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  Speaker 3: We begin the new week.
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  Speaker 1: Here, the greatest basketball player in the history of the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: at least in somewhat modern times, was the headliner on Sundays.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it must be the All Star Game. No, it
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  Speaker 3: was not the All Star Game. Bugget it. Mugging it,
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  Speaker 3: mugging it, mugging it, mugging and mugging and mugging and muggery.
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  Speaker 1: A different kind of title. You were not paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: Bad job by you. But Michael Jordan, who I'm told
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  Speaker 1: has six NBA championships, back when guys actually tried, played hard,
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  Speaker 1: didn't half the league, didn't tank like the days of today.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, so Michael Jordan six time.
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  Speaker 1: NBA champion, and he was able to get her done
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  Speaker 1: at the Daytona five hundred. Now, he did not actually
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  Speaker 1: race in the Daytona five hundred, but he spent a
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  Speaker 1: lot of his Nike money, A lot of that Nike
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  Speaker 1: money Michael Jordan spent to get it done, and somebody
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  Speaker 1: named Tyler Reddick a rather generic dame. But he won
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  Speaker 1: the Great American Race the Daytona five hundred last lap,
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  Speaker 1: did not lead until the final lap. There were a
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  Speaker 1: couple of tremendous recks. There's one that knocked half the
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  Speaker 1: field out, or so it seemed there at Daytona International Speedway.
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  Speaker 1: But Michael Jordan the headline here. He's the one that's
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  Speaker 1: the sugar daddy for that NASCAR team and they get
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  Speaker 1: her done same day as the NBA All Star Game.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, they moved up the Daytona five hundred because
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  Speaker 1: of weather concerns and so the timing on this could
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  Speaker 1: not have been better. The Basketball Hall of Famer Bear
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  Speaker 1: hugging Reddick took a great photo as he really gets
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  Speaker 1: into it with the trophies. He's really emotional with the
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  Speaker 1: trophies there when he gets to hang out with the
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  Speaker 1: trophies there. So his birthday is coming up Jordan on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: little early birthday president. He'll turn sixty three years young
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  Speaker 1: there and he said, quote, it feels like I won
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  Speaker 1: a championship, but until I get my ring, I won't
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  Speaker 1: even know do they give out rings for the dayton
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  Speaker 1: if I want to do? Really, I don't know anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Reddick in a Toyota led only one lap. Again, that's
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  Speaker 1: the thing. He led only one lap on Sunday, and
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  Speaker 1: it was the final one right at the checkered flag.
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  Speaker 1: And the twenty fifth different driver that ended up in
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  Speaker 1: that position there at the Daytona five hundred record in
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  Speaker 1: the lead and the last ones the one that gets
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  Speaker 1: the the bling, bling and all that so good. Jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point, let us discuss the question for the esteem panel.
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  Speaker 1: Did Michael Jordan's team winning the Daytona five hundred upstage
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  Speaker 1: the NBA All Star Game? In SoCal And so I've
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  Speaker 1: got daily double rusted out Buick and the Jerry Lewis telethon,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna make grits, is what we're gonna make.
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  Speaker 3: Yum, yum.
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  Speaker 1: Unless it's not so a to answer the question, did
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan upstage the NBA All Star Game?
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  Speaker 3: Ye, I'm nodding my head. I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I'm nodding my head so hard right now
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  Speaker 1: that I'm gonna need a neck brace. That's how hard
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  Speaker 1: I'm nodding my head on this Listen. Well, the NBA
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  Speaker 1: spent All Star weekend rearranging the deck chairs on the
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  Speaker 1: SS irrelevant. Now, the All Star Game itself wasn't as
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  Speaker 1: bad as it's been. The bar's pretty low. The bar
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  Speaker 1: is pretty low. The rest of the events over All
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  Speaker 1: Star weekend horrific. It was so bad. It was so bad.
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  Speaker 1: The All Star Friday thing, the Saturday which used to
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  Speaker 1: be like the Jewel, the Dunk Contest, the three point
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  Speaker 1: God just got it terrible. So yes, yes, Michael Jordan,
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  Speaker 1: while the NBA was doing their thing, futzing around in Inglewood,
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  Speaker 1: the new format, the new gimmicks, and they just keep
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  Speaker 1: throwing stuff against the wall. Michael Jordan's out there popping
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  Speaker 1: champagne at the daytone of five hundred, like you hit
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  Speaker 1: another jumper over Byron Russell and salt Lake or Craig
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  Speaker 1: Elo in Cleveland and just add another notch in the bedpost.
