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Depression Must Be Taken Seriously · Sports Exchange

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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the show is because of what the
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  Speaker 1: title said. The pressure must be taken seriously, So I'm
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  Speaker 1: And my cleanup here by the way, is willly Epning.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks all right, s let's.
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  Speaker 1: Take care of business, and we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: a very important passing this week that happened in the
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  Speaker 1: form of a tribute to John Brent Kess, who died
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  Speaker 1: at the age of fifty four due to depression. He's
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  Speaker 1: best known for his est inhows, one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: ones of sports science. You know what, only I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to start off with you on this, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is.
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  Speaker 5: Never an easy subject to discuss, especially when you hear
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  Speaker 5: the words depression and suicide attached to it. My awesome
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  Speaker 5: prayers go out to his family. I mean, it's I
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  Speaker 5: can't I can't even imagine what that family is going through.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 5: It's just a horrific situation all the way around. And
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  Speaker 5: his shows, i mean were some of the dopest shows
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  Speaker 5: on ESPN. But aside from that, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 5: he was a he was a husband. I'm sure he was.
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  Speaker 5: He had to be somebody's son because he wasn't born
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  Speaker 5: of himself, you know. And he's a friend to a
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  Speaker 5: lot of people, I'm sure as well. It's just you
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  Speaker 5: never ever ever really want to read about stuff like
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  Speaker 5: this again when it comes to uh, depression and suicide
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  Speaker 5: and and all those other terrible things that you know,
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  Speaker 5: we have those demons that we whisper into our ears
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  Speaker 5: sometimes and you know, at some point, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: just my prayer is that one thing that will all
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  Speaker 5: be able to do is to discuss anything, no matter
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  Speaker 5: how gruesome or how insignificant that thing may be to
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  Speaker 5: that person.
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  Speaker 3: If we can.
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  Speaker 5: Prevent things like this from happening, then I'm all for it, Jacob.
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  Speaker 6: It shows that we can't take anything as adults at
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  Speaker 6: face value. He always looked like he had a big
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  Speaker 6: smile on his face all the time, you know what
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  Speaker 6: I mean, He had a big he had that career.
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  Speaker 6: We've a lot sports science. It was an awesome show,
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  Speaker 6: but you can't tell. And it's like, how many times
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  Speaker 6: do we hear about teenagers doing the same thing? How
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  Speaker 6: many times do we hear about this big smile on
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  Speaker 6: the face. You don't see it coming, And it's over
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  Speaker 6: and in truth by itself with all these years and
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  Speaker 6: all I mean every time that I mean, you go
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  Speaker 6: on the you go on the online, and then every
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  Speaker 6: time there's a thing on suicide's, ESPN will put the
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  Speaker 6: of suicide hotline. Every time, you would think every time
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  Speaker 6: that we see these you'll see that Susie hotline under
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  Speaker 6: the scrolls on a lot of these shows. You'd think
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  Speaker 6: this would at least stop, that these people would have
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  Speaker 6: the guds, But really you have to ask how many
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  Speaker 6: people in his life day did they and then did
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  Speaker 6: they relied on him? How many people wanted him to
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  Speaker 6: be tough? You know, how many people wanted to be
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  Speaker 6: you know, they are at all times straight, you know what?
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  Speaker 6: You know what it reminds me of, truthfully, and this
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  Speaker 6: is just a show, okay, it reminds me of the
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  Speaker 6: we'll just say Roseanne Slash the Connors final episode before
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  Speaker 6: she dies. The character and he's they're having a flood
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  Speaker 6: and he's down there and he's I'm having I'm on
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  Speaker 6: the edge of my fingertips keeping everything alive. I don't
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  Speaker 6: know how that much I can go on and he's
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  Speaker 6: finally admitting it, and of course they went on years,
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  Speaker 6: but that's what a lot of I mean, this is
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  Speaker 6: a man's man. And he was saying that, how many
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  Speaker 6: men don't say that, right? And that's the that episode
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  Speaker 6: really got because remember everybody knows Dan Fielding the character
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  Speaker 6: that's a tough guy, that's a man's man, and it's
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  Speaker 6: like and he finally they're having a flood. He knows
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  Speaker 6: he has no flood insurance. Their house is about done,
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  Speaker 6: their foundation will be screwed. They can't do anything. And
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  Speaker 6: it's like and he has no money, and it's like
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  Speaker 6: he's done everything. And that's and that happens to so
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  Speaker 6: many men. And what is the story behind John Brink
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  Speaker 6: is what he had to do? Was it a something
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  Speaker 6: that just set him off? And it's finally the end?
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  Speaker 6: I because I haven't seen him on things lately, so
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  Speaker 6: was he out of work? I don't know what's going on.
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  Speaker 7: George, Well, yeah, it's very sad. Nos, It's incredibly sad.
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  Speaker 7: He did try to commit suicide. It says back in
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  Speaker 7: twenty twenty three. It happened around the time that he
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  Speaker 7: was selling sports science to ESCN. And actually there's a
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  Speaker 7: story and I'm not going to go into details, but
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  Speaker 7: his dog actually helped save him from taking his life. Obviously,
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  Speaker 7: these demons have been fighting inside of him and his head,
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  Speaker 7: and unfortunately for several years, we only could pray and
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  Speaker 7: hope that his family and his loved ones and his
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  Speaker 7: followers can all somehow remember the good days and they
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  Speaker 7: will you know that that he worked his butt off
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  Speaker 7: and in some of these great shows such as the
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  Speaker 7: Sports Science Show. But John obviously had issues with with
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  Speaker 7: a number of things that but we've got to get better.
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  Speaker 7: We have to as people, we have to as citizens,
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  Speaker 7: we have to try to help people that do have
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  Speaker 7: a need, whether it's suicidal or whether it's cutting their
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  Speaker 7: scan or any number of different things that people do,
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  Speaker 7: especially a lot of our youngsters do these days and
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  Speaker 7: experimenting with those type of things. So my sympathy again
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  Speaker 7: to all his followers, all his family and friends and
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  Speaker 7: professional workers that worked with him over the years. It
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  Speaker 7: wasn't just a one man operation obviously, and let's just
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  Speaker 7: let's just try to help in any way we can
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  Speaker 7: so it doesn't happen again to somebody we know personally,
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  Speaker 7: even right, thank.
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  Speaker 2: You, Candy.
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  Speaker 4: Mental illness is just that, it's an illness. It's mental
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  Speaker 4: health needs awareness. Things like this bring this to the forefront, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 4: but maybe fortunately because we need to talk about this
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  Speaker 4: more and we need to get this more out in
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  Speaker 4: the open.
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  Speaker 3: It's this.
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  Speaker 4: For a long time, it was a stigma that we
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  Speaker 4: couldn't talk about mental illness, and that's what was wrong.
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  Speaker 4: With things, we hit it and it needs to come
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  Speaker 4: to the forefront. We need to talk about it. We
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  Speaker 4: need to help those that need help, and we need
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  Speaker 4: to be able to recognize some of those some of
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  Speaker 4: the little symptoms that you might see. And this, what
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  Speaker 4: this tells us is that no one's a neme to this.
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  Speaker 4: I mean no one. It can happen to any of us,
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  Speaker 4: someone that has done I mean, he's six his shows
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  Speaker 4: are six time Emmy Award winning shows. Like He's not
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  Speaker 4: just anybody.
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  Speaker 6: So what this.
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  Speaker 4: Tells me is that we need more awareness. I'm glad
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  Speaker 4: that I work for a company that recognizes mental illness
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  Speaker 4: that has gone forth and said, you know what, We're
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  Speaker 4: gonna give you free sessions for mental health because we
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  Speaker 4: all need to recognize there are times that are tough
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  Speaker 4: and we need to be able to get through them.
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  Speaker 4: However that may be. No matter how strong you think
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  Speaker 4: you are, you're not weak to say you need help.
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  Speaker 4: And that's one of the stigmas that I think is
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  Speaker 4: out there, is that men think they're strong or women
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  Speaker 4: think they're strong and that they don't need help. That's wrong,
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  Speaker 4: that's the wrong message. So I feel really bad for
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  Speaker 4: his family because I honestly I can't imagine and rest
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  Speaker 4: in peace. Your struggle is now done.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a serious issue. Most men like me and
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  Speaker 3: John Brinketts have had that have had that stuff. But
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  Speaker 3: it's always important to talk to someone whenever you yielded
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  Speaker 3: that down, and someone professionally and also also get life
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  Speaker 3: skills as well. Sometimes it takes medication like esca telepram,
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  Speaker 3: the one I have to get to get you feeling
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  Speaker 3: better again. So it's but unfortunately it doesn't It doesn't
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  Speaker 3: help every It doesn't help everyone, but thankfully helped me,
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  Speaker 3: but just John John Braca is just sad to see
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  Speaker 3: him go.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I'm gonna add to this. Number one.
