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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour, I'm gonna start with the
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  Speaker 1: end of the NBA postseason, which happened over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go to San Antonio. They did it again. They
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  Speaker 1: did not talking about the Knicks. Now, there's plenty of
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  Speaker 1: people licking the toes of Jalen Brunson and making sure
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  Speaker 1: that the bottom of the feet of Karl Anthony Towns
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  Speaker 1: are nice and clean. So the Knicks got the ring
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. The better story, though, is in the
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  Speaker 1: losing lit locker room. The heavily favorite San Antonio Spurs
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  Speaker 1: sucked at a time you could not suck. If you
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  Speaker 1: didn't see the game on Saturday, you might have missed it.
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  Speaker 1: But Victor wem Banyama yet again not doing much with
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  Speaker 1: the game on the line. There he missed the final
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  Speaker 1: shot of the NBA Finals, and then he untucked his
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  Speaker 1: jersey and he marched off the court and said, that's it,
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  Speaker 1: that's all. I'm done and went straight towards the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: No congratulatory handshake from Victor Weimbanyama had all there as
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks get the title in Wimby getting out of
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  Speaker 1: there as quick as possible. Some were wondering was he
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  Speaker 1: gonna sit there and soak it all the insaying that
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  Speaker 1: should have been mine, that should have been my championship.
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  Speaker 1: He did not do that. He did not remain. He
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  Speaker 1: skid daddled, ran off to the locker room and then
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  Speaker 1: to the podium where he was a bit of a douche,
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  Speaker 1: and then into the offseason. So that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question where are
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  Speaker 1: you at on Wemby failing to congratulate the Knicks after
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals had come to an end on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: The Spurs star apparently too good for that, as he
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  Speaker 1: ran back and said, you know what, I'm done, I'm
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  Speaker 1: out of here. I'm going to go to the locker
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  Speaker 1: room because I don't want to see any of this,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to congratulate you and beating my head
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  Speaker 1: in in the fourth quarter of every game. So I've
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  Speaker 1: got inventor, zip code and New York Times best seller,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna become a fire breathing dragon, is what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to become. So a this is one of those cases.
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  Speaker 1: Give me, you're tired, you're poor, your young superstar who
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  Speaker 1: cannot stay for a handshake or a dap, none of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. Cannot do it, cannot do it. And let's
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  Speaker 1: be reheard. When I saw the end of the finals
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend, the ending from the Wemby side of things,
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  Speaker 1: with everything that had been invested into this guy and
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  Speaker 1: how little he did when the game mattered most rotten,
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  Speaker 1: I wrote down the word rotten. The whole thing was
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  Speaker 1: rotten for Victor wemb Yama. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: hear all the excuse, oh young, oh young, He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be back every year. We don't know that for every
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  Speaker 1: one of these guys that keeps returning, there's a bunch
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  Speaker 1: that don't return. And I can give you plenty of
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  Speaker 1: examples historically in all different sports. So this assumption, you
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  Speaker 1: know what happens when you assume that Wemby's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a staple in the NBA Finals. I was not
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  Speaker 1: impressed with what I saw. I was not impressed. Considering
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  Speaker 1: all the build up and all the drama O rama,
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  Speaker 1: what I saw from Wemby was simply not good enough.
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  Speaker 1: And walking off the court that was not the walk
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  Speaker 1: of shame. It was the walk of don't make eye
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  Speaker 1: contact with the team that actually kicked my ass and
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  Speaker 1: embarrassed me. Don't do that. And he didna leave before
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  Speaker 1: he vanished. Wemby seven foot four. It's hard to vanish
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  Speaker 1: when you're seven foot four by like a magician Abra cadabra,
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  Speaker 1: hocus pocus, or he's just allergic to accountability, either one
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  Speaker 1: of those things. But he was gone. And we've seen
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  Speaker 1: this script before. But typically if you go to the
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  Speaker 1: annals of the NBA, the people that pull that off,
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  Speaker 1: that walk off the court with a sour puss like
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  Speaker 1: Wemby did after losing the NBA Finals, they belonged to
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  Speaker 1: harden villains of basketball. The greatest example would be the
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  Speaker 1: Bad Boys, Bad Boys, the Bad Boy Pistons back in
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  Speaker 1: the day, led by Isaiah Thomas, who famously stormed off
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  Speaker 1: the court. And that was back in the early nineties.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about almost forty years ago, when they were
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  Speaker 1: all upset because the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan had
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  Speaker 1: beaten them and they didn't want to watch the Bulls celebrate,
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  Speaker 1: so they left early and all that. Now, when we
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  Speaker 1: didn't leave early, he stayed until the end of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Then he high tailed it and said, I got to
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  Speaker 1: get out of here. The difference is the other players
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  Speaker 1: that I and I can recall that have done that
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  Speaker 1: were battle tested. They were heavyweights, and Wemby looks just
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  Speaker 1: like a lightweight, like the whole thing, and he hasn't
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  Speaker 1: earned the right to be that. What's the word I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking for that that have the temper tantrum that he had.
