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4-14-26 Hour 3 - The Flaw in the 65-Game Rule/Moser's..."Key" to the game/Overthinking about the playoffs... · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mocher, Lombardi and Caine on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 2: You know what's really funny that I found out yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: And maybe we talked about this before, I can't remember,
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  Speaker 2: but it confirmed something from yesterday. Remember when Barkley talked
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  Speaker 2: about the sixty five game rule, right, and he went
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  Speaker 2: off and said.
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  Speaker 3: This, I don't think six to five game is a
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  Speaker 3: lot to ask man. Shut the hell up. Y'all voted
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  Speaker 3: on that in a collective bargaining, and now y'all want
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  Speaker 3: to complain if y'all want sitting on your ass half
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  Speaker 3: the time shipping margaritas and stuff, they want to put
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  Speaker 3: the sixty five game threshold in there. Chet the hell up?
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, good much? Do you think we were talking
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  Speaker 4: about this yesterday? Hell, the NBA virtual by virtue of
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  Speaker 4: going away from T and T and then what the
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  Speaker 4: ESPN bought the show or whatever it is they did
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  Speaker 4: and stashed it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think comments like that drive Adam Silver crazy?
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  Speaker 2: I mean maybe, but who cares? I mean those guys, oh.
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  Speaker 4: Well, do they have a lot of poll. We're talking
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  Speaker 4: about billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion dollar industry.
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  Speaker 2: Well the AA is you're doing this to themselves.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I know, but when you become the commissioner
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  Speaker 4: of a league and your job is to protect the league,
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  Speaker 4: and your job is to fund the league and increase
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  Speaker 4: funds for the league and so on and so forth,
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  Speaker 4: and make the league's product the best it could possibly be,
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  Speaker 4: and then you get a guy like Barkley from a
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  Speaker 4: different era going, hey, man, sixty five games, screw that,
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  Speaker 4: stop sipping Margarite's play basketball. Well it's got to drive
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  Speaker 4: them crazy because that's something that typically they can't control,
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  Speaker 4: but now they can. And that's maybe why that show
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  Speaker 4: has just been sort of shelved for so long.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to discuss something of regarding the sixty
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  Speaker 2: five game rule that was put in place to reward
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  Speaker 2: what availability.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Sure, you put this rule in.
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  Speaker 2: Place to reward players who are available. Of the Nuggets
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  Speaker 2: who played in all eighty two games this season, Bruce E.
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  Speaker 2: B Would it surprised you to find out that Bruce Brown,
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  Speaker 2: even though I know he's not up for any awards,
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  Speaker 2: but let's say that he was. Bruce Brown is not
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  Speaker 2: eligible for postseason awards.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because he didn't play enough minutes per game.
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  Speaker 2: That's why the sixty five game rule only counts if
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  Speaker 2: you play twenty minutes. And Bruce Brown, being a bench guy,
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  Speaker 2: played in all eighty two games but did not play
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  Speaker 2: sixty five of them with at least twenty minutes, and
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  Speaker 2: that seems to be insane.
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  Speaker 4: Does a sixth Man of the Year play twenty minutes
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  Speaker 4: a night? Does that happen?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, almost all of them. And so again he's
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  Speaker 2: not up for any of these awards. I just find
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  Speaker 2: it funny that he is not eligible for them despite
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  Speaker 2: playing in every game. Like Tim Hardaway Junior, I think
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  Speaker 2: is somebody that would be eligible for a six Man
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  Speaker 2: of the Year. He played twenty six and a half
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  Speaker 2: minutes a game on average, and he played in eighty
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  Speaker 2: of them, so I mean like he would be available
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  Speaker 2: for that. But it is sort of a weird wrinkle
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  Speaker 2: for guys coming off the bench that you can play
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  Speaker 2: in every single game, not miss one and still not
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  Speaker 2: to be eligible for the same sort of rewards that
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  Speaker 2: the thing is based upon, trying to reward people on
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  Speaker 2: which is being available and playing in games.
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  Speaker 4: You know what's crazy when I think about the four
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  Speaker 4: majors here in the US man you've got multiple talking
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  Speaker 4: heads talking about their league. Now when you go to
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  Speaker 4: let's say even TNT now for the NHL, who's I mean?
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  Speaker 4: You got Biz on there, you got Ace on there.
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  Speaker 4: You got a lot of guys, right, you know, you
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  Speaker 4: got a lot of guys, Gretzky, you got a lot
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  Speaker 4: of guys talking about the league, and personalities flying all
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  Speaker 4: over the place in Henry Lundquist and all this kind
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  Speaker 4: of stuff. NFL You've got a billion talking heads every
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  Speaker 4: single weekend on every network, do you not, Brett? Sure,
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  Speaker 4: the NBA, the NBA, you got some still, but the
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  Speaker 4: best show ever is now gone. What do you have about?
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  Speaker 4: What do you have in baseball? Do you have anybody
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  Speaker 4: that sits down and talks baseball the way that other
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  Speaker 4: sports people talk about theirs?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they have a channel dedicated to it. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, that's it. I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean. You're going to make the motion, Brett,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to do it on camera. No, while
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  Speaker 4: you're done there, would you mind? Be Okay? My point
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  Speaker 4: is that hang on, hang on.
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  Speaker 2: There was a show that guys like me watched every
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  Speaker 2: night that decided they didn't care about I loved baseball Tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I loved it.
