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The Best of Stugotz and Company LIVE! Mike Francesa · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: Melk Heiber going to join us in about fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Rucco, who is calling tonight's Lakers Rockets game, will
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  Speaker 1: join us at four o'clock. And Mike francessa, Oh, Mike
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  Speaker 1: francessa Pope, yep, the Pope. Thank you, Tyler, Mike ont Acarfoe.
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  Speaker 1: He'll join us at around four fifteen, four to twenty.
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  Speaker 1: So big show today, big night. Last night in the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks got it done, a win for the Mecca
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  Speaker 1: and they are now up three to two as that
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  Speaker 1: series goes back to Atlanta for a game six. Is
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  Speaker 1: he The most interesting thing for me last night, and
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  Speaker 1: you and I have discussed this before, is just how
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  Speaker 1: confusing and confounding Joel Embiid is. Because a day ago
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  Speaker 1: we were wondering whether or not the Sixers are better
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  Speaker 1: without Joel Embiid, and then last night on a court
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  Speaker 1: which had Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, MAXI, all these guys,
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  Speaker 1: the best player on the court was Joel Embiid.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just.
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  Speaker 1: He's so confusing as a basketball play founding and confounding.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what the difference is.
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  Speaker 3: But there is no difference. I just like they add
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  Speaker 3: a second word for emphasis.
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  Speaker 5: That's all it is.
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  Speaker 4: You got to yes, but he is.
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  Speaker 3: He's a confusing and confounding player.
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  Speaker 4: And it's alliterative, so it's even better.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, he is, Like I think we all know that
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  Speaker 6: Joel Embiid is an MVP.
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  Speaker 4: Like that's he's one one. He is that level of
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  Speaker 4: player he is.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we've taken for him for granted because he
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  Speaker 6: was effectively the big man Unicorn before Victor Wmbinyama, because
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  Speaker 6: you could put him anywhere on the floor and he
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  Speaker 6: can do anything you want him to. And back when
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  Speaker 6: he played defense, he was a great defender as well.
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  Speaker 6: And so that's why, you know, I think I asked
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  Speaker 6: this out loud yesterday or the day before yesterday, is
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  Speaker 6: why did he have to take all the shots and
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  Speaker 6: after coming back? And that's why because he's that good.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Because what he's on he is as good as
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  Speaker 1: anyone in the NBA.
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  Speaker 6: What I loved about that game from him yesterday was
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  Speaker 6: he got better as the game progressed. In the first half,
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  Speaker 6: he was okay, he's like five for thirteen. In the
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  Speaker 6: second half seven ten, eighteen points plus minus of twenty one.
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  Speaker 4: And it's all off the dome, not really.
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  Speaker 6: It was just on the TV right there, and so
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  Speaker 6: you do all that and it's just like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 6: this is the professional Joel mb that I need on
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  Speaker 6: my team. Just be efficient, don't take crazy shots, don't
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  Speaker 6: play too lazy a defense. And he was actually contributing
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  Speaker 6: on the defensive end.
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  Speaker 4: He's the one who.
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  Speaker 6: Talked about how they were sort of overhelping in their
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  Speaker 6: previous game and their defense was bad. He was making
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  Speaker 6: that adjustment, playing in the paint, defensively, recovering, and so
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  Speaker 6: maybe he's figured it out and said knows how to
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  Speaker 6: play in order to win.
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  Speaker 4: But if this is the.
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  Speaker 6: Joe El embiid we're going to see every night, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I mean the Celtics are going to be a little
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  Speaker 6: scared going into Game six.
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  Speaker 7: Yes is you were a staple on around the horn,
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  Speaker 7: and I feel like a staple on around the horn
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  Speaker 7: was where you had to pick between two options. So
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  Speaker 7: if I gave you the Knicks Hawks series at three
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  Speaker 7: to two and the Celtics seventy six Ers series at
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  Speaker 7: three to two, which team is more likely to overcome
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  Speaker 7: that three to two deficit, the Sixers or the Hawks?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I mean I'd have to say the Sixers there, right,
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  Speaker 6: I think because of embiid Yes, yeah, because of mb
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  Speaker 6: because of I mean MAXI is a guy who you know,
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  Speaker 6: a quarter into this season, we were talking about potential
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  Speaker 6: MVP and it just seems like the Hawks have exhausted.
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  Speaker 6: They're basically out of weapons, right c J. McCollums, you know,
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  Speaker 6: done what he's done, and it doesn't look like Jalen
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  Speaker 6: Johnson and to Kile Alexander Walker are ready to take
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  Speaker 6: that next step where they can carry a team through
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  Speaker 6: a playoff series. So I'd say it's pretty easily the
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  Speaker 6: seventy six Ers. But yeah, you nailed it on the
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  Speaker 6: head around the horn. Just pick two things, pick one
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  Speaker 6: of them.
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  Speaker 4: There's a topic.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think the NBA and the networks are telling
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  Speaker 1: you that they think it's Philadelphia because they have switched
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  Speaker 1: the times that they have made Philly and Boston on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night, the Marquee game at eight o'clock, Nixon Hawks
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  Speaker 1: at seven o'clock. So they're telling you, yeah, and Biid
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  Speaker 1: has a chance here. And if it gets back to
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  Speaker 1: Boston for a Game seven, who knows, MAXI Embiid, one
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  Speaker 1: of those guys gets hot, and it's over for the Celtics.
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  Speaker 6: And it's a classic Eastern Conference rivalry like those two teams.
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  Speaker 6: And if you get I mean the look, it's not
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  Speaker 6: a big shock, right if the Sixers win Game six
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  Speaker 6: at home and then you go to Game seven and that,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, We've seen it before with Jimmy Butler's Miami Heat.
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  Speaker 6: We've seen it in a Game six with Lebron James's
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  Speaker 6: Miami Heat. We've seen it with other teams going into
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  Speaker 6: Boston and beating them in moments where you're just like,
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  Speaker 6: what is happening?
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  Speaker 8: Right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: And so if you get a Game seven in Boston
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  Speaker 6: in the first round after this, you know Jason Tatum's back.
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  Speaker 6: So now we're the favorites. Like Boston has felt this
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  Speaker 6: feeling before, and I want them to feel it again.
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  Speaker 1: I'm worried about Boston. I am Wow, go ahead, tailor,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get to that in a second. What do you
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  Speaker 1: got to tell it?
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  Speaker 7: I was gonna say I would make such a bad
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  Speaker 7: pro athlete. I've This is a take that I've been
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  Speaker 7: pretty consistent on. One the second I got a big guaranteed contract,
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  Speaker 7: I'd Anthony ren Donet and basically quiet quit on the entire.
