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Speaker 1: what happened to my color? Who I think was gonna

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Speaker 2: If it amazes then you don't know anything about basketball.

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Speaker 1: If he wants a piece pull up, I'm right here, Hey,

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks for taking my call. Yeah, listen, I was

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Speaker 2: Right, that's it. That's the guy.

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Speaker 3: From whence I come. I watched George Mike and Chuck

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Speaker 3: I was pretty young when that happened. I was in

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, David, didn't you think it

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Speaker 3: Well, I yeah, that whole thing. There's the Lakers. At

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Speaker 3: Well, I just wanted to say that I do listen

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Speaker 1: Now, I never thought, where's the applause? Well you know what,

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Speaker 3: You dozen of us, You and Carlo Emanus are very

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Speaker 3: very good and very engaging. It's a fun. It's a

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Speaker 3: your upward trajectory with your career. And I would warn

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Speaker 1: Wow are they crooked backstabbers? And that was your saying,

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Speaker 3: Well I know they know me from a different persona

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Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know if I want to taste your talents.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, what what is it? David? Who are you?

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Speaker 1: Who you with?

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Speaker 3: I'm with my pet pig and we're going to do

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Speaker 3: a very short version of jingle bells?

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Speaker 5: Oh yay?

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Speaker 1: That'll do?

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Speaker 1: I well done. This is the upward trajectory of your career.

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Speaker 1: It's all it's all downhill from here. That was so good, David,

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Speaker 4: An you guys ever heard the expression fighting?

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Speaker 1: Mark a Philly guy. You know what's on? Mark calling

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Speaker 4: Radio, high Mark, how do you say your last name again?

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Speaker 1: Oslin? A US l U N D Land of all us?

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Speaker 1: Well, Adam Ashland? He calls me Adam Ashland. There's worse, Aye,

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Speaker 1: Adam Aslin had a masthmus Brian Brian Auslin. I mean

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Speaker 1: I've gotten some really close. They're right there. What do

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Speaker 4: I'll just go with Adam.

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Speaker 8: But you lost me last hour when Steve Reference, Steve Reference,

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Speaker 8: Cab Calloway and Caesar Romero. So your audience trended up

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Speaker 8: about forty years. I'm calling about the NBA today versus yesteryear.

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Speaker 8: So you're so siated with the Clippers. So that would

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Speaker 4: They've been a irrelevant ever since.

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Speaker 1: Really, hold on, see you're already off base. The Clippers

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Speaker 4: Yes, they haven't won ang with how many championships.

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Speaker 1: Look, they've had some bad luck along the way. Here

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Speaker 8: How you coming back doesn't take Ben refuses to take

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Speaker 8: Now, as far as the NBA compared to yesteryear, I

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Speaker 8: Say that today's NBA is a better quality product. Okay,

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Speaker 8: they play harder, other better athlete. Anything across the board

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Speaker 1: So you don't think you guys being better shooters in

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Speaker 8: No, you're overlooking the nights off the laziness of today's player.

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Speaker 8: The best players, the best players in the world today

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Speaker 8: They don't touch Michael. They don't touch what he did

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Speaker 1: I don't know if all those games are very entertaining.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen shots?

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Speaker 1: Mark? Why do you? Why do you hate Lebron James

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Speaker 8: But he backed it up.

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Speaker 9: He backed it up, always.

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Speaker 1: Did he back it up in Washington? Did he back

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Speaker 8: All Lebron has done is try to emulate Michael Jordan,

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Speaker 4: Everything was better, But today the person is everybody.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what that's called. He's golden age syndrome.

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Speaker 8: Never say that Nobody will say that who watches the

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Speaker 1: Nobody will say what.

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Speaker 8: What that the game is better than it was back

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Speaker 8: I'm having more proficient outside shooters.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it turns out that's a big that's

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Speaker 1: They figured out the math, they figured out ways to

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Speaker 1: and I apologize, but Mark, I will take her call again. Okay,

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Speaker 8: And I love the way that Ben pronounces your last

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Speaker 1: All right, Mark, love you, my friend. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: Well you heard my low level baseball analysis about the

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Speaker 1: Bill Plunkett, join the show here. I'm at a maslinin

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Speaker 1: for Ben Maller. Do you follow this man at? Bill

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Speaker 1: Plunkett ocr on X Bill, thanks for doing this.

