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Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome in Side hour three, The Freddy Peralta Show

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Speaker 1: with my bes friend Freddie Peralta.

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Speaker 3: Well dressed hobo.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, buddy, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from the Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio Studio.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let me stop you right there. The Mets suck.

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Speaker 4: Stop stop stop. This may be this tell Alan that's

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Speaker 4: a Mets suck. This may be the best sports day

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Speaker 4: of the year for me.

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Speaker 1: The Mets get Freddie Barsalta, Brunson has his closed door meeting,

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Speaker 1: the Knicks beat the Nets by sixty. This may be

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Speaker 1: I mean, I may peak, as my teams may peak

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Speaker 1: right now here in mid January.

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Speaker 4: This may be the best it gets from me all

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Speaker 4: year long.

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Speaker 5: It might be the saddest thing you've ever said on

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Speaker 5: the radio and.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of sad stuff, he said, I've said

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Speaker 4: sad thing, Yeah, sad things.

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Speaker 5: It's pretty sad. I mean, it's one thing for your

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Speaker 5: team to lose, and now we're breaking down the losses here.

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Speaker 5: You're in the middle of a basketball season in a

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Speaker 5: bad conference. Look, is your team perfect?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 5: But you beat the hell out of someone tonight. Okay,

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Speaker 5: find your wins the Mets season. You're excited because you

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Speaker 5: keep fleecing people with these half assed prospects, yeah, or

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Speaker 5: noted starters. I mean, is this the sympathy thing? Is

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Speaker 5: this getting back? Should all the other teams be outraged

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Speaker 5: at these trades that are committed? What kind of deals

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Speaker 5: are they stock in the fridges and the coke machines

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Speaker 5: for the brewers off of these deals? I mean, come on,

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Speaker 5: what do we got going on here?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's exciting.

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Speaker 5: Everybody complains about the Dodgers. Well coughed with a buck.

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Speaker 5: Here it's the hey you scratch my back, I scratch yours? Hey,

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Speaker 5: paraltas a met.

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Speaker 1: We'll have more on this story coming up in a

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Speaker 1: few minutes. Is like that, do we have to Salvos

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Speaker 1: fire today?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, big deal. That's a big trade. The Yankees

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Speaker 1: got Cody Bellinger. We talked about Cody Bellinger. Cody about

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Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger goes back to the Yankees today. Okay, Uh, look,

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Speaker 1: it's been a it's been a wild last couple of

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Speaker 4: Man wild.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's that time of year. I may've got a

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Speaker 5: Maybe we should take a road trip there. I mean,

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Speaker 5: I drove thirteen and a half straight from Boise, Io.

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Speaker 5: I can get to Arizona no time, flat.

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Speaker 4: Road trip road trip? Why not road trip road trip?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Like it's wrong?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 1: We have because all right, this I want I want

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Speaker 1: to set you up for it because we're going to

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Speaker 1: talk about Bears again here.

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Speaker 4: But it's part of.

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Speaker 5: A larger Bears again here ya, because you're more obsessed

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, this is just part of a larger

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Speaker 1: conversation for teams that have dominated the headlines the last

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 1: So we're getting set for the NFC and AFC Championship games,

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Speaker 1: and we'll have more on thee you'll obviously the next

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Speaker 1: and picks and prognostications. But you look at the teams

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Speaker 4: Right. The We'll start with the Bears.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, when you blow a game the way the Bears did,

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Speaker 1: a way to lose, that's a very Bears way to lose.

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Speaker 1: now blow this in overtime? And that's exactly what happened, right,

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Speaker 1: back from this, Caleb Williams future. You have the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: We are in day four of we fired Sean McDermott.

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Speaker 1: Is CJ Stroud still any good? Can he come back

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Speaker 1: These are three teams that all came into this last

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Speaker 1: Because if you're the Bears, you're saying, Okay, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: oh man, Texans, we had our shot right and the

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Speaker 4: We could have easily beaten the Broncos. We should have.

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Speaker 4: You know, our quarterback was bad.

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Speaker 1: And boy, I don't care that you have to play

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Speaker 4: It's Division four.

