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Hour 2 - As LeBron's World Turns · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom Shaka Lacay, as the great Brian Wheeler used to say,
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Speaker 1: it's our numb burtwo our number two ready for you.
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Speaker 1: And we start out with the life and times of
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Speaker 1: Lebron James. Where you at on the Fearsome Foursome supposedly
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Speaker 1: pursuing Lebron James. Also, why did Lebron refuse to speak
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Speaker 1: about his situation on camera at the Las Vegas Summer
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Speaker 1: League And the Mavericks are shutting down Cooper Flag for
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Speaker 1: the remainder of the NBA Summer League, ending his rookie
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Speaker 1: stint at just two games. He's not hurt. They're just
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Speaker 1: shutting him down. How do you react to that news?
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Speaker 1: We will give you our take on it right now here.
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Speaker 1: It is our number two. As Lebron's world turns. I know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what hear about Lebronvellia.
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Speaker 1: hour is from the Lebron Files, not to be confused
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Speaker 1: with some other kind of files, but no, this is
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Speaker 1: all about Lebron and we are contractually obligated, as it
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Speaker 1: turns out, for an obligatory Malard monologue, much to the
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Speaker 1: approval of Eugene in Chicago, who is anticipating this spicy
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Speaker 1: margarita edition of a Malard monologue on Lebron, James and
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Speaker 1: his life in times. Here's some new developments over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: New developments, new developments, new developments. While we were away
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Speaker 1: from the Watchtower guarding the overnight graveyard of sports takes,
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Speaker 1: there were some new things that took place here. So
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Speaker 1: if you didn't follow along, don't worry. That's what we're
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Speaker 1: here for. We got you back. We kept tabs on
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Speaker 1: what was going on so you would not have to.
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Speaker 1: So chatter over the weekend, little chit chat over the
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Speaker 1: weekend that indicated that there are a four pack, four
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Speaker 1: pack of teams that are attempting to acquire Lebron James. No,
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Speaker 1: those teams are in no formal order, the Dallas mav Rex,
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Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors, the Cleveland Cadavers, and the Clippers supposedly,
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Speaker 1: so that story came out though those teams have emerged
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Speaker 1: as possible suitors.
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Speaker 2: For Lebron James. That happened over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Now, those four teams, if you believe the chatter, if
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Speaker 1: you believe the Internet chatter, those four teams contacted Lebron's
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Speaker 1: conciliary right his buddy there, Rich Paul, who is that
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Speaker 1: If you want to talk to the mob boss, you
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Speaker 1: got to go through the Consigli area and.
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Speaker 2: That would be Rich Paul.
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Speaker 1: And that is where we are right now, So let
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Speaker 1: us discuss the question for the panel, the blue ribbon panel.
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Speaker 1: Where are you at on the Fearsome Foursome pursuing Lebron James.
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Speaker 1: All right, so I've got Vintage Cookie Jar, Dali Lama
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Speaker 1: and Philadelphia Original, and we will combine all of these
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Speaker 1: things together and we are gonna make the Gobaul.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna make the Goabba goal for our friend in Florida.
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Speaker 1: So number I said number right, Yes, Now we provide
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Speaker 1: a skeptical eye for the regular guy. Now I even
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Speaker 1: have buyfocals on, so I have extra skepticism is what
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Speaker 1: I have on here.
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Speaker 2: But this is not.
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Speaker 1: The Lebron sweep Steaks. It was presented as the Lebron Sweepstakes.
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Speaker 1: I don't buy that that narrative. I'm not going there.
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Speaker 1: It's more like the Lebron flea Market. Now, you can
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Speaker 1: find a nice thing every now and again at the
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Speaker 1: flea market, and that's what this is. It's the Lebron
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Speaker 1: James flea market. And it's like, what's what's going on?
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Speaker 3: Then?
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Speaker 1: What's on the table at the flea market? You're like,
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Speaker 1: do I want that kind of fade a little bit?
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure about that. Uh, And it was like,
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Speaker 1: this is not the shiny new toy. We're not We're
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Speaker 1: not auctioning off the shiny new toy. This is Lebron
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Speaker 1: James at this point is a vintage cookie jar. It's cracked,
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Speaker 1: a little bit faded now, it still has some value.
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Speaker 1: There's still some value there. And if you squint hard
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Speaker 1: enough at the vintage cookie jar and you look at
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Speaker 1: it and you ignore the fact that.
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Speaker 2: The cookies inside turns stale.
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Speaker 1: Right around the time they got that little Mickey Mouse
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Speaker 1: bubble ring that doesn't really count back at Disney World,
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Speaker 1: like a nice little souvenir there.
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Speaker 2: Yay, you get a ring, not a real one. Not
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Speaker 2: a real one. As we learned from the Oklahoma City
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Speaker 2: thunder Guard. Not everyone.
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Speaker 1: So Lebron James the greatest player of his generation, not
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Speaker 1: the greatest of all time, as he tripped Michael Jordan
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Speaker 1: and others. He's also across the rubicon the dreaded four.
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Speaker 1: He's in the dreaded forties age range at this particular point,
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Speaker 1: Lebron James. And so you put it all together, and
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Speaker 1: while he still can put up numbers for you, and
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Speaker 1: the kind of a numbers that if you work over
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Speaker 1: at ESPN, right, you think Lebron's like the Dalai Lama.
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Speaker 2: You do it.
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Speaker 1: You're treating like the Dalai Lama and all that, and
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Speaker 1: you can't wait to hear what he has to say
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Speaker 1: about every ething thing.
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Speaker 2: You gotta get to the bottom of Lebron James, all right.
