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Which Major US Sports League Has the Worst Playoff Format_ · Sports Exchange

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  Speaker 1: Good evening, everybody. Welcome to another edition of the Sports Exchange.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Scott Morgan, our owner of City of Madden.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to have you with us tonight. We have
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  Speaker 1: Cliff Neal in the house. We've got Jason Prok in
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  Speaker 1: the house. We have Lucas Nelson. And I feel like
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  Speaker 1: it's Lucas Nelson-Martin. And we have candy ambling in the
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  Speaker 1: house as well. They show Rob Morosco will join us later,
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  Speaker 1: probably in the second hour. Now let's get going. Lots
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. Well, by now, we all know by
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  Speaker 1: now that Dusty May is the head coach of the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks, right? So the question is, why did Dusty
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  Speaker 1: leave the University of Michigan in the first place? Well,
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  Speaker 1: a close source of Dusty May said, that's a college
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  Speaker 1: environment that's pushing him a little way towards this decision.
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  Speaker 1: We all know about the college environment, right, Cliff? We
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  Speaker 1: talk about NIL, transfer portal, and not the ability to
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  Speaker 1: coach as much as you want. But what are your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts about Dustin May and why he decided to go
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  Speaker 1: to the Dallas Mavericks?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it's since they changed everything with the
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  Speaker 2: NIL and all the money now going around. It's like
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  Speaker 2: they're going to just keep changing all the time. The
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  Speaker 2: guy's on your team for a year. Oh, I get
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  Speaker 2: a better deal at another school. Okay. He's good. Cause yeah, apparently,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're not going there for the whatever major
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: They're there.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're using that to, to get their path to a,
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  Speaker 2: to an NBA career and making some money. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: actually pretty good money. I wish I could get some
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  Speaker 2: of the money that these guys get for a year
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  Speaker 2: of playing college basketball. And you know, so it's a, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so I can't really blame him. They're going to get paid,
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  Speaker 2: and he doesn't have to deal with a changing roster
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  Speaker 2: every year. Because, yeah, you're doing all this recording. You're
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  Speaker 2: trying to get these guys, oh, yeah, I'm here for
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  Speaker 2: a year, and then there's someone else. At least when
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  Speaker 2: you have with the NBA, it's all about the money anyway.
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  Speaker 2: They're locked into contracts. for more than like a year,
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  Speaker 2: usually a couple of guys here and there, but a
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  Speaker 2: good majority there for, for a few years. So, and
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  Speaker 2: he's probably done enough at that level, at least in
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  Speaker 2: his mind that, you know, it's a, might as well
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  Speaker 2: just go to the NBA and get more consistency, more
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  Speaker 2: secure environment, at least who he knows is who he,
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  Speaker 2: that he knows who's going to be on his team.
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  Speaker 2: Cause it could be from one year to the next.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know who's on your team.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what, Cliff, you set a mouthful. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what? Everything you said was dead accurate. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is an avid Costello people. Who's on first? What's
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  Speaker 1: on second? And all that business. What we're talking about,
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  Speaker 1: and this is very real, Cliff. And I'm glad you
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  Speaker 1: brought it up in the manner that you did. Who
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  Speaker 1: is going to be on my team? So I have
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  Speaker 1: to work harder to buy the groceries, okay? Bill Parcells
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  Speaker 1: was always known for buying the groceries. and then obviously shopping,
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  Speaker 1: buying the groceries, and then being able to coach them.
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  Speaker 1: So that is true, who is on the team, and
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  Speaker 1: was young enough to do it. Once you win the
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  Speaker 1: NCAA championship, then you've done everything that you can do.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe in a future show, we'll talk about other guys
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  Speaker 1: that have gone on to the NBA that haven't been successful,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not the point tonight. Dusty May is it. Again,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking Michigan basketball, and he did it actually in
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  Speaker 1: two years because think about the fact that He did
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  Speaker 1: a whale of a job with Florida Atlantic University as
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  Speaker 1: well and took them to the Final Four. Okay. Great job, Cliff.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Jason?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just going to say, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 4: He took Michigan from, you know, from worse to first.
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  Speaker 4: But two years ago, you know, with the situation with
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  Speaker 4: Juwan Howard, that didn't work out. And he went from...
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  Speaker 4: Bring them to the NCAA tournament. I think it was
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  Speaker 4: the second round they got knocked out. And then this year,
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  Speaker 4: he just used the NIL like a pro. He got
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  Speaker 4: Mara in. He got Lindenborg. And just used that transfer
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  Speaker 4: portal to his advantage. And a lot of teams are
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  Speaker 4: going to do that and probably model after what Dusty did. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think like what Cliff was saying, After
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  Speaker 4: two years, he's already won an NCAA title. That's hard
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  Speaker 4: enough to do. I think it's, in my opinion, one
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  Speaker 4: of the hardest championships to win ever. And he went
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  Speaker 4: in there and they dominated the last game. It came
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  Speaker 4: down to a tough game. But, you know, Dusty's going
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  Speaker 4: to a team where Cooper Flagg was a number one pick.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Dallas is an attractive city for sports teams.
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  Speaker 4: and just the fact that he can coach a player
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  Speaker 4: like that at 19. He has all the talent in
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  Speaker 4: the world, and it's a challenge that, hey, if he
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  Speaker 4: gets fired after his contract, he still gets paid. Look
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  Speaker 4: what happened to John Beeline. His first year with Cleveland,
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  Speaker 4: he didn't fare so well. They fired him, and then
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  Speaker 4: he got paid anyway for his five-year deal. So it's
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  Speaker 4: a win-win situation for Dusty.
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  Speaker 1: Great point, Jason. Go ahead, Lucas.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I heard Dusty talk on a Michigan podcast a
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  Speaker 5: while ago, basically telling the show that the deal was
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  Speaker 5: too good to not say no. He had so much
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  Speaker 5: good access at Michigan. He had so many good connections there,
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  Speaker 5: but it was tough.
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  Speaker 6: It was the time.
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  Speaker 5: It hurt his heart because he had grown so fond
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  Speaker 5: of these players that he recruited through NIL, through just
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  Speaker 5: the connections that he has. And he really, really took
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  Speaker 5: advantage of that and obviously won a national title with them.
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  Speaker 5: And now that the fact that he's going to the NBA,
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  Speaker 5: he's happy, of course, but And Michigan fans are happy
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  Speaker 5: as well because it's the best source for him. It
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  Speaker 5: really is. It's the best of both worlds. And Michigan,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, they got to find another coach, but
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  Speaker 5: they're so happy for the guy. I mean, they got
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  Speaker 5: a national title. And if he would have done it,
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  Speaker 5: if they would have offered it another time or something
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  Speaker 5: lower amount from the Dallas Mavericks, He definitely would have
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  Speaker 5: stayed at Michigan, but it was too good to be declined. Like,
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  Speaker 5: you had to accept it. Like, anyone in their right
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  Speaker 5: mind would accept it. And Michigan Wolverine fans would agree.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, yeah, man, if you're going to make that
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  Speaker 5: and take.
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  Speaker 6: That agreement, go for it. I mean, you deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. He kept his word. He did
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  Speaker 1: not take another college job.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: He would not take another college job.
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  Speaker 3: No problem.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. But the main thing here is this, okay? He
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  Speaker 1: only went to the NBA. Once you've won the national championship,
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  Speaker 1: there's only one place to go and duplicate it, and
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  Speaker 1: that's it. All right, Candy, your final word on Dusty.
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  Speaker 3: So it was all about timing. Honestly... When Dallas Mavericks
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  Speaker 3: general manager Mike Schmidt called, he called to pick Dusty
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  Speaker 3: May's brain about Michigan's three NBA draft prospects on the
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  Speaker 3: morning of May 24th. He asked one question that got
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  Speaker 3: the ball rolling toward May leaving. After he had talked
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  Speaker 3: about the three, he goes, would you have any interest
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  Speaker 3: in this job? Schmidt's timing was perfect. May told them
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  Speaker 3: May had just returned home from the Big Ten's spring
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  Speaker 3: meetings where the league's coaches met to discuss, among other things,
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  Speaker 3: the state of the game. May said, I was so
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  Speaker 3: excited for Big Ten meetings. We're going to try and
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  Speaker 3: find some solutions. I go there and I was just like,
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  Speaker 3: oh my God, nothing's getting fixed ever. May said the
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  Speaker 3: Big Ten coaches were still complaining about the transfer portal
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  Speaker 3: and changes to the game that he saw that as
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  Speaker 3: irreversible he says we've got to stop talking about the
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  Speaker 3: stuff that we cannot change he's always had a desire
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  Speaker 3: to coach in the nba so this was all about
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  Speaker 3: perfect timing and as you guys had said he had
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  Speaker 3: already won the championship at michigan you've already at the
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  Speaker 3: top um and to mold cooper flag and to not
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  Speaker 3: have to re-recruit every single year like you have to
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  Speaker 3: do in college now He just couldn't pass it up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Great stuff. Validates everything you said. And I'll always
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  Speaker 1: pull for Dusty. I worked with Dusty at FAU, and
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  Speaker 1: he's one of the nicest guys. He was really great.
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  Speaker 1: When I had my one-on-one interviews and group sessions and
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  Speaker 1: took a picture of him, don't want to tap it.
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  Speaker 1: It's there. But the memories are definitely there for sure. Okay. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs did make the playoff, and they did
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  Speaker 1: that despite a losing streak. As manager, actually– Craig Council
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  Speaker 1: had lost nine games in a row, but Craig Council
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  Speaker 1: did go ahead and overcome that. What are your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: about Council and the... Chicago Cubs, Cliff?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a testament to Craig Council and his ability
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  Speaker 2: as a manager. When the quote-unquote chips are down, I
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  Speaker 2: know I sound like a cliche, but when the chips
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  Speaker 2: are down and things aren't looking so good, got to
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  Speaker 2: find a way to like turn things around. And he did.
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  Speaker 2: And the Cubs are a good team up and down
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  Speaker 2: the last few years. So I'm not really that surprised
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  Speaker 2: you kind of combination of, of, of the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they're a pretty decent team and the fact that he's
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  Speaker 2: a darn good manager. I'm not surprised at all that
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  Speaker 2: he was able to turn that around. They got a
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  Speaker 2: couple other guys to, to augment the team. They were
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  Speaker 2: able to they were able to make a, make a run,
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  Speaker 2: and now they're in the playoffs, and they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be given at least a little bit of a competition there.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: They just started, so.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jason.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Craig Council is one of the most respected,
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  Speaker 4: one of the top 15 managers in baseball. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he got the Cubs to where they are now, and
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  Speaker 4: I agree with Cliff. still early in the playoffs. It's
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  Speaker 4: going to be exciting. And, you know, what he did
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  Speaker 4: to get them to where they're at today is, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a testament to who Council is. As a player, he
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  Speaker 4: was a gritty player. I remember him when he was
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  Speaker 4: with the Marlins. I think he was on that 90-17. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'd like to see the Cubs do well.
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  Speaker 4: But we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they have a tough task with the San Diego Padres.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have a good idea by the end of the night.
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  Speaker 1: But Greg Thompson's done a pretty good job. But the
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  Speaker 1: only problem is he left the team and is doing
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  Speaker 1: even better under Pat Murphy. And if Candy decides he
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  Speaker 1: wants to take them at the end, she can definitely
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  Speaker 1: do it. But Pat Murphy's done a job. And you
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  Speaker 1: know what? They just like playing for this guy, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll leave it at that. But Thompson's done a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good job out in Chicago for sure. Go ahead, Lucas.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, as a player, he had the craziest
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  Speaker 5: batting stance in all of America, probably. But, yeah, as
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  Speaker 5: a manager, that guy is bringing the Cubs to greatness again.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, they had the, what, addict to the
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  Speaker 5: basement feeling this season after being the best team and
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  Speaker 5: then falling down, losing nine games, mostly because they have
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  Speaker 5: reliever issues and just pitching issues and just waiting for
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  Speaker 5: them to just get back healthy.
