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July 29, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 4: Happy hump day everyone.
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  Speaker 8: Caleb Rapley here filling in for Chip the final week
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  Speaker 8: of guest hosts here on Sports Talk alongside me, making
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  Speaker 8: his co host debut after making his show debut last week,
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  Speaker 8: we have mister Andrew Rapsilver.
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  Speaker 4: Andrew, thank you for being here today. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 9: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 10: I guess it's good news that after the first interview
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  Speaker 10: it didn't turn out to be my last invited me back,
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  Speaker 10: so I guess, yeah, that's an okay sign for sure.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 8: Andrew is the play by play man for the Bombers.
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  Speaker 8: Those of you who are loyal Zone listeners probably already
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  Speaker 8: knew that. You know, it's a little bit of an
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  Speaker 8: unfortunate result. Last night ended up up losing Game one
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  Speaker 8: of the semi final series to the Victoria Generals. We'll
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  Speaker 8: get into that a little later in the show. We've
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  Speaker 8: got a lot to talk about today. I think this is,
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  Speaker 8: you know, kind of that last week, the last week
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  Speaker 8: of June is always kind of the last full week
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  Speaker 8: of the off season before we really start getting into
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  Speaker 8: the full preseason mode for football. MLB trade deadline is
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  Speaker 8: on Monday. NBA off season has had a lot of moves,
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  Speaker 8: so we've got lots to talk about. And we're even
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  Speaker 8: going to talk everybody's favorite motorsport, NASCAR a little later
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  Speaker 8: in this hour, because you know, when I host, I
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  Speaker 8: talk about what I want to talk about. That's how
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  Speaker 8: it works when you get to guest hosts. So we're
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  Speaker 8: going to talk NASCAR, even though I might be the
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  Speaker 8: only person in this town that cares about it.
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  Speaker 9: Well, you'll have two today, Yeah, that'll work.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll start off with some headlines.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm sure that a lot of people have heard
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  Speaker 8: about this already, but I'm very excited about it. Tech
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  Speaker 8: am announcing that the Red, White, and Blue Game will
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  Speaker 8: return in honor of America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
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  Speaker 8: September twelfth. When the Aggies take on Arizona State in
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  Speaker 8: Week two, Kyle Field will be decked out in the
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  Speaker 8: American colors. Also the twenty fifth anniversary of September eleventh tragedies,
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  Speaker 8: which was the first Red White.
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  Speaker 4: And Blue Game.
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  Speaker 8: I think it was a couple of weeks after September
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  Speaker 8: eleventh that Texas A and M did that, and then
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  Speaker 8: in twenty twenty one they did it as well for
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  Speaker 8: the twentieth anniversary. So excited for that. I've never got
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  Speaker 8: I haven't didn't get to go to the one in
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  Speaker 8: twenty twenty one when they red white and blued it.
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  Speaker 4: So excited to be a part of the student section
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  Speaker 4: for that.
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  Speaker 6: One.
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  Speaker 8: Definitely recommend making your way to Kyle Field at some
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  Speaker 8: point this season, Andrew, you have any plans to go
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  Speaker 8: to any games.
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  Speaker 9: If it can be on the raidar, that'd be awesome.
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  Speaker 10: I think the Red, White and Blue game is certainly
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  Speaker 10: it's a unique spectacle.
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  Speaker 9: You know, everyone talks.
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  Speaker 10: About the main SEC games on the slate and on
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  Speaker 10: the schedule, and to be a part of those environments
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  Speaker 10: is certainly one thing. But such the special tradition that
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  Speaker 10: the the Red White and Blue game is and just
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  Speaker 10: to be a part of that, and there's a certain
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  Speaker 10: gravitas and specialness that that holds that's purely separated from
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  Speaker 10: the energy if say at Texas game or or LSU
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  Speaker 10: or Bama's coming to town, and I think that one
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  Speaker 10: that one to me, if you could get there to
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  Speaker 10: to see the Red, White and Blue game, I think
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  Speaker 10: that that holds a unique, it's touching, and it's it's
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  Speaker 10: also powerful. I think it's going to be very very
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  Speaker 10: cool to see that again. Yeah, absolutely, And I like that.
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  Speaker 8: You know, normally when we do these themed games, they're
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  Speaker 8: against you know, a top tier opponent or at least
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  Speaker 8: a night game, like last year when we did the blackout.
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  Speaker 4: Against Mississippi State. It wasn't Mississippi State was that good.
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  Speaker 8: It was that that was one of our only home
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  Speaker 8: games at night, which was unfortunate. But normally when we
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  Speaker 8: do those big you know, like throwback the throwback game
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  Speaker 8: last season against Florida, back when we thought Florida was good.
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  Speaker 8: That did end up turning out very well. But we
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  Speaker 8: do these theme nights on games that we think are
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  Speaker 8: going to be big games. But this is more about
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  Speaker 8: the theme than the game. So I like that. You know,
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  Speaker 8: Arizona State's no slouch. Don't get me wrong, right, it's not.
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  Speaker 8: It's not the game. It's not a game where everybody's
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  Speaker 8: going to be very excited and on edge for who
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  Speaker 8: the opponent is, so it can be more about what
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  Speaker 8: we're trying to the message we're trying to send here.
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  Speaker 4: So I do appreciate that.
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  Speaker 10: No, I absolutely agree with that, and I think that
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  Speaker 10: some of that's sort of a by design because how
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  Speaker 10: much more can you already hype up some of the
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  Speaker 10: big SEC games already? You know, if you throw the Red, White,
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  Speaker 10: and Blue game on top of that, well, there's already
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  Speaker 10: already a ton of energy there. Well why not put
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  Speaker 10: it in one of the early non conference games and
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  Speaker 10: then there you go. Now every game has.
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  Speaker 9: Has its specialness absolutely.
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  Speaker 8: Texas A and M men's basketball has finally released their
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  Speaker 8: full schedule for the twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven season.
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  Speaker 8: We already had the non conference last week and then
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  Speaker 8: I think it was earlier today that they released the
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  Speaker 8: full SEC schedule. So some big home games. The first
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  Speaker 8: SEC game of the season will be January second Atried
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  Speaker 8: Arena here in College Station against the Auburn Tigers. Then
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  Speaker 8: back to back road games Missouri South Carolina. But the
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  Speaker 8: main the two main games after that SEC opener February
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  Speaker 8: sixteenth or seventeenth. It's a flex game, but it will
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  Speaker 8: be on the road in Austin against the Texas Longhorns.
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  Speaker 8: And then the final regular season game of the season
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  Speaker 8: four the Aggies will be at home in Ried Arena,
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  Speaker 8: against Texas, So I do like that, you know, we're
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  Speaker 8: kind of bringing a similar to college football, like a
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  Speaker 8: rivalry week aspects to this schedule. Getting to in the
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  Speaker 8: SEC season against Texas can either be, you know, it
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  Speaker 8: could be good or bad. It could end up being
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  Speaker 8: a lot of positive momentum from beating your most hated rival,
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  Speaker 8: or it could be you know, going into the postseason
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  Speaker 8: hungary after a loss. So I think either way it's
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  Speaker 8: it's gonna help help the team to go into the
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  Speaker 8: SEC tournament strong. But I'm really excited for AGIY basketball
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  Speaker 8: this year.