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Speaker 7: Hey, there's nothing low level about you that anyone would

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Speaker 1: Fair enough, and that's why we're doing this on the phone.

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Speaker 1: Right now. Let's talk about what would you like to

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Speaker 7: It was like today was the Evil Empire Invitational with

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Speaker 1: Ending because you guys lost to Yukon. Would you like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we shall see. You know, I thought it was Duke.

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Speaker 1: They blew up my bracket, But I was just going,

440
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Speaker 1: all chalk, this was my science project. I was saying,

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Speaker 1: I'm taking the favorites all the way through this.

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Speaker 4: Eh.

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Speaker 1: Until now, all right, let's talk about some chock here

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Speaker 1: in southern California where we're based at in Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio Lens. Here in Sherman Oaks. We got the Dodgers

446
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Speaker 1: in our backyard. And speaking of people hating on teams

447
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,879
Speaker 1: that wear blue out there, you know, it sure feels

448
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 1: like the rest of baseball wants to get their hands

449
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Speaker 1: on the Dodgers and some of that money they have

450
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Speaker 1: to spend. Bill, is this something? Where are you already

451
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Speaker 1: hearing the talk of well, it's your guys' fault. There's

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Speaker 1: a lockout coming next season. This is all on the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: and maybe partially it matters what happens this year with

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers and how much they just run over the

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Speaker 1: competition with them three you know already.

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Speaker 7: I don't think it really matters. I think the showdown

457
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Speaker 7: is coming, whether the Dodgers win or lose. The idea

458
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Speaker 7: that you know, if they were to win again and

459
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Speaker 7: that's three in a row, I guess that gives some

460
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Speaker 7: credence to the owner's side when they, you know, cry

461
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Speaker 7: competitive balance, imbalance and they can point to the Dodgers

462
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Speaker 7: dominating for three straight championships. But I think we're headed.

463
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Speaker 7: We're headed to a showdown regardless.

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Speaker 1: How have they looked so far outside of the low

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Speaker 1: level three and zero record. Kyle Tucker had a big

466
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Speaker 1: hit the other day. It's weird they're not playing on

467
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Speaker 1: a Sunday. Is this the only time it's happening this season?

468
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Speaker 1: But I know they've already had some of those comebacks

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Speaker 1: and they actually have a closer now.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I have a hard time keeping track of the

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Speaker 7: days of the week as it is, but now you

472
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Speaker 7: throw in a random off day on a Sunday. I'm

473
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Speaker 7: going to be screwed up for the next two weeks

474
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Speaker 7: to I have a hard enough time during spring training,

475
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Speaker 7: especially when every day just seems the same. So far,

476
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Speaker 7: it seems to me that they're on pace for one

477
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Speaker 7: hundred and sixty two to oh, which seems you know,

478
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Speaker 7: probable for these guys. If they do win the World

479
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Speaker 7: Series again this year, this will be the most talented

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Speaker 7: team of the three championships. They really whatever issues developed,

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Speaker 7: they seem to have answers for them. They have a

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Speaker 7: deep farm system, they can trade at the deadline to

483
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Speaker 7: fillo hole. You know, they had one of the more

484
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Speaker 7: unproductive outfields in baseball last year, so they just go

485
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Speaker 7: out and sign Kyle Tucker. They had no closer for

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Speaker 7: the last few years, and the bullpen was a problem

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Speaker 7: last year at times, so they go out.

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Speaker 4: And sign Edwin Diaz.

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Speaker 7: I mean, it just seems inevitable that they're going to

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Speaker 7: win again.

