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Speaker 1: Oh, here we go on a Wednesday. NBA opened up

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Speaker 1: last night. That was fun. Way to go in NBC.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't bet at all. Little MJ. Here we are

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Speaker 1: wherever you may be, however you may be watching or listening.

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Speaker 1: We're in Chicago. It's the hurt Well Crisp this morning.

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Speaker 1: It's in Chicago. Is the NBA season starts in earnest?

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Speaker 1: Last night? Jay Mac? Everybody yesterday is talk. We've discussed this.

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Speaker 1: The West is loaded, it's insane. I don't think Golden

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Speaker 1: Lacron is healthy. I think Minnesota could win it. I

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Speaker 1: think okay See's good. I think Denver could win it.

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Speaker 1: I think Dallas is wildly underrated. Houston is the team

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Speaker 1: to keep your eye on because there's elements. They have

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Speaker 1: two young stars I love, but they brought in an

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Speaker 1: old guy last night, Kevin Durant. And let's talk about

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. So Kevin Durant came in last night, played okay,

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Speaker 1: but if you watch the game, is you know they

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Speaker 1: got to figure out how to get in more shots.

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Speaker 1: He was kind of lost, especially late in the game.

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Speaker 1: So they are a collection of talent at this point.

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Speaker 1: This is I'm a little bit of a pushback guy

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Speaker 1: on Houston. They lost their point guard Fred Van Vliet injury,

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Speaker 1: so they're a team without a quarterback. There are a

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Speaker 1: collection of really talented musicians with no conductor or lead singer.

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Speaker 1: And at the end of the game, I mean they

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Speaker 1: led by twelve, and the third they led by six

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Speaker 1: with four minutes to go. But when two good NBA

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Speaker 1: teams play, it always comes down to the final four

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Speaker 1: or five possessions, final two and a half minutes. That's

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Speaker 1: that's what it comes down to. And Katie was lost.

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Speaker 1: They were disorganized. He called a timeout they didn't have.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't bad. He looked like he was a hired mercenary.

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Speaker 1: Oh wait, that's what Kevin Durant is at this point,

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Speaker 1: he is a thirty seven year old gifted bucket getter

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Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City. All these guys have been playing together

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Speaker 1: for a couple of years. Oka, see, you better beat

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Speaker 1: him soundly if the games are close, especially now with

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Speaker 1: all the KD brand new to Houston. They're not going

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Speaker 1: to look good late. They look good first half, they

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Speaker 1: look good, third quarter, they look good with about five

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Speaker 1: minutes to go, but late in the game. Okay, see,

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Speaker 1: he's been through this. These guys been playing together three

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Speaker 1: four years. So at this point, Kevin Durant not a

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Speaker 1: culture guy. He's not a two way player. Actually, he's

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Speaker 1: not a grind for eighty two game guy. He is

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Speaker 1: a mercenary. In fact, his Twitter handle is easy money

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Speaker 1: Sniper And that's only because I get paid to shoot.

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Speaker 1: Lot was too long. That's what he is. And in

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Speaker 1: the final, I mean he had more fouls than buckets made.

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Speaker 1: In the second half of OT he just didn't do much,

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Speaker 1: and that's because it's brand new. He's kind of a

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Speaker 1: limited great sniper. He comes out and makes big shots

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Speaker 1: and okase, he's got defenders and depth and size and

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Speaker 1: experience now and youth and They're just better team that's

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Speaker 1: been playing together longer, so he has value. Kevin Durant

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Speaker 1: clearly has value. But when I watched Houston last night

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Speaker 1: without a point guard, it's point guard by committee. Amen

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Speaker 1: Thompson great talent. Alprin Shen Gun best player on the Rockets,

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Speaker 1: much better than Kadi at this point. Kid made the

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Speaker 1: All Stars at twenty two, he's now twenty three. Alprind

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Speaker 1: Shen Gouon's their best player. He's basically about ninety eighty

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Speaker 1: forceful as Jokic, but the touch, the finesse, he can pass,

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Speaker 1: he can hit threes. Kevin doesn't need to be their

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Speaker 1: best player, and he's not gonna be. He's not the

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Speaker 1: and the overall skill and ability and of Al Prince Shengoon.

