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Hour 1 - Having a Harden of a Time · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number what our number one?
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Speaker 1: Ready to go here on the Ben Malor Show, and
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Speaker 1: we begin with a comeback in New York. The Knickerbockers
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Speaker 1: rally from twenty two points down on the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 1: They get Game one of the Eastern Finals at the Garden.
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Speaker 1: Who's most liable for the Cavaliers dropping like bowling pins
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Speaker 1: late in that game and then losing in overtime. Coach
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Speaker 1: Kenny Atkinson said he was quote super proud of the
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Speaker 1: Calves and the way that they played in that loss
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Speaker 1: to the Knicks. Imagine if they win, how he's going
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Speaker 1: to feel? What say you? And who can breathe? The
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Speaker 1: biggest sigh of relief for Jalen Brunson's Knicks pulling off
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Speaker 1: a miraculous comeback as they were not playing very well
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Speaker 1: after forty minutes of that game. We'll talk about it
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Speaker 1: all and much more right now here. It is our
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Speaker 1: number one. We'll talk about having a harden of a time.
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Speaker 1: So will we get the verbal octagon at some point?
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Speaker 1: Will it happen tonight? Will it happen later in the week.
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Speaker 1: I'd like to do it later in the week. But
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Speaker 1: swamp Bill, if you missed the previous show, swamp Billy
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Speaker 1: had called in and he had said some stuff about
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Speaker 1: another caller, and then so we we set that up.
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Speaker 1: We will see if Blind Sea Bass and swamp Billy
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Speaker 1: have have agreed on a time. We'd like to do
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Speaker 1: that at the end of the week, have a nice
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Speaker 1: verbal locdiwn. But we had a basketball octagon, if you will,
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Speaker 1: that took place our lead this hour from Midtown Manhattan,
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Speaker 1: right on top of Penn Station. Now, eventually the Knicks
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Speaker 1: are gonna have to leave that area. They're gonna redo
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Speaker 1: Penn Station. The Knicks will have to find an arena
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Speaker 1: somewhere else. But in the meantime, they're playing at the
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Speaker 1: Mecca in Midtown Manhattan right there, and you had Game
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Speaker 1: one of the Eastern Conference Finals, the Cavaliers and the
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Speaker 1: Knickerbockers and the old rust versus rest debate, a tiring
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Speaker 1: debate that has been going on way before I got
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Speaker 1: into this business, and I've been in here a while,
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Speaker 1: and it continues on would you rather be the Cavs
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Speaker 1: who just played a couple days ago or would you
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Speaker 1: rather be the Knicks that had all that rest? And
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Speaker 1: of course the answer is always whoever wins the game.
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Speaker 1: It's always whoever wins the game. If the team with
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Speaker 1: the rest wins the game, well see they had all
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Speaker 1: the rest. If the team that played the other day wins,
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Speaker 1: well you'd rather keep your mojo going. That whole nonsense.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know if you saw this game or not. Shockingly,
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Speaker 1: back to back nights of quality entertainment from a lead
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Speaker 1: league that treats its customers like skull most of the
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Speaker 1: year in the regular season, but here in the conference finals,
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Speaker 1: you had a double double overtime game in the West,
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Speaker 1: and now you had an overtime game. If you didn't
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Speaker 1: see it, Jalen Brunson spark an out of body experience
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Speaker 1: as the postseason come back certainly the last generation, one
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Speaker 1: of the great comebacks. Not as good as the Clippers
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Speaker 1: years ago in the playoffs, but you know, by non
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Speaker 1: Clippers standards, it was a nice run for the Knicks
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Speaker 1: as they come back from twenty two points down in
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and finished Jalen Brunson did with thirty
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Speaker 1: eight points and the New Yorkers beat the Clevelanders one
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Speaker 1: fifteen to one oh four in overtime. As Game one
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Speaker 1: goes to the Knickerbockers, they get to win. The Knicks
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Speaker 1: trailed ninety three to seventy one. Cleveland had the lead
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Speaker 1: was seven fifty two to play in the game. However,
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Speaker 1: they dug themselves out or did they get some help.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in a minute. And they ended
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Speaker 1: up New York punking the Cavaliers in this game. Now,
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Speaker 1: the better story is always in the losing locker room.
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Speaker 1: That has been a truism that we've had over the years.
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Speaker 1: And it's another example here, a perfect example as Cleveland gag.
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Speaker 1: It's a tough way to die. They choked to death
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Speaker 1: right there, at least in Game one. That was pathetic.
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Speaker 1: A good jumping off points. So let us discuss the
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Speaker 1: question who is most libel, Who's got the most liability
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Speaker 1: for the Cavaliers dropping like bowling pins down the stretch
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Speaker 1: in and overtime in this game. So I've got fruit basket,
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Speaker 1: rainbow sprinkles, and the three amigos, and we will combine
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Speaker 1: all of these things together and we're going to enjoy
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Speaker 1: a nice heat wave, is what we're going to enjoy.
