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The Lakers have been sold for TEN BILLION dollars! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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Believe the Mets are going to give him.
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A significant They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not put it in one of the top three offensive?
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Players in the league, we're going to be looking at Aaron.
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Judge and saying that he can't win the big game.
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Michael Jordan. Said I.
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Played 82 games. You don't see LeBron doing that
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a game where you got to go before.
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I told you, giant feet, Saquon Parker at this.
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Wow, welcome. We are back with another episode
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of Jabba in the Mouth. No, it's not Errol that you're
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listening to. It's me, Aaron Fishman, our
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executive producer, normally filling in as host.
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Tonight, we still got Speedy PD and the one and only Jabba
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Chamberlain live on location out in Nebraska, the site of the
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College World Series. We're going to get into Game 6.
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Tips off at 8:30 between the Pacers and the OKC Thunder.
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Looks like Halliburton. We'll play.
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We'll get into that in just a moment.
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We're going to recap the Stanley Cup Finals ended kind of how we
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expected, right guys? It was kind of a blow out.
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The Panthers kind of took their time, I guess in that series,
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wearing them down, grinding them away. 51V.
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We'll get into the recap of the back-to-back champion Florida
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Panthers. We got to talk about the Lakers
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being sold to the owner of the Dodgers for $10 billion.
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The largest sale that's ever happened in the history of
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professional sports kind of came out of nowhere to a lot of us.
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We're going to hear, I'm sure over the next few days, a bunch
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more about that story. We're going to talk some NFL
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news. We're going to talk some
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baseball news. We're going to get into a little
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bit of the top players in baseball.
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We're almost at the halfway point of the season.
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We'll get there next week. So I created a little all all
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MLB team as if like we were in the NFL.
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So we're going to talk about that debate some of these guys
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later on tonight. We got one thing I wanted to
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talk about before we get into everything.
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I was just coaching this morning, some football.
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I coach offensive and defensive line up by West Point.
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It was the first hot day of the year.
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We got up to around 90. We ended up coming off the field
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at noon. We didn't even get to, you know,
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the team, offense and defense that we wanted to run.
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It just was too hot. I've lived in Florida though,
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and in Florida they don't come off the field for any reason.
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I've seen it and now Java. You guys have spring training
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down in Tampa. It gets hot starting in April in
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Tampa. I what we have these rules about
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real feel if it if it the real feel is over.
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I think 88, like you got to start looking at it very
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carefully. If it gets to 95, you can't be
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on the field. I thought it was a real field of
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95 every day for three months when I lived in Tampa when we
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got to the summer. Have you ever had any rules
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where you had to come off the field?
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What? What was it like when you
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played? No, not not necessarily as as.
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I guess temperature wise it was always more so rain than
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anything else. There were times I remember I
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was charting and I would have to wear an undershirt just so I
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didn't sweat through my original shirt.
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And so yeah, there was, there was never, never a time Like
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we're in excessive heat Warning right now for the College World
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Series right now. And it's supposed to be 104
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tomorrow. 100 and 199 and only know what it is on the field
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obviously but yeah, I I guess I've never never experienced it
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from like that perspective of like if it's that hot on the
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field like you're not going to you know basically play the
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game. So I don't I don't know how it's
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going to go. I'm obviously we have here in
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Omaha where we're on site at Addie's at one O 1 N 10th St.
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and covering College World Series.
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But I, I don't, I don't think I've ever been in that situation
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where it's we didn't play because it was too hot.
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I've had delays because the umpires were getting ready, but
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I've never had one where like we're ready to get on the field
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and and do that stuff. So yeah, I don't, I don't know
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if I've I've ever experienced that.
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Even like youth sports when you're growing up, because I
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know when I was a kid they didn't have that stuff up in the
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Northeast, but I think it's changed.
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I think it might just be a Northeast thing.
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It might be a little bit. Well, people are getting softer
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too. It's like we played through a
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lot. This is what?
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I wanted to get to. We played through a lot more
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stuff and things that we did back then than they do now.
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So and I don't know if that's necessarily a generational thing
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or, or what is happening in that.
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You've obviously been a coach longer than I have and I only
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coached Carter for a couple of years, but I never, I can never
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recall. And I think it's just kind of
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how they've kind of just switched generations and things
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that have like kind of transitioned to like we have to
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take care of them better. It's like, are you really taking
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care of them? You know, there's a lot of ways
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to take care of kids on the football field.