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  Speaker 1: And for Jordan, though, this is the daily double, the
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  Speaker 1: daily double for mj because this is a couple of
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  Speaker 1: months after staring down NASCAR in federal court. You remember
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  Speaker 1: when Jordan went to federal court and it was suing
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  Speaker 1: Nascar there's an anti trust situation there. The France family,
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  Speaker 1: the first family of Nascar, the ones that control the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. There were a lot of fireworks in that,
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  Speaker 1: and so he's out there celebrating above the super Speedway.
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  Speaker 1: They're built by the France family and all that the
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  Speaker 1: empire and got it done. So then yet Jim France,
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  Speaker 1: the chairman who strolled to the victory lane and all
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  Speaker 1: the big shots there from NASCAR to clap and applot
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  Speaker 1: and the irony served on ice, big chunks of ice,
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  Speaker 1: got that and Jordan called it gratifying. The translation is
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  Speaker 1: the checkmate with horsepower is what that is? Checkmate with
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  Speaker 1: horsepower for Michael Jordan. So advantage Jordan yet again. And
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  Speaker 1: much more interesting than the All Star Game in LA.
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  Speaker 1: Now speaking of that though.
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  Speaker 3: In the hood in Englewood, we go to that.
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  Speaker 1: Now the seventy fifth installment of the NBA Mid Season Classic,
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  Speaker 1: which is not actually mid seasons past mid season. Here
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  Speaker 1: a round robin tournament. It was a Frankenstein type All
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  Speaker 1: Stars set up.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 1: You had two teams of American stars, the third set
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  Speaker 1: of stars representing the globe the world. So you had
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  Speaker 1: one team representing everything other than America and then two
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  Speaker 1: you had the older old heads American team and then
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  Speaker 1: you had the younger group of American teams.
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  Speaker 3: So that was the matchup. They had three teams.
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  Speaker 1: They were playing each other in twelve minute games and
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  Speaker 1: that's how it all went down there. The All American
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  Speaker 1: Championship Game, like the All American Diner, came down to
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  Speaker 1: the two American teams there and the team with the
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  Speaker 1: mostly younger roster I was able to get done and
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  Speaker 1: they won in a route or route depending on how
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  Speaker 1: you want to say it there, but they won by
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  Speaker 1: twenty six points, nine points by Tyrese Maxiy of the
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  Speaker 1: Sixers in that last blowout, non competitive game over the
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  Speaker 1: All Star festifies Edwards. Anthony Edwards was your MVP of
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Game. There should have been Kawhi Leonard,
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  Speaker 1: but they couldn't give it to a guy on the
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  Speaker 1: team that didn't win, so they gave it to Edwards.
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  Speaker 1: The most impressive stretch of basketball was Kawhi Leonard and
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  Speaker 1: people that know ball know that, but they couldn't give
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  Speaker 1: it to him. So Anthony Edwards had ten of the
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  Speaker 1: fourteen first place votes and he is your MVP from
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  Speaker 1: the media.
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  Speaker 3: Fanboys who were out there.
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  Speaker 1: So question, by all accounts, the All Star Game was
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  Speaker 1: better than it has been in terms of competitive play.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is this, has the NBA solved the
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  Speaker 1: All Star game conundrum? Have they solved it? So this
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  Speaker 1: was a market improvement. This wasn't an upgrade situation for
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. And as much as I'd like to come
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  Speaker 1: in here and just say it was terrible all the
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  Speaker 1: way through, no what the last game sucked the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: They stopped the bleeding for the All Star games.
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  Speaker 3: That's as far as I'll go.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not fit Adam Silver though for the robe that
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  Speaker 1: says savior on it. Let's not go that far for
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  Speaker 1: Adam Silver, your commissioner of the NBA. Here, after years
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  Speaker 1: and years of mad science tinkering, they have figured something
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  Speaker 1: out right. The playground draft, they had the Rising Stars gimmick.
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  Speaker 3: All that stuff went over like a lead balloon. They
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  Speaker 3: went and.
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  Speaker 1: Global this year, although two of the three teams were
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  Speaker 1: just US guys, but they had the Global team as well,
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  Speaker 1: and the top Global stars. Most of them decided they
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  Speaker 1: did not want to play. They could not play. It's
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  Speaker 1: too difficult for these gentlemen to play. So they didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to play, so it was mostly like the backup
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  Speaker 1: guys on the world team, and so USA versus the World.
