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Hour 4 – WNBA Drama · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 2: All right, early morning hours, let's get after it. Appreciate
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Speaker 2: you checking out the show. We were broadcasting live from
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Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Radio studios. All Right. Something I think
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Speaker 2: is sort of funny. Every single year happens, like clockwork.
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Speaker 2: I'll get to a story that I don't think was
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Speaker 2: funny at all. First off, I don't know what it
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Speaker 2: is with the NBA Finals. I love the NBA Finals,
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Speaker 2: but you'll watch this year will be the same as
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Speaker 2: every single year, and I don't know why. They'll they'll
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Speaker 2: flash the schedule. They'll show this in like Game one
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Speaker 2: or Game two. Early in the series. They'll flash the
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Speaker 2: schedule for the whole series, and it'll be like whatever week,
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Speaker 2: It'll say Thursday, Sunday, maybe Wednesday of the next week,
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Speaker 2: and then it'll say, June thirteenth, June sixteenth, June nineteenth,
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Speaker 2: and unless you have the entire month of June memorized,
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Speaker 2: you'll have no idea what day of the week those
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Speaker 2: you know dates June thirteenth, June sixteenth, you have no
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Speaker 2: idea what days of the week those are. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why they do it. If you see
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Speaker 2: them flash the schedule on your TV screen during game one,
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Speaker 2: just laugh and think of me, because I'm not at
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Speaker 2: the point where I'm yelling at clouds. I just sort
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Speaker 2: of shake my head at my TV and like, they
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Speaker 2: did it again. What is it with this a yearly
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Speaker 2: tradition where they just throw out the days for the
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Speaker 2: first couple of games Thursday, Sunday, Wednesday, and then it's
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Speaker 2: the dates for the rest of them. June thirteenth, June sixteenth.
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Speaker 2: I would just suggest this, Why not put both when
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Speaker 2: I put the day and the actual date, and then
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Speaker 2: you would know if you didn't have the entire month memorized,
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Speaker 2: you would know when the days are. You know, you'd
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Speaker 2: have a fighting chance to remember, like, oh, okay, Thursday
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Speaker 2: the fifth, got it, Sunday the eighth, okay, Wednesday the eleventh.
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Speaker 2: Then we're on a Friday the thirteenth. Oh, Friday the thirteenth.
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Speaker 2: That's easy to remember, right, Like, why would they do that?
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Speaker 2: Why don't watch a guarantee garrote like Chuck Houston still
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Speaker 2: says Charles Barklay. If it says six thirteen and there's
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Speaker 2: no Friday the thirteenth, that's a missed opportunity right there.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, Melar militia. But they'll do it.
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Speaker 2: They always do it. Where's it going to be at ABC?
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Speaker 2: I'm guessing NBA Finals, the flash the schedule, and that's
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Speaker 2: what it'll be. Okay, before the serious things. I don't
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Speaker 2: want to be too serious here tonight. I found a
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Speaker 2: tweet very funny. While I'm talking about funny things, Brian
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Speaker 2: checked in and said, Yo, Brian, there was a time
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Speaker 2: he was staying up. He was staying up all night
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Speaker 2: betting on Australian and Japanese horse racing. That's when I
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Speaker 2: realized I might have a problem. Haha, that's what he said. Yeah, that,
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Speaker 2: yes's probably a cry for help right there. I would
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Speaker 2: say Australian and Japanese horse racing. Wow, you know I
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Speaker 2: didn't get into the table tennis craze when the pandemic
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Speaker 2: was a thing and there was nothing to bet on.
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Speaker 2: But I'd be lying to you if I said I
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Speaker 2: didn't follow it a little bit on an app from
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Speaker 2: time to time, like, man, I'm getting plus three point fifty,
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Speaker 2: this guy's only down by a couple of points. And
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Speaker 2: then I'll be like, but I don't know anything about this,
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Speaker 2: and I won't fire away, but I will I will
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Speaker 2: follow that a little bit. If it's just I just
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Speaker 2: you know, you look at live sporting events, what's going on?
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Speaker 2: What can you bet on live? And I'll see that
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Speaker 2: and I'll follow it along a little bit, as if
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna find any value on any I don't know
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Speaker 2: anything about this. I don't know who's competing. I don't
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Speaker 2: know who's good. I don't know who's legit underdog or
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Speaker 2: a legit favorite, or I have no idea. But I'll
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Speaker 2: watch it as if I follow it along on an app,
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Speaker 2: as if I'm going to locate some value somewhere. It's
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Speaker 2: not gonna happen. I'm crazy, So I'm just like Brian.
