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Speaker 2: the start of the Heisman Show tonight, when we'll find

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Speaker 2: out if well, I mean, it's it's a coordination. We

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Speaker 2: we we pretty much know who is going to win.

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Speaker 3: I understand, But is that I mean, that's the thing

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Speaker 3: you lead with. I mean, I guess.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, first of all, you're asking me, you're asking me,

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Speaker 2: come on now, from whether anybody else on the planet

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Speaker 2: cares about the Heisman Trophy, I.

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Speaker 3: Care, but I understand that. But it just so happens

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Speaker 3: to be at the same time, yes, as the the

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Speaker 3: u N Season Tournament championship.

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Speaker 2: Okay, now, I'm glad you're mentioning this because I'm very

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Speaker 2: happy to report the Los Angeles Lakers, a team that

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Speaker 2: I have followed since l Jim Baylor was still an

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Speaker 2: All set. Yes, you know, the season that they acquired

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Speaker 2: Wilt Chamberlain. I was in fifth grade. That's when I

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Speaker 2: became a fan, long before the world knew about it.

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Speaker 2: From Salon. Okay, and I know you're a diehard Laker fan,

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Speaker 2: but the Lakers have made it infinitely clear that if

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Speaker 2: they win tonight and win the first ever NBA Cup,

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Speaker 2: there will be no banner hung in their arena recognizing

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Speaker 2: NBA Cup champions. And I'm very, very pleased that the

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Speaker 2: Lakers will not cave to the pressure that is being

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Speaker 2: place on the NBA. To all the NBA I'll list

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Speaker 2: to really lift up the importance of this NBA caught

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Speaker 2: this n season tournament that has zero bearing. If anything,

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Speaker 2: Tonight's game for the Lakers is a real roll of

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Speaker 2: the dice because it's not even a regular season game.

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Speaker 4: Oh, it's a free game.

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Speaker 2: It's a free game. The last thing you won is

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Speaker 2: anybody get hurt in a game that doesn't count in

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Speaker 3: The thing I like about it is, first of all,

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Speaker 3: all of the incon tournament games were highly competitive games.

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Speaker 4: Not all except for this past.

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Speaker 2: Yeah the semi finals.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah, that's just a different class to

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Speaker 3: different level of team. When you look at New Orleans

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Speaker 3: and you look at the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but didn't you watch Milwaukee when they bounced out?

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Speaker 2: It seemed like they wanted to get out the way

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Speaker 2: they played that day.

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Speaker 3: No, I just think when you look at the Pacers

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Speaker 3: see the Pacers.

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Speaker 4: No, we get it, and it's the Pacers. Y.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how many NBA championships have they won?

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Speaker 3: But it's not even that. It's like it's their marquee player.

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Speaker 3: Most people Sliburton, but this kid can play this, he

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Speaker 2: Was an All Star last year.

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Speaker 4: Lights out.

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Speaker 3: I remember when the Kings drafted him, right, could you

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Speaker 3: imagine if Kings had him and darreon Fox?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean he was there in three years. It

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Speaker 2: didn't look like he was going to be an All Star.

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Speaker 2: But now he came in last year and they panicked.

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Speaker 3: They panicked a little bit, but he had always been

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Speaker 3: you could see it in him. They just were on

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Speaker 3: a whole nother level youth. They I mean, they're so

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Speaker 2: And so I think, well, how much effort of the

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Speaker 2: want to have Lebron play forty minutes in a game

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Speaker 2: that means absolutely nothing?

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Speaker 3: No? But what I do think, and I think, I think,

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Speaker 3: you know, when five hundred thousand dollars is a lot

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Speaker 4: Right, you look at Rory just got re upped. You

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Speaker 3: Austin Reeves, who's now you know, fifty four million dollar contract.

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Speaker 3: All this money is guaranteed. But then you look at

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Speaker 2: By the way, way back in the day in Major

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Speaker 2: shares would be like seven thousand dollars doesn't sound like

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Man, that's nothing. I mean.

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Speaker 2: So like I say, now, the Mickey Mannos the world,

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Speaker 2: They literally are doubling or tripling their season salary. So

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not gonna bury this any more than

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Speaker 2: pleased to say that the Lakers have made it infinitely

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Speaker 2: clear there will be no NBA Cup banner hang in.

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Speaker 2: When you've got all those championship.

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Speaker 4: Banners, well we hang we hang championships exactly.

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Speaker 2: That's when you know your UCLA basketball. They they've had

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Speaker 2: eight final fours which they did not win a championship

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Speaker 2: final fours. There are no banners for those final fours, none,

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Speaker 2: only the ten eleven championships. And so that's it, you know,

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Speaker 2: that's the way it works.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 2: We got that going on. We got to talk about

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Speaker 2: this Otani trade at the start. By the way, the

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Speaker 2: Army Navy game is going on, don't ask. It's the

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Speaker 2: signing of Otani. Yes, thank you so ten years, seven

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Speaker 2: hundred million dollars. So let's think about this for a second.

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Speaker 2: By the way, John Paul Morosi, our Fox Sports radio

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Speaker 2: after the next hour talk more about this signing by

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers, which really comes as no surprise. I know

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Speaker 2: that Morosi had reported that he was on his way

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Speaker 2: that story wrong. The Dodgers had the money, the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: make the investment. But I heard earlier with Jonas, we

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Speaker 2: talked specifically about this number, saying that this is an

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Speaker 2: seventy million a year for each of the next ten years.

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Speaker 2: That's not the way this is structured. However, in a

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Speaker 2: deferred deal, Ephraim, he could actually make it could be

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Speaker 2: and everything else. Compen, We're talking probably close to a

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Speaker 2: is actually fully paid off. But let me ask you this.

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Speaker 2: If you're a Dodgers fan, so the last two years

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Speaker 2: have been humiliating. You get not only bounced in the

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Speaker 2: to the Diamondbacks. The Dodgers this past season had Jad

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Speaker 2: Martinez as their designated hitter. He had thirty three home runs,

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Speaker 2: How much more are you going to get out of

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Speaker 2: the DH position, which show, hey, o Tani, maybe another

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Speaker 2: ten home runs, maybe another ten RBIs my point is this.

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Speaker 2: He was with the Angels for six years, two MVPs

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Speaker 2: baseball is a different beast. And adding Otani not knowing

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Speaker 2: if he's ever going to return as a premier pitcher

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Speaker 2: after his second Tommy John surgery. Yeah, you're investing in

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Speaker 2: the marketing of Sho Hey Otani. I'm just not quite

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Speaker 2: sure if you're really gonna get that much in terms

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Speaker 2: hundred games every year. They need pitching right now is

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Speaker 2: what they need more than a DH. They had a DH.

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Speaker 3: What sports has become is more so now than any

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Speaker 3: other time. It's about branding. So if you have one

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: So if you take the I mean, arguably, this was

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Speaker 3: the conversation before the injury, this is the greatest baseball

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Speaker 2: He's a unicorn.

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Speaker 3: Right, and then you put that with a brand like

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Speaker 3: You've caused a cataclysmic event, right, Shoe was tired of

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Speaker 3: being great for nothing. That won't be the case with

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: Adding a brand like that to a team with the

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Speaker 3: That's what you care about. Look at what the Dallas

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Speaker 2: I will give you the prime example that I can

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Speaker 4: That's a perfect example.

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Speaker 2: So here was the guy the peak of his power,

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Speaker 4: No one had seen anything like it.

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Speaker 2: He was at the peak of his career. He leaves

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Speaker 2: to the Kings and they never win a Cup. But

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Speaker 2: it put hockey at the next level and second biggest

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent agree with the ephrom. From a marketing tool,

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Speaker 2: this is Major League Baseball's wish is to put a

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Speaker 2: Dodger uniform on show. Hey otaniuse they need him. As

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Speaker 2: a marketing tool, they need it, they need it. But

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Speaker 2: if you're a Dodgers fan frustrated that the only championship

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Speaker 2: next to it because it was a sixty game season

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Speaker 2: We got an unexpected win from the pathetic Patriots. Maybe

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Speaker 4: What does Pittsburgh do moving forward? Right?

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Speaker 3: Did they get enough information from Canning Pickett to make

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Speaker 7: But look they the Bills, Steve.

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Speaker 6: They've lost three starters on all three levels of their defense,

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Speaker 6: I turn in two votes, so right now, here's the

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Speaker 6: But Dak Prescott, folks, twenty touchdowns in his last six games. Now,

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Speaker 7: I thought earlier might have been in it. He's not.

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Speaker 7: It's tire. Absolutely has to be.

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Speaker 2: Well, he'll be Offensive Player of the year. That's sort

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Speaker 7: And they're playing great football.

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Speaker 6: They're not gonna have Eric Armstead one of the starting

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Speaker 6: his groin injury.

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Speaker 7: You got hurt in practice.

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Speaker 6: So look, they look great, and look if they win

440
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Speaker 6: tomorrow over Seattle and Eagles lose it they're in the

441
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Speaker 6: driver's seat to get that number one seed. I mean

442
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Speaker 6: they really would be now the Niners. By the way,

443
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Speaker 6: in two weeks they do host the Ravens. That would

444
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Speaker 6: be the other hard game that they have down the stretch.