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  Speaker 1: They stole that from hockey. Hockey was doing that, or
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  Speaker 1: the Olympics which are going on right now, the Winter
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  Speaker 1: Olympics there and so all this there at the end
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  Speaker 1: to a dome in Inglewood, and so it was a
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  Speaker 1: little bit better. There was occasionally defense being played there.
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  Speaker 1: The players actually looked like they were playing a form
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  Speaker 1: of basketball and not just total grab ass.
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  Speaker 3: So that was all good stuff. That was all good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And I mentioned Anthony Edwards ant Man, the MVP of
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Game there the claw though, Kawhi Leonard
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  Speaker 1: put on a show for the ages there as he
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  Speaker 1: had a thirty one point barrage point barrage there in
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  Speaker 1: the second game, the middle game, which I'm sure upset
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  Speaker 1: that podcast guy that's trying to get Kawhi out of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. I'm sure he's upset that. I don't really
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  Speaker 1: get his name, but nobody. But the preliminary games were
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  Speaker 1: legitimately competitive.
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  Speaker 3: They were.
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  Speaker 1: There were three games that came down to the very
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  Speaker 1: end there and decided by one possession, so they go. However,
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  Speaker 1: in the final was a dud lee do right, keyp
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  Speaker 1: part of that dud dud lee do right, It was
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  Speaker 1: a dud us Stripes running out of gas, and they
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  Speaker 1: got smoked in.
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  Speaker 3: That final game.
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  Speaker 1: They ran out of gas faster than a rusted out
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  Speaker 1: buick on the side of the road, losing by twenty
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  Speaker 1: six points. There for the climax of All Star Sunday
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  Speaker 1: in Inglewood, there and Adam Silver, he found a format
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  Speaker 1: that for thirty six minutes of game time actually did something.
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  Speaker 1: There was a little something there, and now I just
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  Speaker 1: needs to find a way to keep the stars from
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  Speaker 1: checking out before the trophy ceremony, which is what happened
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  Speaker 1: here now the last word here to the broadcast itself.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not sure if you were watching the game
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  Speaker 1: or not. I'm probably not. I was not anticipating watch him,
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  Speaker 1: but I had to have something on in the background.
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  Speaker 1: I was was watching the Daytona five hundred and then
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  Speaker 1: the timing on as I'll flip over the All Star games,
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  Speaker 1: and then the All Star Game was on. I had
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  Speaker 1: that in the background. Really wasn't much else going on,
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  Speaker 1: so I was like, I'll just leave that on. So
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  Speaker 1: I had it on and Reggie Miller. Good old Reggie
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  Speaker 1: Miller was getting cooked, getting smoked.
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  Speaker 3: For his commentary during the All Star Game on and.
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  Speaker 1: Me see see, I had the former Indiana pacer Ledge
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  Speaker 1: who survived the broadcast shakeup.
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  Speaker 3: He had been a.
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  Speaker 1: Turner and Turner's out, so he went over to NBC
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  Speaker 1: there and he was calling the game alongside Noah Eagle
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  Speaker 1: and Jamal Crawford, former Clipper Jamal Crawford.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 1: They were all lined up, and the fans and most
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  Speaker 1: observers watching had one issue, one somewhat large issue with
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  Speaker 1: Reggie Miller and his commentary in the All Star Game
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, which was evening for most afternoon in the West,
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  Speaker 1: and the issue was over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: Reggie Miller, at every opportunity, like a proud papa, had
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  Speaker 1: to let everyone know, the players are playing hard.
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  Speaker 3: We the players are playing hard.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: He was so happy, he was so excited. The players
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  Speaker 1: were playing hard. Oh my god, look at the effort.
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  Speaker 3: It was so good.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So question, what did you make of Reggie
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  Speaker 1: Miller repeatedly yapping about how hard the NBA All Stars
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  Speaker 1: were playing.
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  Speaker 3: So Reggie, you know what he did?
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  Speaker 1: He acted like a substitute teacher who was trying to
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  Speaker 1: convince the class that the movie they're watching is educational,
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  Speaker 1: like this very is educational. Trust trust me, it's educational.
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  Speaker 1: Every other possession, every other possession. Reggie Miller is out
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  Speaker 1: there and he's going on and on and on and on.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, no, look how hard they're playing. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: the effort oh so good and does Like, hey, Reggie,
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  Speaker 1: we we can figure out what's going on here.
