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6-5 H2: NBA Finals Game 2, Reading Your Texts & Cross Talk · The Gregg Bell Show

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Speaker 1: That's some fun talking some baseball, some hockey. But I
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Speaker 1: gotta be honest with you, mister kid, I am super
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Speaker 1: excited for tonight and the NBA Finals. And look, I
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Speaker 1: totally get anybody who is NBA tuned out until the
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Speaker 1: team comes back, totally get it, respect it, disagree. This
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Speaker 1: is the most excited I've been for a Finals in
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Speaker 1: a long time, and I think some of that has
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Speaker 1: to be has to do, excuse me, with the juxtaposition
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Speaker 1: of where we were last year, where it was Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: City yuck against Indiana boring. Like, all due respect to
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Speaker 1: Tyre's Halliburton, a really good player, and there are some
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Speaker 1: other guys on Indiana who are solid players as well,
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't a very exciting even with that series
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Speaker 1: going seven. I was not enthralled for that. In particular,
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Speaker 1: the dread that I had as someone who's first love
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Speaker 1: was the Seattle SuperSonics of Oklahoma City potentially winning a championship. Well,
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Speaker 1: not only do the Oklahoma City Thunder get knocked out
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Speaker 1: in just a thrilling seven game series, where I mean,
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Speaker 1: both those teams were so good, so good, but you
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Speaker 1: also have bing Bongs back the New York Knicks, who
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Speaker 1: have just been so unbelievably good in this postseason. Congrats
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Speaker 1: to the Atlanta Hawks is being the only team that
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Speaker 1: has really challenged the New York Knicks so far. Man,
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Speaker 1: I have just been enamored. I know it's only been
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Speaker 1: one game, but I have been looking forward to this
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Speaker 1: as a somewhat neutral party. I'll tell you who I'm
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Speaker 1: rooting forward to a second. I am just enthralled by
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Speaker 1: this NBA Finals Chris.
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Speaker 2: It has been I've enjoyed the NBA playoffs and this
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Speaker 2: finals matchup has been house money.
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Speaker 3: The Knicks were clearly the best.
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Speaker 2: Team in the East yep and they've shown it defensively. Offensively,
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Speaker 2: players are stepping up. Ojiannaobi has been playing through some injuries.
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Speaker 2: Karl Anthony Towns has been much much better, more consistent,
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Speaker 2: and I like that he is. He still takes and
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Speaker 2: shoots threes, but I like how he's become more of
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Speaker 2: a bully. He's not just first thought, oh let me
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Speaker 2: get this three ball. He's like, I'll start in the
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Speaker 2: paint and then make my way back once. I've seen
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Speaker 2: a few shots go through the net, and I think
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Speaker 2: that's the way you have to play, especially going up
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Speaker 2: against the Spurs, who are just as good defensively. They
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Speaker 2: also have a unicorn that happens to be seven to
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Speaker 2: four and can do everything that basically any guard can do.
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Speaker 2: He just happens to be very, very tall. And I
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Speaker 2: think tonight is just going to be another opportunity for
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Speaker 2: the Knicks to impose their will and the Spurs to
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Speaker 2: try to respond and do some things better that they
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Speaker 2: didn't do in Game one, which includes Victor being more aggressive.
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Speaker 2: I know he talked very confidently after losing Game one,
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Speaker 2: basically stating it's a mental thing for him and his guys.
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Speaker 3: Well everyone heard those words.
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Speaker 2: Now all eyes are on the Spurs and what the
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Speaker 2: coaching staff can do to make sure they go back
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Speaker 2: to New York with this thing tied and not down
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Speaker 2: two games.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean it is such a much such a
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Speaker 1: must win game for the Spurs for all the reasons
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Speaker 1: we talked about with you know, with the Stanley Cup
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Speaker 1: that you can't fall down two oh and go into
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Speaker 1: another team's home stadium. And I even if the Knicks
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Speaker 1: lose tonight, which I think they will, I'll give you
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Speaker 1: my prediction right now. I do think that the Spurs
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Speaker 1: will even this series tonight, Madison Square Garden is going
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Speaker 1: to be out of control. It's going to be absolutely bonkers.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they have not been to the finals since
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Speaker 1: ninety nine, and I'll be honest with you that it
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Speaker 1: isn't the same thing they were in eight seed playing
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Speaker 1: in a shortened season. This is the Knicks at their
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Speaker 1: absolutely the most excited sense. John Starks and Patrick Ewing
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Speaker 1: and those guys were lining up for him, and you
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Speaker 1: know it's gonna be phenomenal. I'll tell you what I
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Speaker 1: think the X factor is in this series. And I
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Speaker 1: don't know if the Spurs are going to be willing
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Speaker 1: to do it or not, but I think the X
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Speaker 1: factor in this series is Dylan Harper. And Dylan Harper
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Speaker 1: played out of his mind in Game one, despite not
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Speaker 1: getting as many minutes as I think he should have.
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Speaker 1: I think he's got to start playing more than d
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Speaker 1: Aaron Fox. And I get it, Daron Fox is a
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Speaker 1: former All NBA player. He's only twenty eight years old,
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Speaker 1: so it's not like he's aged himself out of the league.
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Speaker 1: But I watch those two guys play right now, it's
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Speaker 1: very hard for me to say that Dylan Harper isn't
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Speaker 1: a better player than Daron Fox right now, and I
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Speaker 1: certainly think that he's a better player than Devin Vessel
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Speaker 1: what Viscelle gives them defensively being a little bit bigger
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Speaker 1: of a body. Not that Dylan Harper can't play defense,
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Speaker 1: but you need Devin Vassel in the lineup, I think
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Speaker 1: more than you need Daron Fox. If I was Mitch Johnson,
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Speaker 1: I would be switching their roles. I would be having
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Speaker 1: Daron Fox and that speed coming off the bench as
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Speaker 1: a twenty five to thirty minute guy. And I want
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Speaker 1: as much of the offense running through Dylan Harper and
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Speaker 1: that absolute freak of a human being victor of Winbin Yama.
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Speaker 1: I want that as much as possible. Now. I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying Dearon Fox can't contribute for all the reasons that
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Speaker 1: I brought up. He's a former All NBA player. He's
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Speaker 1: had some decent moments in the postseason, but the shot
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Speaker 1: isn't falling as much. He's not, I think a good
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Speaker 1: facilitator as Dylan Harper is. Right now. I think Dylan
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Speaker 1: Harper is the key to this series. Chris.
