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  Speaker 1: All right, So our lead there's a lot of like
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  Speaker 1: moving parts going on in that. We love transactions. I
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  Speaker 1: always love the transaction. Now I like the rumor. I
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  Speaker 1: like the rumor more than the transaction. I like what
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  Speaker 1: might happen rather than what has happened. Now that being said,
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  Speaker 1: we have a mix of what has happened and what
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  Speaker 1: is going to happen. But our lead this hour is
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  Speaker 1: from Pro Bouncy Ball the Kingdom as it's the King
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  Speaker 1: James Kingdom of Basketball, filling the content machine, yet again,
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  Speaker 1: filling the content machine. So over the weekend, Lebron James
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  Speaker 1: decided that he wanted to stay with the Lakers. Kind
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  Speaker 1: of look, fifty million dollars, got it, fifty two zero
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  Speaker 1: point six million dollar player option and you just to
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  Speaker 1: click that box right there, and you do the DOCU
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  Speaker 1: sign and then you're on your way. And so instead
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  Speaker 1: of signing a new Max extension, Lebron decides to take
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  Speaker 1: the contract that he had signed in a previous deal.
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  Speaker 1: So we are told Lebron could have made an extra
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  Speaker 1: one point five million one point five million by signing
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  Speaker 1: the new max at thirty five percent of the cap
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of gibberish in that contract. ADI chose
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  Speaker 1: not to do that, and so Lebron gets one extra year.
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  Speaker 1: And then you have the commentary of Lebron James agent
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  Speaker 1: Rich Paul, his right hand man, his intermediary between the
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  Speaker 1: media and whatnot. Anyway, Rich Paul issued a clear statement,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even saw this or not. Maybe maybe you missed it.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll give you the highlights on this. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to be the whole thing. I'll give you the highlights.
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  Speaker 1: So Lebron wants to compete for a championship. Rich Paul snickered.
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  Speaker 1: He knows the Lakers are building for the future. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers are building for the for draft picks a
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  Speaker 1: Rich Paul continues, says Lebron understands that, but he values
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  Speaker 1: a realistic chance of winning it all. Rich Paul pumped
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  Speaker 1: his chest out and said, we meaning Rich Paul and Lebron,
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  Speaker 1: we do want do want to evaluate what's best for
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  Speaker 1: Lebron at this stage in his life and career, he
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  Speaker 1: wants to make every season he has left count close quote.
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  Speaker 1: So that is Rich Paul his commentary on the status
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  Speaker 1: of Lebron. So let us discuss the question for the
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  Speaker 1: Esteem panel. Can you please decode decode the message from
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  Speaker 1: Rich Paul on Lebron, James and his future with the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got prenup, home, depot, and verdict, and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things to get other and
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  Speaker 1: we are gonna make the Gabba Ghul. We're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: the Goabba Gool to start the week. That's what we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do. So first of all, look, King James, the
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  Speaker 1: opt in. I liked that Lebron's camp's trying to paint
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  Speaker 1: this as some kind of heroic act by Lebron that
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  Speaker 1: he could have gotten more money. You talk about hutzba,
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  Speaker 1: as my grandfather used to say, that's hootzba, you guys
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  Speaker 1: getting fifty two point six million dollars and wants you
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  Speaker 1: to believe this is some kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of Robin Hood situation.
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  Speaker 1: So that's my first thought on this as I decode
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  Speaker 1: the life and times of Lebron and Rich Pall so
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  Speaker 1: the other thought, which is either obvious.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure you thought the same thing. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: how you.
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  Speaker 1: Could have come into any conclusion. This is like a
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  Speaker 1: hostage note by Rich Pall. It's like, listen, it's disguised
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  Speaker 1: as some kind of news release or whatever, but it's
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  Speaker 1: a hostage letter by Rich Paul for Lebron Jam you
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  Speaker 1: build a contender for Lebron or else, which is code
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  Speaker 1: for it's never Lebron's fault. It's just the players around
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  Speaker 1: Lebron are not that good. That's what Rich Paul saying.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, listen, if we don't win, it's on you.
