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Set 1: Weddings with the Dog (w/ Chris "Mad Dog" Russo) · Stugotz and Company

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Still gots.
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  Speaker 2: I got to be honest with you, Bruce, there's a
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: good chance I'd be high anyway. And I'm wondering how
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: the football weekend was. Were you able to watch it?
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Wow, what happened? I'm tired of him. How about that?
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  Speaker 3: In company.
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  Speaker 4: We are mother shuckers, baby. Reese, does Faison Brandon's name
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  Speaker 4: sound like it's on backwards?
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  Speaker 1: No doubt.
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  Speaker 4: It's time to get your.
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  Speaker 4: It's time to get your racket to get the all boat,
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  Speaker 4: the all boat.
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  Speaker 1: You got nothing right there.
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  Speaker 4: This is not going well.
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  Speaker 1: This is Stu Gotts and company. Stu, back to you.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor, if I told you you could be a fly
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  Speaker 2: on the wall at a wedding, you're not invited to
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  Speaker 2: the wedding. You're just a fly on the wall. But
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  Speaker 2: there are celebrities at the wedding. If there were one
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  Speaker 2: celebrity in sports media that you would want to see
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  Speaker 2: how they act at a wedding and you could.
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  Speaker 1: Be a fly on the wall for that wedding, who
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  Speaker 1: would you go with?
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm not certain I wouldn't go with either Mike Francesa,
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  Speaker 2: maybe Chris Berman.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 4: I think you would have to go with some combination
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  Speaker 4: of Mike and the Mad Dog because just seeing those
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  Speaker 4: two interact in the wild would be a dream for me.
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  Speaker 1: If you had to choose one, though, you can't choose both.
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  Speaker 2: It has to be either Christopher Mad Dog Russo or
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  Speaker 2: Mike Francesa.
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  Speaker 1: And you get to observe everything that's going on.
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  Speaker 4: So I would pick Mad Dog in that situation because
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  Speaker 4: I could see Francesa almost turtling up at a wedding
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  Speaker 4: where it's like, I don't want to interact with other people.
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  Speaker 4: Dog at least strikes me as somebody who wants to
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  Speaker 4: like cut it up on the dance floor.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Dog strikes me as someone, if it's a good friend,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to go to the wedding. Regardless of who
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  Speaker 2: you are in Mike's life, Mike is taking the buyout clause.
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  Speaker 2: How much do I have to put in an envelope
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  Speaker 2: to not go.
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  Speaker 1: To your wedding?
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  Speaker 2: That's the way I experience it. I would go with
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  Speaker 2: Mad Dog as well. I'm glad you chose that. He'll
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  Speaker 2: join us in about five minutes. I asked him to
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  Speaker 2: come on last week. He said he couldn't. He said
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  Speaker 2: he had a wedding on Friday. I said, who schedules
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  Speaker 2: a wedding during football season? He told me someone who's
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  Speaker 2: not a football fan.
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  Speaker 4: If there was a day you would want a wedding, though,
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  Speaker 4: during football season, it would be Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Friday.
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  Speaker 4: Like if you invite me to a Saturday wedding at
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  Speaker 4: this point during college football season, I'm going to be passing.
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  Speaker 4: But begrudgingly, my sister had a baby and the baby
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  Speaker 4: just had its baptism. And my sister was like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: the baptism is going to be on Sunday. And I said,
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  Speaker 4: can't this wait until after football season? But I went
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  Speaker 4: dragging my toes.
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  Speaker 1: The first Sunday after football?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Like February 25th, let's call it then.
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  Speaker 1: Well, can you do that? I don't know. How does
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  Speaker 1: that work?
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  Speaker 4: I think the baby would have been too big at
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  Speaker 4: that point, they said.
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  Speaker 1: To baptize. The tub's not big enough. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So Christopher Mad Dog Russo is going to join us
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  Speaker 2: to talk about his wedding last Friday. And we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: a little bit World Series, some football as well. What
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  Speaker 2: did you make of the game last night? The Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: get a much needed win over the Philadelphia Eagles. I
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  Speaker 2: do believe that what happened with Jalen Hurts and that
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  Speaker 2: injury was is perhaps going to give Nick Sirianni a
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  Speaker 2: pass from being fired as the Eagles head coach because
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  Speaker 2: he could just point to the fact that, hey, my
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  Speaker 2: starting quarterback went down for the year. When he's healthy,
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  Speaker 2: I've been to two Super Bowls, and I've been there recently.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll see what happens there.
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  Speaker 1: The story last.
