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Set 2: In Da Club (w/ Adam Amin) · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: Adam Amine is with us. We enjoyed having him on
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  Speaker 1: last time. He's a big tennis fan. We will finish
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  Speaker 1: out this segment here with blind rankings tennis players all time.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you mentioned he's a big tennis fan for
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  Speaker 2: so many things that he does, but let's mention it
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  Speaker 2: he's a big tennis fan first.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it.
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  Speaker 4: What game are you not calling this week? Adam Amine?
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  Speaker 5: Not calling any tennis? Unfortunately?
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  Speaker 6: No, we got dug between NBA for the Bulls and
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  Speaker 6: the World Baseball class.
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  Speaker 5: Think it's going to be a fun next you know
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  Speaker 5: ten days.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, did you ever wake up and not know what
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  Speaker 2: sport you're going to be talking about that day?
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  Speaker 6: Because I've legitimately woken up and not known the city
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  Speaker 6: for a few minutes, Like I have to replay the
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  Speaker 6: we got in.
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  Speaker 5: At what time last night? And what day is it today?
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  Speaker 5: And do we have a game or off day today?
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  Speaker 6: And do I have to take a flight on my
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  Speaker 6: own to go do something else tomorrow while I'm away
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  Speaker 6: from the team. That has happened many times on several
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  Speaker 6: occasions on a consistent basis, And.
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  Speaker 3: Then you figure out what's sporting?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and then you figure out.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, all right, well it's you're in Phoenix today,
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  Speaker 6: you're doing this. We got basketball tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Cool, got it.
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  Speaker 1: But figuring out geography is the most important thing first.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just a bit.
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  Speaker 6: Just have a general sense of place, I think is
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  Speaker 6: a good establishing factor for what you're doing that day.
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  Speaker 4: Taylor has an idea.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get to this because I was shocked
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  Speaker 1: to hear it before. The fact that you dj after
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  Speaker 1: calling games is the most shocking thing I've ever heard.
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  Speaker 5: Of my entire shocking. Yeah, I get god, what is
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  Speaker 5: this guy do?
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  Speaker 3: How does that look like? After a game?
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  Speaker 4: You then go terrible, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: And go to a club and start DJing there.
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  Speaker 6: So last year I was doing a Cubs Phillies game
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  Speaker 6: in Chicago and April and it was like a three
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  Speaker 6: o'clock game. It was like an afternoon game, and a
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  Speaker 6: friend of mine, like I've been I started DJing when
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  Speaker 6: I was thirteen. My brother bought me like turntables, like
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  Speaker 6: real turntables. I went to record shops, I bought records,
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  Speaker 6: and then CDs came into play and you had to
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  Speaker 6: burn your own.
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  Speaker 5: CDs and things like that.
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  Speaker 6: So that's a major major factor when you didn't have
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  Speaker 6: to spend, you know, twelve bucks per record every time
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  Speaker 6: you wanted to get a new piece of music. So
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  Speaker 6: I started DJing from the time I was thirteen until
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  Speaker 6: probably I was twenty three. I was working in Iowa
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  Speaker 6: my first job, and I even did it there, and
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  Speaker 6: then when I got hired by ESPN I was twenty four,
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  Speaker 6: I just stopped doing it. So then, you know, ten
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  Speaker 6: eleven years later, I was kind of feeling some creative stagnancy,
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  Speaker 6: so I think I would let me go figure out
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  Speaker 6: what the equipment is like these days and how you.
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  Speaker 5: Set it up. So a few years ago I started
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  Speaker 5: DJing again.
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  Speaker 6: And I live in Chicago. It's the house music capital
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  Speaker 6: of the world. There's a million DJs. Everybody and their
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  Speaker 6: boyfriend is a DJ in Chicago, so you know, it's
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  Speaker 6: a crowded market. But I knew some people, and I
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  Speaker 6: had some friends, and I just wanted to do it
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  Speaker 6: a little bit, so I started doing it again. And
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  Speaker 6: there's been occasions where I'll call a Cubs game in
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  Speaker 6: Chicago or a Bears game for a Bulls game, and
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  Speaker 6: after the game, I'll race over to a club and
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  Speaker 6: play like, can.
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  Speaker 3: We be friends?
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  Speaker 2: Can I just be like your assistant and we just
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  Speaker 2: go everywhere because.
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  Speaker 4: I kill Yeah, but I want to go to bed.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to be as assistant. You sleep in,
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  Speaker 4: come on.
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  Speaker 6: The schedule gets very messed up, but I feel like
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  Speaker 6: I feel like Izzy would have the hook up in
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  Speaker 6: a great music city.
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  Speaker 5: It's Miami Music Week later this month.
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  Speaker 2: That's it gets crazy down here. I try to avoid
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  Speaker 2: the chaos.
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  Speaker 5: Well, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like being in clubs. I hate clubs. I
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  Speaker 6: hate clubbing, I hate go I hate going out. I
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  Speaker 6: like performing. The performing part is the fun part. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: the music part is what I like.
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  Speaker 4: But you realize how that comes off.
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  Speaker 1: It'd be like you're saying, hey, I don't like being
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  Speaker 1: in baseball stadium.
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  Speaker 2: So no, it's like you get the insulation, like you're
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  Speaker 2: not in that crowd with everybody around you, you throwing all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of viruses in your face. You're at the DJ booth,
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  Speaker 2: you're separate, and you're performing. You can actually see the
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  Speaker 2: reflection the reactions on the face of what you're doing
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  Speaker 2: for them.
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  Speaker 5: I like being a thermostat. I like setting the temperature
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  Speaker 5: of the room, you know, and I like it. I
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  Speaker 5: like that to be part of that. That's nice.
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  Speaker 1: Who's the most like random celebrity? Have you had celebrities
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  Speaker 1: come out to see you DJ?