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  Speaker 10: I think the you talk about the rivalry week aspect
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  Speaker 10: to it, it does carry that extra strength, like right
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  Speaker 10: before you go into SEC tournament week, so it gives
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  Speaker 10: those last few games trying to finalize where you're going
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  Speaker 10: to be going into the tournament, it does give that
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  Speaker 10: that extra notion to it. I think the SEC Tournament
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  Speaker 10: in the SEC season in general, we've seen it not
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  Speaker 10: only in basketball but with NCAA baseball of course this year.
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  Speaker 10: But people sometimes forget, not all the time, but SEC
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  Speaker 10: is not just football. They're dominant in throughout the other
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  Speaker 10: sports as well, throughout the winner and spring, and I
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  Speaker 10: do anticipate the SEC STONE to be a very competitive
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  Speaker 10: basketball conference as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 8: I mean the national Championship, the national champions from a
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  Speaker 8: couple of years ago. Florida Gators, Alabama LSU are always
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  Speaker 8: really solid teams, and we do get Florida on the
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  Speaker 8: road unfortunately, so that's gonna be a really tough matchup.
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited for.
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  Speaker 8: You know, this week, we're gonna get a little bit
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  Speaker 8: of a taste of this Aggie basketball team. Monday through Wednesday,
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  Speaker 8: they will be in the Bahamas for the Baja mar
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  Speaker 8: Hoops Summer League that will be playing three games, two
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  Speaker 8: universities from Canada and then a professional team from Columbia,
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  Speaker 8: University of Victoria, Carlton University, and then Toros del Val.
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  Speaker 8: So that should be really interesting. We haven't seen I
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  Speaker 8: don't think Buzz Williams ever had his had the Aggies
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  Speaker 8: go out and do something like this during his tenure.
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  Speaker 8: But year two of Bucky, he's made it very clear
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  Speaker 8: that he's going to do things his way and I'm
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  Speaker 8: excited that we get to see, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 8: a preview of this team months before the season starts.
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  Speaker 10: I think that's a really exciting piece to it because
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  Speaker 10: you sort of I mean, I know, I understand the situations.
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  Speaker 9: I know, like you mentioned the new.
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  Speaker 10: Teams from Canada or wherever they're gonna be, whoever it's
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  Speaker 10: gonna be playing against them, It's it's not gonna be
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  Speaker 10: a be all end all of what things are gonna
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  Speaker 10: look like. It's not gonna be the same speed and pace.
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  Speaker 10: But just to get some of these guys on the
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  Speaker 10: same court and see some of the new additions or
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  Speaker 10: after some of the departures, what things are going to
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  Speaker 10: look like. Who's going to be sort of running the show?
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  Speaker 10: How does it sort of mesh in those couple of
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  Speaker 10: games and just give you and for mental sake, sort
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  Speaker 10: of the fix you need. Because we still got a
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  Speaker 10: few months until college basketball really gets going, and you
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  Speaker 10: have the non conference games in November December, then things
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  Speaker 10: really start to heat up after the new year.
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  Speaker 8: Right excited to see Mackenzie Imbaco finally hopefully fully healthy
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  Speaker 8: in Aggie uniform. That didn't really get to see that
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  Speaker 8: this past season, only played seven games before he ended
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  Speaker 8: up having that season ending injury. So excited to see
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  Speaker 8: him play at full strength. PJ Haggerty, how much is
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  Speaker 8: he going to be I'll be interested to see how
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  Speaker 8: much Haggardy is the point guard and like the main
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  Speaker 8: ball handler, or if they end up using him as
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  Speaker 8: more of a wing one of those you know, sit
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  Speaker 8: in the corner and shoot kind of guys. So there's
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  Speaker 8: a lot of different options. Really excited to see Bucky
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  Speaker 8: ball this year, but still a couple months before we
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  Speaker 8: get into the swing of things. Some recruiting news. Running
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  Speaker 8: back prospect in the twenty twenty seven class, Landon Williams Callus,
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  Speaker 8: will announce his commitment on Saturday. So this is a
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  Speaker 8: running back that's had a lot of hype over the
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  Speaker 8: last few months. He's rushed for over seven thousand yards
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  Speaker 8: and one hundred and thirty three touchdowns in his three
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  Speaker 8: high school seasons. The teams he will be choosing between
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  Speaker 8: on Saturday are Houston, Missouri, SMU, Texas and Texas A
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  Speaker 8: and m uh. This would be a really big, really
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  Speaker 8: big get for the Aggies that they can pull it off.
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  Speaker 8: I think he is projected to go to the Longhorns
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  Speaker 8: is everything that I've seen. But you know, if you've
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  Speaker 8: been paying attention to recruiting on social media, there has
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  Speaker 8: been a lot of current AGGI players and recruits, you know,
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  Speaker 8: tagging him in posts, and I've just I love that
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  Speaker 8: our recruits that we have signed are now doing our
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  Speaker 8: recruiting for us.
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  Speaker 4: That's always a really good sign of the culture.
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  Speaker 11: Isn't that.
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  Speaker 10: Isn't that something where you start to get close to
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  Speaker 10: that decision and then you start looking at the social
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  Speaker 10: media game of who's following who, who's unfollowed who, who's
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  Speaker 10: tagging who in posts? And then it just sends you
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  Speaker 10: sends you in a whirlwind sort of in that last
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  Speaker 10: week to think what does this mean? You start to
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  Speaker 10: analyze every every move that way. I graduated through the
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  Speaker 10: University of Houston school. So if he took a veer
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  Speaker 10: veering path and turned down I ten and decided, last minute,
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  Speaker 10: let's let's go be let's go be a cougar, I
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  Speaker 10: wouldn't hate it. But it's certainly I do think some
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  Speaker 10: of like you know, the recruiting going on from you know,
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  Speaker 10: some of the players as well. I think some of
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  Speaker 10: that does make an impact, more sure, more than more
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  Speaker 10: than you could imagine. So it's it's gonna be it's
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  Speaker 10: gonna be interesting. These uh, these decisions always sometimes can
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  Speaker 10: come down to something you said just like that, or
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  Speaker 10: simply enough. Sometimes even the night before where you're like
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  Speaker 10: you're gonna have that decision and it's just wrestling with
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  Speaker 10: you and then you wake. Sometimes it comes really down
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  Speaker 10: to that last minute. So it'll be exciting to see.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I remember when I was a kid, I really
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  Speaker 8: loved reading the the Tim Tebow book where he wrote about,
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  Speaker 8: you know, pretty much his whole childhood and his college
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  Speaker 8: years and when he was his writing about his recruiting
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  Speaker 8: decision between Florida and Alabama was just very interesting from
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  Speaker 8: his point of view. But again, that will be this Saturday,
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  Speaker 8: August first, that Williams Callous announces his recruitment. Let's see
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  Speaker 8: if Michael CoA can bring bring in another big one.
