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Should Kyle Busch Be in NASCAR_s HOF Immediately? · Sports Exchange

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  Speaker 1: Good evening. You're really what we're doing in the edition
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  Speaker 1: of this Portuguese My name ISTT Morgan on Fonder City,
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  Speaker 1: man Mouth. We have a great group here tonight, and
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  Speaker 1: obviously your title is obviously one that brings tears for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of our eyes because of the way he
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  Speaker 1: intended up happening. We'll introduce the group and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to We've got Eric Katz, welcome back to Eric.
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  Speaker 2: Good to be back.
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  Speaker 1: And we have Cliff Neil, who we missed last week,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously he had some family business, but we always
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  Speaker 1: love had cliff On here. This guy does a well
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  Speaker 1: the job. He's come a long way to short time
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  Speaker 1: he's been here.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And we have Tony in the house of Well, Hi, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing. I'm doing all right, Marky Bilson's in.
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  Speaker 3: A house, how do you do?
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  Speaker 1: Him?
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  Speaker 3: Good to be.
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  Speaker 1: Here, I'm am good to have you. And of course
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  Speaker 1: we had Kandy Evelin, who's who's Nick Tyr is the
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  Speaker 1: greatest researcher of all time. All right, let's get to
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  Speaker 1: it here. I've got Marky and I have Tony for
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  Speaker 1: the first hour, okay, so let's get to it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be in thatth But but Andrew mucutcheon is a
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  Speaker 1: diet designated for assignment the country, hit one ninety two
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  Speaker 1: and seventy three at pasts for the Texas Rangers. Eric,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about mister McCutcheon not making a down end Laharna, Texas.
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  Speaker 4: He's an older player at this point, he's just trying
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  Speaker 4: to He really should have retired last year after being
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  Speaker 4: with the with the Pirates, so like him, like at
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  Speaker 4: this point, he's just trying to hang on. But to
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  Speaker 4: be honest with you, it doesn't surprise me because he's,
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  Speaker 4: you know, at this point in his career, he's thirty
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  Speaker 4: nine years old. The bat speed slows down, the legs
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  Speaker 4: get heavy, and you know, I just thought that it
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  Speaker 4: was I didn't think it was good that he came back.
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  Speaker 4: I thought he was kind of it was kind of
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  Speaker 4: foolish for him to do, but he's you know, I
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  Speaker 4: thought like that. I thought last year, you know, he
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  Speaker 4: ended he ended his he ended his season okay with
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  Speaker 4: them with the Pirates, but his statistics have been declining.
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  Speaker 4: Every have been declining since after the twenty twenty three seasons,
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  Speaker 4: and so really it was just it was I just
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  Speaker 4: I just thought it was foolish because he's old. He's
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  Speaker 4: an older player now, and you know he's like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's just you know, he's just doesn't have it anymore.
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  Speaker 4: And that's just the way that is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean to me, he'll always go on as
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  Speaker 1: a Pittsburgh Pirates ledgend, that's for sure. It's just unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: then we're out from in Texas. Cliff.
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  Speaker 2: Here comes that old cliche, father times undefeated, every single
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  Speaker 2: every single players, it's all of us. It's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's every human being, not just athletes. But it's, uh know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's I'm not really that surprised. It was great
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  Speaker 2: that he was able to get on a spot with Rangers.
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  Speaker 2: It just didn't work out. You're hitting one ninety two,
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  Speaker 2: things are gonna you're gonna slow down. Everything's gonna slow down.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, it's maybe he can hitch up
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  Speaker 2: with another team somewhere that might need him in like
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  Speaker 2: a backup role or veteran presence, or maybe a team
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  Speaker 2: that's like doing real well and they just want some
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  Speaker 2: depth and he'll hook up there. I don't know, I
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  Speaker 2: just don't know. It's uh, his best bet is probably,
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  Speaker 2: like Eric said, to retire, to sign the proverbial one
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  Speaker 2: day contract with Pittsburgh, so I can retire as a
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  Speaker 2: pirate and up there for the Hall of Fame, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if it be on that ballot.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll go over to Tony.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I can echo with Eric and Cliffs say,
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  Speaker 5: you know all the times undefeated.
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  Speaker 3: Baseball is a hard sport.
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  Speaker 5: You know, even when you're young, right to keep that
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  Speaker 5: bat average up and just stay consistent. But when you're
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  Speaker 5: thirty nine, things, you know, just becomes more difficult. But
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  Speaker 5: the crazy thing about it, Andrew mccutching batten one ninety two. Man,
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  Speaker 5: he can make a lot of teams. I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 5: honest with you. If you look at the Guardians DH
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  Speaker 5: Hoskins tonight, he's batting one ninety seven. I'm sure if
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  Speaker 5: I was to go through the list of teams, all
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  Speaker 5: thirty teams, every team has somebody in their lineup that's
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  Speaker 5: batting around one ninety or below. Because that's baseball now.
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  Speaker 5: In the outfield is a little harder for him, because
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he's not a power back to be a DH.
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  Speaker 5: So I can see how you know where that correlates.
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  Speaker 5: But If Andrew McCutchen stays in shape around August September,
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  Speaker 5: somebody probably give him a call and say, hey, let's
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  Speaker 5: see what you got.
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  Speaker 3: Just just stay in shape, Andrew.
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  Speaker 5: If you don't want to retire right now, trust me,
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  Speaker 5: it's worse at bats in the MLB right now today.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Markie, you know I love the comment on you
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  Speaker 6: know one ninety is what the DH has hit now?
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  Speaker 6: And yeah, I mean, I yeah, It's one of the
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  Speaker 6: reasons I've lost some interest in baseball because of the
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  Speaker 6: universal DH. I always preferred the strategic elements of the game,
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  Speaker 6: the athletic chess, if you will, which the DH takes
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  Speaker 6: away from. So I love your comment about Look, one
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  Speaker 6: ninety hitters are now a thing, and it wasn't that
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  Speaker 6: long ago. I cam to remember the White Sox at
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  Speaker 6: a DH that hit one seventy seven. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 6: what are we doing here? Why are we making this position?
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  Speaker 6: The second I was paid? I'm sorry, I'm got off
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  Speaker 6: a tangent. Andrew McCutcheon, I think, is probably the Pirate's
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  Speaker 6: best center fielder since the nineteen thirties, when Lloyd Wainer
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  Speaker 6: is a Hall of Famer man the position they had some
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  Speaker 6: great right fielders, some great left fielders, and they've had
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  Speaker 6: somebody who had center fielders too over the years, but
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  Speaker 6: you know, did they have any MVPs. It's sad to
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  Speaker 6: see a guy go out this way. I mean, I
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  Speaker 6: remember he had a great start with the Rangers. Remember
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  Speaker 6: I mean at the first few games of the year,
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  Speaker 6: he was in only four point fifty if memory serves,
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  Speaker 6: so to see this come down so quickly, so you know,
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  Speaker 6: in just two months, yeah, it is kind of sad
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  Speaker 6: to me. I remember going around Pittsburgh and all the
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  Speaker 6: cut shownes Pittsburgh T shirts that people were wearing on
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  Speaker 6: the South Side, which people don't know. It's kind of
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  Speaker 6: a party district. That's where you go out on a
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  Speaker 6: Friday and Saturday night, and that was a thing that
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  Speaker 6: was a big fashion statement. It was a career that
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  Speaker 6: allowed the Bucks to do something other than finishing the
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  Speaker 6: last place as they have basically ever since nineteen ninety two.
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  Speaker 6: So they were actually were good for three years because
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  Speaker 6: of him, as well as Walker Alvarez and Cole and
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  Speaker 6: some other fine players. But those are the four number
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  Speaker 6: one picks that the Bucks had that were there. But yeah,
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  Speaker 6: mccochune was the one that led the way. He was
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  Speaker 6: the one that gave style to the team. I remember
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  Speaker 6: how I loved this when SPA and did a promo
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  Speaker 6: making the current of the Pirates of Andrew McCutcheon and
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  Speaker 6: matching them up with the Willie Stargel We are family.
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  Speaker 6: It's a thirty second bit and they called it a
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  Speaker 6: family reunion the Pirates Dodgers. When were the Pirates ever
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  Speaker 6: featured on ESPN, it was because of McCutcheon. If it
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  Speaker 6: wasn't a promo like that, it was that great promo
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  Speaker 6: where he would come in with the Seaton Hall Pirate
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  Speaker 6: and the Pirate Parrot and steal the Sportscasters locks that
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  Speaker 6: sort of thing. Uh. You know, he's a player that
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  Speaker 6: you're going to miss if you're a Pirates fan. Definitely,
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  Speaker 6: it's a little sad to go out this way on
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  Speaker 6: a one day contract. I was that was a little cheap.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, we can even have on Andrew
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  Speaker 6: McCutcheon day and you know, the last game of the year.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I get it just as ERT's that way.
