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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from pro Bouncy Ball. Yes, now,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to do this every night. It is
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  Speaker 1: the first round of the playoffs, but I happen to
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  Speaker 1: be watching and I was compelled to discuss It is
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  Speaker 1: a football heavy show, but we will begin with pro
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  Speaker 1: bouncy ball and we start out in the Mile High City.
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  Speaker 1: It was round two for the visiting timber Wolves Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: in Denver. A couple of good teams. How much juice
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  Speaker 1: there is around this matchup? But there they were at
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  Speaker 1: the Mile High City. And were you watching this game?
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  Speaker 1: Were you able to track down where to find this game?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not? Well, Anthony Edwards. After a rather blah start
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  Speaker 1: to this game, it looked like it was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a blowout City, and then we had the plot twist.
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  Speaker 1: We had the plot twist as he put on his
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  Speaker 1: ant man cape thirty points and Dante DiVincenzo at seven
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, and Julius Randall a noted playoff disaster.
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  Speaker 1: He had twenty four points though in this game. And
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  Speaker 1: the Timberwolves howled back from down nineteen points on the road,
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  Speaker 1: and they stunn the stunner, not from down under, from
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  Speaker 1: up and off and they take down the Nuggets in
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  Speaker 1: game two of the opening round of the playoff series.
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  Speaker 1: So the series is now tied up at one one.
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  Speaker 1: The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: The better story is in the losing locker room. Denver
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  Speaker 1: obviously sucking at a time you cannot suck in this game.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question, an obvious question, what
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  Speaker 1: went wrong? The trimpionship pedigree from a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Is every hack sportscaster and longer like to say, so
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  Speaker 1: they had all that. What went wrong for Nikola Jokic
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  Speaker 1: and the Nuggets down the stretch. So I've got on
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  Speaker 1: this one. I've got boat show, We've got ted nugent
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  Speaker 1: and playground and we will combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna make a classic Spaghettian meatballs is what
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna make. Not Stevie meatpols, just regular meatballs. So
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  Speaker 1: to kick it off here, hey, the Nuggets did not
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  Speaker 1: just lose. There's losing and then there's losing with pizazz rasthmataz. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So the Nuggets didn't just lose. They staged an actual
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  Speaker 1: workshop on team. And I didn't realize this was on
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  Speaker 1: the agenda, but they staged a workshop for the late
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  Speaker 1: game collapse in the fourth court. Now you know, technically
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  Speaker 1: said well it was it wasn't nineteen point ly, but
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  Speaker 1: going to the fourth quarter it was only three. And
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  Speaker 1: that is true. That is true. There was only a
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  Speaker 1: three point game going to the fourth quarter, nursing a
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  Speaker 1: slim advantage, which is within the margin of error. However,
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  Speaker 1: so many of you have told me over the years
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  Speaker 1: that going into that venue is a freakin' nightmare. You
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  Speaker 1: love to brag about all my guys in Denver. You
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  Speaker 1: guys love to tell me how amazing it is there.
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  Speaker 1: And no one ever goes in on the road and
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  Speaker 1: does well in Denver because of the altitude. So you
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  Speaker 1: would think listen. They blew a nineteen point lead. They
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  Speaker 1: were up by three going to the fourth quarter, within
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  Speaker 1: the margin of era. As we said, despite the mile high altitude,
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  Speaker 1: the hometown boys from Colorado, there were the ones who
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  Speaker 1: ran out of gas. The head of the anakanda in
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  Speaker 1: this case turned into a garden hose, which is not
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  Speaker 1: that great Nikola Jokic, who in the fourth quarter rarely
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  Speaker 1: does this happen. It's not a normal situation like it
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  Speaker 1: is for others. But Nikola Jokic in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: was bad. He played like a second round pick that
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  Speaker 1: was drafted during a Taco bell commercial. In the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter of this game, he only had two points down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch there, shot one of seven from the floor.
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  Speaker 1: It was not just the joker. It was contagious. It
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  Speaker 1: turns out because Jamal Murray similar stunk similarly stunk up
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  Speaker 1: the joint the other star for Denver. He offered nothing
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  Speaker 1: but some nice, warm flatulence down the stretch there when
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  Speaker 1: it mattered most so, together the dynamic duo who helped
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  Speaker 1: the Nuggets win a championship a couple years ago, the
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  Speaker 1: Dynamic Duo combined for a pathetic four points on sixteen
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  Speaker 1: percent shooting in the fourth quarter two of twelve. My
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  Speaker 1: computer like brain tells me that sixteen point six, two
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  Speaker 1: of twelve in the final twelve minutes of the basketball game.
