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Chuck & Buck 7-15 Hour 3: Brady Kannon talks · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Eight o'clock hour here on this hum day it is
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  Speaker 1: chucking back in the mornings, and yes we are on
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  Speaker 1: the eve of the Open Championship, and of course we're
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  Speaker 1: going to reach out to the Las Vegas golfer to
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  Speaker 1: help you figure out who it is that you favor
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  Speaker 1: in this upcoming fourth and final major of the calendar year.
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  Speaker 1: Joining us now is Brady Cannon here on the radio program.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, mister Chuck. How are you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm great. I'm already picturing you on the couch doing
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  Speaker 1: your whole routine getting ready for late night or early
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  Speaker 1: morning golf. I actually want you to go even further.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to buy yourself a new pajama set
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  Speaker 1: every year, specifically for the Open Championship. I want this
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  Speaker 1: to be regal for you in the comfort of your
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  Speaker 1: own home.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds like fun. I need to send you a
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  Speaker 2: picture of myself dressed like Ivor Robson, the famous starter there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with the squeaky voice and everything. That's a
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  Speaker 2: great idea. Actually I'm gonna start dressing is Ivor Robson
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  Speaker 2: to sleep on the couch and watch golf in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: You know as much as we do for you, I
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  Speaker 1: should just send you a Ivor Robson outfit every year
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  Speaker 1: and that that will be your payment for helping us
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  Speaker 1: entertain There just.
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  Speaker 2: Any sort of you know, pajama type outfit to watch
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  Speaker 2: golf in the middle of the night with that tradition,
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  Speaker 2: unlike any other the package I receive every mid July
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  Speaker 2: from Chuck Powell, please forward it along and I will
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  Speaker 2: wear it proudly.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, all right, I'm going to think more
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  Speaker 1: about this, all right, Well let's dive into this of
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  Speaker 1: course where you know, I mean the Open Championships. Unlike
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  Speaker 1: any of the other majors being played overseas, you've always
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  Speaker 1: got some sort of course European type corps and there's
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  Speaker 1: always weather involved in all of this. So what should
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  Speaker 1: we expect out of the course at Royal Birkdale over
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  Speaker 1: the next four days and what should we expect out
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  Speaker 1: of Southport, England weather the next four days?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the weather's really tame. It's unseasonably warm. They actually
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  Speaker 2: get started this evening Pacific time. You're in my time
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  Speaker 2: about ten thirty at night. Yeah, that's when the first
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  Speaker 2: t ball will be hit. So Thursday morning in England.
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  Speaker 2: But I believe it's supposed to reach near eighty degrees
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday and then kind of settle into the low
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  Speaker 2: seventies for the rest of the week. But that's still,
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  Speaker 2: you know, pretty darn warm. They have not had any
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  Speaker 2: rain in the area and if you look at reports,
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  Speaker 2: you'll see that the golf course is already off color.
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  Speaker 2: It's very dry and very crispy. It's going to run
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  Speaker 2: very firm and fast, and that's good, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you remember back in two thousand and six, we were
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  Speaker 2: not too far away in Liverpool, which is just south
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  Speaker 2: of where we are this week, and Tiger Woods famously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, was hitting two irons all week off the
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  Speaker 2: tee and did not hit a single bunker all week.
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  Speaker 2: So I do believe there will be a premium on
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  Speaker 2: accuracy because of the conditions. The wind is also you know,
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  Speaker 2: listed as very moderate, and of course that can change.
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  Speaker 2: We're right on the coast of the Irish Sea here,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, showing anywhere from about five to twenty
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  Speaker 2: miles an hour, kind of a steady ten to fifteen
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  Speaker 2: throughout the four days, which is a little odd as well.
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  Speaker 2: You would expect, you know, one day to gust more
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  Speaker 2: than that. But we will see what mother nature has
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  Speaker 2: in store. But right now it looks warm, firm, fast,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, just moderately windy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, who were the first couple names then to you
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  Speaker 1: that come to mind that these conditions really favor these
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  Speaker 1: couple of.