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  Speaker 6: And, yeah, now they're– This is it.
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  Speaker 5: This is where Pete Carl Armstrong is time to shine
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  Speaker 5: is right now. I mean, Michael Bush is, I don't
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  Speaker 5: know if he's going to make anything happen, but Craig
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  Speaker 5: Council is definitely going to make them, make those players
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  Speaker 5: the best for their potential.
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  Speaker 6: And yeah, I mean, he's definitely creating a name for himself.
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  Speaker 1: Kenny.
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  Speaker 3: Local kid from Milwaukee, Craig Council. As we know and
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  Speaker 3: affectionately know, loved for so long. And now we do not,
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  Speaker 3: as much as we like him, we do not like
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  Speaker 3: the team he represents, obviously, but I will say this.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, they had a nine game losing streak, but
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  Speaker 3: that was after a 10 game winning streak to start
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  Speaker 3: the season. And he had two separate 10 game winning
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  Speaker 3: streaks this season. They joined the 2017 Los Angeles Dodgers
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  Speaker 3: is the only expansionary era team teams to record multiple
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  Speaker 3: 10 game winning streaks and a nine game skid in
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  Speaker 3: the same season. He tried everything to shake up the
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  Speaker 3: batting order, bench struggling veterans. And then he just said
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  Speaker 3: to his team, we just need to execute better on
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  Speaker 3: our fundamentals rather than panic over the course of a
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  Speaker 3: long season. And look where they're at now. Now they're
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  Speaker 3: in the playoffs. They're trying to get past the wild
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  Speaker 3: card round. Obviously the, They lost yesterday, so they start
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  Speaker 3: at 10 o'clock Eastern time, so they have not started
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  Speaker 3: today's game yet. But Craig Council, he's a really good coach.
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  Speaker 3: Would I have thought he was one of the best coaches?
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  Speaker 3: I probably would have said that years ago. Now that
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  Speaker 3: I have Pat Murphy, I wouldn't trade Pat Murphy for
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  Speaker 3: our team. And that's what I'm going to say is
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  Speaker 3: managers are good for the team. They can be good
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  Speaker 3: for the team. And as long as they connect with
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  Speaker 3: their players and get the most out of their players
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  Speaker 3: and recognize their players' talents and get those talents out
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  Speaker 3: of them, that makes a good manager. And so Craig
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  Speaker 3: does that. I also think Pat Murphy does that. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: maybe we'll talk about that later.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, yellow parting shot. You can definitely talk
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  Speaker 1: about it if you want to. All right. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how you guys feel about storming the field, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. If you do, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: cost you $ 500, 000, and the SEC fined Mississippi State for
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  Speaker 1: storming onto the field in a game against Arizona State. Cliff,
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  Speaker 1: some thoughts about Mississippi State having to pay $ 500, 000 for
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  Speaker 1: a game they played against Arizona State. The SEC didn't
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  Speaker 1: like it. Your thoughts?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's like, what are you going to really do?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when you really come down to it, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you can't– If the crowd wants to storm the field,
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  Speaker 2: not much they can really do about it. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, yeah, you can say, oh, well, security. But really,
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  Speaker 2: you can't have that much security if a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: people are just going to storm the field and they're
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  Speaker 2: getting fined for it. Yeah, I get it. It's dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of people can get hurt and something like that.
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  Speaker 2: And I get it. I get why they don't want it. And, and,
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  Speaker 2: but it's, it's like $ 500, 000 for that. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: a little heavy handed. And it's, you know, especially for
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  Speaker 2: a sense that you're dealing with that and it's college.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, you're acting like you've never seen a college
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  Speaker 2: game where they storm the field after a big win or,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's like it's happened before. It's, I mean, it's,
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't really bother me that they did it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think maybe the SEC takes itself a little too
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  Speaker 2: seriously there. It's against Arizona State. Are they in the
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  Speaker 2: SEC now? I can't keep track. Did they go in there? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they're Big 12. What's the problem? I don't get it.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I was reading this on FTC, on
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  Speaker 4: their website. So with the $ 500, 000 penalty which they imposed, FTC,
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  Speaker 4: for doing that, they can actually waive that with a.
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  Speaker 4: They can waive that if they can probably go back
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  Speaker 4: on video and see, you know, hey, there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people that everybody's gone from the opposing team. But
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  Speaker 4: like Cliff said, that's hard to... How can you, like,
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  Speaker 4: manage that? You can't stop, you know, a few thousand
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  Speaker 4: people from one section. There's just not enough security to
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  Speaker 4: get out there, you know, so.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, fining them a $ 500, 000. I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: see this, I mean, even years ago, Cal Stanford, the
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  Speaker 4: band is on the field, you know, like, I mean, I,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. It's, this is the, just how can
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  Speaker 4: you really stop it? You know, like, there's just no way.
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  Speaker 4: And the nature of the game, guys, you know, 21-19,
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  Speaker 4: they're about to kick a field goal. They block it.
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  Speaker 4: They kick it, you know, and they make it. And
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  Speaker 4: then everybody storms the field, right? So how– there's no
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  Speaker 4: way to get around it. I'm not really for it. But,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there's not really much you can do. And
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  Speaker 4: if the team wants to impose it and try to
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  Speaker 4: waive that, So they don't have to pay, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: all the power to them if they can do it.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of hard to do. Kind of hard to
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  Speaker 4: keep them off the field.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like your Cal Stanford analogy. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what they were doing about it back then, but I
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  Speaker 1: remember that's a big rivalry there. And the play is
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  Speaker 1: making history for all of them on Blue Board. But
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing I'll say about that. I'm glad that
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  Speaker 1: Cal and Stanford are in the ACC so they can
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  Speaker 1: at least keep that rivalry going. And then you have
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  Speaker 1: USC and UCLA in the Big Ten, harder to imagine that,
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  Speaker 1: but they're still together as well. So you have Southern
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  Speaker 1: California basically in the Big Ten, and you have Northern
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  Speaker 1: California in the ACC, and Washington and Oregon, well, we
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  Speaker 1: know they're in the Big Ten as well. But at
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  Speaker 1: least Cal and Stanford stay together in the ACC. I'll
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: turn it over to Lucas.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you're storming the field after a win
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: against Arizona State, and you're undefeated?
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's kind of like it's not as bad
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: as Michigan storming the field against their win against Western Michigan.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: But it's it's pretty close to comparatively. But I mean,
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: how do you stop that? I mean, Clemson's been doing
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: that for the past couple of years where they make
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: a PA announcement saying, please do not storm the field.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Wait until all the coaches, wait until the visiting team
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: has cleared the field or else we will get significantly fined. So,
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: I mean, before that, I mean, it was a rush
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: to the paw every single home game win. Well, actually,
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: home game, period. It was just a rush to the
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: pot every single game, and it was a free-for-all. So
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: you see the coach's handshake, and you see just some
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: random fan just, like, trying to get in Dabo's face. Like,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: that happened every single year. So in order to implement that,
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: it's been pretty well implemented with the PA announcement and
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: just security lined up, like, very aggressively and have these
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: tightropes saying, okay, get out, get out, get out. And
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: they haven't had anyone storm out until the visiting team
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: has cleared. It's been really surprisingly very organized.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: But that's Clemson, though. That's Clemson, though, where that happened
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: all the time. How often does this happen there? That's
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: the whole thing. If that's something that happens all the
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: time there, you would see why Clemson would do it.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: So they felt the need to do it. This is
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: something that happens all the time there. That's the whole thing.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: If it's not something that happens all the time there
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: and it happens this one time, you know, that's the question.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: If it's a problem, then sure, okay. But how often
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: does that happen there at that location?
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: Right. That's the thing.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: And then, I mean, you can try to pick their
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: brain about, hey, what's– how did y'all kind of organize
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: people to stay off the field during the, these past
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: two years, because it's, it's all of a sudden, um,
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: a thing now that you can't storm the field right after.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: And now, well, I mean, it's, it's a thing other
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: than Clemson.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, you cannot like, absolutely, but to enforce it,
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: it's been a really, really organized and just, um, they've
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: understood the rules now, like the people, um, The crowd
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: is understood. OK, we're not storming the field. We have
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: to wait until the visiting team is off.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: Got it. OK.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: But it's maybe other schools could replicate that and say, OK,
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: this is what we're going to do.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: And these are the security protocols that we can take.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: I don't know. That's just my take.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Well, they could, but I mean, do they all usually
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: need to, is it a, is it, is it, is
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: it an epidemic kind of thing that happens at all
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: these school? That's, that's the point. That's really the point.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I'm like, it happened to Clemson all the time.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I can see that if they keep doing it, like
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: these other places, it's like, yeah, it happened this one time.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Last time it.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Happened, like it was seven years ago or something. I'm like,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Do you really need a policy for it then?
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're not going to get them to stop. I mean,
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: there's always going to be people that are going to
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: run out of field no matter what. The policy is
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: not to actually fulfill it for every single school.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Nope.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: Nope.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: We lost your voice. We're not hearing you, Scott.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Scott, we can't hear you.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: For some reason, we can't hear you. I don't know
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: because I'm sorry. I apologize. I missed a little bit.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: But I'm going to say that do you guys realize
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: that they carried the goalpost with them out of the stadium?
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Is that better?
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: That is better, yes. And then the other thing is
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: they were already on the field before Arizona State players
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: and coaches could even leave. So I think that's part
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: of why they're doing that. I can tell you that
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: the SEC, it's a flat $ 500, 000 fine. The ACC starts
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: at $ 50, 000 for the first offense, $ 100, 000 for the second offense,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: and $ 200, 000 for every subsequent violation. And the Big 12,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: the standard fine is $ 50, 000.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Well, what do you expect? The SEC is going to
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: enforce it, and they're not messing around with that.
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: $ 500, 000.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, Katie, let's face the reality. It is dangerous,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and what Mississippi State and Arizona State did was dangerous.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, SEC is really kind of taking over. It's like, okay,
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: you better listen to us or else. Because we're the
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: dominant conference.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: I mean, technically they are, but it's with that kind
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: of fine, the first fine. Exactly.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: What do they do with that money?
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know what they do with the money. I'm
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: interested when they fine people. When they do have these fines,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: where does that money go?
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: I would love to know that.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the hockey on the frozen pond,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: as Mike Tirico would point it. Obviously, the Edmonton Oilers
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: hired Mike Babcock, but get this. Mike Babcock actually did
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: a healthy scratch on Mike Modano, And Saddam and Miles
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: saying he ended up with 1,499 games played and not 1,500.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: So this is a two-parter, okay? So pay attention. I'll
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: go around the horn. First of all, Cliff, what are
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: your thoughts about Edmonton hiring Mike Babcock?
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not really surprised. They dropped Knobloch, Chris Knobloch, and,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: you know, he was having all sorts of issues. And, hey, well,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: you know what? He's got– he's going to– he's going
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: to get them with discipline and he's got that, he's
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: got that reputation, even though he has some other bad
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: things with his reputation, he's had success everywhere.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: He's gone.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: He's won the cup, but where'd he win the cup?