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  Speaker 6: I kind of think.
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  Speaker 1: The last words, great boy.
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  Speaker 7: You know, the American League is not doing well as
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  Speaker 7: a whole. We've talked about that. On baseball. You know,
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  Speaker 7: the National League is doing so much better. Andrew McCutcheon
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  Speaker 7: has been around. He has played for a numerous game teams. Yes,
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  Speaker 7: Pittsburgh Pirates the majority, but he's also played for the Giants,
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  Speaker 7: the Yankees, Reilly's, the Brewers, and now the Rangers. He's
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  Speaker 7: not having the best season. There are a lot of
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  Speaker 7: them out there that aren't having good seasons. Part of
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  Speaker 7: it is is he's a good left handed hitter and
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  Speaker 7: so against left handed pitching, and there isn't as much
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  Speaker 7: of that I don't think right now, or the left
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  Speaker 7: handed pitchers are dominant, So I think that has a
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  Speaker 7: little bit to do with that. I think sometimes it's
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  Speaker 7: wrong fit on the team like this, maybe just isn't
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  Speaker 7: the right team for him. There might be other teams
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  Speaker 7: out there, you know, to Tony's point that maybe he
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  Speaker 7: would do better on and be a better fit. It's
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  Speaker 7: it's unfortunate, but because you always like a player to
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  Speaker 7: go out on their terms, not necessarily like this. Is
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  Speaker 7: he you know older, Yes, has he had a good career, Yes,
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  Speaker 7: he's hit. Hey, he's had two eighty hits, three hundred
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  Speaker 7: and thirty three home run Scott for your number three, three,
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  Speaker 7: three one and fifty seven runs batted in. He has
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  Speaker 7: an overall MLB batting average of two seventy one, which
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  Speaker 7: isn't shabby for his career.
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  Speaker 1: Follow us continue on. One thing you don't do in
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  Speaker 1: sports is what Victor win Banyana did, and the NBA
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  Speaker 1: warned Victor win Banyana or violating media access rules after
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  Speaker 1: bypassing postgame media obligations during his first Game five lost
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  Speaker 1: to Oklahoma City. Well, I'll say you one thing, Eric,
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  Speaker 1: Let's say say a lot of guys will try to
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  Speaker 1: get away with it. This is the one guy you
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  Speaker 1: can't afford to do it because it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: the new face of the NBA. But again, I give
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  Speaker 1: the NBA credit. They only warned him this time. But
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about it. Or if you're one of us
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  Speaker 1: now you remember in the media, what's your position about
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  Speaker 1: the NBA warning them? Decide thing? If it happens again,
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  Speaker 1: you're in trouble.
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  Speaker 4: I think that they should have just dropped the dropped
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  Speaker 4: the fine to begin with, because the media deserves the
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  Speaker 4: media has every right to be there to ask about
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  Speaker 4: how it went there there. They should know that. The
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  Speaker 4: players should need to know that they are in They
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  Speaker 4: are in a sport that is universally popular amongst the
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  Speaker 4: rest of the world. They want to hear them speak.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter that they had a rough game. You're
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  Speaker 4: playing a professional sport and you're getting paid millions of
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  Speaker 4: dollars to do it, and every once in a while,
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  Speaker 4: when you have a bad game, you got to talk
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  Speaker 4: about it. It's no different than when people have a
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  Speaker 4: bad day at work, except you play a sport where
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  Speaker 4: you're getting paid millions of dollars to talk about it.
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  Speaker 4: Most of the world, when they've got a bad day,
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  Speaker 4: nobody really wants to hear about it, except for except
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  Speaker 4: for maybe, except for maybe your significant other if they're
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  Speaker 4: if they feel so inclined. But now they should have
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  Speaker 4: dropped the fine. It's this this star treatment. The NBA
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  Speaker 4: is out is just out of control, and anyone else
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  Speaker 4: would have been fined.
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  Speaker 2: Cliff, Uh, it's it's part of the deal. Come on,
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  Speaker 2: it's uh, you gotta talk about well what happened? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know you're pissed off you lost. Yeah, Eric's wright.
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  Speaker 2: He should have just given him a fine. And and I
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  Speaker 2: have to like slam with a super high Fine, but
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  Speaker 2: still something to say. Hey, here's here's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a lesson here. You're you know, you're a great player.
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  Speaker 2: He he's in the finals and right now tonight. You
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  Speaker 2: know he's played playing the game Nixon game one. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can't be making that Uh can't be
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  Speaker 2: making that mistake. He's been doing. From what I've seen
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  Speaker 2: and heard, he's been doing a pretty good job. People.
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  Speaker 2: I hear nothing but great things about about the guy.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, you have to This is part of
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing being a pro athlete.
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  Speaker 3: You got it.
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  Speaker 2: You got to talk to the media even when you're
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  Speaker 2: not in the mood, and you know it's it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it doesn't make any sense for him to do
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  Speaker 2: he should have I know he's young, but he's not
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  Speaker 2: that young. Got to grow up a little bit there, Tony.
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 5: A warner is fine. I mean it is this first offense.
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  Speaker 5: He's normally great with the me that he's always talking.
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  Speaker 5: He's never it's not like he's I don't see him
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  Speaker 5: this being like him being a hobitual guy doing this.
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  Speaker 5: I think a warning is fine.
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  Speaker 3: I get that is a. It was a big game.
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  Speaker 3: You want to talk to him after the loss.
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  Speaker 5: But he is young, like twenty two is pretty young, Cliff,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, and he runs hot. Now, that's the one
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  Speaker 5: thing I will say going forward, he has to I
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  Speaker 5: feel like he's an athlete that's going to have to
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  Speaker 5: figure out his emotions. Because on the show he did earlier,
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  Speaker 5: he's definitely a crier. So that shows that he's an
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  Speaker 5: emotional player whether it's good or bad. But a fine
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  Speaker 5: is fine. I think he'll be good and you'll see
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  Speaker 5: how every many games is go. Post this, we won't
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  Speaker 5: have that issue with him again.
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  Speaker 2: I work with a team to twenty two year olds
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  Speaker 2: all the time, and I hold him to a high level,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because this is life. And yeah, he's got
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  Speaker 2: a great life going right now.
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  Speaker 3: His NBN.
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  Speaker 2: He deserves all the accolades. He's got the talent, great awesome,
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  Speaker 2: great contract. No, it's you got a man up. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: I saying like you got a man up. You gotta do,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta do what you gotta do, Tony.
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  Speaker 4: I can guarantee you if you were in press row
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  Speaker 4: and went beyond, I pulled that, pulled that one up,
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  Speaker 4: pulled if you were in press row when that happened,
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  Speaker 4: I can guarantee you your opinion would be different.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not in press row, but I'm I'm also underd
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  Speaker 5: also understand the emotions of a difficult game of what's
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  Speaker 5: going on. And like I say, if you're if you've
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  Speaker 5: been in press row for the Spurs for eighty two
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  Speaker 5: ninety five games, and your standard is so high of
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  Speaker 5: somebody that the one of ninety five he actually shows
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  Speaker 5: some emotion doesn't want to talk, I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 5: That's that's pretty tough, y'all holding people to a standard
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  Speaker 5: that I don't think any of you guys at your job,
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  Speaker 5: if you did made one mistake out of ninety five
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  Speaker 5: days and you don't get a warning, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Know, that's all work. That's that's that's called that's called
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  Speaker 4: you're fired. Tony.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I would just say that any any coach
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  Speaker 8: or player that refuses to talk to the media, uh
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  Speaker 8: is I mean, I think they should be fine, first
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  Speaker 8: of all, but you know so many times it doesn't
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  Speaker 8: do you any favors.