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And I want to get into that in a second or, you know, in any
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field because I think of a guy. The reason why they do it, and
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it's not just because there's one case, but the one that I
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always remember because he was such a prominent player, speedy
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was Corey Stringer was this great tackle for the Vikings
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years ago, and he dropped dead of heatstroke.
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Just like working out in preseason doing drills.
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I mean, we've had, oh, my God, was it Kendall Simmons?
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Come on. The former Pittsburgh Steelers
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guard, he was fantastic. And when he came on and he told
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us about he has type 1 diabetes and he found out because he
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almost dropped dead in preseason because he was running drills
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and they said he had a blood sugar around 800 something,
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which I thought meant you were dead already.
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Because I'm type 1 diabetic in the same way as him.
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And I can't even imagine just all the equipment and stuff that
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we have like he can't wear a pump.
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So he's just doing math all day, trying to make sure that he has
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enough energy to get through the next drive, you know?
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Remember the and he still played.
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Remember the Maryland coach scandal too from like 2019 as
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well. They were overworking those
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players in the heat like crazy. That's right.
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And that was the. Was that the trainer that was an
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Urban Meyer disciple? Yeah, if I'm not mistaken.
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Yeah. Well when did, when did it
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change fish for you? Because obviously being a
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football coach when did like because I remember 2 days were
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such a big thing. So I remember when I played, it
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was 3 a day. Jabba.
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We, we would do it where we'd get there at six and we wouldn't
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leave till around 6:00. But the way the coaches thought
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it was smarter to have like a special teams segment in the
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middle of the day and have like 1 like some of the kids do doing
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skill stuff while the other group lifted and then the other
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group, you know, and they'd alternate.
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We could go throw them in the pool if it was really, really
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hot school at a pool when I was over there.
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But we ended up having these like the wet bulb readings.
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I don't know if you ever heard of it, but like there's a
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certain, it's like this. It looks like a kids science
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project to be honest with you, but it's how you tell what the
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real feel is. And you can't.
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There's like certain guidelines, at least in New York State,
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where you just got to pull the kids off the field.
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You have to go inside. We try to, when it's like that,
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you try to get the kids on the chalkboard, but just imagine
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it's 95° or 100° and they put you in a classroom and you're a
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teenager and we're like, pay attention.
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You need to learn this. The odds of that happening are,
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you know, you're just banging your head into the wall.
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And I don't think I ever got anything done as a coach in
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those sessions. But I wanted to say, you know,
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you hear a lot of X's and O's and coaches, you know, that have
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the best system, the Shanahan system in the NFL or you know,
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the West Coast in years ago or you know, there's a few others
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to be. I'm sure you can name drop some
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of them. But it's that's not really what
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coaching is about to me and job. I think you can attest to this.
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Your best coaches are the guys who knew your body mechanics,
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the guy that can look at you and said you don't look right right
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now. What's going on?
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You're right just from how you threw a ball.
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That's what a coach does. And I want to tell a little
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story about one of my my favorite players I ever had
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coaching. This is a year we were playoff
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team kind of out of nowhere, kind of got screwed over in our
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seating, but we were we were really good team that year.
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I think we finished eight and two beat our cross town rivalry
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hadn't beat in 31 years. And a lot of those because of
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the kid I called the big cat. We all called him the big cat.
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It's a great name. He was just like 6-1, maybe not
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even 61, but he was 6. Let's call him 6/1, 325 and he
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was a hoss. But he I had him for four years
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and he was not good. His first two years he was too
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big and he couldn't get out of his own way.
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And we'd always try to get him into a stance that would work
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for him, that he can get out of. And that's the biggest problem
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in football, especially when you have kids that are a little bit
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overweight. You can't, you just can't
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Speedy. I don't know if you know this,
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but like, you can't just get a kid to be athletic overnight.
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It takes years and years of work.
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Yeah, if it was that, if that was, if it was that easy, there
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weren't, We wouldn't be talking about all these NFL draft busts.
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I mean, maybe in pickleball, but I don't know, you know, it's, I
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don't know, it seems like a lot of guys pick up pickleball
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pretty. Quick Yeah, we'll have to.
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We'll have to ask our friend Mr. Gronkowski next time he comes on
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the show. Stop pickleball player.
