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Speaker 2: Wow, that's right, you heard the man. It is that

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Speaker 2: time a week. My name is Bernie Fraddle. We are

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Speaker 2: comedy in Line from the Fox Sports Radio studios here

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. We'll take you up to three m Pacific,

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Speaker 2: absolute jam pack show tonight. We're gonna get to it all.

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Speaker 2: Little Lebron stuff, Shadore, the Lakers sold, even Steven A Smith,

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Speaker 2: brand new Foo, what my name? We run the full gamut,

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Speaker 2: full of stories and hijinks, but we begin with the

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Speaker 2: two most notable words in sports. Game seven. We are

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Speaker 2: about what eighteen hours away something of that nature from

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Speaker 2: a Game seven, which I'm very much looking forward to.

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Speaker 2: But what's interesting is, and I'm gonna tie this together.

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Speaker 2: I promise you I'm gonna button this up with a

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Speaker 2: nice little bow. What came to my mind? Lily Tomlin

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Speaker 2: actre Sally Tomlin, who once said I always wanted to

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Speaker 2: be something in life. I just wish I'd been more specific,

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Speaker 2: because after Lebron was insistent on once again putting forth

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Speaker 2: one of his inscrupulous, sir, inscrutable, there's no suitorites in

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Speaker 2: scrupulous I sound like a lebron inscrutable oratory about ring culture.

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Speaker 2: This from the guy who did nothing but chase rings

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Speaker 2: for two and a half decades, and he got four

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Speaker 2: of them with three different teams. Give the devil his due.

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Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, who in the hell stand up,

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Speaker 2: raise your hand, beep your horn if you're one of

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Speaker 2: the people that's been disrespecting Allen Iverson and Charles Barklay

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Speaker 2: and John Stockton and Steve Nash and Carl Malone and

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Speaker 2: Ernie Banks and Ty Cobb and Barry Bonds, and you

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Speaker 2: get the picture. Who exactly has been disrespected him because

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Speaker 2: they don't have ring But see what I What I

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Speaker 2: did next is I did It's the only thing you

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Speaker 2: can do, and that is you get out your lebron

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Speaker 2: to English dictionary and say what is he really trying

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Speaker 2: to say?

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Speaker 2: I got it? I got it translation, I'm stuck on

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Speaker 2: four rings. I ain't never going to win a damn

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Speaker 2: another run. Bring I got four, it's pretty good, but

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Speaker 2: I ain't magic. He's got five or a courier Jordan

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Speaker 2: is sure as the only Bill Russell, But damn it,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go just ask me, but I'll never get

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Speaker 2: another ring, So why are we so hung up on

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Speaker 2: ring culture? And as my my grain headache increased and

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Speaker 2: my teeth itched even more every word Lebron said, I

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Speaker 2: suddenly realized there's an interesting juxtaposition between what Lebron was saying,

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Speaker 2: the ring culture phenomenon, and the NBA Finals Game seven

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Speaker 2: on Sunday. And the juxtaposition is trees or shay, because

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Speaker 2: what Lebron actually said has a modicum of truth. When

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Speaker 2: you finished second in this country, people really don't look

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Speaker 2: second place never interests me. I gotta get lots of

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Speaker 2: quotes on who finished and second, that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: If you ain't, you know first, your last, I'd all

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Speaker 2: that pablem. But perhaps what I consider to be the

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Speaker 2: most notorious example of this phenomenon, I give you a name.

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Speaker 2: His name is Mack Robinson, and this is the hell

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Speaker 2: of a story. Mack Robinson's been dead twenty five years.

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Speaker 2: He died very quietly in the hospital in his hometown

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Speaker 2: mac Robinson spent his final years as a janitor to

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Speaker 2: But if you do your research, mack Robinson was actually

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Speaker 2: elected to the Oregon Athletics Hall of Fame back in

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Speaker 2: mack Robinson. See it turns out though mack Robinson was

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Speaker 2: you've not only never heard of mac Robinson, you probably

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Speaker 2: elite society. But for the record, mack Robinson finished second

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Speaker 2: to a guy by the name of Jesse Owens, who

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Speaker 2: won the race by a mere four tenths of a second.

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Speaker 2: After nineteen forty nine, Max's life was a mere blur.

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Speaker 2: He was a virtually unknown except for some friends who

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Speaker 2: who was very proud of mack Robinson was his brother.

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Speaker 2: He had a brother by the name of Jackie, Yes,

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Speaker 2: League baseball in nineteen forty seven. You see, to that end,

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Speaker 2: le Brown has a point, even though he had no

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Speaker 2: clue the point he was making. Because Sunday, only Tyrese

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Speaker 2: Halliburton or Shay Gilgess Alexander, two fine young men who've

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Speaker 2: acquitted themselves brilliantly in these NBA Finals, is going to

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Speaker 2: wake up Monday very depressed. And there's no guarantee either

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Speaker 2: one of these good guys get back to the NBA Finals. Ever,

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Speaker 2: there's no guarantee much less win one. And I know

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Speaker 2: they're both here more than twenty five. I get that.

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Speaker 2: You may remember Dan Marino after getting to the Super

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Speaker 2: Montana says, let me pie at pepsi and Marino says, okay,

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Speaker 2: it back to a Super Bowl. So you see, there's

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Speaker 2: a lot more on the line Sunday than just a championship.

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Speaker 2: And I know you really can't count okc's championship in

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy nine when they were called to Seattle Super Sonics,

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Speaker 2: we won't and the Indiana Pacers have never won one.

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Speaker 2: Someone's going to break that mold tomorrow Sunday, and the

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Speaker 2: same with Shay Gilgess and or Tyree Saliburton. But the

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Speaker 2: in of becoming a potential mac Robinson. You don't remember, However,

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Speaker 2: I would say this, in sports, we actually honor perseverance,

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Speaker 2: people who defy the odds. And to that end, Lebron's

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Speaker 2: legacy is secure. He just needs to shut up. He

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Speaker 2: came straight out of high school, seamlessly transitioned to the NBA.

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Speaker 2: He's played twenty one years, Make no mistake, He's going

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Speaker 2: to play three more because he's gonna want a farewell

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Speaker 2: But I digress. But if you want to find something

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Speaker 2: that really forms the bedrock of our fandoms, find someone

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Speaker 2: like Frank Sinatra said, there's something to be said for perseverance.

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Speaker 2: The Indiana Pacers team is one of those teams. What

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Speaker 2: more can you say about them? Everybody waiting for them

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Speaker 2: to peter out after three rounds. They gave him a

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Speaker 2: golf applause after losing. You know, Game five in Oklahoma

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Speaker 2: City went down three to two. And I don't know anybody,

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Speaker 2: anybody on the air that picked Indiana to win Game six.

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Speaker 2: I did. I texted my betting slip to Mark Bendeen

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Speaker 2: and Improvement to prove it. And I'm picking him in

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Speaker 2: game seven two And I know, Tyre, you know Halliburtons

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Speaker 2: still nursing a CAF stream. But he played a gritty

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Speaker 2: teams with cobble. The times with the were moments were fleeting.

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Speaker 2: For the most part, he went, he looked good. Pacers,

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Speaker 2: defense went nuts. Thunder players not named Shay Gilders scored

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Speaker 2: seventy total points. Okayse shot forty two percent from the field,

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Speaker 2: and they missed twenty two to three pointers. Now we'll

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Speaker 2: see how much of that carries over Sunday. But in

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Speaker 2: the meantime, on this night, this may be the only

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Speaker 2: show in history where you ty Lily Tomlin Lebron, James

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Speaker 2: that note, we'll all be watching. Do I think Indiana

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Speaker 2: Rick Carlisle as coach, the man is a genius. Now,

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Speaker 2: Oklahoma City losing Thursday was not surprising to me. They're

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Speaker 2: this year. Their point differential was minus sixty seven, their

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Speaker 2: net rating was minus six. Not home different story ten

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Speaker 2: So I do expect a max effort, but I also

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Speaker 2: think quantum physics kicks in. This is a young team.

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Speaker 2: Coaching and experience matter a hell of a lot when

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Speaker 2: you get to the playoffs in any sport. I definitely

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Speaker 2: give both edges on those FRONTS two two the Indiana Pacers,

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Speaker 2: an outrageous six point one billion. We wondered how long

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Speaker 2: it would take to break that record. About fifteen minutes. Hi,

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Speaker 2: Bernie Fratta, We're comedy line from the Las Vegas Fox

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Speaker 2: Back in the Bernie Frattle Show Fox Sports Radio. Come

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Speaker 2: you live from the Las Vegas studio. Is Well, we're

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Speaker 2: just hours away from a game seven, and there's a

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Speaker 2: whole bunch of other stuff happening in the NBA. So

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Speaker 2: three simple words, it's that time. Medina Magic, Mark Medina,

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Speaker 2: Radia and the Thunder and the pitches are set to

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Speaker 2: write their own chapter. We haven't had a game seven

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Speaker 2: in eight years, nine years. How happy is the NBA

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Speaker 2: pretty darn good. How does the NBA feel about this?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they're satisfied. I mean, obviously, the more

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Speaker 6: games the means, the more eyeballs, the better the ratings.

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Speaker 6: I think. You know, even though the NBA talks about

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Speaker 6: they want parody and equal competition between big and small markets,

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Speaker 6: there's no doubt there's more interest when there's more high

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Speaker 2: Now, dot in my mind, Luca gets the extension in

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Speaker 6: they can take their time with us. But you know,

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Speaker 6: I have been told that Mike is seen as the

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Speaker 6: favorite candidate.

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Speaker 2: Talking with Mark Mandina, our Fox Sports radio grewer, let's

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Speaker 2: talk about Kevin Durant. Yesterday about this time, I could

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Speaker 2: have swore that Durant would have a new destination sooner

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Speaker 2: rather than later. Maybe the Rockets, maybe the you know,

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Speaker 2: pick your poison. I don't think he wants to go

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Speaker 2: to Minnesota, but that's just a thought. And now I'm

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Speaker 2: hearing these talks with the Rockets are at an impass.

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Speaker 2: What's going on with Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well it's fluid because Kevin Durant All Fame player,

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Speaker 6: one of the best scorers ever in the NBA. But

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Speaker 6: he makes fifty two million dollars, he's in his high thirties,

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Speaker 6: and he has an injury history ever since twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 6: So I think what's happened is you know there's a

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Speaker 6: depressed market. I think Kevin, to be frank, kind of

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Speaker 6: prefers that because he is he doesn't want to just

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Speaker 6: be traded anywhere. He wants to be able to, you know,

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Speaker 6: have some sort of influence where he plays and hopefully

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Speaker 6: ends his career there, and he wants to be on

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Speaker 6: the team has in a position to win. But that

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Speaker 6: might not happen because teams might like Kevin but enough

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Speaker 6: to give up a lot of their assets. So yeah,

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Speaker 6: there's teams like Houston San Antonio that are intriguing, but

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Speaker 6: I'd be doubt I'm very doubtful that either of them

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Speaker 6: would do that because they have a good thing going

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Speaker 6: with a lot of good young players. They don't want

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Speaker 6: to break that up hastily. You know, there's teams like

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Speaker 6: Minnesota and Miami that could be in the mix. I'm

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Speaker 6: doubtful in Minnesota only because again, they want to be

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Speaker 6: able to build off of their current playoff shortcomings and

458
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Speaker 6: their potential, but you don't want to get the roster.

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Speaker 6: I think we've said this again, and I'll say it again.

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Speaker 6: I really think it's Miami. You know, right now, they

461
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Speaker 6: may not be enamored with making Tyler here available, but

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Speaker 6: I think eventually he will and I think the Suns

463
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Speaker 6: will also realize they don't have a lot of options here.

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Speaker 6: And I think with Miami, you know, they they historically

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Speaker 6: have valued roster depth, but because they lost in the

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Speaker 6: first round in Cleveland, got swept that Jimmy Butler off

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Speaker 6: the oscar played out the way it was, they don't

468
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Speaker 6: believe in rebuilds. So I think that they like Kevin

469
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Speaker 6: Durant for his skill set, has practiced training habits, and

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Speaker 6: it might not change the needle as far as their

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Speaker 6: standing in the Eastern Conference landscape, but at least they

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Speaker 6: have a better chance at game now the first round

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Speaker 6: than they did this past season.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you mentioned Miami because the guy we brought

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Speaker 2: up last week is will Russell Westbrook entering his eighteen season.

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Speaker 2: I'm told Miami's actually showing legitimate interest with Dallas a

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Speaker 2: distance second, And what are your thoughts? Could could Russell

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Speaker 2: Westbrook end up with them?

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Speaker 6: You never rule it, al, I think we have to

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Speaker 6: keep in mind that teams are interested in him because

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Speaker 6: he's not making a lot of money. You know, he

482
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Speaker 6: he has all star credentials, but he's making veteran minimum

483
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Speaker 6: type money. So I think teams are looking at it.

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Speaker 6: You know what, It's a low risk, high reward. You know,

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Speaker 6: we'll see if he's adaptable to a fluid role. But

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Speaker 6: they love his competitiveness and all that. But we've just

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Speaker 6: seen the story over and over again. If but Russell

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Speaker 6: Westbrook will come to a team, he will show his

489
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Speaker 6: competitive fire, it will ignite the locker room, and then

490
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Speaker 6: his weaknesses will show up, and then his rolling his

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Speaker 6: playing time will decrease because it's not worth it having

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Speaker 6: him on the floor. So yeah, there might be teams

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Speaker 6: that are interested, but I think it's more of a

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Speaker 6: last resort and only to fill the back end of

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Speaker 6: the roster. I think teams should further realize after seeing

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Speaker 6: him with the Clippers, seeing him with Denver, that he's

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Speaker 6: good in the regular season. Maybe he'll win you a

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Speaker 6: playoff game or two, but he creates more problems when

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Speaker 6: you need him the most in crunch time.

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Speaker 2: I can't disagree with any of that. And last question,

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Speaker 2: the team that Russell Westbrook you know, is departing. I

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Speaker 2: think he's turning down to a three point four million players. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so I'm like, Dad, Yeah, you're right, that's not a lot. Well,

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Speaker 2: what's he meane? Five hundred million in his career, just

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Speaker 2: about it. He's made a fortune.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't have the exact number, but yeah, he's

507
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Speaker 6: been pretty lucrative. He's he used to be a max player.

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Speaker 6: He used to be an All Star caliber player. You know,

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Speaker 6: I think he's opting out thinking, you know what, maybe

510
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Speaker 6: my market value is actually higher. But I want to

511
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Speaker 6: be surprised if it's actually the other way around, because again,

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Speaker 6: teams are going to pick him up. If he's a

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Speaker 6: veteran minimum guy. You know, maybe he'll start, but it'll

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Speaker 6: be a fluid role with coming off the bench and

515
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Speaker 6: just being available in case injuries happened. But again, teams

516
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Speaker 6: are still interested in him because it's not a significant

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Speaker 6: investment in their salary.

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Speaker 2: And there's one last diarny, because I don't think Denver's

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Speaker 2: done yet. It's odd how they roast at the top

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Speaker 2: and sunk they get rid of, they get rid of. Well,

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Speaker 2: the Russell westborothst not could be back. But I'm hearing

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Speaker 2: in Denver they still have a concern on how to

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Speaker 2: replace his energy in his defense, and I'm hearing they're

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Speaker 2: going to give a shot to Jalen Picket and maybe

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Speaker 2: he didn't get much experience last year, but all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden, now there is they're rid of Westbrook, that

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Speaker 2: they got to find a replacement for him. What does

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Speaker 2: never do to get back in the mix.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think they're going to try to

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Speaker 6: see what they can get in return for Michael Porter Junior.

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Speaker 6: But it's gonna be tough because he's a great player,

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Speaker 6: but he's inconsistent, he makes a lot of money, and

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Speaker 6: he has injury history. So I think the Nuggets are

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Speaker 6: in a precarious position because you can pencil in Nicole Jokic,

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Speaker 6: he's going to produce triple doubles, but they haven't quite

536
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Speaker 6: known what they're going to get with Jamal Murray in

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Speaker 6: the regular season. He'll come up big in the playoffs,

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Speaker 6: but they also need him to be healthy and productive

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Speaker 6: in the regular season. They love Aaron Gordon, He's shown

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Speaker 6: that he's a gamer in the postseason. They just they

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Speaker 6: haven't found enough young players outside of Christian Braun and

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Speaker 6: a little bit of Julian Strather, of enough rotation guys

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Speaker 6: that are young. They know what they're going to get,

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Speaker 6: So it's a tough sled, but I think that they

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Speaker 6: are encouraged that you know, they they David Adaman was

546
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Speaker 6: really get a coach chapter, Michael Muller inspiring, and that

547
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Speaker 6: they can build off of that and kind of improve

548
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Speaker 6: from with them.

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Speaker 2: Mark, great stuff. I'm already looking forward to the next Saturday.

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Speaker 2: There'll be more news, maybe another team will be sold,

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Speaker 2: who knows. And oh, by the way, we gotta start

552
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Speaker 2: talking about the draft. Yeah, it's gonna be well.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure we'll talk about Cooper flag. I might have

554
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Speaker 6: some intel on Mark Walter's willingness to give Brown and

555
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Speaker 6: James an extension.

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Speaker 2: Well, beautiful props to you. I was remiss in my

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Speaker 2: Bronnie James reference tonight. Good for you, Thanks Mar, appreciate it, Bud,

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Ben, Mark Medina Medina Magic. Every Saturday night

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Speaker 2: here on the Bernie Frowders Show. Coming up, we got

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Speaker 2: a rockus and I mean beautifully raucous midnight hour this week.

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Speaker 2: all of us it's figuratively the midnight hour, which means

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Speaker 2: you get the last word. I have three top pick tonight.

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Speaker 2: I think could get a kick out of eight seven seven,

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Speaker 2: the Lakers being sold is how big of a deal

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Speaker 2: is this to you? Will they win a championship the

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Speaker 2: next three to five years? Again, this is not the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: You can't defer contracts like Major League Baseball. The second

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Speaker 2: running the team. The Lakers are a starstruck franchise. They're

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Speaker 2: a glamour franchise. They like Vandi Bys. It's still showtime,

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Speaker 2: big name Honting. Maybe I'm all wrong, Maybe you've got

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Speaker 2: an idea the brilliance that Mark Walter is showing the Dodgers. Again,

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Speaker 2: it's not the same playing field. I want to get

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Speaker 2: your thoughts on the Lakers and then being sold Shadoor

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Speaker 2: one oh one. By the way, one oh one is

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Speaker 2: not Shadeur's qbr Okay Shadoor. You know there's an old

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Speaker 2: saying leadership is influence based on trust you've earned. And

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Speaker 2: if you're quarterback of the National Football League, you can't

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Speaker 2: just say your leader. You got to be leader. Now

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Speaker 2: we're now hearing more that not only was Shador going

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Speaker 2: one hundred and one, which is forty one over the

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Speaker 2: speed limit, he may have run a couple stop signs.

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Speaker 2: Allegedly I was there, I didn't see it. Just telling

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Speaker 2: you what I've heard. And oh, by the way, this

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Speaker 2: is his second speeding ticket inside of a month. The

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Speaker 2: other time he was going ninety one, so he didn't

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Speaker 2: learn this less than that time, allegedly didn't show up

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Speaker 2: for his arraignment, and allegedly was rude to the officer. Hmmm.

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Speaker 2: My question to you is does this possibly change the

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Speaker 2: way you look at Shador Sanders? What are your thoughts?

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Speaker 2: So we've got the Lakers, big deal? Are they gonna

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Speaker 2: win a championship again within the next three to five years? Again,

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Speaker 2: they're not the Dodgers, right, This is not major League Baseball.

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Speaker 2: You cannot defer contracts like major League Baseball. There's a

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Speaker 2: hard salary cap, which is the second an apron basically

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Speaker 2: Genie Buster run on the team. What do you think,

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Speaker 2: Shudor Sanders? How do you look at him now? If

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Speaker 2: you thought he was a leader before, do you still

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Speaker 2: think he is? Or maybe you haven't changed anything at all?

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Speaker 9: You know?

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Speaker 2: My thoughts on Hudor. You heard me go on from

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Speaker 2: my oratory last week about you can glean virtually nothing

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Speaker 2: from shorts and helmets, and I don't know why they

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Speaker 2: keep peeing all over Dylan Dylan Gabriel's face. The kid

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Speaker 2: can play. I'm hearing he's small. Okay, Well, I saw

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Speaker 2: him going to Michigan and pick him apart. He was

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Speaker 2: a starting quarterback for two iconic college football franchises, been

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Speaker 2: to the playoffs, sixty starts, far more advanced by some

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Speaker 2: field that Hudor has better talent than proven on the field,

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Speaker 2: not behind the wheel of a car going one on

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Speaker 2: one and forty one over the limit. You know, we're

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Speaker 2: a little sensitive to that now. The Henry Ruck situation

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Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas. Possibly ran stop science, possibly was

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Speaker 2: rude to the cop. Possibly, we're hearing he didn't show

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Speaker 2: up at his arraignment and that was his second speeding ticket.

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Speaker 2: All right, he's human. Here's the deal, though, if if

643
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Speaker 2: you're fourth on the depth chart, you just can't afford

644
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Speaker 2: hiccups like that. I know that. I know for a

645
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Speaker 2: fact of the years I covered the Lions. NFL security

646
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Speaker 2: is pretty tight and teams employ pretty sharp security personnel.

647
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Speaker 2: Most of them are X's law enforcement and I'm sure

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Speaker 2: they sat him down to talk to him, and they

649
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Speaker 2: probably had a lot of questions You and I might

650
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Speaker 2: not be smart enough to ask depending on his answers.

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Speaker 2: It will be depending on what kind of short rope

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Speaker 2: he's on. Now. They're not gonna cut him. That's not

653
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Speaker 2: gonna do that, No should they? Okay, let him get

654
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Speaker 2: on the field in pre season against guys who will

655
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Speaker 2: be working at NAP Auto Parts next month and see

656
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Speaker 2: how he can do. But this is not a good

657
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Speaker 2: look in my view. But how do you look at

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Speaker 2: your door? Now? The third topic, I know people are

659
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Speaker 2: gonna explode on this one. I have to talk about

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Speaker 2: steven A. Smith. Now, full disclosure. I like steven A.

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Speaker 2: Smith all right. I think I've told you multiple times.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to Rob Parker, steven A and not Rob and

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Speaker 2: I had dinner the night Steve Mary got fired after

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Speaker 2: our Alliance postgame show on Thanksgiving two thousand and five,

665
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Speaker 2: after at at Fishbones and Detroit, Steven Daser. If you

666
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Speaker 2: ever meet him in person, I promise he'll be gracious

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Speaker 2: to you. He was a really nice guy, and I

668
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 2: mean that. But is Stephen A perhaps being overexposed. He's

669
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Speaker 2: had a pretty rough forty five days. First, she had

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Speaker 2: that situation with Lebron in the middle of the court

671
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Speaker 2: and now comes out that Lebron and steven A really

672
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Speaker 2: don't like each other. Wow. Then you had the situation

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Speaker 2: with the solitaire, playing solitaire, and Stephen exploded and got

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Speaker 2: very very defensive and made the statement that you know

675
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Speaker 2: it was under he was doing solitaire. You know, he

676
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 2: do this every night a year. I'm not chucking my responsibilities.

677
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 2: I'm I'm this, I'm that, but blah blah. And the

678
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Speaker 2: game wasn't even there wasn't even going on when I

679
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 2: was doing it. Of course that's been debunked. There's metadata

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Speaker 2: that shows that the was certainly in progress while steven

681
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 2: A was looking at his solitaire. And then he had

682
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Speaker 2: this terrible gaff involving Tyrese Halliburton in game five. He says, man,

683
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 2: he looked awful tonight, and I'm glad he's injured. What

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Speaker 2: I know, Stephens state dated meaning steven dated meaning clunky

685
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 2: or you know, derogatory by that. But it was very,

686
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Speaker 2: very clunky. So the truth of the matter is, is

687
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 2: the bloom off the rose now he's everywhere. Man. He's

688
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 2: even doing tours with Bill O'Reilly Andrew Como and they're

689
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 2: very successful. And he's a polarizing guy. But here's the question. Now,

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Speaker 2: when you see Steven A. Smith on TV, do you go,

691
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 2: oh good, let's see what he's got Steven, it's got

692
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 2: to say today, are you more likely to turn the

693
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Speaker 2: channel because maybe you've been turned off a little bit

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Speaker 2: by some of these events of the past. Right, week, month,

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Speaker 2: six months, three months, whatever. He By the way, for

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Speaker 2: the best pregame show every week, and be sure to

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Speaker 2: six am to nine am Pacific, will count you down

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Speaker 2: to all the biggest games. There's no better place to

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Speaker 2: prime you for the tournament games than right here. Tune

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Speaker 2: seven nine nine six six three sixty nine eight seven, seven,

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Speaker 2: nine to nine on Fox Looking forward to hearing from you. Oh,

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Speaker 2: by the way, if you couldn't get in last week

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Speaker 2: cause of the phone snafu, And you want to come

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Speaker 2: on comment on whether or not the NWNBA champ could

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Speaker 2: be a high school state champ. Team love to hear.

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Speaker 2: I don't care. This is fun, Okay, we want to

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Speaker 2: hear from you. The callers have been fantastic. So the Lakers,

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Speaker 2: big deal your thoughts the glamour franchise new ownership. It

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Speaker 2: ain't going to be like Major League Baseball. I've already

715
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Speaker 2: given you what the limitations are. Genie Busts is still

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Speaker 2: run on the team and you can't defer contracts. Shador Sanders,

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Speaker 2: mister legendary, so concerned about being legendary, might want to

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Speaker 2: be more concerned about getting your qber to one o

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Speaker 2: one than driving one oh one forty one over the limits.

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Speaker 2: Second speeding ticket, ran stop signs allegedly, then show for

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Speaker 2: his raymon allegedly it's his second ticket in a month.

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Speaker 2: Root of the cop. We think not great leadership if

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Speaker 2: you're Shador and Stephen A. Smith is he over exposed

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Speaker 2: them and the bron don't like each other. Stepping from

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Speaker 2: the BROWNI incident, playing solitary during a game and oh

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Speaker 2: by the way the Tyre's Halliburton gaff in Game five,

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Speaker 2: he's looked awful. I'm glad he's injured. Wow, bloom off

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Speaker 2: the roads with steven A. Well when he comes on

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Speaker 2: the TV, do you say, oh good, let's see what

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Speaker 2: steven A's got to say? Or is it I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: change a channel? So the Lakers shadoor the Midnight Hour

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Speaker 2: with steven A eight seven seven nine nine six six

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Speaker 2: three sixty nine eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.

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Speaker 2: We want to look from you, hear from you. You've

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Speaker 2: been fantastic the last year and a half. Let's keep

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Speaker 2: it rolling. It's time for the Midnight Hour on Bernie

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Speaker 2: Frattles Fox Sports.

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Speaker 1: Ra Do listen no Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's right, you heard the man. The Bernie Faddle

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Speaker 2: Show keeps rolling right along the Fox Sports Radio studios

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Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas. Jim Emmett, Christopher Allen, Steve Andre,

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Speaker 2: You're gonna be the first six. We're gonna get to

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Speaker 2: all of you tonight in the min that hour. Another

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Speaker 2: rock its min that hour is we hack saw Hamilton

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Speaker 2: The one said, let's set the topics on the table,

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Speaker 2: just for everybody knows the case you're just douning in

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00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 2: the Lakers. Okay, they were sold. Is that really a

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Speaker 2: big deal where they win a championship the next three

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Speaker 2: to five years. Here's why I say that this is

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Speaker 2: not the Dodgers, this is not major League Baseball. You

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Speaker 2: can't defer contracts the second aprons basically a hard salary cap,

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Speaker 2: and Genie bus is to run the team. All right,

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Speaker 2: what's the big deal my view? And not that's not

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Speaker 2: to disavow what Mark Walter is done with the Dodgers props,

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Speaker 2: and we'll get to that later. Shador, mister legendary, mister

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Speaker 2: one on one, no one on one is not his

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Speaker 2: QBR forty one over the limit, allegedly ran stop signs,

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Speaker 2: allegedly it was to the police, and apparently allegedly didn't

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Speaker 2: make his arraignment on the first ticket of ninety one,

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Speaker 2: which he got a month before. Look, you want to

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Speaker 2: be a leader, you want to be a legendary. I've

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Speaker 2: always said that leadership is influence based on trust you've earned.

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Speaker 2: Can you really trust Shudor Sanders I'm sure as I'm

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00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 2: not sure you can trust him under center. People can

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Speaker 2: pick on Kenny Pickett all they want he's fifteen ten

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Speaker 2: is a starter in the NFL. Shodoor was thirteen and

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Speaker 2: twelve as a starter in college. Finally, steven A Smith.

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Speaker 2: I like steven A, but as he overexposed the fight

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Speaker 2: with Lebron, they don't gate along the briny deal. The

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Speaker 2: solitary mishap made the statement about Tyreus Halliburton on Game

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Speaker 2: five quote, he looks awful. I'm glad he's injured. Wow.

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Speaker 2: That just came out clunky. So is the bloom off

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Speaker 2: the rose for the one hundred million dollar man when

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Speaker 2: you see him on TV? What's your reaction? Oh? Good,

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Speaker 2: steven A's up. Let's see what he's got to say,

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Speaker 2: or you turn the channel eight seven, seven, nine, nine,

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Speaker 2: six six three sixty nine. We begin with Jim and

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Speaker 2: Man massachusets Jim always glad to lead us off.

