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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 3: So the load management is not over.
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  Speaker 1: But the guys, the NBA decided to play basketball again
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  Speaker 1: and they had some nationally televised games. The New York Knicks,
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  Speaker 1: the softy Knicks, got beaten by the Pistons, who have
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  Speaker 1: the top record in the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: The Detroit Pistons have the top record in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: There was that in the great effort by the Golden
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  Speaker 1: State Warriors there just tremendous. Got their ass handed to
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  Speaker 1: them by the Boston Celtics in one of the other
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  Speaker 1: featured games. And the People's team, the Clippers getting her done,
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  Speaker 1: get her done with trading away two of their key players.
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  Speaker 3: No matter how.
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  Speaker 1: About the Nuggets. It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing for the Denver Nuggets,
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  Speaker 1: but we're not going to talk about that. The story
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  Speaker 1: here continues to be about things other than the actual
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  Speaker 1: games themselves.
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  Speaker 3: So our lead this hot.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to go to the Valley of the Sun
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  Speaker 1: indirectly some spicy words and we love spicy words from
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  Speaker 1: the oligarch of the cat guy. Yes, if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: see this, perhaps you missed it. So Matt Ishbia, you
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  Speaker 1: might not know who that is. He's just a random
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  Speaker 1: rich dude who bought her basketball team. He owns the Suns.
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  Speaker 1: It's Matt with one T. I guess the family could
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  Speaker 1: not afford the other te so Matt Ishpia sounding off
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  Speaker 1: on social media over the long standing issue has been
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  Speaker 1: going on for a while, but it's been in the.
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  Speaker 3: Spot like the last couple of weeks here that they.
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  Speaker 1: Finally realized they have a problem the NBA that half
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  Speaker 1: the teams in their business are not trying to win games.
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  Speaker 1: And you had people come out and endorse this and
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  Speaker 1: also anyway, matt Isshbia, get to the point, please all right.
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  Speaker 1: So to get to the point, Matt Ashbia, the Sun's
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  Speaker 1: owner there called the idea of tanking.
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  Speaker 3: The losing behavior done by.
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  Speaker 1: Losers is what he said, and he's also went on
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  Speaker 1: to say it's much worse than any prop bet scandal, which, oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, the NBA's got that going too. So
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  Speaker 1: it's they're talking about spinning plates here. I got a
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  Speaker 1: lot going on, So it's good jumping off point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss. Let's start with the first part of that
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll work our way through it. So the
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  Speaker 1: question for the panel, and you're part of that, you're
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  Speaker 1: part of the panel, how did you react to the
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  Speaker 1: Sun's owner was an NBA team here matt Isshbia saying
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  Speaker 1: that NBA tanking is losing behavior done by losers. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got trojan antibiotic resistant and forty seven page manual,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and we're.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna literally jump through hoops. We're gonna do the hula
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  Speaker 3: hoop is what we're gonna do. So A I gotta
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  Speaker 3: tell you, all right, Sometimes you tack here and you're like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'll talk about that. This I'm interested in. If I
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  Speaker 3: were to pick an emoji for this, I would pick
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  Speaker 3: the heart emoji. I loved it. I loved it. I
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  Speaker 3: loved it. I need that pumping in my veins.
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  Speaker 1: I love rich Guy on rich Guy crime right, owner
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  Speaker 1: and owner crime so good. Mattishbia, the Son's owner there
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  Speaker 1: at some point he's gonna have to face all these
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  Speaker 1: other owners.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, they don't call him owners because Draymond Green got.
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  Speaker 1: Upset, so they have to call him Governor's which is
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  Speaker 1: the dumbest thing you could possibly do it.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, Mattishbia is gonna walk in with the other owners.
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  Speaker 3: I said it. Oh my god, you said it. You
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  Speaker 3: call them owners, Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, Ishbi is gonna walk into the NBA cartel, that
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  Speaker 1: smoky back room.
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  Speaker 3: We're all the rich oligarchs get together, and after he just.
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  Speaker 1: Ripped half of the League of Professional Bouncy Ball, calling
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  Speaker 1: them essentially bumps, eurobum, eurobum eurobum, calling out teams like
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  Speaker 1: the Pacers, the Kings, the Jazz, the Wizards, all dead wood,
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  Speaker 1: the Deadwood brigade of the NBA, and also giving a
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  Speaker 1: body blow to Mark Cuban, the anti Mark Cuban. Remember Cuban,
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  Speaker 1: the guy that owned the Mavericks, loved the Mavericks, identified
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  Speaker 1: as the Maverick Guy, got all these other gigs as
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  Speaker 1: he owned the Mavericks, then sold the Mavericks, but still
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  Speaker 1: pretends like he owns the team and he's the guy
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  Speaker 1: that wanted the NBA to embrace the tank. He wants
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  Speaker 1: that business to embrace the tank.
