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6-26-26 Hour 2 - Scotty joins the Scramble, Top 100 NFL Players/Proposed MLB CBA changes/Oh, By the Way... · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Friday, Denver. It's the first full week of summer
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  Speaker 2: and that means it's scramble time in the summer radio.
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  Speaker 1: Baby.
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  Speaker 2: We're mixing and matching all of your favorite hosts talking nuggets, haves,
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  Speaker 2: NBA and NHL, free agency, the World Cup, and the Rockies.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a great summer summer radio. Let's get
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  Speaker 2: to it on the Altitude Summer Scramble. Here's Mark berdno Lee.
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  Speaker 3: Hardest wooking man in show business is Scott Hastings and
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  Speaker 3: Vic LABARTI. I mean, actually, I don't know who it
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  Speaker 3: would be between the two of you, because both of
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  Speaker 3: you work hard for for the good sports fans here
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  Speaker 3: in Denver.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, mine, mine's gonna slow down a little bit, Vis,
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  Speaker 1: Vic's gotta carry the torch. Us.
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  Speaker 4: You get to hang out with oscar Us brother like
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  Speaker 4: the non shaven long hair such a dirty hippie radio.
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  Speaker 1: We ought to do that before our introduction. The sign
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  Speaker 1: says long haired, So I tucked my hair up. YEA.
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  Speaker 5: Went in to ask him why how long you had
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  Speaker 5: that little uh facial arrangement going now, Scott, he's had
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  Speaker 5: a couple of years. And when did you start.
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  Speaker 1: That you know what. I got a picture when I
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  Speaker 1: was in Italy for the Ryder Cup and it had
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  Speaker 1: just started, so it was just, you know, just a
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  Speaker 1: regular kind of tight foo man choe thing. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I've shaved it since then.
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  Speaker 5: Don't you don't crime it?
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  Speaker 1: I mean you just let it just drop, Yeah, just
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  Speaker 1: let it go. Yeah, listen, he puts, I've had beard all.
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  Speaker 1: You can put beard all in it. What's the condition?
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  Speaker 1: You put a little condition?
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  Speaker 4: The Viking thing and like weave it, you know what
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  Speaker 4: I mean?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the Vikings weaved it.
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  Speaker 1: The warden hates it. Oh really, Oh I hates it.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter loves it. The warden hates it. But the
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  Speaker 1: daughter loves it because the warden hates it. Right, so
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  Speaker 1: she's a twelve year old.
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  Speaker 5: As long as you don't pull a mosure and do
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  Speaker 5: the soul patch.
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  Speaker 4: No, yeah, that's a tough look man, that's see. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's a good look man.
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  Speaker 1: You should have done it. You should have done it.
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  Speaker 4: Like mos, you're so stupid. The facial hair.
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  Speaker 3: I always one of these days he's going to come
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  Speaker 3: in with the Hitler stash, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: That's how dumb he is.
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  Speaker 3: Remember when Jordan was rocking the Hitler's That's what I'm
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  Speaker 3: just telling you. Like, Moser's that kind of dumb, Like
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  Speaker 3: he would just be like, this looks kind of good.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, I think I could pull.
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  Speaker 5: This off his own show.
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  Speaker 1: You got to use that line sometimes. Moser is that
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  Speaker 1: kind of dumb, all right, he'd be like, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, he'd be like other people obviously couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: I can pull this off. I don't know how insulting me,
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  Speaker 1: He's going to make this a better segment.
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  Speaker 4: It's immediately a better signing. What are you talking about, brother?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, gentlemen, we were just talking about the World Cup
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  Speaker 3: last night and in the team USA and that that
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  Speaker 3: match was held there.
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  Speaker 5: So fine.
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  Speaker 3: I bring up so far because it is the home
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  Speaker 3: of two different football teams, one of which is the L. A.
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  Speaker 1: Rams.
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  Speaker 3: The CBS CBS Sports came out with their top one
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  Speaker 3: hundred players in the NFL today and number one, well,
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  Speaker 3: the first two players on the list are both L. A.
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  Speaker 3: Rams and it is Miles Garrett number They say Miles
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  Speaker 3: Garrett is the best player in football right now and
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  Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford is number two. It goes Miles Garrett number
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  Speaker 3: one in Matthew Stafford number two.
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  Speaker 1: And when you say vic a healthy pooking the chew
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  Speaker 1: and probably in the top.
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  Speaker 4: He's number nine.
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  Speaker 1: He's number nine.
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  Speaker 4: The Rams have three players in the top ten.
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  Speaker 5: Miles Grett, Stafford number two.
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  Speaker 4: To be honest with you, yeah, yeah, he's the highest quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Josh Allen is right behind him at three
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  Speaker 3: Jamar Chase.
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  Speaker 1: But aren't you guys just kind of waiting for the
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  Speaker 1: Stafford drop. He's almost forty. I know, listen, I watched
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  Speaker 1: the podcast with Tom Brady the other day and he
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  Speaker 1: played to he's forty five. It was an amazing thing
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  Speaker 1: to witness, right, But but do you see Stafford going
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  Speaker 1: for another time in forty two? Forty three?
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  Speaker 5: Quarterbacks different? And I'm glad you're with the Scotty because
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to bring this up talking about age and athleticism.
