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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: And we begin a new here settling in. We'll start
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  Speaker 1: with some pro bouncy ball, as the playoffs will be
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  Speaker 1: going on for the next eighteen months. I believe it's
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  Speaker 1: a year and a half NBA playoff basketball there. They
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  Speaker 1: like to get it quick and over with as soon
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  Speaker 1: as possible. They don't like to drag these things out
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  Speaker 1: at all. So we head to the Alamo. The Spurs
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  Speaker 1: back in the playoffs, of course, advanced through Round one
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  Speaker 1: over the Trailblazers and now to on the Timberwolves in
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  Speaker 1: Game two. So if you saw this game or not,
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  Speaker 1: you're watching observing perhaps not, And it was ant Man
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  Speaker 1: in many ways stole the show because he wasn't supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be on the court. That's why Anthony Edwards had
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  Speaker 1: eighteen points. It was not expected to play in this game.
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  Speaker 1: In the lead up to it over the weekend, they said.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, he's not gonna play, and he did.
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  Speaker 1: And the Timberwolves surviving a misshot in the final seconds
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  Speaker 1: by the Spurs and also a monster defensive performance by
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  Speaker 1: Victor Wembanyama. And so Minnesota wins the game one oh
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  Speaker 1: four to one oh two. And that tells me they
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  Speaker 1: only have to win three more games to get into
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  Speaker 1: the next round of the NBA playoffs. Here, so the
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  Speaker 1: conference semi finals go the way of Minnesota. They get
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  Speaker 1: home court advantage. Back now, when ba Yama getting a
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  Speaker 1: lot of love. He had eleven points, fifteen rebounds, and
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  Speaker 1: set an NBA postseason record with twelve blocks, which we
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  Speaker 1: think is good. We think that is good one ban Yama,
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  Speaker 1: the big numbers. San Antonio, though, ends up on the
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  Speaker 1: losing side of the ledger, and that is the better story.
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  Speaker 1: The better story is in the losing locker room, and
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  Speaker 1: that is a good jogging off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. We'll keep it simple. Who gets the blame?
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  Speaker 1: Text mechs, Who gets the blame? Text mechs for the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs stumbling and bumbling and falling in the final seconds.
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  Speaker 1: They did have the lead going to the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and San Antonio loses Minnesota gets the win. So I've
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  Speaker 1: got family sized platter, phone, booth, and mini golf and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna channel a minor league hockey team years ago called
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  Speaker 1: the Macon Whoopie in Macon, Georgia. And then the great
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  Speaker 1: Turk Stevens who used to work here. Turk was a
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  Speaker 1: play by play announcer for the Macon Whoopie back in
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  Speaker 1: the day. All right, so a the NBA hype machine,
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  Speaker 1: the NBA hype machine is already firing up the excuse
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  Speaker 1: generator and they're not wasting any time at all. They
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  Speaker 1: blame everyone except the person that should be in the
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  Speaker 1: blame here, and we'll break it down for you scientifically
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  Speaker 1: as only we can do.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: They blame the rotation, the coaching for San Antonio. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure there's some kind of humidity issue. They want to blame,
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  Speaker 1: blame everything and everyone other than the seven foot something
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  Speaker 1: billboard who shot twenty nine percent.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going there. Oh, you can't go there. You're
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  Speaker 3: not allowed to go there.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA marb.
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  Speaker 3: Will get you.
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  Speaker 1: They'll jack. Okay, I'm not worried. I got the Mallard militia.
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  Speaker 1: They got my back on this. So that's why I
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  Speaker 1: look at it. Tough love, Mallard, tough love, Malar. Did
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  Speaker 1: Victor weinman Yam have a bunch of block shots?
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  Speaker 3: Yet? Do you have a bunch of rebounds?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, However, base on a minutes long deliberation
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  Speaker 1: after watching this game. By the way, the broadcast is
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  Speaker 1: stray boring on this game. That's a different conversation. Nonetheless, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: breaking this game down, the big giant pile of blame,
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  Speaker 1: chips and guac goes to the giant alien, the extraterrestrial Wemby.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he got a family size platter with an
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  Speaker 1: extra side of salsa because of his offense, defense and
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  Speaker 1: rebounding elite obviously championship level blah blah blah blah blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah.
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  Speaker 3: The issue here is the offense.
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  Speaker 1: It was cover your eyes, plug your ears, don't even ask,
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  Speaker 1: don't even ask, like a middle school talent show type effort. Offensively,
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  Speaker 1: Wemby took seventeen shots. He missed twelve of them. Twelve
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  Speaker 1: of the seventeen Clank doink didn't work out. Now, you
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  Speaker 1: all told me he's unguardable, you've told me. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a hater of Wemby. It sounds like I'm a
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  Speaker 1: hater of Wemby.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: However, if you're truly unguardable, and that's on the brochure,
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  Speaker 1: and then you go out there and you were unavailable.
