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Hour 2 – New Year, New Rules?? · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. That's right, hour two
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  Speaker 2: of the Ben Malers Show here on Fox Sports Radio
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  Speaker 2: with me, Kevin Figures and he Adam. Also hit us
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  Speaker 2: up on x at k fig one and at follow
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  Speaker 2: Adam A thank you guys for joining us. Happy New
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  Speaker 2: Year out there to the West coast, Happy New ye
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  Speaker 2: and if you're in and for our friends listening Hawaii,
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  Speaker 2: you still got a couple hours.
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  Speaker 3: To go, y'all get a New Year every day day exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Is this one of those opportunities where it's okay to
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  Speaker 3: get drunk on the radio. It feels like it should be.
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  Speaker 3: If Anderson Cooper and his boyfriend can get drunk on
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  Speaker 3: the CNN broadcast, why can't we?
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  Speaker 2: Kevin, I guess there's no rules saying that we can't.
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  Speaker 2: The girls are wasted in the other room, greatly frowned upon.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's that's the baby, let's go necessarily
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  Speaker 2: true though right now I appreciate the honesty. I do
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  Speaker 2: love that about you. My very first radio job in Oregon,
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  Speaker 2: the morning guys who come in at four am, they
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  Speaker 2: kept a bottle of fireball whiskey in their drawing at
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  Speaker 2: every morning, every morning.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that was like the first time I felt like
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  Speaker 3: I should stop drinking. I had a fireball incident. I
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  Speaker 3: had a Mario Brothers fireball incident where I woke up
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  Speaker 3: the next morning because the fireball gets you with the
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  Speaker 3: indigestion when you got to get the pepsid ac. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the esophagus is burning. It's on fire. That's the worst
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  Speaker 3: option possible. First, of all those Oregon guys, I would
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  Speaker 3: have thought they would have waked and baked, not waked
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  Speaker 3: into fireballs like that too. Okay, maybe a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of both.
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  Speaker 2: Jega bombs down here teeth. Well, I hope you guys
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  Speaker 2: are just college at one point, I'm sorry, just you
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  Speaker 2: bring up fireball and like you know, we're young, we're broke,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have any money, and all we had was
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  Speaker 2: my roommate's older brother had a bottle of Fireball that
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  Speaker 2: he hadn't opened, and he's like, well it was cheap,
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  Speaker 2: you have to pay for it. Yeah, it was an
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  Speaker 2: absolute nightmare.
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  Speaker 3: You can't smell cinnamon anymore. It's just snauxious than It's
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  Speaker 3: like if you have a certain drink when you're sick,
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  Speaker 3: and then you always associate it with being sick, like
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  Speaker 3: having seven up or something like that. Now I can't
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  Speaker 3: have seven up when I feel fine. It doesn't work
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  Speaker 3: for me. Even sprites too close they had to take
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  Speaker 3: away see or missed because it ruined things for me.
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  Speaker 3: Now it's storry. Yeah, I Fireball's the worst thing ever.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, in twenty twenty six, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: continue to not drink. That just sealed it for me.
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  Speaker 2: That's sure.
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  Speaker 3: Just your non resolution fireball incident. I can't have it.
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  Speaker 3: And hopefully you guys out there tonight are being safe,
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  Speaker 3: are staying off the road, are not doing whatever. Michael
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  Speaker 3: Irving was at the Miami game that had him going
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  Speaker 3: like that, or he brought out the belt like none
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  Speaker 3: of us can wear belts anymore. Michael Irving has all
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  Speaker 3: of them.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin, that was an impressive performance by the University of
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  Speaker 2: Miami in a maybe even more oppressive performance by Michael
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  Speaker 2: Irvin down there on the sideline.
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  Speaker 3: Can I say this? Somebody tweeted in that they want
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  Speaker 3: more hate towards Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Through you.
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  Speaker 3: They want more trash talk, even though the story should
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  Speaker 3: be about Miami winning. As Ben Maller would say, the
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  Speaker 3: losing locker room has the bigger story.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Well, look, we did bring up Ryan Day, and
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  Speaker 2: you know the fact that, as their rationalist fans are,
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  Speaker 2: just won a national championship last year, did beat Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden finds himself in a situation
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  Speaker 2: where people the fan base is upset and there's new
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  Speaker 2: blood at Michigan. I will not downplay again if Michigan
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  Speaker 2: finds a way under Kyle Whittingham to jump up next
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  Speaker 2: year and beat Ohio State going into the playoff, I
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  Speaker 2: do think. I don't think Ohio State realistically is gonna
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  Speaker 2: entertain getting rid of Ryan Day, but I do think
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  Speaker 2: that those conversations are gonna start being had as ridiculous
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  Speaker 2: as they are because that's just where the standard is
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  Speaker 2: for university like that.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Spock's weed, who got to me? I follow out
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  Speaker 3: of may On X who wants us to go after
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State more. I mean, I said they twisted his
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  Speaker 3: nipple ring. That's what Miami did to Ryan Day in
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State excited. I'm just saying, like his Blackbeard is fake.
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  Speaker 3: They're all frauds there, apparently, because they got bounced in
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  Speaker 3: their first game of the playoff this season. And they've
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  Speaker 3: got way too many stickers on their helmets. Okay, it's
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  Speaker 3: not that serious.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them. Do you have to earn those stickers
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  Speaker 2: out it?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. They're sticker happy. It felt like there
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  Speaker 3: were way less stickers back in the game or back
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  Speaker 3: in the day.
