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  Speaker 2: This is the best of Stu Gotson Company Live on
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot to get to today. There's a
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  Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic Championship game tonight, March is here, and
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  Speaker 1: there's been a trade in the NFL. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: things to get to.
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  Speaker 3: Is he March has been here for seventeen days?
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it doesn't Mark really doesn't start until this Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Saint Patrick's Day.
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  Speaker 1: To you the same to you? A thing to be uh.
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  Speaker 1: I could walk in here on Hanukkah and you would
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  Speaker 1: not say, hey, happy honoga.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah you know, I'm just a little annoyed that I
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  Speaker 5: forgot about it.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm wearing a bunch of gray yes and no green.
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  Speaker 1: So I got it. We'll get to waddle in just
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  Speaker 1: a second here. Mark shlayriffs stink is going to join
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  Speaker 1: us at about fifteen minutes. What's his name, Mark Schlayrith Ok,
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  Speaker 1: not bad, right, It's a tough one for me. Not good,
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  Speaker 1: not bad stink. That's why I call him stink. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: not Slareth. Speedy Claxton is going to join us. He
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  Speaker 1: is the head coach at Hofstra University. They take on Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: I like Houge. I'm telling you right now, I like
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  Speaker 1: this team out of the I believe they're in the
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  Speaker 1: South bracket, maybe the Midwest, but I like this team
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  Speaker 1: to advance the second weekend of the NC DOUBLEA Tournament.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not certain they're going to a final four. They
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  Speaker 1: are in the Midwest, and I'm not certain they're going
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  Speaker 1: to the final four, but I do like them to.
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  Speaker 3: Advance to at least the sweet sixteen. Who's their first
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  Speaker 3: round opponent?
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  Speaker 1: I have no Alabama? Alabama?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, how about that. I have no idea though Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: I only know that because there's a kid suspended on
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  Speaker 1: the Alabama team. And that's why I like Speedy Claxton
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  Speaker 1: to advance to the second weekend of the NC DOUBLEA Tournament.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Taylor Andzy. Once you get past that first round,
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  Speaker 6: it's kind of all bets are off. You become the
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  Speaker 6: new four seed.
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  Speaker 1: Theoretically, Yes, yeah, true, absolutely, yes, it resets. That's what
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  Speaker 1: March is all about Ryan Howard is going to join
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  Speaker 1: us in the four o'clock hour as well. Former nlmv
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  Speaker 1: P Able talks of World Baseball Classic with him. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Taylor says that the World Baseball Classic wasn't prepared for
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  Speaker 1: Italy to be in a Miami semi final. Before I
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  Speaker 1: get to Wattle, Taylor, please explain yourself.
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  Speaker 6: So I get to the game yesterday, I go into
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  Speaker 6: the team store because now I'm fired up. I'm like,
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  Speaker 6: let's go, let's get a Vinnie Pasquatino Jersey.
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  Speaker 5: All right, let back up a little bit, Taylor. Vinpillis
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  Speaker 5: famously Italian. Yes, we didn't even know this until two
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  Speaker 5: weeks ago. Right, and down here in South Florida, we
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  Speaker 5: had You went to a previous game, right, it wasn't
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  Speaker 5: This wasn't your first World Baseball Classic game.
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  Speaker 6: No, this is my third or fourth game, and this
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  Speaker 6: was not a date night.
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  Speaker 3: Christ's just Taylor going.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yep, great, wow solo huh with the boys? What boys?
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  Speaker 6: I mean my room ad Ian, my friend Alex there,
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  Speaker 6: you know. Yes, Okay, So I get to the game
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  Speaker 6: and I get to the team store, and is he
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  Speaker 6: in the previous games I've been to? They never had
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  Speaker 6: any Italian gear. So when I'm going to the game
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  Speaker 6: at lone Depot Park, I'm like, okay, now they have
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  Speaker 6: to have Italy gear in this team store. You get
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  Speaker 6: to the team's store, every Venezuela players jersey was available
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  Speaker 6: for purchase. I could have bought a jersey of Venezuela's
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  Speaker 6: backup catcher from twelve years ago. Wow, not a single
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  Speaker 6: not a single team.
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  Speaker 3: Italy jersey, No passquatch, merch, nothing jerseys.
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  Speaker 5: They had jerseys, always overpriced and never good enough.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was sixty five dollars for a get out of.
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  Speaker 5: And then was there a music situation where they're not
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  Speaker 5: giving you the proper Italian music options?
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  Speaker 6: So they played one Italian song the entire game.
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  Speaker 1: Was it? Wow?
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  Speaker 6: I believe it was something Andrea Boceelli so cliche one yesh.
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  Speaker 6: They played that one song in the eighth inning isy.
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  Speaker 6: Every other song was a Hispanic song, and I have
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  Speaker 6: no problem with Hispanic music. The crowd was eighty five
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  Speaker 6: percent ninety five percent probably Venezuela, right, but give us,
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  Speaker 6: give us a break. They took our crowd completely out
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  Speaker 6: of that. When you say our crowd, what did you?
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  Speaker 3: You said? It was ninety five percent Venezuela.
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  Speaker 5: If it was a home game, you still might get
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  Speaker 5: five percent Italians.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay in Venezuela. So how was this different than
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  Speaker 1: it seems a home game. It seems like it was
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  Speaker 1: their crowd.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, but the Italians needed something to get juiced
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  Speaker 6: up about. We already were juiced up that they moved
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  Speaker 6: Aaron Nola up from the championship game to the semifinal game,
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  Speaker 6: and then when Lorenz came in, it was kind of
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  Speaker 6: like we're pushing all our chips in just to get
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  Speaker 6: to the final, because Izy, those were the only two
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  Speaker 6: starters the Italian team really had, and even if they
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  Speaker 6: got to the USA game, we were probably Mario or
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  Speaker 6: Luigi at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Aaron Nola, of course from Baton Rouge. It's in
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  Speaker 1: his last name. It's not Aaron Italy, it's Aaron New Orleans.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps all the Italy players were on USA jerseys. Did
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  Speaker 1: you really examine the merchandise store or no.
