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Hour 2 - No Apple For You · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Knock, knock, who's there? That would be our number two.
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  Speaker 1: Our number two is ready for you as we big
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  Speaker 1: guile your mind with hot takes.
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  Speaker 2: On this Thursday and an hour two.
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  Speaker 1: Five teams denied denied permission to New York.
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  Speaker 2: And they tried to hire the Knicks.
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  Speaker 1: We're putting out feelers trying to hire various coaches around
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. So what have we learned about the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: since the coaching change? And all these teams saying, and
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  Speaker 1: you can't talk to our coach. Also, former Knicks coach
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  Speaker 1: Tom Thibodeau took out a full page ad in.
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  Speaker 2: The New York Times to thank fans. How does that
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  Speaker 2: one hit you?
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  Speaker 1: And Adam Silver says ESPN has always been more about
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  Speaker 1: hardcore basketball than TNT, implying that this is a positive.
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  Speaker 1: Do you agree or disagree? We'll talk about that as well.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, all is well and good. Here it is
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  Speaker 1: the high falutin our number two. Let's say it's the
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  Speaker 1: Big Apple. If you can make it there, you can
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  Speaker 1: make it anywhere. But what if you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: work there?
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  Speaker 2: What happens? Then?
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  Speaker 1: Is this a good story? So Big Apple Blues, Big
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  Speaker 1: Apple Blues the headline Big Apple Blues on this one,
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  Speaker 1: and our lead from from Gotham. As the Pacers and
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  Speaker 1: Thunder played a barnburder.
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  Speaker 2: In the NBA Finals and Indiana winning that game.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks getting wacky for the team that the Pacers beat
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  Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference Finals. Now, if you have not heard,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not, the New York Knicks have now been denied
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  Speaker 1: permission to speak with Chicago Bulls head coach Billy Donovan
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  Speaker 1: about the head coaching job in Gotham.
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  Speaker 2: And if that sounds familiar, it should.
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  Speaker 1: We have learned now the Knickerbockers have been rejected by everyone.
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  Speaker 2: By everyone.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the coaches include Jason Kidd, Chris Finch, Quinn
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  Speaker 1: Snyder in Atlanta, Billy Donovan. As we mentioned Emi Udoka,
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  Speaker 1: They've all said we want no part in that. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I even rejected the Knicks. They contacted me. They said, no,
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  Speaker 1: my brother lives there. I don't want to live there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: So let us discuss the.
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  Speaker 1: Question, what have we learned about the New York Knicks
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  Speaker 1: with this episode playing out the last forty eight hours,
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  Speaker 1: that they have been turned down by everyone since they
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  Speaker 1: made the coaching change.
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  Speaker 2: What have we learned about the Knicks?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got fund zone, bonfire and supply chain shortage,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make some thin cut pastrami, which
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  Speaker 1: is really the perfect way to eat pastrami, that thin cut,
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  Speaker 1: nice sandwich. A couple slices of bread there, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So numb bur I said, numb bur.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. What we have learned about.
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  Speaker 1: The Knick since the coaching change that the move to
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  Speaker 1: fire Tom Thibodeau was a knee jerk reaction, as we
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  Speaker 1: anticipated it was at the time by James Dolan. This
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  Speaker 1: was owner rage, embarrassed by losing to the upstart Pacers,
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  Speaker 1: so he skipped the cooling off period the Knickerbocker owner
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  Speaker 1: and sent Tom Thibodeau to the coaching electric chair and said, begun, Tims, begun.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this was not supposed to happen. This was not
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  Speaker 2: part of that.
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  Speaker 1: How do we know that in the big industrial complex
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  Speaker 1: professional sports, the way it works is and it also
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  Speaker 1: works like this in radio. When you get rid of someone,
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  Speaker 1: you already have the replacement ready to go. It's all semantics.
