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AJ Hinch Checkmates Houston Astros · Sports Exchange

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Speaker 1: Good eating everybody. Welcome to another edition of the Sports
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Speaker 1: and say, my name is Scott Morgan Rohner saying mad mon,
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Speaker 1: great show. We have lined up today and we're talking
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Speaker 1: about aj Hanch Okay, check makes a houseman, answer man.
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Speaker 1: This guy played some serious chess today. I know Joe
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Speaker 1: Ellis was playing a little bit of poker and you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, but I'll tell you a j Hinch was
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Speaker 1: playing more than poker. He was playing chess and everything
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Speaker 1: like that. Let me introduce a crew real quick, can't.
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Speaker 1: Danley welcome back, Thanks, glad to be here. And jbll
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Speaker 1: Is back, Welcome back, Joe what's going on? And George
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Speaker 1: Icorn second of two, Hey, what's going on? Good to
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Speaker 1: be part of the show. Well, won't take very long
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Speaker 1: to figure out these topics. Okay, we're gonna talk about
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Speaker 1: what the Tigers did today, talk a little justin Verlander
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Speaker 1: as well, talk about Pete Rose and the Raiders were
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Speaker 1: Devonte Adams because he he's looking to be traded. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to get the crew an opportunity to find out
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Speaker 1: exactly where he should go. And then we're going to
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit of Nascar in the Olympics, a
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Speaker 1: little bit, so I have a little bit thread out
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Speaker 1: and everybody has parting shots as well. But that said,
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Speaker 1: let's get to it, and that will go to mister
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Speaker 1: detroitter Teorg drake Horn. The Detroit Tigers shot the Houston
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Speaker 1: Astros with a five to two win Manute may Park
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Speaker 1: to advance to the American League champion I'd like to
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Speaker 1: take Championship Seria the American League Division Series. Andy Bonnie's pinchhit,
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Speaker 1: bases loaded, clearing double off Astros closer Josh had proved
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Speaker 1: to be the difference maker. This is detroit first trip
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Speaker 1: to the Alds since twenty fourteen. They'll face Cleveland Guardians
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Speaker 1: and this ends houston seven year strict of reaching the Alcs.
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Speaker 1: Only the New York Kkenes generally wish it. They would
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Speaker 1: have done it a few times. But the Tigers did it,
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Speaker 1: and aj hint out smarted his little team. You're not
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Speaker 1: going to start off with George some thoughts.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it was quite amazing and the magical Tigers
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Speaker 2: month of well now it's three months August, September, October continues.
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Speaker 2: So they came from behind. They scrap there, their scrappy team,
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Speaker 2: their their team that you like you alluded to plays
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Speaker 2: a chess match with their pitching and just timely hitting
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Speaker 2: from guys nobody's ever heard of. These are youngsters, most
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Speaker 2: of them. Matt Verling is the only one with some
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Speaker 2: playoff experience. But yeah, I did not think they would
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Speaker 2: be able to go there, down there and win the
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Speaker 2: next two, I mean the first two and close out.
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Speaker 3: But they did. So.
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Speaker 2: You just if you're amazed by you look at the
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Speaker 2: l roster of the Tigers and you.
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Speaker 3: Say, why are they here? Well, they're here.
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Speaker 2: They got a good manager, a good coaching staff, and
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Speaker 2: they're playing some great ball right now.
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Speaker 4: Joe, listen. It's utterly impressed of what they've done since
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Speaker 4: August eleventh. You know, they've just played a different type
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Speaker 4: of baseball. And I believe I've said it here. I
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Speaker 4: know I've said it a cubfidential. You know, it reminds
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Speaker 4: me of the mid ninety Yankees, where they built the
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Speaker 4: team around their farm system. They have a good manager,
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Speaker 4: and when you do that and you have a good
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Speaker 4: core young guys, you start winning. You know, the Cubs
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Speaker 4: they were the same situation. They had two winning years
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Speaker 4: in a row. They haven't gotten where they want to be,
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Speaker 4: but the Tigers are, you know, got a little bit
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Speaker 4: further ahead. There were the playoffs they want. They beat
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Speaker 4: the Astros, which is phenomenal. It was a down year
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Speaker 4: for Houston anyway, though. I mean, they had a fight
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Speaker 4: with everything they had just to make the playoffs after
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Speaker 4: a horrible start. They were in the same as they've
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Speaker 4: been previous years. They had a lot of injury issues
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Speaker 4: this year, but that doesn't take anything away from Detroit.
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Speaker 4: They played masterfully. Of the two games they're pitching was phenomenal.
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Speaker 4: School ball is amazing. I'm glad the Yikes don't have
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Speaker 4: to face them, although I don't understand why we don't
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Speaker 4: face them since then a lower seed, why they don't
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Speaker 4: go to New York. I'm glad we don't, although I
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Speaker 4: would have been able to go to the game on
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Speaker 4: Wednesday in Detroit, So I am disappointed at the same time.
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Speaker 1: Okay, what do you think, Candy.
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Speaker 5: Let's face it, in the playoffs you need to be hot,
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Speaker 5: and Detroit's been. Like JB said, Detroit's been hot since
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Speaker 5: August whatever, what August eighth, eleventh. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 5: they started off the year real kind of slow slumpish,
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Speaker 5: you know, not as good, and they turned the heat on.
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Speaker 5: And it's about being hot at the right time, and
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Speaker 5: that's what he's doing right now. They're playing, you know,
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Speaker 5: and they're playing very loose like they're young something. Most
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Speaker 5: of them are young. They you know, they haven't necessarily
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Speaker 5: been there before. They have nothing to lose because most
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Speaker 5: people wrote them off at the trade deadline, much less,
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Speaker 5: you know, being here now where they're at, so everything
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Speaker 5: to gain, nothing to lose.
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Speaker 1: Well to say, how's money, too candy, because I'm going
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Speaker 1: to tell you right now after double Day would be
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Speaker 1: turning over in the grave if you saw the way
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Speaker 1: the Tigers are playing ball with all these opening openers,
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Speaker 1: Because while you can't do it through one hundred and
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Speaker 1: sixty two game season, they certainly found a way with
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Speaker 1: the quality of pitching that they have to at least
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Speaker 1: get through a couple of months and I'm sure they'll
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Speaker 1: figure out the pitching situation later. So kind they're around
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Speaker 1: the house money, they're playing chess and aj Hinch is
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Speaker 1: winning the chess game and he ended up doing it
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Speaker 1: against the Astros. Can you imagine that every Astro fan
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Speaker 1: feels like the aj Hinch just walked out a minute
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Speaker 1: made part and how smarter them beat them? Okay, and
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Speaker 1: guess what the Tigers are going on and the Houston
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Speaker 1: Astros are staying home. That to me has to be
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Speaker 1: agonizing for the city of Houston. It really really does.
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Speaker 1: But it is what it is, all right, Let's stay
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Speaker 1: on the Houston team just a little bit. Justin Verlander,
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Speaker 1: who didn't make the wild card roster, you know, will
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Speaker 1: become a free agent this year. But I guess the
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Speaker 1: question I should ask for you guys is this, Okay,
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Speaker 1: what do you think he'll wind up? George, would you
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Speaker 1: have any idea should he leave the Astros?