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  Speaker 3: We don't need you to tell us.
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  Speaker 1: I know you might think that we are taking the
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  Speaker 1: short bus here, but you chill out a little bit
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  Speaker 1: so we can see the dives when that happens. We
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  Speaker 1: are aware of that. We can hear them if we're blind.
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  Speaker 1: The close outs, we can hear that as well. The
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  Speaker 1: sweaty armpits, we can. We can check that out. We
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  Speaker 1: have the hd TV, we have all that stuff there.
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  Speaker 1: So Jen speaking, when the effort is obvious. When the
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  Speaker 1: effort is obvious, and that's fine. You don't need to
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  Speaker 1: announce it twenty seven times in each game.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to do that. Just no.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's like, come on, now's like you're reading a
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  Speaker 1: hostage note or something like that, and that's the vibe
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  Speaker 1: I got. This felt mandated to me, felt like in
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  Speaker 1: their production meeting get NBC, They're like, Okay, here's what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to focus on. Let's really it's really kind
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  Speaker 1: of bulls eye in. We're gonna bullseye in on the effort,
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  Speaker 1: the energy of the players.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: It is like Adam Silver or one of his henchmen
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  Speaker 1: at the NBA slipped a post it note, one of
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  Speaker 1: those yellow post it notes in the production meeting and said,
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  Speaker 1: mention competitiveness. Any time there's a lull in the action,
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  Speaker 1: mention how competitive it is like every two or three
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  Speaker 1: minutes or else you will not be calling me All
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  Speaker 1: Star game again.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: It was like the Jerry Lewis telethon of hustle. Really
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  Speaker 1: what it's a quota system and it is like you,
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  Speaker 1: Reggie were light on the mensions in the third quarter. Hustle, hustle, hustle,
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  Speaker 1: do the hustle. It's like that disco song from back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. You got to do the hustle. And
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  Speaker 1: here's the irony again. The irony on this is the
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  Speaker 1: more you scream the players are trying. Oh man, they're
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  Speaker 1: going forward, they're diving on the court. The more it
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  Speaker 1: feels like they're not, So just let it breathe, dude, Like, seriously,
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  Speaker 1: if it's real, it sells itself and you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to get out there on your high horse and start
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  Speaker 1: ranting and all that stuff. The constant reminders from Reggie
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  Speaker 1: Miller that the players were playing hard, that's really what
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  Speaker 1: ruin it. Now. At some point I did hit the
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  Speaker 1: mute button, so I did tune them out. I'm told
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  Speaker 1: they continued the part I tuned out of. But I
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  Speaker 1: was watching those first couple of sas and it was hustle, hustle, hastle, hastle, hastle, hastle, hahusle.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It went from organic competition to infu mershall and as
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  Speaker 1: I said, the Jerry Lewis telethon type thing where there's like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: mention this every couple of minutes, get the phones ringing,
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  Speaker 1: and we're good to go on that.
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  Speaker 3: And so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: never ending baseball saga. But this is actually somewhat interesting
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: because the Mets fell apart last season.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: And they had a lot of talent. They had this
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: big payroll. They did not get it done.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: They've unloaded several prominent players from the Mets. It's believed
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that that is at the behest of Francisco Lindor and
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Juan Soda. They're cleansing out the locker room of players
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: they didn't like. So Pete Alonzo's not back. McNeil's gone,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: a couple other players that were of prominence of the
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Mets have been decommissioned by the Metropolitans. Bring this up
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: because there's also some chatter of issues between Juan Soto
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: and Francisco Lindor, the two big stars, although Juan Soto's
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: in a different stratosphere compared to Lindor, but they're both
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: making a lot of money, and Soo and Lindor. If
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: you didn't see this, maybe not. They addressed the tabloid
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: fodder in Gotham about the Mets clubhouse issues, and the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: first up Lindor, he said, quote, are we all best friends?
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Talking about the Met's locker room, the clubhouse and also
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: one soda? Are we all best friends? That's not how
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: it works in the clubhouse, Lindor said, But we are friends.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: We're good. We are friends, we're good teammates. We care
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: for each other, we love each other, and we want
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the best.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: For each other, as good as all the rest.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Of course, Sodo was not as fired up as Lindor
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: was when he was asked a similar line of questioning.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: He said, saying the following, that's in the past. Regarding
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the many issues that popped up during the twenty twenty
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: five season, he said, that's in the past, he claimed,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: we forget about it. We focus on twenty twenty six,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: all right, So that is a good jumping off point.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question, Hey, you got one Soto
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: to the right, you got Francisco Lindor to the left,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: doing the media two step about the Mets clubhouse chemistry issues.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Do you buy it?
