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Greg vs. Will vs. the World (2.314.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to Sports Fans in the Central Indian Sports Report for this week's Greg vs. Will vs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The World.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A couple of Central Indiana questions today, so it's going to be interesting to local listeners.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We also have some national topics that we're going to debate
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[SPEAKER_02]: And what we do is we debate sports and we get points with our predictions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So this is one of those podcasts where people are going to want to use that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Use those chapters to go where you want to go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Some of the topics will be interesting to you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Some of them may not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We hope that you stick around listening to the whole thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But we're going to talk for about five minutes before we even get to the first topic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we're going to review what we've done so far, and if you will not be interested in that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So use those chapters.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, well, the score is 13 to four.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's unacceptable.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thinking about just wiping it clean when we start our first episode, August 21, your thoughts on that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's fair to say that I won the first season of this season zero.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The beta season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, the beta season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The beta season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I have to low a self-esteem to say that I'm not ready to go start with a blank slate and see if I can do it up a lead again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I don't know if it gets any better, but I know for your sake, you're really hoping that we do wipe this clean and out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm cool with the do every question on this podcast and every question that we have pending will come after August 21.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I say we keep all of you all the pending ones and we wiped clean on August 21st.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because that is our official beginning.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've said from the beginning that that will be official beginning.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I agree.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We wanted to do all this practice before we got to where we are.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to have short videos soon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we are getting really close.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have polls on those short videos and that'll be the versus the world part.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to bonus point if we beat the other person on our opponent and the world.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If they vote against us and we beat both of them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to get a bonus point.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that'll be a good part of it as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we will talk local teams a lot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Talk Pacers' Colts.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But when they get closer to football season, it'll be more for games this weekend, who's going to win, who's going to lose.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This weekend, we have three local topics and a baseball topic will are you ready?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm ready.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Question number one will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Pacers roster seems to be set.
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[SPEAKER_02]: As of July 23rd, 2026, they're over under in Vegas's 44 and a half games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think we both think the Pacers are going to win more than that, so well, I'm going to put it at 47 and a half games, well, the Pacers win more or less.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I say they win more than 47 and a half games.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I have their win total right around 50.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's about where they were two years ago.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They were 15 and 32 going in to be 20, 25 playoffs when they went to the finals.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I expect them to be about that good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think they get off to a slow start, get Halle Burton back into the game flow.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's going to be an adjustment with Zubaj in terms of,
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, his establishment within their starting five and how they rotate minutes at the center position, I expect Kelly Ubrae and Larry Nance Jr to make some contribution that helps make their bench one of the best three in the league.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I expect them to be a really good basketball team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just think that they're not going to be an incredible regular season team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think they get hot down the stretch going to the playoffs rolling, but I think 50 wins is about where I have them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I disagree with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I disagree with you that they're not gonna be a good regular season team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think this team has the potential to win 60 games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think you hit on it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Their depth is so good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Their second team is going to be a legit NBA roster.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that's why they're gonna win 54 games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would go as high as 57 games will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is going to be,
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[SPEAKER_02]: a very good pacers regular season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I worry a little bit about the postseason, but I just think the east is better.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So sure.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I struggle to see a world where they just completely dominate run away with the east, especially with the Celtics going to continue to be good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think the sixers are going to be much better.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I were waiting on the magic are they going to be able to
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[SPEAKER_03]: grow into the team with Desmond Mayn and Polo Bancaro that we kind of envisioned that they're going to be The heat as of this point.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's not been completely confirmed LeBron's going to the heat, but it feels as if that's going to be the case So LeBron, Yannis and BAM, that's a pretty good trio.
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[SPEAKER_03]: For me, I just think the rest of the conference is too good I don't think we're gonna be talking tonight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's gonna be tough
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[SPEAKER_03]: that wins more than probably 58 to 59 games and everybody's going to probably be lumped in within about eight or nine games of each other.