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  Speaker 2: Night was the Cowboys and just how easily, I shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: say how easily, how good the offense looked.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that first half gave Eagles fans, I think, a
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  Speaker 4: bit of a sense of false hope that they could
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  Speaker 4: compete with Tanner McKee. Coming out of that game, I
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  Speaker 4: feel more confident that the New York Giants are going
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  Speaker 4: to win the NFC East than I did going into it,
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  Speaker 4: where before it was like the Giants kind of felt
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  Speaker 4: like this scrappy underdog. But then when you're watching that
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  Speaker 4: Cowboys defense in the first half, who couldn't get a stop,
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  Speaker 4: every time the Eagles had a third down, if they
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  Speaker 4: didn't pick up the first down on their own... You
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  Speaker 4: just had to wait like three more seconds for a
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  Speaker 4: flag to come out and the Cowboys would penalize their
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  Speaker 4: way into that. When I watch the Giants, the Giants
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  Speaker 4: at least look like a competent football team. I guess
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  Speaker 4: you could say the Cowboys have this great offense and
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  Speaker 4: Dak's ability to place throws in the end zone was
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  Speaker 4: probably the moments of this game when he's throwing to
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  Speaker 4: CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens. But overall, I really don't
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  Speaker 4: trust this Cowboys defense and I think I trust the
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  Speaker 4: Giants in what Harbaugh is doing more than anything that
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  Speaker 4: Dallas could potentially be.
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  Speaker 2: You look at the Giants' schedule and you say to yourself, well,
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  Speaker 2: they have Philly twice still, and they have other good
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  Speaker 2: teams on the schedule, but Philly's not good.
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  Speaker 1: That's the point. It's Philly with Tanner McGee.
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  Speaker 2: It is not the Philadelphia Eagles we have seen over
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of years here. I think if it's
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  Speaker 2: not the Giants, it's going to be the Cowboys. The
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  Speaker 2: Giants have played the Cowboys once already to play them again.
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  Speaker 2: later in the season. But I do think this is
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  Speaker 2: the Giants division. And I can't believe I'm saying that
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  Speaker 2: when you consider that Jackson Dart is hurt and Jameis
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  Speaker 2: Winston wasn't good enough.
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  Speaker 4: If Roger Goodell wants to be a good commissioner for
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  Speaker 4: the NFL, he has to work it into the next
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  Speaker 4: labor agreements that we have to have a clause where
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  Speaker 4: we could opt out of, of NFC East games in primetime,
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  Speaker 4: because if, Going into the season, Cowboys Eagle sounds exciting.
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  Speaker 4: Once you lose the Jalen Hurts factor with the blood clots,
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  Speaker 4: once you have a Cowboys defense that somehow invested all
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  Speaker 4: their resources this off season into the defense and for
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  Speaker 4: the defense to somehow be worse, which doesn't even make sense.
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  Speaker 4: Like nobody wants to see this game on Monday night football.
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  Speaker 4: And then you're like, okay, at least we're, we're, we're
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  Speaker 4: out of this phase right now. Next Sunday night, Sunday
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  Speaker 4: night football, Philadelphia Eagles at the Washington commanders.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Don't want to see it. No desire.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You're right.
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  Speaker 2: Like let's start flexing earlier, man. I mean, what are
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  Speaker 2: we doing? In honor of Christopher Mad Dog Russo, since
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  Speaker 2: he's coming on here in five minutes, let's win-loss the
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  Speaker 2: remainder of.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants schedule. You want to do it? Always. They're
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  Speaker 1: at Philadelphia. That's a win. That's a win.
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  Speaker 4: Philadelphia's sliding right now.
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  Speaker 1: J.J.
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  Speaker 2: McCarthy.
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  Speaker 1: They're home against Washington.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's a win.
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  Speaker 1: It's a win. They're home against Jacksonville. That's a loss. Loss.
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  Speaker 1: You got to find some losses somewhere. They're not that good.
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  Speaker 1: They're good. Not that good. At Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 4: Win.
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  Speaker 1: Win. Home against San Francisco.
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  Speaker 3: Loss.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm. I'm sorry. I just did that. At Seattle. Loss.
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  Speaker 3: Loss.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Home against Cleveland.
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  Speaker 3: Loss.
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  Speaker 4: They're sliding right now.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants are. Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: The Giants, who you just had winning the division, now
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  Speaker 2: suddenly when you play it out, they might not be
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  Speaker 2: winning the division.
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  Speaker 1: At Detroit, loss. Loss.
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  Speaker 4: Now at this point, the Giants haven't won a game
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  Speaker 4: for me in a month.