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Speaker 1: So the impact is measured now more in a moment's
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Speaker 1: rather than months of greatness. There's individual moments on a
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Speaker 1: given night. Lebron can put up some big numbers and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff, but it's it's one of those buyer
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Speaker 1: beware situations for anyone that does business with Lebron James.
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Speaker 2: It is a buyer beware situation because that.
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Speaker 1: Cookie jar, remember we told you Lebron is like the
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Speaker 1: flea market vintage cookie jar Lebron. It looks okay from
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Speaker 1: a distance on it shelf, You're like, that's not that bad,
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Speaker 1: and I could buy that. It's a couple of bucks.
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Speaker 1: I got to pay cash, no credit card. It's a
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Speaker 1: couple of bucks. And the lids chipped again though a
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Speaker 1: little bit. And you look at it and the basis
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Speaker 1: you get a little closer to see a little crack
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Speaker 1: there on the base of it and it really only
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Speaker 1: opens when it wants to, and so that's not particularly
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Speaker 1: great and all that stuff, and the four teams that
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Speaker 1: are supposedly in on this. It's a nostalgia play. It
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Speaker 1: would be a nostalgia play for Lebron, and that's what you're.
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Speaker 2: Going for at this particular point, and sell some stuff.
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Speaker 2: You become in the conversation. You're always in the conversation. Now,
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Speaker 2: Lebron's camp is trying really hard to control the narrative.
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Speaker 1: They are working over time to try to control the
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Speaker 1: stories about Lebron. And they know how the offseason NBA
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Speaker 1: world works and so they they're the experts on all that.
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Speaker 2: So Rich Paul is the one feeding the pipeline.
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Speaker 1: He's the one out there and our opinion, Rich Paul's
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Speaker 1: the one that is the puppet master directing everything here
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Speaker 1: in terms of media consumption on preferred destinations for Lebron,
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Speaker 1: James now in order a home cooking with the Cadavers, right,
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Speaker 1: go back to Ohio for a third time, win one
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Speaker 1: more championship with the Cavaliers, fade to Black Boom done right,
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Speaker 1: And of course that would be like Lebron going back
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Speaker 1: to Cleveland for a third time. It's like they're the
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Speaker 1: ex girlfriend that keeps texting, hey.
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Speaker 2: You up at the three in the morning or whatever.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
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Speaker 1: It's nostalgic to go back to Cleveland and do it
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Speaker 1: again and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: It's also a bit delusional.
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Speaker 1: Then I would say the old Geezers Club, which would
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Speaker 1: be the Golden State Warriors, hang out in San Francisco,
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Speaker 1: and you got Steph Curry on one side, Draymond Green
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Speaker 1: on the other, Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Buckets is still there,
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Speaker 1: and Lebron and Draymond can do podcasts together, and they
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Speaker 1: could fire Steve Kerr and hire some podcast guide to
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Speaker 1: coach the Golden State Warriors Lakers did for Lebron, and
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Speaker 1: they'll get along good Lebron and Draymond Green until they
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Speaker 1: try to hijack the clipboard from whoever the coaches, whether
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Speaker 1: that's Steve Kerr or somebody else.
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Speaker 2: Then it's gonna get ugly, and then you've got the reunited.
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Speaker 1: It feels so good with Anthony Davis to go to
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Speaker 1: Dallas and then stick it to the Lakers as a
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Speaker 1: mav wreck with Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving and all
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Speaker 1: those injured guys that are on the Mavericks right now,
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Speaker 1: and they instead of Taco Tuesday, they can have Tex
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Speaker 1: Mex Wednesday in Dallas, Anthony Davis and Lebron. How great
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Speaker 1: would that be? Of course, we all know Lebron would
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Speaker 1: prefer to play for the Clippers. Everyone wants to play
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Speaker 1: for the Clippers. It's hip to clip who wouldn't want
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Speaker 1: to play for the Clippers. But we're gonna eliminate the Clippers.
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Speaker 2: And here's why.
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Speaker 1: Here's why we're gonna limit the Clippers, because there's no
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Speaker 1: way the Lakers are gonna allow that to happen.
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Speaker 2: There's zero chants.
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Speaker 1: Like the Clippers have a better owner, they have a
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Speaker 1: better arena, they have a better fan base. Everyone knows
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Speaker 1: that in town in La. They're not going to allow
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Speaker 1: Lebron to go over there and embarrass the Lakers even
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Speaker 1: more so, that's not gonna happen, right, So Jeanie Buss,
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Speaker 1: he's still supposedly in charge, not gonna do that, right,
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Speaker 1: Not not gonna allow that to happen, to go over
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Speaker 1: to Inglewood in the hood in Inglewood and play for
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Speaker 1: the Clippers. So we'll eliminate them now, page two. So
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Speaker 1: We'll go to to Vegas the Summer League which is
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Speaker 1: going on over the weekend there, and Lebron was sitting courtside.
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Speaker 2: You see this over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: I glanced at it as Lebron sitting courtside by watching
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Speaker 1: his kid that sucks at basketball play for the Lakers
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Speaker 1: summer League team because he's a Nepo baby and he
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Speaker 1: won a sweepstakes raffle to get on the Lakers. So
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Speaker 1: there's Bronni out there who sucks, but you know it's
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Speaker 1: make a wish. So he's out there playing for the Lakers,
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Speaker 1: and Lebron's watching them. They played the I guess the
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Speaker 1: Pelicans or a version a facsimile of the Pelicans in
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Speaker 1: the Summer League.
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Speaker 2: Now, ESBN invited Lebron James, they invited Lebron. You see this.
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Speaker 1: They invited Lebron on air to address the speculation which
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Speaker 1: has been running rampant about where Lebron's gonna go. Oh,
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Speaker 1: is he upset with this person, that person, the other person?