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[SPEAKER_02]: With the attrition of the days in VA, I think the pastures depth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're pretty much built for any.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They are any situation, any night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They lose a guy one night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're pretty much sent to be able to fill in that hole for the night.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They lose a guy
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[SPEAKER_02]: going 3 and 7.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're capable of having a roster to go 6 and 4 during that stretch, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: You lose caliber for 10 games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You lose, see outcome for 10 games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think instead of the way they've put the bench together instead of going 3 and 7, they maybe go 7 and 3.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think they're going to win.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think they're going to be the number once we will.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I hope that you're correct.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I have them more in the 3 or 4 probably.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think they host the first round and that's
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we agree, so no point on the line for that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's stick with the thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the cult's over under as of July, 23rd, 2026, is seven and a half games for the 2026 season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So let's just go with that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Of course, we debated that on the cult's report this week with Dave and with Will and his dad, Dave,
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[SPEAKER_02]: and seven and a half games in 2026.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, on the culture port, about a month ago, I predicted that they would go 11 and 6.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm going to have them at the wind total over.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, looking at their schedule, they are not a favorite until week five.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Currently, now that's subject to change, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's way too early to have any level of betting comfort within the market, especially with what the line Vegas is, because we've not seen anybody actually take the field.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And you think this roster is built to win a lot of regular season games are not built to win those season games because I just don't think that they have enough frontline talent, especially on the defensive line and their front seven to probably make a huge splash there with that being said, they have the addition of CJ Allen, a linemaker.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm still
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[SPEAKER_03]: wondering if Bryce Betcher from Oregon or rookies going to be with the will linebacker.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's open linebacker.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll see right now they haven't listed the second string middle linebacker.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I expect him to play.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that they drafted him with the athletic mindset, especially because he was going to get drafted by an MLB team as well after playing baseball northern two with the athletic pedigree.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I expect him to see the field.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think both
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, there is some concern with his ardent key going to be good enough at the defense event.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think law to is going to continue to use as athleticism to be a benefit for this team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's probably worthy of the first round draft capital that the spin on him though.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I've long said that was not they were going to draft rough hours that you've taken the pick before him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Who was the next pick?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Jared Verse.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, that will always make that a worse pick, and that's unfortunate.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Chris Ballard.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just think this Goldstein, I like a full season with Daniel Jones, God willing, you say so.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If everything goes perfectly well, the students capable of winning 12 games and being in the second rounded playoffs, but this is the NFL and things never go perfectly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: more likely going to win six games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm afraid.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This has a team with seven eight nine wins written all over it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is almost a 50 50 proposition to me, whether the wins seven or half games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm pretty sure I predicted seven and 10 on our culture report a couple of weeks ago when we went game by game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm going to say under will, I just I don't have a lot of hope
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I don't disagree with that at all.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I thought last year that Mallard probably needed to go however.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Carly Gordon Ursa felt that it was better to keep him on board and so I am going to have to concede to her judgment because she's the owner and I'm not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: However, I feel like he's had enough time to develop this roster in a way that can play winning football especially in an division and I think got better.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think Tennessee's probably going to be a better team this year than they were last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I fully expect that Jacksonville is as good as they were last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe no, when his me games, but their roster is just as good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: especially getting Travis Hunter back for an entire season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The Texans defense is going to be the best in the League of Stroud plays, even in remotely close to rookie or stroud, the Texans are going to be better.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So the cults are either going to sink or swim.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And ultimately, we're not probably going to know until September 13th when they play at home against Baltimore if what this roster truly looks like.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now to say, well, I've got a lot more hope in the patients right now than I do the cold.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I am just not feeling with that franchise and I hope I'm wrong.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Question number three.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm going to answer this one first.
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[SPEAKER_02]: As of July 6th, the odds for the big 10 championship Ohio State is the favorite at 3-1 Indiana and Oregon, both 4-1 and it drops way off to USC and Michigan at 15-1, Penn State 25-1.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is wide open.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You give me ore going to Ohio State Indiana tell me to pull it out of the hat.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm probably happy with that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Which level one comes out of the hat?
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm given the edge to Kurt Signetti.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just think he's that good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think unless you beat Kurt Signetti, he's the favorite.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think he significantly better than Ryan Day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ryan Day has better football players will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And but Kurt Signetti has proven over the last couple of years especially the last year that he can take worse players
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[SPEAKER_02]: and beat you with him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to say the Hoosiers repeat as big 10 champions and I think they're going to be a final 14 in the football playoff as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a long way off to be talking about that, but I just believe in the staff and if I have to take one, I'm taking out you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, Greg, I don't think that you're wrong in your analysis.
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[SPEAKER_03]: However,
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think Joshua where it's going to be what Fernando Mendoza was and he might be better.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think Kurt Sigmetti is the reason that Fernando Mendoza is Fernando Mendoza.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We watched him at Cal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was okay, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was a serviceable court.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was never mentioned as a Heisman guy or even thought that way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Until he got to IU and I think I don't think Joshua
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing is a very good chance that he is and I think personality is the reason.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I really think that Oregon is probably the team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to bookmark and say best roster.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Good arguably especially.