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Speaker 3: He very well could be.
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Speaker 2: That's an interesting thing that coach Mitch Johnson's gonna have
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Speaker 2: to look at and try to see, Okay, who gives
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Speaker 2: us the best chance to win.
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Speaker 3: I think that.
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Speaker 2: You look at Devin, he was what I think he
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Speaker 2: was like a top ten pick lottery pick in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty during.
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Speaker 1: COVID right around there.
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Speaker 2: So for one solid two way guard, I think he's
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Speaker 2: averaging probably around thirteen points per game, a couple rebounds,
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Speaker 2: but his role is deeper than he's He played really
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Speaker 2: well against Okac, who I thought I thought he was
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Speaker 2: gonna win that series, but he actually stepped up alongside
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Speaker 2: a couple other guys, including Dylan Harper, who is a
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Speaker 2: obviously a top NBA draft prospect coming out in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five. So there's no debate there. But I think
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Speaker 2: right now that's the better player. But long term, I
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Speaker 2: think that player Harper could ascend that role. Do you
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Speaker 2: want to test it in the playoffs? I would say
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Speaker 2: probably not tonight. I would say game three on the
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Speaker 2: road if you want to try to mix things up,
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Speaker 2: because you've already established it's a TI series, a tied series,
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Speaker 2: and now you have to go on the road and
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Speaker 2: win a game. So I think it'd be triggery to
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Speaker 2: do it tonight unless you are completely confident that Dylan
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Speaker 2: Harper would come out there and light it up far
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Speaker 2: better than Dessell has been and will be doing. That's
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Speaker 2: just one of those coaching decisions they have to make.
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Speaker 2: I would imagine they're not going to make any changes.
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Speaker 2: But I understand where you're coming from, Crawford in terms
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Speaker 2: of the fill of the game. How Dylan does it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he was pretty damn good in Game one, Yes,
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Speaker 2: he was so again that was the proven player. I
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Speaker 2: think Harper has the upside. I don't know if you
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Speaker 2: want to toy with that right now. In the NBA Finals,
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Speaker 2: just because if we're being honest, if Victor winmbin Yama
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Speaker 2: plays better, I don't even think this matters. I think
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Speaker 2: they probably won that game just off of Victor having
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Speaker 2: a better night, not that he needs to score more,
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Speaker 2: just overall his impact on the game. He can change
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Speaker 2: it either side of the ball. So if he is
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Speaker 2: locked in, I don't even think it really matters who
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Speaker 2: you put out there. I just believe he elevates everyone
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Speaker 2: else's game.
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Speaker 1: That's a great point, And you know that's the thing
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Speaker 1: about Victor Webbin Yama that's impressed me so much too,
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Speaker 1: is because there was a lot of flak about how
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Speaker 1: he played in Game five of the Western Conference Finals,
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Speaker 1: that he didn't get the job done, that he maybe
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say was soft in that game,
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Speaker 1: but maybe wasn't quite up for the challenge. And then
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Speaker 1: you saw what he did in Game six and Game seven. Well,
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Speaker 1: in this one he got bullied a little bit. And
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Speaker 1: credit to Karl Anthony Towns because not exactly known as
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Speaker 1: a guy who is considered a bully in the NBA. Uh,
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Speaker 1: if you hear Karl Anthony Towns speak, you certainly wouldn't
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Speaker 1: think that he would be one of those guys. But
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Speaker 1: he played his you know what off and I was
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Speaker 1: really impressed. And Jalen bruntson, Man, that guy is just clutch.
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Speaker 1: That is just a clutch, clutch basketball player. And man,
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Speaker 1: I do feel like these teams are super even. But
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Speaker 1: when you're super even, I'm still gonna go with the
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Speaker 1: seven foot five French guy who can do absolutely everything
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Speaker 1: on the court. And that's why I think the Spurs
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Speaker 1: ultimately win. But for me, the big thing here is
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Speaker 1: like Devin Vessel, like you mentioned, the role that he
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Speaker 1: plays it's Daron Fox that concerns me more because de
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Speaker 1: Aaron Fox has been a guy who is so used
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Speaker 1: to being ball dominant and being like either the first
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Speaker 1: option or the second option. I don't think Daron Fox
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Speaker 1: can be the first or second option right now. The
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Speaker 1: shots aren't falling enough and he's not creating enough separation there,
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Speaker 1: and I don't think he's going to with some of
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Speaker 1: the guys who were going to be like Josh Hart
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Speaker 1: is a really tough defensive player. You know that you
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Speaker 1: can switch guys like Ogannaobi, you can put some of
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Speaker 1: the bigger guys on him that make it a little
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Speaker 1: more difficult. Dylan Harper because of his build, because of
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Speaker 1: his ball skills, and because of the fact that like
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Speaker 1: he rebounds so well for a six or four guard.
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Speaker 1: By the way, I didn't realize until a couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks ago that he was Ron Harper's son. And now
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Speaker 1: I'm like, how did I not know? That he is
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Speaker 1: a spitting image of his dad, a better player. Ron
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Speaker 1: Harper was a good little player for a little while.
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Speaker 1: He sacrificed a lot actually to go to the bulls.
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Speaker 1: But man, I'm just really curious to see how this
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Speaker 1: team is going to bounce back, because it seems like
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Speaker 1: every time teams have written off the Spurs, and it
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Speaker 1: hasn't been like a ti this postseason because they really
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Speaker 1: dominated the Blazers in their series. I never felt too
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Speaker 1: concerned about them against Minnesota, but you know, they did
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Speaker 1: lose a couple of games there, but there have been
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Speaker 1: a couple of oh, Oklahoma City, they figured this out.
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Speaker 1: And all San Antonio has done after they've said we
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Speaker 1: figured this out is is play some of their very,
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Speaker 1: very best basketball. So this is why if you were
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Speaker 1: going to ask who Chris Crawford is betting on, I
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Speaker 1: would bet on the Spurs, and I would probably bet
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Speaker 1: on the Spurs to win by eight to twelve points.
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Speaker 1: I just think, yes, the Knicks did a very nice job,
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Speaker 1: and I think the series is going to go seven games.
