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5 Questions with Will Retherford: Return from Vacation (Podcast No. 320.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to the Central Indiana Sports Report, what you are listening to right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is podcast number three hundred and twenty-point-one?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Five questions with Will, Rutherford.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This week, Will answers questions about the Indiana Pacers, Major League Baseball, and Indica.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Mendel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome central Indiana Sports fans to five questions that need answers with Will Rutherford.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've kind of just
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[SPEAKER_02]: recently shortened it to five questions with will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, five questions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and honestly, the title title could change again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, yeah, we should probably just be questions with will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because it's really ends up being like, twenty one questions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have a one A one B one C of course will probably be like thirty more minutes with will rather for.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: thirty minutes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're we're we're capping it at thirty minutes starting the first week of August every podcast.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Except for special ones like give the paces are in the finals and we have a reaction we're not going to cap that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but in general every night we're going to have after every game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Paces fever, cults, indie car, IU Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if it's popular enough Ball State and Butler, we will have a ten minute recap podcast of how the game went with audio clips from the games with sound bites from the participants in the media aftermath.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The YouTube video will have the stats in the background as we're talking about them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And but
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's not until August, so.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And also, we will have a reaction after each one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So a recap, a minute recap, then a reaction with whoever is our person speaking of which, if you are interested, and you think you have the ability to, and most importantly, if you're passionate about the cult, Purdue, or the Pacers, we are looking for people to be our quote unquote correspondent.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and for now it's a hobby we hope to in the long term it's a side gig for some people and that's the way we are headed ten minutes after each event for those teams with a recap and then twenty minutes with a reaction from the whoever is our person covering that and probably someone like will probably be a bit of a roundtable three at a time
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's our plan, but will for tonight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's been a little while because you are on vacation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think the Indiana Pacers have become the number one love of central Indiana sports fans right now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think there's any doubt about that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So let's start right there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kevin Pritchard on Monday had his, what I call, this is my team press conference where he's done wheeling and dealing for now, you know, and this is our roster for now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we found out that, of course, Miles Turner is a Milwaukee buck.
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[SPEAKER_02]: James Wiseman, Jay Huff, and we assume as a Jackson will be the starting rotation at center.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and the confirmation, of course, the Tyreys Hall of Burton will sit the entire season next year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You are initial thoughts on Kevin Prytrich's press conference and what you took away from of those three stories.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I went exactly as I expected.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I said it after the finals.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like everybody was like, oh, the Pacers are going to do this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like they're going to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was said, like, I would actually am kind of surprised Turner walk, which I'm sure will dive into more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I don't hate it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I definitely, like I kind of like what he did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There was no reason to go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're not, you're not winning the finals without Tirees unless it's like by the virtue of like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Christ himself like coming back to earth and becoming a pacer for a lack of a server.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know somebody will find that sacrilegious.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, but it's real.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's it's the only time for us to say well once we've said it and it made it through the editing process.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have said it and we have not apologized for it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's the policy of essentially the sports report.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I like it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like that they the team's good enough pride to be a play in team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think at the bare minimum a team that can be a seven eight seed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I expect them to probably be closer to a five or six with the roster constructed as is I think they're plenty good enough to be very competitive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe a way to play off round.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know that seems far-fetched right now with Tyrease's injury and being unavailable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But like the teams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think so around them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I I think that the teams pretty good around them and I they didn't downgrade a center.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So not much if at all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the one thing that we can say will is when
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[SPEAKER_02]: Andernim hard as had time at point guard.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's been a pretty darn good point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and I mean, I know different, but we've said it this name before, but the Michael and Barney has said this multiple times.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He says it best.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Team star losing when you play good players.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Great player money and like
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[SPEAKER_01]: them, you know, turners a good player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't need great player money and it gives it give somebody like Nim hard the runway to where if he plays really well, this like he now you're giving a great player great player money on a great contract that benefits this team that helps bring our enemies.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, that helps bring knee smith back that helps open up all sorts of of roster moves that you like to enjoy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the fruits of whatever benefit you have right now nim hard i think you open the runaways off uh... for him and i think you're going to really like what you see i think he could be a really good point guard i think he's not going to be tyries worries average nine ten assist a game but he can he can be a sneaky fifteen and seven fifteen and eight kind of guy running the point and and from that point forward you just kind of have to hope that you have your role players around him
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[SPEAKER_01]: providing their their minutes and their numbers and getting to their spots and hitting shots.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it just comes down to you can't expect Nim hard to be tire-reason be a twenty and eight twenty and ten type player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the expectations to high.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He can be, I think, if he plays this best basketball, but he's just not going to be in all honesty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, you now you need, you need, matter, and to step up, you need Neismith to step up and take a leap into
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[SPEAKER_01]: a real three and D wing guy and you just need to see y'all come to be him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Some follow up questions from question number one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if I believe and I think you might agree with me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kevin Pritchard when he says they did everything that they could to sign Miles Turner and then Miles Turner out of nowhere signed with Milwaukee instead of doing a sign and trade it would have helped Miles Turner financially.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't I believe he gave Miles Turner signs that we're just not that interested.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You are six best player.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We can't pay you better than fourth best player money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think the Pacers were ever that interested in bringing him back after they lost seeing where they were with Tyrease's injury.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You run it back and you happily go into the text.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that what he did was pre-PR brilliance as far as he got every people have kind of turned on miles a little bit now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: People still love them and more respect and give an ovation and stuff like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But let's ask this question now then.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Are you prepared to hate Miles Turner until he's no longer a buck?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't particularly like Miles Turner when he was a pacer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not really looking for any reason to like him as a buck.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I expect he's going to be the same.