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Speaker 1: So a it was a long lost baseball legend, gentlemen
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Speaker 1: you don't know of because you don't know your baseball history,
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Speaker 1: named Casey Stengel who famously said most games are lost,
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Speaker 1: not one. And so while the Knicks get all the
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Speaker 1: glory and all the obnoxious, annoying New Yorkers in your
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Speaker 1: world are braggadocious about the Knicks coming back. That is
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Speaker 1: not possible with the absolute malpractice of the Cleveland basketball team.
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Speaker 1: So enter the Cavaliers, who were on cruise control eighty
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Speaker 1: three percent of the game, eighty three percent through the game.
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Speaker 1: They assumed that the game, as the late great Chick
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Speaker 1: Hern said back in this day, they assumed the game
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Speaker 1: was in the refrigerator, the jello was jiggling, the butter
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Speaker 1: was getting hard, and the lights were out. No, that
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Speaker 1: turned out, obviously not to be the case.
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Speaker 2: Here.
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Speaker 1: You know what happens when you assume oops a daisy,
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Speaker 1: Oops a daisy for the team from Cleveland. Instead, they
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Speaker 1: went full throttle in the vomit comet, full throttle and
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Speaker 1: the vomit comet, proving the one of the malord laws
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Speaker 1: to be true yet again, snatching defeat from the jaws
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Speaker 1: of victory. Another great moment in Ohio sports. Hopefully we've
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Speaker 1: got a call from our friend Dick and Dayton later
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Speaker 1: to give us the breakdown on that. But the Cavs
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Speaker 1: did not just collapse. I believe what happened here is
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Speaker 1: they reverted to their DNA their DNA and late in
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Speaker 1: this game, who goofed? I've got to know we want liability.
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Speaker 1: I'll give you liability. Okay, Fine, So the liability lands
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Speaker 1: squarely on the Beard and the Spider. The Beard and
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Speaker 1: the Spider, those are the two that have the liability
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Speaker 1: the most toe Now, James Harden, I've witnessed it myself.
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Speaker 1: I've ripped him for years, and he cursed the Clippers.
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Speaker 1: Came to the people's team, the Clippers for a couple
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Speaker 1: of seasons, and I was literally blown away. And I'm
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Speaker 1: very rarely blown away. When Cleveland thought of all the
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Speaker 1: players they could acquire for the trade deadline, this was
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Speaker 1: the guy they needed to put him over the top.
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Speaker 1: It just really was confusing to me. And I don't
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Speaker 1: know a lot of to see the overnight show here,
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Speaker 1: but I believe I truly know more than the Cleveland
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Speaker 1: Cavaliers front office. It is fascinating, like who could have
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Speaker 1: possibly seen what happened at the Garden in the future.
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Speaker 1: I don't know everyone anyone, right, As a distant relative
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Speaker 1: of Nostradamus and former friend of Nostradinas before the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: became annoying, I saw it, And if I saw it,
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Speaker 1: you think other people would see it. James Harden's has
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Speaker 1: some amazingly bad performances in the playoffs. I truly believe
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Speaker 1: this was his Mona Lisa. This was a love worthy
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Speaker 1: disaster for James Harden. And that's saying something. He's in
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Speaker 1: his mid to late there's thirty six years old.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: He looks slow on both ends of the court. And
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Speaker 1: the defense was so bad. How bad was he? Thanks
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Speaker 1: for asking? So it was so bad that Mike Brown
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Speaker 1: looked like the greatest coach in the history of the
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Speaker 1: NBA just by continuing to attack James Harden. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: five on five, it was five find Harden wherever Harden is.
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Speaker 1: That's the soft underbelly of the Cavaliers, right, That's it.
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Speaker 1: And so Mike Brown owes James Harden a fruit basket
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Speaker 1: and some gift cards for lap dances, because we know
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Speaker 1: James loves the ballet. Jalen Brunson was on the prowl
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Speaker 1: and he hunted that. It was mostly Brunson, but there
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Speaker 1: were others and they hunted down James Harden. Brunson with
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Speaker 1: the pick and roll. It was like a rewards program
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Speaker 1: customer cooking him repeatedly during that forty four to eleven
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Speaker 1: run and the immortal words of the late great Bill Fitch,
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Speaker 1: who was a big influence in my life. Is a
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Speaker 1: radio stringer back in the day, the Hall of Fame
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Speaker 1: coach Bill Fitch, who explained to me, if you play
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Speaker 1: hard and disciplined back basketball, you're never going to get
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Speaker 1: outscored by twenty points. The Cavs got outscored by thirty
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Speaker 1: three points the final final part of the game, thirty
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Speaker 1: three points in the late fourth quarter and in overtime
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Speaker 1: thirty three points outscored. Meanwhile, Donovan Mitchell ran out of Clearly,
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Speaker 1: he ran out of web and crawled back into his
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Speaker 1: spider hole, is what he did there, the spider who
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Speaker 1: called this a business trip. He's from the Greater New
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Speaker 1: York area and went to high school in Connecticut and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff, so he's from that area as well.