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  Speaker 1: And the main issue I had was in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter here, he took five shots on the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: made one of them. My computer like brain tells me
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  Speaker 1: that's twenty percent. Was it amazing defense by the Timberwolves
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  Speaker 1: and that gang and Gobar and all those I think so,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. But three points three points for
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  Speaker 1: Wemby when the lights were the brightest here, and that
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  Speaker 1: was so bad? How bad was it? It was so
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  Speaker 1: thanks for asking. That was such a disappearing act. It
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  Speaker 1: was worthy of his own residency in Vegas. And I
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  Speaker 1: guess Copper feels out because he's a creepster, so they
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  Speaker 1: had to. They have an open spot for a magician.
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  Speaker 1: So if Wemby wants to go there, he can settle
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  Speaker 1: on into a Vegas residency. And when nas Read. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: nas Read, who isn't even the best nas Read in
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  Speaker 1: his own house? When nas Read and Terence Shannon Junior
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  Speaker 1: are outscoring you in the fourth quarter, and I realize
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  Speaker 1: they play on the other team, but they scored more
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  Speaker 1: both of them than Victor Wembanyama did we got a problem?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, but you're being mean. You're being mean. Okay, all right,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I am.
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  Speaker 1: If you need the Aaron Fox and Stephen Castle to
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  Speaker 1: give you a federal bailout and you're at home, then
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  Speaker 1: you're not that guy. Yet you get there at some point.
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  Speaker 1: Possibly it's no guarantee you ever get there. You're not
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  Speaker 1: the super duper star. You're just a basic superstar who's
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  Speaker 1: co dependent in that regard here And why are we
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  Speaker 1: even pretending that he did not serve up on offense
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  Speaker 1: a cold plate of nope, Wemby in this game here,
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  Speaker 1: you got to put on the afterburners. Do better, be better.
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  Speaker 1: We have high standards here, we absolutely do.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, on the other side, the Minnesota side, this was
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  Speaker 1: a quite the shocking change from what the expected outcome was.
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  Speaker 1: You just assume Anthony Edwards the other day it was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: he's not gonna play. He's not gonna play. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be out. Debbie Downer, He's gonna be out
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  Speaker 1: for the first few games of this series, maybe the
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  Speaker 1: entire series and the whole thing. And typically these days
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  Speaker 1: NBA players are so soft. When somebody says the guys
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be out, you say, okay, they're done. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you pull old Jason Tatum there and don't show up
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  Speaker 1: to a game seven. This was game one, So why
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  Speaker 1: would you show up to game one?
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  Speaker 3: It's game one? If guys don't show up to game seven,
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  Speaker 3: why would you show up to a game one?
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  Speaker 1: But there it was, And was it the greatest performance
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  Speaker 1: of Anthony edwards career. No, however, it was good enough
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  Speaker 1: in this game. So the question what does this performance
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  Speaker 1: by ant man due to his status in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: So Anthony Edwards was not even again supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: in the building, going to get around the clock medical treatment,
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  Speaker 1: all the dramatic reporting and all that the doom and
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  Speaker 1: gloom medical reports about NBA players, that he would miss
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  Speaker 1: the first three or four games at best, at best
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  Speaker 1: which means as good as all the rest, And instead
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  Speaker 1: Edward's out there he walked into a phone booth. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even really had phone boosts anymore. He goes into
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  Speaker 1: a phone booth, throws on a cape, and all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden he's able to give Minnesota twenty five minutes. Now,
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  Speaker 1: was it a vintage performance? Not what a vintage performance?
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  Speaker 1: Were there some loose ends that need to be fixed?
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  Speaker 3: Sure? Absolutely? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: However, when the expectation is zero and you do what
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Edwars did that superstar math here and again, I
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  Speaker 1: put that side by side with Jason Tatum. If I
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  Speaker 1: have remember coractink, Joe Missoula on Friday of last week
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  Speaker 1: said Tatum is healthy and we'll play in Game seven. Well,
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend, Tatum was a healthy scratch. He did
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  Speaker 1: not did not play in Game seven. He went a
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  Speaker 1: wall and we know what happened there Boston. He had
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  Speaker 1: the ghost of Jason Tatum there on the sidelines as
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  Speaker 1: a cheerleader. He did not have the outfit on. He
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  Speaker 1: was right there. And then Anthony Edwards goes out there
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  Speaker 1: like a wounded lion. R I guess a wounded timberwolf
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  Speaker 1: who still hunted.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, he.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't just gut it out. He in many ways played
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  Speaker 1: as well offensively. In the fourth quarter, He's scored eleven points.
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  Speaker 1: I know it wasn't all him and all that, but
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  Speaker 1: he was the big man on campus. Anthony Edwards in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter eleven points. And you look at the
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  Speaker 1: shooting seventy one percent in the fourth quarter. And to
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  Speaker 1: put that in perspective, the guy that wasn't even supposed
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  Speaker 1: to play, the guy that wasn't even supposed to play,
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  Speaker 1: Edwards had as many points in the final quarter as
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  Speaker 1: Wemby had the entire night, the entire night. And that
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  Speaker 1: is a status separator, is what that is. And that's
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  Speaker 1: an anti Edwards signature shoe type commercial. That was game one.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't Game seven, it was Game one. So it's
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  Speaker 1: that that kind of thing. He rows up, and so
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  Speaker 1: you do, you do move up a little bit. In
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  Speaker 1: an era where the players are about as soft as
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  Speaker 1: you could possibly be. They should all be sponsored by Marshmallows.
