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Set 2: Too Expensive for the Mecca · Stugotz and Company

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Speaker 1: Is he a classic sports radio debate? All right, did the.
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Speaker 2: Calves win that game last night? Or did the Pistons
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Speaker 2: lose that game last night?
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Speaker 3: That's on the mount rushmore of around the horn questions,
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Speaker 3: Like I think Tony really should somehow copyright that particular
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Speaker 3: question and everybody has to pay him every time they ask.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but the series started, I mean, congratulations about the
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Speaker 2: Calves and Pistons.
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Speaker 1: Your series finally started.
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Speaker 3: Well for the Calves, their playoffs have finally started, because
0:54
Speaker 3: they do nothing but win home games and lose road
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Speaker 3: games so far. That one, to me felt like very typical.
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Speaker 3: Like both of those teams played like you would expect
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Speaker 3: them to given the makeup of their team down the stretch,
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Speaker 3: right the Pistons where they basically rely so much on
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Speaker 3: Kate Cunningham, Like whatever happened to Jalen Durwan during these playoffs,
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Speaker 3: I don't know, he was zapped of all his powers,
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Speaker 3: it feels like, and they sort of strangle that guy
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Speaker 3: and makes somebody else have to step up. And it's
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Speaker 3: been Tobias Harris, but it just wasn't yesterday. And then
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Speaker 3: you've got the Calves, who are like a spurtable team, right,
1:34
Speaker 3: you remember that term spurtability, Like they have that type
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Speaker 3: of team that it's like bam, bam bam, all of
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Speaker 3: a sudden, it's three back to back, threees and it
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Speaker 3: could be, you know, a ten oh run or something
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Speaker 3: like that. And so it felt like both teams kind
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Speaker 3: of played somehow to their strengths down the stretch. But
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Speaker 3: it feels like the Calves.
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Speaker 4: Kind of win and got it.
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Speaker 3: And that's why I am not mad about that not
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Speaker 3: foul call, nonfoul call at the end.
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Speaker 5: Okay, that's what I was just about to ask you,
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Speaker 5: is he the I thought it was pretty clearsar Thomson
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Speaker 5: got tripped up by Jared Allen. And I get if
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Speaker 5: you're a referee in that situation and you don't want
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Speaker 5: to decide a game calling a foul that far away
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Speaker 5: from the basket with such a little time left. But
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Speaker 5: did it not seem like a pretty obvious.
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Speaker 3: Trip calling that foul with such little time left? But
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Speaker 3: the Pistons not having any timeouts, right, so play that out.
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Speaker 3: Let's say Jared does not foul him or trip a
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Speaker 3: sar if he tries to pass the ball. I think
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Speaker 3: it was Dennis Jenkins that was streaking up the court.
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Speaker 3: If he tries to pass it to Dannis, it's not
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Speaker 3: getting there in time for him to get.
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Speaker 1: A shot off.
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Speaker 3: So Asar has to basically take one dribble and take
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Speaker 3: a sixty footer and that is and when you look
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Speaker 3: at the foot to foot contact, it was just foot
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Speaker 3: to foot contact on the side right.
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Speaker 4: It wasn't like he went under and tripped a sar.
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Speaker 3: So if I'm an official, I'm looking at that, I'm like,
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Speaker 3: that's the ultimate bailout.
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Speaker 4: Ultimate bailout es actually when we can just go to overtime.
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Speaker 3: And so I would have hated if I was a
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Speaker 3: Cleveland fan at that time, I would have continuously and
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Speaker 3: they would have called the foul. I would have just
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Speaker 3: showed over and over again, just their feet basically touching,
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Speaker 3: because that's all that was. And and I'm gonna look
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Speaker 3: this up right now, Asar Thompson's free throw percentage in
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Speaker 3: the playoffs, because it's not good.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is shocking. No one loves Asar Thompson
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Speaker 2: more than is he. He loves all Thompson's.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think he deserved that bailout. It was
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Speaker 4: going to be a bailout.