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Speaker 2: Well, the only place that he would end up is
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Speaker 2: a team that could win at all. I mean, he
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Speaker 2: probably would want to go to a team that's a contender, obviously,
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Speaker 2: and those teams may or not be the may or
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Speaker 2: may not be the ones that are in the playoffs
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Speaker 2: right now. I don't think the Yankees would take him.
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Speaker 2: They have such a high payroll already, and I don't
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Speaker 2: think that Detroit would would be interested. And the reason
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Speaker 2: I give you on that one is because of the
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Speaker 2: fact that they're on a pretty austere program right now
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Speaker 2: with Scott Harris and the owner, Chris Ilicch.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they're they're they're showing you what they're doing.
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Speaker 3: They're they're they're winning with young kids.
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Speaker 2: Although JV coming back would have a very nostalgic turn
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Speaker 2: and could very well help, I'm not sure they want
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Speaker 2: to spend the money on a pitcher that's in his forties.
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Speaker 2: But that being said, there are teams out there. I mean,
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Speaker 2: look what happened with Baltimore. They got bounced again. You
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Speaker 2: know they're out already in the first round. I mean Houston,
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Speaker 2: I I mean, he likes it there, but I don't
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Speaker 2: know if they're gonna want to bring him back.
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Speaker 3: You know, he should only have a one year deal.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody's gonna be crazy enough to give
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Speaker 2: him two years at his age, But I guess you
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Speaker 2: never know. I hate, I hate to answer around your question,
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Speaker 2: but quite frankly, I don't know who at this point
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Speaker 2: would want him.
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Speaker 1: Let's break down the numbers for Verlander. This year. He
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Speaker 1: was five. He had a five and six record, He
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Speaker 1: had seventy four strikeouts, and he also looking at a nine.
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Speaker 1: He pitched ninety and a third inning five point four
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Speaker 1: eight or run average at seventeen starts. So obviously, if
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Speaker 1: they were going to sign Kent and Maaida, give me
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Speaker 1: a break. You mean to tell me that they wouldn't
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Speaker 1: even bring Justin Verlander back Kent to Mayata people, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this guy didn't even make the roster and they had
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Speaker 1: to bury him in the bullpen just because obviously they
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Speaker 1: spent money on free agency with him and that wasn't why.
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Speaker 1: That's what I think. I think he should go back
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Speaker 1: to Detroit. You don't, Candy, what do you think?
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Speaker 5: Listen, he's forty one years old. He says he's not ready,
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Speaker 5: but let's face it, he actually was is a pending
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Speaker 5: free agent after failing to trigger a conditional twenty twenty
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Speaker 5: five option in his contract by not reaching one hundred
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Speaker 5: and forty innings in twenty two twenty four. He earned
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Speaker 5: eighty six point six million dollars over the past two
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Speaker 5: seasons via a contract he signed with the New York
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Speaker 5: Mets prior to the twenty twenty three campaign. So is
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Speaker 5: he willing to take a pay cut because I don't
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Speaker 5: know anybody that's going to pay him forty three million
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Speaker 5: dollars for a one year when you're forty one years
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Speaker 5: old you all this year? You only pitched how many innings?
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Speaker 5: Most most of the teams that I've seen are going
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Speaker 5: and not all because some don't have the deep payrolls
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Speaker 5: that some of the teams do. Some there's no way
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Speaker 5: they could afford that, No way they could afford it.
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Speaker 1: JB.
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Speaker 4: Listen, I can't see him going anywhere except back to Houston.
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Speaker 4: I can't see how anybody else would want him. You
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Speaker 4: look at the teams that are contenders, how he fits
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Speaker 4: in at the beginning of the year with any of them.
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Speaker 4: I don't see for the money he'd want. You know,
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Speaker 4: I'm not a huge fan of Erland or never happened,
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Speaker 4: but I think if he wants to continue pitching, it'll
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Speaker 4: be at Houston.
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Speaker 1: Fair enough, Okay, all right, one thing, we're going to
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Speaker 1: talk about the passing of Pete Rose, and we're going
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Speaker 1: to turn a real station break with Candy And obviously
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Speaker 1: the big news in baseball is a passing of Pete Rose.
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Speaker 1: I understand that he ended up dying of cardio vascular
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Speaker 1: disease and there was a little diabetes involved. But the
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Speaker 1: big question here is does he belong in the Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame? You know, all start off with you child.
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Speaker 4: Listen. I mean Pete Rose is the old time hit leader, right.
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Speaker 4: You know. The fact that he got banned from the
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Speaker 4: game for gambling has nothing to do with his hits.
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Speaker 4: You know, he he was spouting. We don't have any
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Speaker 4: what year he was suspended, but it's been a long time.
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Speaker 1: I think it was, right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's what twenty five years, thirty five years.
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Speaker 4: I mean, they could have inducted him into the Hall
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Speaker 4: of Fame. He's not going to get on the job
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Speaker 4: in baseball. You can't argue that he has the old
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Speaker 4: time number of hits. You know, he was great for
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Speaker 4: the game, whether you liked him or hated him. You know,
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Speaker 4: the man played hard. He was the epitome of a
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Speaker 4: tough player. And you know, I don't think he was
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Speaker 4: the best hitter in the game. I think longevity is
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Speaker 4: why he has the most hits. But he is the
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Speaker 4: hit leader. You know, nobody has more hits than I've
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Speaker 4: ever and that's the record. I don't think that'll ever
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Speaker 4: be broken. The way these guys hit right now, you know, so,
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Speaker 4: and to have him put in now it's so distasteful.
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Speaker 4: MLB as usual, you know, does things wrong and it's horrible.
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Speaker 4: He won't be able to see himself get in there
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Speaker 4: and enjoy it. And you know, I think it was
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Speaker 4: on the Levatard Show when he was asked, you know,
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Speaker 4: do you what happens if you get into the Hall
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Speaker 4: of Fame posthumously? And he said, I don't care to
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Speaker 4: want it. It doesn't benefit me or you know, anybody
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Speaker 4: to get in. So I'm with him. I mean, this
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Speaker 4: was horrible. He should have got in while he was alive.
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Speaker 4: There's a there's a group of people that should be
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Speaker 4: in there right now. That is it. And you know
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Speaker 4: it comes down to just horrible decisions and horrible marketing,
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Speaker 4: and you know, people thinking that they're better than what
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Speaker 4: they are.
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Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, let's go to the tent room for
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Speaker 1: a term of George Robert Ordell. We're talking Pete Rose dead.
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Speaker 1: We also lost the Kemmy moved Tumble to a brain
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Speaker 1: tumor at age fifty eight, and another they lost, Yeah
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Speaker 1: we did. And rest in peace to Pete Rose and
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Speaker 1: to Kimmy mud Tumble and the wonder about the Keimmy
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Speaker 1: mood Tumble. This guy's a little bit. Not only was
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Speaker 1: he a great player, but a great humanitarian as well.
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Speaker 1: So you know, you talk about what he did in
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Speaker 1: Africa and the playing this kuy new what defense is
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Speaker 1: all about. I can't say anything about today's NBA, but
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Speaker 1: thanks Robert for bringing that up. We really appreciate, all right,
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Speaker 1: George Pete, does he belonged in the Hof?
