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4-03-26 Hour 1 - Luka's injury changes everything/Coast into the playoffs?/Rox Home Opener, Drop Tourney · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 3: Judy said, I did not hear.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Ahead again, I had to turn it down because when
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  Speaker 2: I plugged these in. But yes, somebody turns us all
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  Speaker 2: the way up to death. Scott, Uh, what did you say?
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  Speaker 1: Repeat it? You look like you're about to be deployed?
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  Speaker 1: Would you get that that hat? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to put a launchpad patch on it, but
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  Speaker 2: Brent says.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'll take I'll take it in today we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: I was.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't. I'm not wearing this.
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  Speaker 3: He just he said that, and I go, I just
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen you wear a hat like that before,
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  Speaker 3: So I was just curious. That was all? Now, can
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  Speaker 3: I I mentioned something? So yesterday was a rare day
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  Speaker 3: here where it was no Avs, no Nuggets, and no Rockies.
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  Speaker 3: Now that it's baseball season, and I'll be honest, I
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  Speaker 3: used yesterday to kind of unplug from the sports world,
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  Speaker 3: which was nice. And it's kind of like I didn't
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  Speaker 3: do sports things yesterday until I got on Twitter and
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  Speaker 3: I saw that Luca is hobbling off the floor. Now
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  Speaker 3: I saw it, I'll admit this. I first thought, by
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  Speaker 3: the way he was walking, that looked much worse than
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  Speaker 3: a hamstring to me. So I'm glad for him that
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  Speaker 3: it was only a hammy and not something worse, because
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  Speaker 3: I was like, dude, is that Achilles?
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  Speaker 1: Is that? Like? What is that? Boys? We have a development? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we do, we have a development. And I'm wondering what
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  Speaker 1: the smart move is at this point with five games
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  Speaker 1: to play.
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  Speaker 3: Smart being what who do you want to play the
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  Speaker 3: first round? I don't think because this is I know
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  Speaker 3: that this is something that people are now thinking about,
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  Speaker 3: do you what try and tank the last few games
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  Speaker 3: to try and position yourself to play the Lakers. Let's
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  Speaker 3: be honest here, we've lived this world the entire season.
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  Speaker 3: A hamstring means what guys reevaluate it in forty six
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  Speaker 3: weeks now. If it is a true hamstring problem, Luke
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  Speaker 3: is missing the first round, no question. He might miss
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  Speaker 3: the second round, or at least a portion of the
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  Speaker 3: second depending on how bad it is. But there is
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  Speaker 3: I think a quote that Jokic has used multiple times
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  Speaker 3: and vick I was trying to see if I could
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  Speaker 3: come up with this at the end of the appetizer,
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  Speaker 3: and I couldn't find it anywhere. Do you remember it
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  Speaker 3: was a few years ago, similar situation. Can't remember the
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  Speaker 3: exact details, but it was a discussion of like, do
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  Speaker 3: you try and lose a couple of games to position
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  Speaker 3: yourself to play a certain team? And he talked about
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  Speaker 3: it can't tempt the basketball gods, that you can't do that,
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  Speaker 3: And I'm a full believer in that.
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  Speaker 1: So am I. But in certain situations, let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you what's at stake here, five games to play. The
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets are now one game back to the Lakers. But
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  Speaker 1: in reality, they're two games back because of that damn
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  Speaker 1: ending in La where your boy Reeves hits the left
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  Speaker 1: side of the rim in the eke out of victory.
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  Speaker 1: That play, as much as it hurts, could be the
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  Speaker 1: difference that play because of the five remaining games for
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers, even without Luca, they play at Dallas, they
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  Speaker 1: should win that game without Luca.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Oklahoma City again at home, and Oklahoma City is
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  Speaker 3: still battling with San Antonio.
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City is still you know, even if they're not battling,
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  Speaker 1: they're still playing with that vengeance. Remember, the Nuggets have
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  Speaker 1: to play with Coloma City again too, and San Antonio twice.
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  Speaker 3: Last two games of the year. We'll see if there's
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  Speaker 3: still stuff on the line.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't think even with the Luca injury, even
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  Speaker 1: without him for these five games, I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna catch the Lakers. I don't know how you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make that up.
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  Speaker 3: So here's the other part of this that I think
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  Speaker 3: is interesting because we're just talking about this and I
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  Speaker 3: asked the question yesterday, and this is it was purely
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  Speaker 3: a hypothetical or just I wanted to gauge the room.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe in this, but I discussed, like, you
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  Speaker 3: got five games left, you got guys getting hurt left
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  Speaker 3: and right. Is there any thought you'd put into damn
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  Speaker 3: the seed? Who cares? Just shut it down, play the
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  Speaker 3: Grand Rapids gold, last handful of games here and just
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  Speaker 3: make sure you get their healthy. Well, you look at
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  Speaker 3: the Lakers game last night. Do you know what the
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  Speaker 3: score was when.
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  Speaker 1: Luca got hurt?
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  Speaker 3: Motion They were down by thirty two points in the.
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  Speaker 1: Third court, they lost by forty something.
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  Speaker 3: They were down with they were down thirty two, was
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  Speaker 3: seven and a half left in the third.
