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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: We're back at it. Our lead this hour, play the hits,
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  Speaker 1: my man, play the hits, and we will certainly play
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  Speaker 1: the hits. We start out at the Mecca, a very
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  Speaker 1: secure facility. In fact, I would argue that there was
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  Speaker 1: no place in terms of sporting venues that has been
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  Speaker 1: more secure since the Super Bowl than the Arena. They're
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  Speaker 1: the extra security measures to protect President Trump, who was
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  Speaker 1: there from the unhinged you know there and they had
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  Speaker 1: a special security wall around around the perimeter of the
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  Speaker 1: world's most famous arena in Midtown Manhattan, right over Penn
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  Speaker 1: Station there and Jalen Brunson and the next hosting Wemby
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  Speaker 1: and the Spurs. We know the storyline coming in New York,
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  Speaker 1: New York, New York New York leading two oh trying
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  Speaker 1: to wake up the echos from back in the day
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  Speaker 1: with Walt Clyde Fraser and the old school Knickerbockers before
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  Speaker 1: we were all alive. Wink wink, nod. Not so best
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  Speaker 1: of seven and you don't win a championship after two wins.
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  Speaker 1: It's unfortunate, rather tragic, but that's the reality. And so
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you're watching the game or not. Possibly not,
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  Speaker 1: you might have been doing something else. Don't worry. We
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  Speaker 1: watched so you would not have to. It's our public service.
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  Speaker 1: And so how did it go well? Victor when by
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  Speaker 1: Niyama waking up from his slumber, he had thirty two points,
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  Speaker 1: eight rebounds, six assists, And unlike the previous two games
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  Speaker 1: where the Spurs had leads in the fourth quarter and
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  Speaker 1: blew it, they didn't blow it this time. No, they
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  Speaker 1: did not. As the Wemby express, they get it done,
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  Speaker 1: and they being the Spurs, as they win and hold
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  Speaker 1: off the Knicks lead two games, the Knicks to lead
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  Speaker 1: two games to one. San Antonio trying to make the
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  Speaker 1: first of its kind NBA Finals come back. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know anyone that doesn't think that would be great. Man,
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  Speaker 1: would that be fun? Just to f with the Knick fans,
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  Speaker 1: the annoying cockroach Nick fans. How great would that be
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  Speaker 1: if the Spurs come back and win this? Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: that would be awesome. Anyway, So the Spurs handing the
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  Speaker 1: next their first loss in a month and a half,
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  Speaker 1: a month and a half, and so they have the road,
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  Speaker 1: the map, the blueprint to come back is there in
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  Speaker 1: front of all those one percenters at Madison Square Garden,
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  Speaker 1: the elites who paid thousands of dollars to be there.
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  Speaker 1: You had the President of the United States, first time
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  Speaker 1: ever a sitting president has attended NBA Finals the game.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump was there from his glass in case luxury box.
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  Speaker 1: And you had James Dolan, at least for part of
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  Speaker 1: the game, sitting next to the President. So the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: had their thirteen game winning streak go Cup put by bye,
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  Speaker 1: the second longest in the NBA postseason in the history
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  Speaker 1: of that's snapping an opportunity that the loss there, they
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  Speaker 1: missed a chance to get one game closer to that
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  Speaker 1: first championship since the early nineteen seventies. But the better
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  Speaker 1: story here is in the losing locker rooms, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to focus on the Knickerbockers who lost this game, and
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  Speaker 1: that is a good jumping off point. So let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question. And it's a simple question. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you can answer it. What happened to all of that
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  Speaker 1: Knicks momentum in the NBA Finals? Listen, momentum, Mo mo
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  Speaker 1: mo mo momentum? What happened to it? When did it get? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I've got kitty litter, vineyard, and met Gala and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have a howling success, is what we're going to have.
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  Speaker 1: So a listen to answer the question where did the
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  Speaker 1: momentum go? The Knicks actually did not lose the momentum.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you seem to think that they misplaced it,
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  Speaker 1: like sunglasses on their own head. You ever done that.
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  Speaker 1: That's a sign you're getting older. When you can't find
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  Speaker 1: your sunglasses and you're looking everywhere and they're in your
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  Speaker 1: head on top of your head. Or if you lose
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  Speaker 1: your keys and you can't find them you're looking everywhere
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  Speaker 1: and they're actually in your pocket. Those are signs you're
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  Speaker 1: getting old. So listen, the Knicks didn't lose the momentum.