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Speaker 2: You know both named Brian. We're both crazy people. Okay,
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Speaker 2: I'll make this painless as painless as possible. I don't
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Speaker 2: want to do a whole thing on this, but I
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Speaker 2: do find something interesting about this story. So it was
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Speaker 2: it's the WNBA, it was the Chicago Sky there were
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Speaker 2: allegations of racist behave you're from the Indiana Fever crowd,
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Speaker 2: and so the WNBA, they came out, made an initial statement,
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Speaker 2: they did a whole investigation. They could not substantiate or
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Speaker 2: verify the alleged racist behavior. Okay, now there are a
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Speaker 2: couple of things to take away, But one of the
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Speaker 2: things I take away is from a league standpoint, as
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Speaker 2: I find very interesting. The WNBA came out initially, as
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Speaker 2: most leagues will do if players, if anybody within the
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Speaker 2: WNBA or any league has alleged racist behavior. As a league,
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Speaker 2: you have to have the back of your players, you
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Speaker 2: have to. But how you do that matters. How you
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Speaker 2: have your players backs matters, And the WNBA they didn't
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Speaker 2: allow themselves any outs. Their initial statement was so strong
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Speaker 2: it was as if they automatically believed the allegations and
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Speaker 2: they didn't leave themselves any outs. So I think for
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Speaker 2: any league it was an example of you might want
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Speaker 2: to approach it differently, where the WNBA basically came out
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Speaker 2: there are these allegations of racist behavior at the game,
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Speaker 2: and the WNBA came out was like, this isn't cool,
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Speaker 2: not cool, We won't accept any of this behavior. It's
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Speaker 2: not right for the WNBA, it's not right for society.
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Speaker 2: All of that is correct. I agree with that wholeheartedly.
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Speaker 2: It is not acceptable behavior. But the way you worded it,
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Speaker 2: you're acting as if this is a fact already and
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Speaker 2: not just an allegation. What I think you need to
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Speaker 2: do you need to have your players backs, but you
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Speaker 2: also need to leave yourself outs, right. It's what we
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Speaker 2: heard in rounders. Not to lighten this up to a
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Speaker 2: strange degree, but you always leave yourself outs, whether it's
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Speaker 2: you're playing Texas hold them, or whether you're a professional
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Speaker 2: league like the WNBA, the NFL, the NBA, what have you.
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Speaker 2: I think what makes a whole lot more sense as
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Speaker 2: a league if you're making an initial statement, okay, players
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Speaker 2: alleged there was racist behavior, this is very very important stuff.
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Speaker 2: Instead of saying things like not cool at all, we
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Speaker 2: won't tolerate this one bit, you're basically making it sound
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Speaker 2: like it's confirmed already that you believe this to be true.
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Speaker 2: What happens If you don't find evidence to substantiate it,
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Speaker 2: then you look stupid. Then you look like you believed
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Speaker 2: something that turned out to possibly not be the case.
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Speaker 2: So I think the initial statement matters a lot. So
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Speaker 2: how do you have your players back and still leave
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Speaker 2: yourself outs if you don't find evidence to confirm this.
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Speaker 2: I think you have to make a statement that's a
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Speaker 2: little bit it's strong, but it's a little bit vague
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Speaker 2: in a way, or it leaves you some wiggle room
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Speaker 2: where you say, we take these allegations with the utmost
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Speaker 2: of importance. Right, you've got your players back, they've alleged something,
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Speaker 2: all right, we've got you. We take this with the
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Speaker 2: utmost of importance, and we will work tirelessly to ensure
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Speaker 2: that there won't be racist behavior that isn't fit for
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Speaker 2: WNBA events or society in general. So you're saying, we
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Speaker 2: take these allegations as importantly as we possibly can, but
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Speaker 2: you're not wording in it away where you're basically saying, hey,
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Speaker 2: we believe this, we believe this to be true, and
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Speaker 2: it's just a matter of time until we prove it.
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Speaker 2: So just watch Like that's what the NBA initially did,
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Speaker 2: and I'm paraphrasing it, but that was what their initial
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Speaker 2: statement contained. And then if you can't find evidence, then
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Speaker 2: it's like, wow, man, you guys came out guns blazing
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Speaker 2: and you don't have evide. That's not a good position
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Speaker 2: to put yourself in. So that's a tricky thing. As
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Speaker 2: a league, you can't just you can't have this mundane,
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Speaker 2: complacent initial statement. If a player alleges there were racist
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Speaker 2: comments from the stands, you can't be like, yeah, we'll
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Speaker 2: check into it. If there's anything there, well then we'll
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Speaker 2: take action. But until then we we really can't say
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Speaker 2: anything yet. You know, like, that's not good enough. You
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Speaker 2: gotta have your players back. But I think that's how
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Speaker 2: you do it. You say, we take allegations like this
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Speaker 2: with the utmost of importance. We will work tirelessly to
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Speaker 2: ensure a safe environment for all involved, YadA YadA. But
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Speaker 2: you leave yourself some outs, you leave yourself some wiggle
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Speaker 2: room as far as the players. I think that, man,
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Speaker 2: you gotta be sure. I think you gotta be sure
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Speaker 2: if you're alleging things like that, that it was actually
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Speaker 2: racist behavior, because here's the harm in it is, if
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Speaker 2: you allege something was said, and there's no evidence to
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Speaker 2: substantiate it, to verify it, then it looks like you
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Speaker 2: just you confused something. And the real harm is whenever
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Speaker 2: something truly racist does happen, and eventually, sadly it will,
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Speaker 2: there will be people that think back to a story
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Speaker 2: like this and think, well, that wasn't verified. Is this
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Speaker 2: another case of misconstrued racism? That really isn't the you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean. You don't want someone who is
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Speaker 2: a true victim of racism for people to discount it
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Speaker 2: and not believe it because of a story that wasn't verified.