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  Speaker 6: Uh. You know, as a guy who's covered minor league baseball,
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  Speaker 6: I cannot tell you know, the major leagues, you've got
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  Speaker 6: open clubhouses before the game afterwards. You know, the players
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  Speaker 6: are very accessible this sort of thing. Now, there's some
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  Speaker 6: better with the press than others. I get that, but
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  Speaker 6: I know in the minor leagues, I know that it
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  Speaker 6: is oftentimes jumping through hoops to try to talk to
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  Speaker 6: a minor league baseball player. And I mentioned this because
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  Speaker 6: you know, I think this is one of the reasons
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  Speaker 6: why minor league baseball players are so anonymous. And there
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  Speaker 6: isn't the quote unquote baseball star that there used to be,
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  Speaker 6: the one that makes all the endorsement shit, they got
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  Speaker 6: Otani or Judge or someone like that. But you know,
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  Speaker 6: it's not as prevalent as it used to be where
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  Speaker 6: you had so many household names for baseball players and
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  Speaker 6: you're not building them up in the minors because so
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  Speaker 6: many times I can't tell you how many times minor
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  Speaker 6: league baseball managers take away access to what little media
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  Speaker 6: that you're going to get. It's a good way to
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  Speaker 6: get you anonymous. Now that's not so much the problem
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  Speaker 6: in the NBA, But do you see where if this
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  Speaker 6: becomes a thing we're talking to the media becomes optional,
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  Speaker 6: where this can erode a lot of interest. And also
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  Speaker 6: in the we market the player league, well, if the
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  Speaker 6: player isn't available, it's pretty tough to market. True.
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  Speaker 5: That's feel like you guys are trying to project this
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  Speaker 5: into being him doing this every tough game instead of.
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  Speaker 6: Job.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to get here, hold on.
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  Speaker 3: The way. And I get it you guys writing. You
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  Speaker 3: guys are media, but I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't see anybody from the Spurs beat reporter not
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  Speaker 5: get their story out that night, and that's what I like.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they gotta do it.
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  Speaker 3: At the end of the world. Job he was able
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  Speaker 3: to be fine.
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  Speaker 5: It's like you guys are already projecting out next time
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  Speaker 5: it's going to be I don't know, player X, and
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  Speaker 5: then player B and then player Z, like like it's
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  Speaker 5: going to be a snowball effect. It doesn't happen. It's
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  Speaker 5: literally like a rarity for this thing to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Hold, he's the biggest that's.
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  Speaker 1: Got nothing to hold on. I've been listening to everybody
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  Speaker 1: out but now I'm gonna say something there. Yeah, I've
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  Speaker 1: been and a lot of these things. Rule number one
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  Speaker 1: media policy, Tony is you're obligated to talk to us, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and if you don't, you get fined. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: believe me at John Corrello he got one hundred grand
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  Speaker 1: old probably pay for it and all these other people
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: victor women, Yana, Okay, bypass the media because the poor
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: maybe head it's sturt locked Game five. It's a policy, Tony.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: We're not ganging up on this guy. Is a policy.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: The ad and hearing the worst word about the NBA.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: They got an image trouble anyways, they really do. Their
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Their product is gone down hill to begin with. Why
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: do you think nobody cared about it? So you don't
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: need this kind of thing? We women Yanda did all right,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: so he got warned, had no history. But the reality
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: is that there are policies that you have to follow
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: that part of marketing the league. Why do you get
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: paid all this money because you're gonna go out there
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: to not talk to us. Don't worry. I have a
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: boxing match that I'm going to be involved in in July.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Stay tuned, okay on this network, and I'll let you
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: know what it is. Not mentioning it now for those
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: of you that are listening, But the reality is that
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I'll promote it really good when it's over with. Let
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: me tell you, but this is a policy, tony. Okay,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: if you when you're covering an event, Okay, especially during
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, you got to go to the podium and
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: speak your mind, good, bad and ugly. And unfortunately it
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: went Biana went out there and he got warned. You
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: got a slap on the frist. Risk it was online, Mark,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: you get back involved in here. You're here with me, okay, I'm.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: I'm reminded of situations where they didn't wear a famous
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: sports figures didn't talk to the media. One thing that
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: comes to mind. Bill Belichick, after the Patriots lost to
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: the Ravens about a decade ago in the AFC title Game,
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: famously ducked all the TV reporters and wouldn't talk. And
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: I remember Shannon Sharp calling him out, and I was like, absolutely,
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: and you look at this and you know, here's Belichick.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Could that have been a factor. Why Belichick wasn't you know,
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: a first ballot Hall of Famer despite winning the most
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: Super Bowls. It literally was, you know, you're talking to
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: the medium, and it's like, you know, but I think
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: I was a jerk. I mean, and this does have
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: a problem. You know, I can remember as a youth
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: of Pittsburgh byarts fan. As a youth, I was so
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: excited when they acquired George Hendrick, who had a reputation.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: He did not talk to the media because of that.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: And it was when he was winning the World Series
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: in Saint Louis.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: That was fine.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: Now he was coming to Pittsburgh. They what they weren't familiar.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: Why aren't you talking to him? He didn't hit He
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: was still talked about generations later as this huge bum
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: that didn't hustle. That was self. You know all this
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: it just doesn't help you. Uh, And that's the thing
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: now again, one incident, Okay, I get it, but there
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: have been a million, you know a lot of times
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: it just doesn't help you out and you you gotta
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: suck it up.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Well, now, look you guy. Anne Silver is his commissioner.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Because David Stern was there, David Stern would find him.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Go ahead there.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Let me say this though, as far as getting stories out,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: number one, regardless of what you have, you have to
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: find a way to get that story out. You are
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: on a deadline otherwise, otherwise your editor is going to
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: put you in a puts you in a headlock. In
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: his office and ask you what and ask you why
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: you know it is you know regardless if you get
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: the quote. Yes, they may have got their stories out,
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: but but Victor Webiona might have made that story significantly better.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: They need viewers. People want to hear what the stars
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: have to say and get as far as getting the
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: story out, that's the writers and the journalist and the
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: t reporter's job is to get the story out. But otherwise, otherwise,
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: number one, you're gonna be in your in your in
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: the office with the editor in a headlock, and he's
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: going to be asking you why, and and number two
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: you might be in the unemployment line. So so all
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: of that comes down to their job. It has nothing
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: to do with what we Beyona did. When Beyonna might
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: have actually made their story significantly more entertaining.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Let me tell you what was more entertaining the next day,
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: And you guys might not like this as writers, the
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: fact that he walked away. It was it was more
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: people probably tuned into dang wenby walked away than they
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: people who would have read the article.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Well, that's called that's called the that's called the that's
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: called gen Z's Internet.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: That's the backwards we're not. We're not rolling backwards, guys.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: It's not about rolling backwards. It's about growing up. And
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: you know, do you know it's guess what he got.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: He got.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: He got warned because he always the job. You guys
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: have some standards that I promise you. If your job's
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: had that standard, you guys will not have a job.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: And that's just a fact. He got the warning because
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: he is he is good with the media. He's always available.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: One time he should be fine, I guess. And that's
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: the thing you guys have.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I say, the warning is Okay, Tony, he was fine. Okay,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: we're giving you your prompts there, Tony, because he was fine.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Does it again? Okay, guess what. And for these guys
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: that don't manage, they get paid so much money as
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: oh this is.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: A tax that some that I can agree with, they
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: could have gave him whatever fine because the numbers be
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: so low. That's why you hear them custs so much. Now,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: the number for the fines compared to contracts. I don't
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: know how you.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Fix that or if you how that works, but yeah,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: that the fines don't even equate to that much anymore.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Give me the the sheer butt, give me the sheer bluntness.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: So if by Kevin Garnette in front of the media
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: any day of the week.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: That's funny. All right, go ahead, Candy, have a last
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: word on this.