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  Speaker 1: For those of you that think that FOOI, I say,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Brown, the coach there, he could not hold the
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  Speaker 1: momentum if you gave him a zip block bag and
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  Speaker 1: a written tutorial on how to keep the momentum. Why
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  Speaker 1: because it doesn't exist, stude, dummy. That's why I've been
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  Speaker 1: trying to say this. And the Spurs have blown a
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  Speaker 1: couple of games, are right, and the Knicks actually should
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  Speaker 1: be down to be fair two games to one. You
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  Speaker 1: can't even argue the Spurs would win all three games
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  Speaker 1: and should be three nothing. But you have sindbuts and
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  Speaker 1: candy nuts. But the Knicks are fortunate. They're up two
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  Speaker 1: games to one. The Spurs Wemby missed a wide open
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  Speaker 1: shot that I would have made in Game two of
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  Speaker 1: the finals. So even if you give the next game
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  Speaker 1: one and say they win, they finally scored the final
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  Speaker 1: eleven boyds. It's not like the Knicks have dominated this series.
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  Speaker 1: They have not. They've been fortunate, and that's fine. It's
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  Speaker 1: not momentum though, it's not so the idea. People make
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  Speaker 1: this crap up and it drives me nuts. And New
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  Speaker 1: York had not lost in forty six days, and it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't because of a momentum. It was because they'd played well.
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  Speaker 1: They got a couple of breaks along the way in
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  Speaker 1: this series. And that's it. Now. As far as the
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  Speaker 1: blame game, we love the Benny blame game. We can't
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  Speaker 1: get enough of the blame game. We love it. So
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  Speaker 1: there are plenty of what we like to call incriminating
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  Speaker 1: dirty water dogs to go around. There are plenty of them,
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  Speaker 1: and I would recommend first we start our investigation the
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  Speaker 1: Maler Investigative Bureau, the MiB Malar Investigative Bureau. We start out,
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  Speaker 1: can someone please check the kitty litter for me? Can
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  Speaker 1: you check the kitty litter? And it's a Hello Kitty
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  Speaker 1: kind of a night, Carl Anthony Towns reminding us he's
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  Speaker 1: still got it, baby, Carl Anthony Towns, more like good
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  Speaker 1: night Kitty than Hello Kitty. As Kat did it, He
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  Speaker 1: hit the snooze button, took a little cat nap, and
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. You figured it was coming at some point,
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  Speaker 1: and there it was, in all its glory, despite all
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  Speaker 1: the excuses by Mike Breen, who often says I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to make excuses and then says but and gives
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  Speaker 1: you seventeen different excuses for an underachieving player. I've noticed
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  Speaker 1: that now Karl Anthony Towns is a fifty million dollar man.
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  Speaker 1: He's making over fifty million dollars and that was a
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  Speaker 1: capital l lethargic performance. It wasn't the worst he's ever had.
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  Speaker 1: He's had worse, to be fair, and the eyeball test
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  Speaker 1: was bad. The numbers backed up the eyeball test. The
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  Speaker 1: huffing and the puffing, if you will, out there for
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  Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns, the fifty million dollar man gave you
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  Speaker 1: eleven and eight in thirty eight minutes of lack of
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  Speaker 1: day's ago basketball. That's It's not a stat line that
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  Speaker 1: is a Starbucks order eleven and an eight. It's eleven
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  Speaker 1: points and eight rebounds from a fifty million dollar ball player.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't seem good writing the vomit comment, I would
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  Speaker 1: say for him, and he wasn't alone. There were others
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  Speaker 1: that did not play well for the Knickskal Bridges was
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  Speaker 1: a total decoy out there that looked like the Bridges
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  Speaker 1: early on that was just kind of out there. Futson
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  Speaker 1: around on what was going on with him, and then
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  Speaker 1: Landry Shamman what happened to him? He was a freemason
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  Speaker 1: off the bench, and in fact, I believe that he
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  Speaker 1: has to make sure he pays his union dues, the
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  Speaker 1: bricklayer union dues. There, my god, all right now page two.
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  Speaker 1: So to the gripe department we go. The big story
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  Speaker 1: everyone's talking about postgame was Mike Brown got up at
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  Speaker 1: the dais and spent about five or ten minutes bitching
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  Speaker 1: about the referees. He just complained about the officials. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't normally do this, but uh yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 1: we have a little bit. I don't play a minute
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  Speaker 1: of it. Let's play some of it. We'll see when
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  Speaker 1: I get bored, and then we'll talk to some more.
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  Speaker 1: Here's say Mike Brown complaining about the referees.
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  Speaker 3: If we play game four and in the second half
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  Speaker 3: they get twenty four free throw attempts to our eight,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe we were fouling. Maybe we were fouling, but
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  Speaker 3: they found.
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  Speaker 1: Two can't gets the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Off of loose ball rebound and he shoots it and
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  Speaker 3: he gets whacked across the arm and they hit the
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  Speaker 3: ball and it goes out of bounds on the baseline.
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  Speaker 3: There's no foul. There were opportunities for fouls to be
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  Speaker 3: called to at least try to even the free throws
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  Speaker 3: out to go. Twenty four free throw attempts in the
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  Speaker 3: second half. That's forty eight.