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: He won the cup with Detroit and they were pretty
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: well set with the, with those guys on that team.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I would like to have those guys on that team too. So, Yeah,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, they brought him in to, you know, spark
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: a fire under their butts. But, hey, oh, did you
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: happen to see? Oh, they lost last night, 7-6.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Tristan Jerry's in goal. Tristan Jerry's not a good goalie.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: They still don't get it. You lose 7-6. Your defenseman
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: for the first time in NHL history gets a hat
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: trick on the first day of the NHL season ever.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: He had, like, five points in this game. And they
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: lost 7-6 to Vancouver, who is one of the worst
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: teams in the league. And the thing with Madano, I'm
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: not surprised. What a bonehead move on his part. That's
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Mike Madano, Hall of Famer. All right, you're lucky to
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: have him. He gets the chance to get 1,500. You
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: put him in. What a clown.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what? I can't debate with you on
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: this one. I can't. My voice is going to last
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: tonight because I can't compete with you on this. Mike
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Madonna went to the Detroit Red Bulls to play for
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: his hometown team. He's from Westland, Michigan. And for you
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: to not give him a chance at that milestone, we
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: think he's going to come back another year to get
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: one game in his pocket. That was bad. Okay, you
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: know what? Go ahead, Jason.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God. I mean, Babcock, listen. He was hired
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: in Toronto. Before that, didn't do well there. Look, he
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: reminds me of a coach, Mike Keenan. He could discipline
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: his player. And would they like him? They hated him. Flyers,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: they couldn't stay at him. They hated him there. And
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: you go to St. Louis, they turned him around, and
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: they hated him there. Gretzky, he– but that's another story
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: with Mike Keenan. Mike Babcock, he did the same thing
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Mike Madonna did to Chris Chelios. You don't want to
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: play him again. You don't want to put him in minutes.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: I can't remember the actual milestone at this time. But
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: he didn't play Chelios. He did that to Madonna. And
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Mike Keenan, he did this to Gretzky, too. He did
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: this to players that he thought that he could get
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: the most out of. Instead, he just... really just kind
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: of making a man and pissing him off and I'm
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: going to speak. And, and it's just terrible. I mean,
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: for the Oilers, as far as winning for short term, okay.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Keep them. If you give them a short term to
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: someone who can succeed him. Otherwise, if you're going to
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: keep this guy in here, he's going to be totally,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: he's going to be totally, uh, you know, he's going
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: to be totally run out of town and the players
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: are not going to want him. They're not going to
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: want him as long as he stays there too long.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: So that's the only thing I'm afraid of. This reminds
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: me of a kind of a Mike Keenan situation. You know,
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: in my opinion, I, it'll be a good thing as
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: far as a short-term winning. Winning always cures everything. As
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: far as the relationships, we'll see kind of how the relationships, because,
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: you know, even Thomas Holmstrom used to say he was
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: a jerk, you know, even though they won that cup
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: in 08, he was a jerk and people didn't like him. I, again,
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: his coaching attributes, everything, you know, but as far as
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: like relationships with players and that, we'll see kind of
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: how it goes you know with.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Well Jason to give you clarity what happened I'm glad
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: you brought the Chelios situation that happened and Chelios' hometown
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: at the Winter Classic he wouldn't let him play in
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the game unbelievable that was what he wanted to do
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: So I don't know what he was looking to prove there,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: but it didn't impress me. But, yeah, I do agree
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: with you, Jason, that I think that this is a
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: short-term win-now mode. You know, Conor McDavid, obviously, it's important.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: They want to get him a cup, and they feel
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: that Mike Batcock gives them the best chance to do it.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: And we'll tell you what ends up happening. Great stuff, though, Jason.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought the Chelios thing up. You got
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: my wheels turning. Good job. Okay, go ahead, Lucas.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, this looks like a stunt to try
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: to bring some wins in, to try to bring a winning.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: Tradition or winning formation to this team. Not a good
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: start last night, obviously.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: I mean, the Madonna thing was, yeah, he was trying to.
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: Win a Stanley Cup and not play him. Like, what? Like,
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: Come on, man.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: Like, the guy's on his last leg. He's been in
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: the league for years.
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: Come on. Let's play. Let him play. It's only one game.
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: But that's crazy. But, I mean, maybe Mike can bring
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: in a goalie for Edmonton.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Don't hold your breath on that one. I'm like, that
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: seems to be the one thing. We got Tristan Jarrett.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: You made a leather move with like Stuart Skinner, Stuart Skinner,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Tristan Jarrett. I'm like, they're the same goalie.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: You're not helping yourself. I'm like, if they could have
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: gotten Connor Hellebuck, but Connor Hellebuck doesn't want to play
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: in Canada anymore. So they can't, Winnipeg can't even treat
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: him there. And it's nuts. Plus, Babcock's got that thing
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: with cell phones and the Columbus Blue Jackets and doing
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: all sorts of weird things there. And I'm like, what's
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: this guy doing? What are you doing? Who does these
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: kinds of things? The only reason he has success is
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: because he was on Detroit. And he was handed to them.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Scotty Bowman's like, here, here you go. Here's these Hall
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: of Famers. Here's this great system. He had all those
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: great players. I'm like, you and me could have won
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: a cup with those guys. I'm like, they already won.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: It wasn't because he did anything great. Did they win internationally?
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: He got the job internationally because he won with the
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: cup with Detroit that was handed to him. And now
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: he goes other places. Oh, he did okay with Anaheim.
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Did he win?
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: No.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: And now we're in Edmonton. Oh, he's going to get
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: things started. And then, oh, that means Edmonton is really serious.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: They want to keep Connor McDavid. So they're going to
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: hire that guy.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Well, that's hilarious.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: All right. Yeah.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: This is going to be a, it's going to be
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: a dumpster fire unless they get a good goalie and
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: they still haven't done it.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree. The goal thing is definitely the Oilers.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Achilles heel, no doubt. Candy, anything you want to add
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to this?
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: No, I'll just say that, you know, sometimes coaches are
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: good for a team and sometimes they're not a good
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: mesh for a team. So we'll wait and see. As
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: a follow-up to our previous conversation, Cliff, the answer to
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: your question is the SEC, the fine that they charge
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: the team is paid to the opposing visiting institution. The
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: ACC funds the fine. They fund a league postgraduate scholarship.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: And then the big 10, they focused on visiting team
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: security compliance. So they pay it to the visiting team
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: as well. So that gives you an idea of where
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: the funds go.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much. That's something I always wonder
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: where that money's going to. If you're $ 500, 000, I hope
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: it goes to something good. So at least that there's
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: some positive, like, Results from that.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, that's top-notch, Patricia. Let's stay with baseball. The
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Dodgers reportedly offered Walker Buehler a $ 20 million contract this
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: past free agency, but he ended up going on to
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: sign for $ 21 million with the Boston Red Sox. Okay. Well,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, the Red Sox and the playoffs are the Dodgers,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: but what are your thoughts of that situation, Cliff, about
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Walker Buehler?
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Uh, Bueller Bueller, you might, it might be like Ferris
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Bueller after he left. Um, yeah, he, he went to
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Boston thought it'd be a good idea, you know, um,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: even though he was on, uh, on Dodgers, he got
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: a little bit more now we have Boston still a
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: good team, but he played like kind of like garbage.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: He didn't pitch very well. Um, you know, so it's, uh, yeah,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: they're in the playoffs, but it's not really because of him. Um,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Either way, I, he still gets like, I still think
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: he gets a money for making the playoffs or whatever,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: but you know, it's, he's not being very good. And then,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: then he goes to the Phillies and look at the
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: guy right of them. And I'm like, no, he's not,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: you know, I don't know. They're a mess. He's a mess.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: He was going to be good. And then I guess
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: he just thought he was, bigger than he really was
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: even though he was good up to that point and
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: it just kind of fell apart for him okay.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Jason yeah i don't know i think the dodgers just
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: kind of gave up on him a little bit um
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: he could allow some speed on his fastball too and
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: it's you know hitting hitting just always gets it's it
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: gets better by day you know scouting reports I mean,
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: in 31 games this season with Red Sox, he was
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: 9-6 with a 4.56 earned run average, 128 innings, or
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: excuse me, 128 hits and 150 innings, 134 whip. Their
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: average numbers, you know, he was 9-6, he probably had
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: good run support. The Dodgers kind of probably just, they
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: just gave up on him. They don't really need anybody.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: They've it seems like they're always improving every year and
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: free agency. So this guy, you know, third or fourth
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: starter at best, you know, I think he can still
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: help a team beyond this season. And, you know, we'll see.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: He hasn't pitched any more than six innings this season, though, either.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: So his last win was September 20th versus Miami Marlins.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: His last loss was against Minnesota on August 23rd. So,
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: you know, it's average pitcher. I think he's decent. He
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: can still help teams maybe in a bullpen this season
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: or in this playoff here that he could help out
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: in a long, you know, long relief.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Lucas.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he struggled with the Sox as well, so they
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: released him. And then Padre said, we'll give you a
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: final crack with $ 1.
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: 5 million.
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: So that's where he is right now. Yeah, he hasn't
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: been anything since, what, the 2018 season? for 2020 world series.
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: It's he's been fading ever since it used to be
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: such a good pitcher, but yeah, it's, I mean, pitchers are, well,
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: no hitters are really figuring him out and he's becoming
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: a best, a middle reliever situation. I mean, he's going
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: to be thrown into occasional some pop starts and just,
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Hot starts here and there, but it's not going to
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: be anything significant like he was in the rotation for L.A.
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: He's... Yeah, I mean, it was just a.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: Poor performance clause that happened last year with the Sox,
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: and it's kind of continuing this year a little bit.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: So it's... Yeah, I mean, Walker Buehler is kind of
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: a pitcher that's... that had so much success, but it's,
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: it's really fading away, which is he's getting older, but
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: how old is he? Uh, he's 32. I mean, he's
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: not that old, but I guess something in his arm
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: is starting to lose. He's had a couple of surgeries.
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: I believe, um, that's missed. That's missed time. Maybe he
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: haven't fully healed from that. And that's why his numbers
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: aren't there. That's that happens with pitchers.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: So, Man, he's 32, but he's probably been pitching since
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: he was a kid.
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: That's a good line. It's probably all he's been doing.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: It's not like in the past where you do a
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: bunch of different sports. He's probably been throwing that arm year-round.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: If he's not playing, he's probably doing all sorts of stuff,
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: never really getting a rest. That's why these guys, their
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: arms explode so quickly.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Anybody else want to add to it? Who's left?
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: I am.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: He pitched 153.2 innings this year. Padres, 131 strikeouts, 55
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: based on balls. ERA is 4.63. Nine and six record.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: One of the highest ERAs on the Padres, but also
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: pitched a lot of innings compared to some of the
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: others as well. So we will see. I believe he
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: is on.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: The roster for the NL for the postseason, which they
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: haven't started their game tonight yet. So we'll see how
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: far they go.
• 40:03
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• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, so Candy, let's talk about your most recent episode
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: about what you ended up doing on Monday. I know
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Rob will want to talk about it, but I want
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: you to talk about it in general.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: So on Monday, let me just, I'm trying to, Let
• 42:08
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• 42:10
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• 42:16
  Speaker 3: in the United States, cheapest places to go, and some
• 42:19
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• 42:21
  Speaker 3: So definitely it was, it's the fastest 30 minutes, I
• 42:26
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• 42:29
  Speaker 3: places was like, the number one place was Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• 42:34
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• 42:38
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• 42:43
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• 42:47
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• 42:52
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• 42:56
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• 42:58
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• 43:03
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• 43:05
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• 43:07
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• 43:10
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• 43:15
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• 43:21
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• 43:24
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• 43:28
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• 43:29
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• 43:32
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• 43:37
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• 43:45
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• 43:52
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• 43:54
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• 43:57
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• 43:59
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• 44:03
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• 44:05
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• 44:07
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• 44:10
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• 44:14
  Speaker 1: So you know what? Before Rob gets here, I'm going
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: to let you guys give me a few parting shots
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: of your own right now about what's on your mind
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: in the world of sports. Go ahead, Cliff.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: In the world of sports. Oh, it's hockey season now.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: I'm wearing my NHL All-Star jersey. Because it's the start
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: of hockey season. And I'm excited about it for hockey.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: But my team, the New York Islanders, it's going to
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: be bad. Yeah, they don't know how to make good moves.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: They keep people for way too long. Have contracts for
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: very mediocre players. And yeah, there's some hope on the
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: horizon with the Matthew Shafers and guys like that. But
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: it's going to be a rough season. Ride this year,
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: they're probably going to be a top five overall pick.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: The frustrating thing is, yeah, I'm a fan too, but
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: when you go online and you talk about the team,
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: there's too many delusional fans out there that think they're
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: going to win the cup every year. And I'm like, guys,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: come on.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: Seriously?