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  Speaker 1: If we win, it's Lebron. That's it, period, stop now
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  Speaker 1: or else? What else is there's Lebron gonna film another
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  Speaker 1: crappy space jam movie or something like that during the season.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Baby, they'll make another one, what the hell,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll do it during the season, and that'll be that.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be wonderful. Now, once again, we find ourselves in
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  Speaker 1: sports gas baggery land.
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  Speaker 4: You and I.
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  Speaker 1: We find ourselves trapped in the never ending docu drama
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  Speaker 1: The Life and Times of Lebron James Lebrand, Lebron the
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  Speaker 1: brand not the basketball player. Not No, it's really about
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  Speaker 1: the brand. It's all about the brand. That's what it's about.
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  Speaker 1: It's about the brand. Now, this is not so much
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  Speaker 1: a renewal of vowels, right, It's not like they're renewing
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  Speaker 1: their vows here.
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  Speaker 4: The Lakers Lebron.
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  Speaker 1: This is a prenup agreed to buy Lebron and filed
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  Speaker 1: through the It's a leverage play. It's a leverage play,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. And so for the Lakers, they
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  Speaker 1: must use every possible trade asset they have.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they've mane draft pick til like twenty fifty, but.
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  Speaker 1: They got to trade those, right and build a championship
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  Speaker 1: contender or else we're breaking up with you. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: find it's not you, it's somebody else, and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: And a trade, of course, becomes far easier to facilitate
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  Speaker 1: based on the contract Lebron opted into. So he does
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  Speaker 1: clear the way for him to be traded somewhere else easier.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, if Lron wants to be traded, it'll be traded.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the contract is. They'll work it out.
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  Speaker 1: They'll finagle the rules to make sure Lebron goes where
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  Speaker 1: Lebron watched the Oh and So's. It's the classic play
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  Speaker 1: by Lebron James where you opt in with one hand
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  Speaker 1: and then keep your finger on the eject button with
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  Speaker 1: the other says I'm in, but I could could get
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  Speaker 1: out of here, see you later. Now. I don't believe
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  Speaker 1: Lebron wants to leave. He loves I'll tell you why.
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  Speaker 1: He loves everything that comes with being in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: those Hollywood nights, hanging out with all those Hollywood f's,
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  Speaker 1: those fake people in LA. He loves it. He can't
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  Speaker 1: get enough of those people, my whole lifestyle. That's why
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  Speaker 1: Lebron came to LA. He didn't come to LA for basketball.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't won as a Laker's been an abject failure
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  Speaker 1: as a Laker. He came for Hollywood. Now, business wise
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  Speaker 1: and entertainment, Lebron's done very well.
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  Speaker 4: That's why he came to Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: So in terms of winning, he's winning the Hollywood game,
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  Speaker 1: entertainment now basketball. No, No, if you want to win,
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  Speaker 1: you don't go to Lakers. Not now. Not on her
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  Speaker 1: Genie boss as she's selling the team. But the team's
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  Speaker 1: been terrible since she took control. Of the team. But
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  Speaker 1: it's all about Hollywood. If you look at Lebron's time
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  Speaker 1: with the Lakers, he has a fail rate of over
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  Speaker 1: seventy one percent. Seventy one percent of the time Ron
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  Speaker 1: James has failed and there's no if sands.
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  Speaker 4: Or butts about it.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. I'll get no pushback. You can't push back.
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  Speaker 1: That's a fact. It's a fact. Now, what's my math?
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  Speaker 1: How did I get to seventy one point four percent?
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  Speaker 1: That is the rate Lebron has either missed the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: The Lakers have missed the playoffs multiple times with Lebron James,
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  Speaker 1: or one and done bumped out of the playoffs in
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  Speaker 1: the first round. Right, and again, not my opinion, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not giving some kind of opinion. This a fact.
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  Speaker 1: It is a fact. Seven seasons with the Lakers, the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers missed the playoffs twice. They got bumped in the
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  Speaker 1: first round three times Suns, Nuggets, and then this past
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  Speaker 1: year by the Minnesota ten Wwolves three times first round
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  Speaker 1: and out. And the Lakers have not won a championship
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  Speaker 1: that matters since Kobe Bryant. And Kobe's not walking back
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  Speaker 1: through that door, okay, and that's that's not my adding commentary.