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Speaker 2: So that's the true harm of it too. But look, man,
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Speaker 2: I've had a couple of conversations with friends and I've
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Speaker 2: had to tell someone of my friends, I'm like, man,
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Speaker 2: you're so strong on you're acting as if racism just
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Speaker 2: doesn't apply. Ever, I'm like, that's not the case. Unfortunately.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's like it becomes trickier than it needs
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Speaker 2: to be to have a conversation about it. But you know,
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Speaker 2: some people are acting as if you know, we live
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Speaker 2: in utopia, and that's not the case. But if there's
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Speaker 2: anything to take away, I think it's the league initially,
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Speaker 2: whether it's the NFL, NBA, MLB, what have you if
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Speaker 2: there is an allegation like this. I think it's very
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Speaker 2: important to have the back of your players without putting
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Speaker 2: yourself behind the eight ball and making statements as if
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Speaker 2: you believe this is the truth, and then you don't
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Speaker 2: find evidence and all of a sudden you look like
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Speaker 2: you bought a story automatically before verifying it, and it's
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Speaker 2: you can't put yourself in a position like that. So
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Speaker 2: I thought the NBA came out too strong without knowing
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Speaker 2: what the outcome was going to be, and they looked bad,
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Speaker 2: look bad at the end of it, not having you know,
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Speaker 2: verified information. So that's the I don't know the serious
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Speaker 2: portion of it, but we'll we'll get back to the
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Speaker 2: the phones here momentarily. Let me pay this off real fast,
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Speaker 2: because there's a slogan that I think is really cool,
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Speaker 2: but the story behind it not as compelling. So Tyrese Halliburton,
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Speaker 2: he had a very rough Game five on Thursday night,
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Speaker 2: Pacers lost to the Knicks. He came right back to earth,
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Speaker 2: had this insane game four, huge numbers, thirty point, triple
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Speaker 2: double zero turnovers. It's the first time in NBA playoff
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Speaker 2: history that has ever happened. Thirty point triple double zero turnovers,
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Speaker 2: first time ever a Tyre's Haliburton game four. Game five
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Speaker 2: on Thursday not nearly as good. I scored eight points
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Speaker 2: on two of seven shooting, had six assists, two rebounds,
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Speaker 2: didn't make a three like a shell of his Game
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Speaker 2: four performance. But anyway, there have been a lot of people,
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Speaker 2: some players, some fans that have called Tyrese Haliburton overrated.
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Speaker 2: So the slogan is overrate that you see Pacer fans
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Speaker 2: wearing T shirts that say that Puma has unveiled Tyre's
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Speaker 2: Halliburton's signature logo with their overrate that T shirts. It's
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Speaker 2: a whole thing. Now, the story behind it is kind
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Speaker 2: of funny. So the Athletic they reached out to NBA
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Speaker 2: players and asked them numerous questions. One was who's the
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Speaker 2: most overrated player in the league. So they got ninety
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Speaker 2: responses on that question, and only thirteen NBA players wound
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Speaker 2: up voting for Halliburton. Thirteen guys in the NBA, Saya
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Speaker 2: is the most overrated guy, and so he ends up
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Speaker 2: winning that category, quote unquote winning if there is such
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Speaker 2: a thing. He's in first place as the most overrated
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Speaker 2: NBA player according to thirteen other NBA players. It just
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Speaker 2: feels like, you know, you see the T shirt, he's overrated,
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Speaker 2: that most overrated player. Well, who said he's the most
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Speaker 2: overrated NBA players? His peers. Wow, the NBA players are
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Speaker 2: saying he's the most overrated. We got a juicy story
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Speaker 2: that turns out there were thirteen dudes that said, I
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Speaker 2: don't know. If I got to pick somebody, I guess
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Speaker 2: I'll pick him. I don't know. It seems way more salacious,
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Speaker 2: like wow, the NBA calls him out and it's really
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Speaker 2: not quite like that. But hey, don't let the truth
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Speaker 2: get in the way of a great narrative. They're having
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Speaker 2: a lot of fun with the overrate, that slogan and
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Speaker 2: T shirts. But I'll tell you what, man, he's got
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Speaker 2: to bring it in game six a lot better than
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Speaker 2: Game five, or the overrated moniker is just gonna grow.
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Speaker 2: You can't go from He was sensational in game four,
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Speaker 2: huge numbers. I'll get him for you here, like thirty
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Speaker 2: two points. When he put up in game for thirty
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Speaker 2: two points, fifteen assists, twelve rebounds, five to three pointers,
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Speaker 2: zero turnovers. That was in game four. Game five on
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Speaker 2: Thursday night in a loss, eight points, six assists, two rebounds,
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Speaker 2: no made three pointers, zero turnovers as well, if you're
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Speaker 2: scoring at home, but a fraction of the numbers he
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Speaker 2: put up in game four. That's one of the reasons
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Speaker 2: people say Haliburton is overrated. I think overrated goes a
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Speaker 2: little bit too far, But I will say this certainly inconsistent.