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  Speaker 1: It's refreshing to see someone who's not supposed to play
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  Speaker 1: actually go out there and play. And so in my book,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards leapfrogs up a couple of notches, So good
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  Speaker 1: job by him. Meanwhile, last word, we go to Madison
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  Speaker 1: Square Garden, the mecca in Midtown Manhattan, where Jalen Brunson
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  Speaker 1: had it all going in the first I've hit thirty
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  Speaker 1: five points, but twenty seven of them in the first quarter.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't plan in the NBA. I'm told that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: And the Knickerbockers with a historic run. Now there is
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  Speaker 1: no such thing as momentum, but the Knicks vaporizing the
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  Speaker 1: pathetic Philadelphia twenty six Ers by thirty nine points in
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  Speaker 1: a playoff game. This was not the second night of
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  Speaker 1: a back to back and the fourth and five nights
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  Speaker 1: in January. This is May. It's the NBA playoffs, and
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  Speaker 1: the Sixers quit. They quit in this game. They did,
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  Speaker 1: my god, horrific, absolutely horrific. The next become the first
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  Speaker 1: team in NBA history win three straight postseason games by
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  Speaker 1: at least twenty five points, and they continue on upward
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  Speaker 1: and onward. Here the Knickerbockers, as they dismantled Atlanta and
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  Speaker 1: their opening a playoff series. They shot sixty three percent,
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  Speaker 1: led by forty points, led by as many as forty
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  Speaker 1: points in this game. Og Nnobi had eighteen seven of
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  Speaker 1: eight shooting. Everyone had a great night. It's very easy
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  Speaker 1: to do that when Philadelphia quit embarrassing for the Sixers
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  Speaker 1: for sure, and the excuse makers are saying, now, this
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  Speaker 1: drives me insane. So the excusemakers in the NBA are like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: the Sixers get a pass. They had to play seven games.
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  Speaker 3: They played on Saturday, and then they had to come
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  Speaker 3: back to work on Monday. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: This is like being in some kind of sweat shops
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  Speaker 1: some were making basketball shoes, or you're at some kind
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  Speaker 1: of labor camp in North Korea. So you played, This
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  Speaker 1: is amazing. So you had to play on Saturday at
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the evening or whatever, and then you
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  Speaker 1: come back and you had to play on Monday. You
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  Speaker 1: had a day off. Oh, by god, mercy, mercy. So
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  Speaker 1: the question, I think you know my answer. I've got
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  Speaker 1: a bad poker face. So the question do you give
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  Speaker 1: Joel Embiid and Philadelphia a mulligan? Like many in the
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  Speaker 1: mainstream basketball media seemed to be doing that Game one
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  Speaker 1: you can't really trust them, you can't or you can't
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  Speaker 1: be upset with them. I was going, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: say the Sixers because of Game one against the Knicks,
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  Speaker 1: they just had a bad day. So a mulligan, for
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  Speaker 1: ex Why would you get a mulligan. You didn't compete,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't show up, you didn't seem to care. Give
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  Speaker 1: me a break. This is supposedly you're playing for a championship,
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  Speaker 1: and it's got all this meaning and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's the NBA Playoffs. It's not recess. You're in fourth grade.
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  Speaker 1: You're at recess playing some elementary school basketball. You're not,
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  Speaker 1: and we don't really care if you're tired. You don't
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  Speaker 1: get sympathy for that. In fact, you're supposed to. You're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be able to overcome that. The whole point
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  Speaker 1: is you overcome that. You don't get a do over.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doue over here. Because the Celtics. Oh the
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  Speaker 1: Celtics made the Sixers work in Game seven on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: So bad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just a nightmare. So I guess it's okay that
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  Speaker 1: the Sixers they quit. You don't lose a game by
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  Speaker 1: that many points. You're not down by forty. If you
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  Speaker 1: try it, I'm sorry, you're not okay. And you tell
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  Speaker 1: anyone who knows anything about basketball. If you're competing, even
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  Speaker 1: if you're shorthanded, they weren't shorthanded the Sixers. You don't
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  Speaker 1: end up in that kind of a sinkhole. It doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: They quit Tyrese Maxi was terrible and Joel Enbiid said,
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  Speaker 1: hold my beer. Combined they shot thirty percent, and that's
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  Speaker 1: any way. Any way you cut that up, that's not good.
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  Speaker 1: So the Sixers did not lose their legs. They lost
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  Speaker 1: their will to compete, which is on everybody. It was
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  Speaker 1: royally pathetic, a monarchy type meltdown for the Philadelphia seventy
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  Speaker 1: six ers here. And the playoffs are supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: the old War of Attrition and it's an endurance test,
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  Speaker 1: and Philadelphia failed the beep test in the first sixty second,
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  Speaker 1: So bad job by. You don't roll over like a
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  Speaker 1: housecat and expect a pad on the head. It's not
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  Speaker 1: how this works, I should say, that's not how it
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  Speaker 1: works around here. I'm sure there'll be plenty of fun
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  Speaker 1: boys in the media that will make excuses and it's
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  Speaker 1: okay and it's.