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  Speaker 1: So as Minnesota, they did control the glass in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth corner, they moved the ball a little bit better
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  Speaker 1: than the Nuggets. And so the Joker and Jamal went
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  Speaker 1: down to the boat show, down to the boat show,
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  Speaker 1: and they picked up the suck boat. Now I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why they bought the suck boat. You shouldn't buy
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  Speaker 1: the suck boat. Bad job by you. But they bought
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  Speaker 1: the suck boat, and they sailed directly to a deserted
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  Speaker 1: island called Misery Island. And the difference between holding serve
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  Speaker 1: and winning the first two games at home and keeping
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  Speaker 1: it where it needs to be, keeping it where it
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  Speaker 1: needs to be. Uh, And then what happened here where
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  Speaker 1: you've lost home because it's a big deal for Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's only game two and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but you're you've now you've set yourself up with a
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  Speaker 1: much better path if you're the Timberwolves winning this game
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  Speaker 1: and the Nuggets have done worse. So the possibility of
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  Speaker 1: being up two, all which Denver at holding Sir, but
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  Speaker 1: home and now one one going back to the home
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  Speaker 1: of the Juicy Lucy. So they'll eat well, Yokich. You'll
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  Speaker 1: eat well there, and it'll remind him more. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: guess the weather's nice now, so it won't remind him
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  Speaker 1: of his homeland. All right, So to the Eastern Conference
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  Speaker 1: side of the bracket, we go on a playoff heavy
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  Speaker 1: Well I say playoff heavy, they weren't that many games
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  Speaker 1: on a Monday night. But we head now to the
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  Speaker 1: second upset upset of the playoffs that was the Eastern Conference.
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  Speaker 1: There as Atlanta storming back down the stretch at Madison
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  Speaker 1: Square Garden, the world's most famous arena. I had thirty
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  Speaker 1: two points from CJ. McCollum. Remember when he was the
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  Speaker 1: understudy the Dame Lillard the Dame train on the Oregon
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  Speaker 1: Trail back in the day. Well, McCollum's become a journeyman player.
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  Speaker 1: He rose up said, hey, remember me, remember me as
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  Speaker 1: the Atlanta basketball team upending the Knickerbockers by one point.
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  Speaker 1: The better story is in the losing locker room, and
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  Speaker 1: so that is where we're going to start. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to the winners in a minute. The better story in
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  Speaker 1: the losing locker room. So the question here who gets
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  Speaker 1: to wear the shame bell around Penn Station, around Madison
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  Speaker 1: Square Garden as the Knicks blee a double digit lead
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter at home to a team that
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  Speaker 1: most assumed the position. The Knicks are much more talented
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  Speaker 1: than the Atlanta Hawks, and it's just a fada compleats.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a matter of when not. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: a question of them losing. It's just how many games
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  Speaker 1: it's going to take for them to win. And so listen,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of who gets to wear the shame bell
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  Speaker 1: and all that, there's plenty of room, I'm happy to report,
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  Speaker 1: and I did check. There's plenty of room on the
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  Speaker 1: vomit comet for this bunch. Plenty of room here. The
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  Speaker 1: defense could not the Knickerbocker's defense in the good chunk
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  Speaker 1: of this game, necessarily in the fourth quarter, although obviously
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  Speaker 1: the game ended with Atlanta winning. The thing about this though,
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  Speaker 1: the defense could not find CG. Mccollm for stretches of
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  Speaker 1: this game. Even if they had, like the GPS, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't working right. They were struggling there. Jalen Brunson was
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  Speaker 1: not Captain Clutch was not Captain Clutch down the stretch
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  Speaker 1: and you throw in you know, he got cold when
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  Speaker 1: it mattered at the very end for the most part.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it was three of eight in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter and all that stuff, og and Andobi choked away,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of big foul shots who goofed, I've got
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  Speaker 1: to know. And then you have Mikhale Bridges who settled
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  Speaker 1: for a very timid, fataway jump shot that could have
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  Speaker 1: won the game, although it certainly seemed like he had
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  Speaker 1: time based on me sitting on my fat ass watching
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  Speaker 1: on television, it looked on my TV. Mean, my TV
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  Speaker 1: was broken, and I don't even know what channel. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was on NBC. I don't know Amazon. I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea. I just whatever I'm watching. So instead
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  Speaker 1: of attacking the rim for either a layup or a
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  Speaker 1: hammer dunk or even a foul because you're down by
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  Speaker 1: one and go to the line, you at least tie
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  Speaker 1: it or win it right there at the foul line,
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  Speaker 1: he settled for the very timided fadeaway jump shot. Bridges
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  Speaker 1: and clankety clank. No good game is over and Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: gainst the wind. However, the real shame bel the biggest,
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  Speaker 1: brightest shame bell of them all. Well, that goes to
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  Speaker 1: the fifty million dollar man. Congratulations to the fifty million
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  Speaker 1: dollar man. Way to go there. The Knicks got the
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  Speaker 1: Ted Nugent classic from Karl Anthony Towns, a little cat
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  Speaker 1: scratch fever and not in a good way. Here Town's
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  Speaker 1: turned into a complete non factor. Where have we seen
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  Speaker 1: this before? This is like Hollywood, they make the same
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  Speaker 1: damn superhero movie. In this case, it's a pathetic superhero movie.