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  Speaker 1: And then they go to Dallas law.
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  Speaker 2: So now I'm going to do Dallas's schedule real quick
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  Speaker 2: in honor of Mike and the mad dog. Cause maybe
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  Speaker 2: both you and I are wrong. It's not the giant division.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the Cowboys are just fine. Cowboys next week, home
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  Speaker 2: against Arizona.
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  Speaker 4: That Arizona team's tricky. Let's say window.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: At Indianapolis loss. That Colts team doesn't have a pulse.
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  Speaker 4: And that's right when you're saying, yes, yes. That's a
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  Speaker 4: win for the Cowboys. That's right before the trade deadline. When,
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  Speaker 4: when you would expect people like Jonathan Taylor to be
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  Speaker 4: on the move.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So the Cowboys right now are five and four.
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  Speaker 2: Cause we have them winning the last, the next two games,
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  Speaker 2: a home against San Francisco loss.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So they're five and five home against Tennessee. When six
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  Speaker 2: and five home against Philadelphia, when seven and five at
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  Speaker 2: Seattle loss, seven at six at Rams, Loss.
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  Speaker 1: 7-7. Home against the Jags.
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  Speaker 3: Loss.
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  Speaker 4: I think that Jaguars offense would be licking their chops
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  Speaker 4: to go against this Cowboys defense right now. 7-8.
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  Speaker 1: Home against the Giants, perhaps for the division.
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  Speaker 4: I think this game is probably going to be between
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  Speaker 4: two sub-500 teams for the division. And the fact that
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  Speaker 4: the Giants have the tie could be, I guess, the tiebreaker.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And then they go to Washington, the final game of
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  Speaker 2: the season. I'm not certain it is the Giants division.
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  Speaker 2: I think it might be the Cowboys. That's why we
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be doing this stuff. In October, armed with very
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  Speaker 2: little information. Let's go to Christopher Mandogra. So he is
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  Speaker 2: fresh off a wedding. I can't wait to speak to him.
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  Speaker 2: You imagine mad. What do you imagine to be like
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  Speaker 2: at a wedding? Like people are just cornered him and
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  Speaker 2: they're asking him a ton of questions.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm just thinking about how I would react if
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  Speaker 4: I saw a mad dog at one of my friend's weddings,
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  Speaker 4: if he was a family friend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I would be going up to him and asking
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  Speaker 4: him how much longer does Mike Brown have on his
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  Speaker 4: leash before we start talking hot seat? And I can't
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  Speaker 4: imagine he would want to answer that. He won a
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  Speaker 4: title last year.
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  Speaker 1: You were fine until they lost to the Magic at home, right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, without Paulo Boncaro, yeah. But the Heat keep losing,
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  Speaker 4: so at least the Heat right now, for me, are
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  Speaker 4: the gift that keeps on giving.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but Philly keeps winning. You're good, though. You're good
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  Speaker 1: for a year, at least.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not good. The fan base, I think, is good, but.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not good. The fan base.
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  Speaker 2: and you're upset with the fan base. The fan base
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  Speaker 2: should not settle for one title with the Knicks.
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  Speaker 4: You know, this is all on the Knicks fans who
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  Speaker 4: spent last season saying, if we win a championship, I
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  Speaker 4: don't care what happens next year.
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  Speaker 1: Get ready.
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  Speaker 4: The basketball gods heard you guys. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: What's happening the next year is something that you and
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  Speaker 2: I don't like because I'm starting to get pissed off
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they put this into the universe. You told them
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  Speaker 4: you were willing to sacrifice an entire season for one championship,
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  Speaker 4: and now the basketball gods are coming to collect.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, last year in the offseason, Jalen Brunson
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  Speaker 2: spent every Saturday night shooting buckets in a gym, just
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  Speaker 2: a gym rat, just bucket after bucket after bucket after bucket,
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  Speaker 2: getting ready.
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  Speaker 1: For the season, trying to make a title run.
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  Speaker 2: Then they win the title, and he spends his Saturday
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  Speaker 2: nights trying to be a stand-up comedian.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what are we doing? But he changed your life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. We love Jalen Brunson, right?
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  Speaker 4: I'll never say a bad word about Jalen Brunson.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Hart, though?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Matt and Doug Russo next.
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  Speaker 2: It makes me smile every time I see Christopher Mad
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: Dog Russo on my Zoom.
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  Speaker 1: I love the man. I really do. I love him
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  Speaker 1: so much.
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  Speaker 2: Check him out, Mad Dog Unleashed, 3 to 6 on
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  Speaker 2: SiriusXM every single day.
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  Speaker 1: He is great.