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  Speaker 6: And they had the Judge jerseys, they had the cal
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  Speaker 6: Rawly jerseys. I didn't see any Jacob Marcy jerseys.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm pretty sure when they were thinking about this,
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  Speaker 5: they were like all right, even if Italy makes it
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  Speaker 5: to the semi final here, what percentage of South Floridians
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  Speaker 5: are really going to be cheering for Italy?
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  Speaker 6: So the only thing I was able to buy there
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  Speaker 6: for the audio audience, I'm wearing an Italian baseball hat.
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  Speaker 6: And this is further proof that I know that they
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  Speaker 6: were not prepared because I bought this hat. At the game,
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  Speaker 6: every team there that was represented had flags on their
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  Speaker 6: hat of their country. Italy is the only one that didn't,
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  Speaker 6: so I don't even know where they got the eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, is their hat red white and blue, red white
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  Speaker 1: and green? It looks blue.
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  Speaker 6: It does look blue.
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  Speaker 5: It should be red white and blue though, right, I
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  Speaker 5: mean yeah, I mean they're on the ocean, so maybe
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  Speaker 5: blue should be something that comes into play. But that
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  Speaker 5: just has an eye on it. Now I want it.
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  Speaker 2: Those look like Illinois hats that they colored in quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Eye for Israel. Goody eras that's why he wants it.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and it doesn't have the Italian flag on there,
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  Speaker 5: so it would just be for me.
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  Speaker 6: Correct?
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  Speaker 1: Are you fired up for tonight?
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  Speaker 4: Is he?
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  Speaker 1: Are you fired up for this game?
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  Speaker 3: Which game? What's tonight?
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  Speaker 1: I mean the world?
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  Speaker 5: The Hornets played the Heat again. Big time Eastern Conference matchup.
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  Speaker 5: They're very close to each other in the standings. Huge
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  Speaker 5: game tonight, so you're not. I mean, listen, if Taylor
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  Speaker 5: texts me, let's say ten pm, and says you have
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  Speaker 5: to turn on the World Baseball Classic right now, some
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  Speaker 5: great stuff going on.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that's a maybe?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So is he?
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  Speaker 6: The pitching matchup tonight is Nolan McLain, a Mets rookie
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  Speaker 6: versus Eduardo Rodriguez, who had a mid five e R
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  Speaker 6: last year. If that doesn't get you excited, check your pulse.
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  Speaker 3: Have allowed about to ask who who's starting for whom?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and put that on the poll. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: if that doesn't get you excited, check your pulse.
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  Speaker 5: Because Eduardo Rodriguez does not sound Italian either.
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  Speaker 6: And it's basically a road game for the USA tonight.
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  Speaker 6: This is like the USA. Sorry, the USA has played
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  Speaker 6: three games this tournament, including tonight, where they're basically the
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  Speaker 6: road team. They played Mexico in Houston and then they
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  Speaker 6: played the Dominican Republic in Miami. So USA should be
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  Speaker 6: pretty used to this. This atmosphere that they're walking into tonight.
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  Speaker 5: That I'd be I'd want to watch, Like, I know
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  Speaker 5: it's happened a couple of times, but I want to
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  Speaker 5: see that type of reaction for a final if you
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  Speaker 5: feel like you're a home in a home in a
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  Speaker 5: road game on home turf.
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  Speaker 6: Stu, Yeah, the best crowd I've ever been in really
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  Speaker 6: last night last night.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 6: So it leads up to a thing or two to one.
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  Speaker 6: Juhennio Suarez hit a home run at one point and
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  Speaker 6: they get it. Venezuela stringing together a two out rally
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  Speaker 6: and I'm the only Italian sitting in this section and
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  Speaker 6: they are just stringing hit after hit after hit. Lone
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  Speaker 6: Depot Park. It was shaking. It was so loud that
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  Speaker 6: I was like, it does stink that my team is
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  Speaker 6: on the receiving end of this. But it was cool
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  Speaker 6: to just be in the building and see how fired
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  Speaker 6: up everybody was.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor put it on the pall after tonight. Will Loan
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  Speaker 1: Depot ever shake again?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just putting this together.
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  Speaker 5: The US Venezuela and the sort of political situation going
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  Speaker 5: on over here.
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  Speaker 3: This could get ugly in this dance.
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  Speaker 1: It could be a bad situation.
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  Speaker 6: You're right, so, Stu, it's gonna shake again. It's just
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  Speaker 6: gonna be three years from now, in the next World
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  Speaker 6: Baseball Classic. In the next three years, Okay, rephrase it,
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  Speaker 6: or if the Savannah Bananas come to town.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Drew Brees played with him last night.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see this shuck? Yeah, sod you do a dance?
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  Speaker 1: No idea gimmick.
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  Speaker 6: Get those gimmick guys out of here, gimmick.
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  Speaker 5: Did you see the one dude who caught the baseball
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  Speaker 5: mid backflip and then landed like a superhero. That is crazy,
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  Speaker 5: one of the most impressive athletic feats I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's a gimmick.
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  Speaker 3: I'm with Taylor, give me that gimmick all day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: If you're over the age of eight and you're talking
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  Speaker 6: to me about the Savannah Bananas and you're not bringing
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  Speaker 6: your kids.
