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July 1, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: on a Wednesday afternoon with only Jared. Jason Cornelius, My
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Speaker 1: partner is not here today. He is over at Travis Field.
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Speaker 1: He is about to do his annual duty of being
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Speaker 1: one of the broadcasters for the Brian Calsation Chamber of
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Speaker 1: Commerce Community Softball Classic, an event I'm proud to say
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Speaker 1: that I had a hand in starting, but after about
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Speaker 1: six or seven years, was like, it's time for someone
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Speaker 1: else to take it over, and I think that got
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Speaker 1: thrust upon Jason, so he's been handling it. I believe
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Speaker 1: this is the eighteenth year. It's crazy to think it's
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Speaker 1: been going on that long that we started. That we tried.
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Speaker 1: This was an attempt by me to recreate and I
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Speaker 1: know I'm going to alienate part of the audience, and
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Speaker 1: then some of the audience is all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: going to have a Eureka moment of remembering something. If
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Speaker 1: you remember MTV's Rock and Jock Softball. That's what I
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Speaker 1: was going for when I propose, is this idea of
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Speaker 1: the chamber is like, we've got these athletes from Texas,
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Speaker 1: A and M, and we've got local celebrities, and we
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Speaker 1: might even be able to pull in some actual celebrities,
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Speaker 1: which we did, uh for one year, but uh, playing
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Speaker 1: softball in the middle of summer in Texas it's a
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Speaker 1: hard it's a hard ask for a number of people,
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Speaker 1: and so it can be a little warm, it can
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Speaker 1: be Yeah, And I will say one of the one
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Speaker 1: of the coolest things is for I believe two or
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Speaker 1: three years, we actually got to play it at Olson Field,
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Speaker 1: and yeah, I got to. And the first one of
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Speaker 1: the first year is that we changed it from a
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Speaker 1: celebrity softball classic to the community softball where baseball takes
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Speaker 1: on the firefighters. And we were at Olson. I was
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Speaker 1: not expecting any I was if there were home runs,
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Speaker 1: they were going to be in the parking runs. No,
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Speaker 1: we had that first year. We had two guys send
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Speaker 1: that ball over the fence in right field to the
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Speaker 1: railroad tracks. It was very impressive to see that. But
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Speaker 1: Jason might be calling in. I don't know. We talked
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Speaker 1: about doing trying to do something remotely, and I was
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Speaker 1: just like, if you think you can, if you think
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Speaker 1: you can make it happen, great, If not, I don't
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Speaker 1: worry about it all right. On today's show, as promised
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Speaker 1: per yesterday, we will be talking NBA free agency because
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Speaker 1: again with it being July first, the moves are still happening.
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Speaker 1: A lot of things are happening, even with the Lebron
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Speaker 1: James announcement, because obviously that throws a ratchet into the
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Speaker 1: entire system because now teams are going to start looking
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Speaker 1: at what can they do to possibly be a destination
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Speaker 1: for Lebron. You have to be a contender, So you
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Speaker 1: Taw Jazz, I know you have assets and you have
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Speaker 1: trade picks. But guess what, he ain't ain't coming to
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Speaker 1: Salt Lake City. But there is another Mountain time Zone
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Speaker 1: team that is being thrown out there, which I find
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Speaker 1: very interesting, So we'll talk about that later on. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: the big event happens later tonight, the US men taking
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Speaker 1: on Bosnia Herzevigonia in San Francisco at what is the
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Speaker 1: covered up Levice Stadium, but at San Francisco Stadium in
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Speaker 1: a huge match in the round of thirty two. Because
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Speaker 1: they win this, they go to the round of sixteen,
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Speaker 1: and we will, I believe, we will know who we
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Speaker 1: obviously we will know who we are playing, as you
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Speaker 1: have Senegal in Belgium playing right now. We'll get a
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Speaker 1: score update on that after the break. But a huge
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Speaker 1: night for what could be a big step towards US
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Speaker 1: men's soccer making a decent run. So we got one
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Speaker 1: zero still Senegal, yeah, all right, a potential run to
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Speaker 1: the quarterfinal where they could face perennial power Spain or
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Speaker 1: Portugal possibly. We'll see how those things shake out. But again,
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Speaker 1: you have to play these games. You cannot look ahead.
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Speaker 1: But we will talk about the us men against Bosnia
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Speaker 1: later in the show. Since it is July first, this
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Speaker 1: is probably Darren Ovelle's favorite day, but he only gets
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Speaker 1: nine more of these because after twenty thirty five, he
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Speaker 1: can't wake up on July first and do his little
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Speaker 1: tweet about saying it's Bobby Bonia Day. The funny thing is,
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Speaker 1: and I was thinking about this on the drive up here.
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Speaker 1: I believe Jason and I have been in studio, and
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Speaker 1: I know he's not here today, but we've been filling
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Speaker 1: in for Chip on Bobby Bonia Day. I believe for
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Speaker 1: at least nine years. Twenty twenty might be the only
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Speaker 1: year we weren't in studio on Bobby Bonia Bobby Bonia Day. So,
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Speaker 1: for those who don't know, today is the day that
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Speaker 1: the New York Mets have to pay retired baseball player
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Speaker 1: Bobby Bonia one point one nine to three million dollars.
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Speaker 1: They've been doing this since twenty eleven, and they're gonna
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Speaker 1: have to do it all the way through twenty thirty five.
