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Set 1: They Haven't Been There Before (w/ Mike Breen) · Stugotz and Company

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that.
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Speaker 2: Chuck Norris was chasing the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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Speaker 1: It was bo.
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Speaker 3: Wow that Prime time. Maybe I had a crush on
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Speaker 3: Betty Rubble.
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Speaker 2: I honestly, until after the segment ended and we went
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Speaker 2: to commercial break, had no idea that Jonathan Coachman was black.
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Speaker 3: He caught them the game last night, although they won
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Speaker 3: the game.
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Speaker 2: You're listening to to gottson Company. He is the voice
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Speaker 2: of the Knicks and the NBA. I am so excited
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Speaker 2: for KNICKSCAFS coming up Eastern Conference Finals. Mike Breen joins us,
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Speaker 2: Right now, I made the mistake. I think I told
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Speaker 2: you guys on air. I'm telling Taylor right now. I
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Speaker 2: made the mistake. I constantly Mike him telling Taylor when
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Speaker 2: you're trying to book a play by play guy, make
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Speaker 2: sure they're not doing a game when you send them
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Speaker 2: a text. And Mike Breen, what did I do the
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Speaker 2: other night while you were calling a pretty big game?
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Speaker 3: What did I do?
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Speaker 1: Mike?
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Speaker 3: Tell the audience, Tell Taylor what it is that I
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Speaker 3: did to you?
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Speaker 1: Something very inconvenient. You texted me multiple times. Yes, but
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Speaker 1: you did apologize, and we've decided we're not going to
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Speaker 1: apologize anymore.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you and I have a pack that we will
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Speaker 2: no longer apologize to each other. Mike, I am wondering.
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Speaker 2: I am doing well. I love that you call me
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Speaker 2: John only. My mom she used to call me John
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Speaker 2: only when she was angry. But I love that you
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Speaker 2: do it, so thank you for doing it.
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Speaker 1: I'm not angry, though, I do it at a friendship. Okay.
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Speaker 2: I'm wondering here as the voice of the Knicks, at
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Speaker 2: someone who knows that fan base and that market and
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Speaker 2: that organization very well in the league, what, Mike Breen,
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Speaker 2: if you could articulate for us what it would mean
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Speaker 2: for the Knicks to win. Not that you're rooting for it,
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Speaker 2: you have to remain neutral, but what it would mean
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Speaker 2: to that market, that fan base, if indeed the Knicks
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Speaker 2: were to win an NBA championship.
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Speaker 1: Well, there are a lot of loyal, hungry fan bases,
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Speaker 1: but the hunger and the fan base that is the
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Speaker 1: Knicks is off the charts. Obviously. The last title is
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Speaker 1: seventy three, the last trip to the finals is ninety nine.
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Speaker 1: And it's not just that it's been so long since
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Speaker 1: they won a championship for the last two and a
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Speaker 1: half decades, although not the last four or five years,
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Speaker 1: but they went about two decades where they weren't just bad,
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Speaker 1: they were one of the worst teams in the league.
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Speaker 1: They had seventeen win seasons multiple times. They had twenty
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Speaker 1: three win seasons multiple times. So to have a team
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Speaker 1: that not only every night competes and you have a
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Speaker 1: chance to win, but now a team that is a
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Speaker 1: legitimate championship contender, it would be one of the most
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Speaker 1: emotional times in the history of New York sports. It
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Speaker 1: would be that powerful. And I'm not talking just basketball,
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about all sports. Yeah, because it's been so
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Speaker 1: long and there's so many fans that have never seen it.
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Speaker 4: Mike bigfan Taylor, what did you think was the best
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Speaker 4: case scenario when the Knicks signed Jalen Brunson.
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Speaker 1: Well did a lot of games when he was with Dallas,
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Speaker 1: and I remember jeff A Gundi and Mark Jackson, who
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Speaker 1: were doing the games with me at the time. They
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Speaker 1: were talking about, man, if this guy ever got his
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Speaker 1: own team, he could be special. So off there scattering report.
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Speaker 1: I knew he could be great, and there were games
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Speaker 1: he had there. There was that one playoff series in
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Speaker 1: Dallas that doncuch missed a bunch of games, and I
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Speaker 1: think Jalen Brunson had forty one in one of those games.
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Speaker 1: And you could tell if he just got the opportunity
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Speaker 1: for him to run his own team and it wasn't
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Speaker 1: gonna happen in Dallas. So thought he would be really good.
