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Mac & Bone Hour 1: Braves Fall in NLDS & Georgia/Alabama Hype · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Bueno, como esta? Oh, oh, oh, here's Mike and Bo.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are the most entertaining sports program in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Drop it, Bo. Drop it, baby.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, stop twerking. You and I are a couple eating, like,
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  Speaker 4: Lady and the Tramp. You're the lady on the tramp.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, come on. Come on, baby. I wish I was Boopy.
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  Speaker 3: Boopy McClain, man. That's a great name. All aboard!
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  Speaker 1: Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey. We're talking, baby. It's time
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  Speaker 1: to talk. Music left early. All right, let's do it, baby.
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  Speaker 1: It is a Thursday Mac and Bone show. It is
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  Speaker 1: time to rock and roll here on the Mac and
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  Speaker 1: Bone radio show.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, everybody out there. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: We got things to accomplish today. We got to sports
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  Speaker 1: it up and we got to have a good time.
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  Speaker 1: We got football and fun. on the agenda. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: we've got Panthers conversations. We've got the national media continuing.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost to the point where they're talking too much
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  Speaker 1: about Bryce now, but we'll take it.
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  Speaker 3: We will take it. All good things.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to say goodbye to the 2026 Atlanta Braves.
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  Speaker 1: We will talk about their demise last night against the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers 4-1. Bone will say goodbye to his 2026 Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: Fiddy and I have a spot on the baseball couch.
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  Speaker 1: for the Bone Man. We've been sitting over here for
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  Speaker 1: a while.
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  Speaker 4: And we're going to sit there and watch the activities
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  Speaker 4: like you guys have been doing.
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  Speaker 3: Sounded kind of odd, but you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: We will watch some activities with his bone and we
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  Speaker 1: have much more to get into on this radio show.
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  Speaker 1: If you didn't hear our interview with Michael Malone yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: a 50 went out to a ACC tip ball for us,
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  Speaker 1: got Michael Malone on a headset for us. And you'll
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  Speaker 1: hear that coming up this hour as well. Tons of
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  Speaker 1: college football conversation this hour, the Eagles now without another
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  Speaker 1: offensive lineman, um, I don't know if I want to
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  Speaker 1: say this with my track record, but.
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  Speaker 4: Man, the Eagles are looking more beatable by the day.
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  Speaker 4: They really do. If you say it in a week,
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  Speaker 4: they're not playing. Is that okay?
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  Speaker 1: Does the Matt curse not work over a week plus out?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what you're asking? Does the Matt curse?
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  Speaker 3: You take a bye week.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So we got stuff happening. We got Duke
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  Speaker 1: playing basketball tonight in a scrimmage against Belmont. ESPN Plus,
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  Speaker 1: ACC Network Extra. A little coverage of that tonight. Tar
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  Speaker 1: Heels with an exhibition tomorrow for hoops. So we got
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  Speaker 1: things happening. We got things going on. Bones here. The
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  Speaker 1: fit dog is in the house, and we're ready to go, Bonesy.
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  Speaker 1: How are you feeling today? Obviously, you're not feeling great today.
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  Speaker 4: Mac, I haven't felt this way since 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019,
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  Speaker 4: the odd 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and now 2026.
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  Speaker 4: I know that this is obvious, but I even recognized
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  Speaker 4: this when I was younger. And we'll get to the
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  Speaker 4: Braves momentarily. No one gives a flying hootie about any
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  Speaker 4: of this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 4: I was really spoiled when I was younger with the
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  Speaker 4: amount of success the Yankees had. I always knew one
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  Speaker 4: day it might not be this. But I never envisioned
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  Speaker 4: 17 full years of just sadness here. I never envisioned
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  Speaker 4: a decade of Aaron Boone managing the baseball team either.
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  Speaker 4: George Steinbrenner needs to roll over in his grave, see
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  Speaker 4: what's going on, and fire somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I am very amused by the fact that a Yankee
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  Speaker 1: fan went Jeffrey Mayer. A moment that scarred me as
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  Speaker 1: an Orioles fan for 30 years. And in the 30-year anniversary,
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  Speaker 1: a Yankee fan goes, Jeffrey Mayer, and it hurts the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees this time?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. That's kind of funny.
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  Speaker 1: I took 30 years, Bone, but finally it came full
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  Speaker 1: circle to you.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it might be Matt Jr. that went out
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  Speaker 4: there and got revenge for his dad's, one of his
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  Speaker 4: darkest moments.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the thing is, the Orioles, that ball was going
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  Speaker 1: to be caught. Tony Tarasco was camped under it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know you talk about people not giving a crap bone.
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  Speaker 1: That was 30 years ago. My Orioles got screwed by
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  Speaker 1: this little punk kid, Jeffrey Mayer. But like Tarasco was
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  Speaker 1: going to catch that. The ball was not going to
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  Speaker 1: be caught by the Tampa Rays outfielder, but it was
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  Speaker 1: initially a home run. Yankees thought they tied it. It
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  Speaker 1: was ruled a double because they say the guy was
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  Speaker 1: not going to get it.
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  Speaker 4: It was not going out for a home run, though.
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  Speaker 4: I think they kind of got it right. The Yankees
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  Speaker 4: weren't winning this series. They put themselves in position for
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  Speaker 4: that to happen. They weren't going to go. They might
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  Speaker 4: not have won this game. They weren't going to go
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  Speaker 4: down eventually to Tampa and win if they kept the
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  Speaker 4: series alive. This was never going to end well. for
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  Speaker 4: the Yankees. They have a nice young nucleus of players.
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  Speaker 4: They're kind of at a weird crossroads with some moves
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  Speaker 4: and some veterans. All jokes aside, I can't believe that
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  Speaker 4: they're going to ride out Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman again.
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  Speaker 4: I know it's like, oh, you're not having success, but
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  Speaker 4: at some point, you need a fresh set of eyes.
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  Speaker 4: But let's move on to the Braves-Dodgers last night.
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  Speaker 3: And what the local audience is here for. You know you.
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  Speaker 1: Got some Yankee fans here in Charlotte.
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  Speaker 3: You also know back then.