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  Speaker 1: We'll call it like that for Victor Wimbanyama and the
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  Speaker 1: basketball world spent all year, but certainly in the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: here just telling us how he was built for the moment.
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  Speaker 1: He was different, and I believed it. I bought into
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  Speaker 1: the hype. Oh yeah. Everything I'd say is like, this
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  Speaker 1: is the this is the stage. Here we go. It's
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  Speaker 1: a launching pad to the Moon to the Moon, to
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  Speaker 1: the Moon, to the Moon, to the Moon to the Moon. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: as we mentioned in a previous episode, Wenby got his
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  Speaker 1: pilot's license. He's now qualified to fly the vomit comet.
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  Speaker 1: And they did that time and again, time and again.
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  Speaker 1: And he is an inventor. Though I will say this
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  Speaker 1: for Wenby, he's an invent He literally has invented the
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  Speaker 1: French goodbye two point zero. You've heard of French leave,
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  Speaker 1: Well that's Wemby right there. He exited the finals without
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  Speaker 1: without informing the NBA or saying goodbye. So so I'm
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  Speaker 1: out of here, see you later. And the Spurs, they
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  Speaker 1: love to preach about the culture, the San Antonio Spurs
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  Speaker 1: culture put in there by Greg Popovich back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: and they're good to go and all that and okay,
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  Speaker 1: well their franchise savior, the Spurs culture. His culture is pouting,
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  Speaker 1: capital p pouting. That's what he did. And the historical
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  Speaker 1: context on this, when Isaiah Thomas walked off the court,
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  Speaker 1: and that was many many years ago, as we said,
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  Speaker 1: it took him a long time to live that down
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  Speaker 1: in terms of his reputation. Some say he never did
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  Speaker 1: live that down. Isaiah Thomas, who's still to this day
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  Speaker 1: bitter and broken with Michael Jordan, although that's over the
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  Speaker 1: Olympic team. Old guys holding a grudge, which is never bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's always fun when old guys hold the grudge. But
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  Speaker 1: at twenty two years old, for Wimby, and he's he
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  Speaker 1: can't accept the sucking that took place out there, and
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  Speaker 1: he's supposed to be the next face of the NBA
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  Speaker 1: and here we go and the whole thing and he
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  Speaker 1: can't even stay on the floor. You gotta take your medicine,
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't want to take his medicine, which tells
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  Speaker 1: you a lot about how he's wired. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: a good sign. I would be very concerned if I
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  Speaker 1: was the San Antonio Spurs about this guy, very concerned.
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  Speaker 1: The way he handled himself. The whole thing was not good,
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  Speaker 1: not good at all. All right, Now, overall, Victor won
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  Speaker 1: by Yama. If you look at the numbers, he averaged
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  Speaker 1: twenty six points, eleven rebounds and three and a half
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  Speaker 1: block shots in the finals said whoa wowsers, Wowie Kauzawi,
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  Speaker 1: you know that whole thing. Twenty six points, eleven rebounds
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  Speaker 1: and three and a half blocks. And the Spurs led
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  Speaker 1: by double digits in every single game, every single game
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  Speaker 1: of the series, and they blew leads obviously in four
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  Speaker 1: of the five games, and when Banyama made some critical
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  Speaker 1: mistakes in three of the four losses, and I wrote
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  Speaker 1: down three or four could have even been all four,
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  Speaker 1: but certainly three of the four. Now I will point
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  Speaker 1: out that the box score humpers as we call them,
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  Speaker 1: the snot bonditos, they love their box scores. Well you
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  Speaker 1: can yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, but rabbit. Yeah, but Wemby average twenty six
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  Speaker 1: points and eleven rebounds and three and plucks. You can't
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  Speaker 1: be critical of Webby. He had the stats, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. You can't rip him. Okay, what a bet?