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  Speaker 3: Fine, and so don't blame them. Oh my god, don't
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  Speaker 3: be mean. God. I hate that.
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  Speaker 1: So many of that, so much of that attitude going around.
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  Speaker 1: We don't give out mulligans There's no Mallard mulligan for this.
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  Speaker 1: It's professional. It's basketball. We're not playing pitch pitch putt golf.
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  Speaker 1: There's no windmill here in the mini golf course. These
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  Speaker 1: Sixers were not exhausted. They were exposed. And the question
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  Speaker 1: I had, and I wonder if you had the same question.
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching this game, I said, how the f did
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brown and the Celtics not even without Jason's deep?
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  Speaker 1: How do you not win against the Sixers? Now?
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  Speaker 3: Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: The Celtics obviously have some issues right now, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't like the way they play. They just shoot seventy
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  Speaker 1: five three point shots a game or whatever. Still, that's
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  Speaker 1: an end. If I own the Celtics, I would fire
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  Speaker 1: Joel Mizzoula. After watching the way the Sixers came out
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  Speaker 1: against the Necks, I'd be like, we gotta get rid
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  Speaker 1: of our coach. This is this is unacceptable.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to change it up a little bit here,
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  Speaker 1: and our lead story is out of the brox. We're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna break down the Yankee Oriole game on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: We're not doing that.
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  Speaker 1: However, we did lose one of the great voices of baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Depending on how old you are, this guy, someone's been
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  Speaker 1: around a long time, did it very well and has
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  Speaker 1: now unfortunately crossed over the pearly gates. I assume you've
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  Speaker 1: heard by now, but possibly not John Sterling, the exuberant
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  Speaker 1: radio voice of the New York Yankees radio broadcasts. He
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  Speaker 1: did it with a flare and just had.
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  Speaker 3: His own spin to it.
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  Speaker 1: The home run calls, as he was known for a
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  Speaker 1: big part of Yankee baseball in their last glory days
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  Speaker 1: when they were winning the World Series every couple of
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  Speaker 1: years there when they had Jorge Pasada and Mariano Rivera
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  Speaker 1: and Derek Jeeter and those guys, and we're winning all
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  Speaker 1: the time. Yy cays waiting meaiy gays win all of that.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what he said after wins, when say it
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  Speaker 3: after losses?
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  Speaker 1: And he has died crossing over the Pearly gates there
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  Speaker 1: on Monday eighty seven trips coming in here there and
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  Speaker 1: everywhere from around baseball, Yankee legends, young and old, young
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  Speaker 1: and old, all had something they wanted to say about
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  Speaker 1: John Sterling. Seems everyone has a story about John Sterling,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the golden voice of the Yankees for all of those
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: years on the radio. So that is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. I would like to join in. I have
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  Speaker 1: some thoughts on this, as some of you know that
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: we've had John on the podcast, and I had had
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: John when I used to do a weekend show here.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: We had John Sterling on a few times, very very
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  Speaker 1: kind to me over the years. I didn't interact with
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: him all that often. I did put me a handful
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: of times in person, and was always really cool, was
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: always really cool. So let's get into it. The question
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: how are you going to remember? How are you going
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: to remember Yankee broadcaster John Sterling. So there's always the micro.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: And the macro on this. I've got bedazzled.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Kool aid Man and rare Spice, and we'll combine all
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to make
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: a Broadway show, because that's one of the things that
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: pops in my head when I think about John Sterling
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  Speaker 1: calling Yankee Baseball now number one, number number one, number.
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  Speaker 3: One, number one, numb okay.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I think of John Sterling as what I would call
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: a broadcasters broadcast, if you know what I mean. And
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: don't kid yourself, and we don't need to go too
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  Speaker 1: deep on this. He wasn't playing it straight down the middle.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: That wasn't the way he did it. Many ways to
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  Speaker 1: make a bed, there's more than one, and there's more
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  Speaker 1: than one way to do a broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up with Vin Scully, who attempted to play
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: it right down the middle and all that. John Sterling
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: never attempted to play it right down the middle. You
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: always knew where John Sterling was in relationship to where
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the game was, the score of the game, how the
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: season was going for the Yankees, and Sterling took that approach,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the play it down the middle approach, and he took
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: it like a piece of paper.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: And he kind of.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: He crumbled up the piece of paper and he tossed
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: it into the Hudson, possibly the East River, but I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: think it was the Hudson, and he went full opposite.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: He went the other direction there, and it worked for him.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: He was a debonair guy, well dressed, obviously charismatic as
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the Yankee play by play guy. And in my conversations
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: with John Sterling the few times that we had him
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: on the radio and whatnot, he was fully aware that
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: his audience was not the NPR audience they wanted to show. Okay,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: they wanted to show. You can think who's listening to
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Yankee baseball in the radio as people driving around, people
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: at work that are working the night shift because most
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Yankee games are at night, people that don't have access
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: to television, the blind. I mean, those are the people
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: that are listening to Yankee baseball. So yeah, guys listening
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to you, they're likely going home from work, driving to work,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: they're working the late shift, and all that. These are
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Yankee hardos, and Sterling embraced that he did. And he
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: did that broadcast for the diehard, the faithful Brox Bomber fans,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: and he fed them a study diet of theater. His
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: play by play technique was theatrical, is the word I
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: will use here. He was not a broadcaster per se.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: He was a one man Broadway production Yankees winning Yankees,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and he had a press box seat. And most announcers
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: just described the moment. They just describe what's going on.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Sterling decorated it.