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  Speaker 1: The game was over midway through the first quarter. I
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  Speaker 1: watched it. Yep, the game was over there, up twenty
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  Speaker 1: two points midway through the first and you could just
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  Speaker 1: feel the onslaught. You could feel it. It was over.
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  Speaker 3: And this isn't a judgment here, This isn't a criticism,
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  Speaker 3: this is nothing. I think they did everything the right way.
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  Speaker 3: You can't bench a guy for the rest of the
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  Speaker 3: game just because you got beat pretty badly in the first.
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  Speaker 1: But he aggravated it early and then came back.
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  Speaker 3: But to get hurt while being down thirty two five
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  Speaker 3: games before the postseason is extra assault in the wound.
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  Speaker 1: Brett. At halftime, they evaluated he felt something, they said, ah,
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  Speaker 1: you're fine, they put him back in there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what was that Reddick quote?
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't fine. So it wasn't just playing in the
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  Speaker 1: third quarter and getting blown out. It's playing in the
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  Speaker 1: third quarter on a hamstring that he had previously injured.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So now when you look back at what the Nuggets
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  Speaker 1: did with Payne wattson the other night, that's a smart thing.
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  Speaker 1: Get him off the court.
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  Speaker 3: So jj Reddick last night most said, we checked him out,
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  Speaker 3: he got worked on, he was cleared. We weren't going
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  Speaker 3: to put him at risk.
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  Speaker 1: And well they did. Well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if the player says I can go, I know,
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  Speaker 2: the player goes, there's no one to blame yet I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, there's no but but that's the that is the
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  Speaker 1: mystery of the hamstring. The hamstring is the most mysterious injury,
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  Speaker 1: it seems, right, calf hamstring, soft tissue. Because you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's fine, Yeah, that was nothing, and then next time
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  Speaker 1: down a simple play, ooh that's something that's a and
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  Speaker 1: the way he reacted. Listen, I'm not a I am
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  Speaker 1: a sports doctor, but I am not a long term
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  Speaker 1: prognosticator when it comes to soft tissue. You're right when
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  Speaker 1: you see him hobble, that's a month. That's a month
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  Speaker 1: most I thought he popped his achilles because he stood
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  Speaker 1: straight up.
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  Speaker 3: He just threw so it was mid play. It was.
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  Speaker 3: It was weird and walked off the floor and like
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  Speaker 3: laid down.
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  Speaker 1: He stood up. He did the I really have to
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  Speaker 1: go to the bathroom bad? He did. Yeah, it just
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  Speaker 1: looked really, really really awkward. You guys may may have
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  Speaker 1: not seen this. I I tweeted it out the exchange
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  Speaker 1: Austin Reeves had with an ok Sea fan. No, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't say, Okay Sea fans. Some of those guys what punks?
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  Speaker 1: The Okay Sea fans making fun of Luca saying maybe
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  Speaker 1: if you played some defense or something that he's on
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  Speaker 1: the ground hurt, and Austin Reeves goes off on this dude.
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  Speaker 1: Good for him, for him, I agree. I tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: these OKC fans, they've graduated to number one on the list.
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  Speaker 3: I man, I remember I told you guys, you both
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  Speaker 3: disagreed with me at the time. I bet you've changed
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  Speaker 3: since then.
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  Speaker 1: These next from OKAC.
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  Speaker 3: I said, if you could beat one team, either the
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  Speaker 3: Lakers or the Thunder, who would it be? And I said,
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  Speaker 3: it's no question the Thunder to me right now, no question.
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  Speaker 1: Have you?
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  Speaker 3: Have you changed on that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I'm watching this exchange and I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: why would you talk crap to an injured player? You
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  Speaker 1: should be ejected. It was a front row person sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the front row below the but you should be
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  Speaker 1: ejected automatically.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, why would you do that?
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  Speaker 1: What I mean, it's a game you want your team
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  Speaker 1: to win. I get it. I speak to all fans,
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  Speaker 1: even Nuggets fans listening. Why would you do that? What
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  Speaker 1: would most if you saw somebody speak crap to an
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  Speaker 1: injured player? What are your thoughts on that?
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  Speaker 2: My thoughts are, that's low rent. My thoughts are, that's
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  Speaker 2: it's just, it's it's not necessary. It's ghost you will
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  Speaker 2: something like that. Yeah, I just I mean, when I
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  Speaker 2: say something to him, I might, I might not, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to. I guess I have to be.
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  Speaker 1: I think you should be ejected.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's the other thing to this, and this is
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  Speaker 3: where things get really interesting. Lebron. By the way, my
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  Speaker 3: YouTube golf show that I love Bob does Sports. Lebron
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  Speaker 3: was on it yesterday. He was for a full hour
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  Speaker 3: and fifteen minutes. I gotta tell you, it's the first
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  Speaker 3: time I saw Lebron actually kind of being himself instead
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  Speaker 3: of playing the Lebron character, you know, like he does
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  Speaker 3: this barbershop show. It's like you can tell he's trying
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  Speaker 3: to play Lebron. I gotta tell you, I actually kind
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  Speaker 3: of liked him in the video.
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  Speaker 1: I did golf, But how does this show score? All
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  Speaker 1: these guys?
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  Speaker 3: Lebron said he got into golf he started watching the
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  Speaker 3: YouTube golf shows. He thought they were funny. They DMed them,
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  Speaker 3: and he said, I'd love to do it. Really, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: who are these people?
