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Hour 4 – Mutual Bucks Break-Up · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: Oh what's going on?
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  Speaker 4: Happy Tuesday morning to you as we roll on. Good
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  Speaker 4: to hang out with you guys. Having a lot of
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  Speaker 4: fun here early morning hours. So there's a player and
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  Speaker 4: a team that need to break up with each other pronto.
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  Speaker 4: That would be Yannis at Atacoombo in the Milwaukee Bucks. Now,
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  Speaker 4: there was something I caught on Monday during the day.
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  Speaker 4: This is Brian Windhorst. Saw a video post that he
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  Speaker 4: was a guest on First Take and just this comment.
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  Speaker 4: It's just short, sweet to the point. I thought it
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  Speaker 4: was hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: But here's Windy on the Bucks.
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  Speaker 4: S trick this out.
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  Speaker 5: If you're asking me, do I think the Bucks can
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  Speaker 5: put a team together that compete to win the Eastern Conference?
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  Speaker 6: I do not.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why I got such a kick out
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 4: If you're asking me, can the Bucks win the East?
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  Speaker 4: I do not think that is going to happen at all.
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  Speaker 4: It's basically what he's saying.
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  Speaker 2: It's not.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the thing, man, is the Bucks they need
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  Speaker 4: to move on from Yannis, and I think Giannis needs
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  Speaker 4: to move on from the Bucks now. If his personal
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  Speaker 4: preference is to remain in Milwaukee, it's up to him.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, he came from overseas. He's been in
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  Speaker 4: Milwaukee for a long time. He's made a lot of friends.
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  Speaker 4: It's like his extended family. If he wants to stay there,
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  Speaker 4: by all means, maybe that's what he wants. But he
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  Speaker 4: said repeatedly that he wants to win championships. He now
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  Speaker 4: win championship in Milwaukee. Not for a long time, I
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  Speaker 4: don't think ever. Again, it's just not in the cards.
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  Speaker 4: Look at that supporting cast. They don't have the guys
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  Speaker 4: with Damian Lillard on the on the shelf for an
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  Speaker 4: entire season. You look at that supporting cast. Even in
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  Speaker 4: the East. We love to say that the East is
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  Speaker 4: wide open, and it is. It's just not wide open
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  Speaker 4: for the Bucks.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not They don't have a good enough supporting cast.
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  Speaker 4: They made a couple of moves here and you're like, okay, right,
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  Speaker 4: they re signed Bobby Portis, They'll have Kevin Porter Junior
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  Speaker 4: back there, a two year deal, eleven million dollars. They've
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  Speaker 4: made a couple of Torrian prints is gonna be back there.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, okay, these are shrugged the shoulder moves. Brook
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  Speaker 4: Lopez is gone gonna be with the Clippers. So I
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  Speaker 4: just I don't see the supporting cast being nearly good
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  Speaker 4: enough seriously compete in the East. I think if Jannis
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  Speaker 4: remained in Milwaukee, Milwaukee best case scenario would be the
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  Speaker 4: Westbrook Thunder.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they would be.
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  Speaker 4: When Westbrook was averaging a triple double three straight seasons
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  Speaker 4: in Oksee, he was unbelievable individually, put up all these
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  Speaker 4: insane numbers, and then the team lost right away in
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, just first round exit, first round exit, first
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  Speaker 4: round exit. They didn't go anywhere. That would be the
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  Speaker 4: Milwaukee Bucks with Yannis, he would go freaking crazy. He
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  Speaker 4: put up these insane numbers, and then the team wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: be good enough to do anything come playoff time. Like
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  Speaker 4: he just saw this last year, they got smacked by
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  Speaker 4: the Pacers. Now, Damian Lillard got hurt in that series
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  Speaker 4: that had something to do with it, But they're not
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  Speaker 4: even close.
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  Speaker 2: That's a gentleman sweep.
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  Speaker 4: With Gianni's playing, What do you think it's gonna be, Like,
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  Speaker 4: Dame's not there for any games in the playoffs. He
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  Speaker 4: was there for a couple of games, right, he's not
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  Speaker 4: there for any of them going forward. You think the
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  Speaker 4: results are gonna be much different. They're not so the Bucks.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, their future is dire where they don't have
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  Speaker 4: picks and they don't have roster flexibility. Other than that,
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  Speaker 4: they're in great shape. Their future is very bright. Without
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  Speaker 4: having picks or any roster flexibility, They're they're just in
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  Speaker 4: fantastic shape. No cap space, they're maxed out. So that's
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  Speaker 4: where the lack of flexibility comes in. And they don't
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  Speaker 4: own their picks. Their picks are all gone, Like they
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  Speaker 4: still owe draft picks. On the Drew Holiday trade, True
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  Speaker 4: Holiday has been traded numerous times since his Milwaukee Bucks days.