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  Speaker 3: He did. He bedazzled the broadcast and.
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  Speaker 1: Some conversations via text with some friends of mine who
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: do that kind of work for a living. And the
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  Speaker 1: thing that was noted to me, And I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a fair point. Most of Sterling's career as a broadcaster
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: was before social media. Yet he provided. In the old days,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: we used to play a lot of those those cuts,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: the play by play cuts on the radio. He had updates,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: live updates. In the old days, stations had live updates,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: and so we'd play those things at night. And the
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: late great Frank Pollock, may he rest in peace. Frank's
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: probably busting John Sterling's balls right now at some kind
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: of a buffet on the other side right there, yapp
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: into each other. But Frank Pollck was my boardop for years,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and Frank was a legend. He was a chick hern,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: a famous Laker broadcaster his boardop. And we had so
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: much fun when Frank was my board up because we
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: would just do the Yankee rundown.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: And it wasn't because we were just trying to kill time.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: We just loved all the stupid drops that John Sterling
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: provided us. But he bedazzled the broadcast. He put jazz
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: hands off the whole thing. He didn't just call the game,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: arised the broadcast and in the Big Apple. You know
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: you got a guy like Sterlings. Oh this is what
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: are you doing here? It's just the Yankees. This is
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the Wall Street crowd, like the Mets of the Long
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Island construction workers and the Yankees of the Wall Street people.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: And all that.
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  Speaker 1: And he laid that that shtick, as my grandfather would say,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: that shtikla. He laid that on thicker than a piece
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  Speaker 1: of cheesecake, just really thick the New York cheese cake
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  Speaker 1: every night. And to his credit, and this is the
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  Speaker 1: way you're supposed to do it. And the people that
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: know what they're doing every night, you treat it like
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: it's the most important broadcast, and not just game seventy
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  Speaker 1: seven of one hundred and sixty two and you're playing
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle and it's ten thirty at night in New
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  Speaker 1: York and no one's listening.
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  Speaker 3: You treat it differently. You treat it as it matters.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: And he was larger than life, he louder than life,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and unapologetically just gave you more. John Sterling, the last
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: true ringmaster of the theatrical baseball radio broadcast. And people
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: die and said, well, they'll never be another one like them.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: And that's generally true for all of us. We're all individuals, right,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: We're all individuals in terms of the skill set. Though
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: there can never be another John Sterling. He would not
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  Speaker 1: be allowed to work the corporate bullcrap. John Sterling is
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: a product of his era. Obvious, we're all products of
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: our era. And he came in when sports was a
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: mom and pop operation, which meant people that owned teams
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: were regular people. They weren't conglaborates, they weren't hedge funds,
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  Speaker 1: and they appreciated that type of work. Now, oh my god,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: you're embursing the brand.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: What are you doing? And even no.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: George Steinbrenner, the guy that was there that hired John Sterling,
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  Speaker 1: has been dead for many years. It's still a family business.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: The kids kept John Sterling employed up until just a
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: few years ago when he could no longer do it now,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: flipping the page, but not far.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: As it is the hour of t tribute to the Great.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: John Sterling, the late great John Sterling, who passed away
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: this week at the age of eighty seven. So what
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: was the secret sauce that made John Sterling such a
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  Speaker 1: unique character in Yankee broadcasting. He's just baseball broadcasting in general,
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  Speaker 1: So this is simple. He didn't just call a game,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: he performed it. Now, I worked with a guy and
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I forget his name. I did a TV show with
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: him for a couple of years, and he said to me,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: this is not John Sterling. But he said to me,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the key is to make it all about you. I
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: think his name was Looney or something like that. Well, anyway,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: it turns out that John Sterling made it all about
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  Speaker 1: him and it worked.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: It worked right.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: And most broadcasters kind of melted into the background and
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: you're whispering the game, and you're giving the out of
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  Speaker 1: town scoreboard, and you're reading all that like it's a library.