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  Speaker 6: Not?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 5: Other?
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  Speaker 6: Well after my favorite gig so far maybe was I
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  Speaker 6: did a Cub game on a Saturday night in Chicago
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  Speaker 6: and I had a friend of mine in Wrigleyville who
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  Speaker 6: runs a bar it's called HVAC Pub, and he goes, hey,
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  Speaker 6: we need do you want to play a set here
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  Speaker 6: after the Cubs game? Because I know you're calling the
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  Speaker 6: Cubs game, We'll just let you play.
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  Speaker 5: The main set. I'm like, yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 6: So I finished a Cub game and I go across
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  Speaker 6: the street to this barren pub club and I DJ for.
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  Speaker 5: Like two hours and A. J.
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  Speaker 6: Pierzinski, who's my broadcast partner, came out to the cup
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  Speaker 6: hung out, and I thought that was cool as it
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  Speaker 6: was like Age's friend. You know, we've worked together for
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  Speaker 6: a long time, you know, five six years we worked together,
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  Speaker 6: a five. I mean he's been a good friend. And
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  Speaker 6: he came out and I didn't know he was going
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  Speaker 6: to bring Ken Rosenthal.
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  Speaker 5: Sixty some year old, wow.
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  Speaker 6: Five foot four, not where it takes off the bow tie,
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  Speaker 6: so it's Ken Rosenthal. Wow, hanging out at a club
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  Speaker 6: with a bunch of like twenty somethings, did you change the.
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  Speaker 4: Bit?
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  Speaker 6: I know, I didn't want to gear it towards them.
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  Speaker 6: I gotta geared towards the kids. I call him kids too, Like.
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  Speaker 5: That's what's weird about it.
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  Speaker 6: But like, I'm right in the middle of, like I think,
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  Speaker 6: the age where I have enough of a knowledge of
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  Speaker 6: music that has come before me and enough of a
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  Speaker 6: connection to younger people.
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  Speaker 5: That I have an idea about what they like now.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, that's that's like a nice, uh sweet
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  Speaker 6: spot I think to be in right now.
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  Speaker 5: If you're you know, in your late thirties.
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  Speaker 6: You have a you have a good connect good connectivity
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  Speaker 6: to a lot of different types of people what they like.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, so is you wanted him to cater to Ken
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  Speaker 4: Rosenthal and not the kids?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't even know what they used to
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  Speaker 3: go to the clubs for.
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  Speaker 4: I don't I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: What Rosenthal like.
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  Speaker 6: If he's like, if he's right around sixty, you know,
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  Speaker 6: thirty years ago, you know, Sadiscoe nineties, I feel like
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  Speaker 6: you probably enjoyed some some nineteen eighties, like you know, freestyle.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like, you know, there's you know, sapphire or
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  Speaker 6: something like that might might fit into him a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: How late did he stay?
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  Speaker 5: He stayed until l like midnight, which I which I respected.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't think.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't think he would he would last as long
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  Speaker 6: as he did. He stayed till midnight. I was out
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  Speaker 6: till like one or two am. So how about aj
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  Speaker 6: oh ajjj He might have been still there.
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  Speaker 5: He might he might have had the after party on
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  Speaker 5: his own. Who knows.
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  Speaker 4: H Taylor has an idea.
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  Speaker 1: He trotted it out yesterday on National Radio about what
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  Speaker 1: the about what major League Baseball should do?
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  Speaker 4: H with the Chicago White Sox. Go ahead tailor.
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  Speaker 7: Soudam, I've kind of got swept up in this world
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  Speaker 7: baseball classic. Love, love the event, love the uh the
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  Speaker 7: pride that each country has. I was watching the Dominican
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  Speaker 7: Republic exhibition game in the d R Electric when Soto
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  Speaker 7: hits that home run, I want to relocate the Chicago
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  Speaker 7: White Sox to the Dominican Republic.
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  Speaker 6: This is like what Sean con wants to do with
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  Speaker 6: the Jaguars. Just have him playing in London full time,
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  Speaker 6: Like we'll just do for the Dominican.
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  Speaker 1: He also went on to say, when you're walking down
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  Speaker 1: the street in Chicago, when someone says, and this never happens, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: where's the baseball field?
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  Speaker 4: Everyone's going to tell you and point to Wrigley.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they'll point to the red line. They don't
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  Speaker 6: tell you that the that the brown line can take you.
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  Speaker 6: The other director write to the south side.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're on Taylor here, So Adam Taylor just moved
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  Speaker 2: into this place that he's in right now.
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  Speaker 5: And yes, his fist fancy shelving and everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yesterday we we ripping them because those shelves are empty.
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  Speaker 2: And he just built a bunch of Ikia stuff. And
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  Speaker 2: now I have to give him ship for having the
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  Speaker 2: NBA Cup on there. Like the most problem is the
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  Speaker 2: champions I.
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  Speaker 6: Mean, is the thing the first that has to be
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  Speaker 6: the first time I've seen any any like NBA Cup
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  Speaker 6: paraphernalia whatsoever T shirt, like T shirt that says twenty
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  Speaker 6: twenty five NBA Cup.
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  Speaker 5: Haven't seen one of those.
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  Speaker 6: I haven't seen anybody hold up, hold up a ring
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  Speaker 6: that says NBA Cup champ. That is the first piece
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  Speaker 6: of paraphernalia that is celebrating the NBA Cup other than
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  Speaker 6: the actual NBA Cup I've ever seen in my life.
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  Speaker 4: When you're a Knicks fan, you'll take any championship you
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  Speaker 4: can get, man.
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  Speaker 6: I like I appreciate the prominence of the North Carolina
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  Speaker 6: football helmet.
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  Speaker 5: Though. I like that that that took president.
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  Speaker 4: That's where he played. Of course, did you actually play practice?