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  Speaker 1: You already have the person to replace the coach ready
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  Speaker 1: to go. It never works this way. It's not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to work this way. And now James Dolan, the owner
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  Speaker 1: of the New York Knickerbockers, finds himself in a fund
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  Speaker 1: zone called the Puzzling World. Now this amusement park, come one,
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  Speaker 1: come all fun for all ages. Only one ride. Though
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  Speaker 1: the ride is amazed. You're stuck in a maze. There
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  Speaker 1: is no exit, just to some twists and turns and
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of confusion. That is the Puzzling World,
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  Speaker 1: the fund zone of the New York Knickerbockers. How many
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  Speaker 1: coaching rejections does it take for the Knicks franchise to
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  Speaker 1: get the message that they are painfully out of touch
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  Speaker 1: and it's not a great job and people don't want
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  Speaker 1: to go there because if you are keeping score at
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  Speaker 1: home or at work, or wherever you might be, they
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  Speaker 1: have now been told no by Jason Kidd of the Mavericks,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Finch in Minnesota, Quinn Snyder in Atlanta, Billy Donovan
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago, and e May Udoka in Houston. That is
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  Speaker 1: the Big five, A five pack of denials, a five
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  Speaker 1: piece nugget, five doors slam shut, thanks but no thanks. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I did some mallard back of the Napkin math. I
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  Speaker 1: believe I'm right on this. So let's do it out.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do the algebra, we'll play it out.
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  Speaker 2: Right now.
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  Speaker 1: So if you take away the Sons, the Grizzlies, and
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  Speaker 1: the Nuggets, who all just hired coaches, so why would
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  Speaker 1: they let their coach leave. So the Sons, the Grizzlies,
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  Speaker 1: and Nuggets just hired their coaches. You'd also take away
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  Speaker 1: the Pacers and Thunder because their coaches are in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals. You then, of course take the Knicks off
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  Speaker 1: because they're the team looking for the coach.
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  Speaker 2: So there's thirty teams originally in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: So I just eliminated by my math, there eliminated the Sons,
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  Speaker 1: the Grizzlies, and the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 2: That's three, the Pacers.
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  Speaker 1: In Thunder that's five, and then I also eliminated the Knicks,
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  Speaker 1: so that's six. So there's twenty four other teams available,
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  Speaker 1: and the math is like twenty percent. Twenty percent of
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  Speaker 1: the available coaches have rejected rejected the Knickerbockers, and so
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks it's like an old school telemarketing thing. The
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  Speaker 1: Knickerbockers are now so clueless they are cold calling coaches.
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  Speaker 2: It's like hello, Jason Kidd, Yeah, Hey Jay, Jason. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is James Dolan, owner of the New York Knicks,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing today? Okay, good? How's the family? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, if I could show you a way to coach
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  Speaker 1: the Knickerbockers at the Mecca, would you be interested in
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  Speaker 1: learning more about the Knicks coaching job.
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  Speaker 2: Click? Yeah, that's what it's like.
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  Speaker 1: The Knicks, fancy themselves is a world class destination, right,
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  Speaker 1: premiere franchise, Big City, my most famous arena, world's most
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  Speaker 1: famous arena. However, five of the successful coaches, some of
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  Speaker 1: them are even not that successful, have said no, and
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  Speaker 1: make no mistake, Well, the teams have denied it, and
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks will say, well, the teams didn't want the
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  Speaker 1: coach to go. Knowing the way this works, if Jason
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  Speaker 1: kids like I don't want to coach the Mavericks, I
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  Speaker 1: want to coach the Knicks, the Mavericks will say, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want to coach that doesn't want to be here,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll work something out with the Knicks. It's on
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  Speaker 1: the coach. If the coach does not want the job,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. But if the one of these guys, the
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  Speaker 1: five emai Udoka, I don't know why he'd want the job,
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  Speaker 1: but he's in Houston.
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  Speaker 2: They got a young team.
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  Speaker 1: That's on the comments they say in gambling, and so
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  Speaker 1: he's like, hey, maybe I want to go to New York.