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  Speaker 4: Karl Ravitch, Baseball Tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Web gems big part of Brett Kane's childhood.
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  Speaker 4: You really don't have anybody talking baseball at all, do you.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you don't have anywhere near the roundtable discussion
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  Speaker 4: on a regular basis for Major League Baseball, at least
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  Speaker 4: that I could find.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: I know, you get the Baseball Network, you know MLB TV, fine, but.
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  Speaker 2: It does don't even count. I mean you don't. But
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  Speaker 2: it's just yeah, no, you don't. You don't.
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  Speaker 4: And and you know, if I was I was thinking
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  Speaker 4: about this, if I was commissioner. Let's see, I'm Goodell
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  Speaker 4: and I had guys on ESPN. You know, what do
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  Speaker 4: you mean you can't play seventeen games in a season
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  Speaker 4: or what you know, whatever it may be. I'd be
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  Speaker 4: going like colley Man, Dudes, I'm trying to pump this
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  Speaker 4: league up. I'm trying to get these guys to play football,
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  Speaker 4: and here you are just sticking to them on You know,
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  Speaker 4: it probably drive me a little bit crazy. Two things
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  Speaker 4: Adam Silver I think has the toughest job of all
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  Speaker 4: because he's got a player driven league and they're really
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  Speaker 4: the ones in control.
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  Speaker 2: When you have a huge portion of your league making
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  Speaker 2: thirty plus million dollars a year, you just aren't going
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  Speaker 2: to get them to care the same way that guy's
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  Speaker 2: making less money with. I mean that's number one. Number two. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I try and talk baseball on this show, and there's
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  Speaker 2: somebody I'm staring at right now that cops some sort
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  Speaker 2: attitude every time I do it.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Vic isn't here, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: I'm staring at him. Number three. What I think is
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  Speaker 2: funny about the NBA. And I know the NBA is
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  Speaker 2: different because of the amount of teams that do this,
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  Speaker 2: but if we're just talking about a team that folded
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  Speaker 2: up shop and gave up on the year, was not
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  Speaker 2: interested in winning. I mean the Chiefs did that last year,
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  Speaker 2: did they not. Holmes got hurt and they're like, Travis
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  Speaker 2: kelce an't plan anymore, and neither is you name Chris Jones,
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  Speaker 2: like keep going through the list of good players, are like, nope,
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  Speaker 2: all you guys are gonna sit now for the last
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  Speaker 2: like three weeks of the year, were done right. It
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  Speaker 2: does happen in other sports. But I think it's the
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  Speaker 2: number of teams in the NBA that all collectively do
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  Speaker 2: it that becomes the problem. Now, look, if you want
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  Speaker 2: to go back to the NFL most do you think
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  Speaker 2: the Raiders were interested in winning the last month.
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  Speaker 4: Of the year. Not a chance.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that. Let's see here, the Arizona Cardinals
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  Speaker 2: were interested in winning. No, the Commanders the second that
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  Speaker 2: Jaden Daniels was ruled out.
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  Speaker 4: For the year. No, not really, No, not really, But.
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  Speaker 2: There was some sort of sense that when you watched
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  Speaker 2: a game that even involved like let's say Cleveland late
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  Speaker 2: in the year, they still had some of that. Well,
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  Speaker 2: do you want to tune in just to see if
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  Speaker 2: Shador can do something like? They did have some of that.
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  Speaker 4: They had some of that. Hey, do you bet on football?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't bet on anything anymore, Okay, I I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that we cannot.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, and I don't so, But I do notice that
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  Speaker 4: used to the end of this you used to used
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  Speaker 4: to years ago. I do notice at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the season, you'll have, you know, a game where a
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  Speaker 4: team is favored by let's say twelve and a half, right,
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  Speaker 4: something like that. And a team with three wins gives
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  Speaker 4: them all they want and maybe even polls to the episode.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, dude, you're you're you're you know, you're three
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  Speaker 4: and fourteen or three and let's say you're three and twelve, right,
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  Speaker 4: you got two games left? Yeah, and you're you know,
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  Speaker 4: you're you're almost a two touchdown dog. You're out there.
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  Speaker 4: Guys are past rushing and guys are you know, covering
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  Speaker 4: like crazy. They're not laying down, They're playing their butts off.
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  Speaker 4: I think partly because it's really easy to get embarrassed
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  Speaker 4: really quick in the NFL. If you quit, man, if
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  Speaker 4: you quit, a team can put a lot on you fast.
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  Speaker 4: These guys still go out and bust their hump even
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  Speaker 4: if they stink.
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  Speaker 2: But most think about this for a second, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out what the difference is. So Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 2: if you remember they had that epic battle the final
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  Speaker 2: week of the year against the Baltimore Ravens. Remember when
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  Speaker 2: the Ravens missed the field goal that sent the Steelers
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  Speaker 2: to the playoffs. That was for the AFC North and
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  Speaker 2: John Harball lost his job and Tomlin got to coaching.
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  Speaker 2: In the playoff game, like you remember all of this.
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  Speaker 4: Right, yeah? Sure, yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what happened the week before that? No,
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  Speaker 2: the Steelers lost thirteen to six to Cleveland, the Browns,
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  Speaker 2: who at that time I think were a three maybe
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  Speaker 2: four three win team. I think they beat a team
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  Speaker 2: that was actively trying to fight to win their division.