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, thirty five years. He lived in purgatory
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Speaker 2: thirty five years. And like you said, JB, he does
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Speaker 2: not want it. He said that many times now, Bud Selig.
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Speaker 2: If you go back to the early two thousands, he
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Speaker 2: offered Rose a chance for reinstatement, but Rose refused because
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Speaker 2: there were a lot of conditions tied to it. He
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Speaker 2: had to come clean, no more casino appearances, no more gambling.
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Speaker 2: Of course, had to give a lot of things.
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Speaker 3: Up, and Pete said no. He said no.
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Speaker 2: So he was offered by Sealing an opportunity, you know,
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Speaker 2: to start overt And again that condition may or may
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Speaker 2: not have helped him to get into the Hall of Fame,
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Speaker 2: because the commissioner doesn't control of the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 2: The writers and the brought casters and you know, the
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Speaker 2: committees and all.
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Speaker 3: That do that. But does he belong there?
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Speaker 2: Yes, he does belong there, and now that he has passed,
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Speaker 2: I don't care what he said. I mean, I care,
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Speaker 2: but I don't think it matters if he didn't want
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Speaker 2: to or he said he didn't want to, because I'm
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Speaker 2: sure members of his family and his ardent.
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Speaker 3: Fans would want him in there, and it's up to
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Speaker 3: the committees. I don't think they're going to put him in.
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Speaker 2: But I do support that Scott, I wish, I wish
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Speaker 2: he would be in the hall.
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Speaker 5: Now do you think, Candy, I'm gonna disagree. I don't
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Speaker 5: think he belongs. I think his record belongs, his name,
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Speaker 5: that he did all those hits back in oh He
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Speaker 5: signed an agreement back in the day to be placed
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Speaker 5: on Baseball's ineligible list in nineteen eighty nine after an
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Speaker 5: investigation found him found he gambled on Cincinnati Rudd's games
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Speaker 5: as an manager of the club. The band meant he
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Speaker 5: couldn't go into the Pro Baseball or be associated with it.
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Speaker 5: He knew that he signed that agreement. Right, Yes, he
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Speaker 5: is the all time hits leader that can be in there.
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Speaker 5: But should he I don't. I don't agree with it.
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Speaker 5: I do not agree with that that he is a
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Speaker 5: life he's on the lifetime ban list. There are other
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Speaker 5: people that are on this lifetime ban list that are
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Speaker 5: still not in there as well. If if we say
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Speaker 5: we have rules and then we start breaking them, we
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Speaker 5: break them for everybody. I mean, his record, yes, should
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Speaker 5: be in there as part of the history of the Hall.
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Speaker 5: But should he I don't. I don't believe he should.
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Speaker 5: But that's my personal opinion. I know I differ from
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Speaker 5: a lot of you, but I don't believe he He
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Speaker 5: gambled on the game that he played. And we've seen
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Speaker 5: how many rookies in the NFL that have banned been
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Speaker 5: banned for games for so long because of the same thing.
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Speaker 5: And where do you stop, Like, I'm sorry, I you know,
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Speaker 5: it's a Hall of Fame that you're supposed to look
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Speaker 5: up to those people, And what does it say that
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Speaker 5: we're looking up to somebody that did something that was
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Speaker 5: that he knew was wrong at the time he did it.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think what all of you are missing out
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Speaker 1: on is that Okay, number one, Okay, Pete Rose would
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Speaker 1: sign autographs on induction weekend to try to make money
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Speaker 1: on those autographs. Jeez, Pete, you could go out there
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Speaker 1: and make money any other time in Cooper, but not
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Speaker 1: that you think you're showing any remorse for what you
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Speaker 1: had done. And he's and he had a book signing
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Speaker 1: based on what he had done, admitting that he went
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Speaker 1: out there to profit off of this particular book based
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Speaker 1: on what he had done. So for fifteen years you
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Speaker 1: kept lying to us, right, and all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: you admitted that you've made this mistake, if for no
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Speaker 1: other reason. I don't know about you, guys, but I
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Speaker 1: penalize lying big time over anything. Yes, we know about
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Speaker 1: the forty two hundred, the obviously the hit record forty
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Speaker 1: two fifty six, another record that will never be broken,
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Speaker 1: Cal Rippins irons Man's Drink either and I can think
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Speaker 1: of a lot of them, but that one and Joe
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Speaker 1: Demagio's fifty six Gamer. And you know we also know
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Speaker 1: that Rose Plate probably I think the most amount of
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Speaker 1: games ever. Pete. You know, the reality is you had
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Speaker 1: opportunities in front of these commissioners to show some sort
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Speaker 1: of remorse, but obviously common sense didn't take over. And
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Speaker 1: you everybody knows that that notice is on every clubhouse,
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Speaker 1: but he decided to do it anyways, and gamble Man
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Speaker 1: going out there and bending on his own team. I
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Speaker 1: think I was you can't do that, so you know
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Speaker 1: what I get it. I think if I remember right
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Speaker 1: in Cooperstown, they acknowledge records, they just don't have a
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Speaker 1: plaque up there for them. So it's not like you're
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Speaker 1: leaving out important information. You're not giving the guy an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to have a plaque there, which means everybody. And
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Speaker 1: when you think out how many people get inducted into
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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, there aren't that many. If you
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Speaker 1: get a seventy four point eight percent vote, Okay, guess
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Speaker 1: what you're waiting another year. They don't round up in
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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. They just don't do it. So Joe,
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Speaker 1: you're right, from a numeric standpoint, he belongs there. But
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Speaker 1: Bart Giamonti, Dandam and two other commissioners had a chance
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Speaker 1: to do it, and he didn't. Never showed remorse. That's
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Speaker 1: the biggest issue I have with the whole thing. So well, anyways,
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Speaker 1: let's go out there and give Candy station break.
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Speaker 5: five four three oh four four nine one. If I
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Speaker 5: talk too fast, you didn't catch any of it. It's
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Speaker 5: been scrolling on the bottom, or just hit the rewind
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Speaker 5: and listen again.
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Speaker 1: Back to you, Scott, she talked too fast. She learned
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Speaker 1: it from me. Please don't learn everything from me. I mean,
20:43
Speaker 1: I know I'm king of the road when I have
20:44
Speaker 1: a lead foot. And you know, I got to give
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Speaker 1: Candy credits. She'll never drive as fast as I do
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Speaker 1: on the interstate. But I've been known, you know, once
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Speaker 1: she sees slow drivers down here, I've taught her you
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Speaker 1: really have to make sure that you keep up with traffic.
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Speaker 1: And even if I have to take the NASCAR approach,
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Speaker 1: And by the way, I will have a NASCAR topic
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Speaker 1: count here tonight. By the way, you know, she's learned
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Speaker 1: a lot from me. But there you go. You have
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Speaker 1: it at the bottom. And Joe Ellis obviously is a
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Speaker 1: big part of what we're doing with Sideline Sports as well.
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Speaker 1: Worked on a lot of projects in the past with them.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be I need to work on a few
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Speaker 1: more as well. All right, So now let's change the
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Speaker 1: sport anyways over to the National Football League. Las Vegas
21:26
Speaker 1: Raiders wide receiver Davonte Adams wants to be traded, so
21:31
Speaker 1: best landing spots, mister Ellis.