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Speaker 1: The reason they have to do this is because they
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Speaker 1: deferred a buyout of Bobby's five point nine million dollar
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Speaker 1: contract in nineteen ninety nine. As a result, in exchange
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Speaker 1: for the deferred money, Bobby Bonier receives an eight percent
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Speaker 1: annual interest rate. So this resulted in twenty five annual
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Speaker 1: payments of the one point one to ninety three million
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Speaker 1: dollars from twenty eleven to twenty thirty five, totally nearly
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Speaker 1: thirty million dollars. Now, obviously a little caveat to this
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Speaker 1: whole story is that the previous Mets ownership had their
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Speaker 1: money invested with Ponzi scheme financier. Oh wow, well, why
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Speaker 1: am I blinking on his name? Now? Most this is
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Speaker 1: what happens when you're doing live radio and you're doing
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Speaker 1: it by yourself. I can see the man, I can see,
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Speaker 1: thank you, Bernie made Off. They had their they had
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Speaker 1: most of their family wealth invested with made Off, and
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Speaker 1: they lost it. But this, since Bobby omnia was in
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Speaker 1: a creditor to the Mets, they still had to Uh,
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Speaker 1: this has to be paid out, and it has to
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Speaker 1: be paid out by current Mets ownership, which is Steve Cohen.
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Speaker 1: Now the Mets get made fun of for this whole
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Speaker 1: deal because you're like, why are you Every year you're
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Speaker 1: paying a little over a million dollars to a guy
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Speaker 1: who hasn't played baseball since two thousand and one. But
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Speaker 1: let's go back and look at what did the Mets
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Speaker 1: get for making this deferring this contract. The key thing
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Speaker 1: is the Mets freed up a media cash and they
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Speaker 1: signed All star pitcher Mike Hampton. Hampton went on to
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Speaker 1: win the National League Championship Series MVP that season, and
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Speaker 1: then a year later he signed with the Colorado Rockies.
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Speaker 1: The Mets received a compensatory draft pick for losing Hampton,
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Speaker 1: which they used to select David Wright. For those who
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Speaker 1: don't know who David Wright was, David Wright is an
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Speaker 1: icon as far as the New York Mets go. He
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Speaker 1: is a seven time excuse me, seven time All Star,
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Speaker 1: two time Gold Glove Award winner, two times Silver Slug
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Speaker 1: Award winner. He had his number retired. He is in
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Speaker 1: the Mets Hall of Fame. He finished his career with
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Speaker 1: a two ninety six batting average, two hundred and forty
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Speaker 1: two home runs, and nine hundred and seventy runs batted in.
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Speaker 1: So all in all, the Mets actually made out with
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Speaker 1: a pretty good deal on the Bobby bo Neo contract.
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Speaker 1: And when you started talking about you're paying a little
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Speaker 1: over a million dollars a year, a million dollars in
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Speaker 1: baseball right now, I mean that's chicken feed money.
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Speaker 5: Especially for Steve Cohen.
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Speaker 1: Yes, especially for Steve Going who has no problem in
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Speaker 1: spending and obviously he is a better investor than he
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Speaker 1: is at spending on baseball. Because the Mets are a joke,
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Speaker 1: which by the way, I love doing radio. I have
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Speaker 1: a face for it, do not have a voice for it.
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Speaker 1: But there's a part of me that wishes we had
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Speaker 1: a video component. If you have not seen the video
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Speaker 1: of I forget what New York station it is. I
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Speaker 1: don't think it's s n Y.
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Speaker 6: But the.
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Speaker 1: Reporter covering the Mets is announcing the firing of the
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Speaker 1: Mets manager, and mister Met comes into the background because
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Speaker 1: this is at City Field, and so there is music playing,
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Speaker 1: and mister Met just starts dancing behind the report. Is
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Speaker 1: it is the most emblematic thing that you can see,
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Speaker 1: or it's most emblematic thing about the New York Mets
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Speaker 1: of recent history. Because this is a team that has
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Speaker 1: one of the largest payrolls in baseball I believe, only
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Speaker 1: third to the to the Dodgers. They have spent so
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Speaker 1: much money and have not been able to put anything
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Speaker 1: on the field that it that is ultimately competitive. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: so we're looking at it right now, and I guess
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Speaker 1: the funniest the funniest part, or one of the funny
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Speaker 1: things to me, is that the manager's name is Carlos Mendoza,
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Speaker 1: and he oh, just it's it's hilarious. If you have
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Speaker 1: not seen it, pull it up on YouTube. Mister Mett
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Speaker 1: obviously cannot read the room, and the reporter is just
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Speaker 1: doing everything he can not to break to break while
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Speaker 1: he's having to report this news. All right, with it
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Speaker 1: also being July first, it is the new year for
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Speaker 1: college football, so it's realignment time, and you had a
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Speaker 1: number of teams that, especially in the state of Texas,
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Speaker 1: that have changed their affiliations and so I just one
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Speaker 1: of the things that made me remember that this happening
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Speaker 1: was I was driving up I thirty five through San
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Speaker 1: Marcos and of course Texas State is now part of
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Speaker 1: the PAC.
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Speaker 5: Twelve PAC twelve after debt.
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Speaker 1: That's right, The league that previously only had two teams
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Speaker 1: now has Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Oregon State,
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Speaker 1: San Diego State, Texas State, Utah State, and Washington State.
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Speaker 1: But they also have Gonzaga, but not for football, because
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Speaker 1: Gonzaga still does not have a football program. But this
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Speaker 1: now puts the BACK twelve back into kind of the
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Speaker 1: group of X, however many you want to consider that now.
