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Who is College Football's Best QB? · Sports Exchange

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  Speaker 1: Good even to your video. Welcome to another edition of
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  Speaker 1: the Sports Exchange. My name is Scott Morgan, rot the
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  Speaker 1: Motor City mad Mouth. Yes I'm MotorCity mad Mouth. Great
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  Speaker 1: crew lined up today. I have a special guest who
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  Speaker 1: was a special friend and a colleague. Your name is
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  Speaker 1: Larry Bluesy. Welcome to the Big Show.
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  Speaker 2: Larry, thanks a lot, Scott, appreciate it. Glad to be here.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, introduce the rest of the crew real quickly. George,
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  Speaker 1: Ike gorn.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: Good to be on again the Sports Exchange. Another great
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  Speaker 4: night at Talksports.
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  Speaker 1: The Sports Exchanges, he showed George and I created way
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  Speaker 1: back in the eighties. So but keeping the tradition going's
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Big Show.
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  Speaker 5: How's it goa guys, Glad to be here. Another great week.
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  Speaker 6: You've bet and last but not least, Candy, I blame awesome.
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  Speaker 7: Glad to be here talking sports with you. Fine gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, give everybody overview. I'll give everybody overview of
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  Speaker 1: this show. We're gonna talk about cam Ward Miami Hurricanes,
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  Speaker 1: and we're also gonna have a little video on Mario
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  Speaker 1: Crystoval after what the Hurricanes have done. The first couple
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  Speaker 1: few games of the year as the Hurricanes set up
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  Speaker 1: to your South Florida over the weekend, which I will
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  Speaker 1: be up there along with Candy taking pictures.
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  Speaker 6: It'll be interesting. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Also I've packed twelve adding fourteen. Now we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: about Larry a little bit about his passion for baseball,
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  Speaker 1: his recruiting services, and the Florida Panthers winning the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 1: And he'll if you want to see we can make
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  Speaker 1: predictions on the World Series, and the crew is gonna
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  Speaker 1: have an opportunity to.
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  Speaker 6: Ask anything in want of view. I was that Larry,
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  Speaker 6: all righty.
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  Speaker 1: So with that said, cam Ward is the first Miami
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  Speaker 1: quarterback to begin to season with three consecutive theaters our performances.
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  Speaker 1: It makes that number so impressive as he's playing at quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: You and some of the names that have come out
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  Speaker 1: there are Jim Kelly, Bernie cos Argino, Toretti, Vinnie Testivert,
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  Speaker 1: Vinnie Testaversiti, Bennie Testa, Vernie excuse me, and he has
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  Speaker 1: even finished the game yet considered considering that they're all blowouts,
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  Speaker 1: the first one in forty one to seventeen to Florida,
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  Speaker 1: Florida A and m got hammered fifty six to nine
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  Speaker 1: and ball State got beat sixty two to nothing, and
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  Speaker 1: Larry and I and Canty experience a two and a
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  Speaker 1: half hour lightning delay. How about that? Okay, So with
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  Speaker 1: that said, let's talk about that and then we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about the games. Okay, So, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts about cam Ward from what you've
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  Speaker 1: seen so far?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, not a not a like lot night to
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  Speaker 2: like guy. He's just an outstanding quarterback. Extends plays, finds
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  Speaker 2: a lot of receivers. I think in the last game
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  Speaker 2: he had he hit eight different targets, and he's a winner,
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  Speaker 2: just had an opportunity to you know, to come here
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  Speaker 2: and then play in a situation where Miami's offensive line
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  Speaker 2: probably they spent more on their offensive line than the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys did. But it's been paying off for him so far. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: not a lot not to say about him. He's just
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  Speaker 2: a really good quarterback. You know, he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a one year deal. He's elevating the kids under him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like the kid Emery Williams, who probably will
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  Speaker 2: be his heir apparent. Although they could go into the
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  Speaker 2: portal again and the one thing that makes him really
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  Speaker 2: special is that you know, he sees the field and
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  Speaker 2: you know he has to he could extend to play.
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  Speaker 6: So that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, you're right the field and it makes it
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  Speaker 1: look pretty easy the way he goes ahead, goes about
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  Speaker 1: his business out there. You know what, at the Florida game,
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  Speaker 1: I saw him go ahead, rolled right it was and
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  Speaker 1: found another receiver. So this guy definitely has a big
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  Speaker 1: command of the field, without a doubt, Larry. So when
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  Speaker 1: we talk about you know cam Ward, here's a guy
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  Speaker 1: that came from Washington State. He replaced Tyler van Dyke,
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  Speaker 1: who unfortunately suffered a leg injury and he's out.
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  Speaker 6: For the year.
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  Speaker 1: What an unfortunate break for the Kaynes quarterback. But we
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  Speaker 1: know that Emery Williams. He saw what he did on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday again, Paul stayed looking good eleven of twelve, and
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  Speaker 1: I like what I saw of Emery Williams as well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so you're right, he's going to impact that
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  Speaker 1: quarter back room in a lot of ways. So let
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  Speaker 1: me ask you this, Larry. When you heard about the
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Van Dyke injury, what was the first thing that
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  Speaker 1: went to your mind?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I felt sorry obviously it fell sorry for Candy
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  Speaker 2: more than anything else, or Wisconsin Badgers kind of took
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  Speaker 2: take it on the chin. But yeah, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: worked so hard. He wanted to, you know, get a
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  Speaker 2: fresh start, you know, up in Wisconsin, and I know
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  Speaker 2: that as soon as he got there during the spring,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he played, they like what they saw. He's
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  Speaker 2: got that mentality. You know, he's a twenty three twenty
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  Speaker 2: three year old kid that you know could could really
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  Speaker 2: and I still think he will be you know, he'll
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  Speaker 2: be on the sidelines, he'll be in the meeting room,
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  Speaker 2: so he'll you know, get into the quarterback a little
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  Speaker 2: bit and you know, may use his leadership and I
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  Speaker 2: think it's going to be really really good for him.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's I mean, not to say they would
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  Speaker 2: have beaten Alabama, but he had them rolling on that
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  Speaker 2: one drive where he got hurt. It was kind of
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  Speaker 2: a freak play where he went out of bounce and
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  Speaker 2: someone rolled on top of him and his leg he
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  Speaker 2: got caught, and you know, it's football, and obviously it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna happen. But yeah, it's it's tough because I know
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  Speaker 2: how hard he worked in the offseason and you know,
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  Speaker 2: to get better, and you know, you just another thing
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  Speaker 2: on cam Ward. You got to remember he started out
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  Speaker 2: at a nai A school inc incarnate word. That's where
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  Speaker 2: he started out before he went to Wish to Washington State,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, he's from Texas and you know he's
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  Speaker 2: he's one of those guys that came out of high
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  Speaker 2: school and not not a lot of people recruited him.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's athletic quarterback, but never showed you know
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  Speaker 2: what he's showing now. He went into the right offense
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  Speaker 2: at Washington State where it's kind of a wide open offense.
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  Speaker 2: And then when they you know, they were a team
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  Speaker 2: like Oregon State without a place to go, he figured,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I'll go to a conference. I know
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  Speaker 2: he narrowed it down to Florida State and Miami, and
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  Speaker 2: Miami kind of you know, got him. And during the
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  Speaker 2: spring you could tell he was really going to be special.
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  Speaker 2: I went to like three scrimmage that I went to
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  Speaker 2: their spring game. I think he threw for four hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty yards in the spring game. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's just been one of those soothing guys and a
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  Speaker 2: lot like Tyler Van Dyke is, he's going to serve,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as a role model. He's going to serve
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  Speaker 2: as a leader for a lot of the younger kids
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  Speaker 2: that Miami has. And it's not you know, it's not
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  Speaker 2: real easy when you have a lot of transfers like
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  Speaker 2: they do, but everybody has them, you know, and watching
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  Speaker 2: games the last couple of weeks on TV, every time
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  Speaker 2: a kid made a play, they say, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he was at Kansas State last year. He was at
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  Speaker 2: Wisconsin last year. So Miami started this portal. If you
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  Speaker 2: remember back during many Diaz's day, they started actually the
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  Speaker 2: n I l with d Eric King as a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: His first NIL deal was he had a lounge like
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  Speaker 2: a restaurant lounge where he would greet people and he
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  Speaker 2: got a thousand dollars for it. But if he only
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  Speaker 2: knew what is happening now, you look at Shador Sanders
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  Speaker 2: who's making five point four million dollars and some of
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  Speaker 2: the guys and you know what you know, before we
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  Speaker 2: were talking about the Bears, and you know, the whole
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  Speaker 2: thing is is you look at Caleb Williams and this
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  Speaker 2: is this is where this uh, this is where this
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  Speaker 2: nil goes, you know, off the rails. Caleb Williams had
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  Speaker 2: a way in JB you know, before he left USC
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  Speaker 2: because he was going to make more money than his
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  Speaker 2: rookie contract with the Bears. So that's where and remember
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  Speaker 2: he was on Wendy's commercials, Doctor Pepper commercials, Nissan and
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  Speaker 2: making tons of money. And to me, I never begrudged
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  Speaker 2: any of these kids from getting you know, money too.
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  Speaker 2: But I always thought it was going to be just money,
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  Speaker 2: like you know said he can go out to dinner
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  Speaker 2: and maybe have a date and go out here and there.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know was they're going to be able to
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  Speaker 2: buy five houses with it, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of went off the rails, I think.
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  Speaker 6: No kidding, that's the truth, all right, Jamie.
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  Speaker 1: What's your take on everything that Larry's mentioned so far?
