Transcript

05/07/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Up, grabbing the microphone. You're ready to roll here in this?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's going on about, Billy? I had to tell
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Speaker 1: you something here an hour three? All right? They said
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Speaker 1: you sounded like an owl. Oh it worked. Yeah. Did
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Speaker 1: you see that on the internet. I don't know. This
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Speaker 1: week I saw that on the internet a lot. I
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Speaker 1: think I was waiting. I was waiting to.
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Speaker 3: Drop that on you all week here and that it
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Speaker 3: was just kind of fun I thought for that one.
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Speaker 3: I was waiting all week for it, you know, so
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Speaker 3: I waited four more hours for it too. Don't worry,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it. I wanted to, well, come on, No,
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Speaker 3: that was funny. I mean, we're still gonna get all
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Speaker 3: our content in.
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Speaker 2: It was not as bad as a pause as Draymond
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Speaker 2: got last night when he tried to wait tried to
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Speaker 2: roast Charles and didn't work. So I'm glad you mentioned
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Speaker 2: that because not saying you want to go here. But
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Speaker 2: we are going to talk to a hunter this hour.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk to Hunter. We're gonna talk some brewers.
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Speaker 2: We've talked to a lot of bucks and conversation about
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Speaker 2: a conversation yesterday like that is what it is. Yesterday, though,
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Speaker 2: I am glad you mentioned it because it was as
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Speaker 2: a hot moment on inside the NBA that was Now
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of different things also shout out I
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Speaker 2: just saw here. According to our Barrett Sports Media first
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Speaker 2: take today appeared first in two thousand and seven. That's
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Speaker 2: almost twenty years that's been on television.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. Inside the NBA has been on longer.
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Speaker 2: Like, you don't think about it that way because we
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Speaker 2: mentioned Ted Turner just a little bit in the last segment,
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Speaker 2: one of our superheroes of the day TNT. I don't
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Speaker 2: think Ted Turner would love the fact that CNTs not
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Speaker 2: broadcasting NBA games anymore, right, Like from the sports mind,
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Speaker 2: he would not like that. And Ernie Johnson did a
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Speaker 2: phenomenal tribute to him last night as well. There as
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Speaker 2: they're still in the Atlanta studio doing the show now
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Speaker 2: on ESPN.
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Speaker 1: It's a weird situation.
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Speaker 2: The one thing is that show has always done that
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Speaker 2: has driven me up a wall is in the playoffs
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Speaker 2: and in the most important games.
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Speaker 1: A lot of the time is the most important times.
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Speaker 1: Add in someone They've thrown guys in there that I
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Speaker 1: don't need to hear.
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Speaker 2: From the show's great. It is the best show on
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Speaker 2: television in sports television. Just let it be that way. Now,
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Speaker 2: guys are gonna have off. They're working more now than
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Speaker 2: they ever were on TNT because they'd have Tuesday and
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Speaker 2: Thursday Night, Tuesday and Thursday Night, a little bit maybe
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Speaker 2: on Saturday, sure, but they'd add in the left GOO
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Speaker 2: groups generally during the postseason that time, like ESPN's got
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Speaker 2: them on as much of a rotation as they've had.
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Speaker 2: So I think Shaq was off last night just because
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Speaker 2: of a schedule been a lot now.
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Speaker 3: But which is funny because the idea was that they
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Speaker 3: were getting shelved during the season.
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Speaker 2: Were noticing that, right, So that was the idea of
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Speaker 2: the time. They were not on much during the regular season.
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Speaker 3: They're getting worked obviously, they loaded up in the postseason, which.
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Speaker 1: You're right inside.
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Speaker 3: The NBA has been on actually forever now, the originals
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Speaker 3: into the nineties.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it started.
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Speaker 3: I think Ernie started hosting in nineteen ninety and then
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Speaker 3: then Kenny and Charles came on like around two thousand
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Speaker 3: and that's when the crew that we know of now
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Speaker 3: started now, and.
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Speaker 2: Then Shaq would have joined in in the early twenty tens,
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Speaker 2: right like right pretty much right after his career ended.
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Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken yet, a.
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Speaker 3: Lot of people said, you need Shack, like this show
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Speaker 3: is great. Maybe we don't need Shack. Why he's left
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Speaker 3: and right that way? Why are you putting new people
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Speaker 3: in there?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: You know that was the idea?
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Speaker 3: So, I mean you already had Charles like kissing a donkey,
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Speaker 3: I think, and other other bits.
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Speaker 2: They were great moments on that one. They fired up
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Speaker 2: gone fishing already.
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Speaker 3: But I think Shack, because of his personality, his humorous knowledge,
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Speaker 3: and also his relationship in the era with Charles and Kenny,
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Speaker 3: made that obviously the right fit and the chemistry.
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Speaker 1: And the gravitational pull that Check had.
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Speaker 3: Obviously, Shack's a huge, huge figure. Jack is literally figured
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Speaker 3: like there's.
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Speaker 2: There there is one son in the NBA world. There's
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Speaker 2: a lot of different Like a lot of stuff revolves
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Speaker 2: around Shaquilo Neil.
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Speaker 1: A lot of big business revolves around well exactly.
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Speaker 3: It helps, it'll do any commerce. He'll be a pitchman
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Speaker 3: for any product TV more than leave it to be.
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Speaker 3: He's not the Empire commercial with the carpeting, right Empire.
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Speaker 1: How about the general Yeah, that's the one thing in
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Speaker 1: the general.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, the general obviously Papa John's you have the canon.
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Speaker 1: The printers. No one sells printering like.
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Speaker 2: And nobody buys more bikes at Walmart's than than Shaquilla
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Speaker 2: and rolls up and buy. The one guy that I
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Speaker 2: don't know does that is Draymond Green.
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Speaker 1: Now I do know.
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Speaker 2: Draymond Green goes on inside the NBA uh rather continuously
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Speaker 2: whenever his team is.
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Speaker 1: Out of the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Last year, they had a weird one when they were
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Speaker 2: in Madison Square Garden. They were in the absolute rafters
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Speaker 2: of Madison Square Garden and Draymond was in there, and like,
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Speaker 2: I hate when all of a sudden you roll in.
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Speaker 2: First question is going to Draymond Green. Heys, because he's here, Right,
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Speaker 2: Let's slide it to the guys that are actually on
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Speaker 2: the show, right, the little little nicks, the things that
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Speaker 2: we'd always don't love everything.
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Speaker 1: And Draymond said, we always are going to have gripes.
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Speaker 1: He said that he's got gripes with coaches. He had
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Speaker 1: a gripe with Steve Kerr.
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Speaker 2: I got my one gripe with Steve Kerr is the
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Speaker 2: fact that he hindered my offensive production in his career.
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Speaker 1: Explain that last night, and I thought it was I
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Speaker 1: thought it was fair. I would have said it.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's differently, of course, I'm gonna be different. I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna be a different offensive player. I am playing with
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Speaker 2: Steph Curry and Clay Thompson yet taking fifteen shots. Oh yeah, sorry,
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Speaker 2: pardon me and Kevin tea time finals MVP. Sure that
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Speaker 2: might have been what hindered your offensive production, right, nonetheless,
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Speaker 2: the fact that maybe you weren't a great offensive player. However,
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Speaker 2: he can't dream about That's the thing though, I mean, right,
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Speaker 2: it For some people it was a self awareness Sorry,
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Speaker 2: go ahead, Billy, Sorry, Oh no, you're you're fine, goody, Well,
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Speaker 2: it was the self awareness. And then he felt the
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Speaker 2: need after making that statement, I think, to have to
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Speaker 2: figure out a way to explain it on TV, you know,
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Speaker 2: and they try to make a good explanation, which.