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  Speaker 1: For the game.
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  Speaker 3: If you think about it, the way that they called
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  Speaker 3: that second half compared to eight, all the shots we took,
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  Speaker 3: we got fouled four times roughly.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, it's just going on and on. Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: you heard it there, the twenty four to eight and
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  Speaker 1: the second half. The Spurs who were in the bonus
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  Speaker 1: at about the ten minute mark of the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the fourth quarter they were in the bonus there,
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  Speaker 1: and he specifically highlighted the who cares play with Karl
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Towns. So the question, as you heard Mike Brown
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  Speaker 1: turning this into a sob story that there's this great
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  Speaker 1: injustice against the New York Knickerbockers, do you feel like
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  Speaker 1: the fix was in against the Knicks in Game three?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see Scott Foster out there. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: the fix was in? And the NBA made some phone
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  Speaker 1: calls and said, hey, boys, can we please make sure
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  Speaker 1: that we get a nice Game five, because if we
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  Speaker 1: get a win by the Spurs, we get a game five.
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  Speaker 1: We want a game five all right, So to answer
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  Speaker 1: the question, I'm rolling my eyes on this one. I
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  Speaker 1: do enjoy a good conspiracy as much as the next
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  Speaker 1: per on this one though, just watching the way the
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  Speaker 1: game went. Mike Brown. What he did here was he
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  Speaker 1: visited the vineyard and he did a wine tasting and
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  Speaker 1: discovered a new vintage of the officiating conspiracy, which is
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  Speaker 1: actually an old vintage. And it turns out that Mike
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  Speaker 1: Brown is a wine taster, is a connoisseur at the
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  Speaker 1: orchard of the sour grapes. He really enjoys the sour
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  Speaker 1: grapes here. So this is what always happens. He is
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  Speaker 1: now lobbying Mike Brown the league. He's trying to get
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  Speaker 1: a Game four bailout. And the other thing which I'd
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  Speaker 1: be worried about if I like the Knicks, is he's
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  Speaker 1: essentially admitting that the Knicks just aren't good enough. That
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  Speaker 1: sounded like a desperate coach that knows this thing starting
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  Speaker 1: to slip away a little bit. It's only one loss
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  Speaker 1: to say, well, okay, that's how it begins with one
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  Speaker 1: A journey begins with one step, and this is the
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  Speaker 1: first step, and a journey to the Dante's Inferno for
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  Speaker 1: the Knickerbockers here, and it's really always get a kick
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  Speaker 1: out of it, like when New York teams bitch about
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  Speaker 1: the officiating, like only in New York can you be
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  Speaker 1: the big market and then claim that you are somehow
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  Speaker 1: the victim of this, this pushback by a big brother
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  Speaker 1: to keep you down. It's like, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: The Knick fans truly, truly think the league hates them
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  Speaker 1: and the league thinks the Nick fans hate themselves, which
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  Speaker 1: is accurate, that would be true. And the context always
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  Speaker 1: gets in the way of these arguments, which is problem.
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  Speaker 1: If the fix was in something happened in the first
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  Speaker 1: half against that like did Mike Brown have a problem
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  Speaker 1: that New York shot forty two point eight percent more
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  Speaker 1: foul shots in the first half than San Antonio did?
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  Speaker 1: That was okay, right, there was well, it was fine.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we had more, so we're good. Sure. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they say in an NBA game, they the experts say
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  Speaker 1: that there's about two hundred or more possessions in a
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  Speaker 1: standard NBA game, So three throws are certainly important, but
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  Speaker 1: it is one variable, and the Knicks had the advantages.
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  Speaker 1: They out re bounded the Spurs and they had home
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  Speaker 1: court advantage. All those one percenters, all the elites of
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  Speaker 1: society were there at the home crowd, there at the garden,
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  Speaker 1: and they failed to capitalize on that, and instead they
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  Speaker 1: logged the Union Gig. Right, we mentioned Landry Shammitt. The
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  Speaker 1: entire Knicks team though, joining the bricklayers Local two one
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  Speaker 1: two as they had a lot of clunkers. In the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter, the Nick shot under thirty percent. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't play in the NBA. I don't think that's good. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're being mean, mallor you're being a meanie, Okay, I know.
