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Speaker 1: All right, the NBA regular season winding down, and it's uh,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty wild man. I mean what the Mavericks did,

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Speaker 1: it looks terrible, right like, it looks terrible. This has

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Speaker 1: been a funky year in the NBA. The playoffs are

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Speaker 1: it's got to work on. Man, It's got to fix.

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Speaker 1: Guys just missed too many games and night and night out.

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Speaker 1: cohorn up. My main man, Figgy Kevin figures, Good morning, Figgy. Morning.

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Speaker 1: At any what's going on? We say everybuddy, Happy Easter. Yes,

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Speaker 1: But all the way around, it's just a really bad look.

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Speaker 1: It's just a terrible, terrible look that you go into

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Speaker 1: It's not the first time that's ever happened. Is the

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Speaker 1: give me my lottery pick and I'm gonna go from here.

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Speaker 1: And I don't care what you say, what you do,

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Speaker 1: certainly makes all the sense in the world. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: But the bigger issue is the guy just sitting out games.

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Speaker 1: Do you enjoy baseball being back, Figgy, I'm loving it,

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Speaker 1: problem with the Raise is they never keep anybody. So

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Speaker 1: once the once the star gets ready to explode, they

422
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Speaker 1: shifted off the you know, ship it off to another galaxy.

423
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 1: But yes, yes, but that's so the hand they're dealt in.

424
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Speaker 1: Kudos to the front office for being able to work

425
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Speaker 1: within those parameters to continue to put out a consistent winner.

426
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Speaker 1: I know they're they're uh there are they are just

427
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Speaker 1: they're fun. But the whole sport, I'm with you. The

428
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 1: sport is uh is fun. It's on the uptick in

429
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 1: a big way. A galaraga after Big Griffin. Yea glaraga

430
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Speaker 1: that big cat. Yeah. Oh, I used to love the

431
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Speaker 1: Big Cat. Yeah. Um. So so let's get back to

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Speaker 1: it for a second. So this the so if you're

433
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Speaker 1: the league, you're the NBA, and you know, it's amazing.

434
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Speaker 1: They had such a great relationship with their players, and

435
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: they handle their business and and they are, you know,

436
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 1: a terrifically. They're they're a great They're they're run really well.

437
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: They can mission really does it. I think a terrific job.

438
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 1: They're open to a lot of things. You know, they

439
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 1: have they have a great like attitude. But the problem

440
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Speaker 1: is is that, you know, is it a lack of

441
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Speaker 1: the hard line stance. That's what I was gonna say.

442
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Speaker 1: Do you think, yeah, is he a little too buddy

443
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Speaker 1: buddy with the players? And look, it works out great

444
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 1: for like not having labor issues. Ever since Adam Silver

445
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 1: has taken over, there hasn't been any labor problems whatsoever.

446
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 1: It's been almost I wouldn't say there's never a perfect

447
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Speaker 1: harmony between you know, the union and in the in

448
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Speaker 1: the company, but I mean, for the most part, no

449
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: drama whatsoever. But when it comes to these sorts of issues,

450
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Speaker 1: I think this is kind of a situation where if

451
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Speaker 1: you're Adam Silver, you kind of kind of put you

452
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Speaker 1: put your foot down and say, look, man, we can't

453
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Speaker 1: have you guys missing these games. We have to find

454
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Speaker 1: we have to find a way, whether it's reducing the schedule,

455
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 1: spreading games out more, you guys come to us. But

456
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Speaker 1: it's unacceptable to have you guys routinely sitting out twenty

457
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Speaker 1: five games a year for rest or, for little nicks,

458
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 1: or for the simple fact that it's a back to back.

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Speaker 1: We got to figure this out. This is a problem.

460
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,360
Speaker 1: We can't act like it's not a problem. And my problem, Anthony,

461
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: is the league seems to be seems to be telling

462
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Speaker 1: us it's not an issue that these guys are routinely

463
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Speaker 1: sitting out games. Yeah, I gotta tell you, I don't

464
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Speaker 1: know what to do. I just don't know how to.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I agree with you and your point that

466
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Speaker 1: you know, hey, let's make it so the regular season

467
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Speaker 1: is eliminate the back to backs and give you no option,

468
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: but you know you gotta play. They'll still the problem

469
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Speaker 1: is they'll still not play possible. Yeah, I think in

470
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Speaker 1: certain situent, no matter what you do, they're probably gonna

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Speaker 1: not play. Sports side said they shouldn't play this many games. Yeah,

472
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Speaker 1: if you can find a way, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: if there is or isn't to reduce the schedule to

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Speaker 1: a point where no team plays more than three games

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Speaker 1: a week. What is your justification unless you're actually injured

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Speaker 1: for saying I gotta sit out and I know you

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Speaker 1: almost can. There is no dnp rest where you're playing

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Speaker 1: three games over a six day six day span, you

479
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, or seven day span, And I

480
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Speaker 1: just again, I don't want to. I hate be in

481
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Speaker 1: the back, you know, get off my law and back

482
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Speaker 1: in the day, guy, really do It's I hate doing

483
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Speaker 1: it because there's so many things that I love about

484
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: all games, all the all sports today. Yeah, I'm with you.

485
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Speaker 1: I just I can't get over the not playing thing,

486
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 1: they're not playing thing bothers me. The devaluing of the

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00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: regular season bothers me. It's like you're you're not It's

488
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Speaker 1: not special now, buddy of mine who I work with,

489
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 1: uh he he he blames it all on society and

490
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 1: not the players and says, well, we're the ones telling

491
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Speaker 1: guys that, you know, it's championship or boss. So when

492
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: you when you bust Kevin Duran's balls about, you know,

493
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: have to leave to go get titles. And you say,

494
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley, you know, was a bomb because he never won,

495
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Speaker 1: And well that leads that to, well, it's all it's

496
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: a zero sum game. Yeah, and that's where super teams

497
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: come in, and all of that, all of that is

498
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: born out of Look that to a degree, that happened

499
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 1: to Lebron if you want to talk about the decision.

500
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: He left Cleveland because none of the star players would

501
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: come to Cleveland to play with him. And he knew,

502
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Speaker 1: even though he was in his prime or entering his

503
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Speaker 1: prime at that time, the clock was ticking and he

504
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: had to start getting championships on his resume. And that's

505
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Speaker 1: the biggest reason why he went to Miami to form

506
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Speaker 1: you know, the heatles. So the look, if you can

507
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Speaker 1: argue that it started there, I know, because even the

508
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: Celtics are put together by Danny Ainge. But that wasn't

509
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: free agents coming together. That was all through trades, so

510
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 1: the players had little control over that. Yes, no, you're

511
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Speaker 1: spot on, spot on. I just don't know. You know again,

512
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Speaker 1: you know people put the people say put the genie

513
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Speaker 1: back in the bottle and you know, whatever you want to. Oh,

514
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Speaker 1: I don't know how you rectify it. And that's my

515
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Speaker 1: biggest concern and worry is you can't have a season

516
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Speaker 1: that's completely devalued. Yeah, and if we're talking about reducing

517
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Speaker 1: the schedule, then you're talking about taking money out of

518
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Speaker 1: the owner's pockets, which they'll never accept unless they raise

519
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 1: ticket and concession prices. And nobody wants that. So that

520
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Speaker 1: that's the only issue that I think that's the easiest

521
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: thing to do from just from a simplistic standpoint, is

522
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Speaker 1: reduced the schedule by fifteen twenty games, you just but

523
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Speaker 1: logistically speaking, financially speaking, there's no way the owners would

524
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Speaker 1: sign off on that. Let me ask you. We talk

525
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Speaker 1: about the tournaments and we talk about all this all

526
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: this stuff that happens, right, and again this is I'm

527
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: just you know, spitballing on the top of my head.

528
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: Can you do something? Can you if you drastically cut

529
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: the games, the regular season games, but you play these

530
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Speaker 1: you global tournament and imagine every like the NBA team

531
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Speaker 1: not all stars, but the NBA teams play teams from

532
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Speaker 1: around the world tournament for you in a tournament, a

533
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Speaker 1: Champions League, you know, type of situation where yeah, like

534
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: you know, and and it's built into the schedule, so

535
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: it gets you gaate and you know, the the foreign

536
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Speaker 1: teams you know come to the States and and help

537
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: with gay right in comes you know Barcelona. Yeah, what

538
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: what hurts that is the fact that all of the

539
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: best players from those teams are already here on that team. Yeah,

540
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: unlike you know, unlike Premier League. You know, are like

541
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Speaker 1: just soccer in general when they talk about friend leagues

542
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: or the Premier League and all that, where they're all

543
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: spread across these different leagues. You know, all the best

544
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Speaker 1: players from Germany, Belgium, France, wherever you want to call it,

545
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,959
Speaker 1: all find their way here. What all you'd end up

546
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: having is you know, the Clippers playing against Tel Aviv whoever,

547
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: and there's a sixteen year old who's great, but it

548
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: can't be drafted for four years. That's what you're gonna

549
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: end up seeing. And I and I don't know if

550
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Speaker 1: there's a way that they could come in as an

551
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: all star, you know where even figures out a little bit,

552
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: because I agree with you that's a problem. Yeah, I

553
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: would think just on its surface, it's not the worst

554
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: idea in the world. And maybe there's a way that

555
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: you can incentivize the players, teams, fans to be more

556
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: interested in how you know, if if an NBA team

557
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: wins the tournament, they're guaranteed a playoff spot, they get

558
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: an extra first round whatever. I don't know what. I

559
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: don't know what that solution would be, but yeah, on

560
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 1: its surface, I think it's great. But just an actuality,

561
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 1: the talent gap would just be too great because all

562
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: the great talent is already it's already here, and I'm

563
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: just trying to figure out. I been with the top

564
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: of my head, man, because something I don't know, I mean,

565
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: something feels amiss, something feels a jar, like there's got

566
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: to be something that you can do to fix this issue,

567
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: and it just doesn't seem like and I don't know.

568
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: Obviously we're not privy to behind the doors meeting or

569
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: closed door meetings with the players Association in the league,

570
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 1: but it just doesn't seem from a public standpoint, they've

571
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: put a whole lot of effort into thinking about what

572
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: they can do to fix the issue. If they seriously

573
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: think that, you know, tying awards to sixty five plus

574
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: games being played by individual players is making a difference,

575
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: that's that's a joke. I don't think they even think

576
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: that's a big issue or it's gonna solve much. I'm

577
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: with here, I'm with here with some trending. All right. Well,

578
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: since we're talking NBA, the Eastern Conference playing schedule is

579
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: a set in stone. So on Tuesday night, we'll have

580
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: Atlanta heading to South Beach. Speaking of Miami, they'll take

581
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: on the Heat. The Hawks didn't lose to Philadelphia on Friday,

582
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: one thirty six to one thirty one. Heat failed to Washington.

583
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: Next Wednesday, the Raptors will host the Bulls in the

584
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: other play in matchup. Chicago defeated Dallas, and the Mavericks

585
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: sat most of their starters. Luca don Chick barely played.

586
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 1: They lost the game intentionally, at least, it seemed like

587
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: they seem to not be making any qualms or any

588
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: issues about that fact. So they get beat by Chicago.

589
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: They are officially out of the playoff race in the

590
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: Western Conference. Elsewhere, you got the Lakers defeating the Suns.

591
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: They didn't suit up any of their star players. Warriors

592
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: beat Sacramento. The Kings also sat most of their starters

593
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 1: as well. The Gnats locked up the sixth seed with

594
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 1: the victory over Orlando. They'll take on Philadelphia in the

595
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: three six matchup in the first round of the playoffs.

596
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: Second round if the Masters will suspended due to weather.

597
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: Brooks Keepka the current leader at twelve under. He was

598
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: one of the few to finish his round. Thirty nine

599
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: golfers so far if not finished their second round action,

600
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: including John Ram who's three strokes back. He's only played

601
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: half of his round so far. As of now, the

602
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: cut line is projected to be two over. Part Tiger

603
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: Woods currently sits at two over through eleven holes. Play

604
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: is about Rory yeah out yeah, How insane is that?

605
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: Oh my god? And people love them going into the

606
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: one of the favorites going in, Oh my god, it's

607
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: just the role. Alright, this is a rary year. It's tough,

608
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: well when you're dealing with the conditions the way that

609
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: they are. Who knows, Like even as comfortable as it

610
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: seems right now for Brooks and as great as he's played,

611
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: and he's a great comeback because he has not made

612
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: the cut the last two years, but he dealing with

613
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 1: the knee injury. All that, both the elements. There's rain

614
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: in the forecast for later today, who knows. I think

615
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: this is far from over and anybody can still come

616
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: back and win this thing. So that's the exciting part.

617
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: You just hope they can get through these rounds because

618
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: the weather and the trees fallen on people. Has been

619
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: a hectic opening first couple of rounds here so far,

620
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: but Tiger Woods as of now, I like Markwa Kyla

621
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: more Cowa. Yeah, he's up there right now. So yeah,

622
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: there's I know he's six he's a huge six strokes back.

623
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: But yeah, but again we're still in the second round

624
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: at this point in time, and many of these guys

625
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 1: have not finished the second round quite yet, so still

626
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: plenty of time to go. And then talking Major League Baseball,

627
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,839
Speaker 1: Arizona beating Clayton Kersher on the Dodgers six to three.

628
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: Kersher all given up two home runs there Toronto opening

629
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 1: to the Angels and Anaheim once for Washington Milwaukee, and

630
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: we talked about Tampa Bay starting out seven and oh

631
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,919
Speaker 1: they get a nine to five victory over Oakland. Back

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Speaker 1: to the fellas, all right, that's us. Where are the fellas?

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Speaker 1: Will take a quick t o company live from the

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Speaker 1: tiraq dot com studios. And I got to get into

635
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Speaker 1: like a little bit of a playoff preview since we

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Speaker 1: are at Easter weekend and figg he nailed it with

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Speaker 1: the Easter Sunday and playoffs. So let's take a look

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Speaker 1: at kind of some of the matchups on the floor

639
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Speaker 1: and take a look at who's playing. Well, we'll do

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Speaker 1: the East and the West. We'll do that. Lots to

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Speaker 1: do on a beautiful Saturday morning across the nation. Fellas

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Speaker 1: with Kevin Figgers. I'm Anthony Gargano right here on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio five forty eight in the East, two forty

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Speaker 1: eight in the West. It's a Fox Sports Saturday Fellas

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Speaker 1: from the tire Rack dot com studios. Fake you doing

646
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Speaker 1: anything special? Yeah? We uh yeah, yeah. The Extended Family

647
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 1: going to uh some uh going to our family's house

648
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 1: for a large get together on Saturday. So later this afternoon, nice,

649
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: a little bit of a barbecue, some festivities, you know,

650
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I have a little bit of fun. How

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Speaker 1: about you got ah that barber I here, hold on,

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Speaker 1: let me hear. What's what's the festivities? H First of all,

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Speaker 1: as there will be a game play at any games, yeah,

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00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: there'll there're the guys. There'll be some games laid out.

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Speaker 1: From what I understand, I'll be honest with you, I

656
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: don't know the specifics of it. But so I don't

657
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 1: know what's on the menu. It's a complete and total

658
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Speaker 1: surprise to me. But usually my wife's side of the

659
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Speaker 1: family does things pretty big. So it's gonna be gonna

660
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 1: be fun regardless. I know that that's gonna be great.

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00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: What's on the menu? You think, Well, sometimes they'll cook

662
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: and sometimes they'll cater out. So I'm not one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent sure, So I don't know if it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: anything super elaborate. You know. It could be some sandwiches,

665
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 1: could be some pasta, could be. I really don't know.

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00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: Part of me doesn't want to know because a part

667
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: of me is kind of excited to find out. Oh yes, yes, yeah,

668
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: I agree. Yeah, and it's always you could be a

669
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Speaker 1: great surprise. Yeah, and it's always fun when they tell

670
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Speaker 1: you don't bring anything but yourself. So I was like,

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Speaker 1: sign me up. I'm in dude. That is that is great?

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Speaker 1: You're right on yeah, because you know, you get the

673
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Speaker 1: barbecue and everybody's hanging Oh, we got ribs on the barbecue.

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Speaker 1: We'll do a little Easter egg hunt for the kids

675
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: in the family, you know, So that's always fun. Yeah,

676
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: the Easter egg hunt is always always fun. We used

677
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: to do it every year for the kids and never

678
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: now and then you instead of finding some jelly beans

679
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 1: or a little snickers, you might find might find a

680
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,320
Speaker 1: little greenery in there. You never know. That's right. Cash,

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Speaker 1: This is always the cash hagg Absolutely, the cash hagg

682
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: is always a big deal. Uh huh. Except you know

683
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Speaker 1: what's funny. They started with, you know, giving like quarters, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, my wife goes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I need you to get a bunch of fives and

686
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: a couple of twenties. Twenties, I go, what what what

687
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: happened to? Like, you know, throw a dollar in there, right,

688
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: like a couple of quarters. Then there's a dollar. Bigg

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Speaker 1: is a fin right, the big agg You can't go

690
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 1: twenties like yeah, point for these little kids, a five

691
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: is big enough that I was getting over a five

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Speaker 1: dollar bill. That's that's all they need exactly what happened

693
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: to five? That you go get candy? Right or like

694
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: give himself, give him like a novel, to give him

695
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:56,439
Speaker 1: a silver dollar or something. Have fun with that. Yes, yes, yes,

696
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Speaker 1: I I agree. Stone violation. Yeah, that's late violation. What

697
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: you're doing, you're raising the kid's expectations. Don't do that

698
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: so because pretty soon you give them the twenties when

699
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Speaker 1: they're five, six, seven, you know, by the time they

700
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Speaker 1: get I'll be going I'll be barred from them. Yeah

701
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: maybe like uncle Anthony, how how about you just write

702
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: a check and put that in the in the egg

703
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: next time? Put it. Add some more zeros back there. Brother,

704
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Speaker 1: It's amazing how many people are in your pocket and

705
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: you're feeling about it. Yes, it's ridiculous. Let me ask

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Speaker 1: you a question about the UH and I'm a I'm

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Speaker 1: a believer in the chip. Yeah chip. You know, listen,

708
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Speaker 1: we grew up in the neighborhood you were you know,

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Speaker 1: you grease your duke. We call you duke. You know

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Speaker 1: your duke them. Yeah, you're throwing a duke. And then

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Speaker 1: you get preferreds to treat me. Like you go to

712
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 1: a wedding and it's an open bar. The first thing

713
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Speaker 1: you do is duke the barten there. This way, you're

714
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Speaker 1: you're in set for the entire night. Joe was coming back.

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00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta do things. You gotta people take

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Speaker 1: your car, right, valet, you duke the vale right. But

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Speaker 1: I got a problem duke in the drive through places? Wait,

718
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Speaker 1: is that a thing? Yeah, you're supposed to cheat what

719
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 1: they expect a chip they do this? Has this always

720
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: been a thing? Yeah? Really, I mean the Starbucks forget

721
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Speaker 1: about it. Huh Yeah? It heads out Yeah. Interesting, And

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00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,800
Speaker 1: it's like I go, yeah, are you really doing anything

723
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: for me? Like are you going to be out? Like

724
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Speaker 1: if you're waiting a table right and I'm in the table,

725
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: I'm taking up space in the restaurant. I go, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you deserve it. The duke, you clean the table, you

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Speaker 1: wait on me. But I'm going you know, hey, I'm

728
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Speaker 1: either going to the counter or the drive through, right

729
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,399
Speaker 1: because the counterpet the counter thing too. You got the fishbowl? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the counter has like the tip jar. And if I

731
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Speaker 1: have cash and I've asked some extra change left over,

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Speaker 1: I'll dump it in there or whatever. When am I

733
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Speaker 1: gonna do a seventy five cents? I don't care or

734
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Speaker 1: if there really now it's to give him a point? Yeah,

735
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: but what do you really do there? Earning? Right? Yeah?

736
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: It is net is shakedown? Yeah, well the drive through

737
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: is completely different. Now was the tips in the drive through?

738
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Speaker 1: That's a completely new one. I'm even getting out of

739
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Speaker 1: my car to walk to the counter. Yeah, for you

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Speaker 1: to just go get me a coffee, you didn't really

741
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: do anything, like are you supposed to get me a coffee? Yeah,

742
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,280
Speaker 1: that's kind of your job. You're not doing me a favor.

743
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Speaker 1: You're not going out of your way like you wait

744
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Speaker 1: on me. Then now you deserve it. Yeah, Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: that's next observation. It is all right, we're up against

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Speaker 1: an NBA playoff preview. Next fellas, Good morning, good morning,

747
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: good morning, good morning, every buddy. Well we uh you're

748
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Speaker 1: having a great weekend and nice relaxing family type weekend

749
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Speaker 1: as we are. The holidays, whether it's Easter tomorrow or

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Speaker 1: you just celebrated passover up. Everybody's having a wonderful just

751
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 1: an absolute wonderful weekend. It's a good time. It's the

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00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: U and Figgy said it. When you think about Eastern

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00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: you do think about the NBA playoffs, that's always a

754
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: big deal, the NBA playoffs, and uh, this year we

755
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 1: were gonna have it. We're gonna have the playoffs and

756
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: it's starting to shape up and it's just absolutely wide open.

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00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's wide open. It's amazing how wide

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00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: open this year's playoffs are. Now. The East is a

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00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: little different because I think there are only three teams

760
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,720
Speaker 1: in the East that are that really have a chance

761
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 1: to win it or get out of the East. But

762
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Speaker 1: the West, I think is completely wide open. Where the

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Speaker 1: fellas live from the tire rack dot Com studios as uh,

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Speaker 1: Mark from Chicago Schoolmark is our sound engineer Figgy and I,

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Speaker 1: of course, as always every Saturday right here on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio, fig wide open. Let's look at the East

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00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: for a second, where I do think it's just Milwaukee,

778
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:02,720
Speaker 1: Boston or my sixers. It's literally it. I thought coming

779
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: into the season that Cleveland could be a little bit

780
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: of a sleeper and as solid as they are, and

781
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: I expect them to beat the Knicks in the first round,

782
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, even though the one the

783
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 1: Knicks had their number of the regular season, I still

784
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: think they're about a year away. So yeah, I think

785
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:20,399
Speaker 1: it's really just the three up top and really nobody else.

786
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,320
Speaker 1: Everybody else is kind of competing for you know, fifth

787
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:25,720
Speaker 1: six whatever you want to call it. Three legit contenders

788
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference. Yeah, man, I you know, I

789
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I look at it and I don't

790
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: see anybody can touch them. I will say if Miami

791
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: in Boston is an interesting from a matchup standpoint. I

792
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: don't know if Miami would beat them in a seven

793
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: game series in the first round, but if you're talking

794
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Speaker 1: about most likely upsets early on, I wouldn't be surprised

795
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: if Miami gave Boston a run for their money in

796
00:44:54,000 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: the first round. You know what, that's interesting, that's actually fascinating.

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Speaker 1: You know why. It's a great it's a great place,

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00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: it's a great idea. I mean, I think you're probably right. Yeah, well,

799
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: especially not knowing. I mean, Jalen Brown is supposed to

800
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: be back for the for the first round of the playoffs.

801
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: When they get started to cut he got five stitches,

802
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,399
Speaker 1: so that's a big deal. It's a huge deal. Um

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00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: so if he's back healthy, I mean, who still knows

804
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: how that can I mean, you know things like that.

805
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: Wounds can open up just like that and then all

806
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the stitch comes out and you have

807
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 1: you you have to miss a game or something. So

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00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: that's something a monitor and that Miami team has. I know,

809
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: this has been the greatest regular season for them. But

810
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: Jimmy is tough, Tyler Hero is tough, bam. You know,

811
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Speaker 1: if Robert Williams is not able, is not in there,

812
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: that's a big loss on the interior for Boston. So

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00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: they could potentially be vulnerable to a team like Miami.

814
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 1: So from a if I'm liking a lower seat versus

815
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:52,919
Speaker 1: an upper seat in the Eastern Conference, I think that's

816
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:56,760
Speaker 1: seven to two matchup, assuming Miami beats Atlanta and Clinch's

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Speaker 1: number seven is one to keep an eye on. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I'm I'm I feel you on that.

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Speaker 1: I do. I completely feel you on that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I see uh, I could see it being as a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a slog I believe me. From a

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Speaker 1: Sixer standpoint, I wentn't mind to dodge in Boston. Yeah,

823
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: I mean, they're just they They're a tough matchup for

824
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: the Sixers and they I went through the numbers and

825
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 1: the real issue with them they there. It's the Sixer.

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Speaker 1: Celtics are a fascinating matchup. Really, the three of them

827
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,280
Speaker 1: are really interesting when from Milwaukee in to the mix. Um.

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Speaker 1: But let me just look look at those two because

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Speaker 1: I've studied those two a lot. Boston has has owned

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00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: the Sixers and during the regular season, all the other night,

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Speaker 1: notwithstanding bald his ass off. Yeah, yeah, um, they have

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00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: no one can guarden bead right. The problem is for

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00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: the Sixers is they have great guard play Boston, and

834
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Speaker 1: the guard play is what dictates the game for him

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Speaker 1: for and I think the guard plays what they have

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Speaker 1: to get over. They hardened looks pretty good. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: they need harden his leg to have his legs. The

838
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: issues Maxie against Boston, he struggles, and I think it's

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Speaker 1: Marcus Smart. I was gonna say Smart. I think that's uh,

840
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: you know, Smart as a veteran defensive player of the Year. Maxie,

841
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: as great of a year as he's had, you know,

842
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: as uh you know, still young, you know, so getting

843
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 1: worked over by the veteran a little bit, still inconsistent

844
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: at times, as great of a year as he's had.

845
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that's that's that's advantage Boston in

846
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: the backcourt. One hundred percent agree with you from that standpoint. Yeah,

847
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: they they they they are. They're nasty because you go

848
00:47:56,120 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: with White, Smart, Broggden, you know, Jalen Brown could you know,

849
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,720
Speaker 1: could go off between the two and the three. There's

850
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: so many things that they could do and go big with,

851
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: you know, Williams and you know Horford right, you know,

852
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,280
Speaker 1: and not to mention the best player of the teams, Tatum.

853
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know they they match up and Maxie

854
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: has struggled in that matchup, and Maxi's not a good

855
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,399
Speaker 1: defender either, so that's another issue that Derek White will

856
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,399
Speaker 1: have his way with him a little bit. Yeah. So,

857
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: but the other flip side is they got no one

858
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 1: that could match him beat right right? Well, and you

859
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: wonder with Boston if it's you know, if you go

860
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 1: back to the other night, if you don't double team him,

861
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:40,879
Speaker 1: just let him do his own thing and then try

862
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: to take everybody else out of it. We've seen people

863
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,360
Speaker 1: try to employ that strategy at times and then you

864
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: just try to or you just try to crowd him

865
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 1: and then force everybody else to try to beat you.

866
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: You know, all of those are just intriguing things that

867
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: progressed the rather than an entire series. Like as an

868
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:58,760
Speaker 1: objective observer from you know, ten thousand miles ten thousand

869
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,320
Speaker 1: feet away, I would love to actually see this matchup.