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  Speaker 4: He walked on in practiced.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I walked out of practice, man. Like, I've always
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  Speaker 6: been a closet North Carolina fans. My brother loved the
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  Speaker 6: basketball team growing up. And then you know, one of
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  Speaker 6: our close friends is Mac Brown. And obviously, when as
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  Speaker 6: soon as he took the North Carolina job, because we
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  Speaker 6: were working together at ESPN, when he took the the
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  Speaker 6: UNC job again, so I became a de facto North
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  Speaker 6: Carolina fan football fan once again.
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  Speaker 5: So Taylor in that sense, Yeah, a lot of a
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  Speaker 5: lot of big time Max, a lot of big Max
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  Speaker 5: at North Carolina and Chapel Hill.
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  Speaker 1: So you have the first two US games versus Brazil
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  Speaker 1: and Great Britain, and Taylor yesterday was talking about just
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  Speaker 1: how emotional this thing gets. And I wish we can
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  Speaker 1: kind of bottle that up and hand it over to
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. When these go, these guys go back
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  Speaker 1: to their respective teams. But is that the thing that
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  Speaker 1: makes it the most intriguing and emotional just playing for country,
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  Speaker 1: playing for the flag.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, I hear the Olympic comparison sometimes and
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  Speaker 6: I think it is very much like soccer. People take
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  Speaker 6: the World Cup to heart, I feel like in a
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  Speaker 6: lot deeper of a fashion than maybe they do the
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  Speaker 6: Olympics in soccer, and I think that translates over to
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  Speaker 6: baseball as well, whereas like the World Cup of Hockey
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  Speaker 6: might not have the same emotional detachment that say, the
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  Speaker 6: Olympics that we just saw in Italy had. So for
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  Speaker 6: you know, for whatever reason, this has become premier international event.
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  Speaker 6: I think a lot of it just has to do
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  Speaker 6: because you get the MLB guys, You get the best,
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  Speaker 6: truly the best talent in the world, and a lot
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  Speaker 6: of the guys who play in Major League Baseball, most
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  Speaker 6: of these guys that they can represent their country or
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  Speaker 6: represent a country that they have a you know, a
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  Speaker 6: slight connection to or a slight background with, like you know,
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  Speaker 6: Jazz Chisholm is playing, you know, for Great Britain, Trace Thompson,
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  Speaker 6: like they have some lineage, so you know, whether it's
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  Speaker 6: Behavian or whatever it might be, they have the opportunity
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  Speaker 6: to do this. I'm studying up on Brazilian baseball and
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  Speaker 6: you know the nineteen twenties, you know, Japanese immigrants, you know,
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  Speaker 6: make up a large population of the non Brazilian population
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  Speaker 6: in the country, and they brought the game over and
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  Speaker 6: it's always had this really deep connection. Even though they
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  Speaker 6: haven't had a ton of success. There becomes this this
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  Speaker 6: matter of pride about even the smallest lineage or the smallest.
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  Speaker 5: Connectivity that you may have.
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  Speaker 6: And then you go and hear what all these guys
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  Speaker 6: from the Team USA are talking about, Aaron Judge and
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  Speaker 6: Paul Skeins, and you know the comments they've made about
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  Speaker 6: how this is really really meaningful. And I think the
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  Speaker 6: fact that there is a global power too. Japan has
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  Speaker 6: become the global power in this sport, you know, having
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  Speaker 6: won three of these in the last several times out
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  Speaker 6: the US, having gone down to the wire and that
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  Speaker 6: great finished in twenty twenty three with trout against Otani
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  Speaker 6: to finish off the final game. I think there's a
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  Speaker 6: lot of those lingering memories, even if guys aren't taking
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  Speaker 6: the twenty seventeen WBC to heart. What they saw three
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  Speaker 6: years ago still sticks with them, and that's why you
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  Speaker 6: get Aaron Judge taking over the captaincy of this team.
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  Speaker 6: That's why you get the discussions that we've heard over
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  Speaker 6: the last week about how much this means to a
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  Speaker 6: lot of guys. Whether it's in the United States, whether
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  Speaker 6: it's in the dr whether it's Cuba, Puerto Rico, whatever,
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  Speaker 6: this means a lot to a.
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  Speaker 5: Lot of people. And I think that buzz that.
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  Speaker 6: We've seen the last couple of times that this thing's
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  Speaker 6: been televised. I've never called one of these games, so
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  Speaker 6: I'm very much looking forward to just feeling what it's
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  Speaker 6: like in the building in Houston, and when we get
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  Speaker 6: to the quarterfinals, if it is you know, the US
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  Speaker 6: against let's say they played Venezuela again, the emotions from
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  Speaker 6: what they felt three years ago that Trey Turner Grand
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  Speaker 6: Slam in the seventh dating in that you know, electric game.
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  Speaker 6: The atmosphere is what they're like. And then obviously there's
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  Speaker 6: some political discourse that's taking place over the last year
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  Speaker 6: as well that is probably going to fuel a little
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  Speaker 6: bit of the fire for some of these players and
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  Speaker 6: teams and countries. There's a lot that goes into the
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  Speaker 6: feeling of this event right now, on top of you know,
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  Speaker 6: the best players in the world playing a sport against
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  Speaker 6: each other in this that competition.
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  Speaker 7: Adam, what would you say to Yankee fans who are
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  Speaker 7: wondering if there's any correlation between their lack of winning
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  Speaker 7: World Series and Aaron judges pregame speech. I guess to
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  Speaker 7: the team, say.
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  Speaker 5: You wanted a little bit more.
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  Speaker 6: You thought that was a glimpse into what the Yankees
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  Speaker 6: locker room might be like August fourteen.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, guy, I could have used a little more.
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  Speaker 4: I mean he did.