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  Speaker 2: And that just doesn't happen in the NBA. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't know where, like how that disconnect goes down. I
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  Speaker 2: don't get it, you know what I mean, Like you're
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  Speaker 2: sitting there, You're talking about a team that has no
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  Speaker 2: business in winning. In fact, if they lose, it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be better for them. And Cleveland won the last two
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  Speaker 2: games of their season, including one against a team that
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  Speaker 2: was fighting for their division. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Well maybe the I don't know, the personal pride thing
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  Speaker 4: has perhaps gone away. What I saw in that last
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  Speaker 4: Memphis game against the Nuggets is I saw a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of young kids for the GRIZ. Who knows if we'll
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  Speaker 4: ever get this opportunity again, out there just gunning. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, just absolutely gay. I want to see me
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  Speaker 4: knock down at thirty seven footer. Watch this. They owed
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: that kind of crap, right, I mean playing essentially was
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  Speaker 4: Harlem Globe Trotter's ball. Nobody there's no structure to anything.
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  Speaker 4: Guys are just winging it the entire time. I did
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  Speaker 4: see that. So kids are trying to make an impression.
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  Speaker 4: But you know the personal pride of man. Listen, once
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  Speaker 4: you're nineteen and forty two, does it really matter if
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  Speaker 4: you have person pride? I mean, your team stinks, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and here comes Okay, see you're gonna get drilled. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know that it matters. I don't know. I'll tell
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  Speaker 4: you what though, Yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I was just gonna say. We talk about this with
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  Speaker 2: hockey and football though. Even if your team has nothing
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  Speaker 2: to play for, you can't just get by, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean. When you're out there, it's such a
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  Speaker 2: physical sport. You're gonna have to play or you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get hurt. There's no like gearing down, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know what I mean. Right well, I'm looking at last
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  Speaker 4: night in the National Hockey League and maybe even the
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  Speaker 4: past couple of days. But let me give you an example.
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  Speaker 4: The Detroit Red Wings were eliminated from the playoffs two
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  Speaker 4: days ago, right done, They can't make it, and Tampa's
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  Speaker 4: got everything to play for. In their division because they're
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  Speaker 4: in a race with Buffalo, right, yeah, but they go
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  Speaker 4: to overtime last night, I mean, the Wings came back,
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  Speaker 4: they put two on the Lightning in the third to
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  Speaker 4: tie to send it to overtime. Now, the Lightning ended
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  Speaker 4: up winning in ot but it's like, Amen, the Wings
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  Speaker 4: who just got eliminated, they have nothing to play for
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  Speaker 4: going out there, and they bust their hump, you know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I just I don't know Toronto, the Toronto may Beliefs
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  Speaker 4: don't have Austin Matthews. They're gonna miss the postseason. Bad team. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and last night the Dallas Stars needed six to win,
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  Speaker 4: six to five, you know, and the Stars arrested some guy.
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  Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong. I'm just saying that.
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  Speaker 2: But most put that side by side with what tonight is.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight is the start of the play in And I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how many of these teams care about winning,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like this is to get
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  Speaker 2: into the playoffs, to give yourself a chance at a championship,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't I don't know how many of them
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  Speaker 2: actually are like we need to go out and play
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and ten percent tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I know one team that will inspired by what
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  Speaker 4: part of people.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta quite you're ready to show up and show
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  Speaker 5: out for your shawl at hornings as they enter the
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  Speaker 5: playing tournament.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's serious and he changes are right in
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  Speaker 2: the world to the song.
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  Speaker 4: Kick it down. Come on, let's go.
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  Speaker 5: Spend one hundred fifty thouts on a fetball team. Wait
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  Speaker 5: a minute, that's not enough to buy a team. Spend
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty thouts on a tricked out suite.
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  Speaker 5: Get myself something good to eat?
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  Speaker 2: Does the basketball court.
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  Speaker 5: Outside of my house? But that he Joey's gonna make
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  Speaker 5: me tear every down. Might get me a horn has
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  Speaker 5: found this week, I mean all access them on PIP.
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: I gets a retro air je or in one low
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  Speaker 5: so I can tell the basketball in the air for show.
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  Speaker 5: I might get you go and a honey beat so
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  Speaker 5: they can do this dance right here with me. I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna get that high mentality straight. Butzzon in the Queen City,
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  Speaker 5: celt Come on, r Into's time to get downstand Dar insisted,
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  Speaker 5: joe Town give you.
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  Speaker 4: One hundred thousands in there. Too much?
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  Speaker 2: Too much, it's too much. I agree with you, it's
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: too much. He outdid himself. I even saw in the
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: video Nelly, he's wearing those professional whatever. Those professional ear
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: things are where you don't have like the echo from
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: the outside or you're hearing just what's inside the equipment.
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: Lady Gaga crap got some in ear monitors, baby ear monitors. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: those he's most She went all out, Wow when you
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: got a banger like that? H three oh three five
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  Speaker 2: oh fi.
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  Speaker 4: I can't get over it. I can't get over Just
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  Speaker 4: tell much the Cayman Island women's soccer teams.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, you should get over it. That's not something
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  Speaker 2: you need to think about long.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but but twenty but but do twenty one nothing?
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  Speaker 4: It's twenty one nothing. Yeah, but come on, man, would
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  Speaker 4: you live in the Cayman Islands, Well, I wouldn't be
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: playing soccer. I can promise you that.
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  Speaker 2: If they said you have to come over here and
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  Speaker 2: play soccer, but you can live here, would you do it?
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  Speaker 4: I'd say, Well, can I play with dolphins instead?
