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Mac & Bone Hour 3: UNC Interviews From ACC Tip-Off & Hornets Updates · Mac & Bone Podcast

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Speaker 1: Oh, oh, oh, it's Mac and Bo on your radio, baby.
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Speaker 1: This is my friend Matt. Posh, come on, Posh. This
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Speaker 1: is my friend T-Bone. Let's have some fun.
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Speaker 2: I can't go to work without listening to Mac and Bone.
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Speaker 1: Do it live. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. No P entrance music?
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Speaker 3: I was told, I asked Fitty, I said, hey, are
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Speaker 3: we rolling hour three open or are we rolling Willie's World?
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Speaker 1: And he said, do hour three.
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Speaker 4: The disrespect for the P man to not play his
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Speaker 4: entrance music?
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Speaker 1: It's okay. The greatest entrance music in the game. P-Man,
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Speaker 1: I want to apologize.
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Speaker 4: On behalf of Bone and this show. It seems like
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Speaker 4: Fitty did not want you to have your cool entrance music.
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Speaker 5: We will refund the audience their hard-earned money.
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Speaker 1: They love it, too. The audience loves it, too. I
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Speaker 1: was just doing what I was told. Yeah, it's not
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Speaker 1: Shrub's fault. Just add it to the Fitty list, man.
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Speaker 1: Just add it. Just add it. Stacking on crap, stacking
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Speaker 1: on crap.
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Speaker 4: I hate to, I never want to start this segment
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Speaker 4: on a negative or a controversial tone.
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Speaker 1: That's not the way I want to know. We got
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Speaker 1: a big Panther win to talk about.
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Speaker 4: We got FC coming back this week, but allow me
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Speaker 4: to do so for this rare time.
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Speaker 1: What is, what can you say about the issue with Fitty?
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Speaker 3: It's not, it's not an issue with Fitty necessarily is
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Speaker 3: something that he did.
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Speaker 1: And it was a, um, a gremlin in our.
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Speaker 3: Board over the weekend where I was unable at the
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Speaker 3: doghouse to hear phone calls during the postgame show, and
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Speaker 3: Smoke couldn't even talk on the radio. So I thought,
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Speaker 3: there's something messed up. There's something messed up. I come
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Speaker 3: to find out that there's a setting on the board
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Speaker 3: where you can turn the television audio on to be
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Speaker 3: heard inside the radio station. They do this during the football,
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Speaker 3: they do this during basketball, et cetera, and so on,
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Speaker 3: to hear what's going on on the TV. So you're
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Speaker 3: not necessarily having to listen to what's on the radio
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Speaker 3: while you want to hear what's going on.
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Speaker 1: At the game.
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Speaker 3: Well, genius over there pressed the wrong button and reset
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Speaker 3: the board and put everything haywire. So as far as
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Speaker 3: I'm concerned, we need, we don't need to put like
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Speaker 3: a big thing on the board that says, Hey, doofus,
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Speaker 3: press this button to turn the TV on.
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Speaker 1: Did we hear Phineas? Finney talking from ACC tip-off in
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Speaker 1: the background there? No, that was my sound. Oh, that
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Speaker 1: was your sound? I thought you potted Finney up and
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Speaker 1: he's over there. I thought you caught him bitching about
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Speaker 1: Willie right back.
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Speaker 5: Did his board reset also make the remote go missing?
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Speaker 5: Because I need to know where that is also.
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Speaker 3: I would say, spoke yesterday during like full talk segments
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Speaker 3: on Monday when I was hosting for Kyle. It's like
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Speaker 3: walking around saying, did I leave it here?
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Speaker 1: Did I leave it there? He's very concerned, it sounds like.
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Speaker 1: I will give him that. I will give him that.
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Speaker 5: He has the exact time he thinks he left the
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Speaker 5: remote where it was, at 104 a.m. Eastern Time. Does
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Speaker 5: he have the.
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Speaker 3: I guess it would be easy to know that he
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Speaker 3: would have the Panther game down pat, but I'm sure
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Speaker 3: he probably knows the Panther game the last time the
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Speaker 3: remote was lost, the weather and the score and what
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Speaker 3: the quarterbacks did in each game.
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Speaker 1: That is true.
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Speaker 4: I heard we're unbeaten with a lost remote here at WFNZ.
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Speaker 4: Steve Berline. So what'd you think? What did you think
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Speaker 4: of that game, Willie? What did you think about the scene?
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Speaker 4: You were there, unlike me, who chickened out and didn't
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Speaker 4: want a totally late night.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was a little upset about that.
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Speaker 4: What was the scene like? It sounded amazing over TV.
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Speaker 4: And what did you think of that win, man?
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Speaker 1: I will say this.
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Speaker 3: The Detroit fans, as numerous as they were, probably the
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Speaker 3: most silent road fans I've ever seen at a game.
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Speaker 3: And again, credit to the Panthers for making it that way.
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Speaker 3: I thought the Panther fans who were there made it
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Speaker 3: a real raucous atmosphere. the spontaneous keep-pounding chance. That's kind
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Speaker 3: of where I always will judge a Panther atmosphere. If
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Speaker 3: we get spontaneous keep-pounding chance unprompted, that's a good thing,
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Speaker 3: and that tells you, number one, the Panthers are playing well,
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Speaker 3: and number two, we've got a raucous and live building,
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Speaker 3: and that was real cool. Obviously, Bryce Young and Tedderall
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Speaker 3: McMillan had otherworldly-type games. I like that the run game
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Speaker 3: found itself eventually after kind of in the first half
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Speaker 3: somewhat stalling. And the defense, I used the line last
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Speaker 3: Sunday night, kind of like Del Curry would say, like
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Speaker 3: a cat on a screen door hung on for dear life.
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to sit here and say that that's
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Speaker 3: why I want this team to play the entire season,
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Speaker 3: but it might be how they have to win given
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Speaker 3: all the deficiencies they have and the guys that they
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Speaker 3: do not have with them in terms of the secondary defense.
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Speaker 3: and also the interior defensive line. I will say this.
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Speaker 4: There's no team that has given up less than 31
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Speaker 4: points to the Lions in this season other than the Panthers.
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Speaker 1: That's good.
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Speaker 4: Who gave up 26. Every one of us without our
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Speaker 4: two corners would have signed up for that, man. Every
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Speaker 4: one of us.
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Speaker 5: Willie, what's been the most impressive element to how Bryce
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Speaker 5: has started the year in your opinion?
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Speaker 3: I would say it's the way he's layering the football.
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Speaker 3: He's making throws and decisions that he hadn't made even
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Speaker 3: when his play had been the best over the course
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Speaker 3: of the first couple of seasons. He now feels like
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Speaker 3: he knows what he's doing out there. And this offense
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Speaker 3: now feels crafted and shifted toward him. And I give
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Speaker 3: a lot of credit to Dave Canales for taking the
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Speaker 3: play calling responsibilities and giving them to Brad Idzik. It
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Speaker 3: feels like between the three of them, Idzik, Canales, and Bryce,
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Speaker 3: they have crafted an offense that Bryce knows how to execute.
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Speaker 3: And he also is feeling more like the quarterback out
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Speaker 3: there as opposed to somebody who is just kind of like,
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Speaker 3: you know, digging and dunking and doing those things. He
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Speaker 3: now has what I would feel a real competence when
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Speaker 3: it comes to this offense. Even a couple of those
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Speaker 3: third down throws where it didn't look like the Panthers
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Speaker 3: were able to make it happen, he's able to do that.
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Speaker 1: The throw on the.
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Speaker 3: Run that Ted Roe and McMillan, that's not a throw
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Speaker 3: I thought that Bryce Young could have made in the
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Speaker 3: first couple seasons here as Panthers quarterback.