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  Speaker 2: So you're saying that that Ryan Days like Oprah, everybody
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  Speaker 2: gets a sticker, whether they earn it or not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, these parts of going around. Everybody gets a star,
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  Speaker 3: everybody got n a plus all that stuff. Ohio State,
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  Speaker 3: maybe that's what they lost the game actually, because they
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  Speaker 3: were over confident, because they felt like they were better
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  Speaker 3: than they actually were. Because every helmet you could barely
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  Speaker 3: see the helmet. They probably didn't feel safe out there.
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  Speaker 3: They thought they were just being protected by damn stickers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, look I would rip into Ohio State if
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  Speaker 2: they lost to James Madison. It's not like with the
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  Speaker 2: all due respect to James Madison.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Mario Cristo ball never wins a big game until now.
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  Speaker 3: If I had a crystal ball and I looked into
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  Speaker 3: it and it said Miami was going to win this game,
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, his game management certainly calls a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: into question, but again, considering how this game played out,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't really have to have a big decision come
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  Speaker 2: come to a head for him because they dominated the
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  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage. Now, maybe that's an indictment of Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe because it's happened in back to back games
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  Speaker 2: for them against Indiana and Miami. If you want to
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  Speaker 2: hold that against them, sure, but they still have a
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  Speaker 2: stack roster. They have all the talent in the world.
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  Speaker 2: You said, if they played Miami in Ohios they played
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  Speaker 2: each other ten times, that maybe Miami will win six,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you'll be five and five, because I think that's
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  Speaker 2: just how this game played out.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, wait, don't know. Wait a second. They played Texas,
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  Speaker 3: they barely won. They played Indiana they barely lost, and
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  Speaker 3: the kicker missed a Blair Walsh esque twenty seven yard
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  Speaker 3: or and missed another one in the id. The end
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  Speaker 3: of the first half, they played Miami and they lost
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  Speaker 3: every good team to decent team that they played, because
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how good Texas was. I mean, they
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  Speaker 3: ended up beating Michigan. They finished strong, and arch Manning
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  Speaker 3: looked better. But to start off the season when they
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  Speaker 3: weren't very good, every good team, ohiuse they played. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, Kevin, they played a lot of nobody's in
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  Speaker 3: between all those close games against decent competition. I think
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  Speaker 3: they may be big fat phonies. They were valued.
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  Speaker 2: So see, this is what the guy who tweeted you
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  Speaker 2: this is what he wanted.
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  Speaker 3: Is this not what you want?
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  Speaker 2: Is this what you want?
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  Speaker 3: Are you not entertained?
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  Speaker 2: Which is not a bad point at him.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I'm just saying I finally got to
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  Speaker 3: a good point in all my hopeless ranting about Ohio State.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't play the stiffest competition.
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  Speaker 2: No, they weren't battle tested enough. A pretty patty cake
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten schedule all the way around. When you think
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  Speaker 2: about it, what's your schedule and how it falls on
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  Speaker 2: a given year. It has as much to do with
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  Speaker 2: whether or not you make the postseason as anything. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't know that that is that is very
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  Speaker 2: much an accurate indictment of them that you had there.
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  Speaker 3: It just feels like piling on though, going after the
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  Speaker 3: state of Ohio. You know, in Cincinnati, and they haven't
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  Speaker 3: had a lot of success in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just it's usually just Ohio State University, not
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  Speaker 2: the entire state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like, I have a friend from Cleveland, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: Mike Tucker, Mother Tucker. We used to call him, and
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  Speaker 3: I still have a soft spot for those teams that
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  Speaker 3: he rooted for. Now, Ohio State has had a lot
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  Speaker 3: of success in their history. They're an outlier. Not this year,
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  Speaker 3: baby bout.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, God forbid. They don't win the national championship every
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  Speaker 2: single solitary season.
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  Speaker 3: Health they didn't even come close. Kevin, that was belt
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  Speaker 3: to Assy.
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  Speaker 2: She had a fat ass, you know what? I Yeah, Mike, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: Michael Irvin, where you business? Two thousand and one, the
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  Speaker 2: last time Miami won a national championship. We're talking about
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  Speaker 2: belta asses. And I look in I love Michael iverin my.
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  Speaker 3: Personal problems, all right, whatever, what do you mean where.
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  Speaker 2: He's been sear it's about Belta ass and talking trash
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  Speaker 2: about Ohio State. Not that Mike is doing that, but
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  Speaker 2: just piling on Ohio State is a phenomenal program. They're
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  Speaker 2: gonna bounce back. They're not going anywhere. They had a
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  Speaker 2: bad year. It happens. I thought Alabama won the national
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  Speaker 2: championship every single year in the next sabment, even though
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  Speaker 2: they did the majority of the time he was there,
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  Speaker 2: wasn't every year.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, You're right. He set unrealistic expectations. But the
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  Speaker 3: U is back. First, Texas was back. They made the
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  Speaker 3: playoff last year, made a bit of a run, got
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  Speaker 3: lucky against Arizona State. Now Ohio State is not back.
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  Speaker 3: You Miami, Miami is back. When will USC be back?
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  Speaker 3: Their next stup?
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  Speaker 2: Right on?
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  Speaker 3: Who's back?
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  Speaker 2: A might take some time. How about they find themselves
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  Speaker 2: a defensive coordinator? Yeah, good luck. That's that's a bit
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  Speaker 2: of an issue.
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  Speaker 3: That final play was unreal. I was watching that. I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to out anyone, but my close personal friend
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  Speaker 3: Carlo Jimenez, voice of the Clippers on the radio side,
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  Speaker 3: went to USC just out.