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  Speaker 1: Get a life, Get out of here, get a life.
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  Speaker 6: Get your gimmicks out of here. Baseball was meant to
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  Speaker 6: be played the way baseball is being played.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Mike, Yeah, but you're taking your kids. You're taking
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  Speaker 1: your kids.
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  Speaker 3: No, not no choice. He's dragging his kids.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, get a life.
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  Speaker 3: Nah, I'm all about it, Mike. You have fun.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor also put this on the poll. Are the Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: going to turn Justin Fields into a Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 1: running back or wide receiver? I feel like they might.
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  Speaker 1: Is he What were your thoughts here before we get
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  Speaker 1: to stake on Jalen Waddle. It's weird. It's a rare
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  Speaker 1: trade where I feel like it's good for both sides.
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  Speaker 1: The Dolphins get a first round pick, they get a
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  Speaker 1: third round pick, and they're clearly clearly starting over where
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos are inside that championship window with a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: on a rookie contract, and they get themselves a very
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  Speaker 1: good wide receiver. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It is funny to me the people that are only
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  Speaker 5: now recognizing that the Dolphins are tanking next year. I
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  Speaker 5: saw something on a show earlier which just like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: clearly the Dolphins are tank.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no kidding, And we've known that.
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  Speaker 5: It's just a matter of whether a chan's gonna be
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  Speaker 5: gone too, I believe, even though he's not that expensive. Look,
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  Speaker 5: it's interesting with Jalen Waddle because when he left Alabama
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  Speaker 5: and they were in that he was in that group
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  Speaker 5: with Devonte Smith and you know Ruggs was another receiver
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  Speaker 5: he was out there with. They called him reportedly the
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  Speaker 5: athletic one, which is crazy to think about when you're
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  Speaker 5: comparing yourself to all these other athletic receivers. And so
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, this is gonna be lights out. This
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  Speaker 5: guy's going to get open whenever he wants. He doesn't
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  Speaker 5: strike me as the guy. You know, I play a
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  Speaker 5: lot of football and there's guys that come in the
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  Speaker 5: huddle and just say, trust me, I'll be open, just
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  Speaker 5: throw me the ball, or I'll make the catch, just
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  Speaker 5: throw me the ball.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't feel like that guy to me. He feels very.
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  Speaker 5: Much like a system receiver where hey, like, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: run my route amazingly and if the defense happens to
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  Speaker 5: you know, have a hole right where I'm going throw
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  Speaker 5: me that ball.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't really have a history.
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  Speaker 5: Of remembering him, you know, winning a bunch of fifty
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  Speaker 5: to fifty balls, really just shaking his guy. Whether it
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  Speaker 5: be on the line, whether it be on a move
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  Speaker 5: or anything like that. He just seems like once he
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  Speaker 5: is in open space, he's a good athlete. But it's
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  Speaker 5: he a number one wide receiver that says I can
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  Speaker 5: get that ball. Target him fifteen times a day a game,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm gonna feel great about the end result.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Well, the Dolphins got a number one pick for
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  Speaker 1: a number two wide receiver.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I saw exactly and I saw you know,
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  Speaker 5: they're even projected to possibly draft a wide receiver out eleven.
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  Speaker 3: And if this is the way you're going, Yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: get a guy who's not clearly a number one.
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  Speaker 5: And you say, hey, I'll take my chances to see
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  Speaker 5: if this next guy I draft can be a number
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  Speaker 5: one at a lower cost.
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  Speaker 1: The Dolphins have seven of the first ninety four picks
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  Speaker 1: in this year's draft. Now do you trust them to
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  Speaker 1: do the right things with those picks?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I do know these people have never drafted
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  Speaker 5: for Miami before, so we'll see. This will be the
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  Speaker 5: first chance that we get. But that having said that
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  Speaker 5: about Jalen with Miami in terms of not being a
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  Speaker 5: single like game breaking type of wide receiver, I do
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  Speaker 5: think he's very good for bow Knicks and the Broncos
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  Speaker 5: because bo Nicks is a system quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Right like.
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  Speaker 5: He He's made some throws where I'm just like, man,
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  Speaker 5: that's pretty impressive. But you don't leave him out here
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  Speaker 5: to just sort of be the you know, the gun
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  Speaker 5: slinging quarterback that you trust.
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  Speaker 3: With every throw.
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  Speaker 5: But if he sees a throw and it's there and
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  Speaker 5: it's available, he can make that. So I think he
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  Speaker 5: and Wadall are going to have a good relationship and
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  Speaker 5: they're both going to, you know, benefit off of each other.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't think it's going to be Waddle's going
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  Speaker 5: to be my clear number one, fifteen to twenty targets
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  Speaker 5: and we hope he catches like double figures.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to be that.
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  Speaker 1: Can you name a single wide receiver in the Dolphins
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver room? Because Malik Willis cannot be happy with
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphins getting rid of the one guy that he
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  Speaker 1: may have come here.
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  Speaker 5: For only because we just talked about him to too
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  Speaker 5: at Well joining Warmer Bronco.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's a very memorable name. But outside of that, no,
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  Speaker 3: who else is in there? Malik Washington, Jalen Tolbert never
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  Speaker 3: heard of him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading here, by the way, I don't know this
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  Speaker 1: off the top of my head. Terrence Marshall Junior, never
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  Speaker 1: heard of him. THEO Weze Junior. A couple of juniors
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  Speaker 1: cutting it up about that.
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  Speaker 3: Wheeze is not a name I want from my athletic
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver. He's out there wheezing.