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Speaker 2: All right, But just following up on that Eagle Cowboys game,

446
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Speaker 2: I mean, the Cowboys undefeated at home this year turned

447
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Speaker 2: out to be a shootout game against Seattle. You know,

448
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Speaker 2: it wasn't exactly what people thought that game was going

449
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Speaker 2: to be, and the Eagles get boat raced by the

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Speaker 2: forty nine ers. We've been saying this about the Eagles

451
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Speaker 2: all season long, and I know a lot of people

452
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Speaker 2: are jumping on the Cowboys bandwagon. I'm sorry, I'm just

453
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Speaker 2: not there. I'm not. I still believe that the forty

454
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Speaker 2: nine ers and the Eagles are still a notch above

455
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Speaker 2: the Cowboys. But that could change obviously tomorrow night. So

456
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Speaker 2: let's talk about the Eagles where they stand, and how

457
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Speaker 2: do you think they'll be affected by what happened at

458
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Speaker 2: home and getting blown out by the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think they'll respond. It's a good question. I

460
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Speaker 6: think they'll respond well. And by the way, two things

461
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Speaker 6: that are really important to know Dallas got at their

462
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Speaker 6: tight end. He broke his forearm against Dallas in Week

463
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Speaker 6: nine and they've got nothing out of their ted end

464
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Speaker 6: position since then. But he's back, he'll be in the lineup.

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Speaker 6: This is I mean now, the fact this is the

466
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Speaker 6: healthiest they've been probably in six weeks. And the other

467
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Speaker 6: thing here, not only they five and won this season

468
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Speaker 6: on the road, they did beat Kansas City. They have

469
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Speaker 6: the best road record since Nick Syrian and became the

470
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Speaker 6: head coach of twenty one. They've only lost five games

471
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Speaker 6: on the road in the regular season. It's pretty impressive.

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Speaker 6: It's going to be a great game. And now the

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Speaker 6: one problem I have with the Eagles is their defense

474
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Speaker 6: on the back end has been so bad. They have

475
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Speaker 6: the oldest secondary in the National Football League if you

476
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Speaker 6: include nickel corner Bradley Roby, four other five starters or

477
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Speaker 6: thirty years or older. That's like unheard of today's NFL.

478
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Speaker 6: It's not working really well. No defense is giving up

479
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Speaker 6: more production to quarterbacks or wide receivers. The rank thirty

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Speaker 6: second last year the end of the season at the

481
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Speaker 6: fifth position. They were super stingy last season, not so

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Speaker 6: this season.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, we'll see how this all plays out.

484
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Speaker 2: Could be an interesting week like a moving week. Final

485
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Speaker 2: two byes of the week. We're really gonna miss watching

486
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Speaker 2: Arizona and Commanders this week. Great stuff is always Adam

487
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Speaker 2: will catch up with you next week. Sounds that's Adam

488
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Speaker 2: kaplan our NFL inside are getting ready for a week fourteen.

489
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Speaker 2: Already Week fourteen in the National Football League. Let's find

490
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Speaker 2: out what is trending right now. Nick Cope is in

491
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Speaker 2: the house today, Extend up, stay today's let's how many

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Speaker 2: shows is this for you? Now?

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Speaker 8: This is number three number in final one, just like

494
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Speaker 8: last week. Close it down with you, guys, beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Do you believe what Ephraim says with the NBA Cup

496
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Speaker 2: final tonight? Obviously we have the Otawni story that the

497
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Speaker 2: Heisman announcement is completely irrelevant in the sports world tonight.

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Speaker 2: I disagree. Yeah, I set them up because I know

499
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Speaker 2: he would have said that, thank you very much. So

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Speaker 2: I'm not the only person that cares.

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Speaker 8: Well, you're talking to a guy who just doesn't really

502
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Speaker 8: get into regular season, in season NBA basketball anymore.

503
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Speaker 2: Yes, I know, So don't be telling that to ephrom

504
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Speaker 2: He is riveted on this matchup between the Pacers and

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Speaker 2: the Lakers.

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Speaker 8: It's a throwback, you know, a rematch of the two

507
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,679
Speaker 8: thousand and one NBA Finals here in the very forgettable.

508
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Speaker 2: NBA Finals, by the way, or is.

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Speaker 8: Reggie Miller on the call for this one tonight? I

510
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 8: know they're mixing and matching.

511
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Speaker 2: All I know is a game that this is the

512
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Speaker 2: only game in this n season tournament that doesn't actually

513
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Speaker 2: count as a regular season game. Anybody, and if nobody

514
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Speaker 2: get if somebody gets hurt and literally a meaningless exhibition game.

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Speaker 8: Yikes, well aren't they Aren't they getting extra money? Isn't

516
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Speaker 8: that the Well that's the incentive. They all get half

517
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Speaker 8: a million dollars the game, literally, so stats won't even

518
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Speaker 8: be recorded. It's like the Playing tournament. There are no

519
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Speaker 8: official records of the playing tournament games. Same thing with

520
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Speaker 8: this game. This game will not be entered into the

521
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Speaker 8: record books. Well you got that to look forward to.

522
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Speaker 8: That's going to be at eight to thirty Eastern. I

523
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Speaker 8: know that was not on your attenda, So we'll see.

524
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Speaker 8: Maybe so the Heisman they're thinking about the schedule that okay,

525
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Speaker 8: this game's tipping off probably five or excuse me, thirty five, eight,

526
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Speaker 8: forty Eastern Let's get the let's get the announcement in.

527
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Speaker 8: We got that coming up later today BS the News

528
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Speaker 8: of the Day show, Hey Otani is headed to the Dodgers,

529
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Speaker 8: agreeing to a record ten years, seven hundred million dollar deal,

530
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Speaker 8: the largest in American sports history. Most of his salary

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Speaker 8: will reportedly be deferred to give the Dodgers flexibility in

532
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Speaker 8: building the team around him. Otani broke the news himself

533
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Speaker 8: on Instagram. He thanked Angels fans, He apologized for taking

534
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Speaker 8: so long to reach a decision, and said he would

535
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Speaker 8: talk more at a later press conference. Early estimates we

536
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Speaker 8: don't know this for sure, but early estimates saying the

537
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Speaker 8: deferred payments could net him more than a billion dollars

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Speaker 8: over the.

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Speaker 2: Course of his lifetime. So mostly it will deferred payments

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Speaker 2: they accused, you know, his interest and everything else. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he doesn't need those paychecks right now. Outstanding there for show.

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Speaker 2: Hey Otani.

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Speaker 8: News in the NFL Bleach reports as it looks like

544
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Speaker 8: Seahawks quarterback Gino Smith will be a game time decision

545
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 8: tomorrow against the forty nine Ers. Seattle did elevate Sean

546
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Speaker 8: Mannion to the active roster to back up Drew Locke.

547
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Speaker 8: If Smith can't play, Packers ruled out receiver Christian Watson

548
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Speaker 8: for Monday night. He's still dealing with that hamstring injury

549
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Speaker 8: that he suffered at the end of that Sunday night

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Speaker 8: game against the Chiefs. Bill's activated tight end Dawson Knox.

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Speaker 8: Reports say the NFL found that the Bengals were in

552
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Speaker 8: full compliance with the league's injury report policy when Joe

553
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Speaker 8: Burrow suffered a season ending wrist injury back in Week eleven.

554
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Speaker 8: Brown's receiver Mury Cooper has cleared concussion protocol. Eagles had

555
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Speaker 8: a security dom Desandro. He's been barred from the sidelines

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Speaker 8: for Tomorrow's game against Cowboys in Dallas.

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Speaker 7: Forty nine.

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Speaker 8: Ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw he was fine just short of

559
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Speaker 8: eleven grand for the hit he put on Devonte Smith

560
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Speaker 8: that led to that whole scuffle in the first place.

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Speaker 8: Army Navy game is a final. Army won it seventeen

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Speaker 8: to eleven. This game got close late. It was seventeen

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Speaker 8: to three Army, but Navy making a late push and

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Speaker 8: depending on where you got the over under guys, Army,

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Speaker 8: they took a sack or excuse me, took a safety

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Speaker 8: at the very end of the game because they stone

567
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Speaker 8: Navy at the goal line on fourth down, so the

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Speaker 8: total ends at twenty eight. You could have pushed, you

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Speaker 8: could have lost on one side or the other there.

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Speaker 8: And finally soccer, the Columbus Crew they won the MLS

571
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Speaker 8: Cup over LAFC two to one.

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Speaker 2: Back to you guys, all right, Nick, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Once again. This is Fox Football Saturday. Steve Harbin, he

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Speaker 2: from Salamar Live from the tirerack dot com studios. You know,

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Speaker 2: even I was thinking about this for tomorrow's game. There's

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Speaker 2: some bad weather going on around the country, and so

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Speaker 2: I was looking at the roster of games tomorrow. So

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Speaker 2: we have fifteen games this week, twelve of which will

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Speaker 2: be played tomorrow, and I was looking at how many

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Speaker 2: games are effected to buy the weather, and I suddenly

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Speaker 2: realized how many teams have indoor stadiums. This was not

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Speaker 2: the case when you were in the NFL. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I mean, there's weather going to be a

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Speaker 2: big factor in the games tomorrow, and outside of Chicago.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, Lions Bears at Soldier Field, it's

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Speaker 2: going to be cold. But some of these other games,

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm just looking at It's like, that's an

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Speaker 2: indoor game. That's an indoor game. That's an indoor game.

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Speaker 2: No effect at all?

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Speaker 7: How much?

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Speaker 4: Maybe that? What's the weather like in Baltimore?

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Speaker 2: In Baltimore, let's see where the Ravens the ACI weather

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Speaker 2: situation there fifty seven degrees, not a big problem.

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Speaker 4: What about the Jets, the Texans and the Jets.

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Speaker 2: Texans and Jets fifty four degrees Jackie weather report.

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Speaker 4: Jaguars and Browns.

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Speaker 2: Look at you, you're all over this. You know these things.

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Speaker 2: The Jags and Browns of fifty degrees, it's cold.

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Speaker 4: Colts and Bengals.