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  Speaker 4: The Bucks still owe draft capital in that initial transaction,
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  Speaker 4: Like True Holiday just got traded again from the Celtics
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  Speaker 4: to the Blazers, and the Bucks still haven't paid off
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  Speaker 4: that deal in full.
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  Speaker 2: Yet they don't have picks, they don't have space.
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  Speaker 4: They can't get better, and they're not even upper echelon
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  Speaker 4: in the East. It's time to move on. This is
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  Speaker 4: where you gotta sell high. If you're moving Yannis, you
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  Speaker 4: can command top dollar. Yannis is still a legitimate MVP candidate.
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  Speaker 4: He's one of the best superstars in the entire NBA.
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  Speaker 4: And this is a way that you can get draft capital.
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  Speaker 4: You can get players, numerous players who can help you.
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  Speaker 4: Now young, you go young, that's what you do. You
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  Speaker 4: reset the whole thing. It's not in the cards. It's
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  Speaker 4: not realistic to compete for championships as currently constructed.
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  Speaker 2: They have zero chance.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't like throwing that around with the player
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  Speaker 4: as gifted, as talented, as productive as the honest they
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  Speaker 4: have no chance, none, zero, And like, if you're staring
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  Speaker 4: that in the face, you gotta be realistic with yourself.
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  Speaker 4: That'd be like saying, man, look at that hot blonde
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  Speaker 4: over there. I have no chance, like none, not even
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  Speaker 4: like the legal limit. I don't have a point eight
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  Speaker 4: percent chance with this girl. I'm gonna go spit game
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  Speaker 4: at her, Like, why you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Have a chance what do you do? You just bored?
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  Speaker 4: You want to get shot down to you want to
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  Speaker 4: get your feelings hurt. Is that what you're in the
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  Speaker 4: market for over here? Like that, you gotta be honest
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  Speaker 4: with yourself at times you just do. And Milwaukee has
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  Speaker 4: to be honest with themselves. And I think Giannis has
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  Speaker 4: to be honest with himself. If he really wants to
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  Speaker 4: win championships, he has gots to go. It's gots to go.
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  Speaker 4: Time get up out of Milwaukee. And if Milwaukee wants
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  Speaker 4: to win big, you gotta do the unpopular thing. If
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  Speaker 4: Jannis doesn't want out, you still gotta get him out.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta get some draft capital. You gotta go young.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to reset and rebuild. You're maxed out.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a credit card, like the Bucks.
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  Speaker 4: They still haven't paid their credit card bill on the
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  Speaker 4: Drew holiday transaction. They haven't paid their credit card bill
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  Speaker 4: on the Damian Lillard trade. All that stuff is still due.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta pay all that stuff, and it restricts all
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  Speaker 4: of your flexibility. So listen, man, it's time to move
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  Speaker 4: Giannis and try to recoup a lot of the things
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  Speaker 4: that you traded to get those assets to go for it,
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  Speaker 4: and the Bucks have been aggressive. I think overall they've
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  Speaker 4: done a pretty good job surrounding Yannis with talent, trying
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  Speaker 4: to go for it. Let's get Damon here, let's let's
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  Speaker 4: go for it, Let's try to appeal to y honest,
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  Speaker 4: Let's make sure he's not going anywhere. But now, unfortunately
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  Speaker 4: that a tough blow where Dame Torres Achilles, and that
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  Speaker 4: changes everything, and you have to look at this thing
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  Speaker 4: from a completely different vantage point, and you gotta be
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  Speaker 4: honest with yourself, and it's time. It's time to move
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  Speaker 4: you honest. I think it's best for both sides to
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  Speaker 4: move on from each other.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll say this, and I've.
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  Speaker 4: Done phillin shows in Milwaukee, and it's like a unified
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  Speaker 4: front right where they're The common thing is, if you,
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  Speaker 4: honest doesn't want to go, you do not You do
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  Speaker 4: not trade him whatsoever. I remember the days before Giannis
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  Speaker 4: and bah blah blah blah blah. You make the hard
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  Speaker 4: decision and do what must be done. Even if he
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  Speaker 4: wants to remain. It is time to part ways because
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  Speaker 4: that's the only way you're gonna have a viable future.
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  Speaker 4: That's the only way, that's the only major chip that
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  Speaker 4: you have is him, and I realize he's been so
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  Speaker 4: unbelievable for that franchise. But if you have no chance
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  Speaker 4: to win and you're just gonna risk Listen, Yannis, he's
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  Speaker 4: had calf injuries before. He missed the entire playoffs two
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  Speaker 4: seasons ago because of a calf injury. What did we
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  Speaker 4: just have in the NBA finals? Haliburton had a calf
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  Speaker 4: injury and whoa, what do you know? Torn Achilles?
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  Speaker 2: Crazy? How that works out?
