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Mac & Bone Hour 4: Who is The Face of Charlotte Sports? · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Sports seven w f n Z A bone trying to
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  Speaker 1: show me Diana Rossini Kevin O'Connell clips.
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  Speaker 2: Now they're investigating all the past audio and video of
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  Speaker 2: Diana Rocidi with how she's acted towards Kevin O'Connell, because
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  Speaker 2: that had a very awkward moment last year on a
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  Speaker 2: uh were camp stops.
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  Speaker 1: That is the coach that she used to get out
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  Speaker 1: of a ticket. Although I guess she lied about the
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  Speaker 1: FaceTime thing, but she did uh all of him.
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  Speaker 2: She said, all Vikings fans love me like being sarcastic,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, I'm sure they do. Oh hey now,
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  Speaker 2: and then they started and they stared at each other
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  Speaker 2: silently for about five seconds. I have to be honest now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna act like maybe that's are a NFC guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna act boney. She it's like two team fans.
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  Speaker 1: She figures she could have a guy in each conference.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna act So.
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  Speaker 3: That's another level of handsome though that Mike Brable.
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  Speaker 2: I am not going to what's different types of men?
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  Speaker 1: You got the big Burley bear and then you've got
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  Speaker 1: the handsome you know what I mean, GQ cover model man.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there were rumors about her.
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  Speaker 1: Well, anyway, I'm not gonna act though, Bone like, I
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  Speaker 1: like we have taken the high road on the Mac
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  Speaker 1: and Bone Show with this story. Anybody listening would know
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  Speaker 1: that we passed that high road about fifty miles ago, right,
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  Speaker 1: But I do kind of feel like, are we now
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  Speaker 1: Do we now have to let Diana off the mat?
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  Speaker 4: Like do like?
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  Speaker 1: It's like it's I feel like people are really pummeling
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  Speaker 1: her now while she's down here.
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  Speaker 2: It might be overkilled. And that's why I guess I
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  Speaker 2: brought it up here. So that's no handleup. That's on me.
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  Speaker 1: But with that said, though, will I resist future Diana
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  Speaker 1: Versini stories and not say them on the air. I
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  Speaker 1: can't for certain say that is the case, all right anyway?
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  Speaker 1: He Scott Fowler wrote this article, do you want to
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  Speaker 1: mention the Raleigh Major League Baseball in state of North Carolina?
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  Speaker 1: And you know raleygh's current situation and how they have
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  Speaker 1: a leg up over Charlotte or maybe multiple legs up
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  Speaker 1: where it's at in the political process. They've got two
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  Speaker 1: different owners including Tom Dundon. We'll talk all through that.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Murphy road an arcle about this for WRAL over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, So we'll talk about that coming up Bone
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  Speaker 1: at nine.
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  Speaker 3: To twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Even though we wish it was all about Charlotte's great
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  Speaker 1: case for Major League Baseball, but let's talk about this
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  Speaker 1: Scott Fowler article because it's a cool premise and I
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  Speaker 1: never really thought about it. I was too busy crying
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  Speaker 1: over LaMelo being traded, but also trying to figure out
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  Speaker 1: is this all indeed more Jeff Peterson brilliant? And what's
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Peterson going to do next? But Scott Fowler attacked
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  Speaker 1: it from a different angle. He wrote a column Bone
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  Speaker 1: saying that with LaMelo gone, it's an open question now
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  Speaker 1: who is currently the face of Charlotte sports. I've already
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  Speaker 1: got a text saying Charlotte is a faceless sports city.
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  Speaker 1: LaMelo didn't win, but damn if if he was all
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  Speaker 1: was it all over the highlights, huge following online and
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  Speaker 1: just all around fun guy to watch play. We have
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  Speaker 1: no face as a sports city. That feels a little
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  Speaker 1: harsh here. I think there's a guy.
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  Speaker 3: Think about this.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a guy that played next to him
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  Speaker 2: last year that'll take that mantle. Different person, different type
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  Speaker 2: of dude. You don't think khan Ka Nipple Mack could
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  Speaker 2: be the face. Do you think he is right now?
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  Speaker 2: I think he's in the mix to be that guy.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's in that. You know, he's still got
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  Speaker 2: to perform and even grow even more, but I think
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  Speaker 2: he certainly, he's certainly a guy that you can't ignore
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  Speaker 2: on this list, though he's definitely in the mix.
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  Speaker 1: Fowler's article basically highlights two candidates. Okay con is one
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  Speaker 1: of them and Bryce Young is the other. And Fowler
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  Speaker 1: ultimately chose Bryce Young as the face of the franchise,
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  Speaker 1: the QB that has taken the Panthers back to the
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  Speaker 1: to the to the playoffs. And I will say this
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, with the high profile that the NFL has
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  Speaker 1: as a league, I'm not saying we don't love the
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  Speaker 1: Hornets and we don't care about the home. You could
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  Speaker 1: see the passion bone over this last week with all
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  Speaker 1: the deals that were made and Hornets fans letting you
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  Speaker 1: know how much they care one way or the other. Right,
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  Speaker 1: But there is an element of and Faler also talks
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  Speaker 1: about how cam Newton before LaMelo, was the obvious face
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  Speaker 1: of the city as well, and that they're both similar
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  Speaker 1: sort of flashy guys, and he kind of wrote how
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  Speaker 1: Con and Bryce.
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  Speaker 2: Are different, They're not flashy at all.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I do kind of feel like Bone in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cities, like the NFL is just bigger than the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: So I feel like that is advantage NFL players when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to being the face of the city.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very unique situation right now with Bryce in general.