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  Speaker 2: You can also check him out, of course, on First Take. Dog,
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  Speaker 2: I want to start here. How is the shoulder? How
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  Speaker 2: are you feeling, Dog? Let's start there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel pretty good. The shoulder is getting better.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this is the two-month date, matter of fact,
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  Speaker 3: August 27th. I would say way ahead of schedule with
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  Speaker 3: the rehab. Don't have to wear any elbow braces. You know,
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  Speaker 3: can sleep normally. Finally, good drive. You know, as far
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: as going out there and swinging a golf club, I
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  Speaker 3: can't do that. I can't even jog yet. And I
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  Speaker 3: certainly can't play tennis. But I think, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: knew this was going to be a process. I would
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  Speaker 3: like to thank Stu by. Maybe middle of March, I'll
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  Speaker 3: be able to play golf. The issue that will be
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  Speaker 3: tricky the most will be the serving in tennis. I
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  Speaker 3: think that will be the last thing. Maybe to come around.
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  Speaker 3: He did have a major tear in that rotator cuff.
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  Speaker 3: But overall, I got to be pretty happy. Haven't had
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  Speaker 3: any pain. The rehab has been relatively pain-free, which has
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  Speaker 3: shocked people. I have good range of motion. Not using
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  Speaker 3: any weights, but good range of motion.
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  Speaker 1: So overall, pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Got to be happy. I got through it okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Doggie, you can go with the underhand serve
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  Speaker 1: if you have to.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I mean, you know, the ground strokes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, PMAC, Patrick McEnroe had this a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And he is still not being he's still not really
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  Speaker 3: able to serve. Now, the difference I've talked to him
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  Speaker 3: about it. First of all, that was his third shoulder surgery,
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: not rotator cuff, but surgery. The other thing I did
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  Speaker 3: to PRP. which is to take the blood out of
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  Speaker 3: your left vein and they mix it to get the plasma.
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  Speaker 3: And then the surgeon gets a big needle and sticks
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  Speaker 3: it in your right shoulder. I did that twice the
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  Speaker 3: day I had the surgery and I did it on
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  Speaker 3: September 14th. And it supposedly has a very big therapeutic effect.
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  Speaker 3: And PMAC did not do that. And I talked to
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  Speaker 3: him about it. I said, Pat, how come you didn't?
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  Speaker 3: It seemed to help me. So he was going to
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: go check why he didn't do it. But he still
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  Speaker 3: can't serve. And he had it done last October. So
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  Speaker 3: there you go.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Doug, I asked you to come on last week.
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  Speaker 2: You nicely told me that you couldn't because you had
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  Speaker 2: a wedding to attend.
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  Speaker 1: And I responded to you on a Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Who the hell is throwing a wedding on a Friday
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  Speaker 2: during football season?
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  Speaker 1: What the hell happened, dog?
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  Speaker 3: A non-football fan, non-sports fan. Game one of the World Series.
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  Speaker 3: It's my college roommate from Rollins, way, way back, 1978, 1979.
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  Speaker 3: His daughter, south of Asbury Park, a couple of miles.
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  Speaker 3: His daughter got married on Friday at 5 o'clock. Excellent wedding. buffet,
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: which I like so much better, right on the ocean. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's a very good friend of mine who
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  Speaker 3: I've known for 50 something years, went to Scotland with
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  Speaker 3: me when I was 60 to play golf, him and
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  Speaker 3: 11 others. So, I mean, it was something that it
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: was important to go and I'm glad I did. But
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  Speaker 3: you're right. World Series five. I missed it. I saw
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  Speaker 3: the last four or five innings because I got back
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  Speaker 3: about nine, nine thirty. I saw the last four or
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  Speaker 3: five innings and I and there was no football to
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  Speaker 3: watch really anyway. Right. I did take the day off
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  Speaker 3: and I felt, you know, he asked me to come
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  Speaker 3: on that day. I says, geez, I can't do Stugatz.
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  Speaker 3: When I'm not going to be on my own show,
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  Speaker 3: I'm taking a day off. So that is the reason why.
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  Speaker 3: That's the reason I passed. That's the reason I passed.
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  Speaker 2: How is Christopher Mad Dog Rizzo at a wedding? Because
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  Speaker 2: Taylor and I were talking about this. Are you cutting
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  Speaker 2: up the dance floor? What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't dance because I didn't want to bump the shoulders.