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  Speaker 1: No Taj Washington, A couple of Washington's cutting it up?
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  Speaker 1: How about that? And of course a j Henning of course.
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  Speaker 6: Poor Malik Willis. Oh my Malik Willison and Malik Washington.
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  Speaker 6: A couple of moaks cutting it up.
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  Speaker 5: H Hey, lot of cutting it up, but not a
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  Speaker 5: lot of yards getting cut.
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  Speaker 1: He was the Rookie of the Year, a three time
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  Speaker 1: All Star, an MVP, a World Series champion.
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  Speaker 3: He's done it all. Ryan Howard is with us.
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  Speaker 1: You can check him out the six to one to
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  Speaker 1: one podcast, which he co hosts with Jimmy Rollins, where
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  Speaker 1: they talk to some of the biggest names and personalities
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  Speaker 1: in sports, entertainment and culture. Ryan, are you enjoying the
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  Speaker 1: podcast game?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 7: I am. I'm loving it. I get to do it
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  Speaker 7: with my boy young James Jimmy Rollins.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: We just continue to pick up where we left off
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  Speaker 7: just clowning. You know. We get to include other people
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  Speaker 7: along with that, so we're just we're having a lot
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  Speaker 7: of fun doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Is is Jimmy Rollins the most confident person you know
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  Speaker 1: in your life.
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  Speaker 7: That is going to be a very safe Yes, he
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  Speaker 7: doesn't lack for confidence at all. Not a shy guy.
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  Speaker 7: Not a shy guy at all, you know. But that's
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  Speaker 7: just always been Jimmy, you know. I mean, obviously you
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  Speaker 7: go back to when we were playing. He made the
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  Speaker 7: prediction back in two thousand and seven of us being
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  Speaker 7: the team to beat, and we followed it up. So
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  Speaker 7: it's fun to be able to continue this journey with him.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: This has been driving me crazy ever since Perdomo struck
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: out against the United States the other day, where people
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: are discussing that you have to fight that ball off,
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: you have to with two strikes swing at anything near
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: the play. My thought process on that is the only
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: reason that's really a thing is because you're saying to yourself, well,
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: this umpire might be a dummy. He might not be
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: able to see that this is a ball, right, and
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: so I have to swing at that. But if you
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: have an eye, if you can discern what's the ball
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: and the strike and you let that go, oh you
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: have done your job. So you tell me, should he like,
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: let's say it was nineteen eighty and there's no idea
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: of ABS or anything like that, should he have swung
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: at that? Because I contend no, you just got to
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: trust that the umpire is gonna help good and do
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: the right thing.
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: Well, the first thing is is that you know the
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: umpires are human, and we talk about this a lot
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: where the action is happening so fast and it's it's
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: you know, less than a blink of an eye to
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: where these guys have to try to make you know,
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: in some instances kind of an educated guess, right, because
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: you know the ones that are right there, right down
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: the middle and you know belt high or whatnot, those
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: are those are gonna be pure strikes, balls like that
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: where it could be borderline where it's like where's the
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: bottom of the zone. You know this year for the
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: season coming up, you know, fortunately we'll have ABS and
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: that would be something to where Perdomo would be able
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: to go back and he would he would tap on that.
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: I will I will say there were calls you know,
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: both ways, you know, against both teams. That one obviously
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: is you know, having been a guy that's struck out
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: to end the game and into a big postseason game.
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: It's it's tough because you're you're sitting there and you
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: have a knowledge of what your strike zone is and
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: where the game is today. These guys with all the
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: analytics and all the information that they're given, you know,
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: one of the things they're told to do is not chase.
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: So they have a very good knowledge of the zone.
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: So for him to not go after that pitch, that's
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: whatever his zone was. And I mean, it's it's a
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: tough one. It's it's a very tough one. But you
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: know the umpires are going to make mistakes and you
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: know that's that's one now where you know, moving forward,
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: maybe the next WBC has the ABS and we don't
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: even have that problem.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: But he sleeps fine at night, right, he knows he
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: did the right thing. Like I don't know if that's
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: happened to you in a decent spot or a big
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: spot or whatever, but you you gotta be comfortable with
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: your decision there, right, because you know who messed up
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: and it wasn't you who Perdomo.
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah, No, he don't sleep with No, he's not sleeping
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: They lost the game.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he's not sleeping good at all. He's not sleeping
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: good at all. I mean, you know, even if he
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: stayed within his zone, he stayed within what he was
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: trying to do in his approach, and to have something
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: like that happen, I mean, yeah, you're you're you're not
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: sleeping one because you lost the game, and two because
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: you know, you feel like you might have been cheated
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: or robbed of an opportunity to continue to try to
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: keep the ball game going.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: Ryan, you had a thirteen year career in Philadelphia the
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: entire time. What is it like going through a slump
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: in Philadelphia with those fans sleepless nights?
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: I mean, wow, Wow, I'll tell you what, man, it's
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: it's Philadelphia is one of those places where the fans,
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: the passion of the fans, they want you to do well.
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: They want you to do well. They want you to
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: do so well that it hurts, and then when it
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: hurts you lash out sometime, you know, but they want
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: a blue collar effort. And I think like as long
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: as you can go out and try to give a
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: blue collar effort, they understand it. I mean, in years past,
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: you know, you got the whole thing. With throwing batteries
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: at snowballs at Santa Claus and you know, you get
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: booed here and there what not. And then the turnaround,
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: you know when when Trey Turner kind of came in
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: and he got off to a slow start, and you know,
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: the crowd decided to cheer him, you know, and then
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: he was able to turn it around. So, I mean,
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: it's it has its moments at times, but you got
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: to understand, Hey, that's what happens when you sign a
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: permission slip and you're playing in Philadelphia, you play in
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: that Northeast. You got to grow some thick skin. And
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: I say, if you can play in the Northeast starting
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: your season, your career out, then you can go play anywhere.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Speaking of guys playing in the Northeast, what do you
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: say to Yankee fans who are complaining that Aaron Judge
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: is not nearly as emotional or fired up to play
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: for the Yankees as he is for Team US at
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Yankee fans want to see it all season, Ryan, You.