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Speaker 10: What do you got bud uh Bernie selling selling of

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Speaker 10: the Lakers And that was a good price that she

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Speaker 10: got there. I think they're gonna win. They're not gonna

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Speaker 10: win a championship in the next three or five years.

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Speaker 10: It's just not going to happen. There's just too many

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Speaker 10: distractions around LA for those players to really concentrate on

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Speaker 10: their craft and come together and you know, go for

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Speaker 10: a title. You know.

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Speaker 6: So that's my.

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Speaker 10: Feeling there as fire as she could goes he is

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Speaker 10: an idiot. I thought he I thought he had more

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Speaker 10: self discipline than what he has. I mean, mounting off

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Speaker 10: the cops and running stop signs and they're not showing up.

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Speaker 10: You think the judge or the course. There's some kids

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Speaker 10: if they wouldn't care if it was Tom Brady or

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Speaker 10: Larry Burr. You get someone to go to court, you go.

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Speaker 10: I mean, I don't understand. I understand his mind, and

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Speaker 10: I'll tell you they won't put up with it much

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Speaker 10: more if he keeps that that that attitude.

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Speaker 2: Now you know that, you know the rub here Jim

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Speaker 2: is that this is a Jimmy Haslm decision. It's so

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Speaker 2: obvious that Kevin Stefanski, uh and and crew don't necessarily

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00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 2: look at this guy as a future franchise quarterback. I mean, hell,

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Speaker 2: they'd be better off with you Dona's Haslm on the team.

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Speaker 2: Are you got the last word?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm I'm sure they're looking that way. I'm sure

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00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 10: they're having to buy a remorse now. And what was

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Speaker 10: the last topic?

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Speaker 2: Oh, Stephen A stiff he's had, he's had a rough

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Speaker 2: sixty days.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, well, I mean I think that that candle was done,

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00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 10: burned out. He was good, and then I think his

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Speaker 10: persana overwhelmed him, and then he started dabbling in politics

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Speaker 10: and everything, and that will that will make everybody taste sour,

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Speaker 10: you know. So I really wasn't a big fan of him,

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Speaker 10: and him and bron a two piece from the same plot.

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Speaker 10: You know, it's all about them and forget everybody else,

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Speaker 10: you know.

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Speaker 2: So all right, Jim, appreciate you as always. Thank you,

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Speaker 2: emmittt and Olympia.

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Speaker 11: Bernie Freda, what's going on? How are you doing tonight?

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Speaker 2: Another big night, my man? What's up?

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Speaker 11: Yes, sir, I'll start with the Lakers, and I think

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Speaker 11: there's not going to be an im media impact in

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Speaker 11: terms of selling the team. Genie Buss is obviously still

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Speaker 11: going to have operations of the team, like you said,

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Speaker 11: in terms of winning a championship in the next three

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Speaker 11: to five years, I don't think it's.

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Speaker 7: Going to happen.

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Speaker 11: I think that the NBA in a hole, like, yes,

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Speaker 11: the ratings are down tremendously, but I think we're in

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Speaker 11: a position where we've seen the most talent in both

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Speaker 11: of the conferences that we've seen in a long time.

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Speaker 11: So I think it's going to be very hard for

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Speaker 11: the Lakers to get back there, especially with this Lebron stuff,

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Speaker 11: especially with not being able to really do that much

835
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Speaker 11: in terms of trading for a big man. I mean,

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Speaker 11: you have some options, but you don't have that capital

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Speaker 11: if having a lot of draft picks or even having

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Speaker 11: a lot of money. So it's going to be hard

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Speaker 11: for them to get these right additions that they need

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Speaker 11: if they want to win a championship on top of

841
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Speaker 11: a stacked Western conference. And I think with Shador this

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00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,720
Speaker 11: is a horrible look because this is a thing that Okay,

843
00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:59,919
Speaker 11: you were getting talked about as someone who didn't care,

844
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Speaker 11: as someone who is kind of egotistical, didn't really have

845
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 11: the best personality, The coaches didn't like your vibes. And

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Speaker 11: you're not in the NFL for two months, and you

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00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 11: come out here and you go one to one and

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Speaker 11: then get caught speeding, don't show.

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Speaker 12: Up to your court sec exactly second time.

850
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 11: In the month, Bernie. And the thing is is you're like, Okay,

851
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 11: a lot of players in the NFL, you know, they

852
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 11: not even in the NFL.

853
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 12: If you get money and you.

854
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 11: Get a fast car, you're gonna drive it fast. But

855
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 11: Shador Sanders is in a really bad spot because of

856
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 11: how everyone was revealing him. He slipped in the draft,

857
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 11: so they're not going to be more, oh, this is

858
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 11: our first round pick. It with some guy they drafted

859
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 11: in the fifth round.

860
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 12: You can take a loss on that.

861
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 11: So he really needs to figure out how to be

862
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 11: Like I think there's like some tendencies there in terms

863
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 11: of him being a leader, but he needs to figure

864
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 11: out his personal stuff because he's not in a situation

865
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 11: to take any more risks and get caught up in

866
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 11: any more bad situations. And Stephen A. Smith, this is

867
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 11: a tough one because I think the Lebron thing at first,

868
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 11: like what he said about Brownie wasn't too terrible in

869
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 11: my opinion, but the way he handled it, you as

870
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 11: a media member, you got to kind of look at

871
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 11: it differently and you got to be professional about it.

872
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 11: And then he was saying on the show first take

873
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 11: the next day is like, oh, I would have punched Lebron.

874
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 11: It's like, that's a bad look for the media. That's

875
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 11: a horrible look. And Jim and Massachusetts he brought it

876
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 11: up perfectly. I mean, this is just Lebron and stephen A,

877
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 11: two p's in a pod, and I think stephen A,

878
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 11: I'm not really as much of a hater on him

879
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 11: as other people are. When I see his tit takes

880
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,399
Speaker 11: on TV, I'm just thinking, Okay, I'll check it out

881
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,720
Speaker 11: because I like to hear everybody's points in the media,

882
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 11: and I listened to Fox Sports Radio, but I do

883
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 11: check out a lot of the other videos or a

884
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 11: lot of the people on TV, just to hear a

885
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,399
Speaker 11: different perspective. So of course I'm going to give him

886
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 11: a shot. And the solitaire thing, it's just so a

887
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 11: horrible look in my po when you.

888
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,879
Speaker 2: Start stacking these things up. I appreciate you. Good job.

889
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 2: He checked every box when you had the solitaire thing,

890
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 2: and it becomes defined and they've got metadata that shows

891
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 2: he was playing it while the game is going on. Now,

892
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:02,800
Speaker 2: this Haliburton gaff heavy as they had that where's the crown?

893
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 2: Christopher and Charlie, welcome into the Bernie frownishow.

894
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 6: How are you good?

895
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 8: Very good, Bernie, thank you for taking my call, sir.

896
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 8: Just start with the Lakers, Okay. Business buzz now has

897
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 8: a golden parachute. She kids to make the Lakers look

898
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 8: be prestigious, the most extensive franchise in the world.

899
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 7: As of today.

900
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 8: Somehow that'll change because they've already won their championships. They're

901
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,320
Speaker 8: stuck with Lebron. There's no way they're going to win anything.

902
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 8: And until they can get rid of him and move on,

903
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 8: there's no way they're going to do anything.

904
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 2: So what do we do.

905
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 8: We sell the franchise, make it look good. So she

906
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 8: is to have something that make her father's legacy be

907
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 8: something important. So we then move on to stephen A.

908
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 8: I remember when he mouthed off constantly on a three

909
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 8: letter I'm sorry the four letter network on the radio constantly,

910
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 8: I'll think off all the time his opinions. So now

911
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 8: he's got to get a chance to go on by television,

912
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 8: continue to do the same time after time, making himself

913
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 8: the most important.

914
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 9: What does he do?

915
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:09,760
Speaker 8: He slips up, not once twice, but three times. Gosh,

916
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,400
Speaker 8: if you were in a public job, or would you

917
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 8: be on the street unemployed? He has to realize he's

918
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,439
Speaker 8: made a mistake. Own up to it. Day, what you said,

919
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:21,839
Speaker 8: you're on a roll.

920
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 2: I don't mean to cut in, but he's been very recalculitrated.

921
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 13: To continue on Christopher, Well, my only point is that

922
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 13: from the standpoint of someone from the northeast, when I

923
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 13: watched him there, he had an attitude.

924
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 8: You can't do that when you get caught own up

925
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 8: to it. I screwed up. I'm sorry because people will

926
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 8: respect that. You can't keep thinking you're going to go

927
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 8: down the same path and have people respect what you say.

928
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 8: You don't do that. So let's take a look at

929
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 8: how we are dealing with a speeder repetitively who's now

930
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 8: decided to skip court and as a fits round draft pick.

931
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 8: Let's see, the Detroit Lions had a receipt. It was

932
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 8: still extremely popular, but got caught doing things, got suspended

933
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,360
Speaker 8: for it. Mister Williams owned up to it and moved on.

934
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 8: How in this case, the Keeveland Browns must say, this

935
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 8: is an idiot, we don't need him, we don't have

936
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 8: to keep them.

937
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 3: Move on.

938
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 8: You are now going to the XFL. Congratulations, because that's

939
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 8: what you deserve to be. If you're so mature based

940
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 8: on what your father did to teach you, you're not

941
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 8: showing it, you're not respecting it, and you should be

942
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:28,879
Speaker 8: wire in jail. That's all I have to say.

943
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 2: Anything cross standing, don't be a stranger, checking every box,

944
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:39,879
Speaker 2: Appreciate the candor. And again I think Shidor Sanders has

945
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,800
Speaker 2: the quote unquote Rabbi in the room in Jimmy Haslam.

946
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 2: I don't know how much he violated that trust, but

947
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 2: we'll find out. I guess Alan Saint louis always good

948
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 2: to hear from you. What's up tonight, man, Well, good morning, Barney.

949
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 2: How you doing good, sir.

950
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 14: In the top of those always the first and four

951
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 14: of the Lakers are concern I don't think there will

952
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 14: be much much difference right now, you know, the one

953
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 14: they want that owner, you know, with the with the Dodgers,

954
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 14: he's basically hands off, you know, he lets he let

955
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:13,359
Speaker 14: all the baseball people do all the all the things

956
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 14: that they just he just approves everything, and I think

957
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 14: he'll be the same with the Lakers. Like you said,

958
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,399
Speaker 14: the difference the Lakers is they have a hard salary cap,

959
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 14: so it's not much the owner can do as far

960
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 14: as his money is concerned.

961
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 2: No, you're not going to Japan to get the best

962
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 2: basketball player and then paying him a billion dollars into

963
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:32,879
Speaker 2: fernive for thirty years. They don't do that in the NBA.

964
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,800
Speaker 14: Continue, he may rent, he may make some improvements in

965
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 14: the center and make the officers better, hire better office

966
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 14: staff or scouts or whatever. But Wilson deal this, this

967
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 14: deal will won't be already shown with the next three

968
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 14: to five years. Now, as far as Shador's concerned, I'm

969
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 14: not going to go as far as call him an

970
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 14: idiot and everything, but I will say right now it's

971
00:50:55,640 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 14: irresponsible and one they want the NFL where you know,

972
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,840
Speaker 14: I'm seeing bigger stars get in trouble and the NFL

973
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,439
Speaker 14: will humble you after while. And like the previous caller said,

974
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 14: you're fifth round draft choice. So monetarily there is no

975
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 14: risk as far as he's concerned. So you know, if

976
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 14: he decides to keep getting in trouble, I mean, regardless

977
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 14: of what his last NAIM is and what he has

978
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 14: competing ahead of him, you know, you know, he may

979
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 14: learn this lesson the hard way, and that'll be all

980
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,240
Speaker 14: on him. And as far as Steven A. Swift has heard,

981
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 14: I think Stevin A's problem is when he was Stephen A. Swift,

982
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 14: the broadcaster, he was okay, he became Steven a swift

983
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 14: the brand, and I think I think that's a whole

984
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,879
Speaker 14: that's a whole different, whole, different thing. When he first

985
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 14: a little first take, everything was good. Now it's put

986
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 14: the camera on me. Make sure I'm on the camera.

987
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 14: You know, you could just tell, you know, he's a

988
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 14: come of a character, that he is a sportscaster. And

989
00:51:56,080 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 14: let's face it, there's no there's no secret that him

990
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 14: when Lebron James don't like each other every time, at

991
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 14: least at least don't we knew he didn't like Lebron.

992
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 14: You would just tell about the subject matter, you know,

993
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 14: when when Lebron names come up, he'll start of a

994
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 14: different toad dinner kind of tone it down when he

995
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 14: realized he may be getting too far off. So there's

996
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 14: you know, there's no secrets as far as the solitaire,

997
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 14: you know, as far as I'm the third that's on

998
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 14: the bottom of my list, as far as he's got

999
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,320
Speaker 14: four other people in there during the during the halftime

1000
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 14: show to cover his butt up if he missing something.

1001
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 14: Take care of Bernie, great show as.

1002
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 2: Always, Thank you all and always appreciate your thoughts, and

1003
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:41,319
Speaker 2: just to just to touch every so quickly on one

1004
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 2: aspect of your call, she Dura is a fifth round pick.

1005
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 2: H No one I knew in the NFL had it

1006
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 2: projected as a first round pick. It was all part

1007
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,799
Speaker 2: of the group. Think echo Chambion for your last name

1008
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 2: was Sanders, or you're part of the Sanders collective? All right? Uh,

1009
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,479
Speaker 2: it's just in his position in all sports, he didn't

1010
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 2: have that one super power to be a first round pick.

1011
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:04,360
Speaker 2: But I will say this kind of you know, touching

1012
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 2: on Allen's one of the points he made. You know,

1013
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 2: Jimmy Johnson would said, no, I don't treat all players

1014
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 2: the same. You can't. He goes. For instance, if the

1015
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 2: backup pooch punter falls asleep during film, he's cut. If

1016
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 2: if Troy Aikman falls asleep during film study, I'll say, Troy,

1017
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 2: can I get you a pillow? So the truth of

1018
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 2: the matter is Dion doesn't that you know, he hasn't

1019
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 2: earned any knockers yet. Steve in Los Angeles Joint, just

1020
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 2: welcome back in Steve.

1021
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 7: Hey, Bernie, thanks for taking my call. I was going

1022
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 7: to rest tonight, but when I heard the topic of

1023
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 7: Shador Sanders and Stephen A. Smith, I had to call in.

1024
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:45,320
Speaker 7: Let's start with Stephen A.

1025
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 3: Smith.

1026
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,319
Speaker 8: Talks like a jerk, acts.

1027
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 7: Like a jerk, looks like a jerk. Must be a jerk.

1028
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 7: That guy is the worst guy in media. I turned

1029
00:53:58,200 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 7: the channel as soon as possible.

1030
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 6: Bowl.

1031
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 7: He is the worst person. And this is I don't

1032
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 7: know if this is true, Bernie. When the Super Bowl

1033
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:11,400
Speaker 7: was in Vegas? Is it true the guy had nine bodyguards?

1034
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 7: That's how much people despise the man.

1035
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 2: I have no idea if that's true. I can only

1036
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 2: tell you in fairness and my encounters with Steve and Ay,

1037
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 2: including the dinner we have Rob Parker back in five

1038
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,320
Speaker 2: after Steam mar Ucci got cut fired after our postgame

1039
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 2: showed down at Fishbones in Detroit. He was gracious, and

1040
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:30,760
Speaker 2: I run into him three or four times. He's always

1041
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:32,879
Speaker 2: been very gracious. But listen, I don't want to steal

1042
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 2: your thunder you continue.

1043
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 7: On, Okay, Shador Sanders, I got Bernie. I come to

1044
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 7: you for a job and I act terrible on a

1045
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 7: job interview, and then I expect you to hire me,

1046
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 7: and then I'm a fifth round pick. And he thinks

1047
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 7: he's God's give to the world. Guys like that don't

1048
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 7: play Bernie. He's a jerk also, and he deserves to

1049
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 7: be a fifth round pick and he'll never play in

1050
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:02,280
Speaker 7: the league. As far as the third one, the Lakers,

1051
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 7: if they make a move or two, can win a

1052
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:09,359
Speaker 7: championship way before the Celtics. But Bernie, when you told

1053
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 7: me that Chador Sanders and stephen A. Smith were the topics, Bernie,

1054
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 7: stephen A. Smith is a jerk, Please, Bernie Shadoor Sanders

1055
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:26,719
Speaker 7: is a jerk. You come to a job interview, you're

1056
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 7: not that good of a player, and you blow off

1057
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 7: NFL executives. Bernie, I come to you wrong.

1058
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, you're not wrong, Steve, go ahead

1059
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:36,879
Speaker 2: and finish up. I'm sorry.

1060
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,959
Speaker 7: No, I'm just telling you today's athlete is bad.

1061
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 6: They think they.

1062
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 7: They're God's gifts. They have improvement and he said, and

1063
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 7: they've made money before they've even done anything. He's the

1064
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 7: poster child of what's everything that's wrong with college football?

1065
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 7: And Bernie, they had to desire, they had the nerve

1066
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:02,919
Speaker 7: to retire his jersey at college, right that fan done?

1067
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 7: Come on, Bernie, what are we talking about?

1068
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 2: Exactly? Well, thank you, Steve, appreciate you. Look, I always

1069
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 2: appreciate your calls. If we could just get you to

1070
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:15,399
Speaker 2: get over the shyness if you get my drip. Yeah,

1071
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 2: well if you're If his last name was shudor Slobotnik

1072
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 2: and the coach was you know, Royal Fuchs, he wouldn't

1073
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 2: have been. You wouldn't have been, you know, having his

1074
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 2: jersey retired. So look it's all lining up now. I's

1075
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:30,319
Speaker 2: got to get on the field and back it up.

1076
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 2: He likes to be legendary, but for not the same reason.

1077
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 2: Andre in Massachusetts, Andre, where you have been? Buddy? You

1078
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 2: took a hiatus.

1079
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 14: Bernie, how are you doing?

1080
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 15: Thanks for taking the call that hiatus will be concluding

1081
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 15: as we are moving into the summer months here on

1082
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:51,760
Speaker 15: the Cape, in a very productive school year has reached

1083
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 15: its conclusion, and so now the school is out for

1084
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 15: the summer, my attendance will be much improved. Okay, So

1085
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 15: in terms of the Lakers and this deal, that bus

1086
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 15: that has made, I got to tip my hat frankly

1087
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 15: to Genie who's been a mover and a shaker and

1088
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 15: has operated in some machiavellian ways when needed. But okay,

1089
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 15: we sell it ten billion dollars. We secure the money

1090
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 15: side of it. But what the Lakers are doing. What

1091
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 15: Genie Bus is doing. What's not taking place in Dallas

1092
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 15: in terms of the disaster that's gone on there is

1093
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 15: that Genie's going to remain in control in perpetuity to

1094
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 15: make the decisions that need to be made. It's just

1095
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 15: going to make the Lakers championship team tomorrow. No, okay,

1096
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 15: but we see when you just hand the keys over

1097
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 15: to the next billionaire to come and own an NBA

1098
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 15: team and just give let them do it all themselves,

1099
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:40,800
Speaker 15: you have the fiasco that took place in Dallas and

1100
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 15: continue to take place in Dallas, and it's just not good.

1101
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 8: So I'm a fan of it.

1102
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 15: To cure the money, Jeanie continue to run the franchise,

1103
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 15: and I have more much more faith in Genie Bus

1104
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 15: than whoever the heck the new billionaires are terms of

1105
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 15: shador Sanders for we want shame on you, Bernie for

1106
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 15: me twice, shame on me that this is the this

1107
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 15: is a pattern and it doesn't look good.

1108
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 3: Uh.

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00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:04,120
Speaker 15: And then you add on to this, never mind the

1110
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 15: pressure that he feels uh coming in as a fifth

1111
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 15: round pick and to prove himself in the NFL. But

1112
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 15: he's They've got some real things taking place in the

1113
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 15: Sanders family, you know, with with Dion kind of having

1114
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 15: an illness, nobody, you know, not specifics, but you know,

1115
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 15: you know, maybe forget about Colorado. You know, your your

1116
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,440
Speaker 15: data sick. You know, so so that is going to

1117
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 15: have a major impact on you. And so one one incident,

1118
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 15: the second incident, you know, I think it's time to

1119
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 15: maybe take a step back and from your door and

1120
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:37,120
Speaker 15: kind of get myself right. You can't nobody can do everything,

1121
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 15: all right, And he had enough on his plate to

1122
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 15: start with coming into the NFL, the drafting, you know,

1123
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 15: the catastrophe, but now that there's real stuff going on

1124
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 15: with his family, I think you should take a step back. Well,

1125
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 15: visa b Steven H.

1126
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 2: Smith.

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00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 15: The last point there, listen, in my mind is I

1128
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 15: can't I respect the hustle. First of all, you know,

1129
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 15: he does first take, he has his own podcast. Now

1130
00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 15: he's getting really into politics, you know, and that he's

1131
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 15: diving into that. He's on NBA finals, and you know,

1132
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:08,640
Speaker 15: so his whole brand of never taking a day off,

1133
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 15: you know, be a twenty million dollar man's fine. But

1134
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:15,520
Speaker 15: when you spread yourself, it's tough to know how you

1135
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 15: know which way I'm looking.

1136
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 1: At you right, the same party.

1137
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 3: I got it.

1138
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 2: I want to get to everybody, thanks so much, and

1139
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 2: I want to thank everybody for their patients, because coming

1140
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 2: up we're going to have Manuel and Guardina, Steven in

1141
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 2: Kansas City, Sean Moby All Alabama, Andrew and Bakersfield, Poppy,

1142
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:34,920
Speaker 2: San Diego, Bryston, Texas. We're getting all you. I appreciate

1143
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 2: your patience. I want to just set one thing on

1144
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 2: the record straight, Mark Walter when he took over the

1145
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 2: Dodgers and his partners took over the Dodgers in twenty twelve,

1146
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are basically being bought out a bankruptcy. They

1147
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 2: would have been financially ravaged by Frank and Jamie McCourt. Competitively,

1148
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 2: they weren't competitive on the field. They missed the playoffs

1149
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 2: three straight years, all of a sudden, eleven division titles,

1150
00:59:57,040 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 2: National League pennants, couple of World Series, major upgrades to

1151
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 2: die up your stadium. They lead the league in attendance

1152
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:07,400
Speaker 2: every freaking year. But the NBA is not Major League Baseball,

1153
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 2: and you don't have some of these same luxuries, and

1154
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 2: you're stuck, and I mean stuck with Lebron whose ring culture.

1155
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 2: If you heard my opening commentary. My teeth still it

1156
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 2: from what Lebron tried to mumble this past week. Coming up,

1157
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 2: we're gonna get to all you. You take the time

1158
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 2: to dial in, you're getting in. I'm Bernie Fratto. We're

1159
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 2: coming to your line from Las Vegas. Fox Sports Radio Studios.

1160
01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 2: Keep it locked. You're listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show

1161
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:36,400
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. All right, back in the Bernie

1162
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 2: Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio. The Man at Hour continues

1163
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 2: nine ninety six, six three six, nine eight seven, seven

1164
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 2: ninety nine on Fox, we go to the legend Manuel

1165
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 2: and Guardiana. Yes, the man has balls. I don't want

1166
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 2: to see him, but I know he's got him and

1167
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 2: you're about to be treated America. Manuel, take it away?

1168
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:59,480
Speaker 16: Oh oh, which mag know?

1169
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:04,200
Speaker 17: Chim in with Bernie Fred Oh.

1170
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:05,959
Speaker 7: How you doing?

1171
01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:06,480
Speaker 17: My man?

1172
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:07,080
Speaker 6: Hey?

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01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:10,480
Speaker 16: Real quick, I gotta say, what's up to one of

1174
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 16: my fans out there, Steve in La What up? But yeah,

1175
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:20,480
Speaker 16: he did have a great call tonight.

1176
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:23,480
Speaker 2: I think his favorite song is cool Jerk by the Capitals.

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01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:25,520
Speaker 2: That's a great song back in the day.

1178
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 16: Go ahead, it's all good man, nothing but love. So

1179
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 16: what I was gonna say, Bernie is he actually nailed

1180
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 16: it and show did the other guy on Shador Sanders.

1181
01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 16: You know, it's a shame.

1182
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 8: The kid had it all.

1183
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 16: He has it all in the palm of his hands,

1184
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 16: plus his dad. You know, like there's not a whole

1185
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 16: lot Patrick's shurteen juniors around, you know, like guys that

1186
01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 16: can take after legendary dad, especially in the league. You know,

1187
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 16: I can't recall very many father sons that both like excelled,

1188
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:08,400
Speaker 16: other than maybe the Slaters.

1189
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 2: You thought, you know, right, don't let me, don't let

1190
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 2: me go off the rails. We got too many calls

1191
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 2: continue on how does this change the way you look

1192
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 2: at your.

1193
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:17,120
Speaker 18: Door or or what?

1194
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:19,160
Speaker 6: Oh man?

1195
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:24,919
Speaker 16: Uh yeah, I mean it has to, because the lack

1196
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 16: of respect on his part is just it's just borderline stupidity.

1197
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 2: Know you know about the Lakers and uh and uh

1198
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:34,440
Speaker 2: Stephen a saga.

1199
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 6: With the Lakers.

1200
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 16: I'm excited because I've seen what a Mark uh Walter

1201
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 16: right ownership group can do with the Dodgers.

1202
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:46,480
Speaker 2: Uh.

1203
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:49,760
Speaker 16: They came in and infused the boatload of cash, got

1204
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:52,920
Speaker 16: all the free agents, and that's been the Laker way forever.

1205
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 16: So I mean, might as well play the hammer that

1206
01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 16: you're dealt with and that's what Lakers fans expect, nothing

1207
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 16: but championship. So he's gonna put down the money. I mean,

1208
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 16: he already put down the money right Well, you know,

1209
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:08,040
Speaker 16: my man, I.

1210
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 2: Mean, they're gonna pay Luca this summer and they're stuck

1211
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 2: with Lebron and that's saton. Apron is basically a hard

1212
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:16,160
Speaker 2: cap and you can't to first salary like you do

1213
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball, so it's not the same playing field.

1214
01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:22,439
Speaker 16: But you know what, these guys are also hard line

1215
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 16: on the other side, Bernie. So my thought is, yeah,

1216
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:30,440
Speaker 16: they're stuck with Lebron, but one more year, whatever his

1217
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 16: contract is, he's not gonna get re upped like they

1218
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 16: will put their foot down, I believe. So it'll allow

1219
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:40,920
Speaker 16: the Lakers to grow and eventually get out of that.

1220
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:44,840
Speaker 16: At what we what we know of the Albatros, Luca,

1221
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:46,000
Speaker 16: they're going to resign them.

1222
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 2: I mean, oh no, that's that's definite. I mean, but

1223
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 2: he's better be doing his Orange Theory fitness because I'm

1224
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 2: not sold in the least he's gonna change it here.

1225
01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 2: He was he's only twenty six. Well, he's been a

1226
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 2: professional basketball player for twelve years, including am b.

1227
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 16: That's a lot of wear and there too.

1228
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:07,600
Speaker 2: Well the habits are ingrained. Okay. The final thought on

1229
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 2: on on uh did we talked Stephen? Are you yeah?

1230
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 12: We talked?

1231
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:19,400
Speaker 16: So again one of your cars here, Man, he's becoming

1232
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:23,720
Speaker 16: character like when he nailed it, that that line that

1233
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:27,080
Speaker 16: he said about now that he became Stephen Avid Brown,

1234
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 16: because he's a lot more respectful as the journalist.

1235
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:30,360
Speaker 3: You know.

1236
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:34,440
Speaker 16: Now, you're right, I almost took her like w w

1237
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 16: F style, where they're back laughing it up, having drinks

1238
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 16: behind everybody's back and just saying, let's seed this thing

1239
01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 16: to keep us both relevant because they are slipping from

1240
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:51,720
Speaker 16: the grasp of the next generation. I could tell you

1241
01:04:51,920 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 16: that athletes and athletics in general, they better start really

1242
01:04:56,320 --> 01:04:59,840
Speaker 16: doing their homework or else they're gonna lose gen Z. Hey, Bernie,

1243
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:00,800
Speaker 16: I love you, my man.

1244
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 2: Back at you, man. Good to hear from you again.

1245
01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 2: I think Allen and Saint Louis gets the credit for

1246
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:07,880
Speaker 2: the brand, and that's why they piandom one hundred million dollars.

1247
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:10,600
Speaker 2: Steven in Kansas City can't wait to hear what You've

1248
01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 2: got to see. You don't pull punches.

1249
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 12: Hello, Bernie, the best words in Sports Game seven in

1250
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 12: Oklahoma City. You know, I think the Lakers have.

1251
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:22,800
Speaker 10: Got en uphill five.

1252
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:26,440
Speaker 12: They just don't have enough m or artillery for the

1253
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 12: burgeoning dynasty here in the heartland.

1254
01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 10: And with all the picks that.

1255
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:35,840
Speaker 12: Okase is going to have in the future. But but

1256
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:38,400
Speaker 12: good on Jeanie, she got her money. And then Jay

1257
01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:40,600
Speaker 12: Moore is the luckiest man on the planet.

1258
01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:42,000
Speaker 10: He's going to end up.