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  Speaker 2: Golfer Well, I mentioned the premium on accuracy off the tea,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, I don't believe this is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a bomber fest, you know, like Bryson de Shamba,
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  Speaker 2: and this has really been Bryson's worst major championship. He's
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  Speaker 2: yet to make a cut in any of the three
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  Speaker 2: majors yet this season, and now he comes across the
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  Speaker 2: one that's probably not suited for him the most of
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  Speaker 2: the four. You know, now with the conditions, maybe he
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  Speaker 2: can blow it by everything, but you're really risking a
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  Speaker 2: lot if you're going to, you know, strategize that way.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see how it works out for Bryson. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of relate this golf course Burkedale. It's got
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  Speaker 2: very flat fairways. It's not kind of that moguled undulated
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  Speaker 2: you know links golf that we're used to, the moguls,
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  Speaker 2: the sand dunes. If you will they border the fairways
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  Speaker 2: and make for great viewing areas for the for the
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  Speaker 2: f but the fairways between these sand dunes are relatively flat,
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  Speaker 2: peppered with the pot bunkers smaller greens, And I kind
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  Speaker 2: of relate it to some of the courses we see
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  Speaker 2: here Stateside Sea Island, home of the RSM Classic, and
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  Speaker 2: Georgia Wyla Country Club, the Sony Open, and Hawaii Harbor
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  Speaker 2: Town in Hilton Head, South Carolina. These shorter, smaller, more
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  Speaker 2: claustrophobic courses that are coastal where you have some wind
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  Speaker 2: and and accuracy is more of a you know, a
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  Speaker 2: factor than than distance. And you know, I think that
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  Speaker 2: kind of leads you towards the players like Russell Henley
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  Speaker 2: and Shane Lowry and Colin Morikawa and not necessarily the
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  Speaker 2: Rory McElroy's and Bryce and De'shambeau. And you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's going to be a little bit more of
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  Speaker 2: a plotter's tournament rather than a bomber's.
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  Speaker 1: Brady Cannon is with us, the Las Vegas golfer himself,
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  Speaker 1: Joe's before every major. Of course, he is all over
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  Speaker 1: the place these days, and you can check out his
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  Speaker 1: work right now he's got a ride up there for
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  Speaker 1: golf diet was it Golf Digest, golf dot Golf Digest,
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  Speaker 1: Why am I not? Why am I blanking on this?
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  Speaker 2: Golf dot com?
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  Speaker 1: Golf dot com? Yeah, golf dot com. So he's got
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  Speaker 1: a full ride up there for you to check out
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  Speaker 1: some of his favorite picks going in to this tournament,
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  Speaker 1: which we'll get to a couple of those here in
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  Speaker 1: a moment. So, Scotty Scheffler is the defending champ, but
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  Speaker 1: of course this isn't the Masters, It's not the same
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  Speaker 1: course every year, So how much should we read into
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  Speaker 1: him having had success at last year's British Opening, whether
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  Speaker 1: or not that would carry over? And then Jordan Speith
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  Speaker 1: actually won at this very course in this very tournament,
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  Speaker 1: but all the way back in twenty seventeen, So how
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  Speaker 1: much does nine years difference make? Does that? Do you
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  Speaker 1: read into anything of Speed's past success that might suggest
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  Speaker 1: he could have success this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Start with Scotty, and you know it hasn't been a
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  Speaker 2: Scotty like year. He's finishing second instead of first. He's
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  Speaker 2: really fallen off, you know, yeah, yeah, rough, go boy,
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  Speaker 2: write him off. He's awful. No, I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of weird though, you know it. You know, in
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  Speaker 2: the same breath, I'm gonna say I don't have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of confidence betting him. It just doesn't feel like
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  Speaker 2: he's the guy that we saw the last couple of
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  Speaker 2: years that was so dominant, you know. And if you
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  Speaker 2: look at his price, I mean, it's no longer three
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  Speaker 2: to one to win these tournaments. He's he's approaching ten
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  Speaker 2: to one. So that's that's something new. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: won at golf courses like this before, He's won everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: He's Scotty Scheffler. He can do anything at any time.
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  Speaker 2: But it just doesn't feel like his season that we've
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  Speaker 2: been used to, at least the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 2: where he set the bar so high. You know. Now
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  Speaker 2: he's playing like a Norse world number one and not
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  Speaker 2: a world number one that's being compared to Tiger Woods.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, he's fallen off a little bit, but
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  Speaker 2: he's still the guy, you know, And I think if
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  Speaker 2: you found ten to one out there, that might be
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  Speaker 2: a green light. Say, geez, give me Scotty Scheffler at
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  Speaker 2: ten to one. Okay, great, as far as Speece you
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  Speaker 2: know it's been it has been a drop off for
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  Speaker 2: Jordan's beef, the former world number one from what he
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  Speaker 2: was in twenty seventeen, in fact ascended to number one
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  Speaker 2: after that victory. You look at some of the guys
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  Speaker 2: on that leaderboard. Second place was Matt Coocher, sixth place
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  Speaker 2: was Brandon Grace. All those guys have won at Harbortown before,
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  Speaker 2: and I mentioned the correlation with the RBC heritage at Harbortown,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, I think that makes sense there. There's
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  Speaker 2: also a great connection with Pebble Beach. Jordan Speith has
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  Speaker 2: won at Pebble and so have former Birkdale champions Mark o'meira,
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Miller and Watson. So you know, again it's that
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  Speaker 2: smaller greens positional coastal track that I think we have here.