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  Speaker 4: I'm... I'm a little out of sorts when I use
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  Speaker 4: the word flying hootie to start the show.
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  Speaker 1: Did you notice, Finney, that the only time I've been
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  Speaker 1: okay all season with the Yankees opening the show is
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  Speaker 1: when their season ended?
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  Speaker 3: Did you notice that, Finney? No one's coming to bail
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  Speaker 3: me out now and say, stop talking to the Yankees.
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  Speaker 3: I'm floating on an island now. Finney doesn't want to
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  Speaker 3: talk now. Mac's like, keep going, Bone. There are certain shows, Mac,
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  Speaker 3: I don't show up until 641 to get my words in.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing, Bone.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to pile on.
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  Speaker 2: My team was a generational embarrassment for what they've been
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  Speaker 2: a franchise for 62 years. They've been a laughingstock of
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  Speaker 2: the baseball world for 50 of them because no one
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  Speaker 2: knows how to fail better than the Mets. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to pile on. I'll let Mac do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing. The gaslighter taking a day off. Where was
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  Speaker 1: the gaslighter's day off last Friday when I got triggered?
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  Speaker 3: This woman's done miracles on Fitty.
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  Speaker 1: All right. She didn't do miracles last Friday, though. The
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  Speaker 1: gaslighter was still here. Let's talk about the Braves, shall we? Listen,
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers are a better team. I can gaslight them. Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: are a better team. It's interesting. I'm trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: Fitty's selective gaslighting out here. I'm trying to figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he's always lighting gas. But anyway, the Dodgers are.
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  Speaker 1: A better team than the Braves, especially the Braves starting
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  Speaker 1: pitching injuries, I think, caught up with them, Bone. They
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  Speaker 1: had two starting pitchers healthy in the postseason. And Malley
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  Speaker 1: was one of them. He was amazing again last night,
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  Speaker 1: giving them a chance.
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  Speaker 3: To win.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers, on the other hand, Bone, had two Cy
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  Speaker 1: Young pitchers and two other All-Stars pitching as starters in
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  Speaker 1: this series. But let's face it, the Braves bats were
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  Speaker 1: the ones that were absolutely brutal in this series. Again,
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  Speaker 1: against great Dodger pitching. But it's a frustrating way. Even
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  Speaker 1: though I'm sure Braves fans know 2026, we're not better
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  Speaker 1: than that Dodgers team. I think Brave Sands know that.
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  Speaker 1: But to see, Bone, so many people come up so
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  Speaker 1: small in that Braves lineup over and over again in
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  Speaker 1: the series. One of 23 with runners in scoring position.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at the averages for the postseason, other
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  Speaker 1: than Michael Harris and Ozzie Albies. And Ozzie was just 250.
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  Speaker 1: Harris was a 300-plus hitter. But when you look at
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  Speaker 1: the other averages, Bone, I mean, it was no-show city. Acuna, 125. Olsen, 148. Baldwin, 111.
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  Speaker 1: You just go on and on down the list. Yastrzemski, 083. Dubon,
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  Speaker 1: why can I not say his name right?
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  Speaker 3: Dubon, Dubon. Why do I want to call him Dubon?
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  Speaker 3: I don't like you calling it Dubon. Dubon, that's T-Bone, Dubon. 192.
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  Speaker 1: And he dropped the ball last night in the outfield,
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  Speaker 1: giving them a run. Riley 091 Murphy 200.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the list.
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  Speaker 3: That's the story. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And the Dodgers always seem to just get that big
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  Speaker 4: head to break it open when.
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  Speaker 3: They need it.
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  Speaker 4: It may not always be, you know, a star, like
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  Speaker 4: we said yesterday, but someone always gets that hit. when
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  Speaker 4: they need it the most. And that pitching staff, when
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  Speaker 4: it comes to October, they don't need a lot. I
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  Speaker 4: know we talked before the show. What was the final
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  Speaker 4: stat for the number of walks that the Braves had
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  Speaker 4: in the series?
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers walked 20 Braves, including.
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  Speaker 3: Eight last night. None of them scored in the series.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know how improbable that is to put 20
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  Speaker 4: guys on base and not have one of them score?
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  Speaker 4: And that goes into the 43, the batting average, 43.
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  Speaker 4: as stated, with runners in scoring position. That is just,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that is not October baseball. Is that what
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  Speaker 4: one of 23 comes out to? 0.43? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Or 0.043? 43 average with runners in scoring position.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. That, yeah, it's, so I know it was frustrating
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  Speaker 1: for Braves fans to watch. That's frustrating for me to
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  Speaker 1: watch it as well. And it was some of your best,
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  Speaker 1: biggest names. Fuentes came in, speaking of walks. and control
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  Speaker 1: was terrible, and it makes you wonder. He threw almost
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  Speaker 1: 50 pitches just a couple of days ago, Bone, in
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  Speaker 1: that amazing three and a third or whatever it was,
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  Speaker 1: three and two thirds. It makes you wonder, you know,
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  Speaker 1: was he all right yesterday? Suarez, another guy that was
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  Speaker 1: good throughout the season, he comes in, gives up the
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  Speaker 1: big hit. DePogges, the nine hitter. To your point, Bone,
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  Speaker 1: about just random dudes all pitching in and coming up
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  Speaker 1: with big postseason. moments podges has the big two run
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  Speaker 1: two out single to take the lead so um kudos
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  Speaker 1: to the dodgers they advance bone um the plucky dodgers
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  Speaker 1: the plucky Dodgers.
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  Speaker 4: They're annoying. They're annoying as hell. That'll be a heck
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  Speaker 4: of a series against Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 1: I know. Tell me how it goes, Bone. Because I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm over. I think Mac has checked the hell out.
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  Speaker 4: Milwaukee's got the most wins in baseball the last couple
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  Speaker 4: of years, but they haven't really had the postseason success.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they do now. I doubt it.
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  Speaker 4: But Milwaukee's a hell of a baseball team. Milwaukee and
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  Speaker 4: the Rays, I thought, they're great in the regular season.