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  Speaker 5: To me, to me, the greatest defiance of age I
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  Speaker 5: have ever witnessed is what Lebron James is doing to
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  Speaker 5: the sport of basketball at his age. I mean, you
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  Speaker 5: played it. I can't believe somebody that age can still
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  Speaker 5: produce those numbers and get up and down the court
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  Speaker 5: at that rate.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what, listen, we just talked about the
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  Speaker 1: World Cup and that last second mess I think just
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  Speaker 1: turned thirty nine this week. Rinaldos forty one? Lebron Is
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  Speaker 1: is he forty one? And now what he is? Somebody
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  Speaker 1: has seem to be forty two before. Here's the one
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  Speaker 1: thing I will say about this. And I watch them,
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm so into soccer right now. I
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  Speaker 1: watch all these English podcasts and they got all these
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  Speaker 1: old great soccer players, a lot of them from Man
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  Speaker 1: United when they were winning. You know, they were the
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  Speaker 1: Boston Celtics of soccer there for a while with all
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  Speaker 1: they won. And they bring up good points. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure the athlete or the heart or the intelligence is
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  Speaker 1: any different vic than nineteen sixty. Sure as it was
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  Speaker 1: as it is right now in twenty six. But the difference,
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  Speaker 1: you know, look at what Tom Brady talks about with
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  Speaker 1: what he did with his buying's body scientifically right. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, do you remember a story I know you do,
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  Speaker 1: remember when Romanowski was here. Yeah, and it came out
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  Speaker 1: a box and it came out in a story that
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  Speaker 1: he was spending a quarter of a million dollars on
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  Speaker 1: his health in you know, through the season and offseason.
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  Speaker 5: He had the chamber, he had the oxygen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but we all were like, oh my god, are
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  Speaker 1: you crazy or you yeah, you know, I thought he
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  Speaker 1: was out of this world.
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  Speaker 5: I remember Scooter in that nineteen ninety nine season, we
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  Speaker 5: had the Bill Romanowski Show on Channel four, And the
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  Speaker 5: way it was done back then is we did the show,
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  Speaker 5: we taped it life from his home. So I would
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  Speaker 5: go to his home and I'd be okay at three o'clock,
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  Speaker 5: let's take I'd wait there for two hours because Bill
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  Speaker 5: had to go through his routine and go in the
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  Speaker 5: hyperb chamber, take his pills, and what the hell is
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  Speaker 5: going on here? He was the first in the NFL.
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  Speaker 5: He was at the forefront of that stuff. You're exactly
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  Speaker 5: right now. Some of it may have crossed the line.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, but the point is you cannot tell
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  Speaker 5: me that today's athlete that Lebron Tom Brady. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know what they're ingesting or digesting. I don't know what
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  Speaker 5: they're using. But the common person doesn't have access to a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of that.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no, no no no.
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  Speaker 1: They study on why are people that are kind of
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  Speaker 1: below the poverty line always seem to be more obese
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  Speaker 1: and have issues with obese and obesity and diabetes and
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  Speaker 1: different stuff. It's guess what you can't afford to buy
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that don't got all the chemicals in it
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. That's what they're trying to do now,
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  Speaker 1: is trying to make it a little more affordable. You
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  Speaker 1: start taking some of the crap out of the food
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  Speaker 1: that everybody's ingesting. But now here's here's what those guys
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  Speaker 1: have done. Vick. See if you agrieve this. We just
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  Speaker 1: talked about Bill, but lebron I guarantee you Messi's probably
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  Speaker 1: the same way, and I guarantee you that Ronaldo is
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  Speaker 1: the same way. We know Tom Brady was. They're saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I'll invest a million dollars or you
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  Speaker 1: know now, today's a million and a half for thirty
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  Speaker 1: on the other end, good point, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Which which raises the question. So the Lakers are rounding
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  Speaker 5: out their roster, right they signed. They signed Austin Reeves
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  Speaker 5: to that one hundred five million dollar contract, and a
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  Speaker 5: lot of people fear that Peyton Watson may try to
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  Speaker 5: get gobbled up by the Lakers, But I say no way.
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  Speaker 5: You know why because Lebron's contract still needs to be signed,
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  Speaker 5: and you know him, and you know the money he
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  Speaker 5: invests in his body. Even that though he's getting up
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  Speaker 5: there in agent and he wants to win another title.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think he's the kind of guy that's going
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  Speaker 5: to sign with the Lakers for the mle for eight
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  Speaker 5: million or he's going to request that top notch thirty
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  Speaker 5: forty fifty million.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I bet you they have to pay him fifty
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  Speaker 4: million year.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of talk about it that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people now because of that, that contract
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  Speaker 1: for reeves of starting to swing the other way goes Dude,
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  Speaker 1: Lebron may be done in La.
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  Speaker 4: Is La with.
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  Speaker 3: With with a new owner, but the same GM. Would
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  Speaker 3: they be ballsy enough to say we're moving on from
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  Speaker 3: Lebron James?
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  Speaker 5: I think they'd have to get it from him first. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: And and all you have to do is not meet
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  Speaker 5: his contract demands. And if you don't meet his contract.
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  Speaker 3: And make him walk away, and then he's a he's
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  Speaker 3: a free agent can sign with anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and then I mean I read an article too
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  Speaker 1: that there was one one group said, well, could you
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  Speaker 1: do a sign and trade and send him to Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: And listen, you you started this segment off, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just how remarkable the things he's doing at his age
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  Speaker 1: in a game like basketball. And you're absolutely right, But
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  Speaker 1: how many guys and how many teams wanted wanted to
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  Speaker 1: dole out forty fifty dollars? Yeah, as great as in
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  Speaker 1: that he is, and and the paper he has the
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  Speaker 1: following around wherever he goes, he should invest that kind
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  Speaker 1: of money. You see what Denver's up up against on
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  Speaker 1: the cap. Yeah, you know, I think there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: more teams like that than are.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you know, the kind of team that would
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  Speaker 5: invest that kind of money, the kind of team that
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  Speaker 5: needs eyeballs, that's the team. Yeah, and if you need eyeballs,
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  Speaker 5: you go get Lebron.