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  Speaker 2: Speath has really been I think better than a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people realize. He just hasn't been able to make
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  Speaker 2: any putts, and he said that himself. He's like, if
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  Speaker 2: I could just you know, kick the lid off the
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  Speaker 2: top of the cup and get some putts to fall,
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  Speaker 2: things could be very different. I'm just not so sure
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  Speaker 2: what to expect out of him. Chuck it feels like
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  Speaker 2: it can be feast or famine with him. I love
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Speath and I hope he has a top ten
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  Speaker 2: finish and contends I would be surprised if Scotty didn't
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  Speaker 2: finish top ten either, But neither one of them is
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  Speaker 2: getting my money to win it all.
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  Speaker 1: What about a Fleetwood who knows the course so well?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we saw Fleetwood come in with all
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  Speaker 2: of this spotlight and pressure in twenty seventeen and he
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  Speaker 2: really couldn't live up to those expectations. Lot of people
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  Speaker 2: feel he will this time around. He literally grew up
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  Speaker 2: down the street from this golf course, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: he knows it like the back of his hand, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's obviously a hometown hero. But with that
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  Speaker 2: does come a tremendous amount of spotlight and expectation and pressure,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I don't know if Tommy Fleetwood is
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  Speaker 2: the right character to handle all of that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's a tremendous player, he just doesn't always get it
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  Speaker 2: to the winner circle. He has many times overseas, he
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  Speaker 2: only has once in America. I love the guy and
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  Speaker 2: I root for him, but that is a lot to
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  Speaker 2: take on, you know, trying to not only win a
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  Speaker 2: major championship, but to come through and do it in
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  Speaker 2: front of your hometown in a country like England that
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  Speaker 2: hasn't had an Open championship winner since I believe nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety eight or something like that with Nick Faldo. So
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  Speaker 2: there's just a lot writing on the Englishman this week.
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  Speaker 2: Matt Fitzpatrick, excuse me, Matt Fitzpatrick included who's a very
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  Speaker 2: popular pick this week? Fleetwood and Fitzpatrick I think maybe
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  Speaker 2: possibly feeling the most pressure of the English guys. I
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  Speaker 2: like Justin Rose and Tyroll Hatton. I think they're playing
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  Speaker 2: tremendous golf. You probably remember way back in Gosh. I
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  Speaker 2: guess it was ninety eight Markomera one at Birkdale and
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  Speaker 2: Justin Rose was a seventeen year old amateur and finished
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  Speaker 2: fourth that year and that's when he really burst on
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  Speaker 2: the scene. Can he repeat that feat at forty five
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  Speaker 2: years old? I think he can. The guys just playing
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  Speaker 2: some of the best golf of his career, really, and
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  Speaker 2: so is Tyroll Hatton. So those were the two English
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  Speaker 2: guys I went with. I stayed away from Fitzpatrick and Fleetwood,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not doubting that they won't do well, but
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  Speaker 2: I just feel that they come in with maybe the
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  Speaker 2: most pressure on their shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: You're the expert, so I'm not going to correct you,
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  Speaker 1: but I think i'd write them all off because when
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  Speaker 1: England beats Argentina today, they're all going to be drunk
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  Speaker 1: all weekend long.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I said that we could have England
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  Speaker 2: win in America and we could have an American win
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  Speaker 2: in England.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. That seems fair. Brady Cannon is
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  Speaker 1: with us, of course, with golf dot Com. He's got
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  Speaker 1: his article up bringing down who he's betting on. What
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get to here in a second. So
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  Speaker 1: also CBA, Sports, sports Line, sports Grid. He is a
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  Speaker 1: must fallow for you if you love golf, and especially
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  Speaker 1: if you love betting on golf. You can follow that
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas golfer there on X. All right, let's get
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  Speaker 1: to your picks. It feels like we're talking about all
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  Speaker 1: the guys you don't like in this tournament, So tell
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  Speaker 1: me about the guys you do like.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mentioned Justin Rose and Tyrolhatton. I'm on both
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  Speaker 2: of those guys just playing brilliant golf. Those are some
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  Speaker 2: of the shorter shots in the thirty to thirty five
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  Speaker 2: to one range. Colin Morikawa also right there with those guys.
