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Craig Carton | Sports Radio Personality | 06-18-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Parade Day in New York City. And I've been saying
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  Speaker 1: this for a long time now, because it's true that
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  Speaker 1: Craig Carton is the voice of New York sports. He's
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  Speaker 1: the best we've got and he's one of the best ever.
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  Speaker 1: He really is. He's entertaining, he's smart, and he loves
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  Speaker 1: our teams, and he's doing a great job afternoons on
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  Speaker 1: the fan. He's got this great Fox Sports podcast every morning.
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  Speaker 1: Him and Tyrone Johnson. They got his name right. That
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  Speaker 1: guy's really funny. They're great together. So the bottom line is,
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  Speaker 1: if you want sports in New York, you go to
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  Speaker 1: Craig Carton. That's it. So Craigie, thank you for doing
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  Speaker 1: this on this big Thursday morning. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Good?
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  Speaker 3: Tift to you and great doing great getting ready for
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  Speaker 3: the mayhem today. You know what's interesting about to next.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people don't know this. The New York
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  Speaker 3: Knicks did not get a prayed in nineteen seventy three
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  Speaker 3: when they won a championship. They did not get a
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  Speaker 3: parde in nineteen seventy when they want a championship because
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  Speaker 3: the mayor at the time, Mayor Lindsey, thought he was
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  Speaker 3: at a chilly expense, and the cost was fart much
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  Speaker 3: so in seventy and seventy three they had a party.
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  Speaker 3: One of the parties was at Gracie Mans I think
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  Speaker 3: that was nineteen seventy and then in nineteen seventy three
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  Speaker 3: they had a party at City Hall and one of
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  Speaker 3: the New York airports, but I don't know which one,
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  Speaker 3: either LaGuardia or Kennedy. But this will be the very
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  Speaker 3: first parade the New York Knicks I've ever had in
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  Speaker 3: New York City.
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  Speaker 1: That's a true story. Polks Championship number three, but as
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  Speaker 1: Craig just pointed out, ticket parade number one, and you
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people unfortunately, you did such a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous job last week, Craig, I played all of it
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  Speaker 1: with Nick owner Jim Dolan. I loved it when he
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  Speaker 1: said that mcdonnie's not really a Nick band. I was
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  Speaker 1: aroused him, not gonna lie to you. But he also
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  Speaker 1: did a He also did a great job of pointing
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  Speaker 1: out the watch parties and the policing, and Dolan talked
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  Speaker 1: about Jessicatish and all that stuff. And I think what
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  Speaker 1: people are really interested in today, especially outside New York,
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  Speaker 1: where they hate our city is how well New York behave?
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  Speaker 1: Because I know that thousands and thousands had a great
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  Speaker 1: time and behaved during these watch parties, win the championship run,
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  Speaker 1: but only takes a couple of bad apples to make
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  Speaker 1: us look like Los Angeles and Detroit, and we had that.
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  Speaker 1: So I do think people are gonna pay attention to
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  Speaker 1: how we behave, not during the great necessarily, but when
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  Speaker 1: it disperses afterwards.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so let me just back up the chuck. First,
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  Speaker 3: most guys your age buy a little blue pill when
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  Speaker 3: they need to be aroused, as they can't turn it
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  Speaker 3: on your own because of a low testosterone. You're just
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  Speaker 3: waiting for somebody to take a shot at mondanie and
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  Speaker 3: that turns you on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah it does.
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  Speaker 3: It does bottle that somehow and stellids, all of your
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  Speaker 3: listeners are starting to be a robust market for the
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  Speaker 3: seven year olds in Suaskota that love your showline Now, honey,
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  Speaker 3: having a toughnight, Oh don sucks letting it go? Yeah, God,
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  Speaker 3: you're not single.
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  Speaker 1: That's too I wouldn't need a government or a woman.
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  Speaker 3: Good. Are there concerted or talk show bars for happy hours?
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  Speaker 3: Or you're just going to find like a gray haired
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  Speaker 3: saying talking smack about the mayor so that you can
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  Speaker 3: get turned on. Then, I mean, I don't even want
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  Speaker 3: to see your red soup searches either. Now to get
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  Speaker 3: back to the red for a second. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: we're going to have any issues on if you if
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  Speaker 3: we say, let's just say two and a half million people,
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  Speaker 3: you line up along the parade route which ends over
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  Speaker 3: you have city Hall on the backside, your one police plase,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera. If I if ten, you know, twenty year
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  Speaker 3: old kid has decided to drink too much and get
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  Speaker 3: in a fight. Is that indicative of New York? No,
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  Speaker 3: it's not. I also think, you know, ten o'clock in
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  Speaker 3: the morning versus eleven o'clock midnight, you know, night till
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  Speaker 3: you get you get different crowds. Obviously, broad daylight versus
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  Speaker 3: night time. I don't think there's gonna be busses burn
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  Speaker 3: learning and people are just throwing things. And I think
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  Speaker 3: New York City will represent themselves very very well.