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  Speaker 5: No, I mean, you know, talking about the quarterback, you know,
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  Speaker 5: done an outstanding job. Pretty impressive that he's the first
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  Speaker 5: whatever to do that. When you look at the lineage
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  Speaker 5: of the quarterbacks at Miami, it says a lot but
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  Speaker 5: also a lot of it's because the game has changed, saying,
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  Speaker 5: you know, today three hundred yeards passing, you know, it's
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  Speaker 5: like two hundred yards passing twenty years ago. So I
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  Speaker 5: can't really look at just that that's status, say well,
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  Speaker 5: if that's amazing, because you know, VIDI wasn't throwing the
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  Speaker 5: ball the way we are today, So it's hard to
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  Speaker 5: correlate those stats. But it's still impressive to think that
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  Speaker 5: he's the first one ever to do that because they've
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  Speaker 5: had such a rich history down there. And as far
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  Speaker 5: as d NIL money, yeah, it's ridiculous how much these
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  Speaker 5: guys get now. Good for them, you know, because for
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  Speaker 5: years the student athlete was taken advantage of and the
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  Speaker 5: schools made tons of money. But you know, good for
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  Speaker 5: them now that they're getting some of the package. Just
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  Speaker 5: a shame that it's not going to the guys who
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  Speaker 5: played before.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, George, what's your take on it. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: chat real quick. Joshua Door, make a lot of noise
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  Speaker 1: in there, good noise, Okay, bluesting, bluesteing, Yeah, that's him. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Joshua this you know over forty years. Okay, let's see
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  Speaker 1: the one and only. Yeah, he's definitely the one and only. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Justin Fields will win the Super Bowl with the Steelers.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see. Keep it going, Candy, and now you can
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  Speaker 6: read him too, Candy.
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  Speaker 7: What's going on? George?
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  Speaker 4: Hey Joshua or hey, listen, I agree with you. I
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  Speaker 4: agree with everything that's been said. Oh thank you for
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  Speaker 4: George in his comments. But yeah, this cam Ward is
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  Speaker 4: having a hell of a season, no question about it.
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  Speaker 4: You look at his yards flor one thousand and thirty
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  Speaker 4: five yards, eleven touchdowns, one innersps and he's at two
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  Speaker 4: o nine his rating already this year in three games,
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  Speaker 4: so he is well on his pace to dominating college
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  Speaker 4: football as far as the quarterback goes this year. I
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  Speaker 4: like him for all the reasons that you mentioned, Larry.
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  Speaker 4: I like his size, I like his ability, I like
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  Speaker 4: his accuracy. The kids got a good head on his shoulders.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, and you know, it's just you gotta
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  Speaker 4: be participating. You've got to be participating in the portal,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And uh and and I give Miami credit
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  Speaker 4: because cam Ward is doing a hell of a job
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  Speaker 4: right now. And like you said, you got Emery Williams
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  Speaker 4: and the Wings too, so they've got a good situation
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  Speaker 4: going for them.
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  Speaker 2: And and I do.
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  Speaker 4: Echo your comments too about of course, like JB, you're right,
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  Speaker 4: I mean they're making way too much money. U you know,
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  Speaker 4: and the portal, I mean on the NL I L
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  Speaker 4: and there's too much going around. But the NCAA just
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  Speaker 4: can't do anything about it right now. The count can't
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  Speaker 4: come to grips with it right now. But getting back
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  Speaker 4: to football on the field, I'm very high on Miami.
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  Speaker 4: Cam Ward stays healthy. Lookout, man, the Hurricanes are for.
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  Speaker 1: Real, that's true. All right, back to the chat room doors,
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  Speaker 1: asking about where your piano is? My goodness, well it's
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  Speaker 1: not in action tonight. Yeah, that's that's a that's another conversation.
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  Speaker 6: Blows.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on? This show is going on? George bou
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  Speaker 1: Boris he's acting through PlayStation two. Cheep tod, All right
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  Speaker 1: to George here tonight. Okay, Larry, do you know Ed Bluestein?
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  Speaker 1: Does that ring about it?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: But I know I've driven on the highway out in Austin, Texas.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. They have the Ed Bluestein Highway. I never heard.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who he is. He's some Texan. I
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  Speaker 2: know that.
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  Speaker 6: There's go.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So all right, Candy, well, all right, so you
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  Speaker 1: all finished with cam wored George or anything else you
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  Speaker 1: want to add to it.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm all set.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you all right, Candy has been taking pictures of
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  Speaker 1: cam Ward, so you get to see him closer than anybody,
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  Speaker 1: and I get to talk to him. Candy, what are
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts about cam Ward.
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  Speaker 7: I'm gonna say this, and it's probably a kind of
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  Speaker 7: a bold statement, but cam Ward is a generational type quarterback.
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  Speaker 7: He sees the field, he reads the field, He knows
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  Speaker 7: his receivers and their strengths and kind of like what
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  Speaker 7: they're on the same page. They've practiced well enough, and
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  Speaker 7: he's just he's a very good, talented player. Whoever drafts
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  Speaker 7: him is going to be lucky, I think, and I
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  Speaker 7: think that they will be fighting for him because I
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  Speaker 7: don't know that and I know you're gonna go into
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  Speaker 7: some of this topic, but I don't know if there's
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  Speaker 7: a quarterback that I've seen around the colleges that is
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  Speaker 7: of the same caliber as he is.
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  Speaker 2: And he's different, no doubt he is. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: his style is different than like Clint Ewers or guy
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  Speaker 2: like Carson Back, who are both going to be you know,
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  Speaker 2: definitely you know the guys to take. But he's he
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  Speaker 2: actually adds a different dimension, Candy. And and that's the
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  Speaker 2: one thing but you know what the they fit the
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  Speaker 2: kind of the offense, uh, you know that that that
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  Speaker 2: helps him. And as you mentioned, they run the ball well,
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  Speaker 2: they have a big offensive line, and you got guys
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  Speaker 2: that catch the ball. Restrepo as another kid, he's thirty
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  Speaker 2: seven catches away from being the all time leading receiver
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  Speaker 2: in Miami history. And then when you take a look
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  Speaker 2: at all the guys they've had from Andre Johnson and
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  Speaker 2: Michael Irvin, that's pretty impressive for a guy that when
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  Speaker 2: he got there, everybody thought he was a one double
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  Speaker 2: a type of player. And I think he's kind of
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  Speaker 2: proven them wrong. But getting back to what you say, kid,
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  Speaker 2: you're one hundred percent right. He could be a generational player.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that, you know, as George said, if Miami,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of holds it together because right now
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  Speaker 2: they've gone through their easier part USF. This week gets
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  Speaker 2: a little bit harder. Then they come back for Virginia Tech,
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  Speaker 2: and then the two games after that are the games
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  Speaker 2: that are gonna test them. They're at California, which is really,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of crazy, but that's and then they're
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  Speaker 2: at Louisville and those are two programs that could easily
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  Speaker 2: jump on them a little bit. And you know the
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  Speaker 2: I said before the year, I thought they'd be nine
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  Speaker 2: to three. I thought they'd lose to Florida. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: you never know, You never know in a game like that,
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  Speaker 2: because I've seen I've been to Florida Field and that's
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  Speaker 2: like one of the top five places in the country
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  Speaker 2: to play when they're winning. But yeah, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: kind of I agree with you, and you know, as
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  Speaker 2: far as that's concerned. And as Scott says, Scott gets
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to ask, you know, a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: players some questions at the end of the game. I
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  Speaker 2: just sit there and listen. But I uh, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: I yield to a lot of guys like Scott and
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  Speaker 2: some of the guys that have to write stories on
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  Speaker 2: that day. And but that that two and a half
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  Speaker 2: hour lightning delay the other day was a little bit
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  Speaker 2: crazy because we had a high school game the night
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  Speaker 2: before when we had a two hour lightning delay and
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  Speaker 2: we didn't get started un till nine twenty and got
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  Speaker 2: out of there a quarter one. I've never been to
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  Speaker 2: a high school game that we got out of there
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  Speaker 2: so late.
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  Speaker 1: With well, you know, it's funny. I gotta mention it's
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  Speaker 1: about blows. So that's why I asked. My new office
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  Speaker 1: is on that road in Austin again, Blue and Blow says,
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  Speaker 1: I am a rocket scientists ascot. Yeah, you are all right,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure now, d Lo's I guess he says,
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  Speaker 1: there's a camore that's a hockey goaltender. All right now,
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  Speaker 1: but we're not we're talking college football. D Loo's says
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  Speaker 1: he plays football now, and oh, good to know Joshua.
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  Speaker 1: All right, and we'll continue on. Yeah, I do get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to ask a lot of questions. And on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday I had the opportunity to talk to coach Crystal
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  Speaker 1: Ball Kendy's gonna play it in the moment about the
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  Speaker 1: easier schedule. Obviously Florida, you know, you didn't know what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to expect. You know, it could I thought
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  Speaker 1: it could go either way with Florida, but then once
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  Speaker 1: Miami took control, the Gators weren't looking back at forty
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  Speaker 1: one seventeen. Of course, Florida A and M fifty six
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  Speaker 1: to nine in a ball state, sixty two nothing. And
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Richardson's a quarterback for Florida A and m formerly
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  Speaker 1: of FAU that Chrystabal had a lot of praise for.
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  Speaker 1: But let's talk about let's candy. Let's go to the
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  Speaker 1: video here about when I asked Chrystabal about the early
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  Speaker 1: part of the schedule. Also, folks, take a listen, Mario,
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  Speaker 1: what did you take away from these last two games
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  Speaker 1: lopsided defeats against them? Obviously, were you able to use
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of players to get a lot of player
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: evaluation as you step up in class against us half.