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Speaker 1: We've beat them the last time we played them. The

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Speaker 1: the Lions when three years ago they gack away the

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Speaker 1: And I remember Dan Campbell after the game said he

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Speaker 1: Ross Saint Brown is a star and Sam Laporta is

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Speaker 4: Which yet? Is? We told you Lion's window is closed?

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Speaker 5: Well, that's what I've said all along with these squads, right,

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Speaker 5: When you're talking about turning over your coordinators and losing

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Speaker 5: normally doesn't happen for you a year after year. Go

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Speaker 1: Now, of those three teams, the team I feel the

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Speaker 5: It's it what if it was as good as it gets?

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Speaker 4: Exit out about that's Coach of the Year.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we'll get into that big trade that happened tonight

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Speaker 1: and again, congratulations to former jetstar Carry Rhodes.

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Speaker 5: On winning that Jets sho.

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Speaker 5: Carrie had a good run, he did a great run

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Speaker 5: and he won. Okay, well no, I'm just saying in

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Speaker 4: Can you say this, yeah, I know?

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Speaker 5: Is that he made the NFL played for that was

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Speaker 5: The Google machine says, right, he made some money doing it.

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Speaker 5: He would be okay, you're right, No, you're right, and

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Speaker 1: Come on, Yeah, he's a good dude. I love seeing

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Speaker 5: Uh So, look doesn't like it when you say you

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Speaker 4: But I have to former NFL star.

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Speaker 5: Singer actor, all of those things, Carrie Rhodes. Find them

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Speaker 4: Don't know where he played, don't.

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Speaker 5: Weekends with Dan Byer on Sundays. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: You played in the NFL. Okay, right, you're right, You're right.

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Speaker 4: It's all good. Now, Why am.

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Speaker 1: I in such a good mood tonight? I'm glad you

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Speaker 4: The off season.

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Speaker 1: That's when my team shine, not when the games actually happen.

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Speaker 1: There's no big tour. I'm gonna go talk to this team.

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Speaker 1: It's like you come and you don't get out of

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Speaker 1: That happens that way. But in the NBA sometimes we

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Speaker 1: But right now, no, I'm not gonna go out and

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Speaker 1: The Yankees played whatever hardball they wanted. They said, five

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Speaker 1: I'm glad the Mets didn't. I don't want to go

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Speaker 1: nine years and three hundred million dollars on Cody Bellinger.

439
00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,359
Speaker 1: Come on, mare, he's not gonna aid that hole in

440
00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,520
Speaker 1: his swing. It ain't gonna age well man. But here's

441
00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,560
Speaker 1: what happens. This is how it goes. So the Yankees

442
00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:05,919
Speaker 1: they waited, and it's been an off season for Yankee

443
00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,840
Speaker 1: fans that they've been really frustrated about. But hey, they

444
00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:11,920
Speaker 1: held firm to money. That's okay for them, and they

445
00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,280
Speaker 1: brought back a guy who played well for them last year.

446
00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,360
Speaker 1: They didn't go overboard to go sign him and pay

447
00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:19,600
Speaker 1: him all kinds of money that even the Yankees are

448
00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,880
Speaker 1: gonna say, boy, really shouldn't have done that. Now five

449
00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,080
Speaker 1: and one sixty five for Bellinger. Okay, that's how it goes.

450
00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:27,480
Speaker 1: But that's how the off season is played in baseball.

451
00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:31,600
Speaker 1: I just get give all your gms, give all everybody

452
00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,200
Speaker 1: time to cook and time to make your team, because

453
00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,480
Speaker 1: you don't have to make your team ready to go

454
00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,399
Speaker 1: in the middle of December. You got to make your

455
00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:40,320
Speaker 1: team ready to go by the middle of February. And

456
00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,639
Speaker 1: the Mets have done that, Other teams have done that,

457
00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,280
Speaker 1: The Yankees did it today, And that's kind of.

458
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Speaker 4: How it goes. I wish people would understand that part

459
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:48,400
Speaker 4: of it a little bit.