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: Know what, maybe we will. Yeah, maybe this is maybe
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: this is what gets them going, you know, for for
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: for those games. You know, he's just it's one hundred
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: and sixty two games, and with this WBC, I think
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: it's what it's maybe more like twelve, you know, like seven, eight,
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: ten games something like that. So it's uh, hopefully for
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: the Yankee fans and for Aaron Judge, you know, the
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: emotion that he's showing out here, he'll he'll carry it over,
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: you know, because this is a postseason, preseason, yes, the preseason. Yes,
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: you know what I mean. All these games me they
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: mean something. There, there's there's there's so much more to it,
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: and all these countries and all these players are putting
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: all this emotion into it, which I think is an
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: amazing for the game. We saw it in the World
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: Series last year, you know where you know, you had
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: the Dodgers and you had the Blue Jays going at
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: it last year and you could see the emotion from
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: both teams, and it's just just carrying over into this
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: World Baseball Classic, which hopefully you know, it'll carry over
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: into the season. But you got one hundred and sixty
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: two games, man, one hundred sixty You can't you can't
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: be like that every single day. You got yourself, Yeah, yeah,
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: you gotta pace yourself, pace yourself.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Did you find it ridiculous, like we did that. The
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Italian team, all of them were from America.
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: But they represented though they represented they did Yeah, they
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: put they put Italy on their back, you know, and
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: they did a hell of a job. Man, they did
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: a hell of job. I mean, there's there's usually that
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: one Cinderella and the Italian team was that team. And
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: they played, they played hard, they played they played the
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: game the right way. That's that's the great part about
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: it is you're seeing different ways of how teams are
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: going about playing. And you know, Italy was able to
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: win their pool playing their way right. You know. Venezuela
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: obviously is one of those teams where you've got to, uh,
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: you have to put them away because that team, if
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: you let them hang around, they're gonna find a way
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: to to to hurt you. And they and they did
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: that against Japan and they did that against Italy.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: The other night, Ryan, you and Chase Sutley were in
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: an episode of It's Always Sonny. I want to say
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: it was like their sixth season and they've been on forever. Now,
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: what was that appearance like for you? And like where
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: you are you?
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Like?
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Because that show's got.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: Some some big time fans, are you like forever and
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: like embraced by the fans of that show.
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: You know what's funny is I'll have fans that will
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: come up and say they knew me more so from
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: that than which I'm like, you know what, I'll take it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: I'll take it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: No, you're a former MVP, get out of here. You're
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: an all time great.
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: You know what it's I don't. I don't count on
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: everybody to know who I am and that whole nine.
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: But if you come to me and say, oh my god, like, wait,
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: were you were you on? Are you on an episode
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: of It's Always Sunny or an episode of the Office,
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: or and it's like, well, yeah, it's like, oh my gosh, yeah,
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: and have no clue that I ever played baseball. So
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: it's uh. But it was a lot of fun. It
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: was fun being able to do it with Chase because normally,
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: like with Chase, everybody sees him, he's usually really quiet.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: So getting for both of us kind of getting outside
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: of our box and our comfort zone, it was a
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: lot of fun to be able to do that.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Yesterday on the show, it was a mount rushmore Monday,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and I want to explain the topic that we went
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: with yesterday and get your thoughts on this. Okay, Mount
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Rushmore Monday, we each picked a Mount Rushmore of pictures
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: we would want to start.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: In a game for our life. We drafted them. Yeah,
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: it was a draft, a.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Draft, So I just want Ryan Howard's Mount Rushmore of
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: guys he would want starting in a game for his life,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: meaning you know, a game seven I must wouldn't get
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: m m m.
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: All right, I'm gonna go.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: So I'll give you a second to think about it,
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: because when you name somebody, if we had them on
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: our Mount Rushmore yesterday, we are going to celebrate like crazy.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, right.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: Yes, I'm going.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Bob Gibson he went, he went undrafted.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: That is so unfortunate.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: And immediately after the draft we all regretted it.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: Yes, I'm gonna go Bob Gibson. Yep, I'm gonna go
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: Nolan Ryan.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, we drafted sixteen pictures.
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: Nolan drafted.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: No, we drafted to almost sixteen pictures. No, Nolan, Ryan,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and so far.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: I like your like your Mount Rushmore better than Yeah.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Ryan, You're winning by the way you are.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: Let me see, I'm gonna I'm gonna bring it up
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: a little bit. I'm gonna go with my man, the
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: late great Roy Halliday. We got we got one, yes,
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: and the last, the last, but definitely not least. I'm
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: gonna bring back Satchel page Wow.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Off the board, have him go to Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I hear.
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: I want let Satchel do some work out there.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: You know what, if my life was at stake for
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: whatever reason, I'm going straight toward Ryan Howard's Mount Rushmore.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Those guys are going to kick some ass.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: To say Bob Gibson, he cares yan.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: On the top of the head.