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Speaker 1: Thought he could be an All Star player. I did
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Speaker 1: not think he would be an MVP candidate like this.
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Speaker 1: And I spoke to his dad during the Philadelphia series
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Speaker 1: and he says the same thing. He goes, I knew
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Speaker 1: my son would be good. That I think it'd be
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Speaker 1: this good. I don't think anybody did except Jalen Brunson himself.
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Speaker 3: Mike.
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Speaker 2: If he pulls this off, does he belong with the
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Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore of New York Knicks.
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Speaker 1: Yes, really, that's a simple answer. Yeah. I mean you
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Speaker 1: have to win a championship to really beyond that Mount Rushmore.
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Speaker 1: So there's only a handful that are right now eligible.
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Speaker 1: Although Patrick Ewing is on the Mount Rushmore and will
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Speaker 1: always be because he came so close and what he
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Speaker 1: meant for so many years. But I think he would
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Speaker 1: have to because of where he where he took the organization.
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Speaker 1: Before he came on, you know, Julius Randall had started
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Speaker 1: help with the turnaround, add did Tom Thibodeau. They were
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Speaker 1: very important pieces that Leon Rose brought in. But for him,
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Speaker 1: he not only changed the direction of the franchise, he
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Speaker 1: changed the perception. Now the Knicks are looked upon as
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Speaker 1: one of the elite franchises in the NBA. For a
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Speaker 1: long time, it was not anything far from that. And
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Speaker 1: I think that because it's not only what he's done
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Speaker 1: in terms of victories, he's changed the whole direction and
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Speaker 1: perception of the franchise. And to win a title for
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Speaker 1: a team that has won since nineteen seventy three, I
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Speaker 1: think he would deserve to be up there.
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Speaker 3: The great Mike Breen is with us.
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Speaker 2: I'm wondering, from a professional standpoint, Mike, do you've been
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Speaker 2: doing this so long at such a high level and
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Speaker 2: called so many big games, I mean just massive games,
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Speaker 2: finals games, Game Seven's I am wondering, does Mike Breen
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Speaker 2: still get that feeling in his stomach the morning of
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Speaker 2: like tomorrow morning? Will you wake up kind of nervous,
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Speaker 2: but also excited because you know you're sitting down to
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Speaker 2: do a big game of the Mecca tonight.
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Speaker 1: No John, not in the morning. What I'll do when
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Speaker 1: I stand on the court and it's right before we
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Speaker 1: go on the air and the builds that's going crazy.
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Speaker 1: And that's every year. You know, I get butterflies, and
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Speaker 1: I think I'd feel odd if I didn't get them,
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Speaker 1: But every year before, especially Game one of the Finals,
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Speaker 1: and then if there's a Game seven, that's the one
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Speaker 1: time where the butterflies really are present, the nerves are there,
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Speaker 1: and it's it's just the most one wonderful feeling. And
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Speaker 1: it's going to be like that tomorrow just because of
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Speaker 1: the act. It's usually every series it's the first home game.
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Speaker 1: So Game three in Cleveland, they're going to be off
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Speaker 1: the charts in terms of their emotion. So those those
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Speaker 1: games get get the butterflies going, get the adrenaline flowing.
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Speaker 1: But it's they'll be come Finals time, no matter who's
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Speaker 1: in it. That's when I get those real butterflies right
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Speaker 1: before game one.
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Speaker 5: Well, Mike, big Fan, I'm wondering as we start getting
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Speaker 5: closer to the end here, where you start seeing who's
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Speaker 5: going to be there all right? Do you find yourself
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Speaker 5: rooting more for location or gravitas.
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Speaker 3: It's a great question, it really is.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it is a great question. I think you want
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Speaker 1: to see the best matchup. You want to see the
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Speaker 1: two best teams, because you're always hoping for a finals
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Speaker 1: to be an all time classic. Now, sometimes an all
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Speaker 1: time classic has nothing to do with who are the
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Speaker 1: best two teams. Sometimes it's who is the unbelievable underdog,
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Speaker 1: And we've had a few of them recently, For example,
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Speaker 1: Indiana last year. Nobody thought Indiana was ever going to
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Speaker 1: make it to the finals last year, and people forget
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Speaker 1: in Game seven without Halliburton, they were leading at halftime,
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Speaker 1: and if they would have won that championship last year,
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Speaker 1: it would have been the most improbable run to a
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Speaker 1: championship in NBA history. Then you look back three years ago,
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Speaker 1: Miami is playing Denver in the finals. Miami was in
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Speaker 1: the playing game that year. So sometimes those storylines make
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Speaker 1: it even better, even though it's not the two best teams.