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  Speaker 3: And it was an excellent band. I think this one,
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  Speaker 3: I was a little cranky because I had a lot
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  Speaker 3: of my roommates, friends who I hadn't seen in a
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  Speaker 3: long time and some I know, some I don't. Ask
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  Speaker 3: me a million sports questions, which, you know, with loud music,
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: 150 people, a Friday afternoon, you know, and I'm breaking
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: down why the Yankees signed Stanton instead of Yelich back
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  Speaker 3: in 2018. I mean, and then I'm getting a little
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: cranky about it.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: You're doing a sports radio show, but you're not getting
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  Speaker 1: paid for it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing a sports talk. But that happens to guys
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  Speaker 3: like you and me that come with that part of
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  Speaker 3: the territory. You just got to deal with it. But
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  Speaker 3: I had a little of that. Had a little of that, Stu,
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  Speaker 3: on Friday. And I'm usually very good with that. But
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  Speaker 3: I was a little cranky for a few minutes there
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: on Friday. And the great Jeannie Russo said, let's get
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: out of here, get a breath of fresh air. It's
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: right on the ocean.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: And I did.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: And that seemed to have a soothing effect. And I
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: came back in better spirits, a big fat smile on
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: my face, which is most important.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Doug, what was the argument for Yelich over Stanton? What
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: was the guy.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: Trying to say? The person there was annoyed that Cashman
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: signed Stanton and didn't sign Yelich. Now, I mean, there's
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: a lot of things you get mad at Cashman about.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: Eight years ago, signing Stanton over Yelich may not be
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: one of them. And not only that, Stanton two years
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: ago hit about a billion home runs as the Yankees
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: got to the World Series. Let's not forget that. He
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: made a huge contribution. Now, listen, he never plays. He's
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: hurt a lot. But it's not like Yelich is Henry Aaron.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: He has been very up and down for Milwaukee. He
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: doesn't even play against certain left-hand pitching. And they gave
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: him $ 222 million. And they gave it to him when
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: he was in the midst of his MVP run. Now,
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: he hasn't been that good lately, but they're going to
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: win a championship. So, I mean, I guess because Yelich
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: is on a winning team, he was annoyed at Cashman.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: And I just didn't want to break down Bryant. That
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: was the day he signed, you know, Cashman. Last week,
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: you know, when he said I was lock and loaded
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: and a lot of Yankee fans don't like, you know,
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: lock and loaded. You've been in here for 30 years.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, geez, maybe low key, maybe low key the
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: fact that you're returning. And so that was the debate.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: And again, at 730 at night with the band playing
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Ties That Bind with a million people there, it was
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: a little tricky, a little tricky.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: By the way, Taylor would be one of those people.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's a way to handle it. There's a
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: way to handle it for the for the person and
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: a way to handle it for me. And I handled
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: it badly and I felt bad about it. And I
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: actually apologized yesterday. I don't know who the person was,
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: but right. Little Stanton and Yelich at 7.30 on a
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Friday night might be a little, I think you'd agree, Stu?
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: A little overboard in that situation?
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where I draw the line.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: It's when you start asking me about Stanton, Yelich, or
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: what I think the Dolphins are going to do in
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: the draft.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Speaking of the Dolphins, that was a great win they
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: had on Sunday afternoon. They did a good job.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, they beat the Jets.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, still, the guy's first win, you know, Willis
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: played a little better.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Jets are a rival. I mean, again, I know you're
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: not going to make the playoffs, but... You got to
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: start somewhere, right?
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: You have to start somewhere if you're the Dolphins. You're right.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: But as a Jeff fan, dog, I've been a Jeff
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: fan my entire life. Can Aaron Glenn at least act
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: like he cares? I mean, I.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Think that Glenn probably is going to. I'd be surprised
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: if he survives. Now, listen, the one thing about Woody,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Woody doesn't want to pay him 30 million dollars. Somehow
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: he got a five year, 50 million dollar contract, which
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: I said, really, Aaron Glenn? A defensive coordinator on an
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: offensive team, you gave him $ 50 million to coach. The
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Giants gave Harbaugh $ 100 million a couple of years later,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: but Harbaugh had won a Super Bowl. And the Giants
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: were in desperate straits. I mean, the Jets, they were
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: in desperate straits too. Don't get me wrong, but boy,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: oh boy. I don't know if he's going to have
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: to eat that because, you know, he can afford it. But,
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, no owner, you know, wants to eat $ 30
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: million and then pay the next guy $ 10 million a
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: year and have $ 40 million in his coach's pocket. And
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: they might be in that situation with Glenn because I
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: don't know how you keep him for next year, Stu.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: It's a drastic improvement, which to me is not, it
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: doesn't seem like it's about to happen. Let's put it
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: that way.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Doug, on the topic of the Jets, the Jets play
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: the Raiders this week on Fox Sports. Does it bother
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: you when Kevin Burkhart spends half the broadcast selling you
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: on how great next week's games are supposed to be?