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: So if any of you fail. Famously, remember Marshawn Lynch
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: is famous for not talking to the He went long stretches.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: He would rack up fifty thousand dollars League finds every
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: time he wouldn't so after he famously a five minute
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: Super Bowl presser where he answered every single question, I'm
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: just here so I won't get fined. I'm just here
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: so I won't get fined. I'm just here because it's
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: a mandatory. Victor skipped a mandatory media obligation because he
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: didn't play well.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: But it's mandatory. It's not optional. It's mandatory. It's part
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: of your job. If I didn't do part of my job,
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: there would be consequences if he doesn't do part of
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: his job, and part of his job is media relations
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: and meeting with the media. There has to be the
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: problem with today's societies. We don't hold people accountable and
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: every everybody accountable. There's gonna be It's gonna get worse.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: And worse, and they're gonna take more advantage. And this
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: happens once, it happens again, it happens again. There has
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: to be some accountability by everybody.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll say one thing. You know, Candy gets
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: a great point about Marshall Linz. If you can't get
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: a kick out of I'll get five. I'll get fine
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: if I do this. At least a guy go. If
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that's a humor anyway, that's what I want. I don't
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: want what Victor win Magana did. Give me more Marshall
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Lynch stories. I'll take him.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about our future topic of the night, and
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: it is obviously a somber one, but Brant has Alowski
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: believes that Kyle Busch should go into the NASCAR Hall
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: of Fame immediately. This also will We're also gonna present
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: this by our panel on Inside the Piction. Jennifer Matthews
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Lewis will probably get a taste of it. But for
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: this group here tonight, Eric, give me your talk about
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Kyle Busch. Layne. First of all, let me say that
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I do believe he should go in right away. He
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: really is. When Roferdo Clementi was killed, then obviously he
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: got in right away, and I'm gonna start off with
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Markey on this one.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: Go ahead, Mark, Yeah, that was the point I was
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: going to make that it seems like there is president
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: and sports for immediate conduction into Hall of Fames after
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: a player of skill perishes. I do understand that there
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: may be a little bit of sentiment in the moment,
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: you know, but are we really is that why we
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: were saying Bush should be in the Hall of Fame
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: because of the sentiment of the moment, or because look,
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: the Bush brother the NASCAR, that was a big thing
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: and they were part of the era. Maybe they weren't
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: earn Hart, Petty or Johnson, but you know that was
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: in its era, the Bush Brothers were. Yeah, that was
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: that was a thing.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: I mentioned before we're talking about Cutch. I said it
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: was the best, the best pirate center fielder probably since
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: Lloyd Wayne because Wayner is in the Hall of Fame,
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: and you know, I mean that's a long time ago,
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: the nineteen thirties, you know, with Big Poison, Little Poison,
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: who is around then and all that. But I mentioned
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: that because those were that was a brother act in
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: baseball that stood the test of time the Bushes, I
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: think will do the same in NASCAR. So yeah, I
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: think you could see. I'm not against it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I like a number one. Don't take this the wrong way.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: People out there that are listening want they put him
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame immedia. It's not like he
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: can make a comeback. Unfortunately for all the wrong reasons.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I'm not just saying posthumously. I think he belongs in there.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: He's accumulated these statistics to get in there. Anyway, even
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: if he had raced another year or two with this
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: guy here was everything to the sport of Nascar, I
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: could easily see him getting in the right way. And
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I've actually spoken to Brad Keselowski in the past of
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the Daytona five hundred that Brad's actually from my negative
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: would Brad's the classier guys in the world, and he's
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: a true racer in every sense of the word. So
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question that Kyle Busch wlongs
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. All right, Eric, go ahead.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: I can't really speak for NASCAR just because I'm I
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: just you know, I just don't know enough about it.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: After after the Jeff Gordon era, but yeah, But what
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: I will say is this, though, there's got to be
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: some extenuating circumstances in order for somebody to somebody get in. Obviously,
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Kyle Busch passing away when he did was was very unfortunate.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: But you know, Ron Santo, for example, in the Baseball
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Hall of Fame, many people were arguing for years that
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: he should be in the Hall of Fame, and he
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: didn't get out. He didn't get in until the year
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: after he died. Obviously, Roberto Clemente got in right away.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Luke Garrett got in right away. But it you know,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I think Kyle Busch kind of falls on those under
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: those extenuating circumstances. But you have to be careful though,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: because when you put one in, you got to put
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: them all in. It's why that there's it's why you
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: see the problem now with with you know it with
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: some pictures when Sandy Kofax was in, because as great
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: as Sandy Kofax was, you just open up a can
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: of words saying, should we start electing those guys who
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: were briefly dominant?
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: True? Good, all, right, Tony.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: I'm somebody who feels like certain players in multiple sports
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: should just be automatic in when Tom Brady should go
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: as soon as he retire. You know, certain players I
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: feel like should just what are we waiting for? We
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: know they're going to get in, but you do have
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: to be careful with president. I think Kyle Busch look, special,
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: special situations are special situations, you know, for that reason,
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: that's why it's called that or you know, So putting
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Kyle Busch in makes sense to me. If if if
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: everybody can agree, I don't know if there's a board
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: involved or something, but if everybody can agree and they
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: feel like he should be in immediately, I don't see
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: why not. And it shouldn't open Pandora's box because everybody,
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: this is not gonna happen that many times to open
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: up Pandora's box. This is a very tragic situation that
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: just happened over the past year. So if the board
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: or whoever vost disagreed they should be in, I'm all
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: for it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Do you know the NHL I was gonna say the
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: NHL often for the really huge stars waves was a
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: three year waiting period for the Hall of Fame. Uh
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: Mary Elamu did not have to wait. Wayne Gretzky did
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: not have to wait, if you are really great, you know,
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: and there's something I always thought hockey did it right
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: three years. You know, where are we waiting five in
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: football and baseball and all that not a big thing,
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: but yeah, you know three years seemed to be that
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: things about right and all that, and they were even
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: the situation well, I'm not going to bring up, but
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: you just have a situation now where if the NHL
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: has done it for some of their greats, maybe it's
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: time for Bush here now.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Maybe it is.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Great party.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Glad added that, yeah, I'm in a big NASCAR, but
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I can't relate on the whole uh Hall of Fame thing. Mark,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: He's absolutely right with those guys getting in right away.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know enough about an ascart and how they
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: do their stats and how they do all that stuff.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: The thing is is, and and Eric did have a
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: point too, It's like, is it it was he really
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: good enough? Because I don't know was it was he was.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Would he have been a slam dunk to go in
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: right away? Then yeah? Sure if he was one of
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: those people that was kind of oh, maybe he belongs
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: in there, Maybe he doesn't.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Then maybe you.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Don't automatically put him in But I do see I
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: don't want to take away from the sensitivity of the
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: of the of the event of the death. But you
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: know it's I think it's I think you just have
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: to look at I don't think we should have one
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: big policy all the way, this all the way that
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: look at the situation and if it warrants it, then sure,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: If it doesn't, maybe.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Not kdi final word.
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: In twenty ten, he set the modern era record for
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: most combined victories in the single season across NASCAR's three
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: premiere series with twenty four wins. He holds the all
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: time record for career wins across the National Series with
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: two hundred and thirty four victories. He set the record
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: for most wins in a season for the Exfinity seasons,
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: holds the overall record with one hundred and two wins.
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: He also has the most wins in the Truck series.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: He is the only driver in history to have at
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: least sixty career wins in each of NASCAR's top three series.
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: He belongs in. If he's the top of all of those,
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: he belongs in. No question.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's stay in Pittsburgh, Okay, Sindy Crossy is going
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: to be returning for one more year in the final
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: year of a contract at age I mean, how do
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you feel about this one marquee?
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: You know again, it's I always just said goodbye to
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: Andrew mccutcheen. It looks like from someone a former Pittsburgh
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: Post because that's sports writer.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, you know that.
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: Boy, it does seem like an era of greatness is
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: ending in so many fashions. You know, so many great
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: players coming out. But yeah, it seems though Crosby is
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: still playing at a very high level. The one thing
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: I have been impressed, and I think this is good.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: We're talking before about McCutcheon, and although I think of
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: him as a pirate, he was a journeyman. Such as
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: the finances.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Of baseball, right, you know.
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: I do give credit to the Penguins for keeping Malkin
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: and Crosby together so long, which gives not only team
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: but player and sports so much identity. And yeah, the
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: longer they go on, just like you know, a Vechkin
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: and all that, it is, let's see this great historic veteran.
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: You know, again, he has those couple of years where
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: he had the concussion and you start to wonder, what
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: could his numbers have been if he didn't lose those
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: in his prime, et cetera. But and I think that's
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: another reason why he kind of want him to go
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: as long as he can. Not going to get those
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: years back. But can he continue on the Penguins. You know,
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: they lost right and up to the Flyers in six
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: games in the first round of the playoffs. This past
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: year was their first return to the playoffs in a
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: couple of years. So there is the idea he's playing
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: at a high level. I don't have a problem with it.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: I mean, I you know how many players even at
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: this John Staggerwald wrote this recently when people were talking
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: about should the Penguins bring back Melkin? And it was like,
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: are you going to be able to get a better
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: player than Geno Malkin on the second line centering even
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: at his age?
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: You know? Right now?
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: And I think it's kind of the same thing with Crosby.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Tony haven't thought about this.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Not a big.
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: Hockey guy, but I'm casual enough to remember Sid the kid,
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: and I don't think you can call him that anymore.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: Oh hey, why not, You're twenty one. I'm here for
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: all the greats. Hopefully you know if he hopefully he's
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: announced announcing his retirement after this, because I feel like
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: great players like Sidney Crosby should get a retirement tour, right,
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: they should be celebrated their their final season. So hopefully
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: he announces that this will be his final season. But
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: come on, Scott, if somebody gonna pay you seven point
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: six million dollars you picking up that last year, I'm
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: not mad at that either. Go ahead and get that
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: what they call it the golden parachute on your way
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: to retirement.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you're right, Tony, I'm not giving up that
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: suck to change for all these You've definitely got the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: money part, right, Tony. So if you want to be
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: my agent, you just volunteer for the job I got
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: you here properly. We'll make sure you're properly compensated, whether
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: your Hollywood Tony best Fern or whatever we talk you, Tony,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: depending on the day of the night or whatever. Right,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: can't you talk about the kid?