460
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Speaker 5: More well, but it's like our entire society. I want

461
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,360
Speaker 5: it now. I'd call it a microwave, but I don't

462
00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,520
Speaker 5: know that anybody uses a microwave anymore. Any Johnson uses

463
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Speaker 5: a microwave. You know he does just because his nickname

464
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,000
Speaker 5: was the microwave. What if he's moved on, what if

465
00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 5: it's just on principle he's never owned a microwave.

466
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Speaker 1: Do you think I have to explain to millennials who

467
00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:11,560
Speaker 1: Vinnie Johnson was I think might want to yeah, yeah,

468
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,399
Speaker 1: go ahead, all right, all right. Vinnie Johnson was a

469
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,240
Speaker 1: six man for the Detroit Pistons back in the bad

470
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,560
Speaker 1: boy days of the late eighties early nineties. His nickname

471
00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,240
Speaker 1: was the microwave because he came off the bench and

472
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,040
Speaker 1: he ate it up right away and scored a lot of.

473
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Speaker 4: Points as a six man.

474
00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:24,720
Speaker 5: I was pretty well done.

475
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:25,440
Speaker 4: You like that, huh?

476
00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:26,800
Speaker 5: And that's one to grow on.

477
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,639
Speaker 4: You don't even need ai. I could do that stuff.

478
00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 4: I could do that stuff for you. Just call me

479
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:30,919
Speaker 4: and I can do that.

480
00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,400
Speaker 5: Sometimes. Yes, sometimes I'm afraid of what it's gonna spin

481
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,480
Speaker 5: out because I'm acting act asking you just for facts

482
00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 5: where normally I'm gonna start getting some hot take nonsense.

483
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,560
Speaker 5: But all of that to say, even when we watched

484
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Speaker 5: things percolate in the off season, it's it's a lot

485
00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,240
Speaker 5: of rumor, conjecture, speculation of this guy to that. Like

486
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 5: we're watching with the coaching cycle now in the NFL,

487
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 5: right this guy, I mean, we've added from Monsei tonight

488
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,520
Speaker 5: the idea of Brian Floor he's gonna be their DC

489
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,240
Speaker 5: unless he gets a head coaching job. So it's like,

490
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,119
Speaker 5: I'm gonna stay with you unless I get a better

491
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 5: off relationship one on one. But all of that to say,

492
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,920
Speaker 5: for the free agency period, it becomes the dominoes to

493
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,119
Speaker 5: fall right because you're gonna hold out for every extra

494
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,800
Speaker 5: dollar that you can, and yes, in baseball and basketball,

495
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,959
Speaker 5: it's all guaranteed. Football we talk about how much your

496
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 5: signing bonuses and all of that stuff, how much of

497
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,919
Speaker 5: that's guaranteed as well as we've entered that era in

498
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,640
Speaker 5: a different way these last few years. But for baseball,

499
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 5: you needed to see Tucker come off the board, you

500
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 5: needed to see the Bashett contract, you needed to see

501
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,000
Speaker 5: some of these things come out as to how they

502
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 5: were structured, all these different options player or team options,

503
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 5: and all of these other type of changes based on

504
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,919
Speaker 5: a lot of what the Dodgers have done with deferred money.

505
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:58,480
Speaker 5: To watch how those come to play one because maybe

506
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:02,399
Speaker 5: it changes how your negotiation uh and the strategies to

507
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 5: try to land that guy that's the apple of your

508
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,119
Speaker 5: eye at a position, or to fill out your bullpen

509
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 5: or however you're going about it. But until the top

510
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:16,439
Speaker 5: guys at each position fall, it's none of it happens

511
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 5: because there's no need to are you are you? Are

512
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 5: you doing your workouts? Yeah? Okay, cool, he says he's

513
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,480
Speaker 5: doing his workouts. Okay, and then you show up in

514
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:26,400
Speaker 5: the best shape of your life, right as soon as

515
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 5: we come to trading, straight training. I mean, that's just

516
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 5: the way it works. But for all these other guys,

517
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 5: it's it's the you know, stepping stepping stones and the

518
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 5: the fall fallback options. Once the top top guy signs, right,

519
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 5: Kyle Tucker goes, well, yeah, of course, now we're gonna

520
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:49,400
Speaker 5: start seeing the activity for the rest of the remaining outfielders.