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  Speaker 1: The first time I had actually heard somebody committed suicide
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  Speaker 1: was when Freddie Prinz died of a gunshot.
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  Speaker 2: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, there's a history of it in my family.
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  Speaker 1: There is my step grandfather, Sidney Tacubs went out there
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  Speaker 1: and took an overdose on pills. So when you have
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  Speaker 1: family history, that doesn't help. Am I going to tell
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  Speaker 1: you on a live show that it never.
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  Speaker 2: Entered my mind?
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  Speaker 1: You better believe it has you It really have Number
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  Speaker 1: one depression and suicide has. In fact, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: admit something that I've never admitted to many people before,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it's important that we understand it. When
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  Speaker 1: I was in Arizona, I was in the.
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  Speaker 2: Hospital because I took too many sleeping pills.
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  Speaker 1: So I was in a tough mental relationship with my
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  Speaker 1: ex wife. She's a nice girl, but there was so
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  Speaker 1: much pressure on me to carry the financial side that
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  Speaker 1: it throw me over the edge.
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  Speaker 2: But I survived.
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  Speaker 1: I had other thoughts of it later on, Yes, but
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  Speaker 1: the thing that saved me was a great support system,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what should be taken away from all of this.
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  Speaker 1: One of the more recent episodes of that. So I
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  Speaker 1: thank everybody in my support system for making sure what
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  Speaker 1: happened the first attempt there was no second attempt because
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  Speaker 1: I had enough people in my support system to help.
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  Speaker 1: Andy's been a big part of a lot of King
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  Speaker 1: family members in FRONTS. It's not easy for me to
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  Speaker 1: admit something like this on the air, but it's something
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  Speaker 1: like everybody's talking about.
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  Speaker 2: You have to do it. You have to bite your
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  Speaker 2: tongue and do it. And I don't mind doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Because what we're here to do on sports Exchange or
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  Speaker 1: any show is we need to take care of the good.
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  Speaker 2: And the bad and the ugly.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not one of those types of places we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about every happy thing because on This is
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  Speaker 1: Life people like now unfortunately, and I will have a
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  Speaker 1: follow up on this later on. But Robin Williams of
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  Speaker 1: More Than Meitty fell victim to this as well, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to elaborate on that tonight. I have
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  Speaker 1: a heart felt story that I'm going to bring up
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  Speaker 1: probably a next week's edition of The Sports Exchange, which
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  Speaker 1: people are really going to like about Robin Williams. But
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  Speaker 1: I only want to mention that so it can't happen.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just glad that all six of us are
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  Speaker 1: on this show that we can address this subject and
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  Speaker 1: be able to look at each other in the fay
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  Speaker 1: say you know what. I love everybody on this show
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of my close friends, but you five people,
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  Speaker 1: without you, five people this show here, the Sports Exchange
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  Speaker 1: really really really make me happy when we're able to
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  Speaker 1: do something every Wednesday night that we look at each
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  Speaker 1: other as family. It's what we are, we really are, Willie.
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  Speaker 1: We go back a while, we do, and I've always
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  Speaker 1: felt the strongest respect for you in Norway's to one
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  Speaker 1: anybody that called me Scooter really seriously really not bad Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: You're like a brother and me too, just like really,
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  Speaker 1: George Eikorn, what am I going to say about you?
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  Speaker 1: Except I've known you forever around George, Yeah, okay, you
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  Speaker 1: think good lately. I haven't had to do Lee and
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  Speaker 1: you know where you standing. Taylor to me, you're the
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  Speaker 1: new guy at the why, but you've done and Umbili will.
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  Speaker 2: Part of your progress. So I'm proud of the group
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  Speaker 2: of people.
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  Speaker 1: That are on this show tonight, and I just hope
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  Speaker 1: that somebody will take something out of the show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sterres of what we're addressing because it was important for
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  Speaker 1: me to lead off of John because it's the right
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  Speaker 1: thing to do, and that's what we're here to do,
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  Speaker 1: the right thing to do. But that said, let's go
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  Speaker 1: on to something that happened in New York. But the
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  Speaker 1: guy getting paid good money to lead and the New
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  Speaker 1: York Dicks fire Tom Thibodeau, who won twenty four postseason games.
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  Speaker 1: Next time to listen, Mike Woodson, but coach Tavi, don't
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  Speaker 1: worry about it. They'll being paid thirty million dollars, not
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  Speaker 1: the coach because of his extension. Not bad, and of
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  Speaker 1: course I think part of the speculation will be that
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  Speaker 1: he didn't use his bench enough, which wore out a
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  Speaker 1: lot of players at forty sixtat I can see that
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. But Willie, again, what are your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: about Tom Thibodeau. He's the best thing to that in
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  Speaker 1: New York. For a while, it had been relevant, and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's not employed, but he's making money.
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  Speaker 5: You know, this is the third time this season that
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  Speaker 5: this sort of thing has happened, when a coach takes
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  Speaker 5: a franchise to the levels they've never seen before, or
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  Speaker 5: it's been that long since that franchise has seen that.
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  Speaker 5: So I can say I'm a little surprised by this.
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  Speaker 5: But what I'm not surprised about is if the reasoning
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  Speaker 5: that they say is the reason why it happened, then yeah,
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  Speaker 5: at some point TIBs is gonna have to become untips
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  Speaker 5: and be something else or in channel his somewhat other
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  Speaker 5: coach self because he can't continue to do these things
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  Speaker 5: in terms of running his starters into the ground, and
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  Speaker 5: by the time they get to this playoff round or
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  Speaker 5: any round in the playoffs, they don't have any energy.
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  Speaker 5: And I know the Knicks had a lot of injuries
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  Speaker 5: this year. I wasn't I wasn't that great of a
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  Speaker 5: fan of them trading Julius and getting in Big Cat.
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  Speaker 5: I think some of the ancillary pieces that they lost,
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  Speaker 5: like Deep, Dante, Givincenzo and some others may have come
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  Speaker 5: back to bite them a little bit, because those are
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  Speaker 5: that those types of guys are energy guys off the bench,
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  Speaker 5: and when you don't have a bench, or when you
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  Speaker 5: play six seven people the way that Tibbs does, you
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  Speaker 5: know you're gonna be biting your You're gonna be kicking
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  Speaker 5: yourself in the rear should that happen. So thirty million
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  Speaker 5: dollars to go away. But we've seen this before with Tibbs.
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  Speaker 5: I mean when in Chicago, same exact thing. You know,
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  Speaker 5: he runs the starters into the ground, and by the
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  Speaker 5: time it's time to really punch the clock, they have
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  Speaker 5: no they have no puncher's fight left in them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's lot of gas much, okay, Jacob.
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  Speaker 6: You know it's funny. I was hearing this from the people.
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  Speaker 6: They were saying TIB's gonna put them off. But this
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  Speaker 6: isn't the eighties. Eighties. I mean Casey Jones had eight
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  Speaker 6: to ten rotation, pat Riley eight to ten rotation. Don
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  Speaker 6: Nelson ate a ten rotation. I mean, over and over,
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  Speaker 6: He'll be brown eight to ten all the time. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: mind you, they played the things, but I mean they're
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  Speaker 6: eight to ten pete. But some of the people off
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  Speaker 6: the bench got ten minutes. I'm like, I don't know
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  Speaker 6: what they're talking about with the eighties. But here's the
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  Speaker 6: thing with Thibodeau. I said this that this is probably
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  Speaker 6: going to happen. Everybody saw it on Facebook the May.