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm glad that he's getting the proper like pit's
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: proper a do? I mean he's you know, it was
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: at one point it was he and Ovechkin who were
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: the faces of the National Hockey League and Sydney Crosby
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: helped him when they helped him eventually win a Stanley
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Cup after it took after it took a little while.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: They're a little heartbreaker against the Red Wings when the
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Red Wings were in their heyday. But uh yeah, you
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: got to celebrate him. I mean he you know, out
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: of all the great, the great Pittsburgh Penguins that have
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: gone through that organization, he is up there with Mario Lemieux.
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't probably put him over Mario Lemu because that's
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: that's the saying a lot. But he's up there, and
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: so I think he deserves the retirement tour that he's
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: deserved because he's a Hall of Famer. He's done so
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: much for the city of Pittsburgh and you know he
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: you know, let him, let him, let him kind of
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: go about go about the way he wants to, whether
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: you know what, no matter what happens though, because the
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: guy has nothing left to prove.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Click well, I mean there since he got drafted. But
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: watching his career, some people will say he should go
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: in on that Mount Rushmore. The Mount Rushmore usually being Gretzky, Lemieux,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Howe and or I call him the the immortal four.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Some people are saying, Hey, I don't know, he's that good.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Might be five, he might be five. But yet without
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: a doubt, his career has been phenomenal. That's gonna be great.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: That net last year is gonna be great. I really see.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Uh an pick of Vetchkan is probably gonna retire too,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: and how better, how appropriate it be with the two
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: of them on you know, uh, retiring on the same day.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: I don't think they put out the schedule yet because
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: if that winds up happening, wouldn't be surprised if Pittsburgh
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: and Washington last game, game eighty two of the season
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: is those two had to head one last time, and
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: that's just got theater written all over it. You know, Yeah,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: he's he's, he's, he's, he's, he's in a world heck,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: he might even be considered one of those Hall of
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: famers right out. And once you retire, it's like he
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: might be one of those guys that might not have
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: to wait too.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: He won all right candy.
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: On March twenty eighth of twenty twenty five, he became
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: the only player in NHL history to average over a
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: point per game over twenty seasons. On December twenty second
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: of twenty twenty five, Crosby became the Penguins all time
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: points leader with one thousand, seven hundred and twenty four points,
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: at the same time, passing Mario Lamaux I mean, for
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: eighth on all time NHL scoring. Crosby would later climb
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: to seventh on the all time scoring list on April
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: fourth of twenty twenty after a two point game against
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: the Florida Panthers, passing Steve Yeiserman. So he has, he
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: has many records for Pittsburgh. To Marky's point, you're gonna
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: have a lot of people going retiring this year, like
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: Aaron Rodgers, he's this is his last year for the Steelers,
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: you know. And now Marionelum you I mean.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: He's.
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: He has been a great staple for the Penguins for
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: a long time. Kudos to him to go out on
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: his term.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Play the last. Bring on Steve Eider and that's a
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: really good name to bring up. Are I know the topic?
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: I want to bringing a really interesting one too. Takes
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: out of Wisconsin and South Carolina game cons to higher
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: former westconsin standout for pick Sam Decker Well, Eric obviously
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: being in wesconton very well. Know what Tam Decker did.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: What kind of a coach you think he's gonna be.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: I think he'll be a good one. He always you know,
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: he was obviously a great Wisconsin was a big part
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: of there, was a big part of their NCUBAA tournament team.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: I think he was on that team that went to
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: the national championship with lost in heartbreaking fashion the Duke,
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: but they But you know, I think he'll be good.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: He's he's he's I've seen him tweet. He's got a
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: lot of every time he talks and something interest, it's
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: something actually well thought out and interesting. So I don't know,
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: we'll see how it goes. But you know, I think
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: it's great. I think it's great for I think it's
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: great for him. Great to see that he's kind of
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: getting back in the sport because I know he was
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: kind of like on the media side for a while.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Clay not too familiar with this one. I'm gonna have
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: to pass on on this. Uh yeah, I'm not really sure.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Problem, All right, go ahead, Tony back to it.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Should be pretty good. He's coming in as an assistant.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: He's somebody who's younger, and that's kind of what you
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: need in the NCAA right now, it seems like the
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: older coaches and stuff, they're getting less in touch of
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: what college basketball used to be. So I think he'll
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: be able to be more of the buffer probably between
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: the head coach and the players.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: He's somebody who can tell you what winning at the
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: highest level in college is.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: So that's a good thing. He made it to the NBA.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: He played some years there, so that's hey, man, if
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: I'm a parent and it's somebody who's made it to
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: the NBA, who's played at a high level in college,
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: he's gonna bend my ear. Mike, you know, I'm somebody.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: He's somebody I want my kid to listen to. So
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: it's going to be interesting. Is SEC is tough though,
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: you know. So he's gonna have to have to do
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: some good recruiting and they're gonna have to spend some money.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: That's what it's about in college.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: Right The coaching it is important, but you got to
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: get the players in first, and it comes with the money.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: So if if South Carolina.
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: Is willing to break bread in the NIL he'll look
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: like a genius because they're gonna have all the best players, Marky.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think it.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: I don't think it has anything to do with the
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: older coaches losing touch. Losing touch with the with the
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: younger generation. Coach K coach for years as as kids
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: began to change, so did Jim boheive well well into
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: well into it. I think part of it is is
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: the landscape is changing, and these guys just do not
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: want to deal with N. I l these guys have
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: been coaching a while, they got nothing left to proof.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Why would I stick around for the NIL mess. I
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: don't think there has anything to do with losing touch. HECKM.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: Lout Olsen coached well into the two thousands and kids
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: certainly changed since then. If you there are plenty of
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: coaches who evolutionize their games for that next generation. I
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: think it's just everything to do with the fact that
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: they've got nothing left to prove, and why deal with
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: a nuclear disaster like like Nil.
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: All lamon parascenes all the help he can get at
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: South Carolina the right now. The game Cocks, you know,
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: who have always been respectable and football and base and
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: basketball centering baseball too.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: They wont a couple of national titles.
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: But you know, football basketball, they've been you know, generally
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: thought it was good but not great. And even in
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: the days of your when South Carolina with Frank McGuire
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: or something like that looked like that team that might
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: have beat you see, I like this going back, like
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: I said, but this is me doing sports history again.
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: They always come up short somehow, you know, that's sort
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: of thing. But they were, you know, good, they were
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: maybe rank number one we're at the start of the
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: year or something like that back in that era. Where
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: I'm going with this is yes, South Carolina. I mean, look,
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: the men's program is being overshadowed by the women, just
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: like it used to happen to Tennessee. Albeit that in
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: twenty seventeen the game Cocks made the Final Four, you
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: do not they have been struggling as the Nils have
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: really made the SEC into a power basketball conference that
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: it wasn't before. And South Carolina does seem to be
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: left out. As I said, Lamont Paris needs all the
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: help he can get, and he's someone on the hot seat.
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: So if you can get a former professional, former start,
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: someone from the Big ten, and what he really needs,
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: somebody can raise some money I think, but yeah, I
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: I Hey, you always want to have that player on
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: the bench that says, hey, look I did it, so
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: what I have the credibility to tell you what to do.
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: That's always I think, I know, you know the idea
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: of well, the star players. I think it's easy and
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: it makes it difficult to teach.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: I do think.
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: There are certain roles where you do have to have
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: had a body of work as a player to be
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: able to project to an athlete in an in the
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: next generation. Perhaps this is the case, and perhaps that
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: will be beneficial. I see no problems with it.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, great Katie familiar with.
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm familiar, and so is Lamont Paris for those
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: of you that don't know. Paris served as the assistant
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: coach at Wisconsin during Decker's standout college career, which featured
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: back to back Final four appearances. He was Sam Decker
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: went to the NBA. He was a first round pick.
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: He has played eleven professional series, which includes stints in
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: the NBA, the Rockets, the Clippers, the Cavaliers, Wizards, and
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: he's played internationally in Russia, Turkey, Great Britain, and Spain.
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: Decker officially retired from playing to transition into the coaching ranks.
• 44:33
  Speaker 7: They feel he's a massive asset for molding individuals. His
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: key is going to be a strong focus on on
• 44:40
  Speaker 7: court player development and obviously playing with for all those
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: different teams in those different countries and in college, he's
• 44:49
  Speaker 7: he's learned how to play with other teammates and stuff
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: like that. I think this was a smart.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: Couldn't have been a better hi.
