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  Speaker 1: Well, here on the one look up on sports. Before
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  Speaker 1: we get to Terminello's take looking forward into twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five as well as a year in review, I just
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  Speaker 1: want to give a shout out to Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 1: with Gaby this year and cover Pinstripe Pride twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 1: Remember a couple of weeks ago, before the college football
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  Speaker 1: playoffs started, we hosted the legendary Joe Paterno's son, Jay Paterno,
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  Speaker 1: and he has since followed us on Instagram. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much, Jay. But this prediction about Notre Dame in
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  Speaker 1: Penn State came true. Sing you mentioned the whiteout game
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  Speaker 1: was Notre Dame versus Penn.
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  Speaker 2: State the very first one.
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  Speaker 1: Could we see that in the football final here the
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  Speaker 1: college football playoff final?
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  Speaker 2: Or what is that a possibility?
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  Speaker 3: You think, Oh, I think it's possible. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you know, once you get to the get into a playoff,
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  Speaker 3: anything happen. You gotta stay healthy, you gotta be lucky.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Georgia loses their quarterback, that's going to be an issue
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  Speaker 3: for them down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: But at least they have a buye so they have a.
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  Speaker 3: Chance to get spend some time getting this guy ready
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  Speaker 3: to go. But I mean, some of so much of
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  Speaker 3: as the luck of injuries. The ball bounce in a
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  Speaker 3: certain way, but certainly Notre Dame has played well enough
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  Speaker 3: on defense all year. They run the ball, they do
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  Speaker 3: some of the things you need to do to win.
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  Speaker 3: They get turnover, they create, They create an enormous amount
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  Speaker 3: of turnovers in that secondary alca As I mentioned al Golden,
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  Speaker 3: I played with him in college. He's done a great
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  Speaker 3: job with their defense. I think Penn State has enough.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a guy like Tyler Warren, it can be
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  Speaker 3: a guy that really creates a lot of matchup problems
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  Speaker 3: for teams when you get ready to playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: I think defensively, Penn State's really good.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's possible to see these teams meeting up
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  Speaker 3: of the playoffs, and it'd be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: That's right after Penn State's victory over Boise State, and
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  Speaker 1: then of course the emotional, emotional Sugar Bowl which had
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  Speaker 1: to be postponed due to the terror attacks in New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: and of course the emotional moment at the superb Dome
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  Speaker 1: during the national at the moment of silence, and of
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  Speaker 1: course the Irish winning to lift up the spirits of
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans for sure, because oh my god, that whole
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  Speaker 1: city right now reeling after this terror attack to start
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  Speaker 1: the new year, while the Irish come in win their
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  Speaker 1: collegeable playoff game against Georgia, and now it is Penn
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  Speaker 1: State Versut Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 4: May.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get Jay back on and maybe a voice of
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  Speaker 1: the Irish as well to talk about what's happening Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: January ninth.
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  Speaker 2: Can't wait for that.
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  Speaker 1: And now, without further Ado Terminilos take looking back at
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four as well as looking forward to twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, this new year's weekend. All right, well, as
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  Speaker 1: we sit here to end twenty twenty four, how can
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  Speaker 1: we not do a Termailo's take to wind down the air?
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  Speaker 1: Am I right, Louis.
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  Speaker 4: Alex you are correct. It's good to be with you
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  Speaker 4: as we wind down twenty twenty four year.
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  Speaker 1: And I called it a transformative year because personally I
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  Speaker 1: went from a hospital but in May to like getting
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  Speaker 1: out there in the world. I think that hospitiation taught
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  Speaker 1: me a lot and transforming in the sense of not
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  Speaker 1: only just getting healthier, but just being out there more.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that was excess this year.
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  Speaker 4: So we learn everything from We learned something from every
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  Speaker 4: experience that we have in life, positive and and negative.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody wants to be in a hospital, but you do
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  Speaker 4: learn from it and you realize how you prioritize being
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  Speaker 4: as healthy as you can, so hopefully that do you
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  Speaker 4: have a lot of good health in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Five right absolutely into twenty twenty five. That's my hope
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  Speaker 1: of the Gold So and that includes sports coverage as well.
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  Speaker 1: Well we'll ramp that up also. But Lou, looking back
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  Speaker 1: in twenty four, I mean, there's so many storylines. Where
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  Speaker 1: do you want to start? Because I feel like there
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  Speaker 1: to be a here in review and there's so much review.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, because has been on our mind a
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  Speaker 1: lot the last few months. I mean Otani's deal to
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  Speaker 1: set the tone for the season, I mean, that was
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  Speaker 1: a big thing, and you think it has ripple effects.
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  Speaker 1: Now moving forward to the twenty twenty five well.