1259
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:45,920
Speaker 12: He's going to end up with five million dollars. H

1260
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:52,640
Speaker 12: a former the former comedian, things, you're ready.

1261
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 2: To head a lock of toys, are all right? I'll

1262
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:56,800
Speaker 2: sell you what? Give me what your thoughts? Aren't you do?

1263
01:05:56,880 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 2: He and Steven and you know the.

1264
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 12: Great thing about Shader is you're not looking at it.

1265
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,520
Speaker 12: We're not looking at the sunny sign up side here.

1266
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:09,440
Speaker 12: You know, he can always he can always get a

1267
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:15,120
Speaker 12: job at the Colorado coaching first Dad, you know, no situation,

1268
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:18,320
Speaker 12: you know the other other than all the money, he's

1269
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 12: the ten million dollars he lost on his contract for

1270
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:24,800
Speaker 12: messing up a job interview with the Giants when he

1271
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:27,640
Speaker 12: had his headphones on the whole time. So you know,

1272
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:31,480
Speaker 12: let's let's he's always going to have a job somewhere.

1273
01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 12: You know, the idiot, the idiot son is always going

1274
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 12: to be taken care of allegedly.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 12: The thing the thing about stephen A here, you know,

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Speaker 12: I I'm you know, I'm a natural contrarian, but I

1278
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 12: kind of love I kind of like stephen A. You know,

1279
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,880
Speaker 12: he got his bag, he got his hundred million. You know,

1280
01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:56,920
Speaker 12: like the Travis Kelsey podcast. You know, stephen A can

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01:06:57,040 --> 01:07:01,080
Speaker 12: say what his problem is is on that network, there

1282
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:04,960
Speaker 12: there's no one that is his equal, that can that

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01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:08,080
Speaker 12: can converse with him and argue with him. Most of them,

1284
01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:10,720
Speaker 12: most of it. You know, when he started that show,

1285
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:14,360
Speaker 12: most of those guys ended up on your fine network

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01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:18,480
Speaker 12: that is that is, in my opinion, superior. So stephen

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01:07:18,520 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 12: A is having to manufacture, you know, sort of crises.

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01:07:23,240 --> 01:07:26,040
Speaker 12: I mean, the only guy who's almost as equal as

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01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:29,400
Speaker 12: Mad Dog, and he's only on one one day, one

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01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:32,760
Speaker 12: day a week. So stephen A's problem is like the

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01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:37,280
Speaker 12: previous college that said he has to manufacture WWE type

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01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 12: controversies to justify his one hundred million dollars. So, I mean,

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Speaker 12: I like his politics. I like all the stuff that

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01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 12: he does. It's just that they need to get Mad

1295
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:49,960
Speaker 12: Dog on with him or someone to help him. You know,

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Speaker 12: it's a very interesting it's a very interesting thing that's

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01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:58,320
Speaker 12: happened with Stephen. But steven a but I still listen

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01:07:58,400 --> 01:07:58,680
Speaker 12: to him.

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Speaker 10: I feel like what he has to pay.

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01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:04,720
Speaker 2: Thanks, Steve appreciated Listen. He may be overexposed, but he's

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01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:08,400
Speaker 2: got a hundred million reasons to be happy. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to Sean in Mobile, Alabama. We lost, Sean. Okay, thanks Ian,

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01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:15,720
Speaker 2: Andrew and Bakersfield Joint. This welcome and Andrew.

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01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 19: What's up, Bernie?

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01:08:18,640 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 2: How are you?

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01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:24,880
Speaker 19: I'm all right? So I'm optimistic about the Lakers. And

1307
01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:28,679
Speaker 19: be honest, even you, probably one percent of your brain

1308
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:31,760
Speaker 19: said maybe they could win this year.

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01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm gonna be honest with you, Sean.

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01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:36,760
Speaker 2: Check that.

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Speaker 6: Andrew.

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01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:40,800
Speaker 2: I know I gave him a zero chance to win

1313
01:08:40,840 --> 01:08:41,160
Speaker 2: this year.

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01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 14: Zero.

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01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:44,559
Speaker 2: They are as a matter of fact, after not getting

1316
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:46,120
Speaker 2: knocked out in the first two round in the last

1317
01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 2: two years and like one and eight. I feel, honestly, Andrew,

1318
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:54,120
Speaker 2: they're further away now than they've been in many years.

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01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 2: They are further away.

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Speaker 19: Continuing well, I say they would win if they could

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01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:00,280
Speaker 19: play some deeper sense.

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01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:01,840
Speaker 7: I mean, they could have won Yeah.

1323
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:03,599
Speaker 2: But you know what if if your ant had ball,

1324
01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:05,800
Speaker 2: she'd be your uncle. You can't really do the ifs

1325
01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:07,640
Speaker 2: and butts. The candy and nuts would all have a

1326
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:09,519
Speaker 2: merry Christmas, all.

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Speaker 19: Right, shadoure, Yes, Okay. When I was growing up, I

1328
01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:15,720
Speaker 19: got a bunch of speeding tickets over and over and over.

1329
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:19,160
Speaker 19: I got caught in veal tin going one hundred.

1330
01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:24,040
Speaker 2: Did you have some beaup there? Yeah, go ahead, my friend.

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01:09:24,280 --> 01:09:28,960
Speaker 19: Going one hundred and twenty. And then basically I became religious,

1332
01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:31,240
Speaker 19: became a Christian, and then I got like no tickets

1333
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:35,479
Speaker 19: after that. But he needs, well, he needs to make

1334
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:37,880
Speaker 19: a decision that he can't do things like that.

1335
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:41,080
Speaker 2: He's got a chance to know it before go ahead.

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01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:42,200
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's got a.

1337
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:48,720
Speaker 19: Chance to still turn it around. But anyways, real quickly, Yeah,

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01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:51,559
Speaker 19: stephen A. I remember he was the only one when

1339
01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:55,640
Speaker 19: Kevin Durant got traded to Golden State that brought it

1340
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:58,519
Speaker 19: up that he thought it was ridiculous that Kevin Durant

1341
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:02,320
Speaker 19: would make that trade after losing to them. So I

1342
01:10:02,479 --> 01:10:05,200
Speaker 19: respect his opinion and I listen to him. Sure, and

1343
01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:11,240
Speaker 19: playing Falter Charles Berkley is sleeping during the games, So

1344
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:12,599
Speaker 19: which one's better.

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01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:16,160
Speaker 2: Hey, good call. Goods good calling. You appreciate you, man,

1346
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:21,080
Speaker 2: You've been You've called a lot. The most boring conversations

1347
01:10:21,080 --> 01:10:23,920
Speaker 2: are when people agree. So you're optimistic on the Lakers, okay,

1348
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:26,400
Speaker 2: and you're not wrong about your door. But let's go

1349
01:10:26,479 --> 01:10:28,200
Speaker 2: back to leadership. You know, I used to have many

1350
01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:31,720
Speaker 2: talks with Jim Fossil. We talked about Colin Kaepernick quarterbacks.

1351
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:35,240
Speaker 2: Different man. You you really have to be buttoned up

1352
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:38,519
Speaker 2: to be a quarterback in the National Football League because

1353
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:40,879
Speaker 2: you are seen as a leader. And I define leadership

1354
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:43,479
Speaker 2: as influence based on trust you've earned. How do you

1355
01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 2: trust a guy doing this? Most of us have got

1356
01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:48,160
Speaker 2: caught speeding. I've never been driven over one hundred and

1357
01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:52,920
Speaker 2: one though, and this isn't good. Poppy in San Diego.

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01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:53,599
Speaker 2: What's up, buddy?

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01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:59,840
Speaker 12: Everybody right here and joined the Great Show tonight midnight hour.

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01:11:00,439 --> 01:11:02,559
Speaker 12: I want to talk about Genie budd like. I don't

1361
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:05,559
Speaker 12: know she's like. I don't like her as an owner.

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01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:09,439
Speaker 12: She got the Lakers because Daddy, you know, yeah, you

1363
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 12: inherit as a team. Horrible moves in my opinion, with

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01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:15,360
Speaker 12: Lebron James giving them all the money when she could

1365
01:11:15,360 --> 01:11:17,680
Speaker 12: have done something now is like she should have just

1366
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:20,320
Speaker 12: kicked them out of there. And I'm glad she sold

1367
01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:24,400
Speaker 12: that team so that billions own billions and billions of

1368
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:27,559
Speaker 12: dollars that he owns from the Dodgers owner. So I'm

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01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:28,120
Speaker 12: glad about that.

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01:11:28,439 --> 01:11:29,400
Speaker 4: And uh, you know.

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01:11:29,439 --> 01:11:33,519
Speaker 12: About Shador Sanders. Look, I know a lot of people

1372
01:11:33,600 --> 01:11:37,160
Speaker 12: are bashing them because he did speed and like he's young,

1373
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:40,040
Speaker 12: there's no generation. Just got to think the psychology and

1374
01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:43,679
Speaker 12: my mentality with his youngsters. They think they know it all, Bernie.

1375
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 12: They think they know more than you and you're an

1376
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:49,320
Speaker 12: expert of what you're doing your craft. They think they're

1377
01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:52,080
Speaker 12: they're better than you. They think they're better than me,

1378
01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 12: they think they're better than everyone. Why because it's that

1379
01:11:55,400 --> 01:12:00,280
Speaker 12: is Dion Sanders time time, prime time. But look sharing

1380
01:12:00,400 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 12: for him. Yes, I'm gonna cheer for him because everyone

1381
01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:07,519
Speaker 12: deserves a second chance. Like I love what Sir George

1382
01:12:07,560 --> 01:12:10,519
Speaker 12: Sanders did. If you saw him, he went to mini

1383
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 12: camps with these young kids. These young kids went up

1384
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 12: to him, they hugged him, he was dancing with him.

1385
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:19,200
Speaker 12: It shows that he's a great human being and he

1386
01:12:19,280 --> 01:12:21,680
Speaker 12: has a heart connecting with these kids, these kids are

1387
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 12: looking up to him. Yeah, he's a fifth bounder.

1388
01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, fair enough, you're being fair enough. People

1389
01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:31,720
Speaker 2: are complex. Uh, you know, one one bad days is

1390
01:12:31,800 --> 01:12:33,599
Speaker 2: not a season make. But he's got to dig himself

1391
01:12:33,640 --> 01:12:35,519
Speaker 2: out a bit. Steven a fire and fought on that.

1392
01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:37,040
Speaker 10: Yeah.

1393
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 12: Look, stephen A, look, a lot of people like him,

1394
01:12:40,479 --> 01:12:42,080
Speaker 12: a lot of people don't like him, like a lot

1395
01:12:42,120 --> 01:12:44,599
Speaker 12: of people don't like me, and a lot of people

1396
01:12:44,640 --> 01:12:47,679
Speaker 12: don't like me for my comments. But stephen A, obviously

1397
01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 12: he worked the way down from the bottom. He worked

1398
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:50,720
Speaker 12: his way up.

1399
01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:52,439
Speaker 8: Do I agree him playing so.

1400
01:12:52,560 --> 01:12:55,759
Speaker 12: Much around here? No, but he's getting paid. The Netfort

1401
01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:58,840
Speaker 12: wants to pay him for there, then keep him under right, Like,

1402
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 12: I wonder what he's gonna be doing in Oklahoma Thunder

1403
01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:04,760
Speaker 12: in game seven because the Indiana Pacers. Right, But I

1404
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:08,479
Speaker 12: can tell you this. I can tell you guys this.

1405
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:11,280
Speaker 12: That game's gonna be very intense. I got a free

1406
01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 12: pick for you guys, and she is gonna bounce back

1407
01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:16,800
Speaker 12: chet home grim and I believe that Thunder are gonna

1408
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:20,040
Speaker 12: win by minus seven and a half. And just remember this, Bernie,

1409
01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 12: you heard it here first. Scott Fosser is going to

1410
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:23,080
Speaker 12: be in game seven.

1411
01:13:23,120 --> 01:13:24,479
Speaker 2: No, No, I'm going to talk about that later in

1412
01:13:24,520 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 2: the show. Yep, Poppy, appreciate you man, thank you and

1413
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:31,439
Speaker 2: uh thoughtful call. And you know you're you're trying to

1414
01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:34,960
Speaker 2: maintain there's a lot of subjectivity. I think you're trying

1415
01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:39,000
Speaker 2: to maintain some objectivity coming up. Bryce in Texas, Mike

1416
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:41,719
Speaker 2: the Leprechaun, Nick in Montana, don't go wage just please

1417
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 2: please be patient. We're gonna get to all of you.

1418
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:46,920
Speaker 2: If you dial in anytime before one am Pacific time.

1419
01:13:47,240 --> 01:13:48,760
Speaker 2: I'm getting you in as long as you as long

1420
01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:51,400
Speaker 2: as you're patient, you can wait through. I'm Bernie fradder Wor.

1421
01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:53,000
Speaker 2: Come to your line for the Las Vegas Fox Sports

1422
01:13:53,080 --> 01:13:55,840
Speaker 2: Radio Studios. Keep it locked. It's the midnight hour. You're

1423
01:13:55,840 --> 01:14:01,800
Speaker 2: listening to Bernie Fratter Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right,

1424
01:14:01,880 --> 01:14:04,760
Speaker 2: back on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio. Come

1425
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:07,840
Speaker 2: to you line from Las Vegas Studios. The minute. Our continues.

1426
01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:10,880
Speaker 2: Back out to the phones. Bryce in Texas Joints. Just

1427
01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:11,960
Speaker 2: welcome in, Bryce.

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01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:17,360
Speaker 18: Talking about the doors Fangers, the resident Browns fan has

1429
01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:19,720
Speaker 18: to jump in just for a minute, okay.

1430
01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:20,400
Speaker 12: And I agree with you.

1431
01:14:20,520 --> 01:14:24,639
Speaker 18: I don't understand why they are not pushing Dylan Gabriel

1432
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:26,960
Speaker 18: more than what they should be.

1433
01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:30,840
Speaker 2: Well, he's getting reps against the first team I need

1434
01:14:30,880 --> 01:14:33,799
Speaker 2: to the coaches have clearly seen he's far more polished,

1435
01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:34,920
Speaker 2: far more go ahead.

1436
01:14:36,400 --> 01:14:37,600
Speaker 8: I'm happy to hear that.

1437
01:14:38,240 --> 01:14:40,360
Speaker 18: I just feel like I said this before to you,

1438
01:14:40,479 --> 01:14:42,519
Speaker 18: the Browns is just that girl that keeps going back

1439
01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:45,559
Speaker 18: to the abusive X. We've done it with like Johnny Nanzel,

1440
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:46,879
Speaker 18: we did it with Staper Mayfield.

1441
01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:49,080
Speaker 2: Now we're gonna do it with like sor Sean Watson.

1442
01:14:50,040 --> 01:14:53,240
Speaker 18: Yeah, we just keep going back to these abusive players

1443
01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:55,559
Speaker 18: that that's feeling in that keeps us relevant. I would

1444
01:14:55,720 --> 01:14:58,599
Speaker 18: like to see either Tenny Ticket or Dylan Gabriel start

1445
01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:02,840
Speaker 18: to grow under Placo and start building a legit team.

1446
01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:10,599
Speaker 2: It's Jimmy HANSLM. Dude, you sound very knowledgeable, but look,

1447
01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:13,000
Speaker 2: what are you going to do? It's good to be

1448
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:15,000
Speaker 2: the king. As mel Brooks once said, what are your

1449
01:15:15,040 --> 01:15:18,800
Speaker 2: thoughts on Shoe Door or the Lakers check out? I

1450
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:21,280
Speaker 2: already did she Door, I apologize Lakers or Stephen A.

1451
01:15:22,439 --> 01:15:23,120
Speaker 10: For the Lakers.

1452
01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:25,760
Speaker 8: I think this is to be determined.

1453
01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:29,800
Speaker 18: The guy who bought it the Lakers, Yes, he owns

1454
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 18: part of the Dodgers, that he also owns other sports

1455
01:15:32,479 --> 01:15:35,920
Speaker 18: franchises that had success as well. So yeah, you can't

1456
01:15:35,960 --> 01:15:38,200
Speaker 18: defer contracts, but I think he's used to this already,

1457
01:15:38,400 --> 01:15:40,720
Speaker 18: and once you get rid of the feedback contracts in LA,

1458
01:15:40,800 --> 01:15:43,920
Speaker 18: I think you can start seeing him build a system

1459
01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:47,200
Speaker 18: that's actually winning culture. So in the next two years,

1460
01:15:47,560 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 18: maybe not in the next five, I think so.

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01:15:50,439 --> 01:15:51,240
Speaker 10: And then the last one.

1462
01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:54,880
Speaker 12: For the last one for steven A, I think that

1463
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:56,920
Speaker 12: we are addicted to.

1464
01:15:58,439 --> 01:16:01,920
Speaker 18: Entertainment in America and so anything that that comes down

1465
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:02,799
Speaker 18: to that Dud's South.

1466
01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:04,479
Speaker 10: Is for shock and all.

1467
01:16:05,479 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 18: Yeah, he might have minced his words a little bit

1468
01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:09,120
Speaker 18: by k and oh, I'm glad the howl of it

1469
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:13,920
Speaker 18: Halliburton's hurt, But I mean it's got usqualking, and that's

1470
01:16:13,960 --> 01:16:16,679
Speaker 18: exactly what ESPN wants. That's exactly what stephen A wants

1471
01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:19,760
Speaker 18: is to have us punking over and over again. By

1472
01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:21,800
Speaker 18: the way, real fast, I didn't it's pluck you last week.

1473
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:24,639
Speaker 18: Congratulations to Alfris for the French Children.

1474
01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:28,439
Speaker 2: All right, very good, thanks, Thanks Bryce. I appreciate your

1475
01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 2: calls as always. Right, I'm gonna I'm gonna call an

1476
01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:35,000
Speaker 2: audible here because we've still got Mike the Leprechaun. We've

1477
01:16:35,040 --> 01:16:38,320
Speaker 2: got Nick and Montana, Rick and Louisiana, Beast of the

1478
01:16:38,479 --> 01:16:40,479
Speaker 2: East in New York. Looking forward to hearing from all

1479
01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:43,400
Speaker 2: of you. So what I'm gonna respectfully ask you to

1480
01:16:43,479 --> 01:16:46,680
Speaker 2: do is if you can hang on, Uh, you've got

1481
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:48,519
Speaker 2: my word. I mean, if you're dialing before one am

1482
01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:51,400
Speaker 2: Eastern check that one am Pacific, which you all did

1483
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:53,600
Speaker 2: during the midnight hour. I want you to get your

1484
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:57,479
Speaker 2: chance on the air. So just hang on for a

1485
01:16:57,560 --> 01:17:00,320
Speaker 2: few minutes, if you would please, because I want to

1486
01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:02,080
Speaker 2: be in the middle of the call and have to

1487
01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:05,439
Speaker 2: cutch it short. And you know, I got to tell

1488
01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 2: you that the Shador Sanders comments tonight have been fairly

1489
01:17:09,479 --> 01:17:13,839
Speaker 2: well consistent. The steven A comments have been fairly well consistent.

1490
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:18,519
Speaker 2: I'm interested to hear that a lot. There are folks

1491
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:23,639
Speaker 2: that believe, you know that this new owner of the Lakers.

1492
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:25,559
Speaker 2: And by the way, I want to give Mark Walter props.

1493
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:28,680
Speaker 2: As I said earlier, he basically bought the Dodgers out

1494
01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:31,240
Speaker 2: of bankruptcy. Well it's his Gougen Hunt and baseball management.

1495
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 2: Frank and Jamie McCourt, the former owners, they'd run it

1496
01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 2: into the ground. They'd financially ravaged it since then, and

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01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 2: the Dodgers had, you know, three years in a row,

1498
01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:43,120
Speaker 2: hadn't been to the playoffs. Eleven Division titles, four National

1499
01:17:43,200 --> 01:17:47,120
Speaker 2: League pennants, two World Series titles, many large scale upgrades

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01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:49,880
Speaker 2: to Dodger Stadium that costs about one hundred million dollars.

1501
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:51,840
Speaker 2: That was just a Dodger Stadium about a month ago

1502
01:17:51,880 --> 01:17:54,280
Speaker 2: with my wife sixty three years old. And it still

1503
01:17:54,320 --> 01:17:57,960
Speaker 2: looks terrific. It really does. And I've been going there

1504
01:17:58,040 --> 01:18:03,280
Speaker 2: since before. The dh Okay Major League tenants totals every

1505
01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:06,639
Speaker 2: year are incredible. They spend money on players because they're

1506
01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:08,719
Speaker 2: able to. They become the envy of many other franchises

1507
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:10,960
Speaker 2: because people want to go there. And Bryce brought up

1508
01:18:10,960 --> 01:18:15,040
Speaker 2: a good point. Mark Walter. You may not instantly recognize

1509
01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:19,000
Speaker 2: him like you would a Jerry Jones or a Bob

1510
01:18:19,120 --> 01:18:23,560
Speaker 2: Craft or a saying Mark Cuban, but this dude is

1511
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:28,400
Speaker 2: the CEO of Guggenheim. And again they're a min in

1512
01:18:28,479 --> 01:18:31,080
Speaker 2: addition to the primary owner of the Dodgers and a

1513
01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:34,799
Speaker 2: minority owner of the Lakers. Now he's got ownership stakes

1514
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:38,360
Speaker 2: in the La Sparks, Chelsea FC, in the Premier League

1515
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:42,559
Speaker 2: are c Strasburg and League One Cadillacs F one team.

1516
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:46,680
Speaker 2: He personally financed the launch of the PWHL and he

1517
01:18:46,800 --> 01:18:51,120
Speaker 2: owns the parent company of Gamebridge. That's the annuities company

1518
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:54,880
Speaker 2: whose name dorns the arena that's home to Caitlin Clark

1519
01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:58,479
Speaker 2: and the Fever and Tyrese Halibert and the Pacers. So

1520
01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:03,400
Speaker 2: these people are serious people, all right. But the NBA

1521
01:19:03,680 --> 01:19:07,600
Speaker 2: is a different animal in terms of buying players. The

1522
01:19:07,760 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 2: Dodgers already of you know, with their vanity buys. Lakers

1523
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:14,840
Speaker 2: do the same thing. You can't go to Japan and

1524
01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:17,840
Speaker 2: get the best basketball player in Japan and pay them's,

1525
01:19:17,920 --> 01:19:20,040
Speaker 2: you know, eight hundred million dollars and defer it for

1526
01:19:20,160 --> 01:19:23,040
Speaker 2: thirty years. You've got a thing called the second Apron,

1527
01:19:23,080 --> 01:19:27,200
Speaker 2: which is basically the salary cap, the hard salary cap.

1528
01:19:27,320 --> 01:19:29,840
Speaker 2: So look, callers have been fantastic. We're gonna get to you.

1529
01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:35,160
Speaker 2: Find you remaining for fine people. Mike the Leprechaun, nickd Montana,

1530
01:19:35,240 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 2: Rick and Louisiana Beast of the East of New York.

1531
01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:40,599
Speaker 2: I appreciate your patience because coming up at the top

1532
01:19:40,640 --> 01:19:43,880
Speaker 2: of the hour, we will continue on with the Midnight hour.

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01:19:44,439 --> 01:19:48,439
Speaker 2: You are listening to the Bernie Fratto Show on Fox

1534
01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:49,679
Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

1535
01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:53,679
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

1536
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:56,400
Speaker 2: Yep, you heard the band. Bernie Fraddle show keeps rolling

1537
01:19:56,479 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 2: right along. My name is Bernie Frattle. We're coming to

1538
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:02,560
Speaker 2: your line from the Fox Sports Radio studios here in

1539
01:20:02,680 --> 01:20:05,880
Speaker 2: Las Vegas to a camp to three am Pacific, six

1540
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:09,880
Speaker 2: am Eastern, and we're going to continue on the midnight hour.

1541
01:20:09,920 --> 01:20:11,720
Speaker 2: We got a little overtime. This happens now and then

1542
01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:13,800
Speaker 2: if you're downing before one, you are getting in. So

1543
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:17,960
Speaker 2: let's go to Mike the Leprechaun. Mike, you've got three topics,

1544
01:20:18,120 --> 01:20:19,040
Speaker 2: tackle aimnee or you.

1545
01:20:19,080 --> 01:20:21,680
Speaker 6: Want I know all of them.

1546
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:23,040
Speaker 18: Patience is a virtue.

1547
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:24,599
Speaker 7: I have the patience of job.

1548
01:20:25,760 --> 01:20:27,040
Speaker 2: All right, you're from you.

1549
01:20:28,880 --> 01:20:30,439
Speaker 16: I retired on Friday, by the way.

1550
01:20:30,360 --> 01:20:32,439
Speaker 12: And I'm going to La to be on the Benvalor Show.

1551
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:33,920
Speaker 15: I digress anyway.

1552
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:37,200
Speaker 16: One word for the three topics, it's a sharp word.

1553
01:20:37,320 --> 01:20:37,639
Speaker 8: Ego.

1554
01:20:37,880 --> 01:20:38,519
Speaker 17: Eg o.

1555
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:43,559
Speaker 2: You will actually there's there's a similarity in all three. Yeah,

1556
01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:46,640
Speaker 2: the Lakers are a glamour franchise. This is probably a

1557
01:20:46,760 --> 01:20:49,479
Speaker 2: Vandybay s Door's got a big ego, and so to.

1558
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:52,640
Speaker 12: Stephen A yes, so I summarize the field right now.

1559
01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:56,200
Speaker 8: It's so for for uh Shadar.

1560
01:20:57,160 --> 01:20:59,400
Speaker 19: Obviously he has a silver spoon and so.

1561
01:20:59,439 --> 01:21:05,160
Speaker 12: It Bronny and I'm not sure about Stephen Ahole but sorry.

1562
01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:07,200
Speaker 8: All right, oh my god.

1563
01:21:07,360 --> 01:21:09,599
Speaker 7: Anyway, so he's a sport Brad Sanders.

1564
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:13,680
Speaker 16: He got two tickets for three weeks. You should put

1565
01:21:13,760 --> 01:21:14,320
Speaker 16: him on the show.

1566
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:15,559
Speaker 12: On your basins?

1567
01:21:15,600 --> 01:21:16,519
Speaker 8: What kind of fool are you?

1568
01:21:18,840 --> 01:21:19,080
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1569
01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:22,479
Speaker 2: I try to keep public. Yes, all right, anything else, Mike,

1570
01:21:22,640 --> 01:21:23,519
Speaker 2: I appreciate you man.

1571
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:26,320
Speaker 7: He should have a career in that car.

1572
01:21:26,680 --> 01:21:30,880
Speaker 16: Yes, Los Angeles is burning the eyes is at the

1573
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:35,040
Speaker 16: Dodgers ten billion from a ten million purchasing then seventies.

1574
01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:38,120
Speaker 16: That's pretty good. I would say, take Luca.

1575
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 7: To the fat farm this summer and I'll be in LA.

1576
01:21:41,320 --> 01:21:42,160
Speaker 8: Like I said, next week.

1577
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:44,640
Speaker 16: I'm going to La next week to be on the

1578
01:21:44,680 --> 01:21:45,360
Speaker 16: Ben Malor Show.

1579
01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:48,880
Speaker 2: All right, Mike going to Thanks Mike. I appreciate you man.

1580
01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:51,800
Speaker 2: You know I love you. Is Mike going to the

1581
01:21:52,200 --> 01:21:53,160
Speaker 2: Ben Maller show next week?

1582
01:21:53,200 --> 01:21:53,320
Speaker 10: Oka?

1583
01:21:53,360 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure for it. Appreciate you, Mike, uh Nick

1584
01:21:56,479 --> 01:21:58,320
Speaker 2: and Montana, welcome into the Bernie Frottle Show.

1585
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:01,600
Speaker 9: How are you hey, Bernie Frado, Is it you?

1586
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:03,040
Speaker 1: It is me?

1587
01:22:03,920 --> 01:22:07,840
Speaker 9: Hey, okay, so I had well, I'm gonna hay al three.

1588
01:22:09,400 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 3: I think that.

1589
01:22:11,560 --> 01:22:13,519
Speaker 9: Shoulder getting pulled over going one on one in a

1590
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:17,240
Speaker 9: sixty is bad, but I think it's worse that he

1591
01:22:17,320 --> 01:22:20,120
Speaker 9: went one forty four in a twenty when he's supposed

1592
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:20,840
Speaker 9: to go twenty five.

1593
01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:27,400
Speaker 2: What that's a good play on words. Might be a

1594
01:22:27,400 --> 01:22:30,320
Speaker 2: little slow on the uptake, what would for me?

1595
01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:34,120
Speaker 9: So he went one on one in a sixty, that's

1596
01:22:34,160 --> 01:22:36,760
Speaker 9: what he got pulled over for the second time. But

1597
01:22:36,880 --> 01:22:38,840
Speaker 9: he went one forty four when he was supposed to

1598
01:22:38,840 --> 01:22:39,599
Speaker 9: go twenty five?

1599
01:22:40,160 --> 01:22:44,800
Speaker 2: Is oh nicely and thanks? He it nicely done. That's

1600
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:47,160
Speaker 2: a good play. Nobody said he was supposed to go

1601
01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:50,240
Speaker 2: twenty five in the NFL. I'll go to my grave

1602
01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:53,320
Speaker 2: on that. That was all a manufacturer group think echo chamber.

1603
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:57,519
Speaker 2: Uh situation. Uh anyway, that's clever though, I'll give you that.