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  Speaker 1: I got you know, some actress I want to hook
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  Speaker 1: up with the or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. So he said, okay, well the Rockets
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  Speaker 2: will work out of trade. But he didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: do that. So here we are. Here we are no oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: Interest in the franchise has been a factory of dysfunction
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  Speaker 1: for decades. And the Knicks walk around like they've got
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  Speaker 1: all this machismo and they've got all this pull and
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  Speaker 1: yet they just bathed in dirty water. Those dirty water dogs,
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  Speaker 1: That's what they bathed. Meanwhile, the team's rejecting them, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: the next thing, they must show up to these meetings
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  Speaker 1: with like a dunce cap on. At this point, right,
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  Speaker 1: they just laughed at laughed out of the room every
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  Speaker 1: single time. Not one of these coaches wanted the number
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  Speaker 1: one media market in America. They all said, I'm good. Embarrassing,
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  Speaker 1: capitally capitally embarrassing. And see James Dolan being rejected more
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  Speaker 1: than a college applicant fresh out of college who sent
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  Speaker 1: their their resume around. They're applied for jobs and they
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  Speaker 1: misspelled their own name on the application, right, It's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's that person is probably not a person to hire.
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  Speaker 1: And now now they're searching at the discount rack. They
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  Speaker 1: can hire some cheap, upstart assistant coach you've never heard of.
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  Speaker 2: And the Knicks, if.
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  Speaker 1: You're a championship contender, you don't normally hire a starter coach.
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  Speaker 1: And the available coaches you have to go now to
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  Speaker 1: unemployed coaches. Michael Malone of the Nuggets, late of the Nuggets,
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Jenkins, he's out there.
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  Speaker 2: Frank Vogel, who's coached a bunch of teams. He's a
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  Speaker 2: vagabond coach. And so the Knicks is just like, well,
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  Speaker 2: we got to fake it till we make it.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, now, speaking of the Knicks and former
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  Speaker 1: Nick coaches, page number two here as we move on,
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  Speaker 1: former Nick coach Tom Thibodeau taking a full page ad
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  Speaker 1: out in the New York Times the Old Gray Lady
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  Speaker 1: to thank the fans. So, how does that one hit you?
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  Speaker 1: Tibbs taking out a full page ad? How does that
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  Speaker 1: one hit you? So it hits me like a bonfire,
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  Speaker 1: a full page ad. And then I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe I'm in like some kind of parallel dimension,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going back into I said, is it really
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: No, I can't be twenty twenty five. Like, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's nineteen ninety seven. You wake up, you grab your
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  Speaker 1: cup of coffee, you flip through the newspaper. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to be the year nineteen ninety seven. It can't be
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. And then I was like, well, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: You talk about having a.
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  Speaker 1: Beachside bonfire with Chris banknotes. If you're Tom Thibodeau, let's
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  Speaker 1: do some malor math on this. So full page ad
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  Speaker 1: New York Times at least one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm wrong on that, at least one
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  Speaker 1: hundred fifty thousand dollars, probably more.
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  Speaker 2: Probably more. I'm probably I'm probably going low.
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  Speaker 1: And for what a one page ad with a photo
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  Speaker 1: to say thank you, a update, Hey, Tommy, coach Tibbs.
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  Speaker 1: You could have just sent that out on social media
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  Speaker 1: and saved yourself one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're rich and James Dolan's gonna pay you
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of money out, but you.
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  Speaker 1: Still you could have recorded a thirty second video and
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  Speaker 1: posted it on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: It's been great. Thanks, it's been fun, But I gotta run.
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  Speaker 1: But no, no, no, no no, TIBs had that old
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  Speaker 1: school Yeah, I'm a dinosaur.
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  Speaker 2: I'm an old head, as the kid say.
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  Speaker 1: And you want to make sure every one of those
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  Speaker 1: woke retirees in New York and across the country that
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  Speaker 1: read the New York Times they saw his heart felt
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  Speaker 1: farewell right while reading what the stock market and then
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  Speaker 1: they read the obits, see who died? Good luck, good
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  Speaker 1: luck on that. But yeah, get the classy move, coach, TIBs,
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  Speaker 1: way to go. And that's one of those things that
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  Speaker 1: should be completely gone, but is not. The full page
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  Speaker 1: newspaper ad when a star player gets traded or a
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  Speaker 1: coach loses his job, and for some odd reason it continues.
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  Speaker 1: It's very bizarre. It's very bizarre. But if you're actually honest,
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  Speaker 1: complete waste of money, complete waste of money, should have
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  Speaker 1: spent that money on overnight talk radio advertising.
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  Speaker 2: That would have been a better use of that money.
