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  Speaker 1: If you had Oklahoma City playing the Knicks in the
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think we are we good.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're good. No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, all right. I don't look at the rundown.
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  Speaker 1: I make my own rundown, don't. I've never looked at
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  Speaker 1: the rundown once. Whop, don't even give me the rundown anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even bother looking because I don't. I told you,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're good now, Now we move on to
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  Speaker 1: the meat of the matter. And what is the meat
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  Speaker 1: of the matter. Well, that would be the big event.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't tell you how many times I have
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  Speaker 1: to hear Game seven the two greatest words in sports.
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  Speaker 3: My fatast am I the only one of the things.
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  Speaker 1: Most of these Game sevens blow like, most of these
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  Speaker 1: Game sevens are a complete waste of time. Now, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't as bad as some of the other Game sevens
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend, But we start out in Oklahoma where
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  Speaker 1: we did have Game seven. How the West was won
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  Speaker 1: and that was the big event. Oh, you gotta clear
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  Speaker 1: your whole your whole schedule, I guess spend your whole
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  Speaker 1: time as a couch potender watching Oklahoma City and San Antonio.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know if you were watching this or not.
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  Speaker 1: I made sure that I watched. I I'm a loser,
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  Speaker 1: I admit that, so I.
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  Speaker 3: Checked it out.
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  Speaker 1: And Victor Wembuanyam, I'm sure you know by now I
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  Speaker 1: had a big gaming to twenty two points. And the
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  Speaker 1: real hero if there is such a thing for San
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  Speaker 1: Antonio Julian Champenny. Now, if you had a name that
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  Speaker 1: is spelled like Champagne and you pronounce champennie, I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to know which relative f that up. Because you have
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  Speaker 1: a name Champagne. That's how it looks if you look
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  Speaker 1: at the spelling, obviously like Champagne and then it pronounced Champenny.
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  Speaker 3: Who goofed? I've got to know.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, he had eighteen of his twenty points off the
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  Speaker 1: money ball, and the Spurs win. They never trailed in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, so they have advanced.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: They despite all the odds saying Oklahoma City at home, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's so hard to beat the champion at home. But
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  Speaker 1: the game seven all you can't do it. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio won. So they went on the road and
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  Speaker 1: they will now host the Knickerbockers in game number one
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  Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals that'll be on Wednesday. Now, The
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  Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room as we
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  Speaker 1: look back to the big event of the weekend and
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  Speaker 1: SGA had solid stats. He didn't get to the line
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  Speaker 1: quite as much as he normally does at home, and
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't twenty times. It was a little less than that,
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  Speaker 1: actually a lot less than that. However, he isn't not
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  Speaker 1: the one that killed him. He didn't play particularly great
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch. There were a couple of plays late
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  Speaker 1: in the game that I jotted down on the notes
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  Speaker 1: app that were not very impressive. However, if you look
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  Speaker 1: at the full picture here and everything that went down,
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  Speaker 1: the story is not about SGA sucking. The story is
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  Speaker 1: about his partner in crime, and that would be Chet
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  Speaker 1: Holmgren getting absolutely cooked. For his play home, Grid had
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  Speaker 1: four points, four rebounds. He played thirty three minutes. Thirty
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  Speaker 1: three minutes, he had four points.
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  Speaker 3: What was he doing?
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  Speaker 1: Was he picking his nose during the Seriously, how do
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  Speaker 1: you only have four points and four rebounds the guys seven.
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  Speaker 3: To one or something like that? Wow?
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  Speaker 1: All right, so that is a good jumping out point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question is it fair or foul?
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  Speaker 1: Fair or foul to pin this devastation situations, devastating Thunder
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  Speaker 1: loss in Game seven on Chet Holmgren, who was getting
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  Speaker 1: absolutely cooked after the game on Saturday and all the
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  Speaker 1: way through now as we're doing the show in real time.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts, I've got inflatable summer fling and instruction manual,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all Let me.