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Speaker 3: He is shooting fifty three point eight percent from the
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Speaker 3: free throw line in the postseason, and he probably would
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Speaker 3: have missed both of those.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, I don't know about both of them. He
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Speaker 2: just has to hit one. They win that game. It's
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Speaker 2: not the way aesthetically, it's not the way you want
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Speaker 2: a game to end where a guy gets tripped, he
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Speaker 2: goes to the foul lawn and he hits a foul shot.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's a coin toss, but he hits a foul
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Speaker 2: shot literally and they win the game. But and it's
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Speaker 2: such a tricky thing. I don't want the game to
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Speaker 2: end that way. But I don't care about the piston
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Speaker 2: to the caves. In fact, that just that series to
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Speaker 2: go seven games. I don't want to see it end
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Speaker 2: that way. I'd prefer to go to overtime. But it
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Speaker 2: was a foul, I mean, and a fouls of foul
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Speaker 2: fourth quarter, first quarter, second quarter fouls A foul.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say even in the regular first three quarters,
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Speaker 3: three and a half quarters, that doesn't always get called.
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Speaker 3: Like that's one of those two where, especially in the
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Speaker 3: first three quarters, where you kind of look at it
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Speaker 3: and maybe you'll get like a late whistle because it's like, well,
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Speaker 3: he must have been tripped up right, but again in
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Speaker 3: that spot. And I've seen other games and maybe this
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Speaker 3: is a little older, right before the challenge and all
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Speaker 3: that stuff, and when referees were encouraged to make calls
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Speaker 3: because then you could challenge it if it's wrong, whatever.
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Speaker 3: But I've seen a lot of non calls that are
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Speaker 3: way more egregious than that late in games, like it's
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Speaker 3: a tough way to lose. I know you're right, Stu,
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Speaker 3: but you had overtime. You had overtime to get over it.
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Speaker 3: And not only that, you just absolutely got continued to
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Speaker 3: get clocked because what was it a nine to zero
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Speaker 3: run that the Calves ended the regulation with? Okay, like
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Speaker 3: even a SAR said it, not gonna blame the refs,
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Speaker 3: felt like a foul. Not gonna blame the refs because
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Speaker 3: they played horribly down the stretch.
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Speaker 5: Stude, stop me if you've heard this before. Yeah, well
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Speaker 5: when the when the Calves or when the Pistons were
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Speaker 5: up one oh three to ninety four ESPN probability.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's unbelievable these crazy things were watching in
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Speaker 3: sports like this has clearly never happened before, all these
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Speaker 3: games turning on a dime, like that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Taylor has purchased Game one tickets to the NBA
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Speaker 2: to the Eastern Conference Finals in Detroit because he knows
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Speaker 2: if it goes to Madison Square Garden they take on
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Speaker 2: the Cavs, it benefits us. I'm not certain who he's
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Speaker 2: rooting for because he wants to go to game one,
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Speaker 2: but Game one of the Mecca is way more expensive.
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Speaker 1: So what is going on here with you, Taylor?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been priced out of I'm looking at the
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Speaker 5: prices for Madison Square Garden moving forward. I've been priced
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Speaker 5: out for the remainder of the playoffs. So I was looking,
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Speaker 5: and when the Pistons were up one oh three, whatever
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Speaker 5: ninety six it was, I was like, let me get
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Speaker 5: a ticket to Game one in Detroit. It's it's cheaper
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Speaker 5: to sit lower level, get a flight to Detroit, get
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Speaker 5: a hotel in Detroit. Then it would be even trying
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Speaker 5: to enter one foot into the mecca, Madison Square Garden, Right,
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Speaker 5: So I buy, I buy the ticket for Game one
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Speaker 5: in Detroit. Still still a pretty expensive ticket, but nothing
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Speaker 5: can compare to Madison Square Garden. And then all of
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Speaker 5: a sudden, Max Struce started lighting it up, and I
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Speaker 5: was like Oh man, this is I think you could
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Speaker 5: pinpoint the exact moment, the Cavs moment came back the
6:39
Speaker 5: second I checked out with Apple Pey.
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Speaker 4: I'm glad you, bro.
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Speaker 3: I'm still glad you brought up Max Streuce because I
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Speaker 3: feel like Charles Barkley has opened a door for me.
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Speaker 4: Did you did you hear what he said last night?
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Speaker 1: Oh?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw the post game where he just he
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Speaker 2: was he was overwhelmed by how good looking Max Streuce is.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he said quote, he's a pretty man, and he's like,
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Speaker 3: I like his face, And I feel like if Charles
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Speaker 3: Barkley can say that, I can now say that about anybody.
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Speaker 1: Yes, well you can.
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Speaker 3: I mean, well not really right, because it's not like
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Speaker 3: you guys can go on here and just like start
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Speaker 3: ogling at like some WNBA player and be like, well
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Speaker 3: she's gorgeous and not feel weird.
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Speaker 4: Right, So I say it, it's gonna be a little weird.
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Speaker 3: Charles Barkley, I don't know. I think he maybe kind
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Speaker 3: of open the door for me.