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  Speaker 1: I've now that has been validated. That is hot take validation.
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  Speaker 1: That take validated by Alex Caruso in a moment of clarity.
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  Speaker 1: He took some truths from them called alcohol, and he
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  Speaker 1: said the quiet part out loud. Alex Caruso said after
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City won, he said that that Mickey mouse bubble
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  Speaker 1: ring not a real one, and that now he had
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  Speaker 1: a real one, which is what all of us knew
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  Speaker 1: all along, but somebody on the team finally had the
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  Speaker 1: balls to say it.
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  Speaker 4: So Lebron hasn't won.
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  Speaker 1: As a Laker, and he's making some kind of the
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  Speaker 1: myth because again, it's not gonna be about Lebron not
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  Speaker 1: being good enough.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be a bad well the other players on
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  Speaker 4: the team. Weren't that good enough?
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  Speaker 1: You said. Meanwhile, to Minnesota, a team that beat the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers and Lebron in the playoffs in the first round,
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  Speaker 1: and they have made a roster move, although not official official,
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  Speaker 1: the teas must be crossed that the eyes dotted. We're
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  Speaker 1: hearing now that Julius Randall, vagabond NBA player Julius Randall,
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  Speaker 1: has agreed to re sign with the timber puffs and
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  Speaker 1: he'll stay there in Minnesota three years.
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  Speaker 4: One hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Does that signing move the needle? Does that move the
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  Speaker 1: needle at all? So I'll answer this first because you're
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  Speaker 1: not here, so I'll go first. Does this move the needle? Sure,
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  Speaker 1: it moves the needle due south at least come May,
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  Speaker 1: when you get into the meat and potatoes of the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: you move the needle south.
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  Speaker 4: So you know what to do.
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  Speaker 1: Our guys in Minnesota, you buckle up, right, it's a
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  Speaker 1: roller coaster.
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  Speaker 4: You buckle up.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. And of course Julius Randall in many ways
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  Speaker 1: is your standard mid level star player in the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: where he's the roller coaster that breaks down right before
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  Speaker 1: the big drop. And similar to this, James Harden does
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. You go down. You know, there's plenty
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  Speaker 1: of players like that to just vanish in key moments.
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  Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns, who played in Minnesota, is traded for
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  Speaker 1: Jew Randa's another guy like that you can't depend on.
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  Speaker 1: And Julius Randall's got a blind spot, clearly not a
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  Speaker 1: blind spot that will cost him any money. One hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars over three years. I mean, my god, so
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  Speaker 1: so good for him, and he's like Randall's like Houdini
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  Speaker 1: with a headband because he's out there in the Abrica
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  Speaker 1: dabraaj hocus focus and not a big game player, not
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  Speaker 1: a big game play. Now, during the regular season, there
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  Speaker 1: are nights that Randall looks like a world beater and
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  Speaker 1: he'll get you twenty five points and ten rebounds, no problem,
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  Speaker 1: and look like he can do it every game. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: five points, ten rebounds. He'll be physical, he'll be aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: During the regular season, all fine attributes, and at times
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  Speaker 1: he'll look unstoppable, and then the calendar will flip over
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  Speaker 1: to April and pressed down. Suddenly, what happens. He's serving
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  Speaker 1: up more bricks than the loading doc over at home depot.
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  Speaker 1: You get a brick, you get a brick, you get
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  Speaker 1: a break. Sometimes he didn't even make he didn't take
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  Speaker 1: many bricks because he doesn't shoot. He becomes passive two
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  Speaker 1: for eleven or one for eight or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: In the playoffs, and then the fourth quarter, forget about it.
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  Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter, come on, fourth quarter, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: leave early, beat the traffic. Normally, when you play for
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  Speaker 1: the team, you're not supposed to leave early to beat
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  Speaker 1: the traffic. But it happens. Those those demons they come back.
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  Speaker 1: They haunt you like Hazan Minnesota haunt you. They just
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  Speaker 1: kind of haunch you, they do. And so good luck,
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  Speaker 1: good luck to ant Man. This is your running mate,
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  Speaker 1: this is your sidekick. Now Anthony Edwards has some issues too.