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Speaker 2: Here's the definition, Like people struggle with the overrated underrated
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Speaker 2: thing quite a bit. Here's what you have to start with.
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Speaker 2: What is the mainstream opinion of a player, good or bad?
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Speaker 2: The mainstream opinion of Tyrese Haliburton are people left and
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Speaker 2: right just singing his praises. This guy is amazing, He's
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Speaker 2: a beast. This dude is the best point guard in
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Speaker 2: the NBA bar nutt. Do you hear people saying that
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Speaker 2: all day long? No, you don't, Like you need to
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Speaker 2: have that as the recipe for an overrated player. You
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Speaker 2: need people far and wide singing this player's praises. He's unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: No one says that about Tyrese Halliburton. There aren't you know, people,
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Speaker 2: person have to person, have to person saying those things.
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Speaker 2: You need to have that to have an overrated candidate.
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Speaker 2: So well, I don't see how he's even a candidate
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Speaker 2: to be overrated, because it's not like he's getting bouquets
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Speaker 2: of flowers left and right. You need that, like for
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Speaker 2: a moment there, you know that second season for Brock
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Speaker 2: Purdy when they made it to the Super Bowl, people
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Speaker 2: are falling all over themselves like, oh my gosh, this quarterback,
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Speaker 2: and it's like, no, not quite to that degree. He
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Speaker 2: was overrated, but you have to have that. So I
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Speaker 2: don't even think Halliburton is highly rated to begin with,
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Speaker 2: to be a legitimate candidate to be overrated, so I
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Speaker 2: disagree with that, but he is inconsistent, There's no doubt
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Speaker 2: about it. I don't know why Tyrese Haliburton doesn't stay
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Speaker 2: as aggressive as he was in Game four. I really
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Speaker 2: don't understand why. There are times where he is he's
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Speaker 2: really pushing pace, he's finding his guys, he's setting the
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Speaker 2: table for them, he's looking to score. He's aggressive, and
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Speaker 2: then there are games where he's just not even looking
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Speaker 2: for a shot. He's like, I don't feel like shooting tonight.
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Speaker 2: I don't feel like scoring. Not really my thing. It's
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Speaker 2: like what. So he's inconsistent. He can be maddening at
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Speaker 2: times because of the inconsistency, but I don't think he's
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Speaker 2: a strong candidate to be overrated. It's not highly rated
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Speaker 2: to begin with. You need that. It's a prerequisite to
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Speaker 2: be overrated. All right, let's get out to the phone,
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Speaker 2: shall We've got sir scratch off. He wants to chime
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Speaker 2: in here, sir scratch off, My guy, what is going on?
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Speaker 2: You're on Fox Sports Radio?
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Speaker 3: Hey, what's going on there?
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Speaker 5: Brian?
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Speaker 2: Not much? Man? How are things with you?
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Speaker 5: Man?
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Speaker 3: I tell you what I've been. I've been following you
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Speaker 3: here where you go. You know that for a long time.
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Speaker 3: I always enjoyed shooting you a call and see what's
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Speaker 3: going on. How's that doing?
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Speaker 2: He's good, man. He came out, came to visit a
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Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, so it was really good to
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Speaker 2: see him. He's doing all right.
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Speaker 3: I said, hey, man, say what you never know what
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Speaker 3: you got going on? And let me tell you why
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Speaker 3: I say this. You never know what you got going
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Speaker 3: on here on this radio station. Be driving all these
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Speaker 3: years and listens radio station until something bad happens and
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Speaker 3: you're seeing people with prayers and weren't thinking about you
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Speaker 3: and stuff like that. The battle militia ain't been nothing
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Speaker 3: but the best. In the last couple to three days, man,
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Speaker 3: it's been crazy, and I want to thank every one
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Speaker 3: of those out there and all this tour X wherever
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Speaker 3: you want to call it. Man, My mother died Wednesday, dude,
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Speaker 3: and I just be going wild thinking about my mother.
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Speaker 3: And now the last couple of nights I've been leaving town,
21:37
Speaker 3: I had to go buy the funeral home and she's
21:39
Speaker 3: gonna be laying there till like next Monday before we
21:42
Speaker 3: you know, mar her Tuesday up in Missouri, you know.
21:45
Speaker 3: So it's one of them things these Madam Milita has
21:48
Speaker 3: been really something else, man, And I appreciate everybody has
21:51
Speaker 3: got me in your prayers, you know, because that's six
21:53
Speaker 3: kids we lost our mother, man, and no daddy years ago.
21:57
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what, it's crazy not to have
21:59
Speaker 3: no parents now, you know.
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Speaker 2: M Yeah, Man, I hear you. I you know, I'm
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Speaker 2: with the militia on that.
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Speaker 6: Man.
22:06
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, man I My condolence is that's that's rough.
22:10
Speaker 2: So you're in my prayers as well, for sure.
22:13
Speaker 3: You know, you go twenty five years your mother, your
22:15
Speaker 3: mother's a breastcatcher free and then all of a sudden
22:19
Speaker 3: what kills her cancer? You know, after all those years
22:22
Speaker 3: and then she ends up this long and livery and
22:24
Speaker 3: the just they give her a year when they first
22:26
Speaker 3: held her about four days to my birthday in March.