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  Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns down the stretch we come. He was
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  Speaker 1: just kind of there, taking up space. He might as
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  Speaker 1: well have bought a ticket. He scored as many points
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter as you and I did. The
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  Speaker 1: lights were the brightest, the stage burning up, and he disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: He disappeared only two shot attempts the final twelve minutes
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  Speaker 1: for Carl Anthony Towns, the fifty million dollar decoy. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: and this is his prime. He's I think he's thirty
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  Speaker 1: years I believe he's thirty. This is his prime of
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  Speaker 1: his athletic career. And this is what you got. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like it's a surprise. This is what he did
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota all those years, and he's an enigma. That's
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  Speaker 1: what enigmas do. That's how they get the title enigma.
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  Speaker 1: That's how they do it. Here and so Towns was
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  Speaker 1: just not there. Now. He finished with eighteen points and
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  Speaker 1: eight rebounds. So if you're just somebody that reads the
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  Speaker 1: box score, the stats just said, well, that's passable. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Oh he had the eighteen and eighty fine. In the
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  Speaker 1: context of the game. Wow, Wow. The Knicks were drowning
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. They shot less than twenty three
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  Speaker 1: percent in the fourth quarter of an NBA playoff game
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  Speaker 1: at home. This was not a hostile environment. They weren't
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  Speaker 1: in Georgia, not that that's hostile either. They weren't overwhelmed
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  Speaker 1: by our buddy Rob Parker's favorite ballet there Magic City. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: They weren't home. They were in New York, in Midtown Manhattan,
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  Speaker 1: all that and shot twenty two point seven percent. The
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  Speaker 1: Knicks did in the fourth quarter. They desperately needed Kinnicat
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  Speaker 1: to be an alpha. And you know that, the guys,
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  Speaker 1: he's not Brunson. We know that. However, fifty million dollars
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  Speaker 1: a year plus, you gotta give me something and study
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  Speaker 1: the ship and instead he's like, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna facilitate the offense and I'm gonna hit the
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  Speaker 1: snooze button, is what I'm going to do. Pure beta baller.
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  Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns the beta baller. That's him right there.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of sauce weak sauce? All right now? Last word,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm fascinated. I feel like I've had this monologue.
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  Speaker 1: I've been here a long time. I feel like every
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  Speaker 1: year the Knicks have made the playoffs, there's someone that
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  Speaker 1: plays the CJ McCollum role. You feel me on that.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You pay attention. Am I
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  Speaker 1: the only one imagining this? I haven't gone back and
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  Speaker 1: gone through my notes and all that. I just I have.
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  Speaker 1: I have a sense of every year there's somebody that
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  Speaker 1: goes into that gymnasium and just kills the Knicks and
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  Speaker 1: they all stand around there twiddling their thumbs and they're
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  Speaker 1: completely helpless. I bring that up because CJ McCollum was
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  Speaker 1: serenaded with F you CJ. Or I guess it was
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  Speaker 1: f you McCollum. You know rhythmcchanney that was at the
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  Speaker 1: start of the game at MSG. He then goes out
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  Speaker 1: scores thirty two points and strangulates the Knicks there just
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  Speaker 1: to choke them out there thirty two points. It's Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: upsets the Knicks in Game two, and when asked about
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  Speaker 1: the Knickerbocker fans heckling, and this was a common theme,
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  Speaker 1: McCollums said, quote, I'm not a villain. I'm here to compete,
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  Speaker 1: he said close. Quote all right, So the question what
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  Speaker 1: do you make of the CJ. McCullum Garden party. A
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  Speaker 1: journeyman player who's been passed around the NBA from team
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  Speaker 1: to team to team to team to team to team
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  Speaker 1: to team, going out there and for a night anyway,
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  Speaker 1: was the big man on campus here for Atlanta. So
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  Speaker 1: I have determined, based on a minutes long Mallard deliberation,
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  Speaker 1: that Madison Square Garden continues to be the NBA's premier
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  Speaker 1: villain factory. Let me expand on that. So that essentially
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, it's a place where the atmosphere with
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  Speaker 1: all those Wall Street fat cats and all those marketing executives,
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  Speaker 1: that it's an environment Madison Square Garden that has consistently
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  Speaker 1: hosted players who some were mid level stars who become monsters.