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  Speaker 1: I meant, there's some games I recall where he didn't
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  Speaker 1: didn't do much. So now they're together again. Back to
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  Speaker 1: back final four appearances for the Timberwolves, and they are
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  Speaker 1: locking in Julius rand. All.
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  Speaker 4: Right, now, final thought.
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  Speaker 1: We go down to the Pacific Northwest where the weather
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  Speaker 1: is good most of the time. Terms you like fresh
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  Speaker 1: air and all that stuff and rain and sports they sucked.
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  Speaker 1: Now there used to be two teams, actually there should
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  Speaker 1: be three teams at one point in the Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's only one. That's the Portland Trailblazers. Now the
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  Speaker 1: Trailblazers we learned over the weekend plan to buy out,
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  Speaker 1: to spend millions of dollars to buy out center DeAndre Ayton.
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  Speaker 1: Hey O, he's about to hit the market. He'll go
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  Speaker 1: to the highest bidder in free agency. So what stands out?
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  Speaker 1: What stands out about the bitter end of DeAndre Ayton
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  Speaker 1: and him hitting the market here via a buyout from
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  Speaker 1: the Trailblazers, and there'll be a lot of talk in
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  Speaker 1: the coming days about teams fighting to get their hands
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  Speaker 1: on DeAndre eighton. So the Trailblazers, the fact that they
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  Speaker 1: are paying him to go away like that is a
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  Speaker 1: massive thing. I don't think you can undersell the fact
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  Speaker 1: that they're paying him to go away. Let that marinate
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  Speaker 1: for a moment. This guy was the number wh in
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  Speaker 1: an overall pick in the NBA draft a number of
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  Speaker 1: years ago. They're not trading him for assets. They're not
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  Speaker 1: trading him for draft picks or some young up and
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  Speaker 1: coming players. They're not attaching him to a bad contract
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of the player and clear out the roster.
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  Speaker 1: They're not doing that. They're not trying to rehab his value.
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  Speaker 1: They've given up on that. No, no, no, Like all
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  Speaker 1: of those things are things that you would think teams
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  Speaker 1: would do a player like that has some value. Still,
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  Speaker 1: you'd say, Okay, I'm gonna tried to sugarcoat this, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna try to put some good stories out there
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  Speaker 1: and make it seem like this guy's turned things around
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. No, they are at the point
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  Speaker 1: now they are cutting their losses. They're like, this guy blows. There,
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  Speaker 1: she blows. We're better off without him. We are better
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  Speaker 1: off without Now. How did they come to that conclusion?
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  Speaker 1: How did Chauncey Billups and the team in Portland come
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  Speaker 1: to that decision? Because, for of all, portlandn't really want DeAndre.
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  Speaker 1: They got him in that it was that weird Damian
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  Speaker 1: Lillard multi team thing and they moved everyone around and
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  Speaker 1: ate and became part of the trade and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But he arrived when he arrived in Portland just like
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  Speaker 1: when he arrived in Phoenix. He's got all the size
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  Speaker 1: and the athletic ability. He's got that pedigree to be
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  Speaker 1: a dominant big man and all that. And you saw
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  Speaker 1: some highlights on Instagram. You're like, wow, he looks good
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And then you had to watch
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  Speaker 1: him play. And then you had to watch him play,
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  Speaker 1: and when the game started, the one word we all
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  Speaker 1: had watching DeAndre Ayton play was eh man. He was eh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's like whatever. Right now.
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  Speaker 4: He put up some numbers.
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  Speaker 1: They were empty number stat banddto what do we always talking.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about Dak Prescott, We talked about some of
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  Speaker 1: his elia stat Bandito's where he has some double doubles,
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  Speaker 1: but they're empty double doubles. It's empty stat long rebounds.
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  Speaker 1: No one can tested right. Things like that points when
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  Speaker 1: the game's already decided either for or against your team,
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  Speaker 1: and so the numbers like, oh, you know, the low
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  Speaker 1: information fan, the dumb fancies, they're like, oh, this guy's
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. Look at the numbers. Look at the stats. Right,
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  Speaker 1: box score readers, Chris, the box were lied. It lied,
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  Speaker 1: and and then the real ones know. And so the
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  Speaker 1: jury has made its ruling. The jury has made its ruling,
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  Speaker 1: and the experiment is over. You're a loser. You wear
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  Speaker 1: the scarlet letter, the L for loser, and the buff's
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  Speaker 1: been called by the Trailblazers, and the verdict is in.