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: But I did that. I did that this week. I
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: did that this week. It's a staple. I mean, you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: when Fox's schedule is Cards Dallas, is Chargers Rams, Atlanta, Tampa.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Raiders, Jets. You cannot sit there and tell me what
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: a schedule we have for you on Sunday with the NFL.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: We're not idiots.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: We're going to be great gamers at one o'clock. I mean, Kev,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: I understand you got to hype it up, but we're
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: not dumb fans. OK, we know that schedule stinks. I
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: know you got to promote it, but just promote it normally.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Hey, here's our schedule next week.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Tom and I will be in Detroit for the Vikings
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: and move on to the next play, for crying out loud.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, way over the board.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Way over the top.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Way over the top. Uh, doggy quickly.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I want to ask you about John Harbaugh, but I
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: just want to go back to the wedding for a second.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Because I'm fascinated about you.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I want to stay right there. Wait. So you like,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: you like the buffet over the, over the meals.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Uh, I had a great cocktail party buffet. Now you
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: got a lot of people in line. You got to
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: pick your spots, but the good thing about the buffet,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: you can eat when you want to eat.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: And pick what you want.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: It's a variety.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Big plate of food in front of you. If it's
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: a small plate, that works too.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: And the other thing is, is that you're not waiting
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: around to cut the cake, you know? I mean, so
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: as a result of that, it just seemed like a
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: little more appropriate.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: There is an opportunity to move it along a little quicker.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: So from that standpoint.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: That is something I will consider when my daughter gets married,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: which I'll say she will. And then I'll say, Kira,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: one thing, quick buffet in and out so people aren't
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: here for seven hours. Let's do it that way.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: It's her wedding, dawg.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: I'm paying for it, dawg. I don't know if she's
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: going to go along with that because I think you
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: and I both know you were two great lacrosse players.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Men should stay out of that. Let the daughters and
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: the wives do the wedding.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Far away from it. Band or DJ? You like
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the band. You don't like the DJ.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, band much better. Yeah, band much better.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: And it was a good band. Played some Bruce.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Very excellent, excellent, excellent band.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: You know, obviously at the Jersey Shore, you're going to
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: get a lot of Bruce. Right. but we're having a
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: party by Southside, Johnny. I mean, a lot of good stuff.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: It was an excellent wedding, and the setting was great,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: and the bar called the Old Commons in Avon-by-the-Sea in
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Jersey was excellent. It was actually a— I' m very happy I went.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: It was a good evening. It really was.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Outside of the yellish conversation, it was a fantastic— Outside.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Of that, and there was a couple of others where
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: I was getting a little cranky, which I have to
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: do a better job of, and I usually do. But
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: they caught me in a little noisy, and I got
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: to be a little better than that.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: All right, and I'm sorry to bog down on this,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: but because I've been there with my wife, so she's
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: had to bail me out of some of these situations.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Your wife just noticed that you were getting upset?
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Jeannie's been with me for 31 years.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: She notices when there might be– A fan who goes
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: a little over the top.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And she gets you out of it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: And she goes, honey, let's go take a walk. You know,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: I got to go out to the car. I left
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: something in the car. She knows what to say to
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: sort of take me away from a situation that's a
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: little combustible.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. That's fantastic. She's fantastic.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Nice job on the Heat. They're playing good basketball. Giannis
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: is going to wish... He's going to want to be
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: in Brooklyn before too long, for crying out loud.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Why do you say it like I'm a Heat fan?
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: I can't stand the Heat.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, the Heat are going to be... That team...