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Speaker 1: But he's doing those things.
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Speaker 3: I think a lot of it, again, comes down to
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Speaker 3: the fact that he now has personnel around him, although
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Speaker 3: you could say this week That personnel was not exactly a.
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Speaker 1: Group of household names.
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Speaker 3: You've got Bryson Tremaine out there, you've got John Meche
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Speaker 3: out there, and you've got the three tight ends. So
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Speaker 3: it's not like he's doing it with the Marx Brothers
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Speaker 3: or The Greatest Show on Turf. I think that's the
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Speaker 3: most impressive thing, is that he's doing it with... without
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Speaker 3: league yet without coker in the lineup as well not.
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Speaker 5: Only matt does he make that throw but the catch
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Speaker 5: is made i don't think guys are making those plays
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Speaker 5: for him the first couple.
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Speaker 4: Guys are guys are stepping up to make plays for
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Speaker 4: him man no doubt about it you're right about that
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Speaker 4: i i we're talking to the p-man in studio it's
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Speaker 4: willie's world our weekly segment an hour uh earlier he's
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Speaker 4: got a big tv appearance down the hall wb tv
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Speaker 4: at nine he's hosting for colin he's in for colin
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Speaker 4: today at 10 so You'll get plenty of Willie.
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Speaker 1: P on this station. You're going to get a lot
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Speaker 1: of P today. There you go. And I think the
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Speaker 1: people should like that. I think they should like that.
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Speaker 1: All right. We're going to leave that alone, but we're
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Speaker 1: going to leave that alone. No, it's an overflow of P.
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Speaker 1: What do we– what do you think, P?
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Speaker 4: Have you seen enough from Bryce where you're like– He
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Speaker 4: should be the franchise quarterback.
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Speaker 3: I don't think it matters because I think if they're
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Speaker 3: picking up the phone right now and calling Bryce, he's
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Speaker 3: leaving him on red. He's sending him to a voicemail
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Speaker 3: like you would send all the loan calls you get.
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Speaker 1: Oh my, so many. The spam calls.
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Speaker 3: That's basically, he sees Dan Moore, he's like, oh, that
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Speaker 3: must be spam. Because I don't think he's going to
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Speaker 3: sign a deal before the end of the season.
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Speaker 1: I just don't.
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Speaker 3: Unless there's a significant change of the tenor of the
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Speaker 3: way this is going to go. I feel like it
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Speaker 3: will go into the offseason and there will be– I
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Speaker 3: wouldn't call it contentious, but I think that there will
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Speaker 3: definitely be a desire for Bryce to want to reset
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Speaker 3: the market. And I know people will sit there and say,
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Speaker 3: you can't pay him that much money with only one
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Speaker 3: year really to go off of. This is the way
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Speaker 3: it works in the National Football League. When it's your turn,
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Speaker 3: when you are due, when the bill comes due for
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Speaker 3: you and– the question is, do you reset the franchise completely?
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Speaker 3: Or do you go with this guy? When you go
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Speaker 3: with this guy, you have to pay him the going rate.
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Speaker 3: And so if people are going to get angry about
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Speaker 3: giving Bryce, you know, 60 million or whatever, you know, I'm,
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry. It's a lot better price to pay than
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Speaker 3: having to reset the franchise. I think he's done enough.
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Speaker 3: And again, this is not, this is projecting that it
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Speaker 3: will go somewhat similar over the course of the season.
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Speaker 3: He's not going to have, you know, the kinds of
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Speaker 3: games like he had against Atlanta and, or even this week.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if that's necessarily the baseline. There probably
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Speaker 3: will be a game or two where it looks like,
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Speaker 3: oh my goodness, he hasn't done his most efficient work.
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Speaker 3: But I think over the first four weeks of the season,
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Speaker 3: the fact that we've seen it now at the beginning
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Speaker 3: of the season, As long as it continues to go
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Speaker 3: the way that it has, I see no reason why
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Speaker 3: he shouldn't be the quarterback for years to come.
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Speaker 5: Really, I don't mind the spam calls anymore from the
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Speaker 5: lone places because I get like 20 a day. And
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Speaker 5: they come from so many random places. I now learn
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Speaker 5: stuff because I'll see cities and places pop up and I'll.
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Speaker 1: Say, oh, I didn't know. This is the other day.
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Speaker 5: I got a spam call, Mac, from Battle Mountain, Nevada.
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Speaker 1: Battle Mountain.
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Speaker 5: I said, is that a Tubi movie? Like, what the
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Speaker 5: hell is Battle Mountain? I'm warning things about these places
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Speaker 5: that I didn't know existed.
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Speaker 3: I'm still getting texts about political races in Houston. And
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Speaker 3: I'm like, I haven't lived in Houston in nine years.
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Speaker 4: Why do we have to see those Ken Paxton ads?
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Speaker 4: I know we're off on a tangent now, but why
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Speaker 4: do we have to see Texas race ads?
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Speaker 1: Like, and apparently they ran across the country.
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Speaker 6: Why?
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Speaker 1: You want to know why? Why is that?
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Speaker 3: Because the inventory, the commercial inventory, they're high pricing the
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Speaker 3: commercial inventory for these local ads. It's cheaper for them
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Speaker 3: to run a national ad than it is to run
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Speaker 3: a local ad because of the way the inventory works.
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Speaker 1: Look at Pete coming with the damn intel, baby.
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Speaker 4: Apparently the Vikings game got flooded the other day by
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Speaker 4: Texas political ads.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Thanks for listening, Bo.
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Speaker 5: You see what I deal with? You see what I
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Speaker 5: deal with? I didn't realize Ken Paxton was the same
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Speaker 5: guy you're talking about. I didn't know it was the
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Speaker 5: same storyline.
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Speaker 1: I'm listening right here.
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Speaker 7: I'm listening.
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Speaker 1: I'm vibing. We're three guys that are more talking, man.
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Speaker 1: It's not James Paxton. Golly, man. Bone thought it was
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Speaker 1: Brad Faxon. How about this?
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Speaker 4: Bone thought Brad Faxon was running for the Senate. I
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Speaker 4: challenge you to a duel at Battle Mountain. Bone thought
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Speaker 4: Jim Paxton and John Paxton were a joint ticket. What
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Speaker 4: are you boying me for?
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Speaker 1: I'm just goofing off.
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Speaker 4: I thought it was with the boy Finney the same time.
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Speaker 1: Here's Paxton for three. I was a John Paxton guy
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Speaker 1: more than Jim Paxton. I was a Bill Paxton guy also.
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Speaker 4: All right, let's talk about Charlotte FC coming back. I
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Speaker 4: know you were over there with Dean yesterday, had a
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Speaker 4: media availability. They're back in action this week. And what's
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Speaker 4: your feeling about the stretch run now coming off the
10:38
Speaker 4: international break? I know the Archie Goodwin loss stinks. And
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Speaker 4: I'm not sure Dean kind of, it's, it's kind of
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Speaker 4: hard to go get somebody out there right now.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: I mean, are we kind of, do we have what
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Speaker 1: we have at this point?
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Speaker 3: Well, first off, there was another kind of little bit
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Speaker 3: of an injury scare with Edan Toklamati. He had shown
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Speaker 3: up as having a knee injury on a sofa score
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Speaker 3: and fought mob. And we were kind of wondering why
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Speaker 3: he wasn't available on the last couple of games for
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Speaker 3: the Israeli national team. Thankfully he came back to town,
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Speaker 3: looked at the knee, looks like it's fine. It looks
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Speaker 3: like he's going to play this weekend. So, That's a
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Speaker 3: bullet dodge for sure, honestly, because if you didn't have him,
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Speaker 3: you would have basically no strikers going into the weekend
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Speaker 3: against FC Dallas. But I've looked at what the I
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Speaker 3: don't want to call it the scrap heap, but looked
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Speaker 3: at what the free agent market looks like, particularly with
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Speaker 3: the domestic players.