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Speaker 2: Colts Bengals fifty five and then the Lions Bears is

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Speaker 2: the cold disc at thirty nine. But you were we

602
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Speaker 2: were in an era where you know, you would head

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Speaker 2: into I mean, here's a guy who played his college

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Speaker 2: ball and the most beautiful weather on the planet in

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Speaker 2: San Diego, California. I mean, you had some, you know,

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Speaker 2: cold games in your conference, but not that many. Your

607
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Speaker 2: home games are always pleasant.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Then you get to the NFL and you know you're

610
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Speaker 2: going to go where they're telling you to go. When

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Speaker 2: you were in the locker room and it's like zero outside,

612
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Speaker 2: and you know you're going to have to get out

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Speaker 2: there and play. I mean, there's there's no avoiding the

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Speaker 2: fact that not only do you have to play. And

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Speaker 2: I always, I always, I always sort of laugh and

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Speaker 2: I see, especially Lineman, right, the bear sleeves and everything else. No,

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Speaker 2: no sleeves. You don't want anybody to grab onto anything.

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Speaker 2: That's the whole point.

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Speaker 3: Well, the whole point is for us is we're not

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Speaker 3: going to be affected by the weather. Once you start

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Speaker 3: focusing on the weather, you can no longer focus on

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Speaker 3: your job.

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Speaker 2: This is why I wanted to ask you this. So

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Speaker 2: I want to get into the locker room, into the

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Speaker 2: head of Ephrom Salam, knowing that you're about to enter

626
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Speaker 2: into a deep freeze, like if you were not playing football,

627
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Speaker 2: you would never ever step out.

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Speaker 4: I've played in Green Bay, the last game of the year.

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Speaker 2: Right, okay, So how do you get yourself mentally ready to,

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Speaker 2: as you say, eliminate the thought of the weather from

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Speaker 2: your head and just go out and play football.

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Speaker 4: It's so difficult.

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Speaker 3: It is because in the locker room you can get

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Speaker 3: yourself prepared, right, you can mentally go through the things

635
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Speaker 3: as you go through every every game. The music pumping

636
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Speaker 3: yourself up, focusing on the you know, on your plays.

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Speaker 4: But in Green Bay, as.

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Speaker 3: Soon as you head down those it's like a little ramp,

639
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Speaker 3: little stairs.

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Speaker 2: Right and then you you're standing there all jumping and

641
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Speaker 2: run on the field.

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Speaker 3: As you get down that hallway and the open end

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Speaker 3: is open, feel it climbing into your body and as

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00:31:55,320 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 3: you run out it attacks you inside out, and it

645
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 3: is awful getting your your footsteped on in cleats? Are

646
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 3: your hands smashed between face masks?

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00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 2: So you have a three hundred and thirty pound defensive

648
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Speaker 2: lineman stepping on your frozer foot.

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Speaker 4: Oh my, I don't got no toenails now because of that.

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Speaker 4: It is awful.

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Speaker 3: It is not okay. But as professionals, as linemen, we

652
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Speaker 3: block it out.

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Speaker 2: I understand you did.

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Speaker 3: I am just fight man, But it is not okay.

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Speaker 2: You know, he was back in the old and the

656
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Speaker 2: Stone Age when they didn't even have anywhere near. They

657
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 2: had no heaters on the sidelines, nothing.

658
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Speaker 4: Heaters underneath the ground.

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Speaker 2: How did they survive.

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Speaker 3: Iron, I don't know, man, Thank you, you know, and

661
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 3: they were being paid a life no, thank you.

662
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Speaker 4: For paving the way to all those greates. Did didn't do.

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Speaker 4: It isn't that so frozen anymore.

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Speaker 2: Now there Now the fields are much better. Everything else

665
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Speaker 2: all right. Coming up on the other side, we're gonna

666
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Speaker 2: give our thoughts on this college football season. Last game

667
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 2: just been played, Army took care of Navy. Now we

668
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 2: get ready for the playoffs and all the controversy about

669
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Speaker 2: this year's Final four, did they ultimately get it right?

670
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Speaker 2: We'll break it down. This is Fox Football Saturday. Steve

671
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Speaker 2: Harbin and E from Salam. This is Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 2: We're live from the tairaq dot com studios. So last

673
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 2: Saturday from you and I were sitting here and still

674
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Speaker 2: waiting on that Florida State Louisville ACC championship game, and

675
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 2: we were already saye with Alabama and Texas having won

676
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,239
Speaker 2: that well, Texas hadn't won yet, but we knew they

677
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 2: were gonna win. Actually they had one again it did.

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Speaker 4: It was over ye.

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Speaker 2: So based on what we're still waiting on Michigan Iowa again,

680
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Speaker 2: that's the NME we were still waiting on. We were

681
00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:00,080
Speaker 2: already saying that even at Florida State wins, they're not

682
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Speaker 2: going to get into the four school playoff. I'm going

683
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Speaker 2: to take it a step further. So yesterday they announced

684
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Speaker 2: who finished fifth through tenth in the Heisman voting, and

685
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Speaker 2: Jordan Travis, the quarterback of Florida State, ended up finishing

686
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Speaker 2: fifth and obviously could have maybe be finished higher had

687
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Speaker 2: he played out the season. But I am I'm going

688
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Speaker 2: to make a statement that can't be disputed or or anything.

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Speaker 2: Even if Travis had stayed healthy and had led Florida

690
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Speaker 2: State to where they ultimately ended up anyway, thirteen to zero,

691
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 2: they still wouldn't have made the playoff. You think so

692
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, there's no way. The problem that they

693
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 2: had with Alabama was simple. They lost to Texas. If

694
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Speaker 2: you're going to put Alabama in, you had to put

695
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Speaker 2: Texas in Florida State, even if Travis had stayed healthy.

696
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Speaker 2: This this way they sort of had like this built

697
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 2: an excuse, which by the way, didn't play very well

698
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 2: with people outside of the understanding of what exactly is

699
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 2: going on here with this bogus for school playoff. But no,

700
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 2: Florida State still would have been out. Alabama had to

701
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 2: be in. The SEC is not going to be void.

702
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Speaker 2: Considering the amount of money invested by ESPN in the

703
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 2: Southeastern Conference and because Texas beat them, they had to

704
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Speaker 2: put Texas in. Florida State was screwed either way.

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Speaker 3: No other time had two teams ranked outside of the

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Speaker 3: top six, any team outside of the top six, and

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Speaker 3: out of both to themselves.

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Speaker 4: And we had two teams do it.

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Speaker 2: Two teams. Wow, No undefeated team and a Power five

710
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 2: conference had ever been left out of a And by

711
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Speaker 2: the way, the arguments that they made, even though they

712
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 2: don't have a full understanding of why this happened, but

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Speaker 2: the argument about well you don't have your quarterback, Hey, yeah,

714
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Speaker 2: but you also won the conference championship game without him.

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Speaker 2: Without him, you beat Florida without him. And by the way,

716
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Speaker 2: the quarterback that played in this game, and they were

717
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Speaker 2: awful fast, it is not the quarterback that would be

718
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Speaker 2: playing in the playoff. The backup was out because of

719
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 2: the concussion protocol, he would be back. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: that backup quarterback is a guy that's been in the

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Speaker 2: program for several years. It wasn't like some freshman guy

722
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Speaker 2: they were throwing out there. So when you're making the

723
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Speaker 2: arguments about why Florida State earned it, earned it, especially

724
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Speaker 2: after losing your quarterback. I mean, imagine if an NFL

725
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 2: team loses their starting quarterback and they're expelled excuse me

726
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Speaker 2: from the playoffs. Think about this stat. Here was my

727
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 2: favorite stat. Of the nine teams that have won the

728
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Speaker 2: playoff since the start this is your ten. Four of

729
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Speaker 2: the teams that won the playoff started a quarterback in

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Speaker 2: the championship game that was not their starting quarterback at

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Speaker 2: the beginning of the season. Forty four percent of the

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Speaker 2: teams that won it all started a quarterback in the

733
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Speaker 2: championship game that was not their starting quarterback at the

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Speaker 2: beginning of the season.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Card l Jones at Ohio State. So that argument just

737
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 2: didn't fly. There were so many ways to shoot holes

738
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Speaker 2: into the argument of you know, well Travis is out,

739
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Speaker 2: we can't include Florida State. Here's the one thing.

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Speaker 7: We do know.

741
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Speaker 2: Are there more eyeballs on a Michigan Florida State game

742
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Speaker 2: or a Michigan Alabama game.

743
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Speaker 3: Michigan Alabama game, and it's dash. It became a beauty pageant, exactly,

744
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,439
Speaker 3: it became a beauty pageant. I mean, it's no way

745
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Speaker 3: you go twelve and zero, you win your Power five

746
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 3: conference and you don't make the playoffs. That is crazy, crazy,

747
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 3: unless it's six or less. It's five undefeated teams.

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Speaker 2: Look, this was a very simple formula. You had three

749
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 2: undefeated team teams and then he had two teams of

750
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Speaker 2: one loss that actually played each other, so that was easy.

751
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 2: And Texas beat him at Alabama, so Alabama's out out

752
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 2: but that wasn't going to happen. So it's a merciful

753
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:23,240
Speaker 2: end to the most flawed format ever. Yes, worse worse

754
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Speaker 2: than the BCS because this was a made for TV.

755
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 2: Let's get the best matchups possible. That was it all

756
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 2: orchestrated by ESPN.

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00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 4: They wanted the bank, they did.

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Speaker 2: They did, so that is the end of that. But

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Speaker 2: uh yeah, I mean it just it's it's frustrating. I

760
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 2: get for the Florida State fans in a in a

761
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 2: system that actually should have represented what college football should

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00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 2: be about instead of just the money grab. The Seminoles

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00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:56,439
Speaker 2: earned it, They earned it quarterback and still win. Their

764
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 2: defense was unreal in that game against Louisville because they

765
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 2: had no offense. No offense.

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Speaker 4: That's a shame that they got punished. I hate for

767
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Speaker 4: those kids.

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Speaker 3: I mean they've done everything. Uh they've done everything right,

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Speaker 3: They did everything all we ask.

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Speaker 2: You to do.