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  Speaker 2: Of them and gave away his job. His government name
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  Speaker 2: where he lives. I don't want to take this. You
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  Speaker 2: have to take this from Adam Carlough.
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  Speaker 3: The signature call is Nylon and it's a good one.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, he was not happy seeing that live and
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  Speaker 3: me being the one showing him the play live as
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  Speaker 3: it happened on my phone. I thought live actually first,
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  Speaker 3: and then rewounded for him and made it seemed like
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  Speaker 3: it was going to be live as that frog stomping
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  Speaker 3: happened against USC with TCU the other night.
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  Speaker 2: That was really really hoping Carlo would just smack the
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  Speaker 2: phone out of your hands as you tried to put
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  Speaker 2: it up to his face.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I got an otter box case or whatever the
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  Speaker 3: hell it is like, it's been through worse.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, just take it, even throw it halfway or
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  Speaker 2: ross into it dome.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, were we are burying the lead here. First of all,
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  Speaker 3: it's New Year's is happy New Year. We're in for
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  Speaker 3: Ben mallor I'm out of Maslin. He's Kevin Figures and
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  Speaker 3: you know what, let's play it. We haven't played it
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  Speaker 3: in a while.
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  Speaker 2: It's not funny the padd O'Brien inspired jingle thank you pet.
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  Speaker 3: It is a New Year's So we got to theme
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  Speaker 3: things out here in the show. Kevin, you had this
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  Speaker 3: brilliant idea, lay it on me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how brilliant it was, but I was thinking,
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  Speaker 2: people talk about New Years and having different resolutions, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe that's something that we can get into a little
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  Speaker 2: deeper at the very end of this hour. But as
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: far as the sports landscape goes, you know, people talk
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: about issues that they have with certain sports. I know
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: instant replay is a big deal in in the NFL,
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: and what should be reviewed and what shouldn't be reviewed
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: really in any sport you can. It's about that in
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  Speaker 2: the NBA when it comes to fact goaltending and Major
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: League Baseball with fair fair foul, or whether it should
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: be a Skyjas, just any number of things, issues that
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  Speaker 2: you could potentially have with whatever sport you decided to follow,
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  Speaker 2: and if there could be a sport that you would
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  Speaker 2: love to follow, but because of something that really grinds
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  Speaker 2: your gears about it, you've just decided to check out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm out. I don't want to watch it anymore.
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  Speaker 3: As a burned my saddle with this sport, not only a.
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  Speaker 2: Little bit a little bit. So the question is, if
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  Speaker 2: there's one thing you can change about your favorite sport
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  Speaker 2: or any sport. What would it be and why? Pop
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  Speaker 2: quiz Hotshot.
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  Speaker 3: Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox If you guys
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  Speaker 3: want to tell us, I could start with this, Kevin. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this could be something that's pretty universal for many sports.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm gonna say this specifically about the NBA because
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  Speaker 3: it is at least a twenty five year old problem
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  Speaker 3: for the association. We got to get rid of not
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  Speaker 3: just divisions conferences in the National Basketball is sociations.
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  Speaker 2: Is a Fred Rogan special right here the West?
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  Speaker 3: How dare you?
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  Speaker 4: Hey?
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  Speaker 2: That's it through you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry twenty twenty six and you're still calling me
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  Speaker 3: Fred Rogan. This is going to have a bad take.
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  Speaker 2: This is the company that you live in or Adamo
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  Speaker 2: table takes like that, Sorry, company of Wolves.
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  Speaker 3: Look, how the hell was she that quick with it?
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  Speaker 3: I thought I was quick on the instant replay machine. Damn,
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  Speaker 3: you don't count with being quick because you come from.
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  Speaker 5: Your own brain.
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  Speaker 6: That's not sexual.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So that's our first one of the new year.
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  Speaker 2: Here you go.
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  Speaker 3: Look, the NBA has had a problem for over twenty
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  Speaker 3: five years. I can go back to Jordan retiring the
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  Speaker 3: second time with Chicago. Since then, the Western Conference has
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  Speaker 3: dominated and I think won the head to head overall
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  Speaker 3: series against the Eastern Conference every year except for one.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was two thousand and nine when it
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  Speaker 3: was the Lakers in Orlando Magic and the Eastern Conference
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  Speaker 3: actually beat the Western Conference more and the West beat
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  Speaker 3: the East overall record wise that season. That's it. So
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  Speaker 3: we got all these teams that are in a blood
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  Speaker 3: bath and a gauntlet every year. Everybody talks about the
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  Speaker 3: SEC is so difficult to get through in these conferences
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  Speaker 3: and it's not fair. No, no, no. The Western Conference in
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  Speaker 3: the NBA has been the worst case of imbalance between
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  Speaker 3: schedules and not having things leveled out. And if they
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  Speaker 3: could just go one through sixteen, the best team in
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  Speaker 3: either conference, I mean the West might have twelve teams in.
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  Speaker 3: There would definitely be years like that. You do need
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  Speaker 3: to balance things out because the West plays each other
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  Speaker 3: more correct.
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  Speaker 2: So I was gonna be my question to you is
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  Speaker 2: how do you balance out the schedule with the format
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  Speaker 2: like that?
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  Speaker 3: You could figure it out. There are ways, dude, I
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  Speaker 3: mean to come on, those.
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  Speaker 2: People who make way much more money than you that
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  Speaker 2: can figure that out.