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  Speaker 1: They're just dudes playing golf that have a good time
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  Speaker 1: playing golf. But they're fun.
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  Speaker 3: These guys are fun. I don't really watch any of
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  Speaker 3: the other ones because they take it way too seriously.
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  Speaker 3: These guys are like dudes that they're hackers for the
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  Speaker 3: most part, except for one of them is really good.
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  Speaker 3: But the point to this is, here's the funny thing.
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  Speaker 3: Lebron spent a lot of that video talking about dude,
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  Speaker 3: I wake up in the morning I feel every bit
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  Speaker 3: of forty one years old. He was, I wake up
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  Speaker 3: and I don't know if I'm gonna play every single night?
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  Speaker 1: Right. Well, guess what just happened.
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  Speaker 3: Lebron is taking the back seat. He has realized he's
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  Speaker 3: in a place in his career still a good player.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't luke anymore. You're gonna have to take the
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  Speaker 3: lead on this thing. All back you up. Guess who's
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  Speaker 3: the leader of that team now?
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  Speaker 1: Again it's the forty one year old exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But is this Is this the show where he said
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  Speaker 2: why would I want to wake up in Memphis and
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  Speaker 2: go play in Memphis? Yes, that's the show. Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: I saw the quote. I guess he was on that
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  Speaker 2: program when he said.
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  Speaker 1: It, right, Okay, Okay, Well again, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: they can lose two more times and the Nuggets would
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  Speaker 1: have to wipe the slate clean and finish undefeated. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The tougher part might be the Nuggets finishing undefeated since
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  Speaker 1: they have to play San Antonio twice in Oklahoma. City
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  Speaker 1: wants in these remaining five.
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  Speaker 3: So I got a thought on that, if you want
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  Speaker 3: the three seed, I got a thought on that that
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  Speaker 3: we'll get to in a second. And that's why I
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  Speaker 3: think both games tomorrow are massive.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, I've been thinking about the West, and I've
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  Speaker 2: been thinking about the Lakers in the three hole, the
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  Speaker 2: Nuggets currently.
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  Speaker 1: In the four hole, and down the road. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what I want. I don't know what I want.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I've come to motion on that, on
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  Speaker 3: that subject, I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know what I want. I don't know what I
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  Speaker 1: want either. I also don't know what I don't want.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you, Mosia, I've never been more confused.
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  Speaker 1: Just what.
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  Speaker 2: I look at all the scenarios that I play out
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  Speaker 2: second rounds in my mind, and I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what I want right now?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I want? You know what I want?
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  Speaker 1: I want? What I what I saw is the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: against stiff competition on the road. You saw what Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City did to them. They didn't know them. Yea, the
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets in Okase. He could have won both games, should.
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  Speaker 3: Have Yeah, right, Yes, Well, here's on that subject, here's
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  Speaker 3: what I'm getting at. Here's the conclusion. I've come to
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  Speaker 3: five games left for the Nuggets. I really don't think
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  Speaker 3: it matters. I really don't. I think the only thing
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  Speaker 3: that matters is health.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: And to take this from both an Avs and Nuggets perspective,
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  Speaker 3: here's what's funny most here's the differences between the two teams.
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  Speaker 3: I think that health is the only thing that can
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  Speaker 3: keep the Abs from winning a Cup. That's how confident
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  Speaker 3: I am in them. I think injuries are the only
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  Speaker 3: thing that could derail them from winning it all because
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  Speaker 3: they have everything else. Oh, I'm just saying, can I
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  Speaker 3: knock on my wood? Anyway, here's the difference for the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 3: I think being healthy is the only shot they got.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And likewise, I look at a team like Okase,
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  Speaker 1: if they miss a piece of that puzzle, they don't care.
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  Speaker 1: They got pieces waiting in the wings to fill the gaps.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't have Jalen Williams for like months.
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  Speaker 1: In a day, he only played thirty games. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: played last night and he was dominant. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: it's a key pie. But if they don't have Jalen Williams,
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  Speaker 1: do you know how many pieces they have behind Jalen Williams.
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  Speaker 1: They That's the difference. That's what that team is, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why they're gonna be so tough to dethrown. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of people chiming in on listen, what I
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  Speaker 1: think is kuth and what you think is maybe totally different.
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  Speaker 1: Yelling at a player who's injured is pathetic. It's pathetic.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you are saying, Jeffrey's on the tech side.
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  Speaker 1: Freedom of speech, vic, Okay, you are freedom of speech victor. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Say lock him up and throw away the Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I just I want do people understand what freedom of
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  Speaker 2: speech means?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I mean it says I can say whatever the
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  Speaker 3: hell I want without consequences. I will walk up to
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  Speaker 3: your wife and I will call her every dirty name
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  Speaker 3: in the book, and there's nothing you can do to
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  Speaker 3: me about it.
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  Speaker 1: That is not what do you mean what it means?
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  Speaker 3: I thought that's what it meant. That's in my conversation.
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  Speaker 2: It protects you from prosecution by the government. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean you can call somebody and you call somebody's wife
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  Speaker 2: and a blank to their face and not get punched
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  Speaker 2: in the mouth.