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Speaker 4: Is win all of your games m hm, and you'll

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Speaker 4: have it and you'll be in.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, why is Michigan the one seed

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Speaker 2: over Washington?

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Speaker 4: I don't know why? Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, what kind of impact does Jim

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Speaker 2: Harbor have a Michigan when he was only there for

778
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Speaker 2: half the games? Then they won all the games that

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Speaker 2: he wasn't.

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Speaker 4: There and they were cheating, and they were cheating.

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Speaker 2: Why are they no number one seed? Washington had a

782
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Speaker 2: tougher schedule if the Michigan had.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they did by far. And if you wanted to

784
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Speaker 3: exclude a team, why wouldn't you exclude the team to cheating?

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Speaker 4: Thank you? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Why does an undefeated Michigan team get a one seed

787
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Speaker 2: and an undefeated Florida State team get a five seed?

788
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 2: On our way out? So again, this whole system was

789
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Speaker 2: coming to a merciful And I don't know what to

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Speaker 2: expect from a twelve scoed.

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Speaker 3: And do twelve. I can't stell me it. But at

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Speaker 3: least you know it'll all play out on the field.

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Speaker 2: Well, for some teams, you're gonna have a fourth game

794
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Speaker 2: possible if you get all the way to the championship.

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Speaker 2: Game on top of a conference championship game a lot.

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Speaker 2: It's a seventeen game schedule. Could you imagine seventeen games

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Speaker 2: as a college player?

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Speaker 3: No, it was hard doing that in the pro seventeen

799
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Speaker 3: it's a serious wall.

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Speaker 2: You hit, all right, So we got football set again.

801
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Speaker 2: The Heisman is going to be announced a little bit

802
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Speaker 2: later on this evening. But the big story of the

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Speaker 2: day show Hey Otani is now a Los Angeles Dodger.

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Speaker 2: John Paul MOROSEI our MLB insider, joins us. Coming up.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Football Saturday.

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Speaker 2: is concerned with the RV. Navy game now in the books.

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Speaker 2: Heisman Trophy is going to be announced coming up here

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Speaker 2: in the next couple of hours. We got the NBA

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Speaker 2: Cup Final through the Lakers and the Pacers. This is

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Speaker 2: all big stuff, but not the biggest story of the day.

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Speaker 2: That story is in Major League Baseball, where Shohei Otani

823
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:39,879
Speaker 2: has agreed to a ten years, seven hundred million dollars

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Speaker 2: contract to join a team that we all expected him

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Speaker 2: to join from the get go, and that would be

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Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Dodgers. And as we're gonna have John

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Speaker 2: Paul Morossi joining us coming up here shortly, ephrom You

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Speaker 2: know again, there's there's two different sides to this Otawni

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Speaker 2: story from a marketing standpoint, and you made this point,

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Speaker 2: and I'm one hundred percent in lockstep with you. From

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Speaker 2: a marketing standpoint, this is a huge move, not just

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00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 2: for the Los Angeles Dodgers, this is a huge move

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Speaker 2: for Major League Baseball. Major League Baseball is desperate and

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Speaker 2: they really haven't had what I call a universally recognized

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Speaker 2: face since Derek Jeter's retirement. Jeter, to me was the

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Speaker 2: last guy. Then Why was Jeter that big? Because he

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Speaker 2: played it twenty years with the Yankees, and he was

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00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 2: a star, and they won World Series and everything else.

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Speaker 2: That's why Derek Jeter plus his personal life added to

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00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 2: the fire. But he was the face of major League Baseball.

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Speaker 2: I mean there were better players. A Rob was a

842
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 2: better player than Jeter, but Jeter was the face because

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00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 2: of his affiliation with the Yankee organization. Now, major League

844
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Speaker 2: Baseball has the right guy in the right place from

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Speaker 2: a marketing standpoint. So if you're major League Baseball right now,

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00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 2: beyond the Dodgers themselves, how do you take advantage of

847
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 2: this this once in a lifetime baseball talent unlike anyone

848
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 2: we've ever seen in the history of the game. Or no,

849
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 2: forget the Babe route stuff. That was no babe roots stuff. Okay,

850
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 2: that was part of one and a half years. This

851
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 2: guy's done it for three consecutive years at the highest level.

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00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 2: If it wasn't for you know, Aaron Judge hitting sixty

853
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 2: two home runs, he'd have three straight MVP Awards. But

854
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 2: how can major League Baseball take this situation with Otani

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00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 2: and a Dodgers' uniform to help the overall brand of

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Speaker 2: the sport.

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Speaker 3: Number One, you got to have some savvy and talented

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00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:48,800
Speaker 3: marketing people. Yes, because you're dealing with the player. Although

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00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 3: he is as great as he is, English is not

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00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 3: his first language, correct, and so may not even be

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Speaker 3: a second language. And so you have to create a

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00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 3: campaign surrounding his greatness that resonates with Americans and American youth.

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Speaker 3: So you should enlist. And I had said this, you know,

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Speaker 3: during the season. The first thing I would do is

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Speaker 3: i would call someone like a Kevin Hart, and I'm

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Speaker 3: going to pitch this commercial. I would call someone like

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Speaker 3: a Kevin Hart. I would have him sitting in a

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Speaker 3: car talking talking baseball. Right out the window we see

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Speaker 3: a private plane landing.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: I'd have Kevin get out of the car, standing there

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Speaker 3: all the while in his monologue talking about baseball and

873
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Speaker 3: the bright lights and all of these things. And I

874
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 3: would have Kevin Hart talking up show hey Oltani. As

875
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 3: the plane stops, the stairs come down, and we see

876
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 3: him step out, even though he's coming from Anaheim. Okay,

877
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 3: we see him step out. And as he steps down,

878
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,919
Speaker 3: now what's he stepping on the Walk of Fame? Right,

879
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 3: But it's all the baseball greats. First one he said, like,

880
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 3: you know, babe, Bruce and Willie Mays. Right, you know

881
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 3: what I mean, into the car. I'll have them drive

882
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 3: out and I'd have literally Kevin Hart speaking for show

883
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 3: Hey a Tani. Right, you have to make him cool.

884
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 3: He's great on the baseball court a baseball field. Excuse me,

885
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 3: but you gotta make him cool. That's how you market things.

886
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 3: When there's a cool factor associated with an athlete, then

887
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 3: that's when things go into overdrive.

888
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 2: Here's that's what I'm curious about. And by the way,

889
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:05,320
Speaker 2: I love your you know your expertise in the entertainment field.

890
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 2: That's why I wanted you to paint a picture that

891
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 2: honestly I did not see. Comings You've already exceeded my expectations.

892
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 2: But this is not like he's leaving the He's going

893
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:19,240
Speaker 2: into the same market he just left the Los Angeles Angels,

894
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,399
Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Dodger, and I.

895
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:22,439
Speaker 4: Agree with it.

896
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 2: I agree with you. But the fact is, if you've

897
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 2: lived in the LA market, you've had access to show

898
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 2: Hey Otani for his entire career. And it's not like

899
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 2: the Angels were setting attendance records during the Otani run.

900
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 2: They weren't setting attendance records when he was pitching. Sure,

901
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 2: they may have gotten a few more people in the stadium,

902
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 2: but it wasn't like, like I said, you know what

903
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. You're talking about a must see guy.

904
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 2: And as great as Otani is, I remember, Mike Trout's

905
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 2: been there for a decade, best talent in baseball. Obviously,

906
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 2: he's had injuries the last couple of years. In the

907
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 2: LA market itself, they haven't really been must see guys.

908
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 2: I'm just curious if just changing his uniform from an

909
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 2: Angel to a Dodger makes him a must see guy.

910
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,399
Speaker 2: And by the way, we're already talking about a team

911
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 2: that averages over forty thousand fans for every home game. Anyway,

912
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 2: You've got Mookie Betts, who's as good as any player

913
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 2: major League Baseball. You have Freddie Freeman, who's also one

914
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 2: of the absolute premier players in Major League Baseball. How

915
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 2: much more are you getting from a marketing standpoint locally

916
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 2: versus internationally? I understand the international market by adding Shoheyo

917
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 2: Tani to your rosckel.

918
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, Yeah, who is one of

919
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 3: the owners of the.

920
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 2: Dodgers Magic Johnson.

921
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 3: Okay, so when Magic Johnson came to the Lakers. What

922
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 3: did they allready have Kareem Abdul Jabbar, the league MVP. Yes,

923
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 3: had the League MVP, best basketball player and all of NBA. Right,

924
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:17,720
Speaker 3: But when Magic got there, things got a little bit different.

925
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 2: Well but that okay, wait but wait, but wait the show, hey, Tania,

926
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 2: Magic Giants.

927
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 4: Made it just hold on, We talked about all time grades.

928
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, but but it wasn't.

929
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 4: It was just Magic was listen to what I'm saying.

930
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 2: Perfect, right place, right time, and he had the right

931
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 2: brand new owner.

932
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 4: Did it changed the NBA?

933
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 2: It did change ever, ever, forever, And part of that

934
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 2: was doctor Buss, no question, because he recognized what he had,

935
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:50,280
Speaker 2: A magical john Heart owner of the Yeah, I understand.

936
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 4: You see what I'm saying. Yeah, it's bigger than just baseball.

937
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 3: It's bigger than just pitch count, bigger than home runs, bigging,

938
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 3: it's all about Martin. Can you capture the imagination of

939
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 3: baseball fans plus non baseball fans, people who didn't even

940
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 3: watch the NBA start hearing about this showtime and this

941
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 3: magic Johnson guy with a trillion watt smile.

942
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 2: But he won the championship his first year. Everything worked perfect.

943
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 4: Magic Johnson at nineteen eighty five, something happened. What happened?