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  Speaker 3: You want to tell, I can get you a toe.
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  Speaker 3: They can figure this out somehow, just smooth things out.
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  Speaker 3: They can go in rotation with certain conferences every year,
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  Speaker 3: like we see in the NFL, where a team from
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: an NFL division ends up playing a certain AFC division
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  Speaker 3: one year and around robin format that type of thing.
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  Speaker 3: There are much better ways than what we're seeing right now.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it is a serious problem because I
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  Speaker 3: root for teams in the Western Conference, so I'm a
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  Speaker 3: victim of the conference and balance that is going on
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  Speaker 3: in the NBA. Otherwise, the Clippers would have probably fifteen
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  Speaker 3: championships by now if they had the easier route out
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  Speaker 3: of the Eastern Conference. Ben Maller would agree with that. No,
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  Speaker 3: he would.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't disagree that Ben would agree. I disagree
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  Speaker 2: with that. Take me off, Excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Kevin, you want to give me your New
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  Speaker 3: Year's resolution in sports?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to go to college football on this one.
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  Speaker 2: And it might sound like a minor thing, but it
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  Speaker 2: actually has a big trickle down effect with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of other situations. We really need to go back to
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: one national signing period in February for college football, and
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  Speaker 2: I think Petros alluded to this when we spoke to
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  Speaker 2: him last two It's just just with the early December
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  Speaker 2: signing period, it affects so many different things. Coaches get
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: fired earlier, coaches are in a rush to be hired
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: earlier so that you don't lose early commitments when it
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: comes to the December recruiting class. Remember Signing Day used
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: to be a big deal. Yeah, it used to be
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  Speaker 2: National Signing Day in February. In a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: leading up to it, you would have the All American Army,
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  Speaker 2: Navy whatever it was called, a high school All Star game,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of guys will commit and play there.
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  Speaker 2: They still play the game, but no one really pays
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  Speaker 2: attention to it because all the big time commits have
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  Speaker 2: already done by the time you even get to the
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  Speaker 2: first of the year.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll take that All Star Game over the NBA
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  Speaker 3: All Star Game. That's something else has to change. But
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: will take care of it. No Eagles on it.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: I love Noah and the NBC's done a phenomenal job.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: But I don't think there's any I don't think there's
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: any fixing.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: Ah, All right, what are you fixing here?
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah? So I would have the National Signing Day go
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: back to February like it was. That's the only time
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: that you can sign an official letter of intent. The
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: early signing period goes away the idea that you have
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: to have these seventeen year old kids enter a semester
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: early or whatever. Does it help, sure, but just put
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: everybody on a level playing field, because what that does
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: there is a less coaching ball down. There's less rushing
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: when it comes to firing and hiring coaches. Guys like
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Brian Hartline, you know, won't get their play calling duly
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: taken away from them because they're so distracted. Back in
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: the day, guys would get jobs. Coordinators with teams would
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: get jobs, and they would stay with the team through
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: bowl season, even if they accepted a head coaching position,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: because the landscape just wasn't changing so often while they
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: were still with their team. It's really hard to manage
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: being an offensive coordinator or a defensive coordinator for a playoff
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: team now while also trying to manage all the things
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: that are potentially happening with your school that you're going
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: to later. I think if you get to take the
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: burden of responsibility off of them when it comes to recruiting.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: They have done that with the transfer portal, and honestly,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: I think I would move the transfer portal to be
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: even later, maybe have signing the day before the transfer portal,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: and do all knock all of that stuff after the
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: games are there's too many things taking attention away from
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: the game that's being played on the field. That's what
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: I just want to separate more of the administrative stuff
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: away from the play on the field. And I think
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: that's the biggest issue that college football is facing.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: The college football calendar is an unmitigated disaster, and that
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: was put under the microscope of course with Lane Kiff
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: and leaving to go to LSU and how that played out,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: and now we got Ole Miss without them tomorrow taking
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: on Georgia. But Kevin, we've got some phone calls here.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: It's always seven ninety nine on Fox. Must be a
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: good subject. James calling from Tacoma. James, what's up? You're
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: on FNA. I'm Ada Mosley's Kevin figures in for Ben mallor.
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: Hight.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Not just to NBA, like you suggested, from all sports,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: including the NFL. They're seedings top fourteen teams. The NFL
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: get the playoffs scued. Look what's happening this weekend. If
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: they lose to the forty nine ers, they go to
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: the down to the number five seed, and they could
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: have a thirteen to four record. It has to play
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: on a road to Campa or Carolina, and which will
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: have like eight or nine wins. They get the host
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: whereas she also have thirteen wins and have it pay
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: on the road.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Now, James, you are you a Seahawks fan or are
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: you just a concern sports fanatic and you want you
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: want fair fairness, that's all. You're unbiased.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: No, I'm a sports fan, even NBA. But they break
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: to have spurs and OPC finals.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Ooh yeah, I like where your heads at.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I agree with you. That's a great call. And we
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: talked about this with the NFL. We talked about the
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Detroit Lions of the proposal they made at the NFL
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: meetings last year trying to see if they can get
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: the seeding situation fixed in the NFL so that a
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: divisions winner doesn't get a guaranteed home playoff game. I
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: still think that's something they need to pound the table
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: for because it's utterly ridiculous. And he has a good point,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: there's no reason why the loser of Seattle in San
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Francisco should be relegated to have to go on the
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: road to face the team with the worst record. That
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: But if it's the Carolina Panthers, we can make an exception.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Ken, No, we can't.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: You're right, they're gonna lose either way.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: But exactly, I wasn't gonna say that out loud. I
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: didn't want to like upset you completely.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: But I want fairness. I want teams who want to win.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: I want teams who deserve to be in that position
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: based off record. Look at the NFC West, it might
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: be the toughest division in sports right now. You have
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: three teams that are getting in that all could have
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: twelve wins or more this season. It's been staring in
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: the NFL in the face since when was the seven
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: and nine Seahawks team that won the.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: N eleven or twenty twelve?