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  Speaker 3: Put this guy on hold one second, say here we go.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I put all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to go pop is what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna go pop, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So a after an expedited booth review, a very quick
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  Speaker 1: booth review, we have determined this is one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: fair to char broil Chet Holmgren. Okay, in fact, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he's been ripped enough. He plays in Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 1: this was a big market team. He would be killed
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  Speaker 1: more and should he deserves it. The guys about to
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  Speaker 1: jumpstart a two hundred forty million dollar contract. He's a
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and forty million dollar player in According to Thunder,
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  Speaker 1: and you had this ultimate heavyweight marquee, the Spurs and
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  Speaker 1: the Thunder Game seven.
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  Speaker 3: The winner goes to the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 1: Right above the marquee and you had Homegren who was
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  Speaker 1: tasked with trying to slow down win Banyama Wimby.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not just game seven.
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  Speaker 1: The thing about this that people said, wow, was he
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  Speaker 1: played a bad Game seven.
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  Speaker 3: Give the guy a pass.
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  Speaker 1: He sucked in game six, he was trashing Game six,
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  Speaker 1: home Gren in game six, and in Game seven with
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  Speaker 1: a ticket to the NBA Finals on.
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  Speaker 3: The line, how did that go? Don't ask? It was
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  Speaker 3: cover your eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Bad for chet Holgan, the pride of Minnesota as he
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  Speaker 1: went out there and combined he had four points in
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  Speaker 1: the closeout game, which didn't turn out to be a
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  Speaker 1: close out game Game seven, they had another close out
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  Speaker 1: game Game six. He had ten, so fourteen total points
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  Speaker 1: over game six and game seven, and while he was
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  Speaker 1: out there was minus twelve for the Thunder with him
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  Speaker 1: on the court. Meanwhile, Victor wm Banyama ended up with
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  Speaker 1: fifty points over the final two games and was plus twenty.
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  Speaker 3: So you look at juxtapose these.
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  Speaker 1: Two guys and you're like, wow, that's a thirty two
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  Speaker 1: point difference right there.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty two point difference. Now, let's use some malor math.
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  Speaker 1: Based on malor math, in the final two games of
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  Speaker 1: the Western Finals, Victor Wembanyama was seventy two percent better
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  Speaker 1: than Chet Holmgren offensively, and in terms of the plus
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  Speaker 1: minus and all that stuff, Wemby was sixty six point
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  Speaker 1: six percent better.
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  Speaker 3: The Sign of the Devil.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this was not not a matchup. This was a
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  Speaker 1: talent audit. It was a wake up call for Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City because Wemby's not going anywhere unless he gets hurt.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna be around for a while. And so this
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  Speaker 3: was an audit.
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  Speaker 1: And they did a home inspection and Chet failed the
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  Speaker 1: home inspection.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: And you talk about the slim Towers lacking super powers,
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  Speaker 1: and that's ched Holmre and one of his nicknames, these
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  Speaker 1: slim power didn't work out so well there for him
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  Speaker 1: in these last two games of the Western Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 3: So, if you're.
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  Speaker 1: Great, this is kind of a general If you're great,
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  Speaker 1: you rise to the occasion. Does anyone disagree with that?
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  Speaker 1: If you're truly great, you rise to the occasion most
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  Speaker 1: of the time. Most of the time, you rise to
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  Speaker 1: the occasion. And when you're needed and it matters most,
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  Speaker 1: you get it done.
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  Speaker 3: That's why you get the big money.
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  Speaker 1: And if this were a boxing match, this matchup would
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  Speaker 1: have been called the unicorn versus the unicycle because Wemby
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  Speaker 1: took him for a ride, ched holmbred just like a
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  Speaker 1: nice unicycle. And you look at the tail of the tape.
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  Speaker 1: One of these guys glides along and the other one wobbles.
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  Speaker 3: Wobble, wobble, wobble is how that goes there.
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  Speaker 1: And you saw in this Western Finals, the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of games here, you saw which is which is? Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City had two chain answers to win one game in advance,
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  Speaker 1: and the common denominator ched Holmgren writing the vomit comet,
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  Speaker 1: and man was he bad? And he played like a
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  Speaker 1: budget version of Wemby that ships without batteries. They're so cheap.