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  Speaker 7: I saw that and I was like, okay, now it
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  Speaker 7: makes sense why the Blue Jays kind of dragged this
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  Speaker 7: in the playoffs, right.
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  Speaker 1: But then he saw the moonshot he hit once the
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  Speaker 1: game start and was like, Oh, that guy's good.
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  Speaker 6: This is one of those classic let my play do
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  Speaker 6: the talking type of things.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's what that's what I think actually talking.
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  Speaker 6: I was gonna say, like, I want to see who
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  Speaker 6: the guy's going to be. That that gets these guys
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  Speaker 6: fired up. Like Bregman's not like the loudest guy, but
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  Speaker 6: he's he can be an inspirational dude. I've been around
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  Speaker 6: him a couple of times in his college and pro
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  Speaker 6: career when he's you know, little fire under some of
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  Speaker 6: his guys. It's not going to be Schemes. You know,
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  Speaker 6: Schemes isn't going to do anything, but he's going to
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  Speaker 6: let his play do the talking. I think that is
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  Speaker 6: interesting to see the way that, you know, not to overgeneralize,
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  Speaker 6: but I think, you know, we we see it from
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  Speaker 6: Latin American countries, their fan bases, the energy that they
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  Speaker 6: pour into their players, and the reciprocation of that energy.
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  Speaker 6: I think it comes down to style of play. I
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  Speaker 6: don't think America has ever really had a ton of
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  Speaker 6: I would say elite, elite, elite level players that have
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  Speaker 6: the wildest personalities. I think the best players in America
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  Speaker 6: have typically been and kind of the quieter guys, the
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  Speaker 6: more intensive, the more internal. I think those types of
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  Speaker 6: personalities where you look at some of the Latin American countries,
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  Speaker 6: even going over into Europe into players from Czechia and
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  Speaker 6: things like that. Brazil certainly has a little bit of
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  Speaker 6: that as well. This kind of flair for the sport,
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  Speaker 6: the emotions of the game, the crowd, feeds into them
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  Speaker 6: and they feed it back to them. You know those
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  Speaker 6: moments that we saw. I think it was in the
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  Speaker 6: semi finals of few years ago in Raindy Euros. Arena
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  Speaker 6: makes that catch at the wall and kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 6: poses and puts acrosses his arms and he can kind
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  Speaker 6: of feel that the electricity of that moment from the
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  Speaker 6: fan base of Mexico going into him and the way
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  Speaker 6: he kind of projects that out. That's one of the
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  Speaker 6: things I do love. I wish that the US had
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  Speaker 6: a little bit more of that. Maybe as the games
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: intensify and some new players have found themselves in the fold,
• 14:49
  Speaker 6: maybe we'll see a little bit more of that emotion,
• 14:51
  Speaker 6: even if it's in little little spurts. But I do
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: love that part of it from watching players around the
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: world and the electricity that the fans bring to these
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: events and how they reciprocate that anytime they make something
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: cool happen.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: On the field.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Adam, I have a question for you, But at first
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: I want to say I knew I wasn't crazy. You
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: mentioned Cechia and I was like, when did they start
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: shortening the name? I was like, you're right, they called
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: the Czechoslovakia my whole life writer or the Czech Republic
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: or whatever. I just looked it up that officially applied
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: to have that registered as their name July fifth of
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, So it's only it hasn't even been ten
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: years now thanks.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: To go about that. I mean, I thought I.
• 15:34
  Speaker 8: Was going crazy.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: I thought I loved it.
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: I saw c Chechi at one point, I was like,
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: who is this a new country that I missed?
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: Like, Hi, did I miss an.
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: Entire international event in an Eastern European country that I
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: was just completely unaware of? And I know I'm not
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: the most globally political, politically savvy person on the planet.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: I was like, I know there's something there.
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: So I had to convince my girlfriend's twelve year old son,
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: who knows like every country by shape and recognition, like
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: you can just see it and know what it is.
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: He's like, that, what's check Ya.
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: Because I said, I think I think that's Checkia And
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: we had to go look it up together the other day.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: So I'm.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: In the same boat.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: I'm curious. So you said, it's your first WBC.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: What kind of things like only in the WBC stuff
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: are you like prepared for that? Maybe is like a
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: different in terms of the call, even if it's like
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: the atmosphere.
