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Talking Sports W/ Chris Long from KSTP-TV Ch. 5 · Sports Done Wright w/ Vince Wright

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  Speaker 2: Alright, everybody, what's going on? Vince Right, Sports Govenor coming
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  Speaker 2: to you on the Sports Done Right Podcast back at
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  Speaker 2: the Governor's Mansion in the Situation Room. And tonight, tonight, people, tonight,
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  Speaker 2: we got a good one, the one and only Chris
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  Speaker 2: Long Channel five KSTP sportscaster joining us for a very
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  Speaker 2: very good interview a lot of topics. We spend just
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  Speaker 2: over half hour talking with Chris about everything, and we're
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  Speaker 2: we get to the interview National Championship games, starting with
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  Speaker 2: the ladies. Obviously I'm a little late to it, but man,
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  Speaker 2: obviously the weekend semi finals, South Carolina Gino Arima acting
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  Speaker 2: like a complete ass. South Carolina then just goes on
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  Speaker 2: to get stomped by UCLA. Just too much size, I
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  Speaker 2: think with UCLA and those ladies came to play and
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina, they along with the size discrepancy that nothing
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  Speaker 2: was falling, nothing was falling. So congratulations, Big ten sweep
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  Speaker 2: for national championships Ucla Michigan the following night and yeah, same,
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  Speaker 2: you know, second half especially did a really good number
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  Speaker 2: on Yukon. And listen, I know Yukon Dan Hurley, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people don't like him. I don't know, dude
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  Speaker 2: gets results. I mean, he lost this one, but he's
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  Speaker 2: played what now, four of the past five or six,
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  Speaker 2: you know, championship games and all that stuff. So props
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  Speaker 2: to Yukon and the losing effort by Michigan. Man hel
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  Speaker 2: to the victors, held to the victors, did a phenomenal
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  Speaker 2: job and claimed the chip. It's that simple. So the
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten running things, running things, throwing that football National
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  Speaker 2: championship for India's It's still hard to say National Football
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  Speaker 2: Champions and Indiana Hoosiers in the same sentence, but by god,
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  Speaker 2: they are the Indiana Hoosiers. So a very stellar year
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  Speaker 2: for the Big Ten and Michigan, by the way, in
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  Speaker 2: the Frozen for as well, so they may get another
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  Speaker 2: championship on the hockey side. And for my SEC listeners,
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  Speaker 2: my SEC fans, hey, y'all still got the baseball title.
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  Speaker 2: Props on that. All right, folks, let's get to it here.
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  Speaker 2: Chris Long, phenomenal guy. Met Chris doing boxing of all
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  Speaker 2: things downtown at the back when Showtime used to broadcast
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  Speaker 2: and be in the boxing game and we had a
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  Speaker 2: couple of local fighters that they were focusing on up here.
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  Speaker 2: Chris was just real nice, you know, willing to just chat,
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  Speaker 2: help you out do whatever, and just been a big
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  Speaker 2: fan of his ever since. He does a great job
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  Speaker 2: at Channel five and I highly implore you to check
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  Speaker 2: him out, check out his work, follow him on social media. So,
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  Speaker 2: without further ado, here on the Sports Done Right Podcast,
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  Speaker 2: brought to you by Seventh Avenue, Pizza one and only
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  Speaker 2: Chris Long. All right, everybody, what's going on? Vince Wright
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  Speaker 2: Sports Done Right Podcast, Sports Governor's coming to you with
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  Speaker 2: the one the only KSTP Channel five, Chris Long. I
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  Speaker 2: met Chris covering boxing of all things down at the
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  Speaker 2: Armory and got to talk with him, know him a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. Great guy and awesome and very happy that
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  Speaker 2: he's able to join us tonight. So Chris, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for joining us.
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  Speaker 4: I'm flattered, my pleasure. We've been talking about doing this forever.
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  Speaker 6: List get me your famous rim.
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  Speaker 2: It's coming. It's coming up. I'm gonna make a stop
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  Speaker 2: up at the station for you and Doogie. I promise,
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  Speaker 2: all right, So let's do this. Before we get into
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  Speaker 2: the pro side of things, folks, Chris does a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work for the state tournaments up here, hockey, basketball,
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  Speaker 2: you name it, he covers it. So I kind of
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  Speaker 2: wanted to delve into that a little bit. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the hockey tournament obviously world famous, everything that goes along
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  Speaker 2: with it, the haircuts and by the way, classic games
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  Speaker 2: this past year. So just for folks that don't get it,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, they may see it on a on
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  Speaker 2: a story or even an ESPN or something, but can
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  Speaker 2: you just explain to my listeners outside of Minnesota, why
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  Speaker 2: this state hockey tournament at the high school level is
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  Speaker 2: just so ingrained in the Minnesota sports site.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's first and foremost.