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  Speaker 4: What if Yannis stays in Milwaukee and gets hurt. What
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  Speaker 4: if he snaps in Achilles and then you're trying to
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  Speaker 4: move him, Yeah, good luck. All of a sudden, you're
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  Speaker 4: getting half of what you could have gotten. The time
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  Speaker 4: is now, it's not worth the risk to have Yannis
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  Speaker 4: stay there, and you're risking his long term health if
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  Speaker 4: he goes down and that hurts the trade value. If
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  Speaker 4: then he's like I want to get up out of here?
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  Speaker 4: Are you? Then you have the bright idea, like, man,
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  Speaker 4: we actually need these things called draft picks. This would
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  Speaker 4: be a path toward that roster flexibility. It's too late.
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  Speaker 4: By that time, you hurt all of your value. So
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  Speaker 4: you gotta be proactive and it's just staring you right
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  Speaker 4: in the face. It's best for Giannis and the Bucks
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  Speaker 4: to move on from each other, all right with that,
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  Speaker 4: let me get to the militia eight seven seven nine
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  Speaker 4: on Fox, Helmet Man is with us. I love that
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  Speaker 4: helmet Man in La.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on top of the morning day? Same to you.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I was gonna talk about the Dodgers and the Oiols.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what do you have on your mind, helmet Man?
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  Speaker 7: You think the Oios could still make the playoffs because
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  Speaker 7: it's half the season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, they got their work cut out for them.
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  Speaker 4: Helmet Man. You know, let me check how bad the
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  Speaker 4: damage is right now for the old O's.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, slow star, they've been playing better. But let
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  Speaker 2: me see that.
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  Speaker 4: Let me see how far back they are, and I'll
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  Speaker 4: tell you for sure. Well, so, yeah, what's what's your
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  Speaker 4: Dodgers thought?
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  Speaker 7: I think even though they have pitching is trying to improve.
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  Speaker 7: I still think they have to fire a power to
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  Speaker 7: make it to the playoffs and go to the World
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  Speaker 7: Series that can't.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they're definitely gonna make the playoffs. Hopefully they'll be
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  Speaker 4: blessed with better health. They've had so many injuries. But
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  Speaker 4: I mean you look at them and do they have
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  Speaker 4: the best record right now?
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  Speaker 2: Like, even with all.
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  Speaker 4: Those injuries, they're tied with the Tigers for the best
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  Speaker 4: record in all of baseball.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Like, and I look at the Orioles.
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  Speaker 4: Listen man, helmet man, there's seven back in the wild
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  Speaker 4: card race and.
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  Speaker 2: They got a chance.
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  Speaker 4: But you got a leapfrog the Royals and the Twins
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  Speaker 4: and the Rangers and the Guardians and the Red Sox
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  Speaker 4: and the Angels and the Mariners just to be one
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  Speaker 4: of the three wild card teams. That's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: leapfrogging to do. I would say, no, I say no,
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  Speaker 4: they don't get there.
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  Speaker 7: One other thing before I go, Could every could every
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  Speaker 7: person the listeners pray for me because my mother died yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, helmet man, I'm so sorry about that.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 7: She was ninety six.
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  Speaker 6: And then, don't know what.
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  Speaker 7: I hope he's listening. Yes, she passed away, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, I'm sorry to hear that. Milk helmet man. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'll send a prayer up to Big Guns. That's why
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  Speaker 4: I call him.
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  Speaker 7: You know, you lived for a long time. She was
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  Speaker 7: ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's ay man. It's a long life. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 2: thoughts and prayers for you.
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  Speaker 4: That's never easy, never easy.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I haven't started crying yet.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Wait man, the morning, Top of the morning, Top.
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  Speaker 4: Of the morning to you, Elman Man, good to hear
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  Speaker 4: from you and a man, Thoughts and prayers with you.
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  Speaker 4: I hope you find some peace with it and everything's
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  Speaker 4: cool for you.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 7: You can tell anybody pray for the hender Sings in
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  Speaker 7: the Washington family.
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  Speaker 4: There you go. That works all right, Helmet Man, thanks
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  Speaker 4: for checking in. Good to talk to you.
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  Speaker 6: There.
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  Speaker 4: He is helmet Man. Wow, ninety six years old. I
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  Speaker 4: think he had a tougher time with me saying I
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  Speaker 4: don't think the Orioles are going to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: It's like Brian, they're still alive. Yeah they are, They're alive.
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  Speaker 4: But that's a lot of leap frogging, man, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of leap frogging. Hey. You know, the crazy thing is
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  Speaker 4: my dad is a huge baseball fan, and we were
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  Speaker 4: just talking recently. It's crazy how the season is so
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  Speaker 4: unbelievably long and there are teams that make these crazy turnarounds.
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  Speaker 2: Were Cardinal fans.
