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Hour 1 - Vikings On The Up? · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports.
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  Speaker 2: Oh what is going on? Welcome in happy late night
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  Speaker 2: wee hours to you. Hope all is well, man, rough
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  Speaker 2: news for Laker fans, the uh, the game did not
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  Speaker 2: go well in the second half, particularly the third quarter.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. I'll give you a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of praise at a leade at halftime, you know, for
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  Speaker 2: the degenerate gamblers out there. I was not in on this,
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  Speaker 2: but if you bet the Lakers to win the first
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  Speaker 2: half that played that paid four to one, just pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Plus four hundred to win the first half, and they
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  Speaker 2: had a first athlete fifty eight to fifty seven. And
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  Speaker 2: then the thunder just said, all right, we've had enough
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  Speaker 2: of this, and they smacked around the Lakers by fourteen
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  Speaker 2: points in the third quarter, cruise to an eighteen point win.
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  Speaker 2: And to cover. It's crazy. It is the biggest point
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  Speaker 2: spread that Lebron has faced in his playoff career, a
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  Speaker 2: dog of fifteen and a half points each of the
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  Speaker 2: first two games, and the Lakers lost each of the
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  Speaker 2: first two games by exactly eighteen points. So Oka See
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  Speaker 2: covers the spread both nights, and it's just amazing, man.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of these deals where Okac's talent is so
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  Speaker 2: much better than the Lakers. To put that in perspective,
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  Speaker 2: the best example is probably Jared McCain. So, Jared McCain
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  Speaker 2: is a player from Duke started off with Philly, Okay
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  Speaker 2: see ended up with him. He wasn't even in the
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  Speaker 2: rotation in the first round series against the Suns. He
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  Speaker 2: hardly got any minutes. I looked it up before the
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  Speaker 2: show tonight. I was doing some journalistic preparation over you
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  Speaker 2: in depth analysis, if you will, nose to the grindstone,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, these are the minutes that Jared McCain
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  Speaker 2: played against the Suns in the four game sweep Okay,
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  Speaker 2: in order, starting with Game one, eight minutes, eight seconds,
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  Speaker 2: kick out on the floor for eight seconds in Game two,
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  Speaker 2: then twelve minutes, followed by one minute. So Jared McCain,
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  Speaker 2: he played a little more than twenty three minutes total
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  Speaker 2: in a four game series. He barely saw the floor again,
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't in the rotation in the first round series.
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  Speaker 2: That guy, he scored eighteen points in eighteen minutes on
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night in Game two. Like, that's the kind of
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  Speaker 2: depth that Okac has, and without Luka Danchits. It's just
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  Speaker 2: it's a disaster. And stan Van Gundy he detailed it
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  Speaker 2: very well during the game and he just said, look,
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  Speaker 2: without Luca, without your point guard out there, the Lakers
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  Speaker 2: have to generate offense in other ways. It's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of movement, it's a lot of passes, which means a
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  Speaker 2: lot of turnovers, and that just goes right into what
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  Speaker 2: OKC does defensively. They turn you over and then they
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  Speaker 2: turn those live ball turnovers into points. OKAC scored twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven points off of twenty Laker turnovers. So it's just
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  Speaker 2: it's a complete mismatch. Where okay See struggles is from three,
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  Speaker 2: and the one thing that the Lakers are doing very
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  Speaker 2: well from three is just let Ruey Hotchimura shoot the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Guy was four for seven, shot the lights out again
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  Speaker 2: from three. This guy for the playoffs. So this is
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  Speaker 2: the six game series against the Rockets. The two games
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  Speaker 2: thus far against Oka, s Ruy Hatchimura is twenty four
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  Speaker 2: for forty two. He's shooting fifty seven percent by himself
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  Speaker 2: from three. That is outstanding. So that is the one
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  Speaker 2: place where the OKC thunder are vulnerable defensively is giving
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  Speaker 2: up three point shots and Rory has been really good.
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  Speaker 2: Hot Shimura has been lights out from distance. But it's
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  Speaker 2: just what it would take for the Lakers just to
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  Speaker 2: win a game. It's like, all right, Austin's gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to go off. Well, I mean, he scored thirty one
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  Speaker 2: points on sixteen shots. That's pretty good. You just look
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  Speaker 2: at Austin Reeves statline. Thirty one points on ten of
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  Speaker 2: sixteen shooting. He was three for six from distance. That's
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  Speaker 2: pretty freaking good. Now he had five turnovers. That's that's
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  Speaker 2: the problem. Man. It's if you go down the list,
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  Speaker 2: it's like Lebron three turnovers, Ruy Ruie. I always have
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  Speaker 2: a problem saying to that Ruey Haschimura to two turnovers.