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Speaker 1: And so Lebron did he say, yes, I will go
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Speaker 1: on television. I would like to talk b I have
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Speaker 1: nothing to say or see no comment. Lebron said, quote,
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Speaker 1: if you picked b you win. He said, quote, I
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Speaker 1: ain't got nothing to talk about. He must have learned
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Speaker 1: that in high school an acron, I ain't got nothing
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Speaker 1: to talk about. So question, why did Lebron James refuse
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Speaker 1: the opportunity, the platform to speak about his situation while
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Speaker 1: in attendance at the Las Vegas Summerly He had his
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Speaker 1: sullen look on his face, bad body language from Lebron
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Speaker 1: as he was sitting courtside there in Vegas. So the
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Speaker 1: answer is by saying nothing, by Lebron saying nothing and
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Speaker 1: passing up the opportunity, Lebron gave a masterclass and.
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Speaker 2: I'm in control control one oh one.
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Speaker 1: By not saying anything, he could have popped on Television's true,
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Speaker 1: he was given the opportunity, he was given platform Lebron
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Speaker 1: to jump over there on television and pretend like everything's good,
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Speaker 1: and he chose not to do it. He had ESPN
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Speaker 1: essentially throwing themselves at him and just you know again,
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Speaker 1: he said, I'm not I'm not doing it. I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to go there, and he missed the opportunity right
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Speaker 1: the old Dali Lama line. While you could have been
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Speaker 1: you know, they treated him like the Dalai Lamba. But
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Speaker 1: Lebron he could have taken a fire extinguisher and put
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Speaker 1: out the fire.
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Speaker 2: Right, take the fire extinguisher, put out the fire. But
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Speaker 2: he likes the fire.
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Speaker 1: It's like he's warming marshmallows on a stick in the fire.
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Speaker 1: And so instead he worked to pour some kerosene on
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Speaker 1: top of the fire. Burn, baby burn.
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Speaker 2: And it's like a cloak and dagger type mission. The
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Speaker 2: useful idiots.
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Speaker 1: You toss out these bread crumbs, you drop these little
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Speaker 1: bread crumbs, but you don't do it. I have somebody
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Speaker 1: else do it for you. So you drop the bread
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Speaker 1: crumbs out there, and you post cryptic things on the
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Speaker 1: gram and all that stuff. You let the media do
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Speaker 1: the dirty work, the heavy lifting for you and all that.
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Speaker 1: And so you don't talk because you don't have to talk. Right,
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Speaker 1: other people are talking. I'm talking about you. Everyone's talking
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Speaker 1: about you.
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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: Right, the machine, the machine of basketball content, is discussing
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Speaker 1: Lebron James. Now this is the same guy that years
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Speaker 1: ago had the remember the zero dark thirty stick and
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Speaker 1: the playoff run. Of course, we know that often didn't
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Speaker 1: last and work so well, so he stopped doing that,
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Speaker 1: but he treated it like it was a ritual like
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Speaker 1: Marty Grass for Lebron before the playoffs there, and so
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Speaker 1: Lebron chose not to speak. Not the silence was not silence,
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Speaker 1: it was strategy. That was what what Lebron was doing here.
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Speaker 1: And by refusing to go on camera and not using
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Speaker 1: your own voice to get the message out and all
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Speaker 1: that stuff in Vegas where you want to be seen, right,
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Speaker 1: you go to Vegas to be seen, the party and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff, and everything's a show in Vegas, and
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Speaker 1: Lebron's part of the show. And he knew exactly what
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Speaker 1: he was doing. Classic passive aggressive behavior by Labron James
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Speaker 1: yet again, let the drama swirl, swirl, swirl, swirl, and
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Speaker 1: that's what he was doing there. And he just sits
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Speaker 1: back and watches the speculation and it just is everywhere
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Speaker 1: there's there's a there's a residence, there's a heat.
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Speaker 2: It's like coming off.
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Speaker 1: The blacktop there on the on the court, and he's
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Speaker 1: keeping it cool, right, He's sitting there, he's got his
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Speaker 1: arms fold, he's unbothered.
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Speaker 2: At least he wants you to believe he's unbothered by
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Speaker 2: everything that's going on.
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Speaker 1: Now, using my Rosetta stone, using my malle Rosetta stone
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Speaker 1: to translate Lebron and what he meant in plain English
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Speaker 1: in layman's terms. When Lebron said, I ain't got nothing
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Speaker 1: to talk about, that was his quote.
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Speaker 2: I ain't got nothing to talk about.
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Speaker 1: It That means I know you're all panicking about where
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be traded or if I'm going to
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Speaker 1: be traded and all that, and I'm just watching you squirm,
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Speaker 1: and I've got an evil laugh.
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Speaker 2: Just like that.
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Speaker 1: We know the routine. We all know. Every man, woman
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Speaker 1: and child knows the routine. Now the final point staying
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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. We talked earlier on the Overnight Show
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Speaker 1: about the brain rot in professional sports. Out of an
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Speaker 1: abundance of caution, everyone must do the bare minimum, do
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Speaker 1: not go above and beyond the call of duty like
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Speaker 1: previous generations.
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Speaker 2: Who do the bare minimum.
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Speaker 1: Another example of that, the Dallas Mavericks have decided we
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Speaker 1: are shutting down Cooper Flag. The flag is down, yes,
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Speaker 1: Cooper Flag for the remainder of the NBA Summer League.
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Speaker 1: IX nay on the flag A as he has been
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Speaker 1: shut down. I will not be playing. Only played two games.