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  Speaker 4: How's that going to do in the postseason? But here
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  Speaker 4: they both go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, raised through. Milwaukee finished off the Padres last night.
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland did stay alive, the fighting Nick Wilsons. It's 2-1
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  Speaker 1: series with Chicago leading. So anyway, y'all let me know
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  Speaker 1: how baseball finishes, Bone.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: You know how yesterday, Matt? I think I'm tapping.
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  Speaker 4: Remember yesterday we said that Acuna hasn't homered in six postseasons?
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  Speaker 4: That was the stat we said, oh, that's crazy. I
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  Speaker 4: did not realize this either. I missed this one. He
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  Speaker 4: has not had an RBI in the postseason since 2020.
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  Speaker 1: He's got more MVPs than postseason RBIs in the last
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  Speaker 1: six years.
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  Speaker 4: For a guy of that ability, he's been injured here
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  Speaker 4: and there, but that's an insane stat for as much
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  Speaker 4: as the Braves are in these spots. It is.
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  Speaker 3: Not an RBI.
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  Speaker 1: And he had a chance last night, man. Harris got
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  Speaker 1: on with a double. He had a chance. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: come through. um uh you know multiple guys did not
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  Speaker 1: come through last night all these lead off double bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the six tied game they don't even move them
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  Speaker 1: much less score them they don't even move them yeah
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  Speaker 1: um it was uh olsen hit a ground ball really
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  Speaker 1: hard right at him it's kind of bad luck but
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  Speaker 1: that two on in that inning so anyway he's.
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  Speaker 4: Back with their roster guy already brought it up and
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  Speaker 4: i don't know if they're gonna look at this or
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  Speaker 4: not but When you've got Riley, who's been terrible, Acuna,
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  Speaker 4: who's not produced in the postseason, you've got Spencer Strider,
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  Speaker 4: who you can never count on. Do you look to
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  Speaker 4: move any of these guys and just sort of maybe
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  Speaker 4: get some fresh people in there a little bit?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It is a good question. Spencer Strider has been just
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  Speaker 4: a complete... I know it's health-related and it's not all
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  Speaker 4: his fault, but My Lord, they've got some young talent
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  Speaker 4: that's just not.
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  Speaker 3: Doing what they're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Acuna gets hurt so often, was still bothered
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  Speaker 1: by that knee injury in this series. So anyway, brave
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  Speaker 1: series done. Let's move on to happy stuff, like T-Mac
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  Speaker 1: getting a bunch of awards this week, Bone. Yesterday he became–
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  Speaker 1: I was surprised by this. I was surprised Steve Smith
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  Speaker 1: didn't win this award. T-Mac became the first Panthers wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver ever to win NFC Offensive Player of the Week.
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  Speaker 1: This one was about as predictable bone as Devin Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: getting defensive player of the week a couple weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: This one was absolutely obvious, 14 for 192.
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  Speaker 3: Although C.D.
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  Speaker 1: Lamb had 17 for one something himself. and t-mac even
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  Speaker 1: beat him out yeah that's wild um so i guess
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  Speaker 1: it's probably a pretty good battle how did smitty's 201
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  Speaker 1: yard game when he was robo and not win that
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  Speaker 1: player i know i need to go search it for
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  Speaker 1: that some some bitter uh fred smoot fan on the
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  Speaker 1: on the panel or something um t-mac also won the
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  Speaker 1: uh himby award monday night countdown the other night um
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  Speaker 1: t-mac also won the FedEx Aaron ground player of the
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  Speaker 1: week yesterday as well. So a very well decorated, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Ted Aroa McMillan, um, uh, after his big game against
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  Speaker 1: the lions. And I'm so glad bone that the game
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  Speaker 1: went the way it did against the lions. Coach can
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  Speaker 1: Alice joked about this on Panther talk the other night.
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  Speaker 1: He said, when you win going into Dubai week, you're
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  Speaker 1: winners for two weeks. And I'm here for that coach. Like,
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  Speaker 1: could you imagine bone if the bears game performance was
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  Speaker 1: before the bi-week or if the Browns losses for this
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  Speaker 1: is the perfect game to be before the bi-week.
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  Speaker 3: I would go on a bye-bye week. I would take
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  Speaker 3: a week off there. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Mac, it's, it's really frustrating though, that
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  Speaker 4: si.com has a headline up right now on their main page.
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  Speaker 4: I don't mean the Panther page on the main page.
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  Speaker 4: where does Bryce Young rank him on the MVP candidates?
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  Speaker 4: And they apologized in the article and said, sorry, Panda fans,
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  Speaker 4: he's only five right now behind Josh Allen at number four.
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  Speaker 3: What a hateful article. To only have Bryce Young back
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  Speaker 3: at number five in the rankings right now, that's disrespectful.
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  Speaker 3: You hide a scrub like Josh Allen? Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 1: I know this. Bryce Young didn't throw any game-ending interceptions.
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  Speaker 1: I saw Josh Allen do that on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Number five? That's how I do better.
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  Speaker 1: That's better, Bone, than the quarterback rankings. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you've seen some of the quarterback rankings. Ninth on
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  Speaker 1: NFL.com and 12th on The Athletic. So that's quarterback rankings,
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  Speaker 1: although the MVP is basically a quarterback ranking. Although I
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  Speaker 1: got to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 3: Because player of the year goes to the skilled guy.
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  Speaker 1: But you can make a case Kenneth Walker is close
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  Speaker 1: to the most valuable player in all of football so far.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you could. You know what I mean? What
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  Speaker 3: do you use the term value to what he means
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  Speaker 3: to that team? Absolutely. So, good on T-Mac. Good on
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  Speaker 3: the Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: You've got plenty of Panther talk on this radio show today.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to mention what's coming up in sports tonight.
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  Speaker 1: We get Tampa and Dallas Thursday night football. There are
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  Speaker 1: rare moments, Bone, where I become a Cowboy fan, where
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  Speaker 1: I become a how about. And tonight is one of
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  Speaker 1: those nights. I would like to see Jarrah's boys, the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, as you would say, Bone. I would like
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  Speaker 1: to see them make the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0-5. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe if that happens, Bone, we may, Tampa Tammy
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  Speaker 1: may quit. At WBTV. Just so she does not have
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  Speaker 1: to come into the same office as us. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's possible.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, when did she run out of steam?