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  Speaker 1: They don't even give you the batteries there, Well, I
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  Speaker 1: want the battery. We got to go buy the battery
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  Speaker 1: I want. I don't want to buy the batter I
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  Speaker 1: bought the product. Give me the damn product with the batteries.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want it. And he really was exposed, right,
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  Speaker 1: and he can say, was it old tech versus new tech?
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  Speaker 1: You can make that analogy that Wemby's the iPhone pro
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  Speaker 1: Max whatever it is called these days, And then check
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  Speaker 1: the way he played the last couple of games of
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  Speaker 1: the Western Finals. Chet Holmgren like a dusty old rotary phone,
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  Speaker 1: just dusty, dusty, dusty. And one guy's a generational unicorn
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  Speaker 1: and the other guy just a really tall guy that
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  Speaker 1: got two hundred and forty million dollars. Good for him,
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  Speaker 1: Wemby Slenderman domination, right, Chet is slender and you need
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  Speaker 1: some prayers, you need some rosary beads and that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff to help him out there. And you simply
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  Speaker 1: can't guard the generational alien allegedly. Oh, they didn't have
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  Speaker 1: the greatest performance of all time. At the end, he
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  Speaker 1: did enough. And then you got Ched Holmgren, who's built
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  Speaker 1: like a coat rack, and that's not a compliment. And
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  Speaker 1: so Wemby, who you can shove around, although didn't happen
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  Speaker 1: much the last couple of games there, and so Cheded
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  Speaker 1: Holmgren playing like the inflatable tube man. You ever seen
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  Speaker 1: that when you go buy a car dealership they have
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  Speaker 1: the tube Yeah, the tube man with the arms flailing
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  Speaker 1: away there, that's how Ched Holmgren played, although I think
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  Speaker 1: tube man would have done better. An inflatable tube man
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  Speaker 1: would have done more defensively to stop Victor Wembanyama meanwhile
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  Speaker 1: flipping the page. But we're not going far here, No
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  Speaker 1: we're not, because for months and months and months we
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  Speaker 1: have been fed propagated. You and I have been fed
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  Speaker 1: propaganda the next great dynasty is just getting started in
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, and that these are the salad days, these
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  Speaker 1: are the glory days.
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  Speaker 3: They're here again for the.
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  Speaker 1: Thunder And turns out not so fast, my friend, oops,
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  Speaker 1: who goofed?
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  Speaker 3: I've got to know. So the question, now here's the question.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to the Shade jogis Alexander thunder dynasty?
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  Speaker 3: What happened to it?
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  Speaker 1: So something strange happened on the road to immortality. That's
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  Speaker 1: something odd happened here Oklahoma City. I'm determined based on
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  Speaker 1: a minutes long mall of investigation. They lost cell service
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  Speaker 1: and they took the wrong exit to Thunder. They were
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  Speaker 1: going about eighty five miles an hour on the interstate
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  Speaker 1: and they sell went out. They were in a kind
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  Speaker 1: of shady part of town. And then so they took
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  Speaker 1: the wrong exit and they couldn't find their way back.
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  Speaker 1: He could not find an on ramp. And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: So they sucked at a time you absolutely cannot suck
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  Speaker 1: elimination time, two close out chances and oerover two obviously,
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  Speaker 1: two face plants, and just pathetic blown out in the
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  Speaker 1: Alamo and Game six non competitive. It was like they
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  Speaker 1: were re enacting the wrong part of history in the Alamo,
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  Speaker 1: and then in Game seven at home. As we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about here, in Game seven, the Thunder never had a
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  Speaker 1: lead in the fourth court. You know, they never had
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  Speaker 1: a lead in the fourth quarter, not one lead in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 3: And so they lose.
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  Speaker 1: And yet again here we are sitting yapping away as well.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a dynasty. That's a disappearing act, is what
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  Speaker 1: it was for the Thunder. So all thunder, no lightning,
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  Speaker 1: just a lot of noise. And it turns out the
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  Speaker 1: SGA dynasty is on ice right now. It was more
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  Speaker 1: of a limited limited series, if you will, not a
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  Speaker 1: multi season epic. He did not, and of course they'll
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  Speaker 1: always have twenty twenty five, that is true, and they
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  Speaker 1: did win, and all those wonderful gigabytes that were wasted online,
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  Speaker 1: this is the next big thing.