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  Speaker 1: There is nuance to this. There is nuance to this.
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  Speaker 1: And with the game on the line, where was he? Where?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know?
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  Speaker 1: Did you see I didn't see Wemby? Did you see Wemby?
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  Speaker 1: Where'd he go? He did the wobble, the wobble, wobble, wobble.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck? All right? Now? Question how much damage?
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  Speaker 1: How much damage did the Spurs franchise player Victor Wambanyama
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  Speaker 1: due to his brand with the walking off the court.
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  Speaker 1: We've already talked about that now, the way he played
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  Speaker 1: in key moments of the NBA Finals and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So I go back to the point. The NBA marketing
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  Speaker 1: arm did a tremendous job of building up the myth
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  Speaker 1: of this guy, and Wemby responded to all of that
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  Speaker 1: hype and he went out there on seemingly live television
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  Speaker 1: with a global audience, and he made an episode of MythBusters,
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  Speaker 1: and he just busted the myth right there on the
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  Speaker 1: biggest stage with everyone watching who cares about basketball, the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals. He went out there and laid an egg
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  Speaker 1: so large, How large was it? It was so large
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  Speaker 1: that it needed its own zip code, That's how big
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  Speaker 1: an egg it was. When the game mattered, he got cooked,
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  Speaker 1: He was buttered and served up. All of that happened
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  Speaker 1: right there there you go on the TV delivering a
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  Speaker 1: performance down the stretch that was so soft? How soft
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  Speaker 1: was it? Thanks for asking? It was so soft that
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  Speaker 1: you needed to store it in some tupperware and put
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  Speaker 1: that aside from everything else in the fridge. To put
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  Speaker 1: that tupperware right there, and with every game lost within
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  Speaker 1: more than reach. They had double digit leads early in
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  Speaker 1: most of those games, some even in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and Wemby down the stretch with opportunities to win the
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  Speaker 1: game and could step on up for the Spurs. He
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  Speaker 1: was petrified, terrified and zombified by the Knicks or the
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  Speaker 1: Mormon or all of that. Whatever. Pick your poison, Pick
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  Speaker 1: your poison, Mike. He just caught in his bank of
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  Speaker 1: fog and he couldn't see his way out, and he
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  Speaker 1: just was stuck there. And it just sucked and wandering
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  Speaker 1: around like a rumba stuck in a corner and it
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  Speaker 1: can't get away from the corner. It's like, dude, you
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  Speaker 1: got to back up a little bit. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: And so we keep hearing about the unicorn, the unicorn,
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  Speaker 1: the unicorn, and there's no one like him, and he's
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  Speaker 1: built different. Well, I've seen plenty of guys in my
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  Speaker 1: time that sucked in big games. I don't know about you.
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  Speaker 1: He looked like every other guy that sucks in big moments.
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  Speaker 1: What's different about Wemby. He played well for a stretch
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  Speaker 1: of the game, maybe seventy five percent of the game,
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  Speaker 1: and then just free falling. There was a Kamakazi mission
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  Speaker 1: there at the end. So the unicorn, this, the unicorn that,
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  Speaker 1: all of that, and this was like a horse headed
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  Speaker 1: to the glue factory watching the way he played down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch of these games. Victor womban Yama, the Parisian Prodigy,
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  Speaker 1: good nickname Parisian Prodigy, he turned into the Parisian puddle
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  Speaker 1: in evaporating in winning time, it was winning time, and
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  Speaker 1: uh well not quite. Didn't quite work out there when
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  Speaker 1: it was winning time, it turned out to be losing
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  Speaker 1: time and slightly problematic. Yeah, so it was crunch time,
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  Speaker 1: chemo final five minutes of the fourth quarter, and he
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  Speaker 1: was not He was not taking a punch. He was
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  Speaker 1: not making a punch. He was out to brunch, is
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  Speaker 1: what he was doing, all right. He wasn't throwing punches.