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  Speaker 3: Team, no doubt. Yeah, I mean that's what you're playing for, dude.
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  Speaker 7: I'm watching Joel Embiid yesterday and he plays thirty nine
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  Speaker 7: minutes in a second game back from abdominal surgery. Yes,
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  Speaker 7: I cannot even fathom getting abdominal surgery and then running
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  Speaker 7: up and down a court for thirty nine minutes.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know what appendix surgery is like,
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  Speaker 6: but I have had a hernia surgery and this was
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  Speaker 6: in my twenties.
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  Speaker 3: I had it too.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so like peak at whatever performance level, and yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I was out for like a week.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't the muscle.
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  Speaker 6: The times that you use ab muscles that you don't
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  Speaker 6: even realize, like driving a car, it's absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: And yet this guy's running up and down the court.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Man, if you're making turns and stuff, you're using ab muscles.
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  Speaker 6: You don't even realize it until you have surgery there
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  Speaker 6: and then have to drive home.
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  Speaker 3: You would think I would have better abs.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you would think i'd have somebody to drive
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  Speaker 4: me home.
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  Speaker 3: No one has better abbs than you.
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  Speaker 1: I saw on the other guy maybe ten years ago,
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  Speaker 1: but not today.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, go ahead, Dan, I'm sorry, I just have a
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  Speaker 9: question for is he around the horn style?
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  Speaker 5: To the Celtics lose that game?
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  Speaker 3: Or did the Sixers win that game? Wow? Yes they
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  Speaker 3: lost it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm on the mount rushmore of around the horn topics segments.
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  Speaker 6: Segment topics answered which.
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  Speaker 4: One was it?
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  Speaker 3: Who lost it?
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  Speaker 9: It was did the Sixers win or did the Celtics
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  Speaker 9: lose that game?
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  Speaker 6: I would always lean toward the team that won it,
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  Speaker 6: and in this case absolutely, Like I get that, you know,
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  Speaker 6: Jason Tatum and that whole team didn't have a great
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  Speaker 6: shooting fourth.
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  Speaker 4: Quarter, but that's that's gonna happen and.
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  Speaker 6: So and a lot of that happened because the Sixers
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  Speaker 6: were playing great defense. It's not like Sam Houser was
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  Speaker 6: wide open and missing shots. So classic Philly won that game.
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  Speaker 6: Boston did not lose it.
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  Speaker 7: Is he buyers? The Lakers have to close out the
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  Speaker 7: Rockets tonight.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna buy that one. Taylor almost called you, Tony.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna buy that one, Taylor, because again, you go
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  Speaker 6: into game six and let's say, you know, you get
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  Speaker 6: Austin Reeves back if he's not feeling great, that's even
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  Speaker 6: more looking great. That's more pressure on Lebron. You go
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  Speaker 6: into a Game six with a Houston team that has
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  Speaker 6: more faith and the last time they were in Houston
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  Speaker 6: blew out the Lakers. If the Lakers don't end it here,
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  Speaker 6: it's gonna be very much like a Boston Celtic situation,
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  Speaker 6: a lot of pressure on an old team in Game seven.
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  Speaker 1: Buy or Sell Raptors Cavaliers is the worst NBA playoff matchup.
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  Speaker 5: Of all time.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's a hard cell.
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  Speaker 3: That's a hard cell.
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  Speaker 6: And there have been some finals matchups where I'm just like,
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  Speaker 6: what the Pistons and the Spurs get out of here with?
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  Speaker 4: Those games are on NBA TV two.
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  Speaker 5: That's how bad they are.
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  Speaker 3: The deuce.
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  Speaker 4: So many points.
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  Speaker 5: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: So you're not gonna do buy Erzell. You can't do
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  Speaker 3: it on that one. No I did.
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  Speaker 4: I said I sold it, so okay, wait, no, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: That was a buye that was a hard buy.
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  Speaker 1: The reason I'm concerned about the Celtics they are missing
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  Speaker 1: some pieces they had when they won an NBA championship.
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  Speaker 3: Derek White's not playing.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly as good as he was, but no Drew Holliday
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  Speaker 1: and of course the Hall of Famer Al Horford now
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  Speaker 1: with Golden State.
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  Speaker 6: Now, I don't even mention Chris steps porzingets well what
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  Speaker 6: he's gone too, where he's in Golden State.
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  Speaker 3: What.
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  Speaker 6: But even last night watching Derek White doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 6: he's moving right. I don't know if there was any
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  Speaker 6: reports on his wealth, but he didn't look like he
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  Speaker 6: was moving right. And so yeah, that team just you know,
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  Speaker 6: it's not the same when Derek White isn't one hundred
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  Speaker 6: percent and looking like himself. And so last couple of
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  Speaker 6: games I've seen him, he just hasn't been performing and
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  Speaker 6: that's not normally something that happens, and especially in the
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  Speaker 6: postseason he's usually locked in.
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  Speaker 4: So I feel like there might be something going on
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  Speaker 4: there injury wise.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you have holiday and now you have guys
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  Speaker 1: like Sam Hauser, I mean some guy quite I've never
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  Speaker 1: heard of, and Derek White's not playing nearly as well,
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  Speaker 1: this team's in trouble. I'm gonna say it. The Sixers
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  Speaker 1: are going to win this series in seven games? How
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  Speaker 1: about that?
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  Speaker 3: Huh wow? First one to say it.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, do you think he changed his name to Kada?
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  Speaker 6: And it should be pronounced cueta but it's not quitter.
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  Speaker 3: Can't spell quit qu and queta.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, the I'm looking at these highlights over here,
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  Speaker 6: like Nikolaevich has no shot defending Joe LMB and so
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  Speaker 6: if if he's getting posted up all the time, it's
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  Speaker 6: just like, all right, you guys are gonna have to
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  Speaker 6: double him early or you're gonna have to, you know,
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  Speaker 6: get some other players Becausevich is not gonna defend him.
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  Speaker 3: Mel Kuiper is going to join us here? I is
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  Speaker 3: he so tired of the NFL Draft?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, isn't it over?
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  Speaker 3: It's never over? You all had the grades are all out.
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  Speaker 3: What are we doing? We need mel A one more time.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tradition, unlike any other Kuiper one time before
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  Speaker 1: the draft, Kuiper one time after the draft, and then
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  Speaker 1: we don't see mel again for like four or five months.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, can you handle one more?
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  Speaker 3: Is he? No?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 6: I think I'm gonna sit this one. I've asked as
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  Speaker 6: many questions as I could possibly ask about. I don't
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  Speaker 6: even know about the Jets draft or the Giants draft.
