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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio radio after watching it

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Speaker 1: all unfold, just how much he how bad he was,

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Speaker 1: he fell repeatedly and and didn't even meddle, and you'll

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Speaker 1: lost seventy some odd points technically.

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Speaker 2: And I mean obviously, hey, Lindsay Vaughn's injury, you know,

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Speaker 2: Inplix has been fun the last few days. And there

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Speaker 2: are a lot of condoms now in Italy, so I

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Speaker 2: know everybody's having a good time. But man, you bookend

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Speaker 2: last weekend, Lindsay Vonn with this Ilian Mallin and you're like,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll get to the condom story as we go on,

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Speaker 3: because I have some theories here, but it's the you're

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Speaker 3: trying to buy some off of eBay, as I'm telling you.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what's happening, isn't.

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Speaker 2: I want to blue ones and I want orange ones,

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Speaker 2: and I want the purple ones because I went to Northwestern.

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Speaker 4: I want all the number.

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Speaker 3: One who's the supply chain person, who's the one that

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Speaker 3: decided that was the quantity that's just stupid.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know, man, I got I gotta think

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Speaker 2: the person in charge of the condent that the Olympics knows. Hey,

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Speaker 2: whatever you think, you order ten thousand, don't worry about it.

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Speaker 4: So either someone back door ten thousand of them.

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Speaker 2: Okay, wow, okay, that's that's an odd Okay, sure, yeah, wow, okay,

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Speaker 2: Yeah you know, Mike, Okay.

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Speaker 4: All right, I am a word Smith.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Fox Sports Raven Mike seven o three pm.

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Speaker 2: The Family Hour just starting here at Fox Sports Radio. Okay,

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Speaker 2: you either know or you don't.

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Speaker 3: It's just the idea that there there will be a

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Speaker 3: market for these. You will find some on the secondary

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Speaker 3: market at at either on eBay or different auctions places.

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Speaker 3: Uh souvenirs that you bring to your friends. Hey, check

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Speaker 3: this out. They gave me a bunch of uh, you know,

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Speaker 3: things for hydration and uh well.

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Speaker 4: They said, had a giant bowl. They said, take what

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Speaker 4: you need. Okay, so everybody gets one.

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Speaker 3: He means you got thirteen days of nothing unless they

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Speaker 3: can refill quickly. But oh carmon, he doesn't need any

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Speaker 3: beg give your share to everybody else who needs them.

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Speaker 3: You're just gonna buy baseball cards and wear purple shorts

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Speaker 3: and watch Northwestern.

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Speaker 2: You're not going out to hang out. You're gonna be

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Speaker 3: Well, everything would be predicated on me being in my

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Speaker 4: So we got to set the mood ten thousand of them.

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Speaker 2: They're just gonna stop knocking on the door. Hey, is

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Speaker 2: Mike Harmon here? I thought I heard Mike Harmon is here?

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Speaker 2: Oh hey, alright, let's say, all.

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Speaker 4: Right, kind of a big deal.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what do you do?

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Speaker 3: But as you roll through the big Olympic story of

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Speaker 3: all of those euphemisms that we've heard here. The thing

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, sports can take your breath away, and

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Speaker 2: What if I do a couple of quads and I fall?

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Speaker 3: So if suddenly you get in your head and after

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Speaker 3: much pressure the other way again in the postgame, it's like,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, just absolute tension and chaos is you alluded

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Speaker 3: I mean, I thought ven Doza wasn't necessarily a ninety

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Speaker 2: Like as an athlete, this is where the mental strain

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Speaker 2: where sports psychologists people want to go, do we need

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Speaker 2: the players who are gonna put this out through their

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Speaker 2: own agents and agencies, and it's going to make you're

434
00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:03,240
Speaker 2: gonna see even more detail about what teams do well

435
00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,439
Speaker 2: and what teams don't do well when it comes to

436
00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:08,280
Speaker 2: the treatment of players and families and everything that goes

437
00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:10,480
Speaker 2: along with running a football team. So I know the

438
00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:12,240
Speaker 2: NFL thought, yeah, we got to stop this. We don't

439
00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,159
Speaker 2: like the report cards. We like the report cards. You

440
00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:16,520
Speaker 2: understand what's gonna happen. You think that, You think that