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Speaker 1: Two that's it. So how do you react to the
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Speaker 1: number one overall pick in the NBA draft only playing
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Speaker 1: two games and shut down? So I give this one
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Speaker 1: the old shoulder shrug. I shrugged my shoulders of this
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Speaker 1: to sign yet again, much like we talked earlier, sign
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Speaker 1: of the times in professional sports. And this infestation is everywhere.
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Speaker 1: And two games, that's it. Two game one sucked, bad
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Speaker 1: game and then one that was okay. And a couple
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Speaker 1: of glorified scrimmages in Vegas in July and that Vegas heat.
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Speaker 1: And that's all she wrote. That's all she wrote for
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Speaker 1: Cooper Flag, the Mavericks new teenage sensation of Maverick Nation.
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Speaker 1: They put him back into bubble wrap and they put
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Speaker 1: him into storage. That's it, that's all. And they've treated
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Speaker 1: him like some kind of high end vase they don't
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Speaker 1: want to break. And they'll put that away in the
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Speaker 1: garage and they'll take that out when we get back
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Speaker 1: to the irregular season. So the Mavericks, in their infamitt
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Speaker 1: wisdom also known as paranoia, the Mavericks are shutting down
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Speaker 1: Cooper Fact for the rest of the summer league not
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Speaker 1: because he's hurt, by the way, not because he's hurt,
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Speaker 1: not because he asked out saying I can't handle this,
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Speaker 1: I can't do it. No, they're just being cautious out
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Speaker 1: of an abundance of caution. They're being careful because God forbid,
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Speaker 1: God forbid a young athlete who's been I assume playing
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Speaker 1: aau ball since they came out of the womb there
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Speaker 1: and that they can't make just a couple of extra
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Speaker 1: games and that's too much, that's too much for the
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Speaker 1: prodigy out of Maine. Cannot do it, Cooper Flag, I
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Speaker 1: gotta shut him down, shut him down right now, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's where we are. That is exactly where
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Speaker 1: we are right now, just like the baseball players trying
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Speaker 1: to skip the All Star Game because oh man, I
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Speaker 1: need my resting, realization and recovery.
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Speaker 2: I need all of that.
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Speaker 1: So now, the NBA is not just soft. Okay, they're
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Speaker 1: not just soft. They are whipped cream soft is the NBA.
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Speaker 1: In fact, they're not even just whipped cream. If they
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Speaker 1: were a type of cheese, they would be a Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: original Philadelphia cream cheese.
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Speaker 2: That's what they would be.
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Speaker 1: The the NBA and a little rice cake action on
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Speaker 1: the side there and some cream cheese and Philadelphia cream cheese.
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Speaker 1: That's where they are there. And Cooper Flag is just
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Speaker 1: the latest example of that. They say the Mavericks that
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Speaker 1: he quote showed enough.
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Speaker 2: That's what they say. Please, how did you show enough?
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Speaker 2: Exactly what does that even mean? I don't even know
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Speaker 2: what that means? A vague term.
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Speaker 1: So another player that rather than try to get them
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Speaker 1: up to speed where they settle.
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Speaker 2: Into the to the grind, right to grind.
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Speaker 1: We're talking to some old baseball players about that, and
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Speaker 1: like and baseball people will complain in the base I know,
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Speaker 1: crossing the streams here, crossing the sports. But pitchers are
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Speaker 1: soft in baseball because they've been trained to be soft
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Speaker 1: well basketball players. Here's an opportunity with Cooper Flag to
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Speaker 1: be like, you're not gonna be like all the rest.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna we're gonna train you to not run.
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Speaker 1: From the grind like these other NBA stars, and we're
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Speaker 1: going to train you to run towards the grind and
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Speaker 1: not away from it. But instead the Mavericks have the
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Speaker 1: opportunity and with so Wing Barra, saw Wing Barra, that's it.
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Speaker 1: So instead they're sending Cooper Flag the number one, picking
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Speaker 1: the draft back back to the lab, putting him in
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Speaker 1: a test tube some cryogenic chamber somewhere in Dallas.
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Speaker 2: And he really didn't even get a real whiff of
19:28
Speaker 2: what it's all about in the in the NBA.
19:31
Speaker 1: And so he's I think he's still like nineteen years
19:33
Speaker 1: old and all that stuff, and they're treating him like
19:35
Speaker 1: he's a grizzled thirty nine year old veteran with arthritick
19:39
Speaker 1: hips and his knees are all messed up and he's
19:41
Speaker 1: he's had double knee replacement surgery and that's what they're
19:44
Speaker 1: treating him like. And he's a teenager. Uh so, you
19:47
Speaker 1: know again, opportunity here. Am I crazy to toughen this
19:51
Speaker 1: guy up? And no, it's straight pampers, baby, It's it's
19:56
Speaker 1: pampers all the way, is what it is for Cooper Flag.
20:00
Speaker 2: Right from the draft, Get.
20:02
Speaker 1: The therapy dog out the whole thing, Get a nice warm,
20:06
Speaker 1: blankye and a glass of milk.
20:08
Speaker 2: And load management.
20:10
Speaker 1: You gotta get that trained early on, all about the
20:12
Speaker 1: load management. But it's even more of that. It's like
20:15
Speaker 1: fear disguised as some kind of science. And that old
20:19
Speaker 1: phrase we learned that in twenty twenty during the pandemic.