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  Speaker 2: DeAndre Ayton, who I call the Dustbuster right on the glass,
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  Speaker 2: pretty good ten rebounds. I do that if I'm betting
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  Speaker 2: a DeAndre Ayton over rebounding total and he grabs a rebound.
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  Speaker 2: I've been watching the game by myself. I just go
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  Speaker 2: ing ing, Y's that's the sound of the Dustbuster getting
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  Speaker 2: a rebound. I have issues, but don't judge me. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's fun. It's a yeah, but dab but dude, time
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  Speaker 2: try it sometime The Dustbuster had ten rebounds but two turnovers.
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  Speaker 2: Even DeAndre Ayton found a way to turn it over twice.
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  Speaker 2: Maccas Smott had three turnovers. As I said before, Austin
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  Speaker 2: Reeves five turnovers. Everybody who got more than two minutes
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  Speaker 2: of playing time had at least one turnover. Luke Cannard
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  Speaker 2: is the only guy with over two minutes of playing
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  Speaker 2: time who did not have a turnover for the Lakers.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Everybody else had a turnover who played at
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  Speaker 2: least more than two minutes. That that's crazy, man. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a turnover fast. Twenty turnovers in one game is
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  Speaker 2: way too many. And okay, see, man, they just they
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  Speaker 2: do such a great job of it's so fast, right Like,
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  Speaker 2: there was one time where Austin Reeves drove to the
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  Speaker 2: bucket and lost his balance, lost his footing, was expecting
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  Speaker 2: some resistance and I can't remember if it was Chad
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  Speaker 2: or who was on him, and they just pulled the
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  Speaker 2: chair they did the old Rick Mahorn and Austin Reeves
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  Speaker 2: fell to the floor and it's just like, okay, see
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  Speaker 2: grabs the ball, pass pass easy bucket, you know, pass
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  Speaker 2: pass wide open three like those light ball turnovers aren't
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  Speaker 2: kill lures. So this is a rap. This has been
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  Speaker 2: a rap before it started. It was funny after the
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  Speaker 2: game because the Lakers had some words for the officiating
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  Speaker 2: crew led by Austin Reeves, the whole Lakers squad, it
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  Speaker 2: was Austin Reeves, it was Lebron, it was everybody. The
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  Speaker 2: whole Lakers squad surrounded the officiating crew and had some
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  Speaker 2: words for him. And you know, same old, same old
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  Speaker 2: SGA and the whistles into this and the that, and
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  Speaker 2: hey man, that's fine. You can try to play that game.
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  Speaker 2: It's not gonna make any difference whatsoever. Okay. See, he
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  Speaker 2: is just towering over the Lakers. Lakers are banged up,
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  Speaker 2: even if they were at full strength. This is a
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  Speaker 2: gentleman's sweep at most. So without Luca, this is sweep
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  Speaker 2: city all day, baby Like. This is just not a
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  Speaker 2: fair fight at all. And that's just what it is.
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  Speaker 2: As far as the other series, the Pistons were in action.
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  Speaker 2: They took down the Calves. So the Pistons have a
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  Speaker 2: two series lead. Okay, see as a two oh series lead,
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  Speaker 2: and we're having a lack of drama when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to the what would it be Thursday, back to Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: we get to Saturday. When we get to those days,
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  Speaker 2: the Pistons are taking care of business thus far. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: see taking care of business. But when I took away
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  Speaker 2: from the Pistons game against the Calves is James Harden
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  Speaker 2: has been a disaster. Okay, Now let's start off positively
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  Speaker 2: because it shouldn't just be about the beard faltering again.
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  Speaker 2: It should be a lot about the Pistons defense. They
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  Speaker 2: deserve a lot of credit. Man, their defense is fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: What the Pistons do is just they play with such
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  Speaker 2: force and with such strength. Defensively, they move well, they
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  Speaker 2: stick to their man, they rebound, they force turnovers. They're
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  Speaker 2: just good collectively. Defensively. They held Cleveland to ninety seven points,
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  Speaker 2: even though Spider Mitchell did his thing. Donovan Mitchell had
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  Speaker 2: a good game. Spider had thirty one points. Not incredibly efficient,
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  Speaker 2: but you'll take it. Eleven of twenty four, not bad
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  Speaker 2: at three ball, not really dropping he at two of nine,
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  Speaker 2: but thirty one points from Spider Mitchell. He had been
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  Speaker 2: absent from twenty five plus games for a while now,
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  Speaker 2: so to get over thirty you take that all day.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is James Harden, James Harden now DJ Khaled
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  Speaker 2: When he says and I love it another one. Normally
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  Speaker 2: it's a good thing, right, he means another hit song.
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  Speaker 2: When we say that about the Beard, it means something very,
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  Speaker 2: very bad. Another one for James Harden means he had
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  Speaker 2: another playoff game with more turnovers than made field goals.
