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Speaker 1: and I love putting this content out for you every

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Speaker 1: single night. So the final home start for Clayton Kershaw,

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Speaker 1: and really the best thing we can say is we

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Speaker 1: don't know when he's going to pitch again. He's scheduled

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Speaker 1: to pitch in Seattle next week. But who knows is

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Speaker 1: he gonna start in the playoffs. Who knows is he

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Speaker 1: gonna relieve in the playoffs. Maybe, But where we sit

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Speaker 1: right now, Kershaw has been in trouble in every inning

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Speaker 1: for the Dodgers, and the Giants lead it right now

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Speaker 1: two to one, so he's been able to limit the

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Speaker 1: damage two to one. Middle of thirty eight Dodgers coming

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Speaker 1: up again. This the final at least regular season start

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Speaker 1: in the career of Clayton Kershaw. It is Joe Davis

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Speaker 1: Bobblehead Night at the stadium tonight, and it will be

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Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw Bobblehead Day tomorrow. They couldn't flip them. They

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Speaker 1: couldn't say, hey, take the Kershaw once. I mean, really,

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Speaker 1: just we're gonna give you this instead, we'll give Joe

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Speaker 1: Davis tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: I think you do that.

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Speaker 4: Could you have given them just a coupon for a

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Speaker 4: future Clayton Kershaw bobblehead so.

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Speaker 1: Kind of like I'm glad you pay you tuesday for

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Speaker 1: a Hamburger today.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, just if you want to go down

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Speaker 4: that road, because I mean, look, you can't give the

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Speaker 4: people the ones from tomorrow like, you just can't do it.

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Speaker 4: Now you're chaos. Nah, you can't. What if you had

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Speaker 4: a bunch of people that came because it was Joe

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Speaker 4: Davis bobblehead Day, Now they're pissed you really?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 1: Outside of Joe Davis to play by play guy for

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Speaker 1: probably get bobbleheads for if he really wanted to. Who

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Speaker 1: was coming to that game for a Joe Davis bubblehead.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I don't want the Kershaw. No, I

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Speaker 1: don't want that. No, No, I want the Joe Davis one.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not leaving until you go get me a

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Speaker 1: Joe Davis bobblehead.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean I bought part of my ticket package

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Speaker 4: or maybe for this individual date. I cleared my schedule

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Speaker 4: and I was like, it's Joe Davis bobblehead. I like

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Speaker 4: listening to Joe Davis call a game.

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Speaker 1: I have all forty bobbleheads. I want the forty eighth

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Speaker 1: and final one I got. I got all of them.

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Speaker 1: Now come back on Saturday. It'll be there for you.

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Speaker 4: Or you do a thing where it's like, all right,

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Speaker 4: here's a coupon for a special Clayton Kershok commemorative item,

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Speaker 4: and then you have a giveaway and a parking lot

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Speaker 4: after the season's over. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Hey, it fell off a truck. Yeah, it fell off

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Speaker 4: Whoa, whoa, whoa?

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Speaker 1: How dare you you follow this truck to the end

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Speaker 1: maybe I hand you something and you hand me something

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Speaker 1: and you walk away, and that's how it works.

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Speaker 4: Hey, we have had promotional items go missing in the past.

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Speaker 4: There's no question about there.

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Speaker 3: Well, man, maybe mon you.

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Speaker 1: Really give away forty maybe maybe once you'll bring us

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Speaker 1: in all these different bobbleheads. Next week, she would suddenly

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: Which one you need?

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Speaker 3: Everybody, Here you go, Here you go, Here you go.

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Speaker 1: I still got all those leftover kik hernandez ones, right,

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Speaker 4: No, No, he's a popular guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just secondary market value, at least in the

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Speaker 4: Clinton Kershaw bobble hits. I don't think they've had like

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Speaker 4: forty seven Key k Hernandez bobblehead dates.

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Speaker 1: To tell me, to tell do me a favor, to

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Speaker 1: be a favorite, because you always talk about monetizing it.

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Speaker 1: Tell me what the difference is on eBay if I

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Speaker 3: Doll, tell me what the difference is on that one.