1604
01:22:58,200 --> 01:23:00,880
Speaker 2: By the way, he went ninety one. Yeah, he went

1605
01:23:00,960 --> 01:23:03,720
Speaker 2: one to one a sixty ninety one. And you know,

1606
01:23:04,439 --> 01:23:06,000
Speaker 2: you just tell me, do you look at him different?

1607
01:23:07,520 --> 01:23:11,400
Speaker 9: I mean at that at that age, like it's it's

1608
01:23:11,400 --> 01:23:11,840
Speaker 9: hard to stay.

1609
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:14,559
Speaker 2: He's trying to be starting quarterback in the Browns, which

1610
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:16,479
Speaker 2: taking a half. I'm just saying it.

1611
01:23:17,520 --> 01:23:18,160
Speaker 8: His dad's sick.

1612
01:23:18,479 --> 01:23:19,519
Speaker 2: Well, who knows, you know.

1613
01:23:19,640 --> 01:23:21,559
Speaker 9: I mean I can't I can't relate to what he's

1614
01:23:21,600 --> 01:23:25,439
Speaker 9: going through to switch, is right? Stephen Stephen A. Smith

1615
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:28,519
Speaker 9: is just clickbait, like he's good for a hot take,

1616
01:23:28,720 --> 01:23:31,679
Speaker 9: but he can't really take his word for it. He's funny,

1617
01:23:32,479 --> 01:23:35,120
Speaker 9: kind of annoying, kind of reminds me of like Chris

1618
01:23:35,200 --> 01:23:36,639
Speaker 9: Farley or Jim Carrey.

1619
01:23:38,840 --> 01:23:40,760
Speaker 2: Well, he's sure as how they lived in van down

1620
01:23:40,800 --> 01:23:41,840
Speaker 2: by the river. I'll say that.

1621
01:23:43,560 --> 01:23:43,600
Speaker 12: That.

1622
01:23:44,160 --> 01:23:44,360
Speaker 14: Yeah.

1623
01:23:45,640 --> 01:23:48,680
Speaker 9: And then the Lakers sale, I think, honestly, like, I

1624
01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 9: think it's a good move by the bus family. I

1625
01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:55,439
Speaker 9: can't remember the guy's name that owns the Dodgers, but

1626
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:58,679
Speaker 9: they just won a championship, and so if you're gonna

1627
01:23:58,720 --> 01:24:02,519
Speaker 9: hand the reins over to somebody who is winning, I

1628
01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:05,320
Speaker 9: don't think it's a bad move, you know. And they

1629
01:24:05,439 --> 01:24:07,760
Speaker 9: got a what ten billion or something like?

1630
01:24:07,920 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 2: Crannrel exceeded the Celtics sale by four billion dollars. Unreal.

1631
01:24:15,240 --> 01:24:17,320
Speaker 2: All right, I'll tell you what, Nick, I appreciate your call.

1632
01:24:17,479 --> 01:24:19,960
Speaker 2: Very clever. I think it's your first time. Don't be

1633
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:24,040
Speaker 2: a stranger. Happy to hear from you. Rick and Louisiana's beneficure.

1634
01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 2: Welcome back in Rick.

1635
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:27,719
Speaker 3: How are you yeah, I'm all right. How are you burning?

1636
01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:28,080
Speaker 8: Thank you?

1637
01:24:28,280 --> 01:24:29,120
Speaker 3: We're taking my call?

1638
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:31,840
Speaker 2: Sure, how are you well? Thank you?

1639
01:24:32,920 --> 01:24:36,160
Speaker 3: All right. As far as the Lakers, I'm gonna go

1640
01:24:36,360 --> 01:24:39,240
Speaker 3: on record that the Lakers are gonna go to the

1641
01:24:39,320 --> 01:24:45,720
Speaker 3: finals in twenty twenty six. Okay, yeah, do you know

1642
01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:48,759
Speaker 3: when the tickets will go on sale for the finals,

1643
01:24:50,360 --> 01:24:53,040
Speaker 3: because they're gonna have to combat some tickets because of

1644
01:24:53,120 --> 01:24:54,479
Speaker 3: the list they get them.

1645
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:55,160
Speaker 14: Oh, I hear you.

1646
01:24:55,400 --> 01:24:57,240
Speaker 2: They're gonna go, but they're not gonna be a playing

1647
01:24:57,560 --> 01:24:59,599
Speaker 2: We got to what comedy from people? Tonay, go ahead?

1648
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:04,120
Speaker 3: And another thing too, if they you know, one of

1649
01:25:04,160 --> 01:25:06,280
Speaker 3: the things they might want to start with is with

1650
01:25:06,439 --> 01:25:10,760
Speaker 3: an apology for Caruso and a check because he was

1651
01:25:10,880 --> 01:25:13,439
Speaker 3: with him and they should have kept him. He's playing

1652
01:25:13,560 --> 01:25:17,599
Speaker 3: well in these finals. So unless they get a bench

1653
01:25:17,760 --> 01:25:22,200
Speaker 3: another score, uh, they're not going to be there on

1654
01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:24,840
Speaker 3: the court. They may be on the sideline, but not

1655
01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:25,519
Speaker 3: on the court.

1656
01:25:26,080 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 6: All right.

1657
01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:29,000
Speaker 3: Secondly, as far as she do it's concerned, I think

1658
01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:36,120
Speaker 3: he suffers from cls LCS. I'm sorry, lack of common sense.

1659
01:25:37,040 --> 01:25:40,639
Speaker 3: Just because the car will go one hundred miles an hour,

1660
01:25:41,320 --> 01:25:43,639
Speaker 3: or if it had goes up to maybe one fifty

1661
01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:45,960
Speaker 3: or two hundred, don't mean you have to try it.

1662
01:25:46,439 --> 01:25:49,280
Speaker 3: You have to just trust that that it will get there.

1663
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:52,800
Speaker 3: And that's dangerous. You know what I'm saying that that

1664
01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:57,320
Speaker 3: is dangerous. You're not just putting yourself. No, you know

1665
01:25:57,360 --> 01:25:57,800
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.

1666
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:01,240
Speaker 2: Not just you had a ones again, that's just simple

1667
01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:01,479
Speaker 2: as that.

1668
01:26:02,560 --> 01:26:07,920
Speaker 3: Yeah. And as far as stephen A, I think he

1669
01:26:08,040 --> 01:26:13,840
Speaker 3: suffers from TMS too much Solitaire. That's it.

1670
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:18,400
Speaker 2: Rick nicely done that. Rick follows Nick and you got

1671
01:26:18,439 --> 01:26:20,360
Speaker 2: the Nick and Rick comedy team. And I say that

1672
01:26:20,479 --> 01:26:23,760
Speaker 2: in the most complimentary way. That's clever. That was clever

1673
01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:26,200
Speaker 2: Nick one four and twenty five. I can't steal that.

1674
01:26:26,320 --> 01:26:29,160
Speaker 2: That was that's too good. And I just I know

1675
01:26:29,240 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 2: I got a little vehemen. It's just that this group

1676
01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:37,080
Speaker 2: think Echo Chamber, had people believing that Shudor was a

1677
01:26:37,120 --> 01:26:40,600
Speaker 2: first round draft pick. But I have got plenty of

1678
01:26:40,760 --> 01:26:43,680
Speaker 2: NFL times and nobody I know had him projected in

1679
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:47,439
Speaker 2: the first round. Nobody. He doesn't have that superpower. He's

1680
01:26:47,479 --> 01:26:50,479
Speaker 2: a good quarterback, but put him on a field with

1681
01:26:50,600 --> 01:26:52,920
Speaker 2: NFL players, and we're gonna see how well it's gonna

1682
01:26:52,920 --> 01:26:56,080
Speaker 2: translate our final call. Thanks for your patience. I really

1683
01:26:56,120 --> 01:26:58,000
Speaker 2: appreciate it. I believe he's the first time here at

1684
01:26:58,000 --> 01:27:00,720
Speaker 2: the Bernie Frouder Show. We welcome in the beast of

1685
01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:04,439
Speaker 2: the East of New York. Welcome in good me, sir.

1686
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:08,479
Speaker 17: I only listen to four shows on that whole.

1687
01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:11,000
Speaker 4: Line of twenty four hours, and here's one of them.

1688
01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:11,840
Speaker 2: Well, thank you.

1689
01:27:13,040 --> 01:27:15,920
Speaker 17: I love Dan Patrick, Ben Mahler, and I used to

1690
01:27:16,040 --> 01:27:19,559
Speaker 17: love Chris Bersard and Rob Parker, but the other one

1691
01:27:19,720 --> 01:27:23,439
Speaker 17: I forget. But anyway, it's about the Lakers. I just

1692
01:27:23,640 --> 01:27:28,400
Speaker 17: wanted away in there. Sure, I'm a longtime Laker fan,

1693
01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:32,000
Speaker 17: old enough to see the Little Chamberlain days, Jerry West

1694
01:27:32,040 --> 01:27:36,120
Speaker 17: stays and all through showtime and then now, and they're

1695
01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:38,680
Speaker 17: a joke right now. I'm probably the biggest Laker fan

1696
01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:41,439
Speaker 17: in Western New York who doesn't root for him right now.

1697
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:42,759
Speaker 17: I don't like Lebron.

1698
01:27:44,439 --> 01:27:46,680
Speaker 4: I will argue and debate to the end of the

1699
01:27:46,760 --> 01:27:48,880
Speaker 4: year to give good facts of why I don't even

1700
01:27:48,960 --> 01:27:52,960
Speaker 4: have in my top five great player, not a great person.

1701
01:27:53,280 --> 01:27:57,360
Speaker 4: I had personal experience with them, you know, but other

1702
01:27:57,520 --> 01:28:00,000
Speaker 4: than that, it's a joke. The players run the team,

1703
01:28:00,040 --> 01:28:04,719
Speaker 4: James out and she is nothing like her father, Doctor Bosh.

1704
01:28:05,120 --> 01:28:08,800
Speaker 17: I mean the Jerry Watt building, the two teams from

1705
01:28:08,960 --> 01:28:12,400
Speaker 17: Draft and Trades. That was the old Lakers, and they

1706
01:28:12,439 --> 01:28:14,760
Speaker 17: were fun the roof board. We're now just kind of

1707
01:28:14,840 --> 01:28:15,360
Speaker 17: a joke.

1708
01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:19,120
Speaker 2: You know, well it is it is is not a

1709
01:28:19,200 --> 01:28:24,240
Speaker 2: funny joke. And obviously you have the perspective of you know,

1710
01:28:25,400 --> 01:28:30,439
Speaker 2: of of history and observing you know it's funny. You

1711
01:28:30,520 --> 01:28:33,519
Speaker 2: say that stand a line because I was an intern

1712
01:28:33,560 --> 01:28:36,680
Speaker 2: at the Forum. Magic's rookie year, and the Lakers are

1713
01:28:37,280 --> 01:28:42,840
Speaker 2: the Lakers. Beast are a franchise of eras you mentioned

1714
01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:48,479
Speaker 2: Chamberlain Good era transition that into Jabbar U transition that

1715
01:28:48,520 --> 01:28:51,600
Speaker 2: you know, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor. Then let's get to

1716
01:28:51,680 --> 01:28:56,040
Speaker 2: Jabbar and Magic and then on to Kobe Uh and

1717
01:28:56,479 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 2: right up the line, and then you end up with Lebron.

1718
01:28:58,400 --> 01:29:02,040
Speaker 2: This is the clown era. It's a clown show. Can

1719
01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:04,519
Speaker 2: you imagine? You know, I mean, with all due respect

1720
01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:07,960
Speaker 2: and when people have power, they wielded getting his son,

1721
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:11,639
Speaker 2: Brownie James. You want to you want to play games

1722
01:29:11,720 --> 01:29:15,120
Speaker 2: like this, fine, fine, but don't try to sell me

1723
01:29:15,160 --> 01:29:16,880
Speaker 2: these really an NBA player, all right, I didn't mean

1724
01:29:16,920 --> 01:29:19,000
Speaker 2: to steal your time. There beast to continue on with

1725
01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:19,760
Speaker 2: what you get.

1726
01:29:19,840 --> 01:29:21,000
Speaker 8: Oh, I know, I'm just saying.

1727
01:29:21,360 --> 01:29:24,240
Speaker 17: I met Magic and his wife twice and they are

1728
01:29:24,600 --> 01:29:25,800
Speaker 17: very very nice people.

1729
01:29:26,880 --> 01:29:27,040
Speaker 3: Play.

1730
01:29:28,640 --> 01:29:32,519
Speaker 17: That's what players and athletes for the most party had

1731
01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:33,680
Speaker 17: more clients and.

1732
01:29:33,800 --> 01:29:36,680
Speaker 4: Respect, especially for the people before them.

1733
01:29:37,040 --> 01:29:40,360
Speaker 17: Today's NFL players, they wouldn't even know who played in

1734
01:29:40,439 --> 01:29:44,600
Speaker 17: the sixties. The gym motto that wore body casts his

1735
01:29:44,680 --> 01:29:48,040
Speaker 17: whole life, that paved the way, the French Smirliss's and

1736
01:29:48,240 --> 01:29:50,800
Speaker 17: go on and on. But they don't. There's no respect there.

1737
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:54,160
Speaker 17: It's all eye ee eyes. There's no team. You know,

1738
01:29:54,680 --> 01:29:57,719
Speaker 17: contracts are way out of whack. Get all on the sons.

1739
01:29:58,000 --> 01:29:58,160
Speaker 15: You know.

1740
01:29:58,320 --> 01:30:02,160
Speaker 17: It's hard to thank god I do have an NBA title.

1741
01:30:02,200 --> 01:30:02,920
Speaker 4: I wasn't alive.

1742
01:30:03,000 --> 01:30:07,280
Speaker 17: But the Rochester Royals, who are now the sacramental change,

1743
01:30:07,360 --> 01:30:08,040
Speaker 17: I believe.

1744
01:30:07,920 --> 01:30:09,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cincinnati Royals.

1745
01:30:09,160 --> 01:30:13,080
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, sure, well Rochester Royals.

1746
01:30:13,760 --> 01:30:16,479
Speaker 2: Well, excuse me, roch apologize man.

1747
01:30:16,640 --> 01:30:19,400
Speaker 17: Nineteen fifty one, they were down three nothing to the

1748
01:30:19,520 --> 01:30:20,760
Speaker 17: Knicks in one all four.

1749
01:30:22,040 --> 01:30:24,840
Speaker 2: Listen, this is your first time calling the show. Don't

1750
01:30:24,840 --> 01:30:27,320
Speaker 2: be a stranger. Okay, we do this every Saturday night.

1751
01:30:27,400 --> 01:30:29,479
Speaker 2: We'd probably if you're in New York, we kick it

1752
01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:33,439
Speaker 2: off at three am your time. But it's a big world.

1753
01:30:33,439 --> 01:30:37,400
Speaker 2: It must be midnight somewhere. Thanks a lot beast, good stuff,

1754
01:30:37,600 --> 01:30:43,519
Speaker 2: interesting array of callers. Everybody was outstanding, desperate opinions, desperate thoughts,

1755
01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:47,400
Speaker 2: had some humor in there. You had the nickd Rick Show,

1756
01:30:47,479 --> 01:30:51,479
Speaker 2: outstanding Alan and saying, listen, everybody, Okay, I don't want

1757
01:30:51,479 --> 01:30:53,599
Speaker 2: to leave anybody out. Everybody brought something to the party,

1758
01:30:53,640 --> 01:30:55,840
Speaker 2: and I appreciate a lot. A couple of tweets I

1759
01:30:55,880 --> 01:30:59,479
Speaker 2: want to read. George Sands says, no matter how much

1760
01:30:59,520 --> 01:31:01,519
Speaker 2: money in the Lake have, nothing will change until they're

1761
01:31:01,560 --> 01:31:05,280
Speaker 2: out from under Lebron's contract. I couldn't agree more. They're

1762
01:31:05,360 --> 01:31:09,000
Speaker 2: completely hamstrung, and I'm honest to God believe he wants

1763
01:31:09,040 --> 01:31:10,680
Speaker 2: to play three more years. Here's why I say that

1764
01:31:11,240 --> 01:31:14,880
Speaker 2: he's playing this year and then next year he either

1765
01:31:14,920 --> 01:31:17,519
Speaker 2: announced his farewell to it or not. But then remember

1766
01:31:17,600 --> 01:31:20,479
Speaker 2: he's got a second son, Bryce, who's a freshman at

1767
01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:23,360
Speaker 2: Arizona this year, and once he plays one year in college.

1768
01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:25,920
Speaker 2: Do you not think Lebron's gonna try to do the

1769
01:31:25,960 --> 01:31:28,720
Speaker 2: same thing for Bryce that he did for Bronnie. We'll see.

1770
01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:32,600
Speaker 2: I listen, I think I think Lebron suffers from the

1771
01:31:32,640 --> 01:31:35,840
Speaker 2: Bobby Knight syndrome. He's going to realize when he leaves

1772
01:31:35,880 --> 01:31:38,800
Speaker 2: the game he's gonna miss the spotlight a lot more

1773
01:31:38,880 --> 01:31:41,519
Speaker 2: than the spotlight misses him. That's just the way I

1774
01:31:41,640 --> 01:31:45,680
Speaker 2: see it. His records are, you know, undeniable, and he

1775
01:31:45,760 --> 01:31:49,240
Speaker 2: has four rings. But this this whole ring pablum deal

1776
01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:52,200
Speaker 2: this week when he's the guy who chased rings, and

1777
01:31:52,320 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 2: I don't recall anybody you know dogging Barry Bonds, Ty

1778
01:31:57,240 --> 01:32:03,000
Speaker 2: Cobb and Charles Barkley and Dallan Iverson and Steve Nash

1779
01:32:03,040 --> 01:32:06,840
Speaker 2: and Carmelane. They're all great players. They get respect, and

1780
01:32:06,880 --> 01:32:09,920
Speaker 2: they get respect for their tenure and contributions to the league. Yeah,

1781
01:32:09,960 --> 01:32:12,559
Speaker 2: they didn't win. But when I got out my Lebron

1782
01:32:12,640 --> 01:32:15,479
Speaker 2: English Dictionary, I realized he's saying, Oh, I know, I'm

1783
01:32:15,520 --> 01:32:18,479
Speaker 2: stuck on four, but remember, I'm gonna go just ask me.

1784
01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:21,439
Speaker 2: I got less rings in Jordan, I got less rings

1785
01:32:21,479 --> 01:32:24,360
Speaker 2: in Magic, I got less rings. And Steve Than and

1786
01:32:24,479 --> 01:32:31,280
Speaker 2: Steph Curry certainly less than Bill Russell, whoa all right outstanding.

1787
01:32:31,320 --> 01:32:34,559
Speaker 2: By the way, I want to read Big rig Rob's tweets,

1788
01:32:34,680 --> 01:32:36,560
Speaker 2: is Burnie my man? She'd order did something most of

1789
01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:40,479
Speaker 2: us have done. Get caught speeding well speed See this

1790
01:32:40,680 --> 01:32:42,640
Speaker 2: is where okay, let me read the rest of it.

1791
01:32:43,320 --> 01:32:45,840
Speaker 2: The only thing he failed to do correctly was get

1792
01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:47,920
Speaker 2: a layer. No, he did get a lawyer. Are we

1793
01:32:48,000 --> 01:32:49,760
Speaker 2: really trying to judge a kid for speeding when the

1794
01:32:49,800 --> 01:32:53,599
Speaker 2: same team signed an alleged massage therapist abuser? Sure we are.

1795
01:32:54,360 --> 01:32:56,479
Speaker 2: When you get millions of dollars to play quarterback and

1796
01:32:56,560 --> 01:32:58,640
Speaker 2: you're a French player at best, you got to do

1797
01:32:58,720 --> 01:33:00,439
Speaker 2: your talking on the field, not by the wheel of

1798
01:33:00,479 --> 01:33:02,920
Speaker 2: a car. And Rob, I appreciate you taking the time

1799
01:33:02,960 --> 01:33:06,040
Speaker 2: to check in. But he got conference speeding twice, one

1800
01:33:06,120 --> 01:33:08,759
Speaker 2: on one in a sixty three weeks after getting going ninety.

1801
01:33:08,960 --> 01:33:12,040
Speaker 2: Allegedly didn't show up for his arraignment. Maybe his lawyer did,

1802
01:33:12,120 --> 01:33:14,040
Speaker 2: but he didn't. I don't know. We don't know the details.

1803
01:33:14,280 --> 01:33:16,559
Speaker 2: Allegedly he was rude of the cop, allegedly ran several

1804
01:33:16,600 --> 01:33:19,040
Speaker 2: stop signs. You see, though, when you're a quarterback in

1805
01:33:19,040 --> 01:33:24,920
Speaker 2: the NFL, the thinnest position in all of sports, heavy

1806
01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:26,960
Speaker 2: as the head that wears the crown to who much

1807
01:33:27,120 --> 01:33:32,040
Speaker 2: is given, much is expected. And uh, there's four guys

1808
01:33:32,080 --> 01:33:34,920
Speaker 2: in that room. Joe Flacco's won a Super Bowl. I

1809
01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:39,080
Speaker 2: don't care if he's older. He's chronologically accomplished. He's going

1810
01:33:39,160 --> 01:33:41,599
Speaker 2: to start. You may or may not like Kenny Pickett.

1811
01:33:41,720 --> 01:33:44,360
Speaker 2: I'm not mixed up. He doesn't throw a beautiful ball.

1812
01:33:44,439 --> 01:33:46,439
Speaker 2: But he's fifteen and ten as a starter in the NFL.

1813
01:33:46,560 --> 01:33:50,880
Speaker 2: That's not nothing. That's not nothing. Everybody's in love with

1814
01:33:51,040 --> 01:33:52,960
Speaker 2: Justin Fields. He's fourteen and thirty as a starter, but

1815
01:33:53,000 --> 01:33:57,120
Speaker 2: it's everybody else's fault. I love Dylan Gabriel. I saw

1816
01:33:57,240 --> 01:33:59,719
Speaker 2: him pick apart Michigan. I don't in Michigan. I don't

1817
01:33:59,760 --> 01:34:02,560
Speaker 2: think she door would have done that got him to

1818
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:05,000
Speaker 2: the You know, damn near got a national championship at Oregon.

1819
01:34:05,600 --> 01:34:10,519
Speaker 2: So look, I I before this happened, My my stance

1820
01:34:10,600 --> 01:34:12,559
Speaker 2: on your door was, I still am not sure he's

1821
01:34:12,560 --> 01:34:14,760
Speaker 2: an NFL quarterback. You know what, don't tell me, just

1822
01:34:14,840 --> 01:34:18,080
Speaker 2: show me. And I thought he was enthusiastic and working

1823
01:34:18,160 --> 01:34:20,400
Speaker 2: hard and in mini camp and looked like he was

1824
01:34:20,560 --> 01:34:22,880
Speaker 2: terminally happy to be part of the NFL. And then

1825
01:34:22,920 --> 01:34:25,400
Speaker 2: he goes out and does this. I'm sorry, Rob, I can't.

1826
01:34:25,439 --> 01:34:27,320
Speaker 2: I can't throw him a hall passing this one. Would

1827
01:34:27,360 --> 01:34:29,360
Speaker 2: you cut him? No, You're going to talk to him.

1828
01:34:29,920 --> 01:34:33,280
Speaker 2: The security department, which is comprised of excellent enforcement, is

1829
01:34:33,320 --> 01:34:35,080
Speaker 2: going to sit him down, ask him a million questions.

1830
01:34:35,320 --> 01:34:38,200
Speaker 2: He did it not once, but twice. And you can't

1831
01:34:38,360 --> 01:34:41,719
Speaker 2: do that when when you're you know you were drafted

1832
01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:43,800
Speaker 2: in the fifth round, and you're in the room with

1833
01:34:43,840 --> 01:34:46,639
Speaker 2: three other guys deserved to be ahead of you. That's

1834
01:34:46,680 --> 01:34:50,160
Speaker 2: the way I see it. Speaking of the NFL coming

1835
01:34:50,280 --> 01:34:53,799
Speaker 2: up eight weeks in a row, we're going to preview

1836
01:34:54,640 --> 01:35:00,599
Speaker 2: a division, and tonight we're going to preview the End North,

1837
01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:02,400
Speaker 2: which I think will end up being the most competitive

1838
01:35:02,439 --> 01:35:06,080
Speaker 2: division this year in the NFL. By the way, shortly

1839
01:35:06,160 --> 01:35:09,320
Speaker 2: after the show, our podcast will be going up. If

1840
01:35:09,360 --> 01:35:11,200
Speaker 2: you missed Danny of Tonight Show, be sure to check

1841
01:35:11,240 --> 01:35:14,760
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1842
01:35:14,840 --> 01:35:18,040
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1843
01:35:18,120 --> 01:35:20,760
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1844
01:35:20,840 --> 01:35:24,320
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1845
01:35:24,360 --> 01:35:26,360
Speaker 2: get your podcasts. You see Tonight Show posted right after

1846
01:35:26,400 --> 01:35:28,320
Speaker 2: get off the air. Coming up, take a look at

1847
01:35:28,360 --> 01:35:30,840
Speaker 2: the NFC North. Not a little fun football's here.

1848
01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:31,080
Speaker 14: Man.

1849
01:35:31,400 --> 01:35:33,679
Speaker 2: Somebody asks me when as I know when football season starts.

1850
01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:36,280
Speaker 2: I'll tell you when it never ends. I'm Bernie Frattle

1851
01:35:36,520 --> 01:35:38,200
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1852
01:35:38,200 --> 01:35:40,600
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1853
01:35:40,640 --> 01:35:46,160
Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio. We're back on

1854
01:35:46,200 --> 01:35:50,240
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1855
01:35:50,320 --> 01:35:53,960
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1856
01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:56,320
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1857
01:35:56,320 --> 01:35:59,240
Speaker 2: by Ben mgm every Saturday and Sunday morning from nine

1858
01:35:59,240 --> 01:36:01,679
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1859
01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:03,920
Speaker 2: will count you down to all the biggest games. Tuned

1860
01:36:03,960 --> 01:36:06,599
Speaker 2: into Countdown presented by Bett Mgm every Saturday and Sunday

1861
01:36:06,640 --> 01:36:10,960
Speaker 2: morning right here on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

1862
01:36:11,479 --> 01:36:14,200
Speaker 2: But you say we talk a little football, We're just

1863
01:36:14,280 --> 01:36:18,160
Speaker 2: a seventy plus some days away. And listen. Aren'ty said

1864
01:36:18,160 --> 01:36:20,160
Speaker 2: it best? But basically been when we were. You know,

1865
01:36:20,240 --> 01:36:23,320
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame game starts, it's on. Well, look,

1866
01:36:23,439 --> 01:36:27,400
Speaker 2: I want to start to preview the various divisions, and

1867
01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:32,360
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start with the NFC North because this I

1868
01:36:32,520 --> 01:36:35,519
Speaker 2: believed that the NFC North was the league's most competitive

1869
01:36:35,560 --> 01:36:39,320
Speaker 2: division in twenty twenty four, historically impressive results. He had

1870
01:36:39,360 --> 01:36:42,880
Speaker 2: three playoff teams. The irony is zero postseason wins. So

1871
01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:45,320
Speaker 2: the Lions, Vikings, and Packers all hope to get back

1872
01:36:45,360 --> 01:36:48,400
Speaker 2: to the playoffs again and fix that issue. But keep

1873
01:36:48,439 --> 01:36:52,000
Speaker 2: your eye on the Bears. And they're paying, you know,

1874
01:36:52,680 --> 01:36:56,280
Speaker 2: the salary they're paying Ben Johnson. They expect to make

1875
01:36:56,320 --> 01:36:59,519
Speaker 2: this a four horse race. Will they Well, let me

1876
01:36:59,560 --> 01:37:01,560
Speaker 2: start with the Lions. They're over under totals ten and

1877
01:37:01,600 --> 01:37:03,680
Speaker 2: a half wins. I believe they'll go over that. The

1878
01:37:03,800 --> 01:37:06,680
Speaker 2: key question for the Lions is can their new coordinators

1879
01:37:06,760 --> 01:37:11,080
Speaker 2: replicate the success of Ben Johnson plus Aaron Glenn. Remember

1880
01:37:11,200 --> 01:37:13,040
Speaker 2: Johnson went to the Bears as the head coach and

1881
01:37:13,080 --> 01:37:17,240
Speaker 2: Aaron Glenn, a very good defensive coordinator, went to the Jets. Now,

1882
01:37:17,640 --> 01:37:20,680
Speaker 2: there's history that when teams that are talent rich, like

1883
01:37:20,760 --> 01:37:24,920
Speaker 2: the Lions are lose both coordinators, they struggle. The Eagles

1884
01:37:25,000 --> 01:37:28,280
Speaker 2: lost Sean Steikin and Jonathan Gannon after their twenty twenty

1885
01:37:28,320 --> 01:37:30,880
Speaker 2: two Super Bowl run. They had a terrible season before

1886
01:37:30,920 --> 01:37:34,240
Speaker 2: the replacements are fired ten twelve years ago, the Bengals

1887
01:37:34,240 --> 01:37:37,280
Speaker 2: said Jay Gruden and Mike Zimmer two thousand and four

1888
01:37:37,280 --> 01:37:40,000
Speaker 2: of the Patriot said Charlie Weis and Romeo Cornell. If

1889
01:37:40,000 --> 01:37:41,680
Speaker 2: you're really are going to go way back in the

1890
01:37:41,760 --> 01:37:46,320
Speaker 2: mid nineties, Mitke Shanahan and Ray Rhodes were with the

1891
01:37:46,439 --> 01:37:50,400
Speaker 2: forty nine ers. You right off the Lions, though, you're

1892
01:37:50,439 --> 01:37:53,920
Speaker 2: making a mistake. They were beat up as hell last year.