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  Speaker 6: It's an absolute privilege for us to be able to
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  Speaker 6: bring these things and just to play such a tiny
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  Speaker 6: small part in just the pageantry that these tournaments all have.
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  Speaker 6: And it's boys hockey is the big one, but it
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  Speaker 6: really is all of it's football, it's girls basketball's boys
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  Speaker 6: basketball's girls hockey. I think that they're and this is
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  Speaker 6: going to sound like I'm blowing our horn, but this
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  Speaker 6: isn't just forty five TV. This goes back to win
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  Speaker 6: Channel nine had it before us, WCCO back in the day.
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  Speaker 6: I think in Minnesota, you think it's like this everywhere
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  Speaker 6: that you know, maybe the My brother lives in Indiana,
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  Speaker 6: there is not an on TV broadcast of the Indiana
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  Speaker 6: State basketball tournament.
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  Speaker 4: My high school is a football powerhouse.
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  Speaker 6: Back in Maryland, I watched them play for their state
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  Speaker 6: championship this past fall. It was one camera up in
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  Speaker 6: a press box with two guys talking, no scoreboard, no replays.
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  Speaker 6: The ball carrier will run off frame. If the guy
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  Speaker 6: running the camera wasn't paying, jerk back and forth. I
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  Speaker 6: paid like fourteen ninety five to see that. And again,
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  Speaker 6: this is not just forty five TV or Hubbard or
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  Speaker 6: me or my crew or our crew. This goes back
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  Speaker 6: to you know w CCO and what you know, r
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  Speaker 6: J Frix and Mark Rosen and obviously Nanny's been part
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  Speaker 6: of forever. Fox nine did an incredible job with it.
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  Speaker 6: Actually was before they were Fox nine. So I hope
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  Speaker 6: Minnesota and then you go to basketball and football, I
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  Speaker 6: hope Minnesota understands how fortunate we are to have this
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  Speaker 6: tradition and that that is a priority to the high
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  Speaker 6: school league. And then it's been a priority to the
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  Speaker 6: broadcasters that have had the privilege to do this all
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  Speaker 6: these years. That's made it such a big deal. We
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  Speaker 6: like to think we didn't start the fire of passion
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  Speaker 6: for the tournaments, but we certainly try to keep it lit.
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  Speaker 6: But this goes back, obviously to what the boys State
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  Speaker 6: Hockey Tournament means, going back to when it was one
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  Speaker 6: class and you know, Roso and Evelyth would come down
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  Speaker 6: and Hibbing would come down and take on you know,
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  Speaker 6: the big city schools.
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  Speaker 4: Back in the fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties.
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  Speaker 6: Lost a little shine when it went to two class,
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  Speaker 6: but it's still in terms of just a pageantry of sport.
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  Speaker 6: It's just the one thing that our whole state stops
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  Speaker 6: and watch. And you may not watch a single high
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  Speaker 6: school hockey game all year, you may not know a
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  Speaker 6: single player, you might not know half the team's mascots.
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  Speaker 6: But when those games pop on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
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  Speaker 6: Saturday in March, if there's a TV nearby, the odds
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  Speaker 6: are that the state tournament's on it, and it's just
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  Speaker 6: it's just happened over time. You ask what goes into
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  Speaker 6: that phenomenon.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's just the state's love for hockey.
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  Speaker 6: It's the availability of the broadcast, and let's not be
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  Speaker 6: fool the talent level.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you're seeing every state tournament.
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  Speaker 6: Twenty guys that are going to go on and girls
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  Speaker 6: that are going to go on to play college hockey,
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  Speaker 6: three or four that are gonna go play pro. So
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  Speaker 6: the level of play is pretty darn good. And basketball
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  Speaker 6: lately has certainly on both the girls and boys side.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely we've been seeing I'm sorry, I'm going on, you
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  Speaker 6: get me talk about high school tourneys.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take that's all right.
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  Speaker 4: The girls and boys, the talent we've seen in the
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  Speaker 4: girls and boys basketball tournament lately is equal, if not surpassed,
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  Speaker 4: in any given year, what we've seen in the hockey tournament.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a combination of passion, talent, quality of the broadcasts,
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  Speaker 4: and just who are as in Minnesota. We care about
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  Speaker 4: high school sports. They're important to us. I've loved working
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  Speaker 4: here for twenty five years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you do a great job. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: speaking on the basketball side, because I actually sent out
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  Speaker 2: a tweet that apparently has gone viral. It was just
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  Speaker 2: a picture of Kaladel Lamine at the championship game the
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  Speaker 2: other night, and for me, I just tweeted out, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the greatest high school basketball player Minnesota's ever produced. Blah
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  Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 4: And people wanted you to hear how wrong that was. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they did a lot of I'm not saying I disagree.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying no, no, no, there there, and and
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  Speaker 2: there are definitely some you know, arguments to be made,
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  Speaker 2: Ty Jones. You know, people are coming at me with page.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously a lot of Kevin McHale fans from the Iron
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  Speaker 2: Range apparently found my Twitter, and you know, all have
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  Speaker 2: cases to be made, just for me, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: was it was you know, Elamin. For you on the
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  Speaker 2: basketball side, who was you know? And if you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to give me one, to give me maybe two
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  Speaker 2: or three of you know, Chris Lonk's top three from
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  Speaker 2: the basketball side of high school.