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  Speaker 2: He won at Pebble Beach earlier this season, and I
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  Speaker 2: think he's finally one hundred percent healthy now, Chuck. I
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  Speaker 2: really think that he's ready to go. Shane Lowry won
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  Speaker 2: this championship in twenty nineteen. You know, you can get
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  Speaker 2: him in the neighborhood of sixty to one these days,
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  Speaker 2: and that just feels too high on a guy that
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  Speaker 2: may be the best wind player in the world and
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  Speaker 2: really is a links golf specialist. Russell Henley I mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: played him at fifty to one. So accurate off the tea,
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  Speaker 2: so good with the wedges. You know, I think this
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  Speaker 2: guy is really close to winning a major championship. So
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  Speaker 2: those were some of the shorter shots that I took,
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  Speaker 2: and then some long shots Seewu Kim. He's now been
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  Speaker 2: bet down to about forty five to one or so.
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  Speaker 2: I got him at eighty to one. That feels like
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  Speaker 2: a nice value there. He's never done typically well in
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  Speaker 2: this championship, but his game is probably never been better
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  Speaker 2: than it has been this season, and he really translates
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  Speaker 2: well with the type of style he played. If he
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  Speaker 2: can get the putter going this weekend like he did
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  Speaker 2: last weekend in Scotland, he should be a factor. He's
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  Speaker 2: got three top ten finishes in his last five starts
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  Speaker 2: and then a couple of long bombs triple digit numbers
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  Speaker 2: with Harris English at one hundred to one and Ben
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  Speaker 2: Griffin at one hundred to one. I think if you're
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  Speaker 2: going to take a long shot, those guys are a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good shot to take that. I do believe have
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  Speaker 2: a chance to contend this week.
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  Speaker 1: And should you take a long shot, I mean, maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'm making this up. I certainly don't follow it as
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  Speaker 1: closely as you were, Ashley follow golf, but it always
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  Speaker 1: feels like the British Open, the Open Championship is just
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  Speaker 1: rife for some big, out of nowhere long shot. It's
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  Speaker 1: usually the tournament where the sixty year old like Geene
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  Speaker 1: Sarazen might wain in this weekend, where the old man, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the old man is in the contention until the very Yah, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know you're right about that again. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: ninety eight, God, I can't remember the year, or no,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it was twenty seventeen. The last time we were here.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember for sure, but Greg Norman at fifty
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  Speaker 2: three some years old or whatever contended for a minute
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  Speaker 2: and actually was right there near the lead. And that
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  Speaker 2: is and we saw Tom Watson do it at Troon
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  Speaker 2: when Stuart Sink, you know, kind of spoiled the party
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  Speaker 2: and everybody thought Watson was going to win the Open
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  Speaker 2: for a six time. So yes, the old guys can
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  Speaker 2: compete here, and long shots are absolutely live. If you
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  Speaker 2: look at what has happened in the Open Championship the
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  Speaker 2: last fifteen years or so, the average price of the
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  Speaker 2: winner has been about fifty or sixty to one, and
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  Speaker 2: there's been, you know, last year, Scottie Scheffler at five
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  Speaker 2: to one, and there's been Darren Clark at three hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty to one or something like that. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it is, like you say, rife with randomness, if you will.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like the Masters, which typically goes to one
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  Speaker 2: of the favorites. It is much more volatile. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the way your betting card needs to
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  Speaker 2: line up, and that's really the way mine has. I've
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  Speaker 2: got you know, some thirty to forty to one, some
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  Speaker 2: fifty to sixty to ones, and a few hundred to
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  Speaker 2: ones and hopefully one of them hits.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I got to go pajama shopping, I know that
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  Speaker 1: for a friend, and I'll try to send you a
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  Speaker 1: replica Claret jug filled with the Guinness as well in
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  Speaker 1: your care package.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds outstanding, all right, man, Well, enjoy it all.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be thinking about you on the couch tonight at
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  Speaker 1: ten thirty for goodness sake.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to it. That Midsummer Classic
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  Speaker 2: one more time for major championships this year, and then
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  Speaker 2: you know what, chuck after this, it's kind of onto
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  Speaker 2: football season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, we're ten days from training camp coverage,
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  Speaker 1: so believe me, there's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And how about that NFC West huh.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, no doubt. Yeah, yeah, the Rams, the Ram
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  Speaker 1: think they've got a shot this year. Isn't that funny, Adie?