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  Speaker 4: My dad is born just outside of Alton, just outside
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  Speaker 4: of Saint Louis in Alton, Illinois, and so we root
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  Speaker 4: for the Cardinals, And there have been years, one of
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  Speaker 4: their recent championship seasons they were five hundred forever in
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  Speaker 4: the season, just could not have a winning record, just
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  Speaker 4: couldn't happen. Five hundred, like past the All Star break,
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  Speaker 4: well past it, and all of a sudden they just
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  Speaker 4: kicked it into gear. They snuck into the playoffs and somehow,
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  Speaker 4: some way they won it all it can't happen. So
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to say no chance, no how, But
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 4: It's such a just a brutal start for the Orioles.
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  Speaker 4: It's not gonna be easy for them to claw back
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  Speaker 4: into it. It's one thing to you know, you get
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  Speaker 4: a seven game winning streak, you leap frog a couple
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  Speaker 4: of teams, you still have like a Baker's dozen left
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  Speaker 4: to go. You know, that's a lot. That's a lot,
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  Speaker 4: all right? Coming up next, multiple players call out an organization.
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  Speaker 4: We'll get to that right around the corner. I'm Brian
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 4: I was just telling him Lorena, it's got a long
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: car ride coming up here. Got it to the sunflower seeds.
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  Speaker 4: It's funny, right, it's funny. You're playing System right here.
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  Speaker 4: But Toxicity, right, this is a different song, but Toxicity
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  Speaker 4: where they talk about chewing seeds is a pastime activity, right.
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  Speaker 8: They know System knows is that what they were mentioning
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  Speaker 8: is that the video they're sitting on a couch and
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  Speaker 8: like chewing sunflower seeds.
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  Speaker 4: They have a big, like a huge pile, you know,
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  Speaker 4: kind of like Scarface where Pacino has the the coke
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  Speaker 4: on the table, they have like a seed pile on
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  Speaker 4: the table.
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  Speaker 2: So it's more so at home. But I bet system
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  Speaker 2: of a down.
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  Speaker 4: I bet they choose seeds on the road to stay
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  Speaker 4: awake on a long car ride.
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  Speaker 2: I bet it works every time.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, you just get your little empty bottle,
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  Speaker 4: can you know, just chew the seeds, spit out the shell.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: A lot of people say, like roll down the windows
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  Speaker 9: and the music.
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  Speaker 2: You could try punt.
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  Speaker 4: I've tried slapping myself in the face, you know, like
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  Speaker 4: singing along with the songs. Nothing thing comes close to
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  Speaker 4: working as well as chewing sunflower seeds. Does.
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  Speaker 2: It works every time.
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  Speaker 9: I'm gonna give this a shot. I will let you
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  Speaker 9: know how it goes later in the day.
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  Speaker 2: Please do. I highly recommend it.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Agon is not a short trip. It's like eleven
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  Speaker 8: and a half hours from here, So.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's a long, long journey.
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  Speaker 2: It's a long journey. You're going up the Grapevine.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, well I have to. I'm hoping to get through
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  Speaker 8: that as soon as we're done here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you're just gonna mosey on through the Grapevine.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah before the traffic starts. Yeah, hey, and before my
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  Speaker 8: car overheats.
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  Speaker 4: How fast are you going once you reach the peak
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  Speaker 4: of the Grapevine, because I've had some beaters and I'm
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  Speaker 4: going maybe fifteen miles per hour by time I reach
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  Speaker 4: the summit there.
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  Speaker 8: I feel so bad for the cars that are not
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: equipped to go through there. Oh man, oh my gosh.
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: Every time I see one broken down on the side.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: It's not a good not a good situation.
• 17:56
  Speaker 9: You don't realize how steep it is until you're in it.
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: I had a it was kind of scary.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: I had to drive all the way back to Indiana
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: recently a few months ago, and I went through Denver
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: and it was crazy snowy there and I.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Almost didn't make it up the hill.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: I was in this van and I'm like, the wheels
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: the rainer are just like they're spinning, and I'm like
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: I'm starting a fishtail, and I'm like this is pretty sketchy.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm going to reach the top
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: of this and if I don't, I am screwed.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know what I would do.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: We're just there need chains. Yeah, everybody was stopped on
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: the side of the road, like all the signs they're like,
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: you better be chained up, or you're you're stupid, basically
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: what the signs were saying. Yeah, it was not a
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: great situation, but made it. It was all right, Okay, let
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: me throw a couple of sports nuggets your way. I
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: don't get to the well, well, let me get to
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: the militia first and then I'll get to the players
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: calling out organizations. Blind Scott is with us over there
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: in Boston. What's going on? Blind Scott?
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: Hey, what's Brian? You know, I'm a big fan of you.
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: You're like one of my third favorite people on the radio.
• 19:09
  Speaker 10: I've been doing college to WWSA N all weekend and
• 19:13
  Speaker 10: that's like a really high station to call into, you know.