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  Speaker 6: Oh Jesus, let's can we watch these kids play for once?
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  Speaker 1: So you're gonna leave here during mel Kiper you'll come
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  Speaker 1: back for the final segment in hour one, and then
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  Speaker 1: we have Ryan Ruco at four.
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  Speaker 3: So you're in on that, right, that's your buddy.
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  Speaker 4: I'll think about it.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to talk about the next one. It Oh
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  Speaker 3: god and the Yankees.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I have to think about it.
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  Speaker 1: I am not certain anything, and I mean anything makes
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  Speaker 1: Tailor happier than having Mike Francesa on. Mike is joining us.
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  Speaker 1: He's on the car phone. He's always on the car phone.
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Mike, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: We're doing good here?
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  Speaker 1: I am wondering if you if you don't mind, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: because I was telling the guys, no one knows the
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  Speaker 1: market New York better than you. No one knows that
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  Speaker 1: city and what makes that city tick more so than you,
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  Speaker 1: And so I am wondering if you might be able
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  Speaker 1: to explain to Taylor, to Izzy, to mikey A, to
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  Speaker 1: the audience what it would mean to New York and
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  Speaker 1: that market and the city and the fans if the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks were to actually win an NBA championship.
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  Speaker 8: It would be overwhelming, absolutely overwhelming. When the Knicks win,
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  Speaker 8: which is obviously extremely rare, or when they're very good,
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  Speaker 8: which is obviously extremely rare, which we'll find out if
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  Speaker 8: they are this year, you know, they they could get
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  Speaker 8: to the finals. I don't think they can win it.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think anybody is beating Oklahoma City. But and
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  Speaker 8: there's no guarantee they're going to beat anybody in the
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  Speaker 8: East that's left, although they'll win the Atlanta Series. But
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  Speaker 8: back to your question, the hole that the Knicks have,
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  Speaker 8: especially on the inner City, especially on Manhattan, is so
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  Speaker 8: overwhelming that you cannot even imagine the impact. It would
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  Speaker 8: be unbelievable. It would be like Christmas and New Year's
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  Speaker 8: Eve and any of the holiday you want to put
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  Speaker 8: in the all wrapped into one in the greatest city
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  Speaker 8: in the world. So yes, the impact would be overwhelming.
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  Speaker 8: That's how big it is. You know. We can ignore
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  Speaker 8: the Knicks, and the city is good at ignoring the
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  Speaker 8: Knicks when they're terrible, But when they are a factor,
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  Speaker 8: when they are a team or a playoff contender, they
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  Speaker 8: have a grip on the city that is utterly enormous.
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  Speaker 8: As big as anything the Yankees have, as big as
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  Speaker 8: anything the Giants have. And when you start in New York,
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  Speaker 8: you start Yankees Giants and work your way down from there.
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  Speaker 8: But when the Knicks are good, nothing's bigger.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 7: Mike Taylor from Rockland County, first time, long time, I'm wondering,
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  Speaker 7: do you think Jalen I'm wondering, do you think Jalen
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  Speaker 7: Brunson is already on the Mount Rushmore of New York Nicks?
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  Speaker 3: Go to tear your head.
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  Speaker 5: Off of it.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus, he is not.
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  Speaker 8: Okay. If you're going to compare him to Willis Reid,
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  Speaker 8: or compare him to Walt Frazier, or compare him to
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  Speaker 8: the legendary guys who won championships here, he's not. He
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  Speaker 8: is not. That would be unfair to do that. Uh.
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  Speaker 8: He has absolutely taken the town by storm. He is
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  Speaker 8: exceedingly popular. The Knicks are an extremely hot ticket. See
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  Speaker 8: the Knicks is see the Garden when the Knicks are
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  Speaker 8: good is as trendy as New York City can be.
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  Speaker 8: Being seen there for the average guy. First of all,
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  Speaker 8: there's a lot of diehard Nick fans, and there's a
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  Speaker 8: lot of celebrity diehod Nick fans. They're really good Nick fans.
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  Speaker 8: They are you know, ChIL is good. I know Chalmy,
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  Speaker 8: he's a good he's a good Knick fan. Okay. The
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  Speaker 8: guys who go there and go to all the games,
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  Speaker 8: they're good Knick fans. They care about the Knicks. So
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  Speaker 8: then front runners or anything. But the grip that this
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  Speaker 8: the Knicks have on the entire city, but especially the
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  Speaker 8: Manhattan pot is unbelievable. It is overwhelming. And listen, the
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  Speaker 8: only reason other people don't go is they can't afford it.
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  Speaker 8: The tickets are unbelievably expensive for the Knicks.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: What do we do with Mike Brown here?
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  Speaker 1: If he doesn't make it to the Eastern Conference Finals, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: he'd be fired?
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 8: See, I think this is make over time for the Knicks.
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  Speaker 8: I think that if they don't win it, win it,
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  Speaker 8: and I'll pull back if they if they make the
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  Speaker 8: finals and loses in six games or something, right and
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  Speaker 8: put a decent showing it in the finals. Okay, yes,
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  Speaker 8: I think they could run it back. But barring that,
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  Speaker 8: I think anything short of that, and especially not making
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  Speaker 8: the finals, let's put it that way, beating getting beatn East,
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  Speaker 8: they get beating the East. I think his job is
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  Speaker 8: absolutely on the line, and I think there's a very
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  Speaker 8: good chance they will try to completely make over the team.
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  Speaker 8: And I mean Giannis.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, fire Mike Brown if they get if they don't
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  Speaker 1: get to the Eastern Conference, I'm with.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: You on that.
• 15:18
  Speaker 8: By the way, Quicken, when Brown took the job, he
• 15:21
  Speaker 8: understood the deal. He was told, we think you can
• 15:24
  Speaker 8: take us to the next wrong. Understand that's what you
• 15:27
  Speaker 8: were asking you to do. Anything short of that will
• 15:30
  Speaker 8: will be seen as you're failing to do your job.
• 15:32
  Speaker 8: I'm sure that's what they told them, all right.
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: Mike, I'm looking at this sort of consensus on the
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: Mount rushmore of Nicks. Right, So you got Walt Fraser,
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: Willis Reed, Patrick Ewing Boom, you got to put those
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: up there.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the fourth one is up for grabs.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: I don't know how much.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: There's no way you're going to convince Mike that Jalen
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Brunson is there.
• 15:51
  Speaker 8: Jal I love the Villainova teams. Jay Wright's a good friend,
• 15:56
  Speaker 8: has been forever. I know those teams very much, very well.