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  Speaker 6: Boy, let me give you two guys as one answer, Hedge,
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  Speaker 6: Watching chet Holgern and Jalen Suggs play together was incredible
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  Speaker 6: because you knew, you knew both those guys are going
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  Speaker 6: to be in the NBA. I mean, Jalen Suggs was
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  Speaker 6: such an credible athlete. Remember he was a state football
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  Speaker 6: Player of the Year as a quarterback. You knew those
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  Speaker 6: guys were going to be special, and it was so
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  Speaker 6: much fun watching them play together. Can I loop in
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  Speaker 6: Tias and Trey as one person?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 6: I think at first the first time I met Tias,
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  Speaker 6: I think we went and did a story on him
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  Speaker 6: when he was in.
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  Speaker 4: Eighth or ninth grade. It might have been eighth, it
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  Speaker 4: was probably ninth.
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  Speaker 2: For some reason, that story is popping up in my
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  Speaker 2: mind because that's, yeah, he started on the junior yeah,
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  Speaker 2: at that eighth grade junior high even though he's on
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  Speaker 2: the high school team, right right, Yeah, And I.
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  Speaker 6: Remember we're doing the interviews with Tias. We're talking to
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  Speaker 6: the coaches and talking to teammates, and somebody at some
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  Speaker 6: point said, but look over there, that little guy might
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  Speaker 6: be even better.
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  Speaker 4: And it was Trey, and he.
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  Speaker 6: Was three years younger, two years, but at the time
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  Speaker 6: he would have been in fifth sixth grade. Watching those
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  Speaker 6: two kind of grow up and the way they handled
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  Speaker 6: I mean, the spotlight was bright. Remember there was an
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  Speaker 6: ESPN game at Apple Valley team from Chicago came to
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  Speaker 6: play him, and that's a lot to put our kids shoulders.
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  Speaker 6: But Tie has handled it really well, and Trey followed
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  Speaker 6: right up with him. So I would loop those two
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  Speaker 6: of them together. Well, I'm trying to think of a third.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it gives you. I mean a lot of talents
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  Speaker 2: coming through here.
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  Speaker 4: I got one for you, And I'm not saying best.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just saying ones that I really remembered back when
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  Speaker 6: I worked in Duluth a lifetime ago.
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  Speaker 4: Gopher fans will remember Rick Rickard.
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  Speaker 6: Oh god, he was the first definite, d one, no question,
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  Speaker 6: high school athlete I ever got to cover.
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  Speaker 4: That was early on in my time up in Duluth.
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  Speaker 2: And Chris Mann. Yeah, the Radar.
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  Speaker 6: I did a story with him where he broke out
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  Speaker 6: the box we had all the recruiting letters, sat in
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  Speaker 6: his driveway under the hoop he shot on as a kid.
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  Speaker 4: And talked to him.
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  Speaker 6: So that one I remember because that was my first
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  Speaker 6: real look at watching a kid go from a very
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  Speaker 6: good high school player to the glare of being a
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  Speaker 6: pursued Division one prospect and then moving on to Division
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  Speaker 6: one college.
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  Speaker 4: Those are the three experiences I remember the most.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, I mean, a couple of people Chris Humphries.
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  Speaker 2: But again, it just kind of goes to show the
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  Speaker 2: talent over the past twenty thirty years of high school
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  Speaker 2: basketball in this state as well. I mean, and then yeah,
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  Speaker 2: on the lady side as well. I mean, we just
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  Speaker 2: you know, you saw it Monday night with you know,
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota ladies competing for titles.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just been very incredible to see what the
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  Speaker 2: high school athletes here in Minnesota for all sports have
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  Speaker 2: been able to do lately.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'd be remiss. We gotta throw pitchebackers in there. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: of course.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: We knew very hard she was going to be very special,
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  Speaker 6: and you always wonder how players are going to translate
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  Speaker 6: to the next level she's going to you.
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  Speaker 4: Is she gonna be good enough?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, she'd be in that conversation too.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. All right, folks again, Chris Long joining US Channel
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  Speaker 2: five Sports here in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Saint Paul.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so let's go on to these the pro
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  Speaker 2: boys here. We got a couple of teams making playoff
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  Speaker 2: runs in the wild and the Wolves. But before that,
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  Speaker 2: have we heard anything from the Vikings, any GM updates?
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  Speaker 2: And you know, they've done.