1893
01:37:54,479 --> 01:37:56,760
Speaker 2: They were beyond a mesh unit. They're going to be

1894
01:37:56,800 --> 01:38:00,639
Speaker 2: healthy this year, especially at the one position. Edge watch

1895
01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:03,439
Speaker 2: Aigen Hutchinson. He was probably the defensive player of the

1896
01:38:03,560 --> 01:38:06,200
Speaker 2: year last year before he got hurt in Week six

1897
01:38:06,840 --> 01:38:09,120
Speaker 2: and then Alliance traded for Zadarias Smith, who was a

1898
01:38:09,160 --> 01:38:13,280
Speaker 2: big disappointment. Hutchinson is healthy, Smith is now free agent,

1899
01:38:13,400 --> 01:38:18,080
Speaker 2: and Smith returns. They're pass rushers side of Hudson, outside

1900
01:38:18,120 --> 01:38:21,639
Speaker 2: of Hutchinson is still a strength because you've got Smith

1901
01:38:21,720 --> 01:38:24,040
Speaker 2: on the side of Hutchinson, who's going to command a

1902
01:38:24,120 --> 01:38:27,680
Speaker 2: double team? All right. Now, I know that people are

1903
01:38:27,840 --> 01:38:30,360
Speaker 2: gaga about the retirement of their center of Frank rad Noow,

1904
01:38:30,720 --> 01:38:33,240
Speaker 2: but all that does is give the Lions more cap space.

1905
01:38:34,040 --> 01:38:35,640
Speaker 2: Here's a guy to watch on for He's got a

1906
01:38:35,720 --> 01:38:40,000
Speaker 2: very distinctive name. You know, the most important thing of

1907
01:38:40,040 --> 01:38:43,160
Speaker 2: any football team. He's your offensive line. Right, They've got

1908
01:38:43,240 --> 01:38:45,920
Speaker 2: a guard by the name of Christian Mahogany. Now the

1909
01:38:45,960 --> 01:38:48,240
Speaker 2: A're all tired of hearing about Jamison Williams every year.

1910
01:38:48,600 --> 01:38:51,439
Speaker 2: He had a decent year last year. Seven touchdowns, thousand yards,

1911
01:38:51,880 --> 01:38:54,560
Speaker 2: about damn time coming out of Bama. He had some

1912
01:38:54,800 --> 01:38:59,200
Speaker 2: issues himself. But here's the deal. This Christian Mahogany, who

1913
01:38:59,320 --> 01:39:02,479
Speaker 2: was a sixth round pick this last year. So there,

1914
01:39:02,920 --> 01:39:06,519
Speaker 2: there's your sign, as Shadoor. If you're good enough, they'll

1915
01:39:06,560 --> 01:39:11,599
Speaker 2: find a spot for you. Okay. He was a rookie,

1916
01:39:11,840 --> 01:39:13,880
Speaker 2: you know, after being a six round pick. He had

1917
01:39:13,920 --> 01:39:17,519
Speaker 2: some spots starts, made the team and did great. He

1918
01:39:17,600 --> 01:39:22,559
Speaker 2: had a very high PFF grade. He ranked seventh among

1919
01:39:22,600 --> 01:39:25,000
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty six guards in the NFL. He

1920
01:39:25,080 --> 01:39:30,600
Speaker 2: will probably start. His predecessor, Kevin Zeitler, was traded to

1921
01:39:30,840 --> 01:39:33,920
Speaker 2: the or He signed with the Tennessee Titans. Do I

1922
01:39:33,960 --> 01:39:36,160
Speaker 2: think the Lions are going to win the division? Will

1923
01:39:36,200 --> 01:39:39,639
Speaker 2: they be better in twenty twenty four? Yeah?

1924
01:39:40,200 --> 01:39:40,400
Speaker 3: I know.

1925
01:39:40,479 --> 01:39:42,600
Speaker 2: They lost some key lineman and lost some their you know,

1926
01:39:42,680 --> 01:39:47,519
Speaker 2: their superstar coordinators. But thankfully they kept Hank Frayley, one

1927
01:39:47,560 --> 01:39:50,519
Speaker 2: of the league's best offensive line coaches. You still got

1928
01:39:50,600 --> 01:39:53,599
Speaker 2: Brad Holmes, you still got Dan Campbell, you still got

1929
01:39:53,720 --> 01:39:56,160
Speaker 2: Jared Goff and a lot, lot, a lot of talent.

1930
01:39:56,800 --> 01:39:58,960
Speaker 2: If they just have a little injury luck this year,

1931
01:39:59,439 --> 01:40:01,760
Speaker 2: the lines will top five on defense and top five

1932
01:40:01,800 --> 01:40:06,560
Speaker 2: on offense. Rumors of their demise has been greatly exaggerated.

1933
01:40:06,680 --> 01:40:09,040
Speaker 2: I expect the Lions to be an eleven win team

1934
01:40:09,120 --> 01:40:12,600
Speaker 2: minimum and win the North. The Packers they were in

1935
01:40:12,680 --> 01:40:15,760
Speaker 2: total is eight and a half. The key question, I

1936
01:40:16,040 --> 01:40:18,960
Speaker 2: like Jordan Love, but now there are greater expectations. Is

1937
01:40:19,040 --> 01:40:22,840
Speaker 2: he good enough? He's twenty seven now. Aaron Rodgers was

1938
01:40:22,920 --> 01:40:24,360
Speaker 2: twenty seven when he won a Super Bowl, So it

1939
01:40:24,400 --> 01:40:28,120
Speaker 2: was Brett Favre gets how old Jordan Love is. He's

1940
01:40:28,160 --> 01:40:31,080
Speaker 2: turning twenty seven this year, and he's got two hundred

1941
01:40:31,080 --> 01:40:34,280
Speaker 2: and twenty million reasons to be happy, and Jordan Love

1942
01:40:34,320 --> 01:40:35,960
Speaker 2: deserves it. I think he's done a hell of a job.

1943
01:40:37,280 --> 01:40:39,280
Speaker 2: But it was a little shaky in twenty twenty four,

1944
01:40:40,000 --> 01:40:44,719
Speaker 2: and Aaron Rodgers, you know, once said that somebody's sole

1945
01:40:45,000 --> 01:40:49,599
Speaker 2: single Super Bowl trophy was looking lonely. Well, the Green

1946
01:40:49,640 --> 01:40:53,679
Speaker 2: bas only got one won this millennium, okay, twenty six years.

1947
01:40:53,720 --> 01:40:58,439
Speaker 2: In the position you want to watch is the receiver room.

1948
01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:03,679
Speaker 2: The Packers have me the deepest receiving room in the NFL.

1949
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:06,640
Speaker 2: All right, they got a bunch of guys, and I

1950
01:41:06,720 --> 01:41:11,040
Speaker 2: would say this. I mean, first of all, they converted

1951
01:41:11,120 --> 01:41:14,120
Speaker 2: one receiver to cornerback, but then they drafted this kid,

1952
01:41:14,200 --> 01:41:17,720
Speaker 2: Matthew Golden in the first round, on Savon Williams and

1953
01:41:17,760 --> 01:41:20,439
Speaker 2: the third. These guys are studs. You're gonna be hearing

1954
01:41:20,439 --> 01:41:24,760
Speaker 2: their names. Another breakout player, wide receiver Jaden Reid. All Right,

1955
01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:28,120
Speaker 2: people were concerned about him maybe being the number one

1956
01:41:28,160 --> 01:41:31,760
Speaker 2: receiver after the draft, but he was outstanding in all

1957
01:41:31,800 --> 01:41:36,080
Speaker 2: of his workouts. And again this comes from the Athletic

1958
01:41:36,120 --> 01:41:38,920
Speaker 2: their beat reporter, Match Schneidman. He said, Green Bay has

1959
01:41:39,200 --> 01:41:41,559
Speaker 2: probably the most talented all around receiver on the roster.

1960
01:41:41,920 --> 01:41:44,880
Speaker 2: The truth of the matter is Green Bay's biggest loss

1961
01:41:45,000 --> 01:41:50,519
Speaker 2: was their cornerback Pro Bowl cornerback Jared Alexander, who basically

1962
01:41:50,560 --> 01:41:52,679
Speaker 2: they cut in early June because they wanted to free

1963
01:41:52,720 --> 01:41:56,559
Speaker 2: up seventeen million cap space. Jered a Lexander was talented,

1964
01:41:56,640 --> 01:41:58,559
Speaker 2: but he's not healthy. A lot. He's hurt a lot.

1965
01:41:59,240 --> 01:42:02,240
Speaker 2: So look, I think this is actually a slightly better

1966
01:42:02,360 --> 01:42:06,080
Speaker 2: version of the twenty twenty four Packers who surprised people.

1967
01:42:07,200 --> 01:42:10,400
Speaker 2: It's gonna be determined whether or not Jordan Love can

1968
01:42:10,479 --> 01:42:13,759
Speaker 2: take a step up. The nicked surprise may make the playoffs.

1969
01:42:14,040 --> 01:42:15,800
Speaker 2: I see Green Bay as a nine and eighteen. I

1970
01:42:15,840 --> 01:42:17,240
Speaker 2: think to go over eight and a half wins, maybe

1971
01:42:17,280 --> 01:42:20,360
Speaker 2: a ten and seventeen. All right, let's talk about the Bears.

1972
01:42:20,520 --> 01:42:24,000
Speaker 2: The Bears wint is also eight and a half. Now,

1973
01:42:25,120 --> 01:42:28,679
Speaker 2: this is the sixty four dollars question. Can Ben Johnson

1974
01:42:28,880 --> 01:42:34,040
Speaker 2: translate his creativity, his offensive genius, and the success he

1975
01:42:34,120 --> 01:42:38,240
Speaker 2: had in Detroit to Chicago. For the last two hiring

1976
01:42:38,840 --> 01:42:43,439
Speaker 2: coaching cycles, Ben Johnson was the most coveted coach. He

1977
01:42:43,720 --> 01:42:47,400
Speaker 2: was basically the number one takeaway from Chicago's offseason program.

1978
01:42:47,479 --> 01:42:49,439
Speaker 2: But it's one thing to run an offense when you

1979
01:42:49,560 --> 01:42:53,800
Speaker 2: got Dan Cambelllee in the organization. It's harder to do both. Okay,

1980
01:42:54,280 --> 01:42:56,800
Speaker 2: Josh McDaniels certainly sure as hell couldn't do it with

1981
01:42:57,040 --> 01:43:00,920
Speaker 2: the two. You know his disaster here in Las Vegas,

1982
01:43:01,479 --> 01:43:04,760
Speaker 2: and Cliff Kingsbury is an offensive Genie's been a as

1983
01:43:04,800 --> 01:43:06,320
Speaker 2: a head coach, not so much when he's got to

1984
01:43:06,360 --> 01:43:09,560
Speaker 2: run the offense. All right, this is the thing to

1985
01:43:09,680 --> 01:43:14,960
Speaker 2: watch the offensive line, because camb Williams started to win

1986
01:43:15,000 --> 01:43:16,720
Speaker 2: me over toward the end of the year. He did,

1987
01:43:16,800 --> 01:43:19,840
Speaker 2: but he still got a ways to go. But Ben

1988
01:43:19,960 --> 01:43:23,160
Speaker 2: Johnson was able to create this monster offense in Detroit

1989
01:43:23,840 --> 01:43:26,679
Speaker 2: partly because they had not only one of the best

1990
01:43:27,439 --> 01:43:30,639
Speaker 2: best offensive lines in the NFL, but they were completely

1991
01:43:30,960 --> 01:43:33,879
Speaker 2: It was an embarrassment of riches in all their skill positions,

1992
01:43:34,640 --> 01:43:39,560
Speaker 2: you know, I mean speedy and Nichols and knuckles in

1993
01:43:39,560 --> 01:43:42,639
Speaker 2: the backfield whatever hell he called him to stud running backs,

1994
01:43:43,439 --> 01:43:48,840
Speaker 2: stud wide receiver, stud tight end. In Chicago, interestingly enough,

1995
01:43:49,600 --> 01:43:52,400
Speaker 2: drafted some skilled players. They got tight in Colston Lovelin

1996
01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:56,160
Speaker 2: on a Michigan who's got big upside and has been

1997
01:43:56,240 --> 01:43:59,040
Speaker 2: conferred favorably to brock Bowers. I'm not saying these brock Bowers,

1998
01:43:59,600 --> 01:44:03,360
Speaker 2: but he's good player, Luther Burden the third. But you

1999
01:44:03,520 --> 01:44:06,680
Speaker 2: are going to have to protect your quarterback. As Bert

2000
01:44:06,720 --> 01:44:09,800
Speaker 2: Reynold said in the Longest Yard, they allowed sixty eight

2001
01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:14,000
Speaker 2: sacks last seed in Chicago, and again Ben Johnson knew that,

2002
01:44:15,200 --> 01:44:18,400
Speaker 2: so he wasted little time trying to overhaul that position.

2003
01:44:19,680 --> 01:44:24,080
Speaker 2: Five new players Joe Toney, Drew Dolman, right guard Jonah Jackson.

2004
01:44:24,560 --> 01:44:27,720
Speaker 2: So the Bears are really kind of revamped, all right.

2005
01:44:29,200 --> 01:44:32,200
Speaker 2: Last year with the wrong head coach, all all due

2006
01:44:32,200 --> 01:44:35,280
Speaker 2: respect to Maddiflus just didn't work out. Awful play calling,

2007
01:44:35,800 --> 01:44:40,719
Speaker 2: a mediocre offensive line, basically a defensive minded head coach.

2008
01:44:42,000 --> 01:44:45,080
Speaker 2: That wasn't the best scenario for Kayleb Williams. And I

2009
01:44:45,200 --> 01:44:47,599
Speaker 2: was dubious to him coming out of USC. But he's

2010
01:44:47,640 --> 01:44:51,120
Speaker 2: kind of won me over a little bit and the

2011
01:44:51,200 --> 01:44:53,240
Speaker 2: Bear showed some real flashes. Now we'll see if they

2012
01:44:53,280 --> 01:44:57,960
Speaker 2: can build on that. All right, So Ben Johnson, should

2013
01:44:58,880 --> 01:45:00,720
Speaker 2: you know, check all the backs is with it? You

2014
01:45:00,800 --> 01:45:03,920
Speaker 2: know VSA V the issues the bat. You know, he's

2015
01:45:03,960 --> 01:45:06,360
Speaker 2: not a defensive minor head coach. He's an offensive guy.

2016
01:45:06,880 --> 01:45:09,400
Speaker 2: There was awful play calling last year. The offensive line's

2017
01:45:09,439 --> 01:45:15,719
Speaker 2: been improved, and I think Ben Jonson sees Colston Lovelin

2018
01:45:15,840 --> 01:45:18,040
Speaker 2: is a maybe even a slightly better version of Sam

2019
01:45:18,120 --> 01:45:21,479
Speaker 2: Laporta out of Iowa who did great in Detroit. Now

2020
01:45:21,600 --> 01:45:26,600
Speaker 2: you pair loved them with Dj Moore, Roma Donze, I

2021
01:45:26,920 --> 01:45:32,719
Speaker 2: tell you, and this kid Burden. I think Luther burden

2022
01:45:32,760 --> 01:45:38,400
Speaker 2: the third. I think the Bears potentially have a playoff team,

2023
01:45:39,120 --> 01:45:40,519
Speaker 2: but you got to do it. Are they better in

2024
01:45:40,600 --> 01:45:44,320
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four? Definitely, no question. Scheme changes. By the way,

2025
01:45:44,680 --> 01:45:47,040
Speaker 2: Dennis Salin has never been really a great head coach.

2026
01:45:47,120 --> 01:45:49,360
Speaker 2: He's not so much with the Saints, certainly not so

2027
01:45:49,479 --> 01:45:52,160
Speaker 2: much with the Raiders, but he's a good defensive coordinator,

2028
01:45:52,640 --> 01:45:55,400
Speaker 2: and so talent in the trenches. Talent and the skill positions.

2029
01:45:55,960 --> 01:45:59,360
Speaker 2: New head coach, new defensive coordinator. You might it might

2030
01:45:59,439 --> 01:46:00,960
Speaker 2: be a stretch, but I think the Bears can go

2031
01:46:01,080 --> 01:46:05,400
Speaker 2: nine to eight. It'd be their first above five hundred

2032
01:46:05,439 --> 01:46:09,720
Speaker 2: season since twenty eighteen, which Mitch Trubisky area laughing at. Now.

2033
01:46:10,160 --> 01:46:12,439
Speaker 2: That was Mitch Trubisky who, by the way, went to

2034
01:46:12,479 --> 01:46:15,000
Speaker 2: the playoffs two out of three years, was twenty five

2035
01:46:15,080 --> 01:46:17,759
Speaker 2: and sixteen and completed sixty six percent of his passes,

2036
01:46:17,920 --> 01:46:21,479
Speaker 2: and they would have won a playoff game had not

2037
01:46:21,680 --> 01:46:27,680
Speaker 2: the double doint kick hit the goalpost. Sure things have

2038
01:46:27,800 --> 01:46:30,479
Speaker 2: a way of spinning out of control with the group

2039
01:46:30,560 --> 01:46:34,599
Speaker 2: think Echo Chamber. You know, Sam mentioned the Vikings, all right,

2040
01:46:34,720 --> 01:46:36,559
Speaker 2: The Vikings went till it was eight and a half wins.

2041
01:46:37,400 --> 01:46:41,200
Speaker 2: Then the Vikings chose to let Sam Donald walk. They

2042
01:46:41,240 --> 01:46:43,640
Speaker 2: are now turning the keys to their twenty two year

2043
01:46:43,680 --> 01:46:49,080
Speaker 2: old sophomore. Is just a sophomore. Well, JJ McCarthy's got

2044
01:46:49,200 --> 01:46:51,320
Speaker 2: to be more than that. We don't know what his

2045
01:46:51,439 --> 01:46:52,080
Speaker 2: rookie season is.

2046
01:46:52,080 --> 01:46:52,360
Speaker 3: Going to be.

2047
01:46:53,200 --> 01:46:55,839
Speaker 2: I know the mini camp returns have looked good. McCarthy

2048
01:46:56,160 --> 01:46:59,800
Speaker 2: is any fishing quarterback. He does not get enough credit

2049
01:46:59,880 --> 01:47:02,599
Speaker 2: with his arm, his command of an offense, his ability

2050
01:47:02,600 --> 01:47:06,080
Speaker 2: to operate from the pocket. He wasn't allowed to it Michigan.

2051
01:47:06,240 --> 01:47:10,120
Speaker 2: I think he could have. But he's a tremendous field

2052
01:47:10,200 --> 01:47:13,040
Speaker 2: general and in the short time he showed in the

2053
01:47:13,120 --> 01:47:15,840
Speaker 2: preseason last year. Again, you're playing against most guys are

2054
01:47:16,280 --> 01:47:18,240
Speaker 2: going to be working at NAP Auto Parts next month.

2055
01:47:19,040 --> 01:47:21,160
Speaker 2: That's nothing wrong with that. That's good, green good. You know,

2056
01:47:21,280 --> 01:47:24,200
Speaker 2: Christian value is good work. You can get it. But

2057
01:47:25,080 --> 01:47:27,040
Speaker 2: it's a big if you just don't know, and he's

2058
01:47:27,040 --> 01:47:30,639
Speaker 2: coming off two injuries, you're gonna have the all eyes

2059
01:47:30,640 --> 01:47:35,040
Speaker 2: will be on JJ McCarthy in Minnesota, right, the Vikings

2060
01:47:35,120 --> 01:47:39,240
Speaker 2: chose to forego the Aaron Rodgers saga instead going all

2061
01:47:39,320 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 2: in on McCarthy, and you know, Minnesota's got a beat.

2062
01:47:45,360 --> 01:47:48,880
Speaker 2: Reported by the name of Alec Lewis, and he basically said,

2063
01:47:49,960 --> 01:47:52,080
Speaker 2: you know, he asked around what is it going to

2064
01:47:52,120 --> 01:47:56,599
Speaker 2: take for Minnesota to have a winning season and get

2065
01:47:56,680 --> 01:47:59,559
Speaker 2: back to where they were last year? And he said,

2066
01:47:59,560 --> 01:48:04,760
Speaker 2: there's five things. McCarthy's d McCarthy's aren't, McCarthy's feet, McCarthy's eyes,

2067
01:48:04,760 --> 01:48:09,000
Speaker 2: and McCarthy's mind. It is all about JJ McCarthy. He

2068
01:48:09,240 --> 01:48:11,720
Speaker 2: has to be their breakout player because Minnesota has a

2069
01:48:11,840 --> 01:48:15,920
Speaker 2: lot of talent around him. And this is an infrastructure

2070
01:48:16,120 --> 01:48:18,960
Speaker 2: starting with Kevin O'Connell, who's a brilliant coach. I think

2071
01:48:18,960 --> 01:48:24,280
Speaker 2: he's superb and he was obviously Sean mcvay's offensive coordinator

2072
01:48:24,320 --> 01:48:26,320
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles when the Rams won the Super Bowl.

2073
01:48:27,040 --> 01:48:30,360
Speaker 2: So McCarthy is surrounded with a world class infrastructure. If

2074
01:48:30,400 --> 01:48:32,320
Speaker 2: you don't believe me, well they sure as hell helped

2075
01:48:33,160 --> 01:48:38,960
Speaker 2: resurrect Sam Donald's career and even Kirk Cousins right benefited again.

2076
01:48:39,040 --> 01:48:43,040
Speaker 2: You've got an improved interior offensive line, you're returning Christian Darisaw,

2077
01:48:43,520 --> 01:48:45,919
Speaker 2: and you've got plenty of skill position players. Will Minnesota

2078
01:48:46,040 --> 01:48:49,439
Speaker 2: be better in twenty twenty four only if the number

2079
01:48:49,479 --> 01:48:52,679
Speaker 2: ten pick of twenty twenty four plays better than Donald

2080
01:48:53,000 --> 01:48:56,400
Speaker 2: who couldn't stick the landing in the playoffs and then

2081
01:48:56,479 --> 01:49:00,519
Speaker 2: really faded down the stretch. But Minnesota could make noise

2082
01:49:00,920 --> 01:49:03,880
Speaker 2: for the first time in Kevin Connell's tenure. It's perhaps

2083
01:49:04,040 --> 01:49:08,479
Speaker 2: noting McCarthy has only lost one what one game as

2084
01:49:08,520 --> 01:49:11,799
Speaker 2: a starter since graduating from elementary school? Do you graduate

2085
01:49:11,840 --> 01:49:14,360
Speaker 2: from elementary school? Look, the kid knows how to win.

2086
01:49:14,840 --> 01:49:17,840
Speaker 2: I think there's real upside there. I think Minnesota can

2087
01:49:18,000 --> 01:49:21,320
Speaker 2: easily go nine to eight, ten and seven because they

2088
01:49:21,360 --> 01:49:24,880
Speaker 2: got too much talent. I believe all four teams in

2089
01:49:25,000 --> 01:49:32,960
Speaker 2: the division next year we'll go over five hundred. That's

2090
01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:36,320
Speaker 2: the first of eight division previews coming up. What's up

2091
01:49:36,400 --> 01:49:39,960
Speaker 2: with Travis Hunter? Hear we're always hearing about Shador? Why

2092
01:49:39,960 --> 01:49:42,680
Speaker 2: are we hearing about Travis Hunter? And who else has

2093
01:49:42,720 --> 01:49:47,880
Speaker 2: been impressing during these rookie camps in mini camps? We'll

2094
01:49:47,960 --> 01:49:52,800
Speaker 2: talk about that coming up. By the way, for the

2095
01:49:52,840 --> 01:49:55,240
Speaker 2: best pregame show every weekend, be sure to tune into

2096
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2097
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2098
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2100
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2101
01:50:09,240 --> 01:50:10,720
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2102
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2104
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2105
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2106
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2107
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Speaker 2: six am Eastern. Hey, we're just fifteen minutes away from

2108
01:50:30,400 --> 01:50:34,160
Speaker 2: the Dance Sensation sweep of the nation. What kind of

2109
01:50:34,200 --> 01:50:37,559
Speaker 2: brand new fool you followed by what my name?

2110
01:50:39,000 --> 01:50:39,160
Speaker 3: You know?

2111
01:50:39,280 --> 01:50:41,720
Speaker 2: The last time the NFL had a full time two

2112
01:50:41,760 --> 01:50:45,200
Speaker 2: way player, we go back to nineteen sixty two Hall

2113
01:50:45,240 --> 01:50:51,280
Speaker 2: of Fame linebacker and senator Chuck Beneric of Eagles fame.

2114
01:50:52,560 --> 01:50:56,240
Speaker 2: He retired in sixty two, five years before Super Bowl

2115
01:50:56,520 --> 01:50:59,559
Speaker 2: was even played. By the way, if you're keeping score

2116
01:50:59,760 --> 01:51:03,760
Speaker 2: at home, I hope you are. His salary never was

2117
01:51:03,840 --> 01:51:06,120
Speaker 2: higher than twenty two thousand dollars. He also had to

2118
01:51:06,200 --> 01:51:10,080
Speaker 2: sell concrete as a side job on his off days.

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Speaker 2: All right, give you a lone an idea how far

2120
01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:16,360
Speaker 2: the game has come. We may be seeing another two

2121
01:51:16,400 --> 01:51:20,200
Speaker 2: way player. Legitimately, Travis Hunter has lit it up. There's

2122
01:51:20,240 --> 01:51:24,360
Speaker 2: no question his talent translates to the NFL nicely. His

2123
01:51:24,600 --> 01:51:27,720
Speaker 2: character is unquestioned. Last I checked, Travis Hunter hasn't been

2124
01:51:27,760 --> 01:51:30,559
Speaker 2: pulled over for going one hundred and one. The only

2125
01:51:30,680 --> 01:51:35,320
Speaker 2: uncertainty is, whew, how high can this guy go in

2126
01:51:35,439 --> 01:51:39,160
Speaker 2: terms of both positions. And the other thing is to

2127
01:51:39,360 --> 01:51:41,360
Speaker 2: which position do you want him on the field more

2128
01:51:42,240 --> 01:51:47,240
Speaker 2: all right, I know that Hunter was seen mostly with

2129
01:51:47,400 --> 01:51:50,519
Speaker 2: the Jaguars offense during rookie Mini caamp in the first

2130
01:51:50,560 --> 01:51:54,880
Speaker 2: few OTAs and he was outstanding. But then their head

2131
01:51:54,920 --> 01:51:57,920
Speaker 2: coach Liam Cohen put him on defense just about a

2132
01:51:58,000 --> 01:52:00,439
Speaker 2: week ago, and he was learning the fundamentals and play well.

2133
01:52:01,400 --> 01:52:04,519
Speaker 2: So the focus appears to be on offense and that

2134
01:52:04,640 --> 01:52:07,720
Speaker 2: could be his primary role. And this is important to

2135
01:52:07,800 --> 01:52:11,000
Speaker 2: know to private, to check with Mike Harmon and Dan

2136
01:52:11,120 --> 01:52:13,679
Speaker 2: Byer on this. But if you're a fantasy football drafter,

2137
01:52:16,040 --> 01:52:18,800
Speaker 2: it appears that Travis Hunter maybe on his way to

2138
01:52:18,920 --> 01:52:22,880
Speaker 2: being a wide receiver one in his rookie class. If

2139
01:52:22,920 --> 01:52:25,280
Speaker 2: he gets a guaranteed snackout, he's going to make plays

2140
01:52:25,320 --> 01:52:29,040
Speaker 2: and score touchdowns and catch passes. But what we're also

2141
01:52:29,160 --> 01:52:32,040
Speaker 2: finding his Hunter has gained a lot of trust from

2142
01:52:32,080 --> 01:52:34,600
Speaker 2: his coaches to getting looks on the opposite side of

2143
01:52:34,640 --> 01:52:39,600
Speaker 2: the ball as well. So the Travis Hunter story is impressive,

2144
01:52:40,240 --> 01:52:45,920
Speaker 2: and he's impressing people. Who else is impressing people. I'll

2145
01:52:45,960 --> 01:52:49,960
Speaker 2: bring up listen, I'll bring up JJ McCarthy one more time,

2146
01:52:51,280 --> 01:52:55,360
Speaker 2: because when you've got a situation where the story around

2147
01:52:55,479 --> 01:52:59,160
Speaker 2: him is as sensational as it is, and I think

2148
01:52:59,200 --> 01:53:02,360
Speaker 2: for the right reason, and it's too bad. He you know,

2149
01:53:02,479 --> 01:53:04,559
Speaker 2: he not only got hurt in the preseason, he tore

2150
01:53:04,560 --> 01:53:08,560
Speaker 2: his meniscus last summer, but people who were at the

2151
01:53:08,680 --> 01:53:12,760
Speaker 2: Vikings workouts said McCarthy's throws spiral the same way they

2152
01:53:12,800 --> 01:53:16,880
Speaker 2: did last year, and he absorbed the play verbiage. He

2153
01:53:16,920 --> 01:53:19,439
Speaker 2: stepped into the huddle, he spit off the calls, he

2154
01:53:19,560 --> 01:53:20,799
Speaker 2: goes to the line of scrimmage.