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Speaker 1: Is well, he didn't diss he he didn't. He didn't
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Speaker 1: back down from it at all. He said, it's my
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Speaker 1: one gripe.
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Speaker 2: He's like and and frankly, what is it, Matt like,
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Speaker 2: I have no regrets. I want four titles. I was
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Speaker 2: on one of the best teams of all time. Charles
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Speaker 2: Barkley also said, you're on one of the best teams
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Speaker 2: of all time, but y'all are done. Yeah, he goes,
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Speaker 2: you want to compete again, you want to win again.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna have to get the out of there.
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Speaker 3: You're gonna have to leave speaking the I think the
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Speaker 3: fact that most of us see.
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Speaker 2: That, everybody sees the writing on the wall as they
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Speaker 2: had their little hug and embrace at the end of
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Speaker 2: the situation.
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Speaker 1: So they're talking, is Steve Kerr going to be back? Draymond?
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Speaker 1: Are you gonna pick up that player option? Are you
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Speaker 1: going to be back?
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Speaker 2: And then it got testy on inside the NBA courtesy
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Speaker 2: of ESPN last night.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a listen. Nobody wins when that.
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Speaker 4: You said what you said, I don't want to hear
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Speaker 4: if he believes what you're talking. I mean, I think
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Speaker 4: the goal is just to not look like you in
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Speaker 4: the Houston Rockets uniform. Yeah, as ultimulated goal for us,
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Speaker 4: like we don't want to what does that look like?
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Speaker 4: Did you see it? I'm just oscar I saw.
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Speaker 1: I saw it.
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Speaker 2: Now we all did see Charles Barkley in the Houston
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Speaker 2: Rockets uniform. We did see him towards the end of
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Speaker 2: that career. Uh in the final years of him in
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Speaker 2: the Houston Rockets uniform.
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Speaker 1: Off his peak. Obviously, he was top twenty in.
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Speaker 2: MVP candidacy his first year in Houston Rockets uniform. The
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Speaker 2: last two years, I think you can play to combined
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Speaker 2: like sixty something games and was a big injury fifteen
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Speaker 2: point a game guy, and you're right, had an injury,
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Speaker 2: but was not the same player. And he has talked
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Speaker 2: about it a lot of times that he was a
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Speaker 2: much much different player at that point and he was
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Speaker 2: hanging on the final couple of years in the NBA.
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Speaker 2: It seems like Draymond was anticipating a little bit bigger
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Speaker 2: pop at that moment, because Chuck looked him square in
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Speaker 2: between the eyes and said, you guys are done? Are
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Speaker 2: you guys are not winning anything? Sorry, No one wins
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Speaker 2: when they're thirty six, thirty seven, thirty eight years old.
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Speaker 2: He I think he kind of was also pointing towards
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Speaker 2: he doesn't believe the Lakers are gonna win, and I
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Speaker 2: think if you watch Game one, well, nobody believes the
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Speaker 2: Lakers are gonna get past Okay.
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Speaker 1: See he spent some facts there. Draymond didn't like.
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Speaker 2: It, and it seems like he was anticipating a little
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Speaker 2: bit bigger pop in a better reaction to the shot
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Speaker 2: across the pad.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean last night, you know, I'm I mean,
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Speaker 3: you know, I had my bias and opinion on Draymond.
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Speaker 1: I don't like him.
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Speaker 3: I did Horce Grant Kirkland Horse Grant, I think is
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Speaker 3: still appropriate. I appreciate what he's done as a small
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Speaker 3: ball defender. That's really where his greatness lied and in
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Speaker 3: a right in the right situation, and he was an
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Speaker 3: important part of those championship teams, which is fair to say.
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Speaker 3: But it's also fair to say that the situation has
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Speaker 3: given him a lot of the success he's had. He's
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Speaker 3: never been a great offensive player, Billy, and that's fine.
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Speaker 3: He is what he is a really really good role
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Speaker 3: player and a guy that hit the right type of
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Speaker 3: strengths for the right type of team in the system
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Speaker 3: where the other stars could shine. And he has a
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Speaker 3: lot to give them, a lot of credits to give
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Speaker 3: them for his success and the money he's made, and
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Speaker 3: he often doesn't do it. He thinks he's better than himself,
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Speaker 3: bet than everybody else. He's not a likable guy in
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Speaker 3: my opinion, and I don't like him, and I don't
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Speaker 3: like I think it was proven last night that a
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Speaker 3: lot of people don't like him when he's can't handle
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Speaker 3: a little bit of reality check. If you want to
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Speaker 3: go on TV while you're still playing, they're gonna ask
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Speaker 3: you questions about the situation that you're still playing in.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna, they're.
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Speaker 3: Gonna it's why you're there, why you're there, and you
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Speaker 3: have to be able to take some of that and
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Speaker 3: deal with it. Now, he did take it, and he
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Speaker 3: was part of the conversation, but clearly he feels the need.
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Speaker 1: He gets Scott sensitive about it.
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Speaker 3: So he's like, I'm gonna take a shot at Barkley
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Speaker 3: and wait for everybody to laugh. Well, guess what, brother,
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Speaker 3: nobody laughed because you're not that guy, Like nobody really
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Speaker 3: liked you that much there, and you're not really part
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Speaker 3: of the group enough for anyone to think, well, he's
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Speaker 3: a good natured guy and he's making this joke, and
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Speaker 3: we can make that joke while understanding that Charles was
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Speaker 3: still a great player in Houston. Charles last year in
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Speaker 3: Houston average fourteen and ten. I don't think Draymond's really
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Speaker 3: ever done that and.
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Speaker 2: Is I wanted to add a little more of that because,
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Speaker 2: as you mentioned, a lot of people jumped on it quickly. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and a lot of people that actually remember that.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: I was just born when Charles Barkley got to the
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Speaker 2: Houston Rockets, So I did not watch Charles Barkley in
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Speaker 2: the Houston Rockets.
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Speaker 1: I'll watched him on the Phoenix Suns.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I watched him those last couple of years in
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Speaker 2: Philadelphia seventy six ers.
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Speaker 1: Dude was on real He was a dominant player. He
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Speaker 1: won MVPN.
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Speaker 3: I mean during the height of Jordan, right, I mean
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Speaker 3: he was the best. He was the best player on
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Speaker 3: the Dream Team, the best player in the best team ever.
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Speaker 2: He was also the best player on like three or
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Speaker 2: four different organizations, right, Draymond Green was never the third
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Speaker 2: or fourth best player on his own team.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, And Charles never won a title. We all
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Speaker 1: know that.
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Speaker 3: He also, you know, had to go up against Jordan.
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Speaker 3: He also almost took that team to game seven packs
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Speaker 3: and hit the shot.
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Speaker 4: Like.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that happened.
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Speaker 2: And if they didn't win a title, they also went
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Speaker 2: to as many people have said it like Nick Wright had.