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: I believe, Yeah, So it's been an issue. The problem
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: is I still think the owners have to vote on it.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: They do, and some of these owners with terrible teams,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: they're never going to give in, especially Eastern Conference teams
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: in the NBA. Those owners will never vote for it.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: They have to have a majority. It's not going to happen,
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: but it'd be nice and it's my nearest resolution.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Still very idealistic, but you know what, I'm right there
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: with you. I'm right there with you. We have more
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: calls that we need to get to. It gets you
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: guys on the other side again ninety nine on Fox
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Changes that you would make to your favorite sport or
• 20:04
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• 20:07
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• 20:22
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  Speaker 6: Lions are lighting up. I guess it's a good subject.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: FNA Cottonna, Happy New Year, Welcome back again. I'm out
• 21:00
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• 21:10
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• 21:15
  Speaker 3: it was a good subject. People are excited about it.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Then when I talk about changes in sports, since people
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: are making personal changes right now with New Year's resolutions,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: why not change up a league, a team do something here?
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: And it looks like we got uh, Dustin and Bakersfield, Bakersfield,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: let's go Dustin Baker Happy New Year.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Happy.
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: You know, I'm taking a little bit of liberty with this,
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: but I just always wanted to say that, and.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: So people can hear me that something's got to.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Be done about these owners moving football teams because I
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: lost my Oakland Raiders. Never going to be the same.
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: The Chargers aren't the Chargers. They're in LA now, Like
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: it just doesn't work. You know, something's got to be
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: done about that because they're just biting the hand that
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: fed them for so many years.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but how do you how do you hurt these
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: billionaire owners? What's the land like? Look at the Spanos
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: is they're making way more money in La Fantasy.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: It would be cool if they were all like the Packers,
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: owned by the city.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: So I'm just saying.
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: It's not a real change that could happen. I feel
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: like I lost a friend when the Raiders moved.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I feel you well, by the way, and I grew
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: up an La Raiders fan, so we stole from Oakland
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: to begin with the film the first go around and
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: felt that's it when they went back. So I totally
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: get it. And here's the issue. I think most people
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: would love to and they fantasize about, especially American sports,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: would love to kind of mirror the European soccer model. Basically,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: your team is part of your community, right, There's never
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: any talk of Everton moving somewhere. That just would never happen.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: It's just it's a different vibe. It's a different concept.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Players are walking down the street to interact with everyday
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: people like it's nothing in their town that like the
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: soccer team is sort of the heartbeat of the entire
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: city and a lot of NFL cities. You brought up
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: the Packers, you know, they're one of those. And unfortunately,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: in some senses, I mean all for capitalism, all that,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: you know, want to be able to make as much
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: money as you possibly can. The NFL, these pro sports
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: leagues are just chasing the almighty dollar and whatever is
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: most pro or profitable for them. If that means leaving
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: a city they've been in forever, if it means leaving
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: the state of Missouri and going to Kansas, even though
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: it's not that far away, if you're the Kansas City chiefs,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: if it's the Chicago Bears potentially talk about flirting with
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: moving out of Illinois completely. That's what these teams are
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: going to do, and that's what they've been empowered to do. Unfortunately,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: all they care about is making every single solitary stent
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: they possibly can. They say they care about the fans,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: but in reality they really don't. You know who, the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: reality of it.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: You know who is right about this?
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: All you care money?
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: The joker new right, It's about sending a message. I
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: like this phone call though ideally, yeah, Dustin, I think
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: we're both with you and an idealistic standpoint. We want
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: all these teams to stay with the loyal fan bases
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: that have been through the struggles over the years with them,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: and hopefully eventually their faith is rewarded as they get
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: to the promised Land with these teams before they end
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: up moving, because that is brutal, it is, all right,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Blind Sea Bass. I think he's a regular here on
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: the Ben mallor show calling from Nashville, Adam Ashley, Blind SeaBASS,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: what's up?
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: What have y'all?
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: So?
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: First off, Kevin with years man, I would agree with
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: you usually except for this one. I gotta I gotta
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: disagree because it's early signing periods actually helped us keep
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: the number one quarterback in the state of Tennessee, in
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: the state of Tennessee who is playing for my Commodorees
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: next year. So I'm happy that, you know, deciding day
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: was early.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: You know, the personal benefit for you, I understand and
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I get you for people in this situation, And congratulations
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: to Vandy in the turnaround they've had. It's been great,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: but I think you have more uniformity. But that's just
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: my thing.
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: This has been an amazing season for us, but as
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: so the rules that what I would change is with
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: the challenges in all the leagues except for hockey, let's
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: follow their model. You get one challenge and you get
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: one time out. If you challenge a play and you
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: lose it, not only do you lose your time out.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: But you also get a penalty.
• 25:20
  Speaker 10: So it'll stop some of this, you know, having to
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: keep running them back and forth to the to review
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: a play. If it's not oh dude, i've strength too
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: much night.
• 25:32
  Speaker 11: Oh, if it's not, if.