2155
01:53:21,600 --> 01:53:22,559
Speaker 3: He is good.

2156
01:53:22,600 --> 01:53:25,439
Speaker 2: You know, he's a field general, he's a leader. He's

2157
01:53:25,479 --> 01:53:29,920
Speaker 2: got what I call a huddle presence. He holed out

2158
01:53:29,920 --> 01:53:33,160
Speaker 2: all the cadences. He makes his reads. He did all

2159
01:53:33,200 --> 01:53:35,879
Speaker 2: the things you have to do to be a successful quarterback.

2160
01:53:35,920 --> 01:53:38,920
Speaker 2: And look he didn't win a national championship at Michigan

2161
01:53:38,960 --> 01:53:41,040
Speaker 2: by fluke. And I know people can pick on because

2162
01:53:41,040 --> 01:53:42,880
Speaker 2: he didn't put up gaudy numbers. He wasn't allowed to.

2163
01:53:43,640 --> 01:53:45,680
Speaker 2: But did you notice when he had to make a

2164
01:53:45,800 --> 01:53:48,519
Speaker 2: throw when the heat got hot, it was hard to breathe?

2165
01:53:48,520 --> 01:53:52,840
Speaker 2: He was tremendous, all right. So look, the truth of

2166
01:53:52,880 --> 01:53:58,240
Speaker 2: the matter is their fortunes, Minnesota's gonna fortunes are gonna

2167
01:53:58,280 --> 01:54:00,840
Speaker 2: ride with with JJ McCarthy. But he as look good,

2168
01:54:01,439 --> 01:54:04,360
Speaker 2: by the way, not for nothing. The Giants quarterback competition,

2169
01:54:04,479 --> 01:54:09,120
Speaker 2: it's also underway. Russell Wilson is expected to be the

2170
01:54:09,160 --> 01:54:11,719
Speaker 2: Week one starter. He's taken most of the first team reps,

2171
01:54:12,360 --> 01:54:15,360
Speaker 2: but Jackson Dart's been sprinkled in with first team reps

2172
01:54:15,479 --> 01:54:19,759
Speaker 2: as well, and according to their beat reporter Charlotte Carroll,

2173
01:54:19,960 --> 01:54:23,200
Speaker 2: Jackson Dart has looked very impressive. That doesn't surprise me.

2174
01:54:23,960 --> 01:54:28,800
Speaker 2: Another name you'll be hearing about more sooner rather than later.

2175
01:54:28,840 --> 01:54:31,280
Speaker 2: I believe this was a very good pick by the

2176
01:54:31,360 --> 01:54:34,000
Speaker 2: Raiders or wide receiver Jack Beck. They got him in

2177
01:54:34,040 --> 01:54:38,000
Speaker 2: the second round and in the drills he constantly got open.

2178
01:54:39,000 --> 01:54:43,000
Speaker 2: And the bottom line is it looks like he has

2179
01:54:43,080 --> 01:54:45,840
Speaker 2: a real chance. Remember this is the kid out of

2180
01:54:46,000 --> 01:54:50,120
Speaker 2: LSU six one, two fifteen. He kind of models his

2181
01:54:50,200 --> 01:54:54,200
Speaker 2: game after Poka Nakua because he's got great inside outset versatility,

2182
01:54:55,040 --> 01:54:57,040
Speaker 2: and he's going to be a target for Gino Smith

2183
01:54:57,120 --> 01:55:01,080
Speaker 2: and I think he's kind of on from what I'm hearing.

2184
01:55:01,160 --> 01:55:06,120
Speaker 2: Jack Becket's tracking to be a starter week one. You know,

2185
01:55:06,280 --> 01:55:09,720
Speaker 2: we got a long way to go, but that's where

2186
01:55:09,720 --> 01:55:14,000
Speaker 2: it's tracking. Terry McLaurin, I think, is a huge addition

2187
01:55:14,080 --> 01:55:15,560
Speaker 2: for the Commanders. And I don't know if you've seen

2188
01:55:15,600 --> 01:55:18,520
Speaker 2: the Commander's schedule this year. In addition to a very

2189
01:55:18,600 --> 01:55:22,600
Speaker 2: tough division. I don't know about Dallas. Looks in Dallas,

2190
01:55:22,640 --> 01:55:25,320
Speaker 2: New York and you get Philadelphia. It's no division is

2191
01:55:25,360 --> 01:55:27,680
Speaker 2: easy in the NFL. It always bothers me when someone

2192
01:55:27,680 --> 01:55:30,520
Speaker 2: says cake schedule. The NFL is a gauntlet. Now, some

2193
01:55:30,640 --> 01:55:33,560
Speaker 2: teams have better records than others, but listen, you saw

2194
01:55:33,800 --> 01:55:36,640
Speaker 2: the Raiders go into Baltimore and beat them. Okay, so look,

2195
01:55:36,880 --> 01:55:39,920
Speaker 2: anything can happen at any given Sunday. It's a real thing.

2196
01:55:40,640 --> 01:55:44,000
Speaker 2: Former Commissioner Burt Bell used to say Terry McLaurin was

2197
01:55:44,000 --> 01:55:46,920
Speaker 2: absent from his voluntary practice because he wants an extension

2198
01:55:47,400 --> 01:55:50,040
Speaker 2: for playing out the final year of his contract. He's

2199
01:55:50,080 --> 01:55:54,200
Speaker 2: getting twenty three million thereabouts. That ranks him sixteenth among receivers.

2200
01:55:55,280 --> 01:55:58,240
Speaker 2: I'm hearing Jayden Daniels has bulked up, put on some muscle.

2201
01:55:58,920 --> 01:56:02,360
Speaker 2: That can be a good thing. Some people don't think.

2202
01:56:03,040 --> 01:56:04,600
Speaker 2: They think what the Commanders did last year was a

2203
01:56:04,640 --> 01:56:06,720
Speaker 2: bit of a fluke. I don't. But here's the deal.

2204
01:56:08,280 --> 01:56:10,120
Speaker 2: In addition to their tough division, they get to play

2205
01:56:10,120 --> 01:56:15,360
Speaker 2: the AFC West, So the Chiefs, Broncos and Charges to

2206
01:56:15,400 --> 01:56:17,840
Speaker 2: be no slots. And look, even the Raiders could rise

2207
01:56:17,920 --> 01:56:21,400
Speaker 2: up on a day. And I just previewed the NFC North.

2208
01:56:21,440 --> 01:56:23,480
Speaker 2: They get to play the NFC North as well. By

2209
01:56:23,560 --> 01:56:28,680
Speaker 2: the way, I'm a big Joey Bosa fan, but you

2210
01:56:28,720 --> 01:56:33,760
Speaker 2: know they say the best stability is availability. He's injured already,

2211
01:56:33,840 --> 01:56:38,800
Speaker 2: Joey Bolsa, and Buffalo needs a healthy Joey Bosa to

2212
01:56:38,840 --> 01:56:41,480
Speaker 2: take the next step. I believe. Now, all of a sudden,

2213
01:56:41,680 --> 01:56:46,000
Speaker 2: you know, you have to wonder if Buffalo is scratching

2214
01:56:46,040 --> 01:56:50,280
Speaker 2: their head and wondering check that now understanding more clearly

2215
01:56:50,360 --> 01:56:53,280
Speaker 2: where the Chargers were willing to let the oft injured

2216
01:56:53,320 --> 01:56:56,000
Speaker 2: Bosa go. He pulled a calf muster during workout last week.

2217
01:56:56,400 --> 01:56:58,280
Speaker 2: He's going to be silined all the way to training camp.

2218
01:56:59,040 --> 01:57:03,160
Speaker 2: So look, he's a muscle bound guy. He's a superb player.

2219
01:57:03,880 --> 01:57:11,400
Speaker 2: Physical dominates his position. But let's face it, if you

2220
01:57:11,440 --> 01:57:14,720
Speaker 2: can't get on the field, that ain't good. Speaking of

2221
01:57:14,760 --> 01:57:16,320
Speaker 2: who's on the field around the court, I want to

2222
01:57:16,320 --> 01:57:19,680
Speaker 2: switch gears. Guess who is going to be the referee

2223
01:57:19,920 --> 01:57:25,800
Speaker 2: in Game seven? The legendary Scott Foster. Now, look, Scott

2224
01:57:25,840 --> 01:57:28,360
Speaker 2: Foster takes a beating from some people, but he's considered

2225
01:57:28,360 --> 01:57:32,360
Speaker 2: a very experienced, highly rated ref The NBA regards him

2226
01:57:32,360 --> 01:57:34,160
Speaker 2: as one of their top officials. They do seem to

2227
01:57:34,200 --> 01:57:38,440
Speaker 2: assign him to many significant games. He has extensive experience.

2228
01:57:38,520 --> 01:57:41,240
Speaker 2: He's been in over sixteen hundred regular season games, hundreds

2229
01:57:41,280 --> 01:57:43,920
Speaker 2: of playoff games. He has a strong personnel. He doesn't

2230
01:57:43,920 --> 01:57:48,480
Speaker 2: take any crap. But the player perception, Scott Foster has

2231
01:57:48,520 --> 01:57:51,160
Speaker 2: been voted the worst referee by NBA players in multiple

2232
01:57:51,240 --> 01:57:57,520
Speaker 2: anonymous polls. Because he got this nickname the extender. He's

2233
01:57:57,640 --> 01:58:00,320
Speaker 2: believed or perceived to be an extender of play plaoff

2234
01:58:00,360 --> 01:58:03,040
Speaker 2: series due to a trend where teams trailing in a

2235
01:58:03,120 --> 01:58:07,360
Speaker 2: series tend to win games he officiates. Now, this is

2236
01:58:07,400 --> 01:58:10,480
Speaker 2: a popular nocean. The group think Echo Chamber, you know,

2237
01:58:11,320 --> 01:58:13,640
Speaker 2: obviously goes overboard on this, but there's a lot of

2238
01:58:13,720 --> 01:58:16,960
Speaker 2: data and analysis that can suggest otherwise. He does have

2239
01:58:17,040 --> 01:58:21,080
Speaker 2: a connection to Tim Donaghy. He exchanged numerous phone calls

2240
01:58:21,160 --> 01:58:24,440
Speaker 2: with Donaghey, was involved in betting on NBA games with Foster,

2241
01:58:24,640 --> 01:58:27,840
Speaker 2: was never be clear, never accused of any wrongdoing in

2242
01:58:27,920 --> 01:58:31,560
Speaker 2: the federal investigation. Foster also, as you know, has a

2243
01:58:31,680 --> 01:58:35,120
Speaker 2: very contentious relationship with Chris Paul when Chris ball plays

2244
01:58:35,280 --> 01:58:39,040
Speaker 2: and maybe it's a coincidence. I don't know the Paul's team.

2245
01:58:40,040 --> 01:58:42,720
Speaker 2: Chris Paul's teams have had an incredibly poor record in

2246
01:58:42,720 --> 01:58:46,080
Speaker 2: playoff games officiated by Foster, and he's been involved in

2247
01:58:46,200 --> 01:58:48,840
Speaker 2: several controversial calls that have sparked a lot of reactions.

2248
01:58:49,320 --> 01:58:52,320
Speaker 2: In summary, Scott Foster may be a side show on

2249
01:58:52,640 --> 01:58:55,000
Speaker 2: Sunday Night, as I cannot wait. I mean, we are

2250
01:58:55,080 --> 01:59:00,520
Speaker 2: now what fifteen hours away from game seven to best

2251
01:59:00,560 --> 01:59:03,720
Speaker 2: words in Sports? Well, guess what, We're just ten seconds away,

2252
01:59:03,760 --> 01:59:06,280
Speaker 2: six minutes away from what kind of brand new fool you?

2253
01:59:06,800 --> 01:59:08,960
Speaker 2: And what my name so keep it locked and listening

2254
01:59:08,960 --> 01:59:11,000
Speaker 2: to Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

2255
01:59:12,240 --> 01:59:16,160
Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio rad Yep, that's right.

2256
01:59:16,240 --> 01:59:18,320
Speaker 2: You heard the man. The Bernie Friddle Show keeps rolling

2257
01:59:18,640 --> 01:59:20,480
Speaker 2: right along. My name is Bernie Fraddle. We are coming

2258
01:59:20,520 --> 01:59:23,440
Speaker 2: to line from the Fox Sports Radio studios here in

2259
01:59:24,040 --> 01:59:28,839
Speaker 2: Las Vegas. And you know we've come to that juncture

2260
01:59:28,880 --> 01:59:30,360
Speaker 2: in the show. You know you love it, you can't

2261
01:59:30,440 --> 01:59:33,320
Speaker 2: live without it. Yep. It's the dance sensation sweep of

2262
01:59:33,360 --> 01:59:37,200
Speaker 2: the nation because you see here on the Bernie Fridle Show,

2263
01:59:37,520 --> 01:59:40,440
Speaker 2: as Yogi Berr would say, you could observe a lot

2264
01:59:40,600 --> 01:59:44,680
Speaker 2: by watching, and that's exactly what we do. Because around

2265
01:59:44,760 --> 01:59:46,920
Speaker 2: this great country of ours, from seed to Oily Sea,

2266
01:59:46,960 --> 01:59:49,240
Speaker 2: and certainly around the globe and the planet, well, people

2267
01:59:49,360 --> 01:59:54,760
Speaker 2: engage in behaviors, odd behaviors. Sometimes sometimes they're innocuous, Sometimes

2268
01:59:54,800 --> 01:59:58,240
Speaker 2: they're just silly and stupid. Other times they're far more serious,

2269
01:59:58,360 --> 02:00:00,400
Speaker 2: and you run a follow the law and they can

2270
02:00:01,040 --> 02:00:05,320
Speaker 2: even become behaviors that land someone in jail. But anyway

2271
02:00:05,360 --> 02:00:08,800
Speaker 2: you slice it, any way, you characterize it, anyway you

2272
02:00:08,960 --> 02:00:12,240
Speaker 2: describe it. These behaviors that we allude to, well, they

2273
02:00:12,360 --> 02:00:16,480
Speaker 2: always leave us scratching our head and asking ourselves, what

2274
02:00:16,720 --> 02:00:18,280
Speaker 2: kind of brand new fool are you?

2275
02:00:24,960 --> 02:00:26,880
Speaker 1: What kind of brand new fool are you?

2276
02:00:28,560 --> 02:00:31,520
Speaker 2: Well, this one might be the weirdest one I've ever done,

2277
02:00:31,840 --> 02:00:38,080
Speaker 2: because it just defies the imagination. We take you to Littlestown, Pennsylvania,

2278
02:00:38,200 --> 02:00:41,640
Speaker 2: Nesslon Adams County, and we introduce you to Cole Williams,

2279
02:00:42,320 --> 02:00:45,480
Speaker 2: nineteen year old young man who well, like a lot

2280
02:00:45,520 --> 02:00:47,520
Speaker 2: of folks, just trying to make a buck, just trying

2281
02:00:47,520 --> 02:00:49,920
Speaker 2: to get along in the world. Not sure if this

2282
02:00:50,120 --> 02:00:56,120
Speaker 2: was his side hustle or his his main gig, but

2283
02:00:56,720 --> 02:01:02,760
Speaker 2: he decided to sell something recently on I guess what

2284
02:01:03,000 --> 02:01:09,240
Speaker 2: they call it a Facebook marketplace, and uh, certain people

2285
02:01:09,360 --> 02:01:13,600
Speaker 2: in the state Gaming Commission uh saw the post, and

2286
02:01:13,720 --> 02:01:19,000
Speaker 2: a concerned citizen called the Gaming Commission and said, uh, yeah,

2287
02:01:19,160 --> 02:01:22,200
Speaker 2: you might want to look at this. This one looks weird.

2288
02:01:22,800 --> 02:01:25,760
Speaker 2: You know, often the police get tips from people, uh,

2289
02:01:26,200 --> 02:01:28,640
Speaker 2: and that can lead to that can lead to a rests,

2290
02:01:28,640 --> 02:01:30,760
Speaker 2: you know what happens all the time. But in this

2291
02:01:30,920 --> 02:01:33,560
Speaker 2: particular case, and by the way, you should know in

2292
02:01:33,800 --> 02:01:37,959
Speaker 2: case you live in Pennsylvania or even thinking I'm moving there, possessing, importing,

2293
02:01:38,040 --> 02:01:42,839
Speaker 2: and selling exotic wildlife species without the proper permits is illegal.

2294
02:01:42,880 --> 02:01:46,040
Speaker 2: Of course, you know that. Everybody knows that, and say, look,

2295
02:01:46,080 --> 02:01:48,800
Speaker 2: these laws are in place to protect the public as

2296
02:01:48,840 --> 02:01:53,960
Speaker 2: well as native wildlife species because there's dangers and harm

2297
02:01:54,040 --> 02:01:58,680
Speaker 2: created by proper handling of these quote exotic species. As

2298
02:01:58,720 --> 02:02:01,320
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, right on their website, the Pennsylvania

2299
02:02:01,400 --> 02:02:04,760
Speaker 2: Game Commission says the Operation Thief program quote serves to

2300
02:02:04,840 --> 02:02:07,880
Speaker 2: protect wild birds as wild mammals and encourages those who

2301
02:02:08,040 --> 02:02:11,680
Speaker 2: have information related to wild life crimes report the details

2302
02:02:11,760 --> 02:02:15,440
Speaker 2: as soon as possible. And that's exactly what happened. So

2303
02:02:15,560 --> 02:02:22,200
Speaker 2: officials took a little visit to mister Williams home and again,

2304
02:02:22,720 --> 02:02:26,520
Speaker 2: guess what mister Williams was trying to sell on Facebook?

2305
02:02:27,800 --> 02:02:32,600
Speaker 2: A six month old kangaroo hiding in a closet. And

2306
02:02:32,920 --> 02:02:36,040
Speaker 2: mister Williams well, he ended up pleaning guilty to three

2307
02:02:36,120 --> 02:02:40,320
Speaker 2: summary accounts of unlawful importation of wildlife to summary accounts

2308
02:02:40,320 --> 02:02:45,680
Speaker 2: of failing to acquire required permits. I have no idea

2309
02:02:45,720 --> 02:02:48,520
Speaker 2: how the hell he got this kangaroo. They found the

2310
02:02:48,600 --> 02:02:51,360
Speaker 2: kangaroo hiding in a closet. The Game Commission did the

2311
02:02:51,440 --> 02:02:53,400
Speaker 2: kangaroo was seized, taken to a facility where it could

2312
02:02:53,400 --> 02:02:57,200
Speaker 2: be cared for, and mister Williams will have to answer

2313
02:02:57,280 --> 02:03:00,400
Speaker 2: to the judge. Now, I'm all for anybody he wants

2314
02:03:00,480 --> 02:03:03,120
Speaker 2: to be earnest and try to hustle and make a buck.

2315
02:03:03,640 --> 02:03:05,879
Speaker 2: But if you're gonna be hiding kangaroos in the closet

2316
02:03:07,040 --> 02:03:09,280
Speaker 2: and that's going to be your source of income, well

2317
02:03:09,280 --> 02:03:11,080
Speaker 2: you're going to run a final with the game Commission

2318
02:03:11,120 --> 02:03:14,040
Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania. Is is mister Williams found out the hard way.

2319
02:03:14,400 --> 02:03:18,960
Speaker 2: So we asked you, mister Cole nineteen of Littlestown, Pennsylvania,

2320
02:03:19,240 --> 02:03:24,840
Speaker 2: what kind of brand new fool you? All right? Ian Roddy.

2321
02:03:24,960 --> 02:03:27,200
Speaker 2: You are a veteran at this game. You've had some

2322
02:03:27,480 --> 02:03:30,760
Speaker 2: very good brand new fools in the past. Take it away.

2323
02:03:31,360 --> 02:03:33,440
Speaker 20: Yeah, I've had some good ones in the past. I this,

2324
02:03:34,200 --> 02:03:36,360
Speaker 20: like you said ahead of yours, Bernie, this might be

2325
02:03:36,440 --> 02:03:39,840
Speaker 20: the weirdest one I've done. I'm about to take you

2326
02:03:39,920 --> 02:03:43,520
Speaker 20: on a journey here, so go. Our story begins in Wichita,

2327
02:03:43,680 --> 02:03:45,720
Speaker 20: Kansas and this is just from back in May, so

2328
02:03:46,080 --> 02:03:47,200
Speaker 20: you know, just over a month ago.

2329
02:03:48,880 --> 02:03:53,360
Speaker 21: Now, yes, thank you, Mark. Now there's a man named.

2330
02:03:53,280 --> 02:03:56,280
Speaker 20: Gordon Pierce who at the time owed a drug dealer

2331
02:03:56,320 --> 02:03:58,800
Speaker 20: a lot of money, about twenty thousand dollars, according to

2332
02:03:58,880 --> 02:04:03,200
Speaker 20: reports now, to repay the debt, Pierce's plan was to

2333
02:04:03,360 --> 02:04:06,000
Speaker 20: sell copper. Kind of a unique plan there, but he

2334
02:04:06,040 --> 02:04:08,880
Speaker 20: would get that copper from stealing statues around town.

2335
02:04:09,560 --> 02:04:09,720
Speaker 2: Now.

2336
02:04:09,800 --> 02:04:12,760
Speaker 20: He was reportedly driving around in complete desperation looking for

2337
02:04:12,880 --> 02:04:15,920
Speaker 20: copper statues to sell to repay this debt he had

2338
02:04:15,960 --> 02:04:18,120
Speaker 20: to the drug dealer when he came across a giant

2339
02:04:18,280 --> 02:04:22,480
Speaker 20: metal cannon at a place called Riverside Park, so Bernie,

2340
02:04:22,560 --> 02:04:25,200
Speaker 20: this is an eight hundred pound cannon from the Spanish

2341
02:04:25,240 --> 02:04:27,720
Speaker 20: American War. It is made of copper, and it's been

2342
02:04:27,840 --> 02:04:30,960
Speaker 20: sitting It's been in that park since nineteen hundred, so

2343
02:04:31,080 --> 02:04:34,720
Speaker 20: well over a century. It's been sitting there now. Pierce

2344
02:04:34,760 --> 02:04:38,480
Speaker 20: told investigators now that he recruited a nearby homeless man

2345
02:04:38,640 --> 02:04:43,160
Speaker 20: to help him by offering him drugs. The two men

2346
02:04:43,280 --> 02:04:46,040
Speaker 20: got high on meth together before initially trying to lift

2347
02:04:46,120 --> 02:04:48,800
Speaker 20: the cannon into the bed of Pierce's truck, which they

2348
02:04:48,800 --> 02:04:51,040
Speaker 20: weren't able to do obviously because it's eight hundred pounds,

2349
02:04:51,920 --> 02:04:54,680
Speaker 20: so they ended up hooking it up to a chain

2350
02:04:54,720 --> 02:04:56,760
Speaker 20: attached to the back of the truck's hitch so that

2351
02:04:56,840 --> 02:04:59,080
Speaker 20: he could tow it off of the pedestal that it

2352
02:04:59,200 --> 02:05:02,360
Speaker 20: was on. So Bernie, he dragged an eight hundred pounds

2353
02:05:02,480 --> 02:05:06,320
Speaker 20: Spanish American war cannon through the streets of Wichita, Kansas

2354
02:05:06,440 --> 02:05:08,200
Speaker 20: until the chain eventually snapped.

2355
02:05:10,160 --> 02:05:10,960
Speaker 21: This isn't over yet.

2356
02:05:11,080 --> 02:05:13,040
Speaker 20: He left the cannon there in the middle of the road,

2357
02:05:13,120 --> 02:05:16,480
Speaker 20: fled to a friend's house for a new chain. So

2358
02:05:16,680 --> 02:05:19,280
Speaker 20: he then hid the cannon in that friend's garage. So

2359
02:05:19,360 --> 02:05:22,280
Speaker 20: he did get it to the friend's house. Inside the garage,

2360
02:05:22,280 --> 02:05:25,200
Speaker 20: he chopped the cannon up into five chunks, loaded the

2361
02:05:25,240 --> 02:05:28,560
Speaker 20: pieces back into his truck, took them straight to the

2362
02:05:28,640 --> 02:05:30,720
Speaker 20: drug dealer that he owed money to in hopes that

2363
02:05:30,800 --> 02:05:34,400
Speaker 20: he would settle his debt. Now, the drug dealer, as

2364
02:05:34,440 --> 02:05:36,760
Speaker 20: you might imagine, was pretty pissed off at him, calling

2365
02:05:36,840 --> 02:05:41,000
Speaker 20: him an idiot. Terrified, Pierce went to his mother's house,

2366
02:05:41,120 --> 02:05:43,920
Speaker 20: confessed and fell asleep. Then when he woke up, police

2367
02:05:43,920 --> 02:05:46,840
Speaker 20: were there to arrest him, and now he's in jail.

2368
02:05:46,920 --> 02:05:49,360
Speaker 20: His bailist set at like two hundred thousand dollars, I thought,

2369
02:05:49,400 --> 02:05:51,280
Speaker 20: which is like ten times more than he already owed

2370
02:05:51,320 --> 02:05:54,120
Speaker 20: the drug dealer. So he just dug himself a much

2371
02:05:54,160 --> 02:05:57,640
Speaker 20: deeper hole. So Gordon Pierce, what kind of brand new

2372
02:05:57,720 --> 02:05:58,240
Speaker 20: fool are you?

2373
02:06:00,320 --> 02:06:01,920
Speaker 2: Boy? Did that have a lot of moving part?

2374
02:06:02,040 --> 02:06:03,520
Speaker 20: Oh my god, I know the guy must like to

2375
02:06:03,600 --> 02:06:05,640
Speaker 20: talk to because the amount of detail that was in

2376
02:06:05,760 --> 02:06:07,680
Speaker 20: this article I read like he must have just been

2377
02:06:07,800 --> 02:06:10,120
Speaker 20: babbling to police and once they got their hands.

2378
02:06:09,920 --> 02:06:13,480
Speaker 2: On him, well, he's probably safer and jail it out,

2379
02:06:13,600 --> 02:06:16,640
Speaker 2: because it seems to me like this drug dealer is

2380
02:06:17,200 --> 02:06:18,280
Speaker 2: looking for some retribution.

2381
02:06:18,440 --> 02:06:18,640
Speaker 8: Yeah.

2382
02:06:18,640 --> 02:06:19,640
Speaker 21: I hope they catch that guy.

2383
02:06:22,680 --> 02:06:24,920
Speaker 2: And that's exactly why we call this what kind of

2384
02:06:24,960 --> 02:06:28,520
Speaker 2: brand new fool of you? Rousing additions of what kind

2385
02:06:28,560 --> 02:06:30,920
Speaker 2: of brand new fool of you? Which now allows us

2386
02:06:31,760 --> 02:06:35,720
Speaker 2: to segue into our second favorite bit that we refer

2387
02:06:35,840 --> 02:06:42,200
Speaker 2: to as what my name? And here we go? All right?

2388
02:06:43,680 --> 02:06:48,960
Speaker 2: Most recently, actually, let me try that again in English, Yogi,

2389
02:06:50,800 --> 02:06:56,360
Speaker 2: I recently became the latest Major League baseball player to

2390
02:06:56,640 --> 02:07:03,240
Speaker 2: homer against all thirty Major League Baseball teams. Now, mind you,

2391
02:07:03,640 --> 02:07:06,600
Speaker 2: thirty two players have done this in history, but this

2392
02:07:06,760 --> 02:07:12,520
Speaker 2: particular player just did it Saturday, becoming the most recent

2393
02:07:12,560 --> 02:07:17,600
Speaker 2: player to homer in all against all thirty two Major

2394
02:07:17,680 --> 02:07:22,200
Speaker 2: league teams. Ian Roddy what my name? And by the way,

2395
02:07:22,720 --> 02:07:26,800
Speaker 2: here's a clue. I just got traded from a prominent

2396
02:07:26,960 --> 02:07:29,520
Speaker 2: ALE East team to a prominent NL West team.

2397
02:07:32,320 --> 02:07:33,920
Speaker 21: Well, I might just get it because of your clue.

2398
02:07:34,000 --> 02:07:35,040
Speaker 21: Is it Raphael Devers?

2399
02:07:35,680 --> 02:07:36,200
Speaker 7: You got it?

2400
02:07:36,520 --> 02:07:36,960
Speaker 21: All right?

2401
02:07:37,360 --> 02:07:42,520
Speaker 2: It's a winner. Raphael Devers picked right up on it.

2402
02:07:44,520 --> 02:07:49,760
Speaker 2: All right. Let's stay in San Francisco. Believe it or not,

2403
02:07:50,320 --> 02:07:54,560
Speaker 2: but this proud franchise. I'm still the last San Francisco

2404
02:07:54,680 --> 02:07:59,440
Speaker 2: Giant to get thirty home runs in this season. Mark Ramsey,

2405
02:08:00,120 --> 02:08:03,440
Speaker 2: what my name? And here's a clue. He hasn't been

2406
02:08:03,520 --> 02:08:06,800
Speaker 2: voted into the Hall of Fame for alleged steroid use.

2407
02:08:10,040 --> 02:08:10,200
Speaker 3: Is it?

2408
02:08:10,640 --> 02:08:11,960
Speaker 21: Very bighead bonds?