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  Speaker 1: He was out the brunch, sipping a mimosa, having a
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  Speaker 1: fine time there and needed to throw a punch and
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  Speaker 1: either didn't know how to do that or chose to
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  Speaker 1: not do that. So it was it was a mess.
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  Speaker 1: So I sum this all up. The brand is absolutely damaged.
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  Speaker 1: It's bruised, it's swollen, it's on crutches right now. It
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  Speaker 1: needs some medication. To make the brand back better. My god,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot be the face of that sport, the face
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  Speaker 1: of the NBA, right, and then when the moment is there,
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  Speaker 1: it slaps you in the face. It's a problem. Oh
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  Speaker 1: you're nitpicking, Mallard. I don't think I am. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I am all right. That stank. Those kooties are
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  Speaker 1: gonna last for a while, and there's no guarantee this
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  Speaker 1: guy's back every year, and not just him. You look
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  Speaker 1: around the Spurs roster and certainly he's the centerpiece that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to focus on Wenby. But that brings us
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  Speaker 1: to the last part of this diatribe, the coaching part
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  Speaker 1: of the puzzle, and that is a major issue. Now. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think coaching matters too much in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: It can hurt you. I don't know that it helps
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  Speaker 1: you that much. And in this case, that was a
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  Speaker 1: net zero for the San Antonio Spurs. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: does coach Mitch Johnson deserved to keep his job on
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  Speaker 1: the sidelines for the Spurs after that epic blown lead
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  Speaker 1: Paloosa in the NBA Finals. So if I own the team,
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  Speaker 1: hell no, he would be out. See you later, Mitch Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: who seems like a nice enough guy. He would not
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  Speaker 1: have made it to the post finals news conference. I
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  Speaker 1: would have said, listen, don't even bother. All right, you
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  Speaker 1: don't work for us anymore, get out of here. And
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs, they didn't just lose in the final, and
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  Speaker 1: obviously Wenby was the biggest culprit in this. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: just lose in the finals. Slow. The Spurs gift wrapped absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: gift wrapped it with a nice bow on top, and
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  Speaker 1: then hand delivered these games, many of them to the Knicks.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't overly impressed with I thinking the Knicks did
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  Speaker 1: other than not give up. It was just, hey, keep
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  Speaker 1: playing hard. The Spurs have a glitch. The doo hickey
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work. And no matter what this cat Mitch Johnson did,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like he did much of anything. For
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  Speaker 1: several games, people were saying, hey, don't play the Aaron Fox.
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  Speaker 1: The guy's a bomb, and he kept put him out
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  Speaker 1: there a big moments. And this is the hubris of
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  Speaker 1: these guys in the San Antonio Spurs organization, like we
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  Speaker 1: know better than you. Well, apparently you don't. This is
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  Speaker 1: one where the public got it right and you're a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of dingleberries, you're a bunch of Mama lukes that
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  Speaker 1: you should have sat down to Aaron Fox for literally anyone.
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  Speaker 1: You could have had a fan raffle and brought somebody
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  Speaker 1: in a Spurs season ticket older although they all sold
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  Speaker 1: their tickets so they didn't go to the game. It
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  Speaker 1: looked like Game six over the weekend, my god, or
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  Speaker 1: Game five, I guess it was over the weekend, not
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  Speaker 1: game even make it the game six, forget about that.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, listen, that's the thing now, much like Wemby,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you dumb bums are convinced, well, the
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  Speaker 1: youth thing that that is why he's going to keep
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  Speaker 1: his job. And youth to me is not a shield
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  Speaker 1: at thirty nine, and that's young in the coaching game.
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  Speaker 1: You're thirty nine years old. And at this point, based
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  Speaker 1: on the way he did not adjust in the NBA Finals,
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  Speaker 1: Mitch Johnson, the coach of the San Antonio Spurs, is
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  Speaker 1: he's already a New York Times best selling author. He
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  Speaker 1: wrote Complete Idiots Guide on how not to coach well
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA Finals and be so stubborn, so pigheaded,
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  Speaker 1: you don't make any key adjustments. They got to be
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  Speaker 1: the dumbest team in the world, and that starts from
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  Speaker 1: the coach on the way down. They didn't just collapse
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch these spurs. They invented new ways to
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  Speaker 1: suck at a time you cannot suck blowing a combined
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  Speaker 1: I did the math on this. If you just go
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  Speaker 1: by the biggest lead in each game, they lost four right,
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  Speaker 1: lose four out of five in the finals San Antonio.