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  Speaker 1: She didn't have any last week, but yesterday she did
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  Speaker 1: for some reason.
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  Speaker 4: She was throwing herself on the glass like a bug
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: on a windshield yesterday. Still arguing. When did she just say...
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  Speaker 4: It's draft season. You know what we should do? We
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  Speaker 4: should put up mock drafts in the window for it.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. So it is Daniels again tonight for Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got to figure Dallas has a very good
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  Speaker 1: chance to make Tampa 0-5, Boney, which I would love.
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  Speaker 1: And then you really start asking, does Todd Bowles get
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  Speaker 1: fired at some point?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think people in Tampa are already asking that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: national TV game tonight. They're struggling. Yeah, we're getting to
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: that point in the season, Mac, when you start to
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: see maybe the first coach get let go. We're getting
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: there soon. If not this week, it's coming soon. By
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: the way, Mac, this is how quickly I operate. Tiki
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Barber won the award that week that Smitty had, 201,
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: because he ran for 206 against the— the Washington football
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: team back then.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Okay, we'll let it stand. We won't appeal. That's how
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: quickly Mr. Research got you the answer.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: You all over it, baby. You all over it. Just
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: like you'll be all over Duke basketball tonight. They're calling
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: this bone a scrimmage against Belmont. They say their exhibition season.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: begins with the Tennessee and Kansas games. Not an exhibitionist season.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: That's a different thing.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: No, do not call it that. So scrimmage, we're trying
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to figure out what does that mean? What's the difference
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: between scrimmage and exhibition? I'm thinking no fans for a scrimmage,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: but I don't even know if that's right. But you
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: can watch it. If you've got ESPN Plus, you can
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: watch this tonight at 7 o'clock. So I'll be a
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: little interested, Bone, to check out all the new faces
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: for the Duke Blue Devils. Here's the difference, Mac.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: It comes down to public access, as said, and how
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: the revenue or data is handled for this particular event.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Exhibitions are handled more like regular games. This is not
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: handled in that way.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: It's a live-action teaching tool more so than the actual
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: regular games. Exhibitions are like actual games. So no fans there?
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: No.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I think that's pretty much what we're going to notice tonight.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: No doubt about it.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: When we come back on the Mac Inbound Radio program,
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: a lot of college stuff. Will the Georgia-Bama game get
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: played on Saturday? John Summerall with some interesting comments about
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: South Carolina. UNC begins their GM search. And Will Wade
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: does some snarky comedy that will annoy the Pac-Fans. Sports Radio,
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: 92.7 WFNZ.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ, Mack and Bone with you. Smoke Ludwig,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I know you're going to listen to this when you
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: wake up at like 1046 or whenever you do. You
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: wipe the sleep out of your eyes. You listen to
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: your boys, Mack and Bone. Smoke, I'm going to need
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: you to go online and purchase a remote control. I
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: don't know what happened to it, sir, but you have
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: lost the radio station's remote control, and I am blind
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: as a bat at 52 years of age. I cannot
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: tell what buttons to hit, Bone, to change the channels
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: on these TVs.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: It's also up high, and we can't see it. I
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: can't really reach it. I was on a stool. I
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: got dizzy up there. Fitty, was that a Mac meltdown
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: or on the verge of a meltdown? What do we
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: categorize that as there? There was some cussing and yelling
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: at smoke. Does that meltdown or are we headed towards
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: that here at some point?
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: It was a mini freakout.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Is there any urgency to get a remote control back
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: in this studio?
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: It was the equivalent of when Willie doesn't like a
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: no-call in an FC match.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: And he just goes on for about two minutes.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: There was two minutes of you saying a bunch of
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: not nice things about having smoked lovely.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Smoke. I need a remote smoke.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I need a remote in here. We have the video.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: We don't know if we'll post it due to language concerns. Oh,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: my gosh. The saga continues. The remoteless saga continues. And
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I can't even figure out how to change the channel.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Bone couldn't figure out how to change the channel. Fitty's
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: too small to reach the TVs.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Well, my kitchen's straight.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Well, because you can't reach those, you little miniature little dude. See,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I told you, Fitty, you know what?
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Based off last week. Don't say anything right now. Please. Please.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Say something, but then move quickly. Oh, my gosh. All right.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Let's talk college football. You all cranky today, Mac?
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Let's talk college. I just want my remote back. I
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: just want my remote backbone. You wouldn't stand for this
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: at the house if your remote control was lost.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: By the way, I'm also in the same thing. I'm
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: also missing the remote, too, here. It's our remote.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I know, but I feel like it is bothering me
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: more than everybody else.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Well, we can go to Amazon.com and order one.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: No, Smoke did say last time he was going to
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: call Spectrum.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: I said we as a station, not you and I,
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: we as a station can order one. So put in
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: the request. We need a new remote.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: I've been requesting. I've been pleading. What have I been
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: doing here for five minutes? I've been pleading with smoke. No,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: I've been pleading.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Let's do something about it.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Put bleach to the ground. Let's get a remote in here.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: I've been pleading with smoke. Here we go. Why are you?
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Why can't you? What are you doing here?
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: You, man.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Just go text smoke and say buy one. I just
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: told smoke right now.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: But he's not.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Is he listening right now? Yeah, he will listen. Did
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: you miss what I said? At 1042, when he wakes up, Bone,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: he will hear this.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: I just need a damn remote in here so we
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: can stop talking about this. Let's talk college. Let's talk college.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Let's talk college football, Bone. Oh, God. Let's get into
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: this stuff. Let's talk about Alabama and Georgia. The game
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: looks like it's going to be played.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: There's been some concerns with the hurricane down there in
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the Gulf Coast, Bone. I was watching Feinbaum yesterday. They
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: had a whole segment with a weather dude. And it
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: seems like, Bone, the heavy stuff is going to be
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: through before... Game time. So, I mean, it's not going
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: to make it ideal moving in there and doing game day,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: it doesn't sound like. But it seems in terms of
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the game, they're going to be able to play it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I'm so freaking glad about that. I did not want
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: this thing to have to get postponed or moved around.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: That would be about as annoying as someone losing your
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: remote control. No.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Thank goodness.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Hopefully everyone is. Everyone's okay down there, first and foremost.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: But yeah, no, this is a game of the year, potentially,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: based off these teams. You want this thing to be
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: right where it's supposed to be. So that's definitely good news.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: That is definitely good news.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: As far as the game goes, Bone, I absolutely cannot
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: wait to watch this game. This Bama team, I expected
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Georgia to be really freaking good. They had so much
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: back on defense, so much young talent on defense. Gunnar
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Stockton's another year wiser and better. We knew they were
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: going to run the ball. Alabama's been a revelation to me.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I honestly was about done with Kalen DeBoer personally. And
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: then he got that contract extension.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: And I was like, really?