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Speaker 1: But those are the type of things that you root for.
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Speaker 1: Are there certain cities that are a little more enjoy
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Speaker 1: able to spend five days in a Row and yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's no question about that. But it's more of storylines
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Speaker 1: of teams and storylines of players, like if there's a
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Speaker 1: certain player that you know has a chance to finally
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Speaker 1: get it done. Things like that. Those are what Those
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Speaker 1: are the matchups that we that we get really excited about.
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Speaker 4: Mike, what would you say to the people who are
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Speaker 4: telling Knicks fans to act like they've been there before?
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Speaker 4: But it's just the Knicks fans really remembering the times
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Speaker 4: of having like the low Munks and Lance Thomas front courts.
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Speaker 1: Well first, so how could you tell them act like
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Speaker 1: you've been there when they haven't been there?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't know how to act.
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Speaker 1: You're right, Yes, it doesn't make any sense, and they
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Speaker 1: have every right. You know, there's a I don't off, guys,
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen it. You know. The great baseball writer
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Speaker 1: Roger Angel, he wrote an essay about what it means
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Speaker 1: being a fan and and how the caring factor, the
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Speaker 1: factor of really caring so so strongly about something even
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Speaker 1: though it makes no sense, how much you care about
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Speaker 1: a ball going in a basket, or, in this case,
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Speaker 1: when he's talking about baseball, somebody hitting a ball over
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Speaker 1: a fence look it up and read it. I'll never
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Speaker 1: do it justice by talking about it. It's one of
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Speaker 1: the most beautiful things ever written about being a fan.
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Speaker 1: And to me, that's one of the highlights of doing
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Speaker 1: the finals and doing the playoffs every year is how
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Speaker 1: crazy the fan base loves their team, how much they
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Speaker 1: care about their team and care about the players on
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Speaker 1: that team. You know, somebody wrote a great line during
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Speaker 1: the pandemic when there were no fans and it just
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Speaker 1: seemed odd to be calling games when there was no
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Speaker 1: fan noise, and it said, fans are the oxygen of
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Speaker 1: pro sports. And it's such a great line and it's
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Speaker 1: so true, and it really comes to fruition in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: You could see last night. You see some of the
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Speaker 1: shots that they were taking to that game Game seven,
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Speaker 1: the absolute joy, the ultimate joy of the Cavs fans
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Speaker 1: last night. And then you saw some shots of the
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Speaker 1: Pistons fans and it was just such misery of the
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Speaker 1: seasons over season that they thought they could win a title.
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Speaker 1: It's uh, it's really one of the reasons why we
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Speaker 1: all love sports, and and for me calling these big
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Speaker 1: games and seeing that that joy and seeing how much
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Speaker 1: it can hurt too. Is all part of the experience.
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Speaker 3: Mike, what can you tell us about the Calves team?
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Speaker 2: Because I was telling Taylor as a Knick fan, I'm
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Speaker 2: uncomfortable with how easy Nick fans think this series is
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Speaker 2: going to be. What can you tell Because Nick fans
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Speaker 2: are confident, cocky, we should act like we've been there before.
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Speaker 2: But to your point, we've never been there before. What
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Speaker 2: can you tell them about this Calves team?
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Speaker 1: It's going to be a really tough series. Uh, It's
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Speaker 1: a team that keeps getting better with the exception of
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Speaker 1: games last series. But people forget, like James Harden was
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Speaker 1: acquired mid season. Continuity is the most underrated part of
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Speaker 1: the success of a basketball team, and they're still learning
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Speaker 1: how to play with them. He still learning how to
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Speaker 1: play with them, but he can be so dangerous in
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Speaker 1: this particular series, and the fact that he doesn't have
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Speaker 1: to be the guy. He no longer has to be
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Speaker 1: the guy. So that's Number One. Donovan Mitchell, who finally
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Speaker 1: got to a conference final. So happy for him because
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Speaker 1: he's one of the best young men in the tire
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Speaker 1: NBA in terms of character and the type of teammate
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Speaker 1: he is. In addition to the talent, so you've got
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Speaker 1: an explosive backcourt. I think the guy that is going
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Speaker 1: to be key for them as Evan Moldley. Mobley raises
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Speaker 1: their ceiling from a good team to a great team
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Speaker 1: when he plays at a really high level. And he
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Speaker 1: showed a couple of games in that he needs to
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Speaker 1: be more consistent in some of these, but sometimes it's
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Speaker 1: because of what the defense does. But they're a really
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Speaker 1: good team. They're really well coached. I thought Kenny Atkinson
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Speaker 1: did a great job in that series and didn't panic
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Speaker 1: after that that horrible loss in Game six, switched a
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Speaker 1: couple of things. Uh, and here they are. It's going
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Speaker 1: to be a long, hard fought series.