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  Speaker 2: Mecca is at seven o'clock hour. We did a topic
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  Speaker 2: and I know it's a different thing, but we did
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  Speaker 2: a topic ranking the Panther players, and yet I did
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  Speaker 2: not have him, He didn't have him in the top ten.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that case can be made because of the
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  Speaker 2: position that he plays, the sport that he plays, that
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  Speaker 2: he's still the face of the city one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 2: because the quarterbacks are the front man.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I guess you could go like a band. It's
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  Speaker 3: like a lead singer of a band. Yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: This dude says, I'd like to make Canalis the face
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  Speaker 1: of the city. We'd have a very handsome face. So
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  Speaker 1: there you got.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a woman?
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  Speaker 3: Is that a woman out there or is that a
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  Speaker 3: fellow I need?
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, it's two point twenty six doesn't matter, done matter, baby,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: Handsome face is handsome face. I mean the guy's good looking.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say it.
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  Speaker 2: Willie P suggests Christian Colina is the face of the city.
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  Speaker 2: Did he Yes, he went Cali on you?
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  Speaker 3: He did?
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 2: I won't go that far.
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  Speaker 1: I love Charlotte FC, but I do feel like it
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  Speaker 1: probably has to come from either the Hornets or the Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to make a case for Derek Brown.
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  Speaker 1: And I know this is rare for a defensive to
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  Speaker 1: be the face of the city, but I think Derek
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  Speaker 1: Brown has grown so much in terms of letting us
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  Speaker 1: see his personality. I think he is one badass leader.
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  Speaker 1: Like you look at some of the clips. This dude
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  Speaker 1: is an alpha leader man. They follow him, they listen
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  Speaker 1: to him. And don't get me wrong, we did hear
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  Speaker 1: Bryce cuss during OTAs. Bryce does seem to be getting
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  Speaker 1: more confident and becoming a more demonstrative leader. But I
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  Speaker 1: think Derek Brown is the biggest leader they have on
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  Speaker 1: that team, figuratively and literally. I think he's the best
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  Speaker 1: player on that football team. The thing with con and
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  Speaker 1: Bryce is do they have enough personality to be the
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  Speaker 1: face of the city, or does it not matter because
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  Speaker 1: Bryce is the QB of a playoff team and con
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  Speaker 1: Is just, you know, should have been Rookie of the
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  Speaker 1: Year for God's sakes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to think of maybe other examples of
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  Speaker 2: front office and coaches that would be the but I
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  Speaker 2: don't think Again, Dan Morgan's pretty quiet and reserved. He's
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  Speaker 2: not getting no, He's not a outlandish personality. I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to think of other options here, but yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 2: there's not There's not as many that stand out right.
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  Speaker 1: Now now that now that LaMelo is gone and Cam
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  Speaker 1: of course has been gone. I feel like our guys
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  Speaker 1: we have a lot of key leaks in our sports
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  Speaker 1: city right now. We have a lot of dudes that
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  Speaker 1: really don't want the spotlight, don't want to be the
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  Speaker 1: face of a city necessarily. Whereas Cam and LaMelo they
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  Speaker 1: just seem to eat it up, especially Cam obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but we have a lot of guys now. I also
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  Speaker 1: think Brandon Miller. I think there's something there with Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Miller personality wise. Con Is, I mean everything's deadpanned. I
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  Speaker 1: mean there is that is a serious, like quiet dude,
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  Speaker 1: but he can ball, right, But I look at Brandon Miller.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to some of his interviews postgame, thank You's
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  Speaker 1: a silly way that he has. There's personality there. If
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  Speaker 1: he can just improve his game, stay healthy. There's a
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  Speaker 1: dog in him too. I'm not saying con don't have
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  Speaker 1: a dog in him. Right, He's a competitor. He'll throw
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  Speaker 1: his body all over the ground Larry Bird style, right,
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  Speaker 1: But like Brandon Miller, never forget him as a rookie
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  Speaker 1: yelling at PJ. Washington like there's him dunking on people
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  Speaker 1: and yelling at him like. There's a dog in Brandon Miller.
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  Speaker 1: So does he have the potential to be it?
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  Speaker 2: I think personality, both in game and personality. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's a good one. He's got the combo of both. Outspoken,
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna say something, you know. I think that's a
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  Speaker 2: good one. Mac We joked two hours ago about how
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  Speaker 2: Pecante is a diehard listener but doesn't always necessarily listen
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  Speaker 2: very well or quite understand what we're doing here. In
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  Speaker 2: the show, he named Bill Belichick as the face of
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  Speaker 2: the city. I had to explain to him that he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't coach here, he coaches in another city. Yeah, Pecante
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  Speaker 2: Whifts so many dang times, doesn't it He said, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think if Charlotte as the whole state, somebody did
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  Speaker 2: say Rod Brendamore too, So somebody else tried to bend
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  Speaker 2: the rules and go to round.
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  Speaker 1: It's bad enough. The next segment is going to focus
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  Speaker 1: on what Raleigh has going for it when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to Major League Baseball chances that we don't. It's bad enough.
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  Speaker 1: We have to, but we have to give you the
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  Speaker 1: real scoop. But it's bad enough. That's a thing. We
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  Speaker 1: don't need to name someone from Raleigh. Even though I
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  Speaker 1: love Rod to Bay, Rod's got the bet Rod is
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  Speaker 1: the body of the state. Though I will say that
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  Speaker 1: I'm very comfortable Bone.