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Speaker 1: Right, that's a fair point.
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Speaker 2: You say it, and you might actually be attracted to
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Speaker 2: the person you're talking about, Charles Barkley. It's just kind
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Speaker 2: of making a joke tongue in che right, I understand
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Speaker 2: what you're saying.
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Speaker 1: So you feel like he's opened the portal for everyone?
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Speaker 3: Now, yeah, you know, if I feel like talking about
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Speaker 3: somebody's attractiveness, I'm gonna do it, and then everybody else
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Speaker 3: guess whether or not I want to sleep with them?
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Speaker 1: Is he?
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Speaker 5: When I'm watching this Pistons Calves game yesterday and really
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Speaker 5: the series as a whole, with some of the swings
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Speaker 5: and some of the individual player performances that we've seen,
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Speaker 5: my first thought was if the Pistons and Calves were
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Speaker 5: wearing sixers and Knick jerseys, we would be talking about
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Speaker 5: this series like it was an all times Yeah, I'm.
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Speaker 3: Actually I was trying to talk about Strew so you
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Speaker 3: guys wouldn't hammer me on the James Harden conversation because now, no, we're.
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Speaker 1: Getting to it. Don't you worry about it. We haven't forgotten.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's having a bit of a rebound in
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Speaker 3: this very postseason I wouldn't credit for it.
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Speaker 2: If I were you, by the way, I would that's
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Speaker 2: the move. Take credit you inspired James better?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Does he thinks he's a big Fox Sports radio guy.
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Speaker 1: Just take credit regardless. Just take it.
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Speaker 3: You're welcome, even though I don't want to take credit
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Speaker 3: for him because I don't want him to do better,
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Speaker 3: because I don't want people to think he's better than
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Speaker 3: Dwayne Wade, so I don't really want to take credit
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Speaker 3: for it. I'm all tied up here, Stue, I don't
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Speaker 3: know what to do. So Streuce, would you? I mean, Taylor,
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Speaker 3: you go.
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Speaker 5: I need James Harden to get out of the playoffs
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Speaker 5: as soon as possible, because I know the conversation around
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Speaker 5: a lot of players right now is the foul bating,
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Speaker 5: the free throw merchants. Jalen Brunson gets those accusations. SGA
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Speaker 5: gets those accusations. James Harden is the godfather of it,
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Speaker 5: and he does it in a way that is so
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Speaker 5: over the top and such a dis If James Nasmith
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Speaker 5: dig him out of his grave and have him watch
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Speaker 5: James Harden, he would be throwing up right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he would be. He'd be a halt.
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Speaker 2: He's is he He is in the worst shape of
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Speaker 2: any professional athlete I've ever seen.
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Speaker 1: I mean, gasping for air and overtime. Jesus christ Man.
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Speaker 3: Steve, I told you before, like there was a former
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Speaker 3: teammate of his bragging about how he would be out
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Speaker 3: till four or five in the morning the night before
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Speaker 3: games and just come back absolutely cooking, even though you
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Speaker 3: know his teammate was hung over. And I'm like, I
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Speaker 3: don't know if that's something to be proud of, And
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Speaker 3: I wonder if that's why he sort of fades away
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Speaker 3: in the postseason.
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Speaker 5: Some of the fowls that are being called for James Harden,
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Speaker 5: they're getting challenge and they're going to the replay and
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Speaker 5: Mike Breen and Legler are watching it and they're like,
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Speaker 5: it's by the letter of lots of foul, but also like,
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Speaker 5: if you go back two steps further, James Harden is
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Speaker 5: very clearly just shoving the defender off, and it's like, wait,
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Speaker 5: if you're challenging if that's a foul, can you not
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Speaker 5: go back and challenge if the hard and push off
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Speaker 5: is a foul.
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Speaker 4: It's the hardened conundrum. It's his entire career. It's why
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Speaker 4: people like basketball purists are just kind of.
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Speaker 3: Like, man, I don't know if I want to embrace this,
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Speaker 3: because it is just working around the rules to try
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Speaker 3: like he is, Yes, he is quick, he's got good handles.
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Speaker 3: He's not crazy athletic, he is not like I don't know,
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Speaker 3: he just definitely uses the rules in his favor and yes,
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Speaker 3: quick enough to get by you. And then you're at
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Speaker 3: he's at, You're at his mercy. You're at his mercy.
