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The Fever Report with John & Michelle: "Spicy Takes" (Podcast 334.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_05]: What you are listening to now is the Central Indiana Sports Report podcast number three hundred and thirty four point three.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The fever report with John Robertson and Michelle Garmin.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Earlier in the day Wednesday, I got a text from John Robertson saying he was going to have some spicy takes this week and he sure did.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Hence, to sub headlines, spicy takes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Enjoy.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, this is a good time to remind you that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We don't apologize for our opinions.
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[SPEAKER_05]: If it made it through the editing process, it stands, as said.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome, we were fans to the Central India and a sports report.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I got a text earlier today that John Robertson has some spicy takes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So we're going to get to that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But first, John, I see you have some new gear.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I went down and got the new Stranger Things X Indiana fever jersey.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, one hundred percent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we went down there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And if for the people that don't know, this is a, they did this collaboration several years ago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to say like, twenty twenty one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he was when the first time they did it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they brought it back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: People have been asking for it to come back, Caitlin made a comment that they should bring them back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was really excited.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't got it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Lexi all jersey.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They had everybody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We thought about picking up a couple other people.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But Lexi's your favorite.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Lexi's my favorite player on the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If she ever leaves the fever, I'm going to be in trouble because I have three jerseys of hers and it'll be sad if she ever leaves.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I believe that's like DJ McConnell is not allowed to leave.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We will hold her hostage here if we need to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just makes me nervous with an expansion draft every year for the next four years or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's one of my spicy takes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've talked about a little bit, but we'll get into that here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to segue to that one immediately.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, because there are more important things.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like teach up bad luck.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's start with that because I predicted this the other night when we talked about it, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I said I said the timing is bad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I have, I'm one of the people I have no problem with the fever or the fever with WMBA players asking for a higher percentage of the revenue.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have no problem with that at all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like they definitely deserve an increase in a percentage of what they're making.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the timing was horrible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Horrible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's absolutely horrible timing to put on a political statement.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think this goes back to the root of the WMBA has always been somewhat political and activism and an activist league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, the first thing they put their brain.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but that's their brain that doesn't work.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a part of their brain.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's heard it in a lot of ways.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, I mean, that's why people haven't cared about the WMBA for two decades, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, let's be honest.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I followed it some.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I started following it again once, you know, my daughter was into it in about twenty eighteen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think is about when I started to watch it again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But like, for all those decades, people didn't care because it was an activist league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: People want sports to be sports.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, that doesn't mean that these people can't have opinions on politics.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They absolutely can, but time your message appropriately.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that they really screwed up by taking this moment of, like, a huge momentum for the league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a new eyes on the league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Lots of people are saying, you know, I hadn't cared about it in the past.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I'll give it another chance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This Caitlyn Clark things kind of exciting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And even if you don't like Caitlyn Clark, I always hate to make it about Caitlyn Clark and you know that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's lots of eyes on it because of her and then all of a sudden they they to what do they do they take these new eyes that have come back or tried to care and they've squashed it with us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to be political pay us what you owe us and I'm like, oh, the word.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, and there is what is just other than that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: If it said, pay us what we're worth.
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[SPEAKER_05]: When you think like that, I don't think people are better than I at it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Or give us a negotiation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, there's nothing wrong with that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then on top of that, like, it's a bull.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to stay on that topic, but adjacent to that topic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Kelsey plums comments.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just what we're here for.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That squashes it too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, how stupid do you like, and I don't get fishy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I hadn't always been a Kelsey.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm not even a Kelsey poem hater, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I think she's fine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think she's a good player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's kind of quirky and funny, so I give her credit for that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But like, she's said some dumb stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that was by far one of the worst when like the look on Sabrina says well first of all what she said was she's like we had a meeting before the game and we decided we were gonna do this and I don't want to tell anybody but exactly zero members from Kate or team Clark were there and Sabrina looks at her and she's like why
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[SPEAKER_01]: On one side of your mouth, you're saying where you united front because we need to do this thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the exact five seconds later, you say we're not exactly united because the other team didn't even show up.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Kelsey Plum it was wrong and I don't know if she was trying to give us sarcastic joke or whatever but it was wrong to say that especially the reason team Clark was not there and you know I thought it was very telling when when the fees of color call your
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[SPEAKER_04]: And another member of her team said exactly why Team Clark wasn't there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It was too early.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It was they were having some kind of work out or whatever, but they had already talked to them and they were new that all of Team Clark was on board with the thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: either Kelsey Plum then get that memo or I don't know but or she's just trying to stir up.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know even hate or if it's more attention.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But I agree with John too.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't like and you Greg.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't like the shirt saying pass what you owe us.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I agree with you Greg.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It should be pass what we're worth and give us our value.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no problem with that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I will, they'll say no one because we're going to get into this part.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's definitely people that like would have had a problem just because it's women's sports and they want to start problems.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No one cares about them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I know, but they exist.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we have to admit that they exist.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: People like me who have not been a WNBA fan because of this stuff.