521
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,159
Speaker 5: And with Bashett coming off the board infielders and with

522
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 5: just a couple of weeks to go before they report. Yeah,

523
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 5: any any trades that have been rumored, now it's time

524
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,879
Speaker 5: to actually go and make those deals and in your case,

525
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 5: go raid farm Systems.

526
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 4: Yeah. Just just gotta wait, man, Just got just gotta wait.

527
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,199
Speaker 1: Gotta wait for trades, gotta wait for free agency, just

528
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 1: gotta wait. Just gotta be patient, just like I always say,

529
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,359
Speaker 1: be patient. And eventually Lebron James is not gonna be

530
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 1: a Laker anymore.

531
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:23,040
Speaker 5: Well, but but that's like say, this guy who's really

532
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 5: good is done and he's never gonna win or play

533
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 5: well again. Eventually you're gonna be right.

534
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Speaker 1: Well, look, here's the thing. Thanks to Rick Buker for

535
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: stopping by last hour. This is a big story today.

536
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 1: Some would call it a hit piece.

537
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:39,199
Speaker 3: Uh.

538
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 1: ESPN did a big article today on Genie Bus the Lakers,

539
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,440
Speaker 1: where they sit family wise, and where Genie Buss is

540
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 1: apparently when it comes to Lebron James. Now what do

541
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: we find out from this from this article? Basically some

542
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 1: stuff we already knew. Genie Buss and her brothers and

543
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: sisters don't get along and she systematically got rid of

544
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: everybody till she was the one owning the team. So

545
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 1: you had that drama there. But more interesting was the

546
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: drama surrounding Lebron James. And again this isn't all in

547
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:15,439
Speaker 1: ESPN's article about this is that over the years, Jeanie

548
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: Buss has become not as much pro Lebron James as

549
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 1: she was when he was signed. A couple of things

550
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 1: to come out from this article. Not happy that the

551
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 1: front office didn't get more credit for winning the championship

552
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty and Lebron got the credit for coming

553
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: in and saving the Lakers. Okay to that, I'm gonna say, yeah,

554
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 1: when the best player in the league comes and you

555
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 1: win a championship, that's the guy that's gonna get the credit.

556
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:44,399
Speaker 4: No one's getting.

557
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:48,400
Speaker 1: Mike Breen isn't counting down three two one, and Genny

558
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: Buss and the Lakers put.

559
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 4: Together the team to win the championship.

560
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Speaker 1: Congratulations of Johnny and Jimmy Buss and everybody else. I mean,

561
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Speaker 1: that's not how it goes right. Of course, the players

562
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,680
Speaker 1: get credit. But it went on to a couple of

563
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: other things. According to the article that Geenie Buss wasn't

564
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: happy that when the Russell Westbrook trade went down that

565
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 1: Lebron James didn't take more ownership of it because they

566
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 1: did that trade to bring in Russell, and look, the

567
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 1: Lakers took three years to bounce back from signing Russell

568
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: Westbrook because that was the guy that Lebron and Anthony

569
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: Davis wanted that she wanted Lebron to take a little

570
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: bit of ownership of that move. And also she felt

571
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 1: that Lebron should have been more grateful when the Lakers

572
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: drafted Brony. They didn't have to do it, but they did.

573
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Speaker 1: And Rick Buker said, Hey, I think things might be

574
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 1: different with Lebron and the Lakers had Lebron just even said, hey,

575
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,159
Speaker 1: you know, I thank you the Lakers. I'm getting a

576
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: chance to play with my son. This is awesome. I

577
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: wouldn't get a chance to do this anywhere else. I'm

578
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 1: really grateful for it. So bottom line, you know, from this,

579
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: and this is where things get really fascinating, is that

580
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,160
Speaker 1: here's Genie Buss now who is the governor. The Lakers

581
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:57,880
Speaker 1: are going to stay in the position for at least

582
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Speaker 1: another couple of years. I mean, who knows how long

583
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,680
Speaker 1: is it gonna be five years? Will it be three

584
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: years when it's all said and done. But the thing

585
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: I take away from this mic is that Jeannie Buss

586
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 1: is going to win this war with Lebron James somehow.

587
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 1: And by that, I mean she's going to show that

588
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 1: she's the more dominant person in this relationship with herself

589
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: and the Lakers.