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  Speaker 2: That's unacceptable, man. He did it again. He's done it
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  Speaker 2: in back to back games against Detroit. So on Thursday night,
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  Speaker 2: he had four turnovers and only three made field goals.
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  Speaker 2: He was three for thirteen from the field, oh for
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  Speaker 2: four from distance. It's the thirtieth time in James Harden's
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  Speaker 2: career He's had more turnovers than made field goals. That's awful.
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  Speaker 2: That's a that's beyond brutal, man. It just keeps happening
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  Speaker 2: and happening. It happened in game one. You would think
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  Speaker 2: that the Beard would be all right, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: gotta I gotta take care of the basketball. I gotta
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  Speaker 2: make some shots. You know. It happened the very next game. Again. Unbelievable, man,
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  Speaker 2: just unbelievable. And one of the other big storylines of
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  Speaker 2: this series was what Spider Mitchell had to say after
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  Speaker 2: game one, he's not getting the whistle and not getting
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  Speaker 2: to the free throw line. This is some of what
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  Speaker 2: he had to say after game one. I'll give you
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  Speaker 2: a stats from game two here. Here's what he said
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  Speaker 2: after the first game of the series.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you think individually into the free throw line
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  Speaker 3: as much as you had during the regular season.
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  Speaker 4: The free throw the SPA is not why we lost tonight.
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  Speaker 4: I want to make sure I say that, but I
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  Speaker 4: don't know. I'm trying to get downhill and a friend
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  Speaker 4: of mine got fine for talking about flop. So I'm
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  Speaker 4: not gonna try to double down. But I mean, like
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  Speaker 4: I feel like that's what I got to do at
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  Speaker 4: this point, you know what I mean. Like I'm just
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  Speaker 4: not getting the calls. I don't know why I don't flop.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe that's why it's frustrating a little bit. But because
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  Speaker 4: I'm such a dynamic driver, right like, I can't control that.
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  Speaker 4: So if I'm not gonna call for me, I gotta
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  Speaker 4: find a way to finish through that. But me getting
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  Speaker 4: to the basket's got to relate to something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So on Thursday night, in game two, he was
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  Speaker 2: seven for nine from the free throw line, So nine
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  Speaker 2: free throws. That's better is regular season averaged about six
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  Speaker 2: free throw attempts. Right, the regular season he averaged six
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  Speaker 2: point one free throw attempts. But like you said, he
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  Speaker 2: hadn't been getting to the free throw line, hadn't been
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  Speaker 2: getting the benefit of the doubt. The whistle was not
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  Speaker 2: favoring Spider Mitchell in the first game of the series
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  Speaker 2: or the first series of the playoffs against the Raptors.
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  Speaker 2: And man, it's sad, right, it really is sad to think. Man,
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  Speaker 2: even Spider Mitchell, he's not this big, bulky player, right,
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  Speaker 2: where sometimes if you've got mass like Lebron and players
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  Speaker 2: just kind of bounce off of you, you might not
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  Speaker 2: get the benefit of the doubt. You might not get
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  Speaker 2: the whistle from time to time. Spider Mitchell is a
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  Speaker 2: slender guy. He's a smaller guy, so it's not like
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  Speaker 2: he's just dump trucking through guys and he's the shack
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  Speaker 2: of guards and dudes are just bouncing off of him.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like that, so he should be getting these whistles.
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  Speaker 2: And it's sad. Man, it's sad to hear any player
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  Speaker 2: and he might be right say, yeah, I don't flop,
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  Speaker 2: I don't flop, so I'm not getting the benefit of
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  Speaker 2: the doubt. And I hate that players just the idea
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  Speaker 2: of you have to greatly accentuate contact and make it
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  Speaker 2: theatrical where you get you get a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: con you gotta fall to the floor like oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: sniper took me out, and then you might get a
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  Speaker 2: whistle that way. I hate that if it's a foul,
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  Speaker 2: call the foul right, Like, this isn't FOBA basketball. You
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  Speaker 2: watch Olympic basketball. It is physical. Man is beyond the
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  Speaker 2: NBA physical, like way different level. You have guards guarding
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  Speaker 2: big men because you can get away with so much physicality.
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  Speaker 2: That's not what the NBA is. That's not even what
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  Speaker 2: the NBA playoffs are. It's not on a feeble level.