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  Speaker 1: John Sterling, though he broadcast the game as if he
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: was crashing through a wall like that picture shaped kool
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: aid Man shouting oh yeah, loud and proud, And you
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: weren't tuning in for the Yankees, per se, you were
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: tuning in for the Sterling cinematic universe, where every at bat,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: every at bat was what it was, a brand launch,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: and every player had a Marvel style origin story, every
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: one of them. Right, home run, please come on? That
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: wasn't just a home run? What do you and nive? No,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: That was a fireworks show with catchphrases attached. Hey mom
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  Speaker 1: from a rod, a burn, baby burn, all of them
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  Speaker 1: all rise, Here comes the Judge, the Giambino, the thriller
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: from Godzella for Hideki Matsu. Now, my two favorites are
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: not mentioned very often because they're not great ballplayers. My
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: two favorite calls that John Sterling had that I repeated
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: for many years, in fact I often still repeat them,
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  Speaker 1: is one for Curtis Granderson, the Grande Man can the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: grand a man can loved it. And Robbie Cano and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: all that was. When Canoe would hit a home run,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: he'd say Robbie Cano, don't you know. And that was it.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: And when the game dragged, Sterling said, we need more juice.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I'll give you some more juice. I remember I was
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: visiting my brother who lives in New York, and I
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: was we were in a with my car, but we
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: were driving around and the guy who in the car
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: it was like a taxi a long time ago, and
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: they had the Yankee game on and it was just
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the start of the Yankee broadcast and John Sterling did
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: about ten minutes of commercials.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: At the start, he'd be like.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Yankee Baseball is not to you, I BMW and then
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: you know, you're like seventeen different car dealerships. He'd do
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: a bunch of financial companies because of the Wall Street
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: crowd and all that. It was just it was hilarious, right,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: but he was unapologetically himself. And you know, why fit in?
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: As the I learned this from doctor Seuss. Why fit in?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: When we were born to stand out right? And Sterling
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: didn't describe the moment he became the moment. Now, in
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: closing on this tribute to John Sterling, the question now,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: is is it true that John Sterling was a friend
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: of the show, so I would say, yes, John Sterling
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: was not listen. We didn't have him on all the
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: time and all that. John Sterling, I interviewed him a
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: few times, and when you chatted with him. The thing
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I will say about this Sterling, and I've been lucky
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: enough to meet some of these people that are big
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: time broadcasters, and a lot of them are total schmucks.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: They're just douchebags, complete a holes. You don't want to
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: deal with these people, just bad people. John Sterling, My
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: interaction with him was very positive.
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  Speaker 3: I met him.
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  Speaker 1: In Anaheim at an Angel Yankee game back in the
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: glory days of the Yankees, when I was out of
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the games all the time, and I introduced myself and
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: he seemed to genuinely care what I was doing. I'm
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: sure he didn't give a rats ask what I was doing,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: but he seemed he seemed to care what I was doing.
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  Speaker 1: And he gave me his phone number, say if he
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: never need anything, give me a call. I'd love to
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: go on your show or whatever. So I said, okay,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: And did I use the call the number all the time.
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  Speaker 2: No.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: It was like a rare spice, you know, rare spice.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: You don't use all the time. It's a rare spice.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Only certain recipes require a rare spice. So I didn't
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  Speaker 1: call him all the time. And the fact that just
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: gave me the number and he always answered or either
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: called back, and that that's very And he had to
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: leave a voicemail. He didn't do text, didn't do the text,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: so you had to do the voicemail and all that,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and he'd call you right.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Back and he'd add, hello, this is John and all that.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: And we had him on Fox Sports Radio a couple
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: times when I was doing some weekend shows. We had
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  Speaker 1: him on the fifth hour a couple of years back.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: And every time I reached out to him, he was like,
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  Speaker 1: I can do it. Here's the times I can do it.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to do it. He never turned me down
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  Speaker 1: one time, and he certainly could have and he didn't.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: And I think part of it was he was kind
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: of lonely unfortunately at the end there he was just
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: kind of hanging out watching reruns of old movies and
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: stuff at night. I don't know, but he was very
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: nice to me, and I would give him on my
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: report card, John Sterling, I wrote down Mensch with a
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: not a you know, not a capitol m.
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  Speaker 3: Mensch, a mensch on the bench.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: If you will here underline it twice, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to just a just a good guy. And he once
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: told me, and I mentioned that when I was driving around,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I wasn't driving. Somebody else was driving. We were in
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: New York in a cab and they had the beginning
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: of the Yankee broadcast and they had like ten minutes
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: of commercial. I was like, my god, was this ridiculous?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Which sometimes sounds like our show during super Bowl week
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: or whatever, but I was like whatever, And John gave
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: me this whole lecture about how he's like, listen, the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: most important thing. He summed up this tremendous wisdom. He said,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the most important thing is to sell the soap. You
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: gotta sell the soap. And that's the line I took
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: away from that conversation, the last one we had on
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the podcast a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 3: And that's it.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, nine words, The most important thing is to
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: sell the soap.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: That's it. Nine words.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: That's all you got, and the Hall of Fame wisdom
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: by John Sterling. And you can't do that with an algorithm.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I don't care how great your AI is You can't
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: recreate John Sterling, and not a focus group. You can't.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: You just can't do it. It'll never happen again.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Because until baseball, these sports leagues go back to the
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: mom and pop days, which I don't see that ever
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: happening in my lifetime. The corporations won't allow it. If
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: you say anything on the edge, you get a phone call,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: you get a text message, Hey, ease up on these guys.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Well, even when I.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Did it, there was a game there was like seven
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: errors in a game and I was ripping the defense
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: and I pointed that out and then they they got
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: upset with me. But anyway, Sterling, good for a life
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: well lived for John Sterley. Too many broadcasters today sound
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: like elevator music and they're afraid to wake up the baby,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: and there.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: They're whispering like they're golf announcers.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: And John Sterling woke up the whole building and didn't care.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: And that was it. And there were some tremendous bloopers.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: You know, John's vision wasn't very good effect. The last
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: time I saw him in person was a Yankee Dodger
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: game at Yankee Stadium a couple of years at Dodger
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: stadium rather a couple years back, and I kind of
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: snuck in the back of the Yankee radio booth and
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: John was calling the game off the television, which was fine,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: except sometimes the TV is a little delayed on that.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: And of course the most famous John Sterling blooper was
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: when I think it was Justin Turner was playing for
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox and he fouled the ball back to
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: the press box and it joinked off John Sterling's head
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: while he was calling. He didn't even he was like
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: because he wasn't paying attention. It was like, but rest
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: in peace. John Sterling just a tremendous character in our lives,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and it was great to I didn't obviously grow up
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: in New York, didn't live in New York, heard him
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: on the Internet and whatnot over the years and when
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I visited family there, So rest in peace, John Sterling.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am eleven pm Pacific.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. Here
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: we got to.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: The third guy, this is one gets grilled.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: Koopero Eagles wide receiver Defonta Smith was asked about the
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: prospect of being the unquestioned number one receiver in Philly.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: If the team were to trade AJ Brown, Smith's sidestep
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: by saying he just goes out there and does his job.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: That's a non answer answer, Coop, that's a non answer answer.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: That's right, Yes, Ben, is Smith a number one guy?