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  Speaker 6: They blew a seventeen point lead two and a half
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  Speaker 6: minutes at home. When you do that, your players aren't
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  Speaker 6: focused on you. They're not listening to you, right, They're
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  Speaker 6: not doing anything anymore. Personally, I love that he brought
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  Speaker 6: up to the Eastern Conference finals, even though part of
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  Speaker 6: me was like, part of me was so glad to
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  Speaker 6: see the Knicks go down because the fans were attacking
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  Speaker 6: people and act like morons after the playoff win. I
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  Speaker 6: was glad to see it. But in the other case,
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: they gotta win sometime. But if they're good here's the
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: thing that I'm saying. I'm hearing things like Derrick Rose
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: is a possible. You have the coach and a couple
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: others and all that. I mean, here's the thing, Mike
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: Malone or a I'm just gonna I'm gonna say, many Waiams,
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: if you can get himself a break, you know, after
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: his breaks, you know, after his wife died and everything.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: Anybody with a ring, anybody with a ring has to
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: take tips. I'm saying it has to take tips spot
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: anybody that is they are this close, they are this close.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Otherwise he might as well have kept tips, right, because
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: all you're asking for with some of the ideas of
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: on ESPN, because they want their hits, their clicks and
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: all that garbage. Right, all you're asking for is gonna
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: have twenty five wins after being this close to the finals,
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: and and it's like, and that's the big thing. You
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: just got to make the right decision. You've got to
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: get somebody with a ring that has a rain, that's
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: been experienced with it, and that otherwise he might as
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: well kept Thibodeaux.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Enough.
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: George, Yeah, I was very disappointed. I don't feel this
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: was justified at all, he has done a terrific job
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: in New York, as you guys mentioned, you know, leading
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: them into the Eastern Finals for the first time in moons.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: And I do conceide that, Yes, his bench was not
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: deep enough. I do concede that. But the fact of
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: the matter is is that he did more for Knicks
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: basketball the last time I looked, than anybody else in
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: recent history. We all know about the collapses of the Knicks.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: It happens a lot, and in many years it was constant.
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: But I'll tell you what, Tims is gonna land somewhere nice.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: He's gonna get a good job, I hope somewhere. And
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: I agree with with Jacob. I mean, they're gonna have
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: to get somebody that's either a want it or B
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: taking teams into the finals several times even if they
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: haven't won it all. But it's gonna be difficult, it
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: really is. It's not easy to come back another season.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: They've got the good they've got, They've got good starting
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: five year old question and a couple of guys off
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: the bench. But it's gonna be It's gonna be tough.
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: But no, I I'm tired of these knee jerk owners
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: and and CEO presidents whatever they are basketball ops doing
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: this kind of crap and they could pay a heavy
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: price for this the next we shall see. But Tis,
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: you did a great job, Taylor Well.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: I was shocked to hear the firing of TIBs. I
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: I think the Knicks came a little. The Knicks came
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: just two games short of reaching the NBA Finals, and
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Tom Tom thibodeau them that far. Really, players like Karl
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Anthony Towns, Jalen Brunson, O g Ananobi, Josh Hart all
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: those guys. Those guys are are are great and coachable.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: There's just no way Tim should have been fired period
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: that I thought. I thought. I just thought that was
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: the wrong decision. That's it, Handy, He's.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Getting paid thirty million dollars for the next two years
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: to do whatever he wants. Hmmm, I want to sign
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: up for that. But anyways, come on.
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: You're getting paid that much at your place. Record isn't fair.
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: It's what you sign up for. And let's face it,
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: intoday's game, and I don't here what sport you're you're
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: coaching or managing.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: If you don't have the end result that the owners want,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: this could be the end result no matter what, and
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: what everybody is looking for is that Stanley Kupp the
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: NBA Final, winning that World Series champion. You want to
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: be the number one team and that's what everybody the
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: super Bowl champion, that's what everybody's going for. And if
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: you're not that and you don't get your team to
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: that point, a lot a lot of owners are pulling it,
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: pulling it and pulling it quick. Now. The one thing
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: I will also say, managing and coaching today is not
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: the same as it was five ten years ago. It's changed.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: The players have changed. And if you can adapt to
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: those changes, what happened to Tom Thibodeau is going to
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: happen to more, more and more. You know, if if
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: you look at the Pacers Rick Carlisle, he's adapted and
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: changed his coaching style over the years and that and
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: look where he is now. So if you're a coach
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: and you don't do that, you might end up more
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: like Thibodeaux instead of like Rick Carlisle.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Well, and I'll talk about Rick Carlele later in the show,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: but I'll let you brought his name up glad to Jacob.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Well another thing too, in truth, I think about this
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: John Wooden could. John Wooden could coach in any era,
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: just considering how his temperament was. Really, by itself, you
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: can get on them. Someone asked an office, bring up
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: another one, Larry Bird that coached Indiana. Someone asked if
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: he could still get away with doing things the way
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: he did as a three year coach in Indiana. Absolutely,
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: And it's not because it wasn't because it's a simple fact.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: Yet he left him on the play, you know, he
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: left them because they were late. All that kind of stuff.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: It isn't what gets the players. That's not what's getting
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: the mad. That's not all that kind of stuff like that.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: It's how honest are you? Right? How honest are you?
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: And it's like the play by itself, with the egos
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: the players have. If they know you're straightforward and straight up,
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: it doesn't matter what era you're in. The main thing
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: about it, though, is Timbo screaming all the time. It
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: reminds me of Carlossimo. It's screaming all the time. Are
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: you a tough guy? No? I mean, in fact, I
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: saw a picture of Thibadeau today with a mullet. He
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: he he looks like pat Riley with a mullet. It's
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, you wouldn't believe that kind of stuff. But
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: it's like he just he used to be stylish and
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: you're not a tough guy. But that's what I think
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: of when I think of people screaming all the time.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: You're trying to be tough. It's like, that's not the
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: way of communication. And unless you are their dad or
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: you're don't do it often, but you get their attention.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: It's not gonna work anymore. Screaming constantly is not gonna work.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: Bob Knight would not work here. It's just true. It's
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: you got it. You gotta give it a reason when
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: you're screaming and everything like that. It's like you got
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: to give it to a point where it's every forty
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: games and you're you're having a losing streak and you
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: finally go off. They'll listen. But it can't be every game,
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: every play, every everything like it can't be chaos. And
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: that's what Thibodeau is. As wonderful as a coach as
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: he is, you got to stop the chaos a little bit.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Great points I'll will say about this. I want to
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: keep moving the show along. Is James Dolan I just
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: hope for your sake this one doesn't bite you because
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: a man had the franchise going in the right direction.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: And that's all I'm gonna say about it. I'm gonna
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: keep my words short and sweet, right to the point. Now,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: non sports topic of the night. Oh I love this
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: one because I'm in the travel business tonight. Oh my goodness,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I've been waiting to get this one out here for
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: a long time, and now we can tell it. Great stuff, really,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: seriously really, Oh, I love it all right. Americans will
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: need a visa in two thousand dollars to visit Brazil
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: beginning April of twenty thirty five for tours of business
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: or transit, ending a free visa policy in place at
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Guess what my travel agent said. It's too dangerous.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't send you there anyway. Don't worry about it.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I'm only putting this out there for information. FYI. Nobody
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: asked to come on it. I want to get it
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: out there anybody that wants to find But we're not
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: going around a horn of this one, or any of
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: them for that matter, on a non sport.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: But if that makes it even more interesting. If you're
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: in Brazil. Guess what we'll continue the In Brazil, prisoners
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: can actually reduce their sentence by forty by four days
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: for every book that they read and write a report
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: up to forty eight days per year. My goodness, why
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: we do things in Brazil?
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: Love it? No, not in that.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Particular situation or the other one.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not putting two grand in my pocket to go there.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe when I was single many years ago and I
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: had the greatest person on the planet next to me,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I would have gone to Rio. I would have had
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: a good time with the Brazili Wins. And I know
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Real dejon Earra was a great place to go. In
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: my phone say there, but the best one of the
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: group was actually really really Newest travelers now need a
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: approval to enter UK as a January twenty twenty five,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the Electronic Travel Authorization. Now this one isn't bad. I'll
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: tell you why again. My traveling travel agent Adrian so
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: sol lover, she's booking our trip right can says it
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: will it take three minutes to get him?
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Will we got ours in three minutes?
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I was shocked. What did we do on candy on
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Friday Night? What did we do afterwards, booked everything else,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: biing go. It's so bad to go to the UK,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: but the Brazil, Hey, the prisoners are getting rewarded for
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: reading books and you have it to have two grand
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: in your pocket.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: It's dangerous.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: And when Mike Greenberg had to fit with the water
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: down there for the Olympics, you wren't too happy about
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: it either. There's your travel tips of the Night, presented
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: by The South worda tribune and shake Back Media Group.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: How about that? What was the coast sponsor on this one?
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: There?