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's talking about my forty nine ers. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: guys are the defending Super Bowl champs. The Rams are
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  Speaker 2: making all the headlines. I think the Niners are quietly
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  Speaker 2: pretty live.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you like to slip under the radar there, do you? Well, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's remember remember when we used to be at sports
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  Speaker 1: talk radio together, and people talked about this being the
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  Speaker 1: dead time of the year. There's no dead time of
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  Speaker 1: the year anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Brady, No, that's true. We've got and what a great
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  Speaker 2: weekend we have ahead of us. We talked about it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the World Cup Baseball, you know, the All
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  Speaker 2: Star Game last night, less than thrilling for sure, and
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  Speaker 2: then the Open Championship. So enjoy it, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thank you you too, Brady Cannon joining us
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  Speaker 1: right here on Chuck and Buck in the morning, and
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: you can follow him, and you should, especially if you're
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: into the golf and into the betting on the golf
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: at Las Vegas, golfer and we appreciate him joining us
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: before every major for the last few years. I do
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: well him pajamas and Guinness.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sounds delightful. I would like some pajamas and guinness.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: All right. Coming up next, we will recap that boring
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: All Star Game for you, the Baseball brunch. It's more
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: than just a Mariner's recap. I just decided that this
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: morning Sports Radio ninety three point three KHRFM, the people
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: that brought you Reckless at Breakfast, I'm Johnny Brinch, and
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: we are going to recap last Night's All Star Game
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: for you, even though it was dreadfully dull for most
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: of the game, Even me, the big baseball fan here
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: at the station and the big All Star Game fan,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I love the All Star Game traditionally, but it's easy
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: to recognize that it has been dominated by pitchers over
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the years, hitters only getting to face one guy at
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: a time, getting one at bat usually or two at bats,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: and there it'll always be against a different guy, and
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: they are really good. They're at the top of their game,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: and they all throw hard, and they're all nasty, and
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: they're all used by the event. So it usually is
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: low scoring. But there's low scoring, and then there's last night.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: There just was not much activity at all after the
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: top of the first.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Innings in safe thing goodness for the first inning.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, first inning. The American League did score three
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: times against a struggling Christopher Sanchez, which is something that
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: people slept on. Yes, he's been phenomenal here in the
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: first half, and with miss deciding I don't want to play,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: he seemed like the obvious choice in front of Philly
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: fans give him the ball. I think he had a
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: streak of like sixty scoreless innings at one point in
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the first half of the season, which is insane. He's excellent,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: he really is. Even if he's not a household name,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: he is one of the best pitchers in baseball. But
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: his last two outings he'd really struggled and he was
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: having difficulty with the feel again. Last night, he ends
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: up allowing three runs in the first half inning, and
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I thought to myself, Man, are we going to get
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of offense tonight? Yeah, silly, silly rabbit.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: If you hit yourself later.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Than that, that was pretty much it. Miguel Vargas added
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: a home run a little bit later on. The National
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: League only sent thirty guys to the plate total and
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: struck out fifteen times against mostly al relief pitchers last night.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Final score was four to nothing in the game. So
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I've already kind of explained every single highlight in this
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: entire contest.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Well, that was it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: There you go, Cody Bellinger's two run single and Ben
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Rice's single and Miguel Vargas's home run. That's pretty much
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the scoring. That is the scoring for you. So who
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: will we star? Who we call our star of today's
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: baseball brunch? Why our own guy Randy a Rose Arena,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: e l.
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  Speaker 2: Z Arena finds a whole basit to center.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: That was it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: There's your highlights, Seattle.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: You got a hit.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: I knew it could not have sounded less exciting to
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: the announcers. Rose Arena, single to center.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: The broadcasters made the game itself secondary at best. Yeah,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: it was all about America. Yeah, last night, There's no
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: question about it. And trying to do inventive ways to
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: cover baseball. We got to have a player interview. We
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: got to interview that pitcher and the catcher while they're
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: pitching and catching. We got to interview a hitter. Let's
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: interview a hitter this year, even though we were all
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: looking forward to Kyle Schwarber maybe hitting a home run
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: in front of Philly fans, and instead we had to
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: watch him fiddle fart around with his earpiece because we
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: needed to interview him during in it bat because there
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: was going to be something golden that game out of there. Yeah.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Just they need to just like put a microphone around
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: the base or something around home plate.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: You can just pick up the sounds there.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I get that you want to do player interviews and
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: it's just an exhibition. I get that, but man, you
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: just overdid it. And you were trying to be so
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: everybody's trying to be so cutting edge, we're going to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: change the way it's done that you're messing with the game.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you're and then your broadcast was boring.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: The broadcast was terrible. I don't know whoever produced the
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: broadcast last night that they should not be working today
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: at that company. Terrible, just terrible in my assss. And
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the game was a little boring and all of that stuff.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: But in the end we ended up having an MVP
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: who went one for three with a single Cody Bellinger
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: after the game.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Cody, congratulations, drown the twenty twenty six All Star Game MVP,
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: the little Ted Williams MVP award, didn't Did you think
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: that first at bath would stand up for the MVP award?