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: The hope is that the atmospheres are what we've come
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: to traditionally know where it is loud in between pitches
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: like that does. I've always said that, especially do in TV,
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: that the crowd is another element, another tool that you
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: should use to make your broadcast better. And when the
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: crowd is great, And this is why playoff baseball is,
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: you know, one of the greatest things I've ever been
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: fortunate enough to call, just especially you know, these last
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: couple of years we've had great series, have been very
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: fortunate in great atmospheres, whether it's New York or Philly,
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: or Seattle or Detroit. The last couple of times I've
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: gone out and done playoff games, like you you do
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: take a step back because you do see how every
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: pitch gets magnified. And that's why playoff baseball, much like
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: playoff basketball in the NBA, feels like different sports, the
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: NFL does not feel like a different sport when you
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: watch the playoffs. Maybe you might get coaches be a
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: little bit more aggressive because it's a done situation or whatever,
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: but the sport itself, the energy is kind of played
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: and ridden the same way.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: Hey, here's a play. Let's enjoy the emotion of the
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: play or the result of it. All, right, what's the
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: next play? After another thirty second break as teams, you know, regroup.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: In baseball during the regular season, a June twelfth game
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: is going to feel a lot different than one played
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: on October twelfth. And I think when you get to
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: the WBC, depending on the country, depending on the atmosphere,
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: depending on the location, depending on the fan base, all
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: of that certainly, but you do feel like there is
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: a a heightened sense of energy magnification of all of
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: these pitches. You may not feel it in the second
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: inning of USA Brazil, but you'll feel it come quarter
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: final time. You'll get it in the knock out stages
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: of this tournament. So, you know, I think we want
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: to use that as a tool. I think the other
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: part that you get to explore a little bit is
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: talking globally.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: You know, I have had to learn a little bit.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: About the history of Brazil and its connectivity to Japan.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: Why they have so many Japanese players or you know,
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: Japanese citizenship players that are born in South Polo. The
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: manager Yuichi Matsumoto for Brazil. He was born in South
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Paolo became a Japanese citizen about twenty years ago used
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: the name Yuichi's name is actually Danielle Matsumoto, but he
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: uses the name Yuichi because he didn't want his citizenship
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: to count against the foreign player limit that teams in
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: Japan have. The only they have room for a couple
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: of foreign born players on all of these rosters, because
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: this is high level baseball being played in Nippon, whether
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: it's an NPB or the Central League or the Pacific League.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: So like learning a little bit about the history of baseball.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: First manager for the Scinnati Red Stockings in the eighteen
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: sixties was British born, so great Britain does have a
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: little bit of this lineage with the sport going back
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: to the nineteenth century. I think there are some cool
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: things that we can sprinkle in as a production crew.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Myself as an announcer.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: You know, I'm working with Adam Waynwright and Agent Prazinski,
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: and you know their curiosity might might come into play.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: So I got to be a little bit, you know,
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: on my toes, ready to answer some question or at
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: least have a working knowledge of the of the backgrounds
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: of these countries and their connection to baseball. So I
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: think that those are a couple of things that are
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: a little bit different. But at the end of the day,
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: same deal as all. As you document what's in front
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: of you, you ride the emotion of the moment, you
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: try to put it into context and hopefully have some
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: fun along the way.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: It does feel like a team named the Red Stockings
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: should be managed by a British guy.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Just that by the way, Yeah, well, what do you
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: think all name should be the Stockings?
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Is that right?
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: That was the first time I've even tried. I didn't
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: think today I was going to like, hey's not that
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: British accent. I've been working. Did not work on that
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: at all.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Just busting it out because for you guys at the moment,
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: I'm so sorry for anybody who had here.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: No, we appreciate you doing it, Adam.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: That urgency you talk about and the excitement that you
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: talk about with the fan base, the NFL, all those games.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: The NFL has figured it out, College football has figured
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: it out. Every game feels like a playoff game because
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: there are so few games.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: There's only seventeen of them.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: And with this it simply stakes an urgency, right, the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: season's not as long.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: They're playing for the country.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: There's urgency, there are stakes attached to it, don't you
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: think Major League base Because you're right, game seventy two.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Regular season it's hard to get excited for, right, but
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: post season very easy to get excited for. It's the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: best of five or best of seven. I'm wondering if
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you think Major League Baseball should kind of learn from
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: from the NFL college football and maybe shorten the season
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: a bit and try to create that urgency throughout the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: regular season.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: I've kind of thought about this lately just because of
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: the discussion around the NBA and some of the anti
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: tanking measures that Adam Silver is going to want to
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: try to implement next.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: Year, Like how do you combat that?
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: And certainly one of the suggestions has been will cut
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: down the amount of games? And that's going to, you know,
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: at least force the urgency, the height and the weight
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: of each of these games to rise. Like it's two
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: to one baseball to basketball, it's two to one baseball
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: to hockey. But when you look at the NFL, like
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: ten baseball games is basically worth one NFL game, Like
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: that's significant, you know, stakes. And I also am at
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: the point where I look at the NFL and don't
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: get me wrong, I love calling NFL and I'll call
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: as many games as I get a chance to because
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: it is fun. It is that sense of urgency every
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: single game. I still wonder, are we coming to a
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: critical mass when it comes to the amount of games
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: that they want to play?
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: Now? Yes?
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: Do I think by a second by week will help
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: if you're going to extend the season to eighteen games, Yes,
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: I do. But I also know that at times we've
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: seen the level of play very diluted, especially early in
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: the season, like the first month of the year has
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: almost become like a de facto preseason in for the NFL.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: I look at Major League Baseball. I always I remember
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: working a couple of different minor league baseball seasons. I
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: did a one hundred and twenty six game year. I
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: did one hundred and forty game year, and I thought, man,
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: we got to September, like late August, all these games
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: feel like way more important, so and they feel more
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: urgent earlier and earlier. You know, we've got twenty games
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: left in the NBA season. Basically, the Bulls have played
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: sixty two games that I had sixty three, and we're
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: already at that countdown phase where it's like, oh, man,
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: that liked three a lot. A lot of folks are
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: already chanting for it or kanekoon or wherever you're preferred
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: destination might be, or whatever sounds good in the chance.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: But I think all of these leagues and I don't
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: think they'll do it, obviously for obvious reasons that I'm
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: sure have been discussed a million times. Ownership doesn't want
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: to give up the revenue. You know, they make money
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: on the gate, they make money on ticket sales, all that,
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: But will the quality of play? Are we reaching a
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: critical mass in sports where quality of play gets so
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: diluted because of the length of seasons, because of the
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: compact times of these games.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: The NBA has.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: Had that problem for a little while too, where there's
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: very little practice time. The Bulls are taking a full
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: off day on Friday and Phoenix exact two days between games.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: They're going to have an actual practice on Saturday before
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: they play again on Sunday. And that's been a rarity
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: for the Bulls and I think for a lot of them,
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: I'm sure for every NBA team because they play similar schedules,
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: it's hard to find practice time. So a lot of
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: the younger players in this league that are coming up,
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: the nineteen twenty, twenty one to twenty two year olds,
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: they're getting their best opportunities in the seven minutes they
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: might get to play in a game, and that's just
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: not conducive to a high level of play. So I'm
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: wondering what the critical mass across professional sports is going
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: to be. We're finally owners and players and coaches, and
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: I think the loudest voices, hopefully would be the fans
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: to say the quality of play has been so heavily
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: deluded that these guys do need a break. And maybe
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: somebody is willing to say, will take on less money
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: if it means a greater health for the long term
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: exposure of the sport. I don't know if we'll ever
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: get that, because I just don't know if that's in
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: a lot of human beings nature to do that.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Money it's not, it's not, and have.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: To help themselves in the short term. Who gives a
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: ship about the long term, Because I'm not gonna be
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: here that seems to be a general mentality that takes
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: over for a lot of people in high up positions
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: in sports and probably across corporations in every line of work.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: I do think that, you know, there is going to
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: be a critical mess, and I'll wonder what.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: I wonder what the response will be to that.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I've got an idea. Hear me out, Yeah, an in
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: season tournament.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: Do you do you think I think there should be
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: like I don't know, we could call it a cup
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: or something like that.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: I don't know if that would actually help. I don't know.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure I can. I say.