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Speaker 4: But that's again the difference between I don't think there's

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Speaker 4: just a lot of general issue. Hey, these guys have

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Speaker 4: a license for you know, making a bobblehead, foco or

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Speaker 4: whatever the company may be, to where you you have,

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Speaker 4: you know, just hey, here's your major League goll stars

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Speaker 4: and here's a Clayton Kershaw. Whereas Key Hernandez. Pretty sure

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Speaker 4: most of what you're getting are the stadium giveaways. So

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Speaker 4: there's a limited note from them. Let's see sixty five

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Speaker 4: now looking up our guy Clayton Kershaw. Listen, there's gonna

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Speaker 4: be many because here's one right now. There's fifty bucks.

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Speaker 4: There's the three thousand strikeout one. There's a picture of

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Speaker 4: some guys trying to get like two hundred and fifty dollars. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's just crazy. There's another SGA new in box, forty

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Speaker 1: Those I don't want. I don't want an SGA one.

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Speaker 1: We're talking, I mean, I'll get no one. But I

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Speaker 1: mean that's the company. SGA is actually the company, not

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Speaker 1: I know it as Alexander.

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Speaker 3: All the points you just made, we had.

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Speaker 1: We had to dump you when you said foco because

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Speaker 1: I don't know that you could say that.

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Speaker 3: So all those points you made, no one hurt it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's where I got my cool chef's hat

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Speaker 4: that we're gonna do bits with.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got my chef's thatt up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, here's a twenty seventeen Clayton Kershaw bobblehead

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Speaker 4: where he's hitting, and it was from twenty seventeen. It's

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Speaker 4: There's another one it's forty. I mean, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: On the market is flooded with Kershaw babble it so

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Speaker 1: again to to one Kershaw on the short end of

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Speaker 1: this one so far but still bottle of the third

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Speaker 1: ning Dodgers Giants. This game huge playoff ramifications for the

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Speaker 3: So as we get said, it is football Friday.

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Speaker 1: Looking ahead, we'll preview to a couple of the biggest

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Speaker 1: college football games coming up later on this hour and

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Speaker 3: Pete feu Tac stops by two teams.

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Speaker 1: Right now going into big games this weekend on Sunday

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Speaker 1: that I'm out on. Okay, I'm just out on and

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Speaker 1: the first team I'm out on. I'm out on the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: I'm out the Steelers. You know, for all this talk,

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Speaker 1: oh the Steelers, the Steelers might be awful.

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Speaker 3: Okay, just think about sure, the Steelers might be awful.

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Speaker 1: They're just escaping over the Jets last week after watching

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Speaker 3: Because the Jets are.

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Speaker 1: Just inept like suddenly, the Steelers escaping in that game

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Speaker 1: like that might be Aaron Rodgers big highlight with the Steelers.

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Speaker 3: That might be the best thing.

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Speaker 1: Hey, at least I got revenge over the Jets before

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Speaker 1: he realized, oh man, we're really really bad, Like they

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Speaker 1: really might not be good. They might be terrible this year.

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Speaker 1: I'm out on them. They got worked by Justin Fields,

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Speaker 1: I really the Steelers. They just don't strike me as Hey,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to be dynamic and do what

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Speaker 1: we need to do. And honestly, the Steelers should have

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Speaker 1: Like they should have lost that game too. This should

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Speaker 1: I'm out on the Steelers. They're gonna go into this

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Speaker 1: They might stink. And just because of the difference between

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's difficult in that you don't really see

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Speaker 4: It's a dismal effort that way. The defense for all

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Speaker 4: millions for you. They look like they got old overnight.

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Speaker 4: So already had anticipated this was gonna be a rough

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Speaker 4: ride to get to a nine and eight season to

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Speaker 4: keep that streak alive for Mike Tomlin. But it looks

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Speaker 4: squad shakes out. DK metcalf A lot of his work

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Speaker 4: is done with the deep ball. Can Aaron Rodgers deliver anymore?

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Speaker 4: Tight ends? Are?

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Speaker 4: I mean John news Smith and Pat Fryermouth are gonna

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Speaker 4: Jalen Warren hot route. And see what you can do.

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Speaker 4: That's not winning football as much as if you can

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Speaker 4: keep it close. Yeah, you got a guy that's got

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Speaker 4: super toe. But eventually the winds start swirling and things

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Speaker 4: the AFC North, so that margin for error just isn't there.

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Speaker 4: But it'll be a fun fun watch. I mean to

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Speaker 4: see people melt down over time. And and if Aaron

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Speaker 4: Rodgers struggles, whether you call for you know, replacements, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, look, what did I tell you?

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has to understand the possibility is real that

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Speaker 3: Oh look at that.