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  Speaker 1: They do the monster mash. At Madison Square Garden, the
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  Speaker 1: New York fans and their infinite wisdom decided to serenade CJ. McCollum,
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  Speaker 1: and they did that, and they sang to him enough
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  Speaker 1: to put him in a state of bliss where it
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  Speaker 1: looked like he was back in college or back with
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  Speaker 1: the Trailblazers when he would occasionally play like that, transforming
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  Speaker 1: the world's most famous arena into his personal playground. He
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  Speaker 1: had a swim site, the swing set was over the right.
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  Speaker 1: You had the jungle gym was to the left. You
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  Speaker 1: had a little castle to climb up in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where that came from. The castle right there.
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  Speaker 1: He had all that his own playground. CJ. McCollum, and
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  Speaker 1: he delivered the quintessential anti hero performance, proving once again
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  Speaker 1: that yeah, it's great. We love the heckling, we love
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  Speaker 1: the chanting. But you poke the bear or in this case,
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  Speaker 1: the professional bucket getter and you end up getting burned.
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  Speaker 1: Well you should be saying a few Karl Anthony Towns
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  Speaker 1: a few. Instead they're doing it to the other guy.
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  Speaker 1: Ed MSG. Massive Square Garden pride itself on being the Mecca. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all the meccas functioned over the years more like a
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  Speaker 1: high octane motivational speaker to fire up the opposition who
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  Speaker 1: were playing the Knicks and McCollum embracing should embrace the
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  Speaker 1: role of the antagonist with a refined King Cobra performance.
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  Speaker 1: Now is that sustainable? Unlikely that McCollum will play at
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  Speaker 1: that level in the next few games or maybe have
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  Speaker 1: one more like that, but most of the time will
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  Speaker 1: not be playing at that level. That was out of
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  Speaker 1: body type experience for most of that game, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where we are. Although, hey, you go back to Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: so Nicks could be wooed into the Magic City coma.
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  Speaker 1: The ballet has taken down many so it's just the
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  Speaker 1: latest chapter in the proud tradition of the New York
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  Speaker 1: Knickerbockers fan base. Heckling. The visiting player who they determine
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  Speaker 1: is the player they have to stop, and then that
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  Speaker 1: player creates a sizzle reel that they will show their
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  Speaker 1: great grandchildren if they're lucky enough to have great grandchildren
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  Speaker 1: someday they will show them the clip, which I guess
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  Speaker 1: they don't have to save because everything will be on
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  Speaker 1: AI or whatever's after AI, and they'll say, this can
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  Speaker 1: give me the highlights of that night. I shoved it down,
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  Speaker 1: Johnny from a long Island's throat. Okay, sure, why not?
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. Cee J McCom goes out there
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  Speaker 1: and for a night it was a throwback performance and
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks in a coma in the fourth quarter trying
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  Speaker 1: to shoot the ball.
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  Speaker 1: So I leave this hour is from baseball and we
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  Speaker 1: start out in Chicago. Where the Cubbies are They are
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  Speaker 1: they going to be the team that up ends the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not. Probably not. However's early feeling out process still
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  Speaker 1: in baseball. Well coups manager Craig Council, a former Dodger
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  Speaker 1: who played so long ago. I was the radio postgame
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  Speaker 1: guy when he played for the Dodgers very briefly. They
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  Speaker 1: got him from the Marlins late season pick up, and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't play that long with the Dodgers. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Craig Council, who's now managing the Cubs and at one
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  Speaker 1: point was the highest paid manager in baseball. Creig Council
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  Speaker 1: thinks that the Major League Baseball rule, the Otani rule
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  Speaker 1: that allows the Dodgers to carry fourteen pitchers all because
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  Speaker 1: of Sho Hail Tani. He said, the b word for
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  Speaker 1: that were for that rule. What is the b wor bizarre? Bizarre?