590
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 4: And Lebron and the Lakers.

591
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: Right if she's upset he got too much credit, he

592
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: wasn't grateful enough for Browny, he doesn't take ownership off

593
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: of Russell Westbrook. All of this tells me she's not

594
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: gonna just simply let Lebron's contract expire and he goes

595
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,160
Speaker 1: as a free agent in the offseason sign someplace else.

596
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: Like that's not winning, that's not winning the war, that's

597
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 1: not where that's okay. It came and it went like,

598
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: this is Lebron at the best. It's a tie, but

599
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,360
Speaker 1: more than likely it's Hey, Lebron came in, he ran

600
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,919
Speaker 1: things how he wanted. For a few years, the Lakers

601
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,640
Speaker 1: couldn't win, and now he's leaving and he's he got lucky.

602
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,439
Speaker 1: The Lakers made the big trade for Luka Doncic and

603
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 1: now they're building their future more around him, and things

604
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: will get better for the Lakers next year or maybe

605
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: at the deadline this year. But my whole thing is

606
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: that like she's she wants to win this with Lebron,

607
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,160
Speaker 1: and if it's not a trade that can happen sometime

608
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 1: in the next twelve or thirteen days, I really wonder

609
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: if you're gonna get a buyout situation. And the Lakers

610
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: have a couple of trades ready to go to build

611
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: around Luca more than they're building around with Lebron right now,

612
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 1: because if they continue to falter over the next ten

613
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 1: or so days before the deadline, and you know, they

614
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: started out great and they played their best basketball without Lebron. Eventually,

615
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves is coming back. JJ Reddick said today that hey,

616
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: he should be back sometime in the next eight days

617
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: or next eight games, and they're excited to get him back.

618
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 4: That was their best basketball.

619
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: So I really wonder if the final salvo, the final

620
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: punch that's gonna be thrown in this battle between the

621
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: two of them, is gonna be Austin Reeves comes back.

622
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: They have a couple the trades they want that's gonna work.

623
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: That's gonna be great supplementary for Luca and and Reeves,

624
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: who are the new one to.

625
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 4: Two of the team.

626
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be a buyout. And that's how they're

627
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: gonna say goodbye to Lebron.

628
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 4: James.

629
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: Hey, sorry, we're moving on. We'll buy you out. We

630
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: have no problem buying you out. By the way, no

631
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: problem here. The rest of the money for this year

632
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: we owe you to it. Twenty five you played the

633
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: first half of the year with us. It's twenty five million.

634
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 4: That's nothing.

635
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: We'll see you, Lebron, go good luck, go sign someplace else.

636
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: I really wonder after reading this, if that's how it's

637
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,479
Speaker 1: gonna end, because I can't believe for Geni Bus it's

638
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: gonna end with just him walking out at the end

639
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: of the year saying, okay, one now I'm going someplace else.

640
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 5: Well, if i'm him, that's what I stay for spite,

641
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 5: because I also have no no. Because here's the other

642
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 5: thing that she also has to look in the mirror on.

643
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 5: You let this guy retain his no trade clause when

644
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 5: you re signed his ass.

645
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you gave him a.

646
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 5: Player option which allowed him to come and take your

647
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 5: fifty three million dollars. You screwed up time and time again.

648
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 5: If you hated him, you had your out two years ago.

649
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 5: And if you were worried about public opinion, then you

650
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 5: obviously didn't give a damn about what any of your

651
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 5: fans were saying. What any of even the loudest of mouths,

652
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 5: and then there are plenty of sick of fans. You

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Speaker 5: gotta sort through that noise. But through throughout the media,

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Speaker 5: there were plenty of folks saying it's done, let it go,

655
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Speaker 5: move on. Instead, you give him a two year deal

656
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Speaker 5: with the player option that he immediately said, Well, you're

657
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Speaker 5: gonna give me fifty three million and I keep my

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Speaker 5: not trade. Hell yeah, So he can make this as

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Speaker 5: uncomfortable as well, because you also can't tell me he's

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Speaker 5: been blind to it that the trade for Luca wasn't

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Speaker 5: suddenly a oh my god moment like this would have

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Speaker 5: been going on for years. Sure, So the distance, no

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Speaker 5: matter how much you could have little clips from them

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Speaker 5: on the sideline and laughing and joking and whatever, Hey,

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Speaker 5: happy International Women's Day or whatever that clip was from

666
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Speaker 5: a couple of years ago. As he's sitting around like

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Speaker 5: all of that's finny good. This is just the classic standoff.