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  Speaker 3: No one's gonna stop the Thunder. Nobody can beat the Thunder.
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  Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah blah, shove it up, you Tuckers. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So it turns out that was what happened in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five was the equivalent of like a nice summer fling,
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  Speaker 1: a nice romance kind of summer get together, have a
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  Speaker 1: good time.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. And you're like, well, that's true love. No,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't true.
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  Speaker 1: And this happens every time a team wins a championship
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA. So somebody writes, Oh, this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be the beginning of the next big thing, and we'd
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  Speaker 1: like to welcome the Thunder to the Championship Graveyard or
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  Speaker 1: the Dynasty Graveyard, not the Championship gave yard, but the
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  Speaker 1: dynasty graveyard. And I know there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: see that. I'm very happy about this. This is now
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  Speaker 1: the third straight new dynasty. I went back and looked
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  Speaker 1: at my notes. This is the third consecutive year that
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  Speaker 1: a new dynasty in the NBA has gone kaput.
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  Speaker 3: See you later.
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  Speaker 1: They flamed out before title number two. You might remember
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  Speaker 1: we we just talked about the Thunder, but prior to that,
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  Speaker 1: the Loston Celtics. Oh they're so set up. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: that's Celtics with Tatum and Brown and then snap, crackle pop.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's chatter the Celtics you're gonna trade Jalen Brown.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's pretty much dun skis. It would appear,
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  Speaker 1: and then you got the Nuggets, Remember the Nuggets, nicolea Jokicic.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody can stop the joker. Nobody can stop him. The
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  Speaker 1: Trilogy of Tease, it turned out, and that did not
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  Speaker 1: work out. Everyone loves the next big thing, the next
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  Speaker 1: shiny thing, the next big thing here until the next
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  Speaker 1: big thing doesn't get it done.
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  Speaker 3: And with SGA and a gaggle, I think.
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  Speaker 1: They have like thirteen first round picks over the next
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  Speaker 1: four or five years, the gaggle of picks, the thunder
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  Speaker 1: will continue to hang around. I'm not gonna sit here
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  Speaker 1: and say they're not gonna hang around saying to be
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  Speaker 1: a dynasty, we all know the rules here. The rules
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  Speaker 1: are pretty simple. You need to win three straight or
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  Speaker 1: three out of four, win two and then lose one
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  Speaker 1: and then win a third. There you go, that's a dynasty.
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  Speaker 1: You don't win a dynasty title with one championship and
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  Speaker 1: then a nice brochure.
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  Speaker 3: You don't. That doesn't count.
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  Speaker 1: A right last word to the san Antonio side of things.
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  Speaker 1: Another popular storyline from the media elites in the NBA
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  Speaker 1: was all about the arrival and it's too soon.
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  Speaker 3: They're ahead of schedule.
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  Speaker 1: That I'm talking about the Spurs here, of course, So
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  Speaker 1: the question to look at the San Antonio side of things,
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  Speaker 1: are these Spurs truly ahead of schedule?
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  Speaker 3: In air quotes.
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  Speaker 1: Making the NBA Finals against the Knickerbockers starting on Wednesday night?
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  Speaker 1: So San Antonio was not supposed to be here. Now
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  Speaker 1: that's not my opinion, that's the other genius's opinion. I
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  Speaker 1: thought they would win Game six and lose Game seven,
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  Speaker 1: so I thought Oklahoma was gonna win, and so they
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  Speaker 1: won in Game seven.
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  Speaker 3: Good for them.
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather see the Spurs and the Thunder in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals. The idea that there's somehow ahead of schedule
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  Speaker 1: is I can't say what i'd like to how about
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  Speaker 1: it's a Bowl shoy I can say that.
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  Speaker 3: I can't say the other thing I want to say.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's horse manure, is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, San Antonio was not supposed to be here,
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  Speaker 1: which is why they're exactly here.
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  Speaker 3: That's why.
