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Inside The Greatest Comeback in MLB History | 2004 Red Sox ft. Pedro Martinez · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: What's up, guys? Hey. Hey, man. Welcome to Philly, man.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Philly, you guys.
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  Speaker 2: This still feels like home? Drafted in 84, played eight
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  Speaker 2: seasons here?
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  Speaker 3: I live in Philadelphia during the summer because they got
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  Speaker 3: the best golf courses.
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  Speaker 1: In the world.
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  Speaker 3: I'm playing golf for like 65 straight days.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm so glad y'all bought the show on the road, man. Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it. I was with Chuck and P.I. a
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  Speaker 1: couple weeks ago. His game, ridiculous. Smooth. We're talking off camera.
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  Speaker 1: His name is Chuck Woods. Okay. His game is so
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  Speaker 1: good right now.
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  Speaker 3: How'd you figure out that swing? Staying ugly, man. Hey, man,
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  Speaker 3: I am so glad to see you guys. So I
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  Speaker 3: watched a couple hockey games last night was 0-0 going
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  Speaker 3: into overtime.
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  Speaker 1: Short training camp.
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  Speaker 3: And then the other game didn't score until like the
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  Speaker 3: last three.
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  Speaker 1: Minutes of the game, the Bruins game.
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  Speaker 3: I guarantee you the Flyers are going to score the
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  Speaker 3: first period tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Guarantee you. All right, all right, all right. I
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  Speaker 1: like that. Let's make sure we cut that. My favorite
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  Speaker 1: show to this day was when Chuck went down between
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  Speaker 1: the benches in the Stanley Cup Finals and he was
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  Speaker 1: giving us discovery report. And he actually did a great
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  Speaker 1: job with it. You knew what you were talking about. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll tell you what, man. Them damn Kachuk brothers.
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  Speaker 1: They're together now. Yeah, I know. They're going to be
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  Speaker 1: a problem. I was pulling for Edmonton. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to lie.
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  Speaker 3: Because I want to see Conor McDavid get his name
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  Speaker 3: on the cup. But that Matthew Kachuk, now you got Brady,
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  Speaker 3: and they got Barkov back. They got a new goalie
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  Speaker 3: who was awesome last night. But I'm still, I'm pulling.
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  Speaker 3: for John Cooper in Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I'm pulling for my boy Rick Tockett here with the Flyers.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to win the Stanley Cup this year. The
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  Speaker 3: Philadelphia Flyers are going to win the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Yes, we are.
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  Speaker 4: You've been smoking like Gritty smoking off camera if you
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  Speaker 4: think Philly's going to win the Stanley Cup. When you
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  Speaker 4: see the Kachuks play when they're chewing on their mouth guards,
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  Speaker 4: does it remind you of MJ when he.
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  Speaker 1: Used to chew the bubble gum on the court? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was annoying.
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  Speaker 3: If you're so calm you can chew bubble gum, I
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  Speaker 3: know I got no chance against you.
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  Speaker 1: That was very annoying.
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  Speaker 4: And also, being a Flyers fan, when Pittsburgh drafted Crosby,
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  Speaker 4: did you inherently hate him as well when he came
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  Speaker 4: on board with the Penguins?
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  Speaker 3: I'm never going to say a bad word about Sidney Crosby.
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  Speaker 1: I think he has been great for hockey.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he was going to come up to number
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  Speaker 3: five and score in all time.
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  Speaker 1: Like, sometime real soon. I mean, nobody can catch Gretz. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you never know. Yeah, you do know. You do damn know.
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  Speaker 1: We know that. But you know what?
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  Speaker 2: It feels like LeBron James because he's 39, but he's
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  Speaker 2: still elite, still playing.
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  Speaker 1: At this level.
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  Speaker 2: And now you've got LeBron in Philadelphia. You predicted multiple times.
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  Speaker 2: You predict the Flyers. Do you have the 76ers winning
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  Speaker 2: as well?
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen, I'm a Sixers fan and a Suns fan.
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  Speaker 3: This is a great time to be a Philly. We
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  Speaker 3: got Jalen Hurts here. We got Devontae Smith. The Sixers
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  Speaker 3: are going to be good. The Flyers, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: won a round last year. This is a great time
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  Speaker 3: to be a Philly.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, how about them Phillies today, y'all? We're going to
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  Speaker 1: have more with Chuck. Stay with us. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: have Trevor Zegers.