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  Speaker 3: But like Lebron's not gonna play in Sacramento or something,
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  Speaker 3: a team that'd be like, hey, you want sixty million
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  Speaker 3: to come in, Well, let me.
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  Speaker 4: Ask the two of you this.
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  Speaker 3: So last year at forty one, here's what Lebron put
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  Speaker 3: up twenty one a game, six point one rebounds, seven
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  Speaker 3: point two assists, shooting almost fifty two percent for the field.
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  Speaker 1: But you're also missing the biggest stats. So you're cherry
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  Speaker 1: picking stats. Okay, well that make games he play?
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  Speaker 4: Oh well, that's a good question. Game he played more
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  Speaker 4: than he didn't play.
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  Speaker 5: He played more than he hasn't.
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  Speaker 4: He played sixty, He played sixty.
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  Speaker 5: So but I'll say this, you're not guaranteed sixty next right, So.
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  Speaker 4: That's my question. Can he match those?
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  Speaker 3: Because if he could put up the numbers next year,
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  Speaker 3: it's probably worse the price, but will when When does
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  Speaker 3: Lebron fall off?
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  Speaker 1: So if twenty one, seven and six or whatever those
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  Speaker 1: numbers were, it is worth fifty plus million dollars a year.
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  Speaker 1: What's what's fourteen six and.
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  Speaker 4: Two five years? Two hundred million?
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: Or talk about Christian Brown because that's that's Christian Brown. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and we we screamed at that contract, don't we. Yeah? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, I mean because you always compare contrast. That's
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  Speaker 5: what happens in pro sports, right, Your guy makes this
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  Speaker 5: much and then he's outplayed there the other guy who
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  Speaker 5: makes who's playing a lot better. Like you know, we
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  Speaker 5: saw Io desumnu In in that first round series and
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  Speaker 5: he made considerably less and is making less, And you're like, well,
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  Speaker 5: why can't everybody produce like that guy. Every year is different.
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  Speaker 5: How do we know io Dissumnu this upcoming season just
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  Speaker 5: falls back down to earth.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know. Didn't they just give him a big
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  Speaker 1: deal too?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they did.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred twelve million.
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  Speaker 5: Hundred twelve million. Hey, I want to get your thoughts
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  Speaker 5: on that scooter. We talked about it in the last hour.
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  Speaker 5: I thought Minnesota got worse. LaMelo Ball, I think is
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  Speaker 5: fun to watch, but they're not as good a team
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  Speaker 5: as they were two days ago.
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  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily consider and I'm with you. I think
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  Speaker 1: LaMelo Ball is a walking highlight reel and he's fun
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  Speaker 1: and he's entertaining, and especially for a bad team, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the ones to get eyes on and Charlotte and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. I think he's perfect. And the funny thing
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  Speaker 1: is they got The fun thing is they got a
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  Speaker 1: good young core. They did great in the draft last year.
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  Speaker 1: They got some good young players. But I almost wonder
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  Speaker 1: if they're willing to get rid of him because of
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  Speaker 1: the distraction, because they say, hey, we're gonna try to
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  Speaker 1: build this the right way. And yes, he's good, but
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  Speaker 1: he's not good at winning. And I've never looked at
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  Speaker 1: LaMelo Ball as a winner. I looked at him as
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  Speaker 1: a show. Yep, he's a show. But but are you
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  Speaker 1: gonna are you gonna be having a prey in downtown wherever? No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think he's that guy.
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  Speaker 3: But he could be a he could be like the
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  Speaker 3: third best player on a team. But what I me
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  Speaker 3: and Vick we're having this cover was me and you?
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  Speaker 3: Or was it me and Samford that we're having this
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  Speaker 3: conversation vic.
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  Speaker 4: Where like I think it was. I like LaMelo. I
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  Speaker 4: like watching him play, but that's because he's chaos on
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  Speaker 4: the court and I.
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  Speaker 3: Like and he can make insanely athletic, crazy plays and.
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  Speaker 6: He also just butcher your Yeah, there's a reason Charlotte
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  Speaker 6: moved off of him, Yes, yeah, yeah, Okay, let's always
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  Speaker 6: consider the reasons. If he's that good, why would a young,
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  Speaker 6: up and coming team who got better, why would they
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  Speaker 6: move off of him?
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  Speaker 1: I think that that's all you gotta think about. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I do this and nas reed, you're getting the pros
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  Speaker 1: pro that that that's he'll help He'll help Charlotte as
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: far as that goes. I threw this out. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: see what you're think. No, No one remembered Tim Coley.
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  Speaker 1: When he left me, they become dead to me. He's
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: dead to me. Yeah, nice guy, whatever whatever else. Mom
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  Speaker 1: he went to He went to Minnesota with the idea,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna build the team that could beat Denver because
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: I see what Denver is and what they're going to be.
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  Speaker 1: First treason Minnesota, Denver wins a championship. We got to
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  Speaker 1: beat Denver. He did that, got two successful runs in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason, beat that, But he didn't build a team
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  Speaker 1: to beat everybody else. So I think in his mind
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  Speaker 1: and I think a little bit of it's a panic.
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  Speaker 1: He decides, I got to build this team to beat
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  Speaker 1: everybody else. We got Denver.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know how he did it. So with Denver,
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  Speaker 5: he beat him with size and size, size after size,
• 13:30
  Speaker 5: body after body, and exactly so he loses in successive
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  Speaker 5: season his team to Okay, see in San Antonio, who
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: they've got guards? Man, They come at you with guard
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  Speaker 5: after guard, and what does he do? He goes and
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  Speaker 5: gets more guards. It's a guard heavy team.