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  Speaker 1: That's why, and predictions it's like astrology for sports nerds
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  Speaker 1: is what it is, and they love it. And there's
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  Speaker 1: factions of the sports media. They have all these models,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: these computer models with AI and you know, here are
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: your chances of making You.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Have to pay your news. You have to pay your
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: news enough, what's wrong with you?
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: And it's all just it's about the same or worse
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: than a random guess. I say, maybe barely better than
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: a random guess, but not much, not much. And everyone
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: is flying by the seat of their pants. That's really
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the lesson on these They haven't done enough. They can't win.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Everyone is just flying by the seat of their pants,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and that's it. They're ad libbing. Nobody knows anything. They
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: just don't. The Spurs didn't just get ahead of schedule,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: according to the top media dopes. They tore the schedule
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: up and they threw it down in the river, and
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: they told the league, deal with it.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: That's it. We're here, so you know, suck it. What
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: are you gonna do? You know?
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And they skipped the line like they knew the bouncer,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: like the bouncer was a cousin or something like that.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I know the bouncer, Yeah, we're good, completely ignoring the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: instruction manual. How could they possibly ignore the instruction manual
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: about needing experience to make the finals and all that stuff,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: and so again, so much for paying your dues.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: They didn't really pay their dues.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Oh man, So and we can, I guess we can
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: stop yapping about Whimby being the next thing because he's
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: in the finals now, so he can't be the next
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: thing if he's here.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: And this is the.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: First Spurs Finals appearance since that grumpy old man Greg
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Popovich was the coach in twenty fourteen, and they had
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Tim Duncan and Tony Parker and Manu into all those players,
• 19:21
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• 19:24
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• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Is it level two? Is it level three? What level
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: is it? I don't know.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Everyone predicted patience. Oh, you gotta have patients. And when
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Banyama's like, oh god, there's some tru some dominance, we'll
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: go get some dominance and there you go.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: And so this is a renaissance.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: The Spurs are back in the NBA Finals with a
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: shot blocking chandelier in Victor wm bam at this point,
• 19:51
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• 19:55
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• 19:56
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• 19:59
  Speaker 1: he his body falls apart, He's gonna be here. Think
• 20:02
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• 20:04
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• 23:51
  Speaker 3: We talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: It's back yet again.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Our lead from Detroit, and a lot of chat over
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the weekend, a lot of chatter. The streets are talking,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: and every indication is the Detroit Tigers have put a
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: open for business sign in front of the front office
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: there and they are ready to say bye bye to
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Trek's Schoobel the ace in Motown, and not for long,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: it would appears everything indicating over the weekend that the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Tigers are closing in on a trade. Today is June first.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know that the trade deadline
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: is at the end of July. Now, there's two schools
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: of thought on the trade deadline. The first school of
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: thought is wait until the very end, and at the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: eleventh hour you trade the player, because you're gonna have
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: teams bidding and it's gonna be great and all that stuff.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: And then the other argument is to trade the player
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: early because the team that gets him will have the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: player for an extra month. I know, school has been
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: battling loose bodies and all that, so the other trade
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: them early, you get a little more in return, and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: then you can have your pick of the litter, meaning
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: that the other top minor league players haven't been traded yet.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: A prospect is a suspect until it prove otherwise anyway,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: So that's the noise. I weren't plugged in on this,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: perhaps not the reports out of Detroit, a lot of
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: bitching and complaining, belly aching as all.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: This is why baseball needs a sorry cap.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I saw that baseball needs a cap because the Tigers
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: have to trade Scooble.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna stink. They're gonna trade them with.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers or the Yankees, and is not fair because
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the Tigers can't afford.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: To keep him.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: That was the popular opinion. Yeah, well that's really the issue.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Is the stink that's the issue here, and it is
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Is it true that the Tigers can't afford can't afford
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: to keep the ace of their pitching staff, Trek Scooble,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and major League Baseball desperately needs a salary cap because
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: of these type moves. So I've got chronic case, lighthouse
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: keeper and first Lady, and we will combine all of
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: these things together, and you and I are going to