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Speaker 1: That's not what he is. He's paid to hit buckets

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Speaker 1: and he'll hit a lot of them. But I watched

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Speaker 1: But it reminded me of the Clippers for years when

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Speaker 1: the offense. That's what it felt like last night. And

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Speaker 1: so the Rockets late looked a little lost. And it's

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Speaker 1: man Thompson's a stud. You're one of the best athletes

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Speaker 1: but he's not a point either. And Katie down the

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Speaker 1: stretch fouls calling the timeout they didn't have. He took

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Speaker 1: the hit for the loss. After the game, a.

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Speaker 2: Foul from Dan kla Seek put them up.

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Speaker 3: Warren, I think those two plays the reason he loves you. Yeah, sure,

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Speaker 3: I gotta be that for you.

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Speaker 4: Throw down as stay down, be more disciplined for those opportunities.

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Speaker 2: To get a stop, to say the game that I'll

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Speaker 1: Okay. Meanwhile, as we predicted, Skinny Luca skinny jeans. Luca

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Speaker 1: forty three and the Lakers lost to the Old Warriors.

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Speaker 1: So Skinny lucas we told you he's gonna lead the

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Speaker 1: NBA in usage rate. I think he has a chance

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Speaker 1: to win the scoring title. Last night, you saw that

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Speaker 1: he can attack the basket. Now I'm sorry he lost

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Speaker 1: twenty four. I can actually see his shoulders now. He's

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Speaker 1: going to attack the rim, attack the basket. He beats

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Speaker 1: thought and what we saw. Secondly, the game, same issues

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Speaker 1: They lack athleticism on the wing. They're going to struggle

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Speaker 1: bad defensively in the post. They were last year they

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Speaker 1: are this year. And Lebron's older and will be available

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Speaker 1: in spurts and he'll be great in spurts. But Luca,

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Speaker 1: Skinny Luca, he's gonna score a lot of points. They

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Speaker 1: are a top heavy roster. Last night, Austin Reeves, who

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Speaker 1: scored a lot of stuff late, and Luca combined for

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Speaker 1: sixty nine points. Nobody else had more than ten. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's what they're gonna be when Lebron doesn't play by

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Speaker 1: the way the Warriors had four guys fifteen or more. So. Essentially,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers are Luca plus old Lebron plus lack of

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Speaker 1: athleticism plus really lousy defending the rim, and that is

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Speaker 1: not good enough in the West with the Tea Wolves

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Speaker 1: just loaded the Nuggets. I'm not sure. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: who I like. I think Dallas is better than anybody's

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Speaker 1: Last year, the Lakers were a terrible third quarter team,

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Speaker 1: and last night, despite the fact that Luca in twelve

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Speaker 1: third quarter is when you go in at half and

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Speaker 1: they're really smart coaches, pull some levers. Let's have a

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Speaker 1: good say, how many levers are there? Pull? They can't

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Speaker 1: defend the rim, they're not athletic enough. Lebron didn't play

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Speaker 1: heavy reliance on Luca thirteen points twelve minute. There's not

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Speaker 1: a lot of levers here right there. They're just so much.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like sometimes NFL teams, the Raiters

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Speaker 1: can go in at half. Gino's Gino, where are the levers?

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Speaker 1: Some teams have multiple levers. Denver's got levers. You know,

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Speaker 1: Eagles have levers. The Tampa Bay's got them. What are

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Speaker 1: the Lakers? What do you? What do you do at half?

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Speaker 1: What are you going to change? So my takeaway is,

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Speaker 1: why Lebron felt a little disengaged last night. And this

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Speaker 1: next sentence. They have got new ownership, but they made

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Speaker 1: the Lakers' new owners made a very public statement this

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Speaker 1: summer they want to be flexible in twenty twenty six

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Speaker 1: and twenty twenty seven. Uh huh, it's twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: It is the first time in Lebron's career. They're not

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Speaker 1: going for a ring. The games are going to be

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Speaker 1: sold out, Skinny Luca Lebron maybe his last year. For

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Speaker 1: the first time ever, the ownership is not afraid of Lebron,

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Speaker 1: and they're not building a team for Lebron, the Lakers

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Speaker 1: are Luca jj Reddick and the future and flexibility next year,

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Speaker 1: in the year after the draft. Next year is going

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Speaker 1: to be very good. There's going to be opportunities down

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Speaker 1: the road. So the new Laker own and took this

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Speaker 1: Laker ownership, this new group. When they bought the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: They identify their stars moved off, some embraced others. Long

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Speaker 1: love to win a title. They're not winning a title.