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  Speaker 4: A really good job of keeping everything quiet.
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  Speaker 6: They said right away, we're happy going into the draft
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  Speaker 6: with Roberzinsky as the as the acting GM. I don't they've,
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  Speaker 6: Like I said, they've done a good job of we
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  Speaker 6: haven't heard anything.
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  Speaker 4: And even the guys that are I haven't.
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  Speaker 6: The guys that are there, you know, everybody that was
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  Speaker 6: at the owners meetings, all the beat writers, by the way,
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  Speaker 6: fortunate in this town. We've got some great beat writers.
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 6: The only way roberts Inski isn't the GM is if
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  Speaker 6: roberts Inky doesn't want to be.
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  Speaker 4: The Oh okay, it's just I'm pulling out of left field.
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  Speaker 4: It just he's qualified. They're letting him do it now now.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he doesn't want that.
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  Speaker 6: He's so good, he's unbelievable, one of the best salary
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  Speaker 6: cap people in the entire league. Maybe he knows that's
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  Speaker 6: his lane and he wants to stay in it, and
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  Speaker 6: he's doing pretty well for himself in.
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  Speaker 2: That And Chris, that's why I brought it up, because
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  Speaker 2: you know, they, like you said, they are letting him
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  Speaker 2: run with the ship right now during a very critical
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  Speaker 2: time for this franchise. And that's why I was just like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was wondering, Hey, maybe they're just gonna
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  Speaker 2: let him keep the gig, so to speak.
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  Speaker 6: So the other hot name is George Peyton, former assistant
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  Speaker 6: GM here who is now in Denver. But I haven't
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  Speaker 6: heard one word that he's leaning as any desire to
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  Speaker 6: come back, so I think you cross his name off.
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  Speaker 6: Other than that, I honestly have no idea, and they've
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  Speaker 6: been really good about saying we're not gonna do anything
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  Speaker 6: about it until after the.
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  Speaker 2: Draft and real quick thoughts on getting a mister Kyler
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  Speaker 2: Murphy up here. How do you think that plays out?
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  Speaker 2: I mean that we've heard everything from JJ possibly even
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  Speaker 2: now being traded since they did also resign Carson Wentz
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  Speaker 2: obviously a very interesting quarterback room. What are your thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on it?
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  Speaker 6: The biggest negative I've heard is people saying, well, Kyler
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  Speaker 6: Murray's not going to fit Kevin O'Connell's playbook. We've never
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  Speaker 6: seen what Kevin O'Connell's playbook might look like with a
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  Speaker 6: Kyler Murray in there. Kevin o'conn has been pretty good
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  Speaker 6: with a lot of guys who had similar traits.
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  Speaker 4: JJ McCarthy traded out a little of the.
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  Speaker 6: Experience and guile and accuracy for athleticism. But Kyler's got
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  Speaker 6: the arm. He's got the athleticism. So give Kevin O'Connell
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  Speaker 6: a chance to rewrite that playbook and see if he's
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  Speaker 6: done some good things with a lot of quarterbacks that
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  Speaker 6: people didn't think much about.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people think a lot about Kyler Murray.
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  Speaker 4: He has his detractors, but.
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  Speaker 6: He comes in, certainly on paper with more raw ability
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  Speaker 6: that you're giving Kevin O'Connell to mold. There's more there,
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  Speaker 6: I think with Kyler Murray than there has been with
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  Speaker 6: certainly with with you know what Sam Darnold had shown
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: and JJ McCarthy, he had flashes. I don't I know,
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: we don't want to have that debate right now, but
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: you know, I think Kevin O'Connell put him in position
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: once he came back from the injury to succeed.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: I don't see any reason why Kevin O'Connell won't.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: And he knows he's He's not on a hot seat now,
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: I don't think.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: But if things don't work out with Kyler Murray, oh yeah,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: for sure, things.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: Can get warm in a hurry. And I think he
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: knows that. So he's gonna do everything he can to
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: unlock whatever he can.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: With Kyler Murray.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. All right, we're keeping it moving here. Chris along,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I'm joining us on the Sports Done Right podcast. All right, Chris, so,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: let me ask you this, Minnesota, while you know, great season,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: you know, I think you know, top three, four points obviously,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: you know in the conference, all that stuff. I mean,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: this has got to be the year, right that the
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Wild finally go deep into the playoffs, make that return again.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I mean right, no.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Wild team has had more than one star. Maybe some
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: of them didn't. Yeah, now they have three.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: Corona Caprizov has done everything that could be asked of him.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: Quenus has been completely as advertised his impact on an offense.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: There's nobody close.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: I mean, there might be better offensive defenseman, but his
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: impact on the offense, no one's immediate.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: As soon as he got here, you know, he was like,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: you know, hand and glove. He just fit right in.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: And then the team took right to him.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: And then what Matt Bowley has done taking the next
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: step and he's now forty goal scorer.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: You've got three stars. That's pretty good.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: And the thing you have to have in the NHL
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: playoffs is a goalie, and they may have two of them.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they've been consistent. Last they checked. I don't know
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: what the update would be today, but it was like
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: two days ago.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: Desper Falseta and Philip Gustison as a unit, we're tied
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: with Colorado's goal is.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: For the best save percentage in the National Hockey League.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: So you've got the goaltending, you've got the three stars,
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: you've got a pretty darn good defense. You have a
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: physical team. I mean, Danila, you're off and both the
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: Felinos and Ryan Hartman, I mean they're checking every box
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: that you want to see in the team to have
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: success and the playoffs.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: The problem is they're in the same.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: Division as Colorado and Dallas, three of the four best
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: teams in the NHL. They're gonna play Dallas in the
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: first round. It's gonna be a brutal series, and one