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: educate the dingaalings. We're going to help out the Dinga links.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Number one, the idea that there are factions of the
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: baseball media that are claiming that Tigers have to get
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: rid of Trek Schouoble because of the lack of a
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: salary cap in baseball tells you that dumb people have
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: taken over.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: It is pure gadzookery, is the word I will use. Detroit,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: first of all, is not a small market, right, And
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: they're not some kind of victim of the system trying
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: to hold the man down. That's not true at all.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: They are small ambition in terms of operations. What they are,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: That's what That's what I would say. Listen, they were
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: expected to be an They had a playoff run last
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: year in Detroit.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: They were expected we all know the story. You like baseball.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: The Tigers are supposed to be pretty good this year.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: They got that cheating a hole manager on that team,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: and they're ready to take off all right and contender
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: for the World Series. And here we sit, and to
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: quote the kids, the Detroit Tigers have been absolutely ass
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: so far this season. Not my opinion, it's a fact
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: that Detroit Tigers are tied with the Colorado Rockies as
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: they are the worst team in baseball. The Tigers and
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Rockies are dead even.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: That's ass.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's total ass. And Detroit. I did the malor
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: math on this. If my math is corrected, Tigers are
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: on pace to lose one hundred and two games. The
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Motor City kiddies have been declawed. And so that's the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: issue here. The issue is not that the salary is
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the problem. That's not at all. The Tigers are not poor.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: They're not the Tigers, you know what they are. They
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: like the guy at dinner. You go out with some
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: friends to dinner, and the guy, all of a sudden
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: gets one of the guys at the table, gets us
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: a chronic case of alligator arms. Right when the check arrives,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: suddenly alligator arms camp. I don't know where my wallet is,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what to do, what am
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I gonna do?
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know what to do. He is right there.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: And then they had these teams.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous with the chatter, Oh, we can't afford this
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: guy and that guy. The Tigers. They're acting like the pirates.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Yet they the guy that owns the Tigers, now he
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: didn't make the money. His dad, his dad's dad. But
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: they own Little Caesars. You can't cry poor when the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: family business is literally pizza pizza. Okay, come on now,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: it's not a poverty franchise.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: It's not. It's old family money.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: And that's always an issue, right, old fam Look at
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the Raiders Mark Davis. His dad made all the money
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: for the family. He inherited it, and the no he's
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: doing so he hired Tom Brady, who also doesn't know
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: he zone and the Detroit Tigers, Mike Ilich desperately wanted
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: to win.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Didn't work out. They didn't win.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: They got to the World Series back in the Verlander
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: before Verlanders sullied his name by going to the cheating
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: a holes and all that, and so you look around
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, the Tigers, their situation, they don't they
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: have money. It's old family money and Baseball does not
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: need a salary cap. Baseball should not have a salary cap,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Sam I am. It needs owners. And this is the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: biggest fundamental problem with baseball. Nobody wants to talk about it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: A lot of people that bought teams that don't care
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: about winning. It's just another part of the spreadsheet. It's
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: just another line item. And how much money can we make.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Our revenues aren't good enough, so we need to increase revenues.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Let's put a cap, and all the fans are idiots,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: they'll sign off on it. Of course, nobody wants their
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: salary cap. But the moron baseball fans, the rank and file,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: they're losers, and they're like, hey, we want a salary cap.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Of course you do.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Let's help the owners make more money. Who says no
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: to that. Let's help the rich guys make more money. Okay,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: that seems great. Moron anyway, So again, just to recap
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the tiger part of this, and we'll talk more about
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the cap. But what we're witnessing is a competitive imbalance.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: It is it's not even an imbalance, it's a competitive
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: indifference is the word I will use.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Imbalance is the wrong word. Indifference.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: All right now, page two to La where the Phillies
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: got smashed by the Doyers on Sunday. Prior to the game,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: though Philadelphia Phillies start Bryce Harper in town and Bryce
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Harper expressed concern for the ongoing labor kerfluffle that is
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: going on between the owners and the players and the
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: very serious risk of a lockout that is likely going
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: to happen here and jeopardize many doom and gloomers, saying
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: for the last year two years that there'll be no
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven C. So if you like baseball, you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: might want to watch it now because it'll be going