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  Speaker 3: Well it should be.
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  Speaker 1: The Suns owner said hell no, and good for him, right.
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  Speaker 1: And the whole tank thing is like it's putting a
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  Speaker 1: raccoon in the pantry and having the raccoon just toss
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  Speaker 1: the food around. If you tank to get the number
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  Speaker 1: one pick overall in the draft, the draft becomes a
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  Speaker 1: trojan horse, is what it becomes, because you're not most
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  Speaker 1: of the time, you're not going to get the number
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  Speaker 1: one pick. And then secondly, even when you do get
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  Speaker 1: the number one pick, not all of them turn out
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  Speaker 1: to be that great. The idea that oh you're guaranteed,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, no, not the case. Right, So it's
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  Speaker 1: a trojan horse to the soul of the game is
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  Speaker 1: what it is, It truly is, and it's it's malware.
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  Speaker 1: It's software that looks useful but rots the hard drive
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. And the NBA is dealing with
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  Speaker 1: that right now. And by the way, Matt Ishbia is
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  Speaker 1: a man of his word. He's not just talking to talk,
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  Speaker 1: he's walking the walk. The Sun's dumped control of every
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  Speaker 1: first round pick to twenty thirty two.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like it's far away, but if you look
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  Speaker 3: at the calendar, like six years away, it's not that
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  Speaker 3: far anyway.
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  Speaker 1: He's living the F them picks, F them picks, F
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  Speaker 1: them picks lifestyle.
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  Speaker 3: You don't this gonna blow you away.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to suck to put a competitive team
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  Speaker 1: on the court.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you do know what you're talking about. That's what
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  Speaker 3: you're doing overnights. Oh my god, shut up, you lose there.
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  Speaker 1: There's more than one way to peel an orange. This
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  Speaker 1: is gonna really shock you, and I hope you're okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there is a way where you can actually
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  Speaker 1: develop talent.
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  Speaker 3: You can find hidden gems. Oh no, you can't, what's
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  Speaker 3: wrong with you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You can actually use some old fashioned coaching. There's this
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  Speaker 1: term called coaching them up instead of just praying to
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  Speaker 1: the ping pong gods.
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  Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. I need the ping pong ball. No, you
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  Speaker 3: don't need. No.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: And so we are on the cancel the draft train.
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  Speaker 1: We are on that train right now. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that's going to happen. We would like that to happen.
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  Speaker 3: That is the doomsday scenario. Now riding the narrative wave
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  Speaker 3: that we're already on right now and.
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  Speaker 1: Turning to page two, So parsing the words, we'd like
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  Speaker 1: to parse the words, and we go back to the
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  Speaker 1: Sun's Owner the question thumbs up or thumbs down, Thumbs up,
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  Speaker 1: thumbs down on the Son's owner Matt Ashbia and his
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  Speaker 1: claim that tanking is much worse than the NBA's prop
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  Speaker 1: bet scandal. So I'm gonna go thumbs up on this.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with him on this two. We're two for two.
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  Speaker 1: Good take, good take day by the Sun's owner. We're
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  Speaker 1: two for two.
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  Speaker 3: Now, if you had to pick one of these, knife
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  Speaker 3: to your throat and you had to pick one, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna ride with Matt Ashbia on this one, and the
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  Speaker 3: rest of you are stuck in the slow lane and
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  Speaker 3: I'm riding in the fast. And then here's why. Let
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  Speaker 3: me tell you why.
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  Speaker 1: Because on one side, yeah, there's no way that predicting,
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  Speaker 1: not predicting, fixing these prop bets is good. Right, You've
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  Speaker 1: got mobsters involved, You've got point shaving goblins and the
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  Speaker 1: shadows and all that. That's bad to the bone, bad,
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  Speaker 1: bad to the bone. However, when you use the Malard microscope,
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  Speaker 1: you get the Malard microscope out the prop fix on
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  Speaker 1: a rebound prop over under or a point total prop
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  Speaker 1: or whatever that might be. That is what's called a
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  Speaker 1: contained outbreak. It's like a controlled burn. It's control burn now,
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  Speaker 1: it contained outbreak. It only bleeds the bookies and the
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  Speaker 1: degenerates that are betting a lot of money on props. Right,
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  Speaker 1: that's a small percentage of those that consume the product.