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Speaker 1: You know this is a business trip. Okay, well you
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Speaker 1: might want to get a new job because if that's
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Speaker 1: a business trip, holy crap, Holy crap. Now Mitchell had
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Speaker 1: twenty nine to lead the Cavaliers. So the untrained amateur
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Speaker 1: observer of all this, the low information fan, will say, well,
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Speaker 1: you can't rip Donovan Mitchell yet twenty nine points. You
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Speaker 1: don't know ball. Okay, So, y'all tell me that Mitchell's
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Speaker 1: one of the all, you know, the great players. He's
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Speaker 1: the headliner for the Cavaliers, and he's had some big
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Speaker 1: games in the playoffs and all this stuff, and okay, so,
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Speaker 1: and I might be wrong on this, However, if you're
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Speaker 1: truly one of those players, don't you do something anything
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Speaker 1: while the walls are caving in on your team in
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Speaker 1: a playoff game on the road, Because Spider Mitchell, you
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Speaker 1: scored as many points, I scored as many points, and
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Speaker 1: you combined as Donovan Mitchell did the final twelve minutes,
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Speaker 1: the final twelve minutes of the of the game, he
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Speaker 1: went scoreless. Donovan Mitchell went scoreless the final twelve minutes.
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Speaker 1: He played with this aloof deliberate indifference that it was
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Speaker 1: so cringeworthy. Combined with Harden, they should have put some
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Speaker 1: kind of parental advisory label on the broadcast. Was that
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Speaker 1: it was that cringeworthy. And again, I just that's one
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Speaker 1: of my positions that if you're truly a great player,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna go down doing everything you can to score.
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Speaker 1: He was just kind of going through the motions. So apathy.
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Speaker 1: Apathy is the word I will use late in that
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Speaker 1: game for Donovan Mitchell, my god, and you know, stop
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Speaker 1: the bleeding. He let them bleed out. He did. All
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Speaker 1: right now page due keeping the theme of the hour
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Speaker 1: going on the Cleveland side, Kenny Atkinson, Now, I realized
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Speaker 1: this is a me problem because I keep watching these
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Speaker 1: news conferences postgame and I lose my mind and all that.
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Speaker 1: So Kenny Atkinson postgame said that the Calves I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: give you the thumbnail recap, so he essentially said the
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Speaker 1: Calves were unlucky. He thought that the Knicks hit some
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Speaker 1: really tough shots, which I don't think they did. Uh
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Speaker 1: and and he said, yea unlucky. He said, quote, I'm
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Speaker 1: super proud of the way our group played. We played
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Speaker 1: great basketball tonight for three orders close quote all right,
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Speaker 1: So again, I hate to do this. I want to
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Speaker 1: be Benny Brightside. Last I checked. You get greatered on
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Speaker 1: four quarters. You don't get greater on thirty six minutes.
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Speaker 1: You get greater on forty eight. In this case, you
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Speaker 1: get greater on fifty three. They played really great basketball
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Speaker 1: for three quarters, and he's proud of his team. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's your coach. That's your coach, Ohio Al, that's your coach.
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Speaker 1: Dick and Dayton Strip Club John, all you guys, all
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Speaker 1: my guys, that's your coach. So the question coach Kenny
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Speaker 1: Atkinson said he was quote super proud of the Cavaliers,
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Speaker 1: the way they played and the loss to the Knicks.
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Speaker 1: What say you? All right? So Atkinson, I have him
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Speaker 1: in the basket I labeled Dingleberry. He's in the Dingleberry basket. Congratulations.
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Speaker 1: He coached that fourth quarter like he was on airplane mode.
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Speaker 1: And this is the coaching equivalent of going up to
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Speaker 1: an overflowing porta potty and tossing on a handful of
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Speaker 1: rainbow sprinkles on that overflowing porta potty that is just
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Speaker 1: covered in feces and saying, well, all right, we solved
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Speaker 1: that problem. You know, I'm proud. I mean, listen, it
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Speaker 1: looks really nice. It's got there's some red in there,
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Speaker 1: some green, some yellow, there's a little blue. It looks good,
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Speaker 1: looks pretty good. No, No, Atkinson, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you can call what he did coaching. And again I'm
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Speaker 1: not the biggest AA coaches matter all that much in
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Speaker 1: the NBA. What he did though, Holy crap, he was
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Speaker 1: like doing some cosplay Kenny Atkinson as a guidance counselor
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Speaker 1: super proud. Oh man, I just I can't. I'm not
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Speaker 1: at the point I can accept what we're getting here
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Speaker 1: from these coaches. And it's not just Kenny Atkinson. I
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Speaker 1: feel like I did this same rant and it's like
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Speaker 1: your team just became unglued. It un plugged itself, like
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Speaker 1: a Sega genesis in a thunderstorm. And Atkinson joins JB.