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: away for the following year. Bryce Harper said, quote, we
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: can't lose that momentum. Who wants to tell Bryce Harper
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: there's no such thing as momentum anybody? Okay, Patty said
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: he'll do it. So Patty'll let Bryce know that there
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: is no such thing as momentum. Sure enough, he said, quote,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: we can't lose that momentum. We both have to understand
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: our game is in a great position right now to succeed.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Close.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Quote.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Now, there was some other stuff, but that's the money. Quote.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: That's the money. Quote.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: So the question Explain Bryce Harper's messaging to the MLB
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: owners over the labor talks, which are right now at
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: they're at loggerheads and it's not looking great. It's early
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: on a lot of these things only happen at deadlines.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: So explain the question again. Explain Bryce Harper and his
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: message to the owners regarding MLB's labor talks. So Bryce Harper,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: think of him like this. He's like in Maine. He's
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the keeper of a lighthouse. He's a lighthouse keeper in Maine,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: and he's frantically waving his arms. He's like he's trying
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: to get attention for the boat that's coming in. He's
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: trying to warn the billionaires party yacht that is full
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: of clueless rich guys not to.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Smash into the rocks. So he's in the lighthouse.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: He's the lighthouse keeper by starboard, desperately trying to keep
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: them from taking the yacht kaboom right into the rocks.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: And Baseball it's perceived to be cooler. Is it finally
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: really really cool? These things have cycles, They go hot
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: and cold. Baseball was cold for a while. It certainly
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: seems like it's in a different spot now. It seems
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: like baseball matters more now than it did in years past. However,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: the owners are about to turn into absolute pyromaniacs. The
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: baseball owner here, and Harper's message to the oligarchs is
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: pretty simple. His message to the oligarchs is, you are
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: playing with fire. Dumb, dumb, what are you doing? And
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the salary cap it is a zombie proposal. I'm telling you,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: it's a zombie proposal. It's d ea d dead. And
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: yet the owners dragging around. I remember when I early
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: on in my run in the media business, and way
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: back in the nineties, they they missed the World Series.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Kevin Malone, who was the gym of the Montreal Expos,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: swore to me he went worked for the Dodgers, that
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the Expos would have won the World Series that year
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: and they'd still be in Montreal. So Baseball screwed over
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Montreal by moving getting rid of the World Series that year.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: And they didn't even get a salary cap even though
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: they wanted a salary cap.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: And anyway, the point of all this is the salary
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: cap is a zombie proposal, and you can keep dragging it.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: You're living in fantasyland. And good luck the cap to
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the players is a non star. So you've got to
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: find a different bridge. And this is a bridge to nowhere,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: so you might as well stop paving it.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: What are you doing?
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: You don't burn down this golden moment because it takes
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: years and years to get back to this point. So
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: why would you burn down this golden moment in a
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: sport Because you've got some tightwad, non competitive.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: Owners who are just not into it right.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: They're like, Oh, we don't really care, You're not trying
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: to win and all that, and so we just want
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: to make more money.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: And so the way you make more money is put
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: a sour cap.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: So and I'm talking about the owners of Cleveland in
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and Tampa and Anaheim and people like that. They
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: either refuse to spend money or are really bad at
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: it and don't spend enough. And there's a a lot
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: of fakeness going on. So the lesson from Bryce Harper
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: is to find another path because turning the labor negotiation
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: into a demolition derby and losing the twenty twenty seven season,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: like the baseball will be here at some point in
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight or twenty twenty nine or whatever, and
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: people will watch it. It just won't be the same. I
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: remember after the last time they missed the World Series,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: they were desperately trying to get people to come back.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Then they just fed the players steroids, and all of
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a sudden, the few people came back because there were
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: all these guys in major.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Dongs all over the place.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: There McGuire and Bonds and all those guys, and then
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the band from the Hall of Fame and whatnot. All right,
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  Speaker 1: final point to Sacramento. That's right, big league town, Sacramento.
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  Speaker 1: And over the weekend, the a's manager Mark Kotze, the
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  Speaker 1: pride of cal State Fullerton. Mark Kotze complained about the
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: toxicity of social media. Very upset about social media, complained
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: about it, particularly how it harms players who.
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  Speaker 3: Are struggling for the Athletics going through the slump.