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  Speaker 2: It was either gonna be Fitny's body of Rod's, but
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  Speaker 2: I am very comfortable in saying Rod, you could be
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  Speaker 2: the body, the sports body for the state of Dave
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: Gunlan's body. Back about a decade ago, Mac nippleshorts Man,
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  Speaker 2: five people in a row said t Mac as a
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  Speaker 2: future guy, T Max got a little silly fun personality.
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  Speaker 2: How far up the wide receiver chain can he go?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Kenny become a.
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  Speaker 1: Superstar wide receiver Because if we can Maybe there's a
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  Speaker 1: chance there. This dude says it's always gonna be Bryce. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, if you are a player off team, the
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  Speaker 1: NFL quarterback is the sports face of your city. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta we gotta think that through about. It's hurting.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it does that. You can tell I
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  Speaker 1: got stymied, does it? So if you have a player,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe what I just read. So if you
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  Speaker 1: have a playoff football team, is Matthew Stafford the face
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  Speaker 1: of LA sports?
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  Speaker 3: What's show? Hey right, it's show? Hey right, it's got
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  Speaker 3: and Lebron still Lebren.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's slightly harder to name the face in those
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  Speaker 2: cities than it is. Yeah, Luca too. Oh what Diana
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  Speaker 2: Rossini just said? Sean McVay is the face.
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  Speaker 3: Of the city.
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  Speaker 1: Hey now, uh seven o four number you guys. I
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  Speaker 1: know you're not trying to depress us, but this is
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  Speaker 1: a sad topic. If Bryce is the best we have
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  Speaker 1: for face of the city, we are in trouble. I
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  Speaker 1: think to Fowler's point in the article, in the.
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  Speaker 6: Quarterback of the most popular team in.
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  Speaker 1: Town, I think the point is in this. I think
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  Speaker 1: the point is that we are searching for that next guy.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing is too it's not like LaMelo.
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  Speaker 2: I would I would agree, Fitty that LaMelo was the
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  Speaker 2: face of the city, just how well known he was,
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  Speaker 2: the the ig following and all that stuff, the viral following.
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  Speaker 1: But we didn't win a playoff. We didn't you know,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't get to a playoff series with them. No,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So this just in we're Charlotte.
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  Speaker 1: We're not some of these other sports cities where they
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  Speaker 1: have like five great options.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't trying to depress anybody. Do you think it's
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  Speaker 2: Bryce right now?
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  Speaker 3: Fitty? Yeah, Like to me, it's.
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  Speaker 6: It would come down between Bryce or con and I
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  Speaker 6: would just lean Bryce. Because of the whole NFL thing.
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  Speaker 6: We talked about the Panthers with every single day, like
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  Speaker 6: every single day the Panthers get talked about on the station.
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  Speaker 3: There will come a point in.
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  Speaker 6: Time when the Hornets off scause it comes to an
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  Speaker 6: end where we don't talk about the Hornets.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL.
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  Speaker 3: The Panthers are on our mind every single day.
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  Speaker 2: Every day.
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  Speaker 3: There's a reason or we make it, you know, something
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  Speaker 3: to talk about.
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  Speaker 6: So and look, look how much of Bryce himself drives
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  Speaker 6: the conversation. How many times are we talking about Bryce Young,
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  Speaker 6: whether it's good, bad, and different, Like he is the
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  Speaker 6: guy that gets talked about the most on these airways. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: so he may not want to be, but with LaMelo gone,
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  Speaker 6: him coming off a playoff appearance, him in a make
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  Speaker 6: or break year, he is right now.
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  Speaker 2: For the short term the face of Charlotte Sports.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Flut Hexter says, Grayson Allen's got the feet of the city.
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  Speaker 2: Move on, he's one of us now, He's one of
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  Speaker 2: everybody here now, all right, just everyone, just get it
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  Speaker 2: out of ray I want him. Uh now you wanted
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  Speaker 2: the season to get booed? Standing ovation video, tribute video
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  Speaker 2: triple did you say tribute? I'm sorry. I want to Rayson.
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  Speaker 2: You're my guy now I.
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  Speaker 3: Want to welcome home video for the guy here.
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  Speaker 1: You're my guy unless Jeff Peterson trade you here in
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  Speaker 1: a fee in a few days. Fluke Jukie says Rod
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  Speaker 1: Brendemore's abs are like the Appalachian Appalation.
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  Speaker 6: Mountains, Appalachian matt Appalachian Palachival.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, how did I screw that up? That's stuff
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  Speaker 1: that people from around here.
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  Speaker 3: So it's to screw. How did I around here?
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  Speaker 4: Partner?
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, yes, Fluke chooky, thank you for that. This
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  Speaker 1: dude said, Oh, Joe from Raley's mad again? What's Joe
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  Speaker 1: from Raley says? We're just and Bryce again? But like
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  Speaker 1: the Bryce Young's personal protector.
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  Speaker 2: Today he was batter earlier today we didn't include Reco
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  Speaker 2: Dawdle on the top ten Panthers the list right now.
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  Speaker 1: Now, but he was mad because we ranked Bryce Young
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  Speaker 1: lower than he wanted on our Panthers rankings. Now he
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  Speaker 1: thinks we're hating on Bryce Young again? What's wrong with
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  Speaker 1: this man?
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  Speaker 3: Drinking?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even think he liked Bryce? What do you
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  Speaker 2: c J Stroud?
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  Speaker 4: Guy?
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  Speaker 3: He hates Bryce? So what happened to him?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden he's like, protects Bryce more than
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Mowten. I don't understand. I don't understand at all.
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  Speaker 1: I I mean, I guess maybe Bryce, but I I.
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  Speaker 2: Think it's a case to be made for Derek Brown.