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Because I decided to take this thing travel and shake
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Back Media Group as now the unofficial or official sponsor
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: of the Sports of Change tonight. And you'll get to
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: mention that later in the broadcast.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: How's that sold? Will? Never expected that? Did you? Unbelievable stuff?
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Nobody has to comment, but there you go. UK, there
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: you go, flash out of the hardware of their will
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: a god love it? So you better have two grand
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: in your pocket and probably a whole lot more when
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: you go to Brazil, because that's the chicken to need
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and to get that visa and court prisoners. I think
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: it's a good time for the behavior. This guy get
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: a little smarter in prison. UK were on our way.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: What a beautiful thing. Anybody, I'll say anything, you're going
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: to move on.
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: I know the Brazilians have a lot of partying.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: They do.
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: I was at a conference once in Nashville for a
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: company I worked for, and we all gathered in the
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: evening for some fun times and some you know, dancing
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: and all that. But the Brazilians stole the show. They
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: were all grouped together in what part of the outdoor
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: plaza we were on, and they were hopping in, hollering
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: and drinking and carrying on like nobody else. No one
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: else from the United States could match their level of excitement.
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: So I've seen the Brazilians up clost at least one
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: time in my life, and yeah, they're They're definitely in
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: there for entertaining and partying. I don't agree with that.
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: I don't. But in today's political environment, which I'm not
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: going to bring up, but I did. No, No, I
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: don't like teams and I mean countries anyway, slapping stuff
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: on and all that stuff.
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: So allars, okay, George, that's the bucket list. I gotta
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: get on now I'm.
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: To see Okay, all right, I.
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: Gotta see you dance, George. That's my bucket list.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Oh I say, I'll say one thing.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I got it Brazilian that lives next to us, and
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: when I did have back surgery, the guy did make
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: me food.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: He is a pretty good took any rights of fight.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: But I'll even at that.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Not going any further. I think I've gone further enough
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: because we're going to my town, Willie. I'm gonna call
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: on you first because I've asked you to do us
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: a favorite and give us some information. And then the
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks they say they need a new arena by
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: twenty by twenty thirty one, thirty two seasons. CEO Rick
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Wilt says, what do you think of that? Do they
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: really need a new area?
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: Will not necessarily need? I mean, ac Is is still
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: pretty modern, and what's the other word, I'm looking for renaissance. However,
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: I do understand the competitive nature of franchise owners and
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: team presidents and all those great things to where they want.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: They want to have the shiniest new toy out of
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: the box. I'm more interested in seeing what would happen
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: with the AAC Some of you guys may know or
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: may not know that it's downtown Dallas. And the mayor
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: prior to the last mayor, prior to the mayor before that,
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: was solely responsible for not only the new Cowboys Stadium
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: built being built in Arlington, but also the horse race
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: part that we have in grand period, all of this
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: stuff was supposed to be downtown Dallas. So I just
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: wonder what's gonna happen. And to be honest, I mean
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: the MAVs, I think they're going the other way at
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: least for until Kyrie comes back all the way healthy,
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: like we know Kyrie to be. So I understand what
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: It's twenty thirty one, so that's what six years from
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: now by then, I mean, I don't I'm glad. I'm
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: just glad that when they do or if they do
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: approve it, I'm glad I don't live in Dallas County
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: because that tax is going to be high.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I did say one thing for those individuals, AC I
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: believe it's the American Airlines Center, right, Yes, yeah, because
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: they used to have an.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: American Airlines arena in Miami from the heat.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to mind town for for everybody else.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: First of all, we're gonna go to no.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: The Southeastern University here locally and they're based in Davy.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: The Miami Miami Dolphins actually used to train over there.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: They built any facility there. I don't know what they're
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: doing with it now to use that. But their men's
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: basketball team get that. Okay, they win the Division two
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: national championship is what they did. But their head coach,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Jim Crutchfield, it was honored as the NABC Coach of
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: the Year since a twenty twenty one twenty twenty two season.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: And if she was one thirty five and five, let
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: me repeat, people, one thirty five and five with a
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: nine to sixty four winning percentage, that's unbelievable. And then
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: for winning four consecutive Sunshine State Conference Regular Season of
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Attorney titles and the rest you can read on the
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: South for a Tribune. And they also have two national championships.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: The show for their efforts as well as an undefeated
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: season to get one of those national titles. Well, you
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: know what, even though it's my town, you're the basketball authority,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: what do you think of the job that's being done
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: as a division tool. So I've had I've interviewed Jim
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Crushield before Michael As. One of these days, I'll go
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: ahead and bring them on our seven and maybe there's
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: a chance with the sports rep you and I and
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: him can talk if you're ever interested on a Thursday night.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: If not, I'll have on line myself. But Jeff Crutchfield
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: done an unbelievable job, and this guy is on the
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: best kept secret.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: It's a college basketball.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: And if he has an inkling or a desire to
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: go to a different level, I think wherever he is
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: or the location that he's currently at, they should grant
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: his all out release for what he's been able to do.
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: I don't care what the competition level competition level is,
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: I don't care if it's beginner on Madden or all
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: NBA on NBA jams. I just don't that that doesn't matter.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: When you have that type of success, the cache that
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: you have developed, the pool that you now have, you
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: can he should not have to ever have to buy
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: a beer or a steak again in that town.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: We say one thirty five and five and nine with
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: a nine sixty four winning percentage is unbelievable.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: And I will leave it at that. I don't care
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: what level you're on. And by the way, he likes
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: it there.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna work diligently when I get back from Europe
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: to get this guy on the show.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Where I'm going to go back down there.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: But I wanted to make sure that Nova Southeastern University,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: which by the way, is a media distribution partner for
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the South work Tremune got their national recognition. And since
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: we'll be talking a lot of championship basketball on the
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: college level, as I introduced more and more of those
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: topics here on the Sports Exchange, I felt like it
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: was necessary to give Nova Southeastern University. They're due tonight,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Nova Southeastern University. We're proud to have you a part
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: of affiliate with us. All right, I'm going to flip
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: it around the horn, Willie. Do you have anything else
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: you want to add to your mind town or as well?
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Or I know we talked about the MAVs. I kind
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: of ask you to do that one. There might be
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: something else that you have.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: Uh No, I'll save my I'll save my trolley for
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: the for this part of the show and football season starts.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll spare all right, Jacob.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: I got in my town. I'm gonna go from my
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: old town in Quincy Illinois where I was last week,
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: And this is to Candy. By the way, we got
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: the first woman mayor. They got the first woman mayor,
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: and after over one hundred some odd years, they got
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: to her. And her name is doctor Linda Moore. And
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: I mean things I can agree, things I can can't.
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna go whatever. But she's pretty I can say,
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: she's pretty infensive. Right now she's trying to fix all
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: the potholes which are up pile. This is ridiculous. Right now,
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: she's working in itself. She's gonna be paying, she's gonna
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: be paying a hew heck of a lot of bills
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: and trying to get everything like that. I'm not sure
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: what she's good. I'm not sure how much is gonna
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: be built up there, but there's But the first thing
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: is the basics, which was needed a long time ago.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: So I thought i'd tell you about that. That was
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: the first, over one hundred some odd years, they got
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: a woman mayor. Now so in Quincy, Illinois. So but
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: the funny thing I find I wanted to say that
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: they just they put together at sports commission in that town,
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: which Quincy's nothing but sports. It's uterly Cornfields and sports.
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: It's like putting the Sports commission there is like putting
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: more tennis players in wibledon. So it's I mean, it's
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: just not it's not necessary. But overall, you know, congratulations
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: to them for what they did. It's like it wasn't
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: a big the voter turnout, but she took vantage of it.
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: She got it, and I just wanted to bring that.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Up to you.
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: I thought you enjoyed that candy.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: M h kay, George, I know you're in Detroit. You're
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: gonna say something boutb but go ahead and say what
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: do you want about Detroit?
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: That's your opening.
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: Well, it's a sad report, and obviously you guys have
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: all heard that. The Lions center Frank reg now four
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: time Pro Bowl selection seven NFL seasons, only twenty nine
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: years old. I repeat, Frank, only twenty nine years old,
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: said the past couple of months have been very trying
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: as I've come to the realization that my football journey
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: is ending and I'm officially retiring from the NFL. Not
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: the kind of news that Lions fans and management wanted
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: to hear. But he's been so banged out the last
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: few years. He's been a warrior, a gladiator, toes that
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: have bothered him and knees and all the shoulder injuries
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: and everything else. Frank, you are definitely an All Star
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: and we are really really sad that you're hanging up
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: at such a young age. But it goes to show
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: and tell people that yes to the number one game
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: in America football, but it still is a very very
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: brutal and physical game that you really really don't realize
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: unless you're in the trenches like Frank Ragnow. The Lions
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: are gonna miss him. They're definitely gonna miss him. Brad
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: Holmes will go out and as he does so wonderfully
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: the last few years, and find some more talent. He
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: signed some guy today already. Uh, but there's gonna be more.