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  Speaker 1: I Meandy writes in what's the big deal? I could
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  Speaker 1: see if he broke his leg or something, but it's
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  Speaker 1: just a soft tissue injury, so heckle him? Oh, man, Vick,
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  Speaker 1: don't waste your time. Cracked me up. Don't waste your time,
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  Speaker 1: So people, crack me up. Man.
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  Speaker 3: There is a couple of I think big things online
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow for each of these teams. Obviously, if the Avs win,
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  Speaker 3: you essentially wrap up the number one seed and then
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  Speaker 3: you can start thinking about what the rest of your
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  Speaker 3: remaining games are gonna look like.
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  Speaker 1: The Nuggets also have a.
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  Speaker 3: Huge implication tomorrow, huge that I want to get to
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  Speaker 3: in just a second, back after this. All right, So tomorrow,
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  Speaker 3: the two biggest games remaining on the Aves and Nuggets
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  Speaker 3: schedules are going to be played at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: One pm.
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  Speaker 3: One pm tomorrow the Nuggets take on the Spurs. The
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  Speaker 3: Avs take on the Stars. By the way, the Abs
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  Speaker 3: and Stars will be on ninety two five tomorrow, Nuggets
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  Speaker 3: and Spurs on nine, so.
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  Speaker 1: That same time, Zach, same m Yeah, here's the I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna double TV that thing tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to uh. Here is the implications for
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  Speaker 3: both of these the first Abs and Stars. We know
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  Speaker 3: what's on the line. Most you win tomorrow, you need
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  Speaker 3: trip or a Dallas loss the rest of the year
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  Speaker 3: and locked up the one seed. Correct and then you
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  Speaker 3: can start thinking about, Okay, do we leave McKennon home
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  Speaker 3: on this road trip to leave mccarr home, do we
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  Speaker 3: do this? Do we leave natchus this, he get arrested,
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  Speaker 3: we leave Landy like you start doing that?
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: You you could start doing that if you just want
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  Speaker 2: a couple of nights ago. True, it's just that that
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  Speaker 2: that loss is so frustrating to this moment because a
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: lot of things would have been.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: I still think you're gonna do it. Get me wrong.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: This would have been easier.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it would have been.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there would have been, you know, less to worry
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: about lest this, lest that you had it right.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: There in a game that you were heavy, heavy favorites.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: So here's why the Nuggets game is really interesting. First
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: of all, do you can you guys finish this fact?
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: This stat? The San Antonio Spurs have lost two games
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: since when.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: The Nuggets beat them once. They've lost two games since February.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: First, I'll say two games since February. Second, Vic nailed it.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, since the month of February has started, it is
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: a pril third right now, they have lost two basketball.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Well technically I'm correct as well.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, we're also correct.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Twenty six of twenty eight, I believe is the number,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: and the two losses they've suffered. One to the Nuggets,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: I can't I don't know the other.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: I think the other was Houston maybe. Uh No, the
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Knicks blew them out one fourteen to eighty nine.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: So if you and yet they can't catch o k C.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. They play the Nuggets two more
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: times before the end of the year. They play them
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: the final game of the season as well. If you
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: beat San Antonio tonight, you might render your last two
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: games of the schedule against OKC and San Antonio to
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: those two teams, shutting it down.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I thought about that. I thought about that. We had
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: this discussion on the pregame.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: You beat San Antonio tonight, tomorrow, I'm sorry tomorrow tomorrow, Yes,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Are they played back to what You beat
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: San Antonio tomorrow, you might lead your final two games
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: of the year, which are against Okay See in San Antonio,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: to close the year out those two teams not playing
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: anybody because they're locked into their seeds.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Right now, Oklahoma City lead San Antonio by two games.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: San Antonio owns the tiebreaker, so if they finished tied,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: San Antonio is the top seed, so that those two
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: games are legit. If the Nuggets were to beat San
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Antonio tomorrow and move that number, I agree wholeheartedly. It
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: changes the complexion of the race. But I'm going to
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: ask you something. Would you rather have those teams rest
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: players or would you rather play teams that are out
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: to win something going into the playoffs?
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, I would rather have them rest players.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Personally, I would rather they rest and you rest. I
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: want to fully, I want a restress Nick.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I don't think any of these games, any of these
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: five games outside of seating, which matters, but I don't
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: think it's going to even remotely have an effect on
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: how the Denver Nuggets are going to play once the
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: postseason rules.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I agree, and that's why I Last night everything rolled
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: out perfectly for the Nuggets. The Lakers lost Hell and
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: they lost more than a game. They lost their best player.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Minnesota lost Anthony Edwards is up and down, Jade McDaniels
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: is out. They're injured. So these injuries for those teams
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: cannot occur at the worst possible time. Perhaps the Nuggets
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: face their travesty, their injuries early in the season, and
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: now you hope to avoid them not don Yeah, I owe,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: but I'm with you. I have no idea what I
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: want down the stretch. I don't know who I want
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: to match up against in the first round. I don't
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: know who I want in the second round. So much
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: of this could change.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Brett, you're driving me home from the golf course, right,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: it's CRU's in your gray Olds, m buick whatever it is,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: you got it, okay?