• 16:00
  Speaker 8: I was around those teams. The bottom line is, I
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: have great respect for what Brunson's accomplished, but to put
• 16:07
  Speaker 8: him with the guys who won championships here, to put
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: him with that team, and that team is seen as okay,
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: as seen as a unit. They are not seen as
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: just Read and Fraser. They are seen as Red and
• 16:23
  Speaker 8: Fraser and de Buscher and Bradley and Dip Bonnet and
• 16:27
  Speaker 8: Red Holtzman and the Minute Men. They are canonized, they
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: are deified, and until you do what they did, you
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: will not in any way join them.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Up there, we have a caller.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Let's go out to mikey A who was in Westchester today.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Mike diego haad, you're on with the great Mike FRANCESSA.
• 16:48
  Speaker 10: How you doing, Mike, Mike Long Island, Listen. I got
• 16:52
  Speaker 10: a question. I'm arguing with my buddy Taylor. He says
• 16:55
  Speaker 10: the Yankees are retiring too many numbers.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: I want to get your.
• 16:58
  Speaker 10: Thoughts on that, and with a quick follow up of
• 17:01
  Speaker 10: who gets a better ovation at Yankee Stadium, Bernie Williams
• 17:04
  Speaker 10: or Paul O'Neill.
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: Ah, wow, Bernie Williams. The amazing thing is how big
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: Mattingly still is. Mattingly's is so big, it's as big
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: as Geta's. So Manningly is revered. I mean, he's beloved.
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: People don't understand how popular Mattingly is. I've been at
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: places with matting Lee and it's amazing how popular he is. Incredibly,
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: he is worshiped. He really is. Nothing's mantal but and
• 17:31
  Speaker 8: Geeta is enormous. But you have no idea how big
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: Manningly is. But on those two, listen. They have great
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: respect for Paul O'Neill. They love Paul O'Neill. But Bernie,
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: I would say, is more popular. As far as the numbers,
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: whoever's arguing that they have retired too many numbers has
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: listened to me for a long time because I only
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: hire numbers for immortal players. Okay, if you, if you're
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: Ricky Jackson, you'll never get your number retired, Okay, never,
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: okay never, Okay, I can go down the list. When
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: I was a kid, three four and five were retired.
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: That was it. Then came an obviously Ford, Okay, go
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: down the list. Mariano Jeeta deserve it in every way.
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: The other things are nothing more than marketing and an
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: ability to have days for the fans. That's all it is.
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: It is utter nonsense, and they have completely ruined the
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: idea of retired numbers by retiring so many numbers. It's embarrassing.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Thank you and Taylor, how do you feel? I mean
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: he feels good.
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel so good, Mike, because I've been arguing
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: this with Ceci Sabbathia. Mikey's like, he's a great Yankee,
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: and I'm saying I'm not saying he is not a
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: great Yankee.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Retire his number.
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: If I was, if I were in charge of retired numbers,
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: I was obous. Obviously, three four, five, seven, don't have
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: anything to discuss. Eight absolutely, sixteen absolutely Thurman because of
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: the tragic death of the captain. Fifteen, Yes, Mariano Jeter. Absolutely.
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: Other than that, everybody else can wait in line.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: C C.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Sabathia joining us tomorrow on the show.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: Want to do with Sabathia I would know.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I'm with you, Mike, I agree. I railed against it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yes, listen if you if you're not a Hall
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: of Famer, right, okay, I'm not retiring your number.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I'd be perfectly fine with you the being
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the guy in charge of whose number gets retired and
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: who's does it.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: I would that should be you.
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: Yes, you had to play almost every bit of Now
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: it's hard to play every bit, but you had to
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: play basically eighty to ninety to spending your career with
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: the Yankees to get your number retitle. I'm sorry.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I love it.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: This is so good, Taylor. You're good with him deciding
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: who gets in and who doesn't.
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah, this is what Yankee fans.
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: If the Yankees wear more than the uniforms they wear now,
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: I will be so embarrassed, because listen, the Yankees continue
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: to chip away at everything that has always made them
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: the Yankees. Okay, stop, stop, don't put any signage on
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: the uniforms, and don't ever put names on the uniforms,
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: and don't change the uniforms one on the road, one
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: at home, not forty two uniforms that look like World
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: Softball League teams Okay, I mean or Joe's auto garage.
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: You know, give me a break. These uniforms are embarrassing,
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: and that's what's made the Yankees the Yankees. To me,
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: there are two great uniforms in baseball, the Yankees and
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: the Dodgers' home uniform.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: Yep, this is this is what I was just about
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: to say, Like, these are the problems that Yankee fans have,
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: great problems to have. You look across town.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: When you're going, well, let's be honest, listen, power pitching,
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: power hitting. When the Yankees have that, they're the Yankees
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: right now. They have power pitching, they have power hitting.
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: When they're that, they're do it now. They have to
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: remember that once in a while, when you get in Octoby,
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: you gotta perform. Okay, that has stopped happening. They have
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: to win a World Series. Do you know how different
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: the Yankees would be right now if they hadn't won
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: in on nine? That nine is so big it changed careers.
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: Casson wouldn't be here, managers wouldn't be here, players wouldn't
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: have the same impact everything. It saved them winning that
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: World Series, because let's be honest, they blew a couple
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: of World Series along the way in the early two thousands,
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: and they haven't won in a long long time. The
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: Yankees need to win a World Series, but it's not
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: gonna be like the Mets, which right now is a joke.
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: What's gonna happen now in New York is this? Unless
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: the Mets do something radical, you are gonna have an
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: August Day. Here's an August day this year, forty six
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: thousand in an afternoon game against the Blue Jays for
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: the Yankees and archery practice at City Fielder.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take lest there's behind the scenes here.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Taylor was using that Yankee stuff as a transition.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: To ask about the crosstown team.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: The New York Meds, and whether or not but Mike
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: did let him because we're talking Yankees, and Mike wants
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: to cut you off. He cut you off because he's
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the greatest to ever do this. Does Mendoza make it
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the year here?
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: Mike, he wouldn't have made the weekend if it were me.
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: And they needed to make a change, and they got
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: This is almost a Kansas City Chief situation. They got
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: a great guy, a great manager, I think the best
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: manage in baseball without any question is Frank ConA. It's
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: not even close. The rest fall behind that. Colora is
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: a tremendous manager. He is a gifted, generational manager, all right.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: The Phillies try to hire him already, they'll probably try
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: to go back and hire him again. The Mets should
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: have already made their move on Core. If you didn't
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: want to come till for a month, or he didn't
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: want to come till next year, they still should have
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: locked them up and then put an inter him in.