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  Speaker 2: All right, now, final point.
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  Speaker 1: So Adam Silver, the Lizard person Commissioner of the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: My opinion, so Adam Silver Royalty. He did an interview
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  Speaker 2: this week.
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  Speaker 1: He did a bunch of interviews, but he said that
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  Speaker 1: that ESPN has always been more hardcore basketball than TNT.
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  Speaker 1: Now the implication that that is a positive thing. Like
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  Speaker 1: the way that I interpreted what Silver said was that, hey,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good thing. They're hardcore basketball and TNT is
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  Speaker 1: no longer going to be in business with the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: but they were more a bunch of goofs. Do you
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  Speaker 1: agree or disagree with the premise of Adam Silver that
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  Speaker 1: it's actually a good thing to be more hardcore basketball
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to the coverage that TNT provided. So my
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  Speaker 1: thought on this, I wrote down one word here and
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  Speaker 1: I wrote down the word. It starts with an M
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  Speaker 1: capitol M malarkey. This is malarkey. ESPN's coverage blows. I
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  Speaker 1: can't watch the Finals with the audio up ninety percent
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  Speaker 1: of the time because.
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  Speaker 2: Of Doris Burk. She's unlistenable.
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  Speaker 1: I can't watch the halftime because it's terrible. TNT wiped
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  Speaker 1: the floor with ESPN when it comes to basketball coverage,
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  Speaker 1: and the reason why is the very thing that Adam
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  Speaker 1: Silver referenced as a positive for them at ESPN as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to TNT.
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  Speaker 2: And the issue is this, I'll tell you why.
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  Speaker 1: There's a supply chain shortage of hardcore basketball fans.
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  Speaker 2: And Adam Silver is learning that as.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA Finals go on and fewer and fewer and
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  Speaker 1: fewer people are watching every one of these games, he's
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  Speaker 1: learning that the hardcore basketball fan it might exist in
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  Speaker 1: corners of social media. Yeah, with all due respect, I
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  Speaker 1: think some of that's just bots and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fake accounts. There are some people I've talked to them
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  Speaker 1: who are hard oh basketball people, and they love the
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  Speaker 1: nerd stats and all that. The issue though, is that
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  Speaker 1: the flotsam and jetsam do not want to be lectured
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  Speaker 1: on x's and o's.
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  Speaker 2: It is, after all, when everything is said and done, a.
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  Speaker 1: TV show and it's supposed to be entertaining, and TNT
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  Speaker 1: always nailed that, and they're done.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Charles Barkley, he'll suppose to do stuff at ESPN, will
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  Speaker 1: see how that goes. But Barkley is the ring master
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  Speaker 1: of the circus of fund He just is.
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  Speaker 2: He's the ring master.
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  Speaker 1: He's personable, silly, charming, debonair goofy, he's the life of
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  Speaker 1: the party.
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  Speaker 2: All those things, all those things.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA product on court often sucks, It just does.
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  Speaker 1: It's the stuff on the periphery that is more interesting
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  Speaker 1: than the actual product on the court. And you can
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  Speaker 1: say that's not right, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Wrong, blah blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: That's the real world. Okay, that's not the let's sugarcoat it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way it is. The peripheral stuff is more interesting.
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  Speaker 1: The off court drama, the front court speculation, the trade rumors,
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  Speaker 1: the debates, yapping about legacies.
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  Speaker 2: And all that.
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  Speaker 1: What generations The great fans are not tuning in because
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  Speaker 1: they care about hardcore basketball. And if Adam Silver, I
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  Speaker 1: think he's lying when he says it, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he deep down he knows.
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  Speaker 2: That's the case.
