: he lost the ball a lot. Three, He's going to

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Speaker 2: have to understand that playing perimeter defense in the in

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Speaker 2: the NBA is much more difficult that it is in

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Speaker 2: France or the G League or the NBA Summer League.

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Speaker 2: Defending wings in this man's NBA is such a hard task.

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Speaker 2: It's probably the hardest task of any defender in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: Teams are going to try to pull Wenby from the

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Speaker 2: paint in switching situations. And he may have an eight

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Speaker 2: foot wingspan, but his length is not going to be

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Speaker 2: enough to stop players just on his length. We saw

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Speaker 2: it in his debut against the Charlotte Hornets. There were

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Speaker 2: a couple of soft closeouts by Wemby and what that

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Speaker 2: did does that set Brandon Miller for outside shots that

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Speaker 2: he knocked down, caught the ball in a rhythm and

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Speaker 2: got rid of it quick. So if Wenby is going

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Speaker 2: to be the defensive force that everybody tells us he's

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Speaker 2: going to be, again, perimeter defense is going to be

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Speaker 2: in area he's going to need to improve. These are

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Speaker 2: non indictments, These are not criticisms, These are observations every

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Speaker 2: player has to evolve. Finally, I mentioned it's a minute

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Speaker 2: ago defensive rebounding. Wenby averaged ten rebounds in the two

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Speaker 2: games he played in the Summer League. So what what

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Speaker 2: Wenby struggled with was the inability to locate the ball

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Speaker 2: off the rim and then box out smaller players. And frankly,

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Speaker 2: if I'm being honest, at times his reactions were just

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Speaker 2: a tick slower that other players on the court. And

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Speaker 2: remember this is the NBA Summer League. Now can Wemby

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Speaker 2: make all these adjustments? Well, why not? They're telling us

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Speaker 2: he's a transcendent generational player. So he'll have to learn

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Speaker 2: how to deal with the big bodies. He'll have to

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Speaker 2: learn how to defensively rebound, and he's going to have

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Speaker 2: to learn with you know, handling, learn how to handle

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Speaker 2: the ball in traffic so that the defenders who hawk

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Speaker 2: the ball won't be able to take it from him.

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Speaker 2: He's going to realize that, you know, playing perimeter defense

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Speaker 2: and defending wings in the NBA is probably the toughest

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Speaker 2: thing to do. And when he closes out on shooters,

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Speaker 2: they catch and release a lot quicker than they do

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Speaker 2: in the Summer League, or in France or in the

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Speaker 2: G League. And again, his reactions at times a tick

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Speaker 2: slower than other players in the summer league. And that

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Speaker 2: was just the summer league. These are not indictments, they're

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Speaker 2: just observations. I'm looking forward to watching Wemby just like

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Speaker 2: you are. But I can wait a couple months. I'm

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Speaker 2: not in that bigger hurry yet. It's gonna do it

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Speaker 2: for the Bernie Frattle Show back on these zero waves

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Speaker 2: Saturday night at eleven pm. Keep it locked up next

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Speaker 2: to the great Anthony Gargano and Fox Sports Radio