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  Speaker 2: I just think Derek Brown's a bad, bad dude. I
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  Speaker 2: would say the developing person out, I would say mag
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  Speaker 2: as the young kids say, a bad mamma jama. This
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  Speaker 2: guy says, why do we have so many boring sports fingers.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a bunch of notes. It's it's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of no nonsense dudes.
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  Speaker 1: J J.
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  Speaker 2: Janssen getting votes bone for face to the city as well.
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  Speaker 2: He's the backside of the city. Were constructing the person
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  Speaker 2: bending over, You don't mean he actually we have. This
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  Speaker 2: guy's got the braid, this guy's got the arms. JJ's
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  Speaker 2: got the buttocks in the city very because the ball
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  Speaker 2: goes right through his eyes cheeks, jjon bend's over. That's
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  Speaker 2: what we see from him all the time. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: like I'm not saying I got you, all right. Rod's
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  Speaker 2: the abs and JJ's the cheeks.
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  Speaker 1: Unhappy aff He's mad at me because I did not
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  Speaker 1: mispronounce Appalachian State.
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  Speaker 2: I've mispronounced Appalachian mountains. Don't you worry about that so
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  Speaker 2: I mispronound. I want you to get your football program
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  Speaker 2: on track. I know Appalachian is hot, hot, hot, sir.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Max, someone's bring up a name here, and
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: it's a little disappointing that we forgot about him. He
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  Speaker 2: got re signed yesterday, Patty Collapse. There you go, baby.
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  Speaker 2: He is the hands of the city. He's the poems
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  Speaker 2: of the city. All right, somebody will call Fitny that,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, we gotta get out of here.
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  Speaker 3: Man, Were you gonna say that too? Is that just me?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think I think we all thought it.
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  Speaker 3: We did it when we come back.
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  Speaker 2: Brian Murphy of w r O and Raleigh actually kind
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  Speaker 2: enough to join us while he's in California to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the movement of baseball to Raleigh and not Charlotte
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety two seven.
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  Speaker 1: We are rocking and rolling on the macim Bone Show
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  Speaker 1: on a Tuesday. NBA free agency starts tonight six o'clock,
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• 16:17
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what Jeff Peterson has up you sleeve this time,
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  Speaker 1: would still in Charlotte. Maybe I'm biased like to call
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: it the push for Major League Baseball in the state
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: of North care Carolina. I'm just not sure we're pushing
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: very hard here Bone in Charlotte, and our next guest
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Brian Murphy, who is nice enough to join us from
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: the West Coast, so we've got to give him love
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: for that. But he's a reporter for WRL wrote a
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: story Bone about the leaders in the North Carolina Senate
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: pushing for a government backed framework for a one point
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: seven billion dollar Raleigh stadium.
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  Speaker 3: But it's not.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Everybody there in terms of lawmark makers at the state
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: level agrees. They also have two different billionaires Bone, including
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Tom Dundon, that are pushing for a Major League Baseball
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: franchise in Raleigh. So let's talk through this with Brian
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Murphy himself, who joins us here on the Mac and
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Bone Show. Brian, what's going on?
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Really appreciate you joining us from the West coast man.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no problem, Thanks thanks for having me. Guys.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: All right, so where does this stand? Politically.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Is this something that is not going to make its
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: way through completely, this idea to fund the Raleigh baseball stadium.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: How do you feel? How's that going right now?
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah? So, you know, the it is not going to
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: be in the budget that that's going to be voted
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: on this week up in Raleigh. But there is a plan,
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: and at least the Senate is backing this plan that
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: would have used public money, about five hundred million from
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: the state and then a variety of money from local
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: resources up up in Wake County, sports gambling tax, a
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: special taxing district actually, you know, diverting some of the
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: taxes on players or performers that play at the facility,
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: and that would have funded this one point seven billion
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: dollars stadium in Wake County. And that would have put
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: i think pushed Raleigh right to the front of the
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: line for an expansion team if and when Major League
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Baseball ever gets around to deciding some cities for an expansion.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: What's the ballpark situation there in Raleigh, what's the where
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: will it go? How much will it cost? Give us
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the uh, the update on what that may look like there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this was you know, this was a plan to
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: fully pay for for a one point seven billion dollar stadium.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: My understanding was it would not have a retractable roof,
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: but it would be in the same vicinity as Lenovo
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Center where the Hurricanes play, and Carter Finley Stadium, where
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Enstate obviously plays football, and that it may be closer
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: to the State Fairgrounds area. And they've created this, you know,
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: sort of special sports and entertainment districts and been able
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: to raise taxes in that district.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: You know, people are familiar with the battery around around
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Atlanta's Stadium, Atlanta's baseball stadium. This would have been like that.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: And of course the Hurricanes are supposed to develop the area,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: all those parking lots around Lenovo Center, so this would
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: have been, you know, another addition to that sort of
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: year round sports from college basketball to hockey to Major
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: League baseball. It doesn't seem like this is going to
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: get in the budget, but there is a proposal, and
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: I think it could come up at any time. There's
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: no reason that has to be in the budget. It
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: could be voted on as a standalone bill. All right.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: So we got to get to the the owner, you know,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the possible owners here, right, Tom Dundon and North Carolina
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Courage investor Mark Lazy, you write about this in the article,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: have both expressed a desire to bring a franchise to
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Charlotte separately. Right, so you have these two billionaires. I'm
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: sitting here on the radio in Charlotte saying, David Tepper,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: why not one more team?