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Are you buying what Lindor and Soto are selling? So
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: on this one, I've got John Candy Neighborhood HOA president
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and Trader Joe's and we will combine all of these
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: things together and we'll.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Go ABC and one, two three, and we'll do it
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: just like that.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: So number one, do I buy that everything's great between
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Sodo and Lindor based on the comments parsing the words
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: of these two guys at spring training.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Absolutely not, not for a second, Not for a second.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Do I buy it now Lindor when he's going like, ah,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: are we best friends? That's not how it works, all right,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: that's a Lindor line translation. We're not getting those matching
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: bracelets or tattoos. We're not doing that corporate speak if
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: you will. For I don't like the guy, but I'll
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: clock in. We are work friends, the old line. We
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: are work friends there and that's the see you on
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the team flight and I will see on the team
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: flight and that's it. And I'm not gonna invite you
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: to my kids' birthday party, and I don't want to
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: be invited to your kids' birthday party. So this is
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the the New York Mets. It is not summer camp,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: it's not spring camp. It's just Mets baseball.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: There.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: It's Steve Martin and John Canty, planes, trains, and automobiles.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: That's it, right, Not any kind of Thanksgiving dinner. We're
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: not going trick or treating as a family's that's not happening.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: And then Juan Soto on top of that that it's
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: in the past. We focus on twenty twenty six really interesting.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: So it's in the past.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: So if nothing happened, just between me and you, if
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: nothing happened in twenty twenty five, you don't need to
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: bury anything. But yet it sounds like you're trying to
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: bury something. So if nothing happened, why would you have
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: to bury something? You don't say let's move on unless
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: there is something to move on from. Am I wrong
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: on that? I think it's just common sense. If there's
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: nothing to move on from, why would you say we
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: have to move on? There's nothing to move on from you.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: You were fine, okay. So that is a admission. That
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: is a confessional by Juan Soto here and without actually
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: using the admission word. He didn't say, hey, I'm admitting
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: to this and yeah we care for each other. Sure, yeah, yeah,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: sure you do.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah. That's a corporate.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Hr language, is what that is. That's the email before
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the heads get chopped off. You know, the old layoff
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: thing was send an email and all that stuff. And now, ultimately,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: if the Mets end up winning the National League East
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: in they have one of the better records in baseball,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: and they challenged the Dodgers, who were light years ahead
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: of the Mets. But if they are able to challenge them,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: then the winning cologne, the winning cologne there will cover
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: up everything. And that's great and all wonderful and all that.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: But they don't try to sell me that it's some
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: kind of buddy cop movie from back in the day.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I'm not buying that.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Co workers sharing a locker room, not brothers in arms.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: That is not going on with the Mets now, page two.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: A lot of baseball scribes are upset with many Machado.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: They're annoyed by Manny Machado. Why would they be annoyed
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: by many Pachado because he didn't say.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: The right thing at the right time, and.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: It's upsetting the Padres well paid hustle when he wants
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Manny Machado. He was asked about the Dodgers spending a
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: lot of money a player who has massive amounts of
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: money based on his huge contracts he's gotten from the
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: various teams over the years, but Machado did not say
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: what the writers wanted him to say. He said he
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: had no problem with the Dodgers, the NL West rival
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Dodgers continuing to burn money on high falutin free agents
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: every year. They've seemingly added one or two free agents
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the last four or five years, and now they have
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: this mega, mega superteam. Dodgers have won the last two
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: World Series, beat the Yankees and the Blue Jays and
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the Fall Classic blue Jays.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Had Game seven. They were right there to win it,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: but they didn't. They blew it and all that stuff.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: But the Dodgers continue to spend money.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Machado has no issue with it at all, and he said, quote,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I efan love it. He said Machado from the Padres
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: spring training camp in Arizona, and he said every team should.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Be doing it.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: That blank, blank and great for the game, said the
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: aforementioned Manny Machado would prefer everyone spain spend spent, which is.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Not a shocking take. He wants everyone to be like
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Rather than see the money reeled back in, which is
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: something which some of you socialist loving people love so much.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: You want to. You know, the Dodgers are spending too
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: much money. We must put the kebash on the Dodgers.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: We have to have balanced financials, we have to have