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, Yeah, I'll lose thirty to nothing
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  Speaker 2: was paid.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: Who doesn't want your best friend to be a dolphin
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  Speaker 4: and a sea turtle? Who doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know, man, it sounds pretty good to me.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: Uh, we'll get to a keys to the game forro
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  Speaker 2: mos Is. It's the final regular season road game for
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  Speaker 2: the Abbs.
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  Speaker 4: Got a key for you? You want you want keys,
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  Speaker 4: bend over and I'll show you.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see if there's any more keys next. All right,
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  Speaker 2: So one last road trip of the regular season for
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  Speaker 2: the Avs, and so let's do this.
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  Speaker 4: I'm curious about guys like you, and I'm curious about
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: guys like Nelly. How much are you paying attention to
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: the standings right now? A lot? Really, because I think
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: some people are like, oh, well, the Abs have already
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  Speaker 4: won the President's Trophy, They're already in you know, we'll
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  Speaker 4: see what happens here. But I look around the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the league. Man, Tonight's a big night, Number one.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: The Montreal Canadians are playing their final regular season game
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  Speaker 4: tonight and Cole coff Field is sitting on fifty one goals. Now,
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  Speaker 4: if he does not score, Okay, this can affect my
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: keys to the game, Brett, do you understand what I'm
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  Speaker 4: saying to you. Yes, If he does not score, who
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  Speaker 4: wins the Rocket?
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  Speaker 2: Nathan McKinnon.
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  Speaker 4: Unless mcpickles has six goals in his last game, right
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  Speaker 4: or no, unless he has five goals in his last game,
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  Speaker 4: doesn't score at all, Nathan McKinnon will win the Rocket
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  Speaker 4: Rashard Trophy. And it's kind of like it was yesterday
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  Speaker 4: when I said, if I gave you a play the nachos,
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  Speaker 4: you'll eat them. Well, now you're gonna You're gonna feed
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  Speaker 4: the nachos again. Marty's sitting on ninety nine points. Nate
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: has got fifty two goals. Here's what will be perfect.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Marty has two goals to get the forty and one
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: hundred and one points. Nate has one or a couple
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: to you know, get on top of caw Field for
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: a while here and just call it a day. In
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: terms of the Rocket, Richard, that's it. I mean you're
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: playing in the back to back. You had to go
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: to think about this. The game started a half hour
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: late in Edmonton. Then you had to go to overtime.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Then you had to go to a shootout, and then
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: you have to fly to Calgary, which is not far.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: But you get into the hotel, you know, sometime one
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: thirty amish something like that. Then you got to try
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: to sleep, and then you got to try to play again.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: What's my key to the game. I don't know, dude,
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: I'm tired. I'm just rambling, just getting Marty some points. Man,
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: give us some goals.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: F O.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Okay, there you go.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: I got, dude, I got I spent. I was telling Nelly.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: So the first thing I do in this brand new
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: hotel room. I get to the room and I'm like, okay,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: I gotta figure out how to get my equipment working. Okay,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: So I have my TV basically off the wall, and
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: I'm fishing around in the wall for an ethernet something
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: or other for like forty five minutes last night, right
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: when I get into the hotel. So I don't know
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna sleep sometime after two am. I'm assuming that
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: some of these guys, they're probably pumped up from the game.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: They're trying to get you know, trying to get to
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: sleep as fast as they can. But it affects you, man,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: It affects you late in the season. It does.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Keys to the game. Powered by Johnson Autoplase, It's election
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• 19:07
  Speaker 4: If it was here, if it was here, I just say,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: shut me off, shut him off, shut me off. Yeah,
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: That's what I'd say. But it's just you, me and Nelly,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: and I'm here for you. Anyway. I found it. If
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: you if you look at the mcgiver situation of this
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: cord strung across the room and then back behind the
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: television where it just looks like a medusa, I think
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: you'd be happy.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know what any of that meant. Also
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: on AM nine fifty tonight, you can hear the Rapids
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: as they take on who Union Omaha in the US
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Open Cup. How about that?
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Wait, what the hell is Union Omaha?
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: That is the USL team in Omaha. So it's another league.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: They're combining leagues and playing against other leagues.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: So this is like when I guess in England when
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: you have like Man Man you or whatever. Yeah, Man
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: City take on you know Rex and that kind of crack. Correct,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: you know it's not not crap, but I mean it's
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: just it's not regularly scheduled programming.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Right, correct. Yes, So that will be on AM nine
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: p fifty tonight if you're interested in that as well.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: So a few things here is we head in towards
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: the end of this regular season for the Avs. We
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: talked about standings watching and where teams are and where
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: things could end up. And here's what's interesting about who
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: could face the Avs in the first round. We were
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: about five days ago, a week ago, talking about, hey man,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: this could be any number of teams between Utah to
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: the Kings, to the Predators, to the Sharks, to the
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Blues to the Jets. And as you know, this week
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: is kind of found different results. Well, the Jets, Blues,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Sharks preads are all eliminated.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: They're all done gone. Last night, dude, the outcomes of
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: last night eliminated one, two, three, four teams.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Four teams last night, including Nashville, And so now your
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: matchup is going to be one of these handful of teams.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: The Kings right now sit in that second wild card spot, and.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: It's about a fifty eight percent chance that you play
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: the Kings.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: But they're one point back of Utah, who's in the
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: first wild card spot. They are one point back of Anaheim,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: who is in the three seed in the Pacific.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: They are Ducks are in a free fall.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: They are two points back of Edmonton with a game
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: in hand on Edmonton. Any one of those four could
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: be your potential matchup in the first round. Now some
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: more then others, is Moses pointed out, it is most
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: likely going to be the Kings, but it is a
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: combination of any of those four.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: What if Okay, here and by the way, the Ducks
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: are on the road at Many and at nash Okay,
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: the Ducks have been in a free fall. What if
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: everybody wins in Vegas loses, then what I mean.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I see that as highly highly highly unlikey.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: But I don't care what you see. I'm asking what
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: if it happened?