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Speaker 4: So, I mean, obviously the best landing spot would be
21:37
Speaker 4: Kansas City, but that will never happen. The Chiefs and
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Speaker 4: the Raiders, I can't foresee them making a trade being
21:43
Speaker 4: in the same division and hating each other. That leaves
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Speaker 4: two other spots in my mind, the Jets or New Orleans.
21:50
Speaker 4: Back to his old buddies, Derek Carr Aaron Rodgers. I
21:54
Speaker 4: don't see how he helps the Jets. The Jets have
21:56
Speaker 4: more than enough talent on the offense. They don't have
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Speaker 4: that star receiver. They have good receivers, but they don't
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Speaker 4: have a star receiver. I think he'd fit in really
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Speaker 4: good there and that would elevate their offense. But I
22:12
Speaker 4: don't know how long it's going to take this to
22:13
Speaker 4: be done. I can see this drag it out a
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Speaker 4: few weeks because of the salary cap and teams try
22:19
Speaker 4: to save money, and I try to pay them. All
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Speaker 4: this extra money going for them right away, well.
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Speaker 1: Part of them might do, depending on what the Raiders'
22:25
Speaker 1: compensation as well. Do you want to give up a
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Speaker 1: second round pick for this guy if somebody's willing to
22:31
Speaker 1: pull me up a second round or it gets done
22:33
Speaker 1: a little quicker and then the established player too, So
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Speaker 1: it'll definitely be interesting, all right, Georgia, do you.
22:38
Speaker 2: Think, well, I know one team's not coming to the
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Speaker 2: Detroit Lions because they obviously feel very confident with their
22:47
Speaker 2: roster right now on their receiving cor Yeah, I mean
22:53
Speaker 2: you say the Jets JB Okay, Yeah, well look what
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Speaker 2: happened they lost to Denver, right yep, So.
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Speaker 3: I still think he may end up in the Jets uniform.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's going to depend upon you know, teams
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Speaker 2: that they have enough money, teams that have enough value
23:13
Speaker 2: okay to offer the Raiders. I mean it's a tough situation.
23:18
Speaker 2: I don't I'm not a big fan of guys holding out.
23:21
Speaker 2: I never was before the Detroit Lions used to have
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Speaker 2: guys holding out all the time under a different regime.
23:28
Speaker 2: But you know, Adams he's got to play. I mean,
23:30
Speaker 2: he is a very gifted athlete, good receivers, solid credentials.
23:34
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you this situation with the Las Vegas Raiders.
23:38
Speaker 2: They continue to have problems, you know, even finishing five hundred,
23:44
Speaker 2: let alone trying to make a playoffs. But there are
23:48
Speaker 2: several teams that could use him.
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Speaker 3: I just don't know who's.
23:52
Speaker 2: Gonna have the money in order to afford him and
23:55
Speaker 2: want to give up. You mentioned draft choices, Well, draft
23:59
Speaker 2: choices can be always given up. You just don't want
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Speaker 2: to give up high, high draft choices, as we learned
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Speaker 2: what the Rams and the Lions and that incredible.
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Speaker 3: Trade that time. But I'll tell you what, Like I said,
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Speaker 3: I'm a fan. I mean, he's talented guy. He needs
24:13
Speaker 3: to be playing.
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Speaker 2: He needs to be suiting up and playing, and you know,
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Speaker 2: get off this, you know, get off the schneide and
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Speaker 2: start getting into the action here in twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Do you think Candy.
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Speaker 5: Well, George, I will tell you that he is. He
24:28
Speaker 5: does have a hamstring injury, so that will hamper a
24:32
Speaker 5: lot of teams going after him. He basically teams need
24:37
Speaker 5: thirteen and a half million dollars salary cap room. Kansas
24:41
Speaker 5: City does not have it. They only have around ten million,
24:44
Speaker 5: so they can't the Jets. The Jets have right now
24:49
Speaker 5: sixteen point eight million to spare. However, things would become
24:54
Speaker 5: more complex if Edge Rusher has seen Reddick reports to
24:57
Speaker 5: the team all that haven't been the updates with him.
25:01
Speaker 5: He would be reuniting with Aaron Rodgers, who he spent
25:04
Speaker 5: I think it was eight or nine years with on
25:08
Speaker 5: Green Bay. They were forced to reckon with. You know,
25:13
Speaker 5: he could go to the Steelers, now that would be
25:16
Speaker 5: kind of interesting Cowboys, I don't think. So there was
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Speaker 5: talk possibly Washington.
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Speaker 1: Now.
25:26
Speaker 5: I know you guys all wouldn't like this and don't
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Speaker 5: want me to bring this up, but there is a
25:29
Speaker 5: chance he could come to Green Bay. Christian Watson has
25:32
Speaker 5: been injury prone. It'd be really nice to have a
25:35
Speaker 5: veteran receiver. And the Packers actually have fourteen point two
25:42
Speaker 5: million in cap space, so they'd have enough space for him.
25:46
Speaker 5: Now do they want to bring on someone that also
25:49
Speaker 5: has a hamstring injury. I do not know, but those
25:53
Speaker 5: are some different options that I think would be interesting.
25:56
Speaker 5: I'd bring as a Packer fan. He was, he was good,
26:00
Speaker 5: so I could see him in Jordan Love, you know,
26:05
Speaker 5: picking apart some defenses out there, so.
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Speaker 1: Well, he may he may have doubted Jordan Love before,
26:12
Speaker 1: but now he sees that Jordan Love become a pretty
26:13
Speaker 1: good quarterback. So I don't think it's as far as
26:16
Speaker 1: fetch as you think that it is. Aaron Rodgers readion
26:19
Speaker 1: with the Jens would be all right, But I'm more
26:20
Speaker 1: along the lines of show on this one. I think
26:22
Speaker 1: New Orleans is a better spot for Derek Carr. He
26:26
Speaker 1: bear in mind, went to Vegas because a car. He
26:28
Speaker 1: really did, so, now, obviously to have him go back
26:31
Speaker 1: to New Orleans with car, to me would make the
26:33
Speaker 1: most sense. So if I were going to place anybody
26:36
Speaker 1: in a particular order, I would actually say New Orleans first,
26:41
Speaker 1: find a way to make it work with the Jets,
26:43
Speaker 1: and I would tend to go with Green Bay as
26:45
Speaker 1: the third option. I'm not so sure about the realistic
26:49
Speaker 1: possibility with the other one, but that would be my
26:51
Speaker 1: order as well. So nevertheless, the party is over for
26:57
Speaker 1: Devonte Adams in last Vegas. All right, So we're gonna
27:02
Speaker 1: shave gears a little bit and they're pun intended. You
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Speaker 1: better believe there is. NAT's kind of announces that there's
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Speaker 1: gonna be a race in Mexico City in twenty twenty five,
27:11
Speaker 1: and it will be the first points race outside of
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Speaker 1: the USA in sixty seven years, and it will be
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Speaker 1: at the Auto Drone on June fourteenth, fifteenth weekend. So
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Speaker 1: Candy start off with this one. What do you think
27:23
Speaker 1: about NASCAR going to Mexico City.