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Speaker 2: What's since you're around the team all the time. I'm
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Speaker 2: wondering the biggest difference or a couple of differences between
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Speaker 2: Mike Brown and former Knicks coach Tom Thibodau.
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Speaker 1: Very different styles and very different approaches too. Tom Thibodeau
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Speaker 1: is one of the most brilliant basketball minds I've ever
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Speaker 1: been around in the years that he was there. Just
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Speaker 1: he just learned so much from him from him, Uh,
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Speaker 1: and Mike Brown has the same thing. But Mike Brown
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Speaker 1: is different in terms of he's much more collaborative. Tom Thibodeaux,
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Speaker 1: it's his show. This is the way we're doing it,
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Speaker 1: and it's going to work, and it's proven that it
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Speaker 1: has worked. But with Mike Brown, he takes suggestions from players,
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Speaker 1: he takes suggestions from his assistant coaches, and he's not
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Speaker 1: afraid to try them. And he's not only that, but
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Speaker 1: he's not afraid to say, hey, this wasn't my idea,
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Speaker 1: that was my assistant coach. He's been he's been complementing
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Speaker 1: the assistant coaches all year long, and he's talking about
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Speaker 1: the players. You know, I got input from the players
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Speaker 1: on this, and he publicly talks about it. You don't
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Speaker 1: see a lot of head coaches in any sport giving
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Speaker 1: most of the credit when things go well to their
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Speaker 1: staff and to their players, and when things don't go well,
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Speaker 1: he always says, the buck stops with me. So I've
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Speaker 1: been I've been so impressed without Not only is he
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Speaker 1: not afraid to take suggestions because there are a lot
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Speaker 1: of good basketball minds there, but he is the first
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Speaker 1: guy to admit that he has taken a suggestion and
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Speaker 1: it wasn't his suggestion that turned it around. It's it's
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Speaker 1: really impressive how secure he is in himself in terms of,
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Speaker 1: you know, being able to do that publicly often.
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Speaker 4: Mike, what's your Mount Rushmore of WFAN.
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Speaker 3: This is great?
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Speaker 2: He used to work at wfa N. He loves the station.
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Speaker 2: O the way, I want to guess it? Could I
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Speaker 2: guess it? Can I guess it?
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Speaker 1: I need?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I did not see this one, Covin, all right, go ahead,
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Speaker 1: it was.
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Speaker 2: It was out of left field, especially when you consider
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Speaker 2: the Western Conference finals.
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Speaker 3: To bufton, I go ahead, Mike, ye.
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Speaker 5: While he has a second to think about it, are
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Speaker 5: we counting Mike and the mad Dog as one or
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Speaker 5: two entities?
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Speaker 3: So well, let's ask Mike that question. Okay, So Mike
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Speaker 3: the obvious.
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Speaker 1: There, They're clearly right there.
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Speaker 2: All right, So I'm gonna guess. I'm guessing Mike Breens.
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Speaker 2: I am guessing that was me choking on my own flem.
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Speaker 2: I just got off a flight. I am guessing Mike Breens.
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Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore of w f A N.
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Speaker 3: People.
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Speaker 2: This is a tough one because he used to work there.
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Speaker 2: He knows the inner workings of that place. Would Mark
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Speaker 2: churn Off be on your Mount Rushmore?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? You know, that's for a lot of fans don't
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Speaker 1: know who he is, but he was the brilliant program director.
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Speaker 1: But him and Mark Mason, who was who preceded him,
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Speaker 1: and Mason was the one that put Mike and the
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Speaker 1: mad Dog together. So make can they go in as
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Speaker 1: a as a duo?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, all right, you're gonna put your going
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Speaker 2: to put Don Imis on the mount rushmore correct?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? I think so, of course. Yeah. The station.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so we have Mike, Chris and Imus so who
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Speaker 2: is Mike Breen's fourth.