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[SPEAKER_01]: eighth best center in the league probably like if you're if you're depending on how you're measuring you know what when when John John and I and Michelle and Mike Richard I did this after one of the Pacers losses where we sat down after we got them with the podcast and kind of like broke it down and I said you have to include kind of force that play as five like a yannis and like you know is but we're strictly going on whose listed as a center on ESPN he's probably the eighth best center
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[SPEAKER_01]: of that list.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If you're being generous, I think if you're being right, it depends on how you're judging and you're judging on points sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just where he's at now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There are rising guys that were probably below him right now that maybe in a year or above him, there are guys that might be above him that may fall.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's probably half of sinners at the very least.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think his floor is like he's like the twelve best center the very least and then where he goes from there I think's probably up for interpretation but yeah I'm prepared to not like a much I think he could have
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[SPEAKER_01]: If he wanted to benefit the Pacers if he wanted to treat them off and sit and go off the right way, he could have maybe done it a little different than he did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't imagine Milwaukee was his only offer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There was a ton of rumblings that Dallas really wanted them and stuff like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a bad visually for him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to come back and probably get booed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's going to get collapse and stuff, but it's going to be for people to know and then what he says, but I don't know, do I buy what what Richard said not really.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's PR.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's just a we're trying to get the, you know, he was a fan favorite.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's get people to kind of
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, don't I'm a little bit, but it's business and and at turn.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have no business paying him that much.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, at Turner's career at this point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's probably smart at thirty years old smart.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is his last big deal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's probably smart for him to take the most money.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If that's if that is who gave you the best deal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why are you I mean
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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like I didn't think they could until they released Damian Lillard.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what was I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of tricky financials that go into that that I'm not sure I completely buy the legitimacy of there's some loop holes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't I don't like you shouldn't just get to wipe away Dame and act like he basically just doesn't even exist.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The franchise gets to know what I know it just
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just seems kind of so once every seven years salty I think so salty to me that that that happens what it's whatever it's the way the league is other teams use it to their benefit But the bucks are just a poverty franchise still and they paid up they played a good player great player money and that just is what sinks teams in the poverty that's what makes teams go from great to mediocre is what he might be better next to Janus because Janus does some of the dirty work
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can see it kind of working, but I think they're going to be disappointed in Milwaukee and they were like, we did what for what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Who's the pick and roll guy?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Who's the pick and roll guy?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I just I don't want to pay Miles Turner to sit up the three point line and be a three point shooting five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want three bounds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want it's it's just a different stylistically a basketball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't like it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad he's not a pacer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad he's not a pacer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad that he's I'm no I'll get flack for that from some people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What I'm glad that he's no longer a pacer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was time for him to go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And again great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Great guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If you're talking about just how good of a guy he is, he's number one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think, but I don't care.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm ready to try as a Jackson James Wiseman.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm even ready to try J. Half of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think Miles turn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think of all of the players on that team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was a losing player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a pacer's team full of just winning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just guys that play winning basketball, ethical, like just winners.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that he was the anchor tied to their foot that he was not the winner of the group.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Part of the past.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's move on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And there'll be interesting to see what they do now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let me ask you another part of question number one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Biggest key to the Pacers winning fifty games, Jaris Walker or Benedict Matherer.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Question number two.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Are you going to be keeping an eye out and you just answered part of, I think you answered this question already.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Are you going to be keeping an eye out for.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Question number two and you kind of answered this question already.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pacer's summer league begins on July tenth, which is just a couple of days from now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Who's going to be watching for Cam Jones, obviously anybody else?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, if Walker's not playing, which I kind of think some mistake, I don't think he submitted himself in the enough of an MBA role to not be prepared.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There'll be a lot of preseason minutes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but I just I think he's still so raw.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just I just want to see him play more like I think he just needs to be loved to see it but his games kind of he's a the wing defender and he's a three-point shooter like outside of that he really has no So far, but you see glimpses of a great passer of a great rebounder that he has potential to be those things and as I pointed up to Michelle
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[SPEAKER_02]: He would be going into a senior year of college.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't forget that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He is still very young and raw.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like Cam Jones seems like the, I mean, the natural selection as far as what he can do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't really think any of their two way guys are anyone that we're really keep on the first one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't think that guy's going to be good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't think that's going to be good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he was a reach of a connection.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I you know what if if they're he said he's somebody that you want to see develop because he's a trade target you can trade I mean as a third point guard now if you need that it's an out could be a awfully good if he can be an MBA level point guard