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  Speaker 1: Now in the context of the he's talking about the
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  Speaker 1: Athletics and they're playing in West Sacramento, which apparently is
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  Speaker 1: much different than East Sacramento or North Sacramento or South Sacramento.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I've been to Sacramento a few times. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: remember West Sacramento. I don't know where that came from. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: The point of all this is Mark Kotze was grumbling.
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  Speaker 1: He was grumbling at the baseball scribes about social media.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to escape, he said, when you're not performing. Nowadays,
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  Speaker 1: you have instant access to players through social media especially,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: he said, and it's hard for players to block that out.
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  Speaker 3: He said.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone seems to have the right to be able to
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  Speaker 1: send negativity and hate towards those players, and so he
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  Speaker 1: was all defensive, he said, back in my day. By contrast,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Mark Kotze said, when he played back in the Stone Age,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: they just had newspapers that would take shots. Actually, newspapers
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  Speaker 1: used to exist sports radio, which still is around. Newspapers
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  Speaker 1: are pretty much dead, but they just took shots at
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: the guys. That's how we'red all right. So question, do
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  Speaker 1: you feel bad? Do you feel bad for the MLB
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  Speaker 1: players getting hate from social media? According to A's manager
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  Speaker 1: Mark Kotze, it's not right. So absolutely not. Absolutely, I
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  Speaker 1: do not feel bad at all. The modern athlete treats
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  Speaker 1: social media like oxygen, and they're shocked when they realize,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, it's actually carbon monoxide. It's it's it
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  Speaker 1: was auction. No, it's not auction, it's carbon monoxide. Dummy,
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  Speaker 1: that's what it is. And it's listen, it's your phone, okay.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Ultimately the reason that the people have access, you're giving
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  Speaker 1: them access in social media. And I don't go on
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: there much anymore. I used to go on there a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Way I cut back. I'm on during the show and
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: that's I might pop in once in a while during
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: the day, but that's it.
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  Speaker 3: And it's it's not Guantanamo Bay.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: It's not these athletes, and Markotze makes it seem like
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: these guys are being waterboarded by trolls, and how dramatic.
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  Speaker 1: Like the trolls. They're not invading your home. You're inviting
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  Speaker 1: them in. You left the door unlocked and wide open,
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  Speaker 1: is what she did. And years ago, I mean, and again,
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  Speaker 1: this is not trauma. Okay, it's not trauma. It's a
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  Speaker 1: settings issue on your phone. Just go to the settings,
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  Speaker 1: click the watch you might call it or the dow Hickey,
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  Speaker 1: and then you're okay, right, And years ago, the first Lady,
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Reagan actually had it right. She said, just say no.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: So just say no to your mentions. Problem solved, easy, peasy.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: I'm an answers guy, just like baseball could have solved
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: the pandemic, well in a pandemic. But the issue with
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: the shift, and they had to put rules in. They
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: didn't have to put rules in. If enough guys bunt,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: they'll get rid of the shift. And so there's clearly
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: a lot of people in baseball who are up twose
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: that can't figure simple things out, like you don't have
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: to read the mentions, You don't the phone. Are you
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: sure it does not open itself? Not yet, give it
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years. It'll open itself. It does not
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  Speaker 1: open itself at this particular point. And so stay off
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  Speaker 1: the X or the Twitter. Stay off the X or
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: the Twitter, log off, and boom. Problem solved, solution solution.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: And social media is entirely optional. It's kind of like dessert.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: And if you can't help yourself, if it makes you sick,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: you're eating too much apple pie, then stop ordering the
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: apple pie and you'll be okay. It baffles me, It
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: literally baffles me. How these ballplayers preach mental toughness all
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  Speaker 1: the time and all this, and yet they crumble, crumble
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  Speaker 1: the second a guy with three followers calls them mid.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Like, really, you got thick skin and all that. You're
• 39:50
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• 39:51
  Speaker 1: And if the trolls are in your head, and some
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: of these guys definitely have the trolls in their head.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: That is a you problem, that is not a them.
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• 40:06
  Speaker 1: you know, don't feed them, don't give them water, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Eventually you're just gonna start multiplying, and so that's what
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• 40:15
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• 40:18
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