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  Speaker 1: And you know the funny thing too, I read a
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  Speaker 1: big breakdown I think by John Hollinger today he has
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  Speaker 1: hamstrung that team with he's Calvin booth. This team, he
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  Speaker 1: has emptied the cop first with first round draft and
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  Speaker 1: second round draft picks. They're empty. If this does not work, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they they they ain't getting better through the draft. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 4: It's the it's the scramble. I love it, you love it.
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  Speaker 3: Will continue after this, Well, gentlemen, it's it's it's here,
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  Speaker 3: it's here.
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  Speaker 5: It's happened. It's happened.
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  Speaker 4: Something that I didn't think would maybe ever happen.
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  Speaker 3: Not not ever ever, But yesterday Major League Baseball came
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  Speaker 3: out and said, here it is. Here's what we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: tell the we we got we got a hard cap.
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  Speaker 5: We want a hard cap.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna do a hard set. Here's a hard cap.
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  Speaker 3: And when when they made the announcement, they first announced
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of stuff that for the players, they're like,
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: here's what we're giving the players in this still just
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: so much stuff. Look at all this stuff we're giving them.
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  Speaker 3: And then at the very end and they're like.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, also, we're gonna have a hard cap.
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  Speaker 3: You can only have a percent, you can only spend
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  Speaker 3: a certain percentage of your entire yearly salary on one player.
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  Speaker 3: Like so I think it's the most a player can
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  Speaker 3: signed for if he leaves your team and go somewhere
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  Speaker 3: else is a little over two hundred million dollars over
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  Speaker 3: five years.
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  Speaker 4: If it's your own player. They call it the cornernerstone player.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the cornerstone player thing where you can sign your
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  Speaker 3: guy for an extra year. So a six year contract,
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  Speaker 3: but that's the longest contract in baseball that you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be able to get nowadays is six.
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  Speaker 5: They're trying to hit your mic there, Uh, I got.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: You, broo. Yeah, wouldn't show Hay's contract like eight nine years.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: It's all the first half a bit signed a ten year.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, none of that.
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: So what they're doing they're eliminating two facets of that.
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: The length of the contract limited to five years, and
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: no deferred money. You're not allowed like the Dodgers to
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: say we'll pay you in twenty and seventy. That's just
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: not gonna happen anymore. So I love both of those.
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: I don't know if the Players Union will take that out.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: They're making a lot of moves that mirror other leagues,
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: like the bird rights in the NBA right, allowing you
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: to give more money to your own free agents. They're
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: trying to do that in baseball with this cornerstone. I
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: get it. That's great, great CBA proposal, but base is
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: so used to doing it a certain way. Uh, guys,
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: I think we all know they're gonna miss some playing time.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: I don't know if they come to terms without missing
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: some time, someone's gonna hurt that.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Here, here's the thing, interesting thing. And you just said
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: this us as fans, us sitting down out here watching
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: it and watching all leagues, we go, MANA, salary caps
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: are great, and they they they make they even the
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: playing field, and and they make this thing should be
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: more competitive between franchises and blah blah blah blah. But
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: two things come to mind. Salary caps, all they're doing
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: is is protecting the.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Owners from the owners owners protecting themselves.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: You're exactly right on that one.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: And if there's a salary cap there, and I know
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: there's different things been proposed, when's the n C double
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: A start proposing salary cap because you can't compete with
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Alabama Scottie.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: As soon as you said that, I was thinking to myself,
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: all right, so what American sport doesn't feature Sullard? Oh yeah,
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: the one sport nobody ever talks about because they've never
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: had one, even though they contend they do. College football,
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: college basketball has never had a salary cap. They have
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: a fake one. Yeah, like they have this one they've instituted,
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: and now every team is allowed a certain amount of money.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: That's you know, that's fake, right, Yeah, everybody knows it
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: what they're paying for these players. Those leagues will never
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: institute a salary cap, and they're supposed supposedly developmental leagues
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: for the pros.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Well, let me when when maybe.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: We're seeing dudes stay in an extra year in college.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, to make more money.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Because you know, if I'm gonna come out and get
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: drafted in the sixth round and sign a seven hundred
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: dollars dollars contract, I'm playing at Alabama for two point
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: five this year.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: Scooter, Scooter. The guys that the Nuggets drafted, right, Bryce
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: Hopkins played for three different schools, all right, he trotted
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: to three different He's older than Peyton Watson. The other
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: guy Brazil, Brazil than Peyton five. One of the reasons
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: they stay in school that long ast they're able to
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: make money while staying in school for five years.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: You guys also one time, did tear acl.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, well yeah, okay, So well, when Major League
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Baseball gave this proposal yesterday, they also released the statement
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: and it was the first thing they had to say.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: And I want to give you the first couple of
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: lines on the statement, and you tell me if this
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: is just pr nonsense from MLB or if.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: You believe this.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: They said, all right, here's our new you know, salary
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: cap proposal. The biggest issue in bait for baseball fans
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: that they want to be solved is to strengthen the game,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: is to fix the payroll disparity that leaves too many
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: fans without hope of their team competing.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: For a World Series title. So that's what they're saying.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: They're like, we got a bunch of these small market
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: teams that can't compete because the way we do things,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: this will change.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: That is that just them.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Putting there, like here's why we need to do this,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: or do you think this is really an issue in baseball?
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: I think the Dodgers or the outlier, the Dodgers and
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: the Mets, and there's just like two or three teams
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: that just make it tough on everybody else and this
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: is their way of telling those two or three teams
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: stop it. Man, come on, let's let's let's not be
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: stupid here.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: You're wrecking our game.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: I mean, come on, dudes, when when the Rockies play
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: the Dodgers, are we what is that?