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  Speaker 1: They're turning in for a sporty soap opera that is
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  Speaker 1: packaged as basketball. They're not tuning in to hear Doris
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  Speaker 1: Burke break down the x's and o's in an NBA game.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want to hear about that. They'd like to
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  Speaker 1: hear Charles Barkley bust balls. That's what they would like
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  Speaker 1: to hear. That's why they would like to tune in period,
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  Speaker 1: hard stop. That's the way that it is. It is
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  Speaker 1: of the show, I'd give out the number, but I'm
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: not going to do that. There's a reason I'm not
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: going to do that. But you can also reach out
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: on the X machine. That's right on X at Ben
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Mahlor that's at Ben Malor in Solut Lorena at FSR
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Tech Queen and Cooper Loop at a Bronco fan. Your
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: comments can and will be used against you in the
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: court of sports radio. So act accordingly and now back
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: to it all.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Right back there we go and.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Developing story, breaking news, breaking news on the Overnight show here.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Nobody else has this. We're the only show that has
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: this that we understand. I was getting some email during
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the day. The people were saying.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Hey, you get emails.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm old school, and people were sending me
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: message They're like, hey, I tried calling last night.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: You gave out the number, and it like didn't go through.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I kept calling and it wasn't busy, but it was
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: like it would ring and then it would something was
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: messed up. So normally I'll get those and it's somebody
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: it's user error. Usually, you know, use your error. Somebody
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: doesn't know how to dial the phone, or too drunk
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: or whatever.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: They're not an out.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: But when you get three or four of those, that
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: tells you that it's not an isolated incident of someone
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: that just doesn't know how to dial. Make sense user error.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: That tells you there's actually something wrong with the phone.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: So we think there is something yet again wrong with
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the phone.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: That is that accurate?
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Would that be an accurate way of describing what's going
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: on here, that the phones are not like.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: One line working or something like that.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure what's going on because I was getting
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: DMS from blind Scott saying.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, blind Scott must be he must need therapy. He
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: can't get through. Holy crab.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: He did get through, So I thought it was a
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Verizon issue because he has Verizon.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: We have Verizon. I tried getting through. I couldn't, but
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: he said he got through on his seventy fifth try.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: So no one's go other than blind Scott, no one's
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: gonna spend seventy five calls to get through? What could
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: that possibly be? Did they not pay the phone billy?
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: What would that be?
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: So I guess only a couple of lines are working,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: or you have to call seventy five times to get through. Yeah, listen,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I like the show. I work on the show. I
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: wouldn't call the show seventy five times to get through, Okay,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: After we take the couple calls that we have on hold,
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: I can try rebooting the system here on our end
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: and see if that does anything.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: To do a full network reboot, that'll be exciting, absolutely.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Okay. So that's the situation we're dealing with you.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: That's a little bit of turbulence, and it's a call
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: in talk radio show with no calls, but we always.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Prepare enough not to take calls.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Now, there are a couple of people that got through,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: and one of those people is E Dog who's.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: On Long Island. Hello, E Dog?
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Is it true, E Dog, that you will be coaching
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the Knicks next season?
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Is that accurate?
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: I did get an opportunity to coach coach study for college,
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: but I would like to coach the next one there?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure you would, okay? And and are you willing
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: to take the league minimum?
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: I'll be able to take a shekel?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Do so, just two shekels and you're good to go.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, give me to give me to shekels and a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: falafel falafel August, but not mats of all soup.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: You don't need mons of all soup.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: What's it?
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: You don't want mons of a soup?
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: Okay?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Now, no good filter fish, that's you gotta get paid more.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: If the field fish is disgusting, you don't want that.
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: I gotta answer your question. And here it is. You
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: know about Billy Donovan for the Bulls?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: What about him?
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: Well, I dated a girl named Linda Donovan when I
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: was in Queens and I want to know if she's
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: related to him.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Why don't you ask her?
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: Because that on data?
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: No more.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's on social media. You can find her. You
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: can track her down center.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: I look at her.
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: Fucker.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Come on, Ben, Well, I'm saying stalker. Just say it's
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: not stalking. If you say I got a question you
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: related to Billy don What am I?
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: How?
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: How else am I to answer that question? He dogged.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: What kind of question is that? How dare you eat
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: dogged me?
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: Lizath, You don't call out the coach of the Paces. Okay,
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: I think he's I'm not the owner, but they should
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: give him a big contract extension for what he did
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: this year.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: That's a hot take. Nobody else has that take.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: So you think a coach that got the Pacers to
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the finals and his two wins away from the championship
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: deserves a contract.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: They're gonna win. I get.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: But you I thought you were a Bulls fan. The
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Pacers are a rival of the Bulls. Why would you
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: pull out Pacers?