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Speaker 1: Well a big part of the station and a really
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Speaker 1: important part of the station with the updates, Yes, I mean,
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Speaker 1: do you remember when I first started they were every
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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes? Do you remember that they the updates were
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Speaker 1: every fifteen minutes, so four times an how they quickly
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Speaker 1: realized they had no time for programming then, but the
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Speaker 1: updates were, to me something special. And I'm going to
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Speaker 1: put John Minco in there because he was there probably
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Speaker 1: the longest and he was such a pro just a
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Speaker 1: wonderful man and wonderful to be around every day. So
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Speaker 1: I'm going to put John Minco in there because of
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Speaker 1: what how important the updates were.
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Speaker 3: The manke Man.
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Speaker 2: I'm believe I have a top five Update anchor list
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Speaker 2: of all time and Miko's number one.
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Speaker 3: How about that? Mike Breen?
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean so you agree with me on
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Speaker 1: this one.
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Speaker 2: Mako does not get the credit. Well, he just got
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Speaker 2: the credit that he deserves. He got it from Mike Breed.
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Speaker 1: What a great spot to go to one of my
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Speaker 1: favorite people that I've ever worked with.
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Speaker 3: Yes, no question. Are you into the Western Conference Finals?
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Speaker 3: How could you not be?
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Speaker 2: What a great, great matchup between the Spurs and ok see, huh.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait. I'm shutting my phone off at eight thirty. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be. It's gonna be amazing because again,
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Speaker 1: you know, people forget John Last year, okay see, in
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Speaker 1: the second round, they needed seven games to get past Denver.
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Speaker 1: Now they blew them out in the seventh game, but
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Speaker 1: Denver was banged up. Then they needed seven games to
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Speaker 1: get past Indiana and Halliburton was banged up. So it
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Speaker 1: wasn't this free ride where they just coasted. They also
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Speaker 1: lost a game one of the games to Minnesota. They
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Speaker 1: lost a game by forty two last year in the
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Speaker 1: playoffs when they won the title, So it wasn't this
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Speaker 1: move sailing? Now they face this this young juggernaut team
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Speaker 1: that has got this spectacular combination of young stars and
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Speaker 1: good veterans. I think this has a chance to be
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Speaker 1: an all time classic conference final.
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Speaker 4: Yes, Mike, when you watch a game casually, does anybody
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Speaker 4: you're watching the game ever ask you to mute the
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Speaker 4: game and call it yourself from like the couch for
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Speaker 4: the family?
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Speaker 1: Yea, No, that would have been. First off, my family
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Speaker 1: would That's the last thing they would want. I watched
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Speaker 1: the games with my kids and my wife all the time.
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Speaker 1: That's the last thing they want. They do get it,
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Speaker 1: They do get a kick out of I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: this is you know, it's an occupational hazard. So I
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Speaker 1: watch and I certainly listen for how the announcers handle things,
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Speaker 1: just like producers and directors, directors who watch a game
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Speaker 1: and they're like, I don't like that shot. Now he
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Speaker 1: should have gone to that shot. It's it's amazing how
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Speaker 1: you watch it from that where you the job that
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Speaker 1: you do. You're kind of all right how they handling this,
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Speaker 1: and and I think, like, I can't wait to watch
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Speaker 1: my Turriico tonight. Mike Turrico is just he's extraordinary. He's
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Speaker 1: become one of the all time greats. And it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be be a fun game to broadcast, I know, and
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Speaker 1: it has a chance, like I said, to be something special.
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Speaker 2: Taylor just turns you into some sort of piano bar.
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Speaker 2: But I will tell you this from a you know,
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Speaker 2: it's it's an additional revenue stream, not that you need
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Speaker 2: at Mike Breen, but I would I would pay top
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Speaker 2: dollar if you came to my living room, we turned
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Speaker 2: the sound down and you called the game just for
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Speaker 2: me and my family.
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Speaker 3: I would pay top dollar for it.
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Speaker 1: I would have, Well, what's what's your what's your top dollarar?
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Speaker 1: What's your version of top dollar?
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Speaker 2: You know, ten bucks pizza? Yeah, well, I'm wondering how
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Speaker 2: much it would take to get you to do it.
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Speaker 3: One hundred grand? What do you think?