27:25
Speaker 5: I think they're following all the suits of all the
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Speaker 5: major sports that are trying to grow their brand internationally
27:31
Speaker 5: and like not just having things here in the US.
27:34
Speaker 5: So that's why they're, you know, gonna expand out there.
27:39
Speaker 5: Good for them, you know, everybody's doing it. They're trying
27:45
Speaker 5: to get international fan bases, they're trying to drum up
27:50
Speaker 5: more revenues, you know, different place to market their brand.
27:58
Speaker 5: And IMSA does you know Lamon? So they're out there,
28:03
Speaker 5: why not NASCAR going more international?
28:06
Speaker 1: Don't give me starting on? Lamon says, you know, darn well,
28:08
Speaker 1: that's on my bucket list next year. I've done the
28:11
Speaker 1: roll Age twenty four, I've done stee Ring twelve, and
28:14
Speaker 1: I'm aching to get to Lamont. But yeah, it'll be
28:16
Speaker 1: interesting to go to Mexico City. Obviously it's proven grow
28:19
Speaker 1: with the NFL. I think as Baseball played a game
28:23
Speaker 1: down in Major League Baseball played a game in Mexico City,
28:26
Speaker 1: So yeah, why not NASCAR? And I don't know much
28:28
Speaker 1: about the Autodrome, but evidently they must feel it's worthwhile.
28:32
Speaker 2: So what do you think, George, Well, yeah, I agree
28:37
Speaker 2: for all the same reasons that Candy mentioned. I mean,
28:39
Speaker 2: the product is the important thing here, and the audience
28:45
Speaker 2: is so crucial, especially in motorsports, and NASCAR has always
28:50
Speaker 2: been the king of the road, and they have packed
28:54
Speaker 2: places in Kansas and Bristol and Daytona Beach in Las
28:58
Speaker 2: Vegas or wherever they've gone on Miami, you know, and
29:02
Speaker 2: these other tracks that are historic. But you know, Darlington
29:05
Speaker 2: and Richmond and Indianapolis, so I mean, you know, but
29:10
Speaker 2: those days are.
29:11
Speaker 3: Not here any longer.
29:14
Speaker 2: You can look at a lot of the races and
29:16
Speaker 2: you'll see empty seats for NASCAR, and that never used
29:20
Speaker 2: to be the case. And I know, Scott, you've been
29:22
Speaker 2: covering motorsports a long long time like I have. And
29:25
Speaker 2: I mean they even went so far in Michigan at
29:28
Speaker 2: the Speedway to take grand stands away so it wouldn't
29:32
Speaker 2: look so obvious. So this is a great opportunity for
29:37
Speaker 2: NASCAR and again to showcase their product, to expand a
29:41
Speaker 2: little bit. Mexico City is one of the cities, as
29:44
Speaker 2: you talked about earlier, that's been open to sports, you know,
29:49
Speaker 2: baseball and football, especially coming there the NHL hockey.
29:53
Speaker 3: You know, they go to the other venues.
29:55
Speaker 2: But I do think that NASCAR is trying to make
29:59
Speaker 2: an inroad there. I don't blame them at all. Plus,
30:01
Speaker 2: you know, you know, maybe they're trying to draw more
30:04
Speaker 2: Hispanic fans too as well, you know South American fans,
30:09
Speaker 2: which I know they have a lot of, but they
30:11
Speaker 2: want to do more of that. So yeah, I think
30:13
Speaker 2: it's a It is a money grab, but it's a
30:15
Speaker 2: sense of exploring new options and new experiences for those fans.
30:20
Speaker 3: Especially that we travel to Mexico City for the race.
30:23
Speaker 1: What do you think? What do you think gel NASCAR
30:25
Speaker 1: is going on in Mexico.
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Speaker 4: So, Mexico City is the sixth larger metropolitan area in
30:31
Speaker 4: the world. It has more people than New York City.
30:36
Speaker 4: If you have an event there and you know it's
30:39
Speaker 4: a sports league, why would it you If you can
30:42
Speaker 4: draw interest in a bigger city population the New York City,
30:46
Speaker 4: it's a no brainer. Do it at a second, and
30:49
Speaker 4: if you can expand your market, So it's all about
30:52
Speaker 4: making money and bringing in new fans, so that's a
30:56
Speaker 4: no brainer. I don't blame them. I would do it
30:58
Speaker 4: in a second. I mean, I just hope, unlike the NFL,
31:01
Speaker 4: which has a tendency to go play games at different
31:04
Speaker 4: stadiums and the field is never right and it becomes
31:07
Speaker 4: dangerous for the players. I hope that the track there
31:11
Speaker 4: is good and it's safe for the drivers. I hope
31:14
Speaker 4: they don'll follow the NFL lead with that.
31:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know where you're going with this one. That
31:18
Speaker 1: field in Brazil was outright diss that horrible.
31:22
Speaker 4: It really was.
31:23
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm all for it as well. But the
31:25
Speaker 1: thing I like, well, what NASCAR is doing, and not
31:26
Speaker 1: only are they going to Mexico City with the side
31:29
Speaker 1: of the city, but also think about the fact that
31:31
Speaker 1: NASCAR is willing to put a race in the La
31:33
Speaker 1: Coli Seeum, and I think that's a great event in itself.
31:37
Speaker 1: That'd be a bucket list too. I'm going to get
31:39
Speaker 1: to the La Coleenseum one way or the other, whether
31:41
Speaker 1: it's a Wolverines or whether it's a NASCAR event, although
31:45
Speaker 1: I still have other things they need to do before
31:46
Speaker 1: we get out there. But nevertheless, Mexico City, what do
31:51
Speaker 1: you have to lose? The fact, what do you have
31:52
Speaker 1: to gain? A lot of this called money? Okay, yeah, yeah,
31:56
Speaker 1: So now we're going to flip over from NASCAR. We're
31:58
Speaker 1: going to talk about the Winter Olympics, So we're going
32:00
Speaker 1: to go a little ways out for this one. Salt
32:02
Speaker 1: Lake City was awarded the twenty thirty four Winter Olympics.
32:05
Speaker 1: It hosted the event in two thousand and two. Joe,
32:08
Speaker 1: we'll go back to you. Great to return back to
32:10
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City.
32:13
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, it's one of those things as
32:16
Speaker 4: long as they have the facilities for it. You know,
32:19
Speaker 4: from what I've read and learned, having the Olympic Games
32:23
Speaker 4: is a trade on a city and area financially, so
32:28
Speaker 4: a lot of it depends on what resources they have
32:30
Speaker 4: there from the last time they had the games, so
32:33
Speaker 4: that they're not putting a lot of money that they
32:35
Speaker 4: don't have into it, because generally it is a losing proposition,
32:41
Speaker 4: which is why a lot of these countries don't bid
32:43
Speaker 4: for the Olympics anymore like they used to. It used
32:46
Speaker 4: to be a huge moneymaker. That's sort of changed. I
32:49
Speaker 4: don't know where the change happened in history, but it's
32:53
Speaker 4: completely different than what it used to be. So but
32:56
Speaker 4: I think Salt Lake City just had it recently in
32:59
Speaker 4: the early two thousand, so a lot of the facilities
33:01
Speaker 4: may just need minor upgrading. So it should be a
33:04
Speaker 4: slab dug for them.