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I want to be a WNBA fan.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I want to be a fever fan.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and they're doing everything they can to chase me off.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Now, this team's too likable to chase me off.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They're not going to because it's nothing to do with any of the fever, although another topic we need to talk about is Kelsey's mother.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we'll get to that one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I agree, you demonstrate, or you are like the example that I've been saying when I talk to people about this, it's like, there are casuals who want to be interested in our starting to come and look at it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And again, we have this political brand.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then, so they turned off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So now other people, in my, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: social media explorations today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm noticing that lots of people are seeing something that you and I have talked about multiple times.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's that the fever stay out for the national anthem.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The fever stay out for the national anthem.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Every game I've been to fever stay out for the national anthem.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Other teams don't and I really reckon my brain and I want to make sure I have very clear I can't say with one hundred percent certainty that no other team does, but I don't remember any other team when I've gone to a game being out there for the national anthem.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe some teams do, but the majority of them don't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't like that either, but like people are starting to really notice it now because they're getting back to this political garbage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, it's one of those things like, I'm all for have your opinions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm all for stands for what you believe in, but don't, like, that can't be your only existence.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can't only live in this political world.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like there's stuff outside of that bubble.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And if you don't step out of it once they want to enjoy the world, like you're doing yourself a disservice.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like I said to Michelle earlier, John, this is clearly a league divided.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Whatever it is,
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[SPEAKER_05]: There is a dividing line, and we saw it in the U.M.A.
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[SPEAKER_05]: All-Star draw, I think.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think we saw that division.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We saw it during the All-Star game, and with Kelsey Blum's words.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We spent it since last night when there was players throwing each other to the ground, and there's clearly a huge division in this league.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The fever had for the most part avoided that, but some new news tells about that, John.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I don't even know that I would call it news, but it hit the fan today with people we're talking trash.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even know what trash is about or people had a lot of extra criticism for Kelsey Mitchell today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After the last night's game, which first of all, I want to, I want to preface this conversation with Kelsey, Kelsey Mitchell deserves zero criticism right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely zero.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She has been playing out of her mind well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's been carrying the team while Caitlyn's been out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She scored at least fifteen per night if not twenty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think most nights twenty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to cut Kelsey some slack and we're going to give her her flowers for playing really well before we.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No doubt.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She's been great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So she's been absolutely fantastic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But you know, people were frustrated with the loss of the New York Liberty last night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For what, you know, why?
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[SPEAKER_01]: The let's talk about the game for last night real quick before we get into this because I think that that provides context to the conversation right so the fever lost the liberty eighty four ninety eight last night but up until the third quarter they had a pretty good lead in the third quarter they lost a solid lead so you're beating what I would say is clearly the best team in the league
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[SPEAKER_05]: One of the top two, sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, even now that they've added, uh, Mestman for from Europe or Mestlman, I forget her name, but they're they're top two and you're you're beating them without your your star regardless if you want to say she's your best player, she's your star.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you're beating them into the third quarter and then we lose the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So people are clearly frustrated, but this is one of those things where I think you have to separate like the actual fever fans from the Caitlyn stands and the people who just don't understand basketball, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, this is where we have to have a dividing line on the fans, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have a little issue with the people who, like, let's take, I'm gonna stick with me on this, it's gonna be a little bit of an analogy, but like, let's talk about Taylor Swift for a minute.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Taylor Swift's music's fine, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You could like her at the beginning, you could like her later stuff, you could like some of it, not all of it, you can like all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that there's people that like her music for music and then there's the the Swifties right there these people that follow around she can do absolutely zero wrong when when Taylor's upset everybody's upset with these people that's what that's what we have for Caitlyn Clark right now they're like Caitlyn Clark Swifties like if the team loses why didn't you support Caitlyn why didn't this happen it's not Caitlyn's fault let's blame everybody around them you know and that is not true fever or basketball fandom
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what's the root of the problem we're going to get to Kelsey's families and the tweets that came about it, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because the Clarkies will come to Clarkies.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Clarkies were upset about upset at the loss.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Clarkies start blaming Kelsey Mitchell because they clearly don't know ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They start blaming whatever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So then Kelsey's family gets a little myth and they start talking some subtle trash on social media, but they were frustrated.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now everybody's going after Kelsey saying she should announce her family and get her family under control and all this garbage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, you can't even control your uncle at Thanksgiving.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let alone, like if you have a giant platform.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So stop telling Kelsey what she needs to do.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I control my parents.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Are you out of your mind?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's insane.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it was her mom or if it was her sister or who, I think it might have been her sister also like I'm just saying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're all back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These people are projecting that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Kelsey's obviously saying it all this stuff at home around around about Kayla and I don't see that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're projecting and looking for things that we have zero evidence for.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have zero evidence for any of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Stop trying to make drama and let the team do its thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the other part of the, well, real quick, the other part about it that really makes me mad is they want these fans, these clarkies, or the haters, or whatever it is, they want to talk all this trash and say whatever they want to say on social media, but they want, they want to stop other people from saying what, because that's not appropriate for Kelsey's sister to say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then that's bullshit to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I, it makes me mad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's hyper critical.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I told today John was, it was a tweet from somebody else that,
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[SPEAKER_03]: He said that he was tired of all this talk about Clark because he thinks that if he said the fever can win with Kelsey and Alia, you know, those two can win without Clarks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The fever can win with those two without Clarks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But he said that Clark couldn't win without those two.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Whether or not, and all Kelsey Mitchell's mom did, she retweeted it and said, something positive, but I'm like,
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[SPEAKER_03]: She didn't say Caitlyn was bad.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like for me she's supporting your daughter in that, but as you see me, it was one or two words, but one of those C.C.