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: The question is, can I sell merchandise like maybe replica
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: trophies to some suckers out there?
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: I don't know if they're I don't know if anybody
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: can act is actually gonna fall for that?
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: Me?
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Taylor would?
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: That's what That's what's called the callback. Guys.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: It's it time to play blind rankings.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: It is, yes, but before we get to blind rankings.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Sorry about the call back, Before we get to uh
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: to blind rankings. The Bears are not leaving Chicago, right,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: There's no way they play in Indiana. I know Indiana
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: is the center of the football universe right now. But
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: there's no way the Bears are going to play there.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Right Listen, listen until you drive through Gary and you
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: see that delightful ham in the skyline. Don't don't quit,
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: don't don't knock until you've you've driven through the smokestacks, right,
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: is all I'll say. I used to work in Gary,
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: Indiana is one of my first jobs, and we'd drive
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: in a in a Northwest Indiana plenty, and I always thought,
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: I don't know, I don't know if this is this
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: is the setting for it, but I do think there
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: was a lot of jock.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: It's just a lot of political jockey. You know.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: It's been to the frustration in chagrin of a lot
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: of fans in the city, and I'm sure in Indiana too.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: I have no blame to the state of Indiana for
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: trying to do so thing that would help their own state.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: There's nothing wrong with that.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: I think the frustrations lie with you spend all this
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: money on a suburban Chicago you plot, you know over
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: where Arlington Heights Racetrack used to be. You spend all
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: this money on it. You wanted, The plans seemed understandable.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: It's what the Patriots have done. It's what the cowboys
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: have done. And let me literally, if I'm Jerry Jones
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: or Bob Kraft, what did they do. They took all
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: the land around those surrounding areas, bought up all the
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: leases for it, sold them out. That's what the Cubs
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: have done. And Wrigleyville in Lakeview and stuff like that
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: they own, They print money, and.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: That's like, all right, it seems like a sound business idea.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: I don't love the idea of the Bears not being
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: in the city, but it makes sense when you consider
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: what's happening around the NFL and if it's going to
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: help the health of the organization. And then you're playing
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: with people's emotions by saying, well, now we're going to
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: leave the state. I never was convinced that was going
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: to be the case. I always thought it was a
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: political move. It seems like that's what it's s geering towards.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: And it seems like the Bears are going to end
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: up in Arlington Heights, where they were probably going to
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: go in the first place. At the they bought up
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: all that land of years ago.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Right, that's all it is. Yeah, Well, well, Stu collects
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: his list of ten names. Have a couple of quick
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: hotel questions for you. One did you make your bed
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: a little bit just for us?
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: I did? I did.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: How could you tell, though, because that means you knew
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: it was not perfect. It's not It's not like I
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: just checked in. I clearly slept in this thing last night.
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: But you're like, it seems like there might be a
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: little bit of touch up here.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: But I appreciate that. You know you don't want to
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: messy background.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Well, do you get deep into the bed?
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Because my wife refuses to sleep on the sheets in
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: a hotel, like, she will not get under the cover,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: She'll bring her own blanket.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: Like, I think part of it is just it you're
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: so exhausted, the point where we just ripped the bed,
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: you know, the betting off, and then get underneath.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Right, I do have a question do you guys?
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: So first off, whether you have significant others or not, curios,
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: do you sleep on one side of the bed?
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Do you do?
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: You?
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: Guys?
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: Just like like I, I sleep on the same side
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: of the bed every single night. My significant other sleeps
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: on one side of the bed every single night that
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: we're together. And then when I travel, I just sleep
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: in that singular lane.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: I can't I'm not a starfish guy. I can't do it.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: I don't feel right doing that.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I starfish, but I definitely
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: just pick the side of the bed that's closest to
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the bathroom. Doesn't have to be the same one.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Right, So, if you're facing the are you a left
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: side or a right side face?
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: If I'm looking at the bed from the foot of
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: the bed, I'm on the left side.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: The sleeping in the bed, I'm on the right.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Yes, same, very good question by you.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: Hard hitting stuff.
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: Is that portrait?
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Is that painting above the bed just a man in
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: a golf fair way staring at nothingness?
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: No, so it's it's actually a kind of fascinating. I
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: think it's more it's a photograph. It is a man.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: He's wearing blue jeans and blue shoes, but whatever coat
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: he's wearing is image of the photo itself, so it's
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: almost like a photo.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: Within a photo.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: It's kind of a fascinating, interesting.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: Piece of photography. I've never seen something like that.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: But if you remind the audience, he's in one of
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the golf capitals of the world, right it's a golf
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: here is Are you in Scottsdale right now?
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: We're just outside of scott So yeah, we're in Arizona
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: right now, enjoying enjoying the golf capitals.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: Getting around in with AJ or what's happening there?