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Speaker 1: There's not a lot.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, there's Corey Baird is out there
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Speaker 3: who's played a couple of years at San Diego and Houston.
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Speaker 3: That's maybe the best option that's out there. I don't
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Speaker 3: know if that's a route they want to go. They
11:36
Speaker 3: did have a trialist in earlier this week. I have
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Speaker 3: not gotten confirmed 100% who that is, but a lot
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Speaker 3: of people who are out there in the Internet sleuthing
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Speaker 3: world will say that it is the old Everton attacking midfielder,
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Speaker 3: who is currently a free agent right now. That kind
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Speaker 3: of makes it sound like that's something they've been working
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Speaker 3: on since before this Archie Goodwin injury. So I don't
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Speaker 3: know if that's necessarily a replacement. I think they kind
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Speaker 3: of feel like they're OK with what they have right now.
12:02
Speaker 3: as much as it doesn't necessarily make me all warm
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Speaker 3: and fuzzy inside, seeing Tiger Smalls and Rodolfo Aloko as
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Speaker 3: the only backup striker capability guys on the roster, they
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Speaker 3: feel very confident where they are. They've got Maxie. They've
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Speaker 3: got Pep BL. It's going to have to be something
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Speaker 3: of a bi-committee thing in terms of the backup striker position.
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Speaker 3: But when you look at it right now, Mac, there's
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Speaker 3: seven games left over the next five weeks. It's not
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Speaker 3: like they have a lot of time that they have
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Speaker 3: to necessarily account for as long as Edon can play.
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Speaker 3: They feel like they're okay. It's a matter of, hey,
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Speaker 3: can you get your work done early in games as
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Speaker 3: opposed to trying to wait till the end? I think
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Speaker 3: that's something that would be very, very imperative. But if
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Speaker 3: you look at the last seven games, they're playing six
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Speaker 3: of those seven teams that are basically fighting for playoff spots.
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Speaker 3: They're fighting for playoff supremacy. The only team that really
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Speaker 3: isn't is Montreal, but everybody else is like within three
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Speaker 3: or four points of the playoff line or above the
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Speaker 3: playoff line in each of their conferences. So it's not
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Speaker 3: going to be one of those things where you look
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Speaker 3: at it and say, there are going to be any
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Speaker 3: gimmies left. So it starts this weekend against a team that...
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Speaker 3: They're pretty good, right, Dallas? They're third place in the West.
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Speaker 3: And they've got an all-star striker in Peter Moussa who
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Speaker 3: is scoring goals for fun.
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Speaker 1: Moussa! Not that Moussa. Does all the dirty work. He's
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Speaker 1: a Croatian Moussa, not the other Moussa.
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Speaker 4: Not a French Moussa? Not a French Moussa, no. Can
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Speaker 4: you say on the broadcast, not our Moussa? I will
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Speaker 4: say he's not our Moussa. And that is at the bank.
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Speaker 4: If y'all want to head to the bank, that is
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Speaker 4: at the bank, Saturday, 730. There was an amazing crowd
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Speaker 4: at the bank for the last game.
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Speaker 1: Yes, 31,000 last time.
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Speaker 4: So let's bring that again this time as well. All right.
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Speaker 4: Schrapp's wrapping your segment up. How do you feel about that, Pete?
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Speaker 4: Schrapp stepped up in a big chair and said, this
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Speaker 4: segment's over.
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Speaker 5: This guy gets moved off from Michael Malone here.
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Speaker 1: It's a little much. A little much. But I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: I'm just continuing to do what I'm told. That's all.
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Speaker 1: You're doing your job.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Bone, how do I react when the producers do
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Speaker 4: their job and try to give me the wrap-up sign?
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Speaker 4: How does that work? I can see how you're reacting
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Speaker 4: right now. Like when a manager tries to take Max
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Speaker 4: Scherzer out of a ballgame.
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Speaker 1: It's very true. That is so true. It's the same energy.
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Speaker 4: They say, all right, that's enough. And you say, I'm
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Speaker 4: finishing this game. Like Dylan Stewart when they tried to
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Speaker 4: take him out the other week. Just tell the assistant coach, no.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Does P-Man get a swine or no swine
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Speaker 1: because of this? I don't know. No time for swine.
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Speaker 1: He has two hours on air later. He'll be fine.
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Speaker 1: He'll be fine. We'll be fine. I gave Shrump the
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Speaker 1: swine because he wouldn't let Willie do the swine.
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Speaker 5: When we come back, we're going to get some guests
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Speaker 5: on from ACC Media Days. First up from the Tar Heels,
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Speaker 5: Veteran forward Jaron Stevenson, followed by new head coach Michael Malone.
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Speaker 1: Back to back. Don't miss it, Heels fans. Sports Radio,
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Speaker 1: 92.7 WFNZ. We are rocking, baby. We are rocking.
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Speaker 4: It is the Mac and Bone Show, your Mac and
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Speaker 4: Bone podcast. As always, we'll be up later today after
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Speaker 4: the show. So if you're just tuning in right now,
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Speaker 4: the good news is you're getting a chance, especially if
15:18
Speaker 4: you're a Tar Heel fan, getting a chance to hear
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Speaker 4: from Michael Malone, Tar Heel head coach, in a few minutes.
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Speaker 4: Before that, Jaron Stevenson, one of their veterans, joining us here.
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Speaker 4: They're over there live from ACC tip-off. The Fit Dog.
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Speaker 4: I don't care how Willie feels about him. The Fit
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Speaker 4: Dog is over there making it happen today. grabbing those
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Speaker 4: guests for us today but if you have missed.
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Speaker 5: Hopefully he gets bodied by patrick gunba at some point
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Speaker 5: today gunba at some point today you're hoping you're hoping
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Speaker 5: fitting i wouldn't mind maybe we'll box out and somewhere
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Speaker 5: in the it does have a tarheel blue shirt on
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Speaker 5: over there the fit dog does but anyway as far
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Speaker 5: as the podcast go whatever you miss on the show
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Speaker 5: go check them out in podcast form um you can
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16:23
Speaker 5: Are you getting the hoops bug at all right now?
16:27
Speaker 5: Hornets played last night, Bone. um second half was pretty.
16:30
Speaker 4: Second half was pretty good some did i think they
16:33
Speaker 4: played for a half some of those gentlemen in the
16:35
Speaker 4: second half bony it was a little ugly but um
16:39
Speaker 4: are you getting the hoops bug at all right.
16:41
Speaker 5: Now bony yeah i'm getting there i'm excited for the
16:43
Speaker 5: hornets i think the brand of basketball is going to
16:46
Speaker 5: be fun to watch i do have my uh My
16:49
Speaker 5: Lindy's College Basketball Preview Magazine Mac might not be the
16:54
Speaker 5: smartest purchase because a lot of the rosters aren't even
16:57
Speaker 5: finalized yet. So this gives you kind of a glimpse
17:00
Speaker 5: of what's coming up here. It is a sport that
17:03
Speaker 5: you sort of have to figure things.
17:05
Speaker 1: You know this.
17:06
Speaker 5: All the rosters now. I quizzed you last week on
17:09
Speaker 5: who a team was, and Fitty was in the room.
17:12
Speaker 5: I named off 10 players, and nobody knew that was
17:14
Speaker 5: Wake Forest's basketball team. It takes a little bit of...