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Kalen Russell has been an absolute game changer for Kalen
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: DeBoer personally. And they're running the football way better bone.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Their defense takes it away and scores. I think they
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: have like four. defensive touchdowns already this season this one
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: is freaking going into the season i would have said
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: george is a better team although that doesn't often matter
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: alabama of sec title game notwithstanding last year alabama has
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: has dominated these boys going back to to kirby and nick.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: One observation i've had about alabama is for as great
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: as they were under Saban, and it's an all-time run.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: They played with a fear of Saban, and that's how
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: he coached. He instilled that fear in his players. I
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: noticed that there's a joy.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: In an energy, in a bounce. When you watch Bama, Mac,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: they're jumping around. There's a certain energy that DeBoer has,
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: especially offensively, has them playing with where it wasn't like... Yeah,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: they were under Saban, but I feel like, Mac, these guys...
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: are enjoying the game of football under saban it was
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: more like if we don't win this uh our wives
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: may end here soon.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: But you know what i mean but thing is though
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: i don't know i'm not sure it's the boar because
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: i'm not sure it was like that in previous seasons
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: it's keelan freaking russell that's how much energy they play
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: with because keelan russell is hitting 60 yard passes 50
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: i only tell you you saw it firsthand it's the
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: it's that kid man Like, he is unfreaking believable as
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: a first-time redshirt freshman starter. And the amount of big
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: plays they get, they're having the time of their lives.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: But last year, couldn't run the ball. The year before that,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Jalen Milrow couldn't pass the ball. I think it's Keelan Russell, man.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: And listen, Rico Scott, they've got a bunch of playmakers
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: that are stepping up. Kirby Smart, yesterday on ESPN Bone,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: was asked about Alabama's star quarterback.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Keelan Russell has been leading an offense that is just
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: behind your Georgia team.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: In scoring with nearly 50 points per game.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: You know, what makes Russell so dangerous in Keelan DeBoer's offense?
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: This guy is really good. He is electric.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: And, you know, I'd heard about him and knew him
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: in recruiting, but this guy is special.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: And he's going to be playing some big-time football for
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: a long time. I mean, he makes throw after throw
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: after throw, poise in the pocket.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: If people have not seen this guy play, you're going
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to love it because he is electric, just a great player.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: And he plays well in his offense because he can
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: be himself. He's free.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're aggressive with their play calling because he
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: can do so much stuff with the ball.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: What happened?
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I need to throw a challenge on myself, Mac. What happened?
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: If you go back to the beginning of the year,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I compared Keelan Russell to Blake Sims.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: That's on me. I tried to tell you.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I was the one that committed the foul, the penalty,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: whatever it was. Because, Mac, this dude's going to win
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: a Heisman Trophy at Alabama. He might be the number
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: one overall pick in a few years when he comes out.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: And if they win on Saturday, Mac, is he one,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: the Heisman Trophy frontrunner? And then two, Alabama probably emerges
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: as a team to beat in college football this year.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: And I think both things are very capable of happening.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: There you go, Fiddy.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: That's growth. It's his girlfriend again. It's his girlfriend again.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Why does she get all the credit? It's one of
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: the great coaching jobs of all time, honestly. She is
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: your Nick Saban, baby.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Just sitting over there eating an oatmeal cream pie, watching
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Fiddy progress as a human.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: She coaches through fear, and Fiddy's fear of being single again.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: My God, what credit she deserves.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Gunnar Stockton's no joke either, man. He's one of the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: most underrated quarterbacks in America. He has taken his game
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to another level too. So it's going to be freaking
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: great on Saturday night. I'm not sure bone that it's
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: going to be great on Saturday in Gainesville for your Gamecocks.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Although I will say this, there is this element of
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: how good really is Florida. I think there is a
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: little bit of that, but unfortunately I do. You tried
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: to tell me, you know, before I was ready to
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: acknowledge it, I think we're starting to figure out how
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: good South Carolina is not this season. That didn't stop
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: John Summerall bone from heaping the praise on the Gamecocks,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: their opponent this week. Listen to Summerall who did this
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: all bone with a straight face.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: We have a challenging opponent this week. You look at
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: South Carolina on film, They're as good talent-wise as anything
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: we've seen this year by far. They're the best talent
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: team that we have played to date. And you look
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: across their entire roster, offense, defense, and even the return game, man,
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: they've got NFL guys everywhere, like all over the tape.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: And so it's going to be a really formidable test
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: because these guys, they've got dudes.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: So is he like doing the Lou Holtz thing where
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: you act like your opponent is amazing? Or is he
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: almost taking a shot at Shane Beamer and the coaching staff?