2409
02:08:12,280 --> 02:08:14,600
Speaker 2: It is nicely done. Because I was going to talk

2410
02:08:14,600 --> 02:08:17,360
Speaker 2: about that was going to be my next clue. He

2411
02:08:17,480 --> 02:08:20,600
Speaker 2: had a head the size of two bowling balls, which

2412
02:08:20,600 --> 02:08:23,360
Speaker 2: he seemed to be shrunk since he retired. Wow, what

2413
02:08:23,480 --> 02:08:27,200
Speaker 2: a coincidence. Huh? All right, let's mix in a little football.

2414
02:08:28,280 --> 02:08:34,280
Speaker 2: So I currently am the only NFL running back to

2415
02:08:34,720 --> 02:08:37,920
Speaker 2: run for one thousand yards in each of the last

2416
02:08:38,280 --> 02:08:43,240
Speaker 2: four seasons. Ian Roddy what my name? And I'm no

2417
02:08:43,400 --> 02:08:47,080
Speaker 2: longer on the team I did it for. And that team.

2418
02:08:48,920 --> 02:08:52,520
Speaker 2: That team actually has a new quarterback that's forty two

2419
02:08:52,600 --> 02:08:58,920
Speaker 2: years old. H I played my college football at Alabama.

2420
02:09:00,240 --> 02:09:01,600
Speaker 21: I'm gonna guess Derrick Henry.

2421
02:09:02,240 --> 02:09:03,880
Speaker 2: That's a good guess. It's not Derek. Yeah.

2422
02:09:03,960 --> 02:09:05,840
Speaker 21: The new quarterback thing proved me off a little bit.

2423
02:09:05,960 --> 02:09:09,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Aaron Rodgers is the quarterback of the team

2424
02:09:09,200 --> 02:09:13,120
Speaker 2: I played for. I'm the only NFL running back one

2425
02:09:13,160 --> 02:09:15,640
Speaker 2: thousand yards in each of the last four seasons. Mark Ramsey,

2426
02:09:15,680 --> 02:09:16,160
Speaker 2: what my name?

2427
02:09:18,320 --> 02:09:20,240
Speaker 21: Can I dial for a friend?

2428
02:09:21,120 --> 02:09:21,760
Speaker 2: Absolutely?

2429
02:09:23,400 --> 02:09:24,280
Speaker 21: Is that many clues?

2430
02:09:25,040 --> 02:09:28,320
Speaker 2: You guys can? Oh, okay, so let's give you another. God,

2431
02:09:28,680 --> 02:09:30,120
Speaker 2: it's hard for me to come up with a clue

2432
02:09:30,120 --> 02:09:30,560
Speaker 2: here with that.

2433
02:09:30,760 --> 02:09:31,120
Speaker 19: I just.

2434
02:09:33,600 --> 02:09:39,440
Speaker 2: Okay. His last name might be the same as someone

2435
02:09:39,480 --> 02:09:44,760
Speaker 2: who lost their run for the presidency last November. That's

2436
02:09:44,760 --> 02:09:49,520
Speaker 2: a pretty good clue. Either one of you guys, you're

2437
02:09:49,560 --> 02:09:52,080
Speaker 2: gonna kick yourself. You go ahead. Ian?

2438
02:09:52,520 --> 02:09:53,440
Speaker 21: Is it nag Harris?

2439
02:09:53,720 --> 02:10:01,600
Speaker 2: It is, in fact, Nagie Harris. Why don't we stick

2440
02:10:01,760 --> 02:10:06,400
Speaker 2: with football? Believe it or not. I'm the most sacked

2441
02:10:06,760 --> 02:10:14,320
Speaker 2: quarterback in NFL history, Mark Ian Roddy, whatn't my name?

2442
02:10:14,400 --> 02:10:17,720
Speaker 2: And by the way, I'm now on my third team.

2443
02:10:18,440 --> 02:10:22,840
Speaker 2: But I'm still playing. And I'm sure. First, I'm a

2444
02:10:22,920 --> 02:10:26,080
Speaker 2: sure Hall of Fame Yeah, I'm a sure Hall of

2445
02:10:26,160 --> 02:10:26,920
Speaker 2: Fame ballot player.

2446
02:10:27,600 --> 02:10:29,480
Speaker 21: I think I know this one? Is it Aaron Rodgers?

2447
02:10:29,640 --> 02:10:29,840
Speaker 9: It is?

2448
02:10:29,920 --> 02:10:32,440
Speaker 2: In fact, Aaron Rodgers's sacked more than any other player

2449
02:10:33,160 --> 02:10:33,680
Speaker 2: in history.

2450
02:10:34,520 --> 02:10:36,880
Speaker 21: Added a lot to that total last year playing for

2451
02:10:37,000 --> 02:10:40,120
Speaker 21: my Jets. So mister Carr doesn't make that list of

2452
02:10:41,120 --> 02:10:42,080
Speaker 21: sacked quarterbacks.

2453
02:10:42,520 --> 02:10:45,560
Speaker 2: Well, see, that's a really good point. Mark. The difference,

2454
02:10:45,640 --> 02:10:49,240
Speaker 2: of course, is Aaron Rodgers has been playing since what

2455
02:10:49,440 --> 02:10:51,880
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, and Narrick car didn't really breaking

2456
02:10:51,880 --> 02:10:53,240
Speaker 2: his lead to twenty sixteen.

2457
02:10:53,560 --> 02:10:56,680
Speaker 21: I thought the amount of sacks he would just outdo everybody,

2458
02:10:57,200 --> 02:10:58,120
Speaker 21: just joking, He.

2459
02:10:58,200 --> 02:11:01,000
Speaker 2: Damn near would have if he played long. Yeah, there's

2460
02:11:01,040 --> 02:11:05,800
Speaker 2: no question about that. All right, let's go a little

2461
02:11:05,840 --> 02:11:08,839
Speaker 2: deeper into the cookie jar. We're not that far removed

2462
02:11:09,000 --> 02:11:13,360
Speaker 2: from March Madness. Really not, well, kind of maybe, But

2463
02:11:14,920 --> 02:11:17,760
Speaker 2: a few saturdays ago, during March Madness, I became only

2464
02:11:17,840 --> 02:11:22,840
Speaker 2: the second coach in college basketball history to lead four

2465
02:11:23,040 --> 02:11:30,360
Speaker 2: teams to the Sweet sixteen. Mark Ramsey, what my name,

2466
02:11:31,160 --> 02:11:34,360
Speaker 2: here's a clue. One of those teams was Kentucky, where

2467
02:11:34,360 --> 02:11:38,000
Speaker 2: he's probably most notable for his tenure there. Mark Ramsey,

2468
02:11:38,040 --> 02:11:38,520
Speaker 2: what my name?

2469
02:11:39,960 --> 02:11:42,240
Speaker 21: Oh Kentucky, Kentucky.

2470
02:11:41,920 --> 02:11:44,360
Speaker 2: No longer at Kentucky. Oh Kentucky.

2471
02:11:46,040 --> 02:11:48,800
Speaker 21: I could see his face, but I can't think of

2472
02:11:48,920 --> 02:11:49,320
Speaker 21: his name.

2473
02:11:50,200 --> 02:11:56,400
Speaker 2: That's all right. Last March, Madness on the second Saturday

2474
02:11:56,840 --> 02:12:01,080
Speaker 2: became the second coach in college bass calling history to

2475
02:12:01,240 --> 02:12:06,680
Speaker 2: lead four different teams to the Sweet sixteen. Ian Roddy

2476
02:12:06,720 --> 02:12:09,440
Speaker 2: what my name? Here's a clue, currently coaching in the

2477
02:12:09,600 --> 02:12:11,680
Speaker 2: SEC and obviously had a pretty good first year.

2478
02:12:12,560 --> 02:12:14,240
Speaker 21: Yeah, is this coach? Cal John Calipari?

2479
02:12:14,520 --> 02:12:17,720
Speaker 2: Cal John Calipari. You guys are on fire. Raphael Devers,

2480
02:12:17,760 --> 02:12:20,800
Speaker 2: Barry Bonds, Notatierras and Rats n Calipark. Let's keep it,

2481
02:12:20,960 --> 02:12:24,600
Speaker 2: just keep it going. This one's a little tougher because,

2482
02:12:25,880 --> 02:12:30,000
Speaker 2: aside from John Calipari, I'm actually the only other coach

2483
02:12:30,720 --> 02:12:37,200
Speaker 2: who led four teams into the Sweet sixteen. Mark uh,

2484
02:12:37,680 --> 02:12:40,240
Speaker 2: let's start with you. Ian Ian Roddy, what my name?

2485
02:12:40,320 --> 02:12:41,879
Speaker 2: Here's a clue? His son.

2486
02:12:43,200 --> 02:12:43,240
Speaker 9: Was.

2487
02:12:44,080 --> 02:12:45,440
Speaker 2: I thought he did a good job, but he was

2488
02:12:45,480 --> 02:12:48,600
Speaker 2: fired at UNLV as a head basketball coach last April.

2489
02:12:49,680 --> 02:12:52,760
Speaker 21: I'm gonna get Rick Patino, Not Rick Patina.

2490
02:12:52,880 --> 02:12:55,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, Rick's at New Mexico they need a left. You're

2491
02:12:55,280 --> 02:12:55,800
Speaker 2: on the right track.

2492
02:12:55,880 --> 02:12:57,520
Speaker 21: Yeah, I was gonna say Patino either way.

2493
02:12:58,440 --> 02:13:01,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, farewell, But yeah, I probably threw things off with

2494
02:13:01,960 --> 02:13:04,320
Speaker 2: the sun. But think about this. The only other coach

2495
02:13:05,360 --> 02:13:08,879
Speaker 2: to lead is lead four teams to the Sweet sixteen

2496
02:13:09,360 --> 02:13:13,640
Speaker 2: history of college basketball. His last coaching job was at

2497
02:13:13,800 --> 02:13:19,360
Speaker 2: Oklahoma before retiring. He's currently retired. He also coached at Florida,

2498
02:13:19,920 --> 02:13:24,520
Speaker 2: coach at UNLV, coached in the NBA, coach at Illinois.

2499
02:13:27,760 --> 02:13:30,920
Speaker 2: His first name rhymes with Ron, but it's not Ron.

2500
02:13:35,400 --> 02:13:38,600
Speaker 2: His last name is eerily close to a grocery store

2501
02:13:38,760 --> 02:13:40,480
Speaker 2: chain in the Midwest.

2502
02:13:41,960 --> 02:13:43,000
Speaker 21: Somebody named Kroger.

2503
02:13:43,360 --> 02:13:46,360
Speaker 2: Oh you're getting We're warming up, We're getting close. You're

2504
02:13:46,480 --> 02:13:52,160
Speaker 2: getting close. First name rhymes with Ron. Anybody going once,

2505
02:13:52,920 --> 02:13:58,040
Speaker 2: going twice? The legendary Ln Krueger, a very respected guy

2506
02:13:58,120 --> 02:14:02,040
Speaker 2: in coaching ranks. Yeah, it was actually Lon Kruger. All right,

2507
02:14:02,360 --> 02:14:06,240
Speaker 2: all good, all good, All right, let's go to the

2508
02:14:06,320 --> 02:14:11,760
Speaker 2: distaff side. I am the winningest coach in NCAA history

2509
02:14:12,000 --> 02:14:18,280
Speaker 2: in women's basketball. Mark Ramsey, what my name? I'm still coaching?

2510
02:14:19,640 --> 02:14:24,680
Speaker 2: And uh my last star to send Beckers, not Don Staley,

2511
02:14:25,320 --> 02:14:26,600
Speaker 2: not Don Stay. That's a good name.

2512
02:14:26,680 --> 02:14:29,760
Speaker 20: Though, Bernie, I was about to get it wrong, but

2513
02:14:29,880 --> 02:14:31,400
Speaker 20: your hint I think just gave it to me as

2514
02:14:31,440 --> 02:14:32,160
Speaker 20: a gino.

2515
02:14:33,040 --> 02:14:38,000
Speaker 2: Oriama still can't I still can't believe he hasn't attracted.

2516
02:14:38,120 --> 02:14:41,880
Speaker 2: Some of the things he said about Caitlin Clark last

2517
02:14:41,960 --> 02:14:46,040
Speaker 2: year just really stupid. Man. All right, let's continue on

2518
02:14:46,200 --> 02:14:51,000
Speaker 2: a couple more here. Uh, this one's a little tricky,

2519
02:14:51,160 --> 02:14:54,400
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna clarify it. I'm one of only two

2520
02:14:54,600 --> 02:14:59,080
Speaker 2: players to play in an NBA Finals Game seven for

2521
02:14:59,240 --> 02:15:05,040
Speaker 2: two different teams. You can get either one, but let

2522
02:15:05,120 --> 02:15:11,040
Speaker 2: me start with the one because here, here's why the

2523
02:15:11,760 --> 02:15:13,800
Speaker 2: question is tricky. There have been guys that have sat

2524
02:15:13,920 --> 02:15:15,920
Speaker 2: on the bench that have been on different teams that

2525
02:15:16,200 --> 02:15:17,880
Speaker 2: were part of a Game seven because they were on

2526
02:15:17,920 --> 02:15:23,240
Speaker 2: the roster. Okay, but but one of only two players

2527
02:15:25,920 --> 02:15:30,520
Speaker 2: to to to play actually in a Game seven in

2528
02:15:30,600 --> 02:15:35,600
Speaker 2: the NBA Finals. So, Ian Roddy, here's your clue. I

2529
02:15:35,720 --> 02:15:41,440
Speaker 2: did it with san Antonio was the most recent team

2530
02:15:41,520 --> 02:15:44,320
Speaker 2: to do it. And my nickname is big Shot.

2531
02:15:47,960 --> 02:15:49,760
Speaker 12: Oh man, I.

2532
02:15:49,880 --> 02:15:53,640
Speaker 21: Feel like I should know this, san Antonio. I'm just

2533
02:15:53,760 --> 02:15:57,360
Speaker 21: gonna say, Monogenobili.

2534
02:15:57,160 --> 02:16:00,080
Speaker 2: It's not a bad guess. I think spent most his

2535
02:16:00,120 --> 02:16:03,400
Speaker 2: whole career, you know, at this one, I'll tell you what.

2536
02:16:03,720 --> 02:16:05,600
Speaker 21: You're right, And he was his whole career though.

2537
02:16:05,680 --> 02:16:09,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, but all good? Uh, because this other guy.

2538
02:16:09,640 --> 02:16:10,880
Speaker 21: I think he's a guy does it?

2539
02:16:11,000 --> 02:16:11,560
Speaker 2: He does it?

2540
02:16:11,680 --> 02:16:14,080
Speaker 21: Does he currently do? Lakers?

2541
02:16:14,640 --> 02:16:14,760
Speaker 2: Uh?

2542
02:16:15,320 --> 02:16:15,920
Speaker 21: After game?

2543
02:16:16,440 --> 02:16:17,960
Speaker 2: You know, I think he? I think he does. I

2544
02:16:18,040 --> 02:16:18,960
Speaker 2: think I've seen him there.

2545
02:16:19,040 --> 02:16:22,000
Speaker 21: Yeah, because he's won like a bunch of trophies with

2546
02:16:22,120 --> 02:16:22,800
Speaker 21: various teams.

2547
02:16:22,800 --> 02:16:27,160
Speaker 2: He was, he was all around it. And his nickname

2548
02:16:27,240 --> 02:16:29,160
Speaker 2: is big Shot Bob. What's his full name? What's my

2549
02:16:29,280 --> 02:16:31,280
Speaker 2: full name? You're gonna get it now?

2550
02:16:31,960 --> 02:16:32,720
Speaker 21: I don't, I don't.

2551
02:16:32,720 --> 02:16:35,840
Speaker 2: I covered the five Pistons. Robert or it is Robert

2552
02:16:35,959 --> 02:16:39,959
Speaker 2: Rory big shot op? All right now, I said one

2553
02:16:40,040 --> 02:16:44,240
Speaker 2: of two names, Okay, the other guy to do it?

2554
02:16:45,200 --> 02:16:49,600
Speaker 2: H He hasn't been an NBA Game seven since twenty sixteen,

2555
02:16:50,480 --> 02:16:52,840
Speaker 2: which is the last time there was an NBA Game seven,

2556
02:16:53,400 --> 02:16:56,480
Speaker 2: but he managed to win the championship with that team.

2557
02:16:56,680 --> 02:16:57,360
Speaker 2: Think about that.

2558
02:16:57,640 --> 02:16:58,480
Speaker 6: What my name?

2559
02:16:59,240 --> 02:17:01,640
Speaker 2: Either Mark or Oran whoever can get it?

2560
02:17:02,320 --> 02:17:02,600
Speaker 1: I think?

2561
02:17:02,760 --> 02:17:02,880
Speaker 3: Is it?

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02:17:03,000 --> 02:17:03,120
Speaker 14: Is it?

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02:17:03,240 --> 02:17:03,560
Speaker 1: Lebron?

2564
02:17:03,720 --> 02:17:09,720
Speaker 2: It's Lebron. It's absoutely Lebron James? All right, last one, guys,

2565
02:17:11,000 --> 02:17:15,480
Speaker 2: I'm actually the only Japanese born baseball player in the

2566
02:17:15,560 --> 02:17:20,039
Speaker 2: major leagues to have two hundred and fifty home runs?

2567
02:17:22,040 --> 02:17:23,600
Speaker 2: Mark or Ian?

2568
02:17:25,000 --> 02:17:27,600
Speaker 21: What my name is it Otani?

2569
02:17:28,240 --> 02:17:31,640
Speaker 2: It is Otani Son, the honorable Shotani. It was funny

2570
02:17:31,680 --> 02:17:36,800
Speaker 2: because I remember what a prolific hitter it' youerro was right,

2571
02:17:36,959 --> 02:17:38,640
Speaker 2: believe it or not? Is oh? I say this only

2572
02:17:39,320 --> 02:17:41,760
Speaker 2: here one hundred and seventeen home runs with three thousand minths.

2573
02:17:41,840 --> 02:17:44,800
Speaker 2: So all right, excellent job on what my name? And

2574
02:17:45,000 --> 02:17:50,520
Speaker 2: excellent job on brand new fool Mark and Ian? Very good,

2575
02:17:50,760 --> 02:17:54,360
Speaker 2: very good, and we are off and running with another

2576
02:17:56,680 --> 02:17:58,680
Speaker 2: crazy addition to what kind of brand new fool you?

2577
02:17:58,879 --> 02:18:02,520
Speaker 2: And what my name is? Now in the books. Hey,

2578
02:18:02,560 --> 02:18:06,720
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2579
02:18:06,800 --> 02:18:09,959
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2580
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2581
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02:18:24,680 --> 02:18:27,879
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2586
02:18:27,920 --> 02:18:33,120
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2587
02:18:33,280 --> 02:18:36,960
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2588
02:18:37,000 --> 02:18:39,520
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2589
02:18:39,560 --> 02:18:42,400
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2590
02:18:42,480 --> 02:18:46,400
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2591
02:18:46,400 --> 02:18:49,600
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2592
02:18:49,680 --> 02:18:53,160
Speaker 2: from the Fox Sports Radio studios here in Las Vegas.

2593
02:18:53,440 --> 02:18:55,520
Speaker 2: So we beat the Lebron thing up pretty good. This

2594
02:18:55,640 --> 02:19:01,040
Speaker 2: whole ring culture. What I would call you more inscrutable

2595
02:19:01,320 --> 02:19:06,880
Speaker 2: oratory from Lebron. And you know, the one thing I

2596
02:19:06,959 --> 02:19:09,920
Speaker 2: didn't spend a lot of time on is the nonsense about,

2597
02:19:10,280 --> 02:19:15,840
Speaker 2: you know, people disrespecting athletes who didn't win a championship.

2598
02:19:16,440 --> 02:19:21,800
Speaker 2: And I challenge you who exactly is disrespecting Ernie Banks

2599
02:19:22,400 --> 02:19:25,600
Speaker 2: or Charles Barkley or Jeff Bagwell and Craig Bigio. Right,

2600
02:19:25,920 --> 02:19:29,960
Speaker 2: how about Algend Baylor, Barry Bonds, Paul Olburray, Dick Buckis,

2601
02:19:30,200 --> 02:19:36,400
Speaker 2: Rod carew Ty Cobb, Marcel Dion, Patrick Ewing, Mike Gardner,

2602
02:19:36,879 --> 02:19:40,840
Speaker 2: Ken Griffy Junior, Ken Grifford Junr never won a championship.

2603
02:19:41,280 --> 02:19:46,400
Speaker 2: You look at him any different? George Gervin, George Gervin, Yeah,

2604
02:19:47,040 --> 02:19:48,520
Speaker 2: you know what if you want to see what George

2605
02:19:48,560 --> 02:19:51,160
Speaker 2: Gervin look like back in the day. Look at Shay Gilgis.

2606
02:19:51,560 --> 02:19:53,720
Speaker 2: That's how George Gervin look the iceman. One of the

2607
02:19:53,800 --> 02:19:56,400
Speaker 2: most prolific scored in NBA history. How About maybe the

2608
02:19:56,480 --> 02:19:59,600
Speaker 2: greatest tight end to ever play the game, Tony Gonzalez

2609
02:20:00,240 --> 02:20:04,000
Speaker 2: of the Kansas City Chiefs, incredible, had almost fourteen hundred

2610
02:20:04,040 --> 02:20:10,040
Speaker 2: catches pro bowler fourteen years. Number one. Tony Gwynn, the

2611
02:20:10,160 --> 02:20:14,959
Speaker 2: late great Tony Gwynn. How many people in history knew

2612
02:20:15,000 --> 02:20:17,280
Speaker 2: how to swing a bat like a magic wand than

2613
02:20:17,360 --> 02:20:20,720
Speaker 2: Tony Grinton, better than Tony Gwynn. Eight time batting champion,

2614
02:20:20,800 --> 02:20:26,200
Speaker 2: fifteen time All Star. Roy Halliday rest his soul died

2615
02:20:26,240 --> 02:20:28,320
Speaker 2: in the plane crash, spent the first twelve years of

2616
02:20:28,400 --> 02:20:31,039
Speaker 2: his you know, being a lone star the Toronto Blue

2617
02:20:31,120 --> 02:20:34,280
Speaker 2: Jays handing the ball and he wins. There's a guy's

2618
02:20:34,280 --> 02:20:37,960
Speaker 2: still playing. James Harden been an All Star, you know

2619
02:20:38,080 --> 02:20:42,080
Speaker 2: many times. Look, we've talked about this, Alan Iverson. There's

2620
02:20:42,080 --> 02:20:45,279
Speaker 2: another name, right, I didn't even mention, you know, John Stockton,

2621
02:20:45,360 --> 02:20:48,960
Speaker 2: Carl Malone, right on down the line. Look, look, Lebron,

2622
02:20:49,360 --> 02:20:52,879
Speaker 2: you know, with all due respect, as I said earlier,

2623
02:20:53,080 --> 02:20:55,280
Speaker 2: you know, Lily Tomlin one said I always wanted to

2624
02:20:55,360 --> 02:20:58,280
Speaker 2: be somebody. I just once i'd been more specific. I

2625
02:20:58,320 --> 02:21:01,400
Speaker 2: think Lebron just wants to be somebody. And playing fifty

2626
02:21:01,440 --> 02:21:03,560
Speaker 2: eight years in the NBA and scoring a bazilion points

2627
02:21:03,600 --> 02:21:05,840
Speaker 2: and getting four rings with three different teams, that's not

2628
02:21:06,000 --> 02:21:09,120
Speaker 2: enough for him. He's got the Bobby Knight syndrome. And

2629
02:21:09,320 --> 02:21:12,040
Speaker 2: if Lebron ever retires, which I have no idea if

2630
02:21:12,080 --> 02:21:18,360
Speaker 2: he ever will, he doesn't want to. You know, Bobby

2631
02:21:18,440 --> 02:21:22,480
Speaker 2: Knight suffered from what I call you know, he he missed.

2632
02:21:22,879 --> 02:21:25,400
Speaker 2: He realized after he retired he missed the spotlight a

2633
02:21:25,440 --> 02:21:27,400
Speaker 2: lot more than the spotlight missed him. And I think

2634
02:21:27,520 --> 02:21:30,039
Speaker 2: that's Lebron right now. So he's got to get up

2635
02:21:30,040 --> 02:21:32,120
Speaker 2: there and talk while the NBA finals are going on,

2636
02:21:32,480 --> 02:21:35,760
Speaker 2: because all right, we covered all There's been lots of

2637
02:21:35,879 --> 02:21:40,600
Speaker 2: news on soccer. They spelled the sport football, futbol. We

2638
02:21:40,720 --> 02:21:43,080
Speaker 2: are now closing in on what should be a pretty

2639
02:21:43,120 --> 02:21:46,160
Speaker 2: interesting World Cup in twenty twenty six played here in

2640
02:21:46,200 --> 02:21:50,119
Speaker 2: North America. It's time for Chris Purfett's World of Soccer.

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02:21:51,640 --> 02:22:02,240
Speaker 22: The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drama.

2642
02:22:07,520 --> 02:22:10,920
Speaker 1: It's all here in this report from the World of Soccer.

2643
02:22:11,240 --> 02:22:13,400
Speaker 23: We talked in bits and pieces about it through the

2644
02:22:13,480 --> 02:22:16,440
Speaker 23: last couple of weeks Bernie, about the FIFA Club World Cup,

2645
02:22:16,840 --> 02:22:19,520
Speaker 23: how we would look, whatever would happen with it. We

2646
02:22:19,640 --> 02:22:21,920
Speaker 23: are about a week through it now and starting to

2647
02:22:22,040 --> 02:22:25,640
Speaker 23: really get a sense of things as the international break

2648
02:22:25,760 --> 02:22:28,520
Speaker 23: rolls back. So on this edition of the World of Soccer,

2649
02:22:28,600 --> 02:22:30,560
Speaker 23: we are going to go through the good, the bad,

2650
02:22:30,760 --> 02:22:33,520
Speaker 23: and the ugly. Let's start with the good. There has

2651
02:22:33,600 --> 02:22:36,080
Speaker 23: been a lot of talk when it comes to the

2652
02:22:36,200 --> 02:22:42,359
Speaker 23: matter of what this would really look like and European dominance.

2653
02:22:42,879 --> 02:22:47,040
Speaker 23: I echo the words of Gabriel Marcatti, the great soccer journalist,

2654
02:22:47,120 --> 02:22:49,080
Speaker 23: who talks about it a few weeks ago, about this

2655
02:22:49,200 --> 02:22:52,080
Speaker 23: seems to be exactly what we wanted, maybe not in

2656
02:22:52,120 --> 02:22:54,560
Speaker 23: the form we wanted, though that we wanted to see

2657
02:22:54,959 --> 02:22:58,240
Speaker 23: less about European dominance, and I worry that European dominance

2658
02:22:58,280 --> 02:23:01,920
Speaker 23: would continue. However, we've gotten some interested results, and a

2659
02:23:02,000 --> 02:23:04,680
Speaker 23: lot of that is that I said, hey, you know,

2660
02:23:04,920 --> 02:23:07,560
Speaker 23: keep an eye on some of the Brazilian clubs. They'll

2661
02:23:07,600 --> 02:23:10,000
Speaker 23: make a they'll make some fun of it. Well, I

2662
02:23:10,080 --> 02:23:14,240
Speaker 23: mean two match days in for most groups and the

2663
02:23:14,600 --> 02:23:21,720
Speaker 23: Brazilian clubs are really making themselves known. Between Flumenes, Flamengo,

2664
02:23:22,200 --> 02:23:26,400
Speaker 23: Botafogo who beat the reigning champions of Europe, Paris Saint

2665
02:23:26,440 --> 02:23:31,199
Speaker 23: Germain and Paul Marris all sitting atop their respective groups

2666
02:23:31,840 --> 02:23:37,600
Speaker 23: as of Saturday night, and it's it's really fascinating to watch.

2667
02:23:38,080 --> 02:23:41,080
Speaker 23: I think maybe there is some motivation gap that is

2668
02:23:41,680 --> 02:23:44,760
Speaker 23: going for the Brazilians, but it also shows that really

2669
02:23:44,840 --> 02:23:47,560
Speaker 23: the Brazilian clubs have never really been in the spotlight

2670
02:23:47,920 --> 02:23:50,560
Speaker 23: for a lot of the high end North American watchers,

2671
02:23:50,640 --> 02:23:53,040
Speaker 23: in for a lot of global watchers of soccer, and

2672
02:23:53,120 --> 02:23:56,000
Speaker 23: maybe they deserve some recognition. And we'll see what happens

2673
02:23:56,000 --> 02:23:58,680
Speaker 23: when we start to get towards the round of sixteen.

2674
02:23:59,080 --> 02:24:01,400
Speaker 23: And probably one of the most important good things about

2675
02:24:01,400 --> 02:24:05,280
Speaker 23: it seems to be there is growing interest in the

2676
02:24:05,400 --> 02:24:07,760
Speaker 23: Club World Cup. There's been a few reporters talking that

2677
02:24:07,840 --> 02:24:09,920
Speaker 23: clubs are buying in in spite of the fact that

2678
02:24:10,040 --> 02:24:12,879
Speaker 23: it is at the end of an extremely loaded soccer

2679
02:24:13,000 --> 02:24:16,080
Speaker 23: calendar in odd years, which used to be considered for

2680
02:24:16,680 --> 02:24:18,440
Speaker 23: a lot of rest for a lot of guys, but

2681
02:24:18,560 --> 02:24:21,320
Speaker 23: clubs do seem to like the idea of going to

2682
02:24:21,440 --> 02:24:22,360
Speaker 23: this event.