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Speaker 1: And maybe that's part of me going I really wanted
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Speaker 1: to go seven games, but part of it is also
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Speaker 1: me saying I think these teams are evenly matched enough,
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Speaker 1: and there is something about the camaraderie that clearly exists
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Speaker 1: with that Knicks basketball team, like clearly there. But I
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Speaker 1: do think that the San Antonio Spurs, if they played
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Speaker 1: an average game would have won that game by a
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Speaker 1: fairly convincing margin. In Game one too, Like, I think
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Speaker 1: the Spurs lost that game as much as the Knicks one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's something too that also. Look at what I
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Speaker 2: think the Spurs don't have, and that's experience.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
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Speaker 2: The Knicks have guys that have been around the block.
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Speaker 2: They've lost some tough playoff matchups, and I think when
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Speaker 2: it comes down to it, the Spurs are just they're
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Speaker 2: so new to it. It reminds me of when OKC
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Speaker 2: got to the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat. They
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Speaker 2: had all the time in the world. They were just
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Speaker 2: so new and young, and the opportunity was there for them,
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Speaker 2: but they didn't understand it yet. They were in the
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Speaker 2: moment leaving it, but they just didn't have that veteran
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Speaker 2: that play. Like Nick Callison. Sure, he's like veteran, has
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Speaker 2: been around the league, but he ain't been to the
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Speaker 2: NBA Finals. He doesn't know what it takes. He could
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Speaker 2: talk to you all about how to win, but this
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Speaker 2: is a bigger stage. And you look at the Spurs like,
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Speaker 2: who was that guy, Oh, it's Luke Cornett, a guy
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Speaker 2: that played for the Boston Celtics won a championship by
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Speaker 2: the way against see he had a phenomenal chase down block,
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Speaker 2: So that might be one of their key cogs that
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Speaker 2: can hey rally them, especially down one. But I look
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Speaker 2: at the Knicks and they got multiple guys that have
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Speaker 2: been deep into a playoff run and I've come up short.
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Speaker 2: And this year with Mike Brown, someone that's lost NBA
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Speaker 2: Finals been to the NBA Finals as one one. If
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Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, he knows about it too. So this
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Speaker 2: is an interesting matchup. There's no Greg Popovic, obviously, he's
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Speaker 2: more of a he's an outside source that he's still
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Speaker 2: a part of the team. He's just not coaching as
12:31
Speaker 2: you guys are known, you guys know with with Mitch
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Speaker 2: Johnson taking over. But this is a really fun matchup
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Speaker 2: and I do think it will probably end up going
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Speaker 2: six to seven games. I just I think these are
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Speaker 2: two evenly matched teams. That's gonna come down to. I
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Speaker 2: think the best players stepping up and playing their best ball.
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Speaker 2: As you mentioned with Jaylen Brunton and Cornthony Towns. Okay, well,
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Speaker 2: the Spurs looking at Victor saying, hey, we need you
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Speaker 2: to play just a little bit better, sure, and that
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Speaker 2: can easily create a gap. But I think how the
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Speaker 2: Knicks are playing defense, man, that's it's gonna be tough.
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Speaker 2: They're playing physical, and the officials they are letting it go.
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Speaker 2: I'm a little more concerned about Kat because he picks
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Speaker 2: up dumb fouls. And what I mean by dumb fouls
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Speaker 2: is he might be in position and then he'll have
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Speaker 2: a brain fart and do something that takes him out
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Speaker 2: of defensive position, right, And he does that far too often,
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Speaker 2: which is why I think the Knicks said we're not
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Speaker 2: gonna have you guard Wimby in the first half because
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Speaker 2: we don't want you getting in foul trouble so quickly.
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Speaker 2: And then the second half you could take that responsibility.
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Speaker 2: If you guys, remember he picked up two quick fouls.
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Speaker 2: It was like bang bang, and you're thinking, okay, here
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Speaker 2: goes Cat. He might find himself with five fouls, and
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Speaker 2: you can't have that. Cat has to be available every
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Speaker 2: night because of what he brings, whether it's a defensive end,
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Speaker 2: whether offensively banging Winbiyama.
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Speaker 3: Because Wimby is skinny.
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Speaker 2: He's not a seven foot four built center, no, and
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Speaker 2: I don't think he needs that because His game is
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Speaker 2: predicated for allowing him to be able to have a handle,
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Speaker 2: be smooth with it. If he adds bulk, I think
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Speaker 2: that'll take away from his greatness. Just like Kevin Durant,
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Speaker 2: anybody wanted him to get all big and buff. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's worked out for Katie. It worked out just fine.
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Speaker 2: So I think Womby he can probably add some more strength.
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Speaker 2: He can become stronger, But I don't think he needs
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Speaker 2: to come out here and look like, I don't know,
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Speaker 2: another version.
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Speaker 1: Of Jonas Valentis. You don't want him to look like
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Speaker 1: I don't want him looking like Jannis Yep.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and he's in phenomenal shape, but that's his game.
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Speaker 2: It's predicated for him to do that. Sure, you know,
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Speaker 2: just be strong and if I'm as strong, I think
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Speaker 2: they'll be fine.
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Speaker 1: It's so funny you bring up the Kevin Durant thing,
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Speaker 1: because I do remember people absolutely panicking because of Kevin
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Speaker 1: Durant not being able to do the bench press. The
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Speaker 1: It's just like, oh my gosh, how weak is this guy?
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Speaker 3: Getting weak?
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Speaker 1: All right? It helps when you're the greatest mid rag
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Speaker 1: shooter I've ever.
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Speaker 2: Seen, gets whatever he wants whenever he wants wherever he wants.
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Speaker 1: Slim Reaper doesn't need to bench press from the suburbs.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.
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Speaker 2: So for Victor, yes, I want him to be stronger, sure,
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Speaker 2: and be more aggressive, but those are things you can
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Speaker 2: work on. I don't want him putting on twenty pounds
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Speaker 2: of pure bulk, because that'll ruin his game.
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Speaker 3: No, it's just not in his cards.
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Speaker 2: I think he can just be a stronger player right,
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Speaker 2: develop in those areas and be like a Kevin Durant
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Speaker 2: who picks and just chooses where he wants to dominate games.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean you can he would. I think if
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Speaker 1: he did bulk up and became that traditional center, he'd
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Speaker 1: still be a great player, but it would take away
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Speaker 1: a lot of that unicorn of him, right, it would.