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: What is that?
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Exactly? What are we watching?
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: It's a disparity of talent because everybody but it's see,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: it's just not It's not just the money because people
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: go to the La Dodgers because they pay you more
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: than anybody else, but they also have a great foundation.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: You you become a better player if you join that team,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So it's it's it's you
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: get the best of both worlds.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: You get all the resources, you get paid like some
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: of the.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Top players in the game.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: They're a good team, so you win, and they have
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: all the support around you that you come out so like, yes, yes,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: I feel you know what I mean.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: It's not just your life because there's always if you
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: call mound liners, you get there's always the Guardians, the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Cleveland's that are always down at the bottom of the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: salary structure and they're always comp for their division in baseball. Well,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: how they do it well, they obviously develop, they scout
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and scout well and draft well right and to me,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and that's a thing I hate salary caps just from
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: that standpoint. Hey, the owners of protect themselves from themselves
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: and and b you're making lazy owners and lazy organizations
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: like the Rockies have been in the past. You know,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: they made some big changes, right vic They made some
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: changes and they said, hey, we're gonna be a little
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: bit more forward thinking. We're gonna start adding the analytic departments.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: We're gonna start adding baseball guys outside of the market
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: in to help us. So I cross fingers have hope
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: for what they're doing. But they've been a joke. They've
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: been a horrible scouting team. They you know two years ago,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: maybe even last year, but not in the last over
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the last five years. For the last five years, they're
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: at the bottom as far as prospects coming up. Well,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: that's development and recruiting and drafting. So so salary cap
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: is going to protect those teams. Also, I think they
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: got to figure some way and I love this and
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: they're doing it somewhere else. Uh, well, they're doing it
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: in the draft lottery of the NBA. They gotta have relegation. Well,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: we thought about.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Really, I think the perfect sport for relegation would be
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: college football. It's a perfect sport for it.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, make make four Power conferences and everybody else.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I know why.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: It's the perfect sport for it because there's over one
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: hundred and fifty teens.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, do it because I.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Have different divisions, Like like in soccer.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: You need another you'd need another ten teams in MLB
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: to do really right or something like that.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: You need.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: The problem with the relegation in college football college sports
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: is the pride factor of alumni. Basis, well, you're not
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: going to put us in this group, and once you
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: overcome that pride thing and just understand it's best for
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: your outfit. Wyoming is not competing with Alabama. I have
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: some proud Wyoming alumni friends, and I tell it to
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: their You're not competing with Alabama. You're never going to
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: compete with Alabama ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, So why
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: are you trying to compete with Alabama? Why?
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Well, hope is one of the big things this spot.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: You right, I'm never gonna done strategy. I'm never going
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: to be seven feet tall.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: That's not true.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: But you don't even hope you're seven feet tall. Your
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: back's bad enough as it is.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: But you know what I'm saying, Understand who you are,
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Understand what you are. There's nothing wrong with that. Play
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: within your own little swimming pool, I mean, and if
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: you win that, there's Hey, Montana and Montana State. Every
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: year they sell out every damn football game you guys
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: ever watch. They're not playing at they're not playing in
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: those big bowl games. They're playing in their field and
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: it still means a lot to them.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Yep, what's wrong with that? They win their little Division
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: two or whatever that division is. Trophy's here and there, and.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: What's wrong with with having that? I don't I've never
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: understood it. And I'll ask you this, guys, Major League
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Baseball talking about a salary cap and all this and
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: all the changes. The most successful sports league in the
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: United States is the National Football League. The most eyeballs,
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: the most watched, obviously the most financially sufficient. Why not
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: just do what they do? Is it's not that hard, right,
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Just mimic what the NFL. I don't think you can do.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: But here's the The NFL has the shortest career of
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: any of the major You know what I mean? Like
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: an NFL career is two and a half seasons, right,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: and the average length of an NFL career is nothing, right,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: So there's so it feels like NBA player, I mean,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: excuse me, NFL players are disposable.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Right there, You know what I mean.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: You just get a couple of new ones every couple
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: of seasons and just keep moving on, just grinding away,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: just dudes, just grinding.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Baseball used to be known as America's past time. It
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: was the most popular sport in America until what post
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: just post war and even after post war fifties, even
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: into the sixties.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Seventies and eighties is when it started turning.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and what was the big turn national television, Yeah,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and national television rights. Baseball is never going to make
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: is never going to make the money financially on television
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the football makes, right, And because that they're they're going
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: to have to just fight and claw to see what
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: they can get done. And done. You can't even have
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: a regional networks anymore.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: The nineteen seventy two nineteen seventy two was the first
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: year that the NFL overtook baseball as America's most popular
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: happening in.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: The early seventies what Kurt Flood and free agency and
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: all that stuff, And it changed the dynamics of the sport.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: It changed the financial the financial ramifications changed and it's
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: good for the players. But you just hit on something.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: The difference between the NFL and Major League Baseball and
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: every other sport. The National Football League is the last
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: vestige left that doesn't have guaranteed contracts.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I always push back on that. They you know, you
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: just signed a five year two hundred and fifty million dollars,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: but one hundred and eighty guaranteed.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Well that's still eighty million, but not fully guarantee, not
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: fully guaranteed. It changes things. When everything's fully.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Garante, it changes things. I will the one thing. I'll
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: give you a thing. It changes saying in the sense
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: that that that's for the top level players. You know,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the Tyler Plumbuses of the world ain't getting getting million
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: dollars guaranteed for the next five years.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if you could, is there would you
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: suggest that Major League Baseball? Are you suggesting that these
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: other leagues look at the NFL and try it, because man,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: I don't even know if MLB is gonna be able
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: to get this to work.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Do you think the players I mean, are the play
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: The players.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Union is not gonna go that far back. The players
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: Union is too powerful.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Right, So I mean, what are we gonna end up
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: with when it's all said and done, when the negotiations
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: is that we're gonna get.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Here's what's gonna happen.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: We're gonna miss a season, at least a year of
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Major League Baseball. Next year, we're gonna have no baseball whatsoever,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: because there's no way the Players Union stands for a
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: hard cap in that league.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: There's no way.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Despite they I mean, listen, they are getting a lot
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: of things that they like, including the uh what did
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I mentioned? The minimum salary is going up. If you
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: if you make the majors now the minimum you will
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: be making is a million dollars a year. So I mean,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: but at the same time, there's no way. Yeah, you're right,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: the Players Union is gonna come down on them like
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: a ton of bricks. VIC, just a ton of bricks.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: But okay, where do you go?