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  Speaker 1: Oh so bizarre. I don't if you saw this or not.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not. Major League Baseball teams are allowed to have
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  Speaker 1: a maximum of thirteen pitchers on their active roster. That's it,
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  Speaker 1: thirteen pitchers on the active opening day roster. Throughout the
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  Speaker 1: season and then through the end of the regular season,
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  Speaker 1: roster limits increase August thirty. First, you can add an
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  Speaker 1: extra pitcher twenty eight active players, so normally it is
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  Speaker 1: twenty six. You go up to twenty eight in late August,
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  Speaker 1: and then and you have that one extra pitcher. However,
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  Speaker 1: since Sho Hail Tani is designated as a two way player,
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  Speaker 1: that means he does not count as a pitcher. So
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the reigning back to back belly to belly Championship Baseball,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the Dawyers actually have fourteen pitchers on their active roster. Well,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: that explains everything. There you go, They've got the extra pitcher.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: A Council said, he has never understood the reasoning for
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the restriction on how many pitchers you have. He said,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: it's a rule to help offense. I think the Cubs
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: manager said more than anything, if you ask me, Council said,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: and then there's one team, one team that's allowed to
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: carry basically one of both, meaning an extra player, and
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: that gets he gets special consideration, meaning Otani, which is
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: probably the most bizarre rule for one team in baseball.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: discuss the question. Cubs manager Craig Council says that Major
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: League Baseball's Otani rule is quote bizarre close quote. So
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: how does that strike you? I've got flu season, dentist appointment,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and mushrooms and we will combine all of these things
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: together and we are gonna drop it like it's hot.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do, all right. So number wa
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: number we did three times. So this is a trip
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to the vineyard. It is a trip to the vineyard.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you call it what it is from Craig Council,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs manager. Sour grapes. That's what it is.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: It's sour grape season. It is sponsored by teams who
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: don't have sho hail tani. And it's also if you
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: look at it, there's been a big uptick and I
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: don't know how this happened. There's been an a big
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: up tick in the flu because apparently it's flu season
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: as well. And Craig Council isn't mad at the rule.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: He's not so mad at the rule. He's just the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: latest victim of the blue flu sweeping through Major League
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Baseball from seed or shining Sea. Now what is the
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: blue flu? Doctor Mahler is here and as a not
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: a real doctor, I'm a radio doctor. That's more important
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: than a real doctor, I didn't have to take the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: hipocratic oath. So, as doctor Maler, we have performed a
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: thorough exam, thorough exam on the available evidence, all circumstantial evidence,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and the results, unfortunately for Craig Counsel are terminal. He
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: has a low grade fever. He's got a chronic cough
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: because every time the Cubs play the Dodgers, they cough
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: up a football and a classic case of dodger itis.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: There is no known cure for dodger itis. Many people
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: suffer from dodger itis. The Otani rule is only bizarre.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: It's only bizarre because it benefits the team currently weaponizing
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: loopholes to beat everyone's brains into bludgeting everyone in baseball. Now,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: if the Cubs real me this batman, if the Cubs
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: had a Shohei Otani like unicorn, they could also exploit
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the loophole alas they don't. And this is the issue.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: This is the defeatist, loser attitude the culture of baseball.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Rather than say, why don't we get someone who can
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: hit and pitch and will futs around with it? Rather
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: than do that and get creative boooooo, it's not fair.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: The Dodger Dodger ridis right up to tuckas Dodger Idis.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Come on, seriously, if if the Cubs had a guy
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: who could pitch and hit, let me tell you what
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: would happen? All right, I've already seen this playout, So
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Craig Counsel, he wouldn't be complaining. That's number one. Number two,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: he'd be writing love letters to the Commissioner's office. And boy,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I really like that rule. Way to go, boys, good
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: job by you. Instead of demanding that Major League Baseball,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: instead of demanding the Major League Baseball rethink the two
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: way designation, which is essentially the Otani rule, Craig Council
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: should rethink why why the Dodgers keep living rent free?
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: In his head? Now, if he really wants to exploit
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the rule, then start getting creative futs around. Throw somebody
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: out of there. Pete crow Armstrong is one of the
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: great one half season wonders in baseball. This uey looks
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: terrible this year for the Chicago Cubs. They paid him
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: based on half a season last year. So let's see
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: if Pete crow Armstrong can pitch. He can't hit right now,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: so he's unpasteed. I think seven home runs all season?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Yis can he earn his paycheck? Can pca earn his
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: paycheck as a left handed reliever out of the bullpen
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: and mix in men? Or start him? Put him out there,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: let him be an opener for a few games. Who
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: says no, Well, why not? All right? Meanwhile to Blue
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Heaven on Earth, which is a nice waiting room for
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: pitchers who signed big money contracts. The Dodgers, I believe,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: are three for three now in recent years, giving out
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: massive amounts of money to pitchers and getting burn burn, burn,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: burn burn. You had Tanner Scott who can't pitch. You
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: got Blake Snell, who's a professional video game player and
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: occasionally pitches. Bro I ain't playing unless I got my brow. Yeah,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: that guy, that schmuck, Blake Snell. So you got him?