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Speaker 5: She's waiting out the term like Austin Reeves comes back

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Speaker 5: and he's either got to be okay because he's done

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Speaker 5: the lip service of I've got to be a good teammate.

671
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 5: I've got to play my role. We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 5: But it's delicious theater for us, and even with all

673
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Speaker 5: of the unrest, they're fifth in the Western Conference.

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

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Speaker 1: Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon Time Now

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00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.

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Speaker 1: So someone who will tell you her favorite friend's character

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Speaker 1: is Rachel, but it's really Tom Selleck.

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Speaker 4: It's Mazi.

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00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 6: Rachel is my favorite because I cry over everything just

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00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 6: like Rachel. But I am very competitive like Monica, so it's.

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Speaker 2: Like a little bit of everything.

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Speaker 6: I am very competitive.

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Speaker 5: I really thought that was gonna end with the line

685
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Speaker 5: about a mustache.

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Speaker 6: Listen. I was getting there.

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Speaker 5: I was getting there. I'm sorry, you're fine.

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Speaker 6: I was getting to Tom Selleck in the sexy mustache.

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Speaker 1: Of course he is using Unagi. Okay, understand she's using Unagi.

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Speaker 6: You're not seeing me do the hand.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing the hand.

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Speaker 4: Jason, Oh, I would kill for a salmon skin rope.

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Speaker 2: Unagi.

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Speaker 5: Okay, who had Unagi?

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Speaker 6: Probably Shai Gil just Alexander because he had forty points,

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Speaker 6: seven rebounds, and eleven assists as the thundered as the Thunder,

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Speaker 6: I don't know what.

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Speaker 2: I just said.

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Speaker 6: Under Thunder defeated the Box one twenty two two one Thunder.

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Speaker 1: With the big victory over Vance Refrigeration tonight in basketball.

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Speaker 3: No, it's like when Monica's sick and she's like, I'm fine,

702
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Speaker 3: I'm fine, You're not fine.

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Speaker 2: Okay, up, friends, I can do this for hours.

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Speaker 3: Raptors took down the Kings one twenty two to one

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Speaker 3: oh nine. Pistons without Kate Cunningham defeated the Pelicans one

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00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 3: twelve to one oh four, and the nixt crushed the

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Speaker 3: Nets one twenty to sixty six, winning by fifty four,

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Speaker 3: which is.

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Speaker 2: A franchise record.

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Speaker 6: When it comes to the NFL, defensive coordinator Brian Flores

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Speaker 6: has signed a contract extension with the Vikings. If he

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Speaker 6: does not receive a head coaching drop the side, he's

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Speaker 6: gonna be back with the team's defensive coordinator.

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Speaker 2: Bill's quarterback Josh.

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Speaker 6: Allen may need surgery on his injured right foot, but

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Speaker 6: he should be ready for OTAs if he undergoes that procedure.

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Speaker 6: Forty nine Ers GM John Lynch says that wide receiver

718
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Speaker 6: Brandon Iucu has played his last nap for the team.

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Speaker 6: He will not be back in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 4: Also, he said that the team.

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Speaker 6: Is looking into everything as rumors circulate that the team's

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Speaker 6: injury woes could be tied to an electrical substation located

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Speaker 6: next to their practice facility and stadium. You guys, there's

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Speaker 6: gotta be something.

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Speaker 2: Real to that.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying all of it, but some thing's gotta

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Speaker 2: be real to that.

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Speaker 6: I can't no, I can't help it. Texans next finds out, Yeah, no,

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Speaker 6: he's still.

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Speaker 2: Talking about the Clippers.