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Speaker 4: Now you turned on their defense. I'm all, you even

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Speaker 4: But the fact that you trusted that toot and he's

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Speaker 1: Right now, Mike, didn't you tell me tonight? Hey, Iowa

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Speaker 4: the third row there. Their reaction was like it was

439
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Speaker 4: a game ender. I don't know if they had had

440
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Speaker 4: a wager on dude to come up with a big hit.

441
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Speaker 4: Everybody else like, oh, that's too bad, he's.

442
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Speaker 1: Got exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the

443
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Speaker 1: Jason Smiths with Mike Carmons again, we'll lot more baseball

444
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Speaker 1: on the way tonight again, this game meaning everything for

445
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Speaker 1: the Giants is they're chase for the final playoff spot

446
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Speaker 1: in the National League.

447
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Speaker 3: They absolutely need to win here tonight.

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Speaker 1: Look these teams, Let I gotta say this, these teams

449
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Speaker 1: chasing the Mets. Now, if the Mets go, the Mets

450
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Speaker 1: have eight games left. If they go four and four,

451
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Speaker 1: everybody else has to go eight and two, you know,

452
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Speaker 1: the last these last ten games, less nine to ten

453
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Speaker 1: games to make the playoffs, which tells you just where

454
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Speaker 1: you're at.

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Speaker 3: So every game, you know, the.

456
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Speaker 1: Giants, the Diamondbacks, they lose like every game could be

457
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Speaker 1: one of those. Hey, that's a fork in our season

458
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Speaker 1: because not only do we have to go eight and

459
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Speaker 1: two most likely, but we have to overcome three teams, right,

460
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Speaker 1: So it's hard to leap frog all of that. So

461
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Speaker 1: that's why these games tonight, tonight tomorrow, especially Giants and

462
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Speaker 1: the d Backs, are such huge games in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 4: Fortunately, you'll be able to watch all those games on

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Speaker 4: services other than one proprietary spot.

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Speaker 1: Oh come on, man, listen, apple Ty, we have more

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Speaker 1: tog No.

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Speaker 4: I was just saying, people have wide availability for the

468
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Speaker 4: final stretch run, what with all the greatness that you

469
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Speaker 4: just talked about in every game meaning something. But I

470
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Speaker 4: wasn't trying to be sarcastic and show that's not unbranded

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Speaker 4: at all.

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Speaker 3: No, that's not you at all. No, no, no, you

473
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Speaker 3: are absolutely non snarky and not know positivity.

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Speaker 1: I know, yes, yes, always the children, what about the children?

475
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Speaker 3: All the children?

476
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Speaker 1: Now, three big games in the NFL this week, Like, look,

477
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Speaker 1: a lot of big games, a lot of stuff to

478
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Speaker 1: get you. You are upset. Special picks coming up in

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Speaker 1: a bit. But we talked about two of the most

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Speaker 1: high profile games last hour. The third one Rams and

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Speaker 1: the Eagles. Right here you are this big rematch where

482
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Speaker 1: the Rams clearly were the team that came the closest

483
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Speaker 1: to beating the Eagles in the playoffs last year, and

484
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Speaker 1: here they are now. And I'll tell you what, I'll

485
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Speaker 1: take the Rams in this one because the Eagles so

486
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Speaker 1: far they haven't looked great. And it's not anything that

487
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Speaker 1: I think the Eagles are suddenly bad. This is the

488
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Speaker 1: Eagles have to find their way after you win the

489
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, right that this is, this is what happens,

490
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Speaker 1: not that they're bored, but you come off of that,

491
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Speaker 1: you have to find your They've done enough to win,

492
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Speaker 1: you know, look that Dallas gave him a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a scare, and look at that game. Would have

494
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Speaker 1: been different if Jalen Carter doesn't spit at Dak Prescott.

495
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Speaker 3: But this is how it went. And they're doing enough.

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Speaker 1: They beat the Chiefs. They do enough to beat the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: They've had a couple of nice wins. The Rams are

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Speaker 1: finding ways. And I don't care how the Rams win

499
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Speaker 1: early in the season. They just have to win because

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years has been the same thing. Boy,

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Speaker 1: they look terrible the first half of the season. Maybe

502
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Speaker 1: they fall out of it and they're gonna start over

503
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Speaker 1: next year, and then staffing in the offense catch fire,

504
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the Rams are the best

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Speaker 1: team in the NFC the back half of the year.