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: There's gonna be more. But trust me, this team and
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: the quarterback Jared Goff, everybody on the offense is gonna
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: miss Frank Gregnow. And just thank you on behalf of
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: Lions fans for all you gave.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Taylor.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Well. The Tigers are the first MLB team to reach
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: forty wins. Holy cow. They just keep finding ways to win.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: Now they're leading four nothing over the lowly There's lowly
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Chicago White Sox top of the second scored all four
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: runs in the first an what else is new?
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: They beat them thirteen to one two nights ago like
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: they were supposed to. Uh, yeah, they last night was
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: uh last night was terrible. The bullpen just took up.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: It was a bullpen night. Looks like Riightley Breen's gonna
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: fly out there. But anyway, the Tigers are fine. In
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: a buyer's market, they have to have an extra reliever.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: They haven't. They have an extra bat. I'd say, get
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: a real clean up hit hitter for God's sake, Okay,
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: and then they'll have a total package. Mike Trout.
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: There you go, really.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Or botha Schetti or Nolan arnetto.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll hold your breath and leave it alone. Mike
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Trouting treat Okay, Katie, you're gonna do your mic town.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: They're giving us a station break.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm gonna and I actually have two my towns.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: So the first my town is where I currently live. So,
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: for the first time since two thousand and eight, an
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: NHL team and it's AHL affiliate are vying for their
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: respective cups. So the Florida Panthers obviously started tonight in
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: there in playing in the Stanley Cup. But they're AHL affiliate.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: The Charlotte Checkers all reached the Calder Cup finals and
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: are playing in the Calder Cup. So it's first time
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: since two thousand and eight. And then my town back
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: in Wisconsin. For those of you that don't know, I
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: am a UW Whitewater graduate. UW Whitewater graduate. The baseball
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: team the Warhawks were the most dominant in one of
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: the most dominant performances in the NC two A Division
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: three championship history. The University of Wisconsin Whitewater baseball team
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: secured the national title with a twenty one to three
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: win over Messiah University. The Warhawks scored seventy four runs
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: over the course of their five games at the World Series,
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: a Division three record to hoist the championship trophy for
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: the third time in program history. They did it once
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: in two thousand and five, twenty fourteen, and now twenty
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: twenty five. So congratulations to my alma water alma mater,
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: UW Wisconsin Whitewater Warhawks.
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: Messiah was waiting to get twenty eight to three so
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: I can come back.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: And that was waiting for Jacob to say some.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: All right, Katie, I'm going any longer for a station
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: break because you're gonna go please, thank you.
• 43:29
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• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Kay, one thing that should belong in my mind, Tonne.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: I'll just get it up there really quickly. You're your self.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Florida Athletic director. Michael Kelly has accepted a job over
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: at Navy. So great work to Michael Kelly. I had
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to interview him one on one when I
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: was over at USF when they took on FAU. What
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: a great guy. And I wish Michael Kelly well in
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: his new endeavor at Navy, and done a wonderful job
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: at the USF Athletic program, so I'll have an opportunity.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I mentioned Michael Kelly again, great work in my alma
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: monitor and I hope it goes all your next stop
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: over at Navy. All right, With that said, we'll continue
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: going on. Willie wasn't here last week when we started.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: But wait, this is a new segment called the Baseball
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Topic of the Night. All right, because I know Belly
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: has a I know that we have a really good
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: good baby. Willie likes to do some bayfall on the show,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: so he's going to be out having the opportunity to
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: go ahead and come in on this, and I'll come
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: up with some interesting ones as well. On April second,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, Cecil Fielders steal first base of his fields,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: the first base of his career with Detroit Tigers. Cecil
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Fielders stealing a base, Willie, unbelievable. What do you think
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: of cecil fielder stealing a base with a Tiger?
• 45:58
  Speaker 9: That thing, cecil Fielder, that one. That's why I brought
• 46:03
  Speaker 9: it up, That same one. The guy in Japan and
• 46:07
  Speaker 9: then hit fifty home runs with the Tiger. Cecil Fielder
• 46:10
  Speaker 9: that one.
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a five to two player now he can
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: beat you with his feet.
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: I was waiting for a lot of other things.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: I was waiting for you to say that, Willie. I do.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: That's why I went off with you. My brother, because
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: he's a five too.
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: He's a five two player now.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: And the man that refined his baskets in Japan, small
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Berrys and the Tigers. That was a holiday I saw
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: that April second, ninety six. Yeah, baseball probably of the night,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: all right, Jacob Christper.
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's I remember I saw that part, and I'm
• 46:49
  Speaker 6: like This is the only thing I can think of.
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: What in the world did that catch her out there?
• 46:54
  Speaker 6: What hell did he catch in that locker room, allowing
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: Cecil Fielder to get a stolen base? Yeah, yeah, Tessil,
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: you have to really, I mean, it is like putting
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: a flatbed truck on the on a on the Landamore
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: S Freeway just racing it. It's just I mean, it's
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: just ridiculous.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: You know, it's a good one.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Atlanta over Speedway and cider in the same.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: Comments my Christopher very much.
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: Yes, all right, all right, George.
• 47:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a great topic, very timely.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: I know on YouTube if you folks want to look
• 47:31
  Speaker 7: it up, they got George Kell and al Cayline were
• 47:35
  Speaker 7: the announcers and they do have that posted that stolen base,
• 47:40
  Speaker 7: and they were just beside themselves. I remember Kelly Kaylin.
• 47:43
  Speaker 7: They couldn't believe what they just saw Cecil Feeler. Really
• 47:49
  Speaker 7: it was a great moment in Detroit Tiger's history, and
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: there have been a lot of good moments, but I
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: always like says, he was a great guy. Obviously, it's
• 47:57
  Speaker 7: unfortunate what happened with him and Prince over the years,
• 48:01
  Speaker 7: but he was a great part of Detroit. He got
• 48:05
  Speaker 7: inducted last summer, I'm sorry, last fall, finally into the
• 48:10
  Speaker 7: Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. Hats off to you, Cecil.
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: Was good seeing you there and being part of the
• 48:16
  Speaker 7: Class of twenty twenty four. And he also, as you
• 48:21
  Speaker 7: remember Scott, he cleared the roof one time among a
• 48:25
  Speaker 7: select few that did that at Tiger Stadium.
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: He's done it twice. He did it twice.
• 48:32
  Speaker 7: Okay, I'll take your word for it, mister Jacobs.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: Five times on the roof, two twice over the roof.
• 48:38
  Speaker 7: Okay, thank you, mister baseball.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: I mean Taylor.
• 48:45
  Speaker 7: Did it twice. Anyways, I love you. I'll move away
• 48:50
  Speaker 7: and let you have the guys comment.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Well, want not forget Reggie Jackson didn't.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: All right, Taylor, go ahead.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: Cecil Fayler was a beast. He was my famor, a
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: Tiger of all time. He just kept hitting Bob after
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: bomb after Bob after Bob and didn't even steal his
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: first base until nineteen ninety six at the Metro Dome.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: That that's exactly the year Cecil stole his first ever
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: Major League baseball base.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: That was.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: Running power.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: I told gave it an ouncers. Really good.
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: That explains the whole thing right there. That's the fast
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: turf in the old Metro Dome.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: There you go exactly. I saw it on a YouTube
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: video too. I even saw it live when I was
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: a teenager.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: For goodness sake, Well, let me tell you something about
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: the Metro Dome, since I have an illustrious injury history
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: there cover the lions and I'm actually wearing some hiking
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: boots and they got caught in that stupid turf over there,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: and I.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Had had my knee drained when I got back.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: And for all you people that have to know that
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Billy Simms career ended over the Metro Dome, I'm leaving
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: at that talk about the Minisoma turf. Well, I like
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: your reference, but at least my knees and my hiking
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: booth didn't really quite jive on that surf.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: That's how I'll leave it. That with my creble.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: So now you heard about the the first part of
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: my mindset with the we talked about earlier, to show
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: well the depression business with all across the now my
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: injury history with these over the Mexrodome. I quit with
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: that stuff. Okay, I'll turn over to Candy eviling so
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: we can talk about some upbeat NBA WNBA news. Go
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: to puntit punt. We'll wrap it up tonight, Candy. W'll
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: probably have a parting shot, but all right, go ahead, Candy,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: you're wrapping up with not Prince but Cecil Fielder.