17:18
Speaker 5: time to figure out who's on even the local teams
17:21
Speaker 5: who's on what team where they came from we'll get
17:24
Speaker 5: there eventually but college basketball college football we're ready to
17:27
Speaker 5: go when it starts we got a lot of time
17:29
Speaker 5: to get ready for it although there is some roster
17:32
Speaker 5: turnover obviously but basketball it is i have this magazine
17:35
Speaker 5: mac and i couldn't tell you who 75 of these
17:38
Speaker 5: players what does.
17:39
Speaker 1: The magazine say for lsu To be determined. It just
17:43
Speaker 1: says pending. We'll get back to you on that.
17:45
Speaker 5: But it is, you know, you'll watch games and you'll
17:47
Speaker 5: figure out, oh, I think I remember that guy's name,
17:49
Speaker 5: but where was he before?
17:50
Speaker 4: Oh, the first night, I'm Googling my computer. Where did
17:53
Speaker 4: this guy transfer from? Let me get the background on
17:55
Speaker 4: this guy. My first question to Jaron Stevenson when he
17:58
Speaker 4: joins us from ACC tip-off in a minute is, so
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Speaker 4: who are these guys on your team now, Jaron?
18:02
Speaker 1: You have a name tag. Why the heck did you
18:04
Speaker 1: stay put, Jaron?
18:05
Speaker 4: You really must like your hometown of Chapel Hill because
18:07
Speaker 4: you're not supposed to stay put. um it's crazy i
18:10
Speaker 4: will say this bone um last night um your fellow
18:14
Speaker 4: duke fan my son mac jr and i know plenty
18:17
Speaker 4: of you hate me for this uh but i believe
18:20
Speaker 4: in freedom of college basketball and college football fandom choice
18:23
Speaker 4: it's the right thing to do now you don't have
18:24
Speaker 4: a choice if you do if you don't root for
18:26
Speaker 4: the panthers you get kicked out of my house but
18:28
Speaker 4: you have also the right thing to do you have
18:29
Speaker 4: freedom of college uh uh you know hoops choice and
18:32
Speaker 4: my son picked duke years ago and he said can
18:35
Speaker 4: you tell bone that he should bet $ 100 on Duke
18:40
Speaker 4: to win the national title this season. He said this
18:42
Speaker 4: is the year Shire breaks through. So do you feel
18:46
Speaker 4: good about that, or do you think.
18:47
Speaker 1: The little Mac curse, the Mac Jr. curse may hit?
18:50
Speaker 1: Mac Jr., let me tell you something. You're about four
18:52
Speaker 1: days too late on that request. You all over it?
18:55
Speaker 1: You're about four days and $ 20 off. Mac Jr.
18:59
Speaker 5: we're going to go. How about this, Mac Jr.? When
19:01
Speaker 5: we win that bet, we'll win it together. We're going
19:03
Speaker 5: to Red Lobster together. let him know that.
19:06
Speaker 4: And his mother can't say anything about it no like
19:08
Speaker 4: she had that issue with me taking him for 130
19:10
Speaker 4: now we're not sure if her dad's going depends on
19:13
Speaker 4: the season goes yeah i think i'm probably not allowed
19:15
Speaker 4: not invited all right let's do this man coach malone's
19:18
Speaker 4: in the on deck circle from ACC Tip-Off for us,
19:22
Speaker 4: so stay tuned for that. But right now, let's talk
19:24
Speaker 4: to a guy that, you know, is back from last year,
19:27
Speaker 4: and he is playing in his hometown of Chapel Hill
19:29
Speaker 4: for the Tar Heels, and he is one of the
19:31
Speaker 4: veteran leaders of this team. He is Jaron Stevenson, who
19:34
Speaker 4: joins us over there a couple miles away at ACC Tip-Off.
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Speaker 1: Jaron, welcome to the show. How you doing, man? Thank you.
19:41
Speaker 6: How are you?
19:42
Speaker 1: I'm doing good. So how does it feel, man?
19:44
Speaker 4: You get you're one of the guys that gets uh
19:46
Speaker 4: the assignment to represent the school you are clearly you're
19:50
Speaker 4: in your fourth year you're a holdover from last year's
19:52
Speaker 4: team like have you as coach talked to you about
19:55
Speaker 4: being a leader because it feels like that's got to
19:57
Speaker 4: be a part of your role this.
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Speaker 6: Year yes that's a huge part of my role i'm
20:02
Speaker 6: more of a reserve laid-back guy so learning how to
20:04
Speaker 6: push myself and to different spots whether it's not always
20:08
Speaker 6: talking but like showcasing different things to the younger guys
20:11
Speaker 6: or just the Carolina way, um, being tough. And, um, yeah, again,
20:15
Speaker 6: just teaching the younger guys how the Carolina way is.
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Speaker 5: Jared with leadership comes a day like today as a,
20:21
Speaker 5: as a Chapel Hill guy to be at ACC media days,
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Speaker 5: representing the Tar Heels. What, what does that mean to
20:28
Speaker 5: you to have the honor of doing something like that?
20:31
Speaker 6: Yeah, to be honest, this is huge for me, um,
20:33
Speaker 6: being able to represent Carolina. Uh, again, I grew up,
20:37
Speaker 6: you know, watching Carolina being around them. So, I know
20:40
Speaker 6: how historic this place is and the great guys that
20:44
Speaker 6: have come from this college and this university. They've been
20:49
Speaker 6: back too, so just being able to meet them and
20:52
Speaker 6: I know this is huge, so just being out here
20:54
Speaker 6: representing Carolina is huge.
20:55
Speaker 4: So, Jaren, I hate that you stand out in this
20:58
Speaker 4: day and age of college athletics when you stay at
21:01
Speaker 4: a school.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? With so many people leaving. Yeah,
21:03
Speaker 1: what's wrong with you, Jaren?
21:06
Speaker 4: But that's the way this question is going to kind
21:08
Speaker 4: of be framed. You are in your hometown. It sounds
21:10
Speaker 4: like that means a lot to you. But the coach
21:13
Speaker 4: you went to play with in Hubert Davis, a guy
21:15
Speaker 4: that I know you guys in that locker room had
21:17
Speaker 4: a personal bond with, Coach Malone comes in. What was
21:21
Speaker 4: that decision like and you deciding to stay? Why was
21:24
Speaker 4: it important to stay there?
21:26
Speaker 6: I knew Coach Malone would do a good job. Also,
21:29
Speaker 6: a huge thing with me is the Carolina family and
21:32
Speaker 6: my family. I have a great support system here in
21:35
Speaker 6: North Carolina. Going back to Coach Malone, his NBA experience
21:42
Speaker 6: and different things like that, I feel like he could
21:44
Speaker 6: help me a lot, improve my game and help me
21:48
Speaker 6: get to where I want to, which is the NBA.
21:51
Speaker 5: Jaron, obviously all your goals for the team, they take
21:54
Speaker 5: place in the winter and then hopefully for you guys
21:57
Speaker 5: and your sake early spring. But how important in this
22:00
Speaker 5: day and age of college basketball is the summer months,
22:03
Speaker 5: the early fall, to get that chemistry right when there's
22:07
Speaker 5: so much new that goes into these programs?
22:10
Speaker 6: Yeah, summer is huge. That's where you get better. You
22:14
Speaker 6: have extra time to really perfect your craft. And then, again,
22:17
Speaker 6: we have a lot of new guys, so helping build
22:20
Speaker 6: chemistry there, hang out with them, learn each other's play
22:23
Speaker 6: styles and different things like that. The summer is a
22:25
Speaker 6: huge month to get better.
22:29
Speaker 4: What's Coach Malone like? What is his approach to coaching?