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  Speaker 1: Well they took nine money balls the Knicks in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. They only made one. Oh, you're really piling on.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you're doing overnights because you're being mean. That's
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  Speaker 1: why right there. So the Spurs protected the ball better,
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  Speaker 1: they executed at a higher level, and they won. And
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  Speaker 1: so well that happened in game four. Well that's why
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  Speaker 1: they play the games. You know things are not going
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  Speaker 1: well when the whining begins for the Knickerbockers. The whining
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  Speaker 1: and uh, well you can say extreme outcomes are followed
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  Speaker 1: by more moderate ones that would lead us to believe
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks are the du factor. They're due to lose
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of games, all right, now, last word, So
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the atmosphere at Madison Square Garden. The
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  Speaker 1: Knicks announced hours before the tip off that two court
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  Speaker 1: side seats on celebrity Row for Game three had sold
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  Speaker 1: for one dollars. Now, they claim it was like a
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  Speaker 1: charity thing, and I guess it's a tax right off.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not sure all the details, but the thing
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  Speaker 1: you need to know is two seats right there in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of all the elites sold for a million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Knicks went out there and lost the game.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is do you feel bad for these
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  Speaker 1: people paying fortunes to watch the Dicks lose NBA Finals game?
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  Speaker 1: And the answer, the only acceptable answer is hell no.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't think Hell knows the answer, shame on you.
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  Speaker 1: A fool. I learned this as a kid. A fool
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  Speaker 1: and his money are soon parted, right, I learned that
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  Speaker 1: as a kid. Now, if you have that kind of
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  Speaker 1: cash to burn, baby burn, you deserve what you get.
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  Speaker 1: And this was not Madison Square Garden. It was Madison
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  Speaker 1: Social Gathering, is what it was. The think of it
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  Speaker 1: like the met Gala for people who pretend to like
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  Speaker 1: sports at the Madison Square Garden there with all the security,
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  Speaker 1: it's like the Hunger Games for the one percenter is there,
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  Speaker 1: except the only thing dying is a big chunk of
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  Speaker 1: their disposable income to go to this thing. And you
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  Speaker 1: look at the seating chart on that celebrity row and
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  Speaker 1: it's a networking event. They just happen to have a
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  Speaker 1: scoreboard and some cheerleaders shaking their asses. That's what they
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  Speaker 1: have right there. And the Knicks they really don't just
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  Speaker 1: sell basketball. They sell the proper angles and lighting for
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  Speaker 1: a good photo shoot on Instagram, and proximity to Spike me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can smell what kind of cologne Spike Lee's wearing.
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  Speaker 1: How exciting is that? And MSG essentially said, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 1: you want to you want to sit next to Larry David?
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  Speaker 1: How about a million bucks? Boom done? Although I did
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  Speaker 1: see Larry David was two seats over from Robert Kraft,
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots owner. Why was he there? Does anyone know?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why it was he was there. He
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  Speaker 1: was there, and only the Knicks, only the next could
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  Speaker 1: turn a playoff loss like this in the finals. It's
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  Speaker 1: like that socialist Mayor of New York's wet dream. It's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a luxury tax for the celebrities. He had
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  Speaker 1: a pay extra taxes on that because you paid top
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  Speaker 1: dollar for those tickets and you had what a what
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  Speaker 1: a great uniting front sports is because you had President
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  Speaker 1: Trump there in the luxury box and his suite, you
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  Speaker 1: had the socialist Mayor of New York in the same building,
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  Speaker 1: and the Knicks are the great unifier there and they
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  Speaker 1: both left disappointed, so perfect.
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  Speaker 1: We move ahead to the broadcast, and we talked baseball,
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  Speaker 1: talking base we we'll get back to the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys didn't seem that interested based on the reaction,
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  Speaker 1: a small sample size of reaction. So our lead this
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  Speaker 1: hour is from Chicago. Well, the Cubs they have a problem.
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  Speaker 1: They went out and signed this free agent from the
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  Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox, the forever dirty Alex Bregman, who is
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  Speaker 1: always going to be known as a cheating asstro even
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  Speaker 1: though he's changed laundry a couple of times. So Bregman
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  Speaker 1: has not only been a player for the Cubs, he's
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  Speaker 1: been terrible and there's no other way to say it.
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  Speaker 1: He took responsibility for the horrific play this season as
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  Speaker 1: we are sitting here in June. So if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: see this, perhaps not. He said, quote, I have been terrible.
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  Speaker 1: I need to play better. Bregman belly ached, and the
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  Speaker 1: understatement of the year. Offensively, it's been awful. I've failed
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  Speaker 1: many times in this game. I have struggled. And then
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  Speaker 1: he went on to say they, meaning the Cubs, brought
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  Speaker 1: me here to play good baseball and I haven't played
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: good baseball. That's an understatement. Again. I need to figure
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: it out you think. So. Bregman mentioned mechanical issues like
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: he's a robot, and he says out in front on
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: soft and late on fastballs. So that seems to be
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: a bit of a problem, disconnected and just not doing
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: what the Cubs geniuses thought he was going to be
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: doing there and much to the chagrin of Yapimi and
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: our buddy Tree in Chicago, who are die hard Cub
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: fans and not happy about this at all. So that
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: question how does Alex Bregman saying that he's been terrible?