20:22
Speaker 1: You can get away with almost anything. If you say
20:24
Speaker 1: out an abundance of caution. You can convince people to
20:27
Speaker 1: do almost anything and they'll do it, and people can't
20:29
Speaker 1: question it, and you just have to go with it
20:31
Speaker 1: and you just can't question it. So this is where
20:34
Speaker 1: we are with the NBA and Cooper Flag. It's a
20:36
Speaker 1: set of an abundance of caution. Please, So another opportunity
20:40
Speaker 1: could have developed, didn't develop, and now they're treating Cooper
20:44
Speaker 1: Flag like he's in a museum somewhere and you don't
20:47
Speaker 1: want to get too violent and have activity on the
20:50
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20:51
Speaker 2: So we'll just make sure some no dust gets on him.
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23:49
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23:50
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23:56
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Speaker 2: Let me see Lebron doing that.
24:00
Speaker 1: See him going to some place in Dubai in playing basketball.
24:05
Speaker 1: Just josh As Cooper flag being shut down after two
24:09
Speaker 1: Summer League games is laughable. Go ahead and put him
24:12
Speaker 1: on the All Star team. I've seen it enough. Well's well,
24:15
Speaker 1: that's what baseball. Baseball would do that because the mi
24:20
Speaker 1: is Jakob Mazerowski only made five starts.
24:22
Speaker 2: He's an All Star.
24:23
Speaker 1: Ozziez writes in From the Land of the Kangaroo. He says, Ben,
24:27
Speaker 1: will you jump on the Lebron James bandwagon.
24:30
Speaker 2: And get his jersey when he joins the Clippers. No,
24:32
Speaker 2: of course not. He's not going to the Clippers. The
24:34
Speaker 2: Lakers are not going to allow that to happen.
24:36
Speaker 1: Tammy in Vegas rights and says, I was going to
24:38
Speaker 1: attend the NBA Summer League this week, but I think
24:41
Speaker 1: my money can be spent in a much better way.
24:44
Speaker 2: Now the flag is down, says Tammy invasion.
24:48
Speaker 1: You don't want to see Bronni Tammy No, probably not
24:52
Speaker 1: h Savior save your cash?
24:54
Speaker 2: Who else does?
24:55
Speaker 1: He can't read that on the air, That lunatic Mark
24:59
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25:01
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25:04
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25:06
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25:10
Speaker 1: thank you. Funniest mal monologue ever. There you go, and
25:15
Speaker 1: he enjoyed us ripping the great Cooper flag. Almost drove
25:19
Speaker 1: off the road, even though I'm a huge Mavericks fan.
25:22
Speaker 2: March from Queens. But he lives in in Texas. There
25:26
Speaker 2: that was hysterical. We'll thank you.
25:28
Speaker 1: Glad you enjoyed it, Tony writes and says, Lebron James
25:30
Speaker 1: ready to roll and lead the Lakers to another title
25:33
Speaker 1: in June. Well, Tony depends how many times should play
25:36
Speaker 1: the video game. But I agree Tony on the video game.
25:38
Speaker 1: Absolutely it could happen. I'm pulling for you, Tony. I
25:41
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25:42
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25:43
Speaker 2: Hello to Eenie Meenie money Mall.
25:45
Speaker 1: Let's go to Bob. Bob is in the great state
25:48
Speaker 1: of Missouri. Hello, Bob, welcome.
25:50
Speaker 3: Hey, it's a pleasure to speak to a sports talk
25:53
Speaker 3: radio all star and Hall of Famer. Again.
25:57
Speaker 2: Really, I'm not in any hall of face.
25:59
Speaker 1: But well, I don't like I don't like to talk
26:02
Speaker 1: about it because it's never happened, so but I appreciate that.
26:04
Speaker 2: What's up, Bob? How can we help you? Buddy?
26:06
Speaker 7: Hey?
26:06
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of Hall of Fame, I've been wondering this
26:10
Speaker 3: for like fifty years. Yeah, an MLB player retires, he
26:15
Speaker 3: waits five years for selection to the Hall of Fame. Well,
26:22
Speaker 3: isn't that enough time for the writers to assess his career.
26:25
Speaker 3: There shouldn't be a one and done thing.
26:27
Speaker 7: You should be a.
26:28
Speaker 3: One ballot, first ballot Hall of Famer. If you're a
26:30
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer, either are or you're not. It pisses
26:33
Speaker 3: me off when these guys twenty years later, you know,
26:38
Speaker 3: they weed it down to weed it down.
26:40
Speaker 1: Well, the argument, though, Bob, The argument is like in politics,
26:45
Speaker 1: people don't always win their first THENT Abraham Lincoln lose
26:48
Speaker 1: eight elections and then became eventually became the President of
26:50
Speaker 1: the United States.
26:51
Speaker 2: Like, sometimes you lose, you don't win right away.
26:54
Speaker 1: I generally agree with you, though, there's a lot of
26:56
Speaker 1: as you know, there's politics. You've read about the baseball
26:59
Speaker 1: writers who have control of this and they're the only
27:02
Speaker 1: ones that get to vote. The baseball riders and Baseball
27:05
Speaker 1: made a deal with the devil, the baseball scribes, and
27:08
Speaker 1: it's been that way ever since then. And so that's
27:11
Speaker 1: just how it goes. And you got to kind of
27:13
Speaker 1: massage the egos of the baseball riders and you can,
27:16
Speaker 1: you can get votes. But then they, as you said,
27:17
Speaker 1: they have all these other committees too, that will put
27:19
Speaker 1: you in like the back door of the Hall of Fame.
27:22
Speaker 3: And yeah, well to me, it's kind of an insult
27:24
Speaker 3: to the legitimate first ballot guys.
27:26
Speaker 1: Well, there are there are different there are different Yeah,
27:28
Speaker 1: there are different layers, clearly, I mean there's different layers
27:31
Speaker 1: the first ballot Hall of Fame or how many times
27:33
Speaker 1: do you have to wait to get in?