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  Speaker 4: I do obviously you know Otani's signing and he signed
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  Speaker 4: like two weeks before the end of twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 4: definitely has ripple effects. I mean, I don't think Soto
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  Speaker 4: would have been offered seven sixty by the Yankees in
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  Speaker 4: seven sixty five by the Mets if Otani had been
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  Speaker 4: as had signed for five hundred million dollars. So I
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  Speaker 4: do think that definitely has a ripple effect on everybody.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, even look at at some of these some
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  Speaker 4: of these pitchers. Walker Bueller, a very talented right hander
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  Speaker 4: who came through for the Dodgers at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the World Series. But it's still a very fragile injury
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  Speaker 4: situation with him signed for twenty one million dollars. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's one year, but I mean it's a lot, it's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of money. There's a lot of money going
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  Speaker 4: out there. Sean Manaia had a good year for the Mets,
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  Speaker 4: especially after the Mets turned the round in June, signed
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  Speaker 4: a three year deal and the term isn't bad. Twenty
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  Speaker 4: five million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're.
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  Speaker 4: Forgetting how much twenty five million dollars is. How much
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  Speaker 4: fifteen million dollars. Of course, guys are now getting. Solo's
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  Speaker 4: deals going to average fifty one million dollars a year
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  Speaker 4: for the length of his contract.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Khani seventy million, Judge forty million. We're forgetting that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, ten million, eleven million dollars is a lot
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  Speaker 4: of money, and I mean, I think that's really a
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  Speaker 4: top storyline, you know in baseball. Baseball still hasn't solved
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  Speaker 4: the problem.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know they have.
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  Speaker 4: You know that they have the luxury tax situation, but
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  Speaker 4: they haven't solved the competitive balance situation. They really haven't,
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  Speaker 4: so I don't know if that's going to get worse
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  Speaker 4: as time goes on. We'll never see a salary cap
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  Speaker 4: in baseball. They've always been able to keep it out.
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  Speaker 4: But that's what separates baseball from you know, from the
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  Speaker 4: other sports. And you know, we've seen Manford trying these
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  Speaker 4: these gimmicks, and we've talked about them. We're not going
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  Speaker 4: to beat them to death here now talking about possibly
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  Speaker 4: his gold in that bat, which obviously was totally criticized
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  Speaker 4: by everybody associated with baseball, whether it be a fan
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  Speaker 4: and executive, whether it be somebody in the media.
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  Speaker 2: But they tried, you know, they tried all.
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  Speaker 4: These gimmick things, which when you start gimmicking the sport,
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  Speaker 4: the sport becomes a gimmick.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: So to me, that's a big story. Soto to the Mets,
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  Speaker 4: huge story. I mean, obviously, a player going from the
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  Speaker 4: Yankees to the Mets, even though he was there only
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  Speaker 4: one year, is big. You know, the Mets taking soda
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  Speaker 4: away from the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: That, by the way, what is the difference between pinch
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  Speaker 1: hitting and golden rule. I don't understand it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the gold In that bat was going to be
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  Speaker 4: uh yeah, we'll just make it real quick, so say
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  Speaker 4: in the bomb of the eighth inning and we'll and
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  Speaker 4: we'll do Yankees Mets. DZ comes in, the bases are loaded,
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  Speaker 4: one out, DZ strikes Judge out, two outs. So who
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  Speaker 4: beats behind Judge? I think most of the time this
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  Speaker 4: year was Austin Wells. Right, Boone decides, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to use my one gold in that back
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  Speaker 4: to do it one time.
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  Speaker 2: Judge stay up there.
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  Speaker 4: Judge gets a second chance to a swing against DS
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  Speaker 4: and maybe this time hits a grand Slam, or hits
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  Speaker 4: a three run homer, or hits a single. That's what
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  Speaker 4: That's what it is. You can you can use one
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  Speaker 4: player and you can put them in at any time.
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  Speaker 1: That totally would take away from the excitement of the sport, though,
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  Speaker 1: because if you so, I got the big guy.
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  Speaker 2: That's the point.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's right, Alex, That's right, That's exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: That that that that's right. I mean, what a buzz kill.
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  Speaker 4: You strike out, you strike out O'tani, you strike out Judge,
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  Speaker 4: you strike out Soto, you strike.
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  Speaker 2: Out Bobby but Jr.
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  Speaker 4: But no, you know what We're gonna keep him up
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  Speaker 4: there for another at BA and that relief pitcher is
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  Speaker 4: going to have to go through that player again and
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  Speaker 4: try to get him better.
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  Speaker 1: When people think a strike three call wasn't made, that
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  Speaker 1: gave someone the opportunity to extraly get an extra back,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, You're you're right.
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  Speaker 4: So so I mean, I I think that that you
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  Speaker 4: know that that that was that's a big, a big
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  Speaker 4: story that you know, the high salary uh Soto jumping
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  Speaker 4: eight miles uh uh from the Bronx to Queens.
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  Speaker 2: And that twit make for a very interesting basis.
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  Speaker 1: And a Tani winning the World Series is something major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball wanted for a long time. He's just going
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  Speaker 1: to get it in the Angel So I think him
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  Speaker 1: switching the Dodgers has give him that opportunity. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: though he wasn't, especially against the Yanks, he wasn't this
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  Speaker 1: prolific a home run here as he was the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the year. But but he did win a ring,
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  Speaker 1: and I think major League Baseball and I certainly the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers were happy, but they sure are Otani was a story.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that is just true. That twenty was a story.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four and next and.