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  Speaker 2: You going to stick around and ask Trevor questions?
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  Speaker 1: I think we're going to get Chuck a Gatorade towel.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's leaking. Hey, and I've only had two drinks. Chuck,
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  Speaker 1: give us one more guarantee, Chuck. Give us one more guarantee. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: the Flyers are going to win tonight. Guaranteed. Trevor, thanks
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  Speaker 1: for coming on. Appreciate it ahead of this game.
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  Speaker 2: Trevor, I got a special guest to ask you a
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  Speaker 2: question here. Charles Barkley is with us.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Trevor, question.
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  Speaker 3: If a fight breaks out between Rick Tockett and Rob Brendamore,
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  Speaker 3: who do you think would win?
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  Speaker 1: I got taco all day. Smart guy. He wants to
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  Speaker 1: be on the power play all night. That's right. Zeke's
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  Speaker 1: biz here. I got the great one beside me.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, a lot of conversation in preseason about the jersey talk.
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  Speaker 4: Would you be taking the fine every game in honor
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  Speaker 4: of Wayne to keep tucking that thing back?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. 99 cannot be happy about the new rule. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you're making nine sheets so you can afford it. Are
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  Speaker 1: you allowed to do that in warm-up? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's tucked right now.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot. Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry. I just saved you a few bucks. I'll send
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  Speaker 1: you a Venmo request. Well, Trevor, you got the jersey
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  Speaker 1: on right.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate you taking the time.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy opening night. Good luck. Go get them. Chuck, he
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  Speaker 1: got some good hair, man. Oh, yeah, he got the flow.
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  Speaker 1: He got the flow going. You see him at the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Open?
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  Speaker 1: I did not. Okay, well, I'll keep that one. All right,
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  Speaker 1: good back and forth between you two. That was great.
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  Speaker 1: I'll end it there.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I'm not going to mess with Biz. He's my
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  Speaker 3: favorite neighbor out in Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He's your neighbor? By neighbor, do you mean pool boy?
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  Speaker 1: Or do you mean like he's actually- How about this?
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  Speaker 3: He lives in a better neighborhood than he- What?
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  Speaker 1: Stop it. I'm not joking. All right, let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you something. He lives where my daughter lives. I can't
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  Speaker 1: even afford to live in that neighborhood. You know I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling the truth. Okay, we're gonna end it there, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna end it there, buddy. He got a big
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  Speaker 1: bio from JR Hughes. I don't know if you've seen
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  Speaker 1: the show.
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  Speaker 2: Biz prefers to talk about other people's money.
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  Speaker 1: No, no. You know what? Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 3: I've been on all the TV shows in my life.
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  Speaker 3: I've had a blessed life doing every TV show. I
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  Speaker 3: have actually had more people. I'm not even joking. I'm
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  Speaker 3: being serious with that. I've had more people come to
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  Speaker 3: me and say, what are you going to do, spin
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  Speaker 3: chicklets again?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's been more like.
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  Speaker 3: I don't do many podcasts because I don't, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's just not my thing. If I do somebody a podcast,
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  Speaker 3: they know that I like them. I've had more people,
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  Speaker 3: random strangers, walk up to me and say, you were
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  Speaker 3: great on Spitting Chicklets.
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  Speaker 1: You're a hockey guy, Chuck. You know, I love hockey.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I just, I actually, I just did my second
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  Speaker 3: hockey podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I did the Kachuk Brothers podcast.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: It's growing. Thanks for growing the game. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate, the ultimate compliment. It really is.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, listen, I played golf with those two guys in Tahoe.
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  Speaker 3: They had a lot of fun. I can hang with
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  Speaker 3: the Chuck brothers.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Well, Chuck, speaking of hanging, we're hanging here in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: You're a legend here in Philly. What makes it so
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  Speaker 1: special playing here?