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: Well, we did it.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: We clean up a lot of our stuff too, I
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: mean the use of technology right, the headsets, all that stuff,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: our systems, you know, figuring out who who can do
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: what well right, and then also putting some guys in
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: situations to plan and see if they could perform at
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: a level we can win with them. So I think
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: a lot of progress in those areas. The one area
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: that was disappointing was the penalties. You know, we certainly
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: on special teams were trying hard to become a better
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: special teams unit, and we had some bright spots early
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: on the kickoff and then later we got tangled up
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: on some of the return game stuff. That is, you know,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: it's not us. You know, we got to do a
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: better job. But all along just part of the team
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: handling the delay. We did a good job with that.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Proud of them making a decision to just get better today,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: you know, and you know see families getting bed and
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: get ready for a big game next week.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: Well there you go.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: So this is what coach Christobal had to say about
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: those first couple of games. Mind you, I thought the
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Florida A and M game was gonna be a little
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: bit closer because Larry, as we both know, the last
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: time Florida A and M had lost us to ironically
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: the University of South Florida. But meanwhile they were playing
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: at the HBCU level and winning a lot of games.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: So as I went to that Monday conference and then
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: of course we talked about it. Then, you know, it's
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: safe to say as a boatload of respect for Florida
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: A and M. So, you know, Mario Cristal is a
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: great coach, he really is. I think he's gonna do
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: some great things at the program. And those people that
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: got on his back to the first two years, give
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: me a prankeet takes at least three years of put
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: your stamp on a program. So Mario Cristobald knows how
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: to recruit this area. He played for the US of
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Miami as an alumni guy and won a couple of
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: championships as well. So, but that said, you know, that's
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: what you have right there. I'm looking forward to seeing now.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: For me, this week is going to be interesting. Okay,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Mi Alma monters the University of South Florida, and I
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: have a vested interest in the Miami Hurricane. People have
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: asked me lately who you root for. I said, there's
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: no way I'm going to lose, and that's the only
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: way that I could get out of it. But I
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: do have vested interest in the games. Anybody else want
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: to add to what I talked about with Crystal bal Or?
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: Do we move on?
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, one more topic I want to get to.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Then we're going to get to know Larry a little bit.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: The PAC twelve is adding for Mountain West teams Poising State,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: San Diego State, Presno State, Colorado State. Larry, what are
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: your talks about the addition to the pact below?
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, those are great teams. I think they'll keep
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: adding to it. I'm Mi Alma maters U NLV so
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I would like to see them get into it, you know,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: eventually too, since they're you know, they're upgrading everything. But
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I like it. I like the fact that they're kind
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: of revolved reviving the conf for insight. Grew up as
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: a big Pack eight fan back in the days, you know,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: before Arizona and Arizona State and Utah and everybody who's added.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I like to move. I think it's really
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: good for football. It's you know, and eventually maybe Callen
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Stanford will go back there because them being in the
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: ACC makes zero zero sense to me.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, Larry, here's what I predicted.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, number one, Not only should UNLV be in there,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I think Nevada should be in there. That way, they
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: could go ahead corner of the whole state of Nevada
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and keep it close to a regional situation. That makes
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a lot of sense. I was you with UNLV by
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: all means, but take Nevada too, you might as well,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: and that way you're pretty much locked in Nevada. What
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: also makes it interesting is you got San Diego State,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: So in retrospect, they have southern California President state, You're
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: going northern California and Boise State, but a good program
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: for a while. In Colorado State, you're pretty much getting
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: into the Denver Mark people know you don't have Colorado,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: so I think they're off a good service to say,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: but I think both the Vanda schools should be added,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and who knows, maybe New Mexico works their way into it.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: But I forget about New Mexico for now. I think
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: both the Vanda school should go in. And you have
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the requirement of eight to achieve FBS status. All right,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: jb Ellis, what are your thoughts?
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: I mean, you can call anything any we could be
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: you know, called the PAC twelve. Well it's it's not
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: the same. You know, a great move bringing in these
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: teams that they had to do something for the two
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: teams that were left Washington State. You know that they
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: had to create their own conference.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: And smart move.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Keeping the name, you know, for it's worth something, so
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: you might as well take advantage of what it's worth.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: I do agree with you. You got to bring in ULV
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: and Levana is not a bad idea. I would think
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Kawaii possibly would be another good team to bring in,
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: maybe Air Force, you know, but they're going to have
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: to do something creative to make people want to watch
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: and be taken into that conference, because in all honesty,
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: now you got the Big Ten and the SEC. Everybody
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: else is just there. You know, even the ACC is
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: full and by the wayside with football unfortunately, because you know,
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Florida State just came out of the box looking horrible
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: and they were undefeated last year. So you know, not
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: saying that there's no other good, other good ACC schools,
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: but when your argument was your team that went undefeated
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: last year now this year is completely horrible, makes it
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: hard to sell the conference there. But you know, I'm
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: glad to see that they're doing something. I hope that
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: they are able to get you know, some other good
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: schools in there and just try and build it back
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: and maybe, you know, try and break up these super conferences.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: It's it's really no fun.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Well, Jo, if you go ten, I don't think there's
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: any question. You put Hawaiian there, and then you do
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: put an air force and if air force is a
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: good then you had New Mexico, so you still have
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: that part of the country. So everything you're saying is
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: pretty much online. All right, George, what are your thoughts?
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Well, I have to agree, I think their future. The
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: PAC twelve future is going to rely on, like you said,
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: more regional, more close to home kind of schooling, Okay,
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: and teams in the conference. I agree with you both.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Nevada has to be part of it. Unlv Air Force,
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: I got a hand with you, JB. I didn't think
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: about that one, but that would be a nice addition.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: But yeah, get back to your roots. Your roots were
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: out west, your roots were the West Coast. You've suffered
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: some pains, big pains PAC twelve, but you got to chance.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: You've got to get some more teams in that conference,
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: because I don't mind having extra teams in there.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Less than twelve.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: But it's kind silly and sad this year with two teams,
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: you know, and and a lot of good stuff has
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: done behind the scenes that we don't even know about.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: There could be other teams that are talking about here
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: at the back twelve at the Commissioner's office. But I'm
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: telling you right now, I like the ideas that have
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: been thrown out by us, and and really get get back,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: like I said, to the basics, that geographic area, the
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Rocky Mountain and the Pacific time zones. That's where you're
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: gonna get your your teams and your enthusiasm back towards
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: the PAC twelve conference.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Well, I give Oregon State and Washington State a whole
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: lot of credit for hanging in there and keeping it.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Now you're adding four and then you're gonna add two,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: and if you add two more won't hurt either. All Right,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I'll never hear the end of this from Blows, So
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I gotta go ahead and ask you this, Larry, what
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: are those things on the wall behind you?
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: He's asking, are the bears their beer cans? Look at this, Blows.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: You got some pretty dark good eyes, man, but they're empty,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: So don't think you're going over.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: And I have a beer can collection that I started
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy four or five. And then yeah, I've
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: got a lot of different things. If I this is like,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: this is really my sports room that I have like
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: posters and a lot of different things around the whole room.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's all. Those are the beer cans. It's everybody.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Every time I go on to a podcast or so,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: everybody wants to know, like over my shoulder there, if
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I duck away, you're gonna see straight ahead, you're gonna
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: see the opening the opening day Miami Florida Marlins poster
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: and the opening day Florida Panthers poster. There you can
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: see him.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: So there you go, Blows.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: They gotta give you credit just one time where you know,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I don't get way better at this chat thing. But
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you know what, his eyes are way younger than mine.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: He can notice those beer cans. Yeah, cut yourself on
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the back, Blows for that one. Good stuff. We'll get
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: to the Panthers in a moment. Don't get too crazy.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: Okay. So with that said, you know that Blows is good.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: I like the guy. You know.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Him and Joshua Dore to me are two interesting characters,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and Dylan pretty good too. All these guys are they mean,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: they mean well is what they really do. So but
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: when we talk about the technology of what these interviews
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: are really all about, I mean, that's what we've come
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: and that's why we're able to incorporate different new wrinkles
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: to try to make these shows better. And I appreciate
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the fact that Larry and I are always in the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: press conference because you know what, I can't think of
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: a better guy to have alongside of me, because he
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: knows the way I operate anyways, for all these years,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: especially when I was a young and but yeah, now
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: George Burbos, powerful speech by Uy Corn. Yes, a couple
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: of George's in the room, so yeah, blows Is are plouding.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Oh hell yeah, that's awesome. Merygo all right. So with
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: that said, anybody haven't commented on this, Jack Keny, I
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: don't think you have yet, have you?
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: No?
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: I haven't.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: I think it's candy U.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: Seriously.
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: So I would say college football, they redid the playoffs,
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: They have to redoce some of these conferences because I
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: think some of them are getting way too big. Like look,
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: let's look at the Big ten. It's no longer the
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: Big ten. It's how many eighteen?
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: And then then you have a conference at six and
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: you have the other thing is is with nil you
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: have all kinds of money going around. I if you
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: caught inside the pigskin last night, I was talking about
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: how Tennessee now is upping their tax on their season
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: ticket holders by I believe it's ten percent for that
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: money to go towards NIL money and to pay for
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: some of this the expense that the teams are going
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: to have now if they're flying all the time from
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: one side of the country to the other side of
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: the country is kind of crazy if you think about it.
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: And it's not just football. I mean think about it
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: like USC is now in the Big Ten, so Rutgers
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: has to go, you know, and play them, and it's
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: gonna make for a very interesting and expensive I think
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: time these these days. So am I happy that it's
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: more than just two now? Yes, I can see all
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: of the people that all the different teams you guys
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: have commented on, the Hawaii and UNLV and all of them.