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Well, Vegas has got to own the tiebreaker for one
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: of them, don't.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: They negative the Who's the tiebreaker, Vegas would lose the
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: tiebreaker to Edmonton and lose a tiebreaker to Utah. Well
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: it doesn't matter with Utah. I mean I guess it
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: would in terms of wild card seating if they drop
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: down or you know, in Utah somehow won the last
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: two and got the Well, let's said they got to
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: ninety three.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: This is a fool's Errand now.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: You want to sound like I sound like VIC trying
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: to talk about stats. Yes, uh, if Vegas draw wait wait,
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: hold on a second. If you talk got three out
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: of a possible four points and they had, I mean,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: screw that.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Noise me give me this you're talking about. Give me
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: a power rank the four potential teams that I mentioned
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: most want to face to least want to face.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Now, are you talking about the matchup for the Avalanche
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: or my personal feelings about where I'd prefer to go?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: No, take your personal stuff out of it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Okay, but but I'm telling you that my personal feelings
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: have something to do with this.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: They want me to take my person if you want
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: me to take my personal feelings out of it. Right now,
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: the team that is most vulnerable, the team that is struggling,
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: the most is Anaheim. The Ducks are in a bad way.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: They're three five and two in their last ten. They
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: had an ample opportunity to win the division. That's not
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: going to happen, and they're steady struggling.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Get if if you could hand pick a team, you
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: would pick Anaheim.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Just the way they're playing right now. Now overall, they
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: have this same amount of wins this season as the
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Utah Mammoth, but in terms of it. But they're also
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: one of those overtime merchant teams like the Kings are.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: They've got twenty five r dubs and they've got thirty
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: four rows. Okay, so it means that when they get
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: to overtime they win a lot of games.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, So there are your number one.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Then what do you want the next team?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Okay, then the La Kings would be next for me,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: La Kings.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, so it's Ducks, then Kings. Then I'm assuming Mammoth
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: and Oilers.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: That is correct. Hold on a second. You went away
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: for a second.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm totally good.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: You went away.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, I've been I've been the same place, all right.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Cool there, I am.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I think I would largely agree with you, But I'm
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: not buying into this late surge by the Kings. I'm
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: not buying well, no.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: No, no. So I think if you're talking about the best,
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: no matchup is gonna be easy care because you have
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: the man behind the bench and Anaheim and Joel Quinnville dude,
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: and he's just you know, he's a Stanley Cup champion,
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: multiple Stanley Cup champion. Yeah, and I'm not saying listen,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: in all the coaching in the world, can't make your
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: team better than the opposition in terms of talent and
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: structure and so on, but they can give you a
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: pain in the butt, so that I mean, it's a
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: factor there. As far as the Kings are concerned, yeah,
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: I mean they've won five in a row, but you
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: know who have they been beating? And you know what's
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: the matchup looks like against the Avs. It's cop Patar's
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: last ride, so that's a factor for them. But you're
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: still with the way better team. So yeah, they'd be
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: number two. The number three to me would be probably
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Edmonton because I don't know the dry title is gonna
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: be back, But I don't want to see mcpickles. I'd
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: rather not face Utah because they've got you. You're in
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: the division, they know you well, true right, and you
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: know them well. And I could just see Correlva Melka
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: flashing that glove and that pisses me off. And then
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: I'd rather stay away from Vegas because they're hot and
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: they certainly got the towrts bump. Yeah, that's what happened
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: with them there. And they're obviously a very good hockey team.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: They've got a lot of talent on that team.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I know the plan when he first exited the lineup
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: was that you hope to go out and get to
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: McCarry a couple of games before the postseason starts. Well,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: a couple of games are all that's left.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: You said he was out there skating at morning skate
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: with a regular sweater on. Would your assumption be that
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: he plays tonight.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: I would think that he probably would. That would be
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: my assumption if in Look, if he's back, you're gonna
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: have to to cut Tave's minutes down big time, because
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: he played thirty one plus last night, and since mccarr's
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: been out of the lineup, he's been playing almost four
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: minutes a game more. I mean, Davon Taves is such
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: a workhorse man, and with Josh Manson out of the lineup,
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: it makes it more difficult. Right. But if you're asking me,
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: will Kle play, he's in his hometown. They want to
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: get him at least one, probably two before the playoffs begin.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: That would be tonight, Welle. I I.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Have a key to the game for the Avs in
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: these games that no longer matter. Stop playing extra minutes.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Throw the puck in your own net for all I care.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: At the end of the third if the game is tied,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: stop going extra.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Okay I do. I did not want to go back
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: to Edmonton for the postseason. Bro Okay. So last night
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Ryker and I sat there in the second intermission.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: You're like, do you want did you want Edmonton to score?