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  Speaker 8: Uh MLB news Unfortunately, acquired infielder Curtis Mead of the
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  Speaker 8: Boston Red Sox will be heading to the ten day
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  Speaker 8: injured list with a broken wrist. The Red Sox traded
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  Speaker 8: a left handed starter, Connelly early to Washington just three
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  Speaker 8: days ago, and that's a that's a pitcher that has
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  Speaker 8: a lot of major league control left. And they got
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  Speaker 8: Curtis Mead and helped in hopes of improving their infield
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  Speaker 8: offense and immediately gets hit in the wrist by a
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  Speaker 8: pitch and we'll be out for a few weeks, maybe
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  Speaker 8: a month, depends on the severity of an injury. But
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  Speaker 8: this that's just a tough break for the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 8: One more MLB note before we get to our first break.
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  Speaker 8: Brayden Shoemak, former Texas A and M baseball player, former
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  Speaker 8: Houston Astro and you know, many other teams as well.
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  Speaker 8: He has elected free agency after being dfade and sent
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  Speaker 8: to the Miners by the Brewers. So back on the market,
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  Speaker 8: and I would love for the Astros to, you know,
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  Speaker 8: give them a minor league deal, bring them back, bring
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  Speaker 8: him back home.
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  Speaker 10: What does it hurt? What is it hurts? That's my
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  Speaker 10: opinion on that. What's just it doesn't hurt anything.
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  Speaker 4: To give it a try.
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  Speaker 8: When it's a guy like this, that's you know, a
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  Speaker 8: hometown kid, it's gonna be a good story regardless of
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  Speaker 8: how he performs. And he was I mean, he wasn't amazing.
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  Speaker 8: He wasn't a great hitter for the Astros, and I
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  Speaker 8: think it was about thirty games that he's played for
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  Speaker 8: us this season. But he's a very solid defender. He's
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  Speaker 8: very versatile, and he's never really gotten a bunch of
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  Speaker 8: run at the major league level, So I would love
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  Speaker 8: for them to bring him back, stick him in Triple A.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe maybe he'll find something. But he was out of options,
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  Speaker 8: which means that he had to go through waivers before
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  Speaker 8: he could be sent to the Miners, cleared waivers, nobody
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  Speaker 8: wanted him, and then he elected free agency.
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  Speaker 4: So no longer a Milwaukee Brewer.
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  Speaker 8: I think that's like his fifth major league organization and
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  Speaker 8: probably like his fourth of this season the Yankees or
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  Speaker 8: third of this season.
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  Speaker 4: The Yankees had.
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  Speaker 8: Him in February and then we traded for him the
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  Speaker 8: Astros did, and then we traded him to the Brewers
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  Speaker 8: for cash, and now he's back on the market. So
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  Speaker 8: good luck, Braden Shoemaker. We hope you come back home
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  Speaker 8: to Houston. And with that, we were going to take
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  Speaker 8: our first break of the show. When we come back,
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  Speaker 8: we're going to dive in to the Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 8: Cale Rapley here filling in for Chip alongside Andrew Rapsilver,
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  Speaker 8: and it's time to get into MLB Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 8: And we did have some inductees this year. For those
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  Speaker 8: of you who don't know how the Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 8: voting works, there are I'm not exactly sure how many
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  Speaker 8: writers' ballots, four.
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  Speaker 4: Hundred and twenty five. Okay, never mind, I just found it,
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  Speaker 4: four hundred and twenty five.
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  Speaker 8: Baseball writers get a vote and a player has to
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  Speaker 8: obtain at least seventy five percent.
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  Speaker 4: Of the vote.
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  Speaker 8: So player has to be on at least seventy five
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  Speaker 8: percent of voters ballots to make the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 8: Each voter, I believe, gets ten players that they can
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  Speaker 8: put on the ballot, but they don't have to name ten.
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  Speaker 8: They can just do two if they want to. So
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  Speaker 8: it's not a it's not like hall. It's not like
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  Speaker 8: All Star voting where you have to have a certain
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  Speaker 8: number every year. It could feasibly be that there are
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  Speaker 8: no inductees in a year, but this year we had three.
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  Speaker 8: Two through the normal system. Carlos Beltran got eighty four
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  Speaker 8: point two percent of the vote. This was his fourth
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  Speaker 8: year on the ballot, and in his ninth year on
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  Speaker 8: the ballot, Andrew Jones obtained seventy eight point four percent
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  Speaker 8: of the vote.
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  Speaker 4: I'm naming the years that they have been on the.
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  Speaker 8: Ballot because if you're on the ballot for ten years
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  Speaker 8: and you don't get elected, you drop off the ballot.
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  Speaker 8: There was one name that was in his tenth year
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  Speaker 8: only got thirty eight point eight percent of the vote,
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  Speaker 8: Manny Ramirez. And we can get into why we think
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  Speaker 8: that may have not been the right decision, but real quick.
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  Speaker 8: The third and final inductee this season, which was added
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  Speaker 8: in by a committee, the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Jeff Kent,
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  Speaker 8: father of former Texas A and M infielder Caden Kent
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  Speaker 8: and also a former Houston Astro MVP with the Los
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  Speaker 8: Angeles Dodgers.
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  Speaker 4: I believe was who's playing forty one? That or no,
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  Speaker 4: that was the Giants.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry, it's confusing when guys play for the same team
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  Speaker 8: or two teams in the same division. But so three
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  Speaker 8: inductees into the Hall of Fame this year, Carlos Beltran,
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  Speaker 8: Andrew Jones, Jeff Kent, Andrew do you think that they
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  Speaker 8: made at the right decision.
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  Speaker 10: I don't. I don't think any one of those three
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  Speaker 10: that they selected to make the Hall of Fame wasn't worthy.
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  Speaker 10: I thought they were all certainly worthy. I think, of course,
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  Speaker 10: the one that the thing that stuck out to me
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  Speaker 10: most as the headline, more so than these three guys
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  Speaker 10: getting in, was that, Okay, so you're ten pasted and.
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  Speaker 9: It wasn't much of a surprise.
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  Speaker 10: But you look at the career in life of Manny
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  Speaker 10: Ramirez and no Hall of Fame, and I the MLB
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  Speaker 10: is certainly it's a unique structure, to say the least,
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  Speaker 10: when it comes to the Hall of Fame. Right, given
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  Speaker 10: that it's ten years and you're done, some of the ballots,
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  Speaker 10: like you mentioned, they could go and not have a
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  Speaker 10: Hall of Fame class. Theoretically in a year if not
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  Speaker 10: a player gets seventy five percent votes, I think that's
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  Speaker 10: kind of ridiculous. I think I don't know how you
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  Speaker 10: go in a whole year without one that's even a possibility.