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like Cam Jones, I think Cam Jones has a ton of Ironysmith in him, and if he can elevate himself to Ironysmith, as much as I love Double A, he becomes a little bit expendable, and as somebody with a good contract today, it seems really like to have
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just I think he's two years away probably from like submitting himself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like he if he has a good summer in a good preseason.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he has a chance to play some minutes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This I think this is going to be an experiment of this team of who can we just let figure it out like who can if Cam Jones can if he can get eight minutes a game
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let him do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Play some games and noblesville short transit between the two facilities now as far as playing games, like easy to navigate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why not?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let him play a majority of his time and noblesville and then he gets some minutes when he's on the act of roster for the Pacers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Question number three, considering all of the games missed by Caitlyn Clark, Sophie Cunningham, Stephanie White, happy with where the fever aren't this point?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Content.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it's happy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's content probably right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They still, they've got some work to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I, you see the, the makings of a team that can be, I, that can be good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They have up to this point under a chief, like expected them to be coming into the season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think they kind of made a statement though when they in one week here beat the liberty beat the links and beat the aces.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's kind of like, hey, look what we can do if we're playing well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So they give you enough to go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, as long as they stay in the playoff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think if they just stay in the playoff range, they're just fine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I expected them to run away with the league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've not really done that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What for good reason?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I think that you have to be happy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You like to see the three that you just mentioned be steadfast in the lineup.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Really the rest the way out like you don't want.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sophie seven deep they're pretty good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't think you want you don't want Coach White out any more time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know it's a personal issue, but like you don't You want her to be behind the bench because it's you know, she's working on her game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I know that she's so accomplishes a coach and as a player and and she's incredible, but it's just ruster
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[SPEAKER_01]: but you just you trust her but you you know this is still a new team for her and you want to see you know come play off time you want that chemistry with coach and players to be solid and locked in
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, cutting him, we love to talk about her.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's not the reason the fever, you know, win it all, but she's been a huge impact player and a huge signing.
18:07
[SPEAKER_01]: I think to me, Lexi Hall still probably the one that if they make a championship run, she's
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[SPEAKER_01]: the one of the key piece that was the the I mean you know A. B. S. That's a low hanging fruit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just say, oh, a Leah Boston.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a big deal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean they all are powerful Howard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think she's been huge.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been um she's played her role really well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I they are a minute from our McDonald which has been nice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that they are
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're starting to find that rotation that they really like and that excites me a little bit because it's like they're not playing their best They're still beating good teams and they they've really have made a statement the last week as far as the competition in the way that they've just played solid crisp clean and Clark's not she's not even playing her best right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like she's she's not been yeah, I mean she's been
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's been human, she's looked human at times this year, and I don't know if anybody really expected that, but I still, I think you're content with where they're at, they answer your question, and you're hopeful that they take that next leap forward.
19:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Question number four, by how many games are your Cincinnati Red Legs going to win the National League Central?
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[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that we just continue having this conversation battles me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It really does.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I get that you're I it's rage bay like you're kind of baiting me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's it has to be because you're just the reds are winning this division come for just talk out your ass cuz your math those better like they're not winning this division.
19:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the cubs Cubs are good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to admit it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're all pretty good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cubs are actually bad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cardinals are not good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But they're good enough to hang with the other.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If as long as Miles, Michael is an Eric.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they are far, though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Pitching in the division, they're not good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They seem like number four to me, but I could be wrong, we've hung tough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The brewers are just always make the right moves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're still to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I still think it's one of those where it's like, uh, Michael Myers is the brewers and, um, you know, the victim is the cubs where the brewers are just going to just walk them down and kind of stalk them and then come, you know, September, twenty-seven.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You look up and the brewers have a three game league on the division.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and that's that's how I said it the whole year I said it before the season started that I think this brewery's team is going to surprise people they have they just seem to figure it out annoying I have no answer for how it happens they're just a well run small market organization as far as baseball goes so no the cup the red's not you can be wrong it's okay you'll see I don't the I don't think the red's making the playoffs you'll see
20:56
[SPEAKER_02]: You'll see.
20:56
[SPEAKER_02]: This team's a little different.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They've been in the past.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The offense has been a little more consistent.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Last couple days on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Last couple days have been tough to keep that thought alive.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But the marlins of their pitching has been solid all year.