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  Speaker 4: In twenty twenty five he's going to be in the
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  Speaker 4: starting rotation, so that will add intrigue. And he is
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  Speaker 4: the number one brand, he's internationally famous, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: we'll see, but that that's that's my that's my big
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  Speaker 4: story in baseball. I mean, if you want look at
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  Speaker 4: the NFL, I mean locally, obviously, we thought the Jets
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  Speaker 4: were going to be We're going to be a very
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  Speaker 4: good team. I did not think like some of these
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  Speaker 4: people that they were super Bowl bound, but I thought
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  Speaker 4: they would be, you know, in a race right to
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  Speaker 4: the end, like a ten and seventeen. There's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of reasons why that didn't happen. Obviously, it's a disaster
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  Speaker 4: from from the from the get go, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: now they're back to square one like they've been so
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  Speaker 4: many times for the last many decades.
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  Speaker 1: But the bigger story everybody's watching is whether Mahomes can
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  Speaker 1: really do it again. And let me tell you, they
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  Speaker 1: have been having the most lucky wins in some circumstances
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  Speaker 1: this year. It's almost it almost makes me wonder if
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  Speaker 1: going to twenty twenty five they can get away with
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  Speaker 1: it in the postseason. I know you say, don't bet
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  Speaker 1: against Mahomes, but these wins, are they going to fly
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs? I don't know if they will.
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  Speaker 2: Louis Well, I think they're getting ready.
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  Speaker 4: I mean the last couple of weeks, it seems like
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  Speaker 4: they have raised their game. I thought they were going
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  Speaker 4: to lose in Pittsburgh, and they man handled Pittsburgh. I
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  Speaker 4: assume this week they will rest almost everybody. They have
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  Speaker 4: a bye, and again they'll be playing both games get arrowhead.
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  Speaker 4: I think that gives them a great advantage. If I'm
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  Speaker 4: not a betting man, but right now, and we'll talk
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  Speaker 4: about it before probably next week as a playoffs start,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to say that they are still, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 4: the favorite to go to New Orleans and represent the
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  Speaker 4: American Football Conference again in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: That would be my by the way, And do you
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  Speaker 1: noticed since the buzz of Taylor and Travis has died down?
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  Speaker 1: I guess because they're a normal couple. I guess you
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  Speaker 1: would say no one's noticing that Kelsey keeps breaking these records,
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  Speaker 1: and we're seeing that this year he just keeps making
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  Speaker 1: a record almost weekly, it feels like, so he's still
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  Speaker 1: doing his thing, whether Taylor's at the ballpark or not.
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  Speaker 4: Louis well, he's obviously he's a Hall of Fame tight end.
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  Speaker 4: He has great chemistry. As we've talked to in the
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  Speaker 4: past with Mahomes, they know each other. They know each
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  Speaker 4: other like the back of the hand, very much like
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  Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson and Mark Andrews. That's a quarterback tight end
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  Speaker 4: combination that's been effected for years and doesn't get the
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  Speaker 4: same notoriety, mainly because Baltimore has failed in the postseason.
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  Speaker 4: But that Jackson Demark Andrews quarterback to tight end chemistry
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  Speaker 4: combination is as as good as anybody's. So we'll see
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  Speaker 4: and Alex this year. You know, you talk about MVPs.
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  Speaker 4: I know I'm dan off to be pale a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: You're talking about MVPs. I don't know who's the.
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  Speaker 2: MVP in the league. How can you vote?
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  Speaker 4: How can you go against Lamar Jackson, who is better
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  Speaker 4: than ever?
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  Speaker 2: He has improved his game, but I haven't as Siemlingly.
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  Speaker 1: Had the year of his life right now that he
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  Speaker 1: I only anybody expect him to have, especially after losing digs.
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  Speaker 2: But look what a year he's created.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Josh Allen is carrying the Bills on his back.
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  Speaker 4: Joe Burrow is carrying the Bills on his back on
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  Speaker 4: his excuse me, he's carrying the Bengals on his back
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  Speaker 4: on his shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: That is not a good team.
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  Speaker 4: The fact that they go into Saturday Night with a
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  Speaker 4: chance to get into the playoffs, yes, they're gonna need
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  Speaker 4: a lot of help, so I don't think they'll get in.
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  Speaker 4: He has had not a good year. He has had
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  Speaker 4: one of the great years of quarterbacking and NFL history.
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  Speaker 4: He's definitely an MVP candidate. Barkley is an MVP candidate.
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  Speaker 4: Jared Goff is an MVP candidate. Sam Donald is an
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  Speaker 4: NBA candidate. And you know what, I'm not gonna say candidate.