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: So Scott back, well, what I said, You know, we're
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: gonna get to know Larry a little bit more, but
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: Katy wants to go to a station break really quickly, okay,
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: and then we'll get to know Larry blues Sting and
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: our background together and what he's done with the Miami Marlin,
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: but the minor league version, So.
• 28:53
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• 28:54
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• 30:16
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• 30:16
  Speaker 1: All right, Now we're going to get to know Larry
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Blueseeing a little bit more. Okay, Larry obviously has a
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: passion for baseball, dating back to Florida State League days
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: when I got to know you anyways, and you know what,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the Miami Marlins and the Miami Marylands played in the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Florida State League, and of course sunny Hurst was involved,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Sonny and Hirst was one of the greatest people.
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: I've ever met. You know.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I can remember Larry and I and Sonny over at
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale Stadium with these long rain delays and they
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: ran out of.
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: Food and all that.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you want people dont want to estimate
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: what rain delays are itself, or oh you need a
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: rook but that was just on an unbelievable time. And
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: of course Larry and Sonny have also been longtime Miami
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Hurricanes people. So you know, Larry, what was it like
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: for you and Sonny and of course myself back in
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: those days to be able to talk about the original
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Miami Marlins where so few people really know that you
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: had to keep professional baseball in Miami just to be
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: even considered for a team down the road.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I'll just start where I you know,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I began with the Marlins in nineteen sixty two. My parents,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: right right after the Triple A days that they had
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: with Satchel, Paige and everybody in the fifties, they went
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty two. They became a Class D team
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: with the Philadelphia Phillies. And on that sixty two sixty
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: three team were some pretty decent names. Ferguson Jenkins, Pat Williams,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: who was a catcher, former Orlando Magic GM who just
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: recently passed, Alex Johnson, Jeff James, all these guys who
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: were the early Phillies type of guy. And my mom
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: and dad they took us and my mom on on
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Tuesday are excuse me, on Sundays when they had two
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: o'clock games, would invite some of the players back to
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: the house. I mean, we were kind of young at
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: the time, but I remember Ferguson Jenkins sitting in our
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: living room meeting chick in when you know, my mom
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: made and you know, we didn't have cell phones back
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: in that day, so you couldn't really take pictures other
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: than like the polaroids. Or whatever they had. But through
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: the years, I kind of like Miami Baseball Stadium. I
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: kind of grew up in that area and followed the
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: you know, the team when they were with the Phillies
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: organization and then they became the Orioles organization with Cal
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Ripkens Senior was the manager back in nineteen sixty six,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: and kind of followed them in sixty six, sixty seven,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: sixty eight, we were bat boys for the spring training
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Orioles and also for the Miami Marlins and got a
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: chance to meet, you know, guys like Paul Blair and
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: merv Retmand and you know, some of the great oriole
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: people of that of that era. And then it followed
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: suit into the seventies and when I got back from college,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: I work with Sonny. Sonny Hersh put me on the air.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: I mean he took a chance with me and put
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: me on the air at fifteen years old on wk
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: T Radio, so and I would do a talk show
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: on the weekends. And yeah, it's been but I've always
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: been baseball oriented. I do. I've done football for a
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: long long time, but baseball is where my heart is.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Like I said, we had an opportunity back in the
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: early seventies when Eddie Murray came up. Eddie Murray was
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: actually in Bluefield, which is a rookie League team, after
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: he got drafted. He learned how to switch it George Farson,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: who was the manager at the time, and then George
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: he followed George up to the Miami Orioles back in
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: seventy four and they had John Flynn on that team
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: used to pitch, you know, for the Orioles as well.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: So I'm telling you, you know, I just grew up
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: in that era where you know, I was there. And
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: then when I started working for the Orioles, the Miami
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Ools in seventy nine and eighty and eighty one, and
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: that's where I met Scott back in that time, and
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I was traveling secretary, I made reservations, I go on
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: the road. So I really got a baptism on the baseball.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: And the best part was spring training. And you know,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I had a pleasure of announcing the PA announcing for
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: five years with the Orioles during the spring training and
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: get an opportunity to see Pete Rose and Tom Seaver
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: and people like that, and yeah, it's just been great.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: And I started in football actually nineteen seventy working for
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: the Miami News and just kind of a being a stringer,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: but that's what I do. I've also been fortunate it
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: to be in radio now for coming up on fifty
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: years or fifty two years. I still host the show
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: every Monday night here in Miami on WQAM, which is
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: kind of the flagship station for the Miami Heat and
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: the Panthers in the Oreo, I mean, in the Hurricanes,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: and do a podcast every Monday night called Six Ring
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Canes with the University of Miami. I do a lot
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: of draft stories for minor leagues. I've been to a
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: lot of the Area Code games. When Under Armour had
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: their game in Chicago, we were just talking JB. I
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: was there for the Under Armoor game that they had
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: that year, and yeah, I've just been keeping in touch
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: with everything. And also I have a passion for high
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: school and collegiate wrestling. I've announced the state wrestling tournament
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: for thirty nine years here in Florida and have had
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: the pleasure of seeing guys like Ray Lewis when he
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: wrestled for Lakeland Kathleen, and so, you know, I've kind
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: of touched a lot of the different things I also
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: worked for a newspaper down here called the Hollywood Son
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Tatler at one point. They are now obviously they're defunct.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: But I had a chance of covering the fort loado
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Delle Strikers back in the day when they had Gerdon
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Mueller and Gordon Banks and you know. And I worked
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: for the Kick magazine and I got a chance to
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: do stories on George Best and you know, and Johann
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Kriich who came over and played for the Los Angeles
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: team from uh from Ajax in Holland. And uh, and
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: that was special because my mom was born in the
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: same city as Bert Blylevin in in Holland. And my
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: mom came over here and she became the biggest Brooklyn
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Dodger fan in history. And uh, you know, for somebody
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: who grew up in in you know, outside of Amsterdam,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: she really adopted to it. And uh, my dad's been everything.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: My dad was everything to me as far as taking
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: me everywhere, uh and exposing me to these you know games,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: I would have never been able to do any of this.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: And and back even back in high school, my buddy
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: and I used to skip school and go to the
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: spring training games and we kind of got caught. One
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: day one of the local TV stations was doing an
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: interview with Rico Petro Sali and we got in the background.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: And the next day when we came in, our typing
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: teacher said, hey, do you enjoyed the game? And yeah,
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: so that you know, you do kid things. And when
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: we were younger also we would Now you can't get
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: next to the NFL teams when they're here or the
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: college teams, but back in the day, they would stay
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: at these hotels, and we got an opportunity to be
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: in the same the same lobby as Bear Bryant for
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: like an hour and just talking to him just like
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: a regular guy. Had an opportunity to see the Buffalo
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Bills when they came in, and actually saw Haven Moses
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: and Al Callings and OJ Simpson actually sat on Terry
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Bradshaw's bed when he as a rookie with the Steelers.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: He and Roy Girella were kind of roommates. So I've
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: had a I think growing up, and these kids don't
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: understand nowadays what kind of you know, you know, kind
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: of upbringing we had. And I would have never traded
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: what I went through growing up. Obviously, we didn't have
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: you know, like you JB, you had an opportunity to
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: have major leagues and we never did other than you know,
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: spring training. I got the Dolphins in sixty six. I
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: never really was a Dolphin fan because I became a
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Ram fan before, but I kind of, you know, pull
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: for the teams. And we never had hockey. We had
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: ABA basketball with the Miami Floridians back in the day.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's it, you know. I mean, I've had
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: a great opportunity to be well rounded in what I do.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: And you know, I don't pigeonhole myself, even though a
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: lot of people kind of relate me to, you know,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: to recruiting and stuff, because I've done that Nash. I
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: did that nashally for nineteen years and had an opportunity
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: to be everywhere, and then just for the last twenty
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: four years, I've been in the state of Florida and
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: fortunate to visit eleven to twelve colleges during the summer
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: and going to camps and combines. And you know, you
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: got a chance to now with the advent of seven
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: on seven. So I keep busy. You know, I'm in
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: upper sixties. But you know, other than when I get
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: up in the morning, I don't feel like I don't
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: feel it.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Well, let me say this, Okay, number one out by
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: the Marlins Park, they have Sunny Hirsch Way. So I'm
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: glad that they honored Sonny not only for what he
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: did with the Marlins.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: What that I raised money for that. I h yeah,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: I raised six thousand dollars to get that, and it
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: was the whole street. But then when they built a
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: new facility, they only cut it down to that, just
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: that one that one sign right along in front of
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: the stadium. But yeah, I you know, I just felt
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: that I owed it to him, and I went, you know,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: I had to sit before more commissions to get that
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: damn thing passed. And yeah, and we had to pay
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: a lot the money for it. But you know, guys
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: like Dennis Erickson and people like that kind of anted
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: up because of the fact that Sonny meant to a
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: hurricane program as well.
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: Well.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I'm proud to drive on it with Sonny Hurst, And
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: of course I got to know him really well. I
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: was working at the Hallen Hill Digest at the time,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: a place that you would subsequently work at for arguably
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: one of the greatest employers on the planet in Peter Blueston.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: He's the guy that I think the world of. And
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: you know, when you talk about covering the Fort Lauderdale Strikers,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: when I was here back in the eighties, I covered
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the Fort Lauderdale Strikers too, so it was kind of neat.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: I remember Kick Magazine. I remember Ken Roppert was one
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: of the best htigers on the planet. So and then,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: but here's something you probably didn't do that.
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: I did. A guy by the name of Doug Pett
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: obviously you remember him.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, announcer for the Yankees.