441
00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,200
Speaker 2: the players are gonna walk around and go, oh yeah, nah, okay,

442
00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,399
Speaker 2: well we lost that one. Well we won't do that anymore. No,

443
00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,320
Speaker 2: players like that. The players liked that the teams were

444
00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,320
Speaker 2: held accountable because, hey, if I play for the Chiefs

445
00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,440
Speaker 2: and I know that they do X, Y and Z

446
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,480
Speaker 2: pretty bad, and let's face it, the Chiefs get marked

447
00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,239
Speaker 2: down pretty bad for anything except head coach, uh, you

448
00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,840
Speaker 2: know the Hey, maybe this is gonna make them embarrass

449
00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:40,359
Speaker 2: The owners say, well, I got to take care of this,

450
00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,000
Speaker 2: right Or if I'm paying for soda and Cincinnati, if

451
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,320
Speaker 2: I'm paying for food, you know, wherever, I'm just using

452
00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:47,879
Speaker 2: that as an example. Maybe this is gonna shame my

453
00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,439
Speaker 2: owner into saying, Okay, I gotta I gotta up the

454
00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:52,600
Speaker 2: food in the cafeteria. I gotta make it available all

455
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Speaker 2: the way around. I gotta not charge the players for it.

456
00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:56,879
Speaker 2: Whatever you need to do, I need to do that.

457
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Speaker 2: Players like that. They're not gonna lose that. They don't

458
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Speaker 2: want to lose any of that, because that's exactly what

459
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Speaker 2: would happen. So good on the players. I hope it

460
00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,280
Speaker 2: goes forward. I hope we wind up seeing more of this,

461
00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,080
Speaker 2: and it's gonna wind up be getting worse for the

462
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Speaker 2: owners than it would if they allowed this to stay,

463
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Speaker 2: mark my words on it.

464
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Speaker 3: Well, here's the problem is is you get guys that

465
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Speaker 3: we have more movement in the National Football League. Once

466
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Speaker 3: upon a time, it was you played your five seven years,

467
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Speaker 3: you were with one organization, you waived, and you were

468
00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:27,880
Speaker 3: gone in the post career run and football is part

469
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Speaker 3: of your past. Occasionally you'll talk about it. If you

470
00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,000
Speaker 3: were a highly decorated guy, you show up at Super

471
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Speaker 3: Bowl week, here's my ring, let's go and reminisce about

472
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Speaker 3: all the good times. Well, now everybody moves and they

473
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Speaker 3: tell their friends about what's good, bad and ugly.

474
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Speaker 4: In each organization.

475
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Speaker 3: They tell each other everything, all the inner workings, which

476
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Speaker 3: guy in the front office you want to work with,

477
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,360
Speaker 3: which of the pr guys are good, all the way

478
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Speaker 3: up the chain. So we're still gonna get this information.

479
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be brought out like the little rocks to

480
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Speaker 3: the yard in Shawshank, but we're going to get it.

481
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Speaker 3: And players that have moved on to other other spots. Hey,

482
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Speaker 3: what was one of the chief reasons you left. It's like, well,

483
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Speaker 3: remember those uh report cards that we would fill out.

484
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Speaker 3: Let's go through six of those metrics and let's talk

485
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Speaker 3: about it. By the way, you mentioned the the Bengals,

486
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Speaker 3: they actually had an F minus for treatment of families.

487
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Speaker 3: Just to got to put it out there, there's a

488
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Speaker 3: minus next to the F. That's how bad things are.

489
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Speaker 3: But you saw Cam Jordan and Alvin Kamara and I

490
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Speaker 3: immediately had to bring up the Saints, like what do

491
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Speaker 3: they get dinged on? It's like, okay, well, they weren't

492
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Speaker 3: great for a food and dining area with a D

493
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Speaker 3: minus treatment of family A see. Otherwise they did pretty

494
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Speaker 3: well when it came to nutritionists and the locker room

495
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Speaker 3: and everything else. But you had Cam Jordan and Alvin

496
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Speaker 3: Kamara starting to talk about this, and bit by bit

497
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Speaker 3: in Drims and Drabs you mentioned what, UH, guys are

498
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 3: gonna start chatting about this and they'll leak it to

499
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Speaker 3: their favorite beat writers.

500
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Speaker 4: You know, the ed Bouchettes of the world.