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  Speaker 4: They're all candidates, but all these guys are MVP worthy
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  Speaker 4: if any one of those guys say right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, because of the turnaround he's had. I know, Golf
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  Speaker 1: and the Lions have been unbelievable, but the Vikings went
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  Speaker 1: from you know, I don't want to say mediocre against
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  Speaker 1: with Cousins, well they were.
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  Speaker 4: They were seven and ten last year and they're fourteen
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  Speaker 4: and two now, but.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent with former Jet has Sam Donald I think he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the MVP.
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  Speaker 2: I just have it here on that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's gonna be fun because I guess the Lines
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  Speaker 1: and Vikings are duking it out now for the number
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  Speaker 1: one or the Vikings have it right.
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  Speaker 4: Now and they will play on They will play on
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  Speaker 4: Sunday night in the last game of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Leave it's game number two seventy two.
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  Speaker 4: And yes, both teams are in the playoffs, but the winner,
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  Speaker 4: the winner doesn't have to play the next week. And
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  Speaker 4: if I'm the Detroit Lions, whose defense is so battered,
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  Speaker 4: I think they really need that we go off right
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  Speaker 4: now the line to try and out score everybody. Even
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  Speaker 4: last night against San Francisco. San Francisco, all beaten up,
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  Speaker 4: really had no problem moving the ball up and down
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  Speaker 4: the field against Detroit. Detroit's defense is really in bad shape.
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  Speaker 4: I cannot say that they're going to be these the
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  Speaker 4: favorites coming out of the NFC right now. They need
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  Speaker 4: to win on a Sunday night to try really have
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  Speaker 4: a good chance to get to New Orleans. In my opinion,
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  Speaker 4: going in, I would say Philadelphia is.
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  Speaker 2: The favorite.
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  Speaker 1: So to be clear, Campbell is right to play all
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  Speaker 1: his guys right or is he wrong to play some
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  Speaker 1: of these guys.
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  Speaker 4: Campbell is on those coaches who plays all his guys.
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  Speaker 4: He played them all last night. He will play them
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  Speaker 4: all this week, as will Kevin McConnell. O'Connell's done a
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  Speaker 4: great job because they want to get that week. They
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  Speaker 4: want to get that week off. I don't care what
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  Speaker 4: you say. You know they say sometimes it's a little
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  Speaker 4: rust if you get to buy you know what, this
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  Speaker 4: is football. The less games you have to play, the
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  Speaker 4: let's wear and tear on your body, the less of
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  Speaker 4: an opportunity for a key offensive or defensive or golf
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  Speaker 4: a bit a quarterback like Donald or Jared Goff get hurt.
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  Speaker 2: I mean one of those guys get hurt. They're done.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about big one. You look them about the Lions
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  Speaker 1: real quick, didn't Montgomery? Isn't he on the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the season he was their star running back?
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  Speaker 2: Yes he was.
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  Speaker 4: Now they have depth at running back and there's an
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  Speaker 4: outside chance he might be ready sometime in the playoff.
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  Speaker 2: Montgomery.
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  Speaker 4: But the key thing is they gotta get some of
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  Speaker 4: these defensive guys back, and they might get Alex ends
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  Speaker 4: alone back, a key line active for them for the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: but they need more. They've had not only was starting
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  Speaker 4: defensive players injured, the backups were injured.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's gonna be it's gonna.
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  Speaker 4: Be very very difficult, I think right now, depending on
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  Speaker 4: their health.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Uh, for them to get to New Orleans.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Now, you know a team that I'm really excited to
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: see fanbase had before Washington because that's I don't care
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: if they've changed the names or not. It's a dynastics team.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: They had the era of Gibbs and all that, and
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: they've really just ran away from that until now and
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: now there's finally excitement back in Washington. Isn't Washington like
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: one of those vintage teams you want to succeed every year?
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I feel like it would be, right.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't care about Washington.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I care.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: I do only care about the teams I root for,
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: but I go Washington is not one of them.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: But you are one hundred, right, Alex. They were four
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: and thirteen last year.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: They've gone through a long, long period of being a
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: non contender. You know, they've gone from four and thirteen
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: and uh, you know right now they are eleven in
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: five and Jayden Daniels, I mean obviously a couple of
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: weeks ago he had fallen back into a group of
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: a couple of guys for Offensive Rookie the Year.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Well, he's separated from that.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: He's gonna win the Offensive Rookie the Year easily, and
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: after winning the Heisman Trophy last year. He has done
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: a great job in his first year. It'll be interesting
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: to see how far they go. But want to turn
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: around here for one of the flags of franchises in
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: the NFL, Like you just said, so, it'll be interesting
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: to see the kid's great.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: That yeah, and we talk about the storyline of the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: NFL was how these rookies were going to do of
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: all of them. And actually bow Nick's also had quite
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: a season two for the Broncos, bringing them to the playoffs.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Back to the playoffs, I should say, so, not a
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: bad draft class for twenty twenty four, wouldn't you.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Say, Alex? I agree?