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: It's okay, this is a matchup thing. That's fine.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: I would never admit that openly into an live microphone.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: But I told about a story that my first year here.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: What do you remember what the exact number was. It
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: was twenty nineteen. The Avs and Nuggets are both in
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: the playoffs, and they had some stretch. It was like
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: twenty three home games in twenty seven days or something.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Right right every other night that somebody's got ye.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it was like Game five. It was that
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: four overtime game against the Portland Trailblazers. Do you remember that?
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: And it was a Friday night.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Was that Was that a Rodney Hood situation?
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a Friday night. It was in Portland.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: But there was a Nuggets viewing party at the Viewhouse
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: downtown and I was asked by the Nuggets to host it,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: help host with the other Nuggets employees that were there.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: And so this game is going on most it's going
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: to the end of like they're closing the bar, they
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: aren't serving booze anymore, and I have to jump on
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: a mic. My job was every commercial break, jump on
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: the mic and give stuff away or whatever. Yeah, let's
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: go kill the cup of phone.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: And it was so at that point we were all
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: so exhausted by the just night after night after night,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: we're doing something. And now it's the fourth overtime and
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at these Nuggets people are all sitting next
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: to each other in these chairs and one of them goes,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I don't care who wins, just end it, and we
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: all thought the same thing. It's like, it's the playoffs.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: You want to win, but somebody, for the love of God,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: end this game. I don't think there's any harm and
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: occasionally mentioning that, you know what, I wanted Edmonton to
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: beat us just so we didn't have to face Edmonton.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: I think there's any problem with that.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: The fact that they got a point last night but
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: the f still won the game. That's to me in
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: terms of selfishness not wanting to go and play Edmonton again.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Good combo, And that's not just yeah, it was a
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: good combo because that one point. Obviously this week makes
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: all the difference in the world, right, so it it
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: really does matter. So I don't know how it's gonna
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: pan out, but that giving up that one point was okay.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, would two have been better to not have
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: to come back to Edmonton. Yeah, in a game that
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: means nothing to you.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Maybe the playoffs are here and that means Nuggets ticket
• 30:17
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• 30:22
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• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Again, that's rad, that's rad. That we're giving away Nuggs
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: playoff tickets.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: That's cool.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Reminder to you guys, Tonight seven o'clock is the Avs
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: in Flames, the final road game of the year for
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: the Avs and maybe an opportunity to see Cam McCart
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: for the first time in a while. We'll see no Bednar. Obviously,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: he's not on this trip.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: I don't even know.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Do you think he's gonna coach in Thursday's game?
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: I have no idea. I mean, if we get him tomorrow,
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: and I don't know that we will. I don't think
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: we should plan on Coach Bednar being on his weekly
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: show tomorrow. Yeah, but if if we do, we'll ask him.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know Brett. I don't even know what he
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: looks like. I guess i'll I've been worried about my
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: own stuff, get my own work done. I guess I'll
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: text him today and and try to figure out what
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: he looks like. But I don't I don't think he
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: cares if he looks like a gargoyle. You know, he
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: wants to be there with his guys. It's got to
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: be killing him. Is it possible that didn't care?
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: The worst injury that Jared Bednar suffered was on the bench,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: and I know that he was a rough and tumble
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: guy when he was playing.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's it's not even necessarily the broken face,
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: which in itself sucks. Yeah, but it's the it's the
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: puck across the cornea, across the eyeball.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Corneal abrasion.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Dude, if you've ever had a corneal abration, and I
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: told you about mine when I had that piece of
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: metal fly when I was drilling, it flew into my eye.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: It scraped my corny. And then when on the top
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: and above and behind my eyeball.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: One of the early lessons from my daddy told my god,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: when you're weed whack in the yard, always wear sunglasses. Yeah,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: he flies up and hits you, mulch, dude, this whatever.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: This metal, this metal shaving went in and uh, it
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: just it was the worst, bro the worst.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: So uh again that game seven o'clock tonight right here
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  Speaker 4: Run Would you run through that again? Please run through one?
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• 33:21
  Speaker 4: I had one of those recently, and I don't know
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• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Uh So here's the problem, though, I'm gonna be it
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: at Bonnie Bray with those boys. Yeah, I'm sure I'm
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: gonna have you know, one or two of those and
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: then that night is what is the night that my
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: buddy's getting honored at the AVS game? Right?
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: I forgot about that?
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, boy, Dave, oh that's right.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're gonna be Yeah, this is a full on.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Gonna be And it's a Thursday. I mean, it can't
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: be a Friday.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Come on, Yeah, this is a Lindsay Kane express.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: What this is?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly right.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: I don't even know how else to put it.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's gonna be full on go time
• 34:18
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• 34:23
  Speaker 2: you can hear pregame at six thirty. It's all powered
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  Speaker 2: by Ramas Law right here on Altitude Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 2: two five. And and here's the bummer of what the
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  Speaker 2: NBA season is because we have that playing game. But
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  Speaker 2: it's it's gonna take so long to get to game
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  Speaker 2: one of the Nuggets in the Tea Wolves. Like most
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  Speaker 2: the season's gonna end on Thursday, and you might have
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  Speaker 2: the first playoff game for the Abs on Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 2: gona should be bam, bam, ready to go.
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  Speaker 4: Right right right pretty quick here.
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  Speaker 2: But it's that weight. I I don't want to do
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  Speaker 2: this weight because then I can start to overthink things
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  Speaker 2: about this series, and I can feel myself doing it already.