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Speaker 1: Bickerstaff school of postgame gibberish, the Pistons coach that said
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Speaker 1: similar nonsense the other day about how no negativity and
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Speaker 1: all this, that they blew their game at home. And
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Speaker 1: I know this is a road game and all that,
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Speaker 1: but every time a team loses, now I got here, well,
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Speaker 1: it's a growth opportunity and it's a melt you know,
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Speaker 1: it's not a meltdown. It's resilience, my fat ass, all right, anyway,
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Speaker 1: just stop the sugarcoating. Please. I know you think all
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Speaker 1: the fans are idiots, and I guess most of them are.
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Speaker 1: I like to think I'm not a complete moron. I'm
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Speaker 1: just a half moron. So come on and weren't even
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Speaker 1: a loss by Cleveland. This was a self inflicted wedgie.
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Speaker 1: They gave themselves a weggie right up to tuckis right there.
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Speaker 1: And why is this so hard? By the way, like
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Speaker 1: the public holding people accountable. It's not youth basketball. You're
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Speaker 1: not the YMCA, he the Boys and Girls Club. I think,
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Speaker 1: what are we doing? You know, I don't want to
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Speaker 1: hear about the effort. I don't need to hear about
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Speaker 1: the effort. I'm good on that. Tell me why your
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Speaker 1: team evaporated like a spilled cam of sprite. Just explain
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Speaker 1: that to me. And Atkinson absolutely, and the entire CAFs scene.
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Speaker 1: But Atkinson's the coach goes out there, gets hoodwinked, vamboozled
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Speaker 1: and hornswoggled all at the same time. You can do
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Speaker 1: one of those, you can't do three. It's like a
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Speaker 1: Looney Tunes situation here. And he waited to call time out.
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Speaker 1: Let him play, Let the players figure it out right,
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Speaker 1: let him figure it out. Waited to call time out
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Speaker 1: until the Knicks this thing that they had going here,
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Speaker 1: they were playing really confident basketball, and they had their
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Speaker 1: own zip code. By the time Atkinson decided, yeah, we'll
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Speaker 1: call timeout it's like, Okay, it's not exactly strategy. I
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Speaker 1: could have done that. I could have stood there and
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Speaker 1: bitten my fingernails and picked my nose while this happened.
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Speaker 1: And it's coaching malfeasance, is what that is. That's the
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Speaker 1: word malfeasance. So if Cleveland ends up blowing this series,
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Speaker 1: and it's only game one, but if they end up
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Speaker 1: blowing this series, this becomes a fireable offense in at
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Speaker 1: least in my world. I realize we live in the
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Speaker 1: era where coaches are not held to that standard. If
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Speaker 1: I own the team, i'd fire. I'd fire him, give
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Speaker 1: him the cardboard box and the security escort, and please
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Speaker 1: leave in a timely fashion. I've gotten that talk. I
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Speaker 1: know the talk. I got thirty minutes to collect your
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Speaker 1: personal belongings and please leave. My favorite line when I
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Speaker 1: got whacked years ago was you know, it's hard for you,
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Speaker 1: but it's also hard for the people that are still
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Speaker 1: the company. One of the people that fired me told
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Speaker 1: me that, oh it's so good, Hey, all right. Last
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Speaker 1: word on the New York, New York side of things,
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Speaker 1: the sweet smell of victory. So the question is who
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Speaker 1: can read the biggest sigh of relief for Jalen Brunson
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Speaker 1: and the Knicks pulling off the miraculous rabbit out of
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Speaker 1: the hat type victory in Game one of the Eastern Finals.
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Speaker 1: So who can breathe the biggest sigh of relief? So
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Speaker 1: the biggest sigh of relief belongs to the Three Amigos
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Speaker 1: I jotted down on the notes app on my phone,
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Speaker 1: the three Amigos. That's none other than cat nap Og
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Speaker 1: and brown Town. That would be the three Amigos because
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Speaker 1: that forty four to eleven run to end the game,
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Speaker 1: that resurrection, not a run, that was a resurrection, a
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Speaker 1: rebirth for the Knickerbockers. Did not just save the Knicks,
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Speaker 1: It saved those three, the three Amigos, from the full
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Speaker 1: blown tabloid autopsy, which was going to be taking place
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Speaker 1: had this gone the other one. So it's probably written
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Speaker 1: how I wrote the stories. They just hadn't published them yet.