22:28
Speaker 3: That's what I got for my birthday present, and.
22:30
Speaker 6: My mother is gonna die and then she dies exactly
22:33
Speaker 6: about two months. But unway, let me take something to you.
22:38
Speaker 6: I heard a guy say, we don't talk about the Dolphins,
22:41
Speaker 6: you know, yet you talk about Kua. I call him Kua,
22:46
Speaker 6: That's what I call him. You know, he was in
22:48
Speaker 6: college football and he played all them big games. He
22:50
Speaker 6: played all them wins and stuff. But you know, I
22:52
Speaker 6: don't think they really still you know, I'm a big
22:56
Speaker 6: l a Rams they go tensee ball fan, but I
22:58
Speaker 6: still don't think they got what they thought they was
23:01
Speaker 6: going to get out.
23:01
Speaker 3: Of him, and he never really did everything that they
23:05
Speaker 3: really wanted. I don't believe because he's never got that
23:08
Speaker 3: Super Bowl and you get old Hurts out there what
23:11
Speaker 3: he did, and he got schwucked around. He went to
23:13
Speaker 3: Oklahoma and he got the NFL.
23:15
Speaker 5: Look what he did.
23:16
Speaker 3: But he's already had a super Bowl win. Nobody ever
23:19
Speaker 3: put the money on him. You know, it'll be beat
23:21
Speaker 3: the whole modey can't see the cheeks. But I think
23:25
Speaker 3: I think totally. I think it's time for him to retire,
23:28
Speaker 3: and I think it's time for him to go home.
23:31
Speaker 5: I mean, what do you think about me? I really do.
23:34
Speaker 3: I mean, he's winning games, but you can't keep him
23:38
Speaker 3: well man, you know.
23:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, now I hear you, sir, scratch Off. I
23:43
Speaker 2: appreciate you checking in man, good stuff. I'll tell you
23:46
Speaker 2: what I like the point that you made. Think about
23:50
Speaker 2: both Tua and Jalen Hurts at Alabama and of course
23:54
Speaker 2: we all remember National Championship game. Jalen Hurts doesn't have
23:58
Speaker 2: a great first half. Nick is like, hurts out Tua
24:02
Speaker 2: in yeah, we know your ice cold, but it's just
24:05
Speaker 2: the National Championship Game, no big deal. And what is
24:07
Speaker 2: Tua do? He leads Alabama to this unbelievable win against Georgia.
24:14
Speaker 2: Tua throws the winning touchdown pass to Jalen Hurts teammate
24:18
Speaker 2: Davonte Smith. How crazy is that? And yeah, look at
24:22
Speaker 2: them in the pros. At that time, you're thinking, wow,
24:26
Speaker 2: Tua off the bench, he's like, hey, hold my clipboard,
24:30
Speaker 2: goes in there, does what he does in the National
24:33
Speaker 2: Title game, biggest stage we got in college football. And
24:37
Speaker 2: he responds. And there are a lot of people, me included,
24:40
Speaker 2: at the time they think Tua is legit. And look
24:45
Speaker 2: at him in the NFL, where he's been good at times,
24:49
Speaker 2: there's no doubt. He just can't stay upright. You can't
24:51
Speaker 2: count on him to play seventeen games season in, season out.
24:55
Speaker 2: And Jalen Hurts right off a Super Bowl win and
24:58
Speaker 2: did his thing on the biggest stage. You know, he
25:01
Speaker 2: played really well. So yeah, hey, listen, you can play
25:06
Speaker 2: the supporting cast game to a degree. I mean it
25:10
Speaker 2: does factor in. Eagles have arguably the best offensive line
25:15
Speaker 2: in football for a number of years. That is not
25:17
Speaker 2: the case with the Miami Dolphins. But in terms of
25:20
Speaker 2: weapons to throw to, tu Us had enough. You have
25:25
Speaker 2: John new Smith who is a Pro Bowl tight end,
25:28
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddle, some running backs that can take
25:33
Speaker 2: pressure off you. H Chan has been a good running back,
25:37
Speaker 2: not top five, not elite, but good enough. So it's
25:42
Speaker 2: not like the cupboard is bear in terms of supporting
25:44
Speaker 2: cast for Tua. And I do like Jalen Hurts what
25:48
Speaker 2: he has to work with. He's got a lot to
25:50
Speaker 2: work with. Man, when you've got aj Brown and Deavonte
25:54
Speaker 2: Smith and Dallas Goddard and you got a lot around you.
25:58
Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley was un believable last season. Best offensive line
26:03
Speaker 2: in football, that's a lot. That's a lot. But at
26:07
Speaker 2: the end of the day, Jalen Hurts has done enough
26:10
Speaker 2: to put that team in position to win a Super Bowl.
26:13
Speaker 2: They got there once against the Chiefs and lost, and
26:15
Speaker 2: they got there again against the Chiefs and won this
26:17
Speaker 2: last time. You got to give him his flowers. If
26:20
Speaker 2: you're comparing him to tu Yeah, he's had a more
26:22
Speaker 2: successful NFL career thus far. I don't think. I don't
26:27
Speaker 2: think Tua has to retire, but I get why people
26:30
Speaker 2: would say that it's one of these deals. Man, He's
26:34
Speaker 2: a smart guy. He knows what he's signing up for,
26:36
Speaker 2: he knows the risks that he's taking, and he's okay
26:41
Speaker 2: with taking him right now, I hope he can remain upright.