870
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: I think it'd be very intriguing. I think it'd be

871
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: really entertaining, and it could potentially go seven if I

872
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 1: was a fan of the Philadelphia seventy six ers. This

873
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: is not a matchup I don't want to see right, right,

874
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: be very stressful. Let's put it, yes, yes, like they um.

875
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: And then it's funny because then you get then you

876
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: have Milwaukee, and the Sixers match up better with Milwaukee,

877
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:29,800
Speaker 1: and the Bucks matchup better with Boston. Notwithstanding the the

878
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: big the big game the other night, right where Boston

879
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,919
Speaker 1: goes off and wins by forty one, all those threes, right,

880
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 1: but normally it's been a it's been Milwaukee can beats Boston.

881
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: It's kind you look at the matchup, it makes a

882
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:51,359
Speaker 1: lot of sense because they just match up like Drew

883
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 1: Holliday is the equal, because Drew Holliday is a great

884
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 1: defender and a really a defensive player. Then smart absolutely,

885
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: you know he can take over games. He dropped a

886
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: thirty seven spot I think the other night last week. Yeah,

887
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: you get Middleton back healthy, that's obviously super important. He's

888
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:12,839
Speaker 1: been in and out all season long. Again, he's another

889
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 1: guy that's supposed to be back for the playoffs, so

890
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:17,399
Speaker 1: that will be huge for them to get him back

891
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: in there. But as great as they are defensively, you

892
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 1: know they can hit from the outside. Grayson Allen has

893
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: had some big games for them this year or too,

894
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: uh so they have. They have some solid depth off

895
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 1: of their bench as well. So yeah, that which is

896
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 1: why I look, there's no surprise that Milwaukee has a

897
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 1: best record in the league. And I haven't looked at

898
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: the odds, but I'd imagine they're the favorite of above

899
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: anybody else to win the championship, rightfully, So yeah, I

900
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:41,880
Speaker 1: gotta I'll take a look at it for you, but

901
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: I would agree. I mean, ay, they're just they're just

902
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: a really solid team. I mean they're there's no with

903
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: Middleton's back and healthy. Yeah, there's really no weakness on

904
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: that team. And it's funny because we talk all about

905
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 1: the MVP and the MVP bla blah blah blah blah.

906
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:07,240
Speaker 1: But all honesty, I mean, Yannest deserves it gets no yeah,

907
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 1: absolutely no love and Yannis, I mean all he does

908
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,279
Speaker 1: is he got his teeth the one seed. Yeah, it's

909
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 1: incredible how little people talk. Now, I will say, in

910
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 1: the in objective discussions, usually they say it's down to three.

911
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: You know, it's embad, it's Yanna, it's your kis. But

912
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: I feel like the majority of the conversation has been

913
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:25,879
Speaker 1: embedding yr Kich until your point. I don't know if

914
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: it's Yanni's fatigue. Are we just tired of seeing him

915
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:32,399
Speaker 1: getting thirty five, fourteen and six. I don't know, but

916
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 1: he's legitimately one of those guys you can give the

917
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: MVP Award to every single season if you really wanted

918
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: to see you go. You're ready. Here's your odds he

919
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:44,760
Speaker 1: asked for right, the favorite, like you said, the Bucks

920
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: plus two eighty five. Okay, Boston second favorite plus three twenty,

921
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 1: Phoenix the favorite at West plus four or fifty six

922
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 1: years plus nine hundred, Denver plus a thousand, which is

923
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:08,399
Speaker 1: ten to one, Golden State thirteen to one, the Lakers

924
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 1: and Memphis both sixteen to one, Clippers twenty two to one,

925
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 1: Cavaliers forty five to one, and Sacramento seventy to one. Wow.

926
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,439
Speaker 1: So all those lines you just read off, which which

927
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: do you think will be the best bang for your

928
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,240
Speaker 1: buck from a value standpoint? I know which one stands

929
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 1: out to me? Is there one that stands out to you? Like, hey,

930
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: you know what, I throw a couple of shekels on

931
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: this one, like he's it out of the realm of

932
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 1: possibility that the Lakers at sixteen to one just roll through.

933
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:46,799
Speaker 1: Like to me, Phoenix would be the best value at

934
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 1: four and a half to one. But if you're looking

935
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: for a longer shot than the Lakers, yeah, I would

936
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: I would have said Phoenix for those odds. The Lakers

937
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: is tough because there's just so many things that have

938
00:52:57,520 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: to go right for them. So they have to be

939
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: able to stay healthy, which they haven't been able to

940
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 1: do all season long for a consistent stretch of time.

941
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,439
Speaker 1: One thing that will help them is there's no back

942
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:09,880
Speaker 1: to back games in the postseason. But but still they

943
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: they've had they've had a tough time keeping their guys

944
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: healthy and on the floor, So that will be the

945
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: only hesitancy for me in putting money down the Lakers.

946
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 1: But look at sixteen to one, these are still pretty

947
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 1: damn good odds, so certainly of value pizza that type

948
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,760
Speaker 1: of thing, right, the Lakers. But the Suns at plus

949
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 1: four fifty, that's hard, right because you're getting first of all,

950
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: the Bucks in the Celtics are gonna be one of

951
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 1: them is gonna beat each other, Right, you have three

952
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: of the four teams on the in the East at

953
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: the top odds. Meanwhile, Phoenix, who's being like, who's like,

954
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 1: I bring up the Lakers of possibility, who's beating them?

955
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: That's a good question. When they're they're rolling in their health, right,

956
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 1: when they're rolling, they're when they're when duranting the linement,

957
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 1: they're unbeaten. Yeah, including look, including the Lakers, to be

958
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:01,280
Speaker 1: honest with you, Yeah, So I I really don't if

959
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: everything is equal and the Suns are healthy going into

960
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 1: the postseason, they would if I had, if I had

961
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 1: to handicap it and give you a favorite, it will

962
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 1: be Phoenix to come out of the Western Conference. Yeah.

963
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:15,879
Speaker 1: And then you look at Phoenix, you go that teem's tough, right,

964
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 1: that team? You know they could easily there. Their only

965
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: issue is depth and lack thereof. But usually with teams

966
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: that are this stacked are top heavy, depth is a problem,

967
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: but it's not really necessary because you get to this

968
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 1: point in the season, you're going what seven eight deep anyway,

969
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe eight deep early on, and then

970
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: it gets you know, shrunken even more deeper into the

971
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 1: deeper and deeper you're getting into the postseason. So the

972
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: only issue is, I guess when you talk about lack

973
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 1: of depth. Is you know, Chris Paul is one of

974
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: your more important players, and we know the more and

975
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: more minutes he plays, the later and later in the season,

976
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 1: the more banged up he gets, and he's a vital

977
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 1: piece to what they're doing. So that will be my

978
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 1: only concern from that standpoint. But depth, you're gonna lack depth.

979
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,799
Speaker 1: You have four guys who eat up that much of

980
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: the salary cap and command that much attention. That just

981
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 1: comes with the territory. Yeah, I feel you on that,

982
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: and so you know, you look at that team, you go.

983
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,439
Speaker 1: I mean the other interesting thing is is you go,

984
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 1: is a team like the Clippers? Can the Clippers? Is

985
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: it crazy to think that all of a sudden, the

986
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 1: playoffs come around and they put it together first? I mean,

987
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: you listen, that's your squad, you know that team inside

988
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 1: it out? Yeah, I all. I forever I thought the

989
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: Clippers were going to be the team to be in

990
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:42,320
Speaker 1: the West. Oh, look, they were realized they were the favorites.

991
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: But at the beginning of the season, the Clippers worthy

992
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 1: favorites to come out of the Western Conference. I don't

993
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: know it was by far, but they were the clear

994
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 1: favorites to come out and injuries, low management, lack of continuity.

995
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: There are a lot of things working against them. But look,

996
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: even when they have been healthy at times this year,

997
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 1: they've just been really aching assistant. The team that was

998
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: supposed to be, you know, full of wings that can

999
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 1: be you know, defend, defend anybody and throw all these

1000
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 1: guys at you, they just have not been a good

1001
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,200
Speaker 1: defensive team. They've been average at best when they were

1002
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 1: supposed to be projected to be top three, and for

1003
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they've been really inconsistent all year long. And

1004
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: for me, it's really hard for me to see them

1005
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: just flipping the switch. Oh and by the way, Paul

1006
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 1: George is not going to be there, most likely for

1007
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:27,799
Speaker 1: the first round, so they have a lot of things

1008
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:30,359
Speaker 1: working against them. I don't know if I would feel

1009
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: necessarily confident staking my claim to the Clippers, especially considering

1010
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 1: who they're likely going to face in the first round,

1011
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns. So without Paul George in the mix,

1012
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: that's tough sledding. Yeah, I know what's up with PG. Well,

1013
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 1: he hyper extended his knee last week or two weeks ago.

1014
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 1: They said he was going to be reevaluated in three weeks,

1015
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:58,879
Speaker 1: so that's accounting for this upcoming week now that leads

1016
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: into the first week of the play offs, which is

1017
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 1: next Saturday, next Sunday, I believe. But again, all they

1018
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,439
Speaker 1: said is he's being reevaluated in three weeks. They didn't

1019
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: say he was returning into the lineup in three weeks.

1020
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: So I haven't heard any updates as far as how

1021
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: he's progressing or anything like that. So as of right now,

1022
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 1: I wouldn't expect him to necessarily be ready at least

1023
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 1: for the beginning of the postseason. Maybe he can join

1024
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: them after this, after the playoffs start, but you know,

1025
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 1: there's ramp up periods making sure that he you know,

1026
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: is well, you know, rehabbed and all that. So I

1027
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: think it's a real distinct possibility that he can miss

1028
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,600
Speaker 1: the entire first round of the playoffs. And there's also

1029
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 1: a distinct possibility that if they if they, if things

1030
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 1: hold now, right now, the Warriors are in the fifth seed,

1031
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 1: but the clip the Warriors have one game left, the

1032
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: Clippers have two. They played today and tomorrow they went

1033
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 1: out lock up the five seed. They're gonna have to

1034
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: go to Phoenix for the first round. And like I said,

1035
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: that's going to be that's a tough matchup with Paul George.

1036
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: Now you're talking about not having him in the lineup.

1037
00:57:53,320 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 1: That's difficult. Yeah, now, I know. I mean, I'm I'm

1038
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: hoping that you know, they can win, right if you

1039
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: if you survive and then you can you have Paul

1040
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: George coming back. That all of a sudden, you go,

1041
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:12,919
Speaker 1: all right, you know if they if they can win

1042
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 1: this series, they got a shot, they're go on a role.

1043
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because then you have momentum, you got PG

1044
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 1: back healthy. Look, you're probably not gonna get a more

1045
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 1: difficult matchup than Phoenix. Phoenix is like is not the

1046
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 1: one seed, but I mean, for all the tens and purposes,

1047
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 1: probably is being viewed as kind of like the one

1048
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 1: seed in the Western Conference. And by the way, I

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00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 1: will say, I know you don't like and most people

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00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: don't like Denver. I don't think the odds on Denver

1051
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: at ten to one are bad either, just because so

1052
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 1: many people are writing I don't like them. I agree,

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00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: you're well, you know I don't like them. Yeah, I

1054
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 1: just don't think they can win. I don't think and

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00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:53,560
Speaker 1: as an all due respect to the big guy he plays.

1056
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 1: When you play no defense and you're that bad defensively,

1057
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 1: I think that comes home the roost in the playoffs.

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00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: It certainly can. Like you know, I go back to

1059
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 1: the last time they were fully healthy, and it goes

1060
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: all the way back to the bubble. In twenty twenty,

1061
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: they come back from a three one deficit to beat

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00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: the Clippers. Anthony Davis has a game winning three point

1063
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 1: shot in the Western Conference Finals. If he doesn't make that,

1064
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 1: that series is tied to two, and who knows how

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00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: that plays out. So Denver knocked on the door the

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00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 1: last time they were healthy going into the postseason. They're

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00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 1: better now than they were then, So I know people

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00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 1: are willing ready to write them off. I still think

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00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: that they are a legitimate contender to come out of

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00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: the Western Conference. They're not my favorite, but I'm not

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00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 1: willing to say that they just are, that they're no

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00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 1: threat whatsoever. Yeah, yeah, no, it makes sense. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's take quick to will come right back continue our analysis.

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00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: Also going to give you some baseball. We got draft

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00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: on the horizon as well, where the fellas as We

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00:59:50,840 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 1: kick it right here on Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports

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01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:07,520
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Speaker 1: listen live. All right, Welcome back Fellas on Easter weekend

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Speaker 1: the Fellas, don't forget Fellas, come me live from the

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Speaker 1: ti iraq dot com studios. Figure the Easter thing unlike Christmas,

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01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 1: where you have all the Christmas movies, there's really no Easter.

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01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:49,959
Speaker 1: You know, flicks. You know, the bunny gets a little,

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01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 1: the rabbit gets a little love, but yeah, nothing much. Yeah,

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01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 1: it's like, as as a family, we watched Hop. So

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01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:01,600
Speaker 1: the daddy was watching sports on his on his phone,

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01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:05,160
Speaker 1: but you know, I might have been stinking glances, but

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01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: we as a family watched the movie Hop. I don't

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01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 1: know if I'm familiar with Hop. It's not. It's certainly

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01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:19,440
Speaker 1: not you know, the Santa Claus or Home Alone or

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01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 1: I'm saying, well, I remember Peter Cotton Tale cartoon I

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01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,440
Speaker 1: will watch when I was like five, But I'm outside

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01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 1: of that. To your point, I really don't know of

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01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:35,600
Speaker 1: any traditional Easter movies like that. Yes, which I don't

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01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 1: know if it's good or bad or I never really

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01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 1: thought about it, to be honest, because you think about it,

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01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 1: there's not even outside of plane trains and auntobiles, how

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Speaker 1: many things giving movies are there you think about it. No,

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01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 1: it's rights Thanksgiving. Now there's a couple of them, right,

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01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:57,160
Speaker 1: But you're right, h not like you know, the Christmas

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01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 1: gets all the all the flick, I really do, whereas

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01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:06,440
Speaker 1: Easter gets nothing. Easter gets really I mean, think about it,

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01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:09,439
Speaker 1: there's really no Easter, Like, what are you gonna after

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01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: a while, what are you gonna do with the Easter bunny?

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01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: Easter bunny inferior? You know Santa Claus? Right, I mean, certainly,

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01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 1: if you know, if you're if you're religious, maybe you

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01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:26,920
Speaker 1: will consider something like Passion of the Christ as a

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01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:29,160
Speaker 1: Easter movie. But I don't know if it was ever released,

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01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 1: was it released around Easter time? I don't get that

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01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 1: sense that right, I think I'm not sure. But yes,

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01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:40,400
Speaker 1: I mean it's obviously secular. But but you know, I

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01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:43,960
Speaker 1: mean that's a heavy yes, very I mean you know

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01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 1: the Christmas you know he stopped its falling? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.

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01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 1: So that's its funny because the kids were like, how

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01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 1: come there's no Easter movies? Go, Well, you know, it's

1117
01:02:57,160 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: got a different type of holiday Dad's so I gave

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01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 1: him one of those deals. But it was funny. We

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01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: sat around did our fat We do our usually once

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Speaker 1: a week to a family movie night, and you guys

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01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:11,560
Speaker 1: were searching for an Easter film. Yeah, so why we

1122
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:15,080
Speaker 1: watch hot like I've seen a hundred times. It's not

1123
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 1: really and it's not that good, you know. Okay, Russell

1124
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 1: brands in it as the Bay places that he's the

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01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 1: voice of the of the Easter Bunny. This is a

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01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 1: cartoon or like a yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah exactly interesting, Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:33,280
Speaker 1: Maybe we should spear hit that, get some some Easter

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Speaker 1: movies in the Yeah, you know, I mean maybe not.

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01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:42,320
Speaker 1: That's it's a it's a ripe market right for the pack.

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01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:45,040
Speaker 1: There's nothing there. The kids are like, you know, how

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01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 1: come is that there's a whole there's a whole the

1132
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 1: holiday movie game right now? What's going on? What's going

1133
01:03:50,560 --> 01:03:55,760
Speaker 1: on with that? Did you? They're all excited, Uh, as

1134
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 1: a lot of people are. The thought of the HBO

1135
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:03,240
Speaker 1: make the Harry Potter TV series. I saw a blurb

1136
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:06,960
Speaker 1: about that, so that that's a real thing that's actually happened. Yes, yes,

1137
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:10,280
Speaker 1: and they're gonna make entire an entire season based off

1138
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:15,000
Speaker 1: of each book slash film. Yes, yes, now I'm not

1139
01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:17,440
Speaker 1: a big Harry Potter geek. I did. I have watched

1140
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:20,360
Speaker 1: all of the movies. I did it with my wife.

1141
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:22,800
Speaker 1: I've never I was It's not like I was opposed

1142
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:25,240
Speaker 1: to watching them. I just hadn't done it. And they're

1143
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 1: good for what they are. It's solid for what it is.

1144
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:29,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm willing to sit there and

1145
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 1: watch an entire season or seven seasons, so you wouldn't

1146
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: being on it when you wouldn't being on the show. No,

1147
01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:38,920
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think so it's a

1148
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 1: great I mean I could see it being a great show.

1149
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:45,440
Speaker 1: I mean basically the movie, like every movie would be

1150
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 1: a season would correct you could do? Oh yeah, you

1151
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 1: easily could do. And there's a lot of stuff in

1152
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:54,480
Speaker 1: the books that are you know, and I did, and

1153
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:57,280
Speaker 1: I have never read any of the books, so obviously

1154
01:04:57,360 --> 01:04:59,080
Speaker 1: I haven't think there are things that are being that

1155
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 1: were left out for the films that you can expand

1156
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 1: upon even more, if you're spreading it out over an

1157
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:08,080
Speaker 1: entire season, it'll definitely be a big hit. But I

1158
01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 1: don't know if it's something that I would, you know,

1159
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 1: go out of my way to make sure that I watch. Yeah,

1160
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:16,000
Speaker 1: I mean that, you know, listen, I've seen it with

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01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,200
Speaker 1: the kids, So yeah, the kids, the kids dig it.

1162
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 1: And that's kind of where it is. Brother hits with

1163
01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 1: some trending. All right, Well, we have the NBA season.

1164
01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:27,800
Speaker 1: We have about four or five games on the slate today,

1165
01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:30,600
Speaker 1: I believe, and then tomorrow. Everybody plays on Sunday, that's

1166
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:35,040
Speaker 1: the final day the regular season. Well, a couple of

1167
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:37,640
Speaker 1: teams might because there's still a couple of things up

1168
01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:40,600
Speaker 1: for Crabs, especially when it comes to the playing tournament. Now,

1169
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,000
Speaker 1: everything in the Eastern Conference from the play and standpoint

1170
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:45,640
Speaker 1: has already been wrapped up. The Heat will host the

1171
01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:48,800
Speaker 1: Hawks and one Eastern Conference play game on Tuesday night.

1172
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:52,280
Speaker 1: On Wednesday, we'll have Chicago facing the Raptors in Toronto.

1173
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 1: As for the Western Conference, who had victories for Golden

1174
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:57,760
Speaker 1: State and the Lakers on Friday night. Now, if the

1175
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:01,120
Speaker 1: Warriors can defeat Portland, the last game of the season

1176
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:03,160
Speaker 1: for them, on Sunday, they would secure at least the

1177
01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 1: sixth seed in the Western Conference. Dallas has already officially

1178
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 1: been eliminated from the playoffs. They lost to the Bulls

1179
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 1: on Friday night after not playing really anyone of note.

1180
01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:14,440
Speaker 1: Luca don Chick got a cup of coffee, as Rob

1181
01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:17,160
Speaker 1: Parker would say, but that was pretty much it. Brooklyn

1182
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 1: getting the six seed out East. They will take on

1183
01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:21,680
Speaker 1: Anthony's seventy six ers in the first round in the

1184
01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:25,000
Speaker 1: six three matchup onto the Diamond Now. Evlon Gooria three

1185
01:06:25,080 --> 01:06:28,320
Speaker 1: hits in a home run off of Clayton Kershaw, leading

1186
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 1: Arizona over the Dodgers six to three. Bobichette went deep

1187
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 1: for the Blue Jays against the Angels, spoiling their home opener.

1188
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:37,560
Speaker 1: They won that game four to three. Brewers or six

1189
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 1: and one on the season. They shut out the Cardinals

1190
01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:42,920
Speaker 1: for nothing. Tampa Bay improves to seven and oh. They

1191
01:06:42,960 --> 01:06:46,120
Speaker 1: had five home runs and beat Oakland nine to five.

1192
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 1: They have won every game this year Anthony by at

1193
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:52,800
Speaker 1: least four runs. Not bad, not bad. Not a bad

1194
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:59,240
Speaker 1: start in Tampa Bay. Back to the fellas, Wow, I

1195
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:03,480
Speaker 1: dig the race. I have to tell you, honestly, they are.

1196
01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 1: They played great ball too, man, they play really good ball.

1197
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:11,040
Speaker 1: All right. Let me at you with this. So we

1198
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:16,680
Speaker 1: have not told masters and uh right now where it sits.

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01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:21,840
Speaker 1: Kepka is twelve under with the lead like and Figgy

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01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:24,640
Speaker 1: told you that there's still the second round needs to

1201
01:07:24,680 --> 01:07:29,440
Speaker 1: be played. There's rain coming in, so tomorrow is feels

1202
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:32,120
Speaker 1: like it could be in jeopardy as where when it

1203
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:35,320
Speaker 1: comes to at least the you know, the final on

1204
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:38,439
Speaker 1: on on Easter Sunday. Yeah, we might have been playing

1205
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:42,120
Speaker 1: this out until Monday. The way going right now? Yeah, exactly.

1206
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:46,920
Speaker 1: Um So Kepka at twelve on there is the leader,

1207
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:53,560
Speaker 1: Ram who's through nine holes is uh minus nine. He

1208
01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:58,560
Speaker 1: looks like he's back man, he's playing, he's incredible. Uh.

1209
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:01,880
Speaker 1: Victor Hoffland, who has has been, who had a great

1210
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:06,720
Speaker 1: first day, is one over through ten. We'll see if

1211
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:11,160
Speaker 1: he can reclaim his day. Jason Day's back man. He

1212
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:17,599
Speaker 1: looked great five under and he's uh, he's within striking distance.

1213
01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 1: He looked better early than late. I know he had

1214
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:21,840
Speaker 1: a double bogree. I don't know if it was on

1215
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:25,080
Speaker 1: sixteen or seventeen, but his U the back nine for

1216
01:08:25,160 --> 01:08:26,439
Speaker 1: him or was not as good as the front nine.

1217
01:08:26,479 --> 01:08:31,760
Speaker 1: I know that. Yep, Phil looks good. Phil through two

1218
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:35,719
Speaker 1: rounds sitting at mine is four so he's at four

1219
01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:41,280
Speaker 1: under and uh, it's interesting um and Scottie Scheffler, who

1220
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:45,000
Speaker 1: was such a beast. Yea, he sits at one at

1221
01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:48,479
Speaker 1: one under after going three over yesterday. It's world number

1222
01:08:48,479 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 1: one right there. A couple of bogie's, a double bogie,

1223
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:54,080
Speaker 1: not the best. And of course, to me, one of

1224
01:08:54,120 --> 01:08:57,920
Speaker 1: the bigger stories is Rory McElroy is going to miss

1225
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:02,599
Speaker 1: the cut. He's on his way home at five over.

1226
01:09:02,960 --> 01:09:08,640
Speaker 1: What a disappointment for McElroy. Everybody thought McIlroy would have

1227
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:12,080
Speaker 1: a big chance and that this would be his tournament

1228
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:16,320
Speaker 1: and he has been a disaster. He was a disaster. Yeah,

1229
01:09:16,439 --> 01:09:19,439
Speaker 1: just I don't know if the I can't say the

1230
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:21,320
Speaker 1: pressure of the tournament he got to him, the pressure

1231
01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 1: of expectation, although I will say over the last few

1232
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 1: years he has not necessarily done well in many of

1233
01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:29,639
Speaker 1: these majors. But yeah, super disappointing because, like we said,

1234
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:31,800
Speaker 1: a lot of people and Sergio Garcia is another one

1235
01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:34,280
Speaker 1: who a lot of people liked coming in and both

1236
01:09:34,320 --> 01:09:36,439
Speaker 1: of those guys, I think Sergio is also at five

1237
01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:39,080
Speaker 1: over and they're gonna miss the cut as well. So

1238
01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 1: disappointing from that standpoint, but I will say it's good

1239
01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:43,720
Speaker 1: to see that Brooks Keepka looks to have gotten his

1240
01:09:43,800 --> 01:09:46,679
Speaker 1: groove back. You know, I've mentioned the knee injury last year,

1241
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:48,960
Speaker 1: he's missed, he missed the cut the last two Masters.

1242
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:52,080
Speaker 1: So have getten off to a hot start these first

1243
01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 1: couple of rounds is a good sign for him. Yes, yes, yes,

1244
01:09:57,240 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 1: that's true. And he even said, you know, talking about

1245
01:10:00,320 --> 01:10:02,200
Speaker 1: to Live, he's a one of the Live guys, and

1246
01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 1: he said, really, the main reason why he joined Live

1247
01:10:04,160 --> 01:10:06,639
Speaker 1: is because he was uncertain about his future in golf

1248
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:09,320
Speaker 1: because of his knee injury. He was like, these guys

1249
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:11,280
Speaker 1: are all from me, guaranteed money. I have no idea

1250
01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:14,479
Speaker 1: what my future looks like. So that way extremely heavily

1251
01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 1: on my decision to go to Live. And if I

1252
01:10:16,120 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 1: was one hundred percent healthy, I might have made a

1253
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:23,840
Speaker 1: different decision. Yeah, it's funny because you wonder how that

1254
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Speaker 1: was going to play out, and at least I can't

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01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 1: when you when you when you say it like that,

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01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:32,440
Speaker 1: it's hard to criticize him, right, you know for that decision.

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01:10:32,520 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 1: Now you know that whole thing is crazy because they're

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01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:40,760
Speaker 1: they're all together and there's that you know, you could

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01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:44,679
Speaker 1: you feel the acrimony between them all. Oh, they froze

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01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:46,800
Speaker 1: out Phil Mickelson at the dinner of the night before,

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01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:50,080
Speaker 1: just didn't talk to him at all. Yeah, I mean

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01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:54,680
Speaker 1: it's yeah, there's definitely tension there and the look I

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01:10:54,920 --> 01:10:58,120
Speaker 1: certainly understand why some of the players are frustrated. I

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01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:00,640
Speaker 1: mentioned Sergio Garcia a second go, and I know he

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01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:02,800
Speaker 1: was quoted talking to the media the other day saying like,

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Speaker 1: let's can we stop talking about the PGA versus Live

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01:11:05,800 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 1: and just talk about the Masters, And to a certain degree,

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01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:12,840
Speaker 1: he's right. But on another hand, I mean, aren't we

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01:11:12,880 --> 01:11:14,680
Speaker 1: talking about golf a little bit more than we ever

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Speaker 1: have because of the Live tour and the controversy that

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Speaker 1: it's caused. And I think golf is kind of like

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01:11:20,640 --> 01:11:23,360
Speaker 1: one of is one of those sports where, you know,

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01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:27,000
Speaker 1: any publicity is good publicity to a degree. So the

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01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 1: fact that we're even talking about it to begin with it. Look,

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01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:31,639
Speaker 1: we've talked about this on the show before. The only

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01:11:31,680 --> 01:11:33,759
Speaker 1: reason that Live, you know, it got the guys that

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01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:36,280
Speaker 1: they got was because the PGA has been cheap for

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01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:39,000
Speaker 1: so many years with their purses, and it wasn't until

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01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys had a mass exodus going

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01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:43,840
Speaker 1: to the Live tour that PGA actually started offering more money.