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  Speaker 1: The verdict is clear from the jury, and DeAndre Ayton
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  Speaker 1: is a losing player. That's what they're saying. The guy's
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  Speaker 1: a loser, and that's just the way it is. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't impact winning. He didn't do it in Phoenix, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it in Portland, and he's not going to
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  Speaker 1: do it where he goes next. And I will laugh
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  Speaker 1: at the bidding war that will take place for DeAndre
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  Speaker 1: Ayton as he'll try to sit on the bench somewhere
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  Speaker 1: on a good team and piggy back his way to
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  Speaker 1: some playoff success here, and so let him go to
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers. So I'd love that be so good a
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  Speaker 1: loser like DeAndre eight on the Lakers. I hope that happened.
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  Speaker 1: All the wars, it doesn't matter, and the same thing's
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen. He's not gonna change all of a sudden.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those things in life. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things like this in life where he sounds
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  Speaker 1: better in theory than reality, right, it sounds better in
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  Speaker 1: theory than reality. And there's a lot of things like
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  Speaker 1: that in life. In sports, there's things like that also,
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  Speaker 1: and DeAndre eight would be an example where if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the SISO and I know, going back my
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: entire time just as an adult, but around basketball in particular,
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  Speaker 1: in all sports. But I remember years ago when I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: was I was doing stuff every day at team events
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: and practices, and there'd always be guys that could not
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: just didn't get it, but teams would keep giving them
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: opportunities because they thought. Every coach is like, I'm gonna
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: turn this guy around. I have the code to unlock
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: the safe. They all all coaches are wired that way.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: They all think, oh man, we just get this guy
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: going watch out. And ninety eight point seven percent of
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the time that does not happen. There is one percent.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: People bring up the one percent. Oh yeah it happened
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: this time. Okay, yeah, it happened in that time. But
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the rest of the time.
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from We'll start out in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: That is where the Metropolitans were floundering and drowning, a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: place normally you go to get well if you're not
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: doing that well. When you see a team like the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Pirates who are on their way to losing one hundred
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: games like they do almost every year, you're like, oh man,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: this is great. Time to eat, time to get healthy. Now,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: if you didn't follow this, I immediately when I saw this,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I said, oh, this is great. This is a good story.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: In fact, this is better than a good story is like, Okay,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: you lost to the Pirates. A better story is what
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor did. Now. He signed that forever contract with
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the Metropolitans a couple of years back, and after a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: slow start, he's put up some decent stats and all
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: that fine and wonderful and all that. So less than
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: twenty four hours prior, Francisco Lindor called a team meeting,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: closed clubhouse meet and greet. The Mets had lost two
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: in a row to the Pirates. That was on Saturday,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: and then they went out the Amazings as they are
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: called when they win. They went out there the Amazons
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: and got smashed at PNC Park as they got their
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: ass handed him by the Pirates. It was O'Neil Cruz,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the guy that only plays hard when he feels like
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: it O'Neil Cruz and Tommy fam that very angry guy
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: in the outfield who teed off on the New York
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Mets starting pitcher on Sunday, Frankie Montees and see you later.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Back to back first inning home runs. The Mets would
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: never never get into the game. They lost twelve to one.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: You lost by eleven runs to the Buccos after a
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: player only meeting. Now, O'Neil Cruz, the guy that has
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: put the dog in Major League dog, had another home
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: run in the seventh in a two run homer for
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the Pirates. Now, the better story is in the losing
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: locker room, and that would be the Mets, who somehow,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: some way managed to slide into Pittsburgh over the weekend
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: last weekend of June. Last week ind of June, they
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: slide into Pittsburgh and got outscored by twenty six runs.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: The Pirates. What do they bring back? Andy Evansking, Barry
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Bonds and Bobby Booney and the Pirates outscored the Mets
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: thirty to four. Thirty to four was the final. So
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: if you're keeping scored at home, the New York Metropolitans
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: have now lost in their last sixteen games, thirteen of
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the sixteen. Now, I didn't play Major League baseball. I
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: just know that blows. Okay, So let us discuss the question,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: will this Francisco Lindor inspired players only meeting make any
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: noticeable difference going forward for the Mets? We know it