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: If it's it's it's for my life. I know. Those
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: guys are not afraid they're hitting somebody. Yes, so some
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: going down.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: They don't care about your life. They were just so
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: competitive that they want to win every time they take
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: them out, right, that's why you're facing them, right, yes, right, yeah,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: we're bad at this.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's the page. It's not even on the radar
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: over here.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Should have been Kurt Chilling. Not on the list for you,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: all right? Come on, man, oh man, now that's it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, it's his list.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: He gave us four. He's right, who is the guy
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: who is the person that you haven't had on the
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: podcast that you would most like to have on your podcast.
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: The person that I haven't had on the podcast yet. Yeah,
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: let's see, I would actually love I would love to
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: get man, there's so I mean, there's so many people
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: I'd love to get like a Michael Strahan on there,
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: you know, just just to be able to talk to him.
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: Met him before years ago and would love to get
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: him on there. Just he's just one of those guys
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: that you know, from the transition from football to all
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: the things that he's doing, you know, the from The
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: Morning America to his business endeavors. He's just such a great,
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: well rounded individual. So that's another person I would love
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: to be able to try to get up on the show.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, there's just so many things to talk about
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: with him because he's done so many things you could
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: probably do.
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: Like he's like a Swiss army knife. He's a Swiss
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: army knife of greatness.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, a Swiss army knife of greatness. That is
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: well said. Are the Dodgers bad for baseball?
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: Oh? You know what. Look, we come from the era
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: of if you don't like it, fix it. It's one
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: of those things like you could say, are the Dodgers
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: bad for baseball? It used to be are the Yankees
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: bad for baseball? Right? Because every single year you looked
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: at the Yankees roster and on paper, the Yankees were
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: supposed to run away and win it. So I don't
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: think the Dodgers are bad for baseball. I think everybody's
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: You just have to figure it out. You got to
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: figure out what works for you. I mean, you can't
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: be mad at them because of the success that they're
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: having and how they're going about doing it. You've got
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: to figure out how to do that for yourself.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: The only thing I have a question for you, because
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: I know he's been on the pod and I've always
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: been intrigued by him as a personality.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: How crazy is Hunter Pen's actually, you know what, He's.
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: Got the eyes crazy, It's just the energy level is
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: always up there. He's such a great guy, positive guy.
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: The energy level. I'm like, if I had like just
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: a fourth of what he'd have, I mean I'd be good.
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: He's just one of those very good, high energy guys.
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: So yeah, Hunter is great man, He's awesome.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: There's a phrase we just learned, is it beamed up
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: or beamed out? I think it's beamed up and he's
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: just probably naturally beamed up.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, but those eyes are crazy. He's got some
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: crazy in those eyes, doesn't he. I mean, have you
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: filled out an NCAA bracket, Ryan Howard?
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: I have not.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I have not.
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: I have not yet.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: But you're planning. You're planning on it, right.
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: Probably going to try to throw one out there.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, I'm going to.
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: Try to throw one out there. It's tough, it's I mean,
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: there's there's a lot of good teams. There was a
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: lot of parody this year. You know, Arizona was looking
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: really really good early on, and then you had Houston
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: right there, Michigan, all those all the you know, those
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: squads there. It's going to be interesting because for whatever reason,
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: I always feel like Michigan's I haven't. I've been so
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: busy ripping and running around. I didn't even get to
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: see the election show yet. But State made it.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Michigan, Yeah, yeah, they made it.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: It's more Michigan State to me. Man is always tom
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: Is like they always find a way to like make
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: it to the elite eight.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Every year they start.
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: Out hot, like they're in the top four. They disappear
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: in the middle of the year, and then all of
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: a sudden permanent time, right they find themselves in like
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: the Sweet sixteen Elite eight six.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: One one podcast. Wherever you get your podcast, Ryan, we
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: appreciate the time. Go to United States. I have guys
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: here who are Yankee fans who aren't really rooting for
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the US because they don't want to root for Roman Anthony.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: It's absurd, I mean, it really is. Tell him it's
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: a third Brian, Tell tell Taylor right there, he's a jacket.
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: On the same team. Thank you, all the same team
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: right now?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you?
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: The same team.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're not rooting for any Mets though, right,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, thank you, thank you, Ryan. We appreciate the time.
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: Thank you guys.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, well all right, thank you, all right.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: live weekday, said three pm Eastern, twelve pm Pacific.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: It's March and the head coach of HOFTRA is going
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: to join us right now, Speedy Claxton. I'm so excited
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: for this.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: I love this team coming out of the Midwest.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: Just in case Speedy is confused, No, we're not going
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: to offer all one hundred names on that list, just
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: ten the time Speedy Colaxton is with us.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Speedy, thank you for joining us.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: How are you good? Thank you for having me?
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Speedy. I am wondering because I followed you during your
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: playing career. Uh when is it? Because it's such a
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: cool thing. You you were born in Long Island, you
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: went to school at Hofstra, and now you're coaching Hofstra
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: and you coached him into the NCAA tournament. Such a
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: cool story. When did you decide that head coaching was
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: going to be a thing for you?
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: It came later on in my playing days, my last
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: year when I was a Golden State done Nelson. At
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: the time, he's the only player in my head because
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: up until that point I had no interest of coaching.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: But one day he pulled me to the stars and
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: he's like, Speedy, have you ever thought about culture? And
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: I got said it up until that point and he's
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: like I was like, no, not really, and he's like,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: you should think about it. I think it would make
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: a hell of a coach. And you know here I here,
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: you have a Hall of Fame coach. Tell me I
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: shoul get into Colder. So that's what I told you
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: to give it some thoughts.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Speedy Israel Gutierra's here.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: You just just researching this interview just brings me back
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: so many memories because you started in the league when
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: I started covering the league back in two thousand and
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm just looking at the game logs from
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: your guys's finals.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: He was with the Spurs and three you guys.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: Left or held the nets under ninety points in every single.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Game of that finals. Man, what a different time that was.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: How much from Greg Popovich did you learn and you know,
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: just about coaching. I know you said it was later
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: in your career that you you sort of got the
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: itch for it, But how much did Greg Popovich help
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: you out there?