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  Speaker 1: They blew seventy one points worth of leads in futzing
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  Speaker 1: away those four games and losing the NBA Finals. That
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  Speaker 1: is a that is a lifestyle, is what that is.
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  Speaker 1: Nine point blown lead. That is the thing that Pop
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  Speaker 1: will remember other than the outcome of this. That is
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  Speaker 1: the Mona Lisa of meltdowns to blow that big a lead.
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  Speaker 1: And from Wemby's hair brain plays to de Aaron Fox,
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  Speaker 1: who they would not get rid of. He had the
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  Speaker 1: historic boner, Fox's boner when he had three options right
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  Speaker 1: three out. You can either call time out and reset.
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  Speaker 1: They could just just dribble and get fouled and then
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  Speaker 1: go to line or try to run to the basket
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  Speaker 1: and see if you can get a basket. And of
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  Speaker 1: course that completely backfight. But from Wemby's disaster to Taron
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  Speaker 1: Fox or the coach, the whole thing. It was sloppy mcslop.
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  Speaker 1: That's a new item. It's an add on itam at
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  Speaker 1: McDonald's sloppy mcslop. It's a McDonald's sloppy Joe, is what
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  Speaker 1: that is. So as we always say, you're either coaching
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  Speaker 1: it or you're allowing it to happen. Mitch Johnson. So
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  Speaker 1: these Spurs were not outplayed. That's the thing about. It's
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  Speaker 1: like they were not outplayed, they were out coached and
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  Speaker 1: they they they had a malfunction the what you McCall
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  Speaker 1: it did not work at the end. There disaster class,
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  Speaker 1: absolute disaster class for the San Antonio Spurs. So typically
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  Speaker 1: in the past someone gets sacrificed. It does not seem
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  Speaker 1: like we're going to get that in San Antonio. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fanboys in the crowd there. They don't
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  Speaker 1: really hold the team accountable in San Antonio. So I
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  Speaker 1: would imagine that there will not be any accountability if
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  Speaker 1: I own the team, though again I would get rid
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  Speaker 1: that's a good story here. So the the baseball season
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: going on, we're in this weird period before the All
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Star Break where there's another month ago or so and
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: then not the Dog Days, the Dog Days or after
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the All Star break, after the trade deadline. However, there's
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: chatter about the comings and goings as we head into
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: that part of the schedule. And our lead this hour
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: is from the Metropolitans. That is a baseball team, not
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: a good one that plays in the Tri state area
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: there in New York talking baseball. So we have a
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: status update, status update on the big offseason pickup of
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the New York Metropolitans. If you did not hear and
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: perhaps not Bob Bishett. Bobachett, who's been playing third base
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and occasionally shortstop for the Mets this year, is widely
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: expected to hit the eject button on his contract and
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: opt out of the final two years of his contract
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: after the uh, you know, after the season. Obviously, I
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: can't do it now. He's in the middle of the contract.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Bashett signed a three year contract for one hundred and
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: twenty six million. I'm told that's a lot of money.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: In fact, the AAV the average annual value to the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: mood to the moot to the moon to moon, and
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: this after leaving Toronto to go play for the Mets.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: It has not gone well so far. He's played a
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: little better recently. Over all, though, the product has not
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: been up to standard for Bobashett. That is a good
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question why why
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: would a guy like Bobashet, who has eighty four million,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: two years and eighty four million left on his contract,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: why would he opt out considering he's not playing particularly well.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: So I've got pantsed Roman, candle, an eye doctor, and
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together, and we're
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: gonna give you the ABC's and the one two threes,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: and we always start with number. Jump the gun. Number one,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: number one, number one, number one, number one. What fun?