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah right.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: He got me a spring training job, Joe get this
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: as a scoreboard operator for the Texas Rangers when they
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: were at Popino Beach Municipals, so that I could pick
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: up some extra money. And let me tell you, when
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: you're in college, you're broke, man. All you live off
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: of are stake and shaking a lot of the fast
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: food place. Of course I was skinny then it didn't
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: even matter.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: But that's great.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like I said, you know, working with
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Peter one of the nicest guys in the world. He
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: made us feel like family. And you know, brother Danny
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: was all right too, But Peter to me.
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: Was a father figure.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Then I think that anybody can go ahead and relate
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: to you know, Larry and I have talked fondly about
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Peter for a long time and all that. So, but
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: that said, and I want to make sure everybody has
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: a fair opportunity to go ahead and ask questions. Larry,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: you just pretty much talked about it a little bit.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Explain everybody what Larry's recruiting services are, which are obviously
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: prep red Zone Florida. You've been doing it a long time. Anyways,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: you talk about the top high school prospect, but everybody
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: an idea and a detail what you do and how
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: much help you are to all these universities.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Well what we do with Larry blustein comment to Miami
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: dadon Broward thing, it's you know obviously that the three
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: oh five and nine to five four nationally have put
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: out as many much talent as anybody else. And you know,
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: you could go to a game like we went to
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: last week a Miami Northwestern who Teddy Bridgewater is now
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: the head coach, and you know agains Miami Norland, and
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: you could have as many as fourteen what they call
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: now power forward. It's not Power five anymore. Maybe JB
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: they might might go back to Power vive if they
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: ever that Pack twelve ever catches on. But you could
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: have that much talent in one, you know, one place.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: So we cover that. We do rankings, we do prospect reports,
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: we do you know, class stuff, and it's a free website.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: And a lot of the colleges that we see that
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: have an opportunity to come into town. James Franklin from
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Penn State was their last Friday night, had an opportunity
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: to see him and talk to him for a while.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: One of his kids that he that committed was in
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: that game. I mean, you'll see she's you'll see a lot.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: That's the one thing that's great. Like this weekend Miami
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: gohos to a USF and I was telling Scott a
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: coach Golesh, who came from Tennessee is one of the
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: best young head coaches coming up. I think USF will
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: most likely be in the ACC for the twenty twenty
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: sixth season, which only makes sense since Tampa's the largest
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: TV market in the state of Florida. So get a
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: chance to see them, you know, walk around with guys
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: like Mike Norvell, you know at FSU, and I've covered
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Mario Cristobal and his brother since they were in high
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: school at Christopher Columbus High School, so I have kind
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: of a bond with Mario from way back in the
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: days when he actually was in youth football. So that's
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: the one thing too, guys. You know that I'm very
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: fortunate that a lot of the head coaches now that
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: around the country, no matter where they are, I they
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: were all positioned coaches at one time and all recruited Florida.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: So I would you know, Brett bielmov at Illinois and
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: you know, on and on, you know. So I've been
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: very fortunate in that way. So and let me tell
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: you the Prep Red Zone Florida is they we do
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: the entire state and it's myself and two others we
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: headed up and it's just great. We do rankings six
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: times a year so they change so they're not stale,
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: and we have over three hundred college coaches that subscribed
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: to it. So yeah, so that's it. That's what we
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: do for the recruiting end of things. So I'm excited,
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: you know, Like I said, you know, we're midway through
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: the season now and it just gets better and better
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: as long as the lightning stays away.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: You know, I got to know Alan Scholars during the
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: bulker of Todd Bull when they went out there and
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: trout Syracuse forty five, and nothing remind me a lot
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: of Dang Campbell with his enthusiasm.
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: He really does.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: And I think he's done an outstanding job at us
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: OUF and I wish him well personality.
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: So you know what I'm done. But JB.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Ellis is and you can ask Larry anything you want, Okay,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: you don't have to be relegated to recruiting. I'm sure
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: you probably have a few questions you'd like to ask Larry, right, JB.
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: So, out of all the different hats you've worn because
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: you were into recruiting, you did the radio show or
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: you still do the radio show, You worked for a team,
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: which did you find the most enjoyment with and what
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: would you want to do if you could do any
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: of them? Right now? Oh?
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: JB. If I could stayed in baseball longer, you know,
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: the just the opportunity to be part of you know,
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: we got a chance to go like to some of
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: the spring training sites in Arizona, and I just whenever
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: I go out to baseball games. Now, like I said,
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: I don't get to a lot of Marlin games. I
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: used to just go when the Mets were in town.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: But to answer your question, I think about stayed in
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: baseball solely. I would have done that just from a
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: financial standpoint. It really didn't you know, it didn't make
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: sense at the time. But yeah, baseball is is my
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: first love.
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: So with the recruiting site, Prep Red Zone, how did
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: you guys start that and where did it? Like, how
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: did it grow and developed to what it is now
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: throughout the whole state?
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Well, Prep Red Zone was out of Minnesota. They started
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: as a basketball only deal. You know, they had sites
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: and I think twenty eighteen to twenty states for basketball.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: It was a good exposure, you know for a lot
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: of the basketball not so much the large basketball schools,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: but a lot of those you know in the Midwest.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: They have a ton of Division two, Division three naia
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: And then they started into football. And since I had
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: done you know, Florida for so many years, I was
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: approached to do it, And at first I was a
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: little hesitant because you know the fact that I kind
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: of want to know and this was like about five
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: years ago. Kind of want to wind things down. But
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: then I got involved and they said, you know you could,
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: you could add a couple of people if you want
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: of your own, and I did, and I knew a
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: lot of What I did is I got two people
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: who had their kids got recruited and they knew the
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: recruitment and so I hired them and we've been going strong.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: We started out. Now they're in thirty nine forty states
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: and when you buy one package for each state, you
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: get the entire you know, entire deal. And like I said,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: every single day we have something, whether it's like I
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: came out today with excuse me, fifty five of the
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: top twenty twenty seven kids. Those are current sophomores, and
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: you know, I mean so people and college coaches love
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: that because of the fact that they get a chance
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: to see those guys. We come out with a thing
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: called Prospect Video and we run almost one hundred with
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: their video with their GPAs. Yeah, so it's we give
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: you know, if you're paying nine to ninety five a month,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: you get that and then some so we you know,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: three people doing a lot of work put out close
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: to seventeen to twenty things every week. I even do
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: stuff on weekends. We have rankings every Tuesday. We have
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: a complete scoreboard of the entire state every Saturday morning,
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: which a lot of people don't get. And yeah, I
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: so to answer your question, baseball is my love. Football
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: is something you know that has become a real decent
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: passion for almost six decades.
• 48:39
  Speaker 6: You go find that.
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so you've you've met a lot of famous athletes
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: and coaches and worked with them and been around them.
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: Take taking away the work part of it. Who is
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: your favorite person that you met at why?
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well there's two ear a weaver, you know, and
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: a lot of people kind of get along with him
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: and took him wrong. But you know what, he took
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: the time a lot of times to just you know,
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: we go out in the bullpen and sit out there
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: and he just talked to me and you know, just
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: just a real you know. That's why I used to
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: and I love when he got in those fights with
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: the umpires because that's how he was. But him and
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: a guy that probably a lot of people listening don't remember,
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: but his name is Toby Harrah. And Toby played obviously
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: with the Indians with the Texas Rangers, and Toby was
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: he came on. I did a show at WQA, I
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: mean w IOD down here, I would do the station
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: would cover the NL East and back then it was Baltimore, Detroit,
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: the Orioles and the Red Sox, and they would have
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: a game on from like seven thirty till ten, and
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: I would do a show from ten to midnight. And
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: I had him on the show, and the next day
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: when I say hey, said thank you for he never
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: forgot my name. And I thought that was pretty neat,
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: you know, I mean here, I was like twenty years
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: old and somebody like that is really so those two guys,
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: I was deeply disappointed in a guy that I loved
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: because I was a Met fan. And Tom Seaver he
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: turned out not to be the greatest guy in the
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: world from that standpoint, one of the best pitchers ever.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Still remember when he got, you know, drafted out of
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: USC and he played in Jacksonville. And yeah, so, to
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: be honest with you, Earl Weaver was great, you know,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: at least to me. And also Toby Hara very cool.
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: Anything else, go, No, that's it all.
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: Right, George, Well, Larry, and know much has always been
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: said about high school football players and the stomach said
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: basketball players that they prefer to be in these warm
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: states Florida, Texas, Georgia, California. But yet we have a
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: lot of great athletes in the Midwest too. Don't count
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: sharded Michigan, Ohio, Illinois. Is there disparity there, Larry, do
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: you still see it as far as the college I'm sorry,
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: the high school kids and and coming out and uh,
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: I know the recruiting obviously is is nationwide now for
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: these football coaches, But what are your thoughts about that
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: that that the Midwest was kind of like just a
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: little bit inferior to to the warm weather states.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's you know, that couldn't be any further than
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: the truth. And like I said, I've covered national for
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: a lot of years and I've had an opportunity to
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: seem you know, Canton, McKinley and Masalon and you know
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: programs in Ohio. Also, excuse me, got a chance to
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: go to Minnesota and and watch Steve Walsh at Creton Durham,
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: the same school that Chris Wanky came out of and
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Joe mort Mauer came out of. Uh, yeah, there's a lot,
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: there's a ton of kids. You look at the Michigan
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: and Ohio state rivalry, and look at all those guys
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: that come from the Midwest, tons of kids. Notre Dame
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: has always he's done well and keeping a lot of
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: those athletes home. Yeah, anywhere you go, you know, in
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: the country. And the only reason why I always kind
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: of say about Florida is that we have more. It
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean ours are all better, but we have you know,
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: if you look at any of these states, Michigan, Indiana,
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: they have one hundred kids, but we go three four
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: hundred deep, and that's the only difference. But that's not
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: to take anything away from you know, any of the
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Midwest schools or even you know, had an opportunity. Probably
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: one of the most exciting games I've ever been to
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: as far as crowd and talent was in Tulsa where
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: I saw Tulsa Union play against Jenks, two really big
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: programs out of that area. Got an opportunity to see
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: California back in the day when when Servite was really
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: good and Bishop of Mott now it's matter Day and
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: Saint John Bosco. But yeah, you know, I take nothing
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: away from any other part of the country. You know,
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: you look at the Bosa brothers, John Bosa, their father
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: came out of Keen, New Hampshire, and played at Boston
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: College when Doug Flutie was there, when Troy Stratford was there.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: So you could go anywhere around you want and you'll
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: find great talent.