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  Speaker 3: Tanking, though, is not just an eyesore. It's not just
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  Speaker 3: an eyesore.
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  Speaker 1: It is an antibiotic resistant staff infection, is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a staff infection that can kill you. It damages
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  Speaker 1: every single person that buys a ticket. It kills your
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  Speaker 1: TV audience. Nobody wants to watch bad basketball teams that
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  Speaker 1: aren't trying. People know when they're not trying. And it
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  Speaker 1: gives you. Apathy is what it gives you. It's the
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  Speaker 1: deadliest thing in all of sport, is apathy.
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  Speaker 3: But you just don't care. You just don't care. And
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  Speaker 3: you said, well, yeah but yeah, bit, yeah butit yeah
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  Speaker 3: itIt yeah itIt yeah butit yeah but yeah it No,
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  Speaker 3: it's the aabbot rabbit. So you go, yeah, but oh no, no,
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  Speaker 3: just give it a couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: They'll get that topic and everyone will come back with
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  Speaker 1: you know, people find other things to do, and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot cheaper. I'm not gonna get my you
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  Speaker 1: know what handed me when I when I watch this team,
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  Speaker 1: I have to pay for this thing and that thing
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  Speaker 1: and what you're gonna call it and.
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  Speaker 3: All that, and they don't come back.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I know a bunch of guys around my age, we
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  Speaker 1: were all huge sportsmans, loved sports right and a good
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  Speaker 1: number of my some of my closest friends growing up,
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  Speaker 1: they don't like sports anymore. They don't like what sports
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  Speaker 1: has become. They don't like the greed, they don't like
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  Speaker 1: the attitudes in sports, and so they just stopped and
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  Speaker 1: they're not going back.
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  Speaker 3: And they're like, oh, you're still doing that sports. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'll do the sports. Oh I used to like sports.
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  Speaker 3: I used to like sports. And that's the danger. And
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  Speaker 3: so idiots don't understand this. They're not that smart. I
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  Speaker 3: get it.
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  Speaker 1: I understand you wouldn't understand how that all works. But
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  Speaker 1: it's a massive, massive issue. And in this life you
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  Speaker 1: either work hard. In life, you work hard you save
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  Speaker 1: your money and try to make something better. Or in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA mindset, which is everywhere right now, you just
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  Speaker 1: go down to the casino, you pray for green double zero,
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  Speaker 1: and you spin the Roulett wheel. Tanking is the NBA's
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  Speaker 1: roulette wheel, and it creates a culture of apathy that
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  Speaker 1: smells like a nice dumpster after a weekend at the
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  Speaker 1: state Fair on a Sunday afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: What house? Whose house? The crap house?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, nauseating all right now, last word, there is a
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  Speaker 1: new revelation on this topic, the tanking topic of the
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  Speaker 1: day and Commissioner Adam Silver high ho Silver, Adam Silver
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  Speaker 1: and his minions from planet but dunka dunka dunka dunkadunka
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  Speaker 1: outside the cosmos, outside the milky Way.
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  Speaker 4: There.
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  Speaker 1: So Adam Silver and his people other lizard people are
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  Speaker 1: considering a gaggle, a gaggle of changes to put a
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  Speaker 1: choke hold on the end of the tank.
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  Speaker 3: And you're just gonna get rid of the not the lottery.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna get rid of it. You're gonna change it.
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  Speaker 1: So if you didn't see this one, as we understand it,
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, it's not locked in yet, but the plan
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  Speaker 1: is next season, they will freeze lottery odds at the
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline or a later date.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just the tip of the spear. But wait,
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  Speaker 3: there's more.
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  Speaker 1: Only allowing first rounders to have top top four or
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  Speaker 1: top fourteen plus protection, So you're.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna limit the protections on that.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to block teams from selecting in the top
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  Speaker 1: four in consecutive years. That's called the long suck, not
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  Speaker 1: to short suck. The long suck or after consecutive bottom
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  Speaker 1: three finishes.
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  Speaker 3: It is interesting to note.
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  Speaker 1: That Major League Baseball has that essentially that rule in there.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the Chicago White Sox if you're baseball fan a
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  Speaker 1: couple years agohead like the worst record in a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and they could not get the number one pick because
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  Speaker 1: of the rules that Baseball had put in but preventing
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  Speaker 1: teams from having a top four pick a year after
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  Speaker 1: reaching the conference finals.
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  Speaker 3: Hello Indiana Pacers, ding ding ding ding ding ding ding
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  Speaker 3: ding ding.