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: I have nothing against Mendoza. Everyone says he's a nice man.
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: I don't know him very well, and I would say this,
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: he right now doesn't have any answers and you can't
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: dump the entire team. You'd like to, but you can't,
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: So that's why you make a change there. But I
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: wouldn't just make a change there. I would also make
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: a change in personnel because the last year they were
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: so proud of the fact that they really took their
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: attendance from like eighteenth to fourth or eighteenth to third,
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: whatever it finished up, and they were very proud of that,
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: and the big part of that was obviously Sodo. But
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: they played terribly and this manager is thirty five games
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: under since last season. It's not just this year, it's
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: last year too, and he's had bad Listen Planco hasn't played.
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: Lindor's out probably going to be two months. Soto got hurt.
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: We understand all this. A lot of guys haven't performed,
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: but shit hasn't been yet. Although I think you'll be fine.
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: The bottom line is you have to be reactionary. When
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: you are a cone with deep pockets, you have to
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: be reactionary. Sometimes the team puts you on a spot
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: where you have to react. The fact that they haven't
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: reacted shows that they don't have a clue of what
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: they're doing.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Mike, you've been covering the NFL draft for a launch
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: to forever, really and we just had mel kiper Junior
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: on and we were marveling.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: And you know, Melon I used to do. I used
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: to give Mel a real hot time in the beginning,
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: in the early years, and I know it bothered him.
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: But let me say this, Mel deserves an incredible amount
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: of credit because he created a cottage industry for so
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: many people. So many people now make their living. They
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: should all put a flat up to Mel because he
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: created that whole thing.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a trailblazer.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: But and so you know, I was telling Mel that,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: you know, you see eight hundred thousand plus people showing
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: up to an NFL draft. Yeah, and Mel saw it
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: before anyone else. It's not surprising to Mel. I'm wondering,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: is it surprising to you, Mike?
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: They've done the NFL has created mall. Let's be honest,
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: there are those are the greediest humans who have ever
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: crossed the planet. Okay, but they they are great at
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: marketing and the fact that they can turn what is
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: really a nonsports event into a cultural event of enormous
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: size across many channels and drawing hundreds and hundreds of
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: thousands of people who are so excited to be there. Okay,
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: it is remarkable how well they've marketed that. I don't
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: think anything in our lifetime has been marketed as well
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: as the NFL game.
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: Mike, what do you think about the NCAA expanding the
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: tournament to I believe seventy sixteen?
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: Let me he has like throw up over it. Okay, yes, okay,
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: you know why it happens and how happens. For one reason,
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: the NCAA has nothing to do anymore. The NCAA has
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: no power anymore, and the only thing they generate income
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: on is championships. And that's the big This is the
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: one that produces a fortune. And that's why more teams
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: means more games, which means more money. And that's what
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: they are controlling and that's why they are adding it.
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: There is not a reason in the world, not a
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: reason in the world, why that should be more than
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: a sixty fourteen tournament.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Mike Francessa is with us miked up. Check out his
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: podcast wherever you get your podcast. Just back to the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: draft for a second. What do you make of Harbaugh's
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: first draft as a Giants head coach.
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: Listen, I always pick a player that I really like. Now,
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: I picked the player this year that so many people
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: jumped on the bandwagon. I was almost like didn't want
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: to be there, and that was Caleb down. I would
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: have liked to see him, and I understand why the
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: Giants didn't get him. I do because you have to
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: first decide how are you going to use him. Are
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: you going to play him as a safety? Are you
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: going to bring him to the line of scrimmagy and
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: give him multipurpose? You're going to turn him into Polomono.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: You're going to turn him into Ed Reed? What are
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: you going to turn him into? So there's a lot
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: of different ways to use him. He's going to be
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: a great player. I don't think there's any questions. The
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: fact they didn't think the first player would drop into
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: the lap. They never thought he would make it the five,
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: and he did. He's a very talented individual. Now he's
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: not a finished product by any stretch, but he's a
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: very talented individual. And then getting a big lineman, I
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: think anything they can do to protect that. And let
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: me say this if people don't see this, the Giants
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: are going to run the football. Harbo wants to run
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: the football. He's got a full back. He brings a
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: fullback in and pays them good money. He wants a
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: big offensive line. He's got a quarterback that can run.
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: He's got some running backs he can use. Although he
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: doesn't have a great running back, he's got solid running backs.
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: And I love Skataboo. I just hope he can stay healthy.
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: I don't know if he can, but he's a crazy man.
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: I hope he can stay healthy. They are going to
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: run the football. They are going to play a tight
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: end in the slot on a lot of plays. They
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: are going to be a power team. But he's the
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: most important thing. The Giants now with are now back
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: to being a real football organization for the first time
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: in over a decade. And if you know the Giants
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: and you've been around the Giants and you understand the Giants,
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: and I do, that is such a welcome thing. They
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: now have a real, died in the world, honest to
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: goodness football leader running the franchise in every way. So
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: the Giants are back. I think they will be back
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: from day one. I think they will fight for the
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: playoffs this year. I think the Giants on the Harbor
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: are back. If they had not hired him, I would
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: have thought it was the greatest mistake they could have
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: ever made, and maybe their last opportunity to get out
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: of this abyss that they've been in. I think they
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: are now back to being a legitimate football team again.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: Maybe they expand the NFL playoffs more teams than that thing.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: I can tell you not back Mike. The Jets. They're
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: never back, and so I am. But I like the draft, Mike.
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: They had a good draft.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: I know, I know. I hate when I think that though,
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: They brought in really good players. Now the question is
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: do they know what to do with them? You know,
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: having Right there at least gives me a sentilla of
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: hope because last year they were probably as mixed up
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: and confused the coaching staff as I've ever seen. Okay,
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: they had no idea what they were doing, and I
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: still don't know that they know what they're doing. But
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: I think Right knows what he's doing from an offensive standpoint,
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: and they now have weapons. I don't like either quarterback
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: that they're thinking about playing with, so that's obviously an issue.
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: But they have big offensive linemen, they have an infrastructure there,
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: they have a running back, they have now two tight ends,
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: and the kid from Oregon is in a talent if
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: you get if you know how to use them properly.
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: I like the players they brought in from Indiana. They
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: brought in. They brought in guys were all from top
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: five programs. Their first foot picks were all top five
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: programs last year, including two who played for Indiana. I
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: like what they did. I thought they had a very
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: very good draft. But listen, a lot of bad teams
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: have good drafts and then screw it up. So this
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: is only stage one. They've got to prove now that
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: they can put one foot in front of the other.