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Come on, baby, throw your hat into the ring.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: It feels like this is a key thing that we
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: don't have here in Charlotte, right, that you might have options.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: There is the feeling though, that Dundon would be like
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: that Dundon would be the guy that would end up
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: being the lead dog, like if y'all were to get
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball there.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think you know Tom Dundon obviously
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: you just want to Stanley Cup with the you know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: with the Carolina Hurricanes. He has deep relationships up there
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: is the guy who runs the business side of the Hurricanes.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Used to work in the state legislature for Senator Phil Berger,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: who's the top Republican in the Senate, and clearly has
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: a good relationship with the people who run the Centennial Authority,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: which you know, the Centennial Authority oversees Lenovo Center, the
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Hurricanes run it. The Hurricanes have development rights around it.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, Raleigh and the state are already in business
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: with Tom Dundon. Mark Lasari is the guy who used
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: to own part of the Milwaukee Bucks, you know, manages
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: this giant hedge fund or capital fund is invested in
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: teams all over the country, including the Baltimore Orioles. So
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: you've got and he said, you know, he told me
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: in a story I reported last week or a couple
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: of weeks ago, that he wants to be invested in Raleigh.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: That he believes Raleigh is, you know, five, ten, fifteen
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: years from now, Raleigh is a growth city and the
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: place where he wants to kind of put his state. So,
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: you know, to have two guys say Raleigh is the
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: place I want to be. Obviously, I think you know,
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: moves moves the city kind of ahead of other cities
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: in this pacting order. But of course, you know, all
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: these guys want a stadium, and Raleigh does not have
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: a baseball stadium capable of holding you know, major League
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Baseball at this point. And my understanding is Charlotte doesn't
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: really either, and so who can finance a stadium? How
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: can you get a stadium built. If you're talking you know,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: one point seven, let's call it two billion dollars for
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: a stadium. Well, that they've also got to get a team,
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: which is probably going to be somewhere around three billion dollars.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: So it's a pretty heavy investment. And if you don't
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: have somebody with five billion dollars or the ability to
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: put together five billion dollars that, how are you going
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: to get How was anybody in North Carolina going to
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: get a team?
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Ryan?
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: How much are fans in Raleigh clamoring for baseball? Is
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: it a big puasue? Is that the majority wanting?
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Is?
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: What's the what's the fan view of this?
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's hard to tell. I mean, you know, until
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: you have a team, it's hard to know, you know,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: what the interest is. I think seeing what the Hurricanes did,
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: seeing that you know, two hundred thousand people showed up
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: for a parade, seeing that they were selling out watch
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: parties at Lenovo Center, when when the Hurricanes were playing
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: in Las Vegas and and they were you know, nineteen
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: thousand people in the stadium, another ten thousand outside of
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: the stadium, watch parties all around the city, with with
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: thousands more I think there's a feeling like that Rolly's
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: kind of ready for this. You know, Rolly only has
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: one professional team on like Charlotte, which has you know,
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: two of the Big Four plus Major League Soccer. So
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: there's a sense I think in Raleigh that, like the
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: times now right, the city is growing, the city is
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: ready for this. We only have one other team. But
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: you know, is it enough to pack of thirty five
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: to forty thousand seeds stadium eighty one times a year?
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: I think it is an open question.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: The last thing I want to ask Brian Murphy WRL.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Check out wil dot com the article about you know,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Riley's push and the political aspect of this, the ownership
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: groups and the potential ownership groups and all that stuff.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Do folks in Raleigh like do who do they look
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: at as their rivals for this? I've seen it reported
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: by some baseball insiders the Major League Baseball would ideally
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: pick at east coast city and a West coast expansion city,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: and Nashville gets a lot of hype as fast as
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: that city is growing.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: We and Charlotte would love to be in the mix.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: We get mentioned in all these articles because of how
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: fast Charlotte's grow into the fortune five hundred companies are
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: here and things like that are success with other pro sports.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: But man, no one has stepped up and said.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I, you know, I got tons of money, I want
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a team in Charlotte. Who do people in Raleigh view
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: as their competition? Is Charlotte even viewed as that or
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: or no?