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  Speaker 1: Moving lottery odds to records over a two year period
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  Speaker 1: rather than only for the previous season, All that one's
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  Speaker 1: just gonna encourage long term suck playing tournament teams that
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  Speaker 1: for gaysey playing tournament that they have because Adam Silver
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  Speaker 1: got a you.
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  Speaker 3: Know what, we had a rash and thought that was
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  Speaker 3: a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: So the plans tournament teams would also be included in
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  Speaker 1: the draft lottery, and so they would flatten the lottery
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  Speaker 1: odds for all the team's question.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the question.
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  Speaker 1: Are Adam Silver's plans to combat tanking going to fix
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  Speaker 1: the NBA's problem.
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  Speaker 3: The rules that have been laid out, I only gave
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  Speaker 3: you some of them. There are other rules I did
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  Speaker 3: not have time to get to. You can look them
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  Speaker 3: up on your own.
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  Speaker 1: Are Adam Silver's plans You're going to going to work
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  Speaker 1: to fix tanking? So I am shaking my head.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: With my eyes closed here, I'm shaking my head. No.
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  Speaker 3: No chance.
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  Speaker 1: If you need this is a malar truism. If you
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  Speaker 1: need a forty seven page manual to stop teams from
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  Speaker 1: trying to lose, you've got a much bigger problem on
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  Speaker 1: your hands right now.
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  Speaker 3: They've got a.
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  Speaker 1: Pre existing condition. As we've talked about for forty plus years,
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  Speaker 1: the NBA has preached that the draft lottery is the
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  Speaker 1: pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. You
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  Speaker 1: created the monster. That's your baby, Frankenstein. You indoctrinated every
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  Speaker 1: coach GM and all these cats, and these guys that
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  Speaker 1: were not even a lot of them, weren't even alive
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  Speaker 1: when the lottery started. I had a lot of young
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  Speaker 1: cats out there coaching in GM and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: or they were little kids when the lottery started. And
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  Speaker 1: you've led everyone to believe this is the only strategy.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. You train them to chase ping pong balls.
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  Speaker 1: That's all they know. And of course, now what's Adam
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  Speaker 1: Silver's answer. Bureaucracy, more and more layers, more and more layers.
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  Speaker 3: It's like Congress.
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  Speaker 1: It will solve all of life's problems with laws because
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  Speaker 1: people follow laws. Oh wait a minute, bad people don't
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  Speaker 1: follow laws.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, got it. Okay, So you're gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Put these rules in and the teams that are not
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  Speaker 1: trying to tank, okay, we'll follow the rules. But the
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  Speaker 1: teams that are trying to tank, they're gonna find new
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  Speaker 1: ways to circumvent the system there. And that's the way
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  Speaker 1: it goes. And so when I see these rules, I
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  Speaker 1: just yawn, I stretch and I yawn. And this is
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  Speaker 1: the walk of shame that you actually need to legislate
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  Speaker 1: or attempt to legislate effort and trying.
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  Speaker 3: To win the game.
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  Speaker 1: A statute, by the way, is not a force field.
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  Speaker 1: It is a boundary marker, as we said, right so,
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  Speaker 1: and you know and I know that nerd Army, they're
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  Speaker 1: already coding up new ways to bend the system.
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  Speaker 3: Is there that we can get around this rule. We
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  Speaker 3: have to win this number of games and then the
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  Speaker 3: next year we can lose this number and then we'll
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  Speaker 3: be in good shape there. But either way, this wave
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  Speaker 3: of rules.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about integrity. It's about business partners and that's gambling.
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  Speaker 1: With the capitals here, we like gambling. We support gambling.
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  Speaker 1: We think adults should be able to do that for
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  Speaker 1: recreational purposes. And you bet a little bit, don't go
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  Speaker 1: out of your means. It's something you can do as
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  Speaker 1: a grown up. It's fun and you know going in
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna probably much, but maybe it win a
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  Speaker 1: little bit and that's all you need. But if betters think,
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  Speaker 1: if the casual better thinks that the game is being
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  Speaker 1: manipulated and they don't know how it's being manipulated and
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  Speaker 1: they can't figure it out and they lose money on it,
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  Speaker 1: then eventually the handle dries up. That's the amount of
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  Speaker 1: money that's wagered, and then that's essentially the butcher knife.
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  Speaker 3: The gambling houses are like, why are we spending all
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  Speaker 3: this money on advertising and all.
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  Speaker 1: This what's the point? You just took a butcher knife
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  Speaker 1: to our heart. It doesn't seem like a good, good
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  Speaker 1: business that we want to be part of.