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Speaker 1: The fact they are stacking wins, now, that's all they

507
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Speaker 1: need to do. Find ways, stack wins. Right, because you

508
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Speaker 1: want to play those playoff games at home.

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Speaker 3: Right Left.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure Sean McVay goes to bed every night going, man,

511
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Speaker 1: we had to play that game in Philadelphia, the end

512
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Speaker 1: of the year. Last year we had that last drive.

513
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Speaker 1: It was too tough. We want to play at home.

514
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Speaker 1: Every win they can stack at the beginning of the

515
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Speaker 1: season is awesome for them. I have them in the

516
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Speaker 1: NFC Championship game again. It's a big revenge game for them.

517
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Speaker 1: I'll take the Rams, I'll take the under and a

518
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Speaker 1: late defensive stand for them to win because the Rams

519
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Speaker 1: defense is one of the top three units in the NFL. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the Broncos get a lot of attention. We talked about

521
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Speaker 1: how good the Texans and front defensive line defensive backs are,

522
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Speaker 1: but this Rams defense is absolutely legit. It's one of

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Speaker 1: the NFL's best. They've been great so far. They continue

524
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Speaker 1: on here with the Eagles offense that's still trying to

525
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Speaker 1: get out of its own way. And I'll give you

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Speaker 1: this Bowl prediction, Mike Harmon, less than sixty yards rushing

527
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Speaker 1: for Saquon Barkley twenty five has already been harder sledding.

528
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Speaker 1: And when you come off of six hundred and seventy

529
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Speaker 1: five touches last year, like Barkley did, you're.

530
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Speaker 3: Gonna get a bit of a downtick.

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Speaker 1: It's always the case for any running back coming off

532
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Speaker 1: a heavy usage year like that of four hundred touches

533
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Speaker 1: when you count the playoffs in, it's gonna be harder sledding.

534
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Speaker 1: It's been tough sledding so far for Barkley. That's going

535
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Speaker 1: to continue. The Rams continue that tough sledding for Barkley

536
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Speaker 1: under sixty yards or him, the RAMS and the under

537
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Speaker 1: and the RAMS suddenly look like we're talking.

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Speaker 3: Wait a minute, maybe we.

539
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Speaker 4: Get a RAMS charge of Super Bowl coming up this winter.

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Speaker 3: Oh maybe.

541
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Speaker 4: Well, see, this is where it gets really fun, right,

542
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Speaker 4: is that we go back to Week one, the Houston Texans,

543
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 4: a lot of expectations and hey, they're gonna go and

544
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Speaker 4: win the division. Well maybe they're not great, but we

545
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Speaker 4: expected a slug fest and that one and that's exactly

546
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Speaker 4: what we got. What fourteen to nine your final?

547
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Speaker 3: Okay?

548
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Speaker 4: Fine, Then they go to Tennessee. No grade shakes, but

549
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 4: it takes a while before they shake free and eventually win.

550
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Speaker 4: Going away, this one the big tests for this defense

551
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Speaker 4: to get after it. What I've been trying to find

552
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Speaker 4: is a prop bet as to whether a penalty will

553
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Speaker 4: get called on a toush push. I have not whether

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Speaker 4: it be over under is out of half, Like, what

555
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Speaker 4: kind of odds I could get, so calls and texts

556
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Speaker 4: out to all of our luminaries. Eagles with three and

557
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Speaker 4: a half point favorites at home forty four and a

558
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Speaker 4: half the toe on this one. I agree with you.

559
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 4: I think points will be at a premium. The big

560
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Speaker 4: question for me is for the Eagles trying to re

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Speaker 4: establish an identity.

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Speaker 3: Right.

563
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Speaker 4: We talked about it a lot yesterday related to the

564
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Speaker 4: Buffalo Bills spreading the ball around right, Allen completing passes

565
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Speaker 4: to nine different guys, and we talked about it a

566
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Speaker 4: little bit earlier in the week. Jalen hurts, Right now,

567
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 4: you've had eight tush push attempts and three passes that

568
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Speaker 4: have had more than ten air yards to them. That's

569
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Speaker 4: not long term success man, that viability, particularly if the

570
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Speaker 4: tush push becomes a little bit more of the less

571
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Speaker 4: of a certainty right where it's been at that ninety

572
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Speaker 4: seven percent success rate, where all of a sudden we

573
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Speaker 4: start to see that dip because of a penalty, because

574
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Speaker 4: of alignment issues and they're not firing the same way.