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: And Caleb Williams had I think he's still going to
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: be good.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I'm not putting this on him. You know, I've lost
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: ten and row.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: But Caleb Williams, Daniels, Nix, Nicks, who's gotten better every week,
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: and Drake May I know he didn't start.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: From the beginning of the year, which is probably a
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: good thing.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: His potential is outstanding, and he'll be he'll be one
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: as we go into twenty twenty five to look at
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: as he goes through his second training camp, and he'll
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: be the starter from opening day.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: But yes, that was a good draft class of quarterbacks.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Unlike this year, we don't.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: We have a lot of question marks it with these
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: with these quarterbacks coming in.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Now before we get to the NHL and some NBA.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: The storyline for me of all of twenty twenty four
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: was how much and I know that WNBA, but how
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: much the WNBA was shaken up by Kaitlyn Clark and
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: just she was a storyline for the entire year. Would
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you agree or no?
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: I would say that's one of the big stories in
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty four sports Calen Clark, no doubt about it.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, the WNBA was rising, the arrow was.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Pointing up, but she had the arrow pointing quicker than
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: anybody could imagine.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I can't.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: I really hate when people try to find chinks in
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: her armor. It's very I think I think that's very weak.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: She's She's done more, not only for the WNBA, for
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: women's sports in a long time. I mean fantastic player
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: and the fantastic brand. And she's done what Jordan did
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: for the NBA in the eighties, after Bird and Magic.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: And Doctor j did it in the early eighties.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: That's what they do, you know, years from now and
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: we look back, if WNBA continues on his trajectory, we'll
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: look at Kalin Clark, who did this. I mean, yes,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: there's other players, but there's been a lot of other
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: great players, but they didn't have the cache that that
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Clark did.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: And I'm you're miss if I didn't say the local
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: storyline was the Liberty. I mean, they're the only championship
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: team of the entire city right now this year, so
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: of course they're the storyline. I mean, look what they've
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: done with Sabrina I and s Do and Stewart and
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: What a what a crew to a super team? Yeah,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: a super team?
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Absolutely so, I mean I don't know if you have
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: thoughts on that, but I just thought, there, that's the
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: storyline here in New York is they won and then
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: well they did.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Win the championship. Obviously on the pecking order of teams
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: in New York.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Uh, you know, they're probably at the very bottom as
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: far as popularity and the impact in New York. Obviously
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: the two baseball teams are the top two. So you know,
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: so we'll see there's still a young league, as you know,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: So there's it's still just it's all in front of
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: the WNBA and the Liberty and all of the teams
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: in that league.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: All right now, No on the local city line across
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the way, the entire thing. Then look, baseball, I know,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: we go back to it. Yanks were in the World Series,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Mets were two games in the World Series. It's twenty
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: five years since the Subway Series. Do the shakeups that
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: both teams underwent this offseason? I mean, could we see
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: a Subway Series reprisal in twenty twenty five?
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Are we almost there or what? Yes? I would say
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: so a couple of things here.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: The Yankees have a much easier path the American As
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: we sit here on New Year's Eves, the American League stinks.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Let's face it, it stinks.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: The Cleveland Indians trade the right side of their infield
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: of their all star second basement Andre Simonez, a young player,
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: and ray Naller, a guy who was a power hit.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Their first basement over one hundred RBIs. I have no
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: idea why they did that.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: You know, Uh, it's just a much easier path. You
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: look at the best teams in baseball, the Yankees, the Mets,
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: the Dodgers, the Phillies, the Braves, the Diamondbacks.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: The Padres. Where's where's an American League team? None? No
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: longer Baltimore can't sign Corbyn Burns. They're not gonna be able.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: To They're not gonna sign Santander their big offensive player.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Will they be able to sign Gunner Henderson in a
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: couple of years.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: That's a problem. And like I said, the paths or
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: the Yankees to get to the World Series.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: If they don't get to the World Series, that would
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: be a disappointment. Now in the Mets case, they're gonna
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: have to go through what they went through last year.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: They're gonna have to be They're gonna have to fight
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: the Braves and the Phillies in their division. They're going
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: to have to play the Braves and the Phillies and
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: the playoffs. For the Dedres or the Dodgers, it's a
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: much tougher it's a much tougher road as we speak today.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Now there's still six seven weeks to go before training camp.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: They can still be some roster changes to some of
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: these other teams, so we'll see. But as we sit
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: here today on New Year's Eve, yeah, the Yankees might
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: be in the World Series again and the Mets might
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: be the only thing. The Mets will have a much
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: much tougher road, and I think the Yankees did a
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: great job if they lost, so noo, you know, signing
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Max Freed, would I have given a thirty year old
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: picture eight years I wouldn't.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: But whatever Goldschmid, whatever.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: He gives him is a bonus, and he might be
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: better than he was last year.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: I think getting Devin Williams is going to solidify the bullpen.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: I think the Yankees are doing great in Great chick
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: I really do. But it will be a very interesting
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: baseball season, and those two three games series between the
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Yankees and the Mets are going to be are.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Going to be epic.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: It'll be like twenty five years ago because that energy
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and even in the regular season.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean, I think that was the.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Year that is at the homer against Clemens. Wasn't that
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: two thousand or was that ninety nine?