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: How does that change things? How does that hit you
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: with the Cubs? So I've got lethal dose, Carl's Junior,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: and childhood toys, and we will combine all of these
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: things together and we were going to play tic tac
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: toe is what we're going to do. And to play
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: tic tac toe, you always start out by saying number
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: on number one. Oh all right, So answer the question,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: how does Alex Bregman saying that he's been terrible for
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: the Cubs hit you? It's my word is whooped? Damn?
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Do is how it hits me? Now? Bregman admitting that
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: he is bad. Is kind of like a tornado apologizing
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: for that breeze that blew through town. I I'm apologizing
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: for that. Listen, we are taking I'm not gonna sit
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: here and pretend something's going on. This not. We are
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: taking great joy out of watching this ineptitude. It is
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: a lethal dose of shot in freude. And it's just wonderful,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: all these years later to still be celebrating the demise
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: of these cheating a holes that were not punished by
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the gutlass Commissioner of Major League Baseball. You can call
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: it karma, you can call it cosmic justice, if you want.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Whatever you call it. Bregman Season is a Yelp review
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: which has been written by the East Ball Gods and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I love it. The sleez bag is drowning in slop.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: He's thirty two, he appears to be aging Bregman like
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: in dog years, and he signed a five years in
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the year one of a five year, one hundred and
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: seventy five million dollar contract. He carries an AAV that's
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: average annual value of thirty five million, meaning that he
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: is the highest paid cub in history in AAV. Take that.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Sammy Sosa Ernie Banks and all the other legends of
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: cub baseball gone by. This is the biggest average annual
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: value contract ever given out by the Chicago Cubs, and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the guy blows. But wait, there's more. It gets even
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: better with deferred money. The Cubbies will be paying him
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: until twenty forty one. He's gonna get that Dodger like
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: payout deferred money, although it's obviously from the Cubs till
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: twenty forty one. By then, based on how he's played
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: this year, Bregman, he'll be throwing out first pitches at
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Wrigley Field from a Rascal scooter out there at the ballpark.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: And the Cubs offense has been overall a disaster, and
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: you've got the Bregman thing is the micro and the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: macro problem. This is the get the big hit or
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: go home type business. That's how baseball operates, and it's
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: barrel or bust, and it's been a whole lot of
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: bust lately. And so the bozo, the cheating asstro forever
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Alex Bregman him just one seventy eight with runners in
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: scoring position, and that's not good. Dragging his ops. He's
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: heading into play on Monday. He was at six sixty
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: nine and he's hitting a pathetic one thirty eight on
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: slop on changeups and one thirty five overall on breaking pitches.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: So I didn't play major league baseball. I'm just telling
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: you that does not sound good to me. Why you're
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: so negative? Just pointing it out, I'm just pointing it
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: out every at bat, every at bat for Regman, it's
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: like he's joined a humanitarian mission with NATO to help
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: out opposing pictures. How can I help out? Can I
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: hit a little weak groundball to shortstop or pop it up?
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: What can I do to help the opposing pitcher? And
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: this is just the beginning. This is just the beginning. Meanwhile,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: we go to Boston where the Red Sox are having
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: a barf bag worthy twenty twenty six season. So some
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: of the game on Monday they lost yet again. Currently
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: sitting in the sewer of the American League, he's bringing
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: up the very rear the keister of the Al East.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: The rumors have swirled about the job security of the GM.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Craig Breslow, the head nerd of the Red Sox. He played,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: He's you wouldn't know he played based on his nerd qualities.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: There so we are now hearing the Red Sox are
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: telling their friends in the media, the people that work
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: for the team's newspaper, that listen, we're not considering getting
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: rid of Craig Breslow. They want you to know it,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and they want me to know and then know one.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: So the report says ownership has not even discussed a
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: change of the GM, despite having a last place record
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: in a division which you know, Toronto's not playing all
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: that well. The Yankees now lost Aaron Judge, they were
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: playing all right, the Orioles are kind of whatever, and
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay playing overall, playing pretty well. So the question
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: are you buying that Red Sox owner John Henry has
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: not even considered for a moment sacking the GM in
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Boston Craig Breslow. So the answer to this is, come on,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: please seriously, Like this does not pass the smell test.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: It does not even if you don't smell, well, yeah,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: it smells like bull crap. It smells like the fridge
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: is open and the is rotten, and you can smell it.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: And that's just the way it is. And the Red
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Sox they're driving along, drive and drive and drive it,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and they come to the intersection. It's actually a junction.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: It's dysfunction junction. How do you function? And the Red
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Sox this year have been a malfunction. They bet on
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: all these young players all and some of them are hurt.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: The guys that have played have mostly been mediocre to
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: below average for the Red Sox. And the team doesn't
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: just malfunction, that's an understatement. Say well, they malfunction. It
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: is a full system reboot. At this point, by the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: third inning, they need a full system reboot. And they
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: didn't just all of a sudden arrive here the Boston
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: baseball team. It appears they bought property and they built