22:33
Speaker 4: Because I know it's a change for him. He's used
22:35
Speaker 4: to dealing with the grown men. Some of them make
22:38
Speaker 4: more money than he does. And now he's got young guys.
22:42
Speaker 4: What's he been like as a coach so far?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, he's been intense.
22:47
Speaker 6: But, yeah, I feel like he has, like, held it
22:50
Speaker 6: down for the younger guys. But, yeah, he's done a
22:53
Speaker 6: great job. And I feel like he has, like, NBA-style
22:56
Speaker 6: practices where we're getting up and down the court, pushing
23:00
Speaker 6: ourselves and getting different type of shots up. And I
23:03
Speaker 6: think he's done a great job.
23:05
Speaker 5: Uh jaron as the uh don't hold this against me
23:07
Speaker 5: here we're friends now as a uh as a duke
23:10
Speaker 5: fan of the show i need to.
23:12
Speaker 8: Ask oh no i didn't even i didn't even ask
23:16
Speaker 8: a question jaron i can't believe you what's going on
23:22
Speaker 8: here man i was just i.
23:23
Speaker 5: Can't even ask a question he didn't know i was
23:25
Speaker 5: gonna say you grew up in chapel hill but so
23:27
Speaker 5: i mean did you i'm guessing you grew up with
23:29
Speaker 5: some uh A little bit of Duke hate in your heart, probably?
23:33
Speaker 4: Yeah.
23:34
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. I've been a Carolina fan for a little bit. Again,
23:37
Speaker 6: my mom went to Carolina, so I always had a soft...
23:41
Speaker 6: place in my heart for carolina all.
23:42
Speaker 4: Right all right last dates are not laughing at me
23:44
Speaker 4: there jaren i know we gotta let you go that
23:46
Speaker 4: was a great reaction jaren i love that um uh
23:49
Speaker 4: all right last question i want to ask you i'm
23:51
Speaker 4: kind of curious like i think a lot of people
23:53
Speaker 4: on the outside wonder like how does the nio work
23:57
Speaker 4: in the locker room like do dudes know what each
24:00
Speaker 4: other got do y'all share that information is there ever
24:04
Speaker 4: jealousy that creeps in do y'all joke with each other
24:06
Speaker 4: about like how what's that dynamic like because it's a
24:09
Speaker 4: different world for y'all.
24:11
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, NIL is a lot different. Yeah, we don't
24:14
Speaker 6: know what each other make. I think that's a good thing.
24:16
Speaker 1: Probably best, yeah.
24:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we can just focus on basketball, focus on
24:19
Speaker 6: winning games, and, yeah, keep the outside stuff outside.
24:23
Speaker 1: Jared, you've got to run the ice cream shop that
24:25
Speaker 1: Trimble went behind. Yeah, yeah.
24:28
Speaker 7: It's a good idea.
24:29
Speaker 1: If you're a leader, you can take care of that
24:31
Speaker 1: place for him, man.
24:32
Speaker 6: All right.
24:32
Speaker 4: Hey, Jaren, we appreciate you. We both enjoyed talking to you.
24:35
Speaker 4: Even the Duke fan, I think, enjoyed talking to you. Hey, brother,
24:39
Speaker 4: best of luck, man.
24:40
Speaker 1: Appreciate you.
24:41
Speaker 6: I appreciate that.
24:42
Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. There you go, Jaren. Stevenson. I didn't
24:44
Speaker 1: even ask a question. All I simply said was I'm
24:46
Speaker 1: a Duke fan.
24:47
Speaker 4: It's funny because when you do that with guys that
24:49
Speaker 4: have either played at Carolina or they do– Most guys
24:53
Speaker 4: don't react like that. They're usually like, okay, all right, whatever.
24:57
Speaker 4: But he, like, genuinely started laughing. He's also got the
25:00
Speaker 4: deep Chapel Hill roots, too. So he wasn't like he
25:03
Speaker 4: came from the outside. He's lived that world, right?
25:06
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Cackalack said, Jaron said, next question. All right.
25:10
Speaker 1: I was at the point where I was like, I'm
25:11
Speaker 1: not even going to ask this question. What were you doing?
25:14
Speaker 1: Why don't you help me out next time, pal? I
25:15
Speaker 1: thought his reaction was so genuine and funny.
25:18
Speaker 4: I was so glad he didn't just deadpan it like
25:20
Speaker 4: it didn't matter to him, like he was genuinely amused.
25:23
Speaker 4: He's going to go tell his buddies. He's going to
25:25
Speaker 4: go tell his buddies. I talked to a Duke guy today.
25:28
Speaker 4: I have a circus act. When you tell Patrick Gungba
25:31
Speaker 4: at 945 when he joins us, that you're a devil fan.
25:35
Speaker 4: I'm going to say, hey, Big Pat, the guy sitting
25:37
Speaker 4: there that put the headphones on you hates Duke. Now,
25:39
Speaker 4: the problem is our next guest, he probably doesn't want
25:42
Speaker 4: to hear either, Bowen, about your fandom.
25:44
Speaker 1: No, he does not.
25:44
Speaker 4: But he is a true professional. I'm sure he will
25:46
Speaker 4: handle this interview with professionalism, even though you're a Duke fan.
25:50
Speaker 4: He is the first-year coach of UNC basketball, a man
25:54
Speaker 4: that Jaron Stevenson said the word to describe him is intense.
25:57
Speaker 1: He is Michael Malone. Coach, how you doing? What's going on?
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Speaker 7: I'm intense, man.
26:02
Speaker 1: I'm intense.
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Speaker 4: I respect that. I do, and I think he did too.
26:06
Speaker 4: The way he talked about you, I think he respects
26:09
Speaker 4: the intensity. Coach, what has it been like coaching these
26:12
Speaker 4: young bucks? I know I was a young knucklehead in college.
26:15
Speaker 4: You would have yelled at me. I know that. What's
26:17
Speaker 4: it like from going grown men in the NBA to
26:20
Speaker 4: these young guys? How's it been?
26:23
Speaker 7: I think it's an adjustment. You go from coaching 25-,
26:26
Speaker 7: 30-year-olds guys with families, wives and kids. And now you're
26:32
Speaker 7: coming into a situation where you are coaching every day
26:35
Speaker 7: and pouring into 17, 18, 19-year-old kids. And that's not
26:39
Speaker 7: lost on me. My job responsibility has changed. I have
26:43
Speaker 7: to make sure I show up every day and not
26:46
Speaker 7: just from a coach's perspective in terms of helping them offensively, defensively,
26:51
Speaker 7: be the best players that they can be, but also
26:53
Speaker 7: pouring into them and helping them continue to develop as
26:56
Speaker 7: young men who can every single day represent this great
27:00
Speaker 7: program in a positive light.
27:02
Speaker 5: Coach, we're in a time and space in the college
27:05
Speaker 5: sports world where we're seeing a lot of coaches that
27:08
Speaker 5: don't want to be a part of it. We know
27:10
Speaker 5: the names of the college basketball coaches, college football coaches.
27:13
Speaker 5: They go other places because of the way the sport
27:15
Speaker 5: is going. You've won a championship in the NBA. You're
27:18
Speaker 5: a lifespan in the NBA. What drew you at this
27:21
Speaker 5: point to the college game when a lot of other
27:24
Speaker 5: people are going away from the college game?