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: I like the Pacers because I like what you know.
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: And uh, by the way, I have a Deon sand
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: this jersey. I picked them from the cleaner last night.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Soose congratulations.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Now let's try to guess what team Deon Sanders was
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: playing for, because he played for a lot of teams.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Most famous league. I have now a whole on sec.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Don't ruin my game, Do not ruin my game. Okay, Well, we're.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Gonna try to guess what jersey e dog has of
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Deon san Now he's played for the Atlanta Falcons, played
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys, forty nine ers, and Ravens. I
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: think that's it, but maybe he played with somebody else.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say that you have. I'm gonna go
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: with a Dallas cowboy, Dion Sanders, Jersey, anyone else.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Went in on this, anyone I wanted to guess Cowboys too,
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Bet you care if you want?
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: All right, go ahead, yes, big cowboy fan Cowboys?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, and uh.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Cool for forty nine ers.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: All right, reveal answers.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: He dog don't believe it, guys.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: You're supposed to reveal it at the end of the Yes.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, you don't say hello like you're confused.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: All right, guess what.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: Guess what the answer was?
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Guys, we already guessed.
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: None of them is right Falcons.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Ah, that's a bad job by you.
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: Anyway. How about this line the swarming Indy all the way?
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Now?
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: My dad, now, Ben, my dad is a nice guy.
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: He has a little bit of a schecho on him.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: He's an nice person and everything. And he told me
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: a way to get money.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got you got a way to make a
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: little side hustle, make some money. Hey, I got one
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: of my buddies, big radio guy, he's uh he's on
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the East coast. He's in Maryland, and he thinks you're
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the worst call on the show.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: Your thoughts, Well, you must think I'm the best call
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: because you take my clothes, which I appreciate.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Well, it's a call in show. You call in and
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I take your call. This guy, he's a big radio guy.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: He knows a lot of very important people. He listens
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: to the show overnight. He said, make it stop with
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: these e dog calls. Your thoughts.
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: That's ridiculous because I don't know this guy, but he's
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: a little crazy because according to the uh, you know,
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: the regiment here, I'm one of the best. Goal as
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: ever was how.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Did you get through though the phones are not working
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: and you got through.
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: Had connections.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I gotta go with.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Thank you, thank god. I have two comments. First of all,
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: he mentioned his dad.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: He always mentions a relative away.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: I'm confused because he sounds like he's like seventy five
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: years old. How old dog? Yeah, I thought he was
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: like an old man.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: No, he's got that like New York twang to him.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: He always sound older. When you get that.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: New York accent thing, you sound a little older than
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: you are. I think he's probably around my age, which
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: is old. But I don't think he's in his seventies.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, he's probably in his forties, you know, something like
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: little you're little younger than me.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: My dad is in his seventies.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, good for your dad. Does your dad sound young?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Or does your dad?
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Does your dad sound old? You don't even notice, don't.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I don't think most people notice, like people's voices changing
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and things like that.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: That's true. He sounds the same to me.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, because your dad, that's who you know.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: So you didn't see your parents get a little older,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: things get a little slower. That's a little that's a
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: weird you know. Let's go to Blind Scott. He's got
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: more in this developing story. The phone system here at
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio having some hiccups.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Hello Blind Scott on the North end of Boston.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: Oh my god, Ben, Like, I don't feel good at
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: all right now. The past hour, in twenty minutes, I've
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: been trying to call this show. I didn't want to.
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: I didn't want to spend nothing.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: You spent an hour and twenty minutes strting to call
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the show.
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: Oh my god, life is short.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: What are you doing? Dude?