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: I think he's doing the Lou Holtz thing, I would imagine.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Because I noticed he didn't say anything about how well
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: coached they are. Yeah, because we don't want to get
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: too crazy now with that. So you know what I mean? Yeah,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Like if he thinks that they have
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: all this talent and the results are what they are,
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: he probably thinks the coaches aren't doing a good job.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: I don't think he would intentionally say that, though. Maybe
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: that's just the way it came out, and it's true.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: So it comes across that way. Look, it's not just
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: in the SEC. It's not just who you're playing. It's
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: when you're playing them. If Florida Mac was coming off
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: another big win, I'd say, oh, maybe they're feeling good
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: about themselves, and South Carolina can kind of sneak in.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: The problem is, Not only did they lose to Missouri,
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: they got flat out, ran off the field. So it's
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: hard-pressed for me to sit here and say that the
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Gamecocks are going to sneak in there. The full attention
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: is had for Summerall and the Gators.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: So this is bad. This is bad. This is not
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: going to get us anywhere.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Ugly yeah yeah 13 and a half i think it's
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: a spread in favor of the gators give or give
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: or take yeah you know a half point or so
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: there um uh so anyway i love these coaches when
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: they get up there and just bs you and don't
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: even crack a smile man um but and i mean
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: south carolina has talent he laid it on pretty damn
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: thick There's no doubt about it.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they have talent, but a lot of it has
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: been overpriced talent so far. They're spending on these players,
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: but it looks like they're going to get Dylan Stewart.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Back, so... Yeah, he's back practicing. Does he.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: But is he back to Dylan Stewart? Is he limited still? Like,
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: is he going to be out there? He played 29
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: snaps the last game, and now we're two weeks later.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: You would think he's up over 30 snaps. But I honestly, Bo,
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: was he playing that good when he was in there?
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: I know it was his first couple games back.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Is he going to play with reckless abandon? I don't know.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe after the whistle. That's when he had the reckless
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: abandon two weeks ago.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness. All right. Let's continue.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Let's see.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: What else do we have?
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Dante Moore out this week for Oregon with a concussion
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: against a really surprising— It's 11 and a half for
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the Gators, by the way. Okay, so Bones betting, Bones
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: betting the Gators. Dante Moore out, concussion. Dylan Rayola will
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: start against a UCLA team that I think has been
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: way better than people expected this year. JKS for Cal
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: has had a disappointing season, and now he's injured. He
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: may not play against Virginia Tech this week. North Carolina
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Bone has hired a search firm, Turnkey, ZRG. And Sean
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: McGee specifically from that search firm to try to find
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: their next general manager. They're not going to let Belichick
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: do it again, Bo? They don't trust Belichick to go
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: find the next general manager? I wonder why.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Thing they want most, the guy doesn't have a typewriter
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: or a podcast. Or a podcast about typewriters.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: How about the guy's just not an arrogant idiot?
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: How about that? Oh, that's fair.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Is that possible that that's what they're looking for?
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: My God, Lombardi. Anyway.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Last time Belichick went search for him, he got Jordan Hudson. Oh, man.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I feel like she was preying on that old man
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: on that plane that they met on.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: She just happened to be in the seat next to
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: him after her last relationship. She's the Unconner, man.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: The Unconner. She is. Oh, what a show that would be.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Tonight on Unconner. Isn't that the track record of her boyfriends? Yeah,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the story was— I think they're older than unks, actually.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: What's older than unks? Gramp Hunter?
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Great unks.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Gramp Hunter? I think that's what it is.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Gramp Hunter.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: She happened to sit next to Belichick on a plane.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: They fell in love. Then we found out that the
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: previous relationship, she ended up on a plane next to
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: the man and fell in love.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: So two straight times. She happens to end up on.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: A plane next to these rich older men, and away
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: we go.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: It is something.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Gramps Hunter works her magic in the air, baby. She
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: does it by air. So anyway, we will talk later.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: If you're a Tar Heel fan looking for some good conversation,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: we will discuss what I think is a legitimate chance
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the Tar Heels pull off an upset against Pitt on Saturday.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: We're also going to discuss whether or not NC State
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: can upset Wake Forest. Those two point spreads are, like,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: real similar, Bone.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Nah.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Like, within a half point of each other. We got
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: to go to the Will Wade portion of this show, though.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Will Wade was talking at the Baton Rouge Rotary Club, Bone.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: One of the great comedy venues of the South. Oh,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: my God.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: They are just, I mean, they're doing everything but rolling
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: on the floor laughing to Will Wade. I mean, he
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: has complete command of his audience. It's like a Nikki
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Glaser show, man. He's all of a sudden Robin Williams
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: down there. They are loving it. Um, so listen to
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Will Wade as he does this comedy routine. And if
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you're a state fan, I think you could probably hate
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: listen to this. Appreciate the introduction.
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: You left out the part where I got fired.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: So that was good. We appreciate that.
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: We appreciate that, Cindy.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: A lot's changed since the first time I was here.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: There's two massive changes. Uh, First off, the first big
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: change is I'm no longer the most.
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: Controversial coach on campus. I've been happy to kind of
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: pass that along. The second part is, you know, we're
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: just a little ahead of our time with NIL. Everybody
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: says it's name, image, and likeness. I say now it's legal.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: You talk about a man working the room there.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Mike, that crowd cannot wait for the next joke.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Only has four officially rostered players, Bone, and their exhibition
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: season starts tonight. But he is at the Rotary Club
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: in Baton Rouge doing comedy, man.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: It's also a weird routine because you say, hey, last
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: time I was here, I cheated. Yay! No wonder, Mackey,
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: he loves it down there. That man can do no
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: wrong down there, can't he? You're right.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: The guy's got not enough players to field a full
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: team tonight, and he's getting standing ovation.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: At the Rotary Club. I hope he does wrong down there.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I hope they turn on him. I hope it is
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: a complete and utter failure and they turn on him.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: I have been– I was absolutely conned by Will Wade.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I know you all happened to notice. Absolutely conned by
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Will Wade. I wish him nothing but the absolute worst
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: in his career, Bone. Moving forward. Moving forward. Will Wade
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: deserves that. I will admit, young, innocent. Smoke Ludwig did
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: not deserve my wrath, Boney. He did not deserve my wrath.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Will Wade does deserve my wrath.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: I was trying to work some magic here. I downloaded
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: the remote that matches up to the brand of TV.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: on my phone, but the current TVs right there are
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: not smart TVs, so they're not connected to the internet,
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: so it doesn't matter.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Smoke is right, though. If we just get contact Spectrum,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: they'll send you one, I'm sure. If you say, I
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: broke my remote or whatever.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Hell, Spectrum might be listening right now and might send
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: one to shut me up and get me off Smoke's back.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Can someone just bring one to us? Bring your own
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: TV remote.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: By the way, someone suggested we hold Fitting Up Mac
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: like a cheerleader.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Ha ha ha!