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Speaker 3: But at this age he's not doing that anymore. So
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Speaker 3: to be able to get to the line fourteen times
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Speaker 3: in a game against one of you know probably maybe
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Speaker 3: you know, top two defensive teams left in the playoffs,
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Speaker 3: like that's that probably is something that got a handful
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Speaker 3: of favorable calls.
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Speaker 2: I thought Tim Legler yesterday said it perfectly. There is
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Speaker 2: no greater disparity between the floor and the ceiling in
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Speaker 2: terms of someone's game than games Harden and the ceiling
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Speaker 2: is what makes you so frustrated about the floor, because
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Speaker 2: the ceiling is one of the best players we've ever
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Speaker 2: seen in NBA history. But when he falls off, it's awful.
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Speaker 2: It's embarrassing. And as Taylor pointed out, if you dug
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Speaker 2: who are you digging out of a grave to check
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Speaker 2: out Jay Smithy, he meant there a basketball. If you
11:20
Speaker 2: dug Naysmith out of the grave, he'd be appalled. By
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Speaker 2: James Harden on certain nights and if you drive, you know,
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Speaker 2: if you took him out of the grave on another night,
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Speaker 2: he would be like, oh my god, look good bye.
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Speaker 1: Game turned into look how great this guy is. It's crazy.
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Speaker 3: He'd be like, did he not ask him to rest
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Speaker 3: in peace? Like, please stop digging me up. I'm tired
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Speaker 3: of checking it on that.
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Speaker 4: I would have invented it.
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Speaker 3: Seriously, this is well at Disney's gig not mine.
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Speaker 5: Is you mentioned Jalen Duran before and I'm watching that
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Speaker 5: and I'm wondering, like, if you're the Pistons, what do
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Speaker 5: you do with Jalen Durham, Because he's probably going to
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Speaker 5: be an All NBA player this season with what he
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Speaker 5: did filling in for Kate Cunningham and being the guy
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Speaker 5: that helped the Pistons get to a one seed.
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Speaker 4: But he it looks like.
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Speaker 5: If you watched them in the regular season and you
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Speaker 5: watch them in the postseason, it looks like a completely
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Speaker 5: different player in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Well, no, I would say this, and no one's glued
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Speaker 2: to the Pistons like I am, and to these NBA
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Speaker 2: playoffs the way I am. Jalen Duran offensively has been
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Speaker 2: up and down the entire season. Like, if you're expecting
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Speaker 2: him to be consistent, then you haven't been watching the
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Speaker 2: Pistons like I have the entire season.
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Speaker 1: He's a roller coaster, is he is?
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Speaker 3: He is, And part of the problem is he's very
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Speaker 3: reliant on Kate Cunningham doing his work in order to
12:48
Speaker 3: be open, in order to find space under the paint,
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Speaker 3: in order to you know, catch lobs. And while Caid
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Speaker 3: has been finding his way for the most part, against
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Speaker 3: a lot of double teams and a lot of extra attention,
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Speaker 3: he's been finding his way to you know, get his
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Speaker 3: own buckets and also navigating what these tougher defenses are, Hey,
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Speaker 3: where are my guys going to be? Can I trust them?
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Speaker 3: Are they still going to be there? Jalen just doesn't
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Speaker 3: seem to be in the right spots. Jalen just doesn't
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Speaker 3: seem to be you know, catching and finishing in traffic
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Speaker 3: and stuff like that, and so it just makes you
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Speaker 3: wonder if he's like deflated. It honestly feels like one
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Speaker 3: of these situations where at the end of the season
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Speaker 3: you're going to find out, oh, yeah, Jalen was dealing
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Speaker 3: with some injury that we just didn't want to say
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Speaker 3: anything about because he's such an explosive athlete, he's such
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Speaker 3: a great defender.
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Speaker 4: He's a guy.
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Speaker 3: That should be able to get you like twelve points
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Speaker 3: by accident, just by hanging around the bucket, you know,
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Speaker 3: And instead you can't even play him down the stretch
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Speaker 3: of a game like maybe your most important yeah, your
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Speaker 3: most important game of the season. It's just mind like,
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Speaker 3: it's confusing.
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Speaker 1: Is he?
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Speaker 2: In many ways, Evan Mobley reminds me of of Wemby.
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Speaker 1: Is that is that unfair?
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Speaker 2: I know Wemby's great, he's a better player, but god,
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Speaker 2: Mobiley's so talented.
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Speaker 1: He should be better. And he's really good right now.