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  Speaker 4: It's none of my business, You're right, And was it
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  Speaker 4: who was it yesterday that jumped on the program a
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  Speaker 4: caller and like, hey, man, get fired up. Come on, dude,
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  Speaker 4: it's monday. Yeah, give me a bit of a break here,
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  Speaker 4: all right, I'll get fired up. But I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what I don't know when it's none of my business
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  Speaker 4: on how healthy the Nuggets are overall. I'm talking specifically
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  Speaker 4: P Watton, A g. Peyton Watson and Aaron Gordon. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if they need this whole week to get
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  Speaker 4: them fully ready to go. Man, if you're not ready
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  Speaker 4: to go by now and you've been sitting out, then
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  Speaker 4: when are you going to be ready to go? Right?
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  Speaker 4: I don't I mean, I just don't know. And it's
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  Speaker 4: not obviously they want to keep it on the download
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  Speaker 4: because if they let me know, then they let the
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  Speaker 4: Minnesota Timberwolves know. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you. You mentioned two names, and I
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  Speaker 2: think you have two givens with the Nuggets. The given
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  Speaker 2: is Yo Kitchen Murray have to play well, that's what
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  Speaker 2: gives you any fighting chance. And how beyond that, how
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  Speaker 2: far this team can go. Can they be championship material?
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  Speaker 2: There is two other guys I'm laying this on, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe this is unfair for one or both. The X
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  Speaker 2: factors to me for the Nuggets and what this season
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  Speaker 2: can be and where they can end up all have
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  Speaker 2: to do with one, not the game, but the health
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  Speaker 2: of Aaron Gordon. I think if he's not healthy, you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a really tough time trying to get any
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  Speaker 2: sort of substance in the postseason.
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  Speaker 4: I agree, because he does so much and he's so
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  Speaker 4: important to this team. Yes, I agree with that. The
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  Speaker 4: second is this.
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  Speaker 2: Man Peyton Watson can be a real X factor if
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  Speaker 2: he can be the dude that we saw in that
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  Speaker 2: gap when everybody was hurt. But it's not just what
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  Speaker 2: he can do offensively. His defensive ability to guard pretty
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  Speaker 2: much anybody on the floor because of his length and athleticism.
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  Speaker 2: It can be such a difference maker, and I think
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  Speaker 2: those two guys will kind of paint the picture of
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  Speaker 2: what this season is going to be for the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 4: Brett Peyton Watson is one of those guys when you're
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  Speaker 4: the opposition comes out of nowhere and you go damn,
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  Speaker 4: what where the hell did that come from?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean, he's one of those guys
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  Speaker 4: where he's like you talk about he's on you or man,
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  Speaker 4: you think you've got it, you've got a bucket, and
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  Speaker 4: all of a sudden swat and you're like, whoa, where
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  Speaker 4: that kid? Yeah, where'd that kid come from?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 4: And and you think you've got, you know, an easy
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  Speaker 4: lay in and he tracks you down the floor and
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  Speaker 4: rejects you. That kind of thing. And he's one of
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  Speaker 4: those startling kind of guys for the opposition where you know,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know what he's all about and whatnot,
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  Speaker 4: but when it when it's happening in front of your
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  Speaker 4: face and it's happening in real time, it's a more
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  Speaker 4: startling type of situation with p Watt. So, but if
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  Speaker 4: he's not Brett, Look, if he's not ready to go now,
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  Speaker 4: if AG's not a one hundred I mean, if these
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  Speaker 4: guys aren't one hundred percent, then they're never going to
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  Speaker 4: be right. That's it. They're never going to be this season.
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  Speaker 4: And you have to accept that fact. And I don't
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  Speaker 4: disagree with you, but you're gonna have to let realism
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  Speaker 4: seep in at some point.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's my big fear. Do I even want to
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  Speaker 2: say this out loud?
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  Speaker 4: Don't say it. Don't Here's what I don't want you
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  Speaker 4: to do. Don't speak anything into existence that you don't
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  Speaker 4: want to be spoken into existing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, it's the reality of the ag stuff is
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  Speaker 2: just like it is what it is. The guys who
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  Speaker 2: played sixteen straight games in over two years, and that's
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  Speaker 2: nothing that has to do with him. But it's not
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  Speaker 2: a stain on his character. It's just like your body
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  Speaker 2: is betraying you, right, But if he can't stay healthy
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  Speaker 2: for this run, I think you have to have longer
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  Speaker 2: term plans of like, then.
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  Speaker 4: What what do we do?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, well, a crucially important piece to this team,
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  Speaker 2: but if we can't trust it, then what Because you
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have the looming Watson question in the post
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  Speaker 2: in the offseason two of what happens with him with.
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  Speaker 4: His ability to shoot from outside now his improvement there,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what kind of guys really do what he does?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's sort of a hard pill to swallow
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  Speaker 4: if you ask me. And I'm just hoping for the best,
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  Speaker 4: but I am also I'm hoping for the best for
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  Speaker 4: NOSM Cattery, John text in any updates on Cattery. He
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  Speaker 4: did skate yesterday morning in a red sweater. He was
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  Speaker 4: stick handling and doing all of his all of his stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So I think it bodes very well for the postseason
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  Speaker 4: for NOSM Cattery and for everybody else who's out right now.
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  Speaker 2: Should I make a comparison, is like, did this happen
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  Speaker 2: to Gary Harris? Gary Harris was a huge part of
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  Speaker 2: this team, and then he's was his thing like injury related.