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: You just go call the police. I called the police station,
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: I called my mom, I called Horizon. I thought the
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: communication systems in America were down. I was gonna email
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: you and tell you about it, but I didn't want
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: to because I don't like it when you guys all
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: don't get along, you know, and I know what's going
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: on in the studio. Time to know the dynamic of
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: the studio. So I didn't want to email you because
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: I didn't want to know. But I really just don't
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: feel good right now about what's going on, Like I
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: don't feel safe. I couldn't get through to the show.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: I have no idea what the what's been talked about
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: because I've been down on the phone non stuff. You know,
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: it's really put me into.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: It like stressed out.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: First of all, First of all, when you're not listening,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: we don't do the show.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: We only do the show for you. You're the only
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: one we do the show for.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: So when you're not listening, we just don't talk. We
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: just have dead air. It's just radio silence. That's all
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: we have.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: We don't do anything. We just wait for you to
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: listen and then we do the show.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: So you can call it now I'm proud of you
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: because you haven't mentioned Fred Toucher's name the last few times.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: Oh no, Fred's been on vacation for like three days.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Oh that's why. There you go. So that explains why call.
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: Then me and Fredwick spots to change phone numbers. So
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: the rule is now he can just call me on
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: a Star sixty seven number, Like I already have his
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: phone number, but I can't just call it, you know
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: what I mean. I found it on the internet. You know,
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: he needs to say it's all right, you know what
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: I'm saying.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: But you don't have my number though you don't mind him?
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: No, I mean, I bet maybe I could find I
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: could do a deep dive, but you know, it's a
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: lot of work to do deep dives, you know. But
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: I mean, I know I know everything about you, Ben,
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: except for like I couldn't crack some of the stuff
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: with your personal relationships because when I met your wife,
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: she stonewalled me, like completely with any type of personal question.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: I asked her.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: She completely, Yeah, because you give me you're a stalker.
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I love these for you guys like that
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: guy from Maryland. I'm actually interested in this guy. Finally,
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: I've heard a lot about him. Does you take calls
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: on his show? You know, I'm really getting into.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: This who's your who's your bill? Rights?
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: And he says, hey, blind Scott, why don't why don't
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: you just text or call the show? How about that
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: is our text rather than call the show?
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: That's so, who's your bill?
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: Who am I going to? Tex I'm not texting anybody.
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: You ever seen what it's like to get text messages
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: from me? Dude? It's crazy, woman.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I know you send me, you send me email like
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: text message. You'll send me email with like one line
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: in it.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so you get it automatically because you see it.
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: Somebody said that they had to teach me that to
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: do that, but I taught myself that, you know, I
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: should get emails. I'm emailing with politicians being like oh Jesus,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: like there's an election come up, and like emailing them
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: what I think, all the tips, and then they're responding
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: to me going like these are great suggestions, and then
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: you never hear back from and then the election passes,
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: and then I never vote or anything. You know what
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: I mean?
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: You don't even vote. You're you're they're trying to get you.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: To vote and you don't vote, why would you vote?
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: I do, I do vote, but I took the mail
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: mail home ballot. The problem with the mail home ballot
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: is they can't verify your signature if you're blind. And
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: then like im so I emailed the voting people. They're
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: trying to disenfranchise blind voters. You know what I mean.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: It's a big issue in America, the blind voter. Clearly.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: Well, it's the thing like if they want to verify
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: fake fignatures if you're blind, not I use a stamps,
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: you know, so they're gonna they could obviously do the
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: French bout, he said, But that doesn't matter. What matters
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: is I do not feel okay right now?
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Well listen, I play on holding. I'll
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: put you I'll put you on hold, drug jet or anything.
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: Usually I do drugs and to all right.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I'll put you on hold. I will likely not go
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: back to you, but I will put you on hold.
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: Well, when I reset the phone system, it's going to
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: get get yeah.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that'll be good because once we reset the
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: phone system, then it'll open it up for everyone to
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: help be able to call in.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: It'll fix the gremlins.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: That are in there because we're like the only show
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: that takes calls.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I think, I don't know, as far as I know,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: they're not many.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: So if we're we're the only ones that really take calls,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: then like we're the only ones that could reset.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: The phone system. Yeah, there you go. All right, it
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we are working away.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Through the over night hours, and there is a brew
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: haha in the Pacific Northwest, a Hall of famer going
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: on a rant for the Ages, the Big Unit. Randy
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Johnson on him. He's sixty one years old, he's got
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: that old guy anger going, and he ripped the former
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Seattle Mariners executive.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: And if you saw this or not, he did an
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: interview this week.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I just just saw it and he took a shot
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: at and I guess it was on television broadcast of
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: a Mariner diamondback game. Randy Johnson stopped by and unloaded
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: on a guy named Howard Lincoln, who was a Weasley
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: executive for the Seattle Mariners whose job was to keep
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the costs down in Seattle. Randy Johnson the money quote says,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: I think if they meeting, the Mariners were expecting me
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: to go in as a Seattle Mariner in the Hall
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: of Fame, then why didn't?