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: it and all that crap. Machado said, I think every
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: team has the ability to do it.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: I hope all thirty two teams learn from that, meaning
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: learn from the Dodgers now.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: That of course, led to pushback, as we said, against
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Manny Machado, the Padres star who briefly played for the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Dodgers and had the longest base hit ever in World
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Series history the twenty eighteen World Series against the Red
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Sox when Machado hit a ball off the wall and
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: was styling and profiling and didn't realize the ball didn't
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: go out of the ballpark, and a very awkward, very
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: awkward moment there for mister Machado.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: But he was not alone. He was not alone Bryce Harper.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: You heard him.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Bryce Harper plays in Philadelphia. Bryce Harper was asked about
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. He said, I love what the Dodgers knew. Obviously,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Bryce Harper said to reporters in Florida. He said, quote,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I mean they pay the money, they spend the money.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're a great team. They run their team
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: like a business, and they run it the right way,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Harper said. And he went on to say each team
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: in baseball has an opportunity to do the same thing,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Harper repeating the same line that Machadda used without the profanity.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Maybe not at the upper eche a lot of money,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Harper said, but they can draft, they can develop, they
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: can trade. I think a lot of teams can do
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: that in baseball, and they should close.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Quote. All right, So the question on this one.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: You've got a couple of big stars in baseball, highly paid,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: highly compensated, obviously, So how do you dissect the Philadelphia
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Phillies Bryce Harper and the Padres star Manny Machado endorsing
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers spending spree.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: All right, so I wrote down my report card.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I wrote down E for expected, as in it's expected
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: this would happen MLB stars in general, this is a
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: point of demarcation. MLB stars want thirty teams to act
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: like the Dodgers, right, and what the Yankees used to be,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and they're not like that anymore. But that's obviously what
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: you want, and you would want the same thing if
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: you were playing Major League Baseball.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Don't sit as Oh no, I don't want the Dodgers many,
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I don't shut up.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: If you were a baseball player, or you had a
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: kid that was a baseball player, you would want the
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Dodgers to be the model.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Franchise for every team.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Instead, you've got these these people carrying the water for
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: these cheap owners.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: And they're going around here and half.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: The owners of Major League based act like the neighborhood
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: hoa president. No no, no, no fireworks, you can't have
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: any fun, No landscaping upgrades.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: You can cannot do it, cannot do it. No, no, no, no.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: We all agreed this neighborhood is going to be mediocre.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: We want mediocre. You can't put the razzle dazzle. You're
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: not allowed to put the razzle dazzle. What's wrong with
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: you and your razzle dazzle. That's essentially where we are.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: It's pathetic, it's absolutely pathetic. They don't want parody, right,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: this big buzzword parody. They want comfort. The owners want comfort.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: They want to pocket the revenue and have you support
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: them making more money, and you're doing it.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: A lot of you are so stupid. You're doing it right.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: They want to pocket the revenue sharing and all that
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: stuff and finish ten games under five hundred.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Barring baseball without some of revolt.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: And they're actually getting people supporting them, which is fascinating
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: to me that there's so many dumb people that are
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: supporting these tight wad owners.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: It's wild. And the whole the.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Salary cap thing, that's not parody. It's about owners being
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: too lazy to compete. And they want the rules rewritten
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: because they're tired of the big kid winning the Science
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Fair every year. They're like, well, that's not right, and
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: if you can't beat them, just legislate them.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Right, it can't beat the Dodgers, so we'll just legislate.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: So they have to get rid of some players.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: What a loser's mantra, What a bunch of losers right now,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: EMA's agreement is all a twenty twenty seven is gonna
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: be a workstopage, and it's all because of a line
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: in the sand being drawn because of the Dodgers spending.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: It's coming the tight wad ownership class in Major League Baseball.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: They low the Dodgers, can't stand the Dodgers because they
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: get exposed by the Dodgers. They get exposed that they
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: don't really try to win. And it's the same group
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: that scumbag who owns the Athletics, the Pirates, the Reds,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the same teams year after year are in that class,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: and it's just a loser's at it, like somebody, what
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: happened to the people's Like, listen, there is a giant dragon,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: fire breathing, three headed dragon out there, and so let's
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: pick up the sword and we are going to be