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  Speaker 2: I know he had like the a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: the yips shooting the ball towards the end of his
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  Speaker 2: Nugets career, but it was like he had.
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  Speaker 4: More than the yips. His whole shooting was jacked.
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  Speaker 2: Well what I'm getting at, I guess he was whatever
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  Speaker 2: he lost it, he never really got it back ever.
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  Speaker 2: I came here, like the Gary Harris thing was basically
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  Speaker 2: a year. I think that I was here until he
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  Speaker 2: was gone. Was he dealing with injury problems too?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, he was, and it affected everything about his game
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  Speaker 4: and his shooting motion went went haywire and he never
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  Speaker 4: really got it back the way he was before, which
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  Speaker 4: is a bummer because I think Gary Harris not only
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  Speaker 4: was a good player, but he's a hell of a dude.
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  Speaker 4: I mean hell of it.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously. Remember when was asked it was the anniversary of
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  Speaker 2: the ag trade and they said, what do you.
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  Speaker 4: Remember from that day?
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  Speaker 2: I remember crying because Gary Harris.
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  Speaker 4: I lost my best friend. Yeah, that's kind of the case.
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  Speaker 4: Great dude, But I mean when you look at how
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  Speaker 4: it helped the Nuggets franchise, I mean it was just gigantic.
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  Speaker 4: And again I feel bad for Gary, but yes, injuries,
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  Speaker 4: injuries affected that Brett and that groove just never never
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  Speaker 4: to where it was when he was yeah, when he
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  Speaker 4: was really firing. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Texans says, I like Roddy's play in physicality can bring
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  Speaker 2: some energy off the bench. He's not getting playoff minutes.
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  Speaker 2: He's a two way guy.
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  Speaker 4: They're a two way guy. Yeah, he's not. He's not
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  Speaker 4: gonna be eligible. I'm gonna go to sleep as soon
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  Speaker 4: as this, uh this show is over.
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  Speaker 2: Can you go to sleep with the not mannequin whatever
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  Speaker 2: they we're calling that, the dress body thing, that thing,
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  Speaker 2: Go to sleep with it.
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  Speaker 6: It's probably cold, intagary, man, you got to snuggle up
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  Speaker 6: for warmth.
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  Speaker 4: What I mean, what have you ever seen that room before?
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  Speaker 2: No, I now would request they take it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know I've been I brought all my my portfolio.
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  Speaker 4: I've been meaning to do my fittings. This might be
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  Speaker 4: the perfect opportunity to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just sleep with it much. I know you get
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  Speaker 2: lonely on the road. You know what, why don't you
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  Speaker 2: play that mannequin and scrabble and see if you still lose.
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  Speaker 2: I would just love to poke the bear a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You want to know why, because you're stupid.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not laughing bad Nelly is you know what, I'll
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  Speaker 4: tell you what, do yourself a favor. Play scrabble with
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  Speaker 4: your significant other?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, dominate and she knows I would too, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Not and then you get and then you get your
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  Speaker 4: ass kicked repeatedly.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just good at stupid games like that. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how much somethings gonna make. My wife is smarter
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  Speaker 2: than I am, but I'm just good with stupid games
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 4: She well, she's she's found something because I can't win now,
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  Speaker 4: and she absolutely throttles me every I'm like, you're doing
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  Speaker 4: I know she's doing it on purpose. She's putting me
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  Speaker 4: into a corner. I play cat C eight three points.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's just it sucks tough. I get it,
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  Speaker 4: I get it. I've lost it though, I've lost it, dude.
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  Speaker 1: Goal Post Nelly monitors the mistakes in today's fact Checker.
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  Speaker 1: Fact Checker presented by Machison Shanker, Serious Lawyers for the Serious.
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  Speaker 4: Lee injured David Carr twice, Nelly Nelly real quick twice.
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  Speaker 4: I had goal posted lamp post lined up for a
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  Speaker 4: triple word score and I just couldn't get one letter.
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  Speaker 2: Take that Lay.
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  Speaker 4: Sucked. Well, Daly sucked.
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  Speaker 6: David Carl's someone who wins, at least in hockey. I
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  Speaker 6: don't know how good he is at scrabble, and he's
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  Speaker 6: so dominant that he decided to do my fact checker
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  Speaker 6: for me. We had a live fact checker at like
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  Speaker 6: seven twenty four this morning when he was kind enough
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  Speaker 6: to join us on the program.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what goes into it? What do you think
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  Speaker 2: the overall secret sauce to three national titles in six
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  Speaker 2: years is well, first, it's five years, but five years.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, it's all good. But coach, I'm trying. I'm
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  Speaker 4: trying to get him on board here. You don't come
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  Speaker 4: on bones.
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  Speaker 2: So uh, let me just say in my defense twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, Oh never mind,
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  Speaker 2: that's still it's off.
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  Speaker 1: You know what.
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  Speaker 4: You just got to chalk up an l every once
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  Speaker 4: in a while. Dude, hand up, I mess up and
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  Speaker 4: you want to. I'm I'm so happy for those guys though. Man,
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  Speaker 4: what what a run? What a run? I mean? And
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  Speaker 4: he was right. Once they got to the Natty it was,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the the Frozen, but man, Cornell, they just
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  Speaker 4: busted up Cornell Hardcore in Loveland. Good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: If you miss that, iTunes, Spotify, Motion, Lombarding Kings where
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  Speaker 2: you can find the podcast. Have a wonderful Tuesday. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk to you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Love you, see you