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: We don't know that they can do that yet.
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: Yes, Mike, we can't do an nd season tournament with
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: the NFL for obvious reasons. But would you be in
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: favor of the NFL recognizing a winner of the draft?
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: Maybe if mel kiper picks.
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: I listen. The idea of anybody acting like they know
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: who wins the draft right after the draft is maybe
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: the dumbest premise in the history of sports. Okay, you
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: don't know for three years whether you had a good
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: draft or not. Okay, you're going to give that guy draft.
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: First of all, many all pros and pro bo players
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: are picked in the third round and is picked in
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: the first round. So the idea that you know right away,
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: it's nonsense. It's complete, utter nonsense. You don't know there
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: are no givens. Yes, are there players who are going
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: to make it. Of course you know that there's always
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: going to be a handful of them, and they usually
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: go in the first three picks. But the point is
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: you don't know about it. The idea grades after draft
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: is the dumbest premise, and everybody does it, but it's
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: the dumbest thing in the world. Nobody know what they're
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: going what it should be as a grade on how
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: you drafted, okay, not how your team is going the
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: players you brought in are going to do, because there's
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: no way of knowing that. It takes three years to
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: really get a good handle on draft.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Last question, miked up wherever you get your podcast, the
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: great Mike Francessa is with us. Is there anything Lebron
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: James could do? Mike the rest of the way here
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: where you would then say to yourself, you know what,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Lebron had a better career than Michael Jordan.
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: No, first of all, this is a silly thing too,
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: for this reason they are such utterly different players. They
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: have always been utterly different players. Here is what Lebron
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: has done. He has stayed better for longer than Jordan did,
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: the idea that he can still play his game three
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: and just coming off knee surgery. So I've been watching
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: everything because I do anyway, but I mean I've been
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: I watched that game and I was utterly amazed that
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: he could play forty five minutes and play the way
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: he did. I knew he'd have nothing in Game four
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: because he was exhausted at the game three. He can
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: hardly stands up. He is without question a top three
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: five whatever you want to talk about player of all time.
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: But his greatest strength is what he brings to a team. Also,
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: his game is nuanced. The best thing he done his pass.
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: He he is not what Jordan was. Jordan is a
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: legitimate two guard. He was a take the last shot,
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: be the high scorer, leads the team in shots every
• 33:14
  Speaker 8: single night, be that volume player, be fearless, and be
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: in every way a winner. That's what Jordan was. Lebron
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: James is a player without a position. He can play
• 33:26
  Speaker 8: the one, he can play the two, can play, the three,
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: can play the four. The bottom line is Lebron James
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: is a lot more like what Magic Johnson than he
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: is like Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan is much more like
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: Kobe Bryant than he is like Lebron James. They are
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: very different players, But to take away Lebron's greatness is ridiculous.
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: He is, without question, without question, one of the greatest
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: players in the history of the NBA, and if anyone
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: argues that they're this is just stupid.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Right, Mike, you are not stupid. You are smart.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: You're the pope, and you should be deciding which Yankees
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: have their numbers retiring Yankees too.
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: I gets too late for that because they're already up
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: there like a bingo card.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: You can take them down, you make it ru you
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: can take it down, Mike. We'll let you take them down. Yes, no, you.
• 34:10
  Speaker 8: Can't take them down. You can't do that to the guys.
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: But you know what, I like the days where it
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: was just, you know, a couple of numbers. I think
• 34:17
  Speaker 8: in every town there should only be a couple of
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: numbers retired. And the Yankees has had more than anybody
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: else without question. And I'm telling you, protect the uniforms
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: if the Yankees go that way, and they're talking now
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: about extra uniforms on the road or please don't. Hey,
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: they do everything they can to chip away at what
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: makes the Yankees the Yankees. That's what's said.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, miked up wherever you get your podcast, Mike Francesive.
• 34:42
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• 34:44
  Speaker 1: carve out any sort of time for us is amazing.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Thank you for doing.
• 34:47
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• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Hawkman Ryan Ricco going to join us at about fifteen minutes.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: He is calling the game tonight Lakers and Rockets. Mike
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Francesa the Pope going to join us in hour number
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: two as well.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: Taylor.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Last night Major League Baseball, anything catch your attention? I
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: know the Yankees won, I know the Mets one. I'm
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: just wondering if anything caught your attention?
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah to me. The biggest story last night was sho
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: Haotani getting his first loss of the season. Wow, the
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: Marlins beat him. Sho Hao Tani still did pretty well
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: on the mound six innings, wan to and run nine ks.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Why they pull him? I mean, pitch count really strack
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: out to many people, right, and the Marlins lead the
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: league and feist.
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: Yes, So even though the Dodgers lost the game, they're
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: still winners in my eyes for last night specifically. Really,
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: they're they're bad for baseball, but last night specifically, I'm
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: giving them the pass because let me be the first
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: to commend the Dodgers on having a woman's night yesterday.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: Good day, not a lady's night, that's different.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: No, yesterday was women's night, women's night.
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: It was a night to champion the women in our
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: lives and impact in sports, business, and culture. They threw
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: out the first pitch, they sang the national anthem.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Well, who was they? I mean, just women?
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: Women?
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: I think it was the wives of the players, right,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: I believe the wives of the players picked their entrance
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: or their walk up songs. But they had female entertainers,
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: not not female entertainers, but female singers to sing the anthem.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, now I know why I caught your eye. I mean,
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: how about that?
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: Does this also mean that the other eighty games at
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: Dodger Stadium are Men's Days?
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: I mean if day just what? Yes? Every other day
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: is for Pat's say Jack Yes?
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: So Dan, you could imagine my surprise as I'm driving
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: in the car and I'm just flipping the dials and
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: I hear this ad for an upcoming promotion at a game.
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: I'm sure by now you've heard about the Dodgers having
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: a woman's night. What do they do talk about their feelings? Now,
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: that's why I'm here to talk about our newest.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: Promotion, Men's Night.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: Why make sure you get to the ballpark early. The
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: first ten thousand fans in attendance, we'll get an Allen wrench,
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: and don't forget to stop by our fan fest area,
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: or as we like to call it, our manfest Area,
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: which will include a radar gun for you and your
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: buddies to blow out your arms seeing who could win
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: bragging rights of throwing a baseball the fastest.
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: Nice.
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: At Men's Night, we won't have concessions, just a grill
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: where you could cook your own burgers, and you'll ask
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: your friends how they want theirs cooked, knowing damn well,
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: you'll just cook them all the same.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that's what we do.