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: Fielder had a reputation for being a slow based runner.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: In nineteen ninety six, he set a major league record
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: by taking one thousand, ninety six games to record his
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: first career stolen base, which occurred on a botched hit
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: and run. He stole another base that season as well,
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: and finished his career with two stolen bases over thirteen
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: seasons and one thousand, four hundred and seventy games. He
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: was one of only four players and the only Tiger
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: to homer over the left field roof at Tigers Stadium.
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: The other three were Harmon Killerbrew, Frank Howard, and Mark McGuire.
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: He also hit the only home run to ever travel
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: completely out of Milwaukee County Stadium during either the Braves
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: Milwaukee history from fifty three to sixty five or the
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: Brewers Park history from seventy to two thousand. He played
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: his final season for the Tigers in nineteen ninety six.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: They go Milwaukee County Stadium. People Harmon Kilroy. Those are
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: some names in the past. Great, yeah, okay, well.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: It is what it is, all right.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: You know we're going to NBA. Well maybe not quite
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: the WNBA house that that we.
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: Go the NBA.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: You want to talk about impressive stories, we always talk
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: about the other. Obviously, this is an unbelievable story. That's
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: why it made tonight show. Golden State Balcrease, here's a
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: name to seventeen thousand, four hundred and twenty eight fans
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: for their WNBA preseason debut. People, listen, preseason, I've talked
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: about Liason. They put seventeen thousand, four and twenty eight
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: week man in the Chase Center. Can't it a little bit?
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: We all know a little bit about Chase. I have
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: a big acount with a mother, which is the third
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: highest ever attendance for a WNBA preseason game. But we're
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: not finished. It even gets any better to add to that.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Now they have three straight regular season sellout and they
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: became the first WNBA franchise to pack the house with
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: eight two thousand plus fans and their first three games unbelievable.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Willie a Baria man. Right, we always us to have
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: that thing, right, but we're talking about the Golden State. Crazy, Hope,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: I'm saying it right. Yeah, you bang by somebody.
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're saying it correctly, Scooter and uh, I don't
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: want to look at the Valkyrie franchise as the singular
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: responsible party for this because my wife and I have
• 53:35
  Speaker 5: credentials to cover the Dallas Wings.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Okay, And we were at.
• 53:40
  Speaker 5: The game this past Friday night when Angel Rees in
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: the Chicago Sky came to town. But unfortunately there was
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: no Page Beckers in this game because she was dealing
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: with concussion of protocol. But I think for for an
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: arena like that, obviously that is suited for the NBA.
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: To get that kind of volume for a preseason game
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: is a true testament for that league. And it's been
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: in existence now for thirty years, since nineteen ninety five.
• 54:14
  Speaker 10: And.
• 54:15
  Speaker 5: All things in reference to their ceiling, that league ceiling,
• 54:23
  Speaker 5: it is like unimaginable the types of things that they
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: could do with what they have already in the league
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: and the influx of these great players. And then next
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: year is not gonna be anything different with a couple
• 54:39
  Speaker 5: of stars coming out from usc Juju Watkins and some others.
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: I just think that it's about time that the WNBA
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: is getting the just due that they deserve.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Right well, don't worry. What more w NBA topics is.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: This one's too good to pass up. With women's basketball
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: drawing seventeen to eighteen thousand, that's just unbelievable. And bear
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: in mind these facilities here are used just because you
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: have more dates of those arenas, and Golden State doing
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: it in a big way. Let's not kill herself as
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: the numbers don't why they really don't. And I know
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Page Becker's and Kaylyn Clark and the faces of the league.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: But with Golden State doing early on the first impressions
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: made anything that valcras are auto tremendous. More power to them.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: I'm happy for them. Never field good story in this league.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: They really are, Okay, turnover to mister opinion, Jacob.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: Mister fact that too.
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: Okay. The big thing about it is I was reading
• 55:37
  Speaker 6: up on something and when Kaylen Clark went down. Before
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: she went down, the average price of a ticket forty
• 55:44
  Speaker 6: one bucks now down Byking Indiana's down three bucks to
• 55:47
  Speaker 6: three dollars for the lowest ticket it went that low
• 55:50
  Speaker 6: that fast. So this is the thing. Congratulations to the
• 55:53
  Speaker 6: Valkyries for doing that. That is awesome for them. It's
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: necessary and it's needed because there is going to be
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: a CBA. There's gonna be a CBA coming up in October.
• 56:04
  Speaker 6: This determine all this and I'm calling it it's both
• 56:07
  Speaker 6: the Collective Bartney Agreement and the Capeman Bargaining Agreement. They
• 56:12
  Speaker 6: are because they they had better hope she doesn't want
• 56:15
  Speaker 6: to start her own league and get that. It's like,
• 56:19
  Speaker 6: it's because let me tell you this, I watched the
• 56:22
  Speaker 6: Liberty in Indiana game. That was way more exciting than
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: most of the NBA games, way more exciting, wonderful ball,
• 56:28
  Speaker 6: I mean, And the thing was they cut the three
• 56:31
  Speaker 6: pointers in half and then they go inside. That was
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: great passing. I was loved it. It's beautiful. But it's
• 56:38
  Speaker 6: like the big thing about this is the fact that
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: they lost forty million last year because they spent more
• 56:43
  Speaker 6: than they've ever spent before just because of the promotion.
• 56:46
  Speaker 6: But the issue being you have that now you're gonna
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: spend even more now to go try to make some money,
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: and now you've got to Now you have a Collective
• 56:56
  Speaker 6: Bargaining Agreement coming, you have to prove to them that
• 57:01
  Speaker 6: they got to be able to keep because they're not.
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: They're still not making the money of the NBA, the
• 57:05
  Speaker 6: share the you know, the shared value, they don't make
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: it anywhere near that. And then there are ones that
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: are saying they'll just sit out if they don't get
• 57:13
  Speaker 6: their way, and it's like, how do you convince by itself.
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: That's why I'm saying that I made the joke of
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: the Kaitlyn Barney agreement because you better listen to her.
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: But it's like you better listen to her because WNBA
• 57:28
  Speaker 6: can't go down. They can't do this. This is momentum
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: right now. They lose momentum now they'll never get it back.
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: It's like, and it's not like that it would hurt.
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: Caitlyn should just go play professional golf. Yeah, it's it
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: just it just doesn't matter. I mean, Angel Rees go
• 57:44
  Speaker 6: do some podcasting. I don't know, it just won't matter.
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: And it's like they have to keep their momentum going constantly,
• 57:52
  Speaker 6: which means get the CBA done before that time.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Seriously, Well, it's funny you say momentum, George, and I
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: use that word a lot in our first edition of
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: wart Rafts all even at that, but I will not
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: hesitate to turn over to mister Eichhorn.
• 58:06
  Speaker 7: Go ahead, George, Oh well, thank you. You know they
• 58:10
  Speaker 7: want too.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: Can be nice to this guy when he's doing the
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: right thing.
• 58:16
  Speaker 7: Won two and lost three I think in the preseason.
• 58:19
  Speaker 7: But those statistics are outstanding their attendance. It just proves
• 58:24
  Speaker 7: again that people out there, women and men, are hungry
• 58:28
  Speaker 7: for the WNBA and see some exciting basketball. The ladies
• 58:33
  Speaker 7: do a terrific job. I mean, I know they've toiled
• 58:36
  Speaker 7: for what two decades or more. Now the WNBA we
• 58:40
  Speaker 7: had a franchise in Detroit, we lost it. All that
• 58:43
  Speaker 7: to say, it's still very very and it's increasing in popularity.
• 58:48
  Speaker 7: So I'm glad to hear in now. San Francisco is
• 58:50
  Speaker 7: a great area for basketball. You know that Willie and
• 58:54
  Speaker 7: Scott and jacob us that have been around a long time,
• 58:56
  Speaker 7: go back to the days when the Warriors did play
• 58:59
  Speaker 7: in San Francis scope before they moved to Oakland, and
• 59:02
  Speaker 7: now they're back in San Francisco and Steph Curry and
• 59:04
  Speaker 7: all the rest is history. But the women now have
• 59:07
  Speaker 7: a chance to shine in Frisco, and I think that's fantastic.