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Speaker 2: Aside from the fact that this is awful and awkward television,
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Speaker 2: it's also just a historical.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: In his four years in Houston, Chuck average sixteen, twelve
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Speaker 2: and four, including averaging eighteen and twelve during a run
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Speaker 2: to the Western Conference finals that they had and they
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Speaker 2: almost made it back to the finals. Yes, he also
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Speaker 2: then individual and the Bailey put on here because why
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Speaker 2: not just continue to dunk and throw it off the
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Speaker 2: glass and get into Draymond Green on this one. Charles
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Speaker 2: Barkley's four seasons as a Houston Rockets sixteen and a half,
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Speaker 2: twelve point two boards and just under four assists, a
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Speaker 2: box score plus minus of four point zero. That's a
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Speaker 2: good number for four seasons.
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Speaker 3: It's good, and it's not to say like Draymond, I
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Speaker 3: think was trying to bit.
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Speaker 2: One second go ahead Draymond Green the last four second
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Speaker 2: four years eight and a half points, six and a
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Speaker 2: half boards, six assists and a box score plus minus
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Speaker 2: of zero point five.
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Speaker 1: Ouch a lot worse, right, I might be might be
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Speaker 1: a different different stratusphere here.
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Speaker 3: And I think Dre is being trying to be half
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Speaker 3: funny and trying to banter like he sees these guys do.
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Speaker 2: He sees Shack make fun of Charles all the time.
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Speaker 2: Charles gets it back to Shack.
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Speaker 3: But it doesn't work, brother, because you're not in that
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Speaker 3: community and you haven't earned that level of respect with
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Speaker 3: these guys, right, You're not check right like, you haven't
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Speaker 3: earned that equity to be able to make those type
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Speaker 3: of jokes. So maybe Draymond would say, listen, I don't
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Speaker 3: really think Shack where Charles was that bad at Houston.
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Speaker 3: It was just me making a little joke when he
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Speaker 3: when he went after us not being able to win anymore.
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Speaker 3: But it didn't land for Draymond didn't get that equity there.
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Speaker 2: It was also awkward beforehand. The quote that Barkley fully
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Speaker 2: said was it's over for the Warriors, no disrespect. It
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Speaker 2: ends for every old team. You had your run, you
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Speaker 2: get old, you let Clay go. You and Steph are
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Speaker 2: on the back side of your careers. It just passed
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Speaker 2: you by. Yeah, and that's reality to me that he
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Speaker 2: was being fairly. He said, you guys had one of
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Speaker 2: the greatest runs ever. He's given it all the greatest
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Speaker 2: teams in basketball history, and they deserve to be in
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Speaker 2: that nex. Yes, yes, they're in there with the two
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Speaker 2: thousand Spurs run. Right now, I don't know how people
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Speaker 2: line up that what five titles in fifteen, right they're.
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Speaker 1: In the group of the Shaq Lakers.
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Speaker 2: Maybe not six and eight years like the Bulls, but
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Speaker 2: they'll be remembered like the nineties Bulls. The Warriors of
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Speaker 2: that run were one of the most historic teams in
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Speaker 2: NBA history. And at some point it ends. And like
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Speaker 2: Draymond said, we had the hug for a reason. We're
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Speaker 2: not oblivious that it could be it. You could tell
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Speaker 2: that he got hurt a little bit there and he
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Speaker 2: was he was cooking up that response. He was he
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Speaker 2: was waiting to get back there.
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Speaker 1: I just don't.
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Speaker 3: I don't like Draymond ever did for multiple reasons. I'll
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Speaker 3: acknowledge what Draymond's done in this league. His value so,
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Speaker 3: and that's the other thing about counting stats, rebounds and points.
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Speaker 3: Draymond's value wasn't scoring and I so during the during
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Speaker 3: his best year of his career, was defense and things
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Speaker 3: like that, and those things matter. But Draymond, you were
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Speaker 3: not some great offensive threat that Steve Kirk took away
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Speaker 3: from you. You are not like the main character in
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Speaker 3: everybody's story.
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Speaker 1: I don't. I never was.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna listen to your podcast. Some people might. You
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Speaker 3: might have a career doing that. That's fine. You know
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Speaker 3: how to speak in some compelling ways. But most of
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Speaker 3: the time people just don't like you. So hey, good
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Speaker 3: luck to Draymond trying to win another championship. I don't
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Speaker 3: know if it's gonna happen, Billy. If you have a question,
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Speaker 3: or if anyone out there has a question about Charles Barkley,
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Speaker 3: go go look at Game seven in the ninety three
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Speaker 3: Western Conference Finals. Go watch that game. Then the man
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Speaker 3: put up like forty to twenty two some exactly.
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Speaker 1: The round of rebound was a real deal. He had
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Speaker 1: a time, man, Okay, he had his time. And I
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Speaker 1: don't know that I'd say it this way.
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Speaker 2: I think he would actually fit even better into today's
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Speaker 2: game and people wouldn't think about it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Sure, as he would be able to be undersized and
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Speaker 2: just bully folks all over the paint.
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Speaker 1: I mean that's what it is. I mean, he's your friend.
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Speaker 2: Zach on the uh so Zach watching us on Facebook
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Speaker 2: today fired in Chuck's Funny Drey's lame as hell. You
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Speaker 2: believe that Zach shares a similar sentiment with most here,
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Speaker 2: like Charles says a dig at somebody and you instantly
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Speaker 2: laugh and then all of a sudden.
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Speaker 1: Go, it's kind of right.
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Speaker 2: Draymond said anything last night, and I'm like, why is
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Speaker 2: he here? Basically like, all due respect, don't don't be here.
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Speaker 2: But they had Jalen Rose filling a couple of a
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Speaker 2: week ago when Kenny Smith had his daughter's wedding. That's
14:41
Speaker 2: a great sub We love Jalen Rose. Jalen Rose is
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Speaker 2: phenomenal on television. He's been on television for a long time.
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Speaker 2: Draymond Green wants to be on television, but he doesn't
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Speaker 2: want to be on television.
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Speaker 1: He's the new media.
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Speaker 2: Remember remember that he also is changing the way conversations
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Speaker 2: are because he's having his own conversation and once again
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Speaker 2: being the star of his own show. Just an amazing,
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Speaker 2: amazing conversation.
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Speaker 1: I loved uh. We had Troy Casper.
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Speaker 2: On the comments as well as saying Austin Rivers went
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Speaker 2: hard on Draymond Green the other day.
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Speaker 1: It was really funny. I've been following that feud.
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Speaker 2: A little bit to say now that feud I thought
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Speaker 2: was right up. Arman, Sorry in tally because Austin Rivers,
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Speaker 2: by the way, watch.
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Speaker 1: All of the show, wants the smoke. He likes it.
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Speaker 3: If you remember, he got into James Jones once random
15:25
Speaker 3: and Austin he called him the luckiest player ever. Like,
15:28
Speaker 3: this is the thing I'm always careful of. And we're
15:30
Speaker 3: gonna get the hunter here, but I'm always careful of this.