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Speaker 1: Do they feel like they're not so much playing against

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Speaker 1: the competition but themselves and past teams of glory and

493
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Speaker 1: greatness that they're chasing. Is that what the motivation is

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Speaker 1: here for them?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, they say not. They you know, you bring up

496
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Speaker 7: history and legacy and all that kind of stuff, and

497
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Speaker 7: they just kind of dismiss it. And the claim that

498
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Speaker 7: they like to make is that their superpower is focusing

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Speaker 7: on one game at a time. As cliche as that sounds,

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Speaker 7: that's what they say they do. They just worry about

501
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Speaker 7: the game that night. And it works, It certainly does.

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Speaker 7: But you have to be aware of what's going on.

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Speaker 7: No National league franchise has ever won three championships in

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Speaker 7: a row. Only the Yankees three times and the A's

505
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Speaker 7: once have done it in baseball history.

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Speaker 4: That's got to be a motivation. You know.

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Speaker 7: Andrew Friedman has been very blunt about it for a

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Speaker 7: few years now. He says he wants this to be

509
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Speaker 7: the Golden era of Dodger baseball. Well, I would argue

510
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Speaker 7: that it already is, but that's history. Three in a

511
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Speaker 7: row would really cement that.

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Speaker 1: Bill Blanket is our guest here, I'm out of Maslin,

513
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Speaker 1: filling in for Big Ben malache Ton here on Fox

514
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Do you think there's some individual goals going

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Speaker 1: on now?

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Speaker 6: Too?

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Speaker 1: Is Otani prime to not just get the MVP, but

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Speaker 1: the cy Young. I know he finished top five in

519
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Speaker 1: the cy Young before with the Angels, back in the day.

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Speaker 7: He has hinted at it, hasn't come out and said it,

521
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Speaker 7: but it was more like, well, if I'm going to

522
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Speaker 7: go win the Cy Young or if I'm going to

523
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Speaker 7: contend for a Cy Young, Well, clearly it's on his mind.

524
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Speaker 7: And as crazy as that sounds, you know, it's a

525
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Speaker 7: reasonable goal for this guy who thought fifty to fifty

526
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 7: was a reasonable thing two years ago. So the one

527
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Speaker 7: thing that I will say that could hold him back

528
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Speaker 7: is the Dodgers themselves. I mean, they are not going

529
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Speaker 7: to keep the pedal to the medal all season long.

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Speaker 7: With their starting pitchers. The NL West looks pretty weak.

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Speaker 7: I would not be surprised if they have it locked

532
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Speaker 7: up by mid August and then you kind of ease

533
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Speaker 7: back on the starting pitchers. So maybe a guy like

534
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Speaker 7: Otani or even Yamamoto doesn't get the workload or the

535
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Speaker 7: innings to really be a cy Young winner. I mean,

536
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Speaker 7: especially in a league where I know he had a

537
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Speaker 7: bad start the other day. But Paul Skiing still exists

538
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Speaker 7: in the National League.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the NL West there, I was talking about

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Speaker 1: it earlier. Yeah, they're one in ten outside of the

541
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Speaker 1: Dodgers being three in two. Everybody else is one in ten.

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Speaker 1: Are they that bad? Is this small sample sized theater

543
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Speaker 1: or the Dodgers is going to run away with a

544
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Speaker 1: division for what like the thirteenth time in the last fourteen.

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Speaker 7: Years, Yes to the last one. No, they're not as

546
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Speaker 7: bad as one in ten. We all know that the

547
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Speaker 7: Rockies are dreadful. There's just nothing to defend there. I

548
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 7: was surprised how weak the Diamondbacks pitching, in particular their

549
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 7: bullpen looks, so I think that's going to be a

550
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Speaker 7: huge achilles heel for them. The Giants have just kind

551
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Speaker 7: of stood their ground at five hundred for the last

552
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Speaker 7: ten years, except for the anomaly that was twenty one.

553
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Speaker 7: And the Padres. You know, the Padres have shed talent

554
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 7: every year the last few years. You know, Blake Snell

555
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 7: and Dylan Sees and guys out of the lineup and

556
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 7: so on. I mean, it's Tatisan machado. So they're still

557
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Speaker 7: going to be fairly good, but they're not going to

558
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Speaker 7: threaten the Dodgers. None of these teams are.