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[SPEAKER_03]: fans, just all of those fever kids helping some players that their families ate, Clark, and I want to sit there and go, there was no hay in mom's retweets, not one word of hate.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She was supporting her daughter.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She was saying she agreed with her daughter that she was glad to see.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She thinks her daughter, that value, and I do too, you know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The fever on trouble, Kelsey Mitchell isn't on this team this year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, she's one Clark's five like.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Kelsey Mitchell's been like Analy Aboston.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't get me wrong.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to discount Lee Aboston because she's been fantastic too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Kelsey's just been a consistent producer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She has been a consistent producer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Even when her finger was broken at the beginning of the season, she was still producing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: right, you know, her three point shots got better as her finger sealed, but like I will never say anything bad about her because she's played so well, my wife got a Kelsey Mitchell shirt today, not a Jersey, but she said I want to support Kelsey because she's been playing so well, so she bought a Kelsey Mitchell shirt today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it's just I really feel like these people like the Clark ease and the haters and whatever, they're always just looking for some drama to stir up because they need drama.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like they have nothing actually meaningful going on in their lives that they live in this, like I gotta have
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[SPEAKER_01]: soap opera around something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just drives me nuts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dude, but I'm just an I will stand for zero Kelsey hate like I will always.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's the stance of the central Indiana sports report in general.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We all three believe that she's great and invaluable to this team and that it's not a big deal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that it's funny because like she's so consistently good that when she puts up fifteen to twenty we don't even like think to say oh Kelsey had a great night tonight and that's not a that's not a this on Kelsey it's just because we almost expect it because she's so good anyway.
15:56
[SPEAKER_05]: Guys I know that we're here for hot takes and nothing more but I need to ask.
16:02
[SPEAKER_05]: Is there a concern with the depth especially with Caitlin out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The pins, what your goal is, as far as I'm concerned, like I don't think it's a championship team right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: With Caitlyn now and with the depth of the way it is, I don't think they can contend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they're going to be able to really beat the links in a series, and I don't think they're going to be able to be with Liberty in a series.
16:23
[SPEAKER_01]: They can pick up a game here and there, but I don't think they're going to win it all with the current roster.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, especially last night, especially when you watched the Liberty, I mean, my guess are they not a just a
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're a fun team to watch themselves with just how good they are and how they can turn it up and put on a run or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, I'm a little concerned with the fever's death now.
16:50
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know who was who was unable to play last night because it was a temp.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Timson and Brianna did not play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we had Caitlin out for injury illness.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Timson didn't play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Turn it in play.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Timson, I think it was she this I saw today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're Stephanie or somebody associate the fever said they had Caitlin out and another player unavailable.
17:15
[SPEAKER_03]: So it had to be one and had to be and I was wondering if it was her.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If she's a little maybe.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe.
17:21
[SPEAKER_01]: But let's I mean, I'm not here to hate on players, but what does Breonna Turner offer to this team?
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[SPEAKER_01]: She doesn't play any significant minutes for the last bunch of games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we pay we paid a decent amount of money to get her here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And she's not really doing anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And again, I'm not here to hate on players, but like I'm just asking what's the what's her role.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Unless she's being good in the locker room or at practice things that
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[SPEAKER_03]: fans are a privy to seeing because completely fair.
17:52
[SPEAKER_01]: But it is one of those things that like you know the average casual fan of their paying attention at all is going to say what are we doing and we only have we have it like I do think the fever front office and they have a spot they could get us a twelve player and they haven't yet so why why have we not picked up someone.
18:08
[SPEAKER_03]: Probably financial.
18:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know I mean when we when we got rid of honor we opened up some money you would think.