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Speaker 1: They're not getting out of the West. They're not getting

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Speaker 1: to Western conference finals. Luca old Lebron, lack of athleticism,

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Speaker 1: hard to win a series. So Lebron's not happy about it.

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Speaker 1: But for the first time he's not driving this bus. Luca,

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Speaker 1: though the weight loss, he's quicker. He attacks the rim.

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Speaker 1: He didn't do that last year. A lot of fallaways,

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Speaker 1: a lot of settling. He's back to attacking the rim.

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Speaker 1: Luke after, Yeah, I feel like I say, no, less tiring,

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Speaker 2: But the end, you got to get a stop and

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Speaker 2: that's what kind of winning the game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is not gonna be a great defensive team.

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Speaker 1: Great defensive teams are great protecting the rim and hyper athletic.

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Speaker 1: That's why, like Minnesota when they played them last year,

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Speaker 1: go bear protects the rim. You know, they got their

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Speaker 1: very highly athletic wing defenders. There are certain components you

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Speaker 1: need to be a good passing team in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: like a good offensive line, a quarterback over five to ten,

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Speaker 1: maybe a viable veteran tight end, good twitchy young receivers.

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Speaker 1: They don't really have that. They didn't last year. They

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Speaker 1: made a move. They don't this year they are, and

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Speaker 1: they're not super athletic on the wing, at least not

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Speaker 1: you love Luca, I can see his shoulders now. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what has he lost? Twenty seven twenty eight pound me?

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Speaker 1: He's much much quicker, plays downhill much more often. That

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Speaker 1: was fun. J Mack. I know you're a bit of

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Speaker 1: a Laker fan. That must have felt really good last night.

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Speaker 3: What Austin Reeves was really strong last night?

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Speaker 6: They look the dog days of February.

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Speaker 1: Right. Oh, there's a lot of stuff going on today.

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back, Joe Klatt top of next hour.

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Speaker 3: All right, Colin, Let's start with the only thing more

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Speaker 1: This one the best one I've been on, and I've

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Let's move on to the San Francisco forty nine

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Speaker 1: give love to Donald and Gino Smith on their reclamation projects,

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Speaker 1: that's what mac Jones is. He's just a younger version

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Speaker 1: like Gino disappeared for years and Donald bounced around, and

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Speaker 1: Baker went to Carolina and mac Jones was that long ago.

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Speaker 1: I made a Pro Bowl, disappeared in Tampa. He's just

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Speaker 1: a young reclamation project. But we have to be totally

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Speaker 1: fair here. Behind a very mid offensive line. Mac Jones

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Speaker 1: has been very good. We have to be fair, he's

435
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Speaker 1: been very good. He's a younger reclamation. Usually it's like

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Speaker 1: you got you got to get humiliated. I mean, at

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Speaker 1: one point you got to you know, I mean a

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Speaker 1: Baker basically got cut. Uh you know, Donald was a

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Speaker 1: disaster with a Jets and Carol lot. Mac just sort

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Speaker 1: of disappeared. He went Bermuda Triangle in Jacksonville. Now as

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Speaker 1: a young guy, mac looclutt, I'll be totally honest, he

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Speaker 1: looks like a franchise quarterback.

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Speaker 6: Well wait, let's slow down.

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Speaker 3: So first of all, Donald won fourteen games in Minnesota

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Speaker 3: and he's great again this year.

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Speaker 6: So a little it's like a twenty games.

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Speaker 1: Donald's a world class athlete, Ma's not. And for right now,

448
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Speaker 1: look at quarterback playing the league with a battle line.

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Speaker 1: Are you kittle gone?

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Speaker 6: He has McCaffrey, who's.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, but he's he's got no weapons and

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Speaker 1: he's winning and they're asking him to throw forty times

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Speaker 1: a game. Mac Jones has been one of the revelations

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Speaker 1: of the season. I'm not ready to say he's a

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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback.