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: Oh no, well, I this would be one of those
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: trips where you're like, all right, well, let me take
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: the day off. Of course, I got the five am
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: wake up call.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: Tomorrow to go back to the airport.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: So after your DJ set.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: Said down and whatever Scottsdale watering holder might be, and
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: boy does it feel like Scott's now all right?
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Now we appreciate this time. He loves tennis. We discussed
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: this last time. I wanted to start a tennis podcast
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: with him. God blessed tennis. We'll talk about that another time.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Taylor has blind rankings here, okay, and I believe his rankings.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Now you have no idea what ten names he has down.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: He's going to give you a name and you've got
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: to slot him into a spot.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: Okay, we're going.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: Through one through ten, and just to be clear, not
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: a top ten. So this is just a random list
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: of tennis players.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, but we need to rank him in it
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: at our top ten.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we all it's just three of us need
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: to agree, all three of us.
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: Three separate lists.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Okay, three separate.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: List Okay, okay, all right, all the time period, yes.
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: Take more confusing for the audience. First name up, John McEnroe.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Wow, Johnny mack Man. But I did not love his game.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna put them. I'm gonna I'm gonna put them
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: closer to like nine. I feel like nine.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: All right because you feel like, you know, big guns
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: like Fetterer, Nadal, but they might not be on his list.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: You realize it.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: Might not be and that's the thing that might not
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: be in the list.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: And then we're gonna put you know, some guy who
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: just showed up last week at number number four.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: So but this is the this is the fun of it, guys.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna put Johnny Mackett seven. Oh same, yeah, seven.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: A couple of sevens cutting it up.
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: Next, name up, John Isner.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: But what you see wait, one of the all time
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: great matches. It took a week to finish in Wimbledon
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: first round.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I'm into chats with.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: John, isn't there?
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah? One, and you're not in that one Wow.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Towering, the towering serve that that man had man.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Yes, God see it.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: And this gives me no wiggle room putting Mac and Rowan.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Of course, I'm trying to tell you. I trying to
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: help you out.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: Now I'm stuck at ten.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going to give you some much worse than
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: is there before.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: It's going to be so bad. It's gonna be so bad.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: I've already put myself in a hole.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna put Isner at nine. Is he the same?
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, we've got the same list, so.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: That go ahead?
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: More and more.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: I feel like this is a trick.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: We have no idea.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I always say ten for the wacky name he's going
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: to give us. Isner is wacky, but not too wacky.
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: You know, third name up? Team fed better out?
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: I mean for me, for me is number one? For me,
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: it's always been number one.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: I'll put him number two. Is he only?
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: I'm but think of the names that could come up
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: that would like Joking ahead.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Of him, Joker.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I don't think I have fed I still think I
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: have prime fed.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would take a joker. I would take joker
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: over over Federer. But I have no idea if Joker's
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: coming up here. So and also I forgot to make
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: the joke Roger Cheddarer.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know fed number one, it's just preference, all right,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: I'm going.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Number two, beds two for me. I can't believe I
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: just did that fed number two. It's so fucking stupid.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I hate this game.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Go ahead, Taylor, the next name out? Oh, come on.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: How am I supposed to figure this out?
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: What the whole? Yeah?
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: You know, I mean, obviously man.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Tennis player is a tennis player?
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: Is he? No?
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: I know, but it's tough likeable is like a real
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: power player, but also chokes at every cage almost every occasion.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: She has.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: That's what put what shows?
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: He has four titles, right, I can't put her in
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: the mace in row realm, but it's that's what that's
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: that's that's.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: What I screwed up already. So this puts me in
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: a hole. I mean, I'm gonna put her. I'm gonna
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: put her at not knowing what else is coming.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: I gotta give myself a little wigger room because I
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: didn't earlier her at seven.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: All right, got her at eight right behind John Mcaree.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: No is he we Ha's the only slot we had
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: for that's.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: The only way you can put her in.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: Go ahead, tell it is.
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: He what what number to drop?
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Hey?
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Elson?
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: Okay? Next name up? Nadal?
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: Wow?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Speaking of one trick ponies, I know we weren't Clay
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Cord French Open.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, do it. Yeah.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I want to say do it at the US Open
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: on the hard courts, but he did. I want to
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: say do it with Wimbledon, but he did. I want
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: to say do it in Australia but he did. But
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: also a one trip pony. I'm gonna put the doll
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: at number three.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: You have to because you're anticipating a Djokovic appearance, right, yes,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: of course right, it has ridiculous like.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: The two of them.
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: I mean, I again, if we if we can remind
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: people just to not hate my lack of blind rankings,
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: you know, prowess here.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: I I also do feel like the personal preference is
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: in there. I'll put him at four because.
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: I do feel like there might be one more personal
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: preference ahead of him.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: If Taylor goes.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: There and over there, people are gonna be out.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: You have Adam Amine has Na Dolls, the fourth greatest
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: tennis player of all time, Jesus.
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: Is he what number did you f?
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Three? Is he? And I have the same list except for.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: One and two?
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: Next name up, Ben Shelton.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Man, there's gonna be more surprises in here.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I will say Ben Shelton better all around player
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: than John, Isn't there?
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, no doubt.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: What I'm slotting him behind isn't because I have got
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: slatting him the head of John McEnroe. I mean, I'm
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: gon back and row and Ben Shelton played, it would
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: be lights out Ben Shelton.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: What if Prime Shelton played Prime Macim in a different game.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: No, Shelton would kill him.
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: I agree with you, Yeah, I agree.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Just I mean listen that the power nature, then the
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: the the.
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: He brings, like just the power that he can bring
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: to any type of match to try to give a wrinkle,
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: like just the service alone.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: I feel like would get back and ros problem.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I'm comfortably putting him at six, I'm putt him at ten.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: He feels like you should be right behind, isn't there?