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, they're going to make the playoffs.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: You forgot the other really. Okay, so if you're going
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: to do it, Listen to me. If you're going to
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: do that, listen, I don't mind you using it. Really, seriously, really.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Write it down. Really, seriously.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll make sure I use all three. So do it. Really, seriously, really.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: Do it now.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: Really, seriously, really.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: That's how I like it.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: You like how I stress that really at the end.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's a nightmare. It's like And then they're
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: not even– Schaefer is left-handed. They're putting him to the right.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: They got Braden Shen they traded for last year. They
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: traded for Andre Palat. Oh, we're going to make a
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: playoff push. And I'm like, no, they're not. I'm like,
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: what are you doing? They needed to sell a whole
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: lot of guys and get picks, get prospects, but they
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: didn't do that. And the scary part is for me
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: as an Islander fan, it's 43 years. 43 years since
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: they last won the cup. That's only 11 away from
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: 54 with the Rangers did. We cannot match or hit that.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: We got 10 years left.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: 10. All right.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: And all these other guys are starting this haze and
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: don't even realize it. It's like, oh, are you paying attention?
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: We cannot get to that. It's 10 years. 10 years
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: is going to go real fast. And they're not close
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: You got to start.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Getting rid of these guys. You got some guys. They
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: have some guys in the prospects. They've started getting some guys. Yeah.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: It's so frustrating. And it's like, oh, they're going to
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: win a cup.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: You don't know what you're talking about. I'm like, wake up.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: You feel better? Yeah, thank you. Okay. What about you, Jason?
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: I had the last question. since he's known for it.
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: You know what? I feel Cliff's pain, though.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: When the Wings won the Cup after 42 years of
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: just horrible teams back in the 70s and 80s before me,
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: and winning that Cup was... Essential and electric after losing
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: a 95. So I get what you're going through, man.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: I understand.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: My thing, I want to shout out to Justin Berlander.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: He had a great career, not just for my Detroit Tigers,
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: but the Houston Astros, San Francisco Giants. He actually pitched
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: very good his last game. Here's the thing. it was
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: only disappointed in what you would have had a more
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: of a solid year, a pitch more than two games.
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: But I mean, Hey, he had a great career, three,
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: no hitters, uh, I was fortunate to see two here
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: in Detroit. Definitely a Hall of Famer. I'm glad that
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: we were able to watch him pitch and seeing the
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: game over on Saturday. But another thing, too, Denver, the
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: Rams game. I don't know if you guys got to
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: see that. There was a pass interference call inside the
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: five-yard line that allowed the Broncos to score a touchdown there.
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: They had a couple– a couple of questionable calls there
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: by the referees that I didn't like. I'm not really
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: a Rams fan, but at the same time, I, I
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: didn't agree with the calls and, and these, these officials,
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: they're going to keep, they're going to keep getting hammered.
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: You know, they, I don't know. There's not a lot
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: that you can do there, but the Rams won or
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: lost the game because of it. I thought it, Could
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: have probably been overturned on that, but you can't really
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: overturn a penalty. Can you? Or can you?
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But you know what? They'll experiment with
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: that business with the United Football League at some point,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: the NFL adapted. I'll let Lucas do one. I want
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: to get Rob involved in the show. Sure. New York copies,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: I want to get involved. Go ahead. Yeah, I mean, I.
• 49:35
  Speaker 6: favorite time of the year.
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: Baseball season is coming to a close. I don't, I mean,
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: playoffs are going on. I'm like, I mean, it's always fun,
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: but watching my San Francisco Giants go out like that
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: was rough. So, I mean, it's good to see that, uh,
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: Bryce Eldridge is going to be the good guy for,
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: for the next couple of years and pitching looks awful, but, uh, Yeah,
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: as far as going back on what Cliff says about
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: the Islanders, I mean, those fans.
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: Are desperate for anything.
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: It's like a Browns fan saying, yeah, we're going to
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: the Super Bowl this year.
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: Or a Cowboys fan, oh, we're going to win it.
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: Come on, man.
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's great to be rooting for them, but
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: at the.
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: Same time, they're kind of used to it, so it's just, eh,
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: screw it, why not?
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: But I'm old enough to remember the dynasty and I
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: hope I admit I, I, I was, I would got
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: in on the ground floor in 1980, you know? So it's,
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: it's been, it was a nightmare for a long time
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: and yeah.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Sorry.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: Keep going.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: No, it's, that's fine.
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's, it's, it's rough for y'all, especially, I mean,
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: the Red Wings as well. I mean, Dylan Larkin is
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: now hurt after he requested a trade and, He's got
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: a $ 69 million contract that's up for grabs. It's still
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: going on. He's the pinnacle of that team right now.
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: They're looking really, really good, but at the same time,
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: if it's uneasy with this guy, golly, and now he's hurt.
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: Hockey's going to be so much fun to watch.
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: This year, I am so invested in every single hockey
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: game this year. versus football, basketball, anything, that's going to
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: get me through this slump of no baseball from October
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: till February.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: Well, if they have a season next season.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, or longer. Yeah, don't remind me of that. Katie,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: anything you want to add real quickly?
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: My parting shot, even though we're not parting yet, is
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: kudos to the Milwaukee Brewers and the Christian Yelich. If
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: you guys don't know, the Brewers have made the postseason
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: a total of 12 times all time. Four appearances in
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: the playoff before Christian Yelich, eight now with Christian Yelich.
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: If you don't know, the Brewers had never named a
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: captain on their team. They went to Christian Yelich and said,
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: we want to name you our first captain. His first
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: move before he said yes was, honestly, I think the
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: first captain was Robin Yount. I need to get his
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: okay before I will take the C. So they actually
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: called Robin Yount, talked to Robin Yount. Robin Yount said, absolutely,
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: wear the C. You know, you're doing such a great
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: job there. Christian Yelich is the captain of the Milwaukee
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: Brewers now. But I thought that was just a cool
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: way to do it. I thought Christian handled himself well enough.
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: But to know that since he's been there, since 2018,
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: this is their eighth postseason appearance. And I hope they
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: do well. Obviously, they have a bye right now, so
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: they're waiting to see who their opponent will be. But
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: I would love it, obviously, if they won the World Series.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: No, I don't have one. Yeah, the wrestling season's lost,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: and I don't really care. I'm just looking forward to
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: my next big trip. All right, Rob, welcome to the show.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: We're going to get you started on some New York topics.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: We're going to reflect back a little bit about a
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: year ago. We talked about the Mets in the 2025
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: World Series. I know it's a year later, but think
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: about it. Max Scherzer obviously made it. And we know
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: that Max Scherzer is now with the Blue Jays. And
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think he'll be playing a whole lot. I
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: think he's just about done. So let's continue the nerd.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: I'll mention him. I want everybody to tell me which
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: one stands out. Max Scherzer, Chris Bassett. Obviously went to
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: the Jake as well. Excuse me. And then you have
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Andres Jimenez. Well, here, give me your thoughts. Well, here, I'll...
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: So we have Chris Bassett. I'll go over them all
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: real quick. And you got Andres Gomez. Jimenez, rather. Jimenez. Yeah,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: there you go. Yeah, Andres. Seems like a lot of
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: these guys are going to Toronto, weren't they?
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were all on Toronto that.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Year. Yeah.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: There's a whole lot more this year.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, and then Michael Conforto. Yeah, well, I know,
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: but we're just going to go over this list about
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: what a difference a year makes. Yeah, Michael Conforto, and
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: obviously the Dodgers ended up, he went to the Dodgers,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: and a couple more worth mentioning, and then we'll, Rob
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: leads it up, and then you have Anthony Banda. I
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: look at this guy, he's got a million tattoos, too.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know how I can handle the pain of
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: all those bad boys. And that's about it. All right, Rob,
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: just going on, what are your thoughts about this group? Yeah, hi, everyone.
• 55:03
  Speaker 9: Scherzer had a decent postseason last year, if you remember,
• 55:07
  Speaker 9: for the Blue Jays. Bassett, he was good the one
• 55:13
  Speaker 9: year he was on the Mets. I saw him win
• 55:17
  Speaker 9: a couple times at Citi Field. Conforto, he just went
• 55:22
  Speaker 9: downhill after that injury and not signing that one contract
• 55:26
  Speaker 9: with the Mets. What did he really do for the Dodgers?
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Not much.
• 55:33
  Speaker 9: And Jimenez and Banda, no big deal. So Scherzer, the
• 55:38
  Speaker 9: biggest name, of course, on that list, had a decent
• 55:41
  Speaker 9: postseason last year. Blue Jays aren't in it, obviously, this year.
• 55:46
  Speaker 9: And Scherzer probably is done. especially if the season starts
• 55:53
  Speaker 9: late or if we even have a season because it's definitely,
• 55:57
  Speaker 9: I think it's going to start late because there's no
• 56:01
  Speaker 9: way they're going to agree on anything. It's going to
• 56:05
  Speaker 9: take time. So Scherzer's probably done.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right.
• 56:13
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Luca.
• 56:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Scherzer is.
• 56:19
  Speaker 5: Definitely on the last final end of his career.
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: I mean, if you remember, him and.
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: Kershaw were the backups for Maddox and Johnson, Randy Johnson,
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: that is, when they first got in the league. I mean,
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: it was just like, oh, these two rookies are coming through.
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: But yeah, Scherzer is, I mean, he's had one of
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: the greatest careers as a pitcher. Conforto, oh my gosh.
• 56:49
  Speaker 5: Oh man, what a freaking traitor. Giants to the Dodgers.
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: I mean, he was so good with, he was, well,
• 56:57
  Speaker 5: he wasn't so good, but he was all right with
• 56:59
  Speaker 5: the Giants and he goes to the Dodgers and just, yeah,
• 57:04
  Speaker 5: he had such a great year with the Mets. That's
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: what I'll say. He had, that's where he shined. It wasn't,
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: it wasn't spectacular, but he, he had a good year
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: enough for people to notice and make something out of it. And, Bassett,
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's okay. He's had, what, one good year,
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: and nothing's really shined besides that.
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not.
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: Really anything to write home about.
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: So, yeah, that's my take. Hey, Candice.
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: Obviously, Scherzer's had a long career. We just watched Justin
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: Verlander and how he went off and his daughter came
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: out and took him out of the game. That was cool.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: Scherzer hasn't said if he's done or not. More than likely,
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: especially if there's a delay in the season, I'm sure.
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: It's interesting to see how many of these players jump
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: from team to team and don't stay on one roster
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: for a long time. There's very few that do that anymore.