575
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Speaker 4: It'll be curious to see. Not that hurts a skipping

576
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Speaker 4: leg day along the way, but toughslog for Barkley has

577
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Speaker 4: certainly shorted some of his fantasy projections for the year,

578
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Speaker 4: not only for hurt stealing touchdown totals, but just that

579
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Speaker 4: they'd back him off because again, you need him at

580
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Speaker 4: his best come January, because you know you're gonna make

581
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Speaker 4: the dance Rams on the road. I think the Eagles

582
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Speaker 4: win it, but give me the Rams plus the hook. Yeah,

583
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Speaker 4: three and a half's plays here.

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Speaker 3: If it was two and a half, would you take

585
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Speaker 3: the Eagles?

586
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:23,640
Speaker 4: No?

587
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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, all right, you're more in the No.

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Speaker 4: Actually, if it was two and a half, I would yeah.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, yeah, oh okay. I thought you were

590
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Speaker 3: more in on the Rams and you said you are there.

591
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Speaker 4: Okay, No, no, No, I am in on the Rams. I

592
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 4: certainly am. There's no question about it. And certainly there's

593
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Speaker 4: been a lot of chatter you and I over these

594
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Speaker 4: the discord of this offseason. And Matthew Stafford, I mean,

595
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Speaker 4: he's gonna be in bold and coming out of his

596
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Speaker 4: appearance at this Clayton Kershaw Farewell game, well.

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Speaker 1: He has to come up big. He went to high

598
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Speaker 1: school with Clayton Kershaw. He's got to come up If

599
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Speaker 1: this is Kershaw his last start as a Dodger, I mean,

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Speaker 1: come on, he's got to come up big on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: If he doesn't, I mean, come on, Wow. Like I

602
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 4: saw him, he was disheveled and you know the gray

603
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 4: Beard and everything's like, look, how old you've become. I

604
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 4: need you to re energize, steal the energy. Kershaw doesn't

605
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Speaker 4: need it anymore. He's leaving the game. Go take it

606
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Speaker 4: from him.

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Speaker 1: Exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the Jason

608
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Speaker 1: Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon Time not

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Speaker 1: How to find out what's trending right now in the

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Speaker 1: wide world of sports from the possible Last Clayton Kershaw

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Speaker 1: Night at Dodger Stadium on the Hill on the top

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Speaker 1: of the fifth inning, special delivery Steve the Saga has

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Speaker 1: the latest right now with what's trended.

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Speaker 5: Huge ovation for Kershaw, just coming off the mound in

615
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Speaker 5: LA with the Dodgers down two to one to San

616
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Speaker 5: Francisco in the top of the fifth Kershaw right now

617
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Speaker 5: in the dugout individually, greeting all his teammates and coaches.

618
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Speaker 5: Kershaw went four and a third two runs allowed, including

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Speaker 5: the leadoff homer tonight, six strikeouts, four walks. They left

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Speaker 5: him in to face the lefty Rafael Devers to lead

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Speaker 5: off the fifth. He got a strikeout and then the

622
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Speaker 5: large ovation coming off the mound ending it. This could

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Speaker 5: be his last start ever in LA. He will retire shortly.

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Speaker 5: Kershaw and the Dodgers down two to one in the fifth.

625
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Speaker 5: The Padres have already lost LA. First place in the

626
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Speaker 5: NLS started the day three games over. The Padres. San

627
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Speaker 5: Diego was beaten four to three at Chicago by the

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Speaker 5: White Sox, who had lost six in a row. And

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Speaker 5: as we speak, Kershaw coming back out of the dugout

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Speaker 5: for the curtain call, as everyone is standing at Dodger

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Speaker 5: Stadium and cheering this soon to be Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 1: I really thought you were gonna say, Kershaw coming back

633
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Speaker 1: out of the dugout. He's told Dave Roberts, like Blake Snell,

634
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Speaker 1: I'm staying in the game, and he's going back out

635
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Speaker 1: to the mound and Henriquez will have to go back

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Speaker 1: and make that trudge all the way back to the bullpit.

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Speaker 5: No, although I didn't hear it, I'm sure Blake Snell's

638
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Speaker 5: comment this week was oh so Kevin Cash is not

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Speaker 5: my manager.