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  Speaker 2: So if Donovan Mitchell drives down the lane and gets
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  Speaker 2: cracked pretty good, you gotta call it. And I hate
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  Speaker 2: that he's in a position where, at least in his mind,
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  Speaker 2: he thinks, man, I might have to beat theatrical and
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  Speaker 2: fall to the floor or act like I got hit
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  Speaker 2: by a ton of bricks and like oh and fall over.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I hate that any player has to
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  Speaker 2: think like that to get a call. So he listen,
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  Speaker 2: he got to the free throw line nine times, like
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  Speaker 2: I said in Game two, So maybe complaining publicly helped
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  Speaker 2: little bit and he'll get a little bit more of
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  Speaker 2: the whistle going forward. But in any event, it didn't
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  Speaker 2: work out for Cleveland, whistle or not, as they fell again.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what, man, clutch time, you got
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  Speaker 2: to give Detroit a lot of credit. It was another
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  Speaker 2: clutch situation. It was a three point game with five
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  Speaker 2: minutes to go and the Pistons had the lead and
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  Speaker 2: they held onto it win the game by ten points.
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  Speaker 2: Outscored the Calves in the fourth quarter twenty eight to
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  Speaker 2: twenty two. So thanks. Not looking great for the Calves
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  Speaker 2: and they are just untrustworthy. I think both teams in
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  Speaker 2: that series are untrustworthy. But the Pistons are playing with
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  Speaker 2: real confidence right now and the physicality that they have defensively.
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  Speaker 2: Even just you see a guy like like Duncan Robinson
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  Speaker 2: shooting the three. He was five for nine from distance.
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  Speaker 2: You could just tell he's aggressive. Man. He his confidence
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  Speaker 2: is growing. So as much as Detroit struggled in the
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  Speaker 2: first round against Orlando and they were trailing by what
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  Speaker 2: twenty four points at one point, against Orlando in game six,
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  Speaker 2: found a way to win that game, crushed him in
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  Speaker 2: Game seven, and all of a sudden, it's like they've
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  Speaker 2: got new life and they've got a different focus here.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll see series shifts to Cleveland. We'll see if
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  Speaker 2: they can take care of business over there at least
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  Speaker 2: get a split, or if if Cleveland can get back
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  Speaker 2: into this thing, get their offense humming at home, and
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  Speaker 2: if we take it, if it's two two, going back
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  Speaker 2: to Detroit could get interesting. But I just don't know
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  Speaker 2: how you trust this Cleveland team, man. They just don't
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  Speaker 2: play with the defensive focus, the force, the nastiness of Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: And when Cad Cunningham is doing this thing, I mean
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  Speaker 2: efficient twenty five points, ten assists, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 2: think I don't know. If Brent Barry was doing the
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  Speaker 2: game on Prime, but he was relaying a quote I
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  Speaker 2: can't remember who. It was, probably Bickerstaff who said it.
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  Speaker 2: Head coach said it, but he was like, he eats,
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  Speaker 2: Cad Cunningham eats without taking food off of anybody else's plate.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just a great way to put it, man,
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  Speaker 2: it absolutely is. But he's a special player. He absolutely
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  Speaker 2: is special and coupled with that defense at least against Cleveland,
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  Speaker 2: they got things humming right now? All right? Eight seven
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  Speaker 7: recently because you know, maybe something big happened, But I
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: still wear.
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: My Viking stuff, like for Justin Jefferson.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, you still rep the Jefferson jersey from
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: time to time, you know, rock out the purple. I
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: get it. So how about this Juwan Jennings former forty
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: nine ers wide receiver. He is now a Minnesota Vikings
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: wide receiver signs a deal one year worth up to
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: thirteen million dollars, and I like this, Right, he's gonna
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: be a number three receiver behind Justin Jefferson obviously and
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Jordan Addison. I like this addition third in Juwan, Right.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: That was the thing with the Niners, right, just throw
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: it to Juwan. He'll move the chains. He's a reliable receipt,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: you a great blocker. It's a good pickup for you guys. Honestly,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Like I do have an opinion on that too.
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: Like so Kevin O'Connell and the Vikings, he kind of
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: actually runs similar type of offenses to like the Shanahan
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: type offense, at least the passing like downs and like
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: play Now. I know they have Kyler Murray now and
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: you know their quarterbacks kind of rotating list here, but
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: they kind of run similar things that Juwan Jennings as
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: a three is actually kind of underrated. No one's really
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: gonna look at that, like, but the way that they're
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: setting up, you're right because they got you know, you
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: got Justin Jefferson, you got jets there, and you got Addison.
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: Now him as a three.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: Honestly, I kind of also view Jennings as maybe more
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: of like a insurance policy for Addison. Not that like
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: Addison's gonna leave, but you know, Addison kind of has
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: some problems here and there with some some some silliness.
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: I still love Addison, no't wrong, I love Addison, but I.