27:26
Speaker 7: You know, I know that the first interaction I had
27:29
Speaker 7: with UNC and when they approached me we had multiple
27:32
Speaker 7: conversations and my first thought was I was really you
27:36
Speaker 7: know honored of their interest but you know I viewed
27:39
Speaker 7: myself I'm an NBA coach I'm gonna stay in this
27:41
Speaker 7: space I want to try to win another championship and
27:44
Speaker 7: see what opens up but the more I thought about
27:47
Speaker 7: it and thought about the tradition at Carolina and the
27:50
Speaker 7: coaches that have sat in that seat I did not
27:53
Speaker 7: want to in 10, 15, 20 years down the road
27:56
Speaker 7: look back and have any regrets. And I wanted to
28:00
Speaker 7: come to this space. I wouldn't have left the NBA
28:03
Speaker 7: just to go to any school. And people think, well,
28:05
Speaker 7: he went to Carolina because his daughter was there playing volleyball.
28:08
Speaker 1: That's just a coincidence.
28:10
Speaker 7: I came to Carolina because I truly feel that we
28:13
Speaker 7: have everything in front of us to make this program
28:17
Speaker 7: a team that can compete every single year for national championship.
28:21
Speaker 7: That requires a lot of hard work. That requires a
28:23
Speaker 7: lot of commitment. But it's something that I know myself
28:26
Speaker 7: and our entire coaching staff are committed to trying to
28:29
Speaker 7: make it happen, and I think we're off to a
28:32
Speaker 7: pretty good start.
28:33
Speaker 1: Michael Malone with us. He's live a couple of miles away.
28:36
Speaker 4: ACC tip off here in Charlotte chat with us.
28:38
Speaker 1: New heels coach. So, coach, man, you had to hit
28:40
Speaker 1: the ground running.
28:41
Speaker 4: Right.
28:42
Speaker 1: I mean, you come back. It's been a long time
28:44
Speaker 1: since you coached in college.
28:45
Speaker 4: And dang, you get this job and it's like, I
28:47
Speaker 4: got to go put this roster together right away. And honestly,
28:51
Speaker 4: it feels like you did a heck of a job
28:52
Speaker 4: considering kind of the time crunch. What was that process
28:56
Speaker 4: like and how how confident are you that, hey, we
28:58
Speaker 4: kind of pulled it off, you know, for what we
29:00
Speaker 4: had to work with?
29:01
Speaker 7: Well, it was a wild ride, as you mentioned. I mean, literally,
29:04
Speaker 7: the day I was hired, I left the press conference.
29:07
Speaker 7: I went to a little get-together to shake some hands
29:12
Speaker 7: and kiss some babies. I've never felt more like a
29:14
Speaker 7: politician than I have the last four or five months.
29:17
Speaker 7: But then after that, I get into a room to
29:21
Speaker 7: discuss the transfer portal, something that was my first venture
29:25
Speaker 7: and experience going through. And when you mentioned, I think,
29:29
Speaker 7: looking back now, getting a guy like Neil Dallas from
29:32
Speaker 7: Virginia Tech, Terrence Brown, Matt Abel, as well as all
29:36
Speaker 7: the other players that we signed, I think we did
29:38
Speaker 7: a pretty good job considering the circuit. And now we're
29:41
Speaker 7: moving forward trying to recruit the kids that are in
29:43
Speaker 7: the class of 2027. So it is a whirlwind. There's
29:47
Speaker 7: no off days. You're always building your program. You're always
29:51
Speaker 7: selling your program. And we want to make sure that
29:53
Speaker 7: we're not just bringing in talented players because that's a given.
29:56
Speaker 7: We want to bring in the guys that we know
29:58
Speaker 7: that can represent this program in the best possible way.
30:00
Speaker 5: Coach, what's the status of fifth-year guy Cameron Fins for
30:03
Speaker 5: the exhibition games?
30:04
Speaker 7: Yeah, as of right now, Cameron Fins is ineligible. He
30:08
Speaker 7: will not be playing on Friday night. Obviously, we have
30:11
Speaker 7: a lot of trust in what's going to play out.
30:15
Speaker 7: We think Cameron Fins is an outstanding young man and
30:18
Speaker 7: even a tremendous basketball player on top of that. But
30:23
Speaker 7: at this moment, he is not eligible. and we're going
30:26
Speaker 7: to let that process play out. But he's been a
30:28
Speaker 7: joy to be around, and if and when he is
30:31
Speaker 7: ruled eligible, I have no doubt that he's going to
30:34
Speaker 7: be able to go out there and help this program.
30:36
Speaker 5: Coach, in this weird world of college sports right now,
30:38
Speaker 5: you're playing NC State in a non-conference game in Greensboro
30:42
Speaker 5: in the middle of December. How did that come about,
30:45
Speaker 5: and how cool do you think that is for Greensboro
30:48
Speaker 5: and both fan bases to have a game, albeit unconventional,
30:51
Speaker 5: like that in Greensboro?
30:53
Speaker 7: I think it's great. Myself and Justin did a press
30:56
Speaker 7: conference a month and a half ago in Greensboro to
30:59
Speaker 7: talk about that game. I'm learning so much about the tradition,
31:03
Speaker 7: the history of not only Carolina, but also the conference.
31:07
Speaker 7: That game matters to our fans. The last year was
31:09
Speaker 7: the first time in over 100 years, I believe, that
31:13
Speaker 7: UNC and State did not play two times in a season.
31:17
Speaker 7: The fans wanted it. They're getting it. I think The
31:21
Speaker 7: fans are the ones that kind of carry these programs,
31:24
Speaker 7: and they want to see it, looking forward to it,
31:26
Speaker 7: another opportunity for us. to challenge ourselves against some of
31:30
Speaker 7: the best teams around us.
31:31
Speaker 4: Last thing, Coach, you mentioned your big man there, Cameron Fensch.
31:36
Speaker 4: You mentioned we're confident he's going to be eligible. This
31:39
Speaker 4: whole fifth-year eligibility thing is crazy. The whole college landscape
31:43
Speaker 4: is crazy, the uncertainty. Did you, like, is this major
31:47
Speaker 4: headaches coming from the NBA? Like, this feels like it
31:51
Speaker 4: would stress me out to coach college athletics.
31:54
Speaker 7: Yeah. You know, it's definitely different. It's a completely different league.
31:59
Speaker 7: And what you had in the NBA is you had
32:01
Speaker 7: defined rules. You had a level playing field. You had transparency.
32:05
Speaker 7: And there was things. They weren't moving the goalposts every
32:08
Speaker 7: single day. For me, first year in college athletics in
32:11
Speaker 7: a long time, it feels that you don't have the
32:14
Speaker 7: level playing field. You don't have transparency at all times.
32:18
Speaker 7: And you don't know what's going to happen from a
32:20
Speaker 7: day-to-day basis. Court cases getting overturned. So... As I mentioned earlier,
32:25
Speaker 7: we're going to let things play out. They're out of
32:27
Speaker 7: our control at this moment, and we'll be ready to
32:31
Speaker 7: move no matter what the final results are because that
32:33
Speaker 7: is our job, to make sure no matter who's available.
32:36
Speaker 7: They'll be able to go out there and put them
32:38
Speaker 7: in a position to have success.
32:39
Speaker 1: Don't worry, Coach.
32:40
Speaker 4: Eventually, it'll be coaching, it'll be games, and your biggest
32:43
Speaker 4: pain in the butt will be rival ACC fans being annoying.
32:46
Speaker 1: What are you looking at me for?
32:48
Speaker 4: Those camera crazies you like, Bo. What are you looking
32:50
Speaker 4: at me for? Sorry, Coach, my friend here. Coach, we appreciate.
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Speaker 1: You, man. Best of luck.
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Speaker 7: All right, appreciate it, guys. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Coach. There you go. Trying to get me
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Speaker 1: in trouble with Coach.
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Speaker 4: That is Michael Malone, yeah, because he's the intense one, right?