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Speaker 6: Texas GM Nick Cassario said a freak foot injury suffered

733
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Speaker 6: away from football is what costs running back Joe Mixon

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Speaker 6: his entire twenty twenty five season. The team isn't even

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Speaker 6: sure if Mixon is going to be ready to play

736
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Speaker 6: in twenty twenty six. In base the Mets made a

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Speaker 6: move today. They acquired all a right hand for Freddy

738
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Speaker 6: Peralta in a trade with the Brewers, and Cody Bellinger

739
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Speaker 6: isn't going anywhere. He and the Yankees agreed to terms

740
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Speaker 6: on a five year deal with one hundred and sixty

741
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Speaker 6: two million. In the NHL, everything has wrapped up. The

742
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 6: Canucks had lost seven in a row, not anymore. They

743
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 6: beat the Capitols four to three and the Krack and

744
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 6: snap their four game losing streak with the four to

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Speaker 6: one win over the Islanders.

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Speaker 4: Back to you guys, Thanks a bunch, Monzie.

747
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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1: coming up next. Got another big story out of the

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Speaker 1: NFL to bring to you Jason.

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

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: The Jason Smith.

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Speaker 1: Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. Where Uh something

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00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: happened today in the NFL that I'm pretty sure is

756
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Speaker 1: going to lead to an even bigger headline this offseason.

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Speaker 4: Okay, now, let's yesterday we talked about.

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Speaker 1: Look, my favorite coaching move of the offseason so far

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00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 1: the Chargers getting Mike McDaniel as their offensive coordinator. This

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00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: is exactly what the Chargers need. They need to mesh

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00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh's philosophy with a more new school kind of situation.

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Speaker 1: He's got the right personality.

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Speaker 4: This is great.

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Speaker 1: Today the Chiefs announced that Eric B. Enemy is returning

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Speaker 1: to the team to be their offensive coordinator. Titally held

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Speaker 1: for a long time when every year the Chiefs won

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl or got to the Super Bowl, it

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Speaker 1: was how is Eric B.

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Speaker 4: Enemy not a head coach? How's he not a head coach?

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Speaker 1: Well, that ship has kind of sailed for B Enemy

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Speaker 1: for who knows what reason.

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Speaker 4: But the Chiefs do the.

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Speaker 1: Right thing in bringing back a guy who they achieved

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Speaker 1: their greatest success when he was their OC. Now Andy

775
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,320
Speaker 1: Reid calling plays and different things. Okay, yes, Reid is

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00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: still the guy there and the responsibility that the enemy had.

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Speaker 1: But bringing him back kind of resets the team to say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: this guy's coming in. He knows us, he knows the

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Speaker 1: personnel we were excited to play when he was here.

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Speaker 4: He knew what buttons to push, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, whether you're calmen plays or not, bringing him

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Speaker 1: in is a pretty big deal that we're going back

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Speaker 1: to a guy that we enjoyed our great success under.

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Speaker 1: And I told you last season, Hey, you think that,

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Speaker 1: get your lumpson on the Chiefs this year, because in

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Speaker 1: this offseason, they're going out aggressive. They'll get a big

787
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Speaker 1: running back, they'll get a big number one receiver, and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be the it's gonna be the blank you tour.

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Speaker 1: When Mahomes comes back to play next year coming off

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Speaker 1: his injury, Now that's a big headline, right, that's a

791
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Speaker 1: big headline. But I'm gonna tell you right now, Eric

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Speaker 1: b Enemy coming back. You know who else is coming

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Speaker 1: back for next year? Mike Harmon, who's Travis Kelcey is

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Speaker 1: coming back?

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Speaker 4: For another year.

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Speaker 1: He does his So he does his in the Heights

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Speaker 1: podcast today he and lind Manuel Miranda and he talked

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Speaker 1: about how excited he was, Oh, it's gonna be great

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Speaker 1: to see him back in the building again. It's awesome,

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Speaker 1: very excited. When you're in the middle of January and

801
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: you're talking about how excited you are to see a

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Speaker 1: guy back in the building. This tells me that Kelsey's

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00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: going to be back for another year. That I thought

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00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: he would retire. I thought he would walk away. But

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Speaker 1: whatever changes the Chiefs are going to make, it feels

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00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: like the door is open. I think if Kelsey was

807
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Speaker 1: going to retire, he would have talked about it, you know,

808
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: talking and talking about the enemy like he's going to

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00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: be alongside him in the present tense. And remember, I

810
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: remember Phil Simms always saying, Hey, when you think you're

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Speaker 1: done in the NFL, play one more year. You think

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00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: you're done, play two more year because you know, after

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00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: football you're not doing it again, right, Like it's a

814
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,280
Speaker 1: long time, you're not playing football anymore. And Travis Kelcey

815
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Speaker 1: is as you know, he's gonna get married. He's still

816
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: one of the more most popular players in the League.