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: Think that's more of an insurance of, you know, if
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: he can't and I quote hold his water in certain
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: regards here in case, you know, he messes up again.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, It's what I would say is you
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: missed the show last night where I was basically the one,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: you know in a sea of Kyler Murray, just all
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Kyler Murray, Kyler, Kyler Murray, Kyler. I've never seen an
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: off season where one guy had been basically criticized for
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: seven straight years and then in one off season it's like, oh,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: you know, Kyler Murray with this offense, with this head coach, MI,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Kyler Murray could put up some real numbers. It's been
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: the off season of that, and I'm like, I got
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: to see it to believe it. I'm not gonna say
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: that he can't do it. He's certainly a talented player. Well,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: you haven't seen it for seven years I got to
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: see it with the Vikings to totally buy into it,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: and I did say, Patty, I'm going to close one
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: ear on this one. This could hurt a little bit.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: If we're looking at the top quarterbacks in the NFC North,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: if we're ranking the four guys, he is fourth of four. Yeah,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: now that's subject to change. He could put it together
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: and revive his career, and he could make magic with
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson on the field. Who knows. So it's it's
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: not set in stone, it's always gonna remain this way.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: But as of right now, he is number four of
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: four NFC North quarterbacks. He is not better than Caleb Williams.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: He's not better than Jordan Love. He's certainly not more
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: productive than Jared goff Is. He's the fourth guy right now,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: and until he puts it together, that's where he's gonna be.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: So I think it's a nice pickup. Yeah, for the
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Vikings and for Kyler Murray, But I just I don't
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: get the amount of positivity for Kyler Murray heading into
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: this thing. I get there's reason for optimism, but the
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: optimism was like the volume has been cranked up to
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: the max. In my opinion. I just don't get it.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I don't get it. That's that loud and people are
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: that excited about this.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: And honestly, I actually agree with you on this, Brian,
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: like and like and yes, like I'm in, you know,
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: eternal optimist unless when it comes to the Lakers here where.
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: I'm feeding him.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: But I tend to be more the you know, cautiously
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: optimistic type and all that stuff. Now Kyler Murray, yes,
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: now he is now my guy in Minnesota.
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: I know I will rep it. I didn't hate the move.
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: I didn't love it.
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: I didn't hate it just because I still wasn't technically
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: against McCarthy, but I thought Kyler Murtin like, no, it's fine.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: I for the for seven years. Again he's coming from
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: the NFC West, and yeah, right, I don't have to
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: go down the well of how I know him well
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: just because my other team, right, the Seahawks. But for
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: seven years, Brian, I was calling Kyler like a lot
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: of attention, a lot of upside. But honestly, when push
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: came to shove, he was and I quote mid you
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: know what I mean, Like now he's with you know,
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: change of scenery. We've seen it with Donald. We've seen
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: it just you know, we've seen it with Gino, with Donald,
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: We've seen it with so many of these quarterbacks. Like wow,
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: who knows? And Minnesota is very offensive minded. Kevin O'Connell
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: can definitely turn around. Cardinals also have pretty you know,
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: not great coaching. Now it's a new era, but he's
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: he's not there anymore. But like Cardinals didn't have the
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: greatest even Kingsbury wasn't the greatest head coach type stuff.
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: But like, it's just Minnesota could be that.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: I'm optimistic he's got a lot upside, but I wouldn't
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: be surprised if Kyler kind of looks okay, but again,
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: okay to me is still he's just mid that's just him,
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: you know what I mean?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's you know, he could very well. Look okay,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: you know it's one game plays really well, next game
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: it's like, what the hell was that, Kyler? What are
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: we doing right now? Yeah? Or he's banged up. He's
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: been banged up quite a bit of his career, So
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: can you remain upright? That's the first part of this.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: And can he revive his career and be very productive?
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: They can still be good, man, They could be still
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: good even if he's like let's just say mid and Okay,
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: they could still be a playoff team because I do
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: think Minnesota does have enough on the defensive side. If
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: especially Brian Flores running that defense, like they could probably
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: you know, push like a wild guard playoff typees in there.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: I know they got to deal with like the Lions
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: and the Packers and Bears. Oh my, but like like
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: they could still like if he's good enough even like
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: C plus average mid like Dak Prescott. I'm them throwing
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: shade at Cowboys here, But if Dak Prescott can can
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: kind of pour like the Cowboys into contention, Kyler Murray
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: does the same thing with a better defense, like, I
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: think that can happen there. I'll tell you what, man,
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: I love the Lions this season. I think it's the
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: resurgence of the Detroit Lions. I just think that was
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: a one off last season and they were nine to eight.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: They were a last place team and had a winning record.