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Speaker 6: He is. He has Kyle Shanahan. Okay, he looks good.

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Speaker 1: Can we kill it?

458
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Speaker 2: Can we leave it?

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Speaker 6: I mean, we don't need to go overboard.

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Speaker 1: So I'm saying he looks good. If a quarterback's good

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, he's a franchise quart up.

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Speaker 6: The Jets would take good in a heart at all.

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Speaker 1: But he were, Jets would ruin him. But he looks good.

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Speaker 2: Stop it.

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Speaker 6: Final stories of Baltimore Ravens Colin. Things not looking good.

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Speaker 3: I just saw that the Baltimore Ravens have removed ping

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Speaker 3: pong tables from the locker room. No more video game consoles,

468
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Speaker 3: the basketball hoop, it's all gone.

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Speaker 1: According to some.

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Speaker 3: Ravens beat reporters, it's all business now. And listen, here's

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Speaker 3: the worst news. Lamar Jackson not at the podium today

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Speaker 3: meeting the media. This is just happening right now.

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Speaker 1: This is when.

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Speaker 6: Lamar's supposed to talk if he's a starter. So the

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Speaker 6: Ravens media is panicked.

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Speaker 3: I don't I don't know what to make it is.

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Speaker 3: Are the Bears going to get a free win here?

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Speaker 3: First of all, ping pong tables and video games?

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Speaker 1: What is this? Google?

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Speaker 6: What you're supposed to have like a laid back atmosphere.

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Speaker 1: It's pull football. It's not a tech company in Palo Alto.

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Speaker 1: It's not bring your dog to work day at Apple.

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Speaker 1: These are professional athletes. Go to work, do sit ups,

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Speaker 1: lift a lot of weight, learn plays, and go play

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Speaker 1: ping pong tables.

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Speaker 3: Listen, it's practice.

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Speaker 6: It's during the week. Now, I see why they don't

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Speaker 6: have a ping pong table on the set here.

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Speaker 2: We got room for it.

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Speaker 1: We used to have a basketball court. Somebody got rid

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Speaker 1: of that. I'll just leave it at that.

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Speaker 6: Man, he's selling one of these hard driving bosses.

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Speaker 1: I just say, if.

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Speaker 3: Lamar doesn't play and they lose this game and fall

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Speaker 3: to one on six, it's so they're not coming back

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Speaker 3: from one to six.

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Speaker 1: We're in five. You can go back to the real

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Speaker 1: story here, the fact that they allowed ping pong tables

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Speaker 1: and video games in a workplace.

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Speaker 3: Yet one of the most successful NFL franchises in the

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Speaker 3: last twenty years.

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Speaker 6: Oh man, sorry to allow fun. I didn't know you

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Speaker 6: were the fun police.

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Speaker 1: What it's called when you drive up and pull up

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Speaker 1: the fox, you know what it's called work, It's not

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Speaker 1: called play. That's when you're on your South Bay Elsagundo

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Speaker 1: Knights jacking up threes, that's play.

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Speaker 3: Why don't you ask Andy Reid if they have ping

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Speaker 3: pong tables?

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Speaker 1: Altimately, I will?

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Speaker 6: I have my phone ext Brett vieats right now.

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Speaker 3: Hey, do you guys have a basketball hoop at the facility?

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Speaker 3: Is there any fun allowed? Video game consoles? I guarantee

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Speaker 3: you most teams have this. No you sound listen.

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Speaker 1: I would be fifty to fifty on whether I'd allow

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Speaker 1: them to eat at the facility. I want sit ups, playbook,

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Speaker 1: film and get out of here. I'm sorry that ping

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Speaker 1: pong tables at work?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: Thanks Jmack with the news.

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Speaker 2: Well that's the news, and thanks for stopping by the

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Speaker 2: herd Line News.

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Speaker 1: It's like when you pull up the Fox, it's called

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Speaker 1: work coffee machines, absolutely, ping pong tables shoesh I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: some of you young Sparky's out there is weekends are

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Speaker 1: for fun, home is for fun. Being plung tables at work?