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01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 1: Have they done this from the beginning. A lot of

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01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:48,000
Speaker 1: these guys, not all of them, but a lot of

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01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:50,760
Speaker 1: these guys wouldn't have jumped shipped. So the PGA to

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01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:54,280
Speaker 1: a certain degree as nobody to blame but themselves. Yeah,

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01:11:54,320 --> 01:11:57,280
Speaker 1: I agree, I think you're You're spot on, dude. I mean,

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01:11:57,320 --> 01:12:01,160
Speaker 1: it's it's the truth. That's a that's a whole reason why,

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01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:05,639
Speaker 1: you know, people were talking about it. And if you're

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01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 1: gonna do that and you're gonna have you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: cheap with your purses. Well that's that's kind of what

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Speaker 1: you get. Yeah, yeah, I mean long asok, no one's

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01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:16,599
Speaker 1: expecting you to doll out, you know, hundreds of millions

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01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:20,120
Speaker 1: of dollars. That's unreasonable. And obviously the Saudi Fund is

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01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:23,120
Speaker 1: the deepest pockets on the planet. But all they ask

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01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:25,880
Speaker 1: is for just a reasonable amount and PGA was not

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01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:28,519
Speaker 1: willing to do that for the longest time. And honestly,

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Speaker 1: why with they there was no competition. So and now

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Speaker 1: Live comes in. Whether or not Live will actually turn

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Speaker 1: into legit competition for the PGA, it probably won't, but

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Speaker 1: you never know. As of right now, it just seems

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01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:43,000
Speaker 1: like more of like a novelty. But these they're gonna

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Speaker 1: keep dolling out money to all these big star named players, then,

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01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: you know, more power to them by all means. I

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01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 1: think I think Live is good for the game of

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01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:53,880
Speaker 1: golf in general because we're talking about it more than

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01:12:53,920 --> 01:12:57,720
Speaker 1: we generally would. Yeah yeah, and then all the acrimony

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01:12:57,880 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 1: that you know, you know that plays Oh yeah, we

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01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:02,559
Speaker 1: want the drums drama right like drama plays that we

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01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:05,760
Speaker 1: know that, yeah yeah, and then end look especially for

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Speaker 1: what we do because absent that, what are we talking

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01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:15,320
Speaker 1: about is not this? So it's the truth. Uh, here's

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Speaker 1: your updated odds for them to win the Masters. Okay,

1312
01:13:18,640 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 1: so I'll throw it at you and you tell me

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01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:25,759
Speaker 1: who you like. So brooks kaep guys, you could imagine

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01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:29,519
Speaker 1: with that kind of lead. Now again, we're barely we're

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01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:35,599
Speaker 1: just about to hit the midway point as uh, guys

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01:13:35,680 --> 01:13:39,759
Speaker 1: need to finish. Keepka plus one forty as the favorite.

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Speaker 1: Ram plus one ninety. Morikawa plus is fourteen to one,

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Speaker 1: which shocks me because I wanted to check what more

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Speaker 1: He was the one that stood out to me. Remember

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01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 1: I said that to you earlier, Yeah yeah, Next in

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Speaker 1: the second round. So yeah, he did Hablin sixteen to one,

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01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:05,639
Speaker 1: cam Young eighteen to one, Speef twenty to one, Day

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01:14:05,920 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 1: twenty five to one, Burns thirty five to one, Bennett

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01:14:09,439 --> 01:14:14,679
Speaker 1: thirty five to one, Lowry fifty five to one. Who

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01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:18,599
Speaker 1: I would have a pizza bet? Interest in Adam Scott

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01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:21,479
Speaker 1: sixty to one, just to Rhode sixty five to one,

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Speaker 1: and Scheffler seventy to one. Interesting what would stand out

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01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:30,799
Speaker 1: to you? I kind of like the odds on speech,

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01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:34,599
Speaker 1: especially considering where he's sitting right now. Five d yeah,

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Speaker 1: seven back right now again. You can in this with

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01:14:38,240 --> 01:14:39,800
Speaker 1: that course. I mean you can make it. You can

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01:14:39,880 --> 01:14:42,360
Speaker 1: make it easily with that course and with the elements,

1333
01:14:42,800 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 1: with the wind. Who knows how this thing, how that

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01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 1: course is going to be affected, and how play is

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01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:48,920
Speaker 1: going to be affected. So that's really the wild card.

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Speaker 1: I like those odds for Speez, And if I was

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Speaker 1: really a gambler, I wouldn't mind the odds for Sam

1338
01:14:55,040 --> 01:14:56,640
Speaker 1: Bennett that you threw out there at too with a kid.

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01:14:58,040 --> 01:15:02,439
Speaker 1: So he is at eight eight on there, he looks great.

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01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:06,720
Speaker 1: He's the amateur, and you know, I mean that's that

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01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:11,839
Speaker 1: that's a that would be a fun thing. He's thirty

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01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:15,240
Speaker 1: five to one. I mean it's a pretty solid odds. Now,

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01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:18,320
Speaker 1: we'll say it's very difficult for an amateur. And if

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Speaker 1: it gets the crunch time and he's you know, hovering

1345
01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:22,720
Speaker 1: around the top three, four, five, you know, on the

1346
01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:25,639
Speaker 1: final day, you know, pressure is a is a big deal,

1347
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:27,760
Speaker 1: is a big thing, and it's something that he's never

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01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:30,360
Speaker 1: had to deal with before. Yeah, so that's something that

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01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:32,880
Speaker 1: point is that does that happen? Is that like the

1350
01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 1: the forever the one seed, the sixteen seed beating the

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01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:40,240
Speaker 1: one seed in the tournament. Yeah, it's gonna happen eventually,

1352
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 1: one of those situations, right, Yeah, maybe maybe right, it's possible.

1353
01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:49,000
Speaker 1: Now I'll use the the old statement that a lot

1354
01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:51,559
Speaker 1: of teams say when they say why not us? You know, yeah,

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01:15:51,640 --> 01:15:55,479
Speaker 1: why not SAYM been it? How about you give Lowry

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01:15:55,640 --> 01:15:59,880
Speaker 1: any love as a I mean, again, fifty five to one,

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01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:05,080
Speaker 1: I mean at those odds, I mean sure, but worth

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01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: the pizza bad at fifty I would say, so, Yeah,

1359
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:10,439
Speaker 1: ten bucks brings you back five fifty Yeah, why not?

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01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:12,760
Speaker 1: I've wasted ten bucks on a lot a lot of

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01:16:12,840 --> 01:16:17,760
Speaker 1: other things. Yeah, only because he still has he he

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01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:21,080
Speaker 1: still has half for a round to go eight shots back,

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01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 1: which is not insurmountable at all. As you mentioned, you know,

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01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:26,080
Speaker 1: shots to go left in this round with two or

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01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:28,880
Speaker 1: two more rounds to go, so still funny at time.

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01:16:29,120 --> 01:16:32,439
Speaker 1: And he fits the course. Yes, he always plays well here,

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01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:35,720
Speaker 1: so you know that's a possibility too. All right, We'll

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01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:39,040
Speaker 1: take a quick TiO, will come right back. I'm i

1369
01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:43,679
Speaker 1: some football. I need some football. Never too far away

1370
01:16:43,800 --> 01:16:47,840
Speaker 1: from football. He's figgy. I'm caused for the fellas right

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01:16:47,920 --> 01:17:03,920
Speaker 1: here Fox Sports Radio. Fellas from the tire Rack dot

1372
01:17:04,040 --> 01:17:13,600
Speaker 1: COM's studios. Uh, I'm curious, fake, What's what happens with

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01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:20,640
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson? Um? I I'd like to think that he

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Speaker 1: stays in Baltimore, signs the tender. It's gonna be a

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01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:27,000
Speaker 1: little acrimonious. It's gonna be, you know, tough with him

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01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:30,760
Speaker 1: in the front office. But ultimately, um, he's not look

1377
01:17:30,840 --> 01:17:34,280
Speaker 1: the market is not there for what he's looking for. Unfortunately,

1378
01:17:34,360 --> 01:17:37,080
Speaker 1: I still feel like not having an agent is a

1379
01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 1: bigger issue than people in the media are trying to

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01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:40,920
Speaker 1: make it out to be. I agree. And people have

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01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:44,360
Speaker 1: reached out there, season reached out, they've kind of cut there.

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01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:48,120
Speaker 1: They offered the cut Yeah, their percentage just to help

1383
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:51,960
Speaker 1: the gees. Yeah, I just think that it's it's hurting

1384
01:17:52,040 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 1: his cause. And look, maybe you have a deal done

1385
01:17:54,479 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 1: if he already had an agent. It's just very difficult

1386
01:17:57,200 --> 01:17:59,400
Speaker 1: because the problem is you're trying to do something that's

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01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:02,640
Speaker 1: it's not unprecedented because Deshaun Watson just did it, but

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Speaker 1: for the for the most part, it is Deshaun Watson

1389
01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:08,120
Speaker 1: is the only player that's really done something to this scale.

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01:18:08,200 --> 01:18:10,040
Speaker 1: I know Kirk Cousins had a lot of guaranteed money

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01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:12,600
Speaker 1: when he signed his deal with Minnesota. You're trying to

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01:18:12,680 --> 01:18:15,960
Speaker 1: do this with no background in negotiations in the NFL,

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01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 1: with knowing how the inner workings of how these things

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01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:20,880
Speaker 1: go man and then so on top of the fact

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01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:23,160
Speaker 1: that you have no experience in doing it, you're asking

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01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:26,720
Speaker 1: for something that has only been done twice and really

1397
01:18:26,840 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 1: once at this scale. There's just a lot of things

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01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:31,120
Speaker 1: working against him at this point in time. I don't

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01:18:31,160 --> 01:18:33,599
Speaker 1: know who his advisors are. Maybe it is just his mother.

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01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:36,120
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I don't know if he's been well

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01:18:36,160 --> 01:18:40,560
Speaker 1: advised in this particular situation. Nah, dude, I feel you.

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01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:45,320
Speaker 1: It's a shame too, because it's kind of a mess. Yeah,

1403
01:18:45,360 --> 01:18:50,519
Speaker 1: the whole thing is really just not good. And you know,

1404
01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:54,360
Speaker 1: there's there's I don't know how I don't know what

1405
01:18:54,520 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: the resolution is for him. Yeah, I think I don't know.

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01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:03,240
Speaker 1: He seems like so dug again. Yeah, I think he is. Now.

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01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 1: It gets more and more real the closer and closer

1408
01:19:06,080 --> 01:19:09,000
Speaker 1: you get to training camp. And I firmly believe that

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01:19:09,120 --> 01:19:11,880
Speaker 1: as of right now, the Baltimore Ravens are prepared to

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01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:15,160
Speaker 1: move on like they are prepared to either, you know,

1411
01:19:15,360 --> 01:19:17,240
Speaker 1: if if they have to give the reins to Huntley

1412
01:19:17,320 --> 01:19:20,439
Speaker 1: for a year as a bridge. You know, Erica Costa

1413
01:19:20,479 --> 01:19:23,120
Speaker 1: spoke to the media this week and certainly didn't you know,

1414
01:19:23,439 --> 01:19:25,919
Speaker 1: the spel any ideas that they might take a quarterback

1415
01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:28,840
Speaker 1: at some point in the draft. And look, if you're them,

1416
01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:30,400
Speaker 1: you have to think that way. You know this guy.

1417
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:32,639
Speaker 1: You can't let this guy hold you hostage this entire

1418
01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:35,680
Speaker 1: time either. So, you know, I think the as of

1419
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:38,000
Speaker 1: right now, the options for Lamar Jackson is you signed

1420
01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:40,400
Speaker 1: the tent, You either signed the extension that Baltimore is

1421
01:19:40,439 --> 01:19:44,559
Speaker 1: offering you signed the tender, or you pull the Levon bell.

1422
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:46,640
Speaker 1: And I don't think that's something he wants to do,

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01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:48,920
Speaker 1: and I know that's also something I would never advise

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01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:52,960
Speaker 1: him to do. Nah Man, And look, if you want

1425
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:55,080
Speaker 1: to be traded, then you know you have to change

1426
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:57,960
Speaker 1: your asking price. Because if he changes his asking price,

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01:19:58,320 --> 01:20:00,840
Speaker 1: I think there'd be a a flood of teams who

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01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:03,120
Speaker 1: will be interested. You're telling me Atlanta wouldn't be interested

1429
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:06,000
Speaker 1: in having Lamar Jackson and the author Smith offense. Come on,

1430
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:11,080
Speaker 1: it's right on Indianapolis, on the fast track, indoors Houston.

1431
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:12,920
Speaker 1: I know it's a bit of a rebuild, but to

1432
01:20:12,960 --> 01:20:16,680
Speaker 1: bring a star player in there, get people, you accelerate

1433
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:20,200
Speaker 1: what you're doing. Yeah, and again you know, you know

1434
01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:22,920
Speaker 1: you're talking about a guy that is a you know,

1435
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:28,200
Speaker 1: an electric flying player. Right, he just stay is now

1436
01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:31,479
Speaker 1: again Now there's see, here's the problem because I can

1437
01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:36,439
Speaker 1: look at it from Baltimore standpoint and go, He's still

1438
01:20:36,920 --> 01:20:41,200
Speaker 1: had there's still issues with him with his throwing and

1439
01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:45,400
Speaker 1: how he navigates the pass game. Yes, and he's vulnerable

1440
01:20:45,479 --> 01:20:47,599
Speaker 1: in the run game. Injuries have crept up the last

1441
01:20:47,640 --> 01:20:50,479
Speaker 1: couple of years, which is something that Arthur Blank brought up,

1442
01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:54,320
Speaker 1: which is not inaccurate. I'll say that, but he is

1443
01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:56,640
Speaker 1: very dynamic when he actually is on the field at

1444
01:20:56,720 --> 01:20:59,479
Speaker 1: least during the regular season. So all that has something

1445
01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:02,639
Speaker 1: to taken to consideration. I don't even necessarily mind giving

1446
01:21:02,720 --> 01:21:06,120
Speaker 1: him a lot of money, even if it's guaranteed. But

1447
01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:08,160
Speaker 1: there's no way I'm giving him a lot of guaranteed

1448
01:21:08,200 --> 01:21:10,920
Speaker 1: money beyond a two to three year contract, and I

1449
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:14,040
Speaker 1: know he wants more than that. I just I can't

1450
01:21:14,080 --> 01:21:15,800
Speaker 1: stake my claim to a guy with a lot of

1451
01:21:15,880 --> 01:21:19,840
Speaker 1: money who hasn't played a full season in three to

1452
01:21:19,920 --> 01:21:24,040
Speaker 1: four years, and who I know that running the ball

1453
01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:26,320
Speaker 1: is a key part of his game. And he's not big,

1454
01:21:26,439 --> 01:21:29,880
Speaker 1: He's not Cam Newton or Ben roethlisbergers. He's light. You know,

1455
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:34,000
Speaker 1: he's fairly frail. So he lamar has a lot of things.

1456
01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:37,000
Speaker 1: As talented as he is and as much as robust

1457
01:21:37,040 --> 01:21:39,440
Speaker 1: of a market as he would have in a normal situation,

1458
01:21:40,040 --> 01:21:43,400
Speaker 1: there's just a lot of things working against him right now. Yeah,

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01:21:43,479 --> 01:21:47,479
Speaker 1: and you know again, you know it's it's easy for

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Speaker 1: us as fans. You go, you gotta pictures, pay the guy,

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01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:53,320
Speaker 1: pay the guy. Yeah, well, when you have, when you

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01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:57,600
Speaker 1: have a guy like him, he's gonna hold your franchise hostage.

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01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:02,960
Speaker 1: That's what those contracts do they hold you hostage? And

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01:22:03,120 --> 01:22:05,479
Speaker 1: when you have a guy like that that can potentially

1465
01:22:05,560 --> 01:22:09,280
Speaker 1: hold you hostage, that's a big deal. That's why you

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01:22:09,360 --> 01:22:12,400
Speaker 1: can't go into it just going oh, I'll just pay him.

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01:22:13,680 --> 01:22:16,640
Speaker 1: Doesn't work like that. Yeah, I mean that sets you

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01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:20,160
Speaker 1: back for you know, three years you're and then you

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01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:23,439
Speaker 1: got to rebuild after that, right, and you know, the

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01:22:23,680 --> 01:22:26,439
Speaker 1: universe forbid that you sign him. And then in week

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01:22:26,520 --> 01:22:29,960
Speaker 1: four something happens, he gets injured and is never the

1472
01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:31,640
Speaker 1: same or is out for the year, and all of

1473
01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:34,640
Speaker 1: a sudden, you're out forty plus million dollars for the

1474
01:22:34,720 --> 01:22:36,760
Speaker 1: next three seasons to a guy who's a shell of

1475
01:22:36,840 --> 01:22:40,080
Speaker 1: himself when you signed him. Worse, you know, it's the

1476
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:44,439
Speaker 1: money's only the is what you gotta eat. But worse

1477
01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:49,599
Speaker 1: is you're done from true contention. Yeah, for the next

1478
01:22:49,840 --> 01:22:52,599
Speaker 1: you know, a handful of years, which affects everything where

1479
01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:55,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose you know, ten times to forty million

1480
01:22:56,000 --> 01:23:01,559
Speaker 1: just did merch and you know Gate Food, that stuffy

1481
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:04,600
Speaker 1: sponsored dollars. You know, when things are down, you know,

1482
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:07,519
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the sponsored dollars the deals that

1483
01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:11,439
Speaker 1: you sign are a little less. Absolutely, Yeah, it has

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01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:14,240
Speaker 1: an entire ripple effect. So I don't begrudge any of

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01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:16,920
Speaker 1: these NFL teams for having reservations from to meet Lamar

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01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:21,000
Speaker 1: Jackson's price, because quite honestly, right now his price isn't reasonable. Yeah,

1487
01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: that's the truth. We do a little draft coming up

1488
01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:28,600
Speaker 1: next hour. I want to kind of tie into that,

1489
01:23:29,439 --> 01:23:32,320
Speaker 1: so we'll get a little NFL draft action where the

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01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:40,200
Speaker 1: Fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio. Well, good morning,

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01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:50,200
Speaker 1: happy happy Easter Saturday, where the Fellas whole crew with us,

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01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:56,559
Speaker 1: I may Figgy, I'm because and we got our may

1493
01:23:56,720 --> 01:24:01,880
Speaker 1: Patrick as our producer and for ething in and you

1494
01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:09,559
Speaker 1: know our may Man, Chicago's finest. That's right, Mark Mighty

1495
01:24:09,680 --> 01:24:13,320
Speaker 1: Mark is uh our sound engineer. As we get to

1496
01:24:13,400 --> 01:24:16,639
Speaker 1: hang out as daybreak in the East Coast, hope everybody

1497
01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:20,639
Speaker 1: has had a is having a nice holiday weekend, had

1498
01:24:20,760 --> 01:24:26,320
Speaker 1: blessed passover and uh happy Easter is uh we celebrate spring.

1499
01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:32,040
Speaker 1: It is springs. It is baseball, baseball which has gotten

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01:24:32,360 --> 01:24:40,960
Speaker 1: rave remarks. Ray people love the rave reviews all about baseball.

1501
01:24:41,840 --> 01:24:45,759
Speaker 1: Over the first week and change of the season, people

1502
01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:50,320
Speaker 1: are throwing all kinds of bouquets Baseball's away, which actually

1503
01:24:50,439 --> 01:24:54,479
Speaker 1: warms my heart. Yeah, it's a sports geek. Fig. I agree. Well,

1504
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:56,800
Speaker 1: you know, and and we discussed this and the all

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01:24:56,880 --> 01:24:59,400
Speaker 1: season once the rule changes are put in place, and

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01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:02,000
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of traditionalists were against it. It

1507
01:25:02,120 --> 01:25:04,240
Speaker 1: was like, guys are gonna be sped up. It's not

1508
01:25:04,320 --> 01:25:06,959
Speaker 1: gonna be there's gonna be no rhythm, it's gonna be ridiculous.

1509
01:25:07,280 --> 01:25:09,400
Speaker 1: And look, there have been some bumps. You know, Tim

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01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:12,200
Speaker 1: Anderson got ejected earlier this week, Manny Machado got ejected

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01:25:12,240 --> 01:25:15,240
Speaker 1: in the first inning. But look, major League Baseball told

1512
01:25:15,280 --> 01:25:17,280
Speaker 1: the umpires, you guys have to really be staunch and

1513
01:25:17,360 --> 01:25:19,360
Speaker 1: stick to the rules. You have to drilling into the

1514
01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:22,360
Speaker 1: players that we're serious about this. So look, I'd rather

1515
01:25:22,400 --> 01:25:24,439
Speaker 1: think guys take these lumps now than you know, when

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01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:26,680
Speaker 1: we're in Pennant races in all because September. So it's

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01:25:26,720 --> 01:25:29,920
Speaker 1: gonna be tough. But for the most part from fans

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01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:32,120
Speaker 1: i've heard from, I'm not sure what the reaction has

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01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:35,519
Speaker 1: been and the guys you've talked to, fans, fans and otherwise, Anthony,

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01:25:35,680 --> 01:25:38,080
Speaker 1: but to your point, from what I've heard, has mostly

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01:25:38,120 --> 01:25:39,680
Speaker 1: been positive. People are like, well, you know, if this

1522
01:25:39,800 --> 01:25:42,439
Speaker 1: wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. Yeah,

1523
01:25:42,520 --> 01:25:45,320
Speaker 1: lots people are loving it. You know, they're just loving it,

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01:25:45,479 --> 01:25:48,920
Speaker 1: which actually makes me feel really good. Can and here's

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01:25:48,960 --> 01:25:54,320
Speaker 1: my question to you, can baseball make a comeback? And

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01:25:54,479 --> 01:25:59,679
Speaker 1: when I say comeback, I mean can baseball become back

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01:25:59,760 --> 01:26:03,960
Speaker 1: to where it used to be? Uh? Maybe I'll say

1528
01:26:05,880 --> 01:26:09,800
Speaker 1: in you know, the never gonna like surpass football, So

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01:26:09,880 --> 01:26:15,559
Speaker 1: I understand that, But can baseball get back to being

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01:26:15,720 --> 01:26:19,920
Speaker 1: number two? Can it surpass the NBA? I mean, with

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01:26:20,080 --> 01:26:22,639
Speaker 1: current trends go on the way that they are, it's possible.

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01:26:22,920 --> 01:26:25,680
Speaker 1: Where the NBA has Major League Baseball beat is the

1533
01:26:26,400 --> 01:26:29,479
Speaker 1: you know, is the youth is kids. You know that

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01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:33,240
Speaker 1: the NBA is the ultimate social media uh you know,

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01:26:33,439 --> 01:26:37,439
Speaker 1: sport um And that's something that baseball just doesn't lend

1536
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:39,920
Speaker 1: itself to. One of the most ingenious things the NBA did.

1537
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:42,559
Speaker 1: And they have their copyrights in place, but they usually

1538
01:26:42,560 --> 01:26:44,960
Speaker 1: don't crack down on people taking highlights from games and

1539
01:26:45,080 --> 01:26:47,720
Speaker 1: throwing them all over the place on YouTube because they

1540
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:51,000
Speaker 1: just know it's free exposure for the product. Major League

1541
01:26:51,040 --> 01:26:54,479
Speaker 1: Baseball is just a shark if they if the one

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01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:56,880
Speaker 1: highlight pops up on something unauthorized, they are the first

1543
01:26:56,880 --> 01:26:58,639
Speaker 1: people to come and say, nope, take that down. Take

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01:26:58,680 --> 01:27:02,360
Speaker 1: that down. We at the Fox Sports Radio network aren't

1545
01:27:02,400 --> 01:27:05,200
Speaker 1: even allowed to play baseball highlights until a game is over.

1546
01:27:06,120 --> 01:27:09,479
Speaker 1: It's just very archaic and today's And look, baseball is

1547
01:27:09,479 --> 01:27:14,400
Speaker 1: always the last to do everything right. Yeah, they're they're

1548
01:27:14,400 --> 01:27:15,880
Speaker 1: the last to do everything. But I think if they

1549
01:27:15,960 --> 01:27:18,680
Speaker 1: open things up, you know, allow fans to go out

1550
01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:21,120
Speaker 1: and do their thing and just continue to promote the product,

1551
01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:24,360
Speaker 1: it would only help. So Baseball I think is hurting

1552
01:27:24,400 --> 01:27:25,960
Speaker 1: itself when it comes to it. And look, people have

1553
01:27:26,080 --> 01:27:29,040
Speaker 1: talked marketing and promotion as being a major issue from

1554
01:27:29,040 --> 01:27:32,960
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball for decades and I still think though

1555
01:27:32,960 --> 01:27:37,559
Speaker 1: they've made small incremental inroads, that's still somewhere something an

1556
01:27:37,600 --> 01:27:41,320
Speaker 1: area that they're lacking, behind the NFL and absolutely behind

1557
01:27:41,360 --> 01:27:46,120
Speaker 1: the NBA. Yeah, a great point, I fig when you

1558
01:27:46,200 --> 01:27:49,559
Speaker 1: talk about that, because that is that's a big deal

1559
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:53,000
Speaker 1: for Major League Baseball, and you know, you gotta get

1560
01:27:53,080 --> 01:27:56,760
Speaker 1: people talking, you gotta get people buzzing about it, and

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01:27:56,960 --> 01:28:01,240
Speaker 1: and less with baseball and used to have that doesn't

1562
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:05,920
Speaker 1: have anymore. Is baseball used to be the national game, right,

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01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:10,680
Speaker 1: the whole national pastime of baseball. People would stop and

1564
01:28:10,960 --> 01:28:15,160
Speaker 1: watch like so or the playoffs came around the World Series,

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01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:21,000
Speaker 1: everybody watched it, right, everybody, the whole nation stopped. Kids

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01:28:21,400 --> 01:28:24,560
Speaker 1: you know, would come home from school. I mean the

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01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:27,439
Speaker 1: thing was played during the day or whatever, and like,

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01:28:27,680 --> 01:28:30,160
Speaker 1: you know, baseball was a big deal, Like you watched

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01:28:30,920 --> 01:28:33,639
Speaker 1: all those national games, like I remember as a kid,

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01:28:34,680 --> 01:28:37,040
Speaker 1: you know, the game of the week. You know, it's

1571
01:28:37,040 --> 01:28:39,120
Speaker 1: different now because you watch any game at any time

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01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:42,400
Speaker 1: and Fox does a great job with you know, all

1573
01:28:42,439 --> 01:28:44,639
Speaker 1: the stuff. But it was like the Saturday game a week.

