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Buffalo Meat With the Ball... · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Buffalo meat with the ball, buffalo meat over the running Dear,
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  Speaker 1: it's one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm strong and getty. One more thing.
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  Speaker 1: That it would be an actual quote from my brief
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  Speaker 1: play by play career when I was doing announcing for
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  Speaker 1: a basketball game in college. More and that in just
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  Speaker 1: a second. A couple of play by play things or
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  Speaker 1: sports things made the news recently. First, you got the
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  Speaker 1: squirrel that ran onto a baseball field, and we got
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  Speaker 1: two different versions of play by play calls on Matt.
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  Speaker 3: The chase for the squirrel is on, and the squirrel
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  Speaker 3: is in the corner, and the squirrel is ill, eluding
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  Speaker 3: an entire horde of grounds crew members and the squirrel's
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  Speaker 3: three once again, hemed in, No, I won't be hemmed in,
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  Speaker 3: I have freedom on my mind, trying to go between
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  Speaker 3: the legs, and eventually he gets away again and hops
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  Speaker 3: through the towel and hops.
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  Speaker 2: Through another towel.
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  Speaker 3: The force field is activated.
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  Speaker 2: Towels can't stop.
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  Speaker 3: Him, or maybe they can.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's funny. Do you hear the crowd at the end? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, is this another play by play of the same event?
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  Speaker 2: Here we go, Yeah, this is the other team's play
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  Speaker 2: by play games.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to thank the grounds crew.
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  Speaker 2: Did Detroit Tiger's ground. What's pearl Gritch?
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  Speaker 5: You just got on his bike to bank the ground
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  Speaker 5: screw and got booed.
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  Speaker 4: It took sixty seven of them to getuate scowl, all right,
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  Speaker 4: Lay amused by that A ball play by playing color
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  Speaker 4: commentators are unlike any other sport, and I love it
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  Speaker 4: so much.
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  Speaker 2: I miss listening to baseball on the radio, which I
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  Speaker 2: used to do more just because it was They're like
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  Speaker 2: your friends would have done.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball play by play more than the other sports, which
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  Speaker 1: I was going to talk about in a second, like
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  Speaker 1: because I did. I've only done football and basketball, and
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  Speaker 1: it's constant action person pretty much, and so it's just
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  Speaker 1: your ability to understand what's happening and get the words
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  Speaker 1: out of your mouth. But baseball, there is a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time to kill in baseball with storytelling and anecdotes
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  Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Which I think would be better. I wish i'd done
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  Speaker 2: that too, And I just I love the game of
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  Speaker 2: baseball so much too, because I would do basketball and football.
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, I was doing color in football. I
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  Speaker 2: was doing this big high school program in Springfield, Illinois,
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  Speaker 2: that our little station was the what do you call it?
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  Speaker 2: Flagship station?
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  Speaker 1: This was a long time ago, gladys. He's harkening back
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  Speaker 1: then play by play or color for a football football game.
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  Speaker 1: I was mostly there to set up the gear and
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  Speaker 1: make sure it worked. But so the play by play
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  Speaker 1: guy was actually quite good, very good, so he could
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  Speaker 1: rest his voice now and again. I was the color commentator,
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  Speaker 1: and I liked football, but I didn't know much about it,
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  Speaker 1: and so I'd be like, yeah, boy, that sure was
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  Speaker 1: a good run.
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  Speaker 2: He busted right through the middle. I mean he didn't
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  Speaker 2: need to. I mean, it's just no need for that.
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  Speaker 2: You're sure right about that. And at one point some
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  Speaker 2: of the fans who would be listening at the game
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  Speaker 2: got a little hostile, like who is this guy? Why
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  Speaker 2: is he the color commentator? He's not a football expert.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, do you have any idea what I'm
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  Speaker 2: being paid? How cheap all of this is. That guy's
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  Speaker 2: getting twenty bucks. I'm getting like ten, And they just
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  Speaker 2: need me to set up the gear and ask me
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  Speaker 2: to do this. I know I'm not an expert. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be here, but he needed ten Bucks.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe a better story is we weren't doing play by
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  Speaker 1: play in the radio. We were doing court side play
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  Speaker 1: by play for tennis. Remember we did that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, that sucked so bad. Were the PA announcers?
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  Speaker 1: Were we at mixed ninety six?
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  Speaker 2: I don't yes.
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  Speaker 1: So this was before you even knew us, Michael. We
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  Speaker 1: had to do play by play for some professional tennis
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  Speaker 1: and it was just horrific, mostly because the guy we
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  Speaker 1: were doing it for, we couldn't figure out what he wanted,
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  Speaker 1: so he was a christ overbearing nut. He acted like
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  Speaker 1: he wanted us to make funny comments in between shots,
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  Speaker 1: but then in time we would The players would get
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  Speaker 1: mad us for talking too much.
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  Speaker 2: They're professional tennis players. This sounds great, Oh it was horrible.
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  Speaker 2: It's so stressful.
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  Speaker 1: I hated every second of it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh they yell at us, what about this? What about this?