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  Speaker 1: I think it will too. I mean I'm hoping it is,
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  Speaker 1: but that mum Donnie is just for the time of day.
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  Speaker 3: Like remember, like yo, I'm not excusing you know, the hooligans,
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  Speaker 3: and let's just say a couple hundred of them are
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  Speaker 3: being jackasses out there. But at midnight you get a
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  Speaker 3: different crowd than you get at ten o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: You just do that's true.
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  Speaker 3: And we've we've never had issues with you know, Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 3: Day pray, which is early in the morning, the same
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  Speaker 3: Patty's Day parade. There's been some prey issues, yes, historically,
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  Speaker 3: but not at ten o'clock in the morning, and not
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  Speaker 3: to celebrate a team's championship. So will there be some
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  Speaker 3: isolated incidents in the next couple hours, maybe sure, but
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  Speaker 3: nothing of the soope of you know, the cities that
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  Speaker 3: you referenced at all.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I think you're right. I hope you're right. And
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, that will be part
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  Speaker 1: of whether or not this was a successful day, because listen,
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  Speaker 1: but guys that are real nick bands, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these folks aren't, I know, keep pumping on that
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  Speaker 1: because I'm a pretty miserable guy. I'm becoming like I'm
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  Speaker 1: a old age. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday, I don't get it. Like to me, the more
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  Speaker 3: the merrier, Like do I really care? You was talking
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  Speaker 3: yesterday about all, you got like a dozen yo hot
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  Speaker 3: nineteen year olds all wearing your knick shirts with their
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  Speaker 3: belly buttons pierced.
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  Speaker 1: Adrian.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have a problem with that?
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  Speaker 1: I know because I'm not nineteen. I'm almost sixty and
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  Speaker 1: I'm married for thirty four years.
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  Speaker 3: And your beautiful daughter's older than nineteen. My daughter's twenty five, right,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to see my daughter or your daughter
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  Speaker 3: dressed like that. But I hate mom, Donnie. I'm turned
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  Speaker 3: down now'm looking at a top nineteen year olds like
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  Speaker 3: it does that way.
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  Speaker 1: I know you don't, but it really bothers me. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why. I just because I know, and I've
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  Speaker 1: been saying this all week that you know, these kids
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  Speaker 1: aren't watching the Nicks and the Grizzlies in November or
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  Speaker 1: the Nix and Wizards in December. I am, and they're not.
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  Speaker 3: So by the way, half of my coffees on the
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  Speaker 3: sand aren't washing it in November in December. So like
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  Speaker 3: right now, like to me, I got great joy out
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  Speaker 3: of it. And if you tell me that half the
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  Speaker 3: people to prayed are forgazy nig fans, so what like
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  Speaker 3: this is a great moment I think for New York City.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's gonna be cliche, and you're gonna mock
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  Speaker 3: me for it, but this is why sports is so great.
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  Speaker 3: Sports and music the only two things that bring people
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  Speaker 3: together university. Regardless of your socioeconomic background, religious background, political beliefs,
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  Speaker 3: sports is a great unifier, much like music is. And
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  Speaker 3: the more the merrier. Man, Let's let's kill it today
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  Speaker 3: and let's make this one of the greatest prades of
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  Speaker 3: all time.
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  Speaker 1: Well said, this is the amazing afternoon host at w
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  Speaker 1: u ND Hall of Famer, also Fox Sports one television star.