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: I think most people think Nashville, and look, they're basically
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: this on all those national reports that Nashville, you know,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: is the leader on the East coast or the leader
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: in the you know, this side of the country. As
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: far as getting a team, I think, you know, one
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: of the issues for Charlotte is they're the city and
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: is putting six hundred and fifty million dollars into the
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Bank of America repairs and so you know where you're
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: going to find another six hundred and fifty million or
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: more to help build, you know, a baseball stadium. And
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: then the fact that no owner has stepped up. So
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: I think most people think Nashville. I think the real
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: question is what do the Atlanta Braves want, or what
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: are the Baltimore Orioles or Washington Nationals want or Saint
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Louis Cardinals like how close to their territory are you
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: willing to go? Like is Nashville going to reach opposition
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: from Saint Louis or is Charlotte going to have opposition
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: from the Braves. It's the team owners that vote on
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: this eventually, you know, when we get down to it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: So they're all going to be protecting their own territory.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I think that's going to play a role. Do they
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: want to go to Montreal, you know, and get into
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: the Canadian market. I think there's a lot of questions,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: and I mean Major League Baseball may not even play
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: in the twenty twenty seventh season. There may be a lockout,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: so like all this might get pushed off a couple
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: of years. So it's just it's really fascinating. But and
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: the fact that is not going to pass it, you know,
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: the state legislature is not going to pass us, and
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: the budget I think opens questions about whether Raley is
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: really a contender at this point as well.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Ran As a Yankee fan, I'm rooted for the lockout
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: right now to happen as quick as possible.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: If you're rooting for that, what's Fitty the Mets fan
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: on the show, rooting for literally the league to be a.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Polished he's rooting for basketball season, all right, Brian, good
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: stuff here, good stuff.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I wish you were writing an article about Charlotte has
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: the big push, they have the backers, they've got a
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: you know, the Senate folks talking. But that's good education
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: for us here for interest in sports fans. Thanks for
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: coming on and doing it early in the morning.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Appreciate you, brother, Yeah, thanks.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Sell those Charlotte billionaires to get on it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Man, I'm trying to aicha.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: We know one all right, man, appreciate you.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: That is Brian Murphy.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: W R E L.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, TEP Daddy, TEP daddy. Baby, your Q raiding is
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: rise it. Charlotte FC has been successful as a launch.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Love you on that side, Panthers tap tap two point
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: zero on the Panthers side, Baby, we are loving you.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: You.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Let you step back, you let Dan and Dave cook.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Now the next move is bring baseball to the city
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: of Charlotte. Come on, TEP daddy. I don't know any
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: other billionaires. Bone, that's all I got.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: We got any other billionaires? How about this bio macause
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: AI is never wrong right when it comes information. Carolina
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Panthers and Charde f C owner David Temper does not
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: currently own a major League baseball team, though he's a
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: lifelong baseball fan who grow up memorizing stats and collecting
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: baseball cards. You like baseball? You got about this, Janson Olsen.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: You guys got a lot of money and a love
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: for the sport. Getting to get a group together there
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: together with Tip Daddy as Mac and I will go
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: through be the coaches. Mack and I will throw in
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: some uh so, we'll throw some right. Whose are other
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: rich people? Rick Elias red Ventures pretty rich? The Hornets
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: owners have to be rich, Yeah, but I don't think
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: are they filthy?
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: State?
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Are they like billionaires? I don't think so. I don't
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: think so. By the way, why are we acting am
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: still around?
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: M J?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: You love modern league baseball? Baby? Why did we just
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: act like Schlatan are like paupers or something.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: I don't know if they're they're up against him?
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Oh man.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: So anyway, it is kind of I don't know, it's
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: kind of sobering. What does it feel like we have
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: people involved in uh, we don't have people a plan?
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Where were the stadium? Because I think people get confused
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: this stadium here for as great as it is, it's
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: not major League ready. And I don't know if that's
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: the right area because you're gonna you're gonna want a
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: hotel different You want hotels and you want available parking.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: What that's That's a great stadium, but what is around
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: It's not gonna work that way.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Did we use the Pipe and foundry the former location
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: or has that been used for something else already?
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess you're that for years. There's probably
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: spacing Concord somewhere like that type of d not where
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: you you need downtown, don't you. Well that's the movement
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: now like the Royals are going downtown in a district
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: for there there it's all about what can you put
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: around the state walking distance everybody.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: That's it's the It's a major trend, right and uh
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: so I don't think you'd want to go away from
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: that trend. But how much location or you know, space
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: do we have justin from I.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Don't think Texas Roadhouse and Cockord is going to be
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: able to take in all the baseball fans justin from
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Myrtle Beach, says mister Beast. Give Charlotte after he goes
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: in funds ECU. By the way, first, he's gonna do
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: e c U N I l now speaking of that, man,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: did you see where was it the West Virginia A
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: d or Rich Rodriguez. I forget who said it that
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Pat McAfee's worth eight figures to West Virginia at the
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: White X right now, like mister mister Beast could really
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: I mean he might be, but he could really fund
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: everything for ECU if you want to ECU.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Folks have been begging for it, man, have been begging
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: for it. This texter says, I I feel like it
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: is tepper or bust, and I don't understand why he
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: wouldn't want to do it.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's got two team. I don't know, he's
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: got two teams.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: He likes to be pretty involved with the Panthers, although
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: not as involved recently. We've pointed that out. We've noticed that.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I would like it. I would
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: definitely like it. This we don't need a Max tray
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: on the text.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: That's what happened to me. Wow, someone said, I went
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: to call my husband mister Wise and Sire Christina McClain.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: That ain't right, man, I don't want you know I
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: don't agree that. I could tell. I could tell that
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: just upsets you big time. All right, let's go to
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: the fit Daddy, speaking of rich men in the city
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: of Charlotte.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the mister beast. Let's go to fit dog.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: What do you got over there?
• 30:44
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  Speaker 2: A couple of points on that number one and what's
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: like we might get a Durhan for Simonis deal. Oh yeah,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: we didn't mention, which is interesting because they're like completely
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: different players. Sibonis doesn't play defense. Durhan's a great defendive.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: It's a weird people are questioning to fit with Caden Simonis.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Also, I've never seen a player mac openly want to
• 32:16
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• 32:18
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• 32:21
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• 32:24
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• 32:26
  Speaker 2: How has that occurred? That is really remarkable when you
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: think about it. I want to go Jalen Duran would
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: be a hot commodity anywhere. Why is he is that?
• 32:35
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• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Simbonis is someone that might be perfect. Maybe that's why
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: he wants that in Detroit is he wants forty million?