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: I think, yes, we all talk about NIL, but I
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: think Sam will bring some of that, knowing that he's
• 45:06
  Speaker 7: had the NBA career.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: I think if you bring.
• 45:09
  Speaker 7: In someone that just said college success, you're not going
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: to have the same amount of NIL that'll come to
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: you as well. So I think that was a really
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: good hire by South Carolina. I almost kind of wish
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: the Badgers had done it.
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: I mean, he's got to do something because you know,
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: Bob Richie is right there at Furman taking the Paladins
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: to the NCAA tournament. His players are going to the SEC,
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: and Furman has the most NIL money in the Southern Conference.
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: Admittedly that's the Southern Conference, not the SEC, but it
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: shows this is a guy that comes from a program
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: that knows how to bring in some money and all that.
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: South Carolina is very popular in Colombia and in the
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: Palmetto State. You know, there isn't any reason why they
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: couldn't make money there and all this. But he's on
• 46:01
  Speaker 6: the hot seat. He's got to bring in somebody like
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: that or else. Look for a Bob Ritchie maybe to
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: be the new head coach of the South Carolina game
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: Cocks in twenty twenty seven or beyond.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: I've got time for one more topic. And since we've
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: got Tony and we've got Marcia, this would be right
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: off there Alley baseball history. On May eighteen, nineteen ninety nine,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Edgar Martinez sloggs three home runs with the Sandel Mariners.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Pretty good accomplished for one of you talk about universal
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: DH I think earlier, But what are your thoughts marking
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: about Edgar Martinez looking three figures for the Stannel Mariners
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: is currently one of the best D agents of all time.
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, not a huge DH get, but I mean the
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: shows that baseball has become a sport of specialization when
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: you do have a Ortiz or a Martinez, an oll
• 46:49
  Speaker 6: of fan someone who only has the one skill, not
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: the complete defensive skills as well. I know it sounds
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: also old and fuddy duddy. I'm not saying he doesn't.
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: You know, as writers say, well that's the game. Now,
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: are you really going to keep out a great hitter
• 47:05
  Speaker 6: like Martinez? Point is taken. Are you really going to
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: keep out a Marianna Rivera just because he only threw
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: one inning? He is effective? I do, though, think you know,
• 47:18
  Speaker 6: it does show that baseball is a sport of specialization,
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: and you do start thinking, well, maybe then you need
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: to open up the Hall of Fame to a Dale
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: Murphy or you know, so many former players and so
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: many contemporary players and such who maybe didn't have the
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: batting average of a Martinez, but you know, I mean
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: at least they were able to play. They weren't a specialist.
• 47:45
  Speaker 6: That's the thing. Not really and not I always did
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: want to see though Martinez, you know, saying, you know,
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: I would have rather of him he tried to improve
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: his game playing first base or third or right field
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: or whatever. You know, I gotta I gotta tell you
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: I would have preferred that. But such as baseball in
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: this era.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, anytime a guy can hit three home
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: runs on one day, you know he's in the zone.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: And on eighteen, nineteen ninety nine, Edgrew Marchitos was in
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: that zone for sure, Markie, three home runs one day,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: and you think about Reggie Jackson did it in the
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: World thirty and obviously we know how that goes to
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: talk about.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Er great DH.
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: Like you said, anytime you can hit three home runs
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: in the game, you're locked in.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest with you.
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: After the second home run, I'm probably and I'm thinking
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: about the time period of it.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: I'm surprised he wasn't throwing at his chin.
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: You know, it used to be different back then, where hey,
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: you hit a couple home you hit the ball hard
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: a couple of times, we're not giving you nothing to hit.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: You're either getting walked or you getting hit.
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: So I'm actually surprised that they that they got his
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: third one. But hey, being locked in, is he gotta
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: be a great feeling. I'm sure he got the game
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: ball that day.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Well, I know that Marky and Tony run out of
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: the time. So here's what I'm gonna do to get
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: a hold of you real quickly.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, you can.
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: Find me on YouTube as you can see below at
• 49:08
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• 49:11
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• 49:14
  Speaker 5: We will be back Saturday talking baseball. Me Eric in
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: the Lovely Candy with her with her insight.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll have a good night, Tony. Thank you
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: very much for joining us. Appreciate it. All right, good night, Tony.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: All right, Marky, go ahead. Let everybody know how they go.
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• 51:03
  Speaker 1: are four about Candy. Some thought about Edward Edgar Martinez
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: having a hat trick on that particular night.
• 51:09
  Speaker 7: So do you know that of that hat trick, he
• 51:13
  Speaker 7: hit one to right, one to left, and one to
• 51:16
  Speaker 7: center field. The other thing he did the game before
• 51:21
  Speaker 7: prior the prior day he hit two home runs. So
• 51:24
  Speaker 7: he hit five in two days. And not only that,
• 51:29
  Speaker 7: this was his second time hitting three home runs in
• 51:31
  Speaker 7: one game. He hit three home runs July sixth of
• 51:35
  Speaker 7: ninety six as well, So he's done it twice. Pretty
• 51:40
  Speaker 7: cool feet and especially to do it right left and center.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Pretty cool hacker. Will play all right, click go ahead.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: But Candy just stole on the Thunder. He's gonna do that.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: I was like, don't go to Candy. She's gonna take
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: it because he always.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Picks up researches everything.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: I was like, you just took all this stuff.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: I'm still a little bit thunder.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: That's fine, but that was that's gonna be the the
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: big bulk of my stuff. But no, no props on
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Candy for putting that stuff out. But I'm not surprised
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: because I knew she would have it.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: So.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he was, he was, he was, he was.
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: He was a good hitter.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a little less luster on him for
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: not having really played in an opposition played a little
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: bit of first base, but that was you know, basically
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: if they were playing a nation league team, if they
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: had if they were doing some in her inner league
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: at the time. Yeah, he's he was a great player,
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: great hitter. Uh you know, it's yeah, he was. Is
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: he in the Hall of Fame? I don't know, is
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: he or is he not? Do you know? Okay, yeah,
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: I get and then the d H is a relatively
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: newer well seventy one, yeah, yeah, but there's not that
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: many pure dhs in in the in in the in
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: the in the Hall of Fame, so yeah, and I'm
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: not saying they shouldn't get in. But uh yeah, he was,
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: he was, he was.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: He was a good player.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: He always hit for average. He's always among the league
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: leaders year after year. You know, it's I can't say
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: anything really bad about the guys. Besides, he couldn't really
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: play the position. But uh, I mean, nowever, now we're
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: gonna have more d hs, but we were already talked
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: about it, so it should probably be even better now.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: We were just talking about how dhs are hitting one ninety,
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: so that should probably elevate his elevate his profile over
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: the years when we have all these dhs over the
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: year with both leaks from now on, all right, Eric.
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: Well, you know he's you know, obviously he's he's single
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: handedly saved baseball and yeattle things the thanks of the
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: double in nineteen ninety five. But yeah, I mean, you know,
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: he could, he could, he could hit some home runs.
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: It wasn't bad, It wasn't about Obviously, I think you're
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: going to see more. Did designated hitters get into the
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: Hall of Fame thanks to the rise of Otani and
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: what he's been able to do.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: Obviously is a two way player.
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: But I've always had a problem with designated hitters getting
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: MVP awards because they offer nothing defensively.
• 54:28
  Speaker 7: Can I just quick get a quick he is? He
• 54:32
  Speaker 7: is one of fifteen MLB players to record a batting
• 54:35
  Speaker 7: average of over three hundred, an on base percentage of
• 54:39
  Speaker 7: over four hundred, and a slugging percentage of over five
• 54:42
  Speaker 7: hundred in eighty five hundred or more plate appearances. He
• 54:47
  Speaker 7: ended his career as a batting average of three twelve.
• 54:50
  Speaker 7: How many teams would take him with a batting average
• 54:53
  Speaker 7: of three twelve right now?
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he didn't have to really worry about anything
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: defensively when you're going out there every day, and that's
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: that that does wear and tear on you, even if
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: you're playing first base.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: All right, let's let's move on.
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: Eric.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: Eric Wagerman story is a very interesting story. Latter he
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: played with the Marlins, was sent to Minnesota, and of
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: course from Minnesota, he didn't make the Big twenty six
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: man rockers with the Mets, and I think he's still
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: in their system. Eric Wagerman and I had an opportunity
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: to talk and he just told me what he had.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: I believe he's with the Mets and that I believe
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: he what's a triple A. I don't know what the
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: update on that. Candy will provide it, but let Candy
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: play the sound bite about what Eric Wagerman brings to
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: him a club.