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just gonna go. Uh here's what happened. Uh,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Krispy Krean's this. Somebody brought in a bunch of Krispy
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Kreme donuts.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: This is what I mean.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: That's a good question.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I think it was.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: I think it was I think it was cool.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: No, it's mix.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna go steal mixing donuts.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: You know what.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: I wish Mix would bow up on Altitude Sports Radio.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: We'll see what happens.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Guys, I'm looking at a photo. I gotta tell you
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: this photo, and it's out there on social media. It's
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: Aaron Gordon, Peyton Watson, and Russell Westbrook vacationing together in Paris. Uh.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: I just I'm looking at this. Obviously they're friends. Russell
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: Westbrook's a former teammate. They still hang. I'm not sure
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: if there's some sort of fashion thing going on in Paris.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: Probably something of that order.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're right, because all three of them are
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: kind of fashion forward.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: Have you seen the numbers regarding Peyton Watson. Have you
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: seen some of the latest reports. No, According to some
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: of the latest reports, Peyton Watson is looking at close to,
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: if not more than, thirty million dollars a year.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: See.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: See that's that's that's right on the red line. That's
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: right on the red line for the Nuggets where just
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: where are.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: You gonna ask for?
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: It doesn't mean you're gonna get it.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: So if the if the Lakers come to or the
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Clippers of Lakers say he wants to go back to
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: La comes to Denver and is like, we're gonna offer Peyton.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Five years, one hundred and one hundred and ninety million,
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Can you match that?
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Vick? Can you match it?
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: According to Brett Siegel, the Nuggets are looking to extend
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Peyton Watson in the range of twenty eight thirty million
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: dollars a year.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: And if they do that, if that's at all even possible,
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: the only way they could pull that off without touching
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: the apron would be to trade Cam Johnson, Christian Brown,
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: Aaron Gordon, or Jamal Murray. One of them gotta go.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Otherwise you're so deep into the apron that it affects
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: other signings and other abilities to fill your roster.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the bottom line.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: They you have to retain Peyton Watson, right, If that's
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: your one goal, that's what you gotta do this, then
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: someone's gotta go. And it's and it's it's it's Cam
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: or it's Christian or if you're really or it's Jamal
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: if you got the right package.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: Right, Well, I mean you got to ask your questions.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: Who is the most tradable contract. There's Cam Johnson because
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: he's got one year left, all right, that's the most tradable.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: But he's gonna make considerably less than that the thirty million.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: So now you're paying more for Peyton than you did
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: for Cam, and you got to find that money elsewhere.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: You still got to keep carving away at the roster.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: That's a rich deal man. You're right.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: That's a seven million dollar difference from what you're paying
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Cam right now to what you would have to pay
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Peyton if he signed that contract. Once again, I love
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Peyton Watson. I really like him, and he's got a
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: really big upside. But you have to get to that upside.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: I guess maybe I'm gun shy vic because of Christian
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: season last year. Like I didn't hate it, but I mean,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: obviously nobody thought he played up to the contract he signed.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: What I ask you, do you think Christian played up
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: to the contract.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: Well, of course not. But Christian is better than what
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: we saw. And I really believe that the injury affected
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: him more than anybody can imagine. I really do. This
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: guy's an athlete, He's been an athlete, that's he you know,
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: he relies on athleticism to play his game. And that's
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: the first major injury of his life. Of his life,
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: not just his NBA career. He's never had anything like that.
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: And I remember sitting with him when we did those
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: one on one interviews at STK Steakhouse. You know, his
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: dad's a doctor, and he asked his dad about it,
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: and they were concerned because it was in an area
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: of his ankle. It's not a quick healing type of injury.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: It was more of a high ankle front ankle issue.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: It wasn't a typical sprained ankle. Normally, when you sprain
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: your ankle at bend sideways, it's one or the other.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: This was right down the middle, the front top of
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: the ankle. It was a very rare, different injury. And
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: if you recall how it happened, He's guarding James Harden
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: in LA against the Clippers, and it just was a
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: weird deal. Tried to come back from it, couldn't do it.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: I think it impacted him the entire season. You get injured,
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: you start to compensate, You start to compensate, everything's out
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: of whack. You lose confidence. And it all came to
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: a head in that Minnesota series. He lost confidence, all
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: stemming from his injury.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: You're right, I'm sure he's gonna have a much better
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: season next year.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: I do, too, A better player than what we saw
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: he is. He's a better player than what we saw,
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: and I think we all know that he's proven it.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Yes, Wait, but we got to take a break, and
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: we will and we come back. One of the things
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: we will discuss is that who who's good who on
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: the Nuggets can get better next year?