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Probably could, but to wrap this up, the reason I bring him up is
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one he had a really he had like a weird looking elbow Jabba and
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he was apparently I talked to him about it because he couldn't
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get down in his stance. And then I looked at him and was
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like, maybe we should change his stance to something specific for
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him because his arm, one arm was like an inch and a half longer
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than the other because he had dislocated his elbow when he was
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like 18 months old or something like that.
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And it never healed correctly and they never fixed it.
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So when he went down in a three-point stance, he could
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only do it one way. So we switched it up and we told
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him to go into a four point stance and we told him to press
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his arm in a certain angle and we allowed him to like turn just
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a little slightly, maybe like created a stance for him and he
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became an all section player. He was incredible.
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And he teams just couldn't handle it.
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And that has nothing to do with a single play call.
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It has nothing to do with anything.
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It was me having a relationship with a kid and trying to figure
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out how to make him like the most successful he could be.
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And I think a lot of people, especially when we are on a
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sports show, it's very easy to kill coaches.
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It's very easy. But you.
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Don't know they're the first scapegoat because it's not
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necessarily the players, it's always usually the coach that
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ends up getting pushed out. Yeah, well, look, it's you're
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pointing whenever you point fingers, you got three more
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pointing right back at your face, you know, and you end up
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usually seeing that with coaching in the professionals
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ranks and sometimes in high school, especially in like
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Texas, in those places, it's very serious.
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But it's all about wins and losses.
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You don't realize there are a lot of people that can impact
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your life that are are just working on you.
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And I I think like your position coaches are you talk to any
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players, they're going to tell you about their position coaches
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first. I guarantee you, you're going to
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tell me about your pitching coach, Jabba, when you were
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younger that influenced you, you know, maybe it was your head
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coach too, but you know, or your manager as well.
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But I guarantee you it's that guy because that's the real
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coach. Those are the guys you want on
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your staff. Those are the guys you want to
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work with as a coach, guys that pay attention and be like, you
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know what? He doesn't look right.
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He played lacrosse last night. He's going to overtrain if we
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push him too hard today. We don't want him to get hurt.
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But Fish, do you think about this too as a coach too, like,
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and I always ask people that we bring on where it's like if if
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you're a multi sport athlete, like as a coach, do you try to
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manage that as well? So you try to build
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relationships with the other sports coaches is really what
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you do like for football at the pipeline always used to be if
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you're doing football, you're doing wrestling in the winter,
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right? If you're not a wrestler, you're
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probably one of the our receivers and you're playing
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basketball. And if you're not that and
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you're an offensive lineman, you're throwing the shot put.
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You know, like we want you doing other sports.
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We don't want you just in the weight room.
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You're not training other muscles.
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You're not becoming, you know, more improving your athletic
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acuity. That might be the best way to
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put it. You know, Steve Nash, I always
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like to bring up Steve Nash was a great soccer player or loves
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playing soccer. You can see how he sees the
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basketball game similarly to a great soccer player like Messi,
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where he's looking for the angles, looking for the
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triangles, looking for the different types of ways to do
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that, which. Is one of the hardest things to
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do the way they curve the soccer ball like that on the set place.
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Well, that that aside, just like the mental side of the game,
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learning different games, having different muscle muscles do
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different activities, not just doing the same thing until
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you're at a point where I would say shouldn't be happen until
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junior year high school for most people really shouldn't you
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should prop. I mean, football, you might want
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to stop a little earlier just for safety reasons, but you
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should be playing a lot of stuff until you get to around 1617.
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Then if you're going to be a real prospect, people will, you
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will know at that point you will know.
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But everyone's parents think their kid is going to be a
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professional player at nine years old and it's.
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Great. So you said 1617 and my my son's
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obviously going to be a sophomore in college.
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Like, so do you, do you honestly like, do you think that like
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that 1617 realm or do you think before, because there's so many,
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there's so many kids now sports specific on what they do?
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And you've obviously seen him more as a coach than I ever have
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because I always wanted Carter to play basketball.
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He played tennis and obviously baseball.
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But do you think it is there an age where you can kind of get to
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that point where you're like, yeah, we tried you through
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everything, we figure out what you're good at, but what like
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what direction do we go? I think like at the end of your
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sophomore year of high school, like you're probably now
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physically at a point where we're going to be able to
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project what you're going to look like and how your body is
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going to tend to 1 sport or the other a little bit better.