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Speaker 3: Take away I think it would just drastically change his game.
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Speaker 1: It changed too way too much.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know if that would help or hinder him.
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Speaker 2: I haven't seen someone like Kevin Durant, you know. Let
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Speaker 2: me had thirty pounds of pure muscle and he's still
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Speaker 2: the best score. Yes, I think it was a reason
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Speaker 2: why Kdie stuck to his plan, did it his way,
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Speaker 2: and he's I don't know, he might have gained weight.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but he looks he looks slim and
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Speaker 2: looks just fine to me. So with that being said,
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Speaker 2: I don't want Victor to be like, you know what, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: should put on some muscle, like just become stronger. You
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Speaker 2: could still go in the gym and do those things
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Speaker 2: and build strength. You don't have to show it and
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Speaker 2: look like Jannatokumpo who was just ripped and he put
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Speaker 2: on muscle. He went from a skinny, yes, Greek hooper
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Speaker 2: to like, oh my gosh, Greek god.
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Speaker 1: Yeah you play did him well? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: And it worked for his game because of how he
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Speaker 2: was able to get the bucket. And he's a transition
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Speaker 2: type player. Wimby's everywhere. Yeah, shoot it, you get into
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Speaker 2: the basket. He has a handle.
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Speaker 1: It's incredible.
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Speaker 3: Those are things that you're gonna miss when you get
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Speaker 3: Buff and Bolky.
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Speaker 1: It's so fun to watch. And I have to be honest,
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Speaker 1: he's the player. We talked about this a few weeks
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Speaker 1: ago when I was hosting for Greg that he is
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Speaker 1: the player I'm most looking forward to seeing come into
16:41
Speaker 1: Seattle that we haven't had a chance to cut.
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Speaker 2: I was so I was like, oh, yeah, that does
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Speaker 2: make some By then Lebron we retired. I'm hoping Steph
16:50
Speaker 2: isn't retired, but yeah, es Samlishly, I've already seen Steppe.
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Speaker 2: It'd be nice even Seattle, but yeah, I've seen greatness.
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Speaker 2: Dude is amazing. I just couldn't believe the shots he
16:58
Speaker 2: was taken in that game against Atlanta Hall.
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Speaker 1: But he's just a phenomenal, phenomenal team.
17:03
Speaker 3: He's basically running track out there.
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Speaker 2: The dude is like basically on a treadmill, running around,
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Speaker 2: catching and shooting all game.
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Speaker 1: One of the things I think that's interesting about this
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Speaker 1: Knicks team too, is so Victor wembin Yama. I think
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Speaker 1: is gonna have the same perception of him if they
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Speaker 1: don't win this finals, Like you're not gonna see people
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden say can he win one? Or
17:24
Speaker 1: is he the player like Lebron who's gonna need to
17:27
Speaker 1: form a big team. I don't think anyone's gonna over
17:29
Speaker 1: maybe some, But the interesting thing about this Knicks team
17:33
Speaker 1: is I think the perception on some of these players
17:36
Speaker 1: if they win a championship is going to change a lot.
17:38
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson, can the small guy win a championship. Can
17:43
Speaker 1: the best player on your team be a small guy
17:45
Speaker 1: and win a championship without having a Duranta or Klay
17:48
Speaker 1: Thompson chance for that to happen. There have been so
17:52
Speaker 1: many people who have said Karl Anthony Towns is not
17:54
Speaker 1: someone you can win a championship with. Well, I think
17:58
Speaker 1: he's proven a lot of people already that that's bs.
18:01
Speaker 1: Now he has to do it, I guess. But you've
18:03
Speaker 1: seen the proof of concept here with Karl Anthony Towns.
18:06
Speaker 2: I will say this. The window is going to be
18:09
Speaker 2: open for the Spurs for the next Oh.
18:11
Speaker 1: It's so open. Get your rings now, guys.
18:15
Speaker 3: The Knicks, Yeah, that's right now. It might be this
18:18
Speaker 3: year and that's it.
18:19
Speaker 2: That's it because guess what's coming back from the Pacers
18:22
Speaker 2: next year?
18:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tyre Saliburn saying he's.
18:24
Speaker 2: Going to be No, he's gonna be the reason they
18:26
Speaker 2: make it the be A Finals. Now you're talking about
18:29
Speaker 2: a player that's been there.
18:30
Speaker 1: Right.
18:30
Speaker 2: They're probably going to add some pieces because they sucked
18:33
Speaker 2: last season.
18:33
Speaker 3: Yep, there's Detroit Pistons.
18:35
Speaker 1: They're going to be better next year. They may not
18:37
Speaker 1: win as many games, but the Pistons are going to
18:39
Speaker 1: be better, to learn something the Cavaliers might get Lebron
18:42
Speaker 1: James like this is the East is going to be
18:45
Speaker 1: much more difficult. But the perception of like Jalen Brunson
18:50
Speaker 1: goes from being a potential Hall of Fame player, really
18:53
Speaker 1: good player, to all of a sudden being like you
18:55
Speaker 1: were the lead player who wins a championship. And I
18:59
Speaker 1: think that's something to keep in mind here with motivation
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Speaker 1: four nine four five one to coma doadge text line,
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Speaker 1: let us know who you think is going to win.
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Speaker 1: I love beats like this. It just it's just so
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Speaker 1: ha my time for sure. Chris Crawford in for Greg
19:24
Speaker 1: Bell was joined by my good buddy Christopher Kid. Thanks
19:28
Speaker 1: everybody for all of your texts, and I thought we'd
19:30
Speaker 1: react to some now, So I asked you guys at
19:32
Speaker 1: the beginning of the show with the Mariners eight and
19:36
Speaker 1: one over their last nine, whether you're buying in or
19:39
Speaker 1: whether you need to see more text from the two
19:42
Speaker 1: oh six. I think we need to see more consistency
19:44
Speaker 1: on winning. Keep up six, four, seven, three stretches for
19:47
Speaker 1: a month or two. We are still living by the
19:49
Speaker 1: long ball, and this isn't a consistent offense. We need
19:52
Speaker 1: a Buckston type bat. Now, that's something I'm very intrigued in.