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Speaker 1: But more importantly, it gives us our late night football games,
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Speaker 1: which we've so desperately been warning for so long, and
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Speaker 1: gets Texas State some exposure to some big teams as
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Speaker 1: they continue to put more money into their program. The
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Speaker 1: Mountain West. Obviously they had a number of their teams
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Speaker 1: Pilford by the Big or by the PAC twelve. So
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Speaker 1: now the Mountain West is comprised of Air Force Grand
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Speaker 1: Canyon University, but not for football, Hawaii, which I guess
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Speaker 1: they didn't get into the Pac twelve because they're not
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Speaker 1: Hawaii State, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota State for football only,
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Speaker 1: Northern Illinois for football only, San Jose State, U See
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Speaker 1: Davis in a non football capacity, unlv U, TEP and Wyoming,
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Speaker 1: and then Cousa Conference USA which they lost Louisiana Tech
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Speaker 1: and UTEP, but now they are made up, so they
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Speaker 1: are only left with Delaware FIU, Jacksonville State, Knnessas State,
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Speaker 1: Liberty and Middle Tennessee, Missouri State, New Mexico State, SAM Houston,
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Speaker 1: and Western Kentucky. And then the Sun Belt, which is large,
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Speaker 1: which is starting to become one of the most entertaining
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Speaker 1: conferences to watch on a Saturday. If you're not watching it,
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Speaker 1: if you don't have an SEC football game to watch,
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Speaker 1: watch some Sun Belt football. It's actually been good the
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Speaker 1: last couple of years. App State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia,
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Speaker 1: Southern Georgia, State, Louisiana, Louisiana, Mouroe, Louisiana Tech, James Madison,
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Speaker 1: Old Dominion, Marshall, South Alabama, Southern miss and Troy. And
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Speaker 1: for those of us siccos that like to watch college
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Speaker 1: football on a Tuesday night, the MAC action, Baby, that's right.
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Speaker 6: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Northern Northern Illinois, like we mentioned, have have left to
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Speaker 1: go to the Mountain West, but you still got Akron
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Speaker 1: Ball State, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Kin State, Miami, Ohio, Toledo, UMass,
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Speaker 1: Western Michigan and joining the group in the middle in
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Speaker 1: the Mid Atlantic Conference. Is that that's what's not American
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Speaker 1: mid American Midier. I was about to say, why would
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Speaker 1: I mean geography does not matter in college football anymore.
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Speaker 5: I think the MAC might be the only conference that
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Speaker 5: is still geographical.
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Speaker 1: Yes, well it was until you know Sacramento State, so
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Speaker 1: West Coast now joining the Mid American Conference.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Again one of the and we were talking about these
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Speaker 1: moves earlier in the year. Again, this is all kind
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Speaker 1: of positioning for if we end up getting your super
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Speaker 1: conferences between the SEC and the Big Ten and what
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Speaker 1: might result in finally having some kind of I guess
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Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, relegation in college football.
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Speaker 1: We don't know. It would be interesting, it would make
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Speaker 1: it a little more compelling, have a little more mistakes
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Speaker 1: in it. But we'll see. All right, we gotta take
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Speaker 1: a break. When we come back, we are gonna kind
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Speaker 1: of dip our toes in the NBA free agency. This
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Speaker 4: It's become I think a basic part of the baseball conversation.
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Speaker 4: What is war?
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Speaker 9: It's terms. It means wins above replacement, and it's based
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Speaker 9: on the concept that there is a replacement level of play,
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Speaker 9: a generic replacement level of play for all major league plays.
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Speaker 9: If you had a team full of replacement level players,
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Speaker 9: your team would go about forty eight and one hundred
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Speaker 9: to four. There are a number of different types of war,
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Speaker 9: but what you want to just grasp here is that
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Speaker 9: it's giving you a single number that tells you how
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Speaker 9: valuable a player is relative to replacement. So a two
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Speaker 9: win player two war, that's like an average Major league
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Speaker 9: A four win player is having a star season six
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Speaker 9: and above. You're talking about MVP candidies. The best seasons
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Speaker 9: there ever, are like sevent ripton in ninety ninety one
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Speaker 9: was seventeen wins. Your biggest war seasons are all pitchers
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Speaker 9: that through four hundred innings, so we really don't count
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Speaker 1: When I was putting together today's playlist, England had just
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Speaker 1: won off Harry Kane's two goals late and so I
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Speaker 1: decided this first hour is going to be largely eighties English.
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Speaker 4: Music.
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Speaker 1: Chip Howard Sports Talk on a Wednesday afternoon. It is hot,
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Speaker 1: it is humid. We are I mean, it's only July first,
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Speaker 1: and it already feels miserable, even though it's not even
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Speaker 1: triple digits, but man, it was. It's just it's just
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Speaker 1: been uncomfortable all day long. All Right, we're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: a little NBA basketball here as we approach the bottom
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Speaker 1: of the first hour. And again, the announcement that came
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Speaker 1: out yesterday, and it was a subtle one, but it
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Speaker 1: created the shockwaves through the league is the fact that
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Speaker 1: Lebron did announce that he is going to play again,
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Speaker 1: but he informed the Lakers, you can go ahead and
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Speaker 1: pursue whatever you want to do, because I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to be playing with you. So now we have the
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Speaker 1: Lebron sweepstakes, and according to his agent Rich Paul Money,
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Speaker 1: this is not about money. He wants to go to
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Speaker 1: a contender. So now you start looking at, okay, what
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Speaker 1: teams would Lebron consider? And yesterday we talked very in
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Speaker 1: depth about the fact that, at least yesterday the popular
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Speaker 1: selection and the one kind of being thrown out there
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Speaker 1: by a number of sources was Golden State. That there
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Speaker 1: was kind of a longing to see Lebron and Steph
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Speaker 1: play again together because we saw them during the twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four Paris Olympics and they looked not only to
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Speaker 1: be having fun, but it was actually an entertaining form
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Speaker 1: of basketball. The only thing is we're two years later.
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Speaker 1: Both those guys have two more years of miles on
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Speaker 1: those bodies, and of course, obviously Lebron is the oldest
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Speaker 1: player in the league. Now. Part of what gave a
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Speaker 1: little fuel to that fire is the fact that Draymond
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Speaker 1: Green opted out of his extension with Golden State, which
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Speaker 1: would pay him twenty seven million dollars for the next
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Speaker 1: two years. So that freed up that twenty seven million
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Speaker 1: dollars for Golden State against their cap. Now it is
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Speaker 1: not a coincidence that Draymond Green is also represented by
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Speaker 1: Clutched Sports, which is who represents Lebron James. He had
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Speaker 1: to give up his quote unquote ownership, but they're both
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Speaker 1: Clutched Sports. Now. The only issue with that is, even
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Speaker 1: though that frees up twenty seven million dollars, if Lebron
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Speaker 1: is going to get and we were talking about this
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Speaker 1: shit yesterday, the MLEE, that's still fifteen point one million dollars.