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I hate the specialization. I don't like know this.
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You know, the pie in the sky of being a Pro is one thing.
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That's a whole other story. But what you're doing to the kid
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health wise, we see all the Tommy John injuries.
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We see it. We don't need to be playing fall
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ball, winter ball and having a full season and and then going
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to clinics and then being on the circuit for all the clinics and
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never giving your arm a rest, never training your arm to do
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different activities. So it's just the same motion
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that's being worn on that old UCL and that old flexor tendon
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Java, You know, that's, that's what, that's what.
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It is like flexor strain. We know what it is and that, but
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that's the thing too. It's like, and you've been able
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to coach some some good athletes and it's I always bring up the
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Christian McCaffrey article and he's like, I am the best
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football player for what I do because I ran track, I played
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basketball, I did those things and like Carter playing tennis
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and playing basketball, like I never was good at any of that.
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I also didn't do the other stuff but for him and made him better.
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And my son is a better athlete than I am.
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Yeah. Did I play a long time in the
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big leagues? Yes, I did.
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But he's a better athlete because he did more stuff
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because I wasn't good at all that.
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And that's what's made him great and what's allowed him to
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advance at the next level and see these things.
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And so I'm just it just I hate when it gets down to that point.
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And you know, when we talk about it and it's like, you know, we
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were talking about Jackson job the other day.
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It's just does he go through that?
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If he didn't do all the circuits and didn't fall ball, winter
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ball, all the other, Do we know that answer?
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No, we don't know, because nobody ever knows.
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I mean, what if he spent time dribbling a basketball and
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playing man defense and getting low and.
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Being it's, it's going to help him in every way.
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Like tennis was unbelievable for Carter because it was footwork
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and like that was that was the funnest.
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That was the funnest season for me as a father because
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basketball was the only season that I could see Carter every
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year because that was my offseason.
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So I didn't get to see him a lot for baseball other than watching
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on on Game Changer and all the other stuff.
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But then tennis, I got to watch him just be an athlete.
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But then it was like now he he learned how to and he had great
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coaches. They were young kids and he
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vibed with them very, very well. But it made him so much better
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on the basketball court. It made him so much better at
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shortstop. It made him so much better
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because those are things that you learn innately because it's
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not like you're teaching them. Because I don't know shit about
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it. So I can't do that.
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But he can go to a trainer and he's been doing that.
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But I just feel like it's so important for them because it,
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it allows them to take rest off their body in certain aspects,
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especially throwing, because it's the most awkward thing.
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It's it's why you look at I loved watching the Women's
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College World Series in softball.
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But it's why they can throw every game because that's a
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natural motion of your arm. Yeah, throwing a baseball is
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not. You know, Speedy, I wanted to
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ask you, do you, because that's my theory that all of this
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specialization and non-stop throwing is why we have all
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these injuries, not so much that everyone's throwing harder.
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You hear some people say that. I wanted to hear your take, why
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you think those injuries are? Happening, Yeah.
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I think for certain sports, I think it can be that way because
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I think something that involves a lot of precision and when it
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comes to aiming, obviously a quarterback in football,
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obviously pitching in baseball, something that involves a lot of
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aiming, it definitely could be. And it's interesting you brought
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up tennis. I forget which one of our
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baseball guests brought it up years ago that he was mentioning
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tennis as a good offseason training for him in baseball
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because it's not as much the wear and tear, but it's still
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like getting your arms moving in a sense.
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And so it's always good to have like a, I guess in baseball, a
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precision sport like that in more of a contact sport, just
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something to keep you endurance wise.
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And that's the same thing they were mentioning with with
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college a few weeks ago with, with the whole rule change, like
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because they're such in the grind of just the one sport.
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But it's sometimes good to have a a rec league or something to
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change it up if you're a college athlete.
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So I think there are are layers to it.
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I don't think it's everything to do with the injuries, but I
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think it's definitely a lot to do with it when it comes to, I
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guess, more of the precision sports.
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You know, I mean, certain sports like hockey, you kind of have to
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be skating and doing that stuff most of the year round.
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Every once in a while I get a hockey kid on the football team
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and we were so ecstatic to have him because we knew it was like
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very rare that that would happen.