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: No, but it doesn't matter because they don't throw the
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: ball like a traditional NFL team throws the ball because
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurst doesn't play that way, so it's irrelevant.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: They don't.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: The whole reason to get rid of AJ Brown is
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: they don't need a number one receiver because they don't
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: throw the volume of passes to even benefit having a
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: number one receiver.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: Next, it was reported on Sunday that the real that
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: real roster changes are coming to the Denver Nuggets as
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: opposed to fake ones. Yeah, I guess, ok, and that
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: cause will be accepted for anyone other than Jokich.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Ben, do you think Jamal Murray has done in Denver?
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Listen the way he played at the end of that game, Okay,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: or the last.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: I got rid of I'm tried him.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even let him go back to Denver the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: way he played in that game. So yeah, they got
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: to do something. They got a couple more years to
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: play with with Jokish before this thing completely goes to
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: hell and the Nuggets sucked, so you might as well
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: do whatever you can to get a championship roster around him.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: Next, the Oklahoma City Thunder have climbed to sixteen point
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: favorites over the Lakers in Game one. Do you really
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: think the matchup is this lopsided coop?
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: If they don't win by thirty points in every game,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: it's a win for the Lakers? Yours saying the Thunder
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: are that much better. They should win every game by
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: thirty points over the Lakers.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: No contest. How did we do fail this dish shop?
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: You know it's true?
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: What a he know?
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: It's a reality coop, real talk, real talk that the
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: guy that called the show.
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  Speaker 1: Jed, who Fled's gonna be one of our contestats? Hello
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  Speaker 1: Jed from the Redneck Riviera. Yeah, I'm here Redneck Riviera.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, I gotta dip in my mouth for sure. Who
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  Speaker 3: do you want to partner up with? Quickly? Just okay?
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  Speaker 3: All right. That's a first bad decision. Well, not the first.
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  Speaker 3: You've made many bad decisions. Lorena. We have one two
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  Speaker 3: or three? Lorena, one two or three? Number three? All right?
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  Speaker 1: You have picked far Out Dave, who was a no
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  Speaker 1: show at the Mallard meet and greet despite saying he
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  Speaker 1: was going to be there.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, far out Dave. Hi, I was gonna be there
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  Speaker 3: till my girlfriend said she wouldn't take me. She had
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  Speaker 3: to give her boyfriend a ride somewhere. Wait, so your
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  Speaker 3: girlfriend has a boyfriend. Yep, h interesting. Okay, but you
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  Speaker 3: would you? That's why you're far out there? Would you?
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  Speaker 3: You're partying with me? Or Lorena?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Lorena is awesome, but I guess Hi, Lorena,
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Go all right, quickly. What are the categories here? Cool? Quickly? Please?
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  Speaker 5: All right, gentlemen, this is the Adele edition of Malor'smount
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  Speaker 5: of Money.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Sports Radio. You think Adele. That's right. She turns
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  Speaker 3: thirty eight years old today. My gosh, she's so old.
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  Speaker 5: The categories are hometown glory, rumor has it someone like you?
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  Speaker 5: And turning tables. Oh and let's see, Jed, which category
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  Speaker 5: would you like?
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna see rolling in the deep, so I guess
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  Speaker 3: I'll turn the tables all right? And Dave, how about you?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Okay everyone, hold on, okay, do not hang up, or
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  Speaker 1: you are disqualified. We will have Malors Mountain of Money.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
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  Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of Money. Hello, do you have what it
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  Speaker 2: takes the get to the top? Probably?
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  Speaker 4: Not?
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  Speaker 3: All right? Right to the game.