33:06
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you a question, Joe. Yeah, you
33:08
Speaker 1: know one of the few cities that actually they actually
33:12
Speaker 1: made money off the summer Olympics. How about Los Angeles
33:18
Speaker 1: when Peter you Broth was running again. He subsequently became
33:21
Speaker 1: commissioner of Major League Pafall. Peter you Brought actually made
33:25
Speaker 1: money off the LA Olympics. Of course, like you said,
33:27
Speaker 1: a lot of the facilities are in place. And I
33:30
Speaker 1: was actually there for the nineteen eighty four Olympics and
33:32
Speaker 1: stay with my late cousin Terry, and we bought tickets
33:34
Speaker 1: a couple events and then he showed me around the area.
33:37
Speaker 1: So Peter you Brought is one of the few people
33:39
Speaker 1: that actually made money. Otherwise, You're right, Unless you have facilities,
33:42
Speaker 1: you got to start building them. Nobody's making money out
33:44
Speaker 1: of Just want to throw Peter you Brought out there?
33:47
Speaker 1: All right, George, what do you think?
33:49
Speaker 4: Well?
33:50
Speaker 2: I had the privilege of going to the Olympics in
33:52
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty in Lake class Ed with my wife, and
33:55
Speaker 2: that was a truly remarkable experience, as we know, the
33:58
Speaker 2: miracle on ice Olympics, and that's the type of scene
34:03
Speaker 2: I like. I like it there because it's a smaller city,
34:07
Speaker 2: smaller venue. But it's never going to happen again because
34:10
Speaker 2: the Olympic Olympics have gotten too big, two overstaffed, two overpopulated,
34:16
Speaker 2: larger delegations, which is not a bad thing from many
34:20
Speaker 2: countries around the world.
34:22
Speaker 3: But Lake Plaston did a terrific job.
34:25
Speaker 2: And then in nineteen eighty three I took a preview
34:27
Speaker 2: trip with ABC Sports to visit Sarajevo and they also
34:32
Speaker 2: did a.
34:32
Speaker 3: Really nice job.
34:33
Speaker 2: But we know what happened after that with the war,
34:36
Speaker 2: a terrible war in Yugoslavia. So getting back to Utah, Yeah,
34:42
Speaker 2: Mitt Romney the former Republican presidential candidate. But Mitt Romney,
34:48
Speaker 2: he wasn't one at the time, but he was the
34:50
Speaker 2: like you mentioned Peter, you broke did a great job
34:52
Speaker 2: in Atlanta, in La Mitt did a great job in
34:55
Speaker 2: Salt Lake City. Those were very successful games. And I
34:58
Speaker 2: think what you're going to see here now is they're
35:00
Speaker 2: going to go back to these cities that had it before.
35:04
Speaker 2: Because you cited all the costs involved, the money involved,
35:07
Speaker 2: and you mentioned Joe about the infrastructure. Salt Lake City
35:11
Speaker 2: has a lot of that still.
35:13
Speaker 3: There, which is great. They might have to build a
35:15
Speaker 3: few things, but we don't know yet.
35:17
Speaker 2: But I'm glad it's back in the US, and of
35:20
Speaker 2: course it's back in Los Angeles. The next Summer Games
35:22
Speaker 2: are going to be in LA so the USA has
35:25
Speaker 2: got two of them coming up. But yeah, they're very expensive,
35:29
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, everything from security to you know, the
35:32
Speaker 2: police protection and all the things that have to go
35:35
Speaker 2: with barbed boyer and it's terrible, I mean, but it's
35:38
Speaker 2: needed because of the threats and terrorism stuff, so a
35:41
Speaker 2: lot of extra money has spent more than it ever
35:44
Speaker 2: was before. It is a costly venture, but my heart says, yes,
35:49
Speaker 2: I'm happy for the US getting the Winter Games again.
35:53
Speaker 1: So let me ask everybody out there, and Candy, you
35:55
Speaker 1: know you can't research this one because you're smart enough
35:57
Speaker 1: to probably do it. What to don't put nothing past her.
36:01
Speaker 1: She's really doing good when it comes to research. I've
36:03
Speaker 1: never seen anybody's research is so well on the fly.
36:07
Speaker 1: What to US city? What two US cities actually hosted
36:12
Speaker 1: the Olympic Games where the US wanted gold medal in hockey?
36:18
Speaker 1: Anybody wanted to take a guess?
36:19
Speaker 4: I know the answer.
36:21
Speaker 3: What about you saw Valley?
36:24
Speaker 4: What is Lake Classic?
36:27
Speaker 1: Yeah? Ye, Squall Valley in Lake Plastic.
36:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know the first one. That must have
36:31
Speaker 4: been way back.
36:32
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's okay, Joe, I give you credit. I mean,
36:35
Speaker 1: you know you were. I mean, George is the oldest
36:38
Speaker 1: one on the panel. I'm the second oldest, and you know,
36:40
Speaker 1: I'm not going to designate agents for the remainders. But
36:44
Speaker 1: I remember when I was in Lake Tahoe though many
36:46
Speaker 1: years ago, and I've been there a couple of times.
36:48
Speaker 1: He never been to Lake Tahoe. It's a great place
36:50
Speaker 1: to go, awesome out there, scenerial, but yeah, I don't
36:54
Speaker 1: think that a lot of the Squall Valley facilities back
36:57
Speaker 1: then when they had it or there, But just going
36:59
Speaker 1: to that part of the country around Lake Tahoe and
37:02
Speaker 1: going to Squad Valleys on label, yeah, I get Squad
37:04
Speaker 1: Valley and then you had and then you obviously had
37:07
Speaker 1: a big placid. Of course, George was doing reports when
37:09
Speaker 1: I was doing when I was working at WXYZ And yeah, So, Katie,
37:14
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts about Salt Lake.
37:17
Speaker 5: So Salt Lake City, Utah, will host the twenty thirty
37:21
Speaker 5: four Winter Olympics, which will take place from February tenth
37:24
Speaker 5: through the twenty sixth. The Para Olympic Winter Games will
37:28
Speaker 5: follow in the same venues from March tenth to the nineteenth.
37:32
Speaker 5: Salt Lake City will be the fifth city to host
37:36
Speaker 5: multiple Winter Olympics and the first singular city host since
37:41
Speaker 5: twenty twenty two. It is the fifth Winter Olympics held
37:48
Speaker 5: in the United States, which I thought was very interesting
37:52
Speaker 5: that it's only been that many in the in the US.
37:57
Speaker 5: Good for them, I mean I have a feeling there
38:00
Speaker 5: a museum there and stuff like that that they're saying,
38:04
Speaker 5: there's a countdown clock already going. They're gonna have you know,
38:11
Speaker 5: some of your basic your alpine skiing, your figure skating.
38:16
Speaker 5: What else did they say they were going to host
38:19
Speaker 5: their and snowboarding? Uh, they were selected back in July
38:26
Speaker 5: as the host city. Ah, good for them. I think
38:30
Speaker 5: it's always exciting when it's here in the US. But
38:36
Speaker 5: good for them. Good for them, I mean I think
38:39
Speaker 5: that they won't have as much cost because I think
38:41
Speaker 5: they will use some of the same old venues even
38:44
Speaker 5: though they, you know, are how old.