501
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Speaker 3: Go back to Pittsburgh and we always give the knowing

502
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,880
Speaker 3: nod to the way local media worked there. Same thing

503
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,880
Speaker 3: you're gonna get this information. It's just even come out

504
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 3: in a big formal release. Because if the NFLPA, unless

505
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 3: they came out and said we're not doing it, which

506
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 3: they did not do, we are still going to do this.

507
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,840
Speaker 3: That means the information's getting out. Someone might just oh,

508
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Speaker 3: I accidentally drop something as I got into my car.

509
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Speaker 3: Media person, it's gonna be like that before you go,

510
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 3: before you see a movie, and it's like the Mafia

511
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 3: guys talking about free movie tickets. Hey, maybe the Bengals

512
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 3: report card just falls off the back of a truck.

513
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,880
Speaker 3: Hey maybe the guy in charge of keeping its secret

514
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Speaker 3: just disappears. I mean, you got a whole run of windshields, Like,

515
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,959
Speaker 3: there's a shit of paper everywhere, right, and on the

516
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Speaker 3: one car that you know is a beat reporter that

517
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Speaker 3: just happens to have the grades, everybody else is twenty

518
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Speaker 3: percent off at the car wash down the street. There's

519
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Speaker 3: lots of ways to do this.

520
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, I give the NFL so much credit

521
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 2: for certain you know, but but it's not like they're infallible, right,

522
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 2: this is a huge week for them with a big

523
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 2: victory by sticking with bad Bunnies halftime routine or a

524
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Speaker 2: halftime show because of the numbers it did and how

525
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Speaker 2: they're able to continue to grow the product worldwide, right,

526
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 2: because that was their aim and they stuck with it

527
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 2: because that's what they wanted to do. They wanted they say,

528
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Speaker 2: this is where the NFL is gonna keep growing. We're

529
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Speaker 2: growing this worldwide. No coincidence, we have bad Bunny, and

530
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Speaker 2: three days before we say, hey, guess what we're going

531
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Speaker 2: to Rio. We're going to Australia. We're gonna play in Antarctica.

532
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Speaker 2: We're gonna play in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

533
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Speaker 2: We're gonna do We're gona play everyone. We're gonna play

534
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Speaker 2: in Atlantis. It's gonna be the first underwater game. Gonna

535
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,919
Speaker 2: be a lot of running the football, not throwing it.

536
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 2: Uh And okay, look at that. That was great business sense.

537
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,920
Speaker 2: Sticking with it. Roger Goodell aces. Then I see something

538
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,560
Speaker 2: like this and I go, do you really think that

539
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 2: this is gonna wind up being good? I get that

540
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,440
Speaker 2: that it's embarrassing for owners, But at the same time,

541
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 2: aren't you if you're Roger Goodelfield to say, hey, do better,

542
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 2: don't embarrass us? Like really, I wanted able to get

543
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,959
Speaker 2: away with being bad that's what the that's the message

544
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,679
Speaker 2: the owners put in. I want to be able to

545
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 2: get away with not with not doing what I should

546
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 2: be doing for a team I own. I really want

547
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 2: to get away with that, which doesn't make any sense

548
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 2: at all.

549
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Speaker 3: It comes down to this, like, just figure out what

550
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 3: what other teams are getting to get a C. That's

551
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 3: that's a minimal investment. They're saying, you gotta go from

552
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 3: an F minus to an A. Just figure out what's passable.

553
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 3: So like you do in your classes, what's gonna get me,

554
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 3: uh my degree? All right, Just let's keep going sad

555
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 3: thing here that's gonna make us not look like the

556
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 3: worst organization running. So when we talk to a free agent,

557
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 3: they say, it says an F minus for treatment of families?

558
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Speaker 4: What does that mean? And I mean and that and

559
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 4: that's not even including Joe Judge.

560
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Speaker 2: And and here's the thing, right, hey, listen, there's no

561
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 2: midnight feedings for Joe Judge. Right, hey, you you don't

562
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,119
Speaker 2: wake up in the midnight for mid I think.

563
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Speaker 3: You're still trying to talk about how what it takes

564
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 3: to get great. But you know, it's still just dumb

565
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 3: to say it in the way he needed but it's

566
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 3: it's just that, it's just how do we get to

567
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,120
Speaker 3: marginally better with minimal investment.