• 59:11
  Speaker 7: Those crowds have been really, really good. Yes, I know
• 59:14
  Speaker 7: a lot of it is Caitlin and some of the
• 59:16
  Speaker 7: star players, but what the heck, why not, you know,
• 59:19
  Speaker 7: ride that momentum and ride that challenge that you have
• 59:23
  Speaker 7: with trying to get people into the seats. But they've
• 59:25
  Speaker 7: done a great job the last year or two. Keep
• 59:28
  Speaker 7: it up, Keep it up, w NBA and San Francisco Taylor.
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: Golden State finally has a w NBA team. Whoop do do? Well? Yeah, well,
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: look what happened to the Detroit Shock, but Golden State, Well,
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: the Detroit Shock may come back because of Tom Gores,
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: but the Golden State Falkyrie's Holy cow. It's a hot ticket,
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: like George Icon pointed out two and three in the preseason,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: but you never know what's going to happen in the
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: regular season. So I just wish them good luck.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: Candy Valkyries have done a good job by getting name
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: players to be out there and help them. How big
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: is it for Golden State Warrior Steph Curry NBA Champion
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: to wear a Valkyrie's T shirt and put it out
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: there on social media? Is he publicizing is he repping,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: you know, for the Golden State Valkyries of course, and
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: there's other celebrities that have shown their support as well.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: Two thousand and eight Valkyries were the first w expansion
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: teams since two thousand and eight. Before they even tipped
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: off the inaugural season, the Valkyries had sold ten thousand
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: season tickets. So getting eighteen thousand to me, if they
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: have already ten thought season ticket holders, kudos to them.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, they're the first W team to reach that
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: mark ten thousand season tickets. Kudos to the Women's League
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: for and not just basketball, but all kinds of different sports,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: because let's face it, if you don't know, well, this
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: probably should have should be my partying shot at the
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: end of the night. But there's a new women's professional
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: softball season that's gonna start June seventh. Kudos to women's
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: sports taking a forefront and coming back and people liking it,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: people are attending it, people supporting women's sports. I love it.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: All. Right. NBA Finals predictions, I'm gonna lead off with
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: this one first, Okay, so I want to preface what
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: we talked about. We mentioned Rick Carlisle, Rick carl Carlisle
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: the Pacers. There is a chance to become the fourth
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: head coach in league history to win an NBA championship
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: with two different franchises. He led the Masks for the
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: NBA title in twenty eleven. By the way, I guess
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: the Miami Heat now, but four or five?
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: Stuff? Okay? But he did.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: He would join Alice Handhm Hawks, seventy six Ers, Phil Jackson, Bulls, Lakers,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: and pat Riley Lakers. He well, he talked about a
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: great company. Guess what I'm pulling for its You know
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna predict the Dangers to
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: win it in six. H Okay, but that's it. What
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: do you think, Willie? What's your prediction his games? We
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about how many routes there are.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 5: I actually like Rick Carlisle a lot. He's he's he's
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: always been easy to talk to for me. I know
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: he's got a little bit of a edgy side when
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: it comes to that, but I'm pulling for him. But
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 5: I just don't think they got enough horses. I'm gonna
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 5: say the thunder and six.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: Let me also point out another interesting fact. Actually, he's
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: in my book Lessons from the microphone, and when I'm
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: sitting over at courtside, I watched his calm demeanor. It's
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: really taught me a lot, and I've actually tried to
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: be that in a lot of ways in terms of
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: being a poker face. But when you compare the market
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: size of these two franchises, Oklahoma City is twenty fifth
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: with a seven hundred and fifty five thousand, and on
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: top of that, Indianapolis one point one eighty three million,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: they're twenty first. So obviously, if you're looking for two
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: big market teams, you're not getting them in this. But
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: it'll be an interesting battle. And actually indian is looking
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: for the first championship and Oklahoma City slash Seattle hasn't
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: won one since nineteen seventy nine when Winnie Wilkins was there.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: But that said, somebody's gonna break a drought.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 6: Jacob thunder and seven. But I mind. The thing I'm
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 6: saying about it is this internet, and then we're gonna
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 6: talk about that in a second. A bunch of goofs.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 6: They are completely underestimating the Pacers, and they're doing it
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 6: on purpose. The Pacers are a well run oiled machine.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 6: Maybe they don't have the same horses, but that is
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 6: a well run team. Yeah, don't. It's like they're treating
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 6: like it's gonna be a four or five, and I'm like, no,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 6: the Pacers are tough and it's gonna be a good series.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 6: And the thing is, truthfully, this is a good thing
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 6: for the league because now the big market teams can't
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 6: just go off to being the big market anymore. Right
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 6: they're ever I mean, people are going to get used
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 6: to this. It's like, you can't just I'm saying this
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 6: part here. It isn't just gonna be Dodgers and Yankees anymore.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 6: I'd see in the next ten years or so, probably
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 6: can see Minnesota versus Miami in the World Series. You
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 6: never know. I mean, I'm saying this ten ten years
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 6: or so. It's like, because big market and small market
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 6: almost be interchangeable as far as the kind of players
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: that they can be able to get. And look at
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 6: the p players that Oklahoma City has. You would see
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 6: him on the Knicks or the you see Sga on
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 6: the Knicks or the Lakers, I mean even a few
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 6: years ago. Well and he's an Okay, see look at
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 6: all these and it's like they're just gonna be interchangeable
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 6: now and it's just gonna be a wonderful series.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: So what was your prediction again?
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 6: UNDERD and seven, I go to George Iithorn.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 7: Well, this I think will be a very entertaining series,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 7: I really do. And it's doesn't matter if they're big
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 7: cities or not. Come on, I mean, this is a
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 7: sport that's grown in popularity for a number of years,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 7: the NBA, and it is exciting to see teams that
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 7: haven't been there or haven't haven't been there in a while.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 7: But most of the favorites are most of the prognosticators
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 7: are picking Oklahoma City obviously to beat Indiana. But I
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 7: really think that I think it's gonna go seven. But
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 7: I'm also going with Oklahoma City. But it's gonna be
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 7: a darn good series, great basketball. Looking forward to it,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 7: starting with Game one tomorrow night. And Scott and I'll
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 7: never forget that Memorial Day weekend when we covered the
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 7: five hundred and then we saw the Indiana Pacers. We
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 7: got We're lucky to get a couple of tickets off
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 7: the street because we didn't have credentials back then, not
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 7: for the Pacers. Yeah, and we saw them play. Was
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 7: it the Knicks?
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: Right? Yeah, it was unbelievable.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was a great trip. And that was way
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 7: back in the day.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thawt I court a little lesson what it
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: was like to buy tickets in the street because we're
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: so yes, I couldn't see that side and went till
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: they're ready to get rid of them there before they're
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: ready to get rid of the before we the Indion negotiate.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you learned anything from that negotiation,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: but we got in the Market Square arena. That's all
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: that matters, all right, turn over the tailor.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: I'm glad you.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: Brought that up, Thank you, and seven U. The Pacers
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: are going to give the Thunder a fight, but it's
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: going to be too much S G. A and Company.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm glad I don't the only one that said Pacers. Well,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: that means somebody's got me right here, Katie who was
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: born in Indiana, but I said born Okay, well who
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: you got?