15:33
Speaker 3: And when people get personal or emotional how they feel
15:36
Speaker 3: about somebody, they tend to take away like the accomplishments
15:39
Speaker 3: a little bit, like, well he wasn't that good anyway,
15:41
Speaker 3: or I didn't you know, I don't like that so
15:43
Speaker 3: and so's business and their pizza wasn't good. I don't
15:45
Speaker 3: want to do that, right, Like, Draymond definitely had an
15:47
Speaker 3: ability and talent to help teams win championships in this
15:50
Speaker 3: league and it matters like the way that team played
15:53
Speaker 3: in the defense and stuff like that. So I'm not
15:55
Speaker 3: gonna take anything away from that. He has accomplishments in
15:57
Speaker 3: this league, but we have to be realistic about what
15:59
Speaker 3: they are. And the fact is like sometimes if you
16:03
Speaker 3: just unlikable, you're gonna be unlikable, and people aren't gonna
16:05
Speaker 3: like you, So I'm not gonna call him the luckiest
16:07
Speaker 3: player ever and all that stuff.
16:08
Speaker 1: I do think he was any fortunate situation though, oh.
16:11
Speaker 2: Absolutely, But he was an additive right, Like, yes, those
16:14
Speaker 2: teams are not the same teams if they don't have
16:16
Speaker 2: Draymond Green right right, Like they needed somebody that. Now,
16:20
Speaker 2: maybe at this point he's a little bit salty about it,
16:22
Speaker 2: but would do all of the dirty stuff to be
16:26
Speaker 2: able to allow Steph Curry to be the guy he
16:28
Speaker 2: was Brook Lopez for instance, Like he wasn't win a
16:30
Speaker 2: title on his own, but Brooke was very important in
16:32
Speaker 2: the Bugs when they and you don't win it without him,
16:34
Speaker 2: Like Draymond was one of the best screen setters UH
16:36
Speaker 2: in the league at one point, not as good as
16:39
Speaker 2: Andrew Boga because my man was a stone wall when
16:41
Speaker 2: people would run into Bogues. But like in the later
16:44
Speaker 2: part of his career, you weren't getting past him. And
16:48
Speaker 2: what Green did was one of the big reasons why
16:51
Speaker 2: they won as many titles as they did. However, maybe
16:54
Speaker 2: still his best game and the one that would have
16:58
Speaker 2: put him in a different FI shalon of player, a
17:01
Speaker 2: different class. He was probably gonna win finals MVP if
17:06
Speaker 2: they win Game seven in twenty sixteen, you go back,
17:08
Speaker 2: you know, you want to talk about a certain game.
17:10
Speaker 1: He's got like thirty six in that game. Yeah, that's
17:12
Speaker 1: pretty wildly he forgot about that.
17:14
Speaker 2: He was a lightning Rod Curry couldn't get anything Rolling
17:18
Speaker 2: Clay was was bad in that game, and ultimately they
17:21
Speaker 2: lose the title to UH to maybe the greatest comeback
17:24
Speaker 2: in all of professional sports history of Lebron and the
17:26
Speaker 2: Cleveland Cavaliers coming back from three to one down. But
17:29
Speaker 2: he starts that run by kicking Lebron in the NATS,
17:34
Speaker 2: getting himself suspended right and then almost was able to
17:38
Speaker 2: pull it and reverse full course, and maybe the twenty
17:41
Speaker 2: sixteen finals, the Draymond Green Finals, where he was going
17:44
Speaker 2: to ultimately end up being the MVP, and instead UH
17:47
Speaker 2: it ends up being the maybe the worst loss in
17:50
Speaker 2: their franchise history.
17:51
Speaker 1: So frankly, in basketball, he's the greatest regular.
17:54
Speaker 2: Season team then winning and blowing a three to one lead,
17:57
Speaker 2: it's one of the worst collapses.
17:58
Speaker 1: In all of professionals. So hard to believe. That's ten
18:00
Speaker 1: years now.
18:01
Speaker 3: I mean when you said twenty sixteen, and it made
18:03
Speaker 3: me think a second and I'm taking back to those games.
18:05
Speaker 3: It's hard to believe it's been ten years and it's
18:07
Speaker 3: been that long since that. That was one of the
18:09
Speaker 3: craziest You're right, Billy, one of the most colossal achievements,
18:12
Speaker 3: bringing Cleveland a title and beating a seventy plus win
18:15
Speaker 3: Teamy three win team plus all the way back from
18:19
Speaker 3: a three to one deficit.
18:21
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow, that's amazing to remember that that's been ten years.
18:25
Speaker 1: A wild one.
18:25
Speaker 2: And also since we're thinking, you know, twenty sixteen, ten
18:28
Speaker 2: years ago, ninety six was thirty years ago. That's where
18:31
Speaker 2: a man dead man was born. He said, good morning, boys,
18:35
Speaker 2: it's by thirty thirty today. Let's go celebrate that great
18:37
Speaker 2: win yesterday. Big win for the crew yesterday. We liked
18:40
Speaker 2: that six to two dub in Saint Louis. Andrew Vaughan
18:42
Speaker 2: back with a Homer. We're gonna talk a lot more
18:44
Speaker 2: about it, coming up with our friend Hunter Bombguard on
18:47
Speaker 2: the other side, who is rested, rejuvenate, and hopefully rehabbed.
18:51
Speaker 2: Do you have to throw in a correction here? I'm
18:54
Speaker 2: the nicolay Lo dot com talking text on which is
18:57
Speaker 2: always the Department of Care. Connor from Appleton called me out.
19:02
Speaker 2: He said, Hey, by the way, dude, Marcus Jones returns
19:04
Speaker 2: punts for the cleve of the New England Patriots. Also
19:06
Speaker 2: they're starting nickelback corner safety plays a little receivers number
19:10
Speaker 2: one on the depth chart. Connor, good call, Connor, you
19:14
Speaker 2: are right. There is one guy now he is and
19:17
Speaker 2: Marcus Jones is an absolute weapon.
19:19
Speaker 1: So listen when somebody gets one and he's right, I
19:22
Speaker 1: gotta call it out.
19:23
Speaker 2: Connor and Appleton said, hey, Bud, Marcus Jones, you might
19:26
Speaker 2: want to grab that guy in an independent league because
19:28
Speaker 2: he's going to be a problem.
19:29
Speaker 1: Good call, there, There are some.
19:31
Speaker 2: That's also where Keishawn Nixon started, and now he's the
19:34
Speaker 2: outside corner. They got Christian Gonzalez there in New England,
19:37
Speaker 2: so there's a There are a couple of guys on
19:38
Speaker 2: the outside. They're paying Carlton Davis twenty million dollars on
19:40
Speaker 2: the outside.
19:41
Speaker 1: He's there. He's not one of the top.
19:43
Speaker 2: Two outside options, but he's definitely playing a ton of
19:46
Speaker 2: regular season snaps. Finally getting in some regular season action.
19:50
Speaker 2: Jackson Curio Andrew Vaughn crazy. How the offense comes through
19:54
Speaker 2: six of nine? Is Jackson Surio in the box, a
19:58
Speaker 2: two hit game and a bomb from Andrew vaugh talk
20:00
Speaker 2: about it with our Brewers insider and host of the
20:03
Speaker 2: baseball pregame show, our guy Hunter Bombguart. It'll be Milwaukee
20:06
Speaker 2: Baseball tonight coming up at six. On the other side
20:08
Speaker 2: here in Fox Sports radiois consint Hunter Bombgart joins the huddle.
20:11
Speaker 2: You got it right here YouTube stream and hanging out
20:14
Speaker 2: with us on and if you have noticed on the
20:16
Speaker 2: all new YouTube stream, sweet new backdrop. Yeah, thank you
20:20
Speaker 2: to our friend Hunter Bombguard for being an absolute weapons
20:22
Speaker 2: socially and digitally and covering.