26:44
Speaker 2: I hope he can remain healthy, and because that's been
26:49
Speaker 2: one of the biggest knocks against him is he just
26:52
Speaker 2: can't stay healthy. And when you can't count on a
26:56
Speaker 2: quarterback to legitimately give you a chance at seventeen starts
27:01
Speaker 2: season in and season out due to injury, that's a
27:04
Speaker 2: tough thing. Tough thing for a team because it's twofold.
27:08
Speaker 2: With Tua we were talking about I was comparing him
27:09
Speaker 2: to Brock Purty. Right, the Dolphins and their roster situation
27:14
Speaker 2: because they're paying Tua so much money. It's comparable to
27:17
Speaker 2: the Niner situation now that they're gonna be paying brock
27:19
Speaker 2: Purty so much money. And the thing that's different between
27:23
Speaker 2: those two quarterbacks is TWOA has been banged up way more.
27:28
Speaker 2: And so it's the production for Tua is good, not elite,
27:33
Speaker 2: and you're paying him elite money, and the health of
27:37
Speaker 2: Tua is not even average if you look at it
27:41
Speaker 2: collectively in the NFL his career. So that, man, when
27:44
Speaker 2: you're missing that many games on top of not providing
27:48
Speaker 2: elite production and you're getting paid elite money, that's a
27:53
Speaker 2: double whammy right there. There's no doubt about that. Eight seven,
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Speaker 2: seven ninety nine on Fox is your numb We got
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Speaker 2: our guy Marcel in Brooklyn. He's up next. What's going on, Marcel?
28:05
Speaker 2: You're on Fox Sports Radio. Everything good with you, Bryan Nolah.
28:10
Speaker 5: I can't believe I really miss you so good morning.
28:15
Speaker 5: And boy oh boy, those Nicks not eliminated yet. Oh
28:22
Speaker 5: what a win last night in Game five of the
28:24
Speaker 5: Eastern Conference Finals, and the Gordon Mecca is going crazy,
28:32
Speaker 5: I mean really crazy. Can you believe it?
28:36
Speaker 2: They're going crazy, Marcel. They're giving it their best effort
28:40
Speaker 2: for the right to get smashed by the Thunder. You know,
28:42
Speaker 2: I'll give them credit.
28:44
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we'll see if the Nicka Boxers will turn
28:47
Speaker 5: things around against the Oklahoma City Thunder, if they got
28:50
Speaker 5: to be eliminated against the Pacers. And then there's in
28:54
Speaker 5: O KC. Marianna and Brianna. Good morning to you. Oh Brianna,
28:58
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say you call me. I can guarantee it
29:02
Speaker 5: that you are my newest Nicks fan ambassador. What do
29:06
Speaker 5: you have to say?
29:07
Speaker 4: She actually stepped away like two seconds. No, she did,
29:11
Speaker 4: she had to new potty break.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, real, the timing unbelievably Yeah, well of all times.
29:21
Speaker 2: All right, she'll be back momentarily, Marcel.
29:24
Speaker 5: But before we straight to Brianna with some put the
29:28
Speaker 5: microphones together, let's do some food picks for you listeners,
29:32
Speaker 5: because there's a new dawn and it's a new day,
29:34
Speaker 5: so let's get into it. Ben, Lorena and Coopti are
29:38
Speaker 5: in Vancouver. But Brian Nole starting with you. What you have.
29:44
Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna say, Marcel, let's see Big Nick's
29:47
Speaker 2: victory for you. Yeah, you wanted to celebrate in style
29:51
Speaker 2: with I'll go with chicken breasts one night for chicken breas.
29:55
Speaker 5: I've got a chicken breast it is, and I put
29:58
Speaker 5: the mixed match. It is mate for you, Marianne. What
30:02
Speaker 5: do you have? And I know you got socials as well.
30:05
Speaker 5: I will you will explain to me after the food picks.
30:10
Speaker 4: M not gonna lie. Maybe do cooble sliders. I'm vegetarian though,
30:15
Speaker 4: so yeah, maybe dobs.
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Speaker 5: Ooh, not a mixed match. It is not a mixed match, Marianne.
30:25
Speaker 5: But thank you though, hope your socials will go to
30:29
Speaker 5: connect to me instead. If you want to say, all right,
30:32
Speaker 5: Brianna Knicks fan ambassador the food pitch it is, what
30:36
Speaker 5: do you have? My friend?
30:38
Speaker 4: She's still not back yet. Man, what not to drink
30:45
Speaker 4: a lot of fluids?
30:46
Speaker 5: Ooh, my own mind path.
30:52
Speaker 2: Paths? All right? So what's the outcome over here, Marcelle?
30:56
Speaker 5: Well, what chicken breath? Brian Nole? You win? There is
31:03
Speaker 5: no L in your name instead chicken breast. Finally make
31:08
Speaker 5: chess for you.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate that, Marcel. That's good, very nice. You go barbecue
31:15
Speaker 2: sauce on top. What do you do?