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: That's a tough division, man, But I think the Lion's
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: gonna be a lot better this season. They've upgraded that
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: offensive line. That offensive line was pretty rough. I saw
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: a stat I don't know if I can grab it
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: for you on the fly. But it was something about
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: the Lions and how they're o line. I've been like, wow,
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: I didn't realize it was that bad. This is a bad,
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: bad formula. They're this leak.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Here you go. Detroit's offensive line they finished with the
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: second worst pass block win rate in the NFL last season,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: they were at fifty six percent. Think about that second
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: worst past block win rate. And you have Jared Goff
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: as your quarterback, who it's crazy. He can't move at all.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: He can't perform under pressure if there's a pass rush
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: in his face, that dude is a disaster. But you
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: know they upgraded the old line. You draft Blake Miller
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: seventeenth overall, first round pick. You've got nay Sewell going
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: over to that left side. So if that offensive line
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: is better, the trickle down effect is gonna be mammoth.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: And I just think from a scheduling standpoint, dude, last
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: year for the Lions it was Murderer's row. It was
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: crazy what they had to face, especially on the road.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Now you're facing a last place schedule. It's night and day.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: What it was and what it will be. It's crazy. Man,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: so I think the Lions are going to be really
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: really good. I do have a bet on the Lions
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: over ten and a half wins, and I also have
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: a parlay patty on the least.
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I have.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Them over ten and a half wins, and I hit
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know, like a week ago or so on
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Jalen Duran the Piston Center under twenty three and a
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: half points and rebounds in one of the games of
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: their first round series. So I only have to wait
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: about eight months to see if the Lions leg of
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: that parlay cash is. It is, like, you know, just
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: just a measly eight months. Oh yeah, wait, you know,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: no big deal.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: All the injuries or like, you know, something can drastically
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: good happen for good or bad.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it's just so you know, just settle in here.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: You know, you don't have to have instant gratification over here.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Sometimes the best things come to those who wait. Sure,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: so hopefully that'll be the case. We don't know the
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: exact order of these schedules. We will next week. NFL
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: schedule released for all these teams. But when I'm looking
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: at the Lions and who so they're facing the NFC
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: South and the AFC East. I think both of those
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: are advantageous. Right, if you're picking a division in the
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: NFC that you'd like to face top to bottom, it
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: have to be the NFC South, Right, what else would
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: you pick? Who's the juggernaut? The Panthers won that division,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: they had a losing record, Right, you'd absolutely pick the
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: NFC South and the AFC East. My Dolphins are brutal,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: the Jets are awful, right, the Patriots and Bills. So
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: that's the division. Those are the divisions that they face.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: And then it's the last place schedule. So they're hosting
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: the Giants, hosting the Titans. They're at the Arizona Cardinals.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Like listen to their road record, our road schedule. So
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: it's the three division teams at the Falcons, at the Panthers,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: at the Bills, at the Dolphins, at the Cardinals. That's
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: what the Lions are facing. Man, actual lightens up greatly.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: They won nine games playing a brutal schedule last season.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Now they play a much more favorable schedule. They're not
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: gonna win two more.
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: Games, come on, and now it is with a second
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: year of with Dan Campbell in charge of the offensive coordinator, stuff,
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: especially because it was kind of you know, with Ben
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: Johnson leaving going to the to the Bears.
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: So that that and the.
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: Old line, I'm sure we're like huge in kind of
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: stunting them kind of offensively. There also the O line
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: play has to be a lot better too.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, let me get out to the
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: phone here. Let's get to the militia, shall we. We
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: roll out the red carpet for you. Let's go to James.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: He's in Tacoma. He's got some thoughts for us. What's
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: going on? James?
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know you're a professional gambler and you talk
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: a lot about points spreads. Well, I'll tell you something
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: happened to the last football season I wish they would change,
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: and that was, there's a football game where the total
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: r washing yards was one hundred and eighty one and
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: a half. So I took over over one hundred, even
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: to one.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: And a half.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: Well, with too much to go in the game, the
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: team's already had a combined one hundred and eighty five
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: rucking yards. So here I'm thinking I won great passing
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: my ticket. Well, then we're too much to go in
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: the game. Both teams stay were way ahead by next
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: thirty some point. So the team that was ahead showed
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: great sportsmanship by simply taking the knee three times to
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: run out the clock, by taking the knee every time
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: you took a knee, first down between second and thirteen,
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: third down between third and one, So that one hundred
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: and eighty five rushing yards with two minuchs to go
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: end up being one hundred and seventy nine, which ended
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: up being less than one hundred and eighty one and
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: a half. Yeah, all by them taking the knee to