20:25
Speaker 1: The Milwaukee Brewers. Good to hear from you, Hunter, How
20:26
Speaker 1: you doing, brother, Yeah, good to see you guys.
20:29
Speaker 5: I want to give credit where credit is due where
20:32
Speaker 5: the graphics there are definitely not my creative.
20:37
Speaker 1: Sure graphics department is really good at what they do.
20:39
Speaker 5: And I put in the request and they are really
20:41
Speaker 5: good at putting it, but you know, putting those together,
20:43
Speaker 5: that's their expertise.
20:44
Speaker 6: I'm not as good as that.
20:47
Speaker 2: Is the best in the building at actually seeing what
20:50
Speaker 2: could happen and then talking to management. Like see, if
20:53
Speaker 2: anybody's gonna talk to the hubs, it's gonna be Hunter
20:55
Speaker 2: because he's the most professional guy on the station, right Like,
20:58
Speaker 2: that's so you're gonna defl the credit. We're gonna throw
21:01
Speaker 2: that son of a gun right back on you, all right,
21:02
Speaker 2: because if anybody's gonna have them conversations, it's got to
21:05
Speaker 2: be Hunter Bombguard otherwise we're all screwed.
21:09
Speaker 6: Well, well, thank you, guys, I appreciate now.
21:11
Speaker 2: The one conversation that we had earlier on today which
21:13
Speaker 2: we don't love having is the absolute freight train that's
21:16
Speaker 2: rolling on in Chicago.
21:17
Speaker 1: I saw you post the video last night.
21:19
Speaker 2: We don't see a whole lot of two run sack
21:21
Speaker 2: flies then a two run shot in the bottom of
21:24
Speaker 2: the nine to ignite that place. The Cubs are rolling
21:27
Speaker 2: right now. They're having maybe they're having a run like
21:29
Speaker 2: the Brewers did a year ago. They're nineteen and four
21:32
Speaker 2: in their last twenty three games. They have six walk
21:35
Speaker 2: off wins in that time. They've won fourteen straight games
21:38
Speaker 2: at Wrigley Field and have an eight game winning streak. Hunter,
21:42
Speaker 2: how much of that is a are you able to
21:46
Speaker 2: kind of put out of site, out of mind if
21:47
Speaker 2: you're the crew, because as much as you it feels cliche.
21:51
Speaker 1: You got to run your own race when we're in
21:53
Speaker 1: the first week of May.
21:55
Speaker 6: Well, that's exactly it.
21:56
Speaker 5: Like, I feel like overall, we can't really be taking
22:01
Speaker 5: a ton of that into account right now, just because
22:04
Speaker 5: there are going to be times where every team in
22:06
Speaker 5: this division is hot. The Reds were hot to start
22:08
Speaker 5: the year, and then the Reds have lost six in
22:11
Speaker 5: a row. Obviously, the Pirates were a little hotter before
22:14
Speaker 5: as well.
22:16
Speaker 6: The Cardinals. You know, maybe they're.
22:18
Speaker 5: They're trending downward just a little bit, hopefully, and the
22:22
Speaker 5: Brewers have been just kind of up and down. Obviously
22:25
Speaker 5: they were hot to start the year. There's gonna be
22:26
Speaker 5: times where these teams are hot and they're cold. The
22:29
Speaker 5: Cubs are, Look, they're a really good baseball team. However,
22:32
Speaker 5: they have a ton of pitching injuries right now. I mean,
22:36
Speaker 5: Matthew Boyd just went down yesterday. So like it is,
22:39
Speaker 5: you think the Brewers have a lot of injuries, and
22:41
Speaker 5: they do. The Cubs are right up there with them
22:43
Speaker 5: with the way that pitching staff has been decimated and
22:46
Speaker 5: they are just finding ways to win and so early on, Yeah,
22:50
Speaker 5: it's a little scary to see how good they are. However,
22:52
Speaker 5: you did expect that at some point they were going
22:54
Speaker 5: to do. You know, at some point they were going
22:57
Speaker 5: to be this good. This team won ninety plus games
22:59
Speaker 5: last year in the so it's not like they're coming in.
23:01
Speaker 6: They added Bregman.
23:02
Speaker 5: They're a really good team, especially offensively, so it makes
23:06
Speaker 5: sense that they're doing well. But we can't say on
23:08
Speaker 5: May seventh that, oh, they're just gonna run away with
23:10
Speaker 5: this division. The Birds are going to play for a
23:11
Speaker 5: wildcard because things can change so quickly. Five games can
23:15
Speaker 5: be made up in a month and all of a
23:16
Speaker 5: sudden you're tied for the division, League Memorial Day or
23:19
Speaker 5: something like that. So overall, you know, could do the
23:23
Speaker 5: Cubs as staying power, absolutely, because that team is a
23:26
Speaker 5: really good outfit top to bottom, rather than maybe the
23:30
Speaker 5: Pirates or the Cardinals, who I don't think necessarily have
23:32
Speaker 5: staying power. But they're also going to go through their
23:36
Speaker 5: own tough stretch at some point and hopefully the Brewers
23:38
Speaker 5: can take advantage of it.
23:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so early and still part of that, and
23:42
Speaker 3: it reminds me a lot of what Bruise fans or
23:44
Speaker 3: Cubs fans felt last year the Bruis were on their
23:46
Speaker 3: long streak, like there was a lot of that you
23:47
Speaker 3: know from Cubs fans, the Bruers will ever lose their
23:49
Speaker 3: inevitable but this is the way it is right now
23:52
Speaker 3: and the Cubs are hot. But you're right, you have
23:54
Speaker 3: to run your own race, especially at this point of
23:56
Speaker 3: the season. Speaking of staying healthy, can you describe the
24:00
Speaker 3: around the office yesterday when you and I saw Garrett
24:02
Speaker 3: Mitchell scratched before the game yesterday. Billy didn't see it,
24:06
Speaker 3: but Hunter, Yeah, we were very concerned another Garrett Mitchell
24:10
Speaker 3: situation popping up right before, but we got word it
24:13
Speaker 3: was just an illness.
24:14
Speaker 1: So a lot of relief there. I would imagine Hunters
24:16
Speaker 1: as the Brewers have dealt with so many injuries.
24:19
Speaker 5: Definitely, that's the thing like it a lot of relief
24:22
Speaker 5: at first when you see somebody scratched.
24:24
Speaker 6: You don't know what it is.
24:25
Speaker 5: Terrang same way just a few days ago, but it
24:28
Speaker 5: sounds like a bug is headed through that locker room
24:30
Speaker 5: and Garrett Mitchell. Pat Murphy said after the game that
24:32
Speaker 5: Mitchell was, you know, leaving all the way up till
24:35
Speaker 5: game time, had to scratch him and thus it was
24:38
Speaker 5: not an injury and hopefully he's back in the lineup
24:40
Speaker 5: coming up tomorrow.
24:41
Speaker 6: Night.
24:41
Speaker 5: He's obviously a big part of what they do. I know,
24:45
Speaker 5: the average has started to go down, and the home
24:47
Speaker 5: runs aren't necessarily I mean, the home runs aren't there
24:50
Speaker 5: anywhere necessarily right now on this team. But he's obviously
24:54
Speaker 5: a key part of that in their center fielder. So
24:57
Speaker 5: you hope that he's gonna be fine tomorrow night. I
24:59
Speaker 5: think it's whenever somebody's scratched, especially a guy like er
25:02
Speaker 5: Mitchell who has.