31:17
Speaker 5: Well? I have some chicken patties with catch up and
31:20
Speaker 5: the bread. It's really taping.
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Speaker 2: Marcel. Let me ask you a question. Do you ever
31:24
Speaker 2: go you ever go a one on a non conventional
31:28
Speaker 2: like non steak? You ever go a one on chicken
31:30
Speaker 2: breast or a one on like baked potato or anything?
31:33
Speaker 2: You go crazy with that?
31:34
Speaker 5: Every chicken breads on a barbecue? Wow? Yeah, use a
31:40
Speaker 5: one barbecue. When I was in a barbecue with my
31:43
Speaker 5: family's it's really been good times over the years. Wow,
31:49
Speaker 5: I'm impressed. All right, all right, focus game six Nick
31:58
Speaker 5: Paycers in Indianapolis tomorrow. The Knicks will look to tie
32:03
Speaker 5: things up before Indiana will eliminate my team and Brianna,
32:07
Speaker 5: So I had to say I had to go with
32:09
Speaker 5: the Knicks.
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Speaker 2: Brian, Uh, Pacers. There's gonna be a healthy win for
32:15
Speaker 2: the Pacers. We're talking possible double digits over here.
32:18
Speaker 5: And of course the Battle of the nineties NBA style
32:21
Speaker 5: Regie Miller looked Trels pretty while many others over the past.
32:25
Speaker 5: That is Mary Anne.
32:28
Speaker 4: I'm going with the Halle band here, So I'm going
32:30
Speaker 4: with Pacers.
32:32
Speaker 5: All the Yeah, there's boo Brianna.
32:38
Speaker 4: She's still not back yet, but I know she's gonna go.
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Speaker 5: Next, Well, she's going with Pacers. Me and Brianna will
32:46
Speaker 5: go with the Knickerbockers. Game six Tomorrow, eight eastern, five Pacific.
32:52
Speaker 5: So if they if the Knicks of I, they will
32:55
Speaker 5: have to tie things up while you guys gonna eliminate it.
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Speaker 5: How's that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds good, Marcel. We'll get after it, man.
33:05
Speaker 2: Hope you enjoyed the game, Bud, Yes.
33:07
Speaker 5: Thank you, and have a great weekend, Hope, Ben, Lorena
33:10
Speaker 5: and Cook. We go back early Sunday and late Monday
33:13
Speaker 5: to start the week.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. All right, Marcel, you take care, but good to
33:19
Speaker 2: hear from you. Man. There he is, Marcel in Brooklyn,
33:24
Speaker 2: very nicely done, good stuff. Yeah, all right, Game six,
33:28
Speaker 2: like you said, Saturday night. Again, thankfully in a way,
33:33
Speaker 2: the Knicks won because we have playoff action this weekend.
33:37
Speaker 2: If the Pacers won, we'd have nothing Saturday Sunday. I
33:40
Speaker 2: don't know when the Stanley Cup Final begins. I need
33:43
Speaker 2: to check that out real quick, because the conference finals
33:46
Speaker 2: are all over, now, totally over. We've got to wait
33:50
Speaker 2: until Wednesday, I believe. Wow, gotta wait till Wednesday for
33:53
Speaker 2: Game one. Panthers Oilers running it back. I don't know
33:58
Speaker 2: if you know nhlans unless you're a Panthers or Oilers fan,
34:02
Speaker 2: the random diehard NHL fan. How excited are you that
34:06
Speaker 2: it's a rematch of last year? You know, some people
34:08
Speaker 2: might be excited about it. Others are like, yeah, yawn,
34:12
Speaker 2: might be interesting with two different teams or at least
34:14
Speaker 2: one new team. I will see if the Panthers can
34:17
Speaker 2: do it again, if the Oilers can get revenge. I
34:20
Speaker 2: was thinking about this randomly today. I was at the gym.
34:22
Speaker 2: But I guess the last time in the NBA we
34:25
Speaker 2: had so repeat finals and a different champion, would it
34:30
Speaker 2: not be the Warriors beating the Calves?
34:34
Speaker 6: Right?
34:34
Speaker 2: So think about that crazy three to one come from
34:36
Speaker 2: behind win from the Calves. Wasn't it the Warriors the
34:40
Speaker 2: next year that beat the Calves? I think I have
34:42
Speaker 2: that right. So it's like the Warriors did it to
34:47
Speaker 2: the Calves last the Calves did it to the Warriors.
34:51
Speaker 2: And also the Spurs did it to Miami, Like Miami
34:55
Speaker 2: beat them one year and then the next year the
34:58
Speaker 2: Spurs crushed. Remember Lebron had the he had the cramps
35:04
Speaker 2: and all that. In Game one, Spurs went on to
35:08
Speaker 2: win anyway coming up next. This is one of the
35:13
Speaker 2: dumbest criticisms I've heard in a long time, and I
35:16
Speaker 2: just want to put another story on your radar. I'm
35:20
Speaker 2: not calling it. I don't even think there's a chance
35:24
Speaker 2: it would happen, but this would be the ultimate walkoff moment.