568
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Speaker 4: That's that's all. They're looking for a little better treatment.

569
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Speaker 2: And just think about this.

570
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 3: If you're the NFL, you think, okay, it's embarrassing. But again,

571
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,880
Speaker 3: like I said, there were at least a little bit

572
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 3: of stop gaps put in where where the grades got out,

573
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 3: and you got a little bit. You didn't get a

574
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Speaker 3: lot of detail on why the the Bengal boy, the

575
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 3: Bengals just get the side swipe man, Why the Bengals

576
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 3: or whatever team charges money at the cafeteria, why they

577
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 3: don't provide childcare, Like we just get that they don't

578
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 3: provide child.

579
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Speaker 2: Okay, we didn't. We didn't get stories inside where player

580
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:37,880
Speaker 2: X said, Oh I tried to go here and this

581
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 2: is what the guy told me. You know. But now

582
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 2: we're gonna get that because now there's no filter to

583
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 2: that point. Now it's hey, we're gonna collect this information

584
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 2: and guess what, Yeah, it's gonna get out somehow We're

585
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,959
Speaker 2: gonna get and now the NFL mean it. The NFL

586
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 2: saw this and it's gonna boomerang back on them, and

587
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 2: it's I don't know that it's gonna be something where

588
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 2: we find out all at once, but on some idle Wednesday,

589
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,879
Speaker 2: we're gonna find out stuff about the Chiefs or about

590
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 2: the Giants or the forty nine ers or the Bengals,

591
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be oh wow, this is really bad.

592
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 2: And the other part of it is that we might

593
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 2: find out about it in the midst of a story

594
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 2: that's different, that doesn't paint the team in a good

595
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 2: in a good spot, like there could be a completely

596
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 2: different story about let's just say somebody's injury, and then

597
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 2: we find out, oh hey, in the information they collected.

598
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 2: Because this is germane to the story, this player was

599
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 2: denied off off hours entry to rehab because they didn't

600
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 2: want to pay for a security guard. So he was

601
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 2: able to he wanted to come back at night to

602
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,360
Speaker 2: continue to rehab. They wouldn't let him do it because

603
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 2: there was nobody there. And then all of a sudden,

604
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 2: now now you look even worse and cheaper because of

605
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 2: something like that. Like I don't know if the NFL

606
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 2: really thought about all the different ramifications of what can

607
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 2: come up when they said, yeah, now we're just gonna

608
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 2: squash this for now, Oh Tory, It's like it's like

609
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 2: in Star Wars, you strike down Obi Wan Kenobi, he

610
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 2: comes back ten times more powerful. I mean he's a

611
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 2: forced ghost and he comes back.

612
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Speaker 3: Have you got to understand that we made ninety million

613
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 3: dollars off of the residual contract that he signed. Alec

614
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 3: Guinness was a genius before RDJ and all these guys

615
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 3: did it. But what's funny and Cam Jordan brought this up,

616
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 3: and it's something we've talked about.

617
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 4: I worked in support.

618
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 3: You worked in support right in years past, whether it

619
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 3: was the grocery store, me at Yahoo. In the sports world,

620
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 3: it's like you're only hearing from people when stuff goes bad.

621
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 3: So at least the NFL could have said that, like

622
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 3: this is the worst of what's going on, they felt

623
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 3: compelled to put it in the suggestion box, so you

624
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 3: at least start putting a little caveat to the information

625
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 3: going on. Doesn't mean you still don't go try to

626
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 3: figure it out. But if players are pissed and you

627
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 3: spend three hundred million dollars on a roster on players,

628
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 3: why would you not want them as happy as could be?

629
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Speaker 3: Which is one thing about the Bengals is they do

630
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 3: really well when it comes to training staff and all

631
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 3: of that stuff.

632
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 4: They just don't do the other stuff.

633
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 2: Well. Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason

634
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 2: Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios

635
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 2: to find out what's trending in the wide world of

636
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 2: sports from someone who's been called the Roger Goodell of

637
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio because when he was a kid he

638
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 2: tried to hide his report card from his parents too.

639
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 2: It's Steve to say, well.

640
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Speaker 7: I thought you were just talking about my current salary.

641
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Speaker 4: Oh how about that?