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Speaker 1: So outside of the nl West, are there real real threats?

560
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Speaker 1: Like you know, a couple of years ago, the Padres

561
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: did have them down and as a divisional team, and

562
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Speaker 1: they were supposed to be scared at talk times last season.

563
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Speaker 1: You know, they weren't playing their best towards the end,

564
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: and then Dave Roberts said, it's hunting time. And I

565
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Speaker 1: know it took up seven games against the Toronto Blue Jays,

566
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Speaker 1: but anybody else in the NL that can try to chase.

567
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Speaker 7: Them down, it's so far between now in October that

568
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 7: it's impossible to tell. You know, the Phillies look look

569
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Speaker 7: pretty good. I think the Cups are going to be

570
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 7: pretty good if they're pitching holds up. And you know,

571
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Speaker 7: as dominant as the Dodgers seal with two wins, two

572
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 7: World Series wins, they were, you know, on the brink

573
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Speaker 7: of elimination by the Padres in twenty four, and they

574
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Speaker 7: won that World Series last year by the you know,

575
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 7: the air on Will Smith's big toe, you know, the

576
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 7: play at the plate and things like that. I mean,

577
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 7: they were very close to losing to the Blue Jays,

578
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Speaker 7: and the Blue Jays statistically outplayed him in every way

579
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Speaker 7: during that series. So there's so much of a road ahead,

580
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Speaker 7: and then October is just a completely different world, it

581
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Speaker 7: really is. So what the Dodgers do is they try

582
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 7: to increase their odds of winning. But you know, even

583
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 7: with that, I think it was Fangrass before the season

584
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 7: had them twenty nine percent chance to win the World Series,

585
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Speaker 7: which is enormous in baseball. That's a huge favorite, but

586
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 7: it still leaves seventy one percent chance that they don't.

587
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Speaker 1: So Bill, they act like they're not worried about history

588
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: and these things. Are you grading them like depending on

589
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Speaker 1: how they do this season? If they do three pete,

590
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: are you saying, Okay, Now, I'm convinced they're the best

591
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: team ever, best team in modern history. And if Altani

592
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Speaker 1: has a cy Young and an MVP individually, now that

593
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: definitely means definitively he is the best player ever. How

594
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: are you looking at this.

595
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 7: Team already convinced on Atani? He's done things that nobody

596
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 7: ever has or probably ever will. Again, I always laugh

597
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 7: at these features that guys right at some point about

598
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 7: you know Otani? Is he making it more possible for

599
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 7: more two way players? No, nobody could do what he

600
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 7: can do. If there were guys out there who could

601
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 7: do both things the way he can, they would be

602
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 7: doing them already. And as far as the team, when

603
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 7: you look at how difficult it is in today's game

604
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 7: to win one, let alone two in a row. They're

605
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 7: a dynasty, They're a modern dynasty. I don't know that

606
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 7: three in a row changes that other than puts them

607
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 7: in the conversation for one of the greatest dynasties of

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Speaker 7: all time.

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Speaker 1: Lastly, Bill, what do you think of the ABS so far?

610
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Speaker 1: Is it working for you? Is it seamless enough? Did

611
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: you want automated balls and strikes? And maybe now that

612
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: it is here, you're like, Okay, this is exactly what

613
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: I was talking about or where you were locked in,

614
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: and it's trying.

615
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 7: To win you over. I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.

616
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 7: I've been in favor of this for a while. So

617
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 7: far watching it, it has not been intrusive, doesn't feel

618
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 7: like it slows the game down or anything. I'm not

619
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Speaker 7: a big fan of the strategy. You know, when do

620
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 7: we challenge? When do we don't? I just I just

621
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 7: wanted to get it right. But I will say two

622
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 7: things really stood out to me when we saw it

623
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Speaker 7: in the spring training and now the first few games

624
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Speaker 7: of the season. One is how much the fans get

625
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 7: into it when it goes.