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Like you know what I mean?
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Like, who's gonna be a better player next year for
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: the Nuggets than they were this year? How many of
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: these players have already found their ceiling? Like is Jamal
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: gonna play better the next year than he did this year?
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Is Cam gonna believe? Is Aaron gonna So we'll get
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: to all that as we roll on with our special
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: scramble on Altitude's Portradio. Oh, by the way, walk back
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: to the scramble on this Friday. Scott Haystings, Vick Lombardi,
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Mark Burnton only Steve Nelson, Kevin Shockey's still hanging out
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: and we're all.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: He brought us a little breakfast sandwich coming to you live.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I will eat a breakfast sandwich morning, noon or night.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: I love those things. I'm a huge chie chance.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Oh by the way, all right, let's start off. Oh,
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: by the way, Scotty, you've ever done? Oh by the way, Nelson, Hey,
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: what do you think I left the break early?
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: Oh, by the way early for Scotty. By the way,
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: with you don't trust the fart, I'll start it off.
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: Is that how you played Nellie that I'm talking about?
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: How about okay, let me let me I got one
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: right here. Oh by the way, how I don't know
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: how you do this? But a draft got loose in
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: there's a draft loose in Texas. They haven't caught it
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: knowing that it was a somebody owned a draft. Weird
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: zoos in Texas. Yeah, it's kind of like this where
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: a guy owned a ranch and then he just put
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: a bunch of weird animals on his ranch, one of
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: which was a draft, and he got loose.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: It's just wandering loose in the streets of of of
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: of Dallas.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Or something, and then this word Nelly, I can tell
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: that story. But oh, by the way, to add to it, Yeah, okay, so,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: oh by the way, after we watched during COVID Tiger King, Yes,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: did you guys?
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: And then this story right here fascinating?
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Did you guys have any idea these people had, these
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: little private had no idea These will tek zoos across
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: if the grid ever goes down and it's every man
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: for himself. Do you know how many wild beasts are
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: going to be loosen in Texas and Florida in the
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: South that no one knows about. Yeah? Yeah, don ranch yet.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I dude was keeping the leopard in the back of
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the shed.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's weird to me.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, by the way, So the US loses to a
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: Turkey last night on a last second yeah, literally, last
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: second goal. Crazy and uh, the coach Pochettino is a
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: little upset at media because yeah, let's listen to what
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: he said after the game.
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: For you not to say congratulations that we want the
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: group that is a little bit sad.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: It's very positive to finish in the way that we finished.
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: I cannot be possible. And sorry, guys, I cannot be
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: possible that Turkey finished celebrated in the three point and
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: Australia celebrate in the qualification, but always the qualification and
• 34:18
  Speaker 8: come here and and for you not to say congratulations
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: that we want the group. That is a little bit sad,
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: but only only that I need to remember you and
• 34:30
  Speaker 8: everyone that we want the group, so real, guys, we want.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: It's it's not the media's job to congratulate the coach
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: or the team. I get that, but he's exactly right.
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: The game meant nothing from a record standpoint, it meant nothing.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: They weren't going to move up or down. The US
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: won the group in game two.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: But if you a remember of the media, would you
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: have congratulated the coach before you The.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: Media's job that congratulate. I think he was more disturbed
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: that people were critical of the loss, right, And I
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: guess my retort if I'm him, Dudes, I sat everybody,
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: We sat everybody. We clearly didn't play our best players,
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: and you saw it on the field. Those are not
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: our best guys. Turkey had everything to play for because
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: they were embarrassed they didn't win a game. They wanted
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: to go home with something, and that something was to
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: be the host team. So what are you guys complaining
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: about and he has every right because that was a
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: successful group play move by the US. They won the
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: group What more can you ask for?
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Yep? And oh, by the way, with the success they've
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: shown and really a lot of hope that they can
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: move on even deeper and deeper. The numbers, the numbers
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: of what people are watching this World Cup around the
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: world are just astounding. They estimate it's going to be
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: over five billion people will end up watching the World
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Cup this year. Think about that. Five We're not talking
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: about those crazy NFL numbers at one hundred and thirty
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: five million. Yeah, we're talking five dumb, but saying that
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: the US has exceeded expectations from a lot of fans
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: of all these countries are in town, We're we're right.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Vic you've been down the world everybody who's just blown
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: away how kind Americans are and how nice the country
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Isn't there.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: The infrastructure we have, the places we've done this, this
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: is what we do here. We're all about stadiums here.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: All right? Did did Ted Lasso and welcome to Wrexham
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: open the door for American soccer fans to kind of
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: look at this sport and go, sure, maybe there's something
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: there and this is kind of cool, and now the
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: perfect time for this team to step up and actually
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: maybe be the best team that we've ever had, and
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: they may not get passed around of sixteen.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: You know, something interesting is happening in this sport. I've
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: waited for, you know, decades. Everybody kept saying that the
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: US is going to be a dominant superpower, that the US,
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: that soccer was coming, it was invading in every decade.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: You wait, I think, what's happening now? And it's happening
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: to Scott Hastings. It's happening in reverse. It's reverse engineering itself. Normally,
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: you become a soccer fan because you grow up playing it,
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: you grow up understanding it. But someone like Scott Hastings
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: has become a soccer fan because his daughter plays it right, right,
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: that's how you become a fan.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, listen, and I want to, you know, relate
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: to her and what she's going through. And so you
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: investigate and learn as much as you can. But here's
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: the fight. I was talking to somebody last night about this.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: The world laughed at America for our footballers or soccer players.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: They laughed at us and said it ain't no good
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: that documentary that's on the guys they talked about it.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: You go to Europe and they treat you, you know,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: you better show you can play before they give you
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: any respect. You, oh, you're just an American whatever. Whatever.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: If this team, I'm gonna put this out there, and