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Speaker 1: What is going on? So let me say this. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was cool that NBC had MJ on their coverage.

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Speaker 1: He's sixty two, reminiscing, embracing the good old days. The

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Speaker 1: NBA is falling into a trap that baseball had for

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Speaker 1: about twenty years. He's a way to play the game.

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Speaker 1: It was way better years ago. And no, it wasn't that. Pacers.

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Speaker 1: Next series, they made a thirty for thirty on was

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Speaker 1: an ugly free throw shooting contest. Nobody could hit an

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Speaker 1: eighteen footer outside of Reggie Miller. It was a bunch

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Speaker 1: of bigs who couldn't dribble, didn't have handles, and couldn't

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Speaker 1: shoot pass like seven feet. But it made for a

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Speaker 1: great thirty for thirty that it did. But last night

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Speaker 1: the NBA had sixty two year old MJ in the

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Speaker 1: pregame and was hoping they get forty year old lebron

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Speaker 1: in thirty seven year old Steph to get TV viewers.

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Speaker 1: Baseball has done a rum. I gave up on regular

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Speaker 1: season baseball for twenty years. Baseball has done an unbelievable

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Speaker 1: job in the last three years. Sped the game up.

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Speaker 1: They got rid of the grumpy old guys, the old

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Speaker 1: veteran players. They just stopped worrying about the rear view

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00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: mirror and they started operating through the windshield. And Eli

548
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: de la Cruz cal Raley, Julio Rodriguez, Otani Betts. There

549
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: is so Paul schemes. There is so much young, amazing

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Speaker 1: talent in baseball, and they are creating games in London,

551
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: the home run derby, a game in a cornfield. Events

552
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Speaker 1: like baseball deserves a ton of credit. For twenty years,

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Speaker 1: I stopped talking about it. The last two three years,

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Speaker 1: I'm totally into baseball. The game's fast, there's more base runners,

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00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: more stolen bases. You don't have to commit three and

556
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Speaker 1: a half hours in the regular season to watch a game.

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00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: You sit down for forty five minutes. You can get

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Speaker 1: three innings if the pitching's good. You know. I like

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Speaker 1: the NBA. I've been watching it since nineteen seventy two.

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Speaker 1: But they have a little dilemma on their hands, and

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Speaker 1: that is most of the best players are international, and

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Speaker 1: they're not wildly dynamic personalities. They come into the country,

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Speaker 1: head down, sleep, ball, rinse and repeat. They don't want

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Speaker 1: to do commercials. They don't have big shoe deals. I

565
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Speaker 1: mean they have some, they have some, but you don't

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Speaker 1: have a Barkley, you don't have an MJ. You don't Okay,

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Speaker 1: So how do you solve it? First of all, promote,

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Speaker 1: embrace market and over and over and over again, get

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Speaker 1: Tyreese Halliburton's not ready to play it because he's injured.

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Speaker 1: Get him on all the broadcasts. I want Tyrese Halliburton

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Speaker 1: F four or seven on every broadcast. The guy lights

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Speaker 1: the room up. What else would I? Oh, Cooper Flag

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Speaker 1: put him on TV is thirty times this year forty

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Speaker 1: times Cooper Flag. And my take on that, there's nothing

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Speaker 1: against Sga, Yo Kisch Giannis, great players, I mean Yokich

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Speaker 1: best player, Shan Goon, unbelievable. A lot of these international guys,

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Speaker 1: we didn't watch them in college, we didn't watch them

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Speaker 1: in high school. Right they PLoP into the league and

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Speaker 1: they're unbelievable within like two to three years. Not big personalities.

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Speaker 1: It's not their fault. The quality of basketball right now

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Speaker 1: in the NBA is the best that's ever been. Everybody

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Speaker 1: can handle the ball, everybody can run the floor, everybody

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Speaker 1: can shoot. It's unbelievable. How good the quality of play is.

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Speaker 1: It is unbelievable. So so it's okay. Not everything has

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Speaker 1: to be globalized to the max. You can say our

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Speaker 1: domestic and I think there's a lot of things that

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Speaker 1: the NBA did wrong that they're trying to switch. Adam

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Speaker 1: Silver would admit this. Please embrace college basketball. College basketball's

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Speaker 1: best players are now staying in college longer because of

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Speaker 1: the nil. Embrace March madness. Put your arms around March Madness,

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00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: get Anton TV, Cooper Flag on TV, and got Tyrese

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Speaker 1: Halliburton on every network, Amazon, NBC, ABCESPN during your telecast.