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  Speaker 10: But you look at me, any Ramirez, it was a
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  Speaker 10: twelve time All Star, nine times Silver Slugger, five hundred
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  Speaker 10: and fifty five home runs, but in the playoffs, leads
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  Speaker 10: and home runs and RBIs in history, twenty nine home runs,
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  Speaker 10: seventy eight RBIs, it's the most of the postseason. But
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  Speaker 10: performance enhancing drugs suspension fifty games in two thousand and
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  Speaker 10: nine and then one hundred games suspension which was his
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  Speaker 10: second offense in twenty eleven. He retired before that whole
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  Speaker 10: thing went into effect, and that was it. So I
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  Speaker 10: look at two thousand and nine in twenty eleven, I'm like, Okay,
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  Speaker 10: by the letter of the law, he did have those
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  Speaker 10: performance enhancing drugs and was suspended and paid the punishment
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  Speaker 10: for that. Right, you look at that, and that did.
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  Speaker 9: Not impact the twenty nine home runs and seventy eight RBIs.
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  Speaker 10: We could say, well, Andrew, well, he may have been
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  Speaker 10: using performance enhancing drugs his entire career, but.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know that.
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  Speaker 10: Keywords may have been, yeah, you can't base everything in
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  Speaker 10: life off of maybe. So that's where you lose me.
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  Speaker 10: That's where you kind of lose me. If you're gonna
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  Speaker 10: judge the entire career off of one suspension for one
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  Speaker 10: finding by the letter.
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  Speaker 9: Of the law. That's that's kind of where I struggle with.
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  Speaker 10: But but to the guys that made it, it's it's,
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  Speaker 10: you know, one of the things that's crazy, Like Beltran.
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  Speaker 10: You know, we're already at the stage where okay, he's
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  Speaker 10: he's retired, been long enough retired to where he can
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  Speaker 10: make the Hall of Fame. It's sort of the I know,
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  Speaker 10: we were the what stage in life were we and
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  Speaker 10: now we're we I thought we were watching these players
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  Speaker 10: and now they're now they're in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 10: And you know, I always seem to remember Carlos Beltran.
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  Speaker 10: My memories of it is he's an astro. But he
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  Speaker 10: was only there two years, four and seven. Yeah, so,
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  Speaker 10: which which is crazy enough, played the Mets, Yankees, Giants
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  Speaker 10: cards as well, and twenty seven hundred hits, four under
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  Speaker 10: thirty five home runs, nine time All Star, you know,
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  Speaker 10: won the World Series in twenty seventeen, and the whole
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  Speaker 10: story behind that. But very worthy. I was really excited
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  Speaker 10: to see see Beltran get in.
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  Speaker 8: So an interesting thing about Beltran. You mentioned it was
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  Speaker 8: his fourth year on the ballot. It's strange to me
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  Speaker 8: that his first year on the ballot was twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 8: so this is three years removed from the scandal about
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  Speaker 8: the astros cheating scandal coming out, and you know, originally
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  Speaker 8: he was made to look like the mastermind of it,
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  Speaker 8: which I think there was some truth to that, but
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  Speaker 8: it wasn't solely on him. So it's I find it
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  Speaker 8: funny that even though there are people that still talk
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  Speaker 8: about the astros cheating, that he did get in in
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  Speaker 8: his fourth year. Last year he was very close to
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  Speaker 8: the threshold. He had seventy point three percent of the vote,
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  Speaker 8: and then this year he does make it in with
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  Speaker 8: the most vote of any of the two that were inducted.
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  Speaker 8: This year, he had more percentage than Andrew Jones. So
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  Speaker 8: he's also one of those guys that I don't really
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  Speaker 8: know if I associate him with just one team, because
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  Speaker 8: he never really had a long enough stint with a
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  Speaker 8: team to do that. I mean, I would probably say
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  Speaker 8: the Mets if I had to. Yeah, that was right
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  Speaker 8: when I was getting into baseball, was when he was
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  Speaker 8: in his prime with New York. So I think I
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  Speaker 8: would probably say the Mets. But I know a lot
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  Speaker 8: of people would say the Royals, the team he started with,
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  Speaker 8: he started his career with, and then I think the
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  Speaker 8: younger baseball fan most likely associates him with the Astros
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  Speaker 8: cheating scandal. So it's interesting how that can happen with
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: some players, even when they are Hall of famers, they
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  Speaker 8: still bounce around to a lot of different teams. He
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  Speaker 8: ended up playing for seven different organizations in his career.
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  Speaker 10: Do you know what strikes me though, is amazing because
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  Speaker 10: you bring up the cheating scandal and everything that he
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  Speaker 10: gets in in year four and so what's the argument
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  Speaker 10: of putting in him in year four, Well, that was
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  Speaker 10: just one year as the last year of his career.
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  Speaker 10: Well you look at Manny Ramirez exactly, or Pete Rose, right,
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  Speaker 10: so you look at because Ramirez was twenty eleven, the
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  Speaker 10: first suspension was nine, okay, so you have Beltran, Well,
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  Speaker 10: twenty seventeen, that was just one year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he could have still did it.
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  Speaker 8: He could have been using technology to still size four
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  Speaker 8: years ago.
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  Speaker 10: So if we're gonna go off of the maybe principle,
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  Speaker 10: that's and that's where you know, it's up to the
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  Speaker 10: criteria of the journalists of what they deem morally responsible
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  Speaker 10: in the history of baseball, and that's where you certainly
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  Speaker 10: have interesting decisions.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder how hoziel Twov is going to be treated
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  Speaker 4: when he's up for Hall of Fame election.
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  Speaker 9: I think it would be it would be criminal if
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  Speaker 9: he did not make it.
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  Speaker 4: I agree, but I.
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  Speaker 8: Do think it might end up being kind of like Beltran,
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  Speaker 8: where he's on there for a few years.
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  Speaker 10: It may it's not gonna be first year, but but
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  Speaker 10: I think if you look at twenty seventeen, everything comes
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  Speaker 10: out in twenty twenty and twenty twenty was a shortened season.
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  Speaker 10: But had there just been this massive falloff and al
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  Speaker 10: tuo ve struggle to hit two hundred, then people would
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  Speaker 10: start wondering, well, has he just is that why he
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  Speaker 10: was always so good?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 10: No, he's turned it around and done just fine. The
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  Speaker 10: World Series champion twenty twenty two. You know, HiT's very
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  Speaker 10: close to three hundred most every season he's he's been
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  Speaker 10: just fine. I think he's, you know, just about one
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  Speaker 10: everything there is to win, and so I to me,
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  Speaker 10: I think post scandal, there's been enough to to say otherwise.