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: run out the klock. They need to change this.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: The joys of gambling right there, James. You know, it's
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: it's brutal, it's tough. It's funny because bet MGM. I've
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: got an account with them, and they're they're really good
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: about giving you your money right away. But what's bad
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: is that what you've detailed and if I've had running
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: backs that have gone over and the cash hits my
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: account and then whatever, they have a three yard loss
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: and they're no longer over, and then you get the
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: bet MGM email and it's so funny, it's so professional.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: It's like, sorry, that win that you thought you had
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: not so much anymore. You know I'm paraphrasing. It's a lot.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: It's a lot more professional than that. But yeah, man,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: it's the joys of gambling right there. You know, every
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: now and then it does go your way. I appreciate
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: the call, James. Good to hear from you, man. I
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: didn't know you could you could. I didn't know you
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: could even do that. Do the combined rushing yards for
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: both teams. I should have asked them which which teams
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: were playing in that game, but it's it's the worst.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know why they do that. What's weird is,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I'll say this real fast. I'll get back back out
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: to my guy Emmett wants to check in. But what's
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: weird is in the NFL, for quarterbacks, if they take
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: a knee, it's subtracted from that quarterback's rushing yardage. And
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: in college they will subtract sack yardage from the quarterback's
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: individual rushing yardage, which makes no sense. In college, they
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: also if the quarterback takes a knee, they don't subtract
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: that from the quarterback's rushing total, so it's completely backwards.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: It's so weird. I wish the NFL if a quarterback
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: takes a knee. I wish that would be more of
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: like a team rushing yardage thing than an individual rushing
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: yardage thing. I just think it doesn't make logical sense.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Even college doesn't take it away from the quarterback's individual
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: rushing yardage right there, and it's listen, it's so stupid.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: You want to be really annoyed. It's so stupid that
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks have their rushing yardage in college subtracted by sacks.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: A quarterback, let's say, I don't know, Taylor Green has
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: rushed for I don't know, fifty yards and you've got
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: him over forty five and a half. He drops back
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: to pass. Arkansas's losing, he takes a ten yard sack. Well,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: guess what he's down to forty yards rushing. Now, it's like,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: what he took a sack? That counts against me. He's like, yep,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: it does. It's so stupid. I don't know why college
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: does that, but I think they do have it right
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: when they don't subtract the you know, the the kneel
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: downs from the individual rushing total. It's it's so strange
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: how that works out between college and the NFL R
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: My guy Emmett is on with us. He's in Washington.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Blind?
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: EMMITTT my guy? How are things Brian?
• 32:51
  Speaker 9: No, I'm doing great. I just want to say we're
• 32:53
  Speaker 9: starting strong. Two Washington callers back to back, love to
• 32:55
  Speaker 9: see it.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: How are you doing, Brian?
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Pretty good man? Things are good. Yeah, things are fine. Everything.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: What's on your mind? Sports wise? What's burning on your
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: sports brain?
• 33:04
  Speaker 9: I know you got text, was gonna I was gonna
• 33:07
  Speaker 9: call and talk about the NBA playoffs, but you and
• 33:10
  Speaker 9: a Patty Sweek got to talking and I wanted to
• 33:14
  Speaker 9: come and kind of share this year I had about
• 33:16
  Speaker 9: the Vikings. So do you guys remember? And it's still
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: a conversation. I'm still kind of a believer in this
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: narrative that Kevin Stefanski, Viking's head coach, is a quarterback whisper.
• 33:26
  Speaker 9: So you bring in a guy like Kyler Murray, who
• 33:29
  Speaker 9: the past few years in Arizona, like you guys are saying,
• 33:31
  Speaker 9: there's been nothing but just atrocious.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Has not worked out.
• 33:34
  Speaker 9: But yes, the Cardinals are in a tough division, but
• 33:36
  Speaker 9: Kyler's play has looked awful.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: I don't think that's anything to do.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: With the division.
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: So here's what I'm thinking, all right, either this is
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: gonna work out and Kevin Stefanski is gonna look great again,
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: and you know what, this is gonna show that Jaj
• 33:51
  Speaker 9: McCarthy is trash.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: And if you're the Vikings need to move on from him.
• 33:54
  Speaker 9: And extend Kyler. That's best case scenario. But you know
• 33:57
  Speaker 9: what's gonna happen if Kyler Murray just place crappy and
• 34:01
  Speaker 9: it's the same old Arizona Kyler Murray, which I actually
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: think is highly unlikely.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: I like the signing.
• 34:06
  Speaker 9: I think that this is the most competence that he's
• 34:07
  Speaker 9: had in a long time, considering the defense, considering a
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: top five wide receiver in the league, and also Jordan Addison,
• 34:13
  Speaker 9: who's not a bad receiver in his.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Own means when he's not dealing with his legal issues.
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: So if this doesn't work out, then Kevin Stefanski just
• 34:21
  Speaker 9: had the craziest fluke of all time with Kirk Cousins
• 34:24
  Speaker 9: Sam Darnold, like the two games of Josh jobs that
• 34:27
  Speaker 9: we saw out of him. Like, that's kind of what
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: crossed my mind during that last segment there.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Brian, Yeah, man, listen, I mean, I always appreciate you
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: checking in, and I just think that. Look, Kevin O'Connell
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: definitely knows what he's doing. JJ McCarthy. One, he was
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: a daisy fresh rookie. That's part of this. But two
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: he at some point in the season JJ McCarthy had
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: made a number of starts and they were like, all right,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: we're starting back from you know, ground zero here, Like
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  Speaker 2: this dude's fundamentals are so bad. His footwork is so bad.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: This dude is totally overstriding and the ball is just
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: sailing because his footwork is so awful. Like JJ McCarthy
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  Speaker 2: didn't even have the basic things taken care of. And look,
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  Speaker 2: maybe he'll grow as time goes on. But the Vikings
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: are in a mode right now that JJ McCarthy is
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: not caught up with. The Vikings roster is really good.