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: And you say, hey, you're.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: A little hungry, like, yeah, I'm a little hungry when
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: it's something Yeah, sure, where, Oh.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: It's a conversation I have with my wife.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: What do you But what are you hungry for? I
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: don't know what are you hungry for? And you'd say,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: You don't.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: You don't know what you want either. You don't pretend
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: you know what you want because you don't know what
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: you want. Vic doesn't know what he wants. I don't
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: know what I want. In fact, I don't. We may
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: get down to the last game of the regular season, Vic,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: we may get down to Sunday, April twelfth at San Antonio.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I still may not know what I want. I mean
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I may know what I'm exactly getting, but it doesn't.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Mean I want it. I may want it, I may
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: not want it.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know, because a lot of things can change,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: and I don't know, you know, I'm like, God, do
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: they really want the Spurs in the second round or
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: would they just puncher's chances in casey?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I and not only the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: second round, first round? Would you rather take that round?
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I mean they about it. Would you rather take on Minnesota?
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Which is always tough, right always? But a couple of
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: their star players are hurt? Do you want Houston? Now
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: they seem to be healthy? Do you want Hell? Do
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: you want to drop all the way to six and
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: play the Lakers without Luca?
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: I'm being dead serious. I think that all of these
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: different potential matchups, no matter who you play, whether you're
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: the three seed, the four seed, the five seed, the
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: six seed, doesn't matter. I think the difficulty level of
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: this series are all the same. It's just a different
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: way that you're gonna have to win them, except except
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: now with if the Lakers don't have Luca, then that, yeah,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: then you want them above everybody, But it's gonna be
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: too hard. For you to even position yourself to play
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: the Lakers.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: You're correct, but pulling teeth is pulling teeth. It doesn't
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: matter which tooth, it's gonna hurt. Yeah, that's how I
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: see facing any of these teams.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, just as an aside, you're talking, am
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: I going to get something to eat? I know this
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: is an old trope that everybody has in their relationship.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: It's always like you and your wife, you're talking about
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: what you want to eat for dinner. But this happens
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: to me all the time. I I am I a
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: hoover vacuum. I'll eat anything like little. It doesn't matter
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: what you put in front of me. I'm like, cool, fine,
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: I'll eat it. My wife is picky, and so when
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: I say I don't care what we eat, I literally
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: don't care what we eat. When she says I don't care,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: and then I mentioned someplace and she goes, no, So
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: you do care what we eat? And that drives me nuts.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I'm like, you just picked something. Then I'm like I'll
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: eat whatever I drilled cheese, fine, I don't care.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Happens every single week.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Every week, especially like Fridays. You're done cooking meals just
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: a quick aside.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: But to your point, thanks for that wonderful aside.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Just sharing a detail about my life.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Thinks though, that was deep, profound and it really changed
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the course of this show.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: You know, just sometimes we have our own personal anecdotes
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: that we kind of every every once in a while,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: we just throw on our own personal things in this life.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: You know, if Vic Snowblower are not starting, you know, that's.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: A really good I know, but we are unfair as
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: human beings because if mos your were to share that story,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: how would you react. It's that it's twenty seconds. Let's
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: just be honest.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Your your time of talking about this is more than
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: the time I spent telling the thing.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Moser, I'm defending you in a roundabout way here. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: don't need your pity tomorrow. Which game is more important
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: as Stars for the Avs or Nuggets Spurs for the Nuggets.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Okay, you're gonna hate my answer.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Why why are we? Why are we? Why are we? Okay, well,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I'm just curious, and you're gonna hate the scheme of things.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I know this is a Sophie's choice.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: No, the greatest scheme of things, the AVS game is
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: more important. Well, them line, but they lead, they have
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: room for ever. But okay, okay, but I'm saying that
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: you can basically end the discussion tomorrow, Bam Dunn. If
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: the Nuggets win or lose, the discussion is gonna continue on.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I disagree with you. I think if the Nuggets lose
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: at home to San Antonio with things at stake, it
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: sort of sends another message like maybe you can't play
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: with San Antonio.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: You're gonna you're gonna hate my answer. You're gonna hate it, Okay,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: go ahead, Uh you're gonna hate my answer.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna hate it. Yes, Okay.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I think a lot of people might hate it. I
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: don't think any Nuggets game matters from here on out, Huh,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: I really don't.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I don't think it means a thing because I don't
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: buy into, you know, especially with them and how weird
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: they've been at home. I don't even know if home
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: court matters, Like I don't know if I think it's
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: just kind of you're at the point of the season,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: you're at where you're at, You're gonna roll into the postseas.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: I have no idea what this team is gonna play.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: I have no idea how guys are gonna respond to
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: their their knickknack injuries and soft tissue things. I have
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: no idea.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: First, should everybody just stay home?
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Vic, Like you tell me, what's the
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: importance of the last five games of the Nuggets?
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Depends what you want seating wise, I could see the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: importance though for the Avalanche. From a psychological standpoint.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: You just lock it down and then you can rescut.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: More than that. Psychologically, it's the stars. It's the stars.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: You beat them on their eyes and a message is sent.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: I agree. If you're making me pick, I think the
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Avs game means more, although I even with that, I
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: think they're gonna lock up the one seed regardless. Like again,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: my number one priority right now is just making sure
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: nobody else gets hurt in this last like week and
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: a half of the season. Like that's that's all I'm concerned.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: With, right I agree, did most you quit the show?