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, the idea that Giannis thought he was going
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: to win a championship with the Heat with that surrounding
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: cast outside of Adubato. What, are you kidding me? You're
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: not going to win a championship there, for crying out loud.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: He's rendered Bam meaningless because they play the same game, essentially.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: What's funny about Taylor up here, as a Knicks fan
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: who waited for a championship his entire life, Jalen Brunson
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: has changed his life.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: He's already running Mike Brown out of town.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Knicks are in a very tricky spot. You know,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: when you win a championship... You bring the same, basically,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: team back. I know they exchanged Robinson for Drummond. But
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: you bring basically the same team back. You waited 53 years.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: It was a very celebratory situation. The offseason's short. And
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, the next season starts. You
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: win it in the middle of June. And in early October,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: that is a very, very difficult turnaround. In football, you
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: win in February. The season doesn't start until the following September.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: So as a result of that, you get a little
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: more time. And I do think the Knicks are going
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: to be in a hangover stage for a while. And
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: I also think the fans will be, you know, I mean,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: how's the fan supposed to get where I think the
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: fan is good for a while. They, you know, they
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: hadn't won forever.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: I think that's going to, I think that's going to
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: have an effect on the Knicks. And I think the
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Knicks will, it will take a long time this year
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: for the Knicks to get their groove back. And if
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: you're a Knicks fan, you got to hope by the
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: post season late in the year, you feel like the
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Knicks again, because I think they will definitely struggle in
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: a regular season to get a little bored and, They
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: know they're good in the playoffs. Home court is not imperative.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: They won in Atlanta. They didn't have home court against
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: the Spurs. You know, they killed Cleveland in Cleveland without
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: the home with, or they did have the home court
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: against Cleveland, but you get the idea. I think the
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Knicks know they can win on the road. Now I
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: think Philly's dangerous. I think Philly has got a chance
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: to be very good at great starting five and they
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: got a lot of firepower. So I think the Sixers
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: are going to be good, but I think the Knicks
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: will have trouble. I really do to get themselves rearranged
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: for the season.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Mad Dog Unleashed, 3 to 6 p.m. Eastern on Sirius XM.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Mad Dog Radio. We'll get you out of here on
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: this note, doggie. John Harbaugh, Coach of the Year, NFL
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: so far?
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Well, you can also say Monk in Cleveland, 5-2. But
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Harbaugh has done it. I mean, I think you'd have
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: to say Harbaugh because of his injuries. I mean, he
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: lost his starting quarterback. He lost his best defensive player
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: in Burns with the ACL. Uh, the team did not, uh,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: you know, I mean, they got a little break against
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Tennessee and Arizona, you know, they could have easily lost
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: both those games. And if they did Arizona first down
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: at the giant four yard line in the last 30 seconds, Arizona, uh, Tennessee,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: you know, throw the ball in the end zone from
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: the 10 yard line and down 12, six, they could
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: have easily lost those two games. And even the commanders.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, so you got a team that
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: is fragile and the Giants were without the quarterback. That
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: is dangerous if you lose a couple of those kind
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: of games that could tilt either way. And then they
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: get McCarthy. I was a little surprised he put McCarthy
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: in there. He played well there against Houston. They caught
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Houston at a perfect time. Division's terrible. The Eagles are
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: a mess. Washington isn't very good. Dallas is your typical Dallas.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, they got a chance. They got a nice
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: bye week. Giants only play one game in three weeks.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: They play their Thursday game next week against Washington. They
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: have 10 more days off. So they only got one
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: game in three weeks. That will help them. And he's
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: a good coach. Everybody knows he's the boss. They gave
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: him $ 100 million five years. Everybody knows he's the boss.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: So the Scataboos and the Nigel and the kid who
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: got cut, you know, if you say something you don't like,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: he's going to get rid of you. I mean, that's
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: just the way it is. And I think, you know,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: he's coaching like Lombardi used to coach. And he's got
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: the authority to do that. He's bigger than the GM.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: So he's got the authority to do that. So I
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: think overall, he's done a great, he's the MVP of
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: the team so far.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: No question about it.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Taylor's going to have a World Series question, but just
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: quickly here, you mentioned the GM of the Giants, Joe Shane,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: who was a friend of mine.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I'll say it on the front end, okay? I know him.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: He's been on the show with me several times. But
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Giant fans, I mean, a bunch of phonies they are.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: They wanted to run the guy out of town. The
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: guy got him Jackson Dart. He drafted Malik Nabors. He's
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: got guys all over the defense. And when their quarterback
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: went down, he went out and got J.J. McCarthy for
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: a fifth-round pick. And now all of a sudden they're
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: celebrating Joe Shane.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: That's a very good point. And then the kid who
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: they drafted a couple of years ago, the corner has
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: bounced back and played pretty well. He rebuilt the offensive line. Now, listen,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: I think Dable had a lot to do with Dart too.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Because I think Dable loved Dart, but he traded up
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: in the first round to get him. He went from
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: the second to the first. It's Harbaugh's team, but I
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: do agree. I think Shane has, the team's got some talent.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Neighbors was a great pick. You know,
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Malachi Fields is going to make a contribution. You know,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: getting likely, now that's Harbaugh, but, you know, getting likely
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: was good too. Yeah, Scott Ibu was a great pick,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: the running back. You know, fourth round, I believe it was. So, yeah, 100%. 100% there.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I think he's done a good job.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: He's the guy who moved up in the draft to
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: get Josh Allen in Buffalo.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: That's true, too.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: He was part of it.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: And I think Dable, too. You've got to give Dable
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: a little credit for Dart.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Agreed.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: The Giant fan refuses to do it. But you've got
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: to give Dable a little credit because he's the one
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: who loved Dart, and that's what I think had a
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: lot to do with it.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Dog, the Brewers are one win away from their first
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: World Series. Did it bother you last night watching that
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: game when it's 10-0, Yandy Diaz bat-flipping an RBI double
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: that made the score 10-1?