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not making any comments about that.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: The only problem is that is a view that we
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: do not want. We do not want to see Fitty
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: from that angle.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: 980 says, if Fitty can find a girlfriend, the remote
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: can be found. This dude says Mac is so cranky
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: at the 6 o'clock hour, y'all. I would come in
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: at 7 if I were Bowen and Fitty. Tough love, Smoke.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Tough love, man. I'm trying to teach you a little
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: bit of accountability.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Someone said, Smoke left the remote here. Sincerely, Martinsville Speedway.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: Who knows what racetrack that remote could be at by now.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Anyway.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Anyway, Smokey, still love you, baby. Still love you.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: In your defense, it's crazy about where could this thing
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: possibly be, though. There's only so many spots this thing
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: could go. The other remote that turns on the power
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: of the TV, it's right here. Oh, it's sitting there.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: So where's the cousin of this guy?
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: This dude said Mac was angry because he realizes he's
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: lost his fastball, he's old as hell, and doesn't even
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: know how to change channels on a TV.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: That's true, too. You know what I was?
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I was like your grandpa when he is trying to
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: get technology to work and it's coming undone. That's what
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I was right there. I took it out on Smokey.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: You've always been a little volatile when the technology doesn't work.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Ask Mrs.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Mac about it.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: I remember one day back in the old studio where
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: Colin and I were watching you And you couldn't get
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: the keyboard to work. And you are going nuts. And
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: you're throwing the keyboard. And you are screaming. And Colin goes.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: I don't have patience. Colin goes, Mac, that's the keyboard
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: for the other computer.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: And then you went, yeah, I know. I know. And
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: then you sort of tried to grab the other one.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: And we're like, oh. You do have meltdowns when the stuff.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: It's all right. We all have that. Ask Mrs.
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: Mac.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: And I have passed that along to Mac.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: Passwords can be a problem, too, right?
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I pass that along to my son. My son will
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: lose his mind when something doesn't work for him. And
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Christina just looks at me and is like, that is
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: your fault. That is your fault. So anyway, but this
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: dude said Smoke told y'all the story. He left the
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: remote in the studio. Someone stole it. So how about, Mac,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: you get off your old ass and go to other
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: studios and start interrogating people? That's a thing. Maybe I
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be mad at someone. Did someone come in and
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: steal it? That ain't cool, man. That's breaking the radio code, man.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Who stole it? Oh, so you're not believing Smoke's story?
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know. We have one show
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: down the hall, Beth and Bo. I mean, I'll go
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: in there and check it out. Officer Bone going to
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: go investigate that one? Bernie Bowles. I'm going to talk
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: to him during the break. All right.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: When we come back, you're going to hear from Michael Malone,
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: the new head coach at UNC. We had a chance
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: to speak to him yesterday. Very interesting guy to talk
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: hoops with. Michael Malone next. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: You take away a lazy old man's remote and he
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: just gets disheveled, man. Disheveled. What's Bo down here flung
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: 16 remotes they got in their studio? Damn remote... They're
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: remote rich and we're remote poor and they just want
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: to rub it in, Bo.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: We have now interrupted another radio show and they're doing
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: their work and now they have to be.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: informed that they're getting blamed for the remote.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Did they feel bad for us, or was it sheer laughter?
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. Bo Thompson just brought in 11 remote controllers.
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: I just want you all to know that we have, like,
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: six screens in our studio, and none of the TVs work.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: So I just grabbed all the remotes that go to
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: something and maybe these can help you.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: All in some way.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: That's very nice. Because you're trying to help. You're not
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: trying to like, you know, antagonize. I would never steal
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: someone else's remote, but I have spare remotes that work.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: To something.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: So it probably like ran a CD player in like 1989.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Let's fire up a CD then and get after it.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: Hey, that remote says property of Jerry V on the
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: back of it, our longtime friend.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Bo. I appreciate it. You're not wrong, probably.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: And tell Beth I am not. People on the text
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: line are saying Mac is accusing Beth personally.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: I am not.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I already had a run-in with Beth where I insulted
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: her cooking and my own wife had to tell me
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I was a horrible human. So make sure that Beth
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: knows it's not a personal... I'm kind of looking more
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: like Bernie Bowles, maybe.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Bernie Bowles is now mad
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: that smoke accused him of stealing your mojo.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Bernie Ball's like Braves frustration and took it out on
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: us in our remote, maybe?
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: Something like that.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: I'm working on a theory. Thank you, Bo. Class act,
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Bo Thompson.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: There's Bo Thompson, WBT. Yeah, I just— you' re right. It's bad
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: enough I yelled at Smoke. Now I'm pointing fingers down
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the hall. I'm not making any friends today.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: No, you're not.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: I'm really not.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: No, you're not.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: And, Bone, while you were down at WBT, I did
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: a second go-round. I got on that damn stool that,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: by the way, feels like you're going to fall off of. Oh, it's—
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I got on that stool.— deptifying. I literally— can't change
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: a channel i am your helpless grandfather i give.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: Up man well we also haven't had to change tvs
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: by hand since 1989 so it's not really ideal.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: All right anyway oh michael malone i was told oh
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: yeah i'm reminded michael malone's in the on deck circle
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: right now i'm gonna try these remotes Get after it, baby.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: All right, so here we go.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Michael Malone, Tar Heel head basketball coach, yesterday at ACC tip-off,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: fit an amazing job over there getting these guys lined
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: up for us. And this was Coach Malone talking about, hey,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: I asked him about making an adjustment from coaching, you know,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: grown men in the NBA to college dudes.
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: No, I think it's an adjustment. And, you know, you
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: go from coaching 25-, 30-year-olds guys with families, wives, and kids.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: And now you're coming into a situation where you are
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: coaching every day and pouring into 17, 18, 19-year-old kids.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: And that's not lost on me. My job responsibility has changed.