19:56
Speaker 1: A Byron Buckston for the Seattle Mariners is something that
19:59
Speaker 1: I I would personally love to see. But I think
20:03
Speaker 1: that's a fair thing too. Like, this is the first
20:05
Speaker 1: time the Mariners have won three series in a row
20:07
Speaker 1: all year, Chris, Like, it's been a while since we
20:10
Speaker 1: have seen the Seattle Mariners play at the twenty twenty
20:14
Speaker 1: five form. Now right now they're playing literally over the
20:17
Speaker 1: last nine they're playing at the two thousand and one
20:18
Speaker 1: and then some form. But we need to see, obviously
20:22
Speaker 1: this for a more consistent period before I think people
20:25
Speaker 1: are going to completely buy.
20:26
Speaker 2: In from the four two five. There's a difference between
20:32
Speaker 2: teams with good records and good teams.
20:36
Speaker 1: Question about it.
20:37
Speaker 3: That's the sincton straight to it.
20:38
Speaker 1: That's that's then I totally agree, Like there are teams
20:43
Speaker 1: that take advantage of the schedule that they play. I
20:45
Speaker 1: think this is more true in sports like football, where
20:49
Speaker 1: we don't see teams play everybody, and you know, college
20:52
Speaker 1: sports in particular, like we see the eleven to one
20:55
Speaker 1: Sun Belt team is not equal necessarily to the eight
20:57
Speaker 1: and four or seven and five ten team. But yeah, absolutely,
21:02
Speaker 1: just because you have a good record does not necessarily
21:06
Speaker 1: mean you're a good team. My vibes have been high
21:10
Speaker 1: all season. This is from Marcus in the two to
21:11
Speaker 1: oh six will be high for the rest of the year,
21:14
Speaker 1: even during the team lows. Respect it. I absolutely respect it.
21:18
Speaker 1: A lot of texts regarding to re scooball and again
21:22
Speaker 1: thanks to Keith Law for joining us, and he talked
21:25
Speaker 1: about his reservations. Sounds like a lot of people are
21:29
Speaker 1: kind of agreeing with him. Text from the three to
21:32
Speaker 1: six Oh here scoo ball is too old, too expensive,
21:35
Speaker 1: and he hasn't put any team over the top yet
21:37
Speaker 1: and he is injured now, and then it gets into
21:40
Speaker 1: all caps. No, the injury thing is definitely sutting. You
21:43
Speaker 1: got to keep an eye on it for like, you're
21:45
Speaker 1: going to have to be really comfortable with the medicals
21:49
Speaker 1: to make this type of trade. A lot of people too,
21:52
Speaker 1: asking what type of package it would take. You're talking
21:55
Speaker 1: about moving a couple of your very best prospects, and
21:58
Speaker 1: you may be talking about moving a bat currently are
22:02
Speaker 1: a picture currently on your Major League Rocester here? Like
22:06
Speaker 1: this is an interesting one for me, And maybe I'll
22:08
Speaker 1: ask Ian about this when we're doing cross talk, like
22:11
Speaker 1: which of those pictures would you be willing to move
22:14
Speaker 1: currently of the six to go get it Toreek Schooble,
22:17
Speaker 1: Because I'll tell you right now, the Detroit Tigers will
22:20
Speaker 1: have zero interest in Luis Castillo. That just there's no region.
22:24
Speaker 1: It wouldn't make sense for them to go get a
22:26
Speaker 1: Luis Castillo. The Seattle Mariners will have no interest in
22:29
Speaker 1: moving a Logan Gilbert or a Brian Wu. So it
22:33
Speaker 1: basically becomes down to would you be willing to move
22:36
Speaker 1: a Bryce Miller or move a George Kirby to go
22:40
Speaker 1: get a tarik' Scooble. I don't think there's any doubt
22:43
Speaker 1: that Tarik schoobl is better than those guys right now.
22:46
Speaker 1: But you may only have Schoobl for a couple of
22:48
Speaker 1: months or at most a month or a couple of
22:52
Speaker 1: months and maybe a year after. There's a chance of
22:55
Speaker 1: that happening for sure. But at the same time, Legs
23:00
Speaker 1: fly forever, my man and getting a chance to get
23:03
Speaker 1: that World Series and having a player who I disagree
23:06
Speaker 1: with Keith on this one a little bit. I do
23:08
Speaker 1: think he is the type of guy who could put
23:10
Speaker 1: you over the top.
23:11
Speaker 2: From the four two five, this is for you, Chris.
23:16
Speaker 2: What would a Buxton trade look like?
23:18
Speaker 1: So that's a really interesting one because he's under contract.
23:22
Speaker 1: He is also someone Minnesota values very much from both
23:27
Speaker 1: a baseball player standpoint, and he's easily the most popular
23:31
Speaker 1: player in Minnesota, not in overall life. Basically Anthony and
23:36
Speaker 1: Edwards is that guy. But I think you're looking at
23:39
Speaker 1: a Johnny Farmelo type and then a couple of other
23:42
Speaker 1: decent prospects. So you're moving a top one hundred guy
23:44
Speaker 1: to get him. I don't think it would cost you
23:47
Speaker 1: the certainly, not the Andersons, Certainly not the Sloans. Maybe
23:52
Speaker 1: a lazarro Montes. That's gonna be a really interesting one
23:54
Speaker 1: because teams are going to either love lazarro Montes or
23:58
Speaker 1: because of his skills Thatt hate him. But something along
24:00
Speaker 1: those lines of a prospect, a B prospect, and a
24:04
Speaker 1: C prospect probably gets it done.
24:07
Speaker 2: This is from the two h six watching the handful
24:10
Speaker 2: of cracking games this season and then watching the Stanley
24:14
Speaker 2: Cup finals. The level of hockey these two teams play
24:17
Speaker 2: is just different. Is just a different cut of steak
24:20
Speaker 2: over the Kraken. We'll play with the stake there.
24:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was really good and you're right, like these
24:27
Speaker 1: teams are so much better and so much deeper. But
24:30
Speaker 1: more than anything else, you know, the the Hurricanes are
24:34
Speaker 1: kind of who the Kraken want to be a team
24:36
Speaker 1: of players that are very good but don't really have
24:41
Speaker 1: huge star power. But there's so much quality that it
24:44
Speaker 1: beats to quantity. You have to have a ton of
24:48
Speaker 1: quality in order for it to work. And that's what
24:50
Speaker 1: the Cracking are missing, Like they just don't have that
24:54
Speaker 1: star power that can get you over the top. Right now,
24:57
Speaker 1: this is the most important offseason for the Crack And
24:59
Speaker 1: I know, oh that's an easy thing to say for
25:02
Speaker 1: a team that's only had a few of these. They
25:05
Speaker 1: have to go get that star. They have to go
25:07
Speaker 1: get that Jason Robertson, go get that Dylan Larkin requested
25:12
Speaker 1: to trade. Apparently you have to do everything in your
25:15
Speaker 1: power to go get one of those star players.
25:18
Speaker 2: This is from the three six oh disappointed with what
25:28
Speaker 2: the Manners have four less wins than the team with
25:31
Speaker 2: the most wins in the AL and that team just
25:34
Speaker 2: lost its best player. I'm tired of the pessimistic stuff,
25:39
Speaker 2: but I understand it. We don't have to be sports
25:41
Speaker 2: fans the way the Boomers were.
25:45
Speaker 3: That's okay.
25:47
Speaker 1: I think it's okay to say that thirty three and
25:49
Speaker 1: thirty is not what we were looking forward to. Now.
25:53
Speaker 1: It's far from a predictive record. It's far from a
25:58
Speaker 1: complete indictment from things. But if they would have played
26:01
Speaker 1: okay over the or played to the level that they
26:04
Speaker 1: should have played at to begin the year, and if
26:07
Speaker 1: not for you know, Keith brought it up the Dan
26:10
Speaker 1: Wilson mistakes. This is not just local people talking about
26:13
Speaker 1: Dan Wilson, guys. There is a national conversation about Dan Wilson.
26:18
Speaker 1: If they would have played better, then we're talking about
26:22
Speaker 1: this team running away with the division, and they still might.
26:25
Speaker 1: I would be more surprised if they lost the division
26:30
Speaker 1: than if they won the division by ten games. I
26:32
Speaker 1: think they're going to win this division going away, but
26:35
Speaker 1: I would like to see more consistency. My good buddy teeth,
26:38
Speaker 1: Keith asks how Skeeter, I don't know who Skeeter is. Keith,
26:41
Speaker 1: come on, I don't think that's a real person that
26:44
Speaker 1: I pretend to be sometimes. Skeeter's doing great. He's gonna
26:48
Speaker 1: drink a couple of Natty lights and go watch Project
26:50
Speaker 1: Hill Mary later on tonight.
26:53
Speaker 2: From the four two five. I would rather see the
26:55
Speaker 2: Mariners get a bet than Schooble.
26:58
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I'm not mad at that.
26:59
Speaker 1: I'm mad at that either, and I don't disagree. I
27:03
Speaker 1: don't think that they can't do both. I do believe
27:06
Speaker 1: that the Mariners have a good enough farm system that
27:09
Speaker 1: they can go make moves that they can obviously they
27:13
Speaker 1: can go make moves. Anybody could make moves. But they
27:15
Speaker 1: can go get a bat and also go get a
27:19
Speaker 1: Schooble and also go get a reliever. There's nothing preventing
27:22
Speaker 1: all three from happening. And you don't have to destroy
27:25
Speaker 1: your farm system in order to do that as well.
27:28
Speaker 1: By the way, yes, Jason from the two oh six
27:33
Speaker 1: can't go down two Oho to the Nickson. Thanks, You're welcome.
27:36
Speaker 1: That is my that is my stone cold lock there
27:39
Speaker 1: for you. That it is a bad thing to be
27:42
Speaker 1: down to nothing in a series when you lose home
27:44
Speaker 1: field advantage.
27:46
Speaker 3: This is from the four two five.
27:50
Speaker 2: Okay, absolutely not Mariners need belief pitching, and that's in
27:55
Speaker 2: terms of going after schoolble.
27:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can do both. Like no reliever is gonna
28:01
Speaker 1: cost you. The things that are gonna go get you
28:03
Speaker 1: to Rekschooble, Like you can go get a Rico Garcia.
28:07
Speaker 1: And this is interesting because Jeff Pissan, I always call
28:10
Speaker 1: him Pissan. That's just something I do. Uh had an
28:14
Speaker 1: article where he listed what the Mariners should be looking
28:17
Speaker 1: to get and he had something that said, go get
28:20
Speaker 1: it to Rekschooble, or go get a Rico Garcia, who
28:23
Speaker 1: is a reliever for baltimorow as an era of like
28:25
Speaker 1: zero point five. Right now, you can go do both.
28:29
Speaker 1: There's nothing that prevents you from doing both. The relief market.
28:33
Speaker 1: You do not have to move elite prospects to go
28:35
Speaker 1: get relievers that can help you. Uh four, two five
28:38
Speaker 1: or excuse me, two o six doesn't matter if I
28:40
Speaker 1: want the Ems to get Schoble, because they won't. I'm
28:43
Speaker 1: sure he'll land with the Dodgers. Yankers Yankees are really
28:46
Speaker 1: anyone but Seattle. Sad but true. I mean, I do
28:50
Speaker 1: think he's gonna end up being a Dodger, But I
28:53
Speaker 1: don't think we can criticize what Seattle's done at the
28:55
Speaker 1: I have criticized this organization a lot, what they have
28:58
Speaker 1: done at the deadline, the life last couple of years.
29:00
Speaker 1: I don't think you can criticize You got a Josh Naylor,
29:03
Speaker 1: you got a Randy A Rose Arena, you got an
29:05
Speaker 1: Aohenio Suarez. There's been lots of things that you can
29:09
Speaker 1: complain about. I don't think you can complain about them
29:12
Speaker 1: at the deadline. Speaking of complaining, unfortunately I have to
29:15
Speaker 1: talk to Ian for Nest next Chris Crawford in for
29:20
Speaker 1: Greg Bell. Really appreciate you guys listening. I'm always super
29:24
Speaker 1: honored when I get a chance to do this, and
29:27
Speaker 1: I'm super honored to get to talk to my good
29:29
Speaker 1: buddy who I used to get to talk to all
29:32
Speaker 1: the time, and then I left here and now I
29:37
Speaker 1: get to talk to some young blood. It's nice to
29:41
Speaker 1: talk to some young blood because Ian just doesn't get us.