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: It's number one? Okay, enough, So I'll tell you why.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Thanks for asking. I'll tell you why. Because the contract
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: was built for him to activate Bobachhet, to activate the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: escape patch, the portal. It was designed that way. The
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Mets gave him the Golden parachute up front and not
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: on the back end. Forty two million, one year, forty million.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: The salaries actually too me and the signing bonus forty million.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Everything else is theater. It's kabuki theater. New York was
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: supposed to elevate Bobaschett. That was the argument, the Big Apple,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: you go there, you make it there, you can make
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: it anywhere, that old song. So Bashett gets to the Mets,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and the New York market was supposed to elevate this
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: guy's play. Instead, he has gotten pants playing in New York.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: He's been exposed. I don't know what happened in Toronto.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I liked the player in Toronto. I thought Bobachett was
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: a good player. He played well against the Dodgers in
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the World Series last year. But as a Met, yikes,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: he's really never been a met. Bobashett, He's just another
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: baseball mercenary, that's what he is. Bouncing around and all that.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: And he took the signing bonus gold and he kept
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the map app open it's like, Okay, I'm here, I'm
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: already planning my escape. And so this makes it a
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: little more interesting for the Mets. If you are going
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: to start unloading players and you're relatively confident that Bobachet's
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: not going to be back, then why wouldn't you repackage
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and send him out into the wild blue yonder and
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: just get a little something in return. The Mets, see,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: here's the thing. There's teams around baseball Baschets. I think
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: he's twenty eight right around there, and he knows that
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: there's always a sucker out there, and they will forgive him.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: The nerds will overlook this year. They'll say, well, look
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: at the exit velocity. You can shove it up your
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: tuck us and it's really impressive and all that stuff.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: So the market, despite not playing particularly well this year,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: they'll overla. So, well, it's just a New York thing.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Get him out of there. He'll be fine, and he'll
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: get even more guaranteed money. And there are enough teams
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: out there that still be like, Okay, this one bad year,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: we're gonna sign this guy. He'll be great for us.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: The Mets, of course, are stuck with the reality that
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: he's hitting in the two thirty range bobershet, and he's
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: got eight home runs and a glove that appears to
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: be made out of wet cardboard playing defense for the Mets.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: It's not going well, and supposedly Philadelphia still wants him,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: so he could. He was gonna sign with the Phillies,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: and then the last minute the Mets, if you believe
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the gossip, the Mets came in there and stole them
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: because they gave this fordoculous offer. But that alone, if
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: he does opt out, he's got to get half to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: get more than eighty four million. And the only fly
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: in the ointment here is the labor issue, which is
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: more than a labor issue, because the baseball's expected to
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: go into this arctic winter where there's no negotiation, and
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: even though they've been talking now, there's gonna be no
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: agreement for a while. They're gonna miss games into twenty
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: twenty seven, so and who knows what it's going to
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: look like the landscape they're gonna put. They're trying to
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: put a cap on how much guys can make, which
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: is ridiculous to me. Every team has a budget, and
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: that's the way it should be. Nonetheless, we'll keep an
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: eye on this and then, if not the Phillies, if
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: you're looking at teams that would bid on Boba shitt,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: how about a reunion the Toronto Temptation if you will,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and played so well for the Blue Jays, and a
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: homecoming there like a Hallmark card, Hallmark movie, just like that.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: All right? Now, speaking of we talked about the Phillies
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: possibly being interested in Boba Schet, we go to Philly
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: where over the weekend the Phillies had a visit by
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Snap Crackle Pop And if you didn't see this, the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Phillies have now decided to go to market. Apparently they're
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: going to the flea market here desperately trying to get
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: some outfield help. And this after right for and one
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: time playoff hero a Dallas Garcia, the Texas Ranger legend
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: from back in the day, suffered a season ending torn
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: up right lat muscle, so he's out and he going.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: So now we're told the Phillies have their radar locked
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: in on Joe Adele of the Angels and Suzuki of
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the Cups, Seyya Suzuki of the Cups, So we'll see
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: what happens with that now, they try to upgrade in
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: right field. By the way, a Dollas Garcia was not
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: playing very well at all for the fight in Phills
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: when he had been out there before the injury. All right,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: so the question you make the call, you can only
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: get one, all right, You're gonna go get Joe Adele,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the current Angel outfielder, or you're gonna go make your
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: move and get Seya Suzuki of the Chicago Cups. Assuming
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: all is equal, who would be a better fit for
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the Phillies and a conceivable playoff push. The Phillies, after
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: getting off to a terrible start, brought in Donnie Baseball
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Don Mattingly. He was only on the staff, they promoted him,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and the Phillies are in position to have a shot
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: to make the postseason. All right, So the arrow on
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: this one is pointing straight towards trader Dave as in
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Dave Dombrowski visiting trader Joe as in Joe Adele, And
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: that should be that should be the move. There, Look,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Joe Adele, who's the Lord? Giveth the Lord take it away?