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Speaker 2: I cannot remember this guy's name for the life of me. Mary,
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Speaker 2: who is just gonna get this is a Josh Turner.
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Speaker 2: This is a staple. Mary and I were doing the
36:10
Speaker 2: same weekend shift. The last song before the last segment.
36:15
Speaker 2: This is this is like the country version version of
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Speaker 2: Closing Time. Remember that song Closing Time. Remember that it
36:24
Speaker 2: was like the country version of that love this song.
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Speaker 2: It's fantastic. I don't know why I can't remember. I
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Speaker 2: don't either. I don't know, but it became tradition. It's beautiful,
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Speaker 2: It's absolutely beautiful. I don't know why I can't remember.
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Speaker 2: Josh Turner. I'll remember that for the next three minutes,
36:41
Speaker 2: and the next time we do a show, Mary, I'll
36:43
Speaker 2: be like, what's this guy's name again? Yeah? Man, I
36:47
Speaker 2: don't know what it is. Okay, let me put a
36:49
Speaker 2: couple of things on your radar. So the first thing is, yeah,
36:55
Speaker 2: I don't know if on your radar is the right description.
36:58
Speaker 2: But people are talking about out Shay Gildess Alexander being
37:02
Speaker 2: a free throw merchant is what they're saying. It sounds
37:06
Speaker 2: very fancy. What does that even mean. It's a guy
37:08
Speaker 2: who basically is very smart at drawing files, right, these
37:14
Speaker 2: subtle movements. Maybe he kind of jumps into the defender,
37:19
Speaker 2: he uses the defender's momentum and draws contact in a
37:24
Speaker 2: sly way. And he's getting criticized for this. This is
37:26
Speaker 2: the dumbest criticism, in my opinion. What is he supposed
37:29
Speaker 2: to do? Let me get this straight. SGA is driving
37:35
Speaker 2: to set up a mid range shot or driving to
37:37
Speaker 2: the basket, and he can feel a defender reaching. He
37:43
Speaker 2: knows that he could just go up and attempt a
37:46
Speaker 2: shot and draw a file easily, so he's not supposed to.
37:52
Speaker 2: I don't understand the criticism. Why would you not use
37:57
Speaker 2: the strength just because you don't like that he's drawing
38:00
Speaker 2: a bunch of files and getting to the free throw line.
38:02
Speaker 2: He's just should not do it. That makes no sense
38:05
Speaker 2: at all. I don't understand the criticisms of SGA. I
38:10
Speaker 2: get it if you're like, not my cup of tea,
38:11
Speaker 2: don't like it. It's annoying. Okay, fine, And you could
38:15
Speaker 2: say that's basically what people are saying with the free
38:17
Speaker 2: throw merchant thing, but it's becoming such a trending thing
38:21
Speaker 2: to criticize him for getting to the free throw line.
38:24
Speaker 2: It's like, what are you talking about right now? He's
38:27
Speaker 2: effective doing that. The name of the game is dunks,
38:32
Speaker 2: free throws, and threes. If you're setting up free throws
38:37
Speaker 2: on the regular, why would you be calling that out
38:42
Speaker 2: that it's something that should not be called out at all.
38:45
Speaker 2: I don't get that. It's silly. To me, it's a
38:47
Speaker 2: waste of time. Now let me put something on your
38:49
Speaker 2: radar that might not be on your radar at all. Now,
38:51
Speaker 2: don't confuse this with me calling my shot. Just think
38:55
Speaker 2: about the possibility of this nightmare scenario. So my Dolphins,
39:03
Speaker 2: they might be interested in trading tight end John new
39:06
Speaker 2: Smith to the Steelers. That's according to Adam Schefter. Let's
39:10
Speaker 2: play the little, a little what if game. What if
39:13
Speaker 2: the Steelers do get John new Smith and they have
39:17
Speaker 2: Pat Fryarmoth Mooth. They have him good one two tight
39:21
Speaker 2: end combination. You got DK metcalf right, You've got some
39:26
Speaker 2: weapons offensively. It seems like a matter of time that
39:29
Speaker 2: they're gonna sign Aaron Rodgers. Just on Aaron Rodgers time
39:32
Speaker 2: because he's dating football. He's married to himself, he's dating football,
39:36
Speaker 2: so we're on his time, Steelers just waiting around for him.
39:39
Speaker 2: What if Aaron Rodgers goes there and what if he
39:43
Speaker 2: has big success. I know you might be rolling your
39:46
Speaker 2: eyes right now, but don't forget. They're always above five hundred.
39:49
Speaker 2: They make the playoffs left and right. What if with DK,
39:53
Speaker 2: John new Smith Mooth Rogers, you got a great pass
39:59
Speaker 2: rush sure and TJ. Watt. What if they had big
40:03
Speaker 2: success like that would be the ultimate walk off moment
40:07
Speaker 2: after all of this. If Rogers has big success and
40:10
Speaker 2: maybe his final season, that would be a nightmare scenario.
40:13
Speaker 2: But just want to throw it out there. Everybody, have
40:16
Speaker 2: a good morning. We'll see you.