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  Speaker 3: These people, and I hate saying the East Coast bias,
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  Speaker 3: when you play in New York, Boston, and Philly, these
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  Speaker 3: fans are so passionate about They love their teams. And
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  Speaker 3: like I say, I can live anywhere in the world
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  Speaker 3: because it's too damn hot to be in Arizona. I
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  Speaker 3: come to Philly every summer for three months because this
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  Speaker 3: is one of the greatest fan bases in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck, I want to ask, you watch a lot of hockey, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: You know a lot about the game.
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  Speaker 4: Is there any current player in today's game that kind
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  Speaker 4: of reminds.
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  Speaker 1: You about what you did on the basketball court? Well.
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  Speaker 3: Ryan Reeves, who just retired. My goal was always, I
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  Speaker 3: just going to try to beat the hell out of
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  Speaker 3: you and win at the end of the game. I
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  Speaker 3: admire that. You know, I love all the guys. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he played with Paul Coffey, who I got to meet
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  Speaker 3: a few times. Guys like that. I love hockey. You
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  Speaker 3: guys are so invested in trying to win the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I love the NBA. It's given me everything in
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  Speaker 1: my life.
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  Speaker 3: But I think sometimes the guys make so much money,
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  Speaker 3: they don't want to be the best version of the
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  Speaker 3: basketball player they can be. No matter how much money
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  Speaker 3: you make, and God bless everybody for making as much
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  Speaker 3: money as they can, but you have to always remember
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  Speaker 3: that puck, that football, that basketball, that is always being
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  Speaker 3: the best you can be.
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  Speaker 1: That you should never lose it.
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  Speaker 3: And hockey players have become the best at like, we
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  Speaker 3: just want to win the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I admire about hockey players. When you
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  Speaker 1: look at the preseason games, a good example of that,
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  Speaker 1: our preseason games, like other sports I watch, guys are
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  Speaker 1: sitting out, guys don't want to play. We've got brawls
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  Speaker 1: in preseason games in hockey because guys want to compete
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  Speaker 1: and win that badly.
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  Speaker 3: I saw a guy get like 55 stitches in a
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  Speaker 3: hockey game a couple years ago, and he came back
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  Speaker 3: in a game. If a basketball player got 10 stitches,
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  Speaker 3: he would retire on.
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  Speaker 1: His spot and take the check.
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  Speaker 3: Let me say this, and we know you love hockey
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  Speaker 3: and you've been great for all the sports, but if
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  Speaker 3: I was going to compare you to anyone, I'd probably
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  Speaker 3: compare you to the coach of the Flyers.
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  Speaker 1: Skill, tough, physical. You guys would be comparable.
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  Speaker 3: You know, and I met him in the 80s as
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  Speaker 3: a player. And we played in that dump called the Spectrum.
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  Speaker 1: And he had the same floor as Zegras.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 3: We played in the Spectrum, and they had some rats,
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  Speaker 3: and they were big as cats.
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  Speaker 1: That place was a dump. And we shared the locker
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  Speaker 1: room with those guys, and I got a chance to
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  Speaker 1: meet him, and he's been the same guy. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: so proud of his success.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he won a couple cups with the Penguins.
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  Speaker 3: I got to really become close with Wayne. And I'll
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  Speaker 3: say this, Wayne.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody knows you about how great you are at hockey.
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  Speaker 3: But you are the nicest man that I've ever been
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  Speaker 3: around who was the great.
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  Speaker 1: You and Tom Brady. Now, some of my other friends
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  Speaker 1: who are great, they are painting in.
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  Speaker 3: But you and Wayne, you and Tom Brady, the GOATs,
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  Speaker 3: are the two nicest people I've ever been around.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you. Thank you. And I will say one
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  Speaker 1: more thing. Rick Tucker does have a flyer tattoo on
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  Speaker 1: his butt. On his butt or back? Both probably. They're
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  Speaker 1: very close. very close. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: If the Flyers win and we get Taka back up here.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to see it. We want to see it.
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  Speaker 1: I know you want to see it. Yeah. No, thanks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, have you seen it? I was kidding. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have a tattoo. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It was going to be a full biz team investigation.
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  Speaker 1: When they win tonight, we'll check it. Half on each cheek.
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  Speaker 2: Something to stay tuned for throughout the night.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Chuck. Thank you. Chuck, thanks so much for being here.
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  Speaker 1: You're the best. Thank you for having me, guys.