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: It's not a booth review, you get one time out
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: and if you are one time out and one challenge
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: and if you lose it. If you lose the challenge,
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: then it's a fifteen yard penalty for an unfortunate life conduct.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: That's harsh. It's very harsh for those who hate ins
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: to replay and don't like going back to the command
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: censor perfect and slowing down the game. I get it.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: One thing. I'll meet you halfway on. I would not
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: necessarily be opposed to there being more authority and have
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: the being a sky judge, because now they'll say they'll
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: look and see if a guy scored, and they'll say
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: the sky judge said x y or Z and they'll
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: just keep on pushing. If we did that a lot
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: more often, it took the challenges and lessen the challenges,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: I think the game would move a lot more. We
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be bogged down as much as we are. So
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I do think they should probably adopt more of a
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: sky judge and have more officials up top telling the
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: officials on the field, Wow, let's keep it pushing, no
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: needs to stop here. Well, I think that would help.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: We do have the hawkeye camera now where Jerry Renner
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: comes out and actually spots the ball on the field.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Quite what the hawkeye cam is.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: He's pretty exact with it. Actually, he's really good at it. No,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: but they are getting better over time. Instant replay across
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: all sports is still somewhat new compared to you know
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: how far back we can go with these leagues. Uh,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: they're streamlining it. Streamlining it will get there. They'll get
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: better and better. It'll be refined hopefully and take less
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: and less time. But I understand what blind and Sea
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Bass is saying. Sea Bass kick his assy about apparently
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: kicked his ass and dropped his ass. Gunner in Minnesota's
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: calling in Gutner here on the Ben Mallor show. I'm
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: out of Mosley's Kevin figures in for Big Ben.
• 27:12
  Speaker 12: Okay, what's up, guys, how's it going?
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Good? Gun, Happy to know your man. What's on your mind?
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: I'm not allowed to drive.
• 27:19
  Speaker 12: I got a couple of things I would like to
• 27:21
  Speaker 12: change the NBA, of course, I would like to switching
• 27:24
  Speaker 12: kings from East to West, and what's the East? But man,
• 27:28
  Speaker 12: so I think they go over to the East to
• 27:29
  Speaker 12: have a rival with Milwaukee and Chicago.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: That'd be great.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Wait a second, wait, you want to realign?
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Like what, so, who are we.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: You want to realignment? Milwaukee and Chicago are already in
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: the East.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've They've moved on. They moved out of the
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Western Conference like forty years to the East.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Memph for the East. Yeah, I could see that
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: a couple of.
• 27:54
  Speaker 12: Other seasons, switch them around. I want to see them
• 27:56
  Speaker 12: a couple of good rivals over there.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Well if expansion, if when expansion happens, you're going to
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: see that. By the way, just to balance out on
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: the levels of the conference is if if you were
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: potentially going to expand to Las Vegas and Seattle, that's
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: two Western Conference teams right there, and so you would
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: think that Memphis would be like a natural move to
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: the east. Man So, yeah, in Minnesota too.
• 28:19
  Speaker 12: Yeah, and I change baseball a little bit too.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Okay, what do you want to change on baseball?
• 28:26
  Speaker 12: Well, those divisions don't making it. Some of the divisions
• 28:30
  Speaker 12: don't make any sense. I'll tell you that. Because it's
• 28:34
  Speaker 12: the central Minnesota. I can't see I tendensee in with Minnesota.
• 28:39
  Speaker 12: In Cleveland and Detroit, how are they They're way.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Far away from them geographically. We have real issues. But
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: what I say, why don't we just do away with
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: divisions and conferences altogether. Let's fix the whole thing right now,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: not take just small measures.
• 28:58
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that's that's true.
• 28:59
  Speaker 12: I agree.
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: I agree.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll say this, and this is something stop the
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: East versus West violence for major League Baseball at the
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: very least. It's something that Rob Manfred, who have not
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: been the biggest fan of, but I do like some
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: of the things he's done. This is actually one thing
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: that it's on his agenda before he retires here in
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: a couple of years. He wants to do away with
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: the American of the National League, and he wants to
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: make it regional. He wants to make it east and
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: west and make it more geographically relevant or based as
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: opposed to having the Ale in the NL. So I
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: know it's going to ruffle a lot of feathers for
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: a lot of people, but it wouldn't necessarily bother me
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: that much.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Haven't we seen like somebody put together what some of
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: the faux divisions could be then, or a mock division,
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: and you have like the Giants and the A's and
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: the same division with the Angels and the Dodgers because
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: they're all on the West coast with the Seattle Mariners,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: and that's how they're kind of combining things, right. Yeah,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: I get that. I just I don't like this East
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: versus West stuff. Kevin, We've been through this in the nineties.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: We have to stop.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: He's just trying to keep the peace, man, I feel it.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Rob calling from Memphis. We're putting your
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: team in the Eastern Conference soon.
• 30:04
  Speaker 12: Rob.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: What's up you're on with Kevin and Adam and for
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Ben Maller.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: Hey, it's my birthday. Happy New Year, everybody.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Happy New Year, and happy birthday to you brother.
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: I appreciate it. I'm going to an Indian conversation as well.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: I personally love the NBA Cup and I think we
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: can improve it a little bit. Even though it was
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: great this year. I love the intensitary brought out and
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: see how people are complaining it felt like playoff atmosphere
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: in the.