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: We'll be playing Metallica, ac DC and led Zeppelin all
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: night long. You know, none of that tailor.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Swift rappings for got Skinner.
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: In our halftime show. Monster trucks.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: That time than it is.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: This will be a safe space for men. No wondering
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: if the.
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: Person next to you says they're fine, wondering if they're
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: really fine, mean what you say?
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Damn it.
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: It's time to put our foot down and take back
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: sports men's night.
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: Hell yeah, I have so many adjusting your ticket ache.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: That's amazing.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: I'm well done. Was a standing ovation, even though I
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: can't stand.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: I'm tired.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: My only complaint is that for giving out Alan wrenches,
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: every respectable man already has a thousand of those in
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: his house. We don't need more Alan wrenches, okay, but
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: it's a staple. Also a safe space. I heard gunshots
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: and angry dogs.
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: How safe is so?
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: There's a couple of things that I heard. There was
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: a sawed off shotgun.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: You could tell it was sawed off. I could tell.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: There was the revving of a motorcycle. That were dogs barking.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, but it's it's men's night. I mean, didn't
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: the Hawks try this and it got canceled. Yeah, yeah,
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: very much. A lady's night, Dan, You love that, didn't you.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: I thought it was great.
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: I also love how the PD's like, let's make this
• 39:51
  Speaker 9: women's night, fifteen minute promo, men's night. Let's do a
• 39:55
  Speaker 9: ninety let's make it ninety seconds. Yeah, this is men's night.
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: We got a lot more to offer than the first pitch.
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: By the way, at a sporting event, all men do
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: is talk about their feelings regarding sports teams.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: It's the same thing, not their actual feelings, just their
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: feeling towards the gym.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: But I love this team, I hate this guy.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Those are all just talking.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: About your feelings.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, Taylor, make me a copy of that. I want
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: to play it on my ride home and a loop.
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: Okay, be careful, he's going to be listening to stuff
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: on the way home.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: It's going to make tonight miserable.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, Ed, I thought Dan had something there.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Speaking of taking work home, I took the show sheet home,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: the topic sheet home yesterday, because there.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Was a topic on there that was staring at me
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: without a smile. But it was just.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Staring at me and staring at me, staring at me,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: and so I brought it home and I bright it
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: kept staring at me and I was staring back, and
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: I was like, I have to I have to address
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: this on the air because I've noticed it of my
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: friend Israel goudieiras.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: He does not have the ability to smile.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: What and so the way that is he phrased it
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: on the topic sheet, and that's why I brought it
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: home with me, and I'm going to bring it home
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: again along with that beautiful promo the tail or just
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: put together. He wrote it like this, I realize I
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: have an upside down smile. I literally can't smile correctly.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: It's very disturbing.
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: I saw this as somebody was you see it now.
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: Somebody was making fun of somebody else onlines. I don't
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: forget who it was. It might eve even been Stephen
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: Miller or something like that, some evil person, and they
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: were just like, oh, look at him, he can't even
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: smile right, And I was like, oh wait a second.
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: And so I'm looking in the mirror and I start
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: smiling and I'm like, hang on, my top lip does
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: not curve upward at all. It's like it's almost sad
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: on the top end and happy on the bottom, and
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: I don't under I even looked it up to say,
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: wait a second, is you your top lip intended to
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: curve upward when you smile? And it says it right here, Yes,
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: in a natural, open or joyful smile, the top lip
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: is intended to elevate, lift and often curve upward. So
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: I'm either I have no joy in my life or
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: something wrong with my mouth.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: I looked at a picture, interestingly enough, it was a
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: picture of me Stugat and Diana Racini on the set
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: of Highly Questionable, and it was the worst picture I
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: think you could ever pick for me and my smile,
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: even though it's gigantic on the top is frowning right.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: It's one of those things. Until he brings it up,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: you're not certain like you see it. The second he
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: brings it up, Dan Byer, it's like it's like he is.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: He can't smile.
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: Go ahead.
• 42:46
  Speaker 9: My screen is behind me, so I had to turn
• 42:49
  Speaker 9: around and unlock the screen. And the first thing, now
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: I saw to my geese point. Now I see it. Now,
• 42:55
  Speaker 9: I see the upside down smile. I don't want to
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: call him a brown smile, but.
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: I think does my teeth are too big, and so
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: my top lips just kind of goes up, like you know,
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: the top of shades or whatever, and it's like it
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: just doesn't have the option of curving, and now I
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: just don't. It's either that or I'm just a very
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: unhappy human being and there's nothing like it.
• 43:13
  Speaker 9: If you put sunglasses upside down on your chin and
• 43:16
  Speaker 9: then we flipped the picture over, would it be this
• 43:18
  Speaker 9: enormous grin that we don't know is there?
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, one hundred.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: Percent, my teeth would look up costume smile Cuzy.
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: Would you get corrective smile surgery?
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: I would one hundred.
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: Percent get corrective smile surgery, And then when I'm down there,
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: it looks so.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Much happier what happened CSS. I'd rather have that.
• 43:36
  Speaker 9: Smile than be the the guy who's always like that's
• 43:39
  Speaker 9: funny and never laughs.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: So at least you laugh like I can, that's that's funny,
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: and you think he's lying because it's frowning.
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, now, I'd just rather say that's funny, so people
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: don't look in my upside down smile.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Has anyone ever tried to take like a family photo
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, smile and they're like, Izzy, will
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: you smile.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: On three? Do you say something else aside from cheese?
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: You know, like, is there a different word?
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: We could get.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: Anything to get what's the opposite of cheese?
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: Listen?
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: I am telling you right now that Izzy is laughing
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: like guttural laugh and he looks happy.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: But you would never know it's I mean, just because
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: oh it's weird.
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: I'm so unhappy.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Yes, Taylor sent me that promo in a loop. Hell yeah.
• 44:28
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• 44:48
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• 44:50
  Speaker 7: and Hawkman.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: That's a hell of a read right there.
• 44:52
  Speaker 7: Thank you, well done?
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Where the hell iszz he? Uh?
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: Well?
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: I sent him home because and he went home. I
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: didn't have to send him home. He just decided to
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: go home because he's tied right of talking about New
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: York sports. So you like it? Yeah, and so do
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: I get it. I totally understand. Listen, there was no communication.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: He got up. I knew what he was doing. He
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: started packing up his backpack to leave. I didn't say
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: a word. He didn't say a word, and he left.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: That was it, And I'm good with it. We deserve it.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: I'm not certain we deserve him.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you to Mike Francessa, thank you to Ryan Ruco,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: thank you to mel kiper Junior, all three of us
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: for joining us today on this show. Mikey, I think
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: that we should have Daily's Show Awards. I do so
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: like today's MVP has to be Taylor. Ryan Ruco agreed
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: with his ridiculous take of trading not trading Cam Schlittler
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: for Paul Sken's a straight up you agree with that,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: And then Francesa agreed with every single word he said.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: And so for me anything to read. So for me today,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Taylor is the MVP and the d boy. He is
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: always Iowa Sam.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: You know, I mean.