642
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Speaker 7: You were talking about three hundred million dollars payroll and

643
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 7: charging in the cafeteria, which reminds me of when marg

644
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Speaker 7: Shot was the owner for the Cincinnati Red She would

645
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 7: have the upper management meetings in the morning. Somebody would

646
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Speaker 7: get the donuts. The leftover donuts would be left out

647
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Speaker 7: for the other employees afterwards with a sign that said

648
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Speaker 7: twenty five cents.

649
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, someone's got to pay for those donuts.

650
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 4: She was great, wasn't she? Yeah? Why not? Yeah?

651
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 2: Or not? What was the other one? She wouldn't blink.

652
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 2: Eric Davis lacerated his kidney.

653
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 4: Wouldn't pay at the World Home.

654
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 3: I wouldn't pay to fly yet lacerated his kidney as

655
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 3: the Reds were sweeping the World Series. Had to stay

656
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 3: in the hospital and no, no, not paying to fly

657
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 3: you home. Not.

658
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 7: I knew a guy that was in the media game.

659
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 7: Some times the media gets to use the stadium once

660
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 7: a year to have their own intersquad game. And this

661
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 7: was on the AstroTurf back then in Cincinnati. So it

662
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 7: was one of those one hundred and ten degree days.

663
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 7: And they're all sweat and had a great time, but

664
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Speaker 7: ready to go get a drink upstairs. So they all

665
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 7: pile in the elevator. This is way before the game

666
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 7: starts to go up to the press box. Marge and

667
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 7: her dog come by and say, you boys will have

668
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 7: to get out now, and she made all the media

669
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 7: members unloads so that only the owner and the dog

670
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 7: could take the elevator together. Well, we had college basketball

671
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 7: on Fox TV tonight. Wisconsin at home beat number ten

672
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 7: Michigan State ninety two to seventy one. Badgers led by

673
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 7: eighteen in the first half. You know, recently they beat

674
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 7: number two Michigan, They beat number eight Illinois, now the

675
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 7: tenth rank Spartans, and Wisconsin's the only Division One team

676
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 7: this century men's or women's to make at least fifteen

677
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 7: to three pointers in three straight games against top ten opponents.

678
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 7: It is a final. Eighteenth rank St. Lewis wins eighty

679
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 7: six fifty nine at Loyola Chicago and undefeated and twenty

680
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 7: third rank Miami Ohio leads it home sixty one forty

681
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 7: eight against Ohio U early in the second half. Guard

682
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 7: Chris Paul retired from the NBA after twenty one seasons.

683
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 7: He was a twelve time All Star. Sacramento guard Zach

684
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 7: Levine will have season ending hand surge re. According to

685
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 7: reporter Chris Haynes, All Star weekend in La is underway.

686
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 7: We had the Celebrity game earlier. Now the Rising Stars game.

687
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 7: They are in the final. It is Team Vince Carter

688
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 7: against Team Mellow. The first team gets to the target

689
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 7: score of twenty five points, we'll win. It's Team Vince

690
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 7: fifteen to eleven. Right now, just for the record three

691
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 7: point contest. Among the Saturday events coming at the La

692
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 7: Clippers are in and then the actual All Star Game

693
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 7: is Sunday. The NHL is off for the Olympic break.

694
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 7: Canada won five to one over Switzerland. Today. US women's

695
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 7: hockey continues to dominate, advancing to the semifinals, beating host

696
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 7: Italy six nothing today, out shooting him fifty one to six.

697
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 7: The Americans could face Sweden next on Monday. American Iliamalinan

698
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 7: finished eighth and men's figure skating after falling twice in

699
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 7: the free skate finale. He was in first after the

700
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 7: short program. Speed skater Jordan Stoles is in the men's

701
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 7: five hundred meters on Saturday to golf act Sha Batillas

702
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 7: and he.

703
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 3: Played for the Kings for a long time and he's

704
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 3: now he's doing that.

705
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 2: Wow.

706
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, Aaron Andrews knows him. No, this is a

707
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 7: different person. Actually. Ak Shabatia is tied for the lead

708
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 7: at Pebble Beach after second round sixty four. The Arizona

709
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 7: Cardinals will retain defensive coordinator Nick Rallis underd head coach

710
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 7: Mike Lafleur. The Diamondbacks are resigning pitchers at Gallon one year,

711
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 7: about twenty two million dollars, over half of it is deferred.