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: Not in the moment as the game went on. I mean,
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: like I just said, the pitching was just absolutely dominant,
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: and they said keep your jersey on just in case
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: I was just watching the game.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Cody, congrats to you. So let's talk about that though.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: So here's Christopher Sanchez was the fifth longest scoreless streak
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: in history.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: This year and you guys come out in the first thitting.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: What happened there?
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Baseball is, you know, one of the most unexplainable games
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: there is. Sometimes it just doesn't make sense. And you know,
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: the guys in front of me did a great job.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: They got on base, you know, two outs. I'm up
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: with the basis leather and I just try to keep
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: a simple Bobby had a great event in front of me,
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: saw a lot of pitches, and you know, I got
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: a good pitch to hit and try to put a
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: good swing on it.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: You know, this crossed my mind because Miguel Vargas had
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a home run and he also lined out to center field,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: and Tom Verducci was the first person that excuse me, well,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Miguel Vargas was the first interview they did when the
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: game was over. He's the White Sox third baseman, and
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: so Verducci starts interviewing Vargas, and I went to the bathroom,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: so I'm just got over here and kept the door open.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Unicorns and not home, so I'm just trying to listen
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: to it, and all of a sudden, Verducci starts talking
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: about Vargas and his exit velocity. The two hardest hit
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: balls of the night. And I thought to myself, Oh
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: my gosh, they are going because there's not a better
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: MVP candidate, They're going to give the MVP to someone
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: because of exit velocity.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, Mike Flowers would have been so proud, so proud.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Flowers is like president. Yes, Vargas. Vargas is my favorite
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: player of the game. All right, So what did we
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: learn today? Kids? I got a long list. I'm gonna
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: saved some time to go over all the things we learned.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, in the All Star Game yesterday, number one
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Philly fans now boo everyone like everyone, yes, And I
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: think I kind of find it endearing. Now I had
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: a problem with it, like every sports fan had a
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: problem with it. You booed Santa Claus. Well, now they've
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: just embraced it to the level. They booed every National
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: League player last night. They booed all Yankees last night.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: They booed anyone that threatened Schwarber or Harper at the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: home run derby the night before, they booed the kids
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: that didn't make clean catches in the outfield during the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: home run derby. And then they just went over the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: top cheering for their own guys every time that they
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: were seen on the screen. And even though I think
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: that annoyed me about Philadelphia fans for a long time,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: the fact that they've embraced it and are like, Okay,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: you want to criticize for that, now watch us. I
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: think it's actually very amusing now. And the players do too.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: They were all laughing their asses off every time they
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: got booed last night, so I actually kind of like
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: it now. I like that Philly fans boo everything now.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: I used to get really annoyed and think like, oh,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: those guys are jerks, and now I think me and
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: they are just angry about it all and I love it.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: But they're now heppy angry.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: They're salty, faulty, for sure. I like it.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Along those lines, I have gone from not really liking
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Bryce Harper all that much to really liking Bryce Harper,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: like the way that he has endeared himself to that
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: fan base, the way he did become a free agent
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: and he left the Nationals, and I thought unceremoniously, and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I don't think he really put all that great and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: effort into his last year with the Nationals. And I
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: did famously or just I remember Washington's gonna win the
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: World Series the first year after he left, and they did.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: They did, And so I used to not like him
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: all that much. But when he became a Philly man,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: he became a Philly and he tapped into everything about
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: that community and what it is that makes them love
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: a player. And I get it now, and and I
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't think any of it's an act.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I think Rice Harper has found his baseball nirvana. Has
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: he put together a Hall of Fame career, maybe, But
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: certainly I have grown to really appreciate that guy, which
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: once upon a time I criticized him quite a bit.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that's fair.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: I think it's also a sign of his of his
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: age and his maturity as he's been through the league
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: and as he's picked things up and learned.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: But he has definitely a Philly, I mean they.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: And speaking of Phillies, I mean I wish Mike Trout
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: would become a Philly. And I'm really I don't know
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: what to say about Mike Trout. He's one of the
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: five best players I've ever watched play baseball. Even with
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: all of the injuries that he suffered in the last
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: ten years, I'd still put him in that group, and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: before anybody asked, yes, juniors in that group, but I
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: put him in the in the top five players that
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I've ever seen. And yet the guy just has no
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: hunger whatsoever for anything that resembles glory. And maybe I
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: should like him for that, but he refuses to be
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: traded away from the Angels and just as resigned himself
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: to never being a factor in the playoffs.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah he has.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: He had shoey Otani as his teammate and they never
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: made the playoffs together.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah they weren't even the team wasn't good.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: He's never been in a home run derby, even though
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: everybody wanted to see him being a home run derby.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: And then he gets healthy enough too because he wanted