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: I'm forgetting that that was two thousand and one oh one,
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: but of course two thousand of the Piazza hitting the
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: head and then of course the bat thrown at them.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, what a wild year it was.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was thou Also that was the year they
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: had a day night doubleheader one inn Yankee and Want
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: in Shay Stadium.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I went to the one at Shay.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: I did not go to the one at night, the
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: one where Piazza got deamed.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: We definitely went up to both games because my dad
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and I were like that, you know, we just showed
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: up one last thing though, and I feel like the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Knicks are ending twenty four great, But I want to
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: get to the holes that the Jets and Giants do
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: leave us. They leave us with not knowing when I
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: head coaches the Jets do anyway, I don't know what
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the Giants are going to do. They leave us with
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the whole of what they're going to do for quarterback.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest Well, you're right.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Alex, what what what's gonna what each team is going
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: to do for quarterback? For the Jets, who's going to
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: be their coach? Is there is they're going who's going
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: to be their general manager. Uh, you know that's that's
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: going to uh predicate everything what what they do. You know,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: a lot of people say, hey, bring Rogers back because
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: the other the free agents out there, as far as
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: quarterbacks go, none of them are effected with the Giants.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: The Giants need a lot of need a lot of
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: roster help. They need a quarterback. And again, the fact
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: that people are upset that the Giants won on on
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Sundays nonsense because as I've told you a thousand times, uh,
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: players and coaches don't care about draft picks and tanking
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: in the NFL because most of those guys aren't going
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: to be on the team next year anyway, and then
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: they want to play well get get get on film.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: So next year if the Giants, if they're not on
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: the Giants, some team in the league will say, you
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: know what, that guy did a nice job, let's bring
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: him in.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: So that's what it's all about. And and I.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Think they're gonna have to find a guy that's gonna
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: be a right fit with Malik, because I think they're
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: gonna want to build around Malik Neighbors, There's no doubt
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Well, again, you.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Don't build around a wide receiver. But Elik, he's a
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: difference maker. You're one hundred right, and uh again, who's
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: going to be the quarterback for the Jets? Who's going
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: to be the quarterback for the Giants? I don't know,
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: I really don't know.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, it all depends on on who's the coach
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: and draw manager.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Obviously, the knee jerk reaction of firing Sala Obviously nobody's
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: gonna confuse Robert Sala with with the insulambody or Bill
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: park Sells.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: But the timing when.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: They fight, I'm totally totally sunk the Jets season because
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: a writteney jerk reaction by an owner. And all these owners,
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: you know, they're, oh, Willie Johnson's a bad owner. Well,
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: you know what, the Spano's family with the Charges forever,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: I've been bad owners, been bad owners.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: They're not going to get Harbor. Harbor won't want to
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: go there because they're a bad owner. Look what Harbor.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Has done for Los Angeles Chargers who were five and
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: twelve last year and with less offensive talents, with less
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: offensive talent are going to be a pain in the butt,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: not only this year, but for years to come. He's
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: a great coach. He's exactly what the New York Jets needed.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: So we'll see. I have a feeling that Jets are
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: going to do this quick. I think this is going
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: to happen within the first ten days.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Of twenty twenty five.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I agree. All right, Oh, it's five o'clock today here
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: in New York. They share the same arena, and let's
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: just whip around that for a second. Yep, biggest storyline
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: of the Knicks has no longer become that they were
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: aust in seven games by the Pacers, but that they
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: got Carl Anthony made an incredible, incredible difference in this team.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, kat is the difference is the story line
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. What did you say for the Knicks?
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: Well, I think you just look at it. You look
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: at the next year and a half ago. They a
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: couple of years ago they signed this is his third
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: year with the team. They signed Brunson. Okay, he was
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: looked at as a good point guard, nothing spectacular. Well
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: since last year he's been a superstar and he's developed
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: his game for somehow. And you know, we've talked about it.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Nixon Nets never made a trade. They didn't even talk
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: to each other, and somehow, all of a sudden, they
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: trade their best player to their number one rival, both
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: business rival and on the court for five number one
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: draft picks. Strange to me, you know, maybe we can
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: get Bobby Marx on one day the old Net's assistant
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: general manager, my old coworker, and we could talk.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: We could talk about that. They get him.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: And then seven or eight days before training camp opens,
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: the Minnesota Timberwolves, who came within an eyelash of getting
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: to the conference finals and obviously we're going to be
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: good for a great number of years, trade trade Karl
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: Anthony Towns And there was really no explanation given why
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: they traded him. He's not a bad kid, he's his contract,
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: there was no contract issues. They trade him to the Knicks. Well,
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: obviously he's been fantastic for the next he leads to
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: league in rebounding.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: He's an MVP candidate. And the Knicks have had.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Had even though they had an easy schedule in December, Alex,
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: they crushed most of these teams. You know, they're not
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: messing around. A Thibodeau doesn't mess around as coach.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: They are like they're averaging at least one hundred and
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: twenty points a game right now for more.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and it's an NBA.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: It's an offensive NBA era, which again I come from
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: a different era of NBA. But they are They're.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Deep, and it's going to be very interesting.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously I think they have a chance to
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: get to at least the conference final, depending on the brackets.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: The Nets, that's your that's your team. You work for
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: for what twenty eight years or so, I mean, tell
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: us about your Nets. What's going on?