1574
01:28:44,680 --> 01:28:47,160
Speaker 1: It was special and you watched it and it was like,

1575
01:28:47,240 --> 01:28:49,280
Speaker 1: oh man, who was who was going to be on

1576
01:28:49,439 --> 01:28:52,000
Speaker 1: this week? And you know, and I lived in a

1577
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:54,920
Speaker 1: National League city and so if you saw you know,

1578
01:28:55,080 --> 01:28:58,040
Speaker 1: Tigers Angels, you sat and watched it. And I would

1579
01:28:58,080 --> 01:28:59,600
Speaker 1: watch the whole game like you'd sit there on a

1580
01:28:59,640 --> 01:29:02,120
Speaker 1: Saturday have to do, especially if the weather wasn't nice,

1581
01:29:02,439 --> 01:29:05,080
Speaker 1: you would watch the whole game. Yeah, it was a novelty. Yeah,

1582
01:29:05,720 --> 01:29:08,000
Speaker 1: and you were like, wow, awesome, you know you're way

1583
01:29:08,160 --> 01:29:11,760
Speaker 1: you just watch the ball. And everybody watched the World

1584
01:29:11,800 --> 01:29:14,120
Speaker 1: Series like you want. The World Series was must see.

1585
01:29:14,240 --> 01:29:20,960
Speaker 1: Now Football is national, NBA is national, whereas baseball became

1586
01:29:21,040 --> 01:29:24,280
Speaker 1: more regional, and they got to get back to being

1587
01:29:24,360 --> 01:29:27,400
Speaker 1: in a national game as well as region. Yeah, and

1588
01:29:27,560 --> 01:29:29,360
Speaker 1: you know and talking about you know, having the game

1589
01:29:29,439 --> 01:29:31,000
Speaker 1: of the week being such a big deal back in

1590
01:29:31,080 --> 01:29:33,760
Speaker 1: the day, I do think part of that hurts the

1591
01:29:33,920 --> 01:29:37,880
Speaker 1: NBA too. While it's good that anybody on any coast,

1592
01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:40,200
Speaker 1: in any country, in any time zone can watch an

1593
01:29:40,280 --> 01:29:42,920
Speaker 1: NBA game live if they want to, and the Major

1594
01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:47,240
Speaker 1: League Baseball, you know, it makes those those marquee matchups

1595
01:29:47,280 --> 01:29:49,439
Speaker 1: a little bit less special because I can see the

1596
01:29:49,479 --> 01:29:51,840
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors literally every single night if I want to.

1597
01:29:52,520 --> 01:29:54,160
Speaker 1: As opposed to you know, if this was you know,

1598
01:29:54,400 --> 01:29:57,080
Speaker 1: thirty years ago, you may only see them if they

1599
01:29:57,080 --> 01:29:58,400
Speaker 1: are out of your market, if you don't live in

1600
01:29:58,439 --> 01:30:00,559
Speaker 1: the Bay Area, or they didn't come to your talent

1601
01:30:00,600 --> 01:30:02,880
Speaker 1: on a particular day. The only time you'd see them

1602
01:30:03,000 --> 01:30:04,760
Speaker 1: was the you know, six seven, eight times they'd be

1603
01:30:04,840 --> 01:30:07,880
Speaker 1: on CBS, NBC or whatever else. You know, one thing

1604
01:30:07,920 --> 01:30:10,400
Speaker 1: that helps the NFL is and I've talked about it

1605
01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:13,560
Speaker 1: all the time, is the scarcity. Scarcity aspect of it.

1606
01:30:14,080 --> 01:30:15,680
Speaker 1: It's only a couple of days a week. There's a

1607
01:30:15,680 --> 01:30:17,479
Speaker 1: lot of games going on at once. You can watch

1608
01:30:17,600 --> 01:30:19,640
Speaker 1: the red zone with all the scoring if you want to.

1609
01:30:20,320 --> 01:30:22,679
Speaker 1: It's a it is a it's still a novelty because

1610
01:30:22,720 --> 01:30:24,400
Speaker 1: it's not something that you can watch all the time.

1611
01:30:24,439 --> 01:30:26,960
Speaker 1: It goes back to, you know, talking about We've had

1612
01:30:27,040 --> 01:30:29,160
Speaker 1: this discussion before, even when Lincoln was still with us,

1613
01:30:29,200 --> 01:30:32,960
Speaker 1: about you know, wanting NFL games on every single solitary

1614
01:30:33,080 --> 01:30:35,320
Speaker 1: night of the weekend. I said, don't do that. I'm

1615
01:30:35,360 --> 01:30:37,800
Speaker 1: telling you it's gonna be bad. You know, it's good

1616
01:30:37,880 --> 01:30:40,120
Speaker 1: that it's scarce, that it's only on a couple of

1617
01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:42,880
Speaker 1: days per week. I saw Mike Florio write something the

1618
01:30:42,960 --> 01:30:45,240
Speaker 1: other day about the NFL potentially trying to elbow its

1619
01:30:45,280 --> 01:30:49,640
Speaker 1: way into the Tuesdays and Wednesdays, trying to I know,

1620
01:30:49,920 --> 01:30:53,320
Speaker 1: I mean, negotiate with Congress for a while. The crypt

1621
01:30:53,400 --> 01:30:55,960
Speaker 1: keeper had that. Yeah, but we've been talking about that

1622
01:30:56,080 --> 01:30:58,280
Speaker 1: for a while. Yeah, And I just I don't think

1623
01:30:58,320 --> 01:30:59,960
Speaker 1: it's the best thing for the game. I really don't.

1624
01:31:01,120 --> 01:31:02,880
Speaker 1: I think what helps the NFL is the fact that

1625
01:31:02,960 --> 01:31:06,000
Speaker 1: it's scarce. Here's the here's let me let me play

1626
01:31:06,040 --> 01:31:08,679
Speaker 1: Devil's advocate. Listen that we've been having this argument forever.

1627
01:31:08,800 --> 01:31:15,960
Speaker 1: I'm listening. The idea that you go from February all

1628
01:31:16,080 --> 01:31:22,320
Speaker 1: the way this September for meaningful games. It is enough

1629
01:31:22,680 --> 01:31:28,960
Speaker 1: of uh is enough? Right, Like like it's it's the

1630
01:31:29,200 --> 01:31:33,759
Speaker 1: shortest of all the seasons. So because like the NBA

1631
01:31:34,080 --> 01:31:38,160
Speaker 1: is you know nine months, yeah, and baseball's forever as well, right,

1632
01:31:38,280 --> 01:31:41,639
Speaker 1: so you got these team in hockey, right, long seasons,

1633
01:31:41,920 --> 01:31:46,479
Speaker 1: So football is very short. So being at football is

1634
01:31:46,640 --> 01:31:50,800
Speaker 1: very short. I think you could you can maximize and

1635
01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:54,519
Speaker 1: do a little. You know, you got all those games,

1636
01:31:54,600 --> 01:31:57,880
Speaker 1: Like here's my argument. You have how many games on

1637
01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:05,840
Speaker 1: the Sunday Monday night to go buy? Right, why not

1638
01:32:06,160 --> 01:32:10,320
Speaker 1: take from that inventory because you can't watch all the

1639
01:32:10,439 --> 01:32:14,760
Speaker 1: games anyway, right, take from the inventory, spread them out

1640
01:32:14,800 --> 01:32:19,280
Speaker 1: through the week, and then you got football, so you

1641
01:32:19,360 --> 01:32:21,600
Speaker 1: know you don't have to watch like nobody's fortuning you

1642
01:32:22,280 --> 01:32:28,559
Speaker 1: to watch Tuesday night football, right, but if you I mean, look,

1643
01:32:28,600 --> 01:32:31,840
Speaker 1: we're and look at Amazon right now struggling to get

1644
01:32:31,920 --> 01:32:34,640
Speaker 1: viewers for their Thursday night package because they have some

1645
01:32:34,760 --> 01:32:37,439
Speaker 1: doll games. Like it's a little if you can cluster

1646
01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:40,280
Speaker 1: them all to or is it just people have to

1647
01:32:40,320 --> 01:32:44,280
Speaker 1: get used to remember the Amazon piece you still have

1648
01:32:44,400 --> 01:32:47,960
Speaker 1: to get. You have to sign in. You can't change channels.

1649
01:32:48,840 --> 01:32:52,559
Speaker 1: You know, it's one thing about Amazon and if you're

1650
01:32:52,600 --> 01:32:55,920
Speaker 1: a sports fan, you're a clicker, right, and so you

1651
01:32:56,000 --> 01:32:58,760
Speaker 1: know to a degree you click away from commer I

1652
01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:02,320
Speaker 1: don't know about you, but immercial generous speaking, I do.

1653
01:33:02,640 --> 01:33:05,599
Speaker 1: Let's put it this way. If Amazon had the same

1654
01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:09,000
Speaker 1: package as Sunday Night Football with NBC, and I know

1655
01:33:09,080 --> 01:33:11,840
Speaker 1: they discussed flexing and they're not on Thursdays, which I

1656
01:33:11,880 --> 01:33:13,560
Speaker 1: think is ridiculous, and maybe we can talk about that

1657
01:33:13,560 --> 01:33:15,960
Speaker 1: at some point too. But I say, if the Amazon

1658
01:33:16,040 --> 01:33:18,479
Speaker 1: package was Sunday Night Football with the with flexing and

1659
01:33:18,560 --> 01:33:20,439
Speaker 1: all that, do you think they'd have good numbers even

1660
01:33:20,479 --> 01:33:22,560
Speaker 1: though it's streaming only. Do you think they would have

1661
01:33:22,680 --> 01:33:24,400
Speaker 1: better numbers than they had this past year with a

1662
01:33:24,439 --> 01:33:27,680
Speaker 1: Thursday night pack. Yeah, So so that that's the thing

1663
01:33:27,760 --> 01:33:29,439
Speaker 1: for me, So I don't if it's less about the

1664
01:33:29,479 --> 01:33:34,760
Speaker 1: streaming and just more about having mark. Yeah, it's not easy,

1665
01:33:34,840 --> 01:33:40,000
Speaker 1: like the sports fan themselves, right, Like listen, each I

1666
01:33:40,080 --> 01:33:42,040
Speaker 1: signed in, im in and then that's the game, right,

1667
01:33:42,360 --> 01:33:44,559
Speaker 1: and it signs it automatically. So it's not that big

1668
01:33:44,600 --> 01:33:48,080
Speaker 1: a deal. But I'm talking about it's just a it's

1669
01:33:48,120 --> 01:33:53,080
Speaker 1: an added layer of hassle when I want to go

1670
01:33:53,320 --> 01:33:55,320
Speaker 1: and go all right, let me go see what's going

1671
01:33:55,360 --> 01:33:58,000
Speaker 1: on for the commercial. Then I gotta go back in.

1672
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:02,080
Speaker 1: I gotta make sure, and then I gotta sign it again.

1673
01:34:02,200 --> 01:34:06,519
Speaker 1: And and it's just an added step. I'll take seconds.

1674
01:34:07,040 --> 01:34:11,000
Speaker 1: So it's not, you know, debilitating, But it's just a

1675
01:34:11,439 --> 01:34:15,160
Speaker 1: minor annoyance. Yeah that all of a sudden you click away,

1676
01:34:15,240 --> 01:34:17,280
Speaker 1: you go all right, Well, I don't feel like dal

1677
01:34:17,400 --> 01:34:20,120
Speaker 1: with that, but it's an annoyance you're willing to deal with.

1678
01:34:20,360 --> 01:34:23,360
Speaker 1: If it's the five and old Buffalo Bills taken on

1679
01:34:23,520 --> 01:34:26,759
Speaker 1: the four and one Cincinnati Bengals, Joe Burrow versus Josh Allen,

1680
01:34:27,320 --> 01:34:30,400
Speaker 1: you'll you'll deal with it. Versus on a random Thursday night,

1681
01:34:30,680 --> 01:34:33,320
Speaker 1: you have the Carolina Panthers taking on the Chicago Bears,

1682
01:34:33,880 --> 01:34:35,960
Speaker 1: and who the hell knows is playing quarterback? You know

1683
01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:39,000
Speaker 1: what I mean? Not true? And listen, the more you

1684
01:34:39,200 --> 01:34:43,240
Speaker 1: expose the league, this is to your point. The more

1685
01:34:43,360 --> 01:34:50,360
Speaker 1: you expose the league these games to prime time, you're

1686
01:34:50,439 --> 01:34:53,960
Speaker 1: gonna expose bad games. Correct, So you know what I

1687
01:34:54,120 --> 01:34:57,639
Speaker 1: look all like this. I think the NFL is like pizza,

1688
01:34:58,800 --> 01:35:03,800
Speaker 1: Like there is no real bad pizza. Uh well, I've

1689
01:35:03,800 --> 01:35:06,280
Speaker 1: seen some bad NFL games. Let's I don't know if

1690
01:35:06,280 --> 01:35:08,800
Speaker 1: I go that far. But again, like, you know, here's

1691
01:35:08,840 --> 01:35:12,320
Speaker 1: the thing relative to what Like it's a Tuesday night

1692
01:35:13,920 --> 01:35:18,040
Speaker 1: and I go Tuesday night football? Like what am I

1693
01:35:18,160 --> 01:35:21,960
Speaker 1: doing Tuesday night? And I just want to veg out.

1694
01:35:22,880 --> 01:35:26,679
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it every night, but their nights

1695
01:35:26,680 --> 01:35:29,320
Speaker 1: when I want to veg you out and I'm missing

1696
01:35:29,439 --> 01:35:32,240
Speaker 1: Odd's Monday, Tuesday early in the week. What are you doing?

1697
01:35:33,520 --> 01:35:36,679
Speaker 1: So I go, I want to watch football, Like, I'd

1698
01:35:36,760 --> 01:35:40,960
Speaker 1: rather have Tuesday night football than Thursday football. Tuesday lights

1699
01:35:41,000 --> 01:35:45,320
Speaker 1: a bad night. Interesting? Why Tuesday over Thursday? What makes

1700
01:35:45,400 --> 01:35:50,760
Speaker 1: Thursday Tuesday? Thursday sucks? It's Tuesday. Tuesday's an inferior day

1701
01:35:50,800 --> 01:35:53,400
Speaker 1: the week. It's still early in the work week. You're

1702
01:35:53,439 --> 01:35:58,760
Speaker 1: hating on Tuesdays. Now, I hate Tuesday. Thursday's great because

1703
01:35:58,800 --> 01:36:02,439
Speaker 1: Thursday next day's Friday day. Okay, that's what it is,

1704
01:36:02,640 --> 01:36:07,840
Speaker 1: all right? He did thursdayly, you know, listen, Tuesday. What

1705
01:36:07,960 --> 01:36:10,200
Speaker 1: do I need football for? I tell you all the time,

1706
01:36:10,560 --> 01:36:16,680
Speaker 1: I need football to get me through dead periods. It's

1707
01:36:16,720 --> 01:36:19,559
Speaker 1: why I wanted to get through the month of February. Now,

1708
01:36:20,160 --> 01:36:21,800
Speaker 1: you know it's different for you on the West coast.

1709
01:36:21,880 --> 01:36:25,080
Speaker 1: But you know, when you're in the East Coast and

1710
01:36:25,280 --> 01:36:29,400
Speaker 1: you live in and it's cold and mucky and you

1711
01:36:29,520 --> 01:36:32,880
Speaker 1: can't go out, I need football to get me through it. Oh,

1712
01:36:32,960 --> 01:36:36,960
Speaker 1: hun't you watching the XFL. Yeah, I tried. I was

1713
01:36:37,040 --> 01:36:39,200
Speaker 1: in for a week. Yes, hey, you know what, and

1714
01:36:39,240 --> 01:36:43,360
Speaker 1: then I was right there with you. No, that's kind

1715
01:36:43,360 --> 01:36:45,360
Speaker 1: of how that's kind of how it played out. So

1716
01:36:45,920 --> 01:36:49,000
Speaker 1: so before so you were talking about having NFL every

1717
01:36:49,080 --> 01:36:51,280
Speaker 1: single solitary night of the week. So have you backed

1718
01:36:51,320 --> 01:36:53,400
Speaker 1: off of that now, because that's that's a discussion we

1719
01:36:53,479 --> 01:36:56,040
Speaker 1: had with Lincoln before. Well, that's not like, Okay, I

1720
01:36:56,160 --> 01:36:58,519
Speaker 1: need football to get me through. What is it getting

1721
01:36:58,520 --> 01:37:01,080
Speaker 1: you through? You're literally watching it on a day to

1722
01:37:01,160 --> 01:37:04,400
Speaker 1: day basis with no break in between, so you're not

1723
01:37:04,439 --> 01:37:10,560
Speaker 1: getting through anything. It's like, yeah, it's yeah, No, I

1724
01:37:10,800 --> 01:37:12,960
Speaker 1: listen to Danny Rojas. Football is life at that point.

1725
01:37:13,040 --> 01:37:16,320
Speaker 1: That's what it is. Yes, I love Danny Ross, which,

1726
01:37:16,400 --> 01:37:18,519
Speaker 1: by the way, I'd rather I'd rather watch a new

1727
01:37:18,560 --> 01:37:20,840
Speaker 1: episode of Ted Lasso on a Tuesday night than watch

1728
01:37:20,920 --> 01:37:24,400
Speaker 1: the Commanders play the Bears. How about that? Okay? So

1729
01:37:25,000 --> 01:37:29,160
Speaker 1: I love Ted last soo Zava, Yes, is my favorite

1730
01:37:30,200 --> 01:37:35,000
Speaker 1: greatest best. He is the best. I love that show.

1731
01:37:35,080 --> 01:37:37,120
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I love it. It's

1732
01:37:37,240 --> 01:37:40,640
Speaker 1: it's it's one of the it's amazing that it's a

1733
01:37:40,840 --> 01:37:45,400
Speaker 1: show that we all love. The brilliant to the show

1734
01:37:45,600 --> 01:37:50,439
Speaker 1: is that everybody it's impossible not to like Ted Lass agree, yep,

1735
01:37:51,479 --> 01:37:55,000
Speaker 1: So yeah, what I'd rather watch the Lasso, But you're

1736
01:37:55,040 --> 01:37:58,519
Speaker 1: the beauty of lassa is. I can watch Lasso whenever

1737
01:37:58,640 --> 01:38:01,720
Speaker 1: you want. This is true, man, So I could have

1738
01:38:01,840 --> 01:38:04,840
Speaker 1: my football and I could have Ted and to the

1739
01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:06,960
Speaker 1: arguments in your By the way, Ted's over at the

1740
01:38:07,040 --> 01:38:09,720
Speaker 1: end of the years, so it sucks. Well. Now I've

1741
01:38:09,760 --> 01:38:11,559
Speaker 1: heard that they I know they said this is gonna

1742
01:38:11,560 --> 01:38:13,360
Speaker 1: be the final season, but I've heard the rumblings that

1743
01:38:13,400 --> 01:38:15,679
Speaker 1: they might bring it back again. So we'll see. Oh really,

1744
01:38:15,720 --> 01:38:18,240
Speaker 1: I would love that. I wish they would. But one

1745
01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:21,400
Speaker 1: thing that works in favor of your argument, Anthony, is,

1746
01:38:21,600 --> 01:38:24,400
Speaker 1: you know, one of the few things that do work

1747
01:38:24,560 --> 01:38:27,799
Speaker 1: in live over the air TV these days is sports,

1748
01:38:28,200 --> 01:38:31,840
Speaker 1: and particularly football, because every other show, even if it

1749
01:38:31,920 --> 01:38:35,360
Speaker 1: comes on live you know, eight o'clock, you know, seventh Central,

1750
01:38:35,439 --> 01:38:39,479
Speaker 1: whatever on ABC, it's gonna be streaming on Hulu. Fifteen

1751
01:38:39,520 --> 01:38:43,200
Speaker 1: minutes later. So the urgency that you would have even

1752
01:38:43,280 --> 01:38:45,639
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years ago to cut, you know, rush home

1753
01:38:45,720 --> 01:38:48,040
Speaker 1: to watch your favorite show. You don't need to do

1754
01:38:48,160 --> 01:38:50,360
Speaker 1: that nowadays. You can watch it whenever you want. But

1755
01:38:50,520 --> 01:38:52,320
Speaker 1: live sports, you know, you have to be able to

1756
01:38:52,560 --> 01:38:55,000
Speaker 1: consume that life. And in fair it's like when you

1757
01:38:55,120 --> 01:38:59,840
Speaker 1: think about the other sports Bay, we just got the

1758
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:04,839
Speaker 1: two the regular season. I mean, right, half the games

1759
01:39:05,479 --> 01:39:10,560
Speaker 1: are just irrelevant and unwatchable. I mean, let's be honest, like,

1760
01:39:10,640 --> 01:39:13,960
Speaker 1: and I'm an NBA junkie like you are. Half the

1761
01:39:14,120 --> 01:39:20,440
Speaker 1: games are trash ire, not just playing stinky teams, bad basketball.

1762
01:39:20,720 --> 01:39:23,280
Speaker 1: So right off the bad half the game stink. Then

1763
01:39:23,360 --> 01:39:25,519
Speaker 1: you get the other half and you go, how many

1764
01:39:25,520 --> 01:39:27,720
Speaker 1: of them are really that good? Like, so now you're

1765
01:39:27,760 --> 01:39:31,360
Speaker 1: down to like a quarter of the games are really

1766
01:39:31,439 --> 01:39:34,880
Speaker 1: worth your time. And then the nature of the NBA,

1767
01:39:35,080 --> 01:39:39,880
Speaker 1: unless it's the playoffs. Are you crying because you missed

1768
01:39:40,280 --> 01:39:43,040
Speaker 1: again this is on television. Are you crying because you

1769
01:39:43,120 --> 01:39:46,280
Speaker 1: missed the first half? Not at all. I'm not crying

1770
01:39:46,320 --> 01:39:49,760
Speaker 1: if I missed the game, right, So, but to say

1771
01:39:49,800 --> 01:39:52,400
Speaker 1: you want to watch a game like to me six

1772
01:39:52,520 --> 01:39:56,360
Speaker 1: or Celtics, that's always like they can't miss. Okay ye, so,

1773
01:39:56,920 --> 01:39:59,360
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm a creature of habit. I need to

1774
01:39:59,439 --> 01:40:02,680
Speaker 1: be down for tip. But if I don't get the

1775
01:40:02,760 --> 01:40:04,800
Speaker 1: tip and I'm into the third quarter, I mean it's

1776
01:40:04,840 --> 01:40:08,200
Speaker 1: sixty eight sixty four, right, I go, all right, well,

1777
01:40:08,240 --> 01:40:10,000
Speaker 1: I'm now I got the I got the media. The

1778
01:40:10,040 --> 01:40:13,599
Speaker 1: game anyway, If the games sixty four to thirty two,

1779
01:40:14,280 --> 01:40:17,560
Speaker 1: then the game sucked. Anyway, it's not worth it. So

1780
01:40:18,080 --> 01:40:21,400
Speaker 1: that's the problem with regular season bet. Now NBA is

1781
01:40:21,439 --> 01:40:24,920
Speaker 1: a different story because NBA you watch from the from

1782
01:40:24,960 --> 01:40:27,920
Speaker 1: the jump. Same thing with hockey. Hockey playoffs are so

1783
01:40:28,080 --> 01:40:33,120
Speaker 1: amazing because they're playing and every shift up and down

1784
01:40:33,200 --> 01:40:38,080
Speaker 1: the ice matters. And then baseball it's impossible. And I'm

1785
01:40:38,120 --> 01:40:41,200
Speaker 1: a sports fan and I love baseball. Now I could

1786
01:40:41,240 --> 01:40:44,599
Speaker 1: sit there and watch a game, and I could even

1787
01:40:44,720 --> 01:40:49,960
Speaker 1: watch a game without clicking other than the commercial. Same

1788
01:40:50,520 --> 01:40:53,759
Speaker 1: all right, and I could watch it now. The chances

1789
01:40:53,800 --> 01:40:57,679
Speaker 1: are I'm on my phone, Um, I might be doing work.

1790
01:40:57,840 --> 01:41:00,640
Speaker 1: I might have it all as a background. Baseball is

1791
01:41:00,680 --> 01:41:02,960
Speaker 1: the perfect background sport. It is because you can look

1792
01:41:03,080 --> 01:41:04,400
Speaker 1: up and you go, all right, well, you know, I

1793
01:41:05,000 --> 01:41:07,599
Speaker 1: write a lot, so I could you know, I could write,

1794
01:41:07,720 --> 01:41:09,680
Speaker 1: I could the ball game all it's you know, it's

1795
01:41:09,760 --> 01:41:12,920
Speaker 1: part of my it's relaxing, and then I could spend

1796
01:41:13,080 --> 01:41:15,920
Speaker 1: five minutes and just zone in on the game and

1797
01:41:16,040 --> 01:41:22,240
Speaker 1: then zone back out. Right. But football, I'm locked right, Football,

1798
01:41:22,400 --> 01:41:25,600
Speaker 1: I'm I'm sitting there and I'm locked in, and I

1799
01:41:25,680 --> 01:41:27,479
Speaker 1: could you know, I might have my phone, but I'm

1800
01:41:27,560 --> 01:41:29,920
Speaker 1: I'm I'm watching the game. I feel like there's a

1801
01:41:29,960 --> 01:41:32,799
Speaker 1: baseball element of football games too, depending on the matchup

1802
01:41:32,840 --> 01:41:34,960
Speaker 1: and depending how it You know, how if it's Kansas

1803
01:41:35,000 --> 01:41:37,920
Speaker 1: City and Buffalo, probably not. But I mean some of

1804
01:41:38,000 --> 01:41:40,000
Speaker 1: these games it's not. You have to be, you know,

1805
01:41:40,080 --> 01:41:43,240
Speaker 1: on the edge of your seat. You know, every single

1806
01:41:43,400 --> 01:41:46,200
Speaker 1: every single week, your team you are if it's your

1807
01:41:46,200 --> 01:41:50,000
Speaker 1: individual team shore and then if it's not, you're right

1808
01:41:51,560 --> 01:41:54,240
Speaker 1: if it look, if it's a matchup between the three

1809
01:41:54,280 --> 01:42:01,760
Speaker 1: and seven uh Vikings versus the the four and eight Jaguars,

1810
01:42:02,200 --> 01:42:05,599
Speaker 1: you know, I hear you right now. I may watch

1811
01:42:05,680 --> 01:42:08,920
Speaker 1: it just because it's football in the same way it's

1812
01:42:08,960 --> 01:42:12,760
Speaker 1: college football. I'm watching college football. Yeah, like something like that.

1813
01:42:12,880 --> 01:42:15,280
Speaker 1: I might start watching it, and if it's not doing

1814
01:42:15,320 --> 01:42:17,960
Speaker 1: a lot for me, I will easily have no qualms.

1815
01:42:18,000 --> 01:42:19,760
Speaker 1: While turning it off and moving on to something else.

1816
01:42:20,760 --> 01:42:22,920
Speaker 1: The idea that I'm gonna watch NFL football for the

1817
01:42:22,920 --> 01:42:25,080
Speaker 1: simple fact that it's NFL football even if it's not

1818
01:42:25,200 --> 01:42:28,280
Speaker 1: good doesn't really fly with me at least to reach

1819
01:42:28,360 --> 01:42:33,040
Speaker 1: their own but not me. Yes, yes, you're right, All right,

1820
01:42:33,320 --> 01:42:36,880
Speaker 1: let's uh, we gotta put a pin. We'll rejoin the conversation.