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: a gazebo, so they've got that going for themselves. And
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: they've started hosting cookouts in the sewer. You're not supposed
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: to have fire and the sewer like that could light
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: everything up. And you can be bad. We always say
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: you can be bad, you can be boring. In certain towns,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: you can't be both. And in Boston right now, the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Red Sox are not only bad, they're boring. They're absolutely boring.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: And you look around, it's like that should be a felony.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: The product they put on the field, the drek, the
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Red Sox have put on the field is ridiculous, and
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: they have a horrific record at home. Finway would like
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to point out we were at the game they won,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: so we have not chinked the Red Sox. Their offense
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: is twenty ninth in run scored. There's only thirty teams
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: in professional baseball. That doesn't seem good to me. I know,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I'm nitpicking. I know. Oh, you're such a schmuck. Okay,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: have they possibly been attacked by an actual monster? Did
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Wally the Green Monster come to life and attack them
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: at some point? Inquiring minds would like to know.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, John Henry, he's getting grilled like a Carls Junior,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: famous star, charbroiled, a little smoky flavor and a lot
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: of shame. And I know for dog loves those those
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: famous stars, those char broiled famous stars. Can't get enough.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: And they've already blamed and fired and buried Alex Cora.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: They're gonna pay a lot of money not to manage
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox next year. So what's left? Well, if
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: you look around the mirror, mirror on the wall, says
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the front office, Craig Breslow's track record is so thin
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: how thin is it? Thank you for asking. It's so
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: thin it could literally slide under the door, that's how
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: thin it is. And he's relatively new, he hadn't been
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: there that long. And when the season ends, I will
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: garnf f and t you. John Henry is gonna need
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: a new boogeyman. You gotta find a boogeyman. And Breslow's
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: resume is essentially a Hey, I'm the boogeyman. I've got
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to kick me, sign on it. That's the way it is,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: all right, final point to Canza City. We go, Hansa City,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: talk to some football. The Chiefs made a late addition,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: as we are a month and a couple of weeks
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: away a month in a week or so from the
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: start of training camp, and so the Chiefs have signed
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: veteran defensive back Lagerious Sneid. It's a big name right there,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: big name, one year deal, getting like five million. Oh man,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: how great would that be. I'm gonna take the five year,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: one year, five million dollar deal. I won the lottery. Yeah,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: it's a renunion. If that sounds familiar. If that name
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: sounds familiar, it is Kansas City drafted Snead in the
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: fourth round way back in twenty twenty. I was a
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: little kid. Back in twenty twenty. There might have been
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: some kind of event that shut down the world. Drafted
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: them out of Law Tech and spent four seasons in
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Kansas City, lagerious Sneid four seasons there, contributing to a
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: couple of Super Bowl wins part of that secondary. And
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: then in twenty twenty four, it was time to pay
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the man, and they said, we ain't paying the man.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: We're not gonna pay the man. Why would he's not
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the man? We can't pay the man and you're not
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the man. They did place the franchise tag Kansas City
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: did on on Snead and then traded him to the
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Music City, to the Tennessee Titans. They got a third
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: round pick and a pick swap, so they didn't get
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: much for him, and he didn't do anything despite a
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: four year, seventy six million dollar contract with the boys
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: that play in Nashville, and Snead was very elite when
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: it came to getting hurt. In fact, he appeared in
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: only twelve games over two seasons in Tennessee. That does
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: not seem to be good. So the question, now, let's
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: forget about that. Let's focus in on the Chiefs, the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: return to glory. Kansas City didn't make the playoffs last year.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: They've revamped the secondary, They've made a couple of additions
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: on offense. Is this a return to glory road? And
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: how big a factor is lagerious sneed going to be?
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: How big an addition will this guy be for the Chiefs?
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: So bringing Lagerious back to Kansas City? On the Malar
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: report card? Is it an A? No? Is it an
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: F No? It's a C level nostalgia play. I wrote
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a C on the Mallard scorecard. It's a sea level thing,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: not a franchise altering move at all. This is not
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: a splash. It's more like a drip, drippety drip, drip
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: drip from a leaky faucet. They already had the player.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Now they've got the player back and all that. It's
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: not like they upgraded the secondary at this point. They
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: just hit restore previous version and said, we know the guy,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: he was good for us, Let's give it a shot.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Why not. We'll give it a shot and we'll see
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: if it'll work out. And it's the NFL's version of
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: buying back all of your childhood toys, all the stuff
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: you had as a kid. You want to mer all
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the toys back, all of them, even the sabage patch doll.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: You want that the whole thing, all right, So keep
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: it real here, Sneak no longer, no longer a franchise guy,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: and he hadn't been that for a couple of seasons
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: at this point. And the thing about this is that
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: he has when he's played, he's excelled at jamming receivers,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: a pretty big defensive back, and that kind of stuff's
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: important to Spags, the beloved defensive coordinator in Kansas City. However,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: what have you done for me recently? Is the question.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Sneak's last two years were so quiet? How quiet were they?