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: And another question too, that's been really of concern to mine, Larry.
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: It used to be that we kept sacred, for lack
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: of a better term, Friday nights. Friday nights, of course,
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: under the lights, these high school kids, the band, the cheerleaders,
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: the whole homecoming. I mean, it's just an event. I mean,
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: my daughter plays in the marching band here at a
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: school called Warren Couzino, and we're damn proud of her
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: in her first year in high school. And it's so
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: much fun, as you know, on Friday nights. But yet
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: we see the college football and croaching on Friday nights.
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: The Fox has to have a game of the week.
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: Now on Friday nights we see the NFL making inroads
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: and playing on Christmas Day, and they got a Friday night,
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: Black Friday, the game and all that. And I'm sorry, Larry,
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: I don't like it. I really think that that's a
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: mistake and I'm just curious about your thoughts on Friday nights,
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: especially when I come to football.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you couldn't be any more correct. I mean, back
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: in my day, we didn't have all this stuff, you know,
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: back in the sixties seventies. The only thing now that
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: overrides there is money. And you know, people are spending
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: a lot of money to have those games. And it's
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: weird because last Friday night, I'm sitting at the high
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: school game and have my phone on watching UNLV in
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: Kansas because I didn't want to miss it. Obviously have
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: gone to school there, and you know, we've had probably
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: the worst football program in the country over the last
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: thirty five years since Randall Cunningham and Nicky Woods were there.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: So but I couldn't agree with you more. And but
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: you know, you remember this, like the movies like All
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: the Right Moves with Tom Cruise when and you know
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: that it was Ampipe, but I think that was kind
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: of al equippa. But those Pittsburgh Friday Night, those games
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. And as you mentioned, you know, Chicago,
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: you know has you know, I think they did a
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: poll like five years ago that Chicago has deemed forty
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: inner city schools forty inner city schools football football, only
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: nine made it to the second round. Of basketball, twenty
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: seven made it to the second round. And you know, basketball,
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: especially in Chicago area, JB. I mean, it's it's huge.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, a lot of the westing Houses and all
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: those big time schools you know where like you know,
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Dwayne Wade and all these guys that came out of
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: that area. So yeah, it's it. You know, I can't
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: agree with you more. We in South Florida because of
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: the fact that a lot of programs in Miami Dade
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: County don't have stadiums. So what's happening now is you're
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: having Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday games. Good for me
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: to see that, but it takes kind of that, you know,
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: you could have like Miami Central and Miami Northwestern. They'll
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: be playing in two weeks, which is like a bitter rival,
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: and they'll get twelve thousand fans, but a mile and
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: a half down the road at another stadium, they could
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: have two hundred. And you see, that's to me. You know,
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: in the Midwest, there's more of that loyalty, there's more
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: of that, like you said George. There's more of that
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: Friday night feel to it. The band, you know, the
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: pregame tailgates, the you know, post game waiting for you know,
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: the players to come out and stuff. We don't have
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: that here. And and I but I, you know, I
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: could probably say, you know, you're probably lucky that your
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: daughter's in the band, because it's you know, I mean
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: when Scott will tell you when Florida A and M
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: didn't bring their band down here, everybody was really upset,
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: you know, because you know, everybody wants to see, you know,
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: a halftime show like that, especially somebody it has a
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: you know, reputation like Florida and M bands. But I
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: couldn't agree with you more. But we're never gonna see
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: it come back because that almighty dollar. And you know,
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: now you have back you have mac Mac Tuesday and
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: Wednesday nights, and you know, and then you know Thursday
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: evening NFL. Whi's never you know, Monday Night used to
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: be because when I was growing up, they started Monday
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: Night Football with you know, with Howard coach Sell and
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: Don Meredith and and uh back in the day and
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: uh and that was great because we you know, even
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: though we had school the next day. I remember about
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: eight thirty my dad sending us for ice cream. We
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: went and got ice cream and sat there and watched
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: the NFL Monday Night game, and you know, that was good.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: But then they started adding, like you said, Thanksgiving was
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: always great with Detroit, was Dallas kind of did it?
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: And now, as you said, there's two three games, and
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: then there's a college game Misssippy, Mississippi State. The Egg
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Bowl is usually play. Yeah, it's kind of gotten away
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: from that. Do you the only Friday games there used
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: to be. I used to remember Nebraska and Oklahoma used
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: to play on Friday, you know, the day after.
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: Very good, we'll turn over the candy.
• 58:14
  Speaker 7: So, Larry, I have a couple of questions. One of
• 58:17
  Speaker 7: my first questions.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: Is the food in the press box is horrible?
• 58:21
  Speaker 7: No, I just well, and they ran out this last
• 58:24
  Speaker 7: time with the two.
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: I know they did, especially during a delay.
• 58:27
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 58:29
  Speaker 7: But my question is is there are some colleges that
• 58:32
  Speaker 7: obviously have iconic stadiums, and then there are some teams
• 58:37
  Speaker 7: that play in NFL stadiums like the Canes play where
• 58:41
  Speaker 7: the Dolphins play. Right now, USF plays where Tampa Bay plays.
• 58:48
  Speaker 7: Is it an advantage or a disadvantage to be playing.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, when it comes to recruiting obviously, you know,
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: as George said before, that Midwest field. When you're at
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Michigan you know, the Big House, or you're at Ohio
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: Stadium Ohio State, you could walk to the campus and
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: there's that feel you know, they like in Penn State
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: they have that walk that you know that they do,
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: and a lot of those other programs have the same thing,
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: you know. And then Miss oh Miss and you know Gainesville,
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: as you guys were up there, you know, you could
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: You're like minutes from campus and you could walk over
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: and you could tailgate. But on the other hand, if
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: you play it in an NFL stadium and you take
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: a kid and say, oh, by the way to a
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: played here. You know, the Dolphins played here and you
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: know all that, and we have major Bowl games here,
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: the Orange Bowls. You know, that's kind of a selling
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: point as well. And you know as well as I
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: do that if you go to a Dolphin game at
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: hard Rock Stadium, you see all the Ring of Honor
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: and all that stuff. But they transform it when Miami
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: plays there where they have their own Ring of honors.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: So yeah, you know, and and and because of property values,
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: you'll never get Miami, especially in Coral Gables, will never
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: be able the Florida Stadium. I mean, it's just too costly.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: And you know, the average person doesn't understand. But Miami's small.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: They only have twelve thousand undergraduates, and it's a it's
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: a small you know people. And the same thing with USC,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: the same thing. They're two of the same type of
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: schools and big cities that play in NFL stadiums, although
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: USC plays in the Coliseum where nobody plays anymore but them.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: But yeah, there's advantages, Candy, and there's disadvantages. I think
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: the college atmosphere is great. But Miami, you know, I mean,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: let's be honest, Miami wouldn't draw no matter what. They're
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: just not They've never drawn. And you know, I think
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: that the one thing that that UNLV's done, you know,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: playing in the Legion Stadium, you know, the brand new
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: Allegiance Stadium, is what they've done is they sell no
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: upper deck or middle deck seats or all lower bowl.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: And that means when you see it on TV, it
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: looks like they've got a pretty decent crowd. Now Miami
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: should do the same thing, but they're stubborn and people
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: don't want to do that. And you know, it always
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: looked like they have no crowd at all, and especially
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: the other day, you know, is it's almost embarrassing, and
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: people are right, they don't have they don't support the
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: football team. You have a core of people that do it.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: Uh so Miami, it really wouldn't matter if Miami had
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: an on campus stadium or not. They were kind of
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: proposing Tropical Park, which is like four miles from there,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: but yeah, that's never going to go anywhere, so they'll
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: stay there. They signed a thirty something year lease and
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: uh but yeah, there's you know, you look at pro
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: there's some programs that have to play you know, off
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: campus because of the fact that you know, because the
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: real estate values are so expensive, like in LA and Miami,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: that it just doesn't pay to put an on campus stadium.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: And a lot of these you know programs, you know,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: like you look at like Georgia Tech, they kind of
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: been you know, they were in the middle of town
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: before Atlanta started getting big. H same thing with like
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: you know, when UCLA two plays at the Rose, it's
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: not on campus. You'll see that, and you know quite
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: a few areas. Houston was playing at the Astronaum for
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: a long time then they built like a thirty five
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: thousand ATI campus that USF's going to do the same thing.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm of the belief that, you know, if
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: if it really doesn't matter for Miami, if they're playing
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: at hard rock beets, they're going to get that type
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: of crowd no matter if they're there or at home.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: But for the tradition and these kids to walk, you know,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: just you know, party out and not have to drive.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: And that's why what Miami's done is they have these
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: buses that take them from campus, so you know, if
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: they're drinking or whatever, they don't have to drive, and
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: they're like party buses, and you know a lot of
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: kids take advantage of it. So yeah, to answer your question,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: you know, in a lot of areas that already have it,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: for them to move off campus would be kind of
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: a culture shock. But for those like Miami and USC
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: and programs like that who've never had on campus facilities,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: they're you know, they're pretty much accustomed to what's going on.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 6: Well.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: Remember one thing, though, Larry and I have seen the
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: Hurricanes play not only in hard Rock Stadium, but we
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: saw them play at the Orange Bowl too, so which
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: is I think a little bit closer to campus. But
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: it was inevitable that they had to move up the
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: hard Rock because you had the amenities and all that stuff.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well a Miami's them play at both stadiums.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: Miami doesn't want to play in that Orange Bowl site. Now.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: They lost their last game there forty nine to nothing
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: in the Virginia and then when they went and played
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: at Marlin's Park they lost FIU. So I think they're
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: staying far enough away from that.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 6: That's an excellent point. Go ahead, Candy.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 7: So your first love is baseball, and you talk about
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 7: recruiting and watching recruiters and recruiting. You have seen, or
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 7: we have seen a lot more younger pitchers with Tommy
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 7: John and those kind of injuries. What what do you