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  Speaker 1: This is Craig Carton. Okay, so let's get down to
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  Speaker 1: the players Jay Wright on this week, and yes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we actually admitted to me this was great, he admitted
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  Speaker 1: to me. And I think he did the same thing
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  Speaker 1: with Beningo on his podcast that he never thought Brunson
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  Speaker 1: would be like this. He thought Brunson would be a
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  Speaker 1: really good player and in a spot in Dallas where
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  Speaker 1: Don Chick was the guy, where Brunson could be that
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  Speaker 1: second guy. But he was surprised that Brunson wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be the guy in New York City. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: he said, I never could have imagined Brunson putting in
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  Speaker 1: forty five in the closeout game in a series. So
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  Speaker 1: even Jay who coached Brunson and Michal Bridges and of
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  Speaker 1: course Josh Hart the two championships. Stevencenzo, the former Knick
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  Speaker 1: to one championship, even he was surprised at how great
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson has turned out to be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting that he would say that, obviously, because
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  Speaker 3: Jaen won two championships with him as coach in Villanova.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Mikal Bridges was with him for votes and
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  Speaker 3: Josh Sharr was there for the second one, not the
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  Speaker 3: first one. Right, It's interesting, And I say, look, I
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  Speaker 3: think James Brunston has talked about this many times where
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  Speaker 3: if you go back in time, his preference was to
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  Speaker 3: stay in Dallas, right, but Dallas didn't make him the
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  Speaker 3: offer that you know he wanted to stay there. I
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  Speaker 3: also think it tells you what happens when you've got
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  Speaker 3: a global superstar playing to your right that everybody is
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  Speaker 3: forced to defer to. In this case, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 3: Luka Doncik. You're the great player that's now on the Lakers,
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  Speaker 3: that was on the Dallas Mavericks when Jalen came to
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  Speaker 3: New York. The Knicks didn't and still don't have that
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  Speaker 3: guy next to him, so I think it was much
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  Speaker 3: easier for him to take on the responsibilities he took
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  Speaker 3: on as not just the floor general, but there's nobody
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  Speaker 3: on the team for him to defer to, and I
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  Speaker 3: think that's part of why we saw him so quickly
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  Speaker 3: become the go to guy. But I don't think if
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  Speaker 3: you asked Jalen Brunton, outside of his dreams as a kid,
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  Speaker 3: could he have ever imagined in the NBA scoring forty
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  Speaker 3: five points in all close that game when the only
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  Speaker 3: other guy historically to do that is Michael Jordan, who
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  Speaker 3: I think is the greatest of all time. YEP, So
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  Speaker 3: I think we're being realistic about it. What Jay is
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  Speaker 3: saying is what Jalen would have told you at some point,
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  Speaker 3: you know, early in his NBA career, be hard to
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  Speaker 3: imagine doing that. But now he's a bona fid superstar.
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  Speaker 3: Now when you talk about let's just arbitrarily say the
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  Speaker 3: five best players in the sport, I agree. He's not
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  Speaker 3: the fastest, he's not the tallest, he doesn't jump the highest.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know if he can dunk, he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have the best junk shot, he's not the best defensive player.
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  Speaker 3: But you tell me somebody else in the league today
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  Speaker 3: it's down a point ten seconds to go, that you'd
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  Speaker 3: rather have the basketball in their hands over Jalen Brunson.
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  Speaker 1: You know what funny you just described Derek Jeter. Derek
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  Speaker 1: Jeter was.
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  Speaker 3: Derek Jeter was.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't even the best short step on the team.
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  Speaker 1: Alex Rodriguez was yet, yet he was the guy. And
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  Speaker 1: they were both nicknamed mister clutch. I believe Jeter and Brunson.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're in the same sentence as Michael Jordan
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  Speaker 1: and or Derek Jeter, I think you're doing pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: So is it yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Is it fair to say, Craig And you've been doing
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  Speaker 1: this at the pay in a long time now. You
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  Speaker 1: and Boomer took over for I miss and actually ran
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  Speaker 1: with the football like Barkley did a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: You guys were great. Now you're back doing great again
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  Speaker 1: in the afternoon. So you've covered a lot of sports
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  Speaker 1: a lot of years. Is this the biggest thing? Because
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees are seventeen years away, the Giants fifteen years wait,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. Is this the biggest event New York's
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  Speaker 1: sporting event, new York event that you've covered since you've
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  Speaker 1: come to w N.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not even both. Yeah, the only thing that
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  Speaker 3: I would even be in the conversation that's not you know,
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  Speaker 3: when I got to the Fan Today Mornings with Boomer
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  Speaker 3: in two thousand and seven, the Giants win that improbitable
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  Speaker 3: super Bowl that year two thousand and eight, you know,
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  Speaker 3: right January or February whatever it was of two thousand
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  Speaker 3: and eight. That's always thing that's close because it was
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  Speaker 3: so improbable. You know, Jerry Reefs came out and said
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  Speaker 3: Eli Manning was a skittish quarterback. They were talking about
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  Speaker 3: benching him at the time. Then you get that great
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  Speaker 3: in my Brawshaw game in Buffalo that gets them in
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  Speaker 3: as a wild card there they beat Tampa. Okay, fine,
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  Speaker 3: Then they go to Dallason in that game that it's
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  Speaker 3: twenty below in Green Bay, a place of the Pokers
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  Speaker 3: never lose yo with Brett Favre. They take care of
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  Speaker 3: business there, and obviously when the super Bowl, that's the
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  Speaker 3: only thing that's close. But I look, I'm twenty eight
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  Speaker 3: years old and my life's on. This is the greatest
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  Speaker 3: sporting moment ever, you know, for young guys like me,
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  Speaker 3: because think about it, it wasn't predicted they were underdog
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  Speaker 3: throughout it. They were at best like the six ops
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  Speaker 3: in preseason and maybe even lower than that, and they
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  Speaker 3: dominated the postseason. Like when you take a look, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the the Atlanta Hawks gave them a tougher matchup than
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  Speaker 3: the Spurs, the sixes of the Cavs. Like, make that
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  Speaker 3: makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't, No, I mean, the Hawks are the only
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  Speaker 1: team to get two wins in any of thoseies.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, what's funny about is that maybe
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  Speaker 3: not Atlanta, but certainly Philly and Cleveland and San Antonio.