27:34
Speaker 2: Did you go to the Veterans Committee? Now they get
27:36
Speaker 2: this other things like Pete Rose is going to.
27:39
Speaker 1: Get in the Hall of Fame a couple of years
27:42
Speaker 1: Joe Jackson will get in the Hall of Fame. But
27:44
Speaker 1: they're dead, but they'll get in the Hall of Fame.
27:46
Speaker 1: They'll get in the Hall of Fame.
27:47
Speaker 3: Baseball just shoots hisself in the foot a lot. As
27:50
Speaker 3: far as I'm not a big NBA guy, but I'm
27:52
Speaker 3: kind of hoping Lebron wants to go back to Cleveland
27:55
Speaker 3: and they tell him we don't want you and or
27:58
Speaker 3: your summer league on chain.
28:02
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh well, I mean we'll see what happens with
28:04
Speaker 1: the summer of lebronob.
28:06
Speaker 3: As far as as as Flag goes learning load management
28:11
Speaker 3: at the age of eighteen, yeah, so you can make
28:14
Speaker 3: a million dollars a game. Wow, what a great example
28:18
Speaker 3: of whatever that is.
28:20
Speaker 1: No, I agree, I think it's great the NBA training
28:22
Speaker 1: these guys on load management. You don't want Cooper Flag
28:25
Speaker 1: though he is eight He turns nineteen at the.
28:27
Speaker 2: End of the year. I thought he was nineteen already,
28:29
Speaker 2: but he's eighteen.
28:29
Speaker 1: You're right, so it could Cooper Flag just kind of,
28:32
Speaker 1: you know, do your thing and chill out and learn
28:35
Speaker 1: what Anthony Davis and Kawhi Leonard and these other NBA
28:40
Speaker 1: players do that you do. You don't want to embarrass
28:42
Speaker 1: the rest of the guys by playing in every game
28:43
Speaker 1: that would make him look bad. So exactly, all right,
28:46
Speaker 1: thank you about all right, thanks for listening. It's great, Bob,
28:50
Speaker 1: right there, Cooper Flag being taught the ancient art of
28:53
Speaker 1: load management very important. You must practice load management. Let's
28:58
Speaker 1: go to someone that does actice load management. He doesn't
29:01
Speaker 1: call every night. He picks his spots Jerome and Charleston.
29:04
Speaker 2: What is he angry about? Bringing home Jerome? Hello? Jerome's beginning.
29:11
Speaker 7: That, Hey, you know what I love? Then the fact that, uh,
29:16
Speaker 7: you talk about the clip the Leggas all the time.
29:18
Speaker 7: Why don't you talk about the successful La Clippers, the
29:22
Speaker 7: team that we listen.
29:23
Speaker 1: I could talk about the Clippers people. People would love
29:25
Speaker 1: that content. But I play the hits. I do negative radio,
29:29
Speaker 1: negative radios, the Lakers. That's why I talk about him.
29:31
Speaker 2: They're a joke.
29:32
Speaker 7: Yeah, Hey, when are you gonna talk about the scandal
29:35
Speaker 7: involving good old James Hart and you and that that
29:38
Speaker 7: Marchi Boloney person. She's got a show now, man as
29:42
Speaker 7: the Marti Bologne Show, and it comes back.
29:45
Speaker 2: Well, why don't you call her and talk to her
29:47
Speaker 2: about that?
29:48
Speaker 7: She doesn't can't.
29:49
Speaker 1: All right, well, and I do take phocos. So James
29:52
Speaker 1: Harden was not he was not. It was he's getting
29:56
Speaker 1: sued because he has the money. He wasn't the one
29:58
Speaker 1: that did anything. Right, you read the lawsuit. Yes, there
30:01
Speaker 1: was a there's a party at his house and the
30:04
Speaker 1: woman accused relative of James Harden of some funny business.
30:08
Speaker 2: And rather than the suit, well rather well there was.
30:12
Speaker 1: No there's no criminal charge. There's no criminal charges. There's
30:18
Speaker 1: no criminal charges. Droom right, it's a civil matter. But
30:20
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken.
30:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's just accusations at this moment. Yeah, and
30:24
Speaker 2: it's not James Harden.
30:25
Speaker 1: So I don't do we care about the relatives of
30:28
Speaker 1: these people like the Is that a big I mean,
30:31
Speaker 1: what do you want me to do? I don't do
30:33
Speaker 1: a modeling about James Harden's like nephew or whatever. Is
30:35
Speaker 1: that what I have to do to pacify you? Because
30:38
Speaker 1: you have a you have a you know, you have
30:40
Speaker 1: a I almost said a bad word, but you have
30:42
Speaker 1: an issue with the Harden thing like this.
30:46
Speaker 7: But for some reason you can't bring you in person,
30:50
Speaker 7: can't bring yourself to say anything about it.
30:54
Speaker 1: Listen, what do you want me to say a relative
30:57
Speaker 1: of a basketball players being suited because they have a
30:59
Speaker 1: lot of money and their relative doesn't have a lot
31:01
Speaker 1: of money. You understand, I mean, why why is that
31:03
Speaker 1: so hard for you? Under Jerome? I don't think you're
31:06
Speaker 1: a moron, but you're acting. You're sounding like a moron. Jerome,
31:09
Speaker 1: like you do understand the people that gets Yes, he's
31:13
Speaker 1: an NBA player.
31:15
Speaker 2: James Harden's nephew is not in the NBA.
31:18
Speaker 7: Hey, look, look, you talk about nepotism. Where have you
31:21
Speaker 7: been living that for the last two hundred years?
31:25
Speaker 1: Well, I haven't been alive. I know I'm old, but
31:26
Speaker 1: I'm not that old. I'm not in two hundred years.