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Speaker 3: You know, I thought you were gonna say bam out
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Speaker 3: of bio because that is the thing with him. He
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Speaker 3: looks when he's good, he looks amazing. He won Defensive
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Speaker 3: Player of the Year. He looks like a guy who
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Speaker 3: should be able to do a lot offensively. His arms
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Speaker 3: just keep going. But there are times where he doesn't.
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Speaker 3: There are times where you just don't know what you're
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Speaker 3: gonna get out of him. Same thing with Jared Allen
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Speaker 3: outside of Black History Month, and so yeah, it's it's confounding,
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Speaker 3: but it's also just to keep things consistent for you.
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Speaker 4: It's confounding and confusing.
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Speaker 3: And but it is a guy that when he plays
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Speaker 3: at his top level, you're looking at that team, it's like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: he should be disgustingly good when you've got Donovan Mitchell,
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Speaker 3: James Harden a dpoy in the middle and you know
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Speaker 3: a guy like Max Strew's sitting six threes off the bench, like,
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Speaker 3: it should be a really damn good team. And so
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Speaker 3: it's not surprising when you see him play the way
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Speaker 3: he plays.
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Speaker 2: What is the exact accusation you're making there on Black
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Speaker 2: History Month?
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Speaker 3: Oh no, that's famously jet Jared Allen on Black History
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Speaker 3: Month goes to another level like he's just really that's
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Speaker 3: his nickname is Black History Month?
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Speaker 4: Jared Allen? I think?
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Speaker 1: Huh? I mean.
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Speaker 2: Someone whoever is coach used to try to convince them
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Speaker 2: that every month there's Black History Months.
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Speaker 4: That's a trick. But if it works, man, we've got
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Speaker 4: an All NBA player.
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Speaker 5: So quick Google search says Jared Allen's nickname is the fro.
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Speaker 4: Well, that's one of them.
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Speaker 1: Does it say anywhere that it's Black History Month?
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Speaker 3: Just google Black History month, Jared Allen, it'll all be
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Speaker 3: I'll do this day.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, look up Game three tickets in Cleveland.
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Speaker 2: I want to know what they're what they're priced at.
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Speaker 2: Right now.
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Speaker 1: He's looking it up.
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Speaker 3: Maybe it's not so much a nickname as it's just
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Speaker 3: a whole different persona for him.
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Speaker 2: It'd be a terrible nickname, a wordy nickname. There's no
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Speaker 2: way it's Black History month. Bhm Maybe bhmja.
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Speaker 5: That's what it's actually saying right now, it says, or
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Speaker 5: simply bhm JA.
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Speaker 4: What you think I make things up?
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Speaker 5: It's a Yahoo Sports article.
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Speaker 1: No, I don't think you make things up.
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Speaker 2: I Taylor was complaining yesterday, all fair. I'm not certain
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Speaker 2: if I was supposed to hear it or not, but
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Speaker 2: that he hasn't gotten a hit in his last ten
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Speaker 2: at bats or eight at bats at softball?
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Speaker 1: Is it a drought? Is he?
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Speaker 2: I'm certain you haven't gotten a hit yet, if you
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Speaker 2: even showed up anymore games.
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Speaker 1: But Taylor, what is happening there? What's going on with you?
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Speaker 4: A little droughty, little drowdy. You need to take a
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Speaker 4: shower in full uniform, like cal Rawley.
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Speaker 5: So cal Rawly is a good comparison, except I never
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Speaker 5: had an MVP like season when playing softball. At the plate,
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Speaker 5: I'm just not a good hitter in softball, but for
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Speaker 5: some reason, normally I'm at least good enough to just
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Speaker 5: put it on the ground and I'm gonna beat out
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Speaker 5: a lot of ground balls. I'm gonna find holes in
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Speaker 5: the infield. I'm gonna find a little bloop single here,
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Speaker 5: a little bloop single there. Something in my game right now,
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Speaker 5: I am going through one of the worst slumps anybody's
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Speaker 5: ever seen. There's a group text of this softball team,
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Speaker 5: and everybody's saying, like, oh, good game, guys, like we
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Speaker 5: really played hard. Are defense has completely turned a corner.
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Speaker 5: Roommate Ian is one of our best defenders now after
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Speaker 5: that first game, and the only thing I texted back
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Speaker 5: in that group was, Hey, guys, hand up. You gotta
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Speaker 5: move me down in the lineup.
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Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, some accountability shocking, well, Taylor.
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Speaker 5: Maybe your National Death History Month, Taylor, And you can
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Speaker 5: only hit when it's April because you can't hit in May.
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Speaker 1: Apparently, is there a Greek History Month? GHM tv O.