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: didn't work the first day, will make any noticeable difference
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: going forward? So I've got spinal tap, Gothic horror novel,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: and blueprint, and we will combine all of these things
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: together and we're going to make a intervention because the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: New York Mets, the way they are playing baseball right now,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: they need an intervention. So number why, I said number why.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: If you've heard the show over the years, you know
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: this is one of my pet peeves. I know firsthand
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: from being in the ballparks and the stadiums of the arenas.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I know what absolute fertilizer the players only Meeting is.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I also know that there's a lot of low information
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: fans that think it is something that it is not.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: The players only meeting has been a staple of losing
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: teams in professional sports. It is an enduring tradition that
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: goes back to the start of media. I mean media
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: meaning has been around forever. But baseball in the early days,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: there were eighteen newspapers that would follow the New York Gkees,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and if they didn't play well, they'd have a player's
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: only meeting and players only meetings. It's like a fungus.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: It just refuses to die. It doesn't work, but it
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: refuses to die. The only thing, the only thing players
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: only meeting meetings are good for it. The only thing
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: really accomplishes is it turns up the volume. Turns up
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: the volume a little bit right. To think of the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: film Spinal Tap and the famous scene in that film
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: where you're demonstrating the amplifier for the guitar and said, well,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: this one goes all the way up to eleven, and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: it's a zero to eleven. Those other ones only go
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: to ten, but this is to eleven, and so there
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: you go, put it up to eleven. And so that's
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: what does. But team meetings are not necessary, and I'll
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: tell you why. The reason they're not necessary, and this
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: is gonna blow you away. Professional athletes, the brotherhood of
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: professional athletes. They spend more time together than they do
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: with their families. They're on planes, trains, and automobiles from here, there,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: and everywhere. All they do is hang out together. They
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: work out in gyms together, they practice their sport together.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: They stay at the same hotels, they eat at the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: same restaurants on the road, right, they go down the
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: hotel bar, all that stuff. In other words, the player's
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: only meeting is just an opportunity to chat amongst each other,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: something they have the opportunity to do every singlefing day.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: And just like the real world. I know from being
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: in radio and having many meetings. Back we don't have
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: meetings anymore, but back in the old days, we have
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: to have meetings all the time, and the whole point
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: of the meeting was to try to get it over
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: with as quickly as possible, to not ask any questions,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: just shut up, listen to the dumb boss speak, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: then get the hell out of there. And inevitably, every
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: place of business, at least I've worked, there's always that
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: one a hole I want to say something on. There's
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: that one person that tries to suck up to the boss.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: You know, you know what I'm talking about, and they
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: ask eight million questions. We used to have a guy
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: and he didn't work here anymore. He's I did a
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: TV show with him. But that guy, all he did
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: was ask stupid question would drive us all nuts. It's ridiculous,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: it was. It was so stupid. But the main the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: thing you accomplish it you don't improve things with players
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: only meetings. You just give the illusion that you care. Right,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: you give the appearance that you're involved and that you're
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: really upset by what's going on. And you can't just
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: go on and lose and do nothing. Oh, you gotta
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: do something, so you have the coach and the media
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: think that you're really here. These guys are passionate, they care.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Who knows what actually goes on in there. From what
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I've heard, it's a lot of complaining. And then what
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: ends up happening is you have people that leave the
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: meeting feeling worse, and then that prolongs the situation because
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: they're being called out in front of their teammates. The
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: old well maybe this will help, We'll just do the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: old hail Mary. Why not? All right now? Page two
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: to Sacramento. That's right, I said it. Sacramento a city
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: that is so embarrassing they allowed a major League Baseball
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: team to move there, and the team so humiliated by
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: being in that city. They refuse to use the city, Moniker,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: how do you allow that if you're the mayor of Sacramento,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: how do you allow that if you're involved in that team?