31:28
Speaker 1: I have not been alive for.
31:29
Speaker 7: Tony, Ronnie James and lebron Jas didn't inventasm. Okay, they're
31:34
Speaker 7: not the first people and they won't be the last,
31:38
Speaker 7: so we should just think money.
31:40
Speaker 2: Okay.
31:40
Speaker 1: So you're okay with that, that nepotism. It sounds like
31:43
Speaker 1: you're okay with Jerome. It sounds like you don't have
31:45
Speaker 1: an issue with it. You're you're defending Bronnie James, who
31:48
Speaker 1: sucks at basketball, who's in the NBA because of his daddy.
31:52
Speaker 2: You're okay with that?
31:53
Speaker 3: Okay, Well I can't.
31:54
Speaker 2: I can't.
31:55
Speaker 1: I can't if I want, I just did you can't
31:58
Speaker 1: put you're a bet? Why are you such a bad
32:01
Speaker 1: Why you have such a bad moves room? What happened
32:03
Speaker 1: you have a did you have a bad day or
32:04
Speaker 1: something like that? Do you want to talk about it?
32:06
Speaker 1: Who hurts you your own? Who hurts you your own?
32:09
Speaker 7: Did you run away from? Okay?
32:10
Speaker 2: What am I running away from? I'm not running away
32:12
Speaker 2: from anything.
32:13
Speaker 1: You asked me a question that James Harden store is
32:15
Speaker 1: a nothing burger because he didn't do the crime. He's
32:18
Speaker 1: not accused. No one's accusing him of not because he
32:20
Speaker 1: played for the Clippers, he didn't do the crime. Do
32:23
Speaker 1: you understand he's not the person suing.
32:26
Speaker 7: It's a clipper, right so therefore.
32:29
Speaker 2: All right, so you're just trying to you're doing the clipper?
32:31
Speaker 2: That all right? Is that all you got? Your own?
32:33
Speaker 2: Because I'm tired of it, because it's it's ridiculous. Check okaye,
32:38
Speaker 2: what do.
32:38
Speaker 1: You not understand a relative of James Harden did something,
32:41
Speaker 1: is accused of doing something he hasn't been you know,
32:43
Speaker 1: there's no criminal charges and Jerome James Harden, who has money,
32:47
Speaker 1: has a lot of money because he's played basketball for
32:49
Speaker 1: a long time.
32:50
Speaker 2: I had a lot of money.
32:51
Speaker 1: He's the one being sued because you sue the person
32:53
Speaker 1: that has the money. Do you understand how that works?
32:56
Speaker 7: All of a sudden, when it's the Clippers uneasy, it's
33:00
Speaker 7: uncomfortable now for you and the.
33:03
Speaker 2: Month, it's not uncomfortable at all. I don't what do
33:06
Speaker 2: you want me to say? So I just answered your question?
33:08
Speaker 2: What did I not say?
33:11
Speaker 7: I'm just bringing that up, man, because I've be given
33:13
Speaker 7: you a charity.
33:14
Speaker 1: I just explained you how stupid you sound. And everyone's
33:16
Speaker 1: laughing at you right now. They're all pointing. They're all
33:19
Speaker 1: pointing at your Droman, laughing at you, saying, my god,
33:21
Speaker 1: I'm embarrassing this Roman.
33:26
Speaker 2: What's that?
33:27
Speaker 7: You got plenty of time to talk about Lebron.
33:29
Speaker 2: James the right, Joe.
33:32
Speaker 1: Why don't you get a talk show in the last
33:34
Speaker 1: two days? Like Cooper Flag in the Summer League. You'll
33:37
Speaker 1: be canceled because you have no idea what to talk about. Clearly,
33:40
Speaker 1: you have no sense of what people want to hear about.
33:43
Speaker 7: Look, I don't want to talk about Cooper Flag. Hey,
33:46
Speaker 7: who's gonna be fired. Hey, just hope he's not the
33:49
Speaker 7: next damn Adam marsh And Okay, they keep comparing him
33:53
Speaker 7: to Bride.
33:54
Speaker 3: Okay, player bird.
33:58
Speaker 2: Why are you so angry?
33:59
Speaker 1: Joe?
33:59
Speaker 2: What's going on with you? You sound angry? You sound angry.
34:03
Speaker 2: I don't know why you're so angry. To me? Yeah,
34:05
Speaker 2: you sound angry. Ye, what's going on with you? Did
34:08
Speaker 2: you have a bad weekend?
34:09
Speaker 7: Why are you so angry? You are?
34:11
Speaker 2: I'm fine.
34:12
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here, I got the I got the air
34:14
Speaker 1: conditioner going, I'm gonna I'm I'm in good shape here,
34:17
Speaker 1: I'm happy.
34:17
Speaker 7: I'm just bringing up some stuff you try to run
34:20
Speaker 7: away from.
34:21
Speaker 2: I'm not.
34:22
Speaker 4: I'm doing again.
34:23
Speaker 1: I explained to you. I know it's hard for you understand,
34:25
Speaker 1: but I'm not running away from any congratulations. But here's
34:32
Speaker 1: the deal. You don't understand common sense if you're bringing
34:36
Speaker 1: this up thinking there's something there.
34:38
Speaker 7: Damn, they don't take dummies. Okay, all right, I worked
34:42
Speaker 7: my ass off to get in. All right, you don't
34:45
Speaker 7: take ummy.
34:45
Speaker 1: But on this one, d you sound like I'm maybe
34:48
Speaker 1: you took you know what, Possibly you took stupid pills.
34:51
Speaker 2: Maybe that's the problem. The wear off.