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: The biggest The biggest thing I've learned from post Top
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: was how to relate to people and how to treat everybody,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: all your players to staying on if they start player
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: all the less man on your team, like include everybody,
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: because that's how you really, you know, gain the respect
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: of everyone on the team.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Who is the who's the coach you've leaned on the most?
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: You played for Jay Wright? Is that the guy you've
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: leaned on the most in terms of your coaching career.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Honestly, I will probably Fortunately, I was fortunate to play
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: for some Hall of Fame coaches and coach Right and
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: Pop and Larry Brown. But the person I lean most
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: on will be coach Shaul Maanhouse, who gave me my
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: first thought into this coaching thing. He's really he's the
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: one who really taught me the game to a coaching lens.
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: Hey Sweedy Taylor. I'm also from from New York. What
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: do you think Hofstra has to do this tournament to
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: take the New York's team label away from Saint John's.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Yes, uh, I don't know. Maybe win a couple of
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: games here in the tonament and have them get a uh,
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: you know, have them have an early exit.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Now that's a great answer. Just go further than Saint
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: John's and you will take the city over. Ye yes, yes, then.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: They have no choice but to move for us.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, uh, tell us about your team speedy and what
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: makes your team so dangerous in this tournament here?
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: What a funny, exciting and we play a fun random basketball.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: I have two really really good guards. And college basketball,
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: you give yourself a high chance of winning when you
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: have when you get good God plays and I have
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: two of the best, you know, starting with President Edmey's
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: young calendar freshman who exceeded expectations. He's he's one of
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: our hardest workers, and he really truly loves the game
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: and that's why he's having the success that he's having.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: And the pu's Davis, who will playing the year in
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: our conference, who didn't make any all conference teams last season,
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: and then you know, he came back and he worked
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: his butt off and you know he was playing the
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: year and he's anotherttle hard work. Like both those guys,
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: they come in and they post the game the right way, speedy.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: I'm curious because you mentioned your freshman guard there, and
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: I've seen I don't know if it's just college basketball
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: getting more of my attention again or just sports fans attentions,
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: but I feel like there are a lot of like
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: really good players in places you wouldn't even think of,
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: and I'm watching a lot of highlights and I'm like,
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: that's an NBA talented player right there. I'm just curious
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: from your perspective, coaching at a school like Hofstra, but
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: seeing so many others, have you seen just more basketball talent,
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: just more spread out and is that just a factor
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: of hey, basketball is super popular, or do.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: You think maybe nil or something like that has something
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: to do with it.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: I see, I will n I have a lot to
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: do with it.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Had to do with it.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: You know, these kids they gravitateds was anybody who gives
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: me the most money. So if you're a school that
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: has a lot of money, you do be successful. You
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: get really good play that you know in the past
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: you might not have been able to get.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: It also cares because you got got Alabama in the
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: first round.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: There.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Alabama famously high scoring team. They are going to be
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: without one of their better scorers there.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: But your guys defense, I think it's top twenty nationally
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: when you get to tournaments like this, when you get
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: to this type of preparation, which one of those normally
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: wins out because obviously in the NBA people talk NBA
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: defense wins championships.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Well, I hope it's they have a high paying offense.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: They like to get up and down the part and
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: playing really fast like the ship the three. So hopefully
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: they're having an off night, you know, all day come Friday.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: What's the thing you have to stop Alabama from doing?
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: In order to advance in this tournament.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Shooting the fretball. We gotta, we gotta, we got to
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: go down that temple because they like to play gamely fast,
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: so we gotta play at al tempo and not try
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: to beat them at their gains and then after that
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: keep them off the less because they're they're longer and
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: athletic than us. You know, we gotta hit them before
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: they hit us and then limit them to one shot.
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: Speedy. Is there anything that you have to do different
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: as a coach going into this game knowing that for
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: your team, for your players, this is the biggest game
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: that they're gonna play in, and just trying to prepare
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: them for that.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Moment, how they have to do anything different. It's not
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: the first time we played against a high major opponent,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: you know, bigger stage. But my guys are gamers. They're
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: not gonna be scared of the moment at all. Don't
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: I don't toplate.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: That, you know what, I'm not gonna lie. I had
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: no idea the Hofster mascot was the Hofster Pride. I'm
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: guessing that's a pride of Lion.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Is that right?
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's a heck of a mascot. Man, I love that.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: There's no question there.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying I love it island. Man, what you
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: mean tell him Speedy exactly exactly? What is the pizza
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: joint that on Long Island that Speedy Claxton goes to
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: when he when he wants a good slice of pizza?
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Oh? Man, you gotta get me in trouble here, man.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: Why I go to a bunch of spots and they
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: don't think they're my favorite?
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Wait, there are ten pizza boilers on Long Island that
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: think Speedy Claxton is their favorite pizza boiler.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I'm a pizza so I eat pizza often, so
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: it kind of depends on Well. Man, if I'm around,
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: I like to go to the spot called Franktoni's. They
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: serve up a really good slave nice.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: How do you feel about pineapple as a topping pizza? Yeah,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: it's terrible.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no no. I'm a New York and
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: we won't do we don't do topping.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Really top.
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: Pepperoni.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, because the plain slice is so good on
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Long Island and in New York that you don't need
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: a topping.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: Right, No, exactly.