626
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 4: Up there there's like a you know, a.

627
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Speaker 7: Gas from the crowd, oh a challenge, and then when

628
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 7: the outcome is shown overturned or confirmed, there's a roar

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Speaker 7: from the crowd. At least there was a Dodger stadium.

630
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 7: I mean, fans are really into it. The other thing

631
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Speaker 7: I like is the graphic, which shows just how slim

632
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Speaker 7: the difference is. I mean, we've had, you know, a

633
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 7: ball by zero point two inches off the plate. It

634
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 7: just shows you how precise these guys are as pitchers

635
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 7: and hitters, and how difficult that job is as an umpire.

636
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Speaker 7: So give him some help. I got no problem with

637
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 7: that at all.

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Speaker 1: I like how you welcome our robot overlords like you're

639
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: trying to get on their good side because it's.

640
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Speaker 7: Just in listening.

641
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's inevitable. Let's be some subservient, let's look

642
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: like we're willing to worship because I'm all for it too.

643
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: I'm here for it, and people are here to talk

644
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,719
Speaker 1: about the Dodgers nationwide on Fox Sports Radio because they

645
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: are the center of the baseball universe. So I had

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Speaker 1: to bring you on. He is Bill Pluckett of the

647
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Speaker 1: OC Register and og from the OC. Bill, thanks for

648
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: doing this so much, even on your day off. No less,

649
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: but at least got half a hate watch in. Somebody

650
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: else might take out Michigan for you.

651
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 7: Coming up soon here, Oh from your lit to God's Ears.

652
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: Let's hope there goes Bill plunk It. I love that guy.

653
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: Sounds like Sam Elliott. What a voice you have to use?

654
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 7: So many cuss words.

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Speaker 1: Let's save harbor hours. Remember. For over forty years, the

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Speaker 1: could be the last time we go to you guys tonight,

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Speaker 1: because I got a lot else to get to, including

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Speaker 1: more go talk. I'm atam oslin in for Big Ben

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Speaker 1: Mallor here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 9: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor

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Speaker 9: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Please talk to me, please, Adam Ashley, Welcome back in.

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Speaker 1: It's the Ben Mallor show. I'm Adam Oslin in for

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Speaker 1: Big Ben tonight. Don't worry, he's back soon. Coming up

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Speaker 1: top an XT hour, We're back. There's a Goat Talk

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Speaker 1: update happening the Goat. I'm not bringing Mark back on.

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Speaker 1: That was a lively debate. I do want to bring

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Speaker 1: on d Block calling in from Miami. This is like

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Speaker 1: the D Block of the show at this point. D Block,

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Speaker 1: what's up?

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Speaker 6: Good morning sir, Happy Monday for some but anyway, just

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Speaker 6: two quick answers. Give me your taste college college basketball

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Speaker 6: NBA nowadays. I remember back in my day, you know,

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Speaker 6: a five point league used to be safe. That's when

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Speaker 6: nowadays you have comebacks every freaking day, sixteen point leads.

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Speaker 6: It can't even be held. That's my first take a

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Speaker 6: second about Chicago baseball. Come on, White Sox, and we

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Speaker 6: knew you to get a big trash, but come on,

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Speaker 6: Kubb's man, came on all that money we've got. I

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Speaker 6: know it's three games into the season, but we panic

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Speaker 6: man with for Chicago.

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Speaker 4: But thank you. Have a good Monday, all right, D Block?

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. Bill Plunkett just said last segment

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Speaker 1: he thinks the Chicago Cubs are going to be really good.

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Speaker 1: So he's encouraged, even though they haven't started off so well.

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Speaker 1: The White Sox, it's been downhill since two thousand and

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Speaker 1: five and before two thousand and five. Cardiac Stanley. Cardiac

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Speaker 1: Stanley calling in from Cavaliers Country, Cleveland. Akron Cardiac, what's up, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I got an idea to make the NBA much more watchable.