38:47
Speaker 3: I think.
38:50
Speaker 5: I just think it's it's cool because it's not it's
38:56
Speaker 5: not a place that has a lot of other sports
38:59
Speaker 5: so to have to come there and to have to
39:03
Speaker 5: have the Olympics as cool, Well.
39:06
Speaker 1: Let me tell you. I've been to Salt Lake City before.
39:08
Speaker 1: I ended up seeing the Utah Jazz. I think played
39:11
Speaker 1: like one or two games over there at the old
39:14
Speaker 1: Salt Palace. I think it was torn down and they
39:16
Speaker 1: built another place out there. I think it was in
39:18
Speaker 1: Delta Center. I don't know what they're calling it now. Nevertheless,
39:21
Speaker 1: I sold games there. I even saw hockey game there.
39:24
Speaker 1: It's like a tripa a type of AHL game over there.
39:27
Speaker 1: And it was actually on a segment when I was
39:29
Speaker 1: taking this long drive around the country to knock off
39:32
Speaker 1: the remaining states I had so I can hit the
39:34
Speaker 1: forty eight and then I would target Alaska and Hawaii
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Speaker 1: later on. So Salt Lake City to me is ideal.
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Speaker 1: But let's not forget Okay, here in the National Hockey League,
39:45
Speaker 1: the Utah Hockey Club will be making its debut. So
39:49
Speaker 1: now you're going to have the National Hockey League out
39:52
Speaker 1: in Salt Lake City, and you have the Utah Jazz
39:56
Speaker 1: and they've got I believe they have an MLS team,
39:58
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, and they're lobbying for Major League Baseball.
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Speaker 1: So like Vegas, Salt Lake is slowly becoming an area
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Speaker 1: where they may attract a lot more Major League sports
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Speaker 1: than they have. And let's not forget about the University
40:11
Speaker 1: of Utah. You two have obviously been great for many
40:14
Speaker 1: many years as well. Don't sell the youth short. So
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Speaker 1: it'll be pretty good. I think they'll they'll be well
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Speaker 1: equipped to handle it. And again, if you've never been
40:23
Speaker 1: to Lake Tahokota Squad Valley, it's a beautiful place in
40:27
Speaker 1: Utah as well. So all right, well it's time for
40:29
Speaker 1: party shots. So you know, Joe, go ahead and lead off.
40:33
Speaker 4: So Major League Baseball, as usual, makes millions of mistakes.
40:38
Speaker 4: They don't know how to run a league. Last week,
40:43
Speaker 4: there was a hurricane in the Southeast. The Mets contacted
40:48
Speaker 4: the Commissioner's office on Sunday to try and get the
40:51
Speaker 4: games moved to Monday and Tuesday, to have a doubleheader
40:55
Speaker 4: or one of the days and play on Monday, so
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Speaker 4: that this way they get all their games down in Atlanta.
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Speaker 4: Major League Baseball contacted the Braves and they kind of
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Speaker 4: sat on. It never happened, and sure enough, the Mets
41:07
Speaker 4: played a game on Tuesday night at Atlanta. Wednesday, was
41:11
Speaker 4: postponed around four pm Central time. Mets had to get
41:15
Speaker 4: to Milwaukee get out of the hurricane so that they
41:18
Speaker 4: could fly. Got to Milwaukee Elite Thursday, played our Friday,
41:24
Speaker 4: played over the weekend, went back to Atlanta for a
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Speaker 4: double header on Monday. Game one was a phenomenal game,
41:31
Speaker 4: went back and forth. The Mets won on our Francisco
41:34
Speaker 4: Lindor home run of the ninth inning, and they got
41:37
Speaker 4: into the postseason and the Braves followed up at one game two,
41:41
Speaker 4: and the Diamondbacks got shut out of the playoffs because
41:45
Speaker 4: nine times out of ten, I would say seventy percent
41:47
Speaker 4: of double headers are split. And all the teams had
41:51
Speaker 4: to do was win one game and they were in
41:52
Speaker 4: and the Diamondbacks were out. Now the Braves had to
41:56
Speaker 4: fly all the way out west to San Diego, and
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Speaker 4: as you can see from last night and tonight, they
42:02
Speaker 4: just don't have any life in them. They're getting their
42:05
Speaker 4: blank kicked a little bit different from the Mets. They're
42:09
Speaker 4: playing up, but I don't know, I'm shocked that they're
42:12
Speaker 4: they're doing as well with the Brewers. But the Mets
42:15
Speaker 4: are just a hot team right now. And it's a
42:17
Speaker 4: close game of Brewers could still take this one, but
42:20
Speaker 4: the Mets are released given them a little bit of
42:22
Speaker 4: a fight and have a chance to close out the
42:24
Speaker 4: Brewers if they close out the game. But MLB Baseball,
42:27
Speaker 4: you affected three teams with this horrible decision. You've got
42:30
Speaker 4: to step in. You know, it was a hurricane. You
42:33
Speaker 4: know people's lives are at risk. Yeah, you just messed up.
42:38
Speaker 4: You know, the Braves rotation, the Mets rotation. Yet the
42:41
Speaker 4: Diamondbacks got kept out of the playoffs because of it. It
42:44
Speaker 4: was just a horrible situation and it was like there
42:47
Speaker 4: was no foresight to it. When you know, all you
42:49
Speaker 4: have to do is turn on the weather channel. I'm
42:51
Speaker 4: sure it was there.
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Speaker 1: Well, sounds pretty good, Joe, all right, Georgia party shot.
42:58
Speaker 2: Well, my partying shot.
43:00
Speaker 3: It's going to be the Detroit Lions.
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Speaker 2: They had a bounce back win last Monday, as you
43:04
Speaker 2: guys know, and Monday night.
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Speaker 3: Football and you know all the hoopla that goes along
43:10
Speaker 3: with that.
43:10
Speaker 2: But more important to that was a welcome home and
43:14
Speaker 2: back in good good standing with Detroit and it was overdue.
43:19
Speaker 3: Was Calvin Johnson.
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Speaker 2: As we know, he's in the Football Hall of Fame
43:23
Speaker 2: in Canton, Ohio and the Lions have been trying working
43:28
Speaker 2: with him over the last year or two years, maybe
43:31
Speaker 2: trying to bring him back into the fold. As you know,
43:34
Speaker 2: it was a very messy scene where they wanted money
43:37
Speaker 2: back from him from his contract that he signed, and
43:42
Speaker 2: you know, it just got into a really bad situation.
43:45
Speaker 2: But Monday vindication happened. It wasn't a long ceremony, but
43:50
Speaker 2: it was a very nice one. There was alumni night
43:53
Speaker 2: for Detroit Lions, so they brought back Eric Kipple and
43:57
Speaker 2: all kinds of great players of course, you know Stephen
44:00
Speaker 2: Toegan and Momas Brown and you know Billy.
44:04
Speaker 3: I don't know if Billy was there, but Sanders was there.
44:07
Speaker 2: It was a great ceremony and uh a short and sweet,
44:11
Speaker 2: but they welcome to him into the o Lion's family
44:14
Speaker 2: again and honored him by heading into the Pride of
44:18
Speaker 2: the Lions.