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the dragon slayer, and we're gonna be the team that
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: they make the documentaries about because we beat the big, bad, mighty,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: fire breathing three headed Dodger dragon. We're gonna beat them. Instead,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: you just have a bunch of people whining it's not fair.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's not fair. Boooooo, oh my god,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: such losers. I'm embarrassed for people that think that way.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: It's such a loser's attitude. Now, final point to the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Cactus League. We stay. We go now to Arizona in
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the Cactus League.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: That's where it is. It's all in Arizona.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Hello, former Phillies outfield Nick Costeanos has found a new home.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: By the time now, we were on the radio at
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the end of the week and he had just been
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: whacked by the Phillies and we said, well, you should wait,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: wait for one of the really good teams to have
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: an injury and then you can get a job somewhere
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: and you'll be in good shape. Well, Casianos had no patience.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: He did not make it through the weekend. He joined
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the Padres over the weekend after being unceremoniously dumped by
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: the Phillies because of a presidente beer that he was
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: drinking in the locker room last summer or actually on
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: the bench. Brought it, well, he was I don't know
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: if he's drinking, and he brought it to the bench
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: and started harassing the Phillies manager in front of everyone else.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: So Philadelphia will end up paying almost all of Castianos's
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: salary twenty million dollars and the Padres will pay him
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: the veteran minimum. Now, I'm of the age. I remember
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: when I was a kid, I used to hear stories
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: about people that were making the veteran minimum, and they
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: had to sell cars in the offseason, they had to
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: get jobs in the off season. Do you know what
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the minimum salary for a veteran baseball player is in
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty six. Yeah, it is seven hundred
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: and eighty thousand dollars. That's the minimum getting salary for
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a veteran. Seven hundred eighty thousand. I think that's the
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: minimum salary in general. I don't mean it's based on
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: whether you're a veteran or not. I think even if
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: you're a rookie seven hundred eighty thousand bucks. There's nobody
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: poor who's a baseball player in the major leagues. It
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: doesn't exist. In the only way you would be poor
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: is if you're really bad at gambling, like those Cleveland pitchers,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: or or.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: The other other thing. Just terrible investments.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: So anyway, the point of all this, Philadelphia will be
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: paying most of this Arid Padres will not be paying
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: much of anything. As we said, he at one point
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: was an All Star, a two time All Star Castellanos,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: and he has taken a sharp decline. He is a
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: below average major league player at this point. He was
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: last year in Philadelphia. So the question for the esteem panel,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Nick Casteanos joining the Padres joined the Padres, is this
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: a big deal, a little deal or no deal? So
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I wrote down little deal with a lower casel, not
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: a capital L, a lower casel. And it's not a
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: blockbuster edition. If it is, it's a blockbuster video edition
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. For Castianos, that's it, and it's
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: you know what it is. It's like going to Trader
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Joe's and they have those little appetizer things like the
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: on the toothpick, and you get a little piece of cheese,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: a little cube of cheese, and it's right next to
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: the frozen orange chicken. You're like, why can't I get
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: some orange chicken? Well, we didn't cook that. We've got
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the little Cuba cheese, but I don't want the Cuba cheese.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: But it's all we have. Okay, I'll take Cuba cheese,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: but I'd rather have the little piece of orange chicken.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: We don't have that again.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: So Casty arrives, much to the dismay of Jonathan and
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Delaware in the gas Lamp quarter when the Podreys start playing.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: He's a diminished asset at this point, after his time
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, a man. They said, well, it's just a
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: change of scenery. He'll be ready to go and all
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: that stuff. Just needs a new set of laundry and.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: He'll be ready to go.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: I would argue he needs to be fumigated and decontaminated
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: and sanitized because there's a lot going on with his cat,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: a lot going on with his cat. He sucked at
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: a time he cannot suck. At the end of the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: regular season, from July first of July to the end
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: of the year, he batted two oh six. He was
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: worse than the playoffs for the fight in Phills, as
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: they quickly exited the playoffs. And so now Castiano's parachutes
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: into a clubhouse starring the aforementioned Manny Machado captain sideye
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Fernando to tease Junior, you know, filtered, check him for
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: the uh you know, the cream if you will. So
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the pod now the Padre Romantics, so like, oh, everything's
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: great here, this is fine. It's it's a good landing spot.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Machado and Nick were buddies. They were childhood pals, and
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: they know each other and all this stuff, and.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: I say, whooped the dam do?