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, man, that's such a great point because I think that, Yeah,
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: my favorite New York style pizza never has pepperoni on it.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: But if you give me the little pepperonis that are
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: kind of cupped and they kind of save.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: A little bit of oil in that, those are good,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I mean seedy. Those are good.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: About the cup pepperoni?
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, Wait, so there are ten pizza parlors across
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Long Island where you walk in they think that that's
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: your favorite pizza parlor. You're not paying for the pizza,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: are you anywhere?
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: Oh No, it's it's fussly not this week I've been.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: I've been. I've been here for all week. I love it.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: I wear house, I've been in a house. I've been
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: wearing a house to a loud and proud this thing.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you that everybody.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: I was gonna say, do you wear all Hopster gear?
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Do they just just wait for them to recognize you anyway?
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: No? No, No, I wear all house of gear from
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: head to toe.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: I love it, speedy.
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: How do you kind of use a week like this
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: to kind of boost your program and set yourself up,
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: whether it comes to N I L or just the
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: exposure that you guys are getting playing in this kind
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: of tournament.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, definitely week maximized in the exposure. I think
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: my phone has been non stop ringing with you know,
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: anterview requests and you know, everybody just trying to reach
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: out and congratulate me. So I've been all over the
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: man doing interviews. It seems like I do an interview
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: every hour on the on the hour.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I texted Katie Nolan, who went to a hof Dra
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: media friend of mine, and I asked her her thoughts
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: on Hofstra basketball and this is what March is all about.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: She said, in speedy Claxton, we trust. I mean, that's
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: all she has.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: I like that. I like that. Yeah.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: She also went on to say they haven't so excited.
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: I'm happy for myself, the program, but especially the university
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: in the community because they deserved this.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: This is also very March here, they said. She said
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: they have a student named German, but that he's from
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Belarus and so and I responded that means nothing to me,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: and she said, March right, Yes, you're laughing, Speedy. I
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: have you penned in to my final four? Is he
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: look at my bracket now? I haven't filled out the rest?
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, I have you in ped not pencil. I can't
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: erase it. So it's in pen it's an ink. And
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: so therefore you guys, yes, yes, and I will be
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: behind you the entire way. I do have ten ten
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: favorite Beza joints across Long Island, and now all ten
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: of them they're they're my favorite. We have a mount
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: rushmore of Hofstra graduates for you. Would you be interested
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: in hearing that? Not sports, not athletes, just a mount
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: rushmore of people who have graduated from Hofstra University.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: Of course, I I hope.
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: I'm a I was gonna say, if it was a
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: sports mount rushmore, it would just have the one face.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: It would just be yours.
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: There are some names here, is he there? I want
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: to spoil my list?
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: We got we got the famous ones.
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: Now, yes, that's it, that's it, speedy, you know what
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: that was? That was a guy not from New York
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: talking right.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, he doesn't realize the bona fides of Hofstra University.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: He just doesn't. He doesn't get the history there, let's
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: hear it, Taylor.
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: So the first name up on my mount Rushmore of
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: Hofshare alumni actor James Kahn. Wow, dad from Elf.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's a good one.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Dad from that's where you went.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Listen, Speedy better be on this Mount Rushmore.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: Man, go ahead, we have a couple of known actors. Man.
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the second name is also a known actor. It's
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: Christopher Walking.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, the way.
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: Speedy Stu Gotts does the worst uh impression of this
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: actor ever?
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: You ready to hear it?
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: The watch?
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: That's that's his, Christopher Walk.
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: It's always got.
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: The third name on my Mount Rushmore maybe my favorite
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: NFL player ever, Wayne Quebec.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: Wayne, I know, I know you're going. Wayne.
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: The last good Jet.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: I want to argue, I can't put it on the
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: poll was Wayne Grebett, the last good Jet. Fourth name,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Taylor better be Speedy Claxton.
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: The fourth name on my Mount Rushmore of Hofshore alumni.
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: It's Speedy Clax.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: There we go, There we go. Yeah.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Did he leave someone off? Speedy? Did he leave someone
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: off that is deserving of being on the Mount Rushmore
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: of Hofstra alumni.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: Man, it's so many, Honestly, Francis Ford Coppola is Marcus
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: Colton could be up there.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, Okay, you're right. He left him out.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Bernie made off.
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: Although I don't think they want to put him on
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: the Mount rushmore anymore.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we're not going to promote that one Speedy.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Last thing for me.
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: For some I remember you mostly as a Philadelphia seventy
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: six er, and then I look at your career list
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, man, you played for a lot of
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: teams there, but you always brought value to every single
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: team you played for. I'm just curious. What did you
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: try to do every single time you went to a
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: new team, And just like a life lesson, you learned
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: from that ability.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: Honestly, just try to be me. Always be positive, always
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: be upbeat, and honestly, just be the ultimate teammate.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Speedy, as Christopher Walkin read out to you, I mean,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: just not yet.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: Maybe maybe he will, though not yet, not as of yet.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Right beat Alabama. But if he does check his watch
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: right now, if he does reach out to you.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: Don't watch, I'm sure he might. He might be at
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: the game everything.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Right only, but yeah, but he'll be on the bandwagon.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, let's go, it's it's March.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: We'll we'll welcome in with open arms.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Though, Speedy, good luck to you again. I have you
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: penned into the final four. So I am expecting to
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: see you in Indianapolis competing for a national invested here Speedy, Yes,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: we are.
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: Thank you all right?
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: If you win, you got to come back on Okay,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: is that a deal? He's already Yeah, he knows, he knows.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: That's why his name is Speedy.
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: Before you got to make a commitment.
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: So they're playing in Tampa. I might make the trip
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: after talking to you.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: You're not going to make that Italian hat