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Speaker 1: And so if he's going to get fifteen point one
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Speaker 1: and Draymond's going to have to take a pay cut
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Speaker 1: roughly about ten million dollars, he's probably only gonna get seventeen,
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Speaker 1: then Golden State's going to have to squeeze the remaining
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Speaker 1: members of the roster to get that necessary space unless
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Speaker 1: they look at potentially trading away. Now, one of the
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Speaker 1: names that one of the names we mentioned yesterday is Miami. Now, Miami,
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Speaker 1: obviously Lebron has history with and we talked about the
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Speaker 1: fact he seems to have repaired the relation. The relationship
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Speaker 1: between pat Riley and Lebron has seemingly been repaired. But
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Speaker 1: Miami is not without its own issues because again, there
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Speaker 1: are they still haven't even finalized the Jianna Sannakupo trade.
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Speaker 1: That does not happen until July sixth, and according to
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Speaker 1: sources within Miami, which they don't they don't really spill
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Speaker 1: the beans much, so whatever information you can get out
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Speaker 1: of them is considered pretty valuable. Their mindset is talk
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Speaker 1: to me after July sixth. They are waiting for this
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Speaker 1: deal to finalize. But they obviously have plans on or
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Speaker 1: when this deal does become final because again they have
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Speaker 1: traded away an immense amount of trade capital, first round
22:41
Speaker 1: picks for the next four years, a number of players.
22:44
Speaker 1: They really don't have any shooters on the team right now.
22:46
Speaker 1: Basically the team will as it will be composed if
22:50
Speaker 1: this deal goes through, is you've got two bigs we
22:54
Speaker 1: found out late yesterday or no, actually early this morning
22:57
Speaker 1: or this morning Norman Powell is being traded away too,
23:01
Speaker 1: or Norman Palace going to Chicago Bulls, so you've lost him.
23:05
Speaker 1: They did pick up Tim Hardaway Junior from Denver. That's
23:09
Speaker 1: actually a pretty good deal. They're only having to pay
23:11
Speaker 1: six and a half million dollars for Tim. So he
23:15
Speaker 1: goes to the team that his father played for, that
23:18
Speaker 1: his Jersey has been retired and his dad has already said, no, boy,
23:22
Speaker 1: you don't get to wear my number, so that Jersey's
23:24
Speaker 1: not coming out of the rafters. But one of the
23:28
Speaker 1: interesting things is when Andrew Wiggins opted in for his
23:33
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars this year and then seventeen million dollars
23:37
Speaker 1: per year on his two year extension, that initially seemed like, well,
23:42
Speaker 1: that kind of closes the door on possibly being able
23:45
Speaker 1: to bring in Lebron because you're not going to have
23:47
Speaker 1: much in the way of cap space, except for the
23:49
Speaker 1: fact are the Miami he playing chess when everyone's playing checkers?
23:54
Speaker 1: Because is this going to be a sign and trade deal?
23:56
Speaker 1: Because now if you sign and trade Andrew Wiggins to
24:01
Speaker 1: the Lakers, which by the way, the Lakers could definitely
24:03
Speaker 1: use Wiggins, and that contract is especially attractive because you're
24:08
Speaker 1: thirty million this year and then it drops to seventeen
24:10
Speaker 1: million for the next two years. That means that thirty
24:13
Speaker 1: million can actually go towards Lebron if he comes to Miami.
24:17
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to wait and see how that
24:19
Speaker 1: plays out. Again, I don't think Miami's gonna do anything
24:23
Speaker 1: till after the Yannis trade goes final, so that's not
24:26
Speaker 1: going to be until Monday. And then obviously Lebron already
24:32
Speaker 1: has his plans for what he would like to do.
24:35
Speaker 1: He's not going to rush into anything now the other
24:38
Speaker 1: team that's being thrown out there because if this is
24:41
Speaker 1: going to be Lebron's swan song, does he want to
24:44
Speaker 1: have a homecoming and go to Cleveland? Now the problem
24:49
Speaker 1: if he goes to Cleveland right now is does he
24:52
Speaker 1: want to finish his career playing with James Harden or
24:57
Speaker 1: Evan mowgli Well. Harden's pree agent and he and he
25:01
Speaker 1: has not. He is not recent Yeah, he's a free agent,
25:04
Speaker 1: declined his player option. So there he is going to
25:08
Speaker 1: be potentially move he will be out of the picture.
25:14
Speaker 1: But Brian Windhorse started and we talked. We talked yesterday.
25:17
Speaker 1: We talked about Jalen Brown. Win Horse put out there
25:21
Speaker 1: of potentially looking at a Lebron Jalen Brown in Cleveland situation,
25:29
Speaker 1: which I found. I mean again, Brian Windhorse is not
25:33
Speaker 1: putting out stuff just for the sake of putting it out.
25:35
Speaker 1: If he's hearing things, that means certain things are being
25:38
Speaker 1: put out kind of the feelers are being put out
25:40
Speaker 1: there to see how that may work out. Obviously, Cleveland's
25:44
Speaker 1: gonna have Cleveland is already over the cap, so they're
25:47
Speaker 1: gonna have to to move. They're already looking at moving
25:50
Speaker 1: like Dennis Schroeder and Max Struce and that's fourteen point
25:54
Speaker 1: eight and sixteen million dollars respectively, So that would definitely
25:57
Speaker 1: free up some space. But the big question is is
26:00
Speaker 1: Boston going to trade Jalen Brown to someone they're going
26:02
Speaker 1: to have to beat in the Eastern Conference to get
26:05
Speaker 1: to the finals. My response to that would be no,
26:08
Speaker 1: unless they are just desperately looking to unload the Jalen
26:12
Speaker 1: Brown contract. So that's going to be interesting to see
26:16
Speaker 1: if Cleveland continues to be a player in this mix.