1821
01:42:37,520 --> 01:42:40,720
Speaker 1: Talk a little draft as well. Where the fellas right

1822
01:42:40,840 --> 01:42:52,040
Speaker 1: here on Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome back fellas

1823
01:42:55,560 --> 01:43:01,840
Speaker 1: on this Easter weekend, fellas hanging out from the tirak

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01:43:02,040 --> 01:43:05,080
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1829
01:43:23,120 --> 01:43:28,280
Speaker 1: little draft action. My man Patrick, who's producing us today

1830
01:43:29,240 --> 01:43:33,840
Speaker 1: is a big Seattle fan and he's got two selections

1831
01:43:33,920 --> 01:43:37,679
Speaker 1: in the first round. He's all kicking out, brother nice,

1832
01:43:37,800 --> 01:43:41,720
Speaker 1: I like it, So why oh, I'm totally geeking out.

1833
01:43:42,040 --> 01:43:44,400
Speaker 1: What are you feeling? Their pet? Ah? You know what,

1834
01:43:44,640 --> 01:43:49,160
Speaker 1: I'm honestly filling with pick number five. Like gut feeling

1835
01:43:49,320 --> 01:43:52,560
Speaker 1: right now, just with the whole QB craziness going on,

1836
01:43:52,720 --> 01:43:58,160
Speaker 1: I'm feeling Will Anderson Junior to Seattle at five. Okay,

1837
01:43:58,280 --> 01:44:01,760
Speaker 1: Will Anderson would be awesome. I love Will Anderson. You

1838
01:44:01,920 --> 01:44:07,360
Speaker 1: get back your you get back to your Seattle Uh identity,

1839
01:44:07,920 --> 01:44:13,960
Speaker 1: which is defense, our rock as defense. Yeah, you're bringing

1840
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:17,400
Speaker 1: back Bobby Wagner. You have the kid cornerback who played

1841
01:44:17,439 --> 01:44:21,240
Speaker 1: super well for you last year as a rookie. Yeah,

1842
01:44:21,280 --> 01:44:24,120
Speaker 1: wool and that's it. Yeah, And you get a potentially

1843
01:44:24,160 --> 01:44:27,639
Speaker 1: an impact pass rusher like Will Anderson. LB version two

1844
01:44:27,840 --> 01:44:33,000
Speaker 1: could be honest way LB two electric boogaloo coming right

1845
01:44:33,080 --> 01:44:36,320
Speaker 1: at you. Yea, I like it. So let me ask you,

1846
01:44:36,600 --> 01:44:44,720
Speaker 1: fag Uh you have the number one pick your Caroline? Yep?

1847
01:44:45,280 --> 01:44:48,960
Speaker 1: Who do you? Who? Do you go? Bryce? Young? You go? Bryce?

1848
01:44:49,200 --> 01:44:53,720
Speaker 1: Don't even think twice about it. As many reservations as

1849
01:44:53,800 --> 01:44:57,920
Speaker 1: I have about size, I can't overlook production, I can't

1850
01:44:57,960 --> 01:45:02,120
Speaker 1: overlook instincts. Why if he was two inches taller, there

1851
01:45:02,160 --> 01:45:04,040
Speaker 1: will be no question in anybody's mind that this guy

1852
01:45:04,080 --> 01:45:05,960
Speaker 1: would be the top overall pick. And it wouldn't be close.

1853
01:45:06,280 --> 01:45:10,000
Speaker 1: Ye wouldn't it be close? And it's not. He's not,

1854
01:45:10,400 --> 01:45:14,800
Speaker 1: you know, Kyler Murray Cg's good and he showed it.

1855
01:45:14,880 --> 01:45:18,240
Speaker 1: He showed well against Georgia in the playoff game. He

1856
01:45:18,400 --> 01:45:21,479
Speaker 1: did things that he typically has not, uh, scrambled out

1857
01:45:21,520 --> 01:45:23,599
Speaker 1: of you know, out of pressure, you know, made throws

1858
01:45:23,720 --> 01:45:26,000
Speaker 1: off schedule, scrambling out of the pocket and throwing on

1859
01:45:26,040 --> 01:45:28,240
Speaker 1: the run. You know you if you look at the

1860
01:45:28,320 --> 01:45:31,080
Speaker 1: majority of his games, it kind of looks a lot

1861
01:45:31,160 --> 01:45:34,240
Speaker 1: like other Ohio State quarterbacks over the last six seven years.

1862
01:45:34,720 --> 01:45:38,479
Speaker 1: Super clean, pocket, well defined throws. Not to take away

1863
01:45:38,520 --> 01:45:40,600
Speaker 1: from his natural talent and ability, and he could be

1864
01:45:40,680 --> 01:45:43,479
Speaker 1: a very good pro. But there are just innate things

1865
01:45:43,520 --> 01:45:45,640
Speaker 1: that play in the position that Bryce Young does that

1866
01:45:45,760 --> 01:45:49,880
Speaker 1: nobody else in this draft does at the quarterback position.

1867
01:45:50,200 --> 01:45:53,320
Speaker 1: So I do have reservations about his height and his

1868
01:45:53,439 --> 01:45:57,879
Speaker 1: durability because of his size. But I see a standout,

1869
01:45:58,000 --> 01:46:00,880
Speaker 1: dynamic player like that that can play from the pocket.

1870
01:46:01,000 --> 01:46:02,639
Speaker 1: You know he can, he can run, but he doesn't

1871
01:46:02,640 --> 01:46:04,519
Speaker 1: really run all that. Let me ask you a question.

1872
01:46:04,640 --> 01:46:06,600
Speaker 1: I will you're right. But it's one thing when you

1873
01:46:06,680 --> 01:46:10,200
Speaker 1: have throwing windows in college football which are gaping, and

1874
01:46:10,320 --> 01:46:14,719
Speaker 1: another thing in the NFL and the idea about being

1875
01:46:14,760 --> 01:46:17,080
Speaker 1: able to see over the over the line of scrimmage

1876
01:46:17,120 --> 01:46:20,040
Speaker 1: and be able to navigate from the pocket at that height. Well, look,

1877
01:46:20,080 --> 01:46:22,800
Speaker 1: it's certainly not easy, but Drew Brees was able to

1878
01:46:22,840 --> 01:46:29,000
Speaker 1: do it, Yeah, by doing you know, levin step drops. Okay,

1879
01:46:29,120 --> 01:46:31,479
Speaker 1: I mean whatever it takes. And even Bryce younges even

1880
01:46:31,520 --> 01:46:33,560
Speaker 1: more now he's not as thick as Drew Brees was.

1881
01:46:33,600 --> 01:46:35,720
Speaker 1: And again him being lightened the loafers is kind of

1882
01:46:35,840 --> 01:46:40,040
Speaker 1: is tough. But I just I just see a next

1883
01:46:40,120 --> 01:46:46,519
Speaker 1: level all star caliber quarterback with Bryce Young, I really do. Yeah, Listen,

1884
01:46:46,800 --> 01:46:51,000
Speaker 1: I think he's supremely challenged. You know, I maybe I'm

1885
01:46:51,040 --> 01:46:58,840
Speaker 1: the sizest, but when I look at CJ, I I

1886
01:46:59,200 --> 01:47:04,200
Speaker 1: feel like it's safer. Yeah. I mean, look, it's safer

1887
01:47:04,320 --> 01:47:07,320
Speaker 1: because I think he's got a big arm. I think

1888
01:47:07,400 --> 01:47:12,040
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's six to four, he could run.

1889
01:47:12,479 --> 01:47:14,600
Speaker 1: He's got the art like there's nothing he does that

1890
01:47:14,720 --> 01:47:17,720
Speaker 1: really had. Now he's got to get honed right like

1891
01:47:17,880 --> 01:47:21,040
Speaker 1: he's he I agree with you that Bryce Young is

1892
01:47:21,120 --> 01:47:26,840
Speaker 1: a much more polished quarterback. Yeah, And you're talking about

1893
01:47:26,880 --> 01:47:29,840
Speaker 1: guys like making like well defined throws college versus pros.

1894
01:47:30,360 --> 01:47:33,080
Speaker 1: There are tough throws that Bryce Young has made, and honestly,

1895
01:47:33,160 --> 01:47:35,840
Speaker 1: this past season a lot of tough throws he had

1896
01:47:35,880 --> 01:47:38,760
Speaker 1: to make because he didn't have standout talent around him. Yeah,

1897
01:47:39,560 --> 01:47:42,600
Speaker 1: Stroud has three first round picks playing receiver, like you know,

1898
01:47:42,960 --> 01:47:45,040
Speaker 1: and I holding that it gets them, but it's just

1899
01:47:45,120 --> 01:47:48,920
Speaker 1: the reality of the situation. And Ohio State routinely over

1900
01:47:48,960 --> 01:47:51,080
Speaker 1: the last few years has guys running wide open all

1901
01:47:51,120 --> 01:47:53,720
Speaker 1: over the field. Credit all credits to the players making

1902
01:47:53,760 --> 01:47:57,599
Speaker 1: the plays. Credit every receiver is a first round pick.

1903
01:47:57,760 --> 01:48:00,719
Speaker 1: But again, I'm going back to this past season. Bryce

1904
01:48:00,800 --> 01:48:05,479
Speaker 1: Young made every single play possible without having the highest

1905
01:48:05,520 --> 01:48:08,479
Speaker 1: quality of caliber receiver around him. And that's the true

1906
01:48:08,520 --> 01:48:11,439
Speaker 1: mark for me, at least of a truly great quarterback

1907
01:48:11,520 --> 01:48:13,559
Speaker 1: when you can elevate the players around you and make

1908
01:48:13,640 --> 01:48:16,960
Speaker 1: plays even when they aren't the most talented. Yeah, so

1909
01:48:17,200 --> 01:48:19,800
Speaker 1: he has examples of being able to do that. C J.

1910
01:48:19,960 --> 01:48:22,200
Speaker 1: Strout doesn't. Doesn't mean c J. Strous is not going

1911
01:48:22,280 --> 01:48:24,639
Speaker 1: to be a good player, shouldn't be a high draft pick.

1912
01:48:24,920 --> 01:48:27,519
Speaker 1: Not saying any of that, but if you're asking me

1913
01:48:27,600 --> 01:48:29,559
Speaker 1: who I'm taking, I'm taking Bryce Young, and I don't

1914
01:48:29,600 --> 01:48:34,280
Speaker 1: think twice about it. So there's a site that I love.

1915
01:48:34,360 --> 01:48:38,280
Speaker 1: I've referenced the four called the thirty third team great

1916
01:48:38,360 --> 01:48:43,879
Speaker 1: site or coaches executives. Right, it's the best football website

1917
01:48:43,920 --> 01:48:48,840
Speaker 1: out there. So they have their big board, and I

1918
01:48:48,920 --> 01:48:51,960
Speaker 1: pay attention to their big board. Okay. Now, their big

1919
01:48:52,120 --> 01:48:58,080
Speaker 1: board is overall talent, no matter why. Okay, like, regardless

1920
01:48:58,160 --> 01:49:02,040
Speaker 1: of position, and they just go with a greed. It's

1921
01:49:02,120 --> 01:49:07,240
Speaker 1: all about how they grade the player. So this is interesting.

1922
01:49:07,720 --> 01:49:11,599
Speaker 1: So let me give you the big board. The big

1923
01:49:11,720 --> 01:49:17,280
Speaker 1: board is number one, Broderick Jones, that tackle out of

1924
01:49:17,400 --> 01:49:23,200
Speaker 1: Georgia is the highest graded player at the grade him

1925
01:49:23,200 --> 01:49:28,599
Speaker 1: at the seven point zero eight. Okay, Number two Clinton Johnston,

1926
01:49:28,760 --> 01:49:32,920
Speaker 1: who is the receiver out of TCU stud I mean,

1927
01:49:33,080 --> 01:49:38,479
Speaker 1: just you know, complete stard sixty three, could run, got

1928
01:49:38,600 --> 01:49:44,559
Speaker 1: great hands, great body control. Number three on the big board. Dude,

1929
01:49:45,240 --> 01:49:52,559
Speaker 1: this is unbelievable. Will Levis is the third ranked player

1930
01:49:52,720 --> 01:49:56,240
Speaker 1: on their big board. Now, look, I'm obviously not a

1931
01:49:56,360 --> 01:50:01,760
Speaker 1: coach or a scout or anything, but I certainly I'm questioning, uh,

1932
01:50:02,840 --> 01:50:06,600
Speaker 1: the evaluations of the people at the thirty thirteen that

1933
01:50:06,600 --> 01:50:08,720
Speaker 1: they will put Will Levis as their third highest paid

1934
01:50:08,880 --> 01:50:12,960
Speaker 1: prospect regardless of position. That is very surprising to me.

1935
01:50:13,760 --> 01:50:16,200
Speaker 1: Now it all goes back down the grade, right, so

1936
01:50:16,439 --> 01:50:19,559
Speaker 1: who you know they're grading this, but like grading him

1937
01:50:19,600 --> 01:50:21,080
Speaker 1: out based on how they project him to go to

1938
01:50:21,120 --> 01:50:26,280
Speaker 1: the pros or just intangibles or physical as a player,

1939
01:50:26,560 --> 01:50:31,800
Speaker 1: well not future. And obviously where teams are looking at

1940
01:50:32,120 --> 01:50:35,599
Speaker 1: at Bryce Young and and they're looking at even even

1941
01:50:35,880 --> 01:50:39,000
Speaker 1: uh and C. J. Stroud and even Anthony Richardson, they're

1942
01:50:39,040 --> 01:50:43,160
Speaker 1: looking at mobility like they you know, Will will Levis

1943
01:50:43,320 --> 01:50:47,240
Speaker 1: if this was nineteen eighty seven, is the number one

1944
01:50:47,280 --> 01:50:49,400
Speaker 1: overall pick. Oh well, it is not a statue. He

1945
01:50:49,439 --> 01:50:52,160
Speaker 1: can move a little bit. He's not as those guys, right,

1946
01:50:52,400 --> 01:50:54,639
Speaker 1: I mean he's look I mean like he's hurdling guys.

1947
01:50:54,640 --> 01:50:56,400
Speaker 1: He's he can make plays with his legs. He's not

1948
01:50:56,520 --> 01:50:59,280
Speaker 1: Drew Josh Allen. He's not He's not Josh Allen. But

1949
01:50:59,280 --> 01:51:01,320
Speaker 1: he's not Drew bled So you know what I mean. Yes,

1950
01:51:01,520 --> 01:51:03,360
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't say that he's a statue and he

1951
01:51:03,400 --> 01:51:08,240
Speaker 1: can't move, right that. If it's nineteen eighty seven, Will

1952
01:51:08,360 --> 01:51:13,520
Speaker 1: Levis is probably the first the first quarterback off the board, probably,

1953
01:51:13,840 --> 01:51:16,000
Speaker 1: but it certainly wouldn't be based off of just your

1954
01:51:16,040 --> 01:51:19,200
Speaker 1: production because if you actually watch the play, especially in

1955
01:51:19,280 --> 01:51:21,800
Speaker 1: games that mattered. He came up small a lot, and

1956
01:51:21,960 --> 01:51:24,600
Speaker 1: for at least for me, it's a lot. You know,

1957
01:51:24,760 --> 01:51:27,720
Speaker 1: you look at I mean, it's Kentucky versus Alabama or

1958
01:51:27,800 --> 01:51:32,680
Speaker 1: Hive State. All right, But if you're Kentucky and at

1959
01:51:32,760 --> 01:51:34,719
Speaker 1: times you're ranked in the top ten and you're supposed

1960
01:51:34,720 --> 01:51:37,160
Speaker 1: to be good and they've been a good program, so

1961
01:51:37,400 --> 01:51:41,320
Speaker 1: he is not. They don't get superior athletes. Offensively. Their

1962
01:51:41,400 --> 01:51:46,679
Speaker 1: defense was good Kentucky, but offensively they didn't have playmakers. Fairness,

1963
01:51:47,040 --> 01:51:49,920
Speaker 1: you're all right. I mean, like if you're if you're

1964
01:51:49,960 --> 01:51:52,840
Speaker 1: a standout great quarterback, if Bryce Young can do it,

1965
01:51:54,120 --> 01:52:00,760
Speaker 1: why can't you. The level of receiver at Alabama, even

1966
01:52:00,880 --> 01:52:03,920
Speaker 1: in a down year, is light years ahead of kid.

1967
01:52:04,000 --> 01:52:06,559
Speaker 1: What kild talk he's gett. Have you seen Will Levis

1968
01:52:06,640 --> 01:52:09,519
Speaker 1: in a game saying a while, that's that's NFL right there.

1969
01:52:10,320 --> 01:52:13,600
Speaker 1: I think he's got an NFL armor. He has NFL measurables.

1970
01:52:13,680 --> 01:52:15,240
Speaker 1: But I mean, yeah, I don't know if he has

1971
01:52:15,360 --> 01:52:19,360
Speaker 1: NFL intangibles. Yeah, I mean I don't. You know, I'll

1972
01:52:19,400 --> 01:52:25,920
Speaker 1: be honest with you. I mean it's hard to differentiate.

1973
01:52:26,040 --> 01:52:29,880
Speaker 1: Like I look at it clearly. I mean, you know

1974
01:52:30,080 --> 01:52:33,240
Speaker 1: we're talking about twenty twenty three. My ry argument was

1975
01:52:34,080 --> 01:52:38,639
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen eighty seven, scout's go he's six four.

1976
01:52:39,720 --> 01:52:44,559
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, who's the next guy? Right? While Bryce Young? Yeah, well,

1977
01:52:44,560 --> 01:52:47,080
Speaker 1: also in nineteen eighty seven, you're building around running backs

1978
01:52:47,120 --> 01:52:48,760
Speaker 1: more than quarterbacks. So it's like, we just want a

1979
01:52:48,800 --> 01:52:50,719
Speaker 1: guy that's big, that can throw the ball deep downfield.

1980
01:52:50,720 --> 01:52:53,800
Speaker 1: We don't care about completion percentage. So from that standpoint,

1981
01:52:55,200 --> 01:53:00,360
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Yes, But again, now the big board. Again,

1982
01:53:00,400 --> 01:53:02,599
Speaker 1: here's the other thing. Dude, this is just grading out,

1983
01:53:03,400 --> 01:53:08,160
Speaker 1: and he grades out the third highest prospect, I don't

1984
01:53:08,160 --> 01:53:14,960
Speaker 1: see it. Yeah, the fourth prospect is Jaylen Carter. Okay,

1985
01:53:15,960 --> 01:53:21,519
Speaker 1: Number five is will Anderson, which really shocks me that

1986
01:53:21,640 --> 01:53:23,680
Speaker 1: he comes in at seven because I don't see any

1987
01:53:23,720 --> 01:53:26,960
Speaker 1: flaw in his game. Uh, I've I've seen some people

1988
01:53:27,080 --> 01:53:29,240
Speaker 1: raise some questions about you know that you know, as

1989
01:53:29,280 --> 01:53:32,519
Speaker 1: good as he is, the little stiff, oh no, that

1990
01:53:32,600 --> 01:53:34,679
Speaker 1: he's a little stiff, that when he's played against better

1991
01:53:34,840 --> 01:53:37,000
Speaker 1: comp but the better left tackles that he's not really

1992
01:53:37,080 --> 01:53:39,360
Speaker 1: done a lot and you're judged against the better players

1993
01:53:39,400 --> 01:53:42,040
Speaker 1: you play against, that he racks up you know, big

1994
01:53:42,080 --> 01:53:44,479
Speaker 1: time sacks against you know, the san Jose States of

1995
01:53:44,560 --> 01:53:47,000
Speaker 1: the World, but doesn't necessarily make a lot of the

1996
01:53:47,080 --> 01:53:50,519
Speaker 1: plays against the Georgia's on a consistent basis. So those

1997
01:53:50,560 --> 01:53:53,200
Speaker 1: are things that and you're nitpicking. But when you're the

1998
01:53:53,320 --> 01:53:54,960
Speaker 1: stakes are this high and you're this top at the

1999
01:53:55,000 --> 01:53:57,840
Speaker 1: top of the draft, you're gonna doesn't mean I don't

2000
01:53:57,840 --> 01:53:59,439
Speaker 1: think he's a great player. And if I take him

2001
01:53:59,479 --> 01:54:02,120
Speaker 1: the top ten, sure, but based based on the things

2002
01:54:02,200 --> 01:54:03,680
Speaker 1: that I've heard over the last few weeks, with the

2003
01:54:04,080 --> 01:54:06,920
Speaker 1: extended evaluations, it would not surprise me that he would

2004
01:54:07,000 --> 01:54:09,960
Speaker 1: check in at five, six, seven, eight on somebody's board.

2005
01:54:10,840 --> 01:54:16,720
Speaker 1: All right, number six would take guests number six? Uh,

2006
01:54:19,320 --> 01:54:24,040
Speaker 1: Beijean Robinson? Yes, wow, I know somebody we wouldn't expect

2007
01:54:24,640 --> 01:54:30,519
Speaker 1: Bejean who I love dore Bejean Robinson because if I'm

2008
01:54:30,600 --> 01:54:34,040
Speaker 1: the Eagles, I'm trying to get the Eagles take Bejean Robins. Yeah,

2009
01:54:34,720 --> 01:54:36,800
Speaker 1: which we've discussed. Should look. I think there are certain

2010
01:54:36,880 --> 01:54:39,280
Speaker 1: running backs who are worth. Running Backs who are three

2011
01:54:39,320 --> 01:54:41,440
Speaker 1: down players, you know, who can catch the ball out

2012
01:54:41,440 --> 01:54:43,840
Speaker 1: of backfield as well as run the ball up the middle,

2013
01:54:45,040 --> 01:54:46,920
Speaker 1: I think are worth the first round pick. Now, I

2014
01:54:46,960 --> 01:54:48,640
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm taking him in the top fifteen.

2015
01:54:48,720 --> 01:54:51,520
Speaker 1: But if we're talking in the twenties, which where the

2016
01:54:51,560 --> 01:54:55,000
Speaker 1: Eagles will be, then yeah, absolutely, yeah, Well they're a

2017
01:54:55,080 --> 01:54:58,040
Speaker 1: ten in thirty one. In fact, they can maneuver back, right.

2018
01:54:58,520 --> 01:55:00,720
Speaker 1: You know I wouldn't take him at ten. No, I

2019
01:55:00,760 --> 01:55:02,480
Speaker 1: wouldn't either. I don't think you have to. I think

2020
01:55:02,520 --> 01:55:06,040
Speaker 1: you could trade back at ten. Now, if Jayalen Carters there,

2021
01:55:06,080 --> 01:55:08,960
Speaker 1: it'll stay. And take Jaylen Carter and put Jalen Carter

2022
01:55:09,040 --> 01:55:12,240
Speaker 1: with Jordan Davis and go there's my book and tackles

2023
01:55:12,280 --> 01:55:15,120
Speaker 1: for the future. So you've heard nothing about them being

2024
01:55:15,200 --> 01:55:17,680
Speaker 1: turned off of Jalen Carter at all. No, I think

2025
01:55:17,800 --> 01:55:22,160
Speaker 1: the opposite. Until they love him. My guess is now,

2026
01:55:23,080 --> 01:55:28,800
Speaker 1: also put your detective hat on. And the fact that

2027
01:55:28,880 --> 01:55:34,120
Speaker 1: their day take no meetings with teams outside the outside

2028
01:55:34,320 --> 01:55:37,080
Speaker 1: the top ten usually means you got to promise from somebody.

2029
01:55:37,400 --> 01:55:42,480
Speaker 1: And Drew Rosenhouse, I know, has a good relationship with Howie.

2030
01:55:43,600 --> 01:55:46,600
Speaker 1: So Howie rose with the Gym and they of the Eagles,

2031
01:55:47,200 --> 01:55:51,560
Speaker 1: And my guess is Howie says, listen, you remains there

2032
01:55:51,600 --> 01:55:55,880
Speaker 1: at ten, I'm I'm taking them. Okay, that's my guess.

2033
01:55:55,960 --> 01:55:59,280
Speaker 1: All right, that's that's a that's adds a reasonable guests, absolutely,

2034
01:56:00,200 --> 01:56:02,920
Speaker 1: and I do know that I would believe that they

2035
01:56:02,960 --> 01:56:05,200
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2036
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2042
01:56:27,840 --> 01:56:31,280
Speaker 1: go back to the NBA. The season over on Sunday.

2043
01:56:31,520 --> 01:56:34,040
Speaker 1: Some a playoff position and getting locked up, specifically in

2044
01:56:34,080 --> 01:56:37,360
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference. Play in situation is all set Tuesday night,

2045
01:56:37,400 --> 01:56:39,680
Speaker 1: Miami will host Atlanta. That it will be the seven

2046
01:56:39,800 --> 01:56:42,440
Speaker 1: eight matchup. The loser of that game will face the

2047
01:56:42,480 --> 01:56:45,080
Speaker 1: winner of the nine verses ten contests that'll be between

2048
01:56:45,120 --> 01:56:47,800
Speaker 1: the Bulls and the Raptors in Toronto, and we'll take

2049
01:56:47,880 --> 01:56:51,600
Speaker 1: place on Wednesday night. Bulls defeated Dallas on Friday. Dallas

2050
01:56:51,880 --> 01:56:54,880
Speaker 1: eliminated from playoff contention. With that loss didn't suit up

2051
01:56:54,880 --> 01:56:58,120
Speaker 1: many of their starters. Luca Donchey played limited minutes. Dallas

2052
01:56:58,240 --> 01:57:01,200
Speaker 1: pretty much blatantly in Admitaly tank that game so they

2053
01:57:01,240 --> 01:57:06,040
Speaker 1: can keep their pick in the tops. Almost explicitly. Jason

2054
01:57:06,120 --> 01:57:08,920
Speaker 1: Kidd addressed it in his press conference. It's almost uncomfortable

2055
01:57:08,920 --> 01:57:11,560
Speaker 1: press conference as ever, and they did ask him. I

2056
01:57:11,720 --> 01:57:13,520
Speaker 1: was like, were you on and you know, on board

2057
01:57:13,560 --> 01:57:15,880
Speaker 1: and in line with Mark Cuban and the general manager's decision.