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: of the best four teams in the.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: National Hockey League is going to be out.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: The winner will most likely goal face Colorado and then
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: you're gonna have two of the best teams knocked out.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: But it stinks because, yeah, the Wilder as set up
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: for playoffs success this year as they've ever been in
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: the entire timely existence.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I mean from the front office
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: down to you know, as a very now disgruntled Chicago
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Blackhawks fan here, they're rebuilding for the past, what twelve
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: years now or something like that.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: But yeah, but it worked last time. They had to
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: do this so well.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I wish they'd hurry up so we can kind of
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: get back to the playoffs. But you know, front office
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Minnesota while just love what they've been doing this year,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: and that's why everything seems to be in place. They
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: just got to go out and do it, and you know,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: to like you said, now, to have to go against
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Dallas right away and all that stuff that's taught for
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: another time on how the NHL does this stuff. But
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: if they can get past Dallas, man, hold on, it's
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: gonna be a fun ride.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Well, it's gonna be great.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: I mean if they if they get through Dallas and Colorado,
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: they'll emerge as the favorites to win the Stanley Cup.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Now that's a huge Jeff, Yeah, yeah. But if it
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: does happen, absolutely nobody from the other division and our
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: conference scares me. And you know, a couple of teams
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: in the East, you know, I get it. But man,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I've just been very impressed by the Minnesota whild this season,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: and a lot of people, you know, come at me
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: because obviously they know I'm I'm wild are my second
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: favorite team. I'm a Blackhawks, guys. Oh, I was born
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: in Chicago, but.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I grew up I grew up a Capital fan.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I'm from DC, so I'm with you, I'm with you,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: and and well I was a huge and North Star fan.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: But obviously they took off and I just went back
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: to my at the time second favorite team. I'm from Chicago,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: and you know, it took a few years for a
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: team to come back here and I was already in trench.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, Okay, I'm just staying where I'm at.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: But yeah, very impressed with the Wild, very impressed with
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: the front office and ownership. And you know, I mean,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: obviously with my team out of it, I'm pulling for
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: him and I hope they can make that move this
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: year at least get that very deep playoff run. If not,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: obviously Stanley Cup appearance.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Well and two things. One, the thing I'd like the
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: most about watching a while this year, They're just fun
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: to watch. You just you put your phone down and
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: you just you watch.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: The game because the style they play are so appealing
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: and Quinn Hughes is so fun. We has a puck
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: on a stick and everybody can score. I mean, the
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: special teams have been good. They're just fun to sit
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: down and watch. The other thing is they're gonna have
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: room to do something this off season by not making
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: another big move at the trade deadline, there's gonna be
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: some salary cap room and they've got.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: A lot of assets.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: A kid they just signed, a kid from Rosemunt Charlie
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: Straman was really probably their really big trade chip. But
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: I think that there is room for a pretty big
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: move this off season for Bill Garon to make so
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: it's too positives for the while, even beyond what's gonna happen, right, Yeah,
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: and that'd be awesome because you know, with the pieces
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: in place now some more, Yeah, you could be setting.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Yourself up for a nice little stretch here of some
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: really really good hockey. Okay, so we're praying for you
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: while do the thing. Now. The Timberwolves, you know, you
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: got ant Man, some you know injured, got a couple
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: other folks dinged up. Everything obviously is so close in
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: the West Conference. You know, you win a couple of games,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: you lose a couple of games, and you can go
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: up three or four spots, are down three or four spots.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: It teams and outside of OKC San Antonio who have
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: definitely set themselves apart, it's gonna be very interesting. Lakers
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: obviously were playing very well. Now they got a couple
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: guys injured.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: What you Houston might be the hottest team in the
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: West right now.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in Houston too, And I mean, yeah, that's the thing.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: There's just you know, teams we're not even thinking about.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: But for Minnesota, Chris, what do you what do you
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: see right now? You know, because a lot of people
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: have been talking to me about, you know, Chris Finch
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: being fired. Is you know, I can definitely see that
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: happening with a very early playoff exit from the Wolves.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: But you know, you know, you're you're in contact with folks.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: What's kind of the word on the street about the
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Timberwolves and just the vibe around that franchise right now.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: I the weirdest part of the whole season for them
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: has been this Chris Finch just frustrated, but he keeps
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: saying things like that their moody, they get in these ruts,
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: and you know, he went right after Julius Randall a
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: couple of times. It's hard to not and I'm not
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: a fire Chris Finch guy. I think even if they
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: lose in the first round, I think Chris Finch, with what.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: He did the last two seasons, has earned at least
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: one more.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: I don't think it's on him, and I don't know
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: what's going on with with There are some nights I
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: talk about the Wild being fun to watchers. Some nights
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: you watch Timberwolves and you just know right away, like
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: this this is They're not They're.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Not locked in tonight right exactly.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: But on other nights they look like world beaters, and
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: some of that has to do with you know, you
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: don't want to put it all on Anthony Edwards, but
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: he can put a game.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Remember the game, who's the game?