• 55:54
  Speaker 9: Oh well maybe if it turns out to be in
• 55:56
  Speaker 9: every day role, that turns out being every day roll.
• 55:57
  Speaker 9: But whatever whatever they need me to do, I'm gonna do.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: So tell me your strengths and weaknesses in your game.
• 56:02
  Speaker 9: For sure, I think being able to play corner and field,
• 56:05
  Speaker 9: corner outfield, I think that's uh. I think that's that's
• 56:07
  Speaker 9: pretty valuable to the team. Just being able to pumps around.
• 56:10
  Speaker 9: I think last year had a lot of success against
• 56:12
  Speaker 9: last handed pitching, so I think I can bring that
• 56:15
  Speaker 9: to the table as well.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: And yeah, like I.
• 56:18
  Speaker 9: Said, just moving around different positions and hopefully driving in
• 56:21
  Speaker 9: some runs.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: So versatility, right, is that what we're going to call you?
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: That we can say that a little bit.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it was good. Once again, Well, there you
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: have it, you know, good for versatile player. Eric Wagman
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: is the guy you want to call Eric. Give me
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: your talks about Eric Waguman.
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: Seems like it seems like a team guy didn't didn't
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: do too bad last year. I was surprised.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: I'm surprised though, that he didn't make the team. He
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: didn't make the team out of camp, especially a team
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: like the Twins who are kind of in the midst
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: of who are kind of just gearing up for a rebuild.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Here.
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: You'll probably see him at some point in later in
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: the year where you're starting to see the young guys
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: and see what they have.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: Figuring obviously, Yeah, he's with the Mets. He's in Syracuse,
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: I believe now. But he's not gonna get going by
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: that older sound by. He ain't getting a corner outfield spot,
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: that's for sure. With on one side and Carson Bengze,
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: there new rookie youth that had started to really start
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: hitting the ball, you know. So yeah, he's he's depth.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: He's a depth piece.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: He seems like he's gonna be jumping around from team
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: to team, you know, and there's still value. Don't get
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: me wrong. There's value. They need guys like that to
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: have that versatility. If it can, if it can hit
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: well enough and have that versatility value somewhere on a
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: major league team, especially if with teams that have lots
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: of of uh of injuries, we'll see uh. I don't know,
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: it's I just think he's gonna be one of those
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: guys who just jumps from team to team from year
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: to year, hooks up with somebody, but it never gets
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: that real star power position. Never really had that full
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: time spot. But if the heck, if he can get paid,
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: be pay a professional Major League baseball player and get
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: paid to do it and get paid pretty decently to
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: do it, well, more power to him.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: Maybe so.
• 58:21
  Speaker 7: On April twenty third, he was designated for assignment by Minnesota.
• 58:25
  Speaker 7: On April twenty seventh, he was claimed off waivers by
• 58:28
  Speaker 7: the Mets. He made two appearances for the Triple A
• 58:32
  Speaker 7: Syracuse Mets, going three for five with five ribbies. On
• 58:36
  Speaker 7: May third, he was designated for assignment by New York.
• 58:40
  Speaker 7: He cleared waivers and was sent outright to Syracuse on
• 58:43
  Speaker 7: May tenth. On May twenty sixth, New York added him
• 58:47
  Speaker 7: back to their active roster. In his first start for
• 58:51
  Speaker 7: the Mets on May twenty seventh. He hit a home
• 58:54
  Speaker 7: run in his first at bat against the Cincinnati Reds
• 58:57
  Speaker 7: starter Andrew Abbott in a four to two win.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: So what does that, Telly Candy?
• 59:05
  Speaker 7: So that means he's on the Mets and he's playing.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: This guy can play. He's a very versatile performer. And
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: the thing I liked about him when I spoke to
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: him was anything you have a very versatile player like
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: he is, then he can You need guys like that.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: And let's say that he's done the Mets and they
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: play the Marlin, So there's opportunity for him to get
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: even with the Marlin for shipping them out. For sure.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Let's continue on with another baseball transaction, and Tommy fam
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: signed a minor league deal with the Ballimorials. It's his
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: eleventh team and would be the most final MLB hitters
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: since Matt Stairs. Eric Will talks about Tommy Fan.
• 59:48
  Speaker 7: He's a journey man.
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: He's kind of he's an older player at this point.
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: He kind of was bouncing around from team to team
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: that need him. Although the reason he never sticks though,
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: is because the guy can be a can be a
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: headache on the guy could be a major headache both
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: inside your own clubhouse and out out on the field
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: and occasionally off the field, we've we come to see.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: But you know, he's, you know, he's he's a journeyman.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: He's he's a guy who can take up an take
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: up a roster spot for you if you need it,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: if you need an injury filling, because he's but he's
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: played a lot of baseball, so he knows how it goes.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: He's in your nick of the wood, Cliff, Tommy Sam.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's been on the team on the Mets before.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: He was on them earlier this year did not do
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: well at all. He's a fourth fifth outfielder at this
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: point in his career. Uh it for a little while
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: earlier in his career he had some potential and he did.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: He he had a uh created a little havoc out
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: there from a positive standpoint, But you know, he never
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: stays anywhere. I like the guys to go to a
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: bunch of different teams. So keep going. If he can
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: keep getting a new team. If you're gonna sign with
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: new other teams, make sure they're new teams so you
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: can add to your team total. So Yeah, if you're
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: going to do that, if they'll if they'll have them,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: you know, if they have them. But he's like, just
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: like Eric said, he's getting out an age now, and
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: you know, just like McCutcheon, it's you know, it's it's
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: definitely out seeing around in the next two to three years.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems to be our team that you have
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of aging players trying to stick around. Candy
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: from Tough about Bombi.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 7: In March twenty sixth, he signed a minor league contract
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 7: with the New York Mets. He was subsequently assigned to
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 7: Triple A Syracuse. In April thirteenth, the Mets selected his contract, acting,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 7: adding him to the active roster. In nine appearances for
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 7: New York, he went over thirteen with one walk. On
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 7: April twenty seventh, he was designated for assignment by the
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 7: Mets following the signing of Austin Slater. He elected free
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 7: agency after clearing waivers on April twenty ninth. On May
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 7: sixteenth of twenty twenty six he signed a minor league
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 7: contract with the Baltimore Oreos organization.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: And you haven't he's in Baltimore. That's his latest fighting
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: all right. Another Baseball transaction worth mentioning Lucas Gilidl on
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: the move besides what the San Diego pie bres Eric.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: I mean took him, took him a while. I mean
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: he had he actually had a pretty good year of
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: the year before. I was kind of surprised that no team,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: no team signed him, given that, given teams are begging
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: for starting pitchers these days, especially when it seems like
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: a lot of them are are become students of Tommy
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: John University. But but yeah, I mean good, happy he signed.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: But it took it took him long enough because you know,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: just for whatever reason, teams were not looking for that
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: kind of picture. And he's shown that he's still a
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: good pitcher.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, clip It's like, yeah, I am surprised he didn't
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: get signed somewhere. It took this longest sign him. He
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: did put up decent numbers, he's especially with all we
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: have now six band roteach rotations, which I think is
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: just absolutely bonkers in this world. Not that rotation really
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: matters now because the heck they're starting guys for Oh,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: we're gonna have to go one two innings, and then
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: we'll have another guy go four and Baseball's definitely changed
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: from when I first started watching in seventy eight, that's
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: for sure. And U it's you know, it's it's it's
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: good to see him uh pitching. It's good to see
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: him on a team. I think he'll do well again.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: I don't see why it's now a reason why he
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: he won't do well, you know it. And I've always
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: liked his name, Lucas Gilito. It just flows very well.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: So that's another reason I'm happy to see him be
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: playing again.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 7: Okay, Kennedy, Yeah, he signed. On April twenty second. He
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 7: signed a one year major league contract with the Padres
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 7: that includes a mutual option for twenty twenty seven. He
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 7: made twenty six starts for the Red Sox in twenty
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 7: twenty five, with a ten and four record and a
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 7: three point four to one e He declined find his
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 7: option after the season and became a free agent. Sometimes
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 7: that works for the better and sometimes it doesn't. So
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 7: we'll see how he does on the Padres and in
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 7: the Padres system. He's played, I mean, he made his
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 7: major league debut back in two thousand and sixteen. He
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 7: actually did pitch a no hitter on August twenty fifth
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 7: of twenty twenty one.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: More baseball note, I want to talk about Red Sox
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: niente Timey Canley forty six years of age, a minor
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: league contract, sixty six experiences of Detroit two point six
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: sixty ERA two one one ERA in twenty two and
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three and twenty four eleven years MLB experience.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: Where your thoughts about Tommy Canley going with the lots
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: of restaurants. I don't know if he's up in the
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: big leagues. I know he's obviously trying to get there there.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: I mean at this point, given how bad the Red