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: Middle of the season. So come on, you know, I.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Rob your appreciates with the choir here. I'm glad we
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: found you tonight. There is somebody who believes in the
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: NBA Cup.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I gotta admit I'm a soccer fan
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: as well, so I'm kind of already accustomed to a
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: mid season tournament, so you know, it went overwell with me.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: But hey, it's just gotten better each year so far.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: People just need to give it some time. But what
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: I would do, though, to add some interest to it,
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: We need to add some stakes to it.
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: We don't care that.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: They get some extra money, you know, good for them,
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: But to make us care a little bit more, how
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: about we guarantee them a playoff spot for winning the
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: NBA Cup or guarantee them a draft spot for the
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: NBA Cup.
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  Speaker 2: I am so happy that you said this. This is
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  Speaker 2: something that I've talked about from day one. When it
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: comes to the Cup. There has to be something in
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: it for the fans. The players playing harder in an
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: October and November game is great, they should anyway, But
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: the system is what it is. They're trying to incentivize
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  Speaker 2: the guys to play harder and give them something to
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  Speaker 2: play towards, which is five hundred grand if they won
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  Speaker 2: the tournament. That's phenomenal for them. I, as a fan
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: of the team, could care less if they're padding their
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: pockets with five does nothing for me. So to your point,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: maybe it's given them a bonus draft pick at the
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: end of the first round. Maybe we can say, no, go.
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  Speaker 6: On, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. No.
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  Speaker 5: Look, can I say one more thing? How about for
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: the guys that you know don't make it because I
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: don't like the idea of tanking, you know, for some
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: of these teams that I think do it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we'll get to that later in the show. By
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: the way, Rob.
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: Continuing, Yeah, to me, tanking is kind of like fixing. Oops,
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: shouldn't have said that on the radio. But anyway, the
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: last let's say four teams that are in there, let's
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: make them play, uh, for that for that draft spot,
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  Speaker 5: you know, for the for the number one draft spot.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: How about a you know, a little consolation tournament, you know,
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: one game tournament for the.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Must have been listening to me over the past three
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: or four years, man, I swear this is great. Minds
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: think alike because I've been saying this to us. How
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: about having a secondary playoff tournament where you actually have
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: to play for the first overall pick. Yeah, the players
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: get the players get compence, the players are going to
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: make money, and the team is going to play for
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: a situation where they can actually find a way to
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: get the top draft pick.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: I mean you might have to make the GM and
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: the owners play. Who care more than the players about
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: the first pick? But I do agree that would be
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: really interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and that's in the situation like that, Adam, you
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: would have to incentivize it for the players. It's a
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: reverse of the NBA Cup.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: You get to keep your job. How about that.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: You're incentivizing it for the fans by tying some sort
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: of draft compensation with something else into the cup, and
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: you're incentivating centivizing it for the players financially in a
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: playing for a draft pick situation.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: These are idea for it, Kevin, Should we keep this
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: going in the next segment.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: I still have more calls coming in about this. This
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: has been a fun topic, so let's keep this going.
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  Speaker 3: Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
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  Speaker 2: Nine on Fox, sorry to cut you off, Adam Whead.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: No, I cut you off first. Gosh jinks all right,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: coming up next more fn A here in for Ben Mallor.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Happy New Year. A little bit, a little bit of a.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: Car crash there, we crashed Ben's car just for a second.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: He's it's a nice car. It's a nice car. It's
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: a McLaren. We'll be back next, coming back with your
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: phone calls. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. I'm
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  Speaker 3: Adam Allislin. He's Kevin Figures. Happy New Year. It's FNA
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  Speaker 3: in on the Ben Malor Show.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Please talk to me, please, f and A Cotton Welcome
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: back in. We are alive from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Kevin Figures Adam Alson filling in for Ben Malard. Happy
• 34:13
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• 34:33
  Speaker 8: Thank god for the Internet.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: All right, we're talking about what change you would make
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: to your favorite sport, and we got Joel coming in,
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: calling in from Seattle. Joel, what's up? You're on with
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Adam Ousle and Kevin Figures?
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: How you doing?
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: Happy New Year? I was calling because I'm a long
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: time I grew up with the SuperSonics and we're opening
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: Adam Silver. We'll give us our team back.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: But anyway that will happen, that will happen at some point,
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Joels hashtag Sonic Scape.
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: Other than that, I want I wanted to tell you
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: about Tommy lasorda rant when he went to take Doug
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: Raw out in the eighty one versus the Yankees.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: For sure, Yeah, I'm aware of the rant, and I'm
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: curious of the relevance to what's going on tonight. But
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: sure is baklava involved. That was a different bakua.
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, that was that was a different one.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: He told He told Doug Raw, you can't get this
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: guy out.
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: That guy out was Vicky Rivers, Jackson and the other guy. Anyway,
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: it's hilarious.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: You're ash, Yes it is. Yea. Doug Rowl was a
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: picture for the Dodgers and Tommy the sorta went out
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: there and Doug was trying to plead his case to
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: stay in the game, and Tony was basically saying, I
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: don't give a bleep, give me the bleeping ball. Yes,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: very funny, you can look it up. What else do
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: you have in your mind tonight?
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: Or Davy Lopes walks in and says, hey, Tommy, you're
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: causing the scene, and he says, who won that f
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: for you?
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: Anyway?
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: Uh So, I wanted to talk about what do you
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: think of the game Saturday night? Are the Hawks gonna win?
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: We're talking about the Seahawks burs of the forty nine
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: ers for the number one overall seed in the NFC.
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: Gotta gotta bottle up McCaffrey.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: That is true. I will say this. You're gonna have
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: to listen to fn A on FSR on Friday night
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: last Saturday morning to figure out what our official prediction
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: for that game is gonna be. How about that?