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: This one's tough because Indiana's playing good basketball right now,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 4: right Okay, see played way better, had a really good
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: regular season. Indiana has really scrapped their way to win
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: a lot of these games. They've taken down some good teams.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: Do they have enough gumption to beat okay See, I'd
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 4: like to see Indiana win, but I think okay See
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 4: is gonna.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 6: Take it good.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: I'm glad everybody disagrees with me. I really am. All right.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Well that said, we're going to go over to our
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: pundits pundit segment and it's just a party shot.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: Find otherwise the show is over.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it'll be a party shot also.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: But okay, Well, anybody that wants to put him in
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: as okay, just making sure you get your fund and
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: funded in and then we'll proceed from there. We're on
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: schedule right now for what we need to do.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: We'll just keep it that way. Go ahead, Okay.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 6: Everybody's heard of William Randolph Hurst from here, you know
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 6: what I mean. They've heard of him. We've all done
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 6: and stuff like that. Back in his day. He only
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 6: had the money to do an eight page newspaper because
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 6: he didn't have the money. But in the midst of
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 6: it all, it was every bit of the that eras
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 6: version of big hits of you know, of the clicks,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 6: you know, get something no matter whether it's true or not,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 6: and you know that was that time of day, and
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 6: it reminded me of how I look forward this because
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 6: because Hollywood did the same starred thing for years and
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 6: years and years, chose who you could like, who I mean,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 6: I mean Jenman May narrative created a narrative. They did this,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 6: and then so you because of that, you saw the
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 6: Humphrey Bogar was five four hundred and thirty pounds of
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 6: the biggest badass in the world. Because you'd see something
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 6: like that, it's good craziness and goofingness. Nineteen eighty one.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 6: They did it to Greg Norman. He was the coolest
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 6: dude on the planet. It was during the round, the
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 6: times of getting you know, they were just starting up
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 6: with Paul Hogan and Crackdout Dundee later on. But they
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 6: made him he was he was. He got the name
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 6: White Sharks because he's supposedly hunted sharks and maybe or
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 6: maybe not, but he was the good looking guy and everything.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 6: He was going to be everything. And it got to
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 6: the point where he gacked up seven for the Grand Slam.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 6: He backed up seven Grand Slam titles, leading by at
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 6: least four or five shots. At the end of the round.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 6: You know, we're going into the last round. He was
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 6: supposed to be James. He was supposed to be he
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 6: was supposed to be Crocodile Dundee cool under pressure, and
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 6: over and over and over again, the media would just say, Oh,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 6: he can't lose this, Oh he can't lose this, Oh
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 6: he can't lose It just kept happeningly. But see, even then,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 6: though we unless you were a detective, you didn't have
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 6: the memory or anything to be digging up of what
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 6: the whole deal was. He didn't forget about it in
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 6: the end nineteen eighty six that everybody knows eighty six
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 6: as Jack Nicholas is winning the Masters. All the eighty
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 6: six was was Norman second place three times and one
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 6: of them also unbelievable year. But he gacked up three
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 6: of them. But we didn't have that. But you want
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 6: to know what we have now? We have the Internet.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 6: We can dig on anything, read anything, and yet we
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 6: are still doing the William Randolph Hurst thing and creating narratives.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 6: We're still doing it to this day. I brought up
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 6: I'm just saying he who will not be said with
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 6: the with the Bear's quarterback won't say it, say it enough.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 6: Bringing the narratives out there. They did it with him,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 6: They're due. They did it with Justin Field, they do
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 6: with all of these others.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: They did.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 6: They see, we have the internet now to be able
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 6: to dig and show its obvious, and yet people don't care.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 6: They want the narrative. They want the narrative. And it's like,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 6: the narrative is why we have the people we elect?
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 6: Who got who it is?
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: Then?
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 6: Because because it's they want they want to believe over
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 6: what is true. That is the big deal we have
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 6: to get. And the biggest thing is whatever we vote,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 6: and I don't care what anybody votes here or whatever.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 6: We have got to get more intelligent as a people.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 6: We have to. It is imperative because other because I'll
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 6: tell you this is the truth. We're in idiocracy right now.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 6: The movie we're in a live version of idiocracy. And
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 6: and maybe that's gonna be my next title, my thing,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 6: William Randa Hurst idiocracy because that's where we are at.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 6: And it's like d ken we I mean, here's what
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 6: I'm just gonna ask this question to everybody. Could media
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 6: survive if we started getting more intelligent? Good question, all right,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 6: but it's it's imperative for our society because it's going
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 6: to get start getting worse.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: That's a great question, great pun of the fun of
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: the thought. Everybody around the horn answer this question, and
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do a couple of party shots to show
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: will be over with one last shout out to John Frankish. Okay, Wellie,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: what do you think? And media survive When I answers question.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 5: It will survive because it'll be a survival of the fittest,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 5: and the real intelligence is going to come from our
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 5: either ability or inability to adapt to what that truth
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 5: is going to be, right.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: Fair enough, Okay, George.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 7: The media will survive. It has for a long long time,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 7: but it certainly isn't looking like our mom and dad's media.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 7: I mean, things have changed so dramatically. And as a
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 7: side note, it was very sad to see Lester Hole
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 7: hanging it up as the anchorman at NBC has done
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 7: a terrific job filling in when Brian Williams was let
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 7: go or moved out of there. So but the media,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 7: as we know, going back to Frank Reynolds and all
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 7: the great guys chat Frankly, yeah, it'll survive, but it's
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 7: already starting to look different. Than obviously it used to be.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: All right, I'll say this right now. Yeah, it definitely will.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: Intelligence will hurt, people become more knowledgeable what they have
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: around the there's always going to be around.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: Will they survive. I don't know.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: It's gonna survive. We have to have sources for information
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: and new it will survive. Now will job be lost?
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: We know that because the heat's really changing, But that's
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: another point. But yeah, that's a great question. Taylor Candy
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: is the last word, and then we're gonna wrap up the.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: Show a couple of minutes, all right, So yeah, the media,
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  Speaker 3: of course it's gonna stay. But late lately, uh, regional
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  Speaker 3: media has been declining.
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  Speaker 6: It's just.
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  Speaker 3: It's become very unprofessional as of late. Just the shilling
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  Speaker 3: and and the uh any other stuff. It's it's got
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  Speaker 3: to stop. Really, But but I see but I see it.
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  Speaker 3: I see it lasting until the end of time.
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  Speaker 2: Can't your opinion?
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  Speaker 1: Then you can have your parting shot and we'll go
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  Speaker 1: through party shots real quick and we're done with one
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  Speaker 1: last tribute to Brankash.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead, So will it survive? Yes? Will it be
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  Speaker 4: the same?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 4: But Scott is a testament. He wrote a book how
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  Speaker 4: it's changed over his forty plus years in the industry.
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  Speaker 4: Is media going to be the same, No, But is
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  Speaker 4: anybody's job going to be the same? No, all of
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  Speaker 4: them are going to change. They'll be some different form
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  Speaker 4: of it. My parting shot is kudos to Major League
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  Speaker 4: Baseball for partnering with Pro Women's League. They are backing
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  Speaker 4: the launch of the new Athletes Unlimited Softball League. It
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  Speaker 4: actually kicks off this weekend June fourth, with four teams
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  Speaker 4: playing twenty four games across ten cities. And who is
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  Speaker 4: the league's first commissioner, none other than former Miami Marlins
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  Speaker 4: GM kim Ning. Kudos to them for starting this league,
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  Speaker 4: and I hope they have a lot of success. I
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  Speaker 4: think games are going to be broadcast on network at
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  Speaker 4: MLB dot Com.
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  Speaker 2: That's it, Taylor, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I already said it. I already said my two
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  Speaker 3: cents on it.
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  Speaker 2: Very good, okay, George Iicorn.
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  Speaker 7: My parting shot is watch out for the Detroit Tigers.
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  Speaker 7: And we've been knowing this for a long time. First
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  Speaker 7: team to win thirty games, first team to hit the
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  Speaker 7: forty win mark, So it looks like it could be
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  Speaker 7: a really, really fun time in the Old City tonight
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  Speaker 7: the next weekend series at home. Hardly no tickets are
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  Speaker 7: left the top one hundred and twenty thousand for the
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  Speaker 7: Chicago Cubs Tigers series for three games at Comerica Park.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob, you got one real quick.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah well I didn't have that part real quick, but
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  Speaker 6: let's just say this, that should be one heck of
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  Speaker 6: a series.
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  Speaker 5: Well if you have one, yeah, real quick man. Detroit
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  Speaker 5: Tigers nineteen eighty four, bless you boys. Is it going
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  Speaker 5: to be one of those types of seasons again? And
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 5: just shout out to the city of Detroit and all
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  Speaker 5: of the surrounding areas and the sports fandom up there,
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  Speaker 5: because you guys have the Pistons, you have the Tigers,
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  Speaker 5: and you have the Lions, all of course have been
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  Speaker 5: in the playoffs within the last couple of years. So
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  Speaker 5: I just love what's going on in Detroit sports sports
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  Speaker 5: team goals.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing only the Red Wings join that plateau.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing I'm going to add to it is
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  Speaker 1: this I haven't mentioned on the show. I mentioned it
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  Speaker 1: really quickly since since Cecil Fielder made it, I just
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  Speaker 1: want to say, once again, a rest in peace to
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  Speaker 1: chat women. He personified the nineteen eighty four, Tigers like
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  Speaker 1: no other I haven't mentioned on the show.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna mention it now and that's that. But that's that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to end the show on this note, and
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  Speaker 1: I think hopefully a lot of people can empathize what's what.
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