• 58:25
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: All right. Let's talk about another former Mets. Obviously, or no,
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: actually a former Blue Jay. Everybody was kicking him around
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: last week, but Alex Manola was actually designated for assignment.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: But the former Blue Jay for assignment, he was 27
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: and pitching the Majors. the season covering from elbow surgery
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: let's just give us an overall new point about alice
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: manoa do you think he's done pitching or does he
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: have anything left in the tank let's start it off.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: He got off to a good start i mean he
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: got drafted in 2019 which is seven years ago and
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: you know he started off well i mean you know
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: and then it just kind of like went downhill and
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, he was up the Cy Young for at
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: one point and then the injury hit and he just
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: really hasn't, I mean, he's been okay, but I don't,
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't know. Maybe, maybe, maybe he can
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: do something. He's with the angels now. Um, but I mean,
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: he did play for their affiliate. Um, and I mean, it's, yeah, it's,
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: it just, it's, he's one of those, those guys who
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: comes in big fast and he probably just got burnt out,
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: got an injury. And it just tells you the whole
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: kind of like this athletic careers, especially with your big
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: time pitcher, one injury and your arms never the same. Um,
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: he probably won't last that long. He might, he might
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: hook up a couple other places, but it's, I don't
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: think it's going to be very pretty the next couple
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: of years. And once again, he'll probably hook up with
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: an independent league team with the next couple of years
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: or a Mexican team, or maybe he'll be playing with
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: Trevor Bauer sometime soon. But you know, that's, that's, that's
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: the tragedy sometimes of some of these guys who get
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: a big start at first and then injury hits. And
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: as soon as they get there, it's, Oh wait, they're gone.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: And it's a story that's been told tons of times before.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jason.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Sean Menea is pretty serviceable. He's a left-hander. He's
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: still got a lot of fastball. Like Cliff was saying,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: I think he just, he had that injury and then
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: it just kind of went south on him. He's still serviceable.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 4: Like you said, he was a 2019 first-round pick. I
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: think we'll see, you know, do guys get, as soon as,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 4: as soon as these guys have arm problems, it's like,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: we may never see him again. You know, like for,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: for instance, Spencer Turnbull had a no hitter for the
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: Tigers in 2021. We never seen him again. You know,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: like what happened to these guys? So yeah. Well, I
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: see the Sean Menea will be back. I think he
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: will be. But yeah, We'll see. He had a serviceable
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: career with, I think, the A's as well with Toronto.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: Guys like Scherzer, you know, we already know he came
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: up with Arizona. They sent him down when he was
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: on the Tigers. And the rest has been history. He's
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: never really looked back. And He's going to go down
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: as one of the best strikeout pitchers that ever pitched
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: in the major leagues. Scherzer had a serviceable, great, solid
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: year this year. I would have took him over Verlander,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: even though I love Verlander. Same thing, you guys were
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: talking about Conforto was probably better with the Mets than
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: any team.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Guys get hurt.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: But as far as, you know, pitching, Manea, we'll see.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: You know, who knows? Maybe Scott Harris. I'm not a
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: fan of Scott Harris. He'll end up signing him one-year
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: deal like he did, you know, like he's done for
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: Amber Valdez and, you know, bad contracts. Who knows? He
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: could end up a tiger for all we know. So, yeah,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: like I said, it's pitchers that get hurt. And I
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: think he's still a serviceable pitcher, Manea. He'll be on
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: a team.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 8: Rob?
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, Scott.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 9: We had something going on out here with ambulances and stuff,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 9: so I had to mute myself for a second. I
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 9: missed the question because it was loud out here.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: What's the question? Go ahead, Candy.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: We're talking about Alec Manoa.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 9: I wasn't sure because I heard Jason say Scott Mania.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 9: Okay, so you're talking about, yeah, I think that, I
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 9: don't know, Scott, if he's done or not. Like Cliff said,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 9: he was drafted in 2019, got the injury. We know
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 9: what a lot of these players, they never come back
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 9: from the injuries, no matter what they were supposed to
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 9: be in their career. So chances are, maybe he, you know,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 9: he comes back and he's average. I don't think he's
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 9: going to be anything great. And, you know, I don't,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 9: I don't even, I don't know if he comes back from,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 9: from the injury.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Hey, Lucas. Yeah.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 5: I mean, stellar numbers in 2022, 16 and seven with
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 5: a two 24 ERA.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 6: I mean, great stats.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 5: And then it just starts to dwindle from there and
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 5: five 87 the next year. And, Yeah, and then, of course,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: he has the injury in 2024 in May and misses
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 5: all 2025.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: And this year, I.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 5: Can guarantee you, he's still feeling a little bit, and
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: he's not fully recovered. So I can imagine that he's
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 5: doing something right now to make something happen for his
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: recovery to get into top shape.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 6: I hope he does.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: Because, I mean, 16 and 7.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 6: With an ERA.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 5: Of 224 when the Blue Jays had a great rotation
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 5: as well. I can't remember who else was on that
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 5: rotation at the top of my head. I want to
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 5: say Sanchez. But, yeah, he was right in the heart
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 5: of it. And for him to be able to just
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 5: see 982 in 2026.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 6: I'm really sad, so I really hope he makes.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: A push.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: On December 2nd, he signed a one-year contract, $ 1. 95 million
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: with the Angels. On May 16th, he collapsed with eight
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: runs in one and a third innings against the Dodgers,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: and his rights were transferred to the Miners on May 20th.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: After his contract was transferred to the AAA, he made
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: 11 starts, pitching 35 innings, with one win, seven losses,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: an ERA of 15.43, 52 hits, 53 walks, 28 strikeouts.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: He was released on July 29th. I don't think he's
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: recovering from that and from the surgeries and stuff like that. Unfortunately,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: I think. His better days are behind him. So, but
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: that's me.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: Okay. You know what? Let's go to our featured topic
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: of the night. That featured topic of the night is
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: which U.S. North League has the worst playoff format. Now,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: let's go over them one by one. National Football League 14,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: playoff team 7 in each conference. 44% of the league
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: makes the playoffs. Top seeds in each conference get a bye.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: Division winners are guaranteed a top four seed. NBA, 12
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: teams qualify directly for the playoffs, eight additional teams in
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: the play-in tournament. 66% of those in the league make
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: for postseason. Winners don't impact seeding. Major League Baseball called
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: teams six from each league. Seeds one to three given
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: to division winners. 40% of the league makes the playoffs.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: Two seeds given the first round by And the National
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: Hockey League, 16 teams, eight from each conference, three seeds
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: in each division qualified, two additional wildcards in each conference,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: 50% of the league makes the playoffs. There you have it.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: I'll comment first. I don't like the NHL. Too many teams, period.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: They've always been watered down, and that's what I have
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: to say. I'll turn it over to Cliff.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: You just said that to piss me off.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: You just pissed me off. You said that to piss
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: me off. That's absolutely ridiculous. They have by far the
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: best playoff series ever.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 4: It's in your heart.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: It's silly.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: It's a joke.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: They got 20.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: And it's like, Oh, we have these guys and they
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: have that stupid mid season tournament. What's the point of that?
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: The NBA is a ridiculous championship.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 6: We got like 20 guys.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, we have these guys who play in. No,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: it's eight in each conference, 16 play, and you're going
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: to insult them? They play harder than any of the
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: rest of those jokers. They're ridiculous. You're just doing this
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: to piss me off, and you're right.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: And you did.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: You're right. You know in your heart that the NHL
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: playoffs is by far not even close. by far the
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: best and should be embarrassed by their format and they
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: have that stupid mid-season tournament which.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 10: Makes sense where actually some of those games actually count
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 10: what an insane idiotic way to do playoffs.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: And their trophy's stupid, too.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: I'll give you that much about the midseason tournament. That
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: is a farce. I give you that. But come on.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: The NHL's too watered down.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: Period.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: Watered down?
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: Watered down?
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 10: But still, 16-16, there's no better.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: Nobody looks harder.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: When the guys blow out their ACL and they grab
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: on the ice because they want to get back in there,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: you won't ever see that from your pathetic NBA.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 6: Oh, my God. You touched me.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: You breathed on me.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm dying. They can't have a second of heart.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: Do me a favor.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 10: Don't have a friend pay up for a heart attack
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 10: on your anniversary. This is doing me sick.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: We are knights of the round table. Don't you ever,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: ever give disdain towards the NHL playoffs and the Stanley
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: Cup because you're going to lose every single time.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: You feel better? You're wrong.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: I am not wrong.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 6: You know it.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: You know it.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: How dare you?
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: On the opening day of NHL, the Stanley Cup is
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: by far People come from thousands of miles away just
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: to see it.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, look at all this.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's a top trophy.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 9: Nice with the NBA.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: Oh!
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: It's not even close, and you know it, Morgan Ross.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: If you're trying to try out for Elvin the Chipmunk,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: you're doing a good job of it. Let me say this.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: I can do lots of voices there, sport. I'll bet
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: you could. Let me say it. Seriously. Now, make sure
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: your wife doesn't sue me when you have a heart
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: attack on your anniversary. I'll be in trouble. I'll say
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: it again. I'm busted if it don't matter. Well, let
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: me really, with all due respect, I did piss you
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: off for doing that. Because I hadn't had a good,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: solid rant with you in a while. The NBA is
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: a joke for a lot of reasons. That's why we
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: don't talk about it much on the air. Now, one
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: thing I will say about the Stanley Cup, though, is
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: what I do like is the fact that they're hard-nosed, grinding,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: and all that. The only thing I said was, I
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: just think there's too many teams in it. I didn't
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: say it was a bad format. So you need to
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: get the damn wax out of your ears.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: Get out now.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: The NBA has 20. The NBA has 20. How do
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: you manage 20?
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: At least that 16 makes sense. The 20s are, oh,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: maybe you get in and we get in. And I'm like,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: what is this? They're trying to do like an NCAA thing.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: Aren't we playing things? It's such a joke. They're a joke.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: The league's a joke. I've always said that the NHL
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: had too many teams that got in. That's why I
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: never knocked MLB in the NFL. Their one game elimination,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: it's like a tournament. Now, yeah, you got the NBA
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: and the NHL.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: They play seven game series, four seven game series. All right.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: 16 wins to get that. And that hockey is a
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: heck of a lot harder. than any of those other games.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: When you're talking about those series and how hard and hard,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: you know, especially after the 80, 80, well, two now
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: 84 game season, You can't even compare. It's not even close.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: You can compare, but you'd be wrong, and you know it.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: No, you're wrong. No, I'm not wrong.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: I'm right. You're just trying to get my goat, and
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: you're just trying to get ratings and get another rant
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: out of me, and I know what you're doing there, sport,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: because you know it, and you're not going to win there,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: Morgan Ross.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: You're not going to win there.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: You're darn right I'm going to win.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: I hate to lose.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: In your mind, okay? I've got my gold medal.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: I've done something.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: No, you haven't.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: You know I'm right. You're wrong. I'm so right.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: Everybody in this room and on this show knows I'm right.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: My mind is yellow anyway. Don't worry about it. I'm
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: a cyber disease. I got jello and I got it.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: And now I got to get you the mellow. Cause
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: other people want to talk about it. Okay.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: What was going to happen?
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: If I'm going to go out there and pay for that.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: Let me pitch. If I'm going to blast very Dave
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: Doran up in Charlotte, you're easy. Oh no. Actually, I
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it more with him than you because, because obviously
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: I have my reasons and it's all you need to know.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: But I, I was looking for something. I don't want
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: to give you a Fred Stanford heart attack because I
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: need you every Wednesday night.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: 24-7. But that was a good debate anyway, Cliff. I
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: was waiting. I'm like NASCAR. I was waiting for the
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: big one. All right, Jason, take it from there. Sick, though, man.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 4: Excellent debate, gentlemen. Look, here's the thing. For me, the
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 4: NHL and the NBA was always, you always see that
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 4: one through eight, two through seven, three through six, four
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 4: through five, that kind of scenario. You know, and then
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 4: they had the playoff. with the seventh and eighth seed. I,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 4: I hate it with the NBA. You guys agree with me.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 4: I'm sure on that. I don't like the plan. I
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 4: think it's, I think it's awful. I mean, because they're
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 4: going to get knocked out anyway, if it's a best
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 4: of a seven or best of five series. you know,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 4: here's the thing, you know, major league baseball, I don't
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 4: know what you guys feel about this, but there's 162 games, right?