712
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 7: Garrett Coola, the Yankee, says he might pitch in exhibitions

713
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 7: before the end of spring training. Ye had Tommy John

714
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 7: surgery twelve months ago. Should be back with the team

715
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 7: regular season by June. Pitchers and catchers reported to spring

716
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 7: training this week. The first full squad workouts due to

717
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 7: start on Sunday. NASCAR Daytona five hundred is Sunday on

718
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 7: Fox TV. Two time defending champ William Byron will start

719
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 7: thirty ninth out of forty one entries in a backup

720
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 7: car after damage in this week's qualifier. And it was

721
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 7: the college baseball season opener for Baylor tonight and Tye

722
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 7: Armstrong of the Baylor Bears hit three grand slams in

723
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 7: a fifteen to two win over New Mexico State. You

724
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 7: heard me correctly, and apparently three grand slams in one

725
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 7: college baseball game has happened one other time, someone from Louisville.

726
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 7: Jim Lafountain of the Cardinals against Western Kentucky nineteen seventy six.

727
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 7: So it's been fifty years for this guy at Baylor.

728
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 7: It was his debut game for the team, transferred from

729
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 7: UT Arlington. Three three grand slams in one ball game.

730
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Speaker 2: Back to you, Jim Lafountain is in the Ithaca Sports

731
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. Steve Desager, Just so you know, that Itica. Yeah,

732
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 2: he's in the Ithaca Sports Hall of Fame.

733
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 7: He transferred. What what's the connection here?

734
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 2: I think I don't know. I mean maybe he's from

735
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 2: there and then played a bunch of different things. He's

736
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 2: from central New York, so from cuentral New York area.

737
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 7: Did not know my nineteen seventy six transfers from.

738
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Speaker 2: Twell, you think you would know that. You think you

739
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 2: would know that nagging injuries prevented him from getting to

740
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 2: the majors and he spent a few years with the Twins.

741
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 2: I know this off the top of my head. Oh yeah, Fountain.

742
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 2: You know that's the best part about Rayingshot is that

743
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 2: I can say that off the top of my head. Meanwhile,

744
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 2: of course I have it in front of me on

745
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 2: a computer, But in my head I feel like one

746
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 2: of the med students from the pit when somebody comes in.

747
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 2: All right, we got a lacerated kidney and we gotta

748
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 2: we gotta slip some moral artery and we got a

749
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 2: brain outside.

750
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Speaker 4: What is this? Uh uh?

751
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:43,720
Speaker 2: Doctor?

752
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 3: And the person goes through like seventeen different things could

753
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 3: be well, it.

754
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 2: Could be this, it could be this, It could be this,

755
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 2: it could be this.

756
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,720
Speaker 7: If you change that line just a little bit, a doctor,

757
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 7: what is it? At least one of those guys in

758
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 7: the white count it, But that's not important right now.

759
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 2: Thank you, Steve. Jason's man Mike Harmon, live from the

760
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Studios. Yeah, we have the celebrity game

761
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 2: going on right now. But coming up next, Mike and

762
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 2: I give you our fearless predictions for what we're gonna

763
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 2: see the NBA All Star Games on Sunday, and I

764
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 2: got a sneaking suspicion everybody's gonna be happy. That's next

765
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 2: right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

766
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

767
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 6: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

768
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 6: dot Com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

769
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 6: listen live.

770
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my bass

771
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 2: friend Mike Harmon. We get to a big NBA retirement

772
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 2: coming up in about ten minutes, because boy Chris Paul

773
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 2: hanging up today after twenty one years. What's his legacy?

774
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 2: We are going to revisit the biggest thing in his career,

775
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 2: and I'll tell you, with the benefit of perspective and time,

776
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 2: who does it look worse? Than when it actually happened.

777
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 2: But before that, we have the All Star Game on Sunday. Yeah,

778
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 2: we got the celebrity game going on now, all the

779
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 2: fun you know, slam Dunk Contest, three point contest coming

780
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 2: this weekend, and so much talk about the All Star

781
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 2: Game and how bad it is and how bad a

782
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 2: product the NBA has. Now, this last week has not

783
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 2: been a great week for the NBA with the tanking

784
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 2: reports and the finding of the of the of the

785
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,800
Speaker 2: teams for tanking, for not playing players in the fourth quarter,

786
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,280
Speaker 2: and now the All Star Game is here and everybody

787
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 2: hates that because nobody tries and it's a real travesty.