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Speaker 1: The kid is completely likable, he's engaging, he's funny. So

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Speaker 1: my take is the last American MVP was James Harden

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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. That is your reality. The best players

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Speaker 1: are international and they're unbelievable. I mean, KD is not

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Speaker 1: the player alprin Chendunz. Last night, Changune couldn't hit threes

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Speaker 1: and pass and rebound. It's unbelievable. How good these international

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Speaker 1: bigs are unbelievable. But we've seen the KD and the

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Speaker 1: staff and Lebron and MJ sixty two and they're all great.

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Speaker 1: But you got to turn the page on this thing.

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00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: You got to market your young guys. Baseball's done it.

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00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: Take a page from baseball. They've done a great job.

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Speaker 1: So that's my take on it. I'm not anti old guy.

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Speaker 1: As one with gray hair, I'm not anti old guy,

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Speaker 1: but I would put Cooper Flag on television. I would

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Speaker 1: open with Cooper Flag last night. That's my opener. That

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00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: is my opener, and my closer, and thirty eight times.

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Speaker 1: In the middle of the season, here was Jason Kidd

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Speaker 1: talking about Cooper Flag's debut.

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Speaker 5: He competes his ability to make plays. I mean, as

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Speaker 5: farm why he's out there. I think so. I think

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Speaker 5: you can look for a great season from Cooper. He

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Speaker 5: does have a high basketball IQ. I think when you

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Speaker 5: look at you know the plays he's made, you know

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Speaker 5: on the offensive event and defensive event. He understands the

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Speaker 5: game of basketball for an eighteen year old, and it

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Speaker 5: will only get better with the more reps that he's playing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just Halliburton and Cooper Flag. There's nothing wrong embracing

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Speaker 1: the domestic product too, That's okay, that's okay. I mean

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Speaker 1: if we send our soccer players over to England and

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Speaker 1: they're tremendous Christian Polisic, but you know over there, you

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Speaker 1: know they want they want to talk about their their stars.

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00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: They're guys. That's okay. I mean, when you watch the

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Speaker 1: Olympics in Italy, they root for Italians. I got nothing

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Speaker 1: against Canadians. I want us to beat the Canadians. It's okay,

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Speaker 1: it's not the end of the world. But I do

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Speaker 1: think you need to embrace these college stars. They're not

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Speaker 1: in college very long, and I think you need to

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Speaker 1: embrace them. I'm not against I got nothing against them MJ.

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Speaker 1: MJ's great, he's my favorite player. But I just think

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Speaker 1: it's interesting. You know, the decisions basketball has made the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years, and I've watched baseball, just take

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Speaker 1: embrace all these young guys and and and speed their game.

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Speaker 1: Anytime you speed anything up, you're gonna get younger viewers.

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Speaker 1: The longer something takes in sports, I mean over in

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Speaker 1: the UK, I would imagine that demographics are better for

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Speaker 1: young viewers with soccer than with cricket. Cricket takes days,

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Speaker 1: Soccer takes ninety five minutes, right like it. Just my

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Speaker 1: guess would be that's what the demographics would tell you,

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Speaker 1: that crickett has a little bit of an older audience.

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Speaker 1: So J Max some thoughts on that this is.

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Speaker 6: A good take.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot there. I will just say the embracing

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Speaker 3: the old people. Remember the NFL last year kind of

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Speaker 3: screwed the Jets by putting Aaron Rodgers in primetime because

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Speaker 3: they wanted New York Aaron Rodgers old quarterback Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 3: the Marquee game again this week. So the leagues, I understand,

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Speaker 3: wanting to usher in, you know, a proven commodity air venteran.

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Speaker 1: Aaron playing the Packers again is absolutely to you mer,

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Speaker 1: that's massive.