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• 17:15
  Speaker 1: and we're back at it again this hour, talking Bay's Ball,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Talking Bay's Ball. So I lead this hour from the
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Grapefruit League. I'm not going to start out with the
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: sowarycap conversation.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: And all that. No, no, no, pivotal. I'll get to that eventually.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: I'll get to that. I don't want to hear about that.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I just relaxed. So I go to spring training camp
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: in Florida, where the Atlanta Braves are said to be
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: one of the teams lurking in the shadows, bird dogging
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers in the National League. And if the.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Dodgers were to stumble that the Atlanta Braves would be
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: the team. Of course, they've had some major injuries already.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: They're pitching staff. But former Braves pitcher and current Atlanta
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: broadcaster CJ. Ninkowski pretty mediocre pitcher.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: But CJ.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: In Ninkowski he has decided he wants Major League Baseball
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: to change how they handle sho Hey Otani, do you
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: see this?
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: And Nikowski recently went on the Socials and went on a.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Little bit of a rant.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: The Atlanta Braves broadcaster said it is time to revisit
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: the Otani rule. He went on to say, why do
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers get to carry an extra pitcher when Otani
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: is making regular starts in the rotation.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: He had a question mark there.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: So this led, of course to a feeding frenzy of
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: people who were not dog piling on CJ.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Nkowski. They were supporting him.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: They're like, oh, yeah, you're right, it's not fair. So
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the question braves broadcaster CJ. Nikowski wanting baseball to revisit,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: which is really a nice.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Way of saying, let's get rid of this Otani rule.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: That's what he meant.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Does anyone disagree with that? Does anyone disagree that he
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: wanted to get rid of the Otani rule? So how
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: does that sound to you? Now, I've got the bubonic plague,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Professor Egan and saber tooth tiger, and we will combine
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: all of these things together, and we are going to
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: deliver the knockout blow.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Boom boom, the knockout blow, just like that.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: So number I said number Yeah, Okay, the ups and downs, right,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: the ups and down. Now, we did not get the memo.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: We did not get the memo that CJ. Nankowski is
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: the rules expert in Major League Baseball. We didn't get that.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: I guess it happened. I might have missed it. I
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: might have missed it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: My heart bleeds for Atlanta that this is one of
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: their broadcasters and is pathetic with a capital peek.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: We have not even and had the first spring training
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: game they begin shortly. We have not had the first
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: spring training game. And the Blue Crew bubonic plague, the
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Blue Crew bubonic plague is already rotting away the brains
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: of many around Major League Baseball. So good. I gotta
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: tell you, some of you know.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: When in my younger days, I did the Dodger postgame show,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I did the Dodger Talk and they sucked. Okay, And
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I've told this so before, but I would rant. I
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: was like, why can't the Dodgers be like the Yankees?
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Because the Yankees at that time where they were the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: dynasty and all that, and the Dodgers were a bunch
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: of tight wads, And I said, why couldn't they be
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: like the Yanks? Well, here, I've lived long enough and
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I see widespread d DS Dodger Derangement syndrome. It's real,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and the Atlanta Braves, led by their broadcaster here, are
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: suffering from it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Is it true?
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Is it true that see Nikkowski is just not merely
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: talking that he is a messenger pigeon for the hierarchy
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: of the bravest franchise. Now this is where my conspiratorial
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: mind kicks in. I ask the question to you, you
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: are on the jury. Is it possible that Alex Anthopolis,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the big shot executive there in the front office in Atlanta,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: have been whispering.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: This and hey, hey, CJ, Yeah, what do you want? CJ?