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Speaker 1: But my god, Karl Anthony Town's played forty minutes of
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Speaker 1: Do Not Disturb Basketball and then he got bailed out,
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Speaker 1: like the car industry got bailed out by the the
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Speaker 1: White House, or the banking industry got bailed out by
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Speaker 1: the White House back back in the day. Meanwhile, og
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Speaker 1: and An he had three points. He had the body
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Speaker 1: language of a man waiting online without a reservation at
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Speaker 1: the Department of Motor Vehicles, and then he started. Brunson
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Speaker 1: had the most impact late in the game, but og
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Speaker 1: and Andobi also made some big baskets in that late
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Speaker 1: game situation, so he's absolved of any wrongdoing. And then
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Speaker 1: you have brown Town, Mike Brown, the head coach who
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Speaker 1: coached like he was trying to win a melotonin sponsorship
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Speaker 1: as the Knicks were going through it for most of
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Speaker 1: that game eighty three percent of that game. And then
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Speaker 1: that's it. I mean, Cleveland owned every hustle stat at
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Speaker 1: that point, and then they remembered, Hey, we're the Cavs.
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Speaker 1: You know what are we doing? You know, we can't
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Speaker 1: keep doing that with the calves. We can't win the
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Speaker 1: hustle stats and all that, so they stopped doing that. Now.
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Speaker 1: The other thing I'm already tired of hearing about is
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Speaker 1: the Knicks have all the momentum. Shut your fat mouth.
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Speaker 1: There is no such thing as momentum. No way, Jose
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I don't care if you tell me ten
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Speaker 1: million times. There is no such thing as momentum. We
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Speaker 1: used to have Ozzie momentum and we had Uncle Mo,
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Speaker 1: but they don't really call anymore, so that doesn't count.
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Speaker 1: So momentum is just the excuse that dummies and sports
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Speaker 1: media used. They invented after the fact. For example, the
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Speaker 1: Cavaliers had stay it with me now, all the momentum.
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Speaker 1: They had a twenty two point lead fourth quarter until
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Speaker 1: they didn't have all the momentum because they sucked at
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Speaker 1: a time you cannot suck. And the Knicks didn't flip
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Speaker 1: a switch. Okay, they didn't flip a switch. They found
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Speaker 1: the Cavs extension cord and they yanked it out of
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Speaker 1: the wall is what they did. The series comes down
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Speaker 1: who sucks less between James Harden and Carl Anthony Towns.
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Speaker 1: I saw the my pal there Darren Ravel getting killed
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Speaker 1: because he said he claimed that at the mg book
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Speaker 1: in Vegas. He said that the bet MGM it was
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Speaker 1: one of the big gambling outfits. He said that ninety
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Speaker 1: five percent of the money. He said this when the
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Speaker 1: Knicks were down twenty in the fourth quarter. He said
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Speaker 1: ninety five percent of the money at the bet MGM
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Speaker 1: was on the Knicks at minus seven and a half.
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Speaker 1: He's like, well, they're going to build a new wing
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Speaker 1: on the hotel. So does this mean since he obviously
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Speaker 1: thought the game was over, we all thought the game
25:26
Speaker 1: was over. Since the Calves did what the Calves do.
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Speaker 1: Does that mean now that that MGM's going out of
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Speaker 1: business because of this? Is that? Is that how that works?
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Speaker 1: Or no? All right. Also saw some great fight videos
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Speaker 1: outside Madison Square Garden as Calves and Knicks fans who
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Speaker 1: spent hours drinking massive amounts of alcohol were fighting it out.
25:51
Speaker 1: And I did like the video clips because some of
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Speaker 1: the women were coming in third man in, which is
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Speaker 1: a penalty I got, or third person in. I covered hockey.
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Speaker 1: It's you're not supposed to be the third person in.
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Speaker 1: That's a big penalty. And the women were coming here
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Speaker 1: and they were like kicking and then like kind of
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Speaker 1: doing the little pull of the bag the bag like this,
26:14
Speaker 1: but no, like the guys were fighting, so they were
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Speaker 1: fighting like this, and then they tipped over so they
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Speaker 1: fell down, and then the woman came over and was
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Speaker 1: like kicking. She was like kicking the guy while he
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Speaker 1: was down. You know, but that's kind of a chicken
26:27
Speaker 1: crap move because the guy's already know he's on the ground.
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Speaker 1: What percentage of sports fights do you think are actually
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Speaker 1: caused by the women? Oh, that's a good question. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go now, either directly or like you got
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Speaker 1: to defend my honor tized stuff like that. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'll go seventy percent. How about that seventy
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Speaker 1: talking like you know, two people are talking cratch other
26:54
Speaker 1: and then the woman throws the beer on the guy
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Speaker 1: and now escalation escalation you women. Yeah, us men do
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Speaker 1: not want to fight. We do not want to fight.