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 4: So there's a way a wild card of the best
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 4: of three. When I seen that three years ago, when
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 4: the Astros played the tigers and I'm like, wait a minute,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 4: all we got to do is win two and we're
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 4: moving on. All right. Well, I don't know. I think
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 4: that make, why not make that a five game series?
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 4: Because you have, Granted, I'm a homer, so I wanted
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: Detroit to win. But at the same time, if you're
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: really looking at it, make it a five-game series. You know,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 4: Houston was one of the best teams that year. So, again,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 4: like you said about the hockey, you know, there's 16
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 4: teams that make it. The NBA, too, it's watered down.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 4: But at the same time, hockey is more– obviously, it's
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 4: more intense and People go there to watch the fights, the,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 4: you know, the checking, all that stuff. So for me,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 4: I think NBA has got to be the worst. It's
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 4: probably as far as the best. I would have to go.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 4: I would have to probably go with maybe baseball at
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 4: this time. Maybe.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 6: Maybe.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: As far as like the best to making it more
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 4: interesting because that's it. I mean, I don't agree with that.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 4: I think there should be a five game series in
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 4: that wildcard, but, but Hey, it just makes it more exciting.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 4: The NBA is dead. It's not the same.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: Rob, you still have your hearing after what I just
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: did after I pummeled Cliff.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 9: The NBA, why bother playing a regular season, first of all?
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 9: It's just– I'm old school with sports. You know that.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 9: I hate it with the NBA. I'm not going to
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 9: start with hockey because the NBA is worse. Major League Baseball, though,
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 9: is starting– you're going to see– After this next contract
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 9: with the Players Union, you're going to see some crazy stuff.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 9: It's going to get expanded, especially with the expansion teams. So,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 9: you know, let's face it. They're going to ruin baseball, too.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 9: Why have regular seasons if 50% of the teams are
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 9: going to make the playoffs? It's ridiculous.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 6: It's ridiculous.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: Hear that, Clark?
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: I disagree.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go back and do what you got to do.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: I just want to hammer my point home.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can hammer all you want.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, good.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: I'm a hammer. I'm a hammer. Okay. You got to
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: get a hammer in the evening. Hammer all night. That's right.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I got next one.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: Just like Leonard Nimoy. He had a hammer. Hammers in
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: the morning.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 4: Hammers in the evening.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: All over this land. I remember that song. All right.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: What else, Rob? Anything you want to add to it?
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 3: Nope.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: Cliff said it all. Ah, that a boy. Okay, go ahead. Lucas,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: I know you've been waiting for one of these for
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: a while. How did it deliver up for you, my brother?
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 6: A little bit, yeah.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 5: I mean, the NBA, that play-in crap is really, really old.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 6: It just.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 5: Doesn't have the playoff atmosphere. I mean, you get the
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 5: playoff atmosphere once you get to the finals.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 6: To me, that's it.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 5: Like game seven. But as far as NHL, you get
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 5: it throughout and it's all best of seven, which is
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 5: so entertaining. Baseball, you get a best of three and
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 5: then a best of seven. Was it back in the
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 5: day ALDS used to be best of five or has
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 5: it been always best of seven?
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: Best of five, I think.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know why they changed that.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 5: It's really interesting that they changed that, but Yeah, that
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 5: makes sense. But yeah, just having a wildcard game, best
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 5: of three, and then a division series would have been
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 5: best of five, and then the ALCS would have been
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 5: best of seven, and then World Series best of seven.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 5: I mean, logistically, entertainment-wise, that would have been fun to see,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 5: but yeah, you're going to have money coming to play
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 5: Cause you got to pay these players and you got
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 5: to pay. It's got to create some revenue.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 5: But NHL, every single series is a best of seven,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 5: which is phenomenal. You're in it to win it. And
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 5: it is amazing to watch. That's by far my best.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 5: And NBA is the worst.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: And they get the Stanley cup.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's pretty sweet.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: Why don't you promote the Grand Cup? Okay, that's another
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: Canadian trophy.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: You're going to really compare anything to the Stanley Cup?
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: Do you really?
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: You know I'm right. Even people who are basketball fans,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: they still think the Stanley Cup's pretty freaking cool.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you this. The only way I compare
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: the two is they're big trophies. That's where the comparison ends.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: That's all. They're big bowls. Okay, go ahead, Candy.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 3: The topic was which U.S. Sports League has the worst
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 3: playoff format. Not which one has the best trophy, the
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 3: best looking trophy.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: It's all part of it.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 3: No, no, because that's not what this question, that's not
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 3: what this is.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: It's all part of the playoff format. What's the payoff
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: to the playoff?
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 3: My problem. What's the playoff? With the format is anytime
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 3: you let more than half of the league into the playoffs.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 4: It's half.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: It's part of the regular season. Why? Why does the NBA?
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 3: Didn't you say, Scott, it's like 60%? They have 20.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: They've got like 20. They have 20 teams.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 3: Like 66% of the teams make it.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: So that's more ridiculous.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: That's ridiculous.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 3: I think the NBA is ridiculous because I think that
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 3: too many make the playoffs. I think if you're going
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: to make the playoffs, it's supposed to be special. It
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 3: should be only a few, not more than half the league.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: That would be my, you know, I mean, and obviously
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 3: football can't be a best of seven series, but wouldn't
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: that be kind of cool? I mean, I know it
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 3: would never happen. I know it would never happen because
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 3: that would just really extend things. But, you know.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: And they do it on ice skates. They do it,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: but it's not like a physical thing. It's not like
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: a physical thing, too.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 3: It's the most physical.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, don't get me wrong. Football is obviously physical,
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: but they do it on ice, on ice skates.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 3: All right, let's move on to another topic.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to another topic. NBC Sports
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: name Dave Fleming as a new voice of MLB Sunday leadoff.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: Do you like the move, Cliff?
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess that'll work. I mean, they're always trying
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: to find new people. I mean, I'll give the guy
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: a shot. I mean, it's... No, give him a shot.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: Good for you.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: Give him a shot.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 4: He's fine.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's fine. He's like, yeah, he's been doing this
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: for a while. Okay, I'll give him a shot. Let's
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: see what he does. It's not like I'm watching it
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: all the time, but I mean, I'm fine with him.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: I'm fine with it. It's just, yeah, I like Joe Buck.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: Joe Buck is great and stuff, but hey, it's nice
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: to get some new, well, even though he's not really
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: new blood, but he's new blood to the audience from
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: a national standpoint, so it's probably pretty good to give
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: some out because I'm like, nothing against Joe Buck, but
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: Let's see some other guys see what they can do
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: too because that's what they want to do as well.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: All right, Jason.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I like it. I'm always a fan of the
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 4: guys coming up and trying to make a good name.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 4: We've seen it here. Jason Benetti was in Chicago and
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 4: he ended up coming here in Detroit and nobody even
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 4: knew kind of who he was. So, and then we
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 4: see him doing college basketball, college football, baby. He's doing
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 4: it all. So, um, yeah, you know, like I said,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 4: I don't mind it. Um, I grew up watching George
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 4: Cal and LK line and they were my favorite growing up.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 4: They still always will, in my opinion, but, um, uh,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 4: guys like that, uh, Fleming, uh, Matt.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: Banks, thanks, Jordan.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 4: You know, it's always good. You know, Joe Buck, stick
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: to football, in my opinion. I don't know. I think
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 4: he came out and said that he was more of
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 4: a football guy anyway.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I like it. Go ahead, Ron.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I don't mind it. Listen, I'm glad
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 9: NBC got baseball back. NBC has always done a great
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 9: job with baseball, with Vince Scully, Joe Garagiola, Quebec. So
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 9: I'm happy that NBC has baseball back again. That's excellent
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 9: for baseball. ESPN was just, you know, they're done. They
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 9: were done with baseball. It wasn't the same. So I think, yeah,
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 9: why not give them a shot? To me, it doesn't
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 9: matter because the Mets do have the best booth in baseball.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 9: So we're used to listening to the best with Ronnie, Keith,
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 9: and Gary. So, you know, whatever NBC does is all
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 9: right with me because we have the best booth in baseball.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: Hey, Luger.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 5: Dave Fleming has done everything from basketball, does play-by-play– yeah,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 5: play by play for, um, for the giants. He does, um,
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 5: stick a lot of ESPN football games. He did, he
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 5: does the masters alternate, um, on ESPN plus. Uh, I
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 5: think the only thing he does not do is hockey.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 5: And I believe he has, he's done some of that too,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 5: but that man is an all around, uh, just sports
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 5: minded guy. And he knows, he, he knows his way
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 5: around it. Um, I am all in favor of it
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 5: because it hopefully gets him away from the Giants desk
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 5: because this is just my opinion. I don't like his voice.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 5: I do not like how he announces games. I like
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 5: when he gets excited, but that's about it. His commentary
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 5: and his insight on.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 6: The game itself is just not good.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 5: It just doesn't bring– I'm spoiled because it's Dwayne Kuyper
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 5: and formerly Mike Kruko. But, yeah, Dave Fleming, yeah, go
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 5: to NBC and have that corporate mindset. Go for it. Yeah,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 5: I understand it. But, I mean, to be honest, Matt
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 5: Fack's excursion is a lot better. So, yeah, I mean,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 5: if it takes him away from being the Giants play-by-play guy, yeah,
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 5: let's do it.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: Great stuff. Great stuff. Candy?
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 3: Let's face it. We all have sports broadcasters that we've
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 3: grown up with that we like that normally call our team.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 3: And we all have iconic ones that we can all name.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 3: Ernie Harwell for you, Scott. Bob Euchre for me. So
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 3: do I understand that someone wants to move up the
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 3: ranks and wants to go to a national stage? Yes.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 3: Am I cool with it? Sure. The one thing I
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 3: have always said, though, is when guys do make that move,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 3: they need to be impartial. They need to be calling
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 3: the game because if they're calling for NBC, they're not
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 3: calling for as a Giants broadcaster. They are now a
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 3: national broadcaster. They need to bring both sides, be excited
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 3: for both sides, and be able to call the game
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 3: and tell stories about both sides. So am I happy
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 3: for him? Sure. I hope he does a really good job.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 9: Again, I.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 3: Don't listen to it very often. I like my hometown
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 3: as well as everybody here likes their hometown broadcasters. Just
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 3: like Rob said, he has his. You know, Lucas said
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 3: he has his.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 6: We all do.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 3: So that would be my one thing that I would
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 3: say about national broadcasters, that some of them are very
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 3: good about putting aside who they are rooting for and
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 3: some aren't.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: All right, a couple quick Mets topics I want to
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: get to, then we're going to get to the travel. Rob,
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: you probably would be more familiar with this than anybody else.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: Earlier in the year, the Mets have scored one run
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: or less in 16 games, most in MLB. Obviously, their
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: offense is bad, Rob, but what's your take on this?
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that was an embarrassment.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, all.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 9: The money that Cohen has spent on that team and
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 9: It was just a disaster in April, May, and June.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 9: Things got a little better after the All-Star break, but
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 9: not until the trade deadline. And they got rid of Mendy, too,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 9: which I think they took too long to do that, really.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 9: They waited too long before they made that move.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 6: Green's been all right.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 9: We're stuck with Green for three years right now, so
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 9: it doesn't matter. But that was a disgrace.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 6: Disgrace.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: With what.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 9: what this team was supposed to be and what happened
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 9: in April and May, all I have to say, it
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 9: was a big disgrace.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, Cliff, you want to answer this? And anybody else
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: is welcome to chime in. I want to start with
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: Rob because he has more of a pulse on what's
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: going on there. Go ahead, Cliff.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this year was a nightmare beyond nightmares. And like
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: I always say, what I said at the beginning of
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: the year, this was going to be terrible. And it
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: was terrible. It was even worse than I thought it
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: could be. And this is what happens. This is what
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: happens when they get rid of guys they shouldn't get
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: rid of. And they bring in other guys because they
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: think they're too smart. And it hits, oh, it's the equation.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: You don't know the new style. Go away. Yeah, it
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: was just so frustrating to watch this. Oh, look at
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: all these guys on the team. What am I looking at?