33:01
Speaker 4: So I thought maybe he wouldn't laugh. I thought maybe
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Speaker 4: he'd yell at you. I didn't want to say anything
33:05
Speaker 4: about that. Oh, man.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, we will do equal time.
33:09
Speaker 4: We'll have Patrick Gungba representing Duke later in the show
33:12
Speaker 4: at 945, right at the end of the show. And
33:14
Speaker 4: then Walker Mayles is going to have a bunch of guys,
33:16
Speaker 4: Justin Ganey from State. So State will be represented as well.
33:21
Speaker 4: It's the last day of ACC tip-off over there.
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Speaker 1: Where the heck are they at? It just occurred to me.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what building they're in in this town. Hilton, right?
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Speaker 2: Hilton.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
33:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right. You saved me. I just
33:33
Speaker 1: threw out a hotel name. I hope you're right. It's
33:36
Speaker 1: the Hilton. It's got to be the Hilton. It's always
33:38
Speaker 1: the Hilton. It's got to be the Hilton.
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Speaker 5: We come back. A Hornets injury update. Is Brandon Miller
33:43
Speaker 5: about to get paid? And are the Braves about to
33:46
Speaker 5: be bounced from the postseason? A little smorgasbord.
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Speaker 1: Smorgasbord? Smorgasbord. Yeah. Next, Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, Kobe suffered an injury during training camp. Um, competition
34:13
Speaker 2: level was high. And so I think that he's obviously
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Speaker 2: in good spirits and understands, um, that every day is
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Speaker 2: just going to be important for him as he continues to, um,
34:21
Speaker 2: work through his rehab process and Christian and Brandon, same
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Speaker 2: type of thing, sustained injuries during practice.
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Speaker 1: Um, and their day-to-day.
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Speaker 2: And so they'll keep going through their rehab routines, and
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Speaker 2: we'll update you guys as we get information.
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Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 4: Injury updates. Brandon Miller didn't play last night. Christian Anderson and,
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Speaker 4: of course, Kobe, who suffered the left calf strain the
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Speaker 4: other day in practice. We already have the hamstrings of
34:54
Speaker 4: Khan and Grant. We're hoping those guys can be back.
34:57
Speaker 4: But here we are, Bone. It would not be the
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Speaker 4: lead up to a Hornets season. It would not be.
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Speaker 4: Hornets basketball time without injuries that we've got to stress
35:07
Speaker 4: the heck over.
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Speaker 1: Multiple ones. Seriously.
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Speaker 5: We don't all focus on one. We all have a
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Speaker 5: group of injuries to focus on. And you can't use
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Speaker 5: the substation.
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Speaker 4: You can't use the Duke Energy substation argument to explain
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Speaker 4: their injuries like people try to do with the Panthers.
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Speaker 1: Who do we blame, though? The bus depot? Like, what's
35:24
Speaker 1: going on over there?
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Speaker 4: And we got a new medical staff now. So, yeah,
35:27
Speaker 4: what are we— Gotta blame somebody for this. What are
35:29
Speaker 4: we blaming for?
35:30
Speaker 1: I still can't believe a texter called it straightening camp yesterday.
35:34
Speaker 4: That was well played. I mean, I hate— It's so ridiculous.
35:37
Speaker 4: I hate that this is where we're at, but that
35:40
Speaker 4: is well played.
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Speaker 1: That is definitely well played.
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Speaker 4: I'd rather miss guys now than say, you know— mid-December, January, February.
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Speaker 1: Get them out of the way. Get these things out
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Speaker 1: of the way.
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Speaker 4: The thing that's interesting with Kobe is that was the
35:52
Speaker 4: injury he had last year in training camp and throughout
35:55
Speaker 4: the season, and it bothered him after we traded for him.
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Speaker 1: Now, it's a different leg.
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Speaker 4: Yesterday, I wasn't sure it is a different, it is
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Speaker 4: a different calf, but it was a calf strain that
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Speaker 4: bothered him all last year was just the other calf.
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Speaker 1: So now I got to stress over this dude's calves.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want to care about another man,
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Speaker 4: grown man's legs this badly, but here I am. It's like,
36:14
Speaker 4: is there something to it? Good thing it's not a
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Speaker 4: groin injury. Cause you know, I'd be right there stressing
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Speaker 4: over it. I'd be worried about that man's groin if
36:23
Speaker 4: he can help us win games in Charlotte.
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Speaker 1: But Charles Lee said, yeah, we got to kind of.
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Speaker 4: Look at that. So I don't know. Are the injuries
36:30
Speaker 4: stressing you out? We have got a few texts from
36:33
Speaker 4: people today that seem to be way too stressed out
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Speaker 4: about getting blown out by the Nets in a preseason game.
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Speaker 4: I don't have the energy for that necessarily, Bone. But
36:44
Speaker 4: the injury stress... I can probably get into neurotic fan
36:50
Speaker 4: mode on that one. How are you feeling? I'm not
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Speaker 4: freaking out yet. We have a lot of time to
36:55
Speaker 4: stress about those injuries. If they affect the regular season,
36:59
Speaker 4: we'll see what happens there. We're stressing about Panther injuries.
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Speaker 4: We've got Hornet preseason injuries. I only have so much
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Speaker 4: brain room. to stress about injuries in my daily life.
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Speaker 4: So there will be a time if the regular season
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Speaker 4: is impacted by all these injuries.
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Speaker 1: Then I'll freak out.
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Speaker 5: But I'm more concerned about the Panther injuries than what
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Speaker 5: the Hornets have going on right now.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, obviously.
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Speaker 5: So there might be a time and a place when
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Speaker 5: I go into freak-out mode, but I'm trying to remain calm.
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Speaker 1: We've been through this before. Everybody relax. We're going to
37:32
Speaker 1: be all right. Say it with me. We're going to
37:35
Speaker 1: be all right. Keep cool, my babies. We're going to
37:37
Speaker 1: be all right.
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Speaker 4: This is Bone telling everybody in this town to stay strong.
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Speaker 4: To stay strong right now. It doesn't feel like there's
37:44
Speaker 4: anything that's like, I hate, I'm not going to say it.
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Speaker 4: I can't say anything.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing that's long-term here.
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Speaker 4: Oh, no, there isn't. There definitely is not. No doubt
37:52
Speaker 4: about it. Let's see here. Former Troy Baller says, our
37:57
Speaker 4: bugs are cooked this year. People are not taking your advice, Boney. Well,
38:01
Speaker 4: there's some people that feel that way, no matter the
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Speaker 4: injuries or not. Sweet Cheek says, this Hornets team is
38:06
Speaker 4: going to be annoying all year. I want to see
38:09
Speaker 4: them with Kobe as a starting point guard. I want
38:11
Speaker 4: to see Khan and Brandon and where they take their
38:14
Speaker 4: games without LaMelo. They both are talking about the added
38:18
Speaker 4: importance of them creating things more than when LaMelo was here.
38:22
Speaker 4: I want to see what this group looks like, because
38:24
Speaker 4: I think they'd still be a pretty dang solid basketball team.
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Speaker 4: It's just, they all got to.
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Speaker 1: Get out there. They got to be okay.
38:30
Speaker 4: I think if Brandon Miller could be all right with
38:32
Speaker 4: that shoulder, knock on wood, I think he is getting
38:34
Speaker 4: ready to ball the hell out. When I heard Bone,
38:36
Speaker 4: when he described to Wes and Walker how bad that
38:40
Speaker 4: shoulder was last year, and I think back to the
38:42
Speaker 4: way he played last year, Are you freaking kidding me?