• 19:16
  Speaker 10: So this is the Ben Mallor Show. So I just
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: got to point out that this guy traveled twenty seven
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: hours with clam showder that wasn't refrigerated. And then Loraina
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: is getting that. Loraina is headed out of Dodge right now.
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: She could drive twelve hours to avoid this insanity. You
• 19:33
  Speaker 10: know what I mean, I just I just love it
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: so much.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: By the way, I'm third blind Scott. I appreciate the
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: praise right there, But who's in the top two. I
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: gotta know this, I.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Got to put you in.
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: So I almost Ben mallor Fred Toucher, and then Brian
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: Know and then Chris Plank and then and then I'll
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: sit Tron and but I would put you at number
• 19:56
  Speaker 10: one though. I got to say this, This guy, Brian No,
• 19:58
  Speaker 10: he's a hero to the blind community. He has infiltrated
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: blind circles. He comes up in conversations amongst blind radio people.
• 20:07
  Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, like, I know this guy is a
• 20:10
  Speaker 10: younger guy, and like he's like the toughest dude I
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: ever met. Like he went through like some adversity when
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: he was in high school. His living situation wasn't always steady,
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: and he moved around a lot. He didn't always have
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: a place to say. He sucked up people's couches, and
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: he was blind. And he graduated high school, he's about
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: to graduate college, and he's about to turn twenty one
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: next week. And now I think this guy has a
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: great chance at getting on the radio, Like I was
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: trying to direct them towards Christian radio and he's like, no,
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: that's not not my thing. But I'd be willing to
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: move to a radio market with him or have him
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: come with me in Boston. But you know, I'm talking
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: about Emma Douglass, Like Brian goes on his ex his
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: ex spot, but I think he like, I think you
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: can really carry the conversation. I'm just trying to teach him,
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: little kidmit like, like you want to kind of sell
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: your personality on the radio, and don't worry all your
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: sports takes as much because he has a really great
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: strate that doesn't know how to tell it through radio,
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: you know what I'm saying. And I see Brian like
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: working with him in radio, you know, And I couldn't
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: have seen like anybody help anybody more than Brian, Like
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: I mean, I just like most people don't go out
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: of their way to try to help young people and
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: broadcasting in radio. And Emmetts lives up in the PMW
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: in like a smaller market area and he's only twenty
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: years old and he's totally playing. He's been blind his
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: whole life and he actually really does have a good
• 21:31
  Speaker 10: chance on getting on live radio. And they say it
• 21:35
  Speaker 10: takes a it takes a village, you know what I mean.
• 21:37
  Speaker 10: And yeah, and Brian's part of that village that raises
• 21:40
  Speaker 10: up the blind community. I I we talk about it
• 21:43
  Speaker 10: all the time, and I just couldn't be happier to
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: talk to you, Like I I feel like I've hung
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: out with Coop and his wife before, Like I feel
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: like I got to meet you someday, you know what
• 21:52
  Speaker 10: I mean?
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Like, yeah, anytime Bland Scott not school stuff, man, it
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: am it's the best. You know, you can tell em
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Ittt's huge sports fan and he knows his stuff.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Definitely hard to do his thing.
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: Try to get him some face time with the big
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: boss here at Fox Sports Radio. You know what I mean?
• 22:08
  Speaker 10: Anything could anything could happen for a young man like him.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: When you said when you brought up the Christian radio possibility,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: when you're like, hey, you know Christian radio, it might
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: be a path for you.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Did blind Scott say no? Ask that is that? What
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: he said was that.
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: Now he's open.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: I think he's open to it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: He just such an understand like he's only twenty, He's
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: only twenty. So he's been blind his whole life. So
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: I'm trying to explain to him, like how you can
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: make money and this and how it is, you know
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: what I mean. And he still doesn't understand how some
• 22:39
  Speaker 10: kids his age have a lot of money, you know,
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: like they have like all these cars. He's like, where
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: do they get all this money front? I'm like, dude,
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: it's like their parents buy him this stuff, you know
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: what I'm saying.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Like he's gonna work. He had to work.