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Speaker 1: Uh No, Well, you know I've done a couple of
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Speaker 1: times during these playoffs. I've actually I've watched the game
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Speaker 1: in the stands. Like there was the when Minnesota was
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Speaker 1: playing Denver. We were doing I think it was Game four,
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Speaker 1: and I got into town early because I was coming
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Speaker 1: from from Detroit, and I sat in the stands for
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Speaker 1: Game three of that series. At the at the Target Center,
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Speaker 1: and it was It was such a cool thing. I
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Speaker 1: love to do that every once in a while. It's
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Speaker 1: such a cool thing to see again, just to be
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the crowd and how they go
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Speaker 1: crazy and some of the things that they yell out
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Speaker 1: and nobody can hear the I'm certain the raft or
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Speaker 1: the player they're yelling at. I can't hear them, but
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Speaker 1: they don't care. They're still yelling out all these bizarre things.
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Speaker 1: It was wild. But no, I'm not I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to come to your house of Cola game, all right?
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Speaker 3: I mean one hundred grand for charity, how about that?
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Speaker 3: Soy what do you think?
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Speaker 1: Oh? All right, now we're talking.
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Speaker 2: All right, Mike, We'll get you out of here just
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Speaker 2: a second, Mike, Yeah, go ahead.
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Speaker 1: I'm just curious.
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Speaker 5: Does Mike Breen pay for those tickets?
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Speaker 1: You know what? Fortunately I did not have to, because
20:05
Speaker 1: sometimes it's the team like an extra one I get to.
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Speaker 1: But another one I did. I was in town for
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Speaker 1: a Nick game, and I have season tickets for my
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Speaker 1: kids that I buy, so I sat in.
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Speaker 4: Those Mike Knicks fans have had some rough years that
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Speaker 4: have kind of led us to this but I think
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Speaker 4: the one consistent that we've had the past twenty five
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Speaker 4: twenty six years has been the duo of you and
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Speaker 4: wal Fraser the best. We're kind of spoiled as Knicks fans.
20:31
Speaker 4: How good our duo is. What do you remember most
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Speaker 4: about when they paired you two together back in nineteen
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Speaker 4: ninety nine.
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Speaker 1: Well, first off, thank you, that's very kind of you.
20:41
Speaker 1: One of the true blessings of not my career and
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Speaker 1: my life has been having the last thirty years with Clyde.
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Speaker 1: He was a guy that I, you know, obviously idolized
20:53
Speaker 1: as a kid, and to have now this lifetime friendship
20:58
Speaker 1: with him has been it's I couldn't think of a
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Speaker 1: better scenario. And when we first started working, I was
21:05
Speaker 1: so nervous, and I had met him a couple of times,
21:08
Speaker 1: but when I got the job to do the radio
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Speaker 1: with him, I couldn't believe my good fortune. But I
21:15
Speaker 1: couldn't believe how shy Clyde was. You know, he has
21:18
Speaker 1: this personas Clyde cool Clyde, and that's certainly true, but
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Speaker 1: he was introverted back in the day, and I said
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Speaker 1: to him right away. The first thing I said to
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Speaker 1: him was, hey, listen to Clid when we do the games.
21:31
Speaker 1: You talk whenever you want. People want to hear what
21:33
Speaker 1: you have to say. You're the one that has been
21:35
Speaker 1: through it all. And he was so grateful for that,
21:40
Speaker 1: and I think that's what kind of kicked it off.
21:42
Speaker 1: You know, when you're playvoice and you work with different
21:45
Speaker 1: analysts over time, sometimes it takes a while to get
21:48
Speaker 1: some chemistry for I don't know why, but it just
21:50
Speaker 1: clicked right away. And you know, he's taught me so
21:55
Speaker 1: much about the game, obviously, but he's also taught me
21:59
Speaker 1: about so much about growing up in Atlanta and his
22:03
Speaker 1: experiences as in New Yorker when he first got here,
22:05
Speaker 1: and his insecurities and losing confidence, and it's just it's
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Speaker 1: been it's been just a wonderful, beautiful friendship and an
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Speaker 1: educational one for me as well. Mike.
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Speaker 2: We appreciate the time during a very busy time for you.
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Speaker 2: Nick Calves Game one tomorrow night tonight, leave them alone.
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Speaker 2: He'll be watching the TV, his phone will be off,
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Speaker 2: he'll be watching Game one of the Western Conference Finals.
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow night.
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Speaker 2: He'll bring you Knicks Calves Game one. We appreciate the time,
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Speaker 2: and thank you so much. For doing this, and you've
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Speaker 2: turned into a great friend. Only a great friend would
22:39
Speaker 2: call me John multiple times.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for doing that, my man, John. Thanks, Thanks, guys,
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Speaker 3: we appreciate it. Mike, enjoy the enjoy the conference finals.
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Speaker 1: Okay, but we'll talk soon