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Well, they just traded two more guys because they were
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: winning too many games. And that's an NBA problem, an
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: NBA problem that I hate. And it's not only a
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: new NBA problem, it was an NBA problem even when
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: when I was in the league. I mean in the
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: mid eighties, the Houston Rockets tanked to get Ralph Samson,
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: which led to the lottery. There was no lottery before that.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: They tanked, have the worst wreck in the league. Now
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: the Nets are tanking to make sure they get into
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: the top to the top three or top four. You know,
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: they traded Dennis Schroeder, a very good a very good
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: dar At, a total professional.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: A leader to the Lakers, I mean to the Warriors.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: They traded Finney Smith to the Lakers, a good defender,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: a guy who hit the three. Gonna he's gonna help
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: the Lakers a lot. And then the Nets got d'
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Angelo Russell back on an expiring contract, which means they're
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: not going to resign him next year. This is all about,
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: This is all about the summer of twenty five for
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: the next I'm glad that I'm on a season ticket holder.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: I'm glad that I don't have to pay these ridiculous
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: sums of money to go to a game, and I'm
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: gonna do Alex. Thirty nine percent of NBA players this year,
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: NBA starters have missed at least one game. The fact
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: that these NBA players do not play every game is
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: a modern disaster in my opinion. Michael Jordan never missed
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: the game. Julius Serving never missed the game. We talked
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: about a thousand times. Happen to bring it up again, Uh,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: I remember.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: There was one point where they were going to start
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: to find the NBA teams for not putting out their
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: stars or all that.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: At one point.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: Well it is and uh, you know, especially for you know,
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: all these now on all these national TV deals. Oh,
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: you know, you go home, like in the old days,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: you go home to watch the Celtics play the Pistons,
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: and you want you're gonna see McHale and Bird and
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Robert Parrish against Isaiah Thomas and uh Bill Lambert Beer
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: and Rick Mahorn and Vinnie Johnson. You know, it's it's different.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: But that the fact that the nets for tanking al gome.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Be honest with you, I don't want. I really have
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: put them on the back burner right now. I'll re
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: visit that in the off season.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: We'll see what they.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Do that is rough well in the and then also
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: in the garden, you had the Rangers and hockey where
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: WHI should really end. I know we could talk college
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: football playoffs, but we'll recaps as we get to the
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: national championship. How we talk. I do think about that,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: because that's too much to intercept to dissect right now.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Round by round. Let's wait disease in the title game
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: and go from there.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Louis, But I think the most dramatic storyline of twenty
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: twenty four in New York City, I guess nationally because
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: they were the whole ice team all of last playoffs,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: right are the Rangers you and steps away from the
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup Final to this disaster class almost not just
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  Speaker 1: every once, every every game now and that's just shocking it.
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  Speaker 1: They have a lot of the guys from last year.
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  Speaker 1: So is this a cultural problem? What's going on in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room? I mean, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 2: Louis? It's Alex.
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  Speaker 4: It's really mind boggling to me because they have veteran players,
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  Speaker 4: they have a deep team, they have great goaltending, they
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  Speaker 4: have their roster of defenseman should be good.
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  Speaker 2: But we saw it.
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  Speaker 4: Early on when they got off to that twelve to
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  Speaker 4: four and one start and Sorokan bailed them out of
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  Speaker 4: those lot of those games. But you figured, Okay, it's
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  Speaker 4: the start of season, you know they'll tighten up. Well
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  Speaker 4: they didn't, and uh uh, you know they there's just
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  Speaker 4: too much, too much periods of horrendous play. Their power
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  Speaker 4: play which was lethal, which was lethal, is is nowhere.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's so it's become so weak with
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  Speaker 4: the same guys. Crid Za Banajad panerin Adam Fox. The
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  Speaker 4: last night they dropped Za Banajead to the second power
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  Speaker 4: play and then put La Fronieria and from Er after
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  Speaker 4: signing this contract, has had a bad year after having
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  Speaker 4: a very good.
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  Speaker 2: Walk year last year.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, do the Rangers still have a shot to get
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  Speaker 4: back in it? Yes, They're only seven points have a
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  Speaker 4: playoff spot. I can't believe I'm saying that they just
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  Speaker 4: let's see what happens between now and the Foreign Nations
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  Speaker 4: break when they have that that two week break for
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  Speaker 4: the tournament in mid February. But I'm going to make
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: a prediction. I think I think Lavot might get fired.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's a good chance he might.