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Like it's so embarrassing. It's the most single, most embarrassing
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: thing I have seen in my years around professional sports
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: that politicians allowed a team to move temporarily and they said, okay,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: well fine if you don't ever mention the city that
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: you're playing in. And it's so humiliating. You talk about
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a kick to the nuts. Anyway, the Athletics, they spent
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: the weekend getting their face mostly bashed in by the Yankees.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: So the Athletics. The big move they made on their
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: way to Vegas, but they stopped in Sacramento. From Oakland.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: They signed Luis Severino. That's a starting pitcher, not a
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: good one. They signed him to a three year, sixty
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: seven million dollars contract, and now they want to trade him.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: They cannot wait to unload him, we are told because
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: sever Reno has pointed out what a bush league setup
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: they have in Sacramento, and he is agitated the same
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: a holes that don't want to admit they're in Sacramento.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: You can't make this up. Like the people running the
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Athletics made sure to not have Sacramento in the name.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: It's just Athletics or Athletics Baseball. They don't want Sacramento
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: to involved. So here's the guy ripping the ballpark in
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Sacramento and the working conditions, and the team that clearly
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: agrees because they're the ones that are forcing Major League
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Baseball run prop the news service to not say Sacramento,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and they agree, But now they want to get rid
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: of him. So how do these Luis Severino trade talks
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: from the Athletics compute to you? All Right? So I
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: love the fact that Severino played the Athletics. Nobody was
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: going to give him that kind of a contract, And
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: how do I know that if anyone had offered him
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: that kind of contract he would have gone anywhere else.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: The Athletics are not a big league team. Everyone knew that,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: everyone knew the situation, so minor league outfit there. They're
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: not trying to win, they're trying to time it. So
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: they have a collection of good young players, some of
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: them that are gonna be in their prime by the
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: time they opened that ballpark in Vegas. They just started
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: construction to the ballpark in Vegas. You know how long
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: it's going to take to finish that. It's gonna be
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: three years minimum, probably longer than that. Before everything's done,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: there'll be some delays, there'll be some setbacks. So it's
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: gonna be several years before that ballpark is done in Sacramento.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: And so sever Reno couldn't get a deal anywhere else.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: So he said, all right, I'll take that. I'll take
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the money. And he's out there playing chess. Luis Severino
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: played chess with the Athletics. They paid, they overpaid, they
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: paid a premium for them. Nobody else was willing to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: give him that kind of money. And then now before
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the trade deadline, he's out there. He's like, checkmate, you're
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: gonna trade me. And if you don't trade me, I'm
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: gonna keep talking about what a minor league outfit you are.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: And it's you look at the ballpark there. I've not
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: been to these Sacramento ball I've watched some games on
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: TV this year, and it is a Major League Baseball
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: version of the Witness Protection program in Sacramento. It is
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: is not not a not a fan of the spring
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: training environment. Now. Prior to the start on Sunday, Sevarino
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: had an zero to seven record and an ERA of
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: six point seven to nine in ten starts in Sacramento.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: In seven starts on the road, he had an earned
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: run average of two and a half, a little less
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: than two and a half. He did get lit up.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: But this is in the game on Sunday against the
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Yankees as old team. But it is a Doctor Jekyll,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Mister Hyde, gothic horror horror novel is what. He's Doctor Jekyll,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: you know. And he's on the road pitching at Dodger
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Stadium or Anaheim or somewhere else. He's fine. And then
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: at that hide he's doctor Hyde or mister Hyde at
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: that that minor league Sutter Health Park or whatever the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: corporate name is of that ballpark. Now, the bottom line,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the bottom him lying on this is that we expect
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: him to end up by August first, because the trade
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: headline is July thirty first. He's going to end up
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: on a contender. And the the A's are throwing a
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: tantrum like a bunch of you know, toddlers out there
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: the front office. They're all upset and all this stuff,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: and they, you know how dare you, because this guy
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: is saying the quiet part out loud. He's unfiltered because
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Cary got the contract that's guaranteed. And so now the
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: a's front office they're shopping him like a you know,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: some broken air frar that you're trying to get rid
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: of on the internet, and you'll offer up come pick
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: it up. Here you go take it please, all right? Now?