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: And the latest edition here closer. Edwin Diaz, the other
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: shoe has dropped as Edwin di As his schedule to
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: undergo surgery to remove loose bodies in his right elbow.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: How did bodies get in his body? Had that happen?
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: That sounds terrible. You've got loose body? He's in there?
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: And why are they so loose? I don't want to
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: know anyway, Edwin Diaz is expected to be out three months. Oh,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: so it's good today's April twenty first, as we're doing
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: this in real time. So that means if you do
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the math on that, if all goes well, and oh,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: by the way, it doesn't normally go well, well, Diaz
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: would be out until after the All Star break. Then
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: there'll be some setback and he'll have to futz around
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: with that and the do hickey won't work right, and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: so he'll have to be shut down, and then eventually
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: he'll pitch in a couple of games, then he'll be
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: shut down again. However, he will be ready by the
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: time the playoffs come around. So if all goes well,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers signed the three time All Star closer to
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: a sixty nine million dollars contract this offseason from the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: New York Metropolitan So the question Dodgers closer and Win
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Diaz the big pickup here out three months because of
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: quote loose bodies close quote in his elbow. How bad
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: is this? Honestly? How bad is this? So the Dodgers,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: if my math is corrector are paying Edwin Diaz twenty
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: three million dollars to be a half season pitcher, and this,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: as you know, is peak blue hubris is what this is.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: And they bought a shiny closer. They said, okay, we
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: don't have a good closer. We barely won the World
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Series because our bullpen socks. Let's get Edwin Diaz in here.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: We'll bring him in and immediately they put him in,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: not even into May, they've already put Edwin Diaz in
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: bubble wrap and calling it a reboot. A reboot, what
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: do you need to reboot for? Shouldn't you just take
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: the thing out of the box and it's ready to go.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: It's like you don't need to build it. What do
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: you reboot? Three months is not a tune up. I looked,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I check with pep boys. Three months is not a
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: tune up. It's a total system failure. You might want
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: to check the Kelly Bluebook to see what the value
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: of this is because at this point it's not going
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: very well. And how did the smartest people in the room.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers love to tell you how smart they are,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: So how do the smartest people in baseball miss the
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: loose bodies that were floating around during the physical or
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: did they all of a sudden pop up out of nowhere?
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Why did they show up? Are they paying rent these
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: loose bodies? Where do they sleep? How do they eat?
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I want to know? What do they wear? They're loose bodies.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Are they naked? Loose bodies? I want to know. Yeah,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: so now they're scrambling. Of course, they being the Dodgers,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: trying to hide behind some medical jargon, and they're paying
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: top dollar for another player to not pitch for the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Dodgers anytime soon. And is this the end of the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: one hundred mile an hour or close to it? Pitching
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: from a mister trumpet man Edwin d As possibly. However, However,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: in typical Dodger fashion, they are treating the postseason like
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: a scheduled dentist applointment. And we'll just rest him until
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: they All Star break and then will slowly bring him around,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: and then we don't need to trade for anybody, because
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: we'll have Blake Snell's going to take a break from
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: his gaming career and then he's gonna go out there
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: and pitch it, and Tanner Scott might actually decide to
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: pitch well for a couple of games that'll happen after
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the All Star break, and then Edwin nias and so
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: you don't need to trade for anybody because you've got that.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: It's NBA level load management is what it is. We'll
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: just rest and all that. And does it ruin the
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: bullpen depth for the Dodgers? Probably not? Probably not. The
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: team is so talented that they will survive on the
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: sheer arrogance of what they've been doing here. And that's it.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: And then they've already started the excuse file just in
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: case they need it. And if you're looking at this objectively,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: and who doesn't look at this subjectively? Here, they're just
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: betting the Dodgers they can buy their way out of
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the blown elbow. They're just go out in trade for
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: somebody else, all right, now? Final point to the Boogey
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: down Bronx we go, where the New York Yankees rookie
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: pitcher Cam Schlitzler says he and his family have received
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: JAF threats ahead of his first appearance, his first start
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: at Finnway Park, which is coming up here. The story
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: has created some very sensational headlines as Cam Schlitzler, the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: pitcher making his Finway debut against the Red Sox. The
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: build up has included online harassment online harassment. The picture
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: who's from that area, is from the Commonwealth there and