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  Speaker 2: We're like, we've never heard that phrase in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Abouts I know something about tennis, but it's exactly sure.
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  Speaker 1: What I never understood what they wanted out of us
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  Speaker 1: was the problem.
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  Speaker 2: Everything we did was wrong and just people yelling at us,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just ridiculous. I don't think it was a
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  Speaker 2: very long time ago friends. I wouldn't do that now
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  Speaker 2: for fifty thousand dollars a game, well, i'd think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I don't know. I think I might have been
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  Speaker 1: solo on this. Did I have a color?
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  Speaker 2: It must have been.
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  Speaker 1: And I think I was solo doing community college basketball
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  Speaker 1: for a year. And uh, I mean I'm a basketball fan,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean I'm not an x's and o's expert.
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  Speaker 1: So it was it was a lot of ad libbing.
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  Speaker 1: If you were if you were watching the game and
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  Speaker 1: listening to me at the same time, it wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: matched up very well. I think if you're only listening,
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  Speaker 1: you probably were okay. But if you're watching and listening,
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  Speaker 1: you thought what right? And if you were watching and
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  Speaker 1: you'd like you knew x'es and o's yeah, and listening,
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  Speaker 1: you'd think this guy has no idea. One thing I
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  Speaker 1: noticed right off the bat is and I had to
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  Speaker 1: I eventually talked to the coach about it. I had
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  Speaker 1: no idea the distances. So if a guy is standing here,
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  Speaker 1: how far a shot is that? Is that ten feet
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  Speaker 1: or twenty feet or because you know, I want to
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  Speaker 1: be able to say twenty footer from the outside or
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  Speaker 1: whatever I have any idea.
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  Speaker 2: So I finally nailed that down, but wow, you were
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  Speaker 2: worse than me.
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  Speaker 1: And knowing the players on your own team, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you do a whole season, you get to know them
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  Speaker 1: by site, in their name. But you'll roll into a
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  Speaker 1: town and you got a new roster of players you
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  Speaker 1: never heard, and you don't. You gotta quickly figure out
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  Speaker 1: because you can't just keep saying the No. Number eight
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  Speaker 1: with the ball. That doesn't do any good for whoever's listening.
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  Speaker 1: Or look down your list, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Jones with the because Jones has passed it to Smith
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  Speaker 2: de Brown by the time you find Jones on the list,
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  Speaker 2: and now you're way behind h guy shot and he
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  Speaker 2: made the shot. Anyway, That's why you no good If
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  Speaker 2: you don't, if you've never done it, you don't appreciate
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  Speaker 2: like listening to a hockey call or basketball. These guys
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  Speaker 2: they have everything absolutely memorized, and they work really hard
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  Speaker 2: to do that. They do.
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  Speaker 1: I have friends who do that, and they put in
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  Speaker 1: so much prep time, so you're not scanning the list
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out who somebody is or or or
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  Speaker 1: anything else. But uh, the one that always stuck about
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  Speaker 1: out of my mind is we would travel twice a
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  Speaker 1: year to Haskell Junior Haskell Indian Junior College, and it
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  Speaker 1: was a Native American junior college. And at least back then,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's still true, they all had
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  Speaker 1: Indian names Native American names on the basketball team. So
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  Speaker 1: what I said at the ent of this thing, their
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  Speaker 1: best player was a buffalo Meet was the best player
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  Speaker 1: on the team, and he usually had the ball, and
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  Speaker 1: it was him and running deer.
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  Speaker 2: They only had I think they.
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  Speaker 1: Had six guys, and in one of the games that
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  Speaker 1: I did, six of the dudes, two of them filed out.
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  Speaker 2: So then they only had four. Oh my gosh, so
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  Speaker 2: they had took one guy off. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I was young and not gutsy, or I would
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  Speaker 1: have used some of those jokes probably back in today
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  Speaker 1: time look not buy six with only twenty time to
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  Speaker 1: circle the wagons and time to make the lane your reservation.
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  Speaker 2: Foul on buffalo Meet.
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  Speaker 1: He's John with the referee, but I think he speaks
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  Speaker 1: with four tongue because that looked like a fouled me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh boy, have made you many friends now, But it
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of buffalo meat running dear with They'll
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  Speaker 1: be a buffalo meat layoff. But so, yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that. But then they fouled out and
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  Speaker 1: they got down. I think eventually they had three At
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  Speaker 1: the very end of the game, they only had three guys,
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  Speaker 1: and then there was some conversation, well, do we take
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  Speaker 1: one off the other team to make it even or
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  Speaker 1: is that their fault that they don't have enough players
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  Speaker 1: so it's five on four.
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  Speaker 2: Or five on three. They just discussed that in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the court. I don't forget what they decided.