944
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 3: Young kid out of North Carolina comes, goes to the

945
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:47,280
Speaker 3: Chicago Bulls. You want to talk about spectacular? Yes, change

946
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 3: the game again, right, even though Chicago was the number

947
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 3: two media market and at the way to wait a minute,

948
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 3: at the.

949
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,399
Speaker 2: Time, Bototani's already been in the league six years.

950
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 4: It's not what the same brand, So you're not the

951
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 4: same thing.

952
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 2: That's the question I ask of you. Putting on a

953
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 2: new unif y.

954
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 3: F changes, everything, changes everything because the marketing approach is different.

955
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 3: Which brand is more synonymous with baseball in Los Angeles?

956
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:19,399
Speaker 2: Well, it's not close, right.

957
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 3: This is a storied franchise, a storied franchise now has

958
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:33,920
Speaker 3: arguably the greatest player to ever play. The sky's a

959
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 3: limit in terms of buzz what you want anything you

960
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 3: want to talk about sellouts. So now you combine that

961
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 3: with the Mookie, Bets, Turner, all of these great names, Kershaw.

962
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:57,959
Speaker 4: Now you got it. Now you have. It's almost an

963
00:50:58,080 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 4: overload of excitement.

964
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 2: But here's the bottom line. If it doesn't translate into championships,

965
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 2: because baseball still has the spotlight in the postseason, that's

966
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 2: a guy like Reggie Jackson.

967
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 4: How many times the shows? How many times the show

968
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 4: been to the postseason?

969
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 7: Zero?

970
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:19,319
Speaker 2: I had a winning team. But happen Now if they

971
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 2: go down in the first round.

972
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 4: What's going to happen?

973
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 3: Now?

974
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 2: What he's going to get an opportunity? We know they're

975
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 2: going well, they're going to be in the postseason. But

976
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:29,720
Speaker 2: they've been in the postseason every year. How's that worked?

977
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,799
Speaker 3: What I'm telling you is it's different. You just said

978
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 3: right there that greatness your lower starts in the postseason.

979
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:44,320
Speaker 3: He's never been six years right now where he's joining

980
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 3: the team that they're not loose. They didn't have to

981
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,800
Speaker 3: give up anything for him. He's a free agent. Yes,

982
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 3: they don't have to trade prospects. They didn't have to

983
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 3: trade bullpen. Well, they didn't have to do any of that.

984
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 3: They do have to pay them. Okay, we don't know.

985
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 2: We don't know quite the strike sure of this deferred contract.

986
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 2: It's gonna be him seven hundred million dollars. I got it, Okay,

987
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 2: all right? Coming up on the other side, we're gonna

988
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 2: talk to somebody that's been all over this story, and

989
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 2: he had some premonitions about things that may have happened.

990
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 2: That didn't happen. We're gonna break it down with our

991
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio MLB insider John Paul Morosi joins us.

992
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:25,759
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993
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:29,279
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994
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1001
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 2: off the air. Well, the biggest story on a very

1002
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 2: busy day in sports came out of Major League Baseball.

1003
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:58,360
Speaker 2: It is official show. Hey O'tani has taken his unique

1004
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 2: game to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Join us right now.

1005
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:05,280
Speaker 2: Is our Fox Sports MLB insider. A man that wears

1006
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 2: so many hats and obviously excited about his Michigan Wolverine

1007
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:13,280
Speaker 2: SENI a top the seedings in the college football playoff JP.

1008
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 2: I know that your name's been in the news the

1009
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 2: last couple of days. I just want to get your

1010
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 2: thoughts on the process that led us to show, Hey,

1011
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 2: o'tani becoming a Dodger, because from the get go we've

1012
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 2: all fought the Dodgers were the inside team, and then

1013
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 2: we heard about the Blue Jays, who heard about the Cubs.

1014
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 2: We started hearing some other teams come up in conversation.

1015
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:38,919
Speaker 2: Do you think he was ever serious about anyone other

1016
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 2: than the Dodgers or was it just a ploy to,

1017
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,240
Speaker 2: you know, jack up the price to what is a number?

1018
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 2: We're still trying to wrap our heads around.

1019
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 9: Well, Stevenie from Good at Evening and the great to

1020
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 9: be on the air with you here. It is a

1021
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 9: historic day, certainly, as it's been reported by MLB dot com,

1022
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 9: believed to be, as we pause here, the largest contract

1023
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:06,360
Speaker 9: in worldwide global sports history. That's that's the sentence, largest

1024
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 9: contract in the history of sports. And so to your

1025
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 9: to your question, I do think the Dodgers were perceived

1026
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 9: as as the front runners throughout this process, which as

1027
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 9: we know, was highly confidential. It was hard. It was

1028
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 9: hard to get information as things went along. We really

1029
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 9: knew only that there had been meetings in different places.

1030
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 9: Dave Roberts acknowledged the meeting with the Dodgers. There was

1031
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 9: the meeting with the Giants. There was a meeting with

1032
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 9: the Blue Jays on Monday in Dunedin, and as I

1033
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:38,880
Speaker 9: had reported on MLB network, I had heard that some

1034
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 9: momentum had built in the jays favor as time had

1035
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 9: gone on during the course of the week, and obviously

1036
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:48,280
Speaker 9: I reported yesterday. Subsequently I learned it was not correct

1037
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 9: about the flight that was that was taking Otani. I

1038
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:55,360
Speaker 9: was told to Toronto that was that was not accurate

1039
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 9: that I learned subsequent to that. So I think that

1040
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 9: the important thing here is that the Dodgers, whether it's

1041
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 9: because of a perception of the Blue Jays getting closer,

1042
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 9: or if they just wanted to make this without a

1043
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 9: shadow of a doubt clear that he just had to

1044
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 9: sign with the Dodgers. Whatever tax implications or deferred money

1045
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 9: would have been in play, they did it. Seven hundred

1046
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 9: million dollars says it. And I think that at the

1047
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 9: end of the day, it's going to be difficult. As

1048
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,800
Speaker 9: and Nez Malelo, his agent, his statement, talked about the

1049
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:34,239
Speaker 9: respect they had for all the different organizations they met with,

1050
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 9: and again they met with multiple organizations. In the end,

1051
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 9: he went to the place that was seen as the

1052
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 9: front runner from the very beginning, and they just made

1053
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 9: it by such a wide margin that if you're the

1054
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 9: fan of the Giants or the Angels, or the Blue

1055
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 9: Jays or the Cubs or anybody else, I just don't

1056
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 9: know how many other fan bases could actually credibly say, well,

1057
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:57,760
Speaker 9: why didn't you offer him seven hundred and one million dollars?

1058
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 9: I mean, from the standpoint of Canadian currency. To mcalff

1059
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 9: made this point in Toronto over the weekend, that's basically

1060
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 9: a billion Canadian dollars. I said, billion Canadian dollars when

1061
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:14,359
Speaker 9: you factor in the exchange rate. So it's just one

1062
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 9: of the more iconic and historic days in the history

1063
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 9: of sports. It's going to take us a long time

1064
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,319
Speaker 9: to unravel how this all came to be. And the

1065
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 9: most important thing is sho Ayotani is a Dodger, and

1066
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,359
Speaker 9: not only Steven Ephram is he a Dodger, but he's

1067
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 9: a Dodger with enough deferred money that they're not done

1068
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 9: in terms of adding talent right now. It's just it's

1069
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 9: a remarkable time right now for the Dodgers and for

1070
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,239
Speaker 9: all of Major League Baseball.

1071
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 3: Let's speak on that part that last part you said,

1072
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 3: in terms of what we know what it means to

1073
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, Let's talk about what it means to Major

1074
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:53,760
Speaker 3: League Baseball in terms of the branding. When you compare

1075
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 3: or you combine arguably the greatest baseball player we've seen

1076
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 3: with one of the biggest brands in the sport, how

1077
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:08,240
Speaker 3: can Major League Baseball capitalize on this momentous signing.

1078
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 9: You know, it's a great question, and it's a really

1079
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 9: important one, and I hope that that as as the

1080
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 9: next chapter is written and show Hayes future is discussed,

1081
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 9: it is with that belief in mind and the idea

1082
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 9: in mind, how do we grow the game further? And

1083
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 9: two things stand out to me here. Number one, with

1084
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 9: the West Coast team, and if you're going to have

1085
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 9: games streamed worldwide, and if your idea is to capture

1086
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 9: fans in Japan and fans in North America, it actually

1087
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:44,760
Speaker 9: does work out better to have a player playing as

1088
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 9: games in the Pacific time zone because what that does

1089
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 9: is you think about it's roughly twelve hours difference between

1090
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 9: between Eastern time and Western and Japanese time. So basically,

1091
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 9: if you have a ten PM game at Dodgers stadium

1092
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 9: that's ten am in Japan, and so you're able to

1093
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 9: watch those games in Japan as if you're enjoying a

1094
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 9: World Cup game or a European Cup game like we

1095
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 9: do as soccer fans here in North America. So you

1096
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 9: really bring in the global audience, that's number one. And

1097
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 9: I think that with the Dodger brand, Ephraim and what

1098
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 9: the franchise means, the Dodgers always have been a global franchise.