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Speaker 4: I actually got to stay on the mount.

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Speaker 5: In a Dodger game. We do have two other contests

642
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Speaker 5: going on. The Marlins in the top of the twelfth

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Speaker 5: now lead at Texas six to three, and the Phillies

644
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Speaker 5: have taken a three to two lead at Arizona in

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Speaker 5: the top of the seventh Walker Bueller on a relief

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Speaker 5: for the Phillies. Seattle is alone and first in the

647
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Speaker 5: AL West a game over Houston after winning four nothing

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Speaker 5: against the Stros Ems hit four solo homers. Houston had

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Speaker 5: only three hits in the game winning pitcher Brian Woo

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Speaker 5: fifteen and seven for Seattle. He had five scoreless innings

651
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Speaker 5: seven strikeouts, but left with what was called pectoral tightness.

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Speaker 5: Cleveland has won again. That's eight victories in a row.

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Speaker 5: After a six to two win at Minnesota. Cleveland's still

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Speaker 5: a game and a half out of the last AL

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Speaker 5: wild card behind Boston, which won eleven seven at Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 5: But look how close the AL Central standings are now.

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Speaker 5: The Tigers lead, which week and a half ago, is

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Speaker 5: nine and a half. It's down to two and a

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Speaker 5: half games over the Guardians. Detroit was beaten at home

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Speaker 5: ten to one by the Atlanta Braves. The loss to

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Speaker 5: Charlie Morton Tigers have lost seven of eight. They'll be

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Speaker 5: playing at Cleveland starting Tuesday. Yankees lost four two at Baltimore.

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Speaker 5: Toronto lost twenty to one at Kansas City Blue Jays,

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Speaker 5: first in the ALA, still three games up on the Yanks.

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Speaker 5: Net speed Washington twelve to six. Cincinnati was a seven

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Speaker 5: to four winner over the Cubs, and Milwaukee was beaten

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Speaker 5: seven to one at Saint Louis. Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels

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Speaker 5: is out this weekend with a spray knee. The forty

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Speaker 5: nine Ers are due to start quarterback Mac Jones again

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Speaker 5: with Brock Perty injured. Bengals QB Joe Burrow had his

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Speaker 5: toe surgery. He could miss three months. Reportedly, Minnesota quarterback

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Speaker 5: JJ McCarthy is officially out with the bad ankle. The

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Speaker 5: Bengals are at Minnesota this weekend. Jets QB Justin Fields

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Speaker 5: is officially out with a concussion. The Falcons released kicker

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Speaker 5: Young Wayku and gave kicker Parker Romo a two year deal.

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Speaker 5: The two college football games are each finals now tonight

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Speaker 5: on Fox TV Iowa. With two touchdowns in the last

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Speaker 5: six minutes won at Rutgers thirty eight twenty eight, and

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Speaker 5: Tulsa was ahead of Oklahoma State nineteen to three to

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Speaker 5: start the fourth quarter. Nineteen twelve, the final and the

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Speaker 5: WNBA Playoffs first round is over. New York is out,

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Speaker 5: Phoenix at home beat the New York Liberties seventy nine

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Speaker 5: seventy three, and the Giants are out. In the top

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Speaker 5: of the fifth inning, we can update it. It's two to

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Speaker 5: one San Francisco going to the bottom of the fifth.

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Speaker 4: Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.

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Speaker 1: I will give you, Mike Harmon a big bold prediction

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Speaker 1: for next year in the WNBA.

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Speaker 3: You ready for next year?

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Speaker 1: Next year, I'll give you a big mopen coming off

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Speaker 1: of tonight, all the series, first round series gonna best

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Speaker 1: three out of five, gonna be the best five because

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Speaker 1: you get all the complaints with Indiana winning and and

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Speaker 1: and the travel and and it's not a big it's

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Speaker 1: it's not as much of a it's not as big

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Speaker 1: of a of a benefit to be the higher seed

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Speaker 1: in the first round when it's best of three and

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Speaker 1: now you have your going home, right, you're gonna see

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be Hey, why not we can sell more

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Speaker 1: tickets make things better, but it will be best three

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Speaker 1: out of five next year in the first round of

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Speaker 1: the POH no guarantee.

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Speaker 4: There's no question about it. And when you've got a

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Speaker 4: situation where the fever are better without Caitlin Clark.

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Speaker 1: Exit up about a Fresco exit swollen down. The Jason

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Speaker 1: Smith Show with my best Fred Mike Harmon coming up next.