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Speaker 3: Aaron with the Jets, Well, it was on TV all

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Speaker 3: the time. I mean, hell, Aaron Rodgers apparently delayed his

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Speaker 3: going to the Steelers, remember, because he didn't want them

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Speaker 3: to be shoved into primetime a lot. That's what these

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Speaker 3: leagues do. But I don't know Colin. This Anthony Edwards stuff.

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Speaker 3: I like Anthony Edwards a lot. He has this weird

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Speaker 3: habit where he just says the F word in every interview.

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Speaker 6: Yes, he's getting fined in the locker room because he

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Speaker 6: can't stop. Like dude, he's got to grow up a

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Speaker 6: little bit.

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Speaker 3: No, and I don't want to be old guy, but like,

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Speaker 3: come on, man stoup cursing every interview, Well, you sit

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Speaker 3: down with him and you talk to him.

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Speaker 1: That's just you know, it's whether it's parenting or managing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, young people are they've got their own spirit

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Speaker 1: and energy and juice and that's okay. But I again,

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Speaker 1: as I watched the broadcast last night, my takeaway watching

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Speaker 1: NBA last night was Steph Lebron on the bench KD MJ.

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Speaker 1: My takeaway was, guys, Cooper flag should be I want

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Speaker 1: forty minutes of Cooper flag here. That So those are

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Speaker 1: all conscious decisions when they do the scheduling at Christmas

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Speaker 1: or Opening night, these were all conscious decisions. Who do

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Speaker 1: we want? The best player for Houston is not Kevin Durant, No,

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Speaker 1: it's Shen Goon and it's not even close. He is.

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Speaker 1: He was an All Star last year. I think he's

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Speaker 1: I think he's twenty three years old.

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Speaker 6: He's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Jokic is the best player in the league. By the

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Speaker 1: end of this year, shen Goon could be like third

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Speaker 1: best player in the league. I'm serious. He's that good.

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Speaker 3: Hey, but you did note that these European foreign players,

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Speaker 3: by the way, there's one hundred and thirty five of

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Speaker 3: them in the league this year on record, they come

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Speaker 3: in and their practice games rinse, repeat.

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Speaker 6: I think that's exactly what you said.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Interesting, So, uh, you know, the no ping pong tables

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Speaker 3: in the locker rooms in the NBA.

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Speaker 6: Huh, you just want all business.

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Speaker 1: That's so.

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Speaker 6: You like the European players.

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Speaker 1: Best players in the NBA right now are euros International

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Speaker 1: guys there and here's what they do. They tend to

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Speaker 1: be more loyal. That's why Luca was so devastated when

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Speaker 1: he was traded. Yeah, I mean American players like we

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Speaker 1: get traded like Luca was devastated. He was angry. He

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Speaker 1: literally they talked to him this summer. He was still

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Speaker 1: deva and he went to the Lakers. He didn't go

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Speaker 1: you know, he didn't go to allows Me for he

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Speaker 1: had to go to the Wizards. He went to the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: which is better for business, and he was still devastated.

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Speaker 1: International players tend to be more loyal. They come over

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Speaker 1: here and it's all business. It's bad. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: season's over, first jet home. They want to go home.

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Speaker 1: I'm defending them. And they're unbelievable players, way better than

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Speaker 1: the Jordan era forwards and centers, not even close. But

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Speaker 1: so they're not dynamic personalities. Embrace College Basketball. Halliburton is

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Speaker 1: a Marketer's dream, good looking, funny, quick witted dad, little

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Speaker 1: Craig Cray. It's all great like Embrace it Cooper Flag

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Speaker 1: and and swears too much. I swear too much. You know,

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Speaker 1: people just don't hear it. I am proposing a massive

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Speaker 1: NBA trade. Also Russell Wilson, He's tired of getting ripped.

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Speaker 2: Next, be sure to catch live editions of The Herd

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Speaker 2: weekdays and noon Easter not a Empacific Friday.

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Speaker 6: The World Series begins.

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Speaker 3: On Fox has show Hey Otani and the Ringing Jimpie.

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Speaker 3: Dodgers take on Vlad Junior in the Blue Jays. Game

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Speaker 3: one of the World Series. Coverage begins Friday at seven

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Speaker 3: Eastern on Fox.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody thinks this is going to be a blowout.