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: Guys had to work for everything his whole life. Joey,
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: he's very mature. I've known him promised eight years now
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: through this show, and I've really just been right alongside
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: with him learning mind.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: Let's good man.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I'm glad that you're behind him, Blind Scott. We're all
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: behind him. We love Emmett's so good stuff. But it's
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: good to talk to you, you know, good stuff with
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: blind Scott right there? Absolutely.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Uh, let me go out to John is in Reno.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Let's get some Reno action in here, John and Fox
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: Oh hold on second, all right, I just I just
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: did a shot that didn't go down too well. A
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: shot of what Jamison, little jam O, little Jamo in
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: the morning.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Went down the wrong pipe, Han John.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: No, I got her down.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's good.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: I like that you were in mid shot, but you're like,
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: you know what shot first, then hot sports takes you know.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I liked that.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: We go, there, we go, there we go. So I've
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: been doing a little research and I see everybody's pretty
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: much basketball heavy, and except for the towns where the
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: teams are, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: of viewership for basketball. So that leaves quite a wide
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: open area. Yeah.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's some truth to that.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Uh, You're certainly gonna see higher ratings in the markets
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: that have teams, no doubt. It's it's funny, you know,
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: because I'm a I'm a huge basketball fan.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I love football the most, but I love the NBA.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: I watch the w n B a a lot. But
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: the funny thing is, no one complains about, say the NFL,
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: the same way they complain about the NBA. They don't
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: even complain about MLB the same way they complain about
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: the NBA.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: And it's it's just.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: A few tweets here and there, but I'll never get like, Brian,
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: why are you talking all this football like goodness, but
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: I will get that with the NBA. As much as
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: I love the NBA, that does exist quite a bit.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: Hold on, Brian, We're going to do one more shot off,
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: all right?
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go for it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: Can you make it a double?
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: They're they're probably they're probably doubles is the way I
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: make them? Anyway for about two outs of okay, okay.
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: With a pH Brian, Yeah, let's listen to this.
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: There we go, There we go. Yeah.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: How many shots are you in tonight? John?
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: I'm probably four deep?
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Four deep? Okay?
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: Once I got a cocktail going alongside them, so I'm
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: backing them up.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: You're getting after it here, John? Oh yeah, yeah. Any
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: cake stands? You do keg stands from time to time.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: I'm not a bear drinker. No, I'm not much of
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: a bear drinker.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: You ever do keg stands of shots? Instead?
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Who's doing that? It's an untapped market.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: You know, I don't know.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Why don't you do it?
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Why don't you do a keg stand of Jamo? You know,
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: just not anything crazy, not like a real cake stand,
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: but just do an upside down a double shot at Jamo.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: You could break new ground.
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: There's a bar that I hang out here in town.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: It actually has Jamison on draft has it on a tap?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's hardcore.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Reno's the bomb baby come out here sometime.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's what's the tagline? The biggest, smallest? How do
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: they say it? What's the tag Yeah? That's right. Why
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: do they say that? Why is it? Why is that
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: the tagline?
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: Because back in the day it was actually better than Vegas,
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: uh huh. And Vegas is out growing it now. So
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: it's still kind of a big city. There's about a
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: million here, Okay, so it's still considered a small town.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Gotcha interesting? Yeah, very nice.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: I like listening to you, Brian.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Well thanks John.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: I appreciate you doing some shots with the militia here
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: live on the air.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: That was good.
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: Where's the where's the sound effects for the drinking shops?
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: What do you need? Just like a glog glug glug?
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: You know that type of thing?
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah? You know you usually hear you hear.
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: I?
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you want like a liquid pouring.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: That works.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: That does sound like a water though, does it not?
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: It just says liquid pouring. It doesn't say beer juice.
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: Does make you want orange juice?
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: We need liquor pouring.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: You know, that's what need.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: I have another? There?
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: You very nice, well, good stuff.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: John.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: It was fun hanging with you man. Yeah, you have
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: a good one too. There he is John in Reno.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: He was Yeah, I mean radio is theater of the mine.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: But I kind of believe him. I think he was
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: doing some JMO. Wow, how about a bar having Jamo
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: on tap?
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: That sounds like heaven?
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: I love Jmo?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Do you do you?
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: I don't get heartburn anymore from that.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: You've built up a tolerance. I see. Yeah, Jack Daniel
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: used to give me heartburn and they switched.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, what's your drink of choice? Lorena? You know
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I tried to get Loraina some water.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: So Lorena was out in Vegas for the Cavino and
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Rich festivities and.
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: Uh where I finally got to meet you.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the first time we've met in person. We've
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: done I don't know how many radio shows together. I
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: know we finally met. That was awesome. But we were
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: at the Legacy Club in Circa for one of the events.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: They were having fireworks, like the sixtieth floor. It was
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: really cool and Loraina's like, I'm so thirsty.
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: They don't just have water out for people. And the
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: line for the bar was ten miles long.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: It was, And so what did I do. It's a
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: good radio campadre. I said, I'm gonna get Loraina some
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: freaking water right here. And so I waited. I waited,
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: people trying to elbow me out of the way, like
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: they're going up for a rebound.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: I said, no, no, no, Loraina need water. I'm standing my ground,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: and I waited it out.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: I got a very nice plush like spring water, you
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: know how they do in these fancy places.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, ooh, fancy water for Lorena.
• 29:11
  Speaker 9: Isn't a bottle?
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I walk over. I'm about to give it to her, like, hey, Lorena,
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: I know you're thirsty.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Here you go. She's already drinking something else. She's a
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: drink two timer that Lorena.