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: They're grown ass men right now, and this has a
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: high chance.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Of being a debacle. Now.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: If it is a debacle, the Padres will just say
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: bye bye. They'll get rid of Castos. He won't be
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: there very long. Padres are currently down wind from a
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: toxic vapor cloud. Adding this guy in. They're just not
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: as good as they have been in recent years, and
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: that is a team. You keep an eye on the Padres.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: If they don't get off to a good start in
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six baseball season, we get to that
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: July portion and it could be burned baby burn in
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: terms of a fire sale situation there as they start
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: unloading some of these veteran players.
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  Speaker 5: Former star tight end Colorado star tight end Christian Fourier,
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: so that he's tapped out on supporting Dion Sanders Colorado program.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: I think the last straw for him was his son
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: getting his number retired. But do you think Dion's time
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: is He's on the hot seat there in Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: No, because they're they're making money.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: I think if they keep losing, Dion's not going to
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: stick around because he doesn't want to be associated with losing.
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  Speaker 3: But financially they're viable. They're making a lot of money, and.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: That's ultimately what it's about. If you can't know you
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: want championships every year, you're gonna make the money. That's
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: what where we do it next.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: Eli Manning said over the weekend that he can't imagine
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: a more deserving coach for the Hall of Fame than
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: Bill Belichick. Eli himself has been eligible for two years
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: and has not made.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: It in yet. Do you think he makes it next year?
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: Eli Manning should be the Hall of Fame. He's not
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: a Hall of Fame quarterback. He's an average quarterback. He's
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: not Hall of Fame worthy.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: But it does help Eli Manning if Belichick's in the
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, right, because he beat Belichick twice and
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: so it's like that's his claim to fame other than that,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Eli Manning's is really a loser as a quarterback.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: Next, so, the NFL has tried to stop the NFL
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  Speaker 5: Players Association from publishing the team report cards, but that
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: did not work. Then arbitration ruled in the players Association's favor.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Ben.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think they should be able to publicize these
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: report cards, Well.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: They'd have to redo the cbas against the rules of
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: the NFL players signed off.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: They will not allow that. So it's against the NFL rules.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: They got to change the rules. But if they do that, sure,
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: there it is malan of.
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• 38:55
  Speaker 3: He's winning so important, listen, running's everything the horror.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: It's time for another Mallard game show.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, son go.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: We surveyed one hundred people name sports teams associated with losing.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: D curs. I believe the answer is to Clippers. That
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: is the top answer forty points.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: It's Mallard militia fute.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Well, let's play the feud and our contestants. Since if
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: he's awake from the Minneapolis. We say a load of
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: hollering James, Hello, hollering James, hollowing James, you're wide awake today.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Unbelievable. We had a snore earlier. I thought of you.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Hold on a second. We have far out Dave. Hello,
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: far out Dave in Ohio. It's awesome. I get the
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: kicking with mister James. Yeah, all right, well, what a matchup?
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: This is going to be? All right, ones of the
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: twos here, what are we thinking here?
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Two?
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  Speaker 3: Number two?
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: All right, number two, gentlemen. One hundred people surveyed the
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: top one, two, three, four answer. The top four answers
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: are on the board. Name something George Washington would take
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: off in a game of strip poker. Dave tith Is what, Yes,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: that's right. I was on there his wooden teeth. Fifteen
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: points for that one. Far out Dave, you get to go.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Again, wig his wig.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the number one answer Number one. All right,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: you're doing very well, keep going there, Dave his black rifle,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: black rife. No, that is incorrect, all right, James. One
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: hundred people surveyed. Name something George Washington would take off
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: in a game of strip poker and honor President's Day today.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: His glasses, No, not on there, James, not bad Dave,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: anything else, Dave, Dave far out, Dave.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: His boots, No, not on there. Back to James.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: His wig.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: He already answered that that is correct, but he already
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: far out. Dave already answered that right back to you.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Dave his coat, Yeah, that was on there. You go
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: far out, Dave. You got dominating one. One more answer
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: on the board.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: What are you?
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: What's your answer?
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Dave bridges his bridges, his bridges, Nope, not not on it. James,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: you got a shot to get one? James his coat.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: He already answered the coat you No, it's you glaid
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: on the know. The other answer we were looking for
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: was a hat.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: His hat far out. Dave is the winner.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: You get a goal the decade.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: You gotta all the decade. They gotta goll the deck. Yeah,
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: they all the dick