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Nah, I'm waiting for a Taylor Fritz because talk about
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: personal preference.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I haven't wait. What's the what's the lowest slote?
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: I have available? Right, you have a eight available? I want,
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: I gotta, I gotta put in my head. Yeah, i'll
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: slaught him in. Do I have seven? Opener?
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: No?
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: Or is that where that's? But I put her there?
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: All right, I'll put him, I'll put him.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Wowavlenka, go ahead, man looking up.
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: I'm so pissed there's.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Got to be another woman on this list coming up because.
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: It started so poorly, and I've got the whole methodology
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: of the blind ranking.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: All right, you're tired. You're in Arizona? Is it you
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: called in games that called this week?
• 36:20
  Speaker 8: It is Billy Jean King. Wow?
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: Why did you do that? Billy Jean King? Oh my god?
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I mean how I have to put her at number one.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put her at four, behind the doll, behind Federer.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: I feel good about that.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, five for me since the right about right behind
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: it all.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: That's twelve majors for Billy Jean King and then a
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: few more doubles.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: She's great, yes, uh, obvious obvious cultural impact too, like.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, number four?
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: Yep, shame for me? All right?
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: Tell Andre Agassy, Wow, talk.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: About personal preference. I like him better than the doll.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: I don't think I could do that, though.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: You've been doing it the entire time.
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll just tag it his personal preference. I've got
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: him in and so I've got him at three. I've
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: got him in front of the doll.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Number five. Andre Agassy.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Is Agasy if Agasy cared, I.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Mean, I skipped school multiple times to watch that dude play,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: and I believe the French open.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll put Agazy at number five.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: We do have the same list.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: This is the last one right now, there's two more.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Six and one left. Okay, So what Adam I mean,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: has what slots left?
• 37:53
  Speaker 8: It looks like he has four.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Yep and two two right, Okay, I've got two, one,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: four and two left.
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: I I can't wait till Michael.
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: I can't wait till he says like Michael Chang shit,
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: and I gotta put him.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Know it's coming.
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: Next name up, Pete Sampress.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, wow, wow, wow, man, I know what he's
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: doing here. Yeah, it's not ten is gonna be a joker,
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: and I'm gonna have to put him a number ten.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's gonna be joker.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I like, I have to put Sampress here at number
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: six behind Agacy, who Sampress beat a million times?
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so what do you got at him?
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: I got him at what I got left?
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Two and four?
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: Four yeah, four four for me for for Sampress and
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: the Sampress Agacy rivalry was our was the one that
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: I think got me booked to tennis initially as like
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: a younger person, and then obviously you read up on
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: the history and everything and you learn about the characters.
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: But I think those those matches were the ones that
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: kind of got me booked for the spot.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to read Taylor here.
• 38:55
  Speaker 8: Because what are your two numbers with Pete Sampras?
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I have two and ten.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: If I put said ten, yeah, I look like a
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: crazy person behind Sapalenka.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: No behind John, isn't it okay?
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: And then that only anticipating Djokovic or even if I'm
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: like if then Andy Murray out there, I'm fine putting
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: them in number two. But that only leaves me with
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Djokovic at number two, and I know he's gonna drop
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: some crazy name. So I think I think I'm gonna
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: put samper set number two because I think his number
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: ten is a wacky name.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna Repete at number six and hold that hope
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: the tailor is gonna give us, you know, Djokovic here.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: As the voto one, but it's not going to be that.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: So Adam has two? Is he has ten?
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: Stu?
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: You have what one? Whatever?
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: The next name out of your mouth is is the
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: greatest tennis player that's ever lent okay.
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: The final name on the list Serena Williams.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yes, yes.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: Sorry, good feel good about this. I feel much better
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: about this.
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: You tenzy, you dirty, dirty doggy.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: I somehow have to live the rest of my life
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: with Serena Williams being two spots lower than Sablenka.
• 40:11
  Speaker 8: Good lord man.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: What a talent you are?
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: Incredible stuff? Taylor, God, what a what a what a
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: you pull that us?
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: Oh god man?
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: What where our final list? Real quick?
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: Go ahead?
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Given his better one?
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Sampress two, Nadal three, Billy Jean King four, Andre Agassy five,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Ben Shelton six, Oh my god, uh McEnroe seven, Sablenka eight, Isner.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Nine and Serena Williams that number.
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: Tip, So Adam, you had Federer one, Serena two, Agasy three,
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: Pete Sampress four, Billy Jean King five. Uh, we're six
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: having a hard time? Fund in six right now?
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: Sampress Where I put it? No, I've had Samprason four
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: Ma Sablenka. Yeah, I had like a over.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: I take back at how good Taylor is at this game.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: By the way, well.
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: It's it's on a computer. There's a problem.
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: I've I've Adam Amine having two fours.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: Okay, double of fours, cutting it up? How about that?
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: So tie for third?
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Nadalad Sampress ms just for Adam.
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: And then uh six, seven was Sabina, eight was Ben Shelton,
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: nine was John Johnny Mack.
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: Ten was Isner.
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: I don't feel as bad about it now except where
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: I put But like I God, I still feel like
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: I got hold winked a little bit and.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: Rightfully so we all did.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Uh listen, I would give you my list, but I
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: was so excited for Serena Williams I threw it across
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: the room.
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: Is that? What is that?
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: Why we saw the camera tumbling it over for Yes.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: I was trying to bond it.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Checking him out this weekend World Baseball Classic, He's got
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: nineteen games this week.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: Hopefully he takes a week.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Off of DJing Adam I mean, we appreciate it. Man,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: we'd like to do something next time I'm in Chicago,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: I'd like to see you. Maybe we'll do something in studio,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: please please, that'd be awesome. And then I got a dinner,
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: a spot ready for all.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: Of us, so nice.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, something Now Taylor's coming