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Can you go on the socials and toss this out,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: get this thing, go and see if we can get
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: some support, get a grassroots movement here to.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Screw the Dodgers over. Just kind of poke the blue crew. Okay, sure,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: no problem, Shoe Altani. I might be wrong on this,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: but he is a global unicorn. Baseball is a sport
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: that has a bunch of regional stars, and Otani has
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: crossed the room and he's a global star. And Atlanta
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: they're chasing the Dodger, right, I mentioned they're bird dogging.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: And you look at some of the expectations this year.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: The Braves, assuming they find some starting pitching here, supposed
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to be one of the teams that are in contention
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: of the National League, and every team this can blow
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: you away. Nobody else has this take Every team can
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: use the Otani rule. Every single team can use the
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Otani rule. Just go out and find a guy to start.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: You don't have to find a guy hit fifty home
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: runs and start. You can find a guy that can
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: be a number five starter and take the advantage, take
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the advantage of having an extra player in the bullpen
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: or whatever you want to do with that extra roster spot.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: But you're telling me you can't, you can't find anyone.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Like My experience around baseball players is almost all of
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: them were the.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Top player on their little league team. Almost all of.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Them were the top player on their high school team.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Almost all of them at one point was a pitch.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: We're pitching like the.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Even these guys, well that's the guy's just a left fielder.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Well in high school, he's started every game and won
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: every game.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: You know, he went a lightweight. They were lightweights.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: And then what you do is you pigeonhole these guys
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and you say, well, you're a hitter, you're not a pitcher,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and they'll like, well, okay, things have changed, things have changed.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: It's really kind. It's sad for that. I feel bad
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: for the Braves fans Tommy and Atlanta. Those guys soft.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: It's the victim mentality and that's not the Braves. I know,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: where's Chief Knakahoma? Where has Chief Knockahoma gone? When he's
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: rolling over in his grave right now is what he's
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: doing right Meanwhile, page two we go to the Bronx
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: and one of the players, one of the few players
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: in baseball that does not give a boring quote, plays
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: for the New York Yankees. He's the second baseman named
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm Junior. And he's just warming up, just warming
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: up there in the bugey down Brocks, getting ready for
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the season and actually in Florida. So Jaszism is not
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: only planning on winning the most Valuable Player award in
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the American League, he's also going to take home the
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Silver Slugger and a gold Glove. That's right, He's going
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: to hit the trifecta.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: But wait, there's more.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: He also believes that he has the tools to become
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the second player in baseball history to hit fifty home
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: runs and steal fifty bases in a single season.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Tani, we just talked about him. Showy Otani, the first
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: and only to do it a couple of years ago
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: for the Doyers. There's even more. But wait, there's even more.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: He's also talking about a ten war that's wins above
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: replacement season. Chisholm has never posted more than a four
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: point four on the war statistic, which the nerds absolutely love.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: And he's targeting the big shot there. He wants the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: big number there, and he believes that just cleaning up
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: his defense will help this all skyrocket, etc.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Etc. Etc. So, Now, as you might imagine, when you
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: tell these tall tales.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And these shaggy dog stories and all that, you get roasted.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: So Jazz Chisholm was getting smoked.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: What are you doing, dude, You're not good. He was
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: on the All Star team. I think he's in that
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: weird area where he's a good player, not a great player,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: and there's a lot of guys like that. I don't
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: think he's as good as like the accolades he's gotten.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: He plays with the Yankees.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Everything gets elevated when you play for the for the Yankees,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: it is also somebody that needs to be mentioned here.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: He's going to be a free agent at the end
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: of this season.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: The Yankees did not decide to sign him to a
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: new mega contract.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: That's a whole other story, a whole other story.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: So the question, why, okay, why is Star Jazz Chism talking,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you know, talking, and it taking so much heat? Why
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: is he taking so much heat from talking about targeting
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: a fifty to fifty campaign.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: For the New York Yankees.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: So you've got the baseball purist crowd, which somehow are
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: still overwhelmingly out there clutching their pearls so hard.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: They're pooping diamonds. It's a while, there's diamonds in the toilet.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And yeah, and I get part of it, like this
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: goes against every bit of.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: The baseball orthodoxy.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: We're talking about a sport that literally had to launch
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: a marketing campaign titled let the Kids Play just to
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: convince many of the fans that it was okay to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: flip a bat.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: They had to have a marketing campaign say let the
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: kids Play.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: So a Jazz is breaking the sacred Major League Baseball decorum.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: He's breaking that and persnickety unwritten.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Rules of the game, which have all been written.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: They've all been written, but one of the big ones
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: is you talk softly, you don't make bold predictions, and
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Talk softly, carry a big Louisville slugger,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: big Louisville slugger.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: And now when you're name Jazz, you can't do quiet.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Your name Jazz, that's not his real nick, but your
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: name Jazz. You know it's a nigga jazz chishlm right.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: He's got the gift of gab. And when you have
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: the gift of gap.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Right, Curmudgeons, of course call it verbal diarrhea, but you
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: gotta talk, gotta let it out right. He's bringing NBA
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: level bravado jazz chism to a game run by guys