25:02
Speaker 6: That history, you get worried.
25:04
Speaker 7: Uh.
25:04
Speaker 5: And just overall in the scope of what the Brewers
25:06
Speaker 5: have dealt with. I just mentioned the Cubs, but obviously
25:08
Speaker 5: the Brewers have had their share of injuries. You'd also
25:12
Speaker 5: think about overall, and I mentioned this to you Arman yesterday.
25:15
Speaker 5: You think about how many injuries Wisconsin sports teams have
25:19
Speaker 5: suffered in the last year, and the stardom which has have.
25:24
Speaker 6: Missed significant time.
25:25
Speaker 5: I mean, you look at the Packers obviously Micah Parsons,
25:28
Speaker 5: Tucker Craft and others. You look at the Bucks Giannis,
25:31
Speaker 5: you look at the Brewers, Christian Yelich Jackson, like it's
25:34
Speaker 5: been a top run of injuries. Like injuries happen to
25:37
Speaker 5: every team and every sport, but this seems like a
25:40
Speaker 5: different type of run over the last calendar.
25:42
Speaker 6: You're mismiss some time last year.
25:43
Speaker 5: For the Brewers too, like it's it's and they've been
25:46
Speaker 5: able to all those teams, Uh, well not all. Some
25:49
Speaker 5: of those teams have been able to deal with them,
25:51
Speaker 5: maybe better than others, but I think overall they have
25:54
Speaker 5: hurt the product a little bit just because those are
25:57
Speaker 5: significant players, like missing Churio and Vaughn, And we're seeing
26:00
Speaker 5: it the last couple of days, right, and I'm sure
26:02
Speaker 5: we'll get to it, but those are it's.
26:04
Speaker 6: Just a different level of baseball player. And that's just
26:06
Speaker 6: how it is.
26:07
Speaker 5: There's different levels to things in life, different levels to
26:09
Speaker 5: baseball players, and you're seeing that with Churio and Vaughn.
26:12
Speaker 2: The kids say there's levels to this stuff then and
26:14
Speaker 2: a different word for stuff. But you're you're you're spot
26:17
Speaker 2: on a hunter of the injuries. And I mean I
26:18
Speaker 2: throw Woody in there as well, like top of the
26:21
Speaker 2: top of the marquee of guys that you start counting
26:23
Speaker 2: upon and sadly has been has been taken out and
26:26
Speaker 2: marred by injuries.
26:27
Speaker 1: You mentioned Churio and Vaughn.
26:29
Speaker 2: It is crazy, Uh, you get two of your better
26:31
Speaker 2: offensive players in there, and they produce. I like, I
26:34
Speaker 2: don't necessarily know how much easier that can be said.
26:37
Speaker 2: But the way Jackson Curio arrived Toronto, I think last year, right,
26:43
Speaker 2: he comes off of the il and just rips the
26:46
Speaker 2: cover off the baseball against the Blue Jays for a
26:48
Speaker 2: couple of games and six of his first nine in
26:52
Speaker 2: the big leagues here in twenty twenty six. It doesn't
26:55
Speaker 2: seem like there's anything different, there's nothing crazy to it.
26:58
Speaker 1: He just appears right now. And again it's two games in.
27:02
Speaker 2: It's hard to make any sweeping assumptions, but he is
27:05
Speaker 2: hunting mistakes and it appears like he has dialed in
27:08
Speaker 2: on what pitch he wants, what pitch he needs, and
27:11
Speaker 2: when it comes, he is not missing it.
27:14
Speaker 5: No, not at all, And you just again, it's just
27:16
Speaker 5: the pure hitter that he is. I saw Jack stern
27:19
Speaker 5: A berf Andic put this out yesterday. Perkins, Matos and
27:23
Speaker 5: Jones combined for eight batted balls one hundred miles an
27:25
Speaker 5: hour or more over their ninety six plate appearances, and
27:29
Speaker 5: Jackson Curio has six hits of that nature in his
27:32
Speaker 5: ten plate appearances.
27:33
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that was yeah, Hey, he played major. Did
27:38
Speaker 1: he have barrels on that bat? That's a good question.
27:41
Speaker 5: I didn't.
27:42
Speaker 2: I didn't necessarily know if there was a barrel on
27:43
Speaker 2: that bath. Was he using the inverse torpedo?
27:46
Speaker 1: Yeah? Using cells? Yeah? sALS beat So.
27:50
Speaker 2: Well, I'm just no, you know what, he got two
27:52
Speaker 2: hits yesterday, shouldn't anything, got more home.
27:54
Speaker 1: Runs than Garrett Mitchell on the year. Yeah, I guess
27:56
Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah, it's right.
27:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been hitting the crap out of it, that's
28:00
Speaker 3: for sure. So no, I'm just I'm.
28:03
Speaker 2: Just, hey, maybe he should, but more like yes, that
28:05
Speaker 2: just blows my The unrelenting sel freel hate is just
28:08
Speaker 2: redicable to itside. So let's talk about as on the
28:11
Speaker 2: other side as well. With Brandon Sprung. I mean, you
28:13
Speaker 2: want to talk about skys falling early on for his run.
28:17
Speaker 2: Does feel like he is settled in, He's got the
28:19
Speaker 2: one inning issue. Now, granted, young pitchers are always going
28:21
Speaker 2: to have the one hiccup inning. It was what four
28:23
Speaker 2: hitters that flipped the game against Arizona yesterday, got himself
28:27
Speaker 2: into trouble, but big work being able to get himself
28:29
Speaker 2: out there.
28:30
Speaker 1: Oh for sure.
28:31
Speaker 6: And that's you know, kind of a learning moment.
28:33
Speaker 5: I know Pat Murphy talked about after the game kind
28:35
Speaker 5: of his ability to learn on the fly. These guys
28:38
Speaker 5: are doing that right brand it Sprot's a guy who
28:40
Speaker 5: came into the season with like four or five career starts,
28:43
Speaker 5: so he's still learning and still young in his major
28:46
Speaker 5: league baseball career. But Pat Murphy also said that, like, look,
28:50
Speaker 5: we're just gonna leave guys out there because they're learning. Like,
28:53
Speaker 5: we also want to win games, so we have a
28:55
Speaker 5: high standard here no matter what the outside may think.
28:58
Speaker 5: We are wanting to in baseball games and wanting to
29:01
Speaker 5: hold our standard, and so we're not just gonna let
29:03
Speaker 5: a guy kind of learn learn just for the sake
29:07
Speaker 5: of learning. Now, of course, they are going to learn
29:09
Speaker 5: by by experience, and there are gonna be times where
29:11
Speaker 5: you let a guy in because you think that's that's
29:14
Speaker 5: the best way, and it may work out or may not.
29:16
Speaker 5: But I think, you know a lot of people are
29:18
Speaker 5: are I've seen people on social media, what, Okay, why
29:21
Speaker 5: do we have to watch Brandon spro pitch again every
29:23
Speaker 5: time I say that he's in the probable list Because
29:25
Speaker 5: he's one of the Brewers' starting pitchers and I think
29:27
Speaker 5: he has a real he has really high potential.