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: was once a Red Sox fan. He can't be a
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Red Sox fan now because he's wearing the Yankee uniform.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Not allowed, and he said the trolling has become a
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: regular occurrence. Schlitler the starting pitcher offield, great start this year,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: you're ra under two for the New York Yankees. He said,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: most normal fans could care less, right, Schlitzler said, it's
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: just those diehards that have nothing else in their lives
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: other than baseball or sports that really care about this,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and the fact that I play for the Yankees makes
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: it worse for them. Quotes quote all right, so question
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: where are you at on Yankees' pitcher Cam Schlitzler getting
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: death threats prior to pitching at Finnway against the Red
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Sox from the Boston fans. So it's the classic twenty
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: first century right of passage, is the way I will
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: describe this. You have not truly made it in the
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: big leagues until a keyboard hooligan has decided that using
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: their anime avatar and their screen name that has seven
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: eight two six five four nine seven four in there
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: that they they would like to end your family lineage
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: because you happen to wear the wrong laundry. That's it.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: The situation with the Yankees pitcher here Cam Schlitler getting
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: death threats from Red Sox fans, is peak Internet, fake
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: tough guy, peak Internet fake tough guys what it is.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: And we're talking about cartoonish cybergoons who could not punch
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: their way out of a soaking wet paper bag, let
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: alone a stadium. And we actually relate to this story
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: a little bit. We do. And so I saw the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: headlines and I thought I'll spend a couple of minutes
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: on this. Why not. Now we operate doing this show,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: we operate in the damp, dark corners of the industrial
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: complex of the sports take overnight talk radio, the literal
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: mushrooms of the sports media world. We are in the dark,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: we are in the pooh, and we are supposed to
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: produce somewhat compelling content here. That's what we're supposed to do.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: And we have dealt with the keyboard derange dah for
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: years on this radio show. And if I had a nickel,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: just a nickel, not a penny, a nickel, If I
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: had a nickel for every digital bandit who threatened me
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: because of a hot take about Pitcher or a hot
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: take about a quarterback or a coach or whatever it
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: might be, whatever the story of the day is. If
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I had a literally I'm not exacting, if I had
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: a dime. I've known this for a long time. A nickel, nickel.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I needed a nickel. If I had a nickel for
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: every time somebody's done something like that, I would be retired.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I would be living in a luxury villa in the
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: south of France. That's where I would be. I would
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: have a yacht, I would have all that. I would
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: have all those things. And Schlitler, the Yankee Pitcher is
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: not he said, he's not calling the cops because he
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: knows the truth. These trolls are just antagonists, that's all
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: they are. And they're just background noise, one of many
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: anonymous hoodlums, if you will. It's the new normal. It's
• 33:15
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• 33:19
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• 33:25
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• 33:27
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  Speaker 1: Hello?
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not.
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• 36:39
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• 36:42
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Ben, always good.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick you, all right, Uncle Moe. Not wasting
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  Speaker 1: Dan in Connecticut? Hello, Dan, Welcome?
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  Speaker 3: Hey?
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: How's the going Dan? Dan? Dan? You are going to
• 37:10
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• 37:12
  Speaker 1: want to partner up with Coop? Yes? Or Lorena?
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna take Coop?
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: I really thought it was gonna take me today.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Why this could have been the week, Lorena. It's a
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: good choice. All right, very good, Dan, Hold on a sec.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: We got Uncle Mo, and al right, here we go, Coop.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: What are the categories? Let's get the party started, all right.
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  Speaker 3: This is Malard's Mountain of Money Iggy Pop edition. He
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• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Which category would you like?
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: She took my money? Sounds interesting. I'll take that.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: One, okay, And Dan, how about you.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: The third one?
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Gimme danger? All right, Yeah, all right, we got forty
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• 38:09
  Speaker 1: on away golfer who's really bad at driving? Yes, Michael
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  Speaker 1: Jordan's sidekick on the Bulls in the nineties. Yes, the
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  Speaker 1: greatest professional wrestler of all time. He passed away in
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  Speaker 1: Florida recently. Yes, Heat Miami Heat star was joined by
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  Speaker 1: He was joined by Chris bosh Await. Yes, uh ten
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  Speaker 1: a tennis player from Las Vegas with long hair star
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  Speaker 1: in the eighties. All right, golfer nick No, a golfer
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  Speaker 1: nicknamed the Shark, I believe was his nickname? Uh from
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  Speaker 1: our past? All right, basketball player for the Knicks Knickerbockers.