29:46
Speaker 3: No, he doesn't get us.
29:47
Speaker 1: Andrews, how's it going, buddy good?
29:48
Speaker 3: You don't want to talk to a Canadian anyway?
29:50
Speaker 1: No, go absolutely, I don't have to talk to a Canadian.
29:54
Speaker 1: July sixth, I'll start talking without Canadians give me a
29:57
Speaker 1: couple of days after the fourth of July.
29:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fair.
30:00
Speaker 1: Oh, we had a lot of conversation. I had Keith
30:02
Speaker 1: law on today because that's the only guest who will
30:04
Speaker 1: honestly come on with me anymore. But we had a
30:08
Speaker 1: long conversation about the Mariner farm system. By the way,
30:11
Speaker 1: he thinks the Mariners have the best left handed and
30:14
Speaker 1: right handed pitching prospect in baseball. Wow, in Kate Anderson
30:17
Speaker 1: and Ryan Slope.
30:17
Speaker 4: So how different is that from because I know there's
30:21
Speaker 4: been a few prospect analysts that have said they have
30:25
Speaker 4: the two best pitching projects.
30:27
Speaker 1: I think he has those as the top two. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, no,
30:32
Speaker 1: And I was surprised because I think most people have
30:35
Speaker 1: seth Rnandez higher than Ryan Sloane. Seth Rnandez is a
30:39
Speaker 1: long way to go. He's a teenager where Ryan Sloane
30:41
Speaker 1: is all of twenty years old. He's an old man
30:44
Speaker 1: who's dominating in double just like yes, exactly, But that
30:48
Speaker 1: was really interesting to hear like that he's so enamored
30:52
Speaker 1: with those two guys. And then we had a conversation
30:54
Speaker 1: about to Reek Schooble, because there has been some to
30:58
Speaker 1: Reek Schooble talk and saw it a lot on the
31:00
Speaker 1: Tacoba Dodge text line four nine four five one. By
31:03
Speaker 1: the way, some people are like, why are you talking
31:06
Speaker 1: about trade acquiring starting pitching, like they've already got too
31:09
Speaker 1: many and then you've got these two guys, but Anders, Yeah,
31:13
Speaker 1: I can't help but think about the twenty twenty five
31:16
Speaker 1: postseason and on top of a disastrous decision by the manager.
31:20
Speaker 1: By the way, Keith also said that Dan Wilson is
31:22
Speaker 1: an issue interest which is kind of becoming a thing.
31:26
Speaker 4: Well, that conversation definitely is quieted down in a couple
31:30
Speaker 4: of weeks.
31:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, what happens.
31:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing how that works. But what was interesting
31:37
Speaker 1: was he was also a belong the lines of it
31:42
Speaker 1: just doesn't really make sense for me to go after
31:44
Speaker 1: a two week school ble, like you're not going to
31:47
Speaker 1: be able to get him without giving up so much.
31:51
Speaker 1: I will say, though, I look back at that postseason
31:55
Speaker 1: and one of the reasons why I think the Mariners
31:58
Speaker 1: are not in did not go to that World Series.
32:01
Speaker 1: The starting pitching faltered. Yeah, George Kirby had a couple
32:04
Speaker 1: of clunkers. Locan Gilbert had a clunker, Brian was injured,
32:07
Speaker 1: Brian who was injured. Luis Castillo had a bad start
32:10
Speaker 1: against Toronto, and think about what ter Scuball did for
32:14
Speaker 1: that postseason, Like if not for a terrible decision by
32:17
Speaker 1: aj Hinch, who he if he leaves to rescooble In
32:21
Speaker 1: to pitch that eighth inning? Yah, who knows what we're
32:23
Speaker 1: talking about here?
32:24
Speaker 3: Leo rievas my hero, Louis Leo.
32:26
Speaker 1: Rivas my absolute king. I can't help but think getting
32:32
Speaker 1: an ace like that without having to give up a
32:36
Speaker 1: Kata Anderson or Ryan Sloan because they're gonna ask is
32:39
Speaker 1: something the Seattle Mariner should absolutely be interested.
32:42
Speaker 2: Yeah.
32:42
Speaker 4: And the thing about you know, I realized the thought
32:44
Speaker 4: process behind you know, you won the one, not the one,
32:48
Speaker 4: but one of the areas you feel confident in and
32:50
Speaker 4: do you feel like you have depth in? Is starting
32:52
Speaker 4: pitching and then going and acquiring another starting pitcher would
32:56
Speaker 4: feel a little redundant. But I kind of counter that
32:59
Speaker 4: with this, Yes, you feel like you have six guys
33:02
Speaker 4: or the Mariners at least feel like they have six
33:04
Speaker 4: guys that are capable starting pitchers. But do they have
33:08
Speaker 4: an ace? Do they have?
33:09
Speaker 1: They don't think they do.
33:10
Speaker 3: I don't either.
33:11
Speaker 4: Do they have that one guy that you can show
33:14
Speaker 4: in in a in a must win game and know
33:18
Speaker 4: that he's going to absolutely shove on any lineup in
33:22
Speaker 4: the league. And you know, I like Brian Wu. He's
33:26
Speaker 4: my first He's my first choice right now. But there's
33:30
Speaker 4: a difference between Brian Wu and a Terrek schoobl Right,
33:34
Speaker 4: So yeah, and that I think is what you would
33:37
Speaker 4: be acquiring, and in my eyes, the Mariners wouldn't. It's
33:41
Speaker 4: a complicated question with Schooble because I think they would
33:44
Speaker 4: be acquiring him just for this year, they would not
33:46
Speaker 4: be extending him. And then you kind of go to
33:51
Speaker 4: the question of, all right, what are you going to
33:53
Speaker 4: give up for basically a rental to go all in
33:56
Speaker 4: for this year? And to me, the first name that
34:00
Speaker 4: comes to my mind is Logan Gilbert. Interesting, So in
34:04
Speaker 4: my eyes, the Mariners are not going to extend both
34:07
Speaker 4: of Logan Gilbert and George Kirby, probably just one of those.
34:11
Speaker 4: And you know, you can kind of quote unquote make
34:15
Speaker 4: a decision and be like, all right, I'll give you
34:18
Speaker 4: a year and a half of Logan Gilbert for a
34:20
Speaker 4: half a.