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Was your head an issue he had to deal with.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: But it's all I'm concerned with right now. And so
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: if I'm picking one of the two, I think it's
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: the Avs that mean more, just because they can basically
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: lock down the one seed. With a win tomorrow, and
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: then you can start to get really picky and choosy
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: with which games McKinnon and mccarr and Nachus and Landy
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: and all these different guys are gonna play in for
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: the rest of the season. Texter says there's zero room
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: for air for the Nuggets, and we all know it.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Stop canner. If that's the case, don't watch the games.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I don't think you're understanding what I'm saying. I don't
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: think there's anything to be gained win or loss wise
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: from the Nuggets the last few games unless you have
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: an opponent that you really want to play. Like, if
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: you want me to be really honest with you, what's
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: the best thing that could happen to the Nuggets at
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: the end of this regular season is they lose enough
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: games to get matched up with a Luca List Lakers
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: in the first round. But I don't want to lose.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, at the end of the year. Why not. Teams
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: are tanking right now and getting fined for.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: It, because I don't think the Nuggets are the kind
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: of team that if I think they need momentum, I
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: don't think they're good enough to just flip a switch
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: and go like, I think they need to be playing
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: decent basketball heading in the postseason.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: The year that they won the NBA Championship, they flipped
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the switch.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: I don't think that's that.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you. They stumbled down the stretch and
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: then they flipped the switch, much like the AVS did.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: The AVS did too. Here's what's funny with the Avs.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: I just looked this up most so, did you know
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: that the Avalanche through seventy four games this year are
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: forty nine fifteen to ten. I do know that back
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: in the twenty twenty one twenty twenty two season, their
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: record at this point in the calendar. Oh, I just
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: had it pulled up. Come on, it was fifty five,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: fourteen and six.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: That was with seventy five games. So one game later, right,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: and that's the exact point in which they shut down
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: basically their season. They lost six to seven, and some
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: people freaked out, and I was like, guys, don't they
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: don't care about these games.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: They're ready. This is my conclusion I made last night
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: watching a basketball game between LA and OKC. Right for
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the Avs, we know that the Avs have plenty of
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: talent to win a Stanley Cup Championship, and I could
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: see them hoist the cup. In the NBA, I believe
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: there are only two teams that have a shot at
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: beating OKAC, san Antonio and Denver a shot. I don't
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: think any other team can do it.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: I'm not even sure Vic that either of those teams
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: can do it, but they but they're the only ones
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: that have a shot.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I think that's it. I think no other team in
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the West, no team in the East. There are two teams,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: San Antonio and Denver. As far as the Avs are concerned,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: there's only one team that really troubles me and worries me,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: and that's Dallas. And that's it. So those are the teams,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: At the same time I was thinking about this, I'm thinking,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: oh God, Dallas and you worry and uh, well, you
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: know they they should be worried the other way too,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, because the EV's are a damn good hockey club.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: You don't think they are, well, they should they should. Well,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: their fans probably are not, Oh we own you or what.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: They should be worried as well.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Let's just not put all the eggs in the Oh God,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: you gotta play the stars basket Who cares, man, They
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: got to play you. They got to play you. They
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: don't want to play you, but they got to play you.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: If both teams win, like I think did.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's unfair for somebody to say, Hey,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: if we got matched up in a series against Dallas,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: I'd be a little bit nervous. I don't think it's
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: unfair at all.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Well, of course you're gonna be a little bit nervous,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: but so are they.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: That's the way it goes when two of the best
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: teams in the league are forced to hook up in
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: the second round potentially.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Again.
• 30:05
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• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Do you guys think it's important for teams from opposite
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: conferences to meet for a championship?
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: What do you mean is it important?
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: That mean you do? Yeah?
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Okay, you're talking about what you're like in the NFL.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: If the Super Bowl was the Broncos and the Chiefs,
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: is that what you're talking about.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I'd like to get down to the two best teams.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: So just to eliminate divisions, eliminate all that stuff.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: No, no, because I think you need that for for seeding
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: purposes and whatnot. But if the Avs and the Stars
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: met in the Stanley Cup, finally, I think that would
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: be most appropriate rather than forcing on out and round two.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: So what is your grand plan?
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Then?
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: When playoff time comes around, just reset everybody from both
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: conferences one through sixteen. Sounds good. I don't mind that
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: one bit.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Ain't nobody riding a train from New York to Kansas
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: City anymore?
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Bro I totally. Everything is called jets that fly around fast.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: In fact, if the NHL were to do that outside
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: of the ridiculous format they have, not only would it
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: be revolutionary something different, I think it would send a
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: message to other leagues that you're right, we have entered
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: another century of transportation.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: We can handle the workload. We got people go to
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: the moon again, Brett, what are we doing.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Oh they have that nineteen sixty nine.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand that.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: You know, fifty twenty seven years ago.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: That's why I said again, yeah, back to the Moon.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Acted like it was new though. Now Jones, Uh why why?
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: But why?
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Why? What?
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: What's the problem that you have with the current system.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I just ultimately, I would ultimately like to have the
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: two best teams square off.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: That's all.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: At least a chance for the two best teams to
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: square off.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: That's it. I just want to I want to make
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: it known that I can't make it the Nuggets practice
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: today because I'm getting my hair done. We died, I
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: don't know yet. That's that's neat. You're gonna get your hair, did,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: are you? I mean, I just want to make it
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: known that I can't make it the Nuggets practice. For
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: that reason.