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  Speaker 1: He had quite the flatin one hundred pints terrible. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: a tennis player from Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: How he had long hair and then he famously lost
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  Speaker 3: his hair. He's bald, he was mad.
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  Speaker 1: He had long hair. He had long hair when he
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  Speaker 1: was straight. And Greg Norman's the Shark. Yes, before your time,
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  Speaker 1: Malco most Australian.
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  Speaker 3: You could have said he's Australian. He's the most famous
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  Speaker 3: Australian golfer. There was nickname the Sharks anyway, and Emon Schumpard.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you would have gotten that one.
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  Speaker 1: I would have got alright, wasting time.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go all right, all right, all right, all right, Dan,
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  Speaker 3: you and I are by the way, that was athletes
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  Speaker 3: who had to be a huge divorce settlements.
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  Speaker 2: Dan.
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  Speaker 3: Our category is give me danger. These athletes all famously
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  Speaker 3: played through an injury. Are you ready, Dan? All right,
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  Speaker 3: let's go. Uh star for the Lakers. He tore his
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  Speaker 3: achilles and shot a couple of free throws. Yes, this
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  Speaker 3: guy had a bloody sock in the World Series. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: this guy played for the Eagles. He broke his leg
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  Speaker 3: but still made it into the Super Bowl. Donovan McNabb
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  Speaker 3: blew it, harol. Yes, this guy was a point guard
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  Speaker 3: for the Celtics when when he won their championships in
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  Speaker 3: eight He later played for the Lakers. Uh, Yes, good job.
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  Speaker 3: This guy played for the Knicks. He limped out there
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  Speaker 3: and made a couple of shots, then sat the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the game. But a lot of people give him
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  Speaker 3: credit for playing injured. Okay, all right, this guy played
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  Speaker 3: for the Rams. He was on a broken leg. He
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  Speaker 3: played in the Super Bowl and broken leg back on
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  Speaker 3: no no way back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: Also one hundred.
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  Speaker 3: Willis Reid and Jack Youngblood were those last two.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't have got young that category.
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  Speaker 1: I would have had that one, okay, where we got
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  Speaker 1: down on the street in nineteen six nineteen sixteen? All right,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want to go down on the street?
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  Speaker 1: Down on the street? All right? These athletes grew up
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  Speaker 1: near the team they play for or played for. Are
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  Speaker 1: you ready on Klebo? All right, he's the star of
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers right now. Former Toronto raptor. Yes. Charlie Hustle
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  Speaker 1: for the Cincinnati Yes, scored one hundred points in an
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  Speaker 1: NBA game. Yes, all time stolen Based King for the
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  Speaker 1: A's and Yankees. Yes, mister Miami heat forward, he's longest
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  Speaker 1: tenured member that he just retired to cop Yes, played
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  Speaker 1: with Edmonton. He helped the Rangers win the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Not Wayne Mark Matthew Yes, shortstop for the San Francisco
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  Speaker 1: Giants when they were winning the World Series. Floyd, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I get that. I'll come close.
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  Speaker 3: Seconds, all right, all right, Dan, Dan, all right, just
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  Speaker 3: give up Coop just nineteen sixty nine is our category?
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: All of these athletes were born in nineteen sixty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready let's go. Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know they were born out was think? All right,
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  Speaker 3: all right, let's begin. Quarterback for the Green Bay Packers.
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  Speaker 3: He's in the Hall of Fame more number four. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: this guy is the owner. He's the CEO of the
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: UFC H Dana White. Yes, this guy's nickname is the Kid.
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  Speaker 3: He played for the Mariners. His dad was also a player. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: this guy played for the Chargers and the Patriots. He
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  Speaker 3: killed himself. He had CTE.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, this guy's nickname was Grandmama. He played in the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: Uh okay, this guy was one of the best boxers
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  Speaker 3: of all time. He played Mike Tyson in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: during the lockdown, or went against Mike Tyson. Uh he
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: he had no no, he had like multiple different championships
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  Speaker 3: and different weight classes.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, Uh rooy Jones juniors who we were looking for?
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  Speaker 1: There Mas Larry Johnson who looks really old. I saw
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  Speaker 1: him at the next game. He looks looks like a grandma.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he is old as I mean, yeah, Dan,
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  Speaker 1: thank you were playing you went against a ringer.
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  Speaker 2: Uh oh.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Oglebo rich out to me. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be in your area, so let me reach out
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  Speaker 1: to all right, well, I will definitely email. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: my pick for first Oh, we don't.
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  Speaker 3: Even get smell.
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  Speaker 1: You got cut off by your pack. Don't go, ma,