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: That's a good tease, But you'll hear from Jeff Schwartz.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we will ask Jeff Schwartz about it. Our colleague
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: here f Fox Sports Radio.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: The Swartz is with us tonight.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Seri.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Schwartz is as big as ours, so.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: He'll give his thoughts on that game and many others
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: around college and pro football. All right, Joel, appreciate your college.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: Thanks Sean Wisconsin, Sean, what's up with that?
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: An A?
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: And for Ben Maller, what's going on?
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: New Year?
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 37:07
  Speaker 13: Happy New Year to you guys, too.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Happy near?
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: So what's on your mind?
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Sean?
• 37:13
  Speaker 13: Oh, you know, I'm a little what I want what
• 37:16
  Speaker 13: I called in to talk about you guys, I'm talking
• 37:18
  Speaker 13: about no more. So I'm just gonna switch it up
• 37:21
  Speaker 13: and say that. You know, I appreciate you guys talking
• 37:25
  Speaker 13: sports talk on New Year's You know a lot of
• 37:27
  Speaker 13: people take off on this day, and I just appreciate
• 37:31
  Speaker 13: you guys being at work.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Draymond Green, people work on holidays. It's not just
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: basketball players out there. Okay. I know you're making the
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: ultimate sacrifice. You're real servant to the people. I'm sorry
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: he can he.
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: Needs to retire, but that's beside the point.
• 37:49
  Speaker 13: Anyways, I just wanted to give you guys appreciation. Man,
• 37:51
  Speaker 13: give you guys the props man. Appreciate you.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you listening. Thanks for the support man, Thank you.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Did we go one segment too long with the college?
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: What's happening right now?
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Getting later and later until the night or earlier and
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: earlier into the morning, depending on how you want to
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: look at it.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: We can try one more.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: That's kind of how this goes. Adam.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Is this Versace in Seattle, of course, Versace Versace.
• 38:11
  Speaker 11: Hello, Hello, Happy New Year, Happy New Year. I want
• 38:15
  Speaker 11: to say a long time listeners, but I had a
• 38:19
  Speaker 11: couple of rule changes that I would like the NFL
• 38:22
  Speaker 11: to adopt, thank god. First one, I hate the on
• 38:27
  Speaker 11: side kicks. I would much rather than have like a
• 38:29
  Speaker 11: fourth and fifteen to have the team spoke forward on there.
• 38:33
  Speaker 11: That would be way better than the onside kick rule
• 38:36
  Speaker 11: that we got right now, like a slim chance of
• 38:39
  Speaker 11: it being successful, So fourth and fifteen would be better
• 38:41
  Speaker 11: to watch.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: I feel like, Kevin, what do you think about that?
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: I don't disagree with that at all. If you're going
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: to tell people that they have to declare for onside kick,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: and I understand why they do it for safety purposes.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Then just get rid of it completely and have them
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: to be able to do it fourth or fifteen. The
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: conversion rate on it, especially since they've changed it, has
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: been astronomically low, so what's the point. Yeah, So just
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: have it be fourth and fifteen or fourth and twenty.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: I think the UFL does this. I think they make
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: it like a fourth and twenty instead of an on
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: side kick. It's an exciting play. I'd much rather go
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: that route. So I agree with you on.
• 39:11
  Speaker 11: That for sure, for sure. And the other one I
• 39:13
  Speaker 11: wanted to change is I hate the idea of there
• 39:17
  Speaker 11: being a tie, So I wish like in the regular
• 39:19
  Speaker 11: season they have overtime like they do in the playoffs,
• 39:23
  Speaker 11: so there's no ties.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Have we gotten I know we got the Cowboys and
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: the Packers tie this season? Did we get to.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: That was the only one this year?
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: I think the average has been two?
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah per year.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, how many games do they play? Over three
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: hundred games per year.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Or something like that, fifty something games or something like that.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: We we can deal with a couple of ties. I
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: almost like the wonkiness of it and just the awkwardness
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: of teams being like, well, we played pretty hard tonight
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: and you know, we wanted to win, but we didn't
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: lose either.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: So it was the NFL talking out of both sides
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: of his mouth to a certain degree when they say, like,
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: we care about players safety, we don't want them out
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: there playing for much longer than they need to. But yeah,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: we're sitting here talking about having potentially eighteen you know
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: game regular season when you have you know, guys tearing
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: acls and achilles every other week, yep, yep, yep.
• 40:09
  Speaker 11: And then one more thing, one more thing. Some of
• 40:12
  Speaker 11: the flags that are thrown are terrible. I wish we
• 40:15
  Speaker 11: to review the flags.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Review the flags, review the flags.
• 40:19
  Speaker 11: Some of them are still are off.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: This is some meta humor going on.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: There absolutely a review.
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: The review, review, review.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: The penalty penalties. He wants penalties to be under instant,
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: replay them play well. It's like, I mean, how much
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: longer do you want these games to last? I mean,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: I think bri has a thought on this. For as
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: far as pass interference plays, I know that. Well, I'm
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: just traumatized from twenty eighteen, right.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: We're traumatized from happening to hear about it from you
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: for so long. Its twenty eighteen. I will never get
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: over it. Never I'll go.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Down neither if I were you horrible.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Have you ever been cheated with one of your teams, Kevin?
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Never once, It's never happened.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: Tuck Rule more Fina coming up next in for Ben
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: Maller here on Fox Sports Radio