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: The outfielder, giveth the outfielder take it away. He had
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: that three robbery game where he took three home runs
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: away and then had a doink ball bounce off his
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: head over the wall for a home run. It's been
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: a very eventful season for Joe Adele in Anaheim, that
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: would be the guy and playing baseball with the Angels,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: it's like being in the Federal Witness Protection Program and
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: in Anaheim and you're surrounded by so many turns that
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: is like you're living in a porta potty. When you
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: play for the Angels, there's that many turns around there.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: And you want to go to a real hungry baseball
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: environment where Philadelphia seemingly would be on that big board
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: of hungry baseball environments, and you put him in Philly
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and suddenly the blossoming will take off. Let him breathe
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: little bit competitive baseball, a team that's got good players
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: up and down the ruster, not just like one good
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: guy here and then seven slugs and all that. And
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: in Citizens Bank Park, which has been a noted hitters ballpark,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: it would be like giving a Roman candle to a toddler.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Something loud is gonna happen there and ready or not,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: and he would balance out the lineup. Of course, both
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: these guys would, so they have a left handed heavy
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: lineup and Dave don Browski. This has kind of moved
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: don Browski would make he'd trade some of those minor
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: league guys because he knows most of them won't make it,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: and bring in I would go with Dell, but Suzuki
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: is also an option there, so we'll keep an eye
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: on it. And the Phillies they need another impact guy
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: because they've run cold, mostly inconsistent offensively, so we'll keep
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: an eye on that. All right, final point to the
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Silver State we go where there is currently no baseball team,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: although there was this last week and was reading that
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: opposing players do you see this story over the weekend?
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: So opposing players are already telling members of the Athletics
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to pass the word on. They're all in on Viva
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. They're all about it. Now. The president of
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the A's told Bob Nightingale, he said, quote, you give
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: this quote. He said, let's just say we won't have
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: trouble recruiting. Close quote. Now, the Athletics owner John Fisher,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the scumbag that took the A's out of Oakland, that weasel,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: John Fisher expects five hundred million dollars in revenue the
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: first year in Vegas. Let me repeat that for those
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: of you a little slow in the back of the room.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Five hundred million dollars in revenue for a franchise that
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: has been a laughing stock for years, the Athletics, which
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: proves sometimes good things happen to bad people. And so
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: John Fisher, bragging about that, says they'll be in the
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: top six in Major League Baseball revenue and they're very
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: excited about that. And then he said, well, you know,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I'm going to spend more money. Of course, the A's
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: are making money now, they just don't want to spend it.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: And the little weasel, so he says they're going to
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: retain their young players and they're gonna make some moves
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: in free agency. And the speculation had been that the
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: A's to make that big splash, are going to go
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: out and try to get Trek Skouble from the Tigers.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: All right, So the question why would anyone, and I
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: seriously mean this, why would anyone buy the hype from
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the Athletics about people desperately trying to play in Vegas
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: when the Raiders already proved that Vegas does not magically
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: attract star players. So why is it going to be
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: any different in baseball? And the answer is it's not
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: going to be any different. And you should not believe
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: the line of blogoney that is coming out of the athletics,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Like if you think players are going to be lining
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: up to go play in Vegas, you might want to
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: go see the eye doctor, cause that's not a line
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: of people. That's a line of tumbleweeds, is what that is.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: And everybody loves Vegas for forty eight hours or seventy
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: two hours, and that's the perfect amount of time when
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: you're traveling with a baseball team and you come into
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Vegas for a weekend series Friday, Saturday, Sunday, in and out.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: That's what life's all about. And I don't know that
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: anyone's going to be uprooting their entire life to go
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: play for John Fisher unless he massively overpays, which defeats
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the purpose of the argument where they're like, well you'll see,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: let me tell you something, we'll not have no problem recruiting. Well, yeah,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: if you pay top dollar, you can get some free agency.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Come to Vegas. Are we really doing this again? That's