29:30
Speaker 6: He's just got to straighten it out. And and we've
29:32
Speaker 6: seen flashes of that.
29:33
Speaker 5: I mean, I remember his obviously his best start, this
29:36
Speaker 5: is the one against Toronto, another one against the Tigers
29:39
Speaker 5: where it was pretty good on that day game in
29:41
Speaker 5: that series finale, Berus end up losing on a walk off,
29:43
Speaker 5: but he held them in that game against Trek Scuble
29:46
Speaker 5: and the Brewers had the lead late in that game.
29:47
Speaker 5: And and so have there been some clunkers, especially there
29:51
Speaker 5: were a couple early on Yesh. But I think he's
29:55
Speaker 5: kind of going through those growing pains, and I think
29:57
Speaker 5: you're you're I'm really excited to see, like think about
30:00
Speaker 5: three months down the road, four months down the road,
30:02
Speaker 5: heck next year. And I know it's you're playing for
30:05
Speaker 5: now and you're wanting to be a competitive team, as
30:08
Speaker 5: you should, but you think about the potential that he has,
30:11
Speaker 5: and who knows, maybe one of these guys doesn't work out,
30:13
Speaker 5: and maybe it's Brand, it's Brote, But at the end
30:15
Speaker 5: of the day, you want to give him a chance.
30:16
Speaker 5: And I think he's shown lots of flashes of what
30:19
Speaker 5: he could be. And that's the excitement, especially the strikeouts early.
30:23
Speaker 5: I think get five strikeouts first three innings yesterday against
30:25
Speaker 5: the Cardinals and Hunter.
30:27
Speaker 2: You want to talk about also the young players that
30:29
Speaker 2: the opportunity is now there in front of them with
30:32
Speaker 2: the injuries like Priester in front and obviously Woody there
30:35
Speaker 2: as well.
30:36
Speaker 1: How long you expecting to see Logan Henderson.
30:37
Speaker 2: We talked about it on Monday after he dominated on
30:40
Speaker 2: his one start over the weekend. He's going to get
30:43
Speaker 2: another one coming up this weekend Mother's Day start from
30:46
Speaker 2: at Hunter B on air, when I saw the probables
30:48
Speaker 2: come out, what are your prospects.
30:51
Speaker 1: Of him being able to stay off?
30:52
Speaker 2: Because I love when that salty mustache goes and takes
30:56
Speaker 2: the mound in the forty three uniform, and I would
30:59
Speaker 2: like to see more of that right arm in the
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Speaker 2: big leagues and less at Nashville.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he pitches like he did last Sunday against the Nationals,
31:07
Speaker 5: They're going to be in good shape. I think he
31:09
Speaker 5: and he also started on Easter Sunday last year.
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Speaker 6: That was his debut, was an Easter Sunday.
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Speaker 1: A holiday guy, he is.
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Speaker 5: He is given the ball on the fourth of July
31:18
Speaker 5: Memorial Day, while you're at it, so we'll see what
31:20
Speaker 5: he does on Sunday. But yeah, I think it's like
31:23
Speaker 5: Day said on on Monday. I think it is, you know,
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Speaker 5: taking what he's spot in the rotation. I think that's
31:28
Speaker 5: until further notice. And he had some fluid drained from
31:31
Speaker 5: his shoulder, but it sounds like he only needs a
31:33
Speaker 5: couple of bullpens to to get back to where he
31:36
Speaker 5: wants to be. Speaking of Brandon Woodruff, and he's been
31:38
Speaker 5: out now a week, so you talk about, you know,
31:41
Speaker 5: an il Stint has got about you know, a week
31:43
Speaker 5: left or so a little more than that. So I
31:45
Speaker 5: would say Henderson makes two to three more starts and
31:48
Speaker 5: then and then what happens at that point, we'll see.
31:50
Speaker 5: I do think at the end of the day, if
31:52
Speaker 5: you were to pick a pitcher, and I think maybe
31:53
Speaker 5: I've said this a week ago or.
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Speaker 1: So, I don't know.
31:57
Speaker 5: I think Chad Patrick's probably the odd man out eventually
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Speaker 5: here and and does does Logan Henderson take that spot
32:03
Speaker 5: or does you know Quinn Priester take that spot.
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Speaker 6: Or kind of how how do they?
32:08
Speaker 5: Because I think Kyle Harrison, Brandon Sprote, and Jigob Mazarowski
32:12
Speaker 5: are in this rotation that you have Woody when he
32:14
Speaker 5: comes back, and uh, and then that fifth spot, would
32:17
Speaker 5: it be Chad Patrick, would it be Quinn Priester when
32:19
Speaker 5: he comes back. I would think Priest's out now until
32:21
Speaker 5: late May early June. It sounds like, from what Matt
32:23
Speaker 5: Arnold said.
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Speaker 1: Because they're going to restart the whole thing for him. Correct.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I don't know if they'll fully, like bottom up, totally restart,
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Speaker 5: but I do think it sounds like he's working with
32:35
Speaker 5: Hook and Henderson. I think, to be honest, this injury
32:38
Speaker 5: may change him a little bit. I don't know exactly.
32:40
Speaker 5: You know, we haven't been able to talk to him
32:42
Speaker 5: in a while, but I wonder if he's gonna have
32:45
Speaker 5: to since he's working with Hook and Henderson, and that
32:47
Speaker 5: was the message that what, you know, kind of why
32:49
Speaker 5: he's back in Milwaukee is to work with those guys.
32:51
Speaker 5: I wonder if he's going to have to change some
32:53
Speaker 5: things with this injury and and kind of getting a
32:55
Speaker 5: feel again for how he pitches. And this is a
32:59
Speaker 5: significant injury that sometimes requires surgery, and the fact that
33:02
Speaker 5: he's going without surgery right now, you know, and trying
33:04
Speaker 5: to come back. I wonder if they're going to have
33:06
Speaker 5: to adjust something, so that'll be something to watch with Priester,
33:09
Speaker 5: But that's not a decision you have to make till
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Speaker 5: late May or early June, and we'll see how the
33:13
Speaker 5: rotation stands.
33:14
Speaker 3: Then Hunter Yankees coming into town this weekend. Is there
33:17
Speaker 3: ever a little excitement from from you when the Bronx
33:20
Speaker 3: Bombers coming down like the you know, the the famed Yankees,
33:23
Speaker 3: and we don't get to see him very often. They're
33:25
Speaker 3: playing obvious talk about the Cubs, but they're playing just
33:27
Speaker 3: as well. Incredible start to the season for Judge and
33:30
Speaker 3: his crew there.
33:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is. They're a really good team. I'm excited
33:36
Speaker 5: to see Mizerowski against the Yankees. You mentioned obviously Logan Henderson,
33:40
Speaker 5: Kyle Harrison. You could argue your three top you know,
33:43
Speaker 5: your three hottest pitchers are pitching in this series right.