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: Karl Anthony Town scored fifty fifty four points and they lost.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's had the wrong tone.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: In the postgame, ant doesn't do that. You'll see Aunt
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: score sixty and if they.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Lose, he's going to be upset.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: So he's shown he can put the team on his
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: back and wants to put team is back. But I
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: don't understand who's responsible if the team is moody and
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: can't get locked in and isn't connected and sometimes lose
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: his focus?
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Is that the coach? Is that? The leader? Is that
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: the veterans?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: I thought that's part of the reason they.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Brought my Cony back.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Maybe they're not listening to him. I don't know. There's
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: just so many weird, little moving parts.
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: I mean, everybody kills ru Gobert for his offensive deficiencies,
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: but that's.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Not his role.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: Like he's he's one of the best defensive players this generation.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: It all should work better than it has this year,
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: And I don't exactly know why it hasn't. And some
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: people might hear that statement and say, well, then you
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: blame the coach maybe, but I if it were me,
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: I don't know that I pull the trigger.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: On Chris Finch. Tell me who you get anytime.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: Anytime you're talking about fireing somebody here, tell me who
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: you're gonna get, is it? I don't lay at all
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: at Chris Pinch's feet, But it's just strange that this pervasive, moody,
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: disjointed feel are around the team, but then every own
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: and then you watch them and they they look great.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: It's hard to balance those two things together.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I hear you. I hear you. I think that was
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: a great take, and that's exactly what I hear from
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: a lot of people. It's just been a very just
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: kind of weird at time season for that squad. And
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: like you said, you know who's kind of running the ship?
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Is it the coach? Is it the veterans? Is it ant?
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's And I think people are getting
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: a little leary too, you know, because I hear people
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: talking more about that early first round exit, you know,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: especially like you said, with teams, you know, Houston heating
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: up Lakers heating up, and obviously other teams in the
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: West because we're all bunched right there together, so it's
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: not like one team is truly better than Yeah, and
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: the big.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: Wild card is going to be injuries. I haven't seen
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: an update on one beyond I don't know how hurt
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: he is. I saw he got hurt the other night.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: He's have to see h date. The Lakers are missing too. Two,
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: they're missing Luca and Austin Reeves the Wolves and good
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: as E. J. McDaniel's back, and I'm hoping that him
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: missing this many games.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Down stretch has been more precautionary than anything.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but if any of those guys, it changes the
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: complexion of a series.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: If any of those guys are out, and.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: You know you hainte seeing that you want full strength
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: on full strength, but you know you talk about playing,
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: you know, the matchup could be completely different depending who
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: is available for each team. It feels like the Rockets
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: and the Thunder are the only team that has stayed
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: completely healthy.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Well said, Well said. Do you see a playoff run
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: for the Wolves?
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: If somehow they can get the Lakers in round one,
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: I don't like the matchup with Denver now.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Good point.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: I don't know what the standings.
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: Are right now, but if it's the Lakers, yes, if not,
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: they'll be underdogs.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: I'll say it that way.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: I don't think this team is as they clearly don't
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: have the momentum they had, you know, either the last
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: two years going into the postseason.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: It doesn't feel like they're as loaded and ready. However,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: they are.
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: Going to get a lot of time where they're gonna
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: be able to rest a lot of players and they're
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: not gonna be in the play in so they're gonna
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: have time to practice and and specifically.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Plan for one opponent.
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: Maybe that helps, Maybe that helps them flip the switch
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: that I think a lot of people, maybe themselves included,
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: thought they'd be able to flip at some point.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Good point. And I'm looking over here on the iPad
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: monitor forty seven to thirty two. The Wolves are the
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: sixth seed right now, three games behind Houston. Like you said,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Houston def heat it up, three games behind the Lakers,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: and they are four games ahead of Phoenix, who was
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: in the seventh spot. There we know those.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: Are the sixth The question is how far does Houston
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: climb and how far do the Lakers right exactly?