18:15
[SPEAKER_05]: guys last thing I want to say before we go watching the fever game last night.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I hate that I like the liberty so much.
18:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm right there with you.
18:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm absolutely right there with you.
18:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, how can you not like Sabrina UNESCO and what she said and done to be a supportive of Caitlyn?
18:33
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, just, I mean, so that's as a fever fan, that's why, but just watching New York play, like I really, I like them.
18:39
[SPEAKER_01]: They're fun to watch.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Jones and Stewart and Cloud, they're also much fun to watch.
18:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, that was John Quill Jones first game back.
18:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, like she was really, I did not expect her to be as impactful as she was and she was a powerhouse last night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is it that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, they do.
18:56
[SPEAKER_02]: They have that.
18:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how any team can beat them in a series.
19:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I'm being really honest.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't see it, especially when we have a great, great series.
19:06
[SPEAKER_05]: That would be the other way I could see it.
19:08
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because like with Phoebech going off for seventeen and Stewart for seventeen and Jones for eighteen and the ESC for thirteen, you'd ask him only had three points up until the second half and then she ends up getting thirteen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just, I'm right.
19:25
[SPEAKER_03]: Is he here since on that team, right?
19:27
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, she's really playing well right now.
19:30
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, they can bring people off the bench that can score and they did those bench players score for them last night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're just a really well rounded team with a lot of star power and it's just, you know, and way too likable for a New York team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree with you.
19:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely agree with you.
19:52
[SPEAKER_01]: I will say that, like, you know, Sabrina has been my daughter's favorite non-feever player for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we got to meet her at all star weekend and she was super kind, super nice.
20:03
[SPEAKER_01]: And like, everything I've seen her say and do in press conferences and press releases has been very professional and supportive.
20:09
[SPEAKER_01]: And like, that's what you need from, like, we need a little drama, right?
20:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to say we need everybody to be all-loving.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not even going to pretend that that's the truth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We need a little bit of drama.
20:17
[SPEAKER_01]: We need a little rivalry, but like some of this stuff is just so dirty.
20:21
[SPEAKER_03]: You know she's kind of special and was, I mean, she was, obviously she spoke at Kobe Bryant's memorial, you know, in Powgasall, came to Indianapolis to support her and the three point contest and the all-star game and so she's made an impact like out west.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I started following her when she was in college because I would see what she was doing and so I was trying to track down highlights and I would look for
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[SPEAKER_03]: search Google and everything for games and the organ was on TV.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I made sure I watched because she such a fun player and she was always conducted herself well off the court too, you know, very polite, very respectful, just a great young lady.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_05]: easy to cheer for, but she plays for New York.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So we really don't want to do that.
21:19
[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks so much, guys.
21:20
[SPEAKER_05]: Love topic and favor.
21:21
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll talk again tomorrow night after a fever win, right?
21:28
[SPEAKER_05]: Let me say that again.
21:29
[SPEAKER_05]: Let me do this one more time.
21:31
[SPEAKER_05]: Talk again tomorrow night after a big fever win, right, guys?
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to come through tomorrow against the aces.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think so.
21:38
[SPEAKER_03]: Sure.
21:39
[SPEAKER_03]: I think, you know, they need to, I mean, it's my form too.
21:42
[SPEAKER_03]: I, you know, I hate to say it.
21:44
[SPEAKER_03]: But for them, I really think until Kelsey's been consistent.
21:52
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, John, I will say this.
21:54
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought Lexi looked much better last night, healthier than she had before the altar break.
22:00
[SPEAKER_03]: Even though she was in that three-point shooting contest, I think that break was really good for her.
22:07
[SPEAKER_01]: But you guys know that I'm never going to say anything negative about that woman.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely love her.
22:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I love Lexi Hall in the most non-romantic way.
22:17
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's see a whole lot of Leah Boston or the official favorites of the central Indiana sports report as much as we love Caitlyn and Kelsey.
22:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's what I'm going to say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is what I really think about like Caitlyn is what brings the eyes.
22:31
[SPEAKER_01]: We love the Caitlyn brings the eyes and she's a great player.
22:34
[SPEAKER_01]: Love it.
22:34
[SPEAKER_01]: But like what she did was she signed a line on some of these surrounding players and they're just so likable, right?
22:40
[SPEAKER_01]: But like, you know, I'm not going to say Lexi's better than Caitlyn Clark, but I would be ridiculous.
22:48
[SPEAKER_05]: And we'll talk again tomorrow night after a big win.
22:54
[SPEAKER_05]: I could just not get Michelle on board that the fever are going to win on Thursday night.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Either way, we will be here to break it down.
23:02
[SPEAKER_05]: We will have a recap and then John and Michelle's reaction to the big win over the Las Vegas aces.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm called my shot.
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