44:19
Speaker 3: So it was a good thing. It was.
44:21
Speaker 2: The crowd was into it. It was very nice ceremony
44:24
Speaker 2: and welcome home Calvin Johnson. That's my parting shot.
44:28
Speaker 1: I will turn over to Candy, but before we do, though,
44:34
Speaker 1: I don't want to forget this. Robert Ordell thinks that
44:37
Speaker 1: maybe the bear should get a wide receiver at Devonte
44:40
Speaker 1: Annam's for Caleb who knows? Maybe, all right, go ahead,
44:43
Speaker 1: I'm got to get that.
44:44
Speaker 5: In my parting shot is in the realm of college football.
44:50
Speaker 5: The n C two A has made a boatload of money,
44:56
Speaker 5: and yet we still have refs making bad calls. We
45:00
Speaker 5: still can't get calls right, or we don't have cameras
45:05
Speaker 5: at the right angles to get all of the right
45:10
Speaker 5: right angles to see everything. So let's face it, if
45:15
Speaker 5: anybody caught the end of the Miami Virginia Tech game,
45:20
Speaker 5: was it a touchdown or wasn't it a touchdown? Was
45:22
Speaker 5: it a catcher or not a catch? In the Minnesota
45:26
Speaker 5: and Michigan game, were they off sides or were they
45:30
Speaker 5: not off sides? They have now appealed, not appealed, but
45:33
Speaker 5: they have now gone the Big Ten has gone to
45:36
Speaker 5: the n C two A to change where the refs
45:39
Speaker 5: are gonna stand. Come on, we've been playing football for
45:42
Speaker 5: how many years? Why is it taking now them to
45:45
Speaker 5: change some of these rules. Why can't they have cameras,
45:49
Speaker 5: more cameras. Let's face it, some of these cameras these
45:52
Speaker 5: days can catch so many different angles that why is
45:55
Speaker 5: it coming down to this now, come on n C
45:58
Speaker 5: two A, get it together, get better.
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Speaker 1: Graphically. I think we're searching for a miracle there.
46:06
Speaker 4: Anyways, quick question before we go on this weekend in
46:10
Speaker 4: the NFL kind of similar to Candy's point, I've never
46:14
Speaker 4: heard this before. Maybe I just missed it in all
46:16
Speaker 4: the NFL games I've watched. I multiple times I heard, uh,
46:21
Speaker 4: you know, the call was changed because of replay assist.
46:25
Speaker 4: Has anyone ever heard that before about replay assist story
46:28
Speaker 4: a game? Because multiple occasions I heard that over this weekend.
46:35
Speaker 3: I've never heard those words used.
46:37
Speaker 4: Like okay, because it happened multiple times and I it
46:42
Speaker 4: wasn't a challenge or anything. It was what was the
46:45
Speaker 4: spot of the ball? I forgot what the other one was.
46:49
Speaker 4: It may have been a turnover that was overturned or something,
46:52
Speaker 4: and it was, you know, they said, you know, because
46:56
Speaker 4: of replay assists, and I've never heard that. I'm like,
46:59
Speaker 4: since when did that going to affect it? Where were
47:01
Speaker 4: they going to tell us?
47:03
Speaker 5: It says NFL replay officials assist on field officials with
47:08
Speaker 5: game administration, including rules and penalty application, and helping with
47:12
Speaker 5: the clock. An NFL replay operator ironically gets earns a
47:17
Speaker 5: salary of fifty almost fifty eight thousand dollars a year.
47:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, every every every game, as you guys know, has
47:25
Speaker 2: the replay official aside and he sits in the pass box.
47:30
Speaker 4: Yeah. It was just very interesting because I've never heard
47:34
Speaker 4: like on a spot or anything like that where you know,
47:37
Speaker 4: they made it specifically where they said, oh, the replay
47:40
Speaker 4: assist official made the call Like that was just weird,
47:45
Speaker 4: you know, because it's usually the guy on the field
47:48
Speaker 4: that does it, or less the coach challenges it, and
47:51
Speaker 4: you know that's up.
47:51
Speaker 1: To the coach. I've never heard of it, so well,
47:56
Speaker 1: I'm hearing it from you folks. First, I don't know,
47:59
Speaker 1: haven't know. I'm gonna go to a party shot somewhat
48:02
Speaker 1: related to candy, at least with the Michigan anyhow, the
48:05
Speaker 1: Michigan Wolverines hold about the Minnesota gold Golfers. I score
48:10
Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty four on Saturday improve their record
48:12
Speaker 1: of four and one. We're still undefeated in the Big Ten.
48:15
Speaker 1: But I'm looking forward to seeing what they're gonna do
48:18
Speaker 1: in its first road game versus the Washington Huskies, a
48:24
Speaker 1: title rematch of Washington Huskies and a big ten. I'm
48:28
Speaker 1: still trying to get used to it. I'm trying to
48:32
Speaker 1: get used to all of these matchups that and anything.
48:34
Speaker 1: But you've got Michigan State against Oregon. We've had USC
48:38
Speaker 1: against Wisconsin, We've had USC against Michigan my goodness almost
48:42
Speaker 1: we have a very big geography problem. But that's the
48:46
Speaker 1: nature of the day. So we'll see what the Wolverine's
48:48
Speaker 1: gonna do under sharone more. They know that they have
48:51
Speaker 1: a lot of things that get cleaned up. The quarterback
48:53
Speaker 1: play isn't the greatest right now, but you admit I
48:58
Speaker 1: like link Martindale, Martinlough, the defensive coordinator. He was a
49:02
Speaker 1: good pickup from the Giant. So let's see what the
49:04
Speaker 1: Wolverines do this weekend. I'm also looking forward to the
49:07
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49:10
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49:12
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49:15
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49:18
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54:39
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54:43
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54:46
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54:51
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54:54
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54:57
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55:02
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55:05
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55:18
Speaker 1: And also on next week's edition of one hundred on
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Speaker 1: Inside the Pics, and I had an opportunity to ask
55:25
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55:28
Speaker 1: so stay with us for that one. He talks about
55:31
Speaker 1: how the transfer portals helped them out. Obviously, when you're
55:33
Speaker 1: a mid major compared to a major, it affects you
55:37
Speaker 1: differently because the nil resources and so forth. The one
55:41
Speaker 1: thing that a mid major can offer players is at
55:44
Speaker 1: least the opportunity to play a little bit quicker. But
55:46
Speaker 1: that's just the way this whole NCAA business works out.
55:49
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you one thing. I continue to have
55:52
Speaker 1: a great run with the Miami Hurricanes as we really
55:54
Speaker 1: enjoy going to those games as often as we can.
55:57
Speaker 1: So there are a great media distribution parent we have
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Speaker 1: a lot of them. I just wanted to make those
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Speaker 1: final references as well. So but that's that. That doesn't
56:04
Speaker 1: conclude this edition of the Sports Change on behalf of
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Speaker 1: Candy Aplin, George Iicorn, J. B Ellis. My name is
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Speaker 1: Scott Morgan, rot the Motor City Man. Well, thank you
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Speaker 1: for joining us, and we'll see you next week at
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Speaker 1: this time. Good night, everybody, Every great weekend.