33:46
Speaker 5: Ms has been one of your best, the Kyle Harrison
33:48
Speaker 5: has maybe been your best. And then you have obviously
33:51
Speaker 5: Logan Anderson who no hit the Nationals for many innings
33:55
Speaker 5: on Sunday going in the series finale. So I'm excited
33:57
Speaker 5: to see how the Brewers, you know, back up against
34:00
Speaker 5: that lineup pitching wise. Uh, and the bullpen's starting to
34:04
Speaker 5: get a little bit of a hang of it as
34:05
Speaker 5: well for the Brewers too, which is good. You're gonna
34:07
Speaker 5: need all hands on deck when you play a team
34:09
Speaker 5: in a lineup like this. So yeah, it's exciting. And
34:11
Speaker 5: this is what the Major League Baseball does, right they
34:14
Speaker 5: they now are? You know, have us be able to
34:17
Speaker 5: enjoy these teams coming in every other year? And when
34:21
Speaker 5: the Yankees came in last time, it was, you know,
34:23
Speaker 5: it's a big deal. I remember Jeff Passon being here
34:25
Speaker 5: when you know, you know what, one of those national
34:27
Speaker 5: writers are here.
34:30
Speaker 6: Uh well, we can neither confirm nor deny.
34:33
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say Billy okay, making them the second
34:36
Speaker 2: small guy joke in two days.
34:38
Speaker 3: Billy one was to me, I can handle that. But
34:39
Speaker 3: Jeff Passing, man, I mean, yeah, oh.
34:41
Speaker 1: Wow, Sorry, Are you gonna cry a river for Jeff Passon? No?
34:44
Speaker 3: But I do think you know, when when the Yankees
34:48
Speaker 3: coming down, you gotta be on your p's and q's
34:49
Speaker 3: and the local media stars. I mean, this might be
34:52
Speaker 3: your time to hobnob with the national media more so.
34:55
Speaker 3: And you know, a star like Spencer Williams now getting
34:58
Speaker 3: ESPN time today.
34:59
Speaker 2: So, yeah, how are you gonna be able to sit
35:01
Speaker 2: in the same in the same row.
35:03
Speaker 1: I mean, Spencer's all over TV.
35:05
Speaker 2: You guys thought that you, uh, your moment on Brewers
35:07
Speaker 2: TV was gonna be his famed moment. He is like
35:10
Speaker 2: Jimmy Haslam right here side profile Spencer Williams all morning
35:15
Speaker 2: long on ESPN. How are you gonna handle that in
35:17
Speaker 2: the press boxes? You've got to sit next to that ego.
35:19
Speaker 5: Now, yeah, I'm gonna have to take I'm gonna have
35:23
Speaker 5: to take the off day today and really kind of
35:24
Speaker 5: figure that out my strategy for the Yeah, yeah, I
35:29
Speaker 5: mean I do I walk in and ask for a
35:30
Speaker 5: zonograph right away or do I wait till Sunday to
35:32
Speaker 5: do that? I mean that that is maybe one I
35:34
Speaker 5: really I should have on Flannel Day. It should have been,
35:36
Speaker 5: you know, framed in my room. Yep, the signature with
35:39
Speaker 5: the flannel. But yeah, he was positioned perfectly in that
35:41
Speaker 5: Jimmy Haslam shot the other day. And also shout out
35:44
Speaker 5: Adam mccalvey speaking a medium out Cools given a MLB
35:47
Speaker 5: Gold card yesterday. Twenty five years of covering Major League
35:51
Speaker 5: Baseball and the the and the Brewers and being on
35:53
Speaker 5: the beat for twenty five years, and he was surprised
35:55
Speaker 5: with that means you and a guest get to go
35:57
Speaker 5: into any game you want to. You can just walk
36:00
Speaker 5: up and you can get into the game for free. You,
36:02
Speaker 5: I guess that is awesome.
36:03
Speaker 2: Which is my favorite thing because the only thing you
36:06
Speaker 2: want to do after covering baseball for a quarter Central
36:08
Speaker 2: Baseball game like a the absolute best one. However, Hunter
36:13
Speaker 2: bombguart uh not trying to say anything, but maybe the
36:16
Speaker 2: young Adam mccalviy vibes because Adam mccalvey still looks like
36:19
Speaker 2: he's about thirty eight, so Hunter still looks like he's
36:22
Speaker 2: about eighteen. Yeah, so there's gonna be in about eighteen
36:24
Speaker 2: years you're gonna roll through here and Hunter is gonna
36:26
Speaker 2: look like he's twenty five and good feeling, good vibes
36:28
Speaker 2: and good guy to get compared to there in Adam mccalvey,
36:31
Speaker 2: one of the absolute stallwarts, one of the absolute best.
36:34
Speaker 2: Hunter enjoy absolutely enjoy the weekend. It's gonna be a
36:38
Speaker 2: great one at the ballpark. How many people are lining
36:40
Speaker 2: up for your picnic blanket giveaway on Sunday?
36:43
Speaker 3: Is that?
36:44
Speaker 2: Is that as as hot of an item as the
36:47
Speaker 2: cribbage board or the bard dice later on this year.
36:51
Speaker 5: Not yet, not yet, So we'll see if any anybody
36:55
Speaker 5: comes out of the woodwork here in the next couple
36:56
Speaker 5: of days before Sunday and also Milwaukee Ball Tonight tonight
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Speaker 2: Right, It's all right, It's all right, six o'clock tonight
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Speaker 2: Guard's here.
37:31
Speaker 1: Always appreciate it, brother, Thanks for the time you got it.
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Speaker 1: Thanks guys.
37:34
Speaker 2: That is Hunter Bombguard hanging out with us here on
37:36
Speaker 2: the huddle, huddled up with us this morning. We got
37:39
Speaker 2: a phenomenal waken Bake callback. Maybe The greatest press conference
37:44
Speaker 2: moment of all time happened twenty two years ago today,
37:47
Speaker 2: and it's our waken Bake story coming up next on
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Speaker 2: the Huddle. Waken Bank Story of the Day brought to
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37:54
Speaker 2: I don't know if you got it when I sent
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Speaker 2: it over to the station account. However, even better moment
37:59
Speaker 2: than any anything that we're going to find would be
38:01
Speaker 2: the story that came out just twenty two years ago,
38:05
Speaker 2: or in two thousand and two, so that'll be twenty
38:07
Speaker 2: four years ago today. This beauty hit the line as
38:12
Speaker 2: the answer gave us the answer of a generation. They
38:15
Speaker 2: have queued me up in there real quick if you
38:17
Speaker 2: if you have the ability to, because twenty two years
38:19
Speaker 2: ago today, the great AI gave us this one. What
38:24
Speaker 2: is it?
38:26
Speaker 1: Just pop me up there? No, not a game, not
38:29
Speaker 1: a game.
38:30
Speaker 7: We're talking about practice. Not a game. Not the game
38:37
Speaker 7: that I go out there and die for and play
38:40
Speaker 7: every game like it's my last.
38:42
Speaker 6: Not the game.
38:43
Speaker 7: We're talking about practice, man. I mean, how silly is that?
38:47
Speaker 5: Man?
38:47
Speaker 7: We're talking about practice. I know it is important, I do,
38:51
Speaker 7: I honestly do. But we're talking about practice, man. What
38:54
Speaker 7: are we talking about practice. We're talking about practice, man.
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Speaker 1: I know I was supposed to be there. I know
39:02
Speaker 1: I was supposed to lead by example.
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Speaker 2: I do.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about practice, man.
39:06
Speaker 3: All timer Billy, one of the all time greats and
39:08
Speaker 3: one of the all time funniest things ever.
39:10
Speaker 1: Thanks for bringing that to Mike. That'll never ever get old.
39:13
Speaker 2: Alan iverson the great AI, the practice one, just some
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Speaker 2: twenty four years ago today,