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, here just got a few more minutes
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: with Chris Long everybody, so let's have some fun with
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: this guy here, Chris. This is interesting because as I've
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: been able to kind of get some access with the
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: press passes and you know, get to see everybody in
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: the in the press rooms and stuff. Obviously, you all
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: work for different stations and everything, and there's a little
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: bit of competition, you know, you do gotta get ratings
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. But it did kind of amaze me how,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: you know, in these press conferences and stuff, all the
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: sportscasters are really friendly with each other. I mean, it's
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: it's literally like you're in a room full of everybody's
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: best friends. Can you kind of just allude on that.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, we just had Julia Daniels on a couple
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: of weeks ago. I had to Gion last year, and
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: the other sports writers, Norman C. Wright when he was
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: here at CECO and others, And that was just the
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: one thing that I thought was just really cool because
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: from the outside, you know, we hear ratings and this
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: channel versus that channel, and then you get behind the scenes,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: and like I said, it's like everybody's hanging out at
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: cheers or something.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: It is competitive.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: It is friendly competition. You want to beat them to
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: the story. You want to do a better job on
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: the story. You want to find angles that they don't find.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: But that's you.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: You don't need to. There are some markets that I've heard.
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: I'm only worked in three I've been in Duluth, Fort,
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: Myerson here, but I've heard there are some other.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Markets that that's not the way it is. Everybody's cutthroat
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: and hates each other.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: And oh I can imagine.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: You know, a camera cord might get unplugged every now
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: and then and nobody knows exactly who did it.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: I've heard stories.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: I'm glad we're not in that because the line I
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: always use is, any given week, I'm going to see
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: those people more than I'm going to see my own family.
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: We choose to get into this line of work. You
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: can get into a bunker a Vikings season. I mean,
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: I know I'm gonna be down at at TCO Center.
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: You know, three times we're going to be at us
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: Bank Stadium Sundays. I'm going to see the same people.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: And if I'm acting in a way, whether it's in
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: a scrum or away from it when we're just kind
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: of sitting and sit and wait mode.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: You want to make your own life harder if you're
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: if you're a jerk about things.
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: And the good thing about the Minnesota media is everybody
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: does buy and large get along. There's some robberies that
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: will pop up, oh of course, and then it's fun
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: to see that happen. But it's the line I always used.
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: You just said, we all better get along because we're
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: all going to be shoulder to shoulder trying to interview
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: the same people a lot of the time. And again,
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: we may in a given week spend more time with
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: each other than we will with our own family.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: So let's do our best to get along.
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: And you know, I hate it when I see somebody
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: beats us to a story or.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Or does a better job with something. I hate it.
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: But but there's respect, like, all right, you got this one.
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: You know we'll get the next one. And it helps
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: that there's a lot of really good people. I mean,
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: the press corps here is a lot of people that
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: are just very professional, very talented, respectful of one another.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: We all want to be the best.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Don't just read that, Oh yeah, absolutely.
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: You know, but it does work in a way that
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: I don't know that it works in a lot of
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: certainly not all markets. I'm sure plenty are like this,
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: but not all.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: All right, So let's end it with this here again, folks.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Chris Long is joined us here on the Sports un
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Right podcast. Who's Chris Long? Where are you from? How'd
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: you get into the sports?
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Chris?
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  Speaker 4: I like that. I'll try to keep it quick.
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  Speaker 6: I'm irish, and as you've noticed over the last thirty minutes,
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  Speaker 6: you get me going, I'll go.
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  Speaker 4: Grew up beside of Washington, d C. My dad worked
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  Speaker 4: at a TV station.
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  Speaker 6: He was on the sales side, and I would always
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  Speaker 6: just go, you know, we'd be going to like a
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  Speaker 6: Washington Capitol's game. He'd gets some tickets and I take
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  Speaker 6: the sub way down to his from the suburbs into
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  Speaker 6: his station. We'd go from there, and I always just
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  Speaker 6: wanted to hang around in the newsroom.
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  Speaker 4: I just I love the energy and the buzz and
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  Speaker 4: the feel. And I got to know some.
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  Speaker 6: Of the people that worked in his newsroom and just
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  Speaker 6: kind of went, Okay, this is you know, like sixth grade.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, this is where I want to go. All
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  Speaker 6: I wanted to do news, got into college, realized I
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  Speaker 6: did not want.
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  Speaker 4: To do news.
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you go to school?
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  Speaker 4: University of Missouri. Fromc went to the University of Missouri.
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  Speaker 4: And it was funny my dad when I decided, all right,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to Missouri.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to go to their journalism school is well
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  Speaker 6: regarded journalism school. He said when we when we were
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: making the decision where I was going to go to college,
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: he said, that's fine, he goes, just promise me you're
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  Speaker 6: not going to try to go into sports. All he said,
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: you go to college is promise me you're not going
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: to try to get into He knew I liked sports.