26:21
Speaker 1: Now the one that came out today, which initially I'm like,
26:24
Speaker 1: you've now, I think we're stretching, but there are some
26:30
Speaker 1: compelling arguments the Denver Nuggets could Lebron go to another
26:40
Speaker 1: because again, if he's already toying with the idea of
26:42
Speaker 1: going to Golden State, he's not dismissing the idea of
26:46
Speaker 1: playing for a Western Conference team, although all his success
26:49
Speaker 1: has come in the Eastern Conference. And oh, by the way,
26:52
Speaker 1: that would be a much easier path than trying to
26:54
Speaker 1: get through San Antonio or OKC this coming year. But
27:00
Speaker 1: could you see Lebron James being paired up with Joker
27:09
Speaker 1: in Denver and making a serious run. Denver actually played
27:13
Speaker 1: well this year A number of times when Jason and
27:17
Speaker 1: I were filling in, they might be the number They
27:20
Speaker 1: were never the number one team in the West, but
27:21
Speaker 1: they could be the number two, number three, number four.
27:23
Speaker 1: I mean they were able to compete. Now, granted, that's
27:27
Speaker 1: all that's all on the back of Jokic, because when
27:32
Speaker 1: Jokic is not playing, that Nuggets team is atrocious. When
27:35
Speaker 1: he's in, they are exceptionally better. And again, giant loaf
27:40
Speaker 1: of white bread. Okay, there's nothing attractive about either the
27:44
Speaker 1: way he looks or the way he plays, But statistically speaking,
27:47
Speaker 1: he puts up numbers that are better than Michael Jordan.
27:49
Speaker 1: I know I sound crazy by saying that, but it's
27:52
Speaker 1: the actual truth. If you look at his statistics. Statistically
27:57
Speaker 1: he played, he plays at a higher clip than Michael Jordan.
28:00
Speaker 1: And but he will never receive that kind of fame
28:03
Speaker 1: and I and honestly, he doesn't care about it. He
28:05
Speaker 1: just wants to be back home watching his horses race.
28:08
Speaker 1: But if you put Lebron in Denver, now you're talking,
28:12
Speaker 1: you have a very interesting team that might be comp
28:17
Speaker 1: I know it would, it would be odd. But again,
28:19
Speaker 1: you know, Lebron has been able to modify his game
28:22
Speaker 1: over the years, and especially as his body, his age,
28:24
Speaker 1: and with the with the players he's playing with, and
28:27
Speaker 1: more to the point, Lebron does not want to have
28:30
Speaker 1: to play under the rim. He does not want to
28:32
Speaker 1: have to play defense. That's why Miami is a compelling
28:36
Speaker 1: argument because if if you've got Bam and Giannis, those
28:40
Speaker 1: are two bigs that can handle the defense for you.
28:43
Speaker 1: That's kind of the the detriment of what Golden State
28:45
Speaker 1: would be because you really only have Draymond.
28:49
Speaker 10: Well back.
28:51
Speaker 5: They do have porzingis kind of one of the reasons
28:54
Speaker 5: why I think they might not get Lebron.
28:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, but but and because it'll only play like twenty
29:01
Speaker 1: games probably, Yeah, that's gonna be the other that's gonna that.
29:04
Speaker 5: Really is it goes to Miami. He's probably he's gonna
29:07
Speaker 5: play point guard the whole season because they don't have
29:08
Speaker 5: any guards exactly. So yeah, he won't have to play
29:13
Speaker 5: under the rim. That's right, I mean that's true.
29:15
Speaker 1: So again, he he's not gonna go somewhere like Minnesota.
29:22
Speaker 1: He's not gonna go somewhere like Utah. Uh, He's definitely not.
29:27
Speaker 1: I mean, there's really no way he's gonna end up
29:29
Speaker 1: in a place like Oklahoma City or San Antonio because
29:33
Speaker 1: then that kind of Soully's whatever stick or that that
29:38
Speaker 1: will put the stigma on him that he's basically pulling
29:41
Speaker 1: Katie the KD just trying to chase a ring. He
29:44
Speaker 1: wants to go to a team that's competitive where he
29:46
Speaker 1: can make an impact.
29:48
Speaker 5: What if he went and played with Katie.
29:53
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see it happening if I don't
29:58
Speaker 1: be a.
29:58
Speaker 5: Lot of fun.
29:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, but that you have not heard any
30:02
Speaker 1: Texas team mentioned in any of these trade roomor or
30:05
Speaker 1: any of these possible possible landing spots. So I think
30:10
Speaker 1: when when you look at it, it's it's gonna be,
30:13
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the Golden State, Miami. Golden State's the
30:16
Speaker 1: odds on favorite. Cleveland is actually in second when you
30:19
Speaker 1: look at the betting odds, then Miami's in third. I
30:22
Speaker 1: didn't even bother to see if how Denver has entered
30:25
Speaker 1: into the mix now. But this was just an interesting,
30:27
Speaker 1: little interesting piece put out by Sam Ammick of the
30:32
Speaker 1: Athletic Today talking about the dynamic, the dynamic of Lebron
30:38
Speaker 1: James in Denver and how that may look. All Right,
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Speaker 7: Welcome back in Riley Dorsey. Here joining us once again
34:26
Speaker 7: is Brasis Valley Bombers head coach Ryan Targosh for a
34:29
Speaker 7: weekly Bombers check in. Ran thank you again for joining us.
34:33
Speaker 7: We're gonna jump right in because it was a pretty
34:36
Speaker 7: eventful week for this team. So y'all had a big
34:38
Speaker 7: bounce back win mixed in with a couple of tough
34:41
Speaker 7: losses this past weekend. So when you're looking back at
34:44
Speaker 7: these games, does y'all's overall record really tell the full
34:47
Speaker 7: story of how the how well this team has played
34:50
Speaker 7: so far?