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: They were so quiet you could hear the medical staff
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: for the Tennessee Titans sigh from inside the injury tent
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: when he was getting taken inside the injury tent. Playing
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: only twelve games again, twelve over two years they play.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: If you look at the math on this, they play
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the seventeen game schedule, so there's a possibility of thirty
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: four games he played twelve twenty twenty five if you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: go by the numbers, the NERD numbers, then Lugerious Sneed
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: was near the bottom in every important stat for a
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: defensive back. He was among all qualified defensive backs. He
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: had no interceptions, a high completion passer rating allowed when targeted.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: He's also twenty nine. He has a rich history of
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: knee injuries, quad problems, hip issues, back, the whole thing,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: and so he's more than just a cornerback. He at
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: this point is a walking MRI.
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• 31:38
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• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, here we how about that?
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets quailed all right?
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: A looof Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniel said on Monday
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: that Drake May knows a hell of a lot more
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: than he did last year. At this time, Ben, do
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: you expect me to be among the MVB candidates at
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: the end of the year.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: No, because the Patriots are gonna lose more games, they
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: play a tougher schedule, and they're not gonna have a
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: cake walk like they did last year. So he is
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: not going to be an MVP candidate this year. Even
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: with better players. Around him.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: Next, Steelers had coach Mike McCarthy said this week that
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: Charles Woodson is quote an excellent comparison for how they
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: can use Jalen Ramsey. Do you think Ramsey can still
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: have that sort of impact, Not on a weekly basis.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I think Ramsey will have his moments where occasionally he'll
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: make a big play for the Steelers. I would be
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: shocked if he's He's not gonna be an all pro
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I don't think of Ramsey at this point. He's bounced
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: around a bit now. I don't think he's got too
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: much left. It would be an occasional highlight where he
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: makes a play. And McCarthy's got to be optimistic because
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: that's he's paid to be optimistic for the Steeers.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: Next. In a report on Monday, it was revealed that
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: there are still plenty of tickets left for Texan to
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: Jaguars in London and that tickets have not been selling. Well, Ben,
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: is this a matchup problem or something bigger?
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Well, it's they got to get the ex Pats. They
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: alway sell as Terry and England. As others have pointed out,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: when these games they go to London, they sell the
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: tickets to ex Patch. But yeah, there is a star problem.
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: CJ.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Stroud is the biggest star in the Texans. He's not
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: He's not even a big star here. And Trevor Lawrence
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: is not evenly a big star here. So why would
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: they be a big star in you know, in London
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: in that in in the UK. There's like really no
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: sense to it. But you know they'll they will sell
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the tickets or they'll give the tickets away and they'll
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: be packed when they get to London, which is not
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: for many many months. How did we do coobolo?
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: You pass?
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: This is?
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: They went? Put it on the bar chick in dinner.
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• 33:49
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• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Let's welcome to Architestans. We have Andy in Venice Beach.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Beautiful Venice Beach. I spent many a day in Venice
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: back in the day. Hello, Andy, welcome, what's going on?
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Ben?
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Are you hearing me?
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Clear?
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: There?
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: All right? This is very exciting. It sounds like you're driving,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: which means you're not in Venice Beach. You're going somewhere else.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: Yes, I somehow you've pinpointed my location leaving Guardena heading
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: to Venice Beach.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: And that is a very.
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: Accurate, okay description of me driving.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I hope you can find parking in Venice. This is
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: a little rocky around it. All right, Well you're gonna
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: play the game. Who do you want to partner up with? Andy?
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Got me Ben, Lorena or Coop? Okay? All right, hold
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: on a second. So Andy, he's driving through Guardena making
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: his way to Venice Beach. Now, let's say hello to Austin,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: who's in in the field in Bakersfield. Hello, Austin, Welcome.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: I'm Ben Iley going.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, I would be a blaze,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: but not a Bakersfield blaze, because that's the minor league
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: baseball that left Austin. We closed that team down. We
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: threw out the first pitch there years ago, and that
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: team went bankrupt. They had been there for one hundred years, Austin,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: one hundred years in Baker's.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: Right, stuff staling man.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, who do you want to partner up with, Austin?
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up with? Lorena? All right, Lorena,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: you got picked Lorena excit excited?
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I can't.
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: I don't want you to lose, all right, I'm your partner.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: Austin he GE's so upset. I don't because you're trying
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: to cheat again, not trying to cheat. Mallard's Mountain of Money.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: This is the Kanye West edition. He turned forty nine
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: on Monday.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: What an old fart. Yes.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: The categories are Family Business, Touched the Sky, Homecoming and
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: thirty Hours.