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Bonus is making I think they might be like, well,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: how are you going to do this? This has to
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: be the thing.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I think he just wants his money, and he's like
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you're saying, trying to find a way to get his money.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: He's like, I don't really give it to him. Where
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I'm playing, Just give me forty million year. I'll leave
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the number one seed knees behind Sacramento. Mack is where
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: careers sometimes going to die. So Sibonis in Detroit and
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: they report saying Sibonis is very you know, why wouldn't
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: he be to go from Sacramento to Detroit. But Sabonis
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: could end up being with the Pistons. The guy that
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: was you know that we flirted with, could end up
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: being on the He does he fit back what.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: JB wants to do.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Their defense, toughness, the Simbonas, that's a different that's a
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: different dog, good player.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: They definitely need more scoring and they've already got rid.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Of b stew So all of a sudden, yeah, all
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, these tough Pistons are with something.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: The tough but the tough Pistons where how far that
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: toughness get him in the playoffs? Yeah, it's true, like
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: they do need more offensive weapons than just Cade Cunningham.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right, the Pistons DNA. I don't know
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: if they say that in Detroit like we do here
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: in Charlotte, but the Pistons DNA would be altered, no doubt.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Great job by Fiddy on the update there. When we
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: come back, we get you set for a busy day
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: in the World Cup. The Braves are back in action.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: If that's a thing that people want to hear, and
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: more on Sports Radio nine seven.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: But we've got a big enough budget that we get
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: DMX through the second one.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, in person, he's available.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's not available unfortunately.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: All right, there's Michael Kay on the S Network during
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Yankee game. That is the New York Butcher Shop cut
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: of the day. You won't see DMX there unfortunately at
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: the New York Butcher Shop, but you can go there.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: They'll were for nearly as Indian Land four mill belt money.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Carrie mag you can tell them, Okay, he was getting
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Gordon his ear from the producer that I clean that up.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: He's no longer with us, and the man died in
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. If he comes back and says, of
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: course he's not alivee.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Oh that's awkward. I'll but he didn't even phrase it
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: that way. Yeah, he said is he available? And then
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: he got word in his ear clearly and said he's
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: unavailable sadly.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say so very much. A mocking Bone moment.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Oh that's the thing, though, I can I can't laugh
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: that much because obviously Michael Kay's being mocked for that.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: It's an awkward moment or whatever. But it has long
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: since been established Bone on this radio show that if
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: we were to play a dead or a live tournament
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: where you've got to figure out our celebrities dead or alive,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: I would finish in dead last place. I would be
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: germanied out of this knockout round. I would be beat
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: in the first round. I just am horrible at remembering
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: if people passed away. I'm terrible. I get to be
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: honest with you. If y'all played that clip for me,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I may not even be able to figure out where
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: he went wrong. But but I've read the story about
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: it going viral, so I know, so I can only
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: laugh so much. Man, how many times I mess stuff
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: like that up? I remember one. I remember one incident
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: that you had way back in the day we're talking.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I'd have to look up to see how many years
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: ago was when you came back from break with me
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: and Jim and you said, I want to say R
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Peter william Neeson and we said, oh my god, Willam
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Neeson noted, and you're going on about how great he
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: was a naked gun and Jim said, boy, that's Leslie Nielson,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: not Liam Neeson. And then fitting enough, William william Neeson
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: goes and plays and then the naked gun. But still
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: you said thoughts in prayers so William Neeson and that
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: that weren't thinking. Oh no, the guy from taking his time. Yes,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't mean to start a Liam Neeson fans.
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: I did not mean do that.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: That was just a name confusion. But I'm telling you
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I have There's no way I don't lead the league.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: There's no way I don't lead WFNZ in awkward. Oh shoot,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: he's not a live moments. So Michael, hey, I kind
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: of feel for you, man, but I did chuckle. I
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: did chuckle.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: You can also, you can also mac bring people back
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: that not only do you, I'll mess it up the
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: other way. You'll reverse that thing too. I'll mess it
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: up the other way as well. I heard Bailey talking
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: about this yesterday. Said the one, the one that he
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: did that he felt bad about, was Robin Williams, God
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: rest his soul.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: He was like, looking, He's like, I wonder if what
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Robert Williams got anything new coming out? And he said, oh, shoot,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: he doesn't have anything new coming out anyway.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: All right, shut up.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: We feel you. We feel you, Mike. Okay, we feel you, baby,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: all right? Sid One Not long ago about Rod Roddy.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: I thought to myself, what happened to Rod Roddy? The
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: price is right? Announcer didn't realize Mac that we lost
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Rod Roddy in two thousand and three.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got it time.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: I was sure I would have got that time. I
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: was about twenty years said, oh my god, we lost
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Rod Roddy. Not sure I would have got that one either.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: This is the things I think about during my day.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure bone that today at the World Cup
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: can match yesterday, but I think it shapes up to
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: be pretty darn good. Three matches again Ivory Coast, Norway
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: at one o'clock, France and Sweden at five o'clock, and
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: then Mexico Ecuador that place is going to be Steadio
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Azteca is going to be absolutely on its ear in
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Mexico City tonight. Mexico and Ecuador. I would think, I know,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Sweden's got talent bone, but I would think the way
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: France is playing their good those other two matches, I
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Similar to similar to yesterday. Probably a little bit down
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: to the end, extra time penalty, It could be more penalties.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Definitely, They're definitely again this tournament.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't expect France to be in any trouble,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: but the way this thing operates, who knows at this point, right.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but France feels like another level.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: In there.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: All right, Hansen, Well, here's the thing about Imbappe that's
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: so crazy, right, He's the big star we talk about
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: the face come of the face of Charlotte Sports. He's
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the one that everybody thinks of, the superstar and all this.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: He has never won a Ballandor Player of the Year worldwide.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: They've got a dude that scored a hat trick last Friday,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: that has won a ballandor and is the reigning Ballandor
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: champ and who's mind and Denble It's just an embarrassment
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: of riches. It's just not about Imbape, it's about Alise.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: It's about the entire embarrassment of riches they have. Man,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: it's inee dude.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: All those goals scoring records that Messi setting mac How
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: long are they gonna last? And Bope is what twenty
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: seven years old? Yeah, he's gonna own them all when it's.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: All so you will.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Although Messi keeps scoring them got another one together night,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Who knows how far he gets?