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, so parched, I didn't care what it was.
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: Give it to me.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's totally fine. I'm like, well, she's got a drink.
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: So, you know, I was.
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: Wondering why I couldn't remember much of that night. Brian
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: and I figured out it's because I.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Didn't eat well.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: That that would have something to do with it.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Absolutely I was like, what did I have for dinner
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: that day? And I was like, oh, oh, that's right.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: I wasn't. You didn't eating food?
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Actually, looking back.
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: That pinut Colada was great though. And those two lemon.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Drops, Yeah, hit the spot right there.
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: Drop me out, that's for sure.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Hey, By the way, how the mighty have fallen? Have
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: you seen this?
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: So Texas State they officially joined the PAC twelve conference
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: on Monday. That's right. I just think of Bill Walton.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: You're here in your head like the Conference of Champions.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: I hear him saying that to this day, Texas State
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: is the latest to join the PAC twelve.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: My gosh, here's a general rule of thumb. This is
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: my rule. You might agree with this.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: If you can't name the nickname of a school, there's
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: a great chance they're trash.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's the rule.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: So if I say to you, hey, notre dame, what
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: I would hope.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: You would say, oh, fighting Irish or whatever?
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: Duke?
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: What what's the blue devils? You can do this all day? Okay?
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Texas State? The Texas State what.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Hmm, Well, I'm not really sure about it.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: So they're the Bobcats.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: If you didn't know that, there's a good chance that
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: they're that great. Nothing I really write home about. Well,
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: that's the school that just joined the PAC twelve. Like
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: if you look at this, what they were and what
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: they are now. So the members that are set to
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: join the conference in twenty twenty six, So we've got
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Oregon State and Washington State. Those are the two that
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: have been holding on for dear life right till the
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: cavalry comes. So they needed eight schools at least to
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: keep this thing going. So they're adding in twenty twenty
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: six officially to go along with Oregon State and Washington State,
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: they're adding Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Gonzaga non
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: football because they don't have that. Right, we've got schools
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: they don't have football joining the PAC twelve.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Good lord, how this thing is falling off.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: We've got San Diego State, Texas State, and Utah State.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: So it is a state state, state, state state party.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: It's a fiesta. The only one is Gonzaga. They should
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: switch to Gonzaga State right away. They should go for
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: the new PAC twelve. Man that is rough. So they
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: had to have eight football playing schools to meet NCAA
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: minimum for an FBS conference to still remain an FBS conference,
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: and they've done that. So PAC twelve sticking around. I
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: mean props to Oregon State in Washington State for holding on.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: But you look at what they were. Think of these schools,
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: not just football wise, but basketball wise as well. Arizona,
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Arizona State, CAL Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, USC, UC CLA, Utah, Washington.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: All of those schools left and said audios, PAC twelve,
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: peace and went elsewhere. Acc Big twelve, you know, just
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: Big ten, just the Big ten. The four former PAC
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: twelve schools that joined the Big Ten, Oregon, USC, UCLA, Washington.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Think of the firepower of those schools football, basketball, and
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: now the PAC twelve is this we need to rebrand
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: it no longer the Conference of Champions. I don't know
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: what would be legitimate we could come up, so let's
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: spitball it. We can't go quite Conference of Chumps. I
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: feel like that's a little well, that might be a
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: little accurate, and I think about it a little disrespectful.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: The Conference of I don't know, maybe there's something that
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: rhymes with champions that's the opposite of champions to be
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: the new nickname. I don't know. We can workshop it,
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: but it's slightly off the ground. All right, I want
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: to pay this off. Coming up next. Some great comments here,
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: one tweet and some scathing comments. Two athletes that are
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: ripping their own organizations. Good stuff. We'll close it out
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: in style. I'm Brian no In for Big Ben Mallor
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: right here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian no In
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: for Big Ben Malor here on Fox Sports Radio. We're
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  Speaker 4: of athletes ripping their organizations. One is a former organization.
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  Speaker 4: So it's not as juice, but pretty good. So we
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  Speaker 4: had a pretty big NFL trade, right, we let off
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  Speaker 4: the show with it. So the Steelers they get Jalen Ramsey,
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  Speaker 4: the corner, they get tied end John new Smith, they
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  Speaker 4: get a seventh round pick in twenty twenty seven, which
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  Speaker 4: is odd. And the Dolphins they get Minka Fitzpatrick, the
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  Speaker 4: stud safety. They get a seventh round pick in twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty seven the draft picks. This is weird. I I
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  Speaker 4: don't understand, but anyway, it's a big trade. I think
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  Speaker 4: it helps the Steelers. We've taken multiple calls, right, I
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  Speaker 4: think it was three to nothing the militia in favor
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  Speaker 4: of the Dolphins end of the trade Listen. Minka Fitzpatrick
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  Speaker 4: is a fantastic safety. I loved when the Dolphins drafted him.