2058
01:57:15,920 --> 01:57:19,880
Speaker 1: He was like, well, they're my bosses, so yes. Lakers

2059
01:57:19,920 --> 01:57:22,240
Speaker 1: and Warriors both won as well. Golden State currently the

2060
01:57:22,320 --> 01:57:24,840
Speaker 1: five seed half game lead over the Clippers, who have

2061
01:57:24,920 --> 01:57:26,720
Speaker 1: two games left on the schedule. They played tonight. They

2062
01:57:26,720 --> 01:57:29,760
Speaker 1: also played tomorrow. Lakers remain the seventh seed. They wrap

2063
01:57:29,880 --> 01:57:32,600
Speaker 1: up their season on Sunday as well. Major League Baseball,

2064
01:57:32,640 --> 01:57:34,440
Speaker 1: you had back to back home runs off of Clayton

2065
01:57:34,480 --> 01:57:38,280
Speaker 1: Kershaw from Corbyn Carroll and Evan Longoria Diamondbacks beating the

2066
01:57:38,360 --> 01:57:41,440
Speaker 1: Dodgers six to three in the Desert Toronto, spoiling the

2067
01:57:41,480 --> 01:57:44,280
Speaker 1: Angels home opener with a four to three victory. Bobachett

2068
01:57:44,280 --> 01:57:46,760
Speaker 1: at three run home run. They're five home runs for

2069
01:57:46,840 --> 01:57:49,680
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays, who improve their record to seven

2070
01:57:49,800 --> 01:57:55,240
Speaker 1: and oh they defeat Oakland. Nine also had victories from Minnesota, Seattle,

2071
01:57:55,320 --> 01:57:57,840
Speaker 1: the Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates who put it on

2072
01:57:57,880 --> 01:58:00,240
Speaker 1: the White Sox thirteen to nine. Brian Reynolds off to

2073
01:58:00,280 --> 01:58:05,000
Speaker 1: a hot start, five home runs, the Buckos, how bad? God,

2074
01:58:05,840 --> 01:58:09,360
Speaker 1: Actually that's a nice little team. Well they got because

2075
01:58:09,360 --> 01:58:12,440
Speaker 1: I love that cruise man. Yeah, he's a hell of

2076
01:58:12,520 --> 01:58:16,120
Speaker 1: applied shortstop. Yeah. And Reynolds, who you know, requested a

2077
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Speaker 1: trade in the off season. Pirates didn't get what they wanted,

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01:58:18,440 --> 01:58:21,200
Speaker 1: so they brought him back, and so far he's bawling

2079
01:58:21,400 --> 01:58:25,040
Speaker 1: five home runs already. Incredible, It really is. I mean,

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01:58:25,120 --> 01:58:26,720
Speaker 1: and look at this, Look at that team, that team,

2081
01:58:26,800 --> 01:58:31,320
Speaker 1: you bring Cutch back, you gotta veteran Santana's Swinsky. The

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01:58:31,440 --> 01:58:33,640
Speaker 1: outfield is not bad. He's left to a slow start,

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01:58:33,960 --> 01:58:35,680
Speaker 1: but you got a couple other players there that can

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01:58:35,720 --> 01:58:37,840
Speaker 1: actually play a little bit. So that might So they

2085
01:58:37,880 --> 01:58:40,120
Speaker 1: might win eighty games this year, is what you're saying. Hey, man, Yeah,

2086
01:58:40,120 --> 01:58:42,600
Speaker 1: that would be a trade and to lose guys or whatever,

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01:58:42,920 --> 01:58:46,280
Speaker 1: Reynolds to get leave and that'll be that. Um, we'll

2088
01:58:46,320 --> 01:58:50,080
Speaker 1: take a quick tea, we'll come right back. Fellas hanging

2089
01:58:50,120 --> 01:58:54,040
Speaker 1: out on an Easter weekend with you guys on Fox

2090
01:58:54,160 --> 01:59:00,920
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Fellas Live from the time IRAQ dot Com

2091
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Speaker 1: Studios took a little draft action. We left off with

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01:59:09,040 --> 01:59:12,800
Speaker 1: Bijon Robinson the thirty thirteen, which I a website. I

2093
01:59:12,880 --> 01:59:17,080
Speaker 1: look a lot is uh has uh. They they're big

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01:59:17,200 --> 01:59:19,600
Speaker 1: board and they were just going over. This is not mocked.

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01:59:19,720 --> 01:59:25,040
Speaker 1: This is the guys they graded the highest case you

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01:59:25,160 --> 01:59:29,160
Speaker 1: just joined us Broderick Jones, a tackle from Georgia. One,

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01:59:29,360 --> 01:59:33,400
Speaker 1: Quentin Johnston, the terrific wide receiver out of TCU two,

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01:59:33,520 --> 01:59:37,920
Speaker 1: Will Levis three quarterback Kentucky Jalen Carter, as you know,

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01:59:38,240 --> 01:59:42,400
Speaker 1: d tackle from Georgia for Will Anderson, the amazing edge

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01:59:42,440 --> 01:59:49,080
Speaker 1: rusher from Bama. Five, Bijon out of Texas six. To

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Speaker 1: round out the top ten, Figgy Bryce Young is seven,

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01:59:54,960 --> 01:59:59,720
Speaker 1: so he comes in at seven, the second quarterback behind Levis.

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Speaker 1: Christian Gonzales, the corner out of Oregon, is ranked eighth high. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: me too. I was shocked at that. A real good player,

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Speaker 1: but completely shocked. Christie U. Tyree Wilson, the edge Russia

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Speaker 1: out of Texas Tech is ranked ninth, and then you

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Speaker 1: got beaten path path a little bit with this list.

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Speaker 1: I like it though, Yeah, I know, it's really interesting.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's all. It is the grades. It's their

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Speaker 1: whole grades, what they grade out when it comes to

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Speaker 1: you know, the complete player and intangibles and immeasurables, and

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Speaker 1: you name it. Uh. CJ. Strout is ten. Paris Johnson,

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Speaker 1: the tackle out of Ohio State who blocks for CJ.

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Speaker 1: Strout is eleven. Uh twelve, Jordan Addison, the terrific wide

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02:00:56,920 --> 02:01:03,760
Speaker 1: receiver from USC out of transferred from pet Uh jail

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02:01:03,840 --> 02:01:07,600
Speaker 1: and Hyatt the receiver rout at Tennessee. And these are

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Speaker 1: all value receivers you know that are gonna go later

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Speaker 1: in the first round. Definitely. Yeah. Um thirteen. Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 1: is fourteen. This is actually higher than I would have thought.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Uh how about this. Dwan Jones, the other

2121
02:01:26,320 --> 02:01:30,320
Speaker 1: tackle on the Ohio State is fifteen. Wow. And then

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Speaker 1: uh Michael Mayer the tight end out of Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: Uh yes, the receiver from our state, uh is four. Uh.

2124
02:01:45,720 --> 02:01:50,360
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Forbes, the corner out of Mississippi State, I like him,

2125
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Speaker 1: is uh eighteen. Uh. Devin Witherspoon, who everybody loves it.

2126
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Speaker 1: I you know, obviously the river A corner is now team.

2127
02:02:00,640 --> 02:02:07,280
Speaker 1: Interesting how they got Forbes ragged ahead of Witherspoon. Yeah, wow, dude,

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02:02:07,360 --> 02:02:12,080
Speaker 1: this is crazy. Listen to this. The next players are amazing,

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Speaker 1: Ragged twentieth You're ready, I'm listening. Hendon Hooker. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's gotten a lot of love over the last I'd

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Speaker 1: say a couple of the weeks. And it's not for

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02:02:25,720 --> 02:02:28,160
Speaker 1: workouts because he's more as ACL so he's not he

2133
02:02:28,240 --> 02:02:30,240
Speaker 1: can't do anything but an interview at this point. But

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of people that like him as

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Speaker 1: a first round prospect. There are some that even like him.

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Speaker 1: I don't forget exactly who said that they like him

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02:02:37,640 --> 02:02:40,520
Speaker 1: more than Anthony Richardson. He's gonna go high, dude. People

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Speaker 1: like yeah more than Will Levis. I don't think anybody

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02:02:43,400 --> 02:02:46,600
Speaker 1: likes it more than Stroud or Bryce Young, but there's

2140
02:02:46,640 --> 02:02:49,080
Speaker 1: definitely people that like him as the third quarterback behind

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02:02:49,160 --> 02:02:53,040
Speaker 1: the Stroud and Young after after you know, before Richardson

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Speaker 1: and Levis. For sure, he's climbing up. I think there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be five quarterbacks taking in there, you know, some

2144
02:03:00,560 --> 02:03:04,160
Speaker 1: crazy top They all team they almost always are, aren't they,

2145
02:03:04,360 --> 02:03:06,520
Speaker 1: you know, but five of them. I think Hooker is

2146
02:03:06,640 --> 02:03:09,840
Speaker 1: this He's a climber well, I mean, and you just

2147
02:03:10,040 --> 02:03:12,040
Speaker 1: and you know already you have to red shirt him,

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02:03:12,320 --> 02:03:15,440
Speaker 1: so you have to take That's just why I would

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Speaker 1: think he probably would fall into the lower part of

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Speaker 1: the first round. Agreed, this is fascinating. I gotta get

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Speaker 1: I gotta give you. I'll give you the rest of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: coming up straight ahead, fellas, right here on Fox. All right,

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Speaker 1: good morning, good morning, good good, good morning, everybody. It's

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Speaker 1: eight am in the East on a Easter Saturday, five

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Speaker 1: am in the west. Hope everybody is having a wonderful

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Speaker 1: holiday weekend. You had a blessed pass over. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: Talked a lot about NBA early because the big story

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Speaker 1: going on this morning in the league is the playoffs,

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02:05:02,040 --> 02:05:03,600
Speaker 1: some of the playoff mats which are set for the

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Speaker 1: playing game, playing series, that sort of thing. But what

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Speaker 1: transpired last night in Dallas is the true story that

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Speaker 1: the Mavericks, with a chance to make the playoffs, rest

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Speaker 1: key starters and tank to keep their lottery protected first

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Speaker 1: round pick in the in the porzingis trade. And look,

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Speaker 1: I think it's smart. I mean, I'm gonna be honest

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Speaker 1: with you as a person that experience the tank in Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: the process, it's smart. Moved by Dallas. I mean, to

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Speaker 1: get into the playoffs is what you're gonna be. Fish food.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna lose, the Phoenix. You're gonna lose, you know,

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Speaker 1: first round to Denver, to Golden State, You're gonna lose

2185
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Speaker 1: whatever whoever you play. I mean, you know you're probably

2186
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Speaker 1: not going anywhere, even in a wide open West However,

2187
02:06:05,760 --> 02:06:08,720
Speaker 1: losing on purpose with a chance to make the playoffs

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Speaker 1: is antithetical to sports. It's one thing. The tank is

2189
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Speaker 1: season or seasons, but the tack a game and that's

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Speaker 1: what that was with the playoffs on the line, and

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Speaker 1: you just tank and you basically throw the game. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what's the difference, figgy between throwing the game by not

2193
02:06:32,360 --> 02:06:35,720
Speaker 1: playing and isn't it the same thing? You just throw

2194
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Speaker 1: a game? Uh? Yes, to a certain degree. I mean

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Speaker 1: throwing a game as you're out there and you're literally

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02:06:43,240 --> 02:06:45,120
Speaker 1: like trying to miss shots and all that. I don't

2197
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Speaker 1: think that maybe we have no control over the actual

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Speaker 1: play right right, that's throwing a game. And Jason Kidd

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Speaker 1: made no qualms about what the mission was. He said

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Speaker 1: in his pregame press conference, the mission changed or our

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Speaker 1: goal all changed tonight based on what the higher ups

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Speaker 1: told us to do. So he said everything without saying, look, guys,

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Speaker 1: we want to lose tonight so we can keep our

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Speaker 1: top ten pick. All right, That's essentially what it was. Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there was a scare put into the front

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Speaker 1: office because Dallas actually competed and it was a one

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Speaker 1: possession game when it was all said and done. So

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they were scared a little bit, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: it just it just goes against the spirited competition. If

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Speaker 1: you're a player on that team, you know, you think,

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Speaker 1: like Luca and Kyrie and Christian Wood, do you think

2212
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Speaker 1: those guys are thinking, we don't have a shot to

2213
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Speaker 1: win if we made the playoffs? Those those guys want

2214
02:07:33,760 --> 02:07:35,560
Speaker 1: to play Luca don Chick one of the best best

2215
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Speaker 1: players in the entire league. You think he does want

2216
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Speaker 1: to still run it out there? Of course he does.

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Speaker 1: That's the problem and the problem lies with the league

2218
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Speaker 1: that what are you going to do? You gotta figure

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Speaker 1: this thing out. Yeah, and well look that's I mean,

2220
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Speaker 1: that's kind of how sports. Professional sports in North America

2221
02:07:54,800 --> 02:07:56,600
Speaker 1: are just set up that way. Anyway you're bad, you

2222
02:07:56,720 --> 02:07:58,680
Speaker 1: get you get a good draft pick. And because of

2223
02:07:58,760 --> 02:08:02,520
Speaker 1: the circumstance is of the Christasporzingis trade, it just kind

2224
02:08:02,560 --> 02:08:04,280
Speaker 1: of happened to work out that way. If that wasn't

2225
02:08:04,280 --> 02:08:06,000
Speaker 1: a situation, if that wasn't the case, if they hadn't

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02:08:06,000 --> 02:08:08,280
Speaker 1: made that deal, then it wouldn't have mattered. So I

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Speaker 1: don't think that this particular situation is something that is

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Speaker 1: rampant or happened super often. It's unfortunate, But this is

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Speaker 1: sort of an isolated incident because I can't recall a

2230
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Speaker 1: situation like this ever happening where a team is on

2231
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Speaker 1: the doorstep of making the playoffs and they and they

2232
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Speaker 1: actively try not to make it for because of draft considerations.

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Speaker 1: That's a first for me. Yeah, except here's the problem.

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Speaker 1: The optics are terrible. Oh that's they're awful. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's just everything that's wrong, every like every

2236
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Speaker 1: bad thing about sport, Like that's bad. It's just not

2237
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Speaker 1: and I don't know, sorry, buddy, Like that's that's something

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Speaker 1: that's tough. I don't even But what can the NBA

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Speaker 1: even say about it? Can they find the Mavericks? It

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Speaker 1: was like, well, I mean the basic yeah, but I

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Speaker 1: mean but that but I mean yes, but no, I

2242
02:09:04,120 --> 02:09:06,920
Speaker 1: mean they ran a line about there, they played a game,

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02:09:07,240 --> 02:09:10,480
Speaker 1: the game was competitive, So it's like, I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you if the NBA wanted to try to file some

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Speaker 1: sort of grievents or find them or something, what do

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02:09:15,240 --> 02:09:17,680
Speaker 1: we do wrong? Yeah? If if if the NBA tried

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02:09:17,720 --> 02:09:19,640
Speaker 1: to find them, you think Mark Cuban's not taking them

2248
02:09:19,680 --> 02:09:21,680
Speaker 1: into court to arbitrator and say, hold up, what do

2249
02:09:21,760 --> 02:09:24,240
Speaker 1: you mean we played a game. Yeah, it was a

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Speaker 1: one possession game. We had a chance to win. What

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Speaker 1: do you want We competed, they didn't forfeit. No, I

2252
02:09:30,120 --> 02:09:34,360
Speaker 1: know it's true, except it's you know, Yeah, we all

2253
02:09:34,480 --> 02:09:37,560
Speaker 1: know the truth. Bad messaging. Yeah, yeah, we all know

2254
02:09:37,680 --> 02:09:41,200
Speaker 1: the truth. So, uh, that's the big story right now

2255
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Speaker 1: going on in the league. Now the playoffs with everybody

2256
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Speaker 1: will get Uh, there's a couple of series that are

2257
02:09:48,520 --> 02:09:51,280
Speaker 1: right now figuring and go through them that we know about.

2258
02:09:52,600 --> 02:09:56,400
Speaker 1: We're waiting for the rest to play out over the weekend. Yeah.

2259
02:09:56,560 --> 02:09:59,200
Speaker 1: So well, especially if we start out East, because everything

2260
02:09:59,320 --> 02:10:01,200
Speaker 1: is pretty much locked in when it comes to the

2261
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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference. So we know the play in schedule. Miami

2262
02:10:03,920 --> 02:10:08,280
Speaker 1: Atlanta Tuesday, Toronto Chicago Wednesday. Let's look at it. Who

2263
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Speaker 1: you like? I like Miami against Atlantis, so that means

2264
02:10:12,520 --> 02:10:16,040
Speaker 1: Miami will get the seven seed. Um. I like Chicago

2265
02:10:16,160 --> 02:10:20,520
Speaker 1: over Toronto. So then at that point you'd have you'd

2266
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Speaker 1: have Toronto taking on the Hawks. I would take the

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Speaker 1: Hawks there, so you would have Miami at seven, the

2268
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Speaker 1: Hawks at eight, So you'd have the Hawks taking on Milwaukee,

2269
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Speaker 1: Miami taking on Boston Brooklyn taking on Philadelphia and Cleveland

2270
02:10:32,520 --> 02:10:37,440
Speaker 1: versus New York. That's a good series. Yeah, Cleveland New York. Yeah,

2271
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Speaker 1: even though the winner will probably lose in the next round,

2272
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Speaker 1: that's a good series. That would be an entertaining Yeah,

2273
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Speaker 1: good basketball. I'm looking forward to watching Uh Knicks Caves.

2274
02:10:52,600 --> 02:10:55,080
Speaker 1: I agree, and I wouldn't put it past the Cavaliers.

2275
02:10:55,200 --> 02:10:57,280
Speaker 1: I like the Cavaliers in that series against the Knicks,

2276
02:10:57,320 --> 02:10:58,720
Speaker 1: even though the Knicks have had their number a bit

2277
02:10:58,760 --> 02:11:01,200
Speaker 1: in the regular season, but the amount of talent they

2278
02:11:01,240 --> 02:11:04,760
Speaker 1: have on that roster. Donovan Mitchell has been just destroying

2279
02:11:04,880 --> 02:11:07,960
Speaker 1: people the last week, just dropping forty point games left

2280
02:11:08,000 --> 02:11:11,920
Speaker 1: and right. He gets hot. Uh, these kids figure something out.

2281
02:11:12,080 --> 02:11:14,680
Speaker 1: Mobli has a big game or two. You never know.

2282
02:11:15,400 --> 02:11:17,560
Speaker 1: Cleveland can win this series and they can really push

2283
02:11:17,600 --> 02:11:20,160
Speaker 1: somebody in the second in the second round. Two. I

2284
02:11:20,200 --> 02:11:22,200
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna make it to the conference finals

2285
02:11:22,240 --> 02:11:25,680
Speaker 1: and you know, go to most likely. Yeah, I'm just

2286
02:11:25,960 --> 02:11:30,040
Speaker 1: I know they're a young, inexperienced team, but with how

2287
02:11:30,120 --> 02:11:33,120
Speaker 1: they're built, I think they can give teams some problems.

2288
02:11:33,560 --> 02:11:38,160
Speaker 1: That's interesting. Interesting is they scared the box. Yeah, and

2289
02:11:38,360 --> 02:11:43,640
Speaker 1: by scare I mean six games you know, hey, look,

2290
02:11:43,760 --> 02:11:47,720
Speaker 1: you know it matters because what happens is you tax

2291
02:11:48,880 --> 02:11:51,400
Speaker 1: you tax them for the next series. Yeah, attrition is

2292
02:11:51,440 --> 02:11:55,240
Speaker 1: a real thing, absolutely, specially when it comes to the playoffs. Yeah,

2293
02:11:55,240 --> 02:11:57,680
Speaker 1: you gotta be able to survive. I mean, look, the

2294
02:11:57,840 --> 02:12:00,600
Speaker 1: Raptors don't have a championship right now. Of Golden's is healthy,

2295
02:12:01,000 --> 02:12:03,120
Speaker 1: but they just broke down in the NBA Finals at

2296
02:12:03,160 --> 02:12:07,160
Speaker 1: the wrong time. Like I mean, half the time, if

2297
02:12:07,280 --> 02:12:10,200
Speaker 1: not sixty seventy percent of the time, is the healthiest

2298
02:12:10,200 --> 02:12:12,800
Speaker 1: team is the one that wins. Yeah. I mean you

2299
02:12:12,880 --> 02:12:15,920
Speaker 1: go back to that Warriors and they should have had it.

2300
02:12:16,120 --> 02:12:20,160
Speaker 1: They should That's two that they probably got robbed out.

2301
02:12:20,280 --> 02:12:23,360
Speaker 1: Even the Lebron one. Well, it's hard for me to

2302
02:12:23,400 --> 02:12:26,080
Speaker 1: say they got robbed when they blew a three one lead, right, Well,

2303
02:12:26,200 --> 02:12:28,640
Speaker 1: I don't mean robbed, I'd mean more as that that

2304
02:12:28,720 --> 02:12:31,480
Speaker 1: could easily have been another one, absolutely, yeah, could. And

2305
02:12:31,800 --> 02:12:35,480
Speaker 1: look even after Kevin and all that stuff. Yeah, and

2306
02:12:35,600 --> 02:12:39,200
Speaker 1: even after Kevin Durant got injured in the Toronto Series,

2307
02:12:39,720 --> 02:12:42,000
Speaker 1: I still thought that Golden State was gonna win, and

2308
02:12:42,080 --> 02:12:44,360
Speaker 1: then Clay Thompson got injured and then it was just

2309
02:12:44,440 --> 02:12:47,400
Speaker 1: too much to overcome. Yeah, even they couldn't overcome that.

2310
02:12:48,200 --> 02:12:49,800
Speaker 1: You you lose two of the you know, two of

2311
02:12:49,880 --> 02:12:52,120
Speaker 1: the top you know fifteen players in the entire NBA

2312
02:12:52,960 --> 02:12:55,680
Speaker 1: that in one series, in the span of a game

2313
02:12:55,800 --> 02:12:58,880
Speaker 1: or a game and a half. That's hard. Yeah, Yeah,

2314
02:12:58,960 --> 02:13:02,720
Speaker 1: that was That was tough. That was really tough. Yeah.

2315
02:13:02,760 --> 02:13:05,480
Speaker 1: So so health, health as wealth. Health means everything in

2316
02:13:05,520 --> 02:13:09,120
Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs because it's such a grind, which is why,

2317
02:13:09,680 --> 02:13:12,160
Speaker 1: you know, people say the Lakers are a sleeper. My

2318
02:13:12,320 --> 02:13:14,280
Speaker 1: only issue with the Lakers is do they have enough

2319
02:13:14,320 --> 02:13:18,480
Speaker 1: to make it through an entire postseason having to start

2320
02:13:18,520 --> 02:13:21,600
Speaker 1: on the road in every single series. It's just it's

2321
02:13:21,640 --> 02:13:23,520
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a tall order. It's a lot

2322
02:13:23,600 --> 02:13:26,800
Speaker 1: to ask. Look, if Lebron was was twenty nine instead

2323
02:13:26,840 --> 02:13:29,920
Speaker 1: of thirty nine, you know, if Anthony Davis had the

2324
02:13:30,000 --> 02:13:32,360
Speaker 1: body of the actual body of a twenty eight year

2325
02:13:32,360 --> 02:13:34,120
Speaker 1: old and not the body of a fifty eight year old,

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02:13:34,640 --> 02:13:39,400
Speaker 1: then I would have more confidence in them. But I, unfortunately,

2327
02:13:39,440 --> 02:13:45,200
Speaker 1: I unfortunately at this point, don't He does have the

2328
02:13:45,480 --> 02:13:48,040
Speaker 1: it's shade, it really is, because you saw it. Look,

2329
02:13:48,080 --> 02:13:49,880
Speaker 1: we've seen what he can do. The last three weeks

2330
02:13:49,960 --> 02:13:52,720
Speaker 1: or so, he's putting up thirty eight and fifteen and

2331
02:13:52,880 --> 02:13:56,840
Speaker 1: four blocks, and but that's just I mean how many

2332
02:13:56,920 --> 02:13:58,640
Speaker 1: He came down on his foot wrong the other day

2333
02:13:58,680 --> 02:14:05,320
Speaker 1: and everybody, you know, grassed, gasped for a second. Yeah,

2334
02:14:05,680 --> 02:14:07,600
Speaker 1: every time the guy hits the floor, that's the reaction

2335
02:14:07,640 --> 02:14:11,760
Speaker 1: for everybody because he's just so frail. It is unbelievable

2336
02:14:11,840 --> 02:14:13,520
Speaker 1: that when you and you look at him and he's

2337
02:14:13,560 --> 02:14:17,760
Speaker 1: such an amazing talent and he could be such a beast.

2338
02:14:18,880 --> 02:14:23,920
Speaker 1: How about speaking of wits, these off injured brittle you know,

2339
02:14:24,720 --> 02:14:29,240
Speaker 1: bizarre guys that we just injuries Zion. Oh, that's like

2340
02:14:29,360 --> 02:14:33,480
Speaker 1: it's another one, like another season. It's unreal, Like he

2341
02:14:33,640 --> 02:14:37,560
Speaker 1: just can't stay healthy. No, and by the way, this

2342
02:14:37,720 --> 02:14:39,720
Speaker 1: is the last year of his rookie deal. His giant

2343
02:14:39,800 --> 02:14:43,320
Speaker 1: extension starts next year. You're will paying a guy thirty

2344
02:14:43,400 --> 02:14:45,520
Speaker 1: you know, thirty three, thirty four, thirty five and then

2345
02:14:45,600 --> 02:14:47,960
Speaker 1: forty million dollars a year and you don't even know

2346
02:14:47,960 --> 02:14:49,760
Speaker 1: what you're gonna get out of him. It's like he's

2347
02:14:49,760 --> 02:14:52,080
Speaker 1: a phenomenal player when he plays, but he doesn't play

2348
02:14:52,120 --> 02:14:55,560
Speaker 1: him more often than he does. Yeah, like that's it,

2349
02:14:55,880 --> 02:15:01,240
Speaker 1: But that is you're a fan. That's the ultimate cheese. Yeah,

2350
02:15:02,480 --> 02:15:05,000
Speaker 1: so frustrating because you look, when he was healthy and

2351
02:15:05,040 --> 02:15:07,080
Speaker 1: the Pelicans were healthy the first you know quarter of

2352
02:15:07,160 --> 02:15:09,560
Speaker 1: the season, one of the best teams in the NBA,

2353
02:15:10,200 --> 02:15:12,480
Speaker 1: let alone the Western Conference. Look at the way that

2354
02:15:12,520 --> 02:15:15,280
Speaker 1: Brandon Ingram was balling right now, I mean you put

2355
02:15:15,400 --> 02:15:19,520
Speaker 1: Zion with him? I mean, I mean I said back

2356
02:15:19,560 --> 02:15:21,480
Speaker 1: early in the season when they were playing well, I said,

2357
02:15:21,520 --> 02:15:23,800
Speaker 1: look out for New Orleans if they're healthy and clicking.