21:12
[SPEAKER_01]: They just can't hit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like they have all the young arms.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They just can't hit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not too concerned.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I do think in the end, the reds are the better team in this division.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because they go six deep with the starting pitching.
21:28
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think that they have two, and a really good bullpen.
21:32
[SPEAKER_01]: They have two really good pictures, and then they're pedestrian, I think the other three.
21:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Plus pictures, all of them, all six of them.
21:41
[SPEAKER_02]: He's close.
21:42
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a middle of the hundred green and Andrew Abbott are great like they are great pictures and Abbott's he's even look just one just passing.
21:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah two outings.
21:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
21:55
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't have a he only pitched three and a third his last outing in Milwaukee.
21:58
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a bad one.
21:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but his what that he gave up six or runs won the four okay or two before.
22:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Um
22:05
[SPEAKER_02]: But Lodolo's good and Martina is good.
22:08
[SPEAKER_01]: Lodolo is okay.
22:10
[SPEAKER_01]: He's okay.
22:11
[SPEAKER_02]: Every day you throw out a picture that gives you a chance to win.
22:17
[SPEAKER_01]: If Nic Lodolo was my game three wild card round pitcher, I have no faith the reds are winning the game.
22:23
[SPEAKER_01]: None.
22:25
[SPEAKER_01]: He's okay.
22:27
[SPEAKER_01]: He is in the miles.
22:28
[SPEAKER_02]: Michael is really good for a number three pitcher.
22:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I think that's your blinders on.
22:36
[SPEAKER_02]: He's been a little inconsistent, but when he's good, it's hard to ignore how good he is.
22:41
[SPEAKER_02]: I October we will know.
22:42
[SPEAKER_02]: Producer Susie, pull this clip.
22:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Pull it when the brewer of our pop and champagne and then end up getting beat in the wildcard round by the Giants.
22:53
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a lucky question number five.
22:56
[SPEAKER_02]: Instead of just complaining about the all stars, let's do it this way.
23:01
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, all pro is the best single player at every single position.
23:06
[SPEAKER_02]: Of course, if there's two guards, but in baseball, there's only one position.
23:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Step five starting pitchers.
23:14
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go five relievers.
23:17
[SPEAKER_02]: One at every position at the midway point, your guy, give me one, two or three at every position, starting at first base.
23:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Freddie Freeman, he's just so like consistent, it's just tough to
23:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he's still like he's the closest to people.
23:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what the number is.
23:36
[SPEAKER_01]: If he plays like four or five more years, like he's going to probably get to three thousand.
23:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it'll happen.
23:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he's just the side hated that he should have retired a brave.
23:49
[SPEAKER_01]: He shouldn't have retired a brave.
23:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I second and third.
23:56
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... vlady met might be a reach i think he you know he's the starter for the all stars in the a.l.
24:02
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... and then i'll say pedal on those probably him and Guerrero probably should be flip flopped he he was really good in april he's kind of slowed down and gotten back to his average and stuff but like i think that's a solid one two three probably at that position
24:22
[SPEAKER_01]: can tell Marta he's the best second baseman baseball just like this switch hitting top line up I guess power is on base like he he's just a super solid player comfortably best
24:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I think so.
24:34
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think he's come for the second version.
24:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Brandon Donovan is this is the second best second basement in baseball.
24:40
[SPEAKER_01]: That's my favorite baseball player ever is Brandon Donovan.
24:43
[SPEAKER_01]: It is.
24:44
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a wow.
24:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it is.
24:45
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a good chance for us to to remind everybody that you do not come in prepared every week that you're doing this off the top of your head.
24:53
[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean Jackson Hall Day was up there in votes, but I don't
24:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't think he's like the third best second basement of baseball either.
25:01
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's it's one I it's kind of a popularity that fan vote is and stuff.
25:07
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Katelle and burning down him.
25:09
[SPEAKER_01]: I think those are might those are my one of the two shortstop.
25:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Tray Turner is I mean he's leading the national league and hits Jacob Wilson probably as far as his offensive numbers, but like I think Turner's just
25:21
[SPEAKER_01]: like better.
25:23
[SPEAKER_02]: You have a third or is it just those two?
25:25
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to stick with you.
25:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to stick with you.
25:27
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to stick with you.
25:29
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I get it.
25:30
[SPEAKER_02]: Why you would say no.
25:31
[SPEAKER_02]: I completely understand.
25:32
[SPEAKER_01]: If there is an honorable mention, I'll put, I'll, I'll, I'll remove the three and put an honorable mention of Ellie because I do think that he's been super fun to watch this hair.
25:40
[SPEAKER_02]: And talk about speed.
25:42
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, but.
25:42
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a thing.