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  Speaker 4: I hated when they traded him. Love Minka Fitzpatrick, so
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  Speaker 4: it's fine with him going back there. But I gotta
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  Speaker 4: be honest, I think the steel are better today than
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  Speaker 4: they were before the trade. You gotta get another offensive
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  Speaker 4: weapon for Aaron Rodgers. John new Smith's coming off a
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  Speaker 4: monster season eighty eight catches, eight hundred and eighty four yards,
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  Speaker 4: eight touchdown catches, it's a huge year. Is a pro bowler,
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  Speaker 4: So you get him and Jalen Ramsey. To me, you're
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  Speaker 4: better off with the combo. I'll take a combo platter
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  Speaker 4: of Jalen Ramsey and John new Smith with the Steelers
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  Speaker 4: over just Minka Fitzpatrick. I like Steers medium. I go medium.
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  Speaker 2: Lorena you medium.
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  Speaker 4: Rare, Yeah, medium rare, juicy, a little more flavor. Some
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  Speaker 4: would argue, yeah, I would go combo platter, medium or
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  Speaker 4: medium rare. With the Steelers with two players instead of one,
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  Speaker 4: I think Minka and some callers pointed this out. The
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  Speaker 4: militia said, if you're looking at just one player, Minka
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  Speaker 4: Fitzpatrick is the best of those three. I don't disagree
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  Speaker 4: with that. But you've got two that are pretty good
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  Speaker 4: in Jalen Ramsey and John new Smith compared to just
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  Speaker 4: one in Minka Fitzpatrick. That's advantaged Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: It just is.
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  Speaker 4: So I think they came out ahead in that deal. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I bring this all up because former Dolphins running back
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  Speaker 4: Raheem Moster, you're not fond of this trade from a
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  Speaker 4: Dolphins perspective. So he retweeted a picture. It was a
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  Speaker 4: picture announcing the trade of John hu Smith and uh
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  Speaker 4: Raheem Moster. He wrote on Twitter. Hot take, be a
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  Speaker 4: pro bowler on the Dolphins get treated like bleep is
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  Speaker 4: what he put out there. He gets all these views,
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  Speaker 4: he had like five million views on this Thing's a
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  Speaker 4: ton of likes. You know how it goes.
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  Speaker 2: But that's his take.
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  Speaker 4: He's saying the Dolphins don't take care of their Pro bowlers,
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  Speaker 4: don't take care of their big name players. Here's the deal, man,
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  Speaker 4: if you pay a quarterback huge money, like the Dolphins
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  Speaker 4: are paying to a Tongue Vailoa, you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 4: cut corners. And that's exactly what they're doing. You can't
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  Speaker 4: pay everybody, and I think an organization. Tua is a
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  Speaker 4: good quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: He's good.
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  Speaker 4: He's put up numbers. He just hasn't been durable. He's
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  Speaker 4: not a star. He's not a top ten player. I
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  Speaker 4: would argue he's not a difference maker. That to me
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  Speaker 4: is someone who can compensate for a weaker roster. That's
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  Speaker 4: what you need to have. If you're paying that quarterback
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  Speaker 4: huge money, he's got to compensate for the corners that
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  Speaker 4: you have to cut with the roster. Tua's not that guy.
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  Speaker 4: He's not a dude that's gonna compensate. And like mascara,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he's not makeup where it's like, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 4: my cheeks are a little jacked up, you know, my
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  Speaker 4: foreheads a little bit. I would just put makeup, but
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  Speaker 4: that's not Tua. Tua is not the makeup for the
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  Speaker 4: Dolphins roster, and so I think they're kind of screwed.
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  Speaker 4: Long story short, Now.
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  Speaker 2: This is even better.
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  Speaker 4: Luis Severino, former Yankees pitcher. He's not with the A's
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  Speaker 4: and he's talking smack about this this interim stadium, if
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  Speaker 4: you will. They're in Sacramento while the Las Vegas Stadium
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  Speaker 4: is being built, and he came out and he's like,
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  Speaker 4: it feels like a.
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  Speaker 2: Spring training game when I'm playing there.
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  Speaker 4: He pointed out there's a lack of air conditioning, small crowds,
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  Speaker 4: the clubhouse is in left field. He's like, it's really tough.
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  Speaker 4: And then there was a USA Today column from Bob
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  Speaker 4: Nightingale and he.
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  Speaker 2: Reported an article.
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  Speaker 4: He reported that the A's can't wait to trade this
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  Speaker 4: guy and his comments are agitating the organization. Ah, poor babies,
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  Speaker 4: and sever Reno stuck to his guns. He's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: my job is to tell the truth.
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like it. I like to be stuck to
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  Speaker 4: his guns. I like hanging out with you militia too.
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  Speaker 4: Have a good morning.