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to play in this All Star Game, which normally I
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: don't think he would have even cared to ever play
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: an All Star games. And then he gets this to
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: at bats and it's again, it just kind of falls flat.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: It's like, dude, this was like your last chance to
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: own the stage, like to be a part of Philadelphi.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: You're obviously never going to play on a winning baseball team.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: You've you've signed that death warrant. You're never going to
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: be a part of the playoff, You're never going to
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: make it to wor World Series. I mean, you only
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: have a couple maybe All Star Game appearances remaining, and
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I'd just like to see you embrace that. You should
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: have done the home run derby, and you should have
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: played the entire damn game for goodness sake, you should
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: have fought to play more than just three innings last night.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: So I don't know what to make of him. I mean,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I do appreciate that he's not look at me, look
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: at me. But on the other hand, when you were,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: you were the face of the league for ten years
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: and you never had a look at me moment is
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: kind of sad.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Frankly, I don't think if you, yeah, look at his
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: career in its entirety, I think it's sad too, because,
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, here, he is one of the best baseball
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: players ever and he's just riddled with injuries year after
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: year after year on a losing team, and and it's yeah,
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: he's had opportunities I to go other places, but doesn't
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: want to, which is endearing.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: And I think, you know, yeah, yeah, there's.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Something endearing about it, but there's also something like cowardly
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: about it. I think I don't know.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: I don't I wouldn't take it that. I take it
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: more as he's a loyal guy. He's like, if this
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: is my team, this is my team, and I'm going
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: to stick with it. So I just think and he
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: knows that he's the best thing that aside from show hey,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: that has happened to the Angels in a long time.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: And is there an element of something? Is there a
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: little bit too? I don't want increased expectations. That's that's
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: hard well, and actually that's actually too much pressure for
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: me here. I'm loved, I get paid. I played baseball
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: when I'm healthy, and when I'm not, they don't. They
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: don't try to force the issue. They're not looking to
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: trade me. I'm not looking to get trade. I mean,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: isn't there a competitive fire in the guy that says,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: get me out of here, send me home to Philadelphia.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I want to help. I want to help Bryce and
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Shoreber win a World Series.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: When you talked about him not playing in a home
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: run derby, that was the first thing I actually thought of.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: I wonder if he doesn't want to do a home
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: run derby because everyone thinks of him as a home
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: run hitter until he gets into the situation where he's
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: got to show off, and maybe he's afraid he'd fail.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: So maybe it is afraid of not meeting the expectations,
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: or maybe it's just maybe he's just that guy, like, Hey,
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: I love baseball. I like living here and not Los
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Angeles but in Anaheim.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Even though they're they.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Don't dislike him for any of it. Yeah, but I
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: don't know if I love him for it, And maybe
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: I should, Maybe I should really appreciate. Maybe he's just
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: a rare breed that I don't need attention. I just
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: like playing baseball. I'm happy that I was great at it.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I'm happy that I made a lot of money doing it,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and can you know, support my family for generations to come. Yeah,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: but I don't really need any more out of the game. Yeah,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and I don't need to win. I don't need to
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: be a champion. I don't need to be glorified. Maybe
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I should really like that, but it just it's so
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: unusual what it's like Barry Sanders times a thousand, and
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I admire it as much as
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I should. Got caught in between.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: I can understand, because yeah, there's loyalty and then there's
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: kind of what he's doing. But maybe because of his injuries,
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: he thinks, you know what, this team didn't give up
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: on me.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to give up on them.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: One last thing it has to be mentioned today, and
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: that is the Camonaro hit by pitch nightmare. Nightmare scenario.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, we play our exhibition game all out, which
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: is why the Major League Baseball All Star Game is,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: without even comparison, the best All Star game out there,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: because they throw as hard as they do in regular
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: season games, maybe harder. They try to hit the ball
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: just as hard and far. Maybe they don't run the
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: bases as hard, maybe they don't break up double plays
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: and things of that nature. But it's as close as
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: you get to actual, real top of the scale competitive sports.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: No other All Star game comes anywhere close to that.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: But part of that is you run the risk that
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: in an exhibition game, the leading candidate for MVP in
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the American League, for the team with the lowest payroll
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: that needs that guy the most, gets hit in the
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: hand by an errant pitch. And I thought for sure.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: He broke his hand.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought he did too, and they I mean
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: they did too clearly. They did X rays and they
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: were worried.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Well he's okay, Yeah, at least it's not broken. How
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: much damage was done, we don't know. But Camonero was
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: immediately ran off the field. Looked like looked terrible, looked
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: like the worst nightmare for baseball. And the X rays
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: were negative. So we'll wait on the reports. But baseball's
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: better with that talented freak out on the field, and