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  Speaker 10: I do agree with you wholeheartedly, though it probably will
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  Speaker 10: take four years or five years for the journalist to
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  Speaker 10: finally make Okay, you know what, let's he deserves this
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  Speaker 10: and he does. I think I think at this point,
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  Speaker 10: if he stopped right now, you hang his number in
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  Speaker 10: the rafters, he should be it's and he's Hall of Famer.
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  Speaker 10: That's if he stopped now. So he still could potentially
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  Speaker 10: go on in the remainder of his contract. If he
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  Speaker 10: goes on quite a run, could get three thousand hits
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  Speaker 10: before this is all said and done.
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  Speaker 9: You don't leave a guy like that out. That's just
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  Speaker 9: that's just bite. I know, I know, I know we're
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  Speaker 9: a little bit homer on that, but I think I
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  Speaker 9: don't know. I don't see.
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  Speaker 10: I don't see a world in which you leave him out.
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  Speaker 10: But we're also living in a world that Manny Ramirez
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  Speaker 10: is not in the Hall of Fame. So I really
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  Speaker 10: don't know.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if Altuve gets to
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  Speaker 8: three thousand, because he's thirty six years old. He's sitting
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  Speaker 8: at twenty twenty four hundred and sixty four hits in
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  Speaker 8: his career, so he's probably gonna have to play at
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  Speaker 8: least three or four more seasons to get to three thousand,
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  Speaker 8: assuming you know, he can keep like a two fifty
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  Speaker 8: batting average or so, and this year he's hitting a
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  Speaker 8: if you don't count the COVID year, which I don't
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  Speaker 8: think should be counted, just because of all the things
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  Speaker 8: that were going on with that. This is his career
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  Speaker 8: low of batting average by kind of a lot. So
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  Speaker 8: he's definitely on the decline. But he's also thirty six
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  Speaker 8: years old.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't have anything to do with It's just I
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  Speaker 4: really just like that. Yeah, it's life.
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  Speaker 8: Some some guys have, you know, a little bit of
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  Speaker 8: a resurgence when they get into their late thirties, but
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  Speaker 8: it's not looking like that's gonna be what happens with Altuve,
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  Speaker 8: which is is fine. You know, you judge players the
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  Speaker 8: greatness of play. Doesn't always have to be judged on
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  Speaker 8: their longevity. A lot of times you can it's just
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  Speaker 8: off of their peak. Oh yeah, And I think Andrew Jones,
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  Speaker 8: who was inducted this year, is a perfect example of
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  Speaker 8: that because he had one of the greatest peaks of
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  Speaker 8: all time from about probably ninety nine to two thousand
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  Speaker 8: and six, one of one of the best peaks of
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  Speaker 8: all time, and then he kind of fell off after that.
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  Speaker 8: But it's okay, because during those you know, seven seasons,
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  Speaker 8: he was one of, if not the greatest center fielder
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  Speaker 8: in Major League Baseball for each of those seasons, not
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  Speaker 8: just offensively but also defensively.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: And I think it's if you factor like the late
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  Speaker 10: years towards retirement or the very like the rookie seasons
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  Speaker 10: and start to throw it as a discredit.
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  Speaker 9: I sort of find that a little irresponsible. Like Troy
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: Aikman started.
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  Speaker 10: One in fifteen his first year, you know, goes on
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  Speaker 10: to win three Super Bowls, that kind of thing. You know,
• 27:58
  Speaker 10: some people come hot out of the game. Some people
• 28:02
  Speaker 10: go right into their into retirement age. You look at
• 28:05
  Speaker 10: Tom Brady playing in his forties. Yeah, and that last
• 28:09
  Speaker 10: season was iffy, but he won a Super Bowl the
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  Speaker 10: year before, right at the end. So some people come
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  Speaker 10: out of the gate hot, some people even in the
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  Speaker 10: gate hot.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, you've got.
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  Speaker 10: To look at the whole body of work presented over
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  Speaker 10: most of these guys a decade and a half to
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  Speaker 10: two decades.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I agree, And we'd be remiss if we didn't
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: dive into a little bit the career of the only
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  Speaker 8: of these three Hall of Fame inductees to ever win
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  Speaker 8: a Most Valuable Player award, which is also insane. Amazed
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  Speaker 8: Jeff Kent, who did not get elected during his normal
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  Speaker 8: time on the ballot.
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  Speaker 4: He had to go through the.
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  Speaker 8: Committee to get into the Hall. But I think he's
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  Speaker 8: very deserving. Excited to see him get his roses.
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  Speaker 4: I think he has the.
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  Speaker 8: Most homers from the second base position, I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 8: is the stat that probably carried him through the committee
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  Speaker 8: into the Hall.
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  Speaker 10: Three point fifty one out of his three seventy seven
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  Speaker 10: were as a second basement. And then something that no
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  Speaker 10: one's going to care about, no one's going to look at,
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  Speaker 10: but he was eighth, He's eighth in league history and
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  Speaker 10: putouts in fourth in league history in double places.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I knew that, So, I mean.
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  Speaker 9: That's part of the job as well.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, so you know, you talk about the defensive position there,
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  Speaker 10: so I think that's you know, five time All Star,
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  Speaker 10: and then you talk about twelve twelve seasons of twenty
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  Speaker 10: plus home runs as well, the longevity and consistency. Again,
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  Speaker 10: like we talked about from the top of the segment,
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  Speaker 10: I think each one of those three is more than
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  Speaker 10: deserving to get into and you know, we we brought
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  Speaker 10: up Manny Ramirez a lot. I don't want to shy
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  Speaker 10: away from what this means for Kent, Beltrannon and Jones,
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  Speaker 10: because those three guys, I mean, very very well deserving
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  Speaker 10: and got their flowers. And I think about the Jeff
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  Speaker 10: Kent walk off into the Crawford boxes and believe that
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  Speaker 10: was was it four or four oh five? I'm not
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: near the slips four yeah, and that helmet flip coming
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  Speaker 10: around third and I you know, that's when you see
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  Speaker 10: him going to Cooperstown. That's the first thing I think of.