2683
02:24:22,920 --> 02:24:24,800
Speaker 21: And for the payouts that come with it.

2684
02:24:25,240 --> 02:24:29,560
Speaker 23: And there is a report out that Brazil is interested

2685
02:24:29,600 --> 02:24:31,800
Speaker 23: in hosting the Club World Cup in twenty twenty nine.

2686
02:24:32,080 --> 02:24:34,880
Speaker 23: Not surprising because we just talked about the Brazilian clubs

2687
02:24:34,920 --> 02:24:38,280
Speaker 23: having such good performances so far and I'm sure they're

2688
02:24:38,320 --> 02:24:41,280
Speaker 23: fans with love a home field advantage. Now a couple

2689
02:24:41,400 --> 02:24:44,160
Speaker 23: ugly entries before we get to the bad Auckland CITYFC.

2690
02:24:44,680 --> 02:24:47,960
Speaker 23: Now they have been included as the lone Oceania representative

2691
02:24:48,600 --> 02:24:51,600
Speaker 23: for the Club World Cup. Unfortunately we have the problem

2692
02:24:51,680 --> 02:24:55,120
Speaker 23: in that they have been outscored ten nil and six

2693
02:24:55,280 --> 02:24:58,879
Speaker 23: nils so far. That might just be because Auckland CITYFC

2694
02:24:59,040 --> 02:25:01,520
Speaker 23: is not a professional club. It is full of part

2695
02:25:01,560 --> 02:25:04,160
Speaker 23: timers and amateurs. In fact, a lot of their players

2696
02:25:04,240 --> 02:25:06,840
Speaker 23: actually couldn't make the Club World Cup because they had

2697
02:25:07,000 --> 02:25:11,920
Speaker 23: other jobs to work. It's kind of funny and it

2698
02:25:11,959 --> 02:25:14,280
Speaker 23: would be acceptable if it was a US Open Cup

2699
02:25:14,879 --> 02:25:19,880
Speaker 23: or a FA Cup in Britain, but here it's just weird.

2700
02:25:20,120 --> 02:25:20,240
Speaker 1: Now.

2701
02:25:20,280 --> 02:25:22,119
Speaker 23: I will be rooting for them in their final match

2702
02:25:22,200 --> 02:25:25,720
Speaker 23: against Boca Juniors, but I don't expect them to do

2703
02:25:25,800 --> 02:25:29,280
Speaker 23: anything ugly. As well has been attendance which has been

2704
02:25:29,400 --> 02:25:32,080
Speaker 23: up and down. In some places you could see close

2705
02:25:32,160 --> 02:25:36,040
Speaker 23: to ninety ninety four percent attendance. In some of these others,

2706
02:25:36,200 --> 02:25:40,480
Speaker 23: it's actually closer to thirty percent or barely half full.

2707
02:25:40,840 --> 02:25:43,039
Speaker 23: And that's really not something when you're trying to put

2708
02:25:43,120 --> 02:25:45,840
Speaker 23: on a Club World Cup that I really think is

2709
02:25:46,440 --> 02:25:49,440
Speaker 23: a really good look. And it's unfortunate that, but it's

2710
02:25:49,560 --> 02:25:51,680
Speaker 23: kind of the reality of some of these clubs. People

2711
02:25:51,720 --> 02:25:54,279
Speaker 23: aren't just going to travel, and that kind of dovetails

2712
02:25:54,320 --> 02:25:57,240
Speaker 23: into the bad because this is a tournament at the

2713
02:25:57,320 --> 02:26:00,000
Speaker 23: end of the day that struggled to get media partner

2714
02:26:00,680 --> 02:26:05,320
Speaker 23: to carry in broadcast these matches until the final month,

2715
02:26:05,640 --> 02:26:07,279
Speaker 23: and here in the United States.

2716
02:26:07,560 --> 02:26:08,600
Speaker 1: Most of it's on his own.

2717
02:26:09,240 --> 02:26:11,840
Speaker 23: Most Americans haven't heard of that service unless you happen

2718
02:26:11,920 --> 02:26:15,680
Speaker 23: to be a very deep boxing fan, and there's only

2719
02:26:15,720 --> 02:26:18,920
Speaker 23: a couple games every now and then on TBS. Another

2720
02:26:19,000 --> 02:26:26,959
Speaker 23: bad is unfortunate, but the champions of Italy, Spain and England, Liverpool,

2721
02:26:27,360 --> 02:26:31,400
Speaker 23: Monopoly and Barcelon are not represented here. We talked about

2722
02:26:31,600 --> 02:26:34,480
Speaker 23: the previous episode and I still strongly believe that needs

2723
02:26:34,520 --> 02:26:36,880
Speaker 23: to change period and there's no avoiding it. But the

2724
02:26:36,920 --> 02:26:39,960
Speaker 23: heat is an issue, no real way around this. The

2725
02:26:40,160 --> 02:26:42,600
Speaker 23: heat wave that is coming. But even still, this is

2726
02:26:42,680 --> 02:26:45,440
Speaker 23: a going to be hosted. We're talking about games in

2727
02:26:45,560 --> 02:26:49,480
Speaker 23: Charlotte and Miami in June and July. It was never

2728
02:26:49,680 --> 02:26:55,119
Speaker 23: going to be anything that is cool enough for soccer. Unfortunately,

2729
02:26:55,200 --> 02:26:59,640
Speaker 23: the bad mark about this has been come stems from

2730
02:26:59,680 --> 02:27:02,360
Speaker 23: a few around Charlotte, from a since deleted post by

2731
02:27:02,520 --> 02:27:06,040
Speaker 23: US Customs and Border Patrol that they be providing additional security,

2732
02:27:06,200 --> 02:27:10,560
Speaker 23: which has made people worry. I'm I'm embarrassed as an

2733
02:27:10,560 --> 02:27:14,400
Speaker 23: American to even talk about this, that people are fearing

2734
02:27:14,480 --> 02:27:17,240
Speaker 23: for their safety because of border patrol or because of

2735
02:27:17,320 --> 02:27:19,560
Speaker 23: ice by trying to attend games. And you may say

2736
02:27:19,600 --> 02:27:22,320
Speaker 23: they have nothing to fear, but we've seen ice grab

2737
02:27:22,600 --> 02:27:27,720
Speaker 23: both US citizens and guests of this country and people

2738
02:27:27,760 --> 02:27:31,000
Speaker 23: who are legally supposed to be here. We can't ignore that.

2739
02:27:31,320 --> 02:27:34,800
Speaker 23: You cannot ignore that, period hard stop. This has been

2740
02:27:34,840 --> 02:27:38,320
Speaker 23: an extremely large dark cloud hanging over the head of

2741
02:27:38,360 --> 02:27:41,199
Speaker 23: the United States. Who is expected to be a host

2742
02:27:41,720 --> 02:27:44,520
Speaker 23: A host A host it means no threat can come

2743
02:27:44,600 --> 02:27:48,680
Speaker 23: to you or guests. A host, you have to be generous, magnanimous,

2744
02:27:48,800 --> 02:27:53,680
Speaker 23: show hospitality, show welcoming spirit, and make no mistake about it.

2745
02:27:53,840 --> 02:27:57,480
Speaker 23: This Club World Cup is a test run for what

2746
02:27:57,920 --> 02:28:01,520
Speaker 23: next year the actual World Cup will look like. People

2747
02:28:01,640 --> 02:28:06,160
Speaker 23: have concerns about their safety in the United States from

2748
02:28:06,200 --> 02:28:08,880
Speaker 23: people who are supposed to be keeping people safe. You

2749
02:28:08,959 --> 02:28:12,080
Speaker 23: can't dismiss that, you can't shrug it off, you can't say, oh,

2750
02:28:12,160 --> 02:28:15,400
Speaker 23: get over it. If you can't control this, people.

2751
02:28:15,120 --> 02:28:15,760
Speaker 1: Will stay away.

2752
02:28:15,800 --> 02:28:17,800
Speaker 23: According to people who have been talked to, they already

2753
02:28:17,840 --> 02:28:20,200
Speaker 23: are in the Club World Cup, and frankly, that's a

2754
02:28:20,240 --> 02:28:23,080
Speaker 23: disgrace either way. We will be keeping our eye on

2755
02:28:23,480 --> 02:28:26,800
Speaker 23: the Club World Cup as it heads towards its knockout rounds,

2756
02:28:26,920 --> 02:28:29,320
Speaker 23: and hopefully we'll have some interesting drama that isn't just

2757
02:28:29,440 --> 02:28:31,840
Speaker 23: more European clubs on top of this to really make

2758
02:28:31,879 --> 02:28:34,560
Speaker 23: it worth its while. USA has gotten back on the

2759
02:28:34,640 --> 02:28:36,040
Speaker 23: schneid again, which is good.

2760
02:28:36,440 --> 02:28:37,800
Speaker 2: It's good.

2761
02:28:38,680 --> 02:28:40,280
Speaker 21: We'll talk about all that next time in the world

2762
02:28:40,360 --> 02:28:40,720
Speaker 21: of soccer.

2763
02:28:42,000 --> 02:28:44,840
Speaker 2: All right, the world of soccer. We'll see what happened

2764
02:28:44,879 --> 02:28:47,240
Speaker 2: is next year in the World Cup. Often people's greatest

2765
02:28:47,280 --> 02:28:50,760
Speaker 2: fears don't come to pass, the real fear it should

2766
02:28:50,760 --> 02:28:55,280
Speaker 2: be Can this US team equit themselves for once in soccer?

2767
02:28:55,600 --> 02:28:58,959
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the men's team. We shall see coming up.

2768
02:28:59,000 --> 02:29:02,040
Speaker 2: We wrap up the show, and yes, the Thunder and

2769
02:29:02,120 --> 02:29:05,320
Speaker 2: Pacers fourteen hours and so away from writing their own

2770
02:29:05,400 --> 02:29:09,320
Speaker 2: chapter among finals Game sevens. What are some things to

2771
02:29:09,440 --> 02:29:11,960
Speaker 2: watch for on Sunday and what are some things you

2772
02:29:12,040 --> 02:29:14,480
Speaker 2: might not have thought about? I'm going to fill in

2773
02:29:14,560 --> 02:29:17,720
Speaker 2: the blanks coming up him Bernie Fraddle were company live

2774
02:29:17,800 --> 02:29:20,400
Speaker 2: from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios. Keep it locked.

2775
02:29:20,560 --> 02:29:22,840
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

2776
02:29:24,879 --> 02:29:26,800
Speaker 2: All right, wrapping it up on the Bernie Fraddle Show.

2777
02:29:28,040 --> 02:29:29,440
Speaker 2: Before I go any further, I want to thank my

2778
02:29:29,520 --> 02:29:33,680
Speaker 2: producers tonight, Mark Ramsey and Ian Roddy. Great job, guys,

2779
02:29:34,280 --> 02:29:37,640
Speaker 2: appreciate the effort, the professionalism, turning on all the dials,

2780
02:29:37,720 --> 02:29:41,640
Speaker 2: keeping us glued together, taking all the phone calls in

2781
02:29:41,760 --> 02:29:44,880
Speaker 2: the raucous midnight hour, and of course what kind of

2782
02:29:44,920 --> 02:29:48,760
Speaker 2: brand new fool and what my name? Good job to

2783
02:29:49,480 --> 02:29:51,080
Speaker 2: Ian and Mark.

2784
02:29:51,440 --> 02:29:51,760
Speaker 12: Thank you.

2785
02:29:54,280 --> 02:29:57,480
Speaker 2: We got game seven. By the way, in case you're

2786
02:29:57,520 --> 02:30:00,160
Speaker 2: wondering the last time the Thunder found themselves in the

2787
02:30:00,240 --> 02:30:04,640
Speaker 2: game seven, well, they blew out Denver by what thirty

2788
02:30:04,680 --> 02:30:06,760
Speaker 2: two points in the final game in the Western Conference

2789
02:30:06,800 --> 02:30:10,840
Speaker 2: semifinal series. But Indiana had some recent history as well.

2790
02:30:10,920 --> 02:30:14,680
Speaker 2: Remember the Pacers took Game seven on the road in

2791
02:30:14,840 --> 02:30:17,560
Speaker 2: New York in the twenty twenty four Eastern Conference Semifinals.

2792
02:30:18,440 --> 02:30:20,720
Speaker 2: The top eight players from that team they went by

2793
02:30:20,760 --> 02:30:23,880
Speaker 2: twenty one are still with the team. Remember they fell

2794
02:30:23,959 --> 02:30:27,520
Speaker 2: to Boston in the finals last year the Conference finals,

2795
02:30:27,920 --> 02:30:31,680
Speaker 2: but every game was super close. They didn't have Tyrese

2796
02:30:31,720 --> 02:30:38,720
Speaker 2: Haliburton in their final two games. So these teams are

2797
02:30:38,800 --> 02:30:43,000
Speaker 2: set to write their own chapter tomorrow later on today.

2798
02:30:43,040 --> 02:30:46,160
Speaker 2: Excuse me, we're what fourteen hours away or a little

2799
02:30:46,240 --> 02:30:51,160
Speaker 2: for thereabouts from tip off? Can't wait? So what can

2800
02:30:51,280 --> 02:30:55,440
Speaker 2: we expect? And by the way, I'm not quitting now.

2801
02:30:55,600 --> 02:30:58,959
Speaker 2: I picked Indiana to beat the Knicks. I had Indiana

2802
02:30:59,000 --> 02:31:04,000
Speaker 2: in Game six on the money line. I've texted my

2803
02:31:04,360 --> 02:31:07,880
Speaker 2: ticket to Mark Medina for proof. And I'm picking Indiana

2804
02:31:07,920 --> 02:31:09,920
Speaker 2: in game seven. You may think I'm crazy, but I

2805
02:31:10,040 --> 02:31:12,560
Speaker 2: covered the Pistons when Rick Carlisle was there. I know

2806
02:31:12,640 --> 02:31:14,560
Speaker 2: how smart he is, and I give me a game

2807
02:31:14,600 --> 02:31:20,440
Speaker 2: of this nature, and I really think coaching and experience prevail,

2808
02:31:21,440 --> 02:31:25,880
Speaker 2: and I give the nod to Indiana on both fronts.

2809
02:31:26,000 --> 02:31:29,680
Speaker 2: Could I be wrong, of course, But what's interesting is

2810
02:31:30,680 --> 02:31:34,000
Speaker 2: what I don't think anybody is considering is how close

2811
02:31:34,080 --> 02:31:37,120
Speaker 2: the game this should be Sunday. I know they're eight

2812
02:31:37,160 --> 02:31:41,640
Speaker 2: point dogs, but you know this, Indiana is a forty

2813
02:31:41,680 --> 02:31:43,920
Speaker 2: eight minute team, and I'm not going to rule out this.

2814
02:31:44,200 --> 02:31:46,600
Speaker 2: This the way this series has gone, would you be

2815
02:31:46,840 --> 02:31:50,800
Speaker 2: shocked if it went overtime? Because I wouldn't you. See,

2816
02:31:51,240 --> 02:31:54,879
Speaker 2: you got to remember there's only been nineteen game sevens

2817
02:31:56,560 --> 02:32:01,320
Speaker 2: in NBA, I think, since nineteen fifty seven. In nineteen

2818
02:32:01,400 --> 02:32:04,600
Speaker 2: game sevens in the NBA Finals, two of them went

2819
02:32:04,680 --> 02:32:11,480
Speaker 2: over time. All right, But here's what's interesting. The average

2820
02:32:11,600 --> 02:32:14,720
Speaker 2: margin of victory in game seven in the NBA Finals

2821
02:32:14,800 --> 02:32:18,160
Speaker 2: average is six point seven points. That's the smallest of

2822
02:32:18,200 --> 02:32:21,720
Speaker 2: all finals games. The past six final NBA game sevens

2823
02:32:21,920 --> 02:32:25,440
Speaker 2: have been determined by less than seven points. That may bide, well,

2824
02:32:25,480 --> 02:32:28,400
Speaker 2: if you're taking the points in Indiana do so? You know,

2825
02:32:29,320 --> 02:32:33,320
Speaker 2: should you be inclined to be feeling saucy about this,

2826
02:32:35,280 --> 02:32:37,360
Speaker 2: let me show you how that applies to this series

2827
02:32:37,400 --> 02:32:40,920
Speaker 2: as well. Get this. Through the first six games of

2828
02:32:41,080 --> 02:32:45,359
Speaker 2: the Thunder Pacers series, the thunder of outscore the Pacers

2829
02:32:45,520 --> 02:32:48,440
Speaker 2: just six sixty two to six fifty five. That's seven

2830
02:32:48,520 --> 02:32:51,520
Speaker 2: points cumulative. That's an average margin of victory of one

2831
02:32:51,560 --> 02:32:54,480
Speaker 2: point two points per game. So if you're expecting a

2832
02:32:54,560 --> 02:32:59,199
Speaker 2: lopsided game Sunday, I think that's not to be expected.

2833
02:32:59,240 --> 02:33:02,160
Speaker 2: Could I be wrong? Sure? I would not expect that,

2834
02:33:02,560 --> 02:33:07,080
Speaker 2: all right. The second thing is Rick Carlile is tricky,

2835
02:33:07,320 --> 02:33:11,160
Speaker 2: He's crafty, and he you can count on him to

2836
02:33:12,120 --> 02:33:15,200
Speaker 2: expect the unexpected. Look what he did in game six.

2837
02:33:15,640 --> 02:33:18,480
Speaker 2: Carlisle came up with a very clever change in game six.

2838
02:33:19,040 --> 02:33:22,439
Speaker 2: What has Indiana been known for? They played with tenacity

2839
02:33:22,520 --> 02:33:27,760
Speaker 2: and pace both offensively and defensively all season long. But

2840
02:33:27,840 --> 02:33:30,080
Speaker 2: what do they do in a surprise tactic that I

2841
02:33:30,120 --> 02:33:31,240
Speaker 2: think confused? Okay?

2842
02:33:31,320 --> 02:33:31,520
Speaker 3: See?

2843
02:33:31,680 --> 02:33:35,360
Speaker 2: In game six, they tapped it down, they throttled it back,

2844
02:33:35,920 --> 02:33:38,320
Speaker 2: and they held, Okay see in ninety one points in

2845
02:33:38,800 --> 02:33:43,040
Speaker 2: Gamebridge Fieldhouse. Right, this is a guy, Rick Carlile, that

2846
02:33:43,120 --> 02:33:44,920
Speaker 2: knows how to put every trick in the book, every

2847
02:33:44,959 --> 02:33:47,840
Speaker 2: excellent on the table. And now if you think he's

2848
02:33:47,920 --> 02:33:51,880
Speaker 2: run out of a supply of things to do to

2849
02:33:51,959 --> 02:33:54,119
Speaker 2: get the best out of his team and confuse, okay, see,

2850
02:33:54,200 --> 02:33:58,520
Speaker 2: then you don't know Rick Caylisle. All right. Remember how

2851
02:33:58,600 --> 02:34:00,640
Speaker 2: the first few games they were appreshed shuring the thunder

2852
02:34:00,680 --> 02:34:04,760
Speaker 2: from the moment of the inbounds pass, they were hanging up. Okay,

2853
02:34:06,400 --> 02:34:08,960
Speaker 2: they set up more cohesively into a half court defense,

2854
02:34:09,040 --> 02:34:12,359
Speaker 2: and then they sent helpers at coach at the Thunder's

2855
02:34:12,440 --> 02:34:16,039
Speaker 2: lead ball handler most of the time it was Shay Gilgess.

2856
02:34:16,840 --> 02:34:19,920
Speaker 2: Then they had earlier in the series. Frankly, they they

2857
02:34:20,000 --> 02:34:24,360
Speaker 2: really swarmed him. They brushed him. And the truth of

2858
02:34:24,400 --> 02:34:26,560
Speaker 2: the matter is, Alex Cruco admitted, because we didn't do

2859
02:34:26,560 --> 02:34:29,160
Speaker 2: a good enough job adjusting to that and trusting the

2860
02:34:29,240 --> 02:34:31,800
Speaker 2: way we played previously, they were confused. It was a

2861
02:34:31,879 --> 02:34:34,560
Speaker 2: speed bump. Crucer went on and say, quote to that point,

2862
02:34:34,600 --> 02:34:37,120
Speaker 2: we'd seen every attack defensive this year, whether it be

2863
02:34:37,240 --> 02:34:40,359
Speaker 2: for Shade doub Williams, the whole team. People play aggressive,

2864
02:34:40,360 --> 02:34:42,920
Speaker 2: people play soft plays, don't play trap. They sit back

2865
02:34:42,959 --> 02:34:46,760
Speaker 2: and plug. We're prepared for whatever it is about going

2866
02:34:46,800 --> 02:34:49,080
Speaker 2: out there and recognizing the right one and taking advantage. Well,

2867
02:34:49,120 --> 02:34:53,760
Speaker 2: they weren't in Game six. Now. Coach Dagnall said he

2868
02:34:53,840 --> 02:34:56,039
Speaker 2: has a card or two to play as well as

2869
02:34:56,080 --> 02:34:59,680
Speaker 2: long as it doesn't you know, you have to do

2870
02:34:59,760 --> 02:35:02,240
Speaker 2: with shifting his guys into thinking too much when they

2871
02:35:02,240 --> 02:35:04,560
Speaker 2: should be flowing and reacting. You can be sure they're

2872
02:35:04,560 --> 02:35:06,640
Speaker 2: going to be thinking too much. There's only one team

2873
02:35:06,640 --> 02:35:09,920
Speaker 2: that wanted a Game seven. It was not Okse. This

2874
02:35:10,080 --> 02:35:13,560
Speaker 2: team has been athletic, they've been exciting, they're talented, they're young.

2875
02:35:13,879 --> 02:35:16,920
Speaker 2: They've not been in NBA Game seven finals, and neither

2876
02:35:17,000 --> 02:35:21,200
Speaker 2: has this NBA Pacers team, Indiana Pacers team, but they're

2877
02:35:21,240 --> 02:35:25,240
Speaker 2: more experienced. I believe Pascal Siakam has a championship. Rick

2878
02:35:25,240 --> 02:35:28,680
Speaker 2: Carlisle had one on Dallas. I've said all along this guy,

2879
02:35:28,879 --> 02:35:30,879
Speaker 2: we are seeing what I believe with what people end

2880
02:35:31,000 --> 02:35:33,800
Speaker 2: up being one of the greatest circle of life stories

2881
02:35:34,280 --> 02:35:37,080
Speaker 2: of any coach ever, because back in four to roh five,

2882
02:35:37,120 --> 02:35:40,680
Speaker 2: when Rick Carlisle was hired to coach the Pacers, he

2883
02:35:40,720 --> 02:35:43,160
Speaker 2: had a hell of a team. They were on their way.

2884
02:35:43,800 --> 02:35:45,960
Speaker 2: They'd won a ton of games a year before and

2885
02:35:46,120 --> 02:35:49,400
Speaker 2: were unceremoniously knocked off by Larry Brown's Pistons. But on

2886
02:35:49,520 --> 02:35:52,160
Speaker 2: November nineteen, two thousand and four, everything changed. The mouse

2887
02:35:52,240 --> 02:35:54,600
Speaker 2: at the Palace I know I was there, and they

2888
02:35:54,600 --> 02:35:58,160
Speaker 2: set back the franchise years. Twenty years later, in twenty

2889
02:35:58,200 --> 02:36:00,600
Speaker 2: four to twenty five, Rick Carlisle was doing with the

2890
02:36:00,720 --> 02:36:02,960
Speaker 2: n NF Faithful Hope the do back in four and five.

2891
02:36:03,120 --> 02:36:05,920
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen a coach return twenty years later

2892
02:36:05,959 --> 02:36:09,080
Speaker 2: to the circle of life shape like a basketball whereas

2893
02:36:09,600 --> 02:36:14,440
Speaker 2: this is something that can actually happen. Carlisle's seen it all,

2894
02:36:14,560 --> 02:36:16,280
Speaker 2: He's learned the lessons. He knows how to get into

2895
02:36:16,320 --> 02:36:18,600
Speaker 2: his game plan, he knows how to make adjustments. This

2896
02:36:18,760 --> 02:36:21,200
Speaker 2: is all new for Dagnall. I'm convinced of it. It's

2897
02:36:21,240 --> 02:36:25,120
Speaker 2: gonna matter now they're home, Oklahoma City's home. But that

2898
02:36:25,320 --> 02:36:29,280
Speaker 2: might mean there's more pressure. So listen heavy as a

2899
02:36:29,320 --> 02:36:31,280
Speaker 2: head who wears the crown, we will see if oka

2900
02:36:31,400 --> 02:36:34,480
Speaker 2: see and it'll be a referendum. You do Tire's Halliburton

2901
02:36:34,520 --> 02:36:37,000
Speaker 2: will get a crew, get a you know, get the

2902
02:36:37,120 --> 02:36:40,840
Speaker 2: chip or Shay Gilles is Alexander and there's no guarantee

2903
02:36:40,879 --> 02:36:42,400
Speaker 2: in this world either one of them will be back

2904
02:36:43,040 --> 02:36:46,119
Speaker 2: to the finals, much less a championship. Just ask Dan

2905
02:36:46,240 --> 02:36:50,000
Speaker 2: ma Reno. I think you're going to see backcourt play

2906
02:36:50,800 --> 02:36:56,280
Speaker 2: very prevalent. Okay, they're gonna need a big game out

2907
02:36:56,320 --> 02:36:58,959
Speaker 2: of wingman Ben Mathron. I think Obie top And will

2908
02:36:58,959 --> 02:37:04,120
Speaker 2: be there. But listen, watch for tg O'Connell. Okay, the

2909
02:37:04,240 --> 02:37:07,520
Speaker 2: undrafted guy thirty three years old, became the first bench

2910
02:37:07,560 --> 02:37:10,800
Speaker 2: player in Finalist history to ten points, five assists, five

2911
02:37:10,840 --> 02:37:13,280
Speaker 2: steals in the game. And the guy plays like his

2912
02:37:13,400 --> 02:37:16,240
Speaker 2: Arizon Fire in its reigning gasoline. Kind of reminds me

2913
02:37:16,320 --> 02:37:18,840
Speaker 2: of JJ Barrea, who was the backup point guard who

2914
02:37:18,959 --> 02:37:22,360
Speaker 2: up to twenty eleven Dallas Mavericks upset the Miami Heat

2915
02:37:22,600 --> 02:37:27,120
Speaker 2: who coached that team. Yeah, Rick Carlisle PJ McConnell's greatest

2916
02:37:27,160 --> 02:37:29,600
Speaker 2: strength is in counting the stats he gets. It's his

2917
02:37:29,720 --> 02:37:33,680
Speaker 2: floor burns, his elusiveness. He's rarely shooting for more than

2918
02:37:34,080 --> 02:37:37,440
Speaker 2: ten twelve feet away. He's very sneaky, he can reverse directions,

2919
02:37:37,480 --> 02:37:40,440
Speaker 2: he can swipe passes. He's all over the place. And

2920
02:37:40,560 --> 02:37:42,760
Speaker 2: maybe we'll see it. Maybe we'll see something out of

2921
02:37:42,800 --> 02:37:46,920
Speaker 2: the center tomorrow. Miles Turner. He's been doing great job

2922
02:37:47,000 --> 02:37:50,440
Speaker 2: opposing bigs beyond their defensive comfort zones, but he's only

2923
02:37:50,520 --> 02:37:52,880
Speaker 2: made five of his twenty five to three point attempts.

2924
02:37:53,360 --> 02:37:56,560
Speaker 2: Maybe he steps up on the other side. I think

2925
02:37:56,640 --> 02:38:00,320
Speaker 2: you're gonna need to see Chuck Holmgren step up as well.

2926
02:38:00,959 --> 02:38:02,880
Speaker 2: Even though Carlisle gave him a lot of respect, there's

2927
02:38:02,920 --> 02:38:05,240
Speaker 2: been stretches they haven't dealt with him. This will be

2928
02:38:05,320 --> 02:38:07,800
Speaker 2: one hell of a chess match. Don't expect to think

2929
02:38:07,840 --> 02:38:10,440
Speaker 2: he can predict how this game's going to end or

2930
02:38:10,520 --> 02:38:12,280
Speaker 2: what the score will be. I just think it's going

2931
02:38:12,320 --> 02:38:14,480
Speaker 2: to be closed, and I will not be surprised if

2932
02:38:14,600 --> 02:38:19,400
Speaker 2: Indiana wins. These teams have leaned tremendously unintangibles to get

2933
02:38:19,440 --> 02:38:21,800
Speaker 2: to this point, and I expect that to show up big.

2934
02:38:22,120 --> 02:38:24,200
Speaker 2: Both teams are better than the sum of their parts.

2935
02:38:24,440 --> 02:38:28,039
Speaker 2: It's going to be a highly competitive, highly exciting game.

2936
02:38:29,040 --> 02:38:30,560
Speaker 2: It's going to do it for the Bernie Fraddles Show.

2937
02:38:30,600 --> 02:38:32,800
Speaker 2: I'll be back on the airwaves next Saturday night, eleven pm.

2938
02:38:33,120 --> 02:38:35,640
Speaker 2: In the meantime, keep it locked and Andy Furman is

2939
02:38:35,760 --> 02:38:36,160
Speaker 2: up next.