• 46:07
  Speaker 8: The problem.
• 46:07
  Speaker 7: Iowa Sam's hands are always in the passing late. I
• 46:16
  Speaker 7: love you, I said, what's going on here?
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: Nothing? You aren't listening. Good, you're perfect.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Congratulations, I'm winning Defensive Player of the Year.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: Awesome of the show. Yes, you play, you play defense
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: against that were offense. Someone's got it.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, how do you guys imagine Lakers? So it's interesting.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: I'm actually into this game because I'm into the storylines
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: of this game, Lakers and Rockets. The Lakers are going
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: to close that out tonight. Right, the Rockets are done, Taylor,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: what do you think here? Durant's done?
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 46:47
  Speaker 7: Oh man, I don't I'm not necessarily there. I think
• 46:51
  Speaker 7: the Rockets. The Rockets are going to show some fight tonight.
• 46:54
  Speaker 7: That's my official prediction. I'm not making a prediction winner
• 46:57
  Speaker 7: or loser, but the Rockets, we're gonna come on tomorrow
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: and you guys are gonna be like, wow, tell her
• 47:02
  Speaker 7: is right. The Rockets showed some fight. Now they might
• 47:04
  Speaker 7: be eliminated and on a first flight to Kancum, but
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: they'll show fight.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: But so that's like a win for them. Showing fight
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: without gets plus the points.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: He's what he did, plus the fight, plus the fight.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: Yes, of course he took the Rockets to win a
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: fight but lose the game. It's a weird take, but
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: I'm with them. It's hot.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: No, Kevin Durant, I do think. Listen, Ryan Rocco is calling.
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: Games for the for the NBA, and.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: So he's not gonna say what the NBA wants.
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: To say or wants to see.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: I should say, so I will say it for him.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: The NBA absolutely wants the Lakers to play in the
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: NBA Finals when you think of what's available to them
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: out West San Antonio, Okay, they're gonna make many NBA
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: finals when you consider the other options Oklahoma City, been there,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: done that, boring ZZZ plus, and then you have a
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: chance to get the Lakers and Lebron in the NBA
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Finals against let's say the Knicks or the Celtics.
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: It ain't gonna be the Calves.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: That is an NBA final that the NBA wants, that
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: the fans want, that everyone wants.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Who wouldn't want that? You know?
• 48:17
  Speaker 10: I think you're absolutely right. I mean, obviously they want Lakers,
• 48:20
  Speaker 10: probably Nicks. But I would say this for the Spurs,
• 48:23
  Speaker 10: I feel like they need an origin story loss.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: Like I feel like they.
• 48:26
  Speaker 10: Need to lose this one, even though they are so good,
• 48:30
  Speaker 10: just so that they can have that. Hey, we have
• 48:31
  Speaker 10: something we're fighting for next year. We have to overcome
• 48:35
  Speaker 10: that hurdle.
• 48:36
  Speaker 7: So this is the battle before they win the war.
• 48:38
  Speaker 10: Yes, Yes, this is the tragedy they have to go
• 48:42
  Speaker 10: through to become the superhero they're going to be.
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on here, but I believe
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: because I just saw him on the zoom that since
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: we were talking NBA basketball, Izzy stopped his.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: Car, hit the brakes, drove back, give up the trade
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: that we were talking NBA, and I was tributing. He's like,
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: now they're gonna talk NBA.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: The second I spreach out of here is when these
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: three idiots are gonna start talking about the NBA.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: Yep, even Mikeye is doing it.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: And so I think, is he is coming back into studio.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: He is, Oh my god, he's here. He made it
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: with a couple of minutes to spare, is he. I
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: told everyone that there was no committee mix. Yes, there
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: was no Let's go back to Yankees, is he. I
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: was telling everyone that that you left and there was
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: no communication. I knew you were tired of talking about
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: New York sports, and so you packed up your bags
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: and you got the hell out of here. And I
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: did say a word to you. What We don't blame you,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: but it's amazing what happened once we started talking, MBA.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Somehow you were alerted to this. You turned around, you
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: came back, and you're like, let.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: Me get two minutes.
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, I don't want to start a war
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: with New York. But yeah, that's that's not my lane.
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna talk New York over and over and over.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: No, but I feel bad that we do it to you,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: like it's the draft and New York sports and.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: We do too much of it.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: It's draft season.
• 50:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you're right, so is He if you missed it.
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: My initial prediction for Rockets Lakers tonight was terrible. Yes,
• 50:13
  Speaker 7: the Rockets are going to show some fight.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, which is why I texted is He and begged
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: him to please come back.
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: Well, now that we don't know about Austin Reeves really
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: and you could assume if he's not at one hundred
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: percent that he won't play, I think they are going
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: to bring some fight to this game. I think Taylor
• 50:30
  Speaker 6: absolutely nailed the analysis there. That really is what it is.
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: You just got to play harder against Lebron. He's forty
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: one years old, you can stop him.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: It's okay, yep, do you expect now we have less
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: than a minute here, just so you know, Okay, do
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: you expect?
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: And I'm sorry you came all the way back just
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: for this.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Do you expect the Magic to close this out tonight
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: against Detroit?
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: It's in Detroit.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Detroit is down in this series three games to one,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: eight seed versus a one seed.
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: But this is a bad one seed.
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: There's absolutely nothing about the Magic that makes me feel
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: like they're closers. They've had this, They've had this entire
• 51:01
  Speaker 6: season to figure out what they actually were and they're
• 51:03
  Speaker 6: not still really sure.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: And so is it.
• 51:05
  Speaker 6: Ben Carol's team is a Desmond Baines team. Though, I
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: think Pistons extend the series.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: Really, do you think the Pistons win the series.
• 51:13
  Speaker 8: One?
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: That's a tough one.
• 51:14
  Speaker 6: I know, you know what I'm gonna go, Tom, I'm
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: gonna say, yes, Wow, Pistons win the series.
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: Rockets take it to seven and losing seven, I mean, we.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: Brought him all the way back, he was halfway home.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: I mean to talk about the series that after you know,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Calves and Raptors, this is the second series.
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: I would say that no one's interested in