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  Speaker 3: You'll be sharing personal anecdotes today.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, as long as you did, I'm gonna
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: start hearing more.
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  Speaker 3: We did talk about your hair for a long time
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: on the show before I got.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: A lot of other stuff lined up. I'm gonna wash
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: my hands during this break.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Why what did you do? What did you do that
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: necessitated washing your hands? And washed it in a while okay,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: uh three oh three, five, four, nine two five back
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  Speaker 3: after this. All right, So here's what's gonna happen. At
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: the end of every hour today, we are pairing down
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: our Elite eight of the Drop tournament into our National
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Championship game. So at the end of this segment, we'll
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: have our first four drop grouping, you decide what moves on,
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: and then at the end of next hour our final
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: four drop grouping, and we'll announce the winners at the
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: end of the show and do that on National Championship Monday.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: So that's how this is all gonna work. Uh So
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: we'll get to that in just a couple of minutes.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: In the meantime, it is opening day for the Rocks
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: un It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be windy, yeah,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: all that different stuff. And I hesitated to ask this
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: question the appetizer. I hesitate to ask it. Now, do
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: you feel any differently about where the Rockies are today
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: as to where they were last year? Keep in mind
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: they're only two and four. But I think stylistically, if
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: you've been watching any of these games, you can tell
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: they are approaching things differently. They're trying to steal on
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: the base pass. They're using a lot more substitutions in
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: these games.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Just curious. That's an easy question to answer, and I
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: don't understand why you wouldn't say, of course you feel
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: better about them. Of course they're making moves to better themselves.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: They're not going to win a World Series with this outfit,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: but I think they're better than they were a year
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: ago today. Who's getting the.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Start, Michael lorenzen I believe.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Born Anaheim, California, Raised in Fullerton, California.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: The Pride Mike Clifton lorenzen I just read his Wikipedia problem.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: You will never find a real Italian who has a
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: name Clifton mixed in there happened?
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  Speaker 2: Has there ever been an Italian victory? Because you're straight
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: from the old country. Has there ever been an Italian
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: ever in the history of the world named Cliff Never
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Who's the most famous Clifton you can think of?
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Cliff from Cheers, Cheers, Yeah, it's about It's about the
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: only one that comes to mind, Oh, Cliff the Clifford Robertson.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Cliff Robinson said, well, okay, those.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: Are Clifton's and Clifford I was doing specifically Clifton, because
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: it feels much different. Clifford feels a lot different than Clifton.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Like my boy Clifford, the Big Red Dog.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: My favorite cliff of all time. Cliff Floyd.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty good player.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: So do I feel any different about the Rockies than
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I did at this point last year?
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Not really?
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean they won a series, which is awesome,
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: the three they lost in Miami, you know, yeah, I
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: do see progress.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I do you know? They have a plus run differential
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: and they're two and four. Bro, we're six games into
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: the season. I know, but those progress. Dude. Last year
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: they didn't win their first series till June. They went
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: to winning their first series. I've already done that. Of course,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: that's progress.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: I dig They're not going to lose one hundred and
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: nineteen games again. But if they lose a hundred is
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: it is it any better?
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Does it feel any better?
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: I've been on record. I don't think they're losing one hundred.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: They might lose ninety eight, but I don't think it's
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: gonna get the triple.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I think the volume of losses I understand that's at
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, that's how you evaluate. I
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: just think they they are a more professional outfit. It
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: feels that way.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: I think so too, And I think that they've the
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: moves that they've made in the offseason, I think you
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: can already tell has had an impact. I think having
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: a more veteran lineup. I think pushing sins of Tela
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: to the bullpen is really smart. Getting guys like Hugano,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: like lorenz In, like Kingtana in here to provide some
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: stability when they know they don't have arms that are
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: ready or maybe good enough in their farm system right
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: now to throw on the big league club. Bring the
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: veterans in here. If they play well, we'll flip them.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: If not, then we just lose a year of money,
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: No big deal. Yeah, but on top of that, you
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: think about Angel Tavilli, was a reliever for the Rockies
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: last couple of years, who was fine. I wouldn't even
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: say he was good, he was fine. You flip him
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: for TJ. Runfield, who looks like a guy who's ready
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: to compete at a major league level.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: The only thing that hasn't happened yet, and it's why
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: it's hard to evaluate this early. Because they've played six games,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: all on the road, all you know, pretty much at
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: sea level, not having to deal with any changes is
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: when you have to go through those back and forth
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: altitude sea level, altitude sea level. That's when things start
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: to go Awriot Sure, that's when you have to challenge
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: yourself as a pitching staff, as a hitter. We've talked
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: about this, and if you turn a blind eye to this,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: if you're one of those Rockies fans that says, oh,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: you're just making excuses, I don't know what to tell you.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: But the altitude does make a difference. It does. You
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: have to be able to adapt. It takes a different mindset.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: And that's why this is not to say that the
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Rockies are good. This is to say I think they're
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: better than where they were last year, which is the
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: point to improve your roster and your team. That's all.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, that being said, I'm sitting here patiently. I'm listening
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: to both of you. Chip your teeth. Are you supposed
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: to tell me when to get excited.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not your excited meter. Let's stop acting like my
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: excited meter. You just asked a simple question. I don't
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: care if it was a simple question. You're throwing it
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: on me.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you, I'll get excited when I damn well
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: feel like getting excited.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Nobody's trying to push you into your excitement zone. You
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: certainly are right now. Nobody's trying to titillate you.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: You want me to excite you.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Did you try to tittillate me? Brett? This this isn't.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: I just asked a question, that's all I did. Well
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: retract it, Nope, it's very simple. I was just like,
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: I like the direction they're going.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: That's what I told you.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: If they continue to steal bases and lay down some bunts,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: you got money.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: They very clearly aren't bunting. I mean they had a
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: situation in their last game whether they runners on first
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: and second with no outs, they needed the manufacturer run.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Jordan Beck was at the plate. There was not a
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: single thought to bunting striking out.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: So here's the thing.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Would you rather butt guys around and manufacture runs or
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: would you rather leave men stranded all over the place
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: like you.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Always do it?