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: I have to make sure I show up every day
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: and not just from a coach's perspective in terms of
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: helping them offensively, defensively, be the best players that they
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: can be, but also pouring into them and helping them
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: continue to develop as young men who can every single
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: day represent this great program in a positive light.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: Coach, we're in a time and space in the college
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: sports world where we're seeing a lot of coaches that
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: don't want to be a part of it. We know
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: the names of the college basketball coaches, college football coaches.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: They go other places because of the way the sport
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: is going. You've won a championship in the NBA. You're
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: a lifespan in the NBA. What drew you at this
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: point to the college game when a lot of other
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: people are going away from the college game?
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: You know, I know that the first interaction I had
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: with UNC and when they approached me we had multiple
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: conversations and my first thought was I was really you
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: know honored of their interest but you know I viewed
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: myself I'm an NBA coach I'm going to stay in
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: this space I want to try to win another championship
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: and see what opens up but the more I thought
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: about it and thought about the tradition at Carolina and
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: the coaches that have sat in that seat I did
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: not want to in 10, 15, 20 years down the
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: road look back and have any regrets and I wanted
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: to come to this space. I wouldn't have left the
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: NBA just to go to any school, and people think, well,
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: he went to Carolina because his daughter's there playing volleyball.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: That's just a coincidence.
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: I came to Carolina because I truly feel that we
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: have everything in front of us to make this program
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: a team that can compete every single year for a
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: national championship. That requires a lot of hard work. That
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: requires a lot of commitment, but it's something that I
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: know myself and our entire coaching staff are committed to
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: trying to make it happen, and I think we're off
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: to a pretty good start.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Michael Malone with us. He's live a couple of miles away.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: ACC tip off here in Charlotte. Chat with us. New
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: heels coach. So, coach, man, you had to hit the
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: ground running, right? I mean, you come back. It's been
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: a long time since you coached in college. And dang,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: you get this job and it's like, I got to
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: go put this roster together right away. And honestly, it
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: feels like you did a heck of a job considering
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: kind of the time crunch. What was that process like
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: and how how confident are you that, hey, we kind
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: of pulled it off, you know, for what we had
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: to work with?
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: Well, it was a wild ride, as you mentioned. I mean, literally,
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: the day I was hired, I left the press conference.
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: I went to a little get-together to shake some hands
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: and kiss some babies. I've never felt more like a
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: politician than I have the last four or five months.
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: But then after that, I get into a room to
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: discuss the transfer portal, something that was my first venture
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: and experience going through. And when you mentioned, I think,
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: looking back now, Getting a guy like Neo Abdalas from
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: Virginia Tech, Terrence Brown, Matt Abel, as well as all
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: the other players that we signed. I think we did
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: a pretty good job considering the circumstances. And now we're
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: moving forward trying to recruit the kids that are in
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: the class of 2027. So it is a whirlwind. There's
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: no off days. You're always building your program. You're always
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: selling your program. And we want to make sure that
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: we're not just bringing in talented players because that's a given.
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: We want to bring in the guys that we know
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: that can represent this program in the best possible way.
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: Coach, what's the status of fifth-year guy Cameron Fins for
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: the exhibition games?
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, as of right now, Cameron Fins is ineligible. He
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: will not be playing on Friday night. Obviously, we have
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: a lot of trust in what's going to play out.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: We think Cameron Fins is an outstanding young man and
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: even a tremendous basketball player on top of that. But
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: at this moment, he is not eligible. and we're going
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: to let that process play out. But he's been a
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: joy to be around, and if and when he is
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: ruled eligible, I have no doubt that he's going to
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: be able to go out there and help this program.
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: Coach, in this weird world of college sports right now,
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: you're playing NC State in a non-conference game in Greensboro
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: in the middle of December. How did that come about,
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: and how cool do you think that is for Greensboro
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: and both fan bases to have a game, albeit unconventional,
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: like that in Greensboro?
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: I think it's great. Myself and Justin did a press
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: conference a month and a half ago in Greensboro to
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: talk about that game. I'm learning so much about the tradition,
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: the history of not only Carolina, but also the conference.
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: That game matters to our fans. The last year was
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: the first time in over 100 years, I believe, that
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: UNC and State did not play two times in a season.
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: The fans wanted it. They're getting it. I think The
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: fans are the ones that kind of carry these programs,
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: and they want to see it, looking forward to it,
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: another opportunity for us. to challenge ourselves against some of
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: the best teams around us.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Last thing, Coach, you mentioned your big man there, Cameron Fensch.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: You mentioned we're confident he's going to be eligible. This
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: whole fifth-year eligibility thing is crazy. The whole college landscape
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: is crazy, the uncertainty. Did you, like, is this major
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: headaches coming from the NBA? Like, this feels like it
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: would stress me out to coach college athletics.
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah. You know, it's definitely different. It's a completely different league.
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: And what you had in the NBA is you had
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: defined rules. You had a level playing field. You had transparency.
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: And there was things. They weren't moving the goalposts every
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: single day. For me, first year in college athletics in
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: a long time, it feels that you don't have the
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: level playing field. You don't have transparency at all times.
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: And you don't know what's going to happen from a
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: day-to-day basis. Court cases getting overturned. So... As I mentioned earlier,
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: we're going to let things play out. They're out of
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: our control at this moment, and we'll be ready to
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: move no matter what the final results are because that
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: is our job, to make sure no matter who's available
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: that we go out there and put them in a
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: position to have success.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: There you go. That is Michael Malone, UNC head coach
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: yesterday from ACC tip-off here in Charlotte, Carolina. We talked
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: about Duke having that scrimmage against Belmont tonight. Carolina exhibition
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night against USC in Greensboro. It's also televised on
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: the ACC network. So we got hoops, baby. Hornets played
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: an exhibition. Of course, we were missing 14 people, but
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: college hoops, exhibitions, and scrimmages tonight.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: It's time, baby.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: It's time. But when we come back, we continue to
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: celebrate National Bryce Week. It is absolutely amazing to have
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: the whole nation fawning over our quarterback.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: It's a beautiful feeling.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: The question for the national media is, why is Bryce
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: so much better? Why has he improved? In what areas
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: has he improved? We'll tackle those questions next. Sports Radio
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: 92.7 WFNZ.