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[SPEAKER_03]: what's the quarterback state, Dante Moore and it was true.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Especially with Dante Moore coming back, I think, you know, him not going into the NFL draft this year, even though he probably would have been a first round talent in terms of draft capital, I expect he's going to grow and develop.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's going to get the extra year in college.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's been official.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think we've seen the last few years, especially with Jane Daniels, especially with Bonyx and that extra year
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[SPEAKER_03]: for your development.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I expect that he will take a leap forward.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think they play in his tough of a home atmosphere is anybody.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I like the way they schedule lines up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that they have a pretty easy, big-ton schedule.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They do have to go to Michigan.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They do have to go to Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They do have to go to Michigan State.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Those are three off the top of my head.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know, but I don't see any of those three teams.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to go into those gaps.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I am going to one of those
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[SPEAKER_03]: On top of that, I just think that day and landing is on the precipice of really breaking through.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think he already is a respected no doubt in CW coach.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I expect that he really puts his foot forward, especially with how last year in it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was bad.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think there's a lot of fuel that gets added to a fire when you get really embarrassed in the peach bowl like they did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A host is number three of my marks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, it's that's tough.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That, uh, because of the code.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, neither one of us took them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I guess I'm not convinced the Ryan days like that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm convinced he's good at having a lot of talent.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm convinced they have a ton of talent and they're just to have a plethora of five stars.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that's always going to give him the edge.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's why I, they're the odds on Facebook.
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[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, that was two points because we had an option of
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the final question well, as of July 23rd, the Dodgers have 65 wins.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Brewers have 64, you know, let's throw in the braze with 59, comes 57 and the Phillies with 56 to make an A2 point question.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, who is going to win the most games in the National League?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, if you are a listener of the MLB report, you know that last show we had right after the All-Star Break.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I predicted as my hot take that Milwaukee brewers finish with a better record than the LA Dodgers and both you and Paul were I think a little surprised to hear that they're only one game out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and I just feel like the Dodgers are going to not limp into October, but they don't there's going to be no pressure for them to win their division right they've already won their division.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There's going to be no reason that they are giving guys an extra day of rest.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're starters, why they are going to utilize getting bitch guys at bats, getting, making defensive substitutions earlier in games and they wouldn't set timber.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This has kind of been the Dodgers thing, the last three or four years where they really take the Indivogas and set timber off and get ready for October.
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[SPEAKER_03]: However, I think the Brewerers are better this year than they've been.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that their pitching staff is really good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I expect the Brewerers probably would take a similar approach.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't see Mizorowski getting a ton of winnings in September.
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[SPEAKER_03]: but they're going to have to keep them crisp.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think the Dodgers four man rotation is going to present a lot of issues for anybody in the national league, even as good as the league is as a whole.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't see the brave in this race.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The Brewers rotations pose the problem to up top.
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[SPEAKER_03]: probably the best foreman rotation, maybe in the league, at to the Dodgers, probably I'm an argument that Philly's probably have an argument.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think the braves of their healthy are a lot better, but their crissail and renalmo Lopez have to take the ball every fifth day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's not exactly what you envisioned.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The middle or end of July look like for the braves and their pitching staff.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This brewer's team feels like,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Their legit and I say that and they'll get swept in the NLCS by somebody, but you may all the arguments for my side and I'm taking the Dodgers and that's that the Dodgers will take all of those games off.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They will pull guys earlier than they would have and they'll still beat everybody because they're dead.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just better than everybody else's.
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[SPEAKER_02]: uh... they can absorb a loss or two for a dl stint i don't think the brewers the braze i don't think they can absorb it merely as well as the dodgers can and i think that's why the dodgers plus the trade deadlines coming up and those what they do there they probably show up something somewhere um... and it would be a very Milwaukee brewers thing to do to have the best record then actually the losing the first round of the playoff so i would love that uh... but it's gonna be the dodgers the dodgers are
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[SPEAKER_02]: Here's the way I see it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Dodgers have had a disappointing season up to this point and the Brewers have had an exceptional season up to this point.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's not going to last.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They should have a game on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll see some beautiful thing about this is that we'll see.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much for listening.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think we're getting really close to getting the show figured out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Got a few more weeks to work out the kinks before we go live and we'll have short videos all that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just need the summer to learn at all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much, Will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much for listening.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll be back next week.
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