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Speaker 3: We do it every week.

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Speaker 1: We give you our big upset special picks of the

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Speaker 1: week in the NFL. Who's coming up with a big

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Speaker 1: w at least by the number that's next right here,

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Speaker 1: Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: App Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My

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Speaker 1: best friend Mike Carmon. Yeah, we'll have more on the

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Speaker 1: final Dodger Stadium start for Clayton Kershaw, maybe his last

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Speaker 1: appearance at Dodger Stadium ever, maybe his last pitching appearance ever.

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Speaker 3: Coming up.

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Speaker 4: He never comes back even for old timers. Damn, I'm

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Speaker 4: finished and ain't coming back, but.

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Speaker 3: Just really quick before we get to our upset special picks.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: Uh, Steve de Saga brought us a story. Look, big

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Speaker 1: upset in WNBA playoffs. The Phoenix Mercury send the New

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Speaker 1: York Liberty home, and now two of the higher seeded

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Speaker 1: teams going home in the first round in the best

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Speaker 1: of three series. And I told you, I guarantee you

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Speaker 1: two things are gonna happen next year because teams are

730
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Speaker 1: really upset about this. You finish with a better record

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Speaker 1: during the regular season, and you should get spoils, right,

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Speaker 1: which is home court advantage. But it's a three game series, right,

733
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Speaker 1: And not only that, you have teams traveling crazily across

734
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Speaker 1: the country because it's one through eight, Right, New York

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Speaker 1: had to go to Phoenix and three games. New York

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Speaker 1: goes to Phoenix and then back to La beat. Two

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Speaker 1: things are gonna happen next year because teams are upset.

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Speaker 1: All the series are gonna be three out of five,

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Speaker 1: which you can do because there's enough out there for

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Speaker 1: three out of five. And they'll find some way to

741
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Speaker 1: realign the playoffs more geographically, because it's just stupid to

742
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Speaker 1: have New York play Phoenix in the front. This is

743
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Speaker 1: like going back to the NHL playoffs in the nineteen

744
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Speaker 1: seventies and eighties, where it was team one played Team sixteen,

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Speaker 1: like the Islanders would have to play the Kings in

746
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Speaker 1: the first round ago, Like that was this ridiculous way

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Speaker 1: to do it. Here's another NBA doing this in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five. So I give you those two Big Bowl

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Speaker 1: predictions for next season.

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Speaker 4: Well, the other gets fixed as you expand and you

751
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Speaker 4: have more teams and then you eventually separate into conferences

752
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Speaker 4: you know, a little a little differently, with a little

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Speaker 4: realignment and whatever. We'll we'll see that, because what do

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00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 4: you got to the six versus seven in terms of

755
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 4: how it's currently set up. We've got more teams coming on,

756
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Speaker 4: and as the cash cow has proven, you'll get to

757
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Speaker 4: a more reasonable schedule and set up to where we

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Speaker 4: eliminate this. But I get your point, but certainly more

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Speaker 4: games will be there. I mean, it's cash cow. So

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Speaker 4: folks want to be salty. You can be salty, but

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Speaker 4: but you know you play to win the games.

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Speaker 3: Hello, you play now?

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Speaker 4: Speaking of right, you still have home court, finish the job.

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Speaker 1: Now, speaking of playing to win the games, yes, you

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Speaker 1: play to win the games unless you're playing to cover

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Speaker 1: the number.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 1: Time now, Mike and I to give you our upset

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Speaker 1: special picks this week in the NFL. I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: you two teams from the same city getting the same

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Speaker 1: number of points. Okay, first, Okay, I'm gonna give you

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Speaker 1: the Jets getting seven over the Bucks. Okay, the Bucks

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Speaker 1: are banged up. A Buka may Or may not play.