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm like, you can just bring your triple
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: eight guys up and do the same thing and not
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: spend as much money. I'm like, wow, this is a joke.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 11: You know, but it's, it's the Mets. They, you know, they, they,
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 11: they think they are going to, they, they, they can
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 11: be good, but they, they get big too big for
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 11: the britches and, Oh, we'll bring this guy in this guy.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 11: And it falls apart right in their face because that
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 11: never works for them. Every time they try to do
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 11: stuff like that, it usually explodes and it exploded again.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 11: And I'm not surprised.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: And, And they finished in last place and that's, that's,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: that's on them. And yeah, they got the green and green.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: Green's not, I am. I'm not thrilled that about him.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to blame him for anything because there's
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: so many problems to go around. And I've just, I
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: just want to like, I'm on the hockey now football's
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: going on and they're probably not going to start next
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: season anyway. So we get a little bit of a
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: reprieve and, unless they like change things because they might
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: not be able to do anything anyway with all the
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: issues that they have with money and the coming.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 10: Up alright alright don't get started on that that's something
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 10: I might not even have that to look forward to
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 10: I got only 30 minutes to show up and I'm
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 10: a travel segment okay get to travel I will in
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 10: a minute I got one more other Met topic anybody
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 10: else want to chime in on this or y'all good
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 10: good good All right, we'll go ahead.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: We'll give one more to Rob. Obviously, the Mets promoted
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: Christopher Morel. They designated Gabriel Arias for assignment. How did
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: that work out, Rob?
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 6: Eh, not too good.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: He batted.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 9: He played 14 games to the Mets. One home run,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 9: five RBIs, batted 200. You know, wasn't expecting much out
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 9: of him anyway. So it didn't matter. Season was over
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 9: in May. didn't matter and i don't want to start another.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: I have no rants about chris morel there is plenty
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: of problems yes good.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: All right well you know what we're going to do
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: something a little bit earlier than we well no i
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: want to pick up the miami marlins i got to
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: do this and i think a lot of people would
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: definitely want to understand why the marlins actually fight uh,
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: fire majority. They fire the majority of their pro scouting
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: staff and we'll focus on utilizing video. Any valuations? Some
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: thoughts about this one, Cliff.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, look at that. Oh, they're doing, uh, they're doing
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: what everybody else is doing in, uh, television. They're firing
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: real people for technology. And, uh, yeah, that's going to
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: work out wonderfully. Uh, but, but don't worry. They'll have,
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: they'll have their equations in there and their, and all
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: that stuff too. So, uh, All they have to do
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 2: is look at their spreadsheets, and that's going to change
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: all their fortunes and send them to the championship and
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 2: win World Series after World Series just by doing that because,
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: you know, that always works.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: Jason?
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  Speaker 4: So I read on their team website, I don't know
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 4: if you guys heard this, that there's no in-person scouting. Like, okay.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 4: That's going to really help everything. I mean, I understand
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 4: that they want to do video coordination and analytical data
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 4: for player evaluation, but how are you supposed to evaluate
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 4: talent when you don't have anybody there? You know, I
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 4: don't know. I don't like it. I think it's... I
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 4: think that from what I understand, that Peter... Peter Bendix,
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 4: he's the vice president for player option, vice president. He's
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 4: just doing like everyone's doing. It's just cut and call.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 4: He's only been in there since, what, the end of 23?
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 4: The organization is, they're having a hard time. It just
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 4: seems like they're trying to stay out of the red
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 4: as much as possible, but they can't help it. Um,
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 4: and they're getting, you know, they're dumping salaries, not for players,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 4: not only for players, but for team execs too. So, um,
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I really agree with the whole
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 4: talent factor as far as evaluating talent, but they're trying
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 4: to cut costs, uh, both, um, for players and, and,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 4: and team executives. Um, it's just really unfortunate. You know,
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 4: it's just unfortunate. They're in a bad area. Um, Like
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 4: we talked about it before that, you know, that loan
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 4: Depot park, you know, their fan fan base isn't there.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 4: So I think they're just trying to do a total
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 4: three 60 guys.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 9: It's, it's a money thing. The Marlins are always trying
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 9: not to spend money. As we know, they win a
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 9: world series. They dismantle the team happens again. They dismantle
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 9: the team. So this is basically the same thing. Doesn't
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 9: cost as much to have AI and things like that
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 9: and video and everything going on instead of people. We
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 9: know that.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 6: And that's it. For me, it's just to save money
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 6: and I don't like it at all.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 9: And who knows after this work stoppage, what's going to
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 9: happen after that too. But I think it's just a
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 9: money move.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just going to say real quick, Rob,
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 4: I want to just intertwine on that comment. Look, like
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 4: you said, to just move into people with the AI,
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 4: with the person, they don't have to have been player scouting.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I can't stand that. It should be
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 4: more in-depth as far as player development. Everything is moving
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 4: towards that AI.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's sweet.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: We were feeling that in the TV industry, too.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: All right, we've got Lucas back in the house. All right, Lucas,
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: you want to chime in on this one, too? I'm
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: glad he's back in. I thought I lost him the
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: rest of the night with a couple more meaty topics
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: to throw this guy's way. All right, what are your
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: thoughts on Marlin's cost-cutting measure? They now no longer fire
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: the majority of their pro-scouting staff.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 5: All right, I'm assuming that these are the same scouts
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 5: that got Yelich, Miggy, Fernandez, Mike Lowell. The list goes
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 5: on and on and on and on, and they're replacing
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 5: these guys with computers. That sounds like an absolutely terrible move,
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 5: and we'll definitely bite them in the butt because it's
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 5: just money ball coming into play because it's just logistics and.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 5: Formulas and thinking that they can beat the, beat that system,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 5: which has been the, the foundation of baseball since it
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 5: was founded. I don't see that coming into play. I mean, yeah,
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 5: of course it's a money thing, but Holy cow, you're
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 5: going to jeopardize an entire scout. Like that's not to me,
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 5: that's not the way you start a, making changes to
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 5: a team that hasn't had any success.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 6: In the past decade.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 5: Because you're making it happen.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 6: With your scouts.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 5: Maybe in the past three years you haven't had the
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 5: success that you've liked, but you're still getting, like, Alcantara.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 5: I'm thinking that he was drafted by the Marlins as well.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 6: I think it was a quarterback.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: I think it was acquired in a trade of St. Louis,
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: if I remember right. Okay. We're talking about Sandy Alcantara. Yeah.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 5: There's another pitcher for the Twins now that they didn't play.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: You're probably thinking about Pablo Lopez?
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's another pitcher that was also dealt away from
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 5: the Marlins. I can't remember if he was drafted by
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 5: them as well, but that could be another player that
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 5: was just taken away. And that was in the scouting system.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 5: So it's... Yeah, you're just going to rely on a
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 5: computer to do all that work?
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 6: And John Carlos Stanton. How can I.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: Leave that one out?
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 6: So, yeah. Good luck!
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 3: Lucas, I love all those people that you just said.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 3: But how much success have all those people brought to
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 3: the Marlins? The Marlins haven't had success, so their scouting
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 3: department isn't that great. So maybe the best thing for
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 3: the Marlins is to get rid of them. Maybe, I mean,
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, let's face.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: It.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 3: In this new era, AI is coming into play in
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 3: every single industry. It doesn't matter what industry you're in.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 3: It's used to coach people. It's used to figure out. Obviously,
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 3: baseball is using it for scouting now. It's used for
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 3: what's wrong with your batting swing, what's wrong with this,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 3: what's wrong with that. Now, am I saying that what
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 3: the Marlins did was right? No. Well, I don't know.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 3: Maybe because they still didn't make the playoffs. They're not.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 3: They didn't have success this year. They haven't had success
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 3: in years. It takes more than just a scout. It
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 3: takes players. It takes manager. It takes a lot of
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 3: things to go right. It takes the right GM. Because
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 3: even if the scouts are 100% on, is the GM
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 3: listening to the scouts in the first place and getting
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 3: them there? The scouting... Scouting is going to go out
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 3: and say, hey, this player in this maybe double A
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 3: is doing really well for a different team. They're really good.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 3: We should go out and get them. If the GM
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 3: doesn't listen to them and go out and get them,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 3: what difference does it make if the scout said they
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 3: were good or not? If you don't bring them onto
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 3: your team. I hate to say it. AI is here
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 3: to stay. It's not going away. We have to figure
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 3: out a way. to make it work within and make
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 3: it work successfully in every industry.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: But the thing is that they're totally replacing them. That's
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: the thing.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: Because that's the issue and that's the issue we have
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: in our field too. And that's terrifying. It's like, yeah,
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: work with it. I have no problem with working with it.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: It's just not totally destroying everything and let that do
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: it all.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. The Marlins have had 15 out
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: of the last 17 seasons that they've had losing records,
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: and they've won two championships, and they've only been in
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, I think, what, four times in their infamous history.
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: We'll leave it at that. All right, well, let's move
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: on to our final topic of the night, and it
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: is travel. I'd like to talk about this because I
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: know Robbie looks forward to it, so this candy and
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: that did so much. Monday, and I expect better out
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: of you even this Monday night because you guys are
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: building it up. And we'll go ahead and talk about
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: this as our topic of the night. Can't do it
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: on the video. Norway is digging the longest undersea road
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: tunnel on Earth. And it's a future road junction forming
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: under a 550-person island. So Norway's Rockfest Project is carving
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: a 47-kilometer tunnel beneath a fjord so drivers can cross
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: without waiting for a ferry. Crews are digging from three
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: directions at once, aiming to meet under the sea and
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: open the route by 2033. The depth makes headlines, but
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: the stranger detail is the layout, a full interchange buried
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: beneath a tiny island built so So an hour-long crossing
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: can shrink to a few minutes. If it works as planned,
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: one of the hardest parts of a coastline will start
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: to feel ordinary. So again, the tunnel will be 27
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: kilometers beneath the Norwegian fjord. Drivers will cross the fjord
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: without waiting for a ferry. The plan is just to
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: turn an hour road in just a few minutes. My goodness,
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: that isn't so bad. Workers are digging from three directions
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: to the underground. So the tunnels meet under the sea.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: The robo set 250 meters below a tiny island of
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: 550 people. And there you have it. All right, Rob
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: and Candy, I'll let you guys talk about this topic.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: Go ahead. I like it.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 9: You know, anytime, anytime you could save time by doing
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 9: something like that. And, and that's just, it's still an
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 9: engineering marvel to me. It's, it was a marvel how
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 9: they got, Tunnels done back in the 20s and 30s.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: The Lincoln Tunnel, the Holland Tunnel.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 9: I mean, it's just amazing that they were able to
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 9: do it back then.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 6: Now, forget it.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 9: They can do it faster. And I like the idea.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 9: You don't have to wait for a ferry. Puts the
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 9: hour to minutes. So I'm all for that. It's pretty cool.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 3: 17 miles long. At its deepest, it will be 1,286
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 3: feet below sea level. Construction started in 2018. It was
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 3: halted in 2019 due to predicted cost overruns. It resumed
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 3: in late 2021. The tunnel is now slated for completion
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 3: in 2033 at a cost of approximately 25 billion Norwegian kroner,
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 3: which is about.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 8: $ 2. 4 billion. The tunnel will significantly improve connectivity along the
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 8: Norwegian West Coast by creating a faster and more reliable link.