34:21
Speaker 3: Year of terror School.
34:22
Speaker 4: Interesting, And then you extend Kirby at that point, that's
34:25
Speaker 4: the easiest. I think you're you're kind of giving up
34:28
Speaker 4: more time, but to get a higher ceiling guy to
34:31
Speaker 4: go all in on this year. And I like Logan,
34:33
Speaker 4: He's you know, had a little bit of an up
34:35
Speaker 4: and down year this year. But I feel like that
34:39
Speaker 4: makes the most sense. If you could throw in maybe
34:41
Speaker 4: a Logan Gilbert and maybe a Felm and Celliston or something,
34:44
Speaker 4: that'd be possibly getting the Tigers to finangle with you
34:49
Speaker 4: a little bit.
34:50
Speaker 1: I think it's possible. I still just unfortunately the Dodgers
34:53
Speaker 1: can just do whatever the hell they want, and I
34:55
Speaker 1: think the Dodgers will do whatever the hell they want
34:57
Speaker 1: and end up getting him. Think again. In the morning,
35:01
Speaker 1: had Cody steven Hagen of The Athletic on, and he
35:04
Speaker 1: seems pretty convinced that the Tigers aren't going to move
35:07
Speaker 1: Schooble unless they absolutely have to. Sure, and because the
35:11
Speaker 1: American League is ten pounds of crap in a five
35:14
Speaker 1: pounds it is waiting for it because it is so bad.
35:20
Speaker 1: You bet your sweet they're only like four games back
35:24
Speaker 1: of a wild card spot, and you're going to get
35:26
Speaker 1: Scoogle healthy. They I get it. I still think at
35:29
Speaker 1: the end of the day, because of how Detroit operates, Yep,
35:32
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna end up moving him real quick.
35:35
Speaker 3: Soccer guy, Oh, soccer guy here.
35:37
Speaker 1: World Cup coming up?
35:38
Speaker 3: World Cup coming up. I would love to hear.
35:41
Speaker 1: Something positive about this World Cup at some point. Well
35:48
Speaker 1: it's not, no, it's it's man, just every single update
35:52
Speaker 1: I get on this thing is about tickets that were
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Speaker 1: supposed to be paid for that we're freeing. Now they're
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Speaker 1: going to charge people for And I just it seems
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Speaker 1: like and it sucks because I'm so excited for the event.
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Speaker 1: It is my favorite sporting event bar none the World Cup.
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Speaker 1: It is, yeah, the NCAA tournament, NFL Draft, and I
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Speaker 1: know that's a weird comparison, but those are two of
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Speaker 1: my favorite. But I just like, I completely zone out
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Speaker 1: for the World Cup. I feel like we're not getting
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Speaker 1: to quote what the kids used to say, Hyphie enough
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Speaker 1: for this World Cup. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I mentioned this a little bit with Ian yesterday, and
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Speaker 4: I get that vibe as well, at least in the
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Speaker 4: general American public. I think maybe I'm entrenched in the
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Speaker 4: soccer public, the world soccer public, a little bit more
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Speaker 4: than the average American sports fan, and I can tell
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Speaker 4: you that that is not the case. It is definitely
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Speaker 4: hiphie so to speak at this point. But I understand
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Speaker 4: the thought process behind. Maybe we're a little too close
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Speaker 4: to it because everything is involved with us in our
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Speaker 4: stadium and our city and our country and all that
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Speaker 4: kind of stuff, and these same things would be happening
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Speaker 4: in any other World Cup year. It's just we didn't
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Speaker 4: have as close of a you know, feeling towards it. So,
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Speaker 4: just like almost any other of the year, once the
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Speaker 4: games start, everything will go quiet. It's like, God, I
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Speaker 4: forget where I got this reference. But you know, if
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Speaker 4: you've ever watched fireworks with your family, yes, and you
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Speaker 4: know the Fourth of July can be kind of crazy,
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Speaker 4: lots of sugar going on with kids and then arguing
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Speaker 4: about stuff going on, like and then once the fireworks
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Speaker 4: start going, everyone shuts up and they just watch the fireworks.
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Speaker 4: That's kind of what I feel like the World Cup
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Speaker 4: is gonna is gonna be, like.
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Speaker 1: I feel that way about a lot of things. By
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Speaker 1: the way, everyone real quick, go check out the photo
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Speaker 1: that Norway took for there. It's just so freaking good.
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Speaker 3: The Vikings, it's so good.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of freaking good, what is Ian Fornas, who is
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Speaker 1: usually pretty freaking.
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Speaker 4: Good today, Well, he's good at you know, making us
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Speaker 4: do another segment if you don't mind, Yeah, for the
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Speaker 4: top of the twelve o'clock hour where they're still trying
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Speaker 4: to kind of figure some connections out here and there.
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Speaker 4: But uh so you and I will get to chat
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Speaker 4: a little bit during the first segment. We're gonna talk
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Speaker 4: to Danny O'Neill, We're gonna talk to Corbyn Smith. We
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Speaker 4: might hear a little bit from Hugh Millan because we
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Speaker 4: had him on earlier in the week, but it was
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Speaker 4: during a Mariner's game. We all know, you know, things
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Speaker 4: go on. You're you're a big Mariner fan. You may
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Speaker 4: not have heard what hum Millen had to say about
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Speaker 4: the MLB CBA because he was a player rep for
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Speaker 4: the NFL during his time there, so he has a
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Speaker 4: very different perspective than I think a lot of people
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Speaker 4: would normally have. And you know, you get normal baseball
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Speaker 4: media guy and then you get a regular baseball fan,
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Speaker 4: and then you know, those can be very different sides
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Speaker 4: of the of the coin. So we're gonna hear a
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Speaker 4: little bit from Hum milling there, and then he had
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Speaker 4: a lot to say about Miles Garrett Raid to the
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Speaker 4: Rams as well, So you know, he breaks things down
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Speaker 4: unlike anyone else can. So we'll hear a little bit
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Speaker 4: from him, and then you know, we'll kind of sail
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Speaker 4: off into the sunset and into my last honestly, my
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Speaker 4: last true weekend for over a month man because of
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Speaker 4: the World Cup.
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Speaker 1: Well, we'll talk about all of that more coming up next.
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Speaker 1: Sports Rader in ninety three point three KJRFM