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Speaker 1: I think you're nuts. I ran into a guy at

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Speaker 1: the train station this morning. His name was Mark, and

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Speaker 1: he used to play in a farm system. I think

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Speaker 1: it was Houston's farm system. We were talking about the

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Speaker 1: World Series. He's a big baseball fan, and we were

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Speaker 1: talking about this, and I'm like these people. First of all,

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Speaker 1: Toronto led all of baseball in hits. So Toronto gets

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Speaker 1: runners on and then they've got Vlad and Springer or

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Speaker 1: the power hitters. But they get the table set for them.

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Speaker 1: They've got a lot of runners on base, they got

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Speaker 1: contact hitters. The Dodgers swept the Reds, they were overwhelmed, shockingly,

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Speaker 1: swept the Brewers, and disposed of Philadelphia much more easily

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Speaker 1: than I would have guessed. I think Toronto's better than

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Speaker 1: all those teams. Go ask the Yankees. So but I

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Speaker 1: will say this, if the Dodgers sweep the Blue Jays

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Speaker 1: or beat them in five, the Dodgers are the greatest

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Speaker 1: baseball team ever or in modern history. Because the Phillies

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Speaker 1: were good, the Brewers were excellent, the Blue Jays are better,

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Speaker 1: and Cincinnati at least had talent. So we all know

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Speaker 1: it's not about winning regular season games. Like the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: very obviously when they got Blake Snell and Tyler glassnow

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Speaker 1: they got those guys for September and October. They knew

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Speaker 1: Snell had arm injuries. They knew Glass go at glassdown

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Speaker 1: had struggled to stay healthy. So the Dodgers built a staff.

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Speaker 1: This is the advantage of the Dodgers' money. It's not

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Speaker 1: just signing OTAWNI. The Dodgers have an advantage financially, and

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Speaker 1: what they do with it is they go find pitchers

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Speaker 1: that they don't need thirty starts from they don't need

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Speaker 1: twenty starts from Snell. They need four great starts in

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Speaker 1: September and October. Same with same with the kid from Tampa,

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Speaker 1: so Andrew Friedman. Everybody looks at the money and goes

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Speaker 1: the money is a great advantage because you get Molkie bets.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people could have afforded Mookie bets. That's

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Speaker 1: not it. Where the Dodger use their money brilliantly is

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Speaker 1: getting these high end starters who do have a history

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Speaker 1: of injuries that other teams are reluctant to spend money

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Speaker 1: on because they need the starts, and the Dodgers are like, no,

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Speaker 1: we got Roki and Yoshi, we got a bunch of

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Speaker 1: young arms. We'll get through it. We'll bring you on.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to play that much in the regular season.

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Speaker 1: We don't need that many starts be ready by September

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Speaker 1: and October. That's where the Dodgers' money is lethal against

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Speaker 1: the sport. Because Snell goes out against Milwaukee and looks

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Speaker 1: like Sandy Kofax. They could not get bat on ball,

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Speaker 1: didn't hit a ball to the infield fast to third inning,

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Speaker 1: which is why I didn't understand why they pulled him.

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Speaker 1: So the Dodger's money helps in a lot of areas.

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Speaker 1: But that's where it's lethal that they can go get

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Speaker 1: glassnow and Snell. They don't need them until September and

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Speaker 1: October mostly don't need them. I don't remember how many

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Speaker 1: starts Snell have it. It was like ten to eleven. He

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Speaker 1: didn't start that much. But if they dispose of the

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Speaker 1: Blue Jays, I mean, this season, here's the runs scored

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Speaker 1: in baseball Toronto seventy one, the Dodgers at forty six.

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Speaker 1: So the idea that you're gonna just fly through Toronto,

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Speaker 1: no way, they get on base, they put press. Nobody's

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Speaker 1: put pressure on the Dodgers in the postseason. There's nobody

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Speaker 1: on base. Toronto will put pressure on the Dodgers. They'll

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Speaker 1: make Dave Roberts that bullpen will be up, fourth, fifth,

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Speaker 1: sixth inning the entire series. My guess, I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a very competitive series. I'll take the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: but they're not. They're not. This is not gonna look

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Speaker 1: like the Milwaukee Series at all. Joe Clatt on the

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Speaker 1: corner