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  Speaker 3: The so called experts that came out, who have an
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  Speaker 3: anti New York bias in my opinion, all were trying
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  Speaker 3: to explain to us, well, the six you know, the
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  Speaker 3: Knicks don't match up well enough in this spot against
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  Speaker 3: this team. They don't match up well against those guys,
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  Speaker 3: and nobody thought the Knicks are going to win outside
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  Speaker 3: maybe of the Atlanta series, right, yeah, no, everyone's saying
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  Speaker 3: that they're not good enough to win. And then the
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  Speaker 3: crazy thing about it is, even after they knocked out Atlanta, Philly,
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  Speaker 3: Cleveland and the Spurs. It seems like every one of
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  Speaker 3: those teams said afterwards, oh, we were the better team.
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  Speaker 1: They did. No, they did.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, the nixt one and so so and five,
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  Speaker 3: right and.
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  Speaker 1: They and they won by like thirty eight points every game,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the.
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  Speaker 3: Most three in the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: I know what I know. Kenny Atkinson was the worst
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  Speaker 1: of all the Cavaliers head coach and James rten toal
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  Speaker 1: But so I guess on the way one.
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  Speaker 3: Of list thing of starting a round, and they consider
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  Speaker 3: this in the sixteen to three record, the three losses
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  Speaker 3: by combined six points.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and those sixteen wins must have been by
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  Speaker 1: like three hundred points. So are you setting up down?
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  Speaker 1: You'll actually know it'll be too late, I guess, Pat,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be wrapping up or over. So where does Craig
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  Speaker 1: and Seimac do their great show from today?
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  Speaker 3: We'll do the show from the studio because we don't
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  Speaker 3: go on until two o'clock. To pray it will be
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  Speaker 3: over by then. Obviously we'll both see out of trade.
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  Speaker 3: Not sure if we're gonna get to the broadcast position
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  Speaker 3: wherever that might be. With Evan and Tiki and Sean Moras.
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  Speaker 3: But we'll be out there, you know, just check it
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  Speaker 3: out for sure, and then you know, safely get back
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  Speaker 3: to the confines of the studio and can't wait. It's
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  Speaker 3: coming up in a couple hours. So it's gonna be awesome.
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  Speaker 1: All right, You're awesome. I've enjoyed run with you. And
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  Speaker 1: the good news is we got more to do. We
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  Speaker 1: got before you know what, training camp around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: Yankees are back in for his place. So a lot
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  Speaker 1: of great conversations coming up with my man who again,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say it the best in the business. Hold up, Amber,
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  Speaker 1: Craig Carton. Craig enjoyed today. I love your pal. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much, and.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy your time in the Motherland.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I will go to the welling Wall, the
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  Speaker 1: Western Wall, the cotel and I'll put in enough prayer
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  Speaker 1: for you. How about that?
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  Speaker 3: Please do please, I can get I can't get enough prayers.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see you, Craigie. Great job, buddy, Thank you, take
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  Speaker 1: care of there. He is the amazing afternoon host at
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  Speaker 1: and my Wall of Fame buddy Greg Carton. We'll take
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  Speaker 1: a short break more to do Parade Day, New York.
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  Speaker 1: Nick day you day Here in New York City, this
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