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The kid had to love football and he was one of the best kids I
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ever had for sure. But you know, had an injury from
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overtraining. Yeah, I just want to move on.
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Before we move on, I want to read this comment here from Bill
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P Is one of our new fans after him playing all those different
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sports, 4 different sports, he chose baseball and tennis.
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But I get, yeah, playing casually for some of the others
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for those sports are going to be important for I guess just not
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having to wear your arm out or wear your wear your body out one
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different way. Well, I got I got a lot of
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coaching stories job and I think we're gonna get some more
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especially after our guest job. You're gonna have some free
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reign to get in some real cool youth, you know, College World
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Series experience cuz it's been 20 years since you.
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You're a famous run in 2005. Make make me feel older.
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We're the same age job. Love you.
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We're the exact same age bro. Love you buddy.
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But you know, there's another guy as far as coaching, he's got
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his work cut out for him in about 35 minutes in the tip off
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tonight. Yes, I'm talking about Rick
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Carlisle because the Pacers are facing elimination tonight in
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game six at home versus the OK C Thunder after Halliburton
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completely disappeared in Game 5.
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The Thunder beat the Pacers 120 to one O 9 in game five in the
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NBA Finals, taking a three two series lead.
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Jalen Williams put up 40 points in Game 5, was the 5th youngest
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player in NBA history with a 40 point NBA Finals game.
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He's had also 25 points, 5 rebounds in three straight
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Finals game. The first young player younger
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than 25 to do that since the big Aristotle himself, Shaquille
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O'Neal, Shay Gil just. Alexander also had a double
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double with 31 points and 10 assists and scored over 30 and
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four of the five finals games. Shay and Jalen have scored 291
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points combined, 4th in NBA history for a duo in the first
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five games. A lot of stats, speedy, all
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impressive. I should maybe gave you the six
23:32
pack on this one for stats, but I'll say there's the big thing
23:35
in this game is Tyrese Halliburton.
23:38
Tyrese Halliburton suffered a right cash strain in Game 5, was
23:42
limited throughout the game. He had four points in 34
23:45
minutes. He tweaked his leg driving to
23:47
the hoop against Chet Holmgren in the first quarter.
23:49
Didn't hit a single field field goal until I guess.
23:53
I don't think he hit one all game.
23:54
No, it was only straight throws. Just foul shots for the four
23:57
points. Didn't hit a shot in Game 5.
24:00
Shamsharania said that Mac on the McAfee show that Halliburton
24:03
is expected to play and yes, that is correct.
24:06
He is active for tonight's game. They're not going to keep that
24:09
guy away from playing. Would have been a nice excuse
24:12
though, right? We lost because, you know,
24:16
Tyrese got hurt. We could have won.
24:18
You know, we were just as good as them.
24:21
We were right there. I don't know, man, I don't know.
24:25
I think that Thunder team really, really have just
24:30
scratching the surface. We may be seeing the beginning
24:33
of the dynasty. Think about how young everyone
24:35
is on this team. Let's start with with Jalen.
24:40
Jalen Williams putting up as the second guy as the second guy
24:45
putting up 40 points. That's impressive man.
24:50
They they didn't have another creator like him last.
24:54
I mean at any point with shady illicit Alexander because he
24:57
hadn't come into his own yet. I think it's it's fair to say
25:01
Jalen Williams is real and, and he ain't going nowhere.
25:05
He's absolutely one of the best that we're seeing right now.
25:09
And some people are comparing him.
25:11
And I want to hear your take on this, comparing Jalen Williams
25:15
to an Arrow's favorites, Scottie Pippen.
25:20
Think about this for a second. Scottie Pippen was a relative
25:22
unknown coming out of out of high school.
25:25
He shot up in height, went from being a guard to being a
25:29
forward. So he had the handle of a guard
25:32
and we know he became an all defensive player.
25:34
He's an all NBA player. He was one of the top 50 players
25:37
back when they did it in the 90s.
25:39
I wouldn't say he's top 50 now, but he's definitely way close to
25:43
that. He's maybe he's in a fringe.
25:44
I'm Speedy. I don't know, maybe we could
25:45
talk about that. Errol, we'll probably say he's
25:47
higher than that, but he's close, right?
25:50
He's close. Where do you say see this guy?