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: who think the colorful sleeve that you wear on your
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: elbow is a revolutionary act at baseball.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: And so yeah, chism, it cuts both ways.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: It's a double edged sword because he's he's putting a
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: massive bull'seye on his back.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: And as my professor taught me, Professor Egan and I
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: went to the University of Ghostbusters, and he taught me
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: that you do not cross the streams. Don't do it.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: You cross the streams and you mess with the baseball gods,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: and every molecule in your body, every little piece of
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: your body there might just explode at the speed of light.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: So you gotta walk this tight rope now, regardless the
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: malor naked truth, love it, love it mention.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: It's a double edged sword. So yeah, you got a
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: bulls on your back.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: But it's the old PT Barnum one o one PT
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Barnum one o one. It's good for business. It's good
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: for business. You don't care what they say as long
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: as they spell jazz chisholm right on the social media platforms.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Right if he's hitting those numbers. So if he goes
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: out and does hit some of those numbers, legend, legend.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: If he goes out and does a belly whopper jazz chism,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: then he's still a legend, just in a different kind
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: of way. The meme makers will have a field day,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: they'll have a feast on that.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Either way, you're helping bring some buzzback, get in that
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: zeitgeist of baseball right now now, final point, Labor update.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Labor update, we go to the Baseball labor dispute battlefield
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: c b A the Collective Bargaining Agreement. I was told
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: by program director years ago to never mention collective bargaining
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: agreement on the radio.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: I'm breaking the fourth wall here by doing that. By
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: doing that, so we're talking about salary cap. So we
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: have learned the owners. We have the outline of what
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: the owners want. The owners want a and listen closely.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: You're never supposed to give out numbers on the radio,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: so listen closely.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: The owners want the cap floor for the first proposal
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: to be between one hundred and forty million and one
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty million for the that's the bottom salary
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: for teams would be one hundred and forty to one
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty million. The ceiling would fall in the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: range of two hundred and sixty million to two.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Hundred eighty million.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: It would also have to be grandfathered in for a
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: couple of years because teams have contract that are over
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: that number.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Some teams do. But wait, there's more.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball owners have also funded a war chest
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: that's being described a war chest according to the tabloids,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: and approximately seventy five million per team in a rainy
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: day fund. Seventy five million financial protect They've been saving
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: up for years, for years, preparing for this battle, for years,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: buying tanks and bazookahs and drones and all that and
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: so the ownership fund is said to contain a total value,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: if you believe what they're leaking to the media, of
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: over two billion dollars with a capital B two billion dollars.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: So the question what is the word, right, what is
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: the word for Major.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: League Baseball owners allegedly saving up two billion a work stoppage, So.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: That is a massive let's start with this. Let me
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: get this right.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: So baseball owners have stashed over the last couple years
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: two billion in this lockout war chest thing, and they
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: want you to believe at.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: The same time they're broke. Okay, they must really think
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: you're dumb. They must think you are so stupid. How
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: do you tie your shoes? You're moron? That's Rob Manford's baseball.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: You're dumb. That's not poverty, that's that's planning ahead, right
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: pre whatever you are buying your weapons.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: My word, though, is fear mongering, all right, My word
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: is fear mongering for the two billion shock and awe,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: shock and all. What they're doing is they're using the
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: saber tooth tiger technique better known as saber rattling. And
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: before they even walk into the boardroom to negotiate a
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: new agreement.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: With the players.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: The owners are saying, well, we we already have seventy
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: five million per team just sitting there like canned goods, like.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: A can of corn in the bunker.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: And if you're saving that much, okay, if you're saving
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: that much for a work stoppage.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: You're planning on a humdinger of a work stoppage, are
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: you not? Is that That's how I read the room.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Now, for the proposed capologists out there that have floated
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the hypothetical salary cap mentioned it be grandfathered in, very
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: generous of them at Baseball.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: So we went and.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Looked at some of the numbers that are available, and
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: we opened up the books, something that Baseball will not do.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: By the way, they will not open up the books,
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: show the players the spreadsheets, because you know, if you're starving,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: just prove it.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: And then okay, we got a deal using malarmath, using
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: malar math, how many teams with the numbers they gave
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: on the.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Projected salary floor.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: And then salary cap. Why don't we go we'll start
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: at the ceiling, the high end. How many teams are
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: over the ceiling and would be affected and have to
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: you know, futs around with the salarycap. Out of the
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: thirty teams in baseball, how many teams are spending over
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: what would be the projected salary cap?
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: The answer.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Four, that's it, thirteen percent. Thirteen percent. Now, let me
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: ask you another question. Out of the thirty teams in baseball,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: we've already liliminated four. We've already eliminated.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Four because four teams are over what would be the
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: salary cap? What about the floor the salary for how
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: many teams in baseball do you think are below what
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: the minimum would be under this proposal? You got a number,
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: all right?