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 7: think is the reason? I mean, I know what I
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 7: think it is, but I'd be curious to hear what
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 7: your take is on all these timing John with the young.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: Well here's the thing too, Candy. You know, back in
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: the day, you went to Rookie League, then you went
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: to Low A, you went to High A. You went
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: to double A and then Triple A. But now as
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: you look at guys with experience like Paul Skens, I mean,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: here's somebody that starts out because he was at a
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: high level in LSU, which is Southeastern Conference, in a
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: good program. He basically started out in high A went
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: to write the Double A. He was in Bradenton. I
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: went to watch him pitch in Bradenton for the Pirates
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: and he went to Double A. And it's funny because
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: I was doing an interview for him, you know, for
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: the Sporting News, the audio version of the Sporting News,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: And I called him up on a Friday and I
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: asked him, a would Sunday be good? And then he
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: calls me back Saturday and told me he got called
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: up the Harrisburg Double A. And the next day I
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: ask him if I could, you know, call him and
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: he goes, well, I got sheld in my first game.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: Let's wait a while. So they're moving you up faster.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: And I think that kind of creates especially for the
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: younger kids. I mean, you look at some of these
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: guys that are twenty years old and playing in the
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: big leagues, and because they have live arms, you know,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: they throw ninety seven ninety eight. Back in the day,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: if you it went to eighty eight, eighty nine, ninety,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: you were like a monster. But now you got guys
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: like a Roldis Chapman. If those in the middle hundred,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: you know, one oh four's one oh five, you got
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: big arms like that and it. But also Candy, here's
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: the thing too, the complete games of these days are
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: just far and few between. Back in the day with
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: the Bob Gibson's and the Nolan Ryans and I mean,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: they were like wark courses and they would have like
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: twelve fourteen complete games a year. Now you're lucky if
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: you have twelve or fourteen complete games in a league.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: So that's changed a little bit. They're trying to curb it. Uh,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: but you know what's gonna happen is gonna happen if
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: you're you know, if you're I don't know. I just
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: think it's in the makeup. Because you have guys that
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: could throw really really hard, like the Randy Johnson's and
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: people like that, who never really had drastic armed problems.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: But then you have other guys who's had that Tommy
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: john surgery and have you know, been out for you know,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: a year and a half or so. And but I
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: don't think there's a definitive answer to why that's happening.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: I just because they're trying to lessen it now with
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: the innings that they pitch. A lot of these guys
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: are on pitch counts and and you know, certainly you
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: look at you know, like Strasburg when they limited him
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: that year to pitching, I think, jeez, they cut him
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: off and they say no more and he you know,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: they're coming up on the playoffs, and you figure, how
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: can you see the guy, you know, because they may
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: never get there again Washington, which is kind of prophetic
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: because they have. But you know, you take a look
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: at a lot of these you know, these young kids,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: and you know, I've been down a Jupiter and I've
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: watched you know, the Marlins. I've gone to a lot
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: of these Gulf Coast League games. Like I said, when
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: I go to you know, football camps in Tampa, Orlando
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: and areas like that during the day. At night, I
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: go over and watch minor league baseball, and you know,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: see a lot of these kids, you know, like Jose
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: Fernandez type of players, and you know, the kids that
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: you look and see who they when they when they sign,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: and they usually ship them off to a like a
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: rookie league first just to get them acclimated and you know,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: and then they have a start or two and then
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: they because remember the money that they're putting into these
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: guys today, guys is just nuts. And you know, I
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: mean there's signing bonuses of nine, ten, twelve million dollars
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: when it was used to be two and three back
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: in the day. And but a lot of things have changed. Money,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: you know, as I say, George, money is taking over
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: in all the sports, and you know, especially because of
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: the fact that you know, you're paying these guys crazy,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: crazy contracts. These they sort of money has to come
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: from somewhere, and if people aren't you know, paying for
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: the TV revenues, and that's where a lot of the
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: money comes from. I mean, you know, you look, especially
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: during like the COVID times, it was really tough to
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: sell a lot of this advertising. So you know, I mean,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: in all sports, it's it's getting out of hand.
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  Speaker 6: For sure. Anybody else have any more questions.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's great getting that perspective, Scott Larry. You're loaded
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 4: with knowledge and it really shows great, great insight you're
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 4: providing us tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I have a few questions Larry, to wrap this bad
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: boy up. Number one, The Florida Panthers won the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Number one. Obviously, we know it's great for the area.
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  Speaker 1: But can they continue to sustain this type of support
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: all lull or is it going to be like a
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: tip go South Florida, either you win or we don't support.
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  Speaker 1: And how long can they keep this momentum going?
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Now in the Stanley Cup finals two years in a row,
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  Speaker 2: Scott so you know, they lost four started from last year,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: but they gained three new guys. You know, that's one
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: thing in all sports, it's not just hockey. You're never
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: going to keep at your There's no loyalty anymore. If
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: somebody's paying you a few more dollars, you're gonna jump ship.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: And you see that all the time. But I think
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: the nucleus that they have now, you know, especially with
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  Speaker 2: their coaching staff, has done a great job, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I think the fans really got a taste of
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: it the last couple of years because you know, you
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: look at Tampa Bay and I think the South Florida
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: was always compared to Tampa Bay and the fact that
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay was winning you know, Stanley Cups and Florida
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: was just you know, finishing last and not making the playoffs.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: So when Vinnie Viola took over, he he vowed to
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: spend money, and he vowed to bring in the best.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what, you know what when you
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: make do may when you fulfill those promises, much like
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: Mario Christobal did when he came in and said, hey, listen,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: in two three years, we're gonna you're gonna see this
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: roster change. And it has and you know, and there's
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: really good football, I mean really good hockey teams. You
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: saw the Edmonton Oilers in the finals last year. They
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: were really good. You know, by all rights, probably had
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: a deeper roster than Florida did. But you also you
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: look at the you know, you look at the Rangers,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: and you look at Boston and you know, these hockey
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: teams are all wanting to get into that and they're
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: all getting adding the pieces. So it's not going to
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: be easy. And if you remember that Tommy Losorda came
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  Speaker 2: up with that one saying, as heavy as the head
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: that wears the crown, and he's one hundred percent right,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: because to stay right there, you know it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be tough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Tommy Losorda is the first major interview that I had.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: You know how close him and I were. Here's a
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  Speaker 1: question that I think a lot of people would like
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: to know about. Miami Marlins play at Loan to Youth
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Pill Park, were former side of the Orange Bowl. We
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: know it had a history on the site. However, let's
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: not get ourselfs delivery. We both know that prior to that,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: they played at Joe Robbie Stadium. Do you think the
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: Marlins would have had could have done better with their
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: site and they should have played on the hard rock
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: site and that would help their attendance situation because right now,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: unfortunately I don't know how they stay in business. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, I know they were trying to
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: build around the international crowd. I get that, but let's
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: not kid yourself when you take you away your drawing
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: base from the three major counties in the area. I
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: think the Marlins hindered themselves by going where they are
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: versus where they should have gone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, the Dolphins didn't want them there
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: anymore because then they had to configure the field. They
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: had to play on the ground like the Jets used to,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: you know, play a Shay Stadium back in the day.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: They had to play on that dirt infield, so they
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: really didn't want it. But here's the two things about
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: the Marlins. Their ownership is horrible. It always has been,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: you know, I mean obviously when Wayne and Heysingers started out,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: but it was a short time thing. They've never had
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: solid management. The only time that they've ever people don't understand.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: They've never won the division. They've won two World Series
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: being a wildcard. Their drawing power is average at best.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: They do no promotions, they do nothing, They do no winning.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: You let a guy like Arrays go within the first
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: two months of the season and then you start cleaning house,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: and that just signals that you're not going to be
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: a very good team. And outside of Berger, I don't
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: think they got a kid right now that really is
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: any good for major leagues. They got a lot of
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: minor league kids on the team. But that being said
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: is major League Baseball wants the Marlins there. They want
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: it because they're the closest today. They're a gateway to
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: the Caribbean. They're going to host a lot of things.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: They got Baseball Classic coming this year where they're going
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: to be able to host the finals. So I think
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: major League Baseball it kind of, you know, and I
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: wish they take over the team in a point their
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: own GMS and stuff, because the people who own and
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: run the team now have no clue. And the last
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: GM that they had was worth assault was Larry Beinfest,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: and they kind of pushed him out, you know. And
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: obviously your guy that that went to Detroit right out
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: of here, Dave Dombrowski. He had an idea when he
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: first got here, and then when Wayne Heijinger sold the team,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: it went downhill. But that's the one thing about the Marlins.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: They're never I don't think they'll ever leave. I think
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: that between you and I, I think what they should
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: do is play at least three four series a year
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: in Puerto Rico. Would help out financially for them, It
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: would kind of you know, I mean, because a lot
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: of people don't care if Houston comes down here on
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: a Tuesday Wednesday. A lot of people don't care if
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: Seattle's down here on a Thursday and Friday. So you
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: move those games, you know, to Puerto Rico and you
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: get some revenue. You got a lot of hungry for
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: baseballs down there as well.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, two quick questions. You give me your
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: prediction for the World Series matchup?