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: If you hit the gap, that's a two.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But if you don't, then what you get nothing? Yeah?
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: So it's all. So that's what baseball is now. It's
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: all or nothing.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: It's either I hit the gap, and I score too,
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: and I have a stand up double, or you'll get
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: nothing here.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Here's how they think about it, and I'm I'm I
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: don't think there should be like no bunts. Ever, I
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: think there are situations that do call for it. But
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: you're giving up and out to move a base runner
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: and then a strikeout takes you in the exact same
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: place you were before. Essentially you're still looking for a
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: base hit. That's all. So whatever, Let's go to our
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: first grouping here of the drop tournament to try and
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: get to our national title. I have circled the ones
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: that I feel like are gonna be the winners or
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: I feel like should be the winners, and me and
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Nelly have made a sort of a bet here on
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: what the people are going to choose. But here's how
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: it works. We're gonna play all of these. I'll give
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: you a keyword to text in, and you decide with
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: that keyword who moves on to our national title game.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: So Group one is a one seed, a six seed,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: a five, and a seven. The one seed is Detroit.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Mary had a little clan. Yes, Mary had a little yes,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: I'm sure she did.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: That should be noted, by the way that is the
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: only one seed that made it to the Elite eight,
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: the only one.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: That is Yeah, let's go to the sixth seed.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that, you know, obviously you want
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: to win Game five?
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Is that gumga?
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Damn? It's too much in my mouth?
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Huh, it's too much?
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: Oh wow?
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: And then a five seed these plays America Hardline, the Murrays.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: This wasn't my safe place and now I have nothing,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: and so Sudman for real.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: I love that so much. I love that so much.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: And then a seventh seed, Welcome back to the Brett
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Caine Hour. Brett Kane has passed away.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: He's no longer with us.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Welcome back, Brett Caine, no longer with us? Mark BERTNOLLI
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: filling in this morning. Every time I hear that. You know,
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: what I think is the idea of saying Brett Kine
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: no longer with us, I think is really funny because
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: it's subtle. But when he straight up says Brett Kane
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: has passed away, and it's too up front, I mean
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: added like deep brail it no longer with us. See
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: that is subtle. Brett Kane has passed away? Is like
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: all right, Bret Kane has passed away.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: He's no longer. Bret Kane has been hit by a truck.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: It was ugly. He is no longer with us.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: Uh, Nelly, I don't have what words to text in here,
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: so you're gonna have to help me out on these
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: on what these keywords are.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: Sure, If you want the one seed, you text in clam.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Mary had a little clam.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: If you want Vic's incredible interview question to move on,
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: you text the word gum. If you would like our
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: favorite sad Mavericks fan to move on, you text the
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: word nothing.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: And now I have nothing. And if you.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: Want Burdos eulogy for Brett Kane to move on, you
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: text the word passed.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: Bret Kane has passed away. He's no longer Jesus. So
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: you decide what moves on. We have another grouping or
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: final grouping that will do at the end of next hour,
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: so stay tuned for that. Three oh three five four
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: nine two five. So it's funny speaking of making changes,
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: and now the changes enough and are subtle changes enough?
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: And I've been sitting on this piece of audio from
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Sean Payton for a couple of days now, Uh just
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: couldn't never get around to it to any other things
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: going on, but I do want to play this for you.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: This is from the NFL owners meetings and it's about
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: their approach to the offseason. And it's maybe the first
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: time this offseason that I've heard Sean Payton a little
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: bit snippy. We're media members, Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: was you know, it's one of those you guys formed
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: your own narrative from an ignorant standpoint because you don't
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: know what the plans are. Like, that's sort of tone
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: to it. So I want to get to that in
• 43:52
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• 43:53
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• 44:07
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• 44:09
  Speaker 3: they have one toilet on that thing and after they
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: took off, it malfunctioned to.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Me, yep, can you imagine being stuck on that one
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: toilet with moser? Oh yeah, but what are we doing?
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: I guess I'm I'm spoiled. I just saw the alien movie.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: What's it called, Project tail Mary? Yeah, Project tail Mary.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, you got all kinds of space.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: What are we doing here in twenty twenty six, you're
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: still in that little round disc.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: What are we doing?
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: It's a space shuttle.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: We had a space shuttle, all right. Uh so we
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: get back to that. We're back to flying discs.
• 44:46
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