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Speaker 5: It is brutal right now at the play I'm trying
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Speaker 5: to go up there and just be like, hey, just
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Speaker 5: just simplify the game. Just hit put the ball on yes,
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Speaker 5: and then it's just a little pop up to the
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Speaker 5: shortstop every time.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 3: I don't think it would surprise you at all. I
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Speaker 3: did not make this game on Monday. It was my
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Speaker 3: youngest sister's birthday, and I was like, those guys got.
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Speaker 4: It under control over there.
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Speaker 3: But I do find it curious, or I don't know
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Speaker 3: what whatever you want to call it, that the two
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Speaker 3: games that I was there for the entirety of the game,
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Speaker 3: we won. And it kind of makes you wonder what
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Speaker 3: the you know, the missing ingredient was this last week?
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Speaker 1: Probably you not being there.
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Speaker 4: Somebody did in Soka Walk.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think that makes you happy those results.
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Speaker 2: Right, You're not needed, you don't need, You don't feel
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Speaker 2: any sort of need to show up. Although the next
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Speaker 2: time you show up, he'd be great if the manager
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Speaker 2: pull tailor and had you pinch it for them.
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Speaker 4: Well I did.
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Speaker 3: I did tell the group. I was like, you know what,
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Speaker 3: you can move me up the lineup. I don't have
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Speaker 3: to be dead last every single time. There's a couple
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Speaker 3: of guys on here that deserve a chance to hit
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Speaker 3: dead last sounds like Taylor.
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Speaker 5: No, not Taylor, Mikey right now, me batting last and
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Speaker 5: being the guy that kind of flipped the lineup over
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Speaker 5: with his speed back to the top of the order.
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Speaker 5: It's not the worst idea in the world. I've I've considered.
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Speaker 2: It is someone keeping stats, like individual stats of this team.
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Speaker 1: Someone has to be There's always a guy in the
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Speaker 1: team who does that, right.
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Speaker 4: Everybody out their stats in their own head.
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Speaker 1: But Taylor has his own stats.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I have my own stats on batting about one
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Speaker 5: fifty two.
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Speaker 4: Right now, start slapping the ball, Taylor, slap it down.
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Speaker 1: Yep, just put it in play, Taylor, I mean ground balls,
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Speaker 1: you know.
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Speaker 4: You know what, just make Just wait for a good one.
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Speaker 4: Wait for the right one, says.
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Speaker 2: The man who has never recorded it hit in the
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Speaker 2: history with super.
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Speaker 4: Seen a good one, who invented softball.
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Speaker 3: Let's get him out of his grave and get him
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Speaker 3: up here and just have him watched me play and
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Speaker 3: see what he says.
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Speaker 1: You were here palled by the way.
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Speaker 4: We have a buy next week.
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Speaker 1: I'm kidding.
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Speaker 3: We play next week. I play on Monday, but the
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Speaker 3: playoffs are right after that. And I think there's a
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Speaker 3: couple of weeks built in for rain like rain makeups.
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Speaker 3: So we're probably gonna have about three more games before
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Speaker 3: these playoffs come.
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Speaker 1: But I'll try to show up, don't You're with it.
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Speaker 1: They're winning without you.
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Speaker 4: Don't show up the winning.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I misheard. I'm sorry about it, Jesus, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Everyone is. He is the blue guy. He
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Speaker 1: is the team that makes He's the engine that makes
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Speaker 1: that team go.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Tailor, way too good on defense together that
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Speaker 2: we need him out there, all right? Cut et, are
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Speaker 2: you such a slump that even Ian is laughing at you?
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Speaker 5: So me and Ian are in the same boat where
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Speaker 5: we're both better fielders than we are hitters, Like we
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Speaker 5: both know that about each other. Ian has found more
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Speaker 5: success at the plate, but we're both doing well in
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Speaker 5: the field. And if I was going up there and saying, like,
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Speaker 5: hey guys, I'm Barry Bonds. I'm gonna hit three home
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Speaker 5: runs this game, I'm going up there saying I'm not
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Speaker 5: that good at hitting. I'm just trying to put the
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Speaker 5: ball in play and then cause a little havoc on
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Speaker 5: the bass pats, you know, like if this was Major League,
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Speaker 5: I'm William May's Hayes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, maybe the pitcher in that first game who
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Speaker 2: told his outfield to move in when you came up
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Speaker 2: to the plate, perhaps he was right.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he was definitely he was definitely right. He
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Speaker 1: was just an asshole about it.