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: that's the part that blows me away with the Raiders.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I know they've been in Vegas for a few years now,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: but this is the exact same I'm not making this up.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: We did monologues about this. This is the exact same
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: players are lining up to come to Vegas boiler plate
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: that we heard when Mark Davis moved the Raiders to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Vegas and it never materialized. The Raiders, they didn't have
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: a parade, a conga line of great NFL players that
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: wanted to play for the Raiders. It didn't happen. Is
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the a's president forgetting that the Raiders said the same
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: thing and ended up with a bunch of mediocre players
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: and a few overpaid mid tier talents. Because I remember
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: that Vegas, it's not nothing. There are certainly guys that
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: want to play in Vegas, just like Miami. There's guys
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: that love Miami and the Marlins. The Marlins claimed, I
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: remember when they built that stadium years ago, that oh,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: we just need a stadium. We can compete with the
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Mets and the Phillies and the Braves and all these teams.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: We just need a stadium. So they built the stadium
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: on the taxpayer dime in Miami and South Florida. There
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: they built the stadium, and they said, well, we're gonna
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: spend it's now been I believe fourteen seasons since that
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: ballpark opened, and stay it with me now, kids, bupkus.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: In terms of big time players, keeping players, bringing players in,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: it just hasn't happened. And yeah, the city is a
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: draw like in Miami or Vegas. The city is a
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: draw in Vegas. If you want to burn the midnight
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: oil and go out to Perump where all kinds of
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: things are legal out there, not in Vegas but in Paromp,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: go out there and knock yourself out. More power to you,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: More power to you. But ultimately it's gonna come down
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: always to money. And if it's team was winning and
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: be able to different the team's not not. They're mediocre.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: They're not really trying to win until they get to
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Vegas in a couple of years, and who knows, maybe
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: even next year. There's a chance they're ahead of construction.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: There's not a lot of rain in Vegas, so the
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: timeline is supposed to their ahead. There's a chance the
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: A's move even next summer. In the in the middle
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: of the summer, I was told that there's gonna be
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: two different plans one where the A's played the whole
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: year in Sacramento. Now, I don't know how this is
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: gonna work out logistically, because if you sell season tickets,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to issue a lot of refunds. So logistically,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: it seems like they're gonna have to stay in Sacramento
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: next year and not move in the middle of the season.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: But there have been teams that have done that, not
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: to the degree of changing entire cities in the middle
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: of the season. We'll keep an eye on that. And
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I love the fact that John Fisher, that wheeze alone's like,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, we're gonna be in the top six in payroll,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: and he's acting like they're gonna be the Dodgers, the Athletics.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: You can have all this new money, they're gonna spend
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: all this money, and of course they're just gonna be
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: clipping coupons. Again. They'll sign like one free agent and
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: the rest of the time they'll be clipping coupons at
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: three in the morning, trying to get a deal on
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: soap and not. Of course they don't want the soap,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the name brand soap, because you get cheaper prices on
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the other types of soap, so New City. You got
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: the same owner, the same chastity belt on the wallet,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: if you will, and so good luck and they're counting
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: on mostly tourists to fill out the stadium. Good luck
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: on that. It's worked for the Raiders. A little different
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: in baseball, though, if you go to Vegas for a weekend,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: you want to spend all of your time at the
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: stadium and then gamble around that? Or how's that? Going
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to football makes sense? You go out there, it's one day.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: You can go on a Friday and then hang out,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: gamble all day Saturday, get completely hammered, and then go
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: to the game on Sunday and then fly back and
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: there you go. It's perfect baseball not so much.
• 35:50
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• 35:52
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• 35:56
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 35:57
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• 36:03
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• 36:06
  Speaker 5: UFL coner Micropoli made an offhand remark to reporters on Friday,
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: and he mentioned that the NFL is talking about two
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: more expansion teams.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Are you buying that? Or do you think it's a Yes,
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