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 3: Kudos to them for doing that. Obviously, anytime you can
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 3: make someone's commute less time, less stressful, easier, because let's
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 3: face it, We are not a society that stays at
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 3: home and stays in one place. We get out and
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 3: we move. So do Norwegians. And I like the fact
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 3: that it goes underground because I like the fact that
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 3: it's not disturbing the natural resources outside. Because if you've
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 3: been to Norway, the fjords are beautiful. The mountains are beautiful.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 3: So I can totally understand and like this.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: Okay. Anybody else want to comment on that? Go ahead. Cliff?
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 2: That's absolutely amazing. They had the channel at first with
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 2: England and France, I believe, and now they're doing this,
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 2: and I hope they can do.
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 5: More of that.
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 2: I'm from New York, so I know the frustration, and
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 2: I know Rob over there knows all the frustration over that. So, hey,
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: have at it. They should be doing more of this. um, uh,
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 2: everywhere because, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 2: just such a much, a much better, uh, way to
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 2: go and travel and make things a lot easier.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: What about you, Lucas?
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 5: Uh, yeah, I mean, it, it was incredible that they
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 5: were able to make this, uh, tunnel and back, back when, uh,
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 5: the engineering and the, uh, construction, uh, wasn't like it
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 5: is right now. I mean, I'm still marveled at how
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 5: they're able to do that. That's kind of crazy. I
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 5: got a wire that's in my way. I'm sorry about that.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's... Some.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 5: Of the construction pieces that they got going on is incredible.
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 6: And what they have in Norway is... Absolutely unbelievable.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 5: And I need to make my way out there to
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 5: see it for myself. But from what I've seen is
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 5: absolutely beautiful.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 3: It almost reminds me of the tunnel you guys have
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 3: in Detroit that takes you to Canada.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Windsor Tunnel. I like going on that. Now
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: you have to have a passport to do it. You
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: know what, Lucas, let me ask you a question. How
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: do you like the travel segment? Am I giving you
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: some ideas? You've got a long life to live at
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: all these different places.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 5: I would love to take advantage of it for sure.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 5: If I can find the time to make it happen,
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 5: that would be great.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 6: I just got my passport. Let me ask you a question.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: Do you like the travel channel or do you like
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: it when Cliff and I go off with each other?
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 5: You want the honest answer or you want the appropriate answer?
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: I don't care. Give me a call. I don't really care.
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 6: I like it when you and Cliff go at each other.
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: That's all right. I deliberately got under his skin because
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: I knew exactly what gets this guy's goat.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 2: He wants clicks. He wants reading.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: Listen, I'm an executive producer and I host this show.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: I have to be, you know, I have credible topics
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: on here, but But I still think hockey has too
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: many damn teams. I'm not going to back away from that.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: But I will say their playoffs are exciting to watch.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: And when you have overtime, at least they get rid
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: of that five or ten minute one that they got.
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: and they and you go for two forever to decide
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: how come that part i'm okay all right katie got
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: a video you want to insert real quick.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah let me go ahead we're gonna take you let
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 3: me see hopefully this is the one.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: I do apologize.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 5: I am editing for an 11 o'clock show right now.
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 12: No, it's just doing a VOSA and another VO that
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 12: I shot today.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 2: So I wouldn't be here if it was a package.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 2: That's that's that's that's.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: Okay. And we're just glad to have you on, Lucas.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. You do what you gotta do. You
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: gotta look pretty smart.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 4: Here we go.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you for giving time. No problem. Go ahead.
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 8: Here we go.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: You see that I look a little different? You're right.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: No hat. But I'm still the Motor City Mad Mouth.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: Why do I have no hat? Because it's raining. What
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: that means is I have the wet look. No, I'm
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: not Arthur Fonza, really. I won't play to... believe that
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: I will act that way, but the hands are working.
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: But these are happy days in Paris, France, as we
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: are over at the Eiffel Tower, inside the Eiffel Tower,
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: as high as I can go. Behind us, you see
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: all this beautiful water and all these bridges behind us.
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: And man, you cannot ask for a much prettier city
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: than you have with all these homes and all that.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: So Unbelievable. We did make an inside here, and of
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: all the places I've ever been to, the Eiffel Tower
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: certainly takes the cake. It'll be pretty hard to top
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: this one. I don't know what we're going to see
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: over in Germany on Wednesday, but yes, no hat, people.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: I like it once in a while. It kind of
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: changes things up a little bit. And obviously, I'm wearing
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: Fight Wax Incorporated. They are a sponsor for this trip here.
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: And they made it to the Eiffel Tower with the
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: South Florida Tribune. Have a little soccer field that we
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: saw here as a practice field. And all these beautiful homes.
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: And we saw a lot of the interior buildings, which
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: are very old. And this is a very, very historical place,
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: which is well preserved. So, what else can I tell you?
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: I've been to a lot of cities. Looking forward to
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: hitting a lot more. We're talking about being at the
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: top of the world in the eyes of Karen Carpenter
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: of the Carpenters. I feel like I am at the
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: top of the world here on this muggy, rainy day
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: in Paris, France, but it doesn't make any difference. We're
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: still doing what we love to do, and that's talk
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: and get into more travel. So a lot of our
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: travel followers or just followers will have something else that
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: they can do. If it's not on your bucket list,
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: do it. This is it, man. I took this big
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: cruise here knowing that Paris France was going to be
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: on it. The Eiffel Tower was certainly an attraction, and
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  Speaker 1: the Eiffel Tower has definitely lived up to that for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So anyways, we're going to be walking around a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more, but Candy Ebling will have some pictures at
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  Speaker 1: some point on our website. Check out her great work
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  Speaker 1: on www.SouthFloridaTribune.com. She's the one who put it all together.
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  Speaker 1: So again, www.SouthFloridaTribune.com. Scott Morgan Roth at The Type. at
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  Speaker 1: the top of the Eiffel Tower from stumbling a little bit. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in awe of the whole place. Tight top, it
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  Speaker 1: don't make any... But I am in awe of the
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  Speaker 1: Eiffel Tower. And hat or no hat, this is where
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  Speaker 1: it's at. We will catch you the next time on
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  Speaker 1: the South Florida Tribune Media Network. And meanwhile, it's been
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  Speaker 1: great here so far. Looking forward to what our next
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  Speaker 1: video opportunities are going to be like. Lots of great
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  Speaker 1: video opportunities the rest of the trip. which will officially
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  Speaker 1: end on Sunday. So again, lessons from the microphone, turning
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  Speaker 1: into the enduring wisdom of visionary leaders can be found
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  Speaker 1: next time. Bye now. You know, when I see that
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  Speaker 1: video right now, I have to admit, it gives me
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  Speaker 1: chills down my spine. It really does. And I say
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  Speaker 1: that because, man, the Eiffel Tower is just cool. I'd
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  Speaker 1: love to go back there if I had more time
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  Speaker 1: and just spend a lot more time going to restaurants. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we did get to the top of it.
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  Speaker 1: We took pictures all the way around. It was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Great job, Candy. Great job. And that's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: what you're going to be able to see with Rob
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  Speaker 1: and Candy on Monday night. She'll put videos in there
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  Speaker 1: from time to time, as I understand it, come up
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: with their own ideas. And I think they're doing a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful job with it. That show on Monday has come
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  Speaker 1: a long way, and I expect to go further. Rob
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  Speaker 1: and Candy, anything you want to add real quickly before
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  Speaker 1: we wrap this puppy up?
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  Speaker 9: Real quick, I just want to say I'm having a
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  Speaker 9: good time with the list that Candy is coming up with,
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  Speaker 9: sending to me.
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  Speaker 6: The lists are a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she has reliable sources to get them to her.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like me. I know. But that's okay. I only go
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  Speaker 1: on with the video. It's your stuff between the two
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  Speaker 1: of you. Go ahead, Rob. Sorry to interrupt.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, so it's a lot of fun. I love talking
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  Speaker 9: travel with Candy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Fastest 30-minute travel show there is out there. Don't miss it.
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  Speaker 3: about anything from the different classes of airline tickets you
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  Speaker 3: can buy to.
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  Speaker 3: The cheapest vacation places you can go in the United States,
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 3: the luxury train rides. You just never know what we're
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 3: going to have. We're going to be talking about it,
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 3: but guaranteed, it's always about travel.
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  Speaker 1: Great stuff. All right. Well, with that said, let's go
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  Speaker 1: around the horn real quick. Go ahead, Leadoff. And once again,
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  Speaker 1: Cliff celebrated his 31st anniversary with his wife. I want
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: to wish Cliff and his wife a happy anniversary, and
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: I'm glad he did not have a heart attack as
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  Speaker 1: I was pounding the living hell out of him earlier.
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  Speaker 2: You were pounding the living hell. You can keep thinking
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  Speaker 2: that way.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: But I will say you were correctamundo about your life.
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 2: That was a very good travel thing you did there.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm following up with that, the whole happy days thing.
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  Speaker 2: I got to say correctamundo, so I'm happy about that. But, yeah. So, yes.
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  Speaker 2: To my wife, happy anniversary, 31 years. I love you
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  Speaker 2: so much. Um, and, uh, yeah, you've changed my life
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  Speaker 2: for the better and I am where I am because
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  Speaker 2: of you. Um, so yeah, um, you can reach me
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  Speaker 2: on Facebook, cliff, Neil 55 on Instagram. Um, you want
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 2: to have a rant, uh, just, you saw what he did.
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 2: I'll rant like, like, uh, when Scott was my buttons,
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to do it for fun. Get yelled at.
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy to do it with, with yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's where you can find me. And of course here
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 2: every Wednesday night and hear me rant and rave about
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 2: the things they like to rant and rant about.
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: Rants are pretty good. I say you're a brother from
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: another mother. That's good enough. Go ahead, Jason.
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  Speaker 4: Alrighty. Always enjoy it. You can find me on Wednesday
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  Speaker 4: nights from 9 to 11 on the Sports Exchange with
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  Speaker 4: these incredible sports individuals. Always enjoy it. You can find
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 4: me on YouTube, ProcSportsEdge. And So excited to be on
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 4: here every week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad to have you. Okay, Rob, go ahead.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, Monday nights, no limits on travel with Candy. Wednesday
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 9: nights here on the Sports Exchange. Everywhere else, NYMLB talk
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 9: on the Rounding Third Network now.
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: So I'm all over the place. Great stuff. The best
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: ones that do well in this business are the ones
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: that work the tail off, and you definitely do that, Rob. Okay,
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: go ahead. We'll get my... He was my find up
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: in Charlotte. Go ahead, buddy. I love having this guy on.
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  Speaker 5: Scott, you should definitely rock the no hat whenever you
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 5: can because it's pretty good. It's pretty cool on you.
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 5: You should do that more often. Cliff, congratulations on 33 married.
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  Speaker 4: 31.
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  Speaker 3: 31.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Well, hopefully 33 in the future.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: 33 is my lucky number.
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 6: Nice.
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  Speaker 5: It's a dang good-looking number. But, yeah, you can find
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  Speaker 5: me on Facebook at Lucas Nelson. Instagram is Lens Through Lucas. And, yeah,
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 5: I mean, just follow the stories I'm going through and
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 5: have some fun. And I'll see you guys here on
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 5: the Sports Exchange, 9 to 11 on Wednesdays.
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: There you go. I love having you on. All right, Candy,
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  Speaker 1: take us home. We'll final station break.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, I want to say happy anniversary, Cliff,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 3: to you and your wife. 31 years is a definite milestone.
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 3: It's probably 30, but it's still a milestone. You don't
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 3: hear of that anymore lately. So congratulations, and I hope
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 3: you enjoy whatever celebration you two decide is right for
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 3: you guys. Thank you for sharing your evening with us.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's it for this edition of Sports Exchange. On
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  Speaker 1: behalf of Cliff Neal, Jason Pratt, Rob Moravka, Lucas Nelson,
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  Speaker 1: Katie Ebeling, Scott Morgan. Thank you. Good night. See you
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