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: Sox this year, they're looking for all the hell they
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: can get. But yeah, Kaylee was a good reliever for
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 4: good good reliever and different two separate stints for the Yankees.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: So like, you know, he's proven he could do that.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 4: He's he throws a he throws a change up on
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: the regular. I called him, I called him Tommy change up,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 4: and he's a you know, he's he's a good reliever
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: when you when you need somebody, you know. We obviously
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 4: he had like a down year with Detroit, you know,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 4: not too long ago. But he uh, but he's he's
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: a big game pitcher. He's got a lot of postseason experience,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: and you know, at this point with the Red Sox,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: they're not heading toward the postseason. So I could see
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: if he comes up and pitches well, I could see
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: them trying to dangle him as a trade chip possibly.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: But it's it's good.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: Just once again, another good signing out there. Uh yeah,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox. Yeah, I'm not they're not. They're not
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: going anywhere anytime soon to say why not. Let's see
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: what this guy could do. Couldn't be much worse than
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: that what we already have, all right, so gonna put that. Uh,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: let's see what this guy can do for us. Yeah,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to be on red socks
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: to the end. If he does well. If he does well,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: then he's definitely gonna get traded and maybe he get
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: maybe he gets a ring out of it. You never know,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: maybe he'll get a ring out of it.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not a good point. Cli Tradeler line is. I
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: believe it's a couple of months or so. Candy.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 7: You know, he was with the Tigers last year on
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 7: a one year, seven point seventy five million dollar contract.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 7: He made sixty six relief appearances, going one to five
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 7: with a four point four to three e fifty strikeouts
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 7: and nine saves across sixty three innings. Let's face it,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 7: the Boston signed him to a minor league contract, so
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 7: they're getting him on the.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: Cheap he is.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 7: He is a two pitch pitcher. He throws a four
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 7: seam fastball that touched one hundred miles an hour early
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 7: in his career, but in recent seasons his fall falls
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 7: between the ninety two to ninety six mile and hour range,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 7: and he also throws a change up anywhere from eighty
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 7: four to ninety miles per hour with multiple grips to
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 7: produce different movements. He since the twenty nineteen season, he
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 7: has thrown more change ups than fastballs. In fact, in
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 7: the stretch in twenty twenty four, he threw consecutively fifty
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 7: four changeups, and he throws a slider less than one.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: Percent of the time.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 7: So they're getting him on a low minor league contract.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: Let's see what he can.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: Do, all right? Final top of the that is actually
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: is hockey, but Utah Mammoth announced official date for twenty
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: twenty seven winner Classic Candy.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: Do you have it?
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: You know what it is. But the Utah Mammoths are
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: going to have it in twenty twenty seven. I believe
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: it's if I understand, I think it's December the thirty first.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: That's usually when they hold it these days, and then
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: they don't compete on New Year's Day. Anyways, Eric, what
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: are you talking about the Utah Mammoth having being in
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: the Winner Classic.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's it's better than having it down
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 4: in Florida. I mean, I don't think of winter when
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 4: I think of Florida. But this is, this has been
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: this has been Gary Bettman's latest stupid project to try
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: and americanize the n h L, which now which now
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: I'm starting to think he's making dumb and dumber look smart.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: All right, if you're if we're if we're gonna spend
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: all our time, I'll right there with you. If we're
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: gonna just pile upon Betman, I've been doing that for years. Yeah,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: it's I'm I've been upset with him for many years. Uh,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: but I am. I am happy that And they are
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: in Utah now, even though they are the former Arizona
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  Speaker 2: Coyotes and former Winnipeg Jets and there's nothing change that fact.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a magical team that said africadaver we're here.
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  Speaker 2: They never existed beforehand. Uh But anyway, No, it's good
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  Speaker 2: to see that Utah. I mean, they've got mountains. That's
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  Speaker 2: just gonna they got the mountains there. Yeah, they're putting
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  Speaker 2: Colorado in there. Colorado's, you know, uh, one of the
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  Speaker 2: premier lead teams in the in the league. They just
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  Speaker 2: got the Western Conference finals. I'm shocked if they were
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  Speaker 2: swept there. It was kind of surprising, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's good to see uh a game
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  Speaker 2: in Utah. It'll be nice to I like. I like
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  Speaker 2: the outdoor games. I haven't been to one. I want
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  Speaker 2: to go to one before I expire from this earth.
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  Speaker 2: I heard it's not the greatest thing depending on what
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  Speaker 2: stadiums you're going on, but I still want to be
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  Speaker 2: able to go and do that. You know, it's they
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  Speaker 2: should be they should have an outdoor game in uh
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  Speaker 2: in Utah. I just yeah, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think their opponent club out that you brought it up
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  Speaker 1: as the Colorado Avalanche. So it's a good territorial match
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  Speaker 1: up in Colorado.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, no, yeah, it is Territorial Colorado. Also
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  Speaker 2: it's the avalanche, so it's it's I think avalanche. So
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  Speaker 2: then you can say, you know, the avalanche killed the mammoth.
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  Speaker 2: You know kind of thing you have that whole, uh,
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  Speaker 2: whatever era is. I'm not good with errors of when
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  Speaker 2: the avalanches might have actually killed mammoth. But I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: they'll do something like that.
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  Speaker 3: If you want it.
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  Speaker 4: If you want it out West so bad, put it
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  Speaker 4: at Mile High Stadium, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You would.
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  Speaker 2: You would think that they would do it, but that
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  Speaker 2: they want they want they want the new team. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're in Utah. That's why they did that. They knew
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  Speaker 2: they're in Utah and there's mountains there. It makes it.
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  Speaker 2: They couldn't do it when they were in Arizona, not
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  Speaker 2: that you know anybody was watching Arizona, but.
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  Speaker 1: The growing up. I can see them putting it out
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  Speaker 1: in Denver.
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  Speaker 2: I could see it, but they wanted to do it
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  Speaker 2: because they're they're I think that they haven't done it
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  Speaker 2: there yet. I'm surprised they have.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta like, we gotta give Candy a work on
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  Speaker 1: here if I've ever money.
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  Speaker 7: So this marks the first outdoor NHL game in the
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 7: history of the Utah for franchise, making them the thirty
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 7: second NHL team to participate in an outdoor event. It
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  Speaker 7: also serves as the Avalanche's first Winter Classic appearance. The
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  Speaker 7: location on the campus of the University of Utah Rice
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 7: UC's Stadium famously served as the site for the opening
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 7: and closing ceremonies of the two thousand and two Winter Olympics,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 7: and it will take place on New Year's Eve, Thursday,
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  Speaker 7: December thirty, first, twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: What's the name of the stadium, Candy, Well, just make
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  Speaker 1: sure you just make sure you put it in there
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: at the antein, I have to write it down now.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: Can I see her body language? And this is one
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: of those few that we're actually researching it. We're taking
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: it away from her because she's got every fact on
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: the Atlanta tell you she did some great work on
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: that first hour when we talked about the seven locations
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: or cell phone works. This woman did some amazing research
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: on that. So, but that's a very interesting show tonight.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about everything for the theme
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: of All Night Tonight, and we were able to talk
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: about motorsports, to talk about a little bit of hockey
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: and what can I say. So that said, as we
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: can get ready to wrap up the show, Eric wat still,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: everybody know how they could get a hold of you.
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  Speaker 4: You could follow me on my x account at sports
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  Speaker 4: Team News. I write for South Border Tribune dot Com.
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  Speaker 4: I also come on the On the Baseball Show Monday,
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• 1:12:33
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Cliff, But then out there, I know you're out
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: here every Wednesday night. Anything else is mentioned.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: I'm on Facebook and I'm on here Wednesday nights. Uh
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: normally I wasn't last week, but I shall be uh
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: pretty much from here and out unless something pops up
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  Speaker 2: that I don't know about yet.
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  Speaker 1: I am Cliffman, a great addition of the program. All right, Candy,
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  Speaker 1: we have a lot to talk about it when we
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, great show tonight. Obviously, Tony and Marky
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: did a good job of Eric as usual. I know
• 1:15:58
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• 1:16:00
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• 1:16:04
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• 1:16:07
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• 1:16:08
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• 1:16:11
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• 1:16:13
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• 1:16:17
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• 1:16:21
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