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  Speaker 1: Man, that's some small town community college basketball right there
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  Speaker 1: with eight people in the stands.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, boy. I did high school boys and girls
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  Speaker 2: basketball because I needed the money and I'm a sports fan,
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  Speaker 2: so I didn't hate it. I think I think it
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  Speaker 2: was ten bucks to do play by play for a
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  Speaker 2: game and five bucks to do color commentary, if you
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  Speaker 2: can imagine. Now, this is in the eighties, so adjusted
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  Speaker 2: for inflation, that's still nothing. But h and I've told
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  Speaker 2: the story before. I was doing a girls high school
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  Speaker 2: basketball game, and you have to understand, and these are
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  Speaker 2: small towns in central Illinois. You have to understand that
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  Speaker 2: they were sponsored by you know, Jones' paint store there
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  Speaker 2: in the little town in Illinois, and you know Jenny's
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  Speaker 2: dress shop, and you know How's Auto Body or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: These are small towns and you had to keep them
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  Speaker 2: on your side, so you're not gonna go like Jim
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  Speaker 2: Rome or well, this is a golf reference. Johnny Miller
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  Speaker 2: famously as a golf commentator, would would say that guy's choking,
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  Speaker 2: he's hitting bad shot. That was a terrible shot. He
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  Speaker 2: was not sunshiny, he would criticize. I couldn't do that
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  Speaker 2: at all. So famously, somewhat famously, I was doing a
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  Speaker 2: girls basketball game a couple of small towns and it
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  Speaker 2: was the score at the half was four to two
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  Speaker 2: at one tea half. At the half, one team managed
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  Speaker 2: to put the ball in the bucket twice, one team once,
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  Speaker 2: and I believe both teams were oh for their free throw.
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  Speaker 2: So the ball had penetrated the hoop a total of
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  Speaker 2: three times in a half of basketball. And I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to describe this action without being in the least bit
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  Speaker 2: negative and in fact being positive. Oh, that was an
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  Speaker 2: excellent effort, but it did not go in. The rebound
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  Speaker 2: taken down going up the other way goes you know,
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  Speaker 2: Gerard or whatever, little town it was, and oh there
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  Speaker 2: are some miss on the ten footer. The rebound gathered
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  Speaker 2: up and Verdin has the ball, and oh.
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  Speaker 1: That ball almost went high enough to conceivably go in
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  Speaker 1: the rim. You see, the ball would have to be
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  Speaker 1: at least higher than the rim to go in if
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  Speaker 1: I understand my physics correctly.
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  Speaker 2: The one girl from Girard who's actually made a basket
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  Speaker 2: has the ball. This is exciting. Oh man, As I recall,
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  Speaker 2: the offense has really opened up in the second half,
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  Speaker 2: and it ended up being like fourteen to eight or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. I mean, it was a school just
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  Speaker 2: smorgasboard there in the late going. But oh man, you
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  Speaker 2: know what a lot of nice people involved. I like
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  Speaker 2: the guys I was working with. I was making a
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  Speaker 2: little money. I look back at it kind of fondly. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't miserable. It was just another challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's going to be a charge on Johnson against Buffalo.
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  Speaker 1: Me tried to push him off his land, but he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't having it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 5: Do you guys want to hear the Irish play by play?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I have it. I don't know if you see, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what is this, Michael.
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  Speaker 5: This is the Irish Football League and Irish play by
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  Speaker 5: play guys, and their team hasn't been in the finals
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  Speaker 5: in seventy five years, and they're pretty darn excited.
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  Speaker 2: Hang on, now, what kind of football are we talking about?
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  Speaker 5: I believe no, I believe it's regular football in Ireland.
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  Speaker 2: There has not been American football in Ireland in for
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  Speaker 2: seventy five years, not a chance. No, you don't think so? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I know, so there's there. There's hardly been an American football
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  Speaker 2: in America for no, there's been anyway. Let's just hear it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll bet it's soccer whatever. Get it out of there,
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  Speaker 2: Get it out of there. They haven'ty seconds to do.
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  Speaker 5: We're twenty five yards to the teleg He's got Tommy
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  Speaker 5: don Tommy Conrad's in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Tommy Toddy right, Oh my god, five seconds too.
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  Speaker 6: The one guy sounded like a money foot.
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  Speaker 5: He said they caught one. So it has to be
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  Speaker 5: regular football. You can't use your hands in soccer.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever way they're playing like American football in Ireland for
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  Speaker 1: seventy five years.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, can't be. And you've taken all
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  Speaker 2: the fun out of it.
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  Speaker 1: And everything like that. You've done poorly, all right? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: and elcers are funny. Joe's doing the research now and
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  Speaker 1: whether they have American football in Ireland and for how long?
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  Speaker 2: Key football team? That's Gaelic? All right? Now, I got
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  Speaker 2: to ask what is Gaelic football. It's a fast paced
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  Speaker 2: Irish team sport combating elements of soccer, rugby and basketball,
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  Speaker 2: governed by the Gaelic Athletics Association, played by two teams
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  Speaker 2: of fifteen players on a rectangular grass pitch. As I recall,
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  Speaker 2: the goal is to score by kicking or punching around
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  Speaker 2: leather ball into the net three points or over the
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  Speaker 2: crossbar between upright posts one point. Wow. I'd never heard
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  Speaker 2: of this sport. It sounds kind of fun.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a combination of soccer, rugby and basketball. Yeah, essentially,
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  Speaker 1: go on, Michael allowed us to learn something today. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I guess that's it.