1099
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 9: Certain you go back to Jackie Robertson, you think about

1100
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 9: Adeo Nomo, Fernando Vealnezuela, Channe Park. There are a lot

1101
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 9: of firsts who belong to Dodgers' history. And so now

1102
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 9: you've got this first seven hundred million dollar contract in

1103
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 9: American pro sports history, and what you can do with

1104
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:45,480
Speaker 9: that to then grow the game. And while I think

1105
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 9: a lot of us and report on the game, we

1106
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 9: struggled a bit with the secrecy of the process, and

1107
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 9: certainly it was a challenge in terms of reporting on

1108
00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 9: it as times went on. The important thing was he

1109
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 9: got to where he wanted to go and the process

1110
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 9: led him there, and it matters much more now the

1111
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 9: ten years that he spends in Dodger Blue and the

1112
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 9: ability for him to grow the game now that he's

1113
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 9: gotten there. And I think that the Angels lack of

1114
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 9: success in the playoffs or even getting there with Otani there,

1115
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:21,600
Speaker 9: I think put a little bit of a limit on

1116
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 9: what show a could do in terms of his branding

1117
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:30,080
Speaker 9: and overall the marketplace globally. Now if they're playing every October,

1118
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 9: if they're taking different tours, obviously, think about this. His

1119
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 9: first ever game for the Dodgers will be regular season

1120
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 9: in Korea, where where the Dodgers open this season. So

1121
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 9: there's just going to be this chance to really capitalize

1122
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 9: on a unique moment. We saw the amazing at bat

1123
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 9: that ended the World Baseball Classic Otani and Trout back

1124
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 9: in March, and now we wait to see all that's

1125
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 9: going to come in the next decade. That to be

1126
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 9: able to say that word a decade of Otani in

1127
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 9: Las Angels, you're able to really put a lot of

1128
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 9: infrastructure around promoting the game when you know a player

1129
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 9: that big is going to be in a place like

1130
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 9: Los Angeles for that long.

1131
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 2: Well, technically he's been in Los Angeles the last six

1132
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 2: years playing for the La Angels in Orange County, I'm

1133
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 2: going to give a little perspective here because obviously my

1134
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 2: history with the Dodgers is pretty well known out there.

1135
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 2: My first baseball game, my dad ever took me to.

1136
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:26,800
Speaker 2: I saw Sandy Kofax pitch in his last year. I

1137
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:29,320
Speaker 2: was eight years old. So I have a long history

1138
01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers, to say the very least. But I'm

1139
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 2: going to go from the perspective of my twenty five

1140
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 2: year old younger son, who really loves the Dodgers, and

1141
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 2: his perspective on this is simple. If it does a

1142
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 2: result in winning championships, then it's a waste of money.

1143
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 2: So you have show hey Otani who was in it,

1144
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 2: you know, in an Angel's uniform for six years, and

1145
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 2: they had six straight losing seasons, despite the fact that

1146
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 2: he's had three consecutive years as good as any we've

1147
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 2: ever witnessed in thegeley of Major League Baseball. Also, the

1148
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 2: Dodgers has passed year had a DH in JD. Martinez

1149
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 2: with thirty three homers, one hundred and three runs batted in,

1150
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,680
Speaker 2: had a five to seventy two slugging percentage. How much

1151
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:12,200
Speaker 2: better are the Otawni DH numbers going to be this year?

1152
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:15,240
Speaker 2: And what kind of guarantees are we going to have

1153
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 2: that he ever returns to the form as a pitcher

1154
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 2: that we've seen in the past. So from a Dodgers

1155
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 2: fans perspective, we can talk about the global marketing and

1156
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 2: all this makes sense from a financial standpoint for the Dodgers.

1157
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 2: But if you're a Dodger fan and you basically dismiss

1158
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 2: what they did in twenty twenty as an assisk championship

1159
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 2: that you haven't won a real championship since nineteen eighty eight,

1160
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 2: if Otani doesn't deliver that, he's going to be considered

1161
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 2: a bust by Dodgers fans.

1162
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:50,080
Speaker 9: Well, so that's a very fair question. I'll start. I'll

1163
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 9: start here in terms of the DH spot. You're right

1164
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 9: when you look at JD Martinez being legitimately a tough

1165
01:01:57,080 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 9: act to follow here because he puts together a tremendous

1166
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 9: seat with the Dodgers in twenty twenty three, and for

1167
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 9: Otani's plugging percentage and power for it to surpass JD,

1168
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 9: he's going to have to have another MVP type season. Obviously,

1169
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:14,920
Speaker 9: he won the MVP this year with numbers that were

1170
01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:17,840
Speaker 9: better than what JD did, But JD put together a

1171
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 9: pretty goodyear. Is Showy going to be twenty percent better

1172
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 9: than JD's numbers? Where it's that part might be a

1173
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:27,720
Speaker 9: challenge to clear the bar by that amount. But the

1174
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 9: reason why you sign him to this contract is because

1175
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:36,439
Speaker 9: you see him being a boon for business people coming

1176
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:39,960
Speaker 9: into the ballpark, people traveling to see this team wherever

1177
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 9: they're playing, merchandise. I'm always careful to use the terminology

1178
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:49,120
Speaker 9: what he's going to pay for himself. I don't know

1179
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 9: that's a lot of money to be able to say

1180
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 9: he's going to pay for himself with merchandise, et cetera.

1181
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 9: But I do think that you don't just sign Otani

1182
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 9: because you think he's the best for you at DH.

1183
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 9: You sign him because there are so many other layers

1184
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 9: to this. And I compare him to almost part player

1185
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 9: and parts addition to the stadium. That's like premium seating

1186
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 9: where you bring in more and more interest and passion

1187
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 9: and excitement for your team. That's who he is. He's

1188
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 9: not just a pitcher and a hitter. He is he's

1189
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,360
Speaker 9: a gat attraction. He changes the entire way that your

1190
01:03:26,400 --> 01:03:29,880
Speaker 9: franchise is marketing. And certainly we know LA loves stars,

1191
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 9: and I do think that he'll be able to deliver

1192
01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 9: on that quotion for sure. The pitching part, though, I'll

1193
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:39,000
Speaker 9: say this, there is uncertainty because he's now had two

1194
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 9: elbow surgeries, and for any picture that's had two elbow surgeries,

1195
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 9: there is a tremendous amount of uncertainty. It's documented. That

1196
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:52,080
Speaker 9: is the reality. However, the team position for the Dodgers,

1197
01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 9: doctor Neil Alatrosh is the man who performed the second surgery,

1198
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 9: So there is literally no one in the world who

1199
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 9: knows those show Aotani's elbow better than doctor Neil Latrosh,

1200
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:07,439
Speaker 9: and he is the person who's who sign off had

1201
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 9: to occur for this to happen. So I do think

1202
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 9: in so many ways, while there is uncertainty surrounding the

1203
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:19,520
Speaker 9: pitching equation for show Ay, they are uniquely qualified. The

1204
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 9: Los Angeles Dodgers are to be able to get the

1205
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 9: very most out of what he has to offer on

1206
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 9: the mount.

1207
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 2: I think, again, for Major League Baseball, it is a

1208
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 2: huge coup to put him in a Dodgers' uniform. But again,

1209
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 2: speaking for Dodgers fans, they're desperate for what they call

1210
01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:36,760
Speaker 2: a legitimate world championship. Hard to judge a guy that's

1211
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:40,600
Speaker 2: never actually been in the major league postseason. However, an

1212
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 2: event that you're very much into, JP, the Major League

1213
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:47,560
Speaker 2: Baseball or the Baseball Classic. He was right, he was

1214
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 2: the superstar of that Classic. If he can duplicate that

1215
01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:53,160
Speaker 2: to win a World championship, forget it, then he goes

1216
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 2: into another level of stratosphere. JP. I know it's been

1217
01:04:56,800 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 2: a busy time for you. We really appreciate your chance

1218
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:02,000
Speaker 2: to join us today. Thanks so much, and we'll talk

1219
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 2: to you down the road.

1220
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:05,160
Speaker 4: Appreciate you giving my pleasure.

1221
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 9: My friends, has been way two months since we were

1222
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 9: sitting on the scene one long time ago. Great, thank you,

1223
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 9: some great memories of that time. To your voice, the

1224
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:16,600
Speaker 9: Steve always loved our conversation. Happy holidays to both of

1225
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:17,320
Speaker 9: you and your family.

1226
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:20,000
Speaker 2: Absolutely same to you, JP. There is the great John

1227
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:23,880
Speaker 2: Paul Morosi joining us right there. Interesting thoughts, and again

1228
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 2: from a marketing standpoint, I'm one hundred percent in. It's

1229
01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:28,800
Speaker 2: the right move for the Dodgers, no matter what the

1230
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:32,640
Speaker 2: price tag. But again for Dodgers fans, they're just desperate

1231
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 2: to win a World Series. They want to win a

1232
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 2: World Series. Is he going to be that missing piece.

1233
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:40,320
Speaker 2: Let's find out what is trending right now. Why don't

1234
01:05:40,360 --> 01:05:42,800
Speaker 2: you answer that question? Do you believe that Sho Hey

1235
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:45,720
Speaker 2: o Tani is the missing piece nick to get the

1236
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:50,200
Speaker 2: Dodgers over the hump and win a full season world championship.

1237
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 8: Well, you're talking to a Northern California guy who grew

1238
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:53,880
Speaker 8: up a Giants fan.

1239
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 2: So no, Yes, I was giving him a great argument

1240
01:05:56,920 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 2: because I know he's a big Giants fan. I was

1241
01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:03,200
Speaker 2: giving all the reasons why O'tani may not deliver from

1242
01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:03,960
Speaker 2: that standpoint.

1243
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 8: Yeah, you made me feel better. I did appreciate a

1244
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:09,400
Speaker 8: lot better. Now it's all about u Yamamoto. Now for uh,

1245
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 8: I mean.

1246
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 2: Again, baseball, there have been great players that have been

1247
01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:16,080
Speaker 2: on really lousy teams. He's been in Major League Baseball

1248
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:18,240
Speaker 2: for six years. Yeah, but we know he's never even

1249
01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:19,160
Speaker 2: had a winning season.

1250
01:06:19,160 --> 01:06:21,520
Speaker 4: But we know that he's no longer on a lousy team.

1251
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:24,560
Speaker 2: Yes, oh, they did have Mike Trout, the best talent

1252
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:25,560
Speaker 2: in baseball.

1253
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:28,360
Speaker 4: But what I'm also we know the Dodgers on a

1254
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:29,080
Speaker 4: lousy team.