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: Andy, you were on first? Which category would you like
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: to Touch the Sky?
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: And Austin, how about you?
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: The category Family Business, Homecoming or thirty hours?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: All right? All right, very good? Everyone, hold on, hold
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: the line, hold the line. The cougars are coming. The
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: cougars are coming O. Very good. So that'll that'll be
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: the matchup. We have Andy, assuming he doesn't hang up
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: on his way to Venice Beach, and Austin is in Bakersfield.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: It's me Ben with Andy and Coop, and Austin will
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: have in his entirety Mallard's Mountain of Money. We'll get
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: to that and we will do it.
• 36:30
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• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Malors Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Now Malor's Mountain of money. Do you have what it
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: takes to get to the top. Probably not.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Let's so here we go. We walcome in architests. We
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: have Andy who's heading to Venice Beach. He said, I
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: should be almost there. And Austin in Bakersfield and he's
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: with Coop and I'm with Andy. Are you there, Andy,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: I'm here? Okay, very exciting, don't let's get started here, Andy,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: and you're gonna play the game we have. But what
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: do we have here? We have touch the sky? Touch
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: the guy. These athletes are so tall. How tall are they?
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: They're so tall they can seemingly touch the sky. Do
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: you understand the concept?
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Andy, I'm ready to win this amount of money?
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, eight feet down? Yes, here we go, it's fake money.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Give me forty five seconds on the clock.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: We need the first and last name, and we're on
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: our way. Go Center for the San Antonio Spurs, right now,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Center for the Spurs, right now from France. Yeah. The
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: captain of the Yankees, number ninety nine, uh dark, Carlo Stanton.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: The big unit for the Seattle Mariners, pitcher.
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  Speaker 6: Brandy Garson.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, football player in the nineteen seventies for the Cowboys.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Nickname too tall. What's his first name? Yeah, that's correct,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: all right, center from Purdue. He's plays for the Memphis Grizzlies.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: He won the Wooden Award. He's an NBA player seven
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: foot four guy. Yeah, job baby, that was one hundred pointer.
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: All right, Austin, we have homecoming?
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: How many we get?
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: Rado on and twenty Austin Homecoming? These athletes all returned
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: to their original team. Are you ready, Austin? All right,
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: forty five seconds, let's begin. He's the King. He's on
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: the Lakers right now. Yes, this guy was the tight
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: end for the Denver Broncos. He won Super Bowls with
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: John Elway. He's on TV's got a horse face. Yes,
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: this guy was the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks.
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: He's one of the best point guards of all time. Yes,
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: this guy's nickname was the Professor, a pitcher for the Cubs.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Carry would no?
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  Speaker 6: All right?
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Uh? This one?
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: Uh uh. This was a defensive end for the Dolphins.
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: He was bald. He's in the Hall of Fame.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: Taylor.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: This guy was a slugger for the Nationals and Yankees.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: He was like a five tool player.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: He was.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: That was a tough one.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: That was.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: Alright, Austin. Alright, Greg Maddox was who were missing there?
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: You want to just give up, Austin?
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: Do you want thirty hours or family business?
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Thirty hours?
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: Thirty hours?
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: These athletes all war or war number thirty forty five
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: seconds next begin splash brother on the Warriors right now. Yes,
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: this guy was the running back for the Denver Broncos
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: John Elway. Yes, this guy is the all time strikeout
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: king in baseball?
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I mean yes.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: This guy was a running back for the Saint Louis
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: Rams and the La Rams.
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: His nickname, his last name's kind of feminine.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's offensive, all right.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: This guy was a power forward for the Blazers and
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: the Pistons.
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: He's a tech tech king.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: Yes, this guy was a scoring leader for the Knicks
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: back in the day.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: Uh in the eighties, I don't know, all right. This
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: guy was a bass dealer. He loved cocaine.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, Tim round two forty together, Tim rains, Bernard King?
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: What else?
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: Todd Gurley number thirty.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Todd Gurley, all right, well, well we still have to
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: go Andy. We have a family business. I believe. Yes.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: All right, Andy, these sports figures have all followed in
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: their father's footsteps. Okay, are you ready, Andy, I'm going
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: through the pun now. So all right, let's get let's
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: get let's get going. All right. Uh. He's the head
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: coach of the forty nine ers right now. His dad
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: coached the Broncos and the Raider. Yeah, there you go.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: That's a winner. We'll keep going. Broadcaster for the Saint
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals, and his son is the broadcaster on what
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: was on Fox? He's on ESPN right now. No, that
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: is completely wrong. Raiders star Howie's son he played for
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: the Bears. Off. Oh I know that his son. Now,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: I thought, we've already won the game. It's a. It's
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: a it's already on it. Go all right? Well, Andy,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: you get a Golden Tech and you get a gold
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: to get the win for me. Coop, you lost the game,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Coop again, all time win King Baby,