38:45
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: If that shoulder is healthy and he's still got to
38:48
Speaker 4: lift weights and add strength this offseason, I think the
38:51
Speaker 4: dude is ready to make a jump.
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Speaker 1: I really do.
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Speaker 5: You talk about a dog with toughness. I mean, didn't
38:56
Speaker 5: really say a word about the pain level.
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Speaker 1: No, just played, man. Make an excuse.
39:02
Speaker 5: I think it's going to be look they may not
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Speaker 5: win as many games as last year I don't know
39:07
Speaker 5: if it'll be in the ballpark I don't know it's
39:09
Speaker 5: hard to tell with the Eastern Conference because it does
39:12
Speaker 5: appear loaded up but then again there's a lot of
39:14
Speaker 5: nights when guys might not play so we just got
39:17
Speaker 5: to take it in increments and stretches and maybe not
39:19
Speaker 5: look at it in full and say where are they
39:21
Speaker 5: going to be in March let's see where they are
39:23
Speaker 5: the first two weeks in October then November Eastern Conference
39:26
Speaker 5: is loaded but we don't know what that means in
39:27
Speaker 5: the long term but I will say the one thing
39:29
Speaker 5: I do know, they are going to be a fun
39:31
Speaker 5: basketball team. Stylistically, a lot of their games, because they
39:35
Speaker 5: are playing a lot of good teams in the East.
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Speaker 1: The pace and the launch threes.
39:38
Speaker 5: They are going to be a team that may come
39:41
Speaker 5: out on the wrong end of it some nights, but
39:43
Speaker 5: they're going to score some points. I think they're going
39:45
Speaker 5: to be a breathtaking watch. A breathtaking watch. The thing
39:49
Speaker 5: with me is, whatever they do this year, you ain't
39:53
Speaker 5: seen nothing yet. Chef Jeff will cook. There will be
39:55
Speaker 5: a major move at some point, and maybe multiple major moves.
39:58
Speaker 5: Maybe it's Carm Anthony Towns at some point. He might
40:00
Speaker 5: be out there. Whatever it might be, that one's interesting, too.
40:03
Speaker 5: But there is no doubt in my mind they will
40:06
Speaker 5: pounce at some point with all these assets they have.
40:08
Speaker 5: By the way, Brett Siegel, NBA insider, is reporting that
40:12
Speaker 5: the Hornets and Brandon Miller have been talking contract, and
40:15
Speaker 5: there could be a $ 200 million-ish contract contract agreed on
40:19
Speaker 5: soon he said they're making progress um we used almost
40:22
Speaker 5: this whole segment on basketball i wanted to do you
40:26
Speaker 5: think i'm you think the hornets injuries are bothering me
40:29
Speaker 5: bone and maybe this is the best thing braves fans
40:32
Speaker 5: can hear this morning we're talking hornets or the braves
40:34
Speaker 5: after the loss last night three to one when you
40:37
Speaker 5: lose a sale game it feels devastating but yamamoto is
40:40
Speaker 5: an absolute animal um especially in the postseason i feel
40:44
Speaker 5: like the braves are done I hope this improves Braves fans' moods,
40:49
Speaker 5: and maybe this will turn the series around for you, Bone.
40:52
Speaker 5: I think that game was so critical with those two
40:55
Speaker 5: aces on the mound.
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Speaker 1: What is it, 73% of the team that wins? I
40:59
Speaker 1: think it's 73. Wins the game three at a deadline.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's what it is. It's like game
41:03
Speaker 4: five in a seven game, obviously, right? And now Dodgers
41:07
Speaker 4: have two shots to finish it off. And if the
41:10
Speaker 4: Braves were to even win this game, Bone, and with
41:12
Speaker 4: what some of their big hitters are not doing right now, Olsen, Acuna,
41:17
Speaker 4: Drake Baldwin have all been pretty damn bad in the postseason.
41:21
Speaker 4: I just don't see it against the Dodgers. I hope
41:24
Speaker 4: I'm wrong, man. Six years now without a home run
41:26
Speaker 4: in the postseason for Acuna. It seems kind of wild,
41:29
Speaker 4: but that's the stat. He's missed time, but still you
41:32
Speaker 4: think that with the amount of games they play in October,
41:34
Speaker 4: he would launch one out of the ballpark. As a
41:36
Speaker 4: texter points out, stop challenging Acuna in the first inning
41:40
Speaker 4: of games. Let those challenges build up a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that ain't smart.
41:43
Speaker 5: You might need them later. The Braves are 0-8 in
41:46
Speaker 5: this spot. In five-game series, when they're down 2-1, Since 1995,
41:51
Speaker 5: when this format started, they are 0-8.
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Speaker 1: So they've never won in this spot. You're right, though.
41:55
Speaker 1: Even a win tonight.
41:57
Speaker 4: With the Dodgers. Then you've got another bullpen game. You're
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Speaker 4: going to win a second bullpen game? I thought last
42:02
Speaker 4: night was the game for the series, win or lose
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Speaker 4: for the Braves. I'm with you. I think it's over.
42:07
Speaker 4: I think my team is done, too, by the way.
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Speaker 4: Acuna's right. Not tonight, but the Yankees are cooked as well.
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Speaker 4: That would be a shame. That would be a shame.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Jerry Seinfeld meme with the popcorn. What a shame.
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Speaker 1: Were you not being serious? And then you have the
42:19
Speaker 1: knee situation with Acuna. It's still a problem.
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Speaker 4: 90 minutes before the game yesterday, Bone, they move him
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Speaker 4: from outfield to DH because the knee's not right. He's
42:28
Speaker 4: hitting 143 in the playoffs. Baldwin's 130 in the playoffs.
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Speaker 4: Olsen's 174. And this Dodger team is a super team.
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Speaker 1: How the hell are you going to do that?
42:38
Speaker 5: If you had the numbers there before we go to
42:39
Speaker 5: break here, get to Darinoka coming up at the top
42:42
Speaker 5: of 90 o'clock hour. Mac, it's not always the Otanis
42:45
Speaker 5: and the– It is a lot of times Freddie Freeman,
42:48
Speaker 5: but it's not always the MVP stars.
42:52
Speaker 1: It's the Kike Hernandez. It's the Tommy Edmonds. It's the Muncie's.
42:55
Speaker 5: It's these these other guys that just help out the stars.
43:00
Speaker 5: And it feels like they win not always because of
43:03
Speaker 5: the MVPs, but it's Kike Hernandez, Mac. He's got 17
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Speaker 5: career homers in the postseason.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Those guys keep them, put them over the top.
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Speaker 1: They're clutch.
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Speaker 4: They just, your boy Jeter said it yesterday as he
43:14
Speaker 4: was looking handsome as always on the TV, Boney. He said, dude, this,
43:19
Speaker 4: this Dodger team wins game. It might've been big poppy
43:21
Speaker 4: that actually said this. I didn't think he looked quite
43:23
Speaker 4: as handsome. He said, Boney, that this, these are the
43:26
Speaker 4: games the Dodgers win.
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Speaker 1: You know, and it's just tough.
43:29
Speaker 4: Braves fans telling me either one of two things. One is,
43:32
Speaker 4: we already know we're done, Mac. This ain't damn newsflash
43:35
Speaker 4: to us. Other ones are saying the reverse Mac curse
43:38
Speaker 4: is the only chance they got.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see if it works.
43:41
Speaker 4: I am not trying to reverse Mac curse, but if
43:43
Speaker 4: it does happen, I would be happy for you.
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Speaker 1: Was a cootie at four homers tonight.
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Speaker 5: When we come back, one-time friend of the program and
43:50
Speaker 5: the station, Dari Noka of ESPN and the SEC Network
43:54
Speaker 5: joins us to talk all things college football.
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