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  Speaker 10: And it's just really good for each one of these three.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely, So Manny Mumirez was the first one that we
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: noted that didn't make the cut. And I will say
• 30:18
  Speaker 8: that I think if you don't, if you don't bring
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: in Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens into the Hall, I
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: don't think you can bring in Manny. Yeah, just because
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: I feel like, if you do one, you have to
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  Speaker 8: do them all. Personally. I think if the Hall of
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: Fame is about the history of baseball, then you should
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: bring them all. Because Barry Bonds is the greatest hitter
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: of all time statistically. Yes, I know he did steroids
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: performance enhancing drugs, but I think I don't. I mean,
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: I don't think any of this has been proven, but
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: I'm pretty sure it was just mostly the end of
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  Speaker 8: his career that was pretty much it. So before that,
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: he was still one of the best pure hitters of
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: all time. So if he never does steroids, I still
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: think Barry Bonds is one of is a Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 8: Like he wouldn't have these inflated home run numbers, sure,
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: but he would still be one of the greatest hitters
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  Speaker 8: of all time because to hit over three hundred for
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  Speaker 8: years on years on years, you still have to have
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  Speaker 8: an innate gift to hit the baseball.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, can we just mention that for a guy like
• 31:16
  Speaker 10: Barry Bonds or even Manny Ramirez, where if you just
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: exclude and put a zero for all of the stats
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  Speaker 10: in those years of suspension or like him in that area,
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  Speaker 10: there's still probably at or above the guys that made
• 31:29
  Speaker 10: the Hall and Kent, Beltran and Jones. Like the home
• 31:32
  Speaker 10: run totals, if you exclude so many years of Barry
• 31:36
  Speaker 10: Bonds' career, he's still going to have several hundred. So
• 31:41
  Speaker 10: I do totally agree with you, though, why Manny Ramirez
• 31:45
  Speaker 10: not getting in you've already dug in the hole or sorry,
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: you already dug the hole of not putting in Flemens
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: and not putting in Bonds. So the Riders have and
• 31:57
  Speaker 10: again with the ten year limit of you're no longer
• 32:01
  Speaker 10: eligible on the ballot, which I don't really like either,
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  Speaker 10: where it's ten years and that's it, and then the rest,
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  Speaker 10: you know, they do have the committees now, yeah, which
• 32:11
  Speaker 10: is to bring good get back to you know, take
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  Speaker 10: a look back and it's kind of like an audit
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  Speaker 10: almost of the past of the past ballots.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, and that's fine.
• 32:20
  Speaker 10: I don't it didn't even need to get there, I
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: don't believe, but it's good to have it. So, but
• 32:26
  Speaker 10: you know, you look at and maybe there is a
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  Speaker 10: day yet where where Clemens and Bonds or reinstated or
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  Speaker 10: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I think that's something that will have to be done
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  Speaker 8: by the committees, and it probably will still be a
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  Speaker 8: few years from now. But I just feel like, if
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: you're gonna have the Hall of Fame be kind of
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: like you know, the Baseball Museum, then you have to
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: have its best players in there. Another guy that this
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: is going to impact in his fifth year on the ballot,
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: only getting forty percent of the vote. Is I think
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: he's third all time in home runs or fourth Alex Rodriguez.
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  Speaker 8: And that's the only benefit of this entire thing that's
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: going to come out of it, is that he doesn't
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: get in the whole fame because I hate a Rod.
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna be I'm just gonna come out and say it.
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  Speaker 8: He might be my least favorite baseball player of all time.
• 33:10
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  Speaker 8: the NBA offseason. Jason and Jarrett aren't here this week
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  Speaker 8: to talk about him, so we have to. And it's
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: unfortunate for them that they weren't here at all after
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  Speaker 8: the Lebron news came out, So I really hate that
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  Speaker 8: for that. I was going to say, it's a bad,
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  Speaker 4: So hate it for them, But I'll have to pick
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  Speaker 8: Obviously everybody's heard about it by now, but I just
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  Speaker 8: want to look at the fit a little bit. Lebron
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  Speaker 8: James signing with the Philadelphia seventy six ers and it's
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  Speaker 8: it's a two year deal on basically a minimum contract.
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  Speaker 8: So I think that of the teams that he was
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  Speaker 8: rumored to go to throughout this saga, I really think
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  Speaker 8: this is one that might it makes a lot of
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  Speaker 8: sense as far as positional fit goes with assuming that
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  Speaker 8: Joel Embiid can stay healthy. I think that's what this
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  Speaker 8: all kind of hinges on, because if Lebron is your
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  Speaker 8: main big man on the court, it's probably not going
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  Speaker 8: to go as well, just because of his age, playing
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  Speaker 8: in the post is not where he wants to be.
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  Speaker 8: So as long as that is, as long as they
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  Speaker 8: don't try to do that at all, I think that
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  Speaker 8: this will work out very well. And I saw some
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  Speaker 8: rumors floating around that he's going to be the main
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  Speaker 8: ball handler, which would also be very interesting. We saw
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  Speaker 8: him do that with the Lakers when they won the
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  Speaker 8: championship in the Bubble back in twenty twenty, so we
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: every already knows that Lebron can do that, and if
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  Speaker 8: that's what they have him do, I think it'll probably
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  Speaker 8: fit pretty well. I do wonder where that leaves Tyrese Maxey,
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  Speaker 8: who was the point guard for the seventy six Ers,
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: and you know, we'll still be on the floor, of course,
• 39:11
  Speaker 8: But I don't think the Sixers were on the radar
• 39:15
  Speaker 8: for Lebron at all until they made that Jaylen Brown trade.
• 39:18
  Speaker 8: Getting rid of Paul George and replacing him with Jaylen
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: Brown propelled the Sixers into, you know, being top tier
• 39:25
  Speaker 8: contenders and being a little more interesting for Lebron, a
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: little more enticing.
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  Speaker 4: Because it was basically Sixers calves or.
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: Heat I think at the end, and the heat that
• 39:37
  Speaker 8: fit never made any sense to me at all with
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: Joannis and Bam, So I really think fit wise, this
• 39:42
  Speaker 8: is this is the best that could have turned out
• 39:43
  Speaker 8: for Lebron.
• 39:45
  Speaker 10: I I think so if you're looking solely at you know,
• 39:48
  Speaker 10: the job that he wants at this point is who
• 39:52
  Speaker 10: is going to put him in the best contention of
• 39:54
  Speaker 10: the available teams to win an NBA championship, right, And
• 39:59
  Speaker 10: I don't think going to Golden State would have done that.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: I don't think going to.
• 40:03
  Speaker 10: Miami, And granted I get it Giannis and Bam, but
• 40:08
  Speaker 10: then beyond that, they traded away the farm essentially to
• 40:12
  Speaker 10: get Jannis, And so you talk about them wanting Lebron
• 40:17
  Speaker 10: to be the main guy, the main ball handler. I
• 40:19
  Speaker 10: think that that's an interesting thing because I don't necessarily
• 40:23
  Speaker 10: disagree with it. Ty Reese, Maxie's been the main point guard,
• 40:27
  Speaker 10: but they've also only won one playoff.
• 40:29
  Speaker 9: Series in the last however many years.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: You need something different and Bed's been there.
• 40:34
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you need something different, something to change, and maybe
• 40:38
  Speaker 10: MAXI being under the wing of Lebron for which this
• 40:43
  Speaker 10: last two years, which is this is it? This is
• 40:44
  Speaker 10: the last two it when when Lebron shows up, it
• 40:49
  Speaker 10: brings a different culture, a different way of going about
• 40:52
  Speaker 10: your job on the team. He brings all of the
• 40:55
  Speaker 10: career resume that he has in the success and I think,
• 40:59
  Speaker 10: you know, when he shows up your not you automatically
• 41:03
  Speaker 10: become better. But you start training a different way, you
• 41:06
  Speaker 10: start practicing a different way, you change a lot of
• 41:08
  Speaker 10: things about the way you're going about playing basketball. And
• 41:11
  Speaker 10: I think that I think it's gonna be beneficial. I
• 41:14
  Speaker 10: do look at him consistently being the main guy. I
• 41:19
  Speaker 10: wonder about that. I really do, because in health plays
• 41:23
  Speaker 10: a factor, the minutes play a factor, and I don't
• 41:27
  Speaker 10: know that's that's certainly an interesting piece, but I do
• 41:30
  Speaker 10: think and a lot does hinge on Joel Embiat as well.