25:43
[SPEAKER_02]: It's trade Turner.
25:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
25:45
[SPEAKER_01]: The speed.
25:45
[SPEAKER_01]: The speed is also.
25:47
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not quite as polished as a player's trade Turner yet.
25:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
25:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
25:51
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with that.
25:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Trade Turner can just be in so many ways.
25:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
25:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
25:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Third base.
25:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Jose Ramirez.
25:59
[SPEAKER_01]: He has been so neglected in the conversation of like best players and baseball for so long that I feel disrespected to him to even utter somebody else.
26:09
[SPEAKER_01]: It's him and then my secretary this we could I we can you can I could argue with anybody about this he has been like the best third baseman baseball for basically five years and he never gets talked about catcher.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cowrowly.
26:28
[SPEAKER_02]: No doubt about that when he's there.
26:30
[SPEAKER_02]: It would you have it too, especially with real mootos.
26:34
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's.
26:34
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's.
26:34
[SPEAKER_01]: So it to what what are we what are we valuing more as defense or as off all and all.
26:40
[SPEAKER_02]: All and all the best catchers.
26:42
[SPEAKER_02]: Who do you want on your team right now at this very moment.
26:45
[SPEAKER_01]: even on her hair is a cardinal, but he's on the IL because he's just so good bat the ball.
26:49
[SPEAKER_01]: He's probably a DH, like he's not really a traditional catcher at all.
26:52
[SPEAKER_01]: They kind of avoid playing him at catcher because he's not very good defensively, but anybody that could like slot in at catcher and provide you like three, twenty batting average with pop.
27:03
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like he's not to, I mean, that's, that's just my fan bias for sure.
27:09
[SPEAKER_01]: It catcher, but like I rolly and then
27:14
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, really offensively, it's not even close.
27:16
[SPEAKER_01]: But defensively, he's so good as well.
27:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's really quite honestly, I think it's him and he's kind of a secretary at level.
27:25
[SPEAKER_01]: This does between him and the field right now.
27:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Will Smith's been incredible, too.
27:31
[SPEAKER_01]: He's been really good.
27:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Like getting jiggy with it behind Schermes ravine like Will Smith behind the dish.
27:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, he's he's been impeccable.
27:40
[SPEAKER_02]: Covered him in college at Louisville.
27:43
[SPEAKER_02]: Best three outfielders clearly air and judge has been one of them.
27:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, P. Crowe Armstrong is also.
27:50
[SPEAKER_02]: He has been consistent.
27:52
[SPEAKER_01]: Finally found it.
27:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like a cognizancy's been back.
27:56
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really hard not to have the him and that, that combo.
27:59
[SPEAKER_01]: I know it's been, you know, a smaller sample side with him only being back since, um, June, but like, he's been so good offensively.
28:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he deserved that all, that all star spot based on just the four or five weeks he, of his season, he'd put together.
28:17
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he is bar nut.
28:20
[SPEAKER_01]: like what the best outfielder baseball probably when he's healthy like as well judge but you go up saying like you know when when he's a hundred percent I think he's just a better baseball player probably than just about anyone else all right you have three others or who else would there has averages dip some but he still deserves to be dangerous dangerous in that conversation I think Kyle Tucker has been really good for the cuts
28:50
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29:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Scouble.
29:22
[SPEAKER_01]: Scains.
29:25
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been a good year if your last name starts with this.
29:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that Wheeler?
29:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Nathany Volley while he's been hurt has been really good when he's been a hundred percent.
29:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Like really good, like sub to whip sub.
29:41
[SPEAKER_01]: We have it yet to take being out of this.
29:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Point nine.
29:44
[SPEAKER_01]: And to it.
29:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Brian Wu's been really good in Seattle.
29:52
[SPEAKER_01]: I know that's probably.
29:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Probably not in that that top five conversation is a name that did come to mind.
30:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know like the whole can I give it to like the entire like metrotation there for like the first like half of the last year.
30:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Andrew Abbott.
30:18
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you could definitely under consideration for sure.
30:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the last two.
30:22
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he ever goes deep enough in games.
30:25
[SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of like no.
30:26
[SPEAKER_01]: He has a couple times, but like overall, I feel like there's a thing early on.
30:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's some games where it's like, uh, probably cut the gotten a little bit more from him.
30:36
[SPEAKER_01]: He's really good at it.
30:37
[SPEAKER_01]: That has been very good in San Diego.
30:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Logan Webb has been good in San Francisco.
30:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Pitchy like because we talked about the volume like you said it's just so health dependent like Shwellabox been good, but he blew his arm out exactly what about uh... top three closers
31:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Claw say started the year bad, but he's been awful good of late.
31:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Tyler McGill and Brewer scares me a little bit.
31:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why, he just does.
31:12
[SPEAKER_01]: He's just big.