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Speaker 1: You women want us to fight. Yep, you enjoy it.
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Speaker 1: It turns you on. You like when your man fights,
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Speaker 1: you do. It's something is a flaw with the women.
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Speaker 1: They love when the men fight. You do. Come on, Lorraine,
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Speaker 1: come on, you like the bad boys, thinking myself all
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Speaker 1: about that she's thinking about her. Oh my man, you'll
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Speaker 1: kick your ass, you know that whole thing. Come on,
27:28
Speaker 1: what do they call that valor? Yes, I don't know
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Speaker 1: if that's the right word, but anyway, there there you go, outstanding,
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Speaker 1: And let's see what do we have on the X machine.
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Speaker 1: What wisdom do we have here? Let's see uh page
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Speaker 1: down here. Late night drug tester says, I will put
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Speaker 1: the same effort into watching the NBA Playoffs like the
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Speaker 1: players do in the regular season. Maybe by Game three
27:50
Speaker 1: of the finals, I will tune in. Well, thank you
27:52
Speaker 1: for that. Shannon Mooy says Swamp Billy will get knocked
27:55
Speaker 1: out in the second round by Sea Bass because Sea
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Speaker 1: Bass will play with his food before sending Billy back
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Speaker 1: to the swamp. So Shane's already calling a shot. He
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Speaker 1: says that blind SeaBASS will will kick the ass of
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Speaker 1: swamp Billy. We've not heard from swamp Billy yet to
28:11
Speaker 1: confirm that we have a time and a date. Michael
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Speaker 1: from Tulsa writes, since has been a plus on the
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Speaker 1: Mallar monologue the East Place. The de facto Championship is
28:23
Speaker 1: about to resume with Game two and OKC and that'll
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Speaker 1: be on Wednesday night. I'm pretty sure the thunder are
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Speaker 1: glad they said bye bye to James Harden years ago.
28:35
Speaker 1: Well he was the sixth man, of course back then.
28:37
Speaker 1: Chip and the Ques right since says a plus on
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Speaker 1: the malle monologue. Any team that James Harden is on
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Speaker 1: should employ a special coach whose only job is to
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Speaker 1: give James the Heimlich maneuver during crunch time. Ryan, who
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Speaker 1: I think is in Mexico these days, he says ten
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Speaker 1: out of ten on the Mallar Monologue. Here I am
28:57
Speaker 1: eating tacos, watching the game, thinking to my I told
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Speaker 1: Ben Cleveland we'll get to the finals, and then the
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Speaker 1: meltdown in the last seven minutes. Well, this is not elimination. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: I'm told they have to steal the next win three
29:11
Speaker 1: more games, so it's not it's not over. Mark from
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Speaker 1: Queen says, let the let's begin the James Harden roast.
29:19
Speaker 1: We have begun to James Harden, the Hour of Roasting
29:21
Speaker 1: James Harden. It is well underway. Well underway. Oh, let's
29:26
Speaker 1: go to the phones and we'll say hello to Enie Meanie,
29:29
Speaker 1: miney mo. Let's go to Vegas. And in the leadoff
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Speaker 1: chair we say hello to Jose in Vegas. Hello Jose, welcome.
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Speaker 4: Ben.
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Speaker 3: How you doing my man, I've been listening to you
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Speaker 3: for years, first on my call, so I thank you
29:42
Speaker 3: guys for taking my call. But this is a great
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Speaker 3: way to start.
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Speaker 1: Man.
29:45
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, we know who James
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Speaker 3: Harden is and who he is it. I don't really
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Speaker 3: blame him for this game. I blame Donovan Mitchell all
29:52
Speaker 3: the way. And I have a bias, and I have
29:53
Speaker 3: a grit, and I know a lot of my buddies
29:55
Speaker 3: here in Vegas are going to be listening and giving
29:57
Speaker 3: me crap about this. But add a two team part
29:59
Speaker 3: lay today and I'm a little upset. How is it
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Speaker 3: that Jaylen Brunson twenty five and a half over and
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Speaker 3: under didn't look like he was gonna get it. I
30:07
Speaker 3: already had Donovan Mitchell as to over twenty just sitting
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Speaker 3: there at twenty nine. The problem is he forgets that
30:14
Speaker 3: you have to play four quarters and sometimes you got
30:16
Speaker 3: to play in overtime, and he totally disappeared in this game.
30:20
Speaker 3: You're up by over twenty.
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Speaker 2: Points with seven minutes left.
30:23
Speaker 3: There's no excuse. I'm hearing people on Twitter hitting me up,
30:26
Speaker 3: sending me DM something about, oh well he's sprained his ankle.