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Speaker 3: You were talking old school bar earlier. All right, I'll

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Speaker 3: hear that. Hey, We'll start with the NFL. You know

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Speaker 3: how at the NFL the anticipation and excitement created by

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Speaker 3: the two minute warning in the NFL, right, everybody gets excited.

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Speaker 3: Somebody it makes a late score. Okay.

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Speaker 4: My idea is this The three.

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Speaker 3: Point line is not activated until three minutes to go.

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Speaker 7: Aah.

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Speaker 1: That was riveting. What hay he gone make? The three

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Speaker 1: point line gets activated? Is this? Rock and Jock? Somebody

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Speaker 1: else has brought this up before, and there is some

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Speaker 1: intrigue with only letting them shoot three pointers for certain

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Speaker 1: times in the game. But I feel like you're limiting

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Speaker 1: just how skilled the guys are. We went from in

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Speaker 1: the nineties having to shorten the three point line, so

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Speaker 1: now talking about extending it because it's too easy for

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Speaker 1: these guys. And I'll get into more of that later on,

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Speaker 1: and maybe Mark will call back in really upset.

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Speaker 4: And.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he might do that to me. He might Rick

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Speaker 1: James me. But I don't think the NBA needs much fixing.

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Speaker 1: They just had an eighty billion dollar media deal signed.

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Speaker 1: Like the demise of the NBA has been greatly exaggerated.

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Speaker 1: The ratings actually are saying that Amazon Prime those games

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Speaker 1: doing great. NBC with my guy Noah Eagle, was watching

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Speaker 1: him on the call for the Denver Nuggets versus the

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Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors earlier with Jay Crossover Jamal Crawford. They're

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Speaker 1: doing great. Everything's fine, it's.

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Speaker 8: All, everything's perfectly all right now, we're fine.

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Speaker 1: We're all fine here now, thank you, How are you now?

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Speaker 1: It can always be better and you can't get complacent.

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Speaker 1: And I think Adam Silver trying to do that with

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Speaker 1: eliminating tanking, which is an issue, but I think it's

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Speaker 1: a little bit overblown because it's such an outlier season

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Speaker 1: because there's multiple franchise guys. Everybody thinks they're going to

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Speaker 1: be in this draft, and then a lot of those

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Speaker 1: same teams don't have draft picks after this year, so

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Speaker 1: they got to get in now, so that excuse things

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Speaker 1: a little bit too. Mike, the leprecaun is calling in?

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Speaker 1: Where a lepracaun at? I want to know where to go? Mike,

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Speaker 1: what's up?

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Speaker 12: Good morning?

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Speaker 2: Good Man?

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Speaker 3: Is a socker?

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Speaker 1: Excuse me?

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Speaker 12: Ben is a slacker.

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Speaker 1: Ben is not a slacker. This guy works like you

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Speaker 1: know three sixty four.

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Speaker 2: Did you hear this, goll in we're in Europe.

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Speaker 12: Twelve tons of KitKat bars were stolen over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Oh you know why, because you got to get that

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Speaker 1: kit cat bar?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I sent them run anyway. I was just talking

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Speaker 12: the Coop. They're coming to Boston in May, and I

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Speaker 12: was down at there Ben, Lorena and Coop. No way,

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Speaker 12: we come up to ask him.

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Speaker 1: Way, all right, that's pretty cool. A little road.

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Speaker 12: Trip, yeah, two nights, I think.

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Speaker 7: Huh.

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Speaker 1: He asked if you were doing that road trip? We're

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Speaker 1: not driving?

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Speaker 12: No, no, no, they're flying.

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 7: Then the.

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Speaker 12: Pig the pig collar was very.

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Speaker 4: Good, was he?

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Speaker 12: And then well he's better than I was the worst

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Speaker 12: caller of the year last year.

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Speaker 1: So okay, Well that's a low bar. And Mike, I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you. I don't think you're that bad. Hopefully this

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Speaker 1: hasn't got too bad so far. One more hour left.

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Speaker 1: I'm out of Muslin, filling it for big Ben Mallor

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Speaker 1: here on Fox Sports Radio ah