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Being an NL East fan and watching the Phillies, I
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: think the Phillies, if they can get a couple of
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: good arms in there, I think they'll be uh, they'll
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: be in there. You know. It's kind of tough with
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: the American League. I you know, I like to I
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: know JB's Yankee guy, and I would like to say
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: that the Yankees could be there, but I just don't
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: think that they have the arms to win a series.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: They may win a game or two, they're just and
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: especially in the second half of the season, they've been
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: just too inconsistent.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: You get you get a guy like Garrett Coles who
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: kind of like punked out a couple of times on
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: his starts, and Houston to me, has a pretty deep rotation.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: And I'm not leaving Milwaukee out of the mix either, Candy,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: because you know, they obviously did they did clinch and
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: they got some good arms. But I think Philadelphia has
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: just got the bats. I mean, when you look at
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: the and I'm gonna say something nice about my boy
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: Bryce and Scott, a UNLV guy who has really lifted
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: his game up this year as well. Yeah, I think
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia and you can pick two three teams in the
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: American League. I don't you know, I don't think there's
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: a definitive team. The Dodgers obviously are always gonna be
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: in the mix. They got the big bats, they got
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: some arms. Yeah, I you know, I'll be honest, guys,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's a you know, you know in
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: the passion maybe you say, well, you know, the Dodgers
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: are there for sure and there, but I don't think
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: this year you could say that definitively as.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 6: Far as you know. I will say one thing.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: There's an irony though, when the Miami Marlins defeated the
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: New York Yankees in the World Series, and you and
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: I know it because we were here, that you had
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: the Miami Marlins get the Fort Lawerhille Yankees in the
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: Florida State leagues.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 6: There, that brings it back.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: And finally, okay, I'm gonna put you on the spot,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: my Miami and US half.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: What's your prediction Miami forty three to twelve.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I'm gonna go Miami thirty seven to twenty four.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: Wow, they're scoring twenty four points on the deal.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know enough about USLF. I mean, I
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: can't beat up my alma monitory.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, no, I understand. Good quarterback uh and a
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: good running back is from down here in South Florida,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: Nick one Wright.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 6: We're gonna go seven twenty four.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: Hathing, But either way, we're still picking Miami.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, that's true, that's true, maybe right.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, hey, listen, I have a loyalty to the Canes.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: This is my fifth year covering the Canes. I covered
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: them twice when I was with to Digest, and now
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: this is my third year here, and the Canes are
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: what I consider my adopted team. I do stuff with
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic, but still the Kynes are really they were
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: the first major college football team I covered.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 6: Final Georgia.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: Who do you cover? I mean, who do you like Georgia?
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: Who do you follow? College wise?
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 4: Well, College of course, Michigan and Michigan State and Notre Dame.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 4: You know, being raised a Catholic, I always have my
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 4: my allegiance to Notre Dame. Terrible, terrible upset they suffered.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 4: And uh, Michigan, I know, I know.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: The Marshall and the news, the Northern.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 4: Exactly exactly so, and you know, my we're not even
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 4: Division Division two or three. I forgetting football Wayne State University,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 4: which is in Detroit. But uh, you know, as far
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 4: as the Super Bowl goes and all that, of course,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 4: you know people here are just going crazy.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: For the Lions.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 4: Sure right right, that wasn't that wasn't a good game
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 4: though they lost to Tampa.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: The other day. I don't want to go past jvlls bedtime.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: But he's hanging in there doing He's like a trooper
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: like he always is in all these shows. That's right, Jvllas,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: he's my brother from another He's actually in that book too.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: He made his way in there. So the Nikorn you
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: got in there, I got to just get you one
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: sign when I get back down to the rock. So
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: but you know, mean, well, what a great show we had. Yeah,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: I'd like to go a different but thirty seven twenty
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: four in Tampa. That's the only reason why I may
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: give it thirteen points. So Larry, we're so glad that
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: you joined us here on the sport.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 6: Okay, we have one little ritual.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: Everybody want to let everybody know how they could get
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: a hold of Larry.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, my my handle on on Twitter. I acces us
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: at Prep Bread Zone, Florida. It's on my screen there.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: I put it there. The Larry Bluestein on Facebook or
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: Blue Steam recruiting our boy Blue on Instagram. And that's it.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, you could get me anywhere. Just Google me
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: and you if you ever need me for anything, you know,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: talk about any of the recruits around the country or
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: you know, football, baseball, anything. I just I'm open. I'm
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: always trying to look to help kids. So if you
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: have any kids around your around the country that you
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: think are getting overlooked, at him to me. I'll get him.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: You know, I watch your film, I'll evaluate him and
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: I'll get him out.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, like I said, it's all JV.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you, you know, one of the reasons
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: why this show is important to me to know that
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: I have not only ib Hon forever, but Larry Bluestin
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: is a guy who I tell you I have so
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: much respect that we worked together for so long and
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: anytime I got a guy like you who's relatively new
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: to the business and then you see an old pro
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: like Larry. To me, Larry's a brother, he's a friend,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: and he's an unbelievable colleague. And the history that we
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: have when I was younger to where I'm at now,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: you know, I just can't think of a better guy
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: to have on here in front of a national audience.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: So Larry again, I'm obviously looking forward to seeing you
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: back at the Rock. I'll be had enough to Tampa shortly.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for joining us.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 6: Larry. We appreciate it.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: I appreciated George Jban, thank you so much for We'll
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: talk soon.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 6: You bet, I'll see you soon, Larry, God blast party.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: All right, So now there are four of us quick
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: some questions around with all you guys. What are your
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: thoughts about Larry Bluestein Very good. Yeah, He's covered a
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: lot of ground he's done, and awful lot candy.
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  Speaker 7: He has such vast experiences in a plethora of different sports.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 7: It's not like it's all in one. I guess I
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 7: really didn't realize I've known him, but I've only known
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 7: him on the football side. I really haven't known him
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 7: on the baseball, hockey and all those the different You
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 7: know that he covered the Strikers the soccer league like
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 7: he's I know, he has been down here in South
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 7: Florida for a long time. I just didn't realize all
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 7: the different sports I guess that he has covered. And
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 7: I honestly didn't know that baseball was his first love.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 7: So I learned some things tonight too.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: It was cool.
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  Speaker 4: What about you, George, Oh yeah, excellent, very knowledgeable. Like
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 4: you said, Candy covers so many different sports. And of
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: course I love guys that start out when these kids
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 4: are coming out and playing for high school teams, and
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 4: that whole part of him is just amazing too. We
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 4: don't get enough high school coverage like we should for
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 4: these boys and girls.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, well said. Like I say, he's a lifelong friend,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: brother and everything. And Larry's a guy that means so
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: much to me. There are a lot of people that
• 1:21:35
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  Speaker 4: book which is Detroit Sports Broadcasters on the Air and
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  Speaker 4: it's a great compilation of sportscasting in Detroit and Michigan,
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  Speaker 4: including Scott and many others. And you can reach me
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  Speaker 4: on Twitter x at sand at g Sports ninety nine
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  Speaker 4: and also reach me on LinkedIn under my name and
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  Speaker 4: on Yahoo at Giicorn at Yahoo dot cop.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just gonna click update. The Brewers were playing the
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  Speaker 7: Phillies tonight. The Brewers actually won. They had won the division,
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  Speaker 7: which is back to back. The last time they won
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  Speaker 7: back to back division champs. Was back in nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 7: one and eighty two. For those of you who know
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  Speaker 7: what happened in eighty two, there is a movie that
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  Speaker 7: just came out about the nineteen eighty two Brewers. So
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  Speaker 7: hopefully they can do good in the postseason. But they're
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  Speaker 7: playing tough teams, I mean, and to beat Philly was
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  Speaker 7: as most people. And you heard Larry say that he
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  Speaker 7: thinks Philly is one of the best. And Philly Brewers
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  Speaker 7: are the first team to clinch. So the Phillies haven't
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  Speaker 7: even clinched. So everybody's playing meaningful baseball right now, which
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  Speaker 7: is cool.
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  Speaker 6: Well that's might as well take the Detroit Tigers score.
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  Speaker 1: I had the Tigers the Kansas City Royal four to two,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what, I have predicted the Phillies to.
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  Speaker 6: Win it off. I really did.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: The Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: We'll keep up there into the bargain, make it, but hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's face the reality. The Yankees are playing much much
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  Speaker 1: better this year, and I just hope that people get
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  Speaker 1: off of Aaron Boone's bag.
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  Speaker 6: So any closing pots jv ellis, I'm okay.
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  Speaker 1: So meanwhile, that concludes this edition of the Sports Exchange
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of jv Ellis, Candy Emling, George Iiicorn. My
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  Speaker 1: name is Scott Morgan, Rock Motors, Teve Madamoth, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for joining this edition of the Sports Exchange, and a
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  Speaker 1: special shout out to Larry Bluestein from being on the
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  Speaker 1: show with us. So we'll catch you next Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 1: Have a good night, everybody.
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  Speaker 6: Good night.