30:28
Speaker 3: Oh where he hurt his ankle. He was still on
30:30
Speaker 3: the floor for the rest of that game. If you're
30:32
Speaker 3: supposed to be a superstar and you're supposed to be
30:35
Speaker 3: this great guy and you're talking out this crappy at
30:37
Speaker 3: the end of last year and not talking about this
30:39
Speaker 3: is a business script. I'm gonna come out here and.
30:41
Speaker 2: Do my thing.
30:41
Speaker 3: You did absolutely nothing. You pust your team the game
30:44
Speaker 3: at the end of the day. And then Kenny at.
30:46
Speaker 2: Gets in fan when he said, Jesus Christ.
30:49
Speaker 3: We're gonna have means for days now.
30:50
Speaker 2: I mean, this is just a joke.
30:52
Speaker 3: But the one thing that is clear cut here, and
30:54
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure allad people are gonna agree with me,
30:57
Speaker 3: you can never count now Jalen Brunson that when it
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Speaker 3: matters and it comes down to it, he can have
31:02
Speaker 3: five points going into the fourth quarter and he'll find
31:05
Speaker 3: the way to finish with over twenty five or thirty.
31:07
Speaker 3: It's just insane. I truly believe that the Knicks will
31:10
Speaker 3: take advantage and continue to just roll over.
31:13
Speaker 2: I mean, row the has in this series.
31:15
Speaker 3: And win it all because James Barden is not going
31:18
Speaker 3: to step up. He's not going to show up, And
31:20
Speaker 3: in my opinion, Donovan Mitchell just showed us he is
31:23
Speaker 3: not a superstar in this league.
31:25
Speaker 1: Dar you cut out, but you had you had a
31:28
Speaker 1: Was it a parlay you had with Mitchell over thirty?
31:30
Speaker 1: Is that what you had in your bed?
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Speaker 3: Yes, so I had. I had Jalen Brunton over twenty
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Speaker 3: five and a half and I had Donovan Mitchell over
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Speaker 3: twenty nine and a half.
31:39
Speaker 1: Oh we lost my half of you half a point?
31:42
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the point half a point? He killed
31:45
Speaker 1: you for hal half a point? Oh my god.
31:48
Speaker 3: That sucksly that he had seven minutes met in the
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Speaker 3: fourth quarter and the overtime to get it. Do it?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Sane, you scored as many points as he did
31:55
Speaker 1: in the final twelve minutes of that game. That's wild.
31:57
Speaker 1: That is crazy. Now do you feel better? Do you
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Speaker 1: feel better now that you ripped him on six hundred
32:01
Speaker 1: radio station? You feel good? You feel like you've a
32:03
Speaker 1: little payback. It doesn't you know when you're bet but
32:05
Speaker 1: leave you've taken shots at him. Now, Yeah, no, I feel.
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Speaker 2: Great, especially because I'm doing it on your shoulder.
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Speaker 1: That's right baby, all right, list anytime you lose a bet,
32:15
Speaker 1: you call us up and you can just rant. We'll
32:17
Speaker 1: just let you ran. Okay, there you go, all right,
32:19
Speaker 1: thank you, but appreciate alright, be well, good luck. All
32:21
Speaker 1: there you go. There's so say. Oh that's that's things
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Speaker 1: man needed one more point over twelve minutes. I can
32:31
Speaker 1: only imagine the level of profanity that was coming out
32:33
Speaker 1: of Jose's mouth as he was watching the game go
32:35
Speaker 1: to overtime. I want to I did want to mention. Yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: you were talking about that coach and how they're just
32:42
Speaker 1: so soft these days, you know, great blah blah.
32:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of just how they got to be
32:48
Speaker 2: this day and age, because why are so soft?
32:50
Speaker 1: Players are so soft? If you make them mad, they're
32:52
Speaker 1: not going to perform. They didn't perform. They didn't perform
32:55
Speaker 1: for him anyway, Who cares?
32:57
Speaker 2: They're too soft?
32:58
Speaker 1: But the coaches have to be soft for them. I
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Speaker 1: just I think if coaches and people in leadership positions
33:05
Speaker 1: started acting a little more realistic and saying, hey, you suck,
33:08
Speaker 1: just accept it. You know, if I have a bad
33:10
Speaker 1: show or whatever, I don't want my boss to say
33:12
Speaker 1: oh you you know you had a really good you
33:13
Speaker 1: know it sucked. It was garbage. Tell me it sucks,
33:16
Speaker 1: so I can be the exactly I don't like a
33:19
Speaker 1: college professor. It's okay, just turn in your work.
33:21
Speaker 4: I'll give you an a.