2358
02:15:24,400 --> 02:15:26,120
Speaker 1: I mean, they have as good a shot as anybody

2359
02:15:26,200 --> 02:15:28,840
Speaker 1: to make some noise in the postseason. But it all

2360
02:15:28,920 --> 02:15:34,840
Speaker 1: begins and ends with Zion, and unfortunately he's just turning

2361
02:15:34,840 --> 02:15:38,720
Speaker 1: out not to be that guy. Yeah, that's true. It's

2362
02:15:38,720 --> 02:15:41,480
Speaker 1: a shame, man, it really is. That's the that's one

2363
02:15:41,520 --> 02:15:46,760
Speaker 1: of the oldtimate, oldltimate jeesus. You know, you know, I'd

2364
02:15:46,760 --> 02:15:52,320
Speaker 1: be very frustrated if I was a Pelicans fan, right

2365
02:15:52,440 --> 02:15:54,080
Speaker 1: and honestly as an NBA fan, just a fan of

2366
02:15:54,120 --> 02:15:57,400
Speaker 1: the sport, because he's fun to watch. They're fun to

2367
02:15:57,400 --> 02:15:59,600
Speaker 1: watch as a team just in general. But when he's

2368
02:15:59,640 --> 02:16:05,760
Speaker 1: not out there, it's it's tough. I know, I know, dude,

2369
02:16:05,800 --> 02:16:08,840
Speaker 1: I I feel you, man, And part of me would say,

2370
02:16:09,480 --> 02:16:12,480
Speaker 1: do you entertain trading him, but then I would say, well,

2371
02:16:12,520 --> 02:16:14,760
Speaker 1: who the hell's gonna trade for him? The guy can't

2372
02:16:14,760 --> 02:16:16,520
Speaker 1: play more than forty games in the season. I'm gonna

2373
02:16:16,520 --> 02:16:18,480
Speaker 1: pay this guy forty million dollars to play half a

2374
02:16:18,560 --> 02:16:21,160
Speaker 1: year and not be ready for the playoffs. You know,

2375
02:16:21,240 --> 02:16:25,040
Speaker 1: it's a killer. I mean, just it's it's just uh.

2376
02:16:25,240 --> 02:16:27,400
Speaker 1: We were talking earlier about the Chiefs. Obviously, in the

2377
02:16:27,480 --> 02:16:33,080
Speaker 1: East it's three teams, It's Milwaukee, it's Boston, it's the Sixers,

2378
02:16:33,680 --> 02:16:35,520
Speaker 1: and those would be the three teams in the East

2379
02:16:35,600 --> 02:16:37,440
Speaker 1: have a chance to get out. In the West, it's

2380
02:16:37,480 --> 02:16:41,119
Speaker 1: more wide open. I think we both like Phoenix. If

2381
02:16:41,160 --> 02:16:43,880
Speaker 1: we had to pick one team, it would be Phoenix.

2382
02:16:44,400 --> 02:16:48,120
Speaker 1: We talked about the Lakers being a potential disruptor, and

2383
02:16:48,240 --> 02:16:52,320
Speaker 1: then after that, you know, it's anybody do the Clippers?

2384
02:16:52,879 --> 02:16:56,920
Speaker 1: Can they survive and if they survived the first round,

2385
02:16:57,640 --> 02:17:03,320
Speaker 1: get PG back and then who knows, surviving the first

2386
02:17:03,400 --> 02:17:07,440
Speaker 1: round will be very difficult if that ends up being

2387
02:17:08,040 --> 02:17:10,760
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns. Now if if if things hold as

2388
02:17:10,800 --> 02:17:13,760
Speaker 1: they currently sit right now in Golden States, the five

2389
02:17:13,840 --> 02:17:16,120
Speaker 1: and the Clippers are the six and the Clippers you know,

2390
02:17:16,240 --> 02:17:19,360
Speaker 1: end up playing Sacramento. I think the Clippers can beat

2391
02:17:19,400 --> 02:17:21,400
Speaker 1: Sacramento with al Paul George in the lineup in a

2392
02:17:21,480 --> 02:17:24,800
Speaker 1: seven game series. I have less confidence in a Sun's

2393
02:17:24,879 --> 02:17:27,440
Speaker 1: team or them doing that against the Sun's team that

2394
02:17:27,520 --> 02:17:29,200
Speaker 1: when fully healthy, when all the guys are out there,

2395
02:17:29,320 --> 02:17:31,879
Speaker 1: just won seven straight games, you know, prior to last

2396
02:17:31,959 --> 02:17:35,039
Speaker 1: night when they sat everybody and they're finding their momentum,

2397
02:17:35,400 --> 02:17:39,119
Speaker 1: finding their stride, finding chemistry, when the Clippers have had

2398
02:17:39,200 --> 02:17:42,560
Speaker 1: have lacked chemistry all season all regardless of who's been

2399
02:17:42,600 --> 02:17:49,040
Speaker 1: on the felieable that all season long, they have just

2400
02:17:50,000 --> 02:17:54,680
Speaker 1: been a mess. And that really is amazing. Yeah, And

2401
02:17:54,760 --> 02:17:57,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the lack of experience. If

2402
02:17:57,280 --> 02:18:00,360
Speaker 1: people don't consider Deer and Fox and Demanta Sabone to

2403
02:18:00,480 --> 02:18:05,840
Speaker 1: be superstars enough, he gains zero respect, like anybody. And

2404
02:18:05,959 --> 02:18:07,960
Speaker 1: everybody is like, oh, you want to see Sacramento in

2405
02:18:08,000 --> 02:18:10,959
Speaker 1: the first round. Yeah, I know they have no playoff

2406
02:18:11,000 --> 02:18:13,600
Speaker 1: experience and all that working against them. Safe for Harris

2407
02:18:13,640 --> 02:18:17,280
Speaker 1: and Barnes who won championships, but you know, just be

2408
02:18:17,360 --> 02:18:20,600
Speaker 1: careful what you wish for those those guys can ball. Yeah,

2409
02:18:20,600 --> 02:18:22,640
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, All right, real quick, let me

2410
02:18:22,760 --> 02:18:25,039
Speaker 1: run down. I was telling you guys about this, uh

2411
02:18:25,720 --> 02:18:28,720
Speaker 1: this website. The thirty thirty team, they did their big board,

2412
02:18:28,760 --> 02:18:31,039
Speaker 1: so this is not a mock draft for the first round.

2413
02:18:31,440 --> 02:18:34,200
Speaker 1: It's their big board. I'm gonna just run through the

2414
02:18:34,240 --> 02:18:39,200
Speaker 1: whole first round for it because it's really interesting. Roderick

2415
02:18:39,280 --> 02:18:43,920
Speaker 1: Jones tackle Georgia. Quentin Johnston, receiver from TCU. Will levis

2416
02:18:44,360 --> 02:18:52,480
Speaker 1: the first quarterback. Third ranked prospect is third Jalen Carter, four,

2417
02:18:52,680 --> 02:18:58,640
Speaker 1: Will Anderson, five Bjon Bijon Robinson, six Bryce Young, who

2418
02:18:58,760 --> 02:19:03,960
Speaker 1: should be the pick taken is seven. Christian Gonzalez, the

2419
02:19:04,040 --> 02:19:07,400
Speaker 1: corner out of Oregon. Eight Tyree Wilson, edge rusher from

2420
02:19:07,440 --> 02:19:11,560
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. Nine C. J. Stroud ten Paris Johnson is

2421
02:19:12,080 --> 02:19:17,400
Speaker 1: his right tackle. Left tackle is eleven. Jordan Addison, the

2422
02:19:17,600 --> 02:19:20,560
Speaker 1: receiver out of USC by way of Pitt is twelve.

2423
02:19:21,080 --> 02:19:25,920
Speaker 1: Jalen High the receiver receiver from Tennessee thirteen Anthony Richardson

2424
02:19:26,280 --> 02:19:30,560
Speaker 1: who I like it's fourteen. Twan Jones, the right tackle

2425
02:19:30,640 --> 02:19:34,360
Speaker 1: from Ohio State is fifteen. Michael Mayer's sixteen the tight

2426
02:19:34,480 --> 02:19:41,760
Speaker 1: end from Notre Dame. Jackson Smith Higba is seventeen the

2427
02:19:41,840 --> 02:19:45,240
Speaker 1: receiver from Ohia State. He's very very good. Emmanuel Forbes

2428
02:19:45,800 --> 02:19:49,400
Speaker 1: the corner out of the Mississippi State eighteen. Witherspoon the

2429
02:19:49,480 --> 02:19:52,640
Speaker 1: corner from Illinois eight nineteen. A lot of people have

2430
02:19:52,760 --> 02:19:57,360
Speaker 1: that flopped. Hendon Hooker, who is really interesting prospect at

2431
02:19:57,440 --> 02:20:01,760
Speaker 1: twenty gives your me back from Bama who I think

2432
02:20:01,920 --> 02:20:06,920
Speaker 1: is a player. Twenty one. Dalton Kincade the tight end

2433
02:20:07,040 --> 02:20:11,680
Speaker 1: from Utah. He does everything, big play guy for them

2434
02:20:11,800 --> 02:20:18,160
Speaker 1: for Utah. Twenty two. Peter Skronsky to the guard from Northwestern.

2435
02:20:18,200 --> 02:20:22,400
Speaker 1: He's the first guard. He's twenty three. Miles Murphy the

2436
02:20:22,680 --> 02:20:27,440
Speaker 1: edge rusher from Clemson who people have in the first

2437
02:20:27,560 --> 02:20:32,560
Speaker 1: round is twenty four. Then Brian Brands to safety from Alabama,

2438
02:20:33,160 --> 02:20:37,080
Speaker 1: Joey Porter the corner from Penn State, Anton Harrison the

2439
02:20:37,240 --> 02:20:42,800
Speaker 1: tackle from Oklahoma, Darnell Wright the tackle from Tennessee. Finally

2440
02:20:42,840 --> 02:20:45,119
Speaker 1: get to Lucas van Ness who gets a lot of love.

2441
02:20:46,080 --> 02:20:50,040
Speaker 1: The edge rusher abbat Iowa is twenty nine. Trenton Simpson

2442
02:20:50,560 --> 02:20:55,160
Speaker 1: the first linebacker out of Clemson at thirty. Kaylee Ringo

2443
02:20:55,280 --> 02:20:58,960
Speaker 1: the cornerback from Georgia, who I like a lot of

2444
02:20:58,959 --> 02:21:02,279
Speaker 1: people like camp Smith the corner out of South Carolina.

2445
02:21:02,959 --> 02:21:07,600
Speaker 1: And that's your your top thirty two, isn't that interesting? Very?

2446
02:21:08,160 --> 02:21:10,080
Speaker 1: And I said, very off the beaten path of the

2447
02:21:10,200 --> 02:21:13,240
Speaker 1: mock drafts that we usually hear. And again this is

2448
02:21:13,320 --> 02:21:18,560
Speaker 1: just your the grade, the big board grade sands, any

2449
02:21:18,640 --> 02:21:22,480
Speaker 1: of the mock pieces fits and all that stuff. Yeah,

2450
02:21:23,280 --> 02:21:26,080
Speaker 1: still very And then look and every individual team, every

2451
02:21:26,120 --> 02:21:29,600
Speaker 1: individual scout looks for different things too, and emphasizes different things.

2452
02:21:29,680 --> 02:21:32,080
Speaker 1: So boards are gonna be different. So this is more

2453
02:21:32,120 --> 02:21:37,280
Speaker 1: of like your pure empirical, unbiased opinion based off And

2454
02:21:37,360 --> 02:21:38,840
Speaker 1: now do we know who was this? Was this a

2455
02:21:38,920 --> 02:21:40,800
Speaker 1: panel of people at the thirty third team? Was the

2456
02:21:40,879 --> 02:21:44,320
Speaker 1: one person I set the panel? Yeah, okay, yeah, so

2457
02:21:45,000 --> 02:21:48,680
Speaker 1: just always wondering how these things are lined up. But yeah, yeah,

2458
02:21:49,000 --> 02:21:50,800
Speaker 1: listen to the big board. Is your big board, right,

2459
02:21:50,879 --> 02:21:53,480
Speaker 1: Like you're always going to draft off your big board,

2460
02:21:54,480 --> 02:21:57,240
Speaker 1: especially when you go need now you're gonna you know,

2461
02:21:57,360 --> 02:22:00,200
Speaker 1: there there might be guys that you're split on all,

2462
02:22:00,240 --> 02:22:03,160
Speaker 1: but you come up with your board. Your board's ever evolving.

2463
02:22:03,920 --> 02:22:07,200
Speaker 1: You know, every GM has in their office, that's it's

2464
02:22:07,240 --> 02:22:11,080
Speaker 1: in every personnel room. The board is always you know

2465
02:22:11,280 --> 02:22:15,360
Speaker 1: evolving with data and information and intel so all that stuff.

2466
02:22:15,360 --> 02:22:18,120
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty fascinating heavy draft coming up in the

2467
02:22:18,200 --> 02:22:21,040
Speaker 1: coming weeks with the Fellas. We'll come back. Take a

2468
02:22:21,080 --> 02:22:23,880
Speaker 1: look at the weekend from a betting standpoint with the

2469
02:22:23,959 --> 02:22:28,160
Speaker 1: Big Brain on Brad where the Fellas. He is, my

2470
02:22:28,360 --> 02:22:33,119
Speaker 1: man Figgy, I'm caused together the Fellas on Fox Sports Radio.

2471
02:22:41,720 --> 02:22:50,520
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back Fells on an Easter weekend. Oh,

2472
02:22:50,680 --> 02:22:55,119
Speaker 1: everybody's holiday special, blessed pass over and happy Easter. Everybody

2473
02:22:55,120 --> 02:22:58,360
Speaker 1: who's having a nice weekend. It's a always good to

2474
02:22:58,480 --> 02:23:03,840
Speaker 1: have the confluence of the holidays and sports. We love

2475
02:23:03,920 --> 02:23:07,880
Speaker 1: our sports. We love uh our holiday weekends where you

2476
02:23:08,000 --> 02:23:10,280
Speaker 1: relax and families around and get the games on. So

2477
02:23:10,440 --> 02:23:14,520
Speaker 1: let's talk about it from a betting standpoint with our men,

2478
02:23:14,800 --> 02:23:19,600
Speaker 1: the Big Brain on Brad Brad Feinberg Bradley, good morning,

2479
02:23:20,640 --> 02:23:24,280
Speaker 1: Good morning Anthony. How are you? I don't pal, how's

2480
02:23:24,320 --> 02:23:28,080
Speaker 1: your holiday's going? Are you home? Are you back in there?

2481
02:23:29,680 --> 02:23:31,280
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah? I told you. I just I just

2482
02:23:31,520 --> 02:23:35,000
Speaker 1: flew back from I had a great trip with my son.

2483
02:23:35,600 --> 02:23:40,360
Speaker 1: Just flew back. I was in again, was in Vancouver, Whistler, Toronto, Montreal,

2484
02:23:41,040 --> 02:23:44,160
Speaker 1: Felt Lake City, Park City to a great trip. Hadn't

2485
02:23:44,160 --> 02:23:46,080
Speaker 1: bet any of those places really, and so it was

2486
02:23:46,120 --> 02:23:49,080
Speaker 1: really exciting. He had a great time. Now going to

2487
02:23:49,200 --> 02:23:53,560
Speaker 1: my girlfriends or Easter, and yeah, it's gonna be Uh,

2488
02:23:53,680 --> 02:23:56,840
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fun time. That's fantastic, Bro, it's

2489
02:23:56,879 --> 02:24:01,040
Speaker 1: gonna be great. Man, enjoy yourself and along the way,

2490
02:24:01,240 --> 02:24:06,760
Speaker 1: let's make you profitable. Let's start with baseball. Full slate

2491
02:24:06,959 --> 02:24:10,240
Speaker 1: of baseball. First of all, the game. I'm curious what

2492
02:24:10,360 --> 02:24:13,840
Speaker 1: you think of the game from a betting standpoint, The

2493
02:24:14,000 --> 02:24:18,760
Speaker 1: new rules, the st more steals. Uh, it seemed to

2494
02:24:18,840 --> 02:24:24,000
Speaker 1: be more runs, more action. Yeah, I think they're I

2495
02:24:24,080 --> 02:24:28,280
Speaker 1: think what's happened is exactly what Major League Baseball wanted

2496
02:24:28,320 --> 02:24:30,680
Speaker 1: to happen. It's exactly what you just said. Yeah, there's

2497
02:24:30,720 --> 02:24:34,080
Speaker 1: more action, more skills. Uh. And this is what they

2498
02:24:34,240 --> 02:24:37,760
Speaker 1: wanted and they're getting it. I mean they really are.

2499
02:24:37,840 --> 02:24:41,320
Speaker 1: There could be, God, there could be like look back

2500
02:24:41,360 --> 02:24:43,360
Speaker 1: in the day, you remember Aunty, the days where William

2501
02:24:43,400 --> 02:24:47,240
Speaker 1: McGee and Vince Coleman ran crazy for the Saint Louis Cardinals.

2502
02:24:47,640 --> 02:24:51,800
Speaker 1: You know, I know we're probably dating herself. Man. I

2503
02:24:51,959 --> 02:24:53,680
Speaker 1: loved that, you know, that was a big part of

2504
02:24:53,720 --> 02:24:59,240
Speaker 1: the game. And then like, yeah, and I I like

2505
02:24:59,560 --> 02:25:02,040
Speaker 1: being able to have that. I think that that's a

2506
02:25:03,040 --> 02:25:06,279
Speaker 1: great thing for the sport is they made the basis

2507
02:25:06,320 --> 02:25:09,160
Speaker 1: a little bit bigger, which again, those bang bang plays

2508
02:25:09,200 --> 02:25:11,840
Speaker 1: at second base, guys now being out by a quarter

2509
02:25:11,920 --> 02:25:13,400
Speaker 1: of inch or a half an inch, whatever it is,

2510
02:25:13,600 --> 02:25:16,360
Speaker 1: are now going to be safe. So look, I think

2511
02:25:16,400 --> 02:25:19,640
Speaker 1: it's done what they wanted it to do, um at

2512
02:25:19,680 --> 02:25:22,280
Speaker 1: least in yearly going. And we'll see how it keeps,

2513
02:25:22,520 --> 02:25:25,000
Speaker 1: how it keeps progressing. And look, there's you still see

2514
02:25:25,080 --> 02:25:28,279
Speaker 1: some situations, Anthony, where guys are getting a strike called,

2515
02:25:29,040 --> 02:25:31,520
Speaker 1: you know, for for delay a game or whatnot. And

2516
02:25:31,720 --> 02:25:34,840
Speaker 1: and and it's upsetting. I mean, I know Machado got

2517
02:25:34,879 --> 02:25:39,160
Speaker 1: ejected again, but I think over time the players will

2518
02:25:39,200 --> 02:25:41,200
Speaker 1: get used to it fully and we'll see less and

2519
02:25:41,320 --> 02:25:44,440
Speaker 1: less of that. Yeah, I think you're probably right about that.

2520
02:25:45,000 --> 02:25:48,720
Speaker 1: I could totally see that. Anything else you get, you

2521
02:25:48,800 --> 02:25:52,320
Speaker 1: get used to something in you, you adjust. Yeah, yeah,

2522
02:25:52,480 --> 02:25:54,880
Speaker 1: throw it out of doubt. All right, So let's take

2523
02:25:54,920 --> 02:26:00,160
Speaker 1: a look at today's slate. What catches your eye any

2524
02:26:00,240 --> 02:26:03,800
Speaker 1: teams like there's a couple of big mismatches already, the

2525
02:26:04,000 --> 02:26:08,760
Speaker 1: Rays and A's the Raise, who have scored more than

2526
02:26:08,840 --> 02:26:12,440
Speaker 1: four runs in every game. Uh, they get great pitch,

2527
02:26:12,560 --> 02:26:17,200
Speaker 1: They have a huge pitching advantage today with Springs going

2528
02:26:17,280 --> 02:26:23,160
Speaker 1: against uh Fujiyama, Fujiama from Oakland, and there are two

2529
02:26:23,600 --> 02:26:28,840
Speaker 1: eighty five favorite which is huge this time of the year. Yeah, again,

2530
02:26:28,840 --> 02:26:31,680
Speaker 1: I'm not interested in laying that kind of price now again,

2531
02:26:32,280 --> 02:26:35,480
Speaker 1: camp Vey, again, Anthony, that was my preseason picks on

2532
02:26:35,640 --> 02:26:38,640
Speaker 1: Rue long way to go, a long way to go.

2533
02:26:38,720 --> 02:26:40,000
Speaker 1: But I've been on them to win the division in

2534
02:26:40,040 --> 02:26:42,760
Speaker 1: the World Series, so hoping they do have a good season.

2535
02:26:42,879 --> 02:26:46,160
Speaker 1: Now it's interesting Fujiyama, Now he got roughed up badly

2536
02:26:46,240 --> 02:26:49,600
Speaker 1: his first start. But again, I'm researching quite a bit

2537
02:26:49,640 --> 02:26:52,000
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to put some kind of death

2538
02:26:52,240 --> 02:26:55,600
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be expedition to Fujiama, but I will

2539
02:26:55,640 --> 02:26:59,760
Speaker 1: say this, Um, he's a talented guy from what I've read, Uh,

2540
02:27:00,080 --> 02:27:02,680
Speaker 1: He's just struggled with command at some points in his career.

2541
02:27:03,360 --> 02:27:05,680
Speaker 1: I think he actually maybe does have a decent game

2542
02:27:05,720 --> 02:27:08,280
Speaker 1: in the Springs as an underrated guy. That again, he's

2543
02:27:08,280 --> 02:27:10,280
Speaker 1: getting a ton of respect today, but some of the

2544
02:27:10,360 --> 02:27:12,640
Speaker 1: masses may not know how good he is. To stay

2545
02:27:12,680 --> 02:27:16,240
Speaker 1: away game from me, I mean, you know, I I

2546
02:27:16,320 --> 02:27:18,520
Speaker 1: thought this number would come in right around you know,

2547
02:27:18,879 --> 02:27:21,120
Speaker 1: to sixty area and it's a little bit higher, but

2548
02:27:21,560 --> 02:27:23,000
Speaker 1: not a game I'm looking to play. But there are

2549
02:27:23,000 --> 02:27:25,320
Speaker 1: a couple of things I do like Anthony that I

2550
02:27:25,400 --> 02:27:29,160
Speaker 1: will will tell you about. Uh. First, I'm gonna give

2551
02:27:29,160 --> 02:27:33,800
Speaker 1: you a prop. Mike Clevenger. Okay, nineteen and four, last

2552
02:27:33,879 --> 02:27:36,360
Speaker 1: year under five mass strikeouts. No, he eats strikeouts his

2553
02:27:36,440 --> 02:27:40,160
Speaker 1: first game, I get it. But I'm gonna dare him again.

2554
02:27:40,200 --> 02:27:42,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna dare him to get sick now again. Maybe

2555
02:27:42,800 --> 02:27:45,760
Speaker 1: he is back the formally was a few years ago.

2556
02:27:46,280 --> 02:27:49,400
Speaker 1: Certainly possible, but again I'm gonna make him prove it

2557
02:27:49,480 --> 02:27:53,480
Speaker 1: to me. I took Clevenger a little plucky lineup with

2558
02:27:53,640 --> 02:27:59,520
Speaker 1: this with the Pirates, Pirates and Cruise and Reynolds and

2559
02:28:00,120 --> 02:28:02,760
Speaker 1: that team get in a little bit. Yeah, and again,

2560
02:28:02,840 --> 02:28:07,080
Speaker 1: Clevenger is a guy that last year just wasn't very good.

2561
02:28:07,160 --> 02:28:09,760
Speaker 1: And look he signed like one of those you know,

2562
02:28:09,959 --> 02:28:12,160
Speaker 1: prove it deals with the White Sox in the off

2563
02:28:12,200 --> 02:28:14,280
Speaker 1: season because how bad he was last year. Look, he

2564
02:28:14,320 --> 02:28:17,600
Speaker 1: went to pet Koe Barkin was awful. Okay, he had

2565
02:28:17,640 --> 02:28:20,520
Speaker 1: a serious injury and didn't rebound from again nineteen and four.

2566
02:28:21,000 --> 02:28:23,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make him prove that that eighth strike out

2567
02:28:23,879 --> 02:28:27,119
Speaker 1: formans game one you know was you know was real,

2568
02:28:27,400 --> 02:28:31,480
Speaker 1: was legit, And I'm Jordan Montgomery, and I'll give you

2569
02:28:31,520 --> 02:28:34,520
Speaker 1: two games. Jordan Montgomery over fifteen and a half hours

2570
02:28:34,640 --> 02:28:37,120
Speaker 1: was nineteen and eleven, his last dirty starts last year.

2571
02:28:38,320 --> 02:28:40,800
Speaker 1: Now his first game this year. He only get fifteen ounces,

2572
02:28:40,800 --> 02:28:44,200
Speaker 1: so he missed by one out. But again, I think again,

2573
02:28:44,240 --> 02:28:46,480
Speaker 1: I don't think the Brewers are a great offense at all.

2574
02:28:47,560 --> 02:28:50,960
Speaker 1: Montgomery's a guy again went nineteen eleven last year to

2575
02:28:51,120 --> 02:28:52,920
Speaker 1: think that that lumber. You know, I think it's the

2576
02:28:52,959 --> 02:28:54,440
Speaker 1: game that I can win. I think I can win

2577
02:28:54,560 --> 02:28:56,280
Speaker 1: that close to sixty percent at the time. So I

2578
02:28:56,320 --> 02:28:58,560
Speaker 1: did played Jordan Montgomery over fifteen half house and I

2579
02:28:58,560 --> 02:29:01,600
Speaker 1: could be two games. Anthony Michael walk is a guy

2580
02:29:01,760 --> 02:29:06,520
Speaker 1: that pitched room well last year for Boston. He was great,

2581
02:29:07,000 --> 02:29:10,800
Speaker 1: He really was great. Charlie Morton's a much better strikeout pitcher.

2582
02:29:11,440 --> 02:29:14,119
Speaker 1: But you know, we have two really good teams here.

2583
02:29:14,879 --> 02:29:17,440
Speaker 1: I can almost take around three to two odds. You know,

2584
02:29:17,480 --> 02:29:20,360
Speaker 1: I got walk up plus a dollar fifty earlier. I

2585
02:29:20,360 --> 02:29:22,440
Speaker 1: think it's still get around close to that number. I

2586
02:29:22,560 --> 02:29:24,760
Speaker 1: just think that line is a little bit high. While

2587
02:29:24,760 --> 02:29:28,120
Speaker 1: I do recognize Morton is probably the better pitcher. He

2588
02:29:28,280 --> 02:29:30,320
Speaker 1: is the better pitcher, but I think that walk I

2589
02:29:30,360 --> 02:29:32,960
Speaker 1: don't think the Braves go ninety and sixty in this matchup,

2590
02:29:33,200 --> 02:29:35,800
Speaker 1: which is basically what one fifty translates to. I mean,

2591
02:29:35,800 --> 02:29:38,080
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna win that about against the general public,

2592
02:29:38,440 --> 02:29:41,680
Speaker 1: not against you know, the Padres, who were arguably right

2593
02:29:41,760 --> 02:29:43,680
Speaker 1: up there is the best team in the National League.

2594
02:29:43,920 --> 02:29:46,920
Speaker 1: I think that line's too high. And then Tyler Anderson's

2595
02:29:46,920 --> 02:29:49,039
Speaker 1: a guy. I don't think it's enough respect. Anthony had

2596
02:29:49,080 --> 02:29:51,360
Speaker 1: a great year last year for the Dodgers. It's one

2597
02:29:51,400 --> 02:29:54,800
Speaker 1: of those underrated best pitchers in baseball. Quite frankly signs

2598
02:29:54,840 --> 02:29:58,160
Speaker 1: a nice deal with the Anahimi Angels. Going as Josie Barriers,

2599
02:29:58,200 --> 02:30:04,040
Speaker 1: who's just been a he got time. Yeah, if he

2600
02:30:04,240 --> 02:30:07,440
Speaker 1: was scary bad all last year, he was just one

2601
02:30:07,520 --> 02:30:09,360
Speaker 1: of the like he was, I think he may have been.