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  Speaker 1: We've got Jed who fled from the Redneck Riviera, and
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  Speaker 1: he is matched up with Coop and far out Dave,
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  Speaker 1: whose girlfriend would not take him to the Malor Meet
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  Speaker 1: and greet because her boyfriend or.
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  Speaker 3: His Yeah, I guess her real boyfriend didn't want that
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  Speaker 3: to happen. Heyway, all right, let's go. What are we
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  Speaker 3: doing here? Coop quickly?
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  Speaker 5: All right, Jed? We have turning tables. These athletes all
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  Speaker 5: ended up playing for sworn rivals. Are you ready?
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  Speaker 3: Weird?
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  Speaker 1: All?
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  Speaker 3: Are you go? On speakerphone? Get off speakerphone? All right?
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  Speaker 5: Forty five seconds let's begin, all right. Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 5: quarterback for the Packers were number four Brett Parker.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, this guy, his nickname was the Big Cactus.
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  Speaker 5: When he left the Lakers and played for the Celtics.
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  Speaker 3: Center with Kobe that's a terrible crew.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, this guy was a wide receiver for
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  Speaker 5: the Eagles. He played in the Super with them, then
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  Speaker 5: he went to the no Then he went to the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 5: He also played for the forty nine ers. Yes, this
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  Speaker 5: guy was a cornerback for the New York Jets, and
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  Speaker 5: then he went to the Patriots. You don't want to
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  Speaker 5: be stuck on his island. Yes, this guy was a
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  Speaker 5: legendary drinker for the Red Sox and then the Yankees.
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  Speaker 3: Comm any No, all right, we'll skip it. Uh, this
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  Speaker 3: guy was on the Red size.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: You should have said he ate fried chicken every day.
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  Speaker 3: You wait bogs was the one that we wait chicken
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  Speaker 3: every day.
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  Speaker 1: There was a famous cheating scanner with Margot Adams.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we don't have time for the chick scan alright,
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  Speaker 3: I just remember that. What do we do far out?
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  Speaker 2: Dave?
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  Speaker 3: You picked something?
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  Speaker 1: Why is everyone talking?
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to do a damn game. Yeah, David, Why
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of a game show? What are you doing, Dave?
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  Speaker 3: Get your grandma's I'm getting yelled at. Oh my getting
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  Speaker 3: yelled at by the girlfriend. I'm ready to go. All right,
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  Speaker 3: go ahead, let's go, okay, something like you.
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  Speaker 1: These athletes all have children who followed in their footsteps.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready, Dave? Al right? Forty five seconds? Run away.
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  Speaker 3: His nickname is prime Time.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, great boxers, sting like a bee, float like a butter. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he's on the NFL on Fox. He played for the
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  Speaker 1: old La Raiders. He's still on there with Yes. His
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  Speaker 1: his kids are Peyton and Eli. He played for the
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  Speaker 1: Saints RP. Yeah, that is correct. Old manager of the
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  Speaker 1: Montreal Expos. His kid is Moyses. He also was a
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  Speaker 1: great player for the Expo.
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  Speaker 3: What's his first name? We need the first name?
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  Speaker 1: Gold say Warrior player shot foul shots underhanded in the
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  Speaker 1: seventies and the eighties.
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  Speaker 3: White there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, his kids Clay for the Warriors. He's a Laker legend.
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  Speaker 1: What haiti?
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  Speaker 3: All right? We got to leave, all right? Jed?
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  Speaker 5: Would you like rumor? Has it our hometown glory? I
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  Speaker 5: know it's Felipe Lou Okay, j oh why don't you.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't touch it, Jed.
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  Speaker 3: Would you like a hometown Gloria? Rumor has it?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Rumor has it?
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  Speaker 5: These athletes were all rumored to have used peds. Uh
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  Speaker 5: forty five seconds on the clock. List began quarterback for
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  Speaker 5: the Colts and the Broncos. Yes, this guy was a
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  Speaker 5: slugger for the Cardinals, then the Angels.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Albert.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, this guy's nickname was the Rocket. He pitched for
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  Speaker 5: the Red Sox and the Yankees. Yes, this guy was
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  Speaker 5: a bald linebacker for the Steelers.
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  Speaker 3: He was huge.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, this guy had blonde hair, long blonde hair. Linebacker
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  Speaker 5: for the Packers. Yes, this guy was the brother of Aaron,
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  Speaker 5: the manager of the Yankees. Yes, this guy was married
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  Speaker 5: to Halle Berry. He was an outfielder for the Braves.
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  Speaker 5: And then yes, whoa, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, let's go, here we go, Here we go day,
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  Speaker 1: All right, shut up, you're on hold, far up, all right,
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  Speaker 1: all right, all right, far out, Dave, Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: They all won championships in their hometowns. Linebacker for the
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. His last name is a canned meet in
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies.
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  Speaker 3: Great linebacker, Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Great picked off Peyton Manning to win the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: for the New Orleans Saints and knownight no safety for
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  Speaker 1: safety for the Saints, closer for the athletics. Seat gave up,
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  Speaker 1: gave up Dennis Eckersley's home run, All stop, go crab,
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  Speaker 1: stood up the clock that's on