25:55
Could he be the Pippin to chase Jordan Speedy?
25:59
If he scores to the higher volume, because I don't think we
26:03
were thinking him ever as like the Super high scoring type
26:06
because he did everything else so fundamentally well.
26:09
And the Thunder have built enough depth where there's not
26:11
like you don't really have to force anyone to be a second
26:14
scorer. Like you've seen with these
26:16
other these other teams that have won championships recently.
26:18
Like like take a team like the Milwaukee Bucks, like if Chris
26:22
Middleton or Drew Holiday wasn't good enough as a second scorer,
26:25
like do they win the championship with Giannis being
26:28
the number one guy? If Jamal Murray doesn't score
26:31
enough as the second scorer with the Nuggets, just do they win an
26:34
NBA title that same way or even have the playoff success they
26:37
have. Like if he does that
26:39
consistently enough with his defensive prowess and his
26:42
well-rounded game, yes, it's possible to to get to that
26:45
level. I don't think OK C though is
26:47
built to rely on that right now. And it's not really a question
26:50
that we have to impulsively have because right now they're up
26:53
3:00 to 2:00. And if Jalen Williams has a let
26:56
down spot, as long as somebody else steps up in that role, then
27:00
you're not going to think of all right, is Jalen Williams and
27:03
going to be another #2 option that could be a Scottie Pippen
27:06
type long term or even just to compare in this generation one
27:10
of those superstar players of this.
27:12
Generation really, that's kind of what we talked about.
27:14
It's like those second-half guys, other than the superstars
27:19
stepping up and in getting in that realm.
27:23
Yeah. And that's what I'm saying.
27:24
How? Often how often do you have a
27:26
team that's this well built where you don't have to rely on
27:28
that obvious second guy and that's where I think right now I
27:32
think you could definitely do that with Jalen Williams because
27:35
chat holder and it took a little while for him to get going in
27:37
this series offensively. And I think Jalen Williams has
27:41
kept them even in the games they were struggling in in game three
27:44
kept them in those games with his scoring prowess and hit the
27:48
way he's played defense. It's always been great.
27:49
So I again, I I just don't think OK C that's always the cliche
27:53
with NBANBA. Fans want to say, oh, who's
27:55
whose team is it? Is it this guy or it's going to
27:57
take over a game? I don't think OK C is built like
28:00
that. Like I think you're now seeing,
28:02
I think probably I wouldn't say the I wouldn't say the Nuggets
28:07
were necessarily like that, but the Celtics last year and then
28:10
the the Thunder this year, like they have so many different
28:13
options and ways to win. You can go to and Shay's taking
28:17
over the the playoffs, no doubt like he's the best player, but
28:20
like him, them rotating a second option is still a really good
28:24
thing for any team to have to be able to game plan against.
28:27
It's really hard to do. And so if Jalen Williams does
28:30
take over the scoring from that volume perspective to another
28:32
level, yeah, you probably are on to something with that fish.
28:35
But right now the OKC doesn't need to do that because they
28:38
have so many other guys that they can go to.
28:41
You know, when I think of Pippin, I don't think of scoring
28:44
really. I think of secondary scoring,
28:46
but defense, right? And just locked down defense and
28:50
then just being the perfect facilitator of the ball to do
28:54
exactly what's supposed to be right on the play.
28:56
Jalen Williams is playing like that.
28:58
It's hard to say he's not playing like that.
29:00
Now, obviously he doesn't have the same like, length that
29:02
Pippin had. Perhaps he might be a little bit
29:05
better. Ball handler might be a little
29:06
bit better, but you know, with some of those offensive moves, I
29:09
mean, he has that Jalen Brunson turn around.
29:12
You know, I, I love watching that, you know, that makes me
29:14
very reminiscent of Brunson. Makes me wonder what he would
29:17
have done in this series. But alas, that's not going to be
29:19
something we can answer. Well, but but fish to fish to
29:23
your point too, it's like when you have that basically, I mean
29:29
for lack of a better term, like in your back pocket that he can
29:33
he can do those things. Yeah, I agree.
29:36
He's he's not as long as Pippin and he didn't, I wouldn't say
29:43
didn't score like Pippin, but he didn't defend like Pippin.
29:47
Few have. Yeah, very few have and there's
29:52
been very few that have been in Jordan and Pippin in the aspect
29