31:13
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like six sticks.
31:14
[SPEAKER_01]: He just throws real hard.
31:16
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it.
31:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
31:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he somebody that comes to mind.
31:21
[SPEAKER_02]: You like him better than the guy he replaced, huh?
31:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I definitely believe it's been bad.
31:30
[SPEAKER_02]: He was really good.
31:31
[SPEAKER_02]: You see it though.
31:32
[SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes you still see how great he is.
31:35
[SPEAKER_02]: And you wonder why he's so bad at it.
31:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't I'm struggled so much.
31:39
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no without question.
31:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I close or so hit or miss cause like there's some games that you close the game out of your close room pitch.
31:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I can tell you who's not on that list.
31:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Ryan else late is not on that list.
31:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Biggest team surprises the midway point.
32:00
[SPEAKER_02]: for a positive.
32:01
[SPEAKER_01]: The Cubs are a lot better than I expected than to be.
32:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I will give credit for credit is due like the Cubs are I expected them to be okay and they are.
32:10
[SPEAKER_01]: They're a lot better than okay.
32:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they're a playoff team.
32:14
[SPEAKER_02]: Not a big fan of.
32:17
[SPEAKER_02]: the North.
32:17
[SPEAKER_02]: No, hey, I hate it, but I like some of their fans, but not many, not many.
32:24
[SPEAKER_01]: I love you, Jeff.
32:25
[SPEAKER_01]: My girlfriend is one out there.
32:28
[SPEAKER_02]: That would be that if Susie had been a comes fan, I wouldn't have started.
32:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's just say that.
32:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Watching
32:35
[SPEAKER_01]: So last year, I'll never forget it in my life.
32:38
[SPEAKER_01]: August first, twenty twenty four.
32:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I go with Addy to my.
32:44
[SPEAKER_02]: You are way more tolerant.
32:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Play my retirement and all two of my best bestest buddies.
32:49
[SPEAKER_01]: We went up to regularly to catch a Thursday night Cardinals Cubs.
32:55
[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, is there a better place in the world to watch your baseball game baseball heaven.
32:59
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god.
33:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll take nighttime regularly was really good.
33:03
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean anytime it regularly.
33:05
[SPEAKER_01]: No during the day it blows during the day it sucks.
33:07
[SPEAKER_01]: You're wrong.
33:08
[SPEAKER_01]: It sucks.
33:09
[SPEAKER_01]: You're up there.
33:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Cardinals are up three two going into the bottom of the night.
33:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Hellsly comes and gets in out and then just base of the wheels turn off.
33:19
[SPEAKER_01]: And he ends up blowing the save in classic Ryan Hellsley fashion.
33:22
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the loss that essentially broke the cardinals like Spirit and Will last year and ruined their playoff chances.
33:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you Ryan Hellsley.
33:30
[SPEAKER_01]: And it why I had to sit and just listen to how he's seeing the world's worst song for a price thirty minutes.
33:38
[SPEAKER_02]: It is literally
33:40
[SPEAKER_01]: literally.
33:41
[SPEAKER_01]: It's awful.
33:42
[SPEAKER_01]: The worst.
33:42
[SPEAKER_01]: And then like, then you know, I'm driving back.
33:46
[SPEAKER_01]: And everybody, I'm the only person awake in the car because I'm the only one driving need to be awake PSA for people.
33:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't fall asleep behind the wheel.
33:56
[SPEAKER_01]: And uh, Addy's been asleep for probably an hour.
33:59
[SPEAKER_01]: We're on thirty heading back to the lake and all the sudden she just like looks up at me.
34:04
[SPEAKER_01]: And she's got this just shitty and grand honor.
34:07
[SPEAKER_01]: And she says,
34:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Can you believe that this half nice to just go back show fall back sleep.
34:13
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't do is just and I got a speeding ticket.
34:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I got I got all right ran a red light and got Cameron.
34:19
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you city of Chicago.
34:20
[SPEAKER_01]: You just absolute dumpster fire.
34:22
[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, uh, agreed.
34:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to sit and watch it.
34:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to sit and watch it and suffer the north side.
34:30
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why I won't have a happy memory.
34:33
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe you're saying a part of the question all answer.
34:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll ask it in the answer is a
34:39
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, stinker surprises Baltimore is one and then actually the dining backs have been race Mariners Rangers the Mariners are not bad.
34:54
[SPEAKER_01]: They just need somebody outside of Colorado to provide offense like that pitching staff's good
34:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Rangers, I have no idea.
35:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Twenty-twenty-three needs to be researched, though, like how they won a world series and like a hundred.
35:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I know, it's not.
35:08
[SPEAKER_01]: And then that seems, it's basically the same team that are awful.
35:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I have no idea.
35:11
[SPEAKER_02]: Ever since?
35:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's not my turn off the switch.