33:22
Speaker 1: No, yeah, it's it's just candy coating everything is. I'm
33:27
Speaker 1: annoyed by it and hopefully that'll change. And I know
33:30
Speaker 1: things go through cycles. They keep going like this, they
33:35
Speaker 1: are going to get fired. So we had some rhythmic
33:38
Speaker 1: chanting post game as the fans were making their wear
33:42
Speaker 1: their way out of Madison Square Garden into the New
33:45
Speaker 1: York night. There as they were wandering out into Gotham,
33:48
Speaker 1: the New York Knick fans were rhythmically chanting three words,
33:55
Speaker 1: which now I know what. They're excited and they're adrenaline
33:59
Speaker 1: and all that. However, be very careful what you rhythmically
34:02
Speaker 1: chant for. The Knicks fans were chanting, we want wamb
34:09
Speaker 1: we w webb. No, you don't, no, you don't, no, no, no.
34:19
Speaker 1: This is the junior varsity, the Eastern Conferences of the
34:21
Speaker 1: Junior varsity. The varsity is whoever wins between San Antonio
34:25
Speaker 1: and Oklahoma City. I'm I'm just saying. That's all. That's
34:30
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. So we'll push back the old aunt.
34:34
Speaker 1: Sometimes ants don't give the best advice. We'll get to
34:36
Speaker 1: that coming up a little bit later on time. Now
34:39
Speaker 1: for the who am I? Game? No crazy stats from
34:41
Speaker 1: basketball that work for the who am I? Game? So
34:43
Speaker 1: we'll go to baseball where Rangers Suarez owns a one
34:49
Speaker 1: point one to two e RA over his last seven
34:52
Speaker 1: starts for the Boston baseball team. That is the best
34:56
Speaker 1: earned run average for a Red Sox starter over a
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Speaker 1: seven games man within a single season since Chris Sale
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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. And me, who again, Rangel Suarez owns
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Speaker 1: a one point one to two ERA overs last seven starts.
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Speaker 1: That's the best ERA for a Red Sox starter over
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Speaker 1: seven games span in a single season. Who since Chris
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Speaker 1: Sale in twenty eighteen? And me? Who? Who am I?
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Speaker 1: Am I? Game? And we went to baseball for the
36:38
Speaker 1: who Am I? Game? Rangers Suarez owns a one point
36:43
Speaker 1: one to two ERA over his last seven starts. That
36:45
Speaker 1: is the best era for a Red Sox starter over
36:49
Speaker 1: a seven gamespan. Within a single season since Chris Sale
36:55
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen and me, who am I? That is
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Speaker 1: the question. What is the answer? And let's sees anyone
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Speaker 1: know the answer? Rob the goat Man going with Yankee
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Speaker 1: legend Jim Abbott as his answer. Alf the Alien Opiner
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37:45
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Speaker 1: guy's going with al Wolf as his look at Alps
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Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Not a Berner says, you are Danny
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Speaker 1: DeVito the trash man that that is the answer. You
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Speaker 1: are Ridgemont High legendary history teacher Mister Hand from Mark
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Speaker 1: the Walker in Rochester, the late Great Tim Wakefield from
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Speaker 1: you have? Paige Dan can't read that? Kathy in Madison
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Speaker 1: Manuel in Guardina Scott Radinsky. There's another good name from
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Speaker 1: you can't read that Trajan Langdon from Biglu He's on
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Speaker 1: number two. And we can't do a Red Sox question
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Speaker 1: without getting Dennis oil Can Boyd from from Ryan the
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Speaker 1: iconic Dennis oil Can Boyd, whose nickname would be canceled
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Speaker 1: in modern times because if you know the history of
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Speaker 1: what oil can meant in the South when he was
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Speaker 1: growing up, it meant beer because he had he liked
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Speaker 1: to drink and oh yeah, feel like that used to
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Speaker 1: be okay in the dugout back in the day. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: Red Sox chicken and waffles, or they had the chicken
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Speaker 1: waffles and they had the beer that was the day
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Speaker 1: it would drink and eat during the game. Sounds like
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Speaker 1: a wonderful time, all right again, Rangers? Or is the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox owns a one point one two era over
39:43
Speaker 1: the last seven starts. That's the best era for a
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Speaker 1: Red Sox starter over seven games span in a single
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Speaker 1: season since Chris Sale back in twenty eighteen. And me,
39:51
Speaker 1: who am I? Do you have an answer? Lorraine? Why? Yes, Ben,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the kid, Ted Williams. Ted Willie, Wow,
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Speaker 1: great pitcher for the Red so I'd say one of
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Speaker 1: the greats of all time. Never gave up a run
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Speaker 1: on the mound, Ted Williams. Unfortunately, that's incorrectly correct. Answer
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Speaker 1: would be a man who was a legend and died
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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, Louis Tiant. Louis Tiant, the
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Speaker 1: Pride of Cuba and a very wacky delivery and one
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Speaker 1: of the great characters of his era. Louis Tian