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Got any more of these worlds?
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: You tell me Messi can't play at forty two, forty
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: three years old? Anyone at forty that? Man, you forty
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: two or forty three? Just hang him up exactly. That's
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: what they say about me. Did you see what inter
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Messi did again? Messi and friends has grown. Casimiro, who
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: scored one of Brazil's goals yesterday, just agreed to terms
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: with inter Messi. It's just so annoying. And they all
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: can they can pay them all, they can afford them
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: all somehow bone anyone. No, I don't respect teams. I
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: just go out there and buy all these players. I know,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: by the way, my Yankees in a row, all right,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: let's read some of these texts, shall we, Ladies and gentlemen.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Seven oh four five, seven oh nine six three Joe
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: and Rawley's text Please, I think we're doing with Joe
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: and guy.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: This guy he he got an ivy a coffee today.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: This one, let's do.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Let's do this text thread that we got a bunch
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: on Bone going Mac and Bone show official and talking
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: about his girlfriend, the lovely Tara. We've gotten some text
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: about that Bone. This text one from her she said
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: what this This texture says speaking of what the bleep?
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Bone as a girlfriend?
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: What the bleep?
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Another text says, Bone, when does your radio audience get
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: to meet Tara? We need a live interview with her
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: on the air. So there he goes a lot interesting,
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: like you need a live interview. She wants to meet
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Fitty at some point to see what the problems are.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Let's see what the problem? So how long she wants
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: She wants to assess the uh the issues here so
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: she can she can try to help here. I tried
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: to get her out with founder and she said, uh,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: she's not sure she can go to that way. Oh
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: my god, she didn't say that. Okay, Okay, she kind
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: of indicated though that one of the time. Here, let's
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: read some more of these texts. Here, someone says, do
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: you think Florida sports talk shows are like us? And
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: do Carolina man stories? We don't give them the material,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: do we. I think the two story places are Texas
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: hass On, but they Florida and Ohio give it the
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Ohio toilet. Florida and Ohio have a lot of people.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: It's probably a lot of people mac from Ohio that
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: go to Florida. Probably what it is Ohio is Ohio
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: might be the cause of all this. It's the Florida
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: the Midwest. But let's not act like a lot of
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: people from Ohio don't come here. Let's not act like
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: there's all the way down to Benchell. All right, let
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: me read some more text here. Hornets givide text. That's
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: what That's what little mack Mack junior said when he
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: was younger, skimming.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: The Ohio toilet.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: I don't even know what it meant.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I just like it because Ohio stated annoys me. All right, anyway,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: let's read your text here. Hornet's management is not interested.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: So the menuscute chant is now moot. That is from Copeland.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: I know you're shocked that that is Copeland men of
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Scoot reboot. I'm in boys, I'm in.
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: We tried to fire the Menuscoot back up again, they
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: say on the trademarkt y'all.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: They said they never get back together again. They rode
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: off into the sunset. But they are back in adventure
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: all possible.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: I mean this, this is what's more exciting when the
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: new kids on the block did their reunion tour or
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: the Meniscoot getting back together today, y'all heartwarming stuff.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: What if they traded what if they traded Brandon Miller
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: away for then they got scooted. I've learned by all
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: of a sudden ultimately the thing you don't do, you
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: don't defeat the medscue.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I learned my lesson.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: That's not what I'm looking for. Look at the team,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: the two gentlemen together and you to back up.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Point here the hornetback. He was upset. Scoot wasn't here.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: That whole deal.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: We doubt it's true. It's not just us when people
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: bash us about wanting Scoot Henderson. There a mascot and
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: a damn team.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Then there was a lot of people that were questioning
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Brandon Mellerdy got draft different for various reasons. Tons Man, Brandon,
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: that's our bad though, But how would you like to
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: be teammates with Now you're face of the city brand
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: that second you you would scooped faces of the city.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: Let's see here.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: This guy says Bone is one hundred percent correct, correct
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: market down, the Hornets will be a better team this
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: year than last year.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: I felt like that take was a little warm from
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: the Bone man. But we'll see what Jeff Peterson does.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: The last time you questioned a take, there was Germany soccer.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: That's true. I thought Paraguay stunk. It turns out us
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: being Paraguay four to one makes us the greatest team
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: in the history of international soccer.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: I think Germany played with their schitzel too much.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: They also got screwed by the wall they did that
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: should not have been a disallowed goal.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: I was just two guys running in in. Let's see here.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Uh this Brad and Clover would like to just start
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: hanging banners at the Spectrum Center for draft assets. We
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: got Summer league T shirts, we got G League championship celebrations.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: Why not a we have a ton of draft assets
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: banner I'm down with it, baby, Mike, Am I wrong?
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: We're pretty nice a ficking today?
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: Were we?
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: Except for that first half hour?
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Listen to that Outside the Firm podcast that though I
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: thought we settled down a little bit.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: This text he came in. He came in hot today
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: though a little bits we did he did.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: We have a texted at once to know if we
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: said one of the Knipple brothers names is Caucasian Canipple.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: That is actually I don't know how you get you
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: get your ears cleaned out? All right, we're out of here.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Good work out of bone. Sorry about the curb comp
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Sorry about the first half hour fit daddy. We'll talk
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: to you, Uh, we'll talk to you tomorrow. Colin Haggard,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Charlotte Sports Today.
• 44:55
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