35:14
[SPEAKER_01]: A Dolce Garcia is, you know, playing like a Dolce Garcia played before.
35:19
[SPEAKER_01]: The guy that got cut from like, sixties, whatever.
35:24
[SPEAKER_01]: Cory Seagurs and Sammy and I've been awful contracts.
35:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the diamond back.
35:30
[SPEAKER_01]: The diamond backs have been a surprise.
35:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I still feel like that to see but could still what gallons been so bad.
35:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like that the team that if they can figure it out here.
35:41
[SPEAKER_02]: There's just a notch below the rest of those teams that division.
35:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and it's like probably not the giant.
35:46
[SPEAKER_01]: It's also probably like it's just a really good division.
35:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Like the Padres, Giants, and Dodgers are both just so good.
35:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm not sure about the giants.
35:54
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll find out.
35:55
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the giants are.
35:57
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the diamond back shall pass the giants before well.
35:59
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.
36:00
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
36:03
[SPEAKER_02]: Manager of the years of war.
36:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Craig Council.
36:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Player of the year.
36:11
[SPEAKER_02]: Judge.
36:11
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
36:12
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a best picture.
36:15
[SPEAKER_02]: Scenes.
36:16
[SPEAKER_02]: I think so.
36:18
[SPEAKER_02]: All those scoobles team is winning, so I was going to give it a word.
36:20
[SPEAKER_02]: It would probably be scoobles.
36:21
[SPEAKER_01]: The team's career ERA is like one point nine six.
36:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's it's him.
36:28
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll, we'll, we'll, there's been really special loads.
36:31
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, he has anything changed with your predictions for the end of the season.
36:39
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
36:41
[SPEAKER_02]: What's your prediction at this point?
36:44
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you want to give me your division winners real fast?
36:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'll give you the division winners.
36:47
[SPEAKER_01]: So, Bruce Dodgers.
36:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Red Dodgers.
36:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Philly.
36:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
36:57
[SPEAKER_01]: That's over.
36:58
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Detroit.
37:01
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.
37:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Houston.
37:05
[SPEAKER_01]: Toronto.
37:07
[SPEAKER_02]: Interesting.
37:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Houston.
37:11
[SPEAKER_02]: You still use Houston.
37:13
[SPEAKER_01]: I said I told I told Paul on the MLB when the first time I joined that the MLB report I said the the Yankees will have a ten game lead in this division but this team has got a lot of blue jays are a good ball club
37:34
[SPEAKER_02]: We've always known that and they've never put it together now.
37:37
[SPEAKER_02]: They're putting it together.
37:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Good ball club.
37:38
[SPEAKER_02]: They're putting it together.
37:39
[SPEAKER_02]: So finally, and what about the raise, man?
37:41
[SPEAKER_01]: They just figured out.
37:42
[SPEAKER_01]: They just figured out.
37:45
[SPEAKER_02]: Any chance I'll explode is not when it's fourth championship in five years.
37:50
[SPEAKER_01]: He would have to cease to exist.
37:53
[SPEAKER_02]: Pretty much.
37:55
[SPEAKER_02]: And even then, if he will runs a couple more races, he could not run the last few and still probably win the freaking thing.
38:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
38:01
[SPEAKER_01]: He's that good.
38:02
[SPEAKER_02]: And not just that.
38:04
[SPEAKER_02]: There's some been some years, there have been some drivers, just as dominating as Alex, below in my lifetime.
38:10
[SPEAKER_02]: It goes back to Allen's or Junior Emerson Football League a couple of times.
38:14
[SPEAKER_02]: It was Bobby Ray Hall in nineteen eighty six, just so dominating.
38:20
[SPEAKER_02]: But he had the better equipment than everybody else.
38:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Now everything is pretty much even.
38:25
[SPEAKER_02]: Every raise you go in with fifteen contenders to win the race.
38:29
[SPEAKER_02]: And yet he still wins six of the ten, should have won eight of the ten.
38:34
[SPEAKER_02]: It's insane.
38:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I said when when everybody I mean you told me I was I was crazy for saying that in the five hundred I would take pillow over the field.
38:46
[SPEAKER_02]: I would you were crazy.
38:48
[SPEAKER_01]: That confident.
38:49
[SPEAKER_01]: That dude's that good.
38:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I would take him over the field in every single race he ran the rest of the year.
38:54
[SPEAKER_02]: Well going into the last race I said you'd be a fool not to.
38:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like that he's
39:01
[SPEAKER_01]: maybe avenged his St.
39:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Louis was another short track and kind of snuck in there and took that one right at the last minute.
39:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
39:11
[SPEAKER_01]: He seems to be at better on those and it's also he could he could get clipped in a race like this and but it would take four or five of them.
39:22
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I know, but I'm just saying, like, the short, the short, um, ovals and stuff like the risk of accident is always high.