788
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,800
Speaker 2: The NBA has had a real bad week image wise.

789
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna tell you, and I feel really strongly

790
00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 2: about this, You're gonna enjoy the All Star Games this Sunday.

791
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 2: The format of USA versus the World is the right

792
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 2: one to have right now, even though they're missing a

793
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,919
Speaker 2: couple of the best players. You know, Giannis is out,

794
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 2: Luca is out, SGA. Right, they're not gonna have some

795
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 2: of the best players, But it doesn't matter because Wenby

796
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 2: wants to go and win this and he's excited you're

797
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 2: gonna see a big level of basketball for two reasons. One,

798
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 2: whenever it's United States versus the world, everybody gets up

799
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,399
Speaker 2: for it. Doesn't matter what it is. If it's US

800
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 2: versus them, them versus us, everybody gets up for it.

801
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 2: So you are gonna see as good a competition as

802
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 2: you can Now. I think the United States teams are

803
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 2: going to win big because, as I said, you know,

804
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 2: the world team is miss missing some real big firepower.

805
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 2: But you're gonna get enough effort and it's gonna be

806
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 2: fun to watch. It's gonna be different, and the players

807
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 2: are going to care. Number one because of the format.

808
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 2: But number two, the players know. The players know, Hey, guys,

809
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 2: whether it's a conversation in the locker room before the

810
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 2: game or some text going back and forth. Hey, we

811
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 2: got to go put on a show on Sunday, and

812
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 2: I mean a good show, not like, Hey, I'm gonna

813
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 2: dribble behind my back and I'm gonna watch a guy,

814
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 2: you know, start hoisting stuff from half court. Right, we

815
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 2: got to go out and put on a show and

816
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 2: play hard and make sure that you know, the NBA

817
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 2: gains a little bit of forward momentum here. We don't

818
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,720
Speaker 2: want to kill the Golden Goose. We've been very excited

819
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 2: the last few years because Adam Silver has done nothing

820
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,240
Speaker 2: to fight us on anything. We get to do whatever

821
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,879
Speaker 2: we want. We're sitting out games. We have it pretty good.

822
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 2: NBA players have it pretty good because Adam Silver doesn't

823
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 2: want to do anything right. We've talked about this. They know, Hey,

824
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 2: we gotta go out Sunday. We got to give everybody

825
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 2: something to at least stop this conversation for a little bit.

826
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 2: So I have I have no doubt in my mind

827
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 2: that we're going to get a big and one of

828
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 2: the most fun, best All Star Games we've seen in

829
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 2: recent years, and that's gonna tamp down the conversation a

830
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 2: little bit.

831
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's you heard it in Kevin Durant's voice,

832
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 3: you know, taking his uh, throwing his shade at Yo Kitchen,

833
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 3: at Luca and their past efforts in All Star Games.

834
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 3: But they recognize that a lot of the sporting world

835
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 3: is waiting on them. We got Daytona five hundred on

836
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 3: Sunday on Fox. Was watching some of the Craftsman trucks earlier.

837
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 3: You've got the Olympics. Folks are in or they're not

838
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 3: like a lot of folks, and certainly across the globe,

839
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 3: it's a big deal. And now you have an international

840
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 3: competition for your All Star Game where everybody has taken

841
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 3: a baseball bat to your sport. For as soon as

842
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl ended, it became the all right open

843
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 3: season on the NBA. We haven't paid attention, but right

844
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 3: now we're gonna hammer them left and right. So they've

845
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 3: heard it, and it's an opportunity for some of the

846
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,240
Speaker 3: younger guys to shine on a big stage. So wouldn't

847
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 3: be surprised. But you know, they can also just roll

848
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 3: the ball to the ground and just kind of walk

849
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 3: around and look at shams and say, oh, for five

850
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 3: you did that.

851
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 2: I feel pretty good. We're gonna get a big game

852
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 2: on Sunday.

853
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 3: The biggest question, the biggest look back at Chris Paul's

854
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 3: career is next Chasing and Mike Fox