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  Speaker 1: Ever he wants to quit. Also, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that's true.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I didn't hear that, But you know, there comes
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  Speaker 4: a point where, especially a veteran coach, a guy who's
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  Speaker 4: coaches Stanley Cup championship team like he did in Carolina,
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  Speaker 4: a guy who's been around in all kinds of different situations,
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  Speaker 4: know when he's not getting through to the players anymore.
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  Speaker 4: And sometimes that's when they he'll might resign and just
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  Speaker 4: walk out.
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  Speaker 2: They know that's a jury problem.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that the jury issue as well, isn't.
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  Speaker 2: It I think it is. I think it is.
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  Speaker 4: I think the fact that he leaked that everybody was available.
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  Speaker 1: Was bad.
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  Speaker 4: The fact that he didn't handle the trouber situation in
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  Speaker 4: the summertime and did it after the season began. Looking back,
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  Speaker 4: that's that was something I've probably hurt, hurt the team.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, Sarrogan's not going to value out every night.
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  Speaker 1: That's not me, Igor, Egor, you're talking about the Islanders, Egor.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm getting him confused with his Russian counterpart
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  Speaker 4: and good friend. Uh, Shasterkin's not going to bail him
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  Speaker 4: out every night. And if I said Sarkan earlier, I bespoke,
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: but Igor Ssterkin, great player, he's not going to bail
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  Speaker 4: him out every night.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so they locked him up for his eight year
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  Speaker 1: deal middle of the season, I think to put everything at.
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  Speaker 4: Ease, and then you know, and that's not to say
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  Speaker 4: that that back for you yet out No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying I'm glad he stayed though. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a really good signing. Uh, it's not going to backfire.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's the future of Rangers in that absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: he's the young kid. But were you surprised that been
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  Speaker 1: this season and rather than wait till the offseason.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think truely wanted to get that far. That's
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  Speaker 4: what I think. I think you just wanted to get
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  Speaker 4: off on your signed and moved on. So we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: They're not dead yet. But really, I mean, you look
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  Speaker 4: at them, and you said this team on the Presidence
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  Speaker 4: Trophy last year, it's almost hard to believe it's the
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: same roster with the same coach.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll have to see what happens, but for now, Louis,
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  Speaker 1: it's been an eventful twenty twenty four. This show continues
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: to take off every week, and I think adding the
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: LinkedIn component where we put on LinkedIn almost every week,
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  Speaker 1: has helped grow the show.
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  Speaker 2: What didn't you say?
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  Speaker 4: I would say, I'm looking forward to doing some things
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  Speaker 4: to make it grow even more in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 4: And I appreciate you always including me on a weekly basis.
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  Speaker 4: I enjoyed very much talking sports, talking sports with you,
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  Speaker 4: and again I can't I can't thank you enough Alex
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  Speaker 4: for having me on as on a weekly basis.
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  Speaker 1: Well, lou love you man, Happy and blessed new year,
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  Speaker 1: and let's do this all again in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: shall we.
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  Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to where a lot of good things
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  Speaker 4: happen in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Rightly, I really feel good about it me too, Amen
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  Speaker 2: to that.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Termino's take for the last time in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Did we review everything? I think we reviewed everything here,
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  Speaker 2: lou I think we're all separate.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, obviously there's a lot of things with
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: the review, but we could then the podcast would be
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  Speaker 4: twenty four hours, so.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly all right.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll dissect more as we go into twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: but for now there is a final Terminal's take of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining, Louis, Alex, thank you so much for
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: happy new hear you and Gabby.
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  Speaker 1: A few other folks I should say thank you to
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: is Nissan, who continually reposts all the and out there
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  Speaker 1: on my ex on my Instagram. So appreciative of the
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: NR hour, and so appreciative of Jake Cosak and his
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: friendship and mentorship. Anna Ray. I thank you guys before
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: on the podcast, but you guys have been a big
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: part of this year. Continuing Caleb Harley, the encouragement that
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: you guys have given me, and of course can't forget
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Oswaldo and justin Time Baseball. I mentioned those guys and
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: shout them out as well for being part of this
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: network as well as as well Nestor Cortes. Pretty special
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: to have those two Yankees on as well as a
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: mob Bradshaw of the Giants of Super Bowl, and of
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: course meeting Major League mad Mez and Eisen was awesome.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: And of course my colleagues at AM nine, Sem of
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: the Answer WMCA another strong year in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: and of course John JM Pearl nineties Yanks Kid, thanks
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: for everything again this year and happy birthday as well
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: to your birthday on New Year's Eve. Have about that.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: And then you heard from lou Terminello, Happy New Year
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: to two of our very mutual friends and very good friends,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Dave Popkin and Jim Lamparello. And thanks to them for
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: their friendship, their mentorship and their guidance all year long
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  Speaker 1: and may continue in twenty twenty five, bigger and better.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Thanks for everything, and we've made it, everybody to a
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  Speaker 1: quarter of a century twenty twenty five. Here we come
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  Speaker 1: on the one like a network