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Final point, A melancholy, melancholy oh bit, if you will.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: We learned over the weekend that soon to be Hall
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: of Fame, in fact, the ceremonies coming up, I believe
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: in July here soon to be Hall of Famer. Dave
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Parker died at the age of seventy four. Now, if
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: you're of a certain age, this is a big deal.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: If you're below a certain age, you're like, I don't
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: know Dave Parker. As I saw some highlights, it doesn't
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: do anything for me. But Dave Parker was a legend
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Pirates back in the nineteen seventies and
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: had some big years in the eighties, had a couple
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: of down years played with the Cincinnati Reds after he
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: left Pittsburgh. Actually was on some good teams with the
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: old Oakland Athletics won a World Series, the Bay Bridge
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Series with the Athletics as a veteran mentor, and I
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: had a chance I a day Parker my podcast a
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: while back before he got into the Hall of Fame.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: It was campaigning to get into the Hall of Fame.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Was obviously a big deal, as anyone would say, to
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: get into the Hall of Fame. So I want to
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: spend a few minutes what will you remember? What are
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: you going to remember about the baseball life of Hall
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: of Famer Dave Parker, who died over the weekend. So
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: on this one, it's not just the guy had a cam.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: He thought about the ability as a player. He had
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: a cannon in the outfield and right field, and he
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: brought this thunderous left handed power swing. And those are
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: all fun things and all great, But for me, it
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: was the way that he carried himself on the field.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: There was this struck, this rasmatas the swagger, the presence
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: in an era when most people didn't carry themselves like
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: that in baseball. And so Dave Parker stood out from
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the others in baseball and that and he played very well,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: was an MVP in one the batting title a couple
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: of times.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: And he was a tall.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Guy, six foot five, but he looked more like a
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: tight end, like a modern tight end in the NFL.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: And it's like when he was batting, and I saw
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: most of what I saw, Dave Parker was after his prime,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: like I'm old. I'm not that old, but I guess
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I am. But I watched him kind of after his
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: prime years, and even then he would dare the opposing
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: pitcher to throw him something hittable. And what I loved.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I saw him with the played with the Angels near
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: the end of his career and saw him out there,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: and I went down late in games because he'd be
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: in the on deck circle and he had an actual sledgehammer,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: not a fake sledgehammer. He had a real sledgehammer. He
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: got that from Willie Stargell with the Pirates, and it
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: was like an act of intimidation for the opposing pitcher.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Like normally they used to use these, they called them donuts.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: They put the weighted donuts around the bat. Well Dave
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Parker and he learned it from Willy starge He had
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: an actual sledgehammer and he took it with him from
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and then they had to paint it the different
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: colors to the different teams he went went to. And
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: he had the same electricity in that era. Like Reggie
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Jackson was a similar type player in that and you
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: know this guy's in there's every generation has a couple
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: of them. You're so good and so gifted that and
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the way they carry themselves that you're you're locked in
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: on them, like that's you got to see when they're
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: at bat. You don't go get the nachos, you don't
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: go take a whiz. You want to see what they do.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: And he had the nickname too, he the Cobra. How
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: great a nickname is that the Cobra. It's awesome. And
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: he backed it up on the field and he did
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: all that in an era before look at me.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: Social media, you.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Know that didn't exist and that one around. Now it's
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: easy to put an earring in and dance around and
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: you get a million bots in the matrix that get
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: all excited, get all fired up. But there was no
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  Speaker 1: the day, and now he wasn't perfect. There were some flaws.
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  Speaker 1: In the nineteen eighties, everyone was doing coke, including Dave Parker.
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  Speaker 1: He loved the cocaine, and there was a big drug
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  Speaker 1: scandal in baseball and he was a central figure in that.
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  Speaker 1: There was the co One of the reasons Dave Parker
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  Speaker 1: didn't get in the Hall of Fame sooner is because
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  Speaker 1: of the cocaine trials of the nineteen eighties. I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: what that would have been like in the modern era
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  Speaker 1: was mentioned, but it wasn't mentioned nearly all that much
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  Speaker 1: as I remember. As I remember it, however, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: like away from that hoping. He talked about his issues
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  Speaker 1: for a number of years and made a ton of money,
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  Speaker 1: as I remember. With Popeye's Chicken. Dave Parker owned a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of Popeyes Chicken in Cincinnati, lowkey like franchises, and
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  Speaker 1: they did pretty well. So he made some money on that.
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