34:53
Speaker 1: The stupid pills will wear off, and then you'll be okay.
34:56
Speaker 1: You just you took the wrong pill bottle. You took
34:58
Speaker 1: the stupid pills.
34:59
Speaker 7: Is that what happened to I just want you to
35:02
Speaker 7: come clean.
35:03
Speaker 2: Why what is it coming clean?
35:06
Speaker 1: You're asking me about the relative who's not an NBA
35:08
Speaker 1: player of James Harden. I explained to you why I
35:11
Speaker 1: did not talk about that story. You seem to have
35:14
Speaker 1: a bug up your took us that I should talk
35:16
Speaker 1: about that story.
35:17
Speaker 2: And I merely told you.
35:18
Speaker 1: If you go to a lawyer and say, hey, somebody,
35:22
Speaker 1: you know, somebody did something to me and I want
35:24
Speaker 1: to sue them, the loyal will then say how much
35:26
Speaker 1: money do they have? They don't have a lot of money.
35:28
Speaker 1: Whose house was it? Oh it's James Harden's house. Oh
35:30
Speaker 1: he's worth two hundre three hundred million dollars. Let's sue him.
35:34
Speaker 1: So that's not it's not that hard to understand.
35:35
Speaker 2: Jerome, You're.
35:38
Speaker 7: Y'all don't have no time to talk about but you
35:41
Speaker 7: got pleased?
35:42
Speaker 2: Yes are You're You're a dummy? Thank you? My god?
35:46
Speaker 2: We just what a stupid sound like?
35:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jerome and Charleston dumb num numb, numb.
35:52
Speaker 2: Okay.
35:53
Speaker 1: So he see there's a guy with that's called the
35:55
Speaker 1: agenda talk radio call Jerome and Charleston. Jerome had agenda,
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Speaker 1: like his agenda was Jay Balor's not talking about James R.
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Speaker 1: Leave her out of this. He can fight her own battle.
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Speaker 1: And so I guess she likes the Clippers and all that.
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Speaker 1: now for the Insta Trevia. The Mariners centerfielder Julio Rodriguez
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Speaker 1: seventeen total basis four walks, two steals over the weekend
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Speaker 1: in Motown. Only two other players in the modern era
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Speaker 2: What's that you a radar Captain Jack Sparrow, Ben.
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Speaker 1: All right, No, it's Mike Gold Jack Schmid of the
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five Phila Delfield, Philly.
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Speaker 2: Here we go, Here we got.
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Speaker 4: This is one big fan gets grilled.
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Speaker 8: Trooper forty nine Ers filled that Kyle euscheck to the
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Speaker 8: media over the weekend that Christian McCaffrey looks quote incredible
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Speaker 8: and that he will change everything.
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Speaker 2: For the forty nine ers everything.
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Speaker 8: Yes, Ben, does a healthy McCaffrey drastically change the outlook
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Speaker 8: for the Niners?
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Speaker 2: No, because it's July. I don't doubt that he's healthy
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Speaker 2: in July.
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Speaker 1: Didn't he just announce the other a kid or he
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Speaker 1: had a kid Christian McCaffrey, So listen, looking healthy in
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Speaker 1: July is one thing. McCaffrey was always hurt with Carolina.
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Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons they got rid of him.
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Speaker 1: He had a stretch of health through the Niners. The
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Speaker 1: real Christian McCaffrey is the guy gets hurt all the time.
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Speaker 1: So it doesn't change the outlook for the Niners because
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Speaker 1: he's not going to be healthy by the time we
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Speaker 1: get to reach seven or week eight next.
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Speaker 8: So the Los Angeles Angels had the number two pick
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Speaker 8: in the Omber Joe, Yes.
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Speaker 3: They had.
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Speaker 8: They had the top top rated pitching prospect there on
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Speaker 8: the board, but they did not take him. Yes, and
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Speaker 8: said they took Tyler Brenner Bremner who nobody had him
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Speaker 8: ranked even.
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Speaker 2: In the top ten. Yeah, ben A. Is this a
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Speaker 2: GM move or an ownership move? Who's to blame for this? Well?
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Speaker 1: The other argument, coup is this kid Holidays that was
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Speaker 1: a top player in the draft. The Angels could have
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Speaker 1: drafted him. They could have gotten the number one guy
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Speaker 1: at number two. No, it's it's signability. It's nobody knows
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Speaker 1: anything about the baseball draft anyway, nobody knows anything about
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Speaker 1: the NFL or the basketball draft, so it's signed. It
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Speaker 1: is odd, though, when you take somebody that's not even
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Speaker 1: projected to be a top ten pick at the number
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Speaker 1: two pick. Something's gone terribly wrong there for the Angels.
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Speaker 1: But I think it's a signability thing. They knew they
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Speaker 1: could sign this guy from Santa Barbara so or he's
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Speaker 1: pitching at Santa barbt next.
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Speaker 8: Former All Pro defensive tackle Domocon Sioue announced his retirement
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Speaker 8: on Saturday. He has had an impressive career since being
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Speaker 8: drafted out of Nebraska.
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Speaker 2: Is it enough to get him into the Hall?
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Speaker 7: No?
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Speaker 2: Because he blocked me on Twitter.
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Speaker 1: Remember when he was about to sign with the Rams
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Speaker 1: and a listener contacted us and told him, told us
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Speaker 1: he was at a hotel and he panicked and domoicon
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Speaker 1: sue and blocked me on social media. Now he's got
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Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame resume, But because he blocked me,
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Speaker 1: no Hall.
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Speaker 2: Of fame for you? How did we do he passed that?
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Speaker 7: So?
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Speaker 2: What by no hall of fame?
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Speaker 1: No, no hold fast bope