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: And he named the executive Howard Lincoln.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Circle back, at some point when I retired, Randy Johnson
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: said to make me feel like, you know, my ten
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: years and contributions there, especially in nineteen ninety five when
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I won the Saya and blah blah bah, give all
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: his stats. I just feel like under his leadership the
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: ten years my contributions were swept under the rug.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Boohoo hoo.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Now this guy Lincoln is a former Nintendo executive and
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: he ran the Mariners for a number of years and
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: he's out. He's been gone from that job for nine
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: nine years.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: I assume he's still around.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but Johnson still holding a crutch and
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: a couple of thoughts. First of all, I love the.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Fact that he's upset the Mariners did not kiss his ass.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: I think that's great.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: And Randy Johnson is one of those guys who's like
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: when he played Everyone's a hole, Everyone's a hole, good
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: pitcher a hole.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: That's what they said about Randy Johnson.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: And the thing about Johnson, I remember he was going
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  Speaker 1: was covering the team. I was inside like at that time,
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  Speaker 2: He had been traded from the Mariners.
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  Speaker 2: They hadn't really renovated it. It was a just.
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  Speaker 2: In the modern era, Blank.
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  Speaker 1: The New York Yankees, who roasted the Royals in a
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  Speaker 2: Blank is the only.
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  Speaker 4: Kirk Cousins seems to be coming to terms with the
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  Speaker 4: fact that he has no longer started in the league,
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  Speaker 4: telling reporters on Tuesday, I'm not gonna dwell on things
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  Speaker 4: that aren't reality in terms of that's not the situation
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  Speaker 4: I'm in Ben With a trade no longer seeming like
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  Speaker 4: a possibility, do you think a Michael Pennis junior injury
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  Speaker 4: is the only way Cousins starts again?
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  Speaker 2: No, because what's gonna have.
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  Speaker 1: He's playing good cop publicly. He's like these politicians. They'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you whatever you want to hear to get your vote,
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  Speaker 1: and then they'll do whatever they really want to do
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  Speaker 1: whoever pays them off once they get to office. So
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  Speaker 1: Cousins is just gonna sit back and wait, and he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna wait for someone to go snapcrackle, pop and get hurt,
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  Speaker 1: and then he's going to be trading. No reason to
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  Speaker 1: complain about it right now. He'll start for somebody, but
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna have to wait for an injury next.
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  Speaker 4: It's basically a yearly tradition at this point. But Trey
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  Speaker 4: Young's name is coming up in trade talks yet again,
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  Speaker 4: this time with the Sacramento Kings. Then do you think
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  Speaker 4: the Hawks actually pull the trigger? This time around.
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  Speaker 1: Well, listen, Trey Young going from Atlanta to Sacramento.
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  Speaker 2: That he'll be in a.
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  Speaker 1: Worse situation, all right, So why would you want to
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  Speaker 1: put that voodoo on Trey Young? The Kings have no
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  Speaker 1: idea what they're doing. They have a nice light show
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  Speaker 1: outside the arena. That's about it. Like the team blows.
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  Speaker 1: Tyree's had two point guards. Think I read both of them,
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  Speaker 1: Tyrese Haliburton and de Aaron Fox.
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  Speaker 4: Next, it seems reports of Juan Soto's demise were premature.
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  Speaker 4: Over the last ten games, Sotos looked like his old self,
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  Speaker 4: and the Mets are thriving.
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  Speaker 5: Ben are the Mets the most dangerous team in the majors?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Dodgers doing a class by themselves, and the
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  Speaker 1: Mets are good and de Soto is finally playing like
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  Speaker 1: we thought he was going to play at today. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the answer is yes today. Tomorrow it might be a
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  Speaker 1: different answer. How did we do there?
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  Speaker 2: It is? That's a win. I like the phones. That's
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  Speaker 2: a win.