2602
02:30:09,440 --> 02:30:12,199
Speaker 1: It's not the worst pitcher in the American League, pretty

2603
02:30:12,200 --> 02:30:14,920
Speaker 1: close to it. And you know, this game's right around

2604
02:30:14,959 --> 02:30:19,560
Speaker 1: a pick because Barrios still was getting respect off previous years,

2605
02:30:19,600 --> 02:30:22,280
Speaker 1: which I understand, but to me, again, he had a

2606
02:30:22,360 --> 02:30:25,959
Speaker 1: five twenty five r lay last year and a horrible

2607
02:30:26,000 --> 02:30:28,960
Speaker 1: Whip was just brutal throughout. Did not look good in

2608
02:30:29,080 --> 02:30:32,320
Speaker 1: spring has looked horrible as first game. Again, I think

2609
02:30:32,360 --> 02:30:34,960
Speaker 1: the Angels actually have a good lineup and with Tyler

2610
02:30:34,959 --> 02:30:36,879
Speaker 1: Anderson's the guy won. I think he won like seventeen

2611
02:30:36,920 --> 02:30:40,160
Speaker 1: and three last year something like that. Um, and I

2612
02:30:40,240 --> 02:30:41,840
Speaker 1: pick him. I'm going to take my chance because I

2613
02:30:41,920 --> 02:30:45,240
Speaker 1: like that game a lot. Yeah, that's interesting, is a

2614
02:30:45,760 --> 02:30:48,880
Speaker 1: that's a great play, I think honestly, I look at that.

2615
02:30:49,160 --> 02:30:54,920
Speaker 1: I agree with you because Barrios, Oh, I watched this stuff.

2616
02:30:54,959 --> 02:30:57,840
Speaker 1: I actually watched part of that game, and his stuff

2617
02:30:58,160 --> 02:31:02,640
Speaker 1: is so flat right over the play. He's Scott, He's

2618
02:31:02,720 --> 02:31:07,800
Speaker 1: so hittable. It's unbelievable. Yeah, that's not what you want

2619
02:31:08,200 --> 02:31:10,600
Speaker 1: if you're Yeah, and again like that to me, is

2620
02:31:10,600 --> 02:31:13,560
Speaker 1: gonna be a problem for Toronto. Again. That's why again

2621
02:31:13,560 --> 02:31:15,640
Speaker 1: I was not as high on Toronto this year. Um,

2622
02:31:16,160 --> 02:31:19,120
Speaker 1: because I think they're pitching maybe uh, not quite as

2623
02:31:19,200 --> 02:31:21,880
Speaker 1: strong as you know as people think it's gonna be.

2624
02:31:22,360 --> 02:31:25,480
Speaker 1: Outside of Gossman and the Manoah, I just don't know

2625
02:31:25,560 --> 02:31:30,160
Speaker 1: if I see enough there that I like, Yeah, yeah,

2626
02:31:30,280 --> 02:31:33,520
Speaker 1: I could see that. I could always see that, uh

2627
02:31:34,959 --> 02:31:37,840
Speaker 1: anything with what I was looking at Washington and uh,

2628
02:31:38,480 --> 02:31:43,960
Speaker 1: the Nationals, I kind of like Washington. Well, look, Anthony,

2629
02:31:44,040 --> 02:31:47,840
Speaker 1: Washington look not at it well last night, yeah, look

2630
02:31:48,000 --> 02:31:52,120
Speaker 1: yet not not not not a great team obviously, but

2631
02:31:52,360 --> 02:31:57,520
Speaker 1: but but looking you know, gamber Is. Look, I'll just

2632
02:31:57,640 --> 02:32:00,520
Speaker 1: say this, games and coors Field, Anthony, to me, are

2633
02:32:00,600 --> 02:32:06,560
Speaker 1: just extremely difficult to bet in my opinion, because I

2634
02:32:06,680 --> 02:32:08,720
Speaker 1: just feel like there's a lot more variants than those

2635
02:32:08,800 --> 02:32:12,080
Speaker 1: kind of games. So I usually always will you know,

2636
02:32:12,200 --> 02:32:14,920
Speaker 1: the Rockies always had success in the past in their

2637
02:32:14,959 --> 02:32:18,200
Speaker 1: home stadium, and I always just I just don't these

2638
02:32:18,240 --> 02:32:20,640
Speaker 1: as a quote unquote good pitch for pitching, I don't

2639
02:32:20,680 --> 02:32:22,640
Speaker 1: even trust him to be good because that's Look, look

2640
02:32:22,680 --> 02:32:24,600
Speaker 1: at the go runner in that game night, Anthony. You know,

2641
02:32:24,920 --> 02:32:27,480
Speaker 1: it's eleven. It's the highest still runner on the board.

2642
02:32:27,520 --> 02:32:29,760
Speaker 1: And you know, and again, let's just be honest, the

2643
02:32:29,920 --> 02:32:32,680
Speaker 1: Rockies and the Nationals, if they were on the road,

2644
02:32:33,360 --> 02:32:35,080
Speaker 1: these are considered to be two of the worst hitting

2645
02:32:35,120 --> 02:32:38,119
Speaker 1: teams in the league. But but you know, in coors

2646
02:32:38,200 --> 02:32:40,720
Speaker 1: Field you get a total of eleven. So to me,

2647
02:32:41,520 --> 02:32:43,280
Speaker 1: not a game. I'm looking at beat On, you know,

2648
02:32:43,360 --> 02:32:46,400
Speaker 1: Trevor Williams, Austin Gomber again two below average pitchers on

2649
02:32:46,520 --> 02:32:49,000
Speaker 1: top of it. U you know the lines right around

2650
02:32:49,040 --> 02:32:52,920
Speaker 1: a dollar forty for the Rockies again looked gun to

2651
02:32:53,000 --> 02:32:55,040
Speaker 1: my head. I guess light leaned to New Washington. I

2652
02:32:55,120 --> 02:32:57,720
Speaker 1: think from good not a game. I'm wider on all right,

2653
02:32:58,080 --> 02:32:59,840
Speaker 1: let me hit you with the masters on the way.

2654
02:33:00,120 --> 02:33:03,320
Speaker 1: You can jump in, like you know again anytime they

2655
02:33:03,400 --> 02:33:06,320
Speaker 1: still have half around. Well, some guys about it. You

2656
02:33:06,360 --> 02:33:09,040
Speaker 1: still have half a round left in this second and

2657
02:33:09,120 --> 02:33:12,480
Speaker 1: then there's still some weather there. But if you're sitting around,

2658
02:33:12,520 --> 02:33:15,240
Speaker 1: you're looking to do it now. I know Rom has

2659
02:33:15,280 --> 02:33:20,520
Speaker 1: a big league Keepca and Rom? Are you know right there? Um?

2660
02:33:21,480 --> 02:33:24,080
Speaker 1: Anybody looking like a couple of guys I was looking

2661
02:33:24,120 --> 02:33:27,160
Speaker 1: at just for pizza, bad things, or maybe to get

2662
02:33:27,200 --> 02:33:31,519
Speaker 1: into a top five or top ten situation. Uh Morrikawa.

2663
02:33:32,600 --> 02:33:36,640
Speaker 1: And then the amateur Bennett who's thirty five to one

2664
02:33:36,680 --> 02:33:38,680
Speaker 1: to win, and now we know that that's a problem,

2665
02:33:38,760 --> 02:33:43,600
Speaker 1: but plus three to sixty to go top five? Yeah,

2666
02:33:43,680 --> 02:33:45,760
Speaker 1: listen again, but as you say, look, you know he's

2667
02:33:45,959 --> 02:33:48,440
Speaker 1: the good thing is for him he's actually finished two

2668
02:33:48,560 --> 02:33:52,520
Speaker 1: rounds okay, so like you actually get the benefit of that,

2669
02:33:52,720 --> 02:33:54,640
Speaker 1: like he doesn't, you know, because you want as many

2670
02:33:54,720 --> 02:33:57,840
Speaker 1: holes to be done for a situation like that. Uh

2671
02:33:58,480 --> 02:34:01,520
Speaker 1: you know, Look, honestly, again, I would rather if you

2672
02:34:01,640 --> 02:34:04,840
Speaker 1: like Sam Bennett. And again I would not be bad.

2673
02:34:04,840 --> 02:34:06,959
Speaker 1: I just I just think it's hard. From the new

2674
02:34:07,040 --> 02:34:09,440
Speaker 1: four rounds, I would lean more towards the top ten

2675
02:34:09,840 --> 02:34:12,120
Speaker 1: than the top five. The payday is not going to

2676
02:34:12,120 --> 02:34:13,760
Speaker 1: be quite as good. You're instead of getting like three

2677
02:34:13,920 --> 02:34:16,240
Speaker 1: fifty three to sixty, you're probably getting closer to a

2678
02:34:16,280 --> 02:34:19,040
Speaker 1: dollar thirty area. But to me, I would rather take

2679
02:34:19,080 --> 02:34:22,080
Speaker 1: a lesser price because it's just anything. I've seen this

2680
02:34:22,160 --> 02:34:25,000
Speaker 1: story too many times. You should have worn hole where

2681
02:34:25,000 --> 02:34:27,840
Speaker 1: you shoot in eight or something like that and it

2682
02:34:28,000 --> 02:34:31,320
Speaker 1: knocked you out. Yeah, it knocks you out. Now again Look,

2683
02:34:31,440 --> 02:34:33,240
Speaker 1: two most likely winners to me, and you don't need

2684
02:34:33,280 --> 02:34:36,080
Speaker 1: me to tell you this a Roman Kepta. And I

2685
02:34:36,160 --> 02:34:38,640
Speaker 1: know I mentioned this set before. One advice I would

2686
02:34:38,640 --> 02:34:41,320
Speaker 1: give to people is if you like a player, okay,

2687
02:34:41,360 --> 02:34:43,760
Speaker 1: and you see that, let's say, after what's one round

2688
02:34:43,800 --> 02:34:46,640
Speaker 1: will go east winning a tournament. The sports will update

2689
02:34:46,720 --> 02:34:49,960
Speaker 1: the odds after the tournament, that is when they usually

2690
02:34:50,040 --> 02:34:52,160
Speaker 1: update them. So I was able to get kept at

2691
02:34:52,240 --> 02:34:54,680
Speaker 1: forty you think like forty three to one to win

2692
02:34:54,760 --> 02:34:57,680
Speaker 1: the Masters knowing because he was winning that live he

2693
02:34:57,760 --> 02:35:00,280
Speaker 1: was winning a live tournament, Okay, and I at that

2694
02:35:00,440 --> 02:35:02,600
Speaker 1: not because I loved Kepta, but I knew that line

2695
02:35:02,640 --> 02:35:05,640
Speaker 1: would be would go way down after he wins the tournament,

2696
02:35:05,720 --> 02:35:08,480
Speaker 1: which is exactly what happened. And he looks like he's

2697
02:35:08,480 --> 02:35:11,160
Speaker 1: in good form right now, but you know, after really

2698
02:35:11,200 --> 02:35:14,040
Speaker 1: an interesting leaderboy after run one. Now, you know, with

2699
02:35:14,160 --> 02:35:17,879
Speaker 1: two established players like Roman Kepta, I think the odds

2700
02:35:17,920 --> 02:35:19,680
Speaker 1: are pretty good one of those two's gonna win it.

2701
02:35:22,080 --> 02:35:25,520
Speaker 1: Oh well, I'm gonna tell you, I like Morikawa. He

2702
02:35:26,320 --> 02:35:30,680
Speaker 1: handles the quarter as well. Yeah, great, he'd amy he's

2703
02:35:30,720 --> 02:35:32,680
Speaker 1: one of the best five players in the world. Yeah,

2704
02:35:32,800 --> 02:35:36,520
Speaker 1: and I'm just saying at sixteen to one and you

2705
02:35:36,640 --> 02:35:39,120
Speaker 1: maybe you back it up top five finish, he's plus

2706
02:35:39,200 --> 02:35:42,920
Speaker 1: one sixty five, so yeah, not bad at one empty again,

2707
02:35:42,959 --> 02:35:45,960
Speaker 1: it just I will say this, It just takes one

2708
02:35:46,080 --> 02:35:48,840
Speaker 1: round of him shooting like a sixty seven to sixty

2709
02:35:48,879 --> 02:35:51,320
Speaker 1: eight and kept get shoot to seventy two, which isn't

2710
02:35:51,320 --> 02:35:53,760
Speaker 1: even like it's nothing like crazy, and then he goes

2711
02:35:53,800 --> 02:35:55,959
Speaker 1: from dying down six to being down one or two.

2712
02:35:56,080 --> 02:35:58,360
Speaker 1: Then you're like an almost a coin flip. So listen,

2713
02:35:58,440 --> 02:36:00,280
Speaker 1: I get it. An again, with those odds, it doesn't

2714
02:36:00,280 --> 02:36:03,280
Speaker 1: take much for to swing your way, and Morika was

2715
02:36:03,320 --> 02:36:04,800
Speaker 1: the kind of guy they can go low. I think

2716
02:36:04,800 --> 02:36:06,600
Speaker 1: he's if he won two majors. I believe with me.

2717
02:36:06,680 --> 02:36:09,360
Speaker 1: I think he's won two majors. I'm not mistaken. Um

2718
02:36:09,720 --> 02:36:12,880
Speaker 1: so to me, um, I could certainly see that. And

2719
02:36:12,959 --> 02:36:15,879
Speaker 1: then look again the masters. You've guys, you know, established

2720
02:36:15,920 --> 02:36:19,039
Speaker 1: guys like Jason Dave, Jordan Spieth, you know Patrick read

2721
02:36:19,080 --> 02:36:20,680
Speaker 1: of all had success. These guys are all on the

2722
02:36:20,720 --> 02:36:23,280
Speaker 1: top ten. But as I said, I do think the

2723
02:36:23,360 --> 02:36:25,960
Speaker 1: two most likely winners I would not be looking to

2724
02:36:26,040 --> 02:36:28,520
Speaker 1: fade rom or kept guy. I think these are two

2725
02:36:28,800 --> 02:36:32,760
Speaker 1: great players that uh, they're gonna be tough to. I

2726
02:36:32,760 --> 02:36:34,640
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna come down. Maybe I'm wrong, but

2727
02:36:34,720 --> 02:36:36,760
Speaker 1: I think they're both going to stay up there. Yeah,

2728
02:36:36,920 --> 02:36:41,000
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I I got thirty seconds. Any NBA, well, no,

2729
02:36:41,200 --> 02:36:43,200
Speaker 1: right ampion, right now. The NBA, it's just it's just

2730
02:36:43,400 --> 02:36:47,160
Speaker 1: it's pure exhibition. It's pure exhibition. There's the games today

2731
02:36:47,200 --> 02:36:51,680
Speaker 1: where we're like, really, you've Utah against Denver games of

2732
02:36:51,800 --> 02:36:55,120
Speaker 1: the meaning Jazz. I'm a Clippers class. Yeah, I mean

2733
02:36:55,160 --> 02:36:58,760
Speaker 1: I didn't think anything. It's all garbage, yep, as you

2734
02:36:58,840 --> 02:37:02,920
Speaker 1: saw with them night. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll talk about

2735
02:37:02,920 --> 02:37:06,040
Speaker 1: that another day. Yeah, listen, great stuff, my brother. Enjoy

2736
02:37:06,160 --> 02:37:09,640
Speaker 1: the weekend, buddy. All right. I appreciate you as always, Buddy.

2737
02:37:09,640 --> 02:37:12,279
Speaker 1: Take care of the area. Is the great, big big

2738
02:37:12,440 --> 02:37:17,040
Speaker 1: brain on Brad, Brad Fineberg figgy can you hit me

2739
02:37:17,200 --> 02:37:21,560
Speaker 1: with abbreviated trending? Thank you, buddy? All right, rain is

2740
02:37:21,600 --> 02:37:24,000
Speaker 1: coming down at Augusta right now, Anthony the second round

2741
02:37:24,000 --> 02:37:26,440
Speaker 1: of the Masters. But right now, at least mass the

2742
02:37:26,480 --> 02:37:29,600
Speaker 1: second round is back underway. We know play was suspended

2743
02:37:29,640 --> 02:37:31,840
Speaker 1: on Friday dude to weather, so we'll see exactly how

2744
02:37:31,920 --> 02:37:35,160
Speaker 1: long they play through. But Tiger Woods back at it.

2745
02:37:35,240 --> 02:37:37,039
Speaker 1: After he made part at twelve, he had a chance

2746
02:37:37,080 --> 02:37:39,440
Speaker 1: to earn a birdie at thirteen, left it a little

2747
02:37:39,480 --> 02:37:41,000
Speaker 1: bit short, so we had to settle for a part

2748
02:37:41,080 --> 02:37:43,360
Speaker 1: there as well, And about I don't know, ten seconds ago,

2749
02:37:43,400 --> 02:37:46,360
Speaker 1: he missed the fairway at fourteen. As of right now,

2750
02:37:46,760 --> 02:37:49,080
Speaker 1: remains at two over for the tournament, which is not bad.

2751
02:37:49,160 --> 02:37:50,960
Speaker 1: As of right now, that's still projected to be the

2752
02:37:51,000 --> 02:37:53,680
Speaker 1: cut line. As you and Brad just talked about. Brooks

2753
02:37:53,760 --> 02:37:56,480
Speaker 1: Kepka completed his round. Friday has a three stroke lead

2754
02:37:56,520 --> 02:37:58,560
Speaker 1: over John Ram, who has yet to resume his round.

2755
02:37:59,040 --> 02:38:01,520
Speaker 1: So far, you guys, one over all of the NBA scenarios,

2756
02:38:01,560 --> 02:38:02,840
Speaker 1: there a moment ago, So I don't know if I

2757
02:38:02,920 --> 02:38:04,840
Speaker 1: necessarily need to go too deep into that. We know

2758
02:38:04,920 --> 02:38:07,320
Speaker 1: the playoff scenarios. We have the play in matchups on

2759
02:38:07,440 --> 02:38:10,199
Speaker 1: Tuesday night, Miami hosting Atlanta in the seven eight nineteen

2760
02:38:10,240 --> 02:38:13,959
Speaker 1: will feature Raptors hosting Chicago Western Conference. Not yet figured out,

2761
02:38:14,560 --> 02:38:18,640
Speaker 1: but we'll have more clarity, possibly even tonight. Anthony sounds good,

2762
02:38:18,760 --> 02:38:21,240
Speaker 1: my brother. We'll come back and we'll wrap it up

2763
02:38:21,400 --> 02:38:26,240
Speaker 1: where the fellas right here every Saturday on Fox Sports Radio.

2764
02:38:31,080 --> 02:38:40,480
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back as we hang out fellas on

2765
02:38:40,720 --> 02:38:48,360
Speaker 1: a Fox Sports Saturday. Oh figure, I was about to say,

2766
02:38:48,360 --> 02:38:52,680
Speaker 1: a Fox Football Saturday. We're playing football somewhere now, right,

2767
02:38:53,040 --> 02:38:57,120
Speaker 1: I guess yeah? Is that AF still the thing? Is

2768
02:38:57,160 --> 02:39:01,480
Speaker 1: that still around? Or do they run out of money?

2769
02:39:02,720 --> 02:39:05,840
Speaker 1: They still? I don't know, they're gone. They did run

2770
02:39:05,879 --> 02:39:07,960
Speaker 1: out of money, they were they were gone. Well the

2771
02:39:08,160 --> 02:39:11,000
Speaker 1: XFL starting it is, yes? Or the other one? Dude,

2772
02:39:11,040 --> 02:39:15,400
Speaker 1: what's the other one? The USFL? Sorry, USFL? Right? The

2773
02:39:15,560 --> 02:39:20,320
Speaker 1: AF that was the best Hey, well, welcome back to

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2780
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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays. The one one we're gonna high flyball,

2781
02:39:51,840 --> 02:39:56,880
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2782
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2784
02:40:09,680 --> 02:40:16,200
Speaker 1: sinks the Angels four to three. Angels A man, they

2785
02:40:16,240 --> 02:40:19,440
Speaker 1: get started off great, right, Trout? You did that just

2786
02:40:19,560 --> 02:40:24,480
Speaker 1: to spite me, didn't you know? With Mike Trout had

2787
02:40:24,520 --> 02:40:27,240
Speaker 1: a monster home run almost at the truck and center

2788
02:40:27,320 --> 02:40:32,760
Speaker 1: field right ward walks Trout bomb and then they stopped

2789
02:40:32,840 --> 02:40:36,680
Speaker 1: hitting its Old Tinny gets a leadoff double in the

2790
02:40:36,720 --> 02:40:40,879
Speaker 1: eighth inning and stays on second base. How about somebody bunt?

2791
02:40:40,959 --> 02:40:43,720
Speaker 1: How about you move a guy over? Yeah, this is

2792
02:40:43,760 --> 02:40:45,640
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three baseball, now, let's not You don't have

2793
02:40:45,680 --> 02:40:46,840
Speaker 1: to sit here to sit around and wait for a

2794
02:40:46,920 --> 02:40:49,160
Speaker 1: three run home run anymore. We can play small ball again.

2795
02:40:49,240 --> 02:40:52,039
Speaker 1: Let's go where's Mike social when you need them? Look

2796
02:40:52,080 --> 02:40:55,600
Speaker 1: at look at look at this lineup after oh tany Hunter,

2797
02:40:55,720 --> 02:41:00,640
Speaker 1: renfro Lamb Dreary, I don't know what happened hit him? Yeah,

2798
02:41:00,720 --> 02:41:05,320
Speaker 1: Virchela Yeah, Hoppy is the hobby is a good young player.

2799
02:41:05,560 --> 02:41:12,360
Speaker 1: But yeah, flatch your Yeah, not a lot happening offensively.

2800
02:41:12,400 --> 02:41:15,680
Speaker 1: There's there's a lot of average there, Yeah, a lot

2801
02:41:15,720 --> 02:41:19,800
Speaker 1: of average. Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of it. It's

2802
02:41:19,800 --> 02:41:23,120
Speaker 1: a shame because where are they tak what's the latest

2803
02:41:23,160 --> 02:41:28,360
Speaker 1: with uh oh tire? They just we'll see what happens. Well.

2804
02:41:29,280 --> 02:41:32,280
Speaker 1: The story coming out of Angels camp with Artie Moreno,

2805
02:41:32,480 --> 02:41:34,520
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem as if even if they're out of

2806
02:41:34,560 --> 02:41:37,200
Speaker 1: the lineup or out of you know, contention, by the

2807
02:41:37,280 --> 02:41:39,560
Speaker 1: time the trade deadline comes, it sounds as if they're

2808
02:41:39,640 --> 02:41:43,160
Speaker 1: not gonna trade them for whatever reason. Whether it's delusion

2809
02:41:43,280 --> 02:41:45,199
Speaker 1: thinking they can sign them even if the team continues

2810
02:41:45,240 --> 02:41:46,920
Speaker 1: to struggle. I don't know. But if I were them,

2811
02:41:47,400 --> 02:41:49,000
Speaker 1: if I know I don't have a clear path to

2812
02:41:49,080 --> 02:41:51,200
Speaker 1: the postseason, I don't know why you just let this

2813
02:41:51,280 --> 02:41:54,000
Speaker 1: guy walk away? For absolutely nothing. It makes no sense

2814
02:41:54,080 --> 02:41:57,440
Speaker 1: to me. But that's that's that they want to keep them. Obviously.

2815
02:41:57,520 --> 02:41:59,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how their world they're going to be

2816
02:41:59,080 --> 02:42:02,280
Speaker 1: able to sign him. Don't win that you got some

2817
02:42:02,760 --> 02:42:06,080
Speaker 1: major suiters, like you know, I mean all the Dodgers

2818
02:42:06,280 --> 02:42:09,440
Speaker 1: and the Mets are gonna come in with all sorts

2819
02:42:09,480 --> 02:42:14,200
Speaker 1: of money. Yeah, I mean it's gonna be a They're

2820
02:42:14,240 --> 02:42:17,560
Speaker 1: gonna come in both hands, and I just don't know

2821
02:42:17,680 --> 02:42:19,560
Speaker 1: that it's worth it for the Angels. I mean, you're

2822
02:42:19,600 --> 02:42:23,440
Speaker 1: just not gonna you don't have enough. It would only

2823
02:42:23,440 --> 02:42:25,520
Speaker 1: be worth it from a marketing standpoint to say that

2824
02:42:25,600 --> 02:42:27,080
Speaker 1: you have him. But I mean he wants to win.

2825
02:42:27,160 --> 02:42:29,440
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna inc a ten year even

2826
02:42:29,480 --> 02:42:31,640
Speaker 1: if it's six hundred million dollars, to stay there and

2827
02:42:31,720 --> 02:42:34,760
Speaker 1: continue to struggle, especially after he talked about how much

2828
02:42:34,840 --> 02:42:38,280
Speaker 1: fun and the intensity of the World Baseball Classic, talking

2829
02:42:38,280 --> 02:42:41,000
Speaker 1: about that was the most meaningful baseball he's played. Yeah,

2830
02:42:41,640 --> 02:42:44,040
Speaker 1: look as good as the World Baseball Classic was, as

2831
02:42:44,160 --> 02:42:46,800
Speaker 1: entertaining as it was, it's sad when a major league

2832
02:42:46,800 --> 02:42:49,080
Speaker 1: player says, this is the most intense environment I've played

2833
02:42:49,120 --> 02:42:52,560
Speaker 1: in in years. That means you haven't played meaningful baseball

2834
02:42:53,080 --> 02:42:55,680
Speaker 1: for your actual, you know, regular job. To try to

2835
02:42:55,720 --> 02:42:59,440
Speaker 1: get into the postseason with the Angels. That's bad as

2836
02:42:59,480 --> 02:43:01,560
Speaker 1: an indict know the Angels organization that you can have

2837
02:43:02,080 --> 02:43:04,400
Speaker 1: arguably number one and number two best players in the

2838
02:43:04,600 --> 02:43:07,040
Speaker 1: entire league and yet you can't sniff the postseason in

2839
02:43:07,040 --> 02:43:08,959
Speaker 1: the last four years. Now, that's a great point, man,

2840
02:43:09,360 --> 02:43:12,240
Speaker 1: it's a great point. It really is. It's the truth

2841
02:43:12,640 --> 02:43:15,920
Speaker 1: what happens with Trout. Trout's gonna stick it out. I

2842
02:43:16,000 --> 02:43:17,840
Speaker 1: think he's I think he's loyal. He's getting paid. I

2843
02:43:17,840 --> 02:43:19,879
Speaker 1: don't know how much. I'm sure he wants to win,

2844
02:43:20,440 --> 02:43:22,000
Speaker 1: but I don't know if it's so much of a

2845
02:43:22,000 --> 02:43:24,920
Speaker 1: big deal that he wanted to request a trade. All right,

2846
02:43:24,959 --> 02:43:27,400
Speaker 1: Well that's gonna do it for us. My brother, Have

2847
02:43:27,480 --> 02:43:31,160
Speaker 1: a great Easter, everybody. God bless you guys. We love you.

2848
02:43:31,240 --> 02:43:32,600
Speaker 1: See you next week. Fellows her out