1255
01:06:29,160 --> 01:06:31,640
Speaker 2: We know that the Dodgers will be in the playoffs.

1256
01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:34,240
Speaker 2: That's going to be the question. Can he go next level?

1257
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:36,520
Speaker 2: Can he be the difference in the postseason.

1258
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:39,240
Speaker 8: That will be very interesting to find out. By the way,

1259
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:44,120
Speaker 8: you mentioned the marketing thing, Mike did Giovanna. Sorry if

1260
01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:46,000
Speaker 8: I'm saying his name. He works for the La Times.

1261
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:49,120
Speaker 8: He's saying, you know, the Angels netted ten to twenty

1262
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:54,560
Speaker 8: million a year in Otani related advertising, promotions, marketing, he said,

1263
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 8: one high ranking MLB. Yeah, he says, at least double.

1264
01:06:58,360 --> 01:06:59,040
Speaker 8: But we'll see it.

1265
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:02,080
Speaker 2: But I mean we're talking about it. Dodgers franchise that's

1266
01:07:02,080 --> 01:07:06,840
Speaker 2: worth billions, so I mean again, it will go next

1267
01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 2: level if he leads him to a championship. I mean,

1268
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:12,479
Speaker 2: if he's standing on the mound or hitting the walk

1269
01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:15,120
Speaker 2: off home run to win a World Series, then we're

1270
01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:17,040
Speaker 2: talking you know everything.

1271
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:20,280
Speaker 8: By the way, the the O TWI stadium mural has

1272
01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:23,320
Speaker 8: come down at Angel Stadium as of the top of the.

1273
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:26,400
Speaker 2: Hour, and there's how would they do that? He's still

1274
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:27,520
Speaker 2: part of their history.

1275
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:31,240
Speaker 8: Well, you know they have you know, a few players

1276
01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 8: just she's big murals right outside the stadium.

1277
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:37,760
Speaker 3: So he's he's got you can put him back, but

1278
01:07:38,200 --> 01:07:39,600
Speaker 3: you know you gotta take him off.

1279
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a Sam Blum.

1280
01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 8: He covers the Angels for the athletic he was out there,

1281
01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:46,200
Speaker 8: said there are a lot of Angels fans of Tawny

1282
01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:49,200
Speaker 8: fans out to pay their respects. He described it as

1283
01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 8: a vigil out at Angel Stadium today. All right, guys

1284
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 8: in the NFL Bleacher Report says it looks like Seahawks

1285
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,560
Speaker 8: quarterback Gino Smith is going to be a game time

1286
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:02,360
Speaker 8: decision tomorrow against the forty nine Ers. Drew lock is

1287
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 8: the backup. Bills have activated tight end Dawson Knox off

1288
01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:10,160
Speaker 8: injured reserve. Packers ruled out receiver Christian Watson for Monday night.

1289
01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:13,240
Speaker 8: He's still dealing with that hamstring injury from last Sunday's game,

1290
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:16,400
Speaker 8: and reports say the NFL found that the Bengals were

1291
01:08:16,400 --> 01:08:19,040
Speaker 8: in full compliance with the Lynks League's injury or poor

1292
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:22,920
Speaker 8: policy when Joe Burrow suffered his season ending wrist injury

1293
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 8: back in Week eleven. Steelers linebacker TJ Want is in

1294
01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:30,320
Speaker 8: concussion protocol. Brown's receiver Amari Cooper has cleared concussion protocol.

1295
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:34,400
Speaker 8: Rams activated kicker Mason Crosby for their game in Baltimore tomorrow.

1296
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 8: Eagles head of security Don Desandro's been banned from the

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Speaker 8: sidelines for tomorrow's game. Against the Cowboys in Dallas forty

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Speaker 8: nine Ers linebacker jer Greenlaw. He was fined just short

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Speaker 8: of eleven grand for the hit he put on DeVante

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Speaker 8: Smith that led to that sideline scuffle. Last week in

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Speaker 8: Philly college football, Army Bait beat Navy seventeen to eleven.

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Speaker 8: Heisman Trophy ceremony coming up at the top of the hour.

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Speaker 8: He got the NBA in Season Tournament Final eight thirty Eastern.

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Speaker 8: The Lakers and the Pacers and the Columbus Crew won

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Speaker 8: the MLS Cup over LAFC two to one.

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Speaker 2: Backs you guys, all right, Nick, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Great job as always doing multiple shows today. By the way,

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Speaker 2: all right, once again this is Fox Football Saturday. We

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01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:19,519
Speaker 2: still have a Heisman Trophy. We'd be announced a little

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Speaker 2: bit later on. We get ready for the college football

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Speaker 2: playoffs Week fourteen of the NFL. So we got a

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Speaker 2: lot of football news for you. But he from just

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Speaker 2: following up on the number, and it's being flashed everywhere.

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Speaker 2: They're not even using otani. The only number we're seeing

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Speaker 2: is seven hundred million dollars, seven hundred million days. All right,

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Speaker 2: So let's let's let's take it in the world of

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Speaker 2: e from you were a well paid professional athlete. You

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Speaker 2: made some good coin and a little bit of coin

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01:09:48,320 --> 01:09:50,960
Speaker 2: in the in the course of your career, little bit,

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Speaker 2: and they're going to continue to do so in you're

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01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:58,120
Speaker 2: escalating star power in the entertainment industry. I'm trying so

1322
01:09:58,680 --> 01:10:03,280
Speaker 2: but wrap your head around seven hundred million dollars, and again,

1323
01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:05,400
Speaker 2: with a lot of deferred payments on the board, that

1324
01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:09,000
Speaker 2: number is going to actually go up. How would you

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01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 2: handle that? How do you handle that amount of money?

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Speaker 2: Now we could ask a guy like Elon Musk, who's

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Speaker 2: worth you know, hundreds of billions of dollars, But how

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01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:24,480
Speaker 2: would you handle that money? From your family standpoint? Your standpoint,

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01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:29,440
Speaker 2: your wife's standpoint. So you're suddenly expanding extended family standpoint.

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01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:31,760
Speaker 2: So we're getting a lot of phone calls. You know,

1331
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:35,120
Speaker 2: people want to invest, you know producing, Hey, you want

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01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:36,960
Speaker 2: to be a big time producer. I want to throw

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Speaker 2: some of that coin into some of these movie projects.

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Speaker 2: How exactly would be from Salam handle seven hundred million dollars?

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Speaker 4: Number One? The difference.

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Speaker 3: When you're dealing with things like this from someone who's

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Speaker 3: made money is it's completely different than someone who just

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01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 3: comes into seven hundred million dollars off the street.

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Speaker 2: Right, like you went a lottery or something.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, sho Hay has been a millionaire for years. Yes, right,

1341
01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:14,599
Speaker 3: he's had an excess of capital for years. So this

1342
01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:18,240
Speaker 3: isn't like, oh my god, now what. First of all,

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01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 3: they have everything they want already.

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01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:23,599
Speaker 2: Right, which is why he's ready to defer money.

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01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:24,799
Speaker 4: So it's different.

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01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:27,759
Speaker 3: Right, So now you don't have to fill the need

1347
01:11:28,439 --> 01:11:32,960
Speaker 3: to answer those calls because six years those calls have

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Speaker 3: come and gone and come and gone. People this people

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Speaker 3: want that. You've been able to navigate that now.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: Oh by the way, one other quick note about his

1352
01:11:42,479 --> 01:11:45,439
Speaker 2: contract with the Dodgers. There's no opt out in the steal.

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01:11:46,360 --> 01:11:48,759
Speaker 2: In other words, he is locked in for ten years

1354
01:11:48,760 --> 01:11:51,320
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers. There's no opt out for him on

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Speaker 2: this contract.

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Speaker 3: He's fine. He wanted to stay on the West coast. Yeah,

1357
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:57,320
Speaker 3: he got more money than anyone has ever. Okay, that's

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01:11:57,360 --> 01:12:00,479
Speaker 3: perfectly okay in all sports history, in all sports history.

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Speaker 3: I mean, and Bape could have shattered that if he

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Speaker 3: would have taken the uh, the the Saudi Arabia Soccer

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01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:10,760
Speaker 3: League contract, which I still don't know.

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Speaker 4: That's crazy to me. Anyway, They offered him about a

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Speaker 4: billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: John Rahm just got three hundred million dollars a golfer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, to jump over there. Yeah right. I

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01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:27,479
Speaker 3: remember John was like, I'm not going over there now.

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Speaker 3: He's like, Hey, what's happening now?

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Speaker 2: This is three hundred million, Bruce, Hey, what's happening man? So,

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Speaker 2: in other words, in the world to be from Salam

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Speaker 2: seven hundred.

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Speaker 4: It's not it looks it's not.

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Speaker 3: The money's great, yeah, but the foundation of how you're

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01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:42,960
Speaker 3: going to live your life and run your life in

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01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:45,200
Speaker 3: terms of finances has already been set.

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Speaker 4: That's the difference.

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Speaker 3: Now you anybody in this building hits the power ball

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01:12:53,439 --> 01:12:55,280
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, now you have you have

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Speaker 3: to make a seven hundred million dollar decision.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's it's a it's a little bit different, right.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Brandon. Let's get Brandon in on this conversation. Brandon,

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Speaker 2: if seven hundred million dollars just showed up in your

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01:13:07,200 --> 01:13:09,920
Speaker 2: bank account, would you be here next weekend? Nope? There

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Speaker 2: it is.

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Speaker 7: Oh.

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01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:12,800
Speaker 2: I mean I love I love my job.