817
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: He's not quite the same guy, and I really think

818
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: next year is going to be his last one. But

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Speaker 1: with the way it ended with Mahomes getting hurt and

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Speaker 1: they don't make the playoffs, that's a bad taste in

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Speaker 1: his mouth. And the Enemy coming back, I don't think

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Speaker 1: there's any way now after those couple of things, he's

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Speaker 1: not back next year with the Chiefs.

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Speaker 5: Seventy six catches, eight hundred and fifty one yards eleven

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Speaker 5: point two averages, best since twenty twenty two when Eric

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Speaker 5: b Enemy was the last the OC hanging out there

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Speaker 5: by the way, happy belated to Linn Manuel Miranda birthday

828
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,320
Speaker 5: just a couple of days ago, as you just dragged

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Speaker 5: him in curiosity of all of this. Matt Naggy now

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Speaker 5: out in the wind because he's not the Tennessee Titans coach,

831
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Speaker 5: and maybe he's the guy that ultimately takes the job

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Speaker 5: in Philadelphia, evidently interviewed for that OC job earlier today,

833
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Speaker 5: which seems to be a job that everybody's running away

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Speaker 5: from at this point, which is a whole other thing

835
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Speaker 5: with all the unrest there. But for the Enemy, He's

836
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 5: bounced around a bit. He was in Washington, he was

837
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Speaker 5: at Ucla Bears running running back coach this year and

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00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 5: instrumental to what they were doing, working a lot with

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Speaker 5: that old line and with Manungai and Swift for what's

840
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 5: funny how that works right, Swift for what they became

841
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 5: as an offense, and how well that run game came together.

842
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 5: So why not get the band back together for one

843
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,959
Speaker 5: more run? Absolutely, seventy six catches still among the leaders. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: there were some drops that were very, very visible because

845
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Speaker 5: the Chiefs were in primetime a lot. But maybe you

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00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 5: add another piece, like we talked about with the Bears,

847
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 5: to your receiving corps. Get a little more continuity there

848
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 5: to where it becomes Travis Kelce can work it back

849
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Speaker 5: as a blocker a bit more, but have more space

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Speaker 5: in those one on one matchups against linebackers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 1: Look, and it's not like they're gonna go out and

853
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: get a new tight end. Who's gonna come in and

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00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 1: be Travis Kelce. No, the offense is gonna morph a

855
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: little bit. Seventy six catches from Kelsey if you get

856
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: a year, we have sixty catches next year. With the

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Speaker 1: changes you're gonna make the rest of the offense that's

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00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 1: gonna be just fine. I think he showed enough this

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Speaker 1: year that if he wanted to come back, depending how

860
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: things broke broke, he was gonna be able to do

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00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:13,280
Speaker 1: it the way it ended so bad and be enemy.

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Speaker 4: No doubt in my mind, he's gonna be back.

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Speaker 1: It's just gonna be a matter of time until he

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Speaker 1: makes his official announcement, probably on his podcast, but he'll

865
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Speaker 1: be back next year.

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Speaker 4: With the cheap We're gonna have one more year of

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Speaker 4: Travis Kelson.

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Speaker 5: I just a curious curiosity of how much he's gonna

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Speaker 5: get paid to do so.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know this is where you gotta say

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Speaker 1: money doesn't matter. I play for the love of the game.

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Speaker 1: Money doesn't matter. I mean, they're not paying me, but

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Speaker 1: money doesn't matter. Coming up next, we have the most fun,

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Speaker 1: bizarre story of the week in the.

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Speaker 4: NFL that just keeps getting more fun and more bizarre.

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Speaker 4: That's next, Jason