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: I didn't even see that. Did he really?
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: You have doggy up at 10, nothing world series on
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: a Monday.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I was watching the Dallas and I went to bed
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: when a Cowboys kicked the field goal at 31, 21,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: because I wanted to get up and be sharp for you.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Um, of course.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: No, I did not. Yeah, that's a good man about.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: He bat flipped that at 10-0?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: What inning was that? Eighth inning?
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: The ninth inning. Had one hit up to that point.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Terrible. Yeah, I know.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: That's ridiculous.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Listen, if you want Taylor to produce your manabouts, he
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: will do it all day, all night.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, I got to see that. Was it really bad?
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, it was bad, Doug.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he pimped it. Did Smotes say anything about it?
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: No, they kind of just breezed right past it because
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: it was more of a feel-good story for the Brewers
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: because Woodruff was pitching.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Right, because he hadn't pitched. Yeah, that is ridiculous.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: It's bad, Doug.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: I will definitely use that. Nice job, Taylor.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Good job.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: You gave me something.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I will use that.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: I got to see it to see how much it
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: bothers me. But if it does, that's a good one.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: And no reason to do that. And he should know better.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: 100% right.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Nobody listens to more Mad Dog because, Doug, I also
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: wanted to ask you, is Laura Rutledge the hardest worker
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: at ESPN?
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: I thought that was funny yesterday. Did you hear that comment?
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: I said, I just spent the middle of monologue. I mean, Laura,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Laura could be on the moon on on Saturday and
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: she's going to get to the NFL spot for the
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: NBA countdown at the NFL countdown on Monday. I mean, geez.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, Laura, I mean, think about it. I mean,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: she's on the road Saturday with the college football. Then
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: she's all over the place on Monday night. From that standpoint, yeah,
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: that's a– I just threw that out there because the
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: TV was on. I said, gee, she's in Philadelphia after
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: she was in Austin, Texas, and then she's up in
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Bristol the whole time. I thought that was a goofy line,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: so I.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Threw that out there. Doug, once ESPN gets you, they
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: got you.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: They got it. They use you. Oh, they use you.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, their theory is if you don't do it,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: someone else will say yes.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully ESPN didn't hear me say that, and I've
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: also had some laughs with Buck and Aikman, you know,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: round five tonight. You know, I've been saying that too, so–
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: I got to be careful. I got to know where
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: my bread is buttered.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Do I not, Stu?
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: You just keep doing your radio show because we love it.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: That's how we fell in love with you in the
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: first place.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I agree. Good boy, John. Good boy. I will tell
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: you this, though.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I love you using the First Take platform to get
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: yourself the Brewers manager on your radio show.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: That's what you do. That was smart. And I called
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: the Brewers. We called them a week before that.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: All of a sudden, he's on every radio program and
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: with you in America. And I said, hold on now.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: I've been covering baseball for 40 years, spring training, World Series.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: I can't get the guy on? And they kind of
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: realized it and put him on. So I got a
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: lot of juice out of that. I got a lot
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: of juice.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: That was fun. All right, dog. Good luck. Feel better. Yep.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Feel better. Get that shoulder rehab in time for golf season. Okay.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Colin told me Russo that the weather has finally broken
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: in West Palm. It's been a little better the last
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: week or so. Is that accurate?
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's gone from a Taylor. What would you say?
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: It's gone from nineties to, I want to say low
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: to mid eighties, but very windy down here and just
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: storming every day.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: The weather's been terrible, he said. He's been here three summers.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: He said this was by far the worst one.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Is that true?
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Worst summer I've ever experienced in 20 summers down here.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: It's not bad.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's starting to turn. But the problem is
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the wind and the rain.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: And so we're about a month away from it, you know,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: 77 to.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: 82, not a cloud in the sky every day for
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: about two months.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Except the time when I get down there in January
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: and it's 29 degrees on a sunny morning, but that's
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: not even over there.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I keep telling you to stop coming in January. All right.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: I'll see you later, Stuart. Lock him down. Taylor, good
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: to see you, big guy.