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: The Sixers also brought in Contavious Caldwell Pope, who was
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: with Lebron on the twenty twenty Lakers. So they're just
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: trying to rebuild the twenty twenty Lakers. Basically, now we
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: just have to wait on them to trade for Anthony Davis.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: But so the Sixers waiting on that. Yeah, yeah, don't
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: hold your breath.
• 41:53
  Speaker 8: The Sixers I think definitely have the best offseason of
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: any team.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: But the other side of that is the Celtics.
• 41:57
  Speaker 8: Who's that One's pretty rough trading for getting rid of
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: Jayalen Brown and getting Paul George in return. Don't know
• 42:06
  Speaker 8: how I feel about that. You know, got some draft picks,
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: but I really think the Sixers got the better end
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: of that deal, and the Celtics continued their players that
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: were good in twenty sixteen mindset by signing Mike Conley
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: to a one year.
• 42:20
  Speaker 10: Deal, right, And I think, uh, some of that it's
• 42:24
  Speaker 10: it's certainly I think if you're in the Northeast right
• 42:28
  Speaker 10: now with Boston, that's certainly some of us has to
• 42:30
  Speaker 10: feel troubling. I think, yeah, there's a lot that goes
• 42:32
  Speaker 10: into this though, and especially with Philly and Lebron that
• 42:35
  Speaker 10: you know, people do forget, well, the Knicks are still
• 42:38
  Speaker 10: in the East. They're gonna have to they could be
• 42:40
  Speaker 10: something that be a collision course there. I think what's
• 42:43
  Speaker 10: fortunate too is I think even with the growth of
• 42:47
  Speaker 10: the Sixers, I still view the Spurs and Thunder is
• 42:51
  Speaker 10: probably better and that they don't have to deal with
• 42:54
  Speaker 10: that as much out there in the West. And so
• 42:56
  Speaker 10: I don't think it automatically means because Lebron shows up
• 43:00
  Speaker 10: it's a sixers championship.
• 43:02
  Speaker 9: There's a long way to go between that.
• 43:04
  Speaker 10: The Knicks just said the most dominant playoff run, one
• 43:07
  Speaker 10: of the more dominant playoff runs in by way of
• 43:09
  Speaker 10: how they went through each series, you know, in recent history,
• 43:15
  Speaker 10: and so I definitely think it puts them in much
• 43:17
  Speaker 10: higher contention. I don't think it's a for me. I
• 43:21
  Speaker 10: look at it as a done deal. Championships going on
• 43:23
  Speaker 10: to Philly.
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: I don't know yet.
• 43:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah, two more moves I want to talk about before
• 43:26
  Speaker 8: we hit our break here. Obviously, I think the first
• 43:31
  Speaker 8: big domino I don't remember if this was before Jalen
• 43:34
  Speaker 8: Brown trade or not. I think it was Giannis going
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: to the Heat free agent signing or no, sorry, that
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: was a trade.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: What am I talking about? They traded Tyler Hero and.
• 43:43
  Speaker 8: Basically everybody else in their roster not named bam Autabayo
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: for Giannis Antetokumpo, which you know, one of the You're
• 43:52
  Speaker 8: gonna have the best front court in the league with
• 43:54
  Speaker 8: Jiannis at power forward and Bam at center. But I
• 43:56
  Speaker 8: have no idea what their guards are going to look like. So,
• 43:59
  Speaker 8: I mean they're bringing Andrew Wiggins, bringing in Tim hardaway junior.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: But top heavy, yeah, yeah, very top heavy.
• 44:06
  Speaker 10: No depth, right, That's that's a that's not a very
• 44:10
  Speaker 10: comfortable way to to live. I think Jersey sales are
• 44:14
  Speaker 10: going to be tremendous. It's gonna make a lot of
• 44:16
  Speaker 10: money in in South Florida. I think, you know, there's
• 44:21
  Speaker 10: a lot of things that go into that as well.
• 44:24
  Speaker 10: And I mean Giannis is a pretty big name guy clearly,
• 44:27
  Speaker 10: and so it you know, in the business side of it, it
• 44:30
  Speaker 10: looks great, You're gonna make a lot of money, get
• 44:32
  Speaker 10: more people in seats. I I don't think a long
• 44:36
  Speaker 10: term haul and a like a tough playoff team and
• 44:38
  Speaker 10: things like that to elevate you to the championship status,
• 44:42
  Speaker 10: that's I don't think so.
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: And then the last one, uh, the Minnesota Minnesota Timberwolves,
• 44:49
  Speaker 8: a fourteen trade with the Charlotte Hornets and a couple
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: of other teams that didn't really you know, add anything
• 44:58
  Speaker 8: of note. For being honest, LaMelo Ball going to Minnesota
• 45:03
  Speaker 8: pairing up with Anthony Edwards. That's going to be one
• 45:05
  Speaker 8: of the most exciting back courts in the league. I
• 45:08
  Speaker 8: don't know how well.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: They're going to play together.
• 45:10
  Speaker 8: I don't know how well they're going to get along
• 45:12
  Speaker 8: off the court, they're going to.
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: Get up to.
• 45:14
  Speaker 10: Yeah, those are those are some strong personalities and strong
• 45:18
  Speaker 10: talents Anthony Edwards of course a generation or not I
• 45:22
  Speaker 10: would say generational, but a very top of the league
• 45:25
  Speaker 10: to kind of talent. And you know, the NBA is
• 45:30
  Speaker 10: pretty familiar with large personalities and large personalities fighting and
• 45:35
  Speaker 10: so I'm that to me could seem like a ticking
• 45:39
  Speaker 10: time bomb of before the first locker room or off
• 45:43
  Speaker 10: court issue sure finds its way in. So I think
• 45:47
  Speaker 10: you've got to I bet you've got to know that
• 45:49
  Speaker 10: in if you're you know, and it's it's ironic though
• 45:53
  Speaker 10: with the personalities, and then who owns the Timberwolves but.
• 45:57
  Speaker 9: A Rod So I'll realize that, Yeah, Sea talk.
• 46:00
  Speaker 10: About the the very vibrant personalities.
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: Well, there you go.
• 46:05
  Speaker 10: So it'll it'll be it'll be regardless of whether it's
• 46:09
  Speaker 10: good or not, it's going to be entertaining and it's
• 46:11
  Speaker 10: going to be fun to watch.
• 46:12
  Speaker 9: It's going to be entertaining to see.