39:30
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it's European, he's not the most experienced oval drug.
39:33
[SPEAKER_01]: No, he's not.
39:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's just the way it is.
39:38
[SPEAKER_02]: It's hard to imagine.
39:40
[SPEAKER_02]: How was he?
39:40
[SPEAKER_02]: Twenty-five and he's about to win this fourth championship from five years.
39:44
[SPEAKER_02]: And the entire time he's been suing his race team that's been doing it.
39:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
39:51
[SPEAKER_01]: It's nuts.
39:52
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you got a winner.
39:55
[SPEAKER_02]: I just so talented.
39:57
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's crazy because I've never seen anything like it.
40:00
[SPEAKER_02]: finish second place completely gave away a race on Sunday and was smiling and laughing because I mean this teammate won instead.
40:08
[SPEAKER_02]: He's still finished second even got a bigger gap in the championship.
40:13
[SPEAKER_02]: He's gonna win so many races in his life.
40:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he doesn't care.
40:17
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Scott.
40:18
[SPEAKER_01]: League of his own.
40:19
[SPEAKER_01]: You've won twenty one straight years.
40:22
[SPEAKER_01]: What's twenty two?
40:22
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me give you this.
40:25
[SPEAKER_02]: The one thing I take away from this season is that I thought there was an elite level that was Alex Polo, Joseph Newgarden, and Paddle Award, and now I think there's an elite level of one.
40:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I said at the beginning of the year, I thought that it was one, that he is the best driver in the world, and I don't
40:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that they're second.
40:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I really don't know if there is somebody maybe Kyle Arson, like that maybe he is the only maybe Kyle Bush for what he's accomplished as far as like just driving acumen as far as across circuits, across series, like stuff like that.
41:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Like if we're just going to go like objectively just incredibly skilled at driver.
41:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I would take none of the formula one guys to say they're they're not good drivers or the reason that they just run road course as they would get killed over here in American racing.
41:18
[SPEAKER_02]: The ones that have come over have adapted pretty well.
41:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't any one.
41:24
[SPEAKER_02]: We're gone, Grojan.
41:26
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
41:26
[SPEAKER_02]: We've got to pretty well Emerson Fittipaldi, Nigel Mansel.
41:30
[SPEAKER_02]: There've been a few through the years.
41:32
[SPEAKER_02]: Jill DeFaron.
41:34
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, it's a different world.
41:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I think that that he is, he's the best driver in the world.
41:40
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think Kyle Larson is maybe the only person that I would sit here and say is like maybe tugging at the bootstraps.
41:48
[SPEAKER_01]: It's about it, it's those two.
41:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm completely biased, and I admit it.
41:53
[SPEAKER_02]: But you take the fastest cars in the world, you take the toughest competition in the world, and you take the most different types of challenges, road, street, long oval, short oval, super speedway.
42:12
[SPEAKER_02]: When you do the eye test, you have to say those are the best drivers in the world, right?
42:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I said I've said it the whole year.
42:18
[SPEAKER_01]: It is.
42:18
[SPEAKER_01]: They're the best drivers in the world.
42:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Probably not.
42:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Probably the most talented ones from Europe are informing you the one, but the ones that are the best are just they give the best cars and it's no fun.
42:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Forming the ones.
42:30
[SPEAKER_02]: I, it's so I hate it.
42:31
[SPEAKER_02]: So bad.
42:32
[SPEAKER_02]: So bad.
42:33
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a fan of this car, but I'm not even going to spend my time talking about how much I love.
42:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever the thirty seconds I have, how much I love and E-car and how much better of a racing's here.
42:45
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to spend it talking about how much I hate Formula One.
42:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Just like a leadist.
42:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Not a common man sport at all.
42:55
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't really.
42:56
[SPEAKER_02]: It's over when they roll the cars off.
42:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
43:00
[SPEAKER_02]: They're horrible at the media.
43:01
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't care about any of that.
43:03
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't care about their fans.
43:06
[SPEAKER_02]: Lamal is very cool.
43:07
[SPEAKER_02]: They've got some really cool tracks.
43:08
[SPEAKER_02]: That's about it.
43:10
[SPEAKER_02]: It's such a waste of time.
43:12
[SPEAKER_01]: It could be great.
43:13
[SPEAKER_02]: It could.
43:14
[SPEAKER_02]: But.
43:15
[SPEAKER_02]: Touch a waste of time.
43:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Screw them too bad.
43:18
[SPEAKER_02]: We get to watch any cardinal care.
43:21
[SPEAKER_02]: What we need to do though, as we exit.
43:24
[SPEAKER_02]: Memorial day weekend, we need to go NASCAR one day, Florida one, one day, Indie Car one day, it's like an all-buy at Indie.
43:33
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