34:51
Speaker 15: No, I don't think that the record tells the full
34:55
Speaker 15: story of the Bombers first half. There was a probably
34:59
Speaker 15: a half for the losses that we had. There were
35:02
Speaker 15: one round ball games and it could have been a
35:04
Speaker 15: coin coin flip on who or which team got the call.
35:11
Speaker 15: But I think overall, I mean, these boys, they fought
35:13
Speaker 15: hard till every last out and that's all that I
35:16
Speaker 15: can ask from them. And if we just keep continuing
35:19
Speaker 15: just playing good baseball, I think we're gonna see more
35:21
Speaker 15: wins coming in the second half.
35:23
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, has has y'all's team done a pretty
35:26
Speaker 7: good job about just not letting one bad game carry
35:29
Speaker 7: over into the next.
35:30
Speaker 15: So far, I think so. I think most of our
35:35
Speaker 15: most of our wins have actually came from either a
35:40
Speaker 15: tough loss or a loss of some sort. And I
35:43
Speaker 15: think that just shows how these guys they understand that, uh,
35:47
Speaker 15: yesterday's game or one one bad game doesn't define the
35:52
Speaker 15: next game. And if you just keep going out there
35:55
Speaker 15: and playing baseball, I mean, the law of average is
35:57
Speaker 15: going to end up being your favorite at some point.
35:59
Speaker 15: So it's all about getting the opportunity and getting the
36:02
Speaker 15: chance to going out and to perform, Yeah, for sure.
36:06
Speaker 7: And I feel like just with so many games packed
36:08
Speaker 7: into such a short amount of time, it's definitely important
36:11
Speaker 7: to just have that kind of resilience as a team,
36:14
Speaker 7: for sure. So then moving on, considering, like you said,
36:18
Speaker 7: how close some of these most recent games have been,
36:21
Speaker 7: would you say it's a little easier or more frustrating
36:24
Speaker 7: to stay patient just knowing how close this team is
36:27
Speaker 7: to being able to flip those losses into wins.
36:32
Speaker 15: That's a good question. I think it could be you
36:35
Speaker 15: could get very frustrated with how close these losses are.
36:39
Speaker 15: But I think if you just look at some of
36:43
Speaker 15: the route of maybe our problems and that's just maybe
36:47
Speaker 15: it's not playing clean baseball. Maybe there's some mental errors,
36:52
Speaker 15: and it could be just maybe some guys haven't played
36:56
Speaker 15: the game in a while and this is their first
36:57
Speaker 15: time coming back out there. And so whenever you look
37:01
Speaker 15: at those same mistakes and problems, I mean, those are
37:06
Speaker 15: pretty easy fixable problems. So whenever, whenever you have those,
37:11
Speaker 15: it's not as frustrating. But at the end of the day,
37:15
Speaker 15: those are pretty easy. And so if you can work
37:17
Speaker 15: those out within a game or two or within a week,
37:20
Speaker 15: those aren't Those aren't bad to have. But whenever you
37:22
Speaker 15: start having effort or attitude mistakes, and that's where uh,
37:27
Speaker 15: that's where the dominoes could could fall. It could lead
37:30
Speaker 15: to a not so good direction. But we don't have
37:33
Speaker 15: we don't have those problems on the Bombers. I think
37:35
Speaker 15: we've we've done a pretty good job of kind of
37:37
Speaker 15: setting a standard and implementing a good baseball culture for
37:45
Speaker 15: this team, even though it's been a short amount of time.
37:47
Speaker 15: But that's that's what it comes down to, is just
37:49
Speaker 15: having a standard and just upholding as standard and just
37:52
Speaker 15: going out there and competing Yeah, for sure, And.
37:56
Speaker 7: I feel like it's definitely as a coach, do you
38:00
Speaker 7: kind of just let them know and make them realize
38:03
Speaker 7: how important it is for them to be able to
38:05
Speaker 7: just stay patient without getting frustrated.
38:10
Speaker 15: Yes, I'd probably let them know it every single day
38:13
Speaker 15: that this game is hard. Just baseball is a game
38:17
Speaker 15: of failure, and that you're going to fail more times
38:19
Speaker 15: and you're going to succeed. So it's just about it's
38:24
Speaker 15: not always about the current outcome or the outcome that
38:29
Speaker 15: you may receive. It's sometimes it's about the response and
38:34
Speaker 15: how quick can you make that adjustment, how quick can
38:36
Speaker 15: you get back in the game, Because the game doesn't
38:40
Speaker 15: care how long you're prepare for or what kind of
38:44
Speaker 15: routine you have. The game doesn't care if you've gone
38:47
Speaker 15: over three with three strikeouts and you come up for
38:49
Speaker 15: your last a bet and you hit a home run.
38:51
Speaker 15: The game doesn't care what kind of person you are.
38:54
Speaker 15: It just it cares about what matters in that moment,
38:58
Speaker 15: just that current moment. And so I really stress to
39:02
Speaker 15: these guys that you know it's you're you're going to
39:05
Speaker 15: swing on a bad pitch, you're gonna walk someone, You're
39:09
Speaker 15: gonna make an air that sign, it's just how how
39:12
Speaker 15: quick can we get back on the on the right track?
39:15
Speaker 7: Yeah for sure. And I mean, you know, with baseball,
39:18
Speaker 7: you never have to wait very long for another game
39:21
Speaker 7: coming up or anything like that, Like I know you'll
39:24
Speaker 7: have one tonight. And you've mentioned a few times winning
39:28
Speaker 7: the day is kind of a saying that you go with.
39:31
Speaker 7: Is that kind of a mindset that really just gets
39:34
Speaker 7: put to the test with a stretch of games like
39:37
Speaker 7: this that might just be kind of difficult on the team.