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 46:15
  Speaker 14: Uh.
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: And it's a good thing that that LaMelo and ant
• 46:17
  Speaker 8: are together in Minneapolis and not like Miami or somewhere.
• 46:20
  Speaker 8: That's yeah, because the would get up to a lot
• 46:21
  Speaker 8: more Shenanigans. There were some first round picks involved in
• 46:24
  Speaker 8: that trade.
• 46:24
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• 46:25
  Speaker 8: Uh, Julius Randall went to the nets and the bulls
• 46:29
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• 46:31
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I hate the way that works also.
• 50:31
  Speaker 10: Right, I think it is interesting it's not a full
• 50:35
  Speaker 10: time guy. You just don't get anything.
• 50:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean you get the payout and I guess
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: it makes sense. Like you know, they called it the
• 50:44
  Speaker 8: bushwhacking rule back when they implemented it so that you
• 50:46
  Speaker 8: couldn't you had to declare which series you were going
• 50:49
  Speaker 8: to be full time in of the of the three
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: National Series, So I get why they do it. It's
• 50:55
  Speaker 8: just it would be fun if you could win both
• 50:58
  Speaker 8: of them in the same season, and Corey Heim probably could.
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: If you want me, he could.
• 51:02
  Speaker 10: I think, though I don't know if this is necessarily
• 51:06
  Speaker 10: a talent evaluation thing too, because, like you, Chase Elliott
• 51:11
  Speaker 10: proven champion. You know, the problem with with Elliott of
• 51:15
  Speaker 10: late in the past couple of years is he's he
• 51:17
  Speaker 10: is consistent top ten, top five, high in the point standings.
• 51:20
  Speaker 10: It's just converting that to wins consistently all the time. Yeah,
• 51:23
  Speaker 10: But Elliott started in the Cup Series at twenty fifteen,
• 51:26
  Speaker 10: didn't get his first win till twenty eighteen. So there
• 51:29
  Speaker 10: was a period there where people wonder, you know, all right,
• 51:32
  Speaker 10: let's you know, Bill Elliott's kid, what's gonna happen, when's
• 51:36
  Speaker 10: this happening?
• 51:36
  Speaker 16: You know?
• 51:37
  Speaker 10: Is he not that good? And he's done just fine
• 51:40
  Speaker 10: right six standing right now? Yeah, Zilich, I think is
• 51:44
  Speaker 10: going through the tough part of that.
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 51:46
  Speaker 10: He won ten races in what was the or now
• 51:49
  Speaker 10: the O'Reilly Series last year. Now it's been a disastrous year,
• 51:57
  Speaker 10: but then people forget also he's nineteen, so there's time
• 52:00
  Speaker 10: to sort of work things out. And then sometimes you
• 52:02
  Speaker 10: have early bloomers like Corey Heim who's already won two races.
• 52:05
  Speaker 10: Carson Joseovar was one of those as well that in
• 52:09
  Speaker 10: his second year really started a blosso now got a
• 52:12
  Speaker 10: race win this year, right. So I don't know if
• 52:15
  Speaker 10: it's necessarily a talent evaluation thing. I just think sometimes
• 52:19
  Speaker 10: in motorsports it takes a lot longer to develop than
• 52:22
  Speaker 10: say like an NFL or MLB type.
• 52:24
  Speaker 8: League, And I don't even know if it's development necessarily.
• 52:28
  Speaker 8: Sometimes that is the case, but I think a lot
• 52:30
  Speaker 8: of time it's just there's not a seat open like
• 52:33
  Speaker 8: once you have if you're a driver in a you know,
• 52:36
  Speaker 8: a middle of the road team, you know, like a
• 52:39
  Speaker 8: track house racing with Zilich or Aspier Motorsports with Carson Josovar,
• 52:43
  Speaker 8: if you're just solid, you know they're probably not going
• 52:45
  Speaker 8: to get rid of you. But if but that kind
• 52:49
  Speaker 8: of blocks the way for some of these younger rookies
• 52:52
  Speaker 8: and phenoms that are coming through the ranks.
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: If you want a.
• 52:55
  Speaker 8: Little bit of a snapshot of how disappointing and unlucky
• 52:58
  Speaker 8: Connor Zilich's season been this year. If you go buy
• 53:01
  Speaker 8: owner points, Corey Heim in what three or four races
• 53:06
  Speaker 8: that he's been in or okay, eight eight starts to
• 53:09
  Speaker 8: Zilich's twenty two, corey Heim has more points, which is just.
• 53:13
  Speaker 10: So unbelievable to think about really, But you bring up
• 53:17
  Speaker 10: a great point because you go from Junior Motorsports with
• 53:19
  Speaker 10: Connor Zillach in the O'Reilly Series, one of the top
• 53:22
  Speaker 10: teams there, of course, to track House which is nothing.
• 53:26
  Speaker 10: They're nothing, this needs at but they're He's not in
• 53:29
  Speaker 10: top He's not in Gibbs equipment, He's not in Hendrick equipment. Yeah,
• 53:33
  Speaker 10: Corey Heim is in twenty three eleven equipment, which is
• 53:35
  Speaker 10: very similar to Gibbs equipment. And sure that kind of
• 53:38
  Speaker 10: funding and that matters a lot. I really think that
• 53:43
  Speaker 10: matters a lot. And why Connor Zillich is still in
• 53:46
  Speaker 10: the running for the forty eight car because I think
• 53:48
  Speaker 10: if you put Zilich in the forty eight car, you're
• 53:50
  Speaker 10: gonna start getting a lot more results.
• 53:51
  Speaker 9: Like you've seen absolutely him. The equipment very much matters.
• 53:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah, the earliest we'll see that's twenty twenty eight. Alex
• 53:57
  Speaker 8: Bowman will be returning for twenty twenty seven and retire
• 54:00
  Speaker 8: after that. But you mentioned Zilich going from Junior Motorsports
• 54:04
  Speaker 8: to Trackhouse. A similar thing kind of happened with Noah Gragson,
• 54:09
  Speaker 8: and he is starting to be one of those drivers
• 54:12
  Speaker 8: that is just perceived as not that good driving the
• 54:16
  Speaker 8: number four car for Front Row Motorsports. He's very low
• 54:19
  Speaker 8: in the standings, especially in the number four car, which is,
• 54:22
  Speaker 8: you know, just a storied charter with Kevin Harvick, legendary
• 54:27
  Speaker 8: driver with Stuart Haas Racing. So I think that also
• 54:30
  Speaker 8: kind of adds to the disappointment of Noah Gregson. I
• 54:34
  Speaker 8: think he probably will end up losing that seat after
• 54:37
  Speaker 8: probably next season. I think they do expect him to
• 54:39
  Speaker 8: return for one more but that's just how motorsport goes,
• 54:42
  Speaker 8: and that's you know Formula One as well, it's very similar.
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: But that's that's.
• 54:47
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• 54:49
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• 54:51
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• 54:53
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