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Speaker 4: I might be heared. But what you would do is

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Speaker 4: you should buy the building. Oh that's a great idea

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01:13:20,840 --> 01:13:22,120
Speaker 4: you feel you see what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, now you you you start you start thinking differently

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01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:29,519
Speaker 3: once you get to buy Alheart Media. But that's what

1391
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 3: I'm saying. You become a huge stakeholder in iHeartMedia. You

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Speaker 3: buy the building, you could come to work, You could

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Speaker 3: do what you want. Now you're planing instead of working, right,

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Speaker 3: You could show up, you can come, you can hang out,

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01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:46,040
Speaker 3: you can do whatever you want. You buy this building.

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Speaker 3: You got action, right, But but that's how your mind

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Speaker 3: has to exact when you you come into that type

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Speaker 3: of money. Yeah, you can go on all the vacations

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Speaker 3: and buy the car in the house, and you could

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Speaker 3: do all that, but eventually you just gonna be on vacation. Right,

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01:14:01,880 --> 01:14:05,480
Speaker 3: Eventually you're just gonna be on vacation. If you spend

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01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:09,560
Speaker 3: one hundred grand on vacation, that's the it.

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Speaker 4: It'll be too.

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01:14:10,640 --> 01:14:13,880
Speaker 3: It's not not much more you can do outside of

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01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:18,200
Speaker 3: flying private and on all of those types of things.

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01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:23,639
Speaker 3: You'll you'll find yourself wanting to continue to enjoy yourself,

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01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:26,559
Speaker 3: live your life, not feel like, oh my god, I

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01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 3: gotta go do this seven to nine or you know

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01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 3: whatever that is. But you get to do things that

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01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:36,320
Speaker 3: you want to do. You get to help people things

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01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:39,639
Speaker 3: like that. But I would just say for a show, hey,

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01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:43,919
Speaker 3: his life isn't going to change that much. His address,

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01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:47,200
Speaker 3: his zip CO will change because he's moving further inland.

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Speaker 2: The one thing that does change, though, and when you

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01:14:49,880 --> 01:14:53,760
Speaker 2: put a number out there like that, expectations go up.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's not fair. Well, well have we seen

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01:14:57,439 --> 01:15:00,320
Speaker 2: this with athletes over and over again. Of course, get

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01:15:00,439 --> 01:15:03,960
Speaker 2: a bigger contract and then we expect them to take

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01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:08,640
Speaker 2: their game next level, and it doesn't always work that.

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Speaker 3: What I'll tell you this, I'll say this, when you

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01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:16,599
Speaker 3: talk about someone with the talent of show, hey, pitching

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Speaker 3: or not.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a slugger by nature. Oh yeah, he can

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01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:20,960
Speaker 4: just pitch.

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01:15:21,400 --> 01:15:23,719
Speaker 2: The guy hits four hundred and fifty foot bombs.

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01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:27,680
Speaker 3: The perception of how much better he's going to be

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01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:32,479
Speaker 3: doing comes into play because he's going to be on

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01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 3: a winning team now, yes, right, So those two things

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01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:37,599
Speaker 3: will be married to each other.

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Speaker 2: Championships.

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01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:43,520
Speaker 3: That's the one thing is even if his numbers are down, yeah,

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01:15:43,920 --> 01:15:49,240
Speaker 3: the winning right well, eclips the negative spin on what

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01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 3: he's not hitting.

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Speaker 4: What the winning? That's all people care about.

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01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:55,000
Speaker 2: Just win well after back to back years of the

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01:15:55,160 --> 01:15:58,439
Speaker 2: Dodgers losing in the wild card round to division rivals.

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Speaker 2: They better get past that. Let's put it that way

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01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:03,800
Speaker 2: with show Hey in the lineup, otherwise he's gonna hear

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01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:06,360
Speaker 2: it from Dodgers fans. I can guarantee you all right.

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01:16:06,439 --> 01:16:08,120
Speaker 2: On the other side, we'll give it our thoughts on

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01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:12,720
Speaker 2: the best place tomorrow in the National Football League. This

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Speaker 2: is Fox Football Saturday. Boswell to Larson, Helen drives it right,

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Speaker 2: throw it inside below and slam it home.

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01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:26,559
Speaker 8: They cannot guard the on ball screen with Umar bollowed.

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01:16:26,600 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 7: They don't know what to do with Trowell.

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Speaker 2: That's Brian Jeffrieser and Lairfield right there. Number one ranked

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Speaker 2: Arizona the Wildcats blasting number twenty three Wisconsin ninety eight

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Speaker 2: Harbini from Salam with you from the Tyraq dot Com studios,

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01:16:57,120 --> 01:16:59,400
Speaker 2: and of course want to thank our supporting crew today

1455
01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:04,120
Speaker 2: Nicope giving us the updates throughout. Lorena there she is

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01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:07,120
Speaker 2: on the board, superstar as is, and of course Brandon,

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01:17:07,360 --> 01:17:10,519
Speaker 2: who at least briefly became seven hundred million dollars richer.

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01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:13,400
Speaker 2: It was a good feeling for a second, there Wasn't

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Speaker 2: it not.

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01:17:13,720 --> 01:17:15,759
Speaker 4: Bad, braanter than I felt today?

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01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:19,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, so great job with everyone. By the way,

1462
01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:22,959
Speaker 2: we are going to get a Heisman Trophy winner announced

1463
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:25,000
Speaker 2: coming up here in about an hour or so.

1464
01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:30,000
Speaker 3: And we're going to get an NBA Cup champion in

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01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:31,559
Speaker 3: a couple hours, all right.

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Speaker 2: So I will make my prediction here now. I still

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01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:39,160
Speaker 2: technically can't reveal my final ballot vote until the winner

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01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:44,800
Speaker 2: is announced. However, I will say this, the person that

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01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 2: I picked number one on my final Heisman ballad I

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01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:54,519
Speaker 2: do not expect to win the Heisman Trophy. And if

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Speaker 2: that is the case, it'll only be the third time

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Speaker 2: in my fourteen years as a Heisman voter that the

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01:18:00,439 --> 01:18:03,639
Speaker 2: person I selected did not win the award. Any one

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01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 2: of these four finalists, believe me, are deserving. These guys

1475
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:10,800
Speaker 2: have all had phenomenal years, you know. Just it really

1476
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:15,400
Speaker 2: came down a question of stats and the fact that

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01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:18,880
Speaker 2: there's only one candidate in the final four that actually

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01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 2: is going to be playing in the playoffs. So that's

1479
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:26,519
Speaker 2: that's how you know. Again, everyone has their own way

1480
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:29,559
Speaker 2: of you know, trying to grade out players, but that's

1481
01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:30,559
Speaker 2: that's the thought there.

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01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:36,280
Speaker 3: So well, I'm I'm excited. I love this time of year.

1483
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:42,880
Speaker 3: We spend all season talking about you know, you know,

1484
01:18:43,240 --> 01:18:46,479
Speaker 3: a few guys every week. Then we come down to it,

1485
01:18:46,760 --> 01:18:55,160
Speaker 3: and you know, hard work pays off. Best college football player.

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01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:58,639
Speaker 4: In the land. Yes, will be announced in a little bit.

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01:18:58,840 --> 01:19:01,200
Speaker 2: Well, and here's the thing now, I know you're far

1488
01:19:01,240 --> 01:19:05,240
Speaker 2: more focused on this NBA Cup final. Wa Lakers are

1489
01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:07,439
Speaker 2: taking on the Pacers. By the way, there will be

1490
01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:11,000
Speaker 2: no record of this game, which is an interesting to

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01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:14,000
Speaker 2: outside of us watching it. Yes, outside of us watching.

1492
01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:16,599
Speaker 2: The Lakers are a favorite three and a half point

1493
01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:19,360
Speaker 2: favorite in this game and it will be tipping off

1494
01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:20,960
Speaker 2: here in about a half an hour or so.

1495
01:19:21,120 --> 01:19:22,080
Speaker 4: I'm excited about it.

1496
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:23,479
Speaker 2: Look, so you are going to be watching.

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01:19:23,680 --> 01:19:25,479
Speaker 4: You know, I'm a huge NBA fan, I know you are.

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01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:28,479
Speaker 2: My son's more excited about the lakers next game against

1499
01:19:28,560 --> 01:19:30,839
Speaker 2: Dallas because he goes that actually counts.

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Speaker 4: I get it. You know your son is what twenty five.

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01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 2: Twenty five? He's going to die hard, like I think.

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01:19:37,080 --> 01:19:40,760
Speaker 3: He's got time to live. Okay, I love it. I

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01:19:40,840 --> 01:19:43,559
Speaker 3: love what this did. It just may it gave a

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01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:47,000
Speaker 3: sense of urgency to early games. We don't normally get

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01:19:47,040 --> 01:19:51,960
Speaker 3: the best NBA before Christmas, don't. We don't get games

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01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:54,559
Speaker 3: like that, and that's a downer, you know, guys taking

1507
01:19:54,640 --> 01:19:58,519
Speaker 3: dolphin if it is, I'm sitting out. What this tournament

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01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:01,240
Speaker 3: did was it brought a censor urgency to a league

1509
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Speaker 3: early on in the year.

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Speaker 2: Can I stop you for only a second? I want

1511
01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:07,280
Speaker 2: to know how urgent winning this game is for the Lakers,

1512
01:20:07,280 --> 01:20:10,040
Speaker 2: because again, if this is a close game, it's maybe

1513
01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:13,080
Speaker 2: heading into overtime. How many minutes do you want to

1514
01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:16,479
Speaker 2: push Lebron James in a game that literally means nothing

1515
01:20:16,520 --> 01:20:17,360
Speaker 2: in terms of.

1516
01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:19,360
Speaker 3: I right, I think they're having fun, and I think

1517
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:22,800
Speaker 3: that's what basketball should be. I think we lost that

1518
01:20:23,560 --> 01:20:26,280
Speaker 3: notion of having fun. It became about money, it became

1519
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:31,920
Speaker 3: about preservation. This tournament has brought fun back to the game.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well see how that all plays out. Don't

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Speaker 2: go anywhere for all the latest news across the board.

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