39:42
Speaker 15: Yeah, Yeah, for sure. I've I've always loved the saying
39:45
Speaker 15: when the day, And if we can kind of break
39:49
Speaker 15: that down even more, I think we can look at
39:51
Speaker 15: just having small wins. And what small wins might look
39:55
Speaker 15: like is that you know that the big win is
39:57
Speaker 15: obviously winning a baseball game, but it's a small when
40:00
Speaker 15: could be getting that first pitch strike, or swinging that
40:04
Speaker 15: pitches in the zone and taking the balls, or if
40:07
Speaker 15: you get to get to a three to zero count,
40:09
Speaker 15: it's just taking the walk. Those are the small wins
40:12
Speaker 15: that whenever they accumulate over time, you're gonna get those
40:15
Speaker 15: big wins. And so instead of looking at a outcome
40:20
Speaker 15: oriented mindset, of just trying to win the game. Sometimes
40:24
Speaker 15: they can take or having an outcome oriented mindset will
40:29
Speaker 15: feel like you're having so much pressure on your shoulders,
40:32
Speaker 15: Versus if you go to a process oriented mindset, it
40:35
Speaker 15: can kind of take that pressure off and then you're
40:37
Speaker 15: just you're kind of you're you're playing the game pitch
40:39
Speaker 15: to pitch, and whenever you're playing the game pitch to pitch,
40:42
Speaker 15: there's there's not as much pressure, in my opinion, and
40:45
Speaker 15: so whenever these guys or to me, I can see
40:49
Speaker 15: whenever we go out there and we play pitch to pitch,
40:51
Speaker 15: the guys are having fun. They're they're smiling on the field,
40:55
Speaker 15: they're cracking jokes, which you know, baseball doesn't have to
40:58
Speaker 15: be all that serious and have that that switch. You
41:01
Speaker 15: can have fun while being serious. But whenever I can
41:05
Speaker 15: see that guy's pressing, I can tell that you know,
41:07
Speaker 15: either either they're not playing pitch to pitch or they're
41:10
Speaker 15: they're looking far more advanced than what they're currently doing.
41:14
Speaker 15: And so at the end of the day, it's it's
41:16
Speaker 15: definitely won the day. But whenever you break that down
41:20
Speaker 15: and just have small wins, I believe that that's what
41:22
Speaker 15: helps win ball games.
41:24
Speaker 7: Yeah for sure. And I I can definitely say that
41:27
Speaker 7: just whenever you're having fun playing the game, it definitely
41:30
Speaker 7: just makes everything feel like less pressured and all that.
41:34
Speaker 15: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean the game it's a game
41:37
Speaker 15: for a reason. You whenever whenever it's not a game
41:40
Speaker 15: no more, it's it's no fun. And I've been I've
41:42
Speaker 15: been in that or I've had that feeling, and it's
41:46
Speaker 15: not a good feeling. And so I also try to
41:47
Speaker 15: stress to these guys that you know this gain, this
41:50
Speaker 15: game is meant to be a game and no more
41:52
Speaker 15: than that.
41:53
Speaker 7: Yeah for sure. So then obviously there's the physical side
41:57
Speaker 7: of playing every day and when you've had like a
42:01
Speaker 7: week like this that's a little more tough. Is the
42:03
Speaker 7: challenge more mental than anything else, or is simply just
42:06
Speaker 7: having the right mindset the trick in your opinion, I think.
42:10
Speaker 15: It's having the right mindset. I think as long as
42:16
Speaker 15: you prepare well and you go to you get a
42:21
Speaker 15: good sleep, you have a good diet, and you do
42:24
Speaker 15: all of those factors that might get overlooked once you
42:29
Speaker 15: do those, and then you play the game, as long
42:32
Speaker 15: as you have the right mindset going into it. I
42:35
Speaker 15: don't think it's that that big of a deal. I've
42:38
Speaker 15: been in these guys shoes as far as playing every day,
42:40
Speaker 15: and it does, it does take a toll on your body.
42:44
Speaker 15: But like I said, if you if you can control
42:46
Speaker 15: the controllables as far as what you put in your
42:48
Speaker 15: body and how you treat your body, I don't think
42:51
Speaker 15: it's as big as big of a factor now whenever
42:55
Speaker 15: i'd say the guys start to shift their focus onto
42:59
Speaker 15: how my body body feels or I don't think I
43:03
Speaker 15: can play today because I don't think my body feels good.