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Speaker 1: He's dinged up. You know Mayfield was dinged up this week.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, this high powered Tampa Bay offense

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Speaker 1: might not be operating at peak efficiency on Sunday. They're

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Speaker 1: coming off a big Monday Night win. This is a

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Speaker 1: gut check game for the Jets, playing their first game

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Speaker 1: away from home, which I think is a good thing

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Speaker 1: for them. They know that a big effort in this one.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn, You're gonna start to see his influence on

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Speaker 1: the team this game. I think they come out big

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Speaker 1: early and they stay in this one, and it takes

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Speaker 1: a late field goal by Tampa Bay and Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: to pull this one out. Again, the Jets are going

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Speaker 1: to finish with heartache. But it'll take a late field

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Speaker 1: goal by Tampa to win this game. And the Jets

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Speaker 1: cover the seven. Give me the Jets getting seven against Tampa.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you take some solace in the fact that your

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Speaker 4: team is considered at least a half point better than

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Speaker 4: when the line opened. How about that somewhere between It

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Speaker 4: was at seven and a half. Now you're either looking

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Speaker 4: at six and a half or seven. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 4: with a little bit of a price shot on the road,

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Speaker 4: the Las Vegas Raiders going up against the Washington Commanders

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Speaker 4: with Marcus Mariota, Mariota and company given three forty fours

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Speaker 4: to total. I'm encouraged by Chip Kelly talking about load

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Speaker 4: management and all of that fund stuff with Ashton genty,

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Speaker 4: which means he's touching the ball forty five times this Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: absolutely hundred percent. As soon as he starts talking like

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Speaker 4: that and like, I release the cracking, it's unfortunate. I've

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Speaker 4: already done the fantasy takes. I'm like, this is not

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Speaker 4: a great matchup. We're not seeing it. He's been bad

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Speaker 4: in pass bro that doesn't matter this time. It's just

805
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Speaker 4: tucking into his gut and let him go and keep

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Speaker 4: Gino from throwing the ball on fourth down like a

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Speaker 4: dope on a bounce.

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Speaker 1: The other upset special getting seven points. Give me the

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Speaker 1: Giants getting seven over the Chiefs. They'll hang around. The

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Speaker 1: Giants are good at that, right, you saw them last week.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they hit on a little bit of something something.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs aren't great, and number one, we have seen

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Speaker 1: the one thing I've seen. No matter how good Chiefs

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Speaker 1: teams are the last few years, they are good at

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Speaker 1: keeping lesser teams in games. Right, it's gonna take a

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Speaker 1: game where Mahomes does it all by himself and he

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Speaker 1: scrambles for big yards, which is gonna frustrate the hell out.

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Speaker 3: Of the Giants.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna take a late score by Kansas City. They

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Speaker 1: will escape, whether it's a defensive stand or a field

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Speaker 1: goal at the end, or they they're they're killing the

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Speaker 1: clock at the end. But it's gonna be a one

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Speaker 1: possession game. Kansas City outlast the Giants for their first win.

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Speaker 1: But seven points is a lot. I like the Giants.

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Speaker 1: I like Malik Neighbors to have another big game. Give

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Speaker 1: me the Giants getting seven.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I dig the cut of your jim and it'll

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Speaker 4: be the legs of Mahomes to set up that winning

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Speaker 4: field goal. Ay, I got a chaos I'm gonna go

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Speaker 4: a little bit deeper. Let's go, and you've got the

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Speaker 4: higher points spread, no question, But just in terms of

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Speaker 4: perception versus reality, I'm gonna take Jake Browning and company

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Speaker 4: to go on the road, getting a field goal at

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Speaker 4: Minnesota and Carson Wentz forty one is your total? Minnesota

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Speaker 4: banged up right now and waiting to see exactly how

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Speaker 4: much you're gonna get out of that passing game. Hendrickson

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Speaker 4: should be able to get home. Some injuries on that

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Speaker 4: Minnesota front, and we'll see the Bengals continue to fire

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Speaker 4: the ball down field. So I'm gonna take the high

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Speaker 4: powered offense to get the job done.

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Speaker 1: Look at Jake down going, Browning going Browning proud, Nick,

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Speaker 1: I love all the extra quarterbacks getting into the mix.

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Speaker 1: Let's just do this early. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: it could have been. It was supposed to be. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we got Joe Burrow and JJ McCart.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, we don't. We don't have that anymore.

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Speaker 3: We don't have that anymore.

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Speaker 4: It's a good thing. That's a ten am Pacific game.

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Speaker 3: No, no, that game has been put on NBA TV.

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Speaker 3: It's no longer. Yeah, they're not gonna be it's gonna

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Speaker 3: be an NBA TV now Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 4: Sorry about It's like a Bucks playoff game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah II honest exit Outvouna Fresca exit swollen dome. Coming

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Speaker 1: up next, we get back into the biggest story of

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Speaker 1: the night, Jason and Mike.

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Speaker 3: This is Fox Sports Radio.