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  Speaker 2: They won fourteen games the season prior to last. They're
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: in go for it mode and they're not in a
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: space where it's like, you know, the young kids taking
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: his lumps and he's learning on the job and then
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: maybe it would be a little bit better. They're not there.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: They're beyond that, so I can absolutely see why they're
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: moving on, And make no mistake, they're moving on like
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: it's just so funny. They can say whatever they want.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: The actions tell the full story. They hitch their wagon
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: the Kyler Murray, at least for twenty six. They also
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: picked up Carson Wentz in case Kyler gets banged up.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: And they don't even trust JJ McCarthy is a backup.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Right now, they can say all they won like, oh,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: JJ's cool with this. Look. Man, It's like if your
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: girl is like, no, you know, I'm with you. I'm
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: committed to you. I'm just gonna go with my girls
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: to Vegas for the weekend and you know we're gonna
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: go to the club every night and there might be
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: guys that are shirtless there, but I'm committed to you,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: and you know, maybe i'll take some selfies with it
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: after a while. You're just hearing this stuff, You're like,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: it doesn't sound like she could say she's committed all
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: she wants, but she's clearly not committed. That's what the vikings.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Their actions are telling you. They're not committed to JJ McCarthy,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: and they shouldn't be. He's just not advanced enough to
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: mesh with how advanced their roster is. It's a bad fit.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: You know, maybe he can take his lumps with the
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know the Arizona Cardinals or something like that.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: But it's not to be in Minnesota. Man, They're beyond that,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. That
• 37:05
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  Speaker 2: So Tyler Glass now Dodgers pitcher. He you might have
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: seen this on Wednesday, he struck out his one thousandth
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: career batter and became the fastest pitcher in MLB history
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  Speaker 2: to reach that milestone. So he did that in seven
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  Speaker 2: hundred and ninety three innings pitched. Now there is a
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  Speaker 2: man whose record he broke, and this happened pretty recently.
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  Speaker 2: Who reached one thousand strikeouts the fastest the least amount
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  Speaker 2: of innings in MLB history? Who am I? Who? Did
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Tyler Glass now break the record of when it comes
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: to the fastest strikeouts in MLB history in terms of
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: reaching that one thousand strikeout milestone? Get your answers in
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  Speaker 2: Big Ben Mahler. It is time for the who am I? Game?
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  Speaker 2: So Dodgers pitcher Tyler Glasnow on Wednesday, he reached the
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: one thousand strikeout milestone fastest in in m in MLB history.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: I've got NBA on the brain right here at fastest
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  Speaker 2: in MLB history. Seven hundred and ninety three innings pitched.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: That's all. That's how many innings it's took him to
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: reach one thousand strikeouts. So we've got five hundred and
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: seventy six pitchers in MLB history that have reached this
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: one thousand k milestone. Now we're looking for number two
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: on the list in terms of the quickest to reach
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  Speaker 2: one thousand strikeouts. So we're looking for the man whose
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: record Tyler glas Now broke. Who am I? So we've
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: got let's see here, Let's go through some of the tweets,
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: as I call him the feats. I like to go
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: with a V myself. I'm weird like that Late Night
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Drug tester says, you are. I can't pronounce that name.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: I don't even know how to say that one. Yeah,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: I should know it, probably, but I don't. Let's go
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: to Eck, he says Mike Musina. Okay, not bad guess
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: nine oh four? Race is Kevin Stefanski. I like that guess,
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: very good, one oh good one far out Dave props
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: to him, dine Bag Dre one of the best guitarists
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: of all time, Rip dime Man, good Paul by him.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: I like that one. Spoxwed says super Dave was his guest.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Analog Al goes with Justin Cooper. Very good guess right there.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: I don't think I can say JJ's guests. I'm guessing
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: probably not. I don't think so. Yeah and uh so
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: uh some good guesses, some pretty good guesses right there.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: We are looking for Freddie Peralta. How about that? So
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: he he got to the one thousand strikeout milestone last
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: year and it took him in his career eight hundred
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: and four innings and two and a third, right, so
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: a little bit more than eight hundred and four innings.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Tyler Glas Now he did it in seven ninety three.
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  Speaker 2: How about that? All right? Coming up next? If it
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  Speaker 2: ain't broke, why are we messing with this