43:07
Speaker 15: That could end up in two ways. And maybe one,
43:11
Speaker 15: it's that you know, they've they've been playing a lot
43:13
Speaker 15: and they do need a break, which uh, I try
43:15
Speaker 15: to get these guys a game or two off a
43:18
Speaker 15: week just to give their bodies a good reset and
43:21
Speaker 15: just to give guys out the reps in. And then
43:23
Speaker 15: two is that some some of these guys might you know,
43:26
Speaker 15: they could be selling selling themselves short. It's you know,
43:30
Speaker 15: it's that's that's not really the best outcome. But I
43:33
Speaker 15: think it just falls onto the right mindset. And if
43:36
Speaker 15: you do have the right mindset, I think you can
43:38
Speaker 15: get through anything as far as this league and just
43:41
Speaker 15: the game of baseball.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, I can definitely tell about just whenever
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Speaker 7: you're mentally locked in, then the physical side kind of
43:50
Speaker 7: tends to take care of itself a little bit.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Well, last up, kind of wrapping things up once tonight's
43:57
Speaker 7: game is over, what is there anything that would make
43:59
Speaker 7: you feel good about where this team is at and
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Speaker 15: I know I've said this a million times on our
44:07
Speaker 15: on our interviews, but I think just going out there
44:09
Speaker 15: and planning or playing good, competitive, clean baseball. I think
44:15
Speaker 15: if we can just stack those kind of days on
44:18
Speaker 15: to days on today's I can put my head on
44:22
Speaker 15: my pillow and and sleep good without having to having
44:25
Speaker 15: to think about anything or regretting something or not saying
44:29
Speaker 15: not saying something to the guys. I can. I can
44:32
Speaker 15: live with myself and I can I can live with
44:34
Speaker 15: the result no matter what the result is. But whenever,
44:39
Speaker 15: if that doesn't happen, then we kind of gotta go
44:41
Speaker 15: back to the draw on board and look at some
44:43
Speaker 15: things and see what has to happen. But I mean,
44:47
Speaker 15: just kind of like we talked about on this call,
44:49
Speaker 15: we're I believe that we're right there. I think we're
44:51
Speaker 15: playing we're playing good baseball. I think if we get
44:54
Speaker 15: a if we get that that hit or two, or
44:56
Speaker 15: if we throw a strike one, strike two, if you
45:00
Speaker 15: more times, I think we're I think we're just as
45:03
Speaker 15: good as any are the top teams in this league.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. Absolutely, I don't doubt y'all for a second. I
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Speaker 1: are clocking anytime that gets used for post scoring, you know,
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Speaker 1: Cup you've had a lot of you've had a lot
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Speaker 1: of players who go down and stay down, trying to draw,
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Speaker 1: trying to draw a penalty, trying to draw foul because
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Speaker 1: especially in the group stages. But obviously the big reason
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Speaker 1: These are supposed to only be ninety seconds, but of
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Speaker 1: cases five minutes, so that's why you're getting typically at
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Speaker 1: minimum five minutes of extra time.
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Speaker 5: Belgium has scored in the eighty six minutes.
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Speaker 1: Oh Axle, if you're listening, I know that gets you
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Speaker 1: excited and so here scored again. I was about to
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Speaker 1: say this is the goals in like, this is the
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Speaker 1: crazy part. Going into yesterday, there were there have been
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Speaker 1: twenty five goals scored in the believe in the last
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Speaker 1: five minutes of matches. I mean, it's it's an ungodly amount,
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Speaker 1: all things considered. I guess they're being scored in what's
52:19
Speaker 1: called actually called stoppage time. So that's time after the
52:23
Speaker 1: matches have ended. That's what it is. It's I believe
52:27
Speaker 1: going into yesterday it was twenty five goals scored in
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Speaker 1: stoppage time prior to the start of matches yesterday. That
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Speaker 1: that's just unreal. And that's why you cannot sit back
52:39
Speaker 1: and take it easy. You have to in a lot
52:42
Speaker 1: of cases, you have to keep the press going against
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Speaker 1: these teams because they are getting these goals in at
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Speaker 1: the last second, and I mean, it makes for incredible television.
52:54
Speaker 1: It ends up sending you into extra time and in
52:58
Speaker 1: some cases in the penalty and if you want to
53:01
Speaker 1: talk about blood pressure rising and just the stress of
53:05
Speaker 1: all things, penalty kicks. As a parent of two daughters
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Speaker 1: who have played goalkeeper, there is nothing that gives you
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Speaker 1: more anxiety when you know you're heading to penalty kicks
53:19
Speaker 1: and your daughter's in goal, because it is it is
53:24
Speaker 1: you against them, and it is it is just how
53:28
Speaker 1: quick can you a how quick can you your reflexes work,
53:32
Speaker 1: and how sure are you they're going right, left, high
53:34
Speaker 1: or low? Anyway, this was something interesting as we're finishing up,
53:40
Speaker 1: because we're talking about penalty kicks. Germany had never lost
53:45
Speaker 1: a World Cup match that went to pks until yesterday
53:52
Speaker 1: or two days ago. Two days ago. What I found
53:56
Speaker 1: interesting was after the first five, because you have to
53:59
Speaker 1: announce the five players who are going to take the pks,
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Speaker 1: the German captain and I'm apologize I don't have his
54:05
Speaker 1: name off the top of my head, then goes up
54:08
Speaker 1: to ask for players to take the remaining kicks once
54:13
Speaker 1: you get six on because at that point it becomes
54:15
Speaker 1: sudden death. You had veteran German national team players who
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Speaker 1: have taken penalty kicks, who take penalty kicks in Bundaligue,
54:23
Speaker 1: and all the leagues that they plan all say no.
54:27
Speaker 1: And so what you ended up having was the German
54:30
Speaker 1: player who scored the equalizing goal to at least get
54:35
Speaker 1: them to extra time. He's the one who has to
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Speaker 1: take the PK and he's never taken a PK at
54:45
Speaker 1: the national level, and I believe he hasn't even taken
54:47
Speaker 1: a pk at the club level. I just cannot believe.
54:50
Speaker 1: I mean again, this shows you just the amount of
54:55
Speaker 1: stress and mental toll that taking a penalty kick to
55:00
Speaker 1: keep your national team in the World Cup takes on players.
55:05
Speaker 1: And they just don't They don't want that. They don't
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Speaker 1: want to have that burden on them, especially if they miss.
55:10
Speaker 1: And I get it, with Hill playing as Hill the
55:15
Speaker 1: goalkeeper for Paraguay as great as he was playing, I
55:19
Speaker 1: get that there's some reluctance, But man, when your team
55:23
Speaker 1: needs you to step up, you have to do it.
55:24
Speaker 1: I just I thought that was one of the more
55:26
Speaker 1: remarkable stories to come out of the German the Germany
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Speaker 1: loss to Paraguay on Monday, And man, just one of
55:38
Speaker 1: the cool things that they're doing now with that skycam
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Speaker 1: and it gives you the perspective of the player taking
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Speaker 1: the kick and the goalkeeper. That shows you just the
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Speaker 1: proximity and just how lonely that spot is because the
55:53
Speaker 1: entire world is watching you at that moment. All right,
55:57
Speaker 1: that's going to do it for our one. When we
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