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: How about fourteen out of the thirty, So that works
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: out to forty six point six percent. Almost half of
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball is spending less than what they're proposing,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: which means they could be spending over that, but they're not.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: And that's not just a broken system. That is a
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: by design competitive in balance for the ages. Wake up
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: the echoes, and so now we are heading towards deadline theater.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Deadline theater is where we're going, and this is where
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: nothing happens until the clock hits midnight. They're on the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: new ozempic diet for negotiations. Now that diet is a
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: strict deadline only diet, deadline only diet.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Where you just twiddle your thumbs, you pick.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Your nose, you grab your ass, and you leak sob
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: stories to try to soften soften the players up and
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: talk about all the money you've got in your war
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: chest and all this stuff and cry poverty while you
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: attempt to give the players a full frontal lobotomy.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: It's a strategy, it is a decision. It's also a
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: bit of an intimidation thing dressed up as fiscovers responsibility.
• 35:01
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• 35:03
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• 35:07
  Speaker 3: It's Mallard. How about that?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: To the third degree, I just.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: Said that this is one big fan gets grilled koopdalup
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Ben New Raven's offensive coordinator, Declan Doyle is not even
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: thirty years old yet, but he thinks that his uh,
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: this is very loud music, that's what he thinks.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: There's there's some taco bell there. So Ravens O see
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Declan Doyle to yell over the music. I'm yelling.
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  Speaker 5: He's not even thirty years old yet, but he thinks
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  Speaker 5: that his young age can actually be an advantage. Doyle
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  Speaker 5: says it's easier for him to connect with the players
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  Speaker 5: because they are the same age.
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  Speaker 3: Ben, does he have a point, Well, this is on
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  Speaker 3: a case by case basis. I've been around long enough,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if it clicks, it's great. Sean McVay was
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  Speaker 3: a younger when he got the Rams job, and he's
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  Speaker 3: really good at his job. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers hired
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  Speaker 3: was it Raheem Morris? I forget who. I think I
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  Speaker 3: might remember Hi Morrison and he was out.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever it was was out partying with the players on
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  Speaker 1: the road, like trying to pick up chicks. So that
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  Speaker 1: didn't go so well. So I don't know anything about
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  Speaker 1: this guy. I've never heard of him. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a case by case base. It can't help. There needs
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: to be a boundary there. There's got to be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a boundary. You can't be hanging out
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  Speaker 1: with the guys and all that too much or also
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  Speaker 1: becomes a problem.
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  Speaker 3: Next.
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  Speaker 5: Alright, I'm gonna throw you a curveball here, Ben, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: go ahead. So the wind totals were released from you know,
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  Speaker 5: Vegas this week and the Carolina Panthers. They won their
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  Speaker 5: division last season, and they are tied for the lowest
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  Speaker 5: projected wind total next season. Six and a half is
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  Speaker 5: what they are set at. And do you think that's
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  Speaker 5: a little bit too low? No?
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  Speaker 3: And here's why. A, that's the gambling market saying Bryce
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  Speaker 3: Young sucks and that he's not consistent, which is true.
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  Speaker 3: And then like the division, I like, it's not a
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  Speaker 3: great division. Carolina overchieve they're gonna play a tougher schedule
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  Speaker 3: because they they ended up even though they had they
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  Speaker 3: didn't have a great record last year, but they made
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs and obviously played the Rams and almost upset
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: the Rams and all that. So I don't think his
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Rocketers are gonna play tougher schedule. I don't know what.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Atlanta looks pretty bad at this point. Tampa Bay should
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: be better than them in the division. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: about right next.
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  Speaker 5: Caid Cunningham had a recent interview with GQ magazine and
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  Speaker 5: he was asked about the upcoming twenty twenty eighth Summer Olympics,
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: which will be here in Los Angeles. Cunningham said that
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: he thinks he is the best American player.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Is he right? Well, it's hard to rip him after
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  Speaker 3: the game he had at Madison Square Garden last night, right,
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: the greatest game by a Piston at mat against the
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  Speaker 3: Knicks at Madison Square Garden. He's great. And listen, the
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  Speaker 3: guy's been wonderful.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: You know, he was on some really orbig Piston teams
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: when he came in as a top pick in the draft,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: and we were goofing on the Pistons because they deserve.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: To be grouped on.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: They were trash and everyone's like the sky is falling.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: It was falling, and something has clicked the last year
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: and a half for the Detroit Pistons and they are
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  Speaker 1: one of the better teams in the NBA. And he
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  Speaker 1: is He's not only talking to talk, he's walked the walk.
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  Speaker 1: I'd have to get my ven diagram out.
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  Speaker 3: Coop and look at the other players. A lot of
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: the great American players are getting along in the two. Yeah,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: so it is. I mean, it's a tough. It's tough
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: to fight that because the guys are all in their
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: mid thirties, the great generation of American ballplayers. The top
• 38:34
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  Speaker 3: in is mal a thirty three? How did we go.
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