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: I played every sport coming up as a kid. Wasn't
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  Speaker 6: that good in any of them, but so decided I
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  Speaker 6: didn't want any news. I'm like, all right, well, I'll
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: give sports a try, and if I can't get into it,
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: then I'll.
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  Speaker 4: Figure something else out.
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  Speaker 6: I did an internship at an ad agency one summer
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  Speaker 6: to kind of cover my bases. Got my first job
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  Speaker 6: in Duluth out of college. Moved up there as a
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  Speaker 6: temporary fill in, ended up staying there eight years.
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  Speaker 4: Loved it up there.
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  Speaker 6: If it had been financially tenable, I might still be there.
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  Speaker 6: I absolutely loved my time in Duluth.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Went from Duluth to Fort Myers, Florida, climbed the ranks
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  Speaker 4: at a station there, but just kind of new through
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  Speaker 4: my eight years in Duluth. I loved coming to the
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: Twin Cities. I loved sports matter here. Like you know,
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  Speaker 4: this is a good sports town.
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  Speaker 6: Despite what people might want to say about championship results,
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: this is a good sports town.
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  Speaker 4: I always wanted to get back here.
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: But saying that you want to come back and get
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  Speaker 6: a job here is like saying, well, I want to
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  Speaker 6: play for the New York Yankees.
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  Speaker 4: It just you kind of take whatever you can get.
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  Speaker 4: If I ended up in Seattle or.
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  Speaker 6: Boston or you know, any other major market city, it
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  Speaker 6: would have been fine. But I always always wanted to
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  Speaker 6: get back to Minnesota. And really the first job I
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  Speaker 6: went for in Fort Myers when it was time to
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  Speaker 6: go from there was at KSTP. There was some movement here,
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: and I knew some people here and kind of networked
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  Speaker 6: my way into getting an interview and fooled them and
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  Speaker 6: working to luth. I went up as attempting to luth
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  Speaker 6: in state eight years. Oh wow, came up here and
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: took a shot, and I've been here now seventeen so.
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  Speaker 2: Man, yeah, it doesn't seem like it. It's but as
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: they say, time just flies by. Seventeen years.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I've spent now half my life in Minnesota eight
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  Speaker 6: and d luth and then seventeen here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Chris, I'm glad that we got you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy to be here. Man.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, I you know, I'm a big fan. I've
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: always appreciated what the work you do, you and Dukes,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: especially over at Channel five, love all the wrap up
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: shows that you guys, dubes, you know, Sunday nights, everything,
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  Speaker 2: and truly honored that we got you here finally on
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  Speaker 2: the Sports Done Right podcast and yeah, we'll hit you
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  Speaker 2: up down the road, my friend. But again, I just
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  Speaker 2: wanted to thank you for taking some time tonight. Chris.
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  Speaker 2: Tell people real quick social media where they can follow
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  Speaker 2: you all that fun stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I'm on Twitter, Chris long kss TP.
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  Speaker 6: That's kind of my primary social media with the easiest
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  Speaker 6: place to find me is just flip on Channel five
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: or Channel forty five.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, and you mentioned it.
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: If you're only gonna watch us once tune in on
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  Speaker 6: Sunday nights for Sunday Sports Rap nine thirty ish on
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  Speaker 6: forty five TV, ten thirty.
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  Speaker 4: On Channel five.
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  Speaker 6: It's usually me Darren Wilson, Alc Austmas will do our
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: little either's do him or sit on the couch, wrap
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  Speaker 6: up and if we've got some special features we'll throw.
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  Speaker 4: Them in there as well.
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  Speaker 6: And that's you're only gonna watch one sport. We'd love
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: for you to watch them all the watch that one.
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  Speaker 2: Hey man, you guys do a great job. Alex stepping in.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: The new young guy over there as well doing a
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  Speaker 2: really good job as well. We're gonna be reaching out
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: to him soon also. But Chris, thank you again so much. Man.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you go. I know you got stuff
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  Speaker 2: to do and gotta get prepped for later on. But again,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much for taking some time tonight. Really
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate your time. Let's get boxing back at the
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  Speaker 4: Armory man soon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I miss it. That was a lot of fun,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fun, all right, Chris, take care of
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: my friend Tim.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: All right, folks, The one the only Chris Long from
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  Speaker 7: Channel five KSTP Sports, joining Vince right yours truly, the
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: Sports Governor here on the Sports Dune Right podcast and
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: that was a lot of fun, a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: So glad Chris was able to join us. I want
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: to thank you for joining us here on another edition
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: of the Sports Dune Right podcast, coming to you from
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  Speaker 2: the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Minnesota, and I am
• 38:49
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• 38:53
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• 39:01
  Speaker 2: on more interviews and more things coming up here as well.
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• 39:09
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• 39:18
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