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: so hopefully he's going to be okay for the second half.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, A lot of people are
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: wondering what is Lebron waiting for. I think I know now.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRF hard our Huskies
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: one series comes your way at nine o'clock. Cam Cleveland's
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: gonna join us today and in today's breakdown, we're gonna
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: go at tight ends and offensive lineman. Cam always has
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: to do the tight ends and the offensive lineman. He's
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: very selfish about that. Yeah, he also likes to be
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: in the room with the offensive lineman too. He doesn't
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: want to be in the room with the wide receivers.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: He considers himself more of one of the Hogs.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're excited to chat with Cam again. It's
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: been a while. Our Huskies one series continues. At the
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: top of the hour, Lebron James his free agency continues.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I don't again, I don't know why people they just
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: want to be angry with Lebron James. There is no
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: reason why he needs to be in a hurry to
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: make this decision. I mean, it sounds like it's not
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: going to be about finances, it's going to be about
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: the best situation possible, and that he might even take
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: league minimum to play where he's going to be his happiest.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: So if you're going to play league minimum, then you
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about somebody's cap drying up. So
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I think you'd just like to be
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: angry with Lebron James.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: I think that's definitely true.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Now, as a defender of Lebron James, I will say this,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: I am a little bit worried about this. I think
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: he's going to sign tomorrow, and I think he's going
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: to sign tomorrow because it will be officially the slowest
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: day of the year.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: Oh and then it can be all about him.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Then it can all be about him. That's what I
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: think is going to happen.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: I think he's like that papategically surprising to me at all.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: He and his agent are waiting till tomorrow, said the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: entire broadcast day, because today's going to be World Cup yep.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: And yes, there's going to be the Open Championship that
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: will start tomorrow. But let's face it, odd times that
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: they're pointing the final major of the year.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: It'll be done by one.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's not gonna be dominating the headlines. Baseball
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: season does it start again until Friday. We're still ten
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: days away from training camp beginning for football to steal
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: all of the headlines. I think he's saving it for tomorrow.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I think it's a strategic plan to just dominate the
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: news cycle.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, it makes sense to me because they're
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: not doing something like calling out a thirty minute television
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: special to make the announcement this time. So it's like, well,
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: how can we still make this a big deal without
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: without making it look like we're making it a big deal?
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy? Like people that have had nothing but
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: too much attention. All of their lives just have to
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: have more more. Yeah, I can't not have attention. I
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: mean we just saw it with Taylor and Kelsey. You
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: guys haven't had enough attention in your life. You're gonna
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: have your wedding at Madison Square Garden and you're going
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to invite thousands of people, many of which you don't
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: even know. For goodness sake, Deine Blandino is there.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: They raffled off prizes.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you haven't gotten enough attention in your life.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Go off somewhere, Elope, have it on a beach somewhere
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: in some exotic location. That's a good memory. Yeah, that's
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: a memory that Ashley or I couldn't pull off.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you could have something ultra private, just the two
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: of you, and then the rest of your life is
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: going to be surrounded by thousands of people.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Do it on the lip of an active volcano, for
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: goodness sake. You could afford to do a lot of
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: interesting things, not to throw a hey look at me festival,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: which is exactly what you did with your wedding. And
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: yet here's Lebron and I don't think he's any different.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: I think, as you know, even though I remain a fan,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: and I have had to defend my fandom of Lebron
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: quite a bit on this radio program and others through
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: through the years. There's no doubt he really likes to
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: be the center of attention, and I think maybe he
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: is hand picking tomorrow where he can be center of attention.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not sharing my stage with MESSI, you know, I
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: want to be the center of attention. So I think
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: we're gonna find out tomorrow. Sounds like he's narrowed it
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: down to two possibilities, the Warriors and the Cavaliers, but
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Philly is still fighting hard to try to get him
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: to go there. But I think he's going to end
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the suspense tomorrow once.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: And for all, and it would make sense, and again
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: it wouldn't be surprising. I mean, I like Lebron. I
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: watched that there was a specially did on Netflix or
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: something years and years ago, and I thought, oh, yeah,
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: this is a pretty good guy. Keeps all his friends
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: with him and seems to be a lot of great thing. Yeah,
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: lots of great things about him. But yeah, if you
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: have ever followed his career or anything like on and
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: off the court, the guy likes attention.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: He loves attention. Yeah, and I think I think he
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: and Rich Paul strategized to get him more tomorrow. So
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna find out tomorrow, all right. Coming
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: up next, Cam Cleland will join us. Another guy, Oh.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Gosh, loves attention.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: He just always just look at me. I am Cleland.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: I could run and block and catch.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, purple and gold. I'm a husky. Yeah.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I can talk good.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I say fun stuff.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Cam Cleveland next on kJ R