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I think this prediction. If this team can continue to win,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: say they get to that semi final matchup or you know,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: against Spain or Portugal, whoever it might be, don't you
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: think the rest of the world are gonna go? Oh,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: by the way, they do have three hundred and fifty
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: million people in there. I mean, we're seeing cape Verdi.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: We're excited about them. They got one hundred and fifty thousand, Scooter.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna take it a step further. If the US
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: and we're now we're dreaming, right, we're treating if the
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: US advanced to the final game, the championship game of
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: this tournament, it would be in the US the most
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: watched television sport ever.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Ooh you know what.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: I had not thought about that, but you're probably I mean,
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: more than any Super Bowl. Yes, yes, yes, yes, you're
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: exactly right.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, they had I think twenty five or twenty
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: seven million people tune into the very first game.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: I would believe.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: So, I mean the US, this is only the third
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: time time ever the US has won their group. Like
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: the first time was nineteen thirty. The other time was
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: got well, hold on, I haven't it was twenty ten,
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: and then this year.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, so it is something.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's only the third time that you've won
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: the group.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: They expect about one point five billion people to watch
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: the World Cup final. And if if the US final,
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: if just the final, just one point five billion, just
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: for one.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Five billion, number might be low. If that's if the
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: five for that game.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh once once again, I looked at the odds
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: uh today for the for the and it's thirty three
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: the There are nine teams ahead of the US right now.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: When it comes to the odds to win the World Cup,
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: the Americans are at thirty three to one. And it's
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's I'll take thirty three to one compared
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: to what it used to be around here in that sport.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Vic. Let me let me just stow this out to
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: both the three and two newly to can shine me
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: in if you want, we as a local radio station
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: are during doing World Cup watch parties, and we've just
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: done for the US and they're coming out too. We
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Kevin's in there, and we've done watch parties not just
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: for the USA, We've done it for a whole other thing. Yeah,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: so little local Denver radio station is that, Hey, come down,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: let's watch the World Cup with us down at Stoney's
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: or thirty eight or some of the places we go to.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Come on now, Yeah, when's the last time that ever happened?
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: Yea, Yeah, it's pretty stupid, by the way that the
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: championship game, isn't it in the meadowlands?
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, it should be.
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: It's so fie, that's so I thought.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: So, So I complained vic I complained about that, like
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: a week ago.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: I was like why because I was complaining about New
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: York because they just got the US open with Shinnacock.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: They just got they they snucked at it yeah and right,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: and they were all angry. Yeah bigs boy, And so
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: I was like, what why are we put the world?
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: But I have been told by people who know that
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: the reason they picked New York is the time zone.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: The time zone that would.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: So they're looking for the most possible viewers around the
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: world at what time that would be, and instead of
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: LA they decided it has to.
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: Tell you so.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: In other words, if you have it at eight o'clock
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: at night, it's got to be a primetime name at
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: eight o'clock unless you do it on a Sunday or
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: That's a good question. I guess they could final that's
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: a good question.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Because at eight o'clock at night, and Spain is two
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: in the morning, so that's not prime.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: Hey, Nelly turned off this. Oh by the way, music,
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: let's end this because I got to ask Scotty a segment.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: This is the last segment we have Scott Hastings, and
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: I haven't had a chance to talk to him on
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: the radio since the Nuggets were eliminated. Well, I need
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: to ask you this question because I've talked openly about it,
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: and I just I just can't get off my mind.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: I it just I lose sleepover to this day because
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: you know how I am. I'm emotional, I'm weird like that.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: The biggest takeaway I had from the way the Nuggets
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: season ended, and my biggest disappointment was that nobody on
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: that roster answered the bell when Jade McDaniels called them
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: out publicly, and it's going to bother me. Not this summer,
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: but next summer, this summer after that, it's going to
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: bother me for a long time. Why do you think
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: that is, Scottie? Why didn't somebody hardfil that guy?
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Well again, and I'll try to find the clip and
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: i'll send it to you. Watching Tom Brady on a
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: soccer podcast with these English guys and listen to him
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: talk and we knew Tom Brady's different. He and he
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: even you know, talked about Peyton because he said Peyton's
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: just like me too. Those guys are different. But the
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: mentality right of our place, no one beats us, No
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: one comes in here and takes this, no one out
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: works us. That's the mentality I'm not sure they had
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: when when they came getting ready for the draft, I
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: said they got to do three things. Got to get quicker,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: they're not a fast team. Got to have somebody who's
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: got a little wiggle that can get downhill and get
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: their own shot. And in physicality, well, physicality is not
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: just with your muscles, my muscles beating on vic Physicality
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: is between the years too, and that's a mental toughness,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: and I just don't know if they get it or
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: got it right now to be I think one guy's
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: got it and that's about it.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: Well, and the guy who's got it shouldn't be the
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: guy doing it. He's the guy that he shouldn't be.
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: He shouldn't have to be the guy doing it. I just,
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: for the life of me, I don't understand why the
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: message wins, because I think when you play that way,
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: and I'm not saying they play dirty, nobody's saying that.
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: Calm down, Minnesota fan. Nobody's asking for violence here. Nobody
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: wants to hurt your player. Nobody ever suggested that ever.
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: I'm asking if you're called out like that, what's to
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: stop another player from doing it again? Nothing from calling
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: you out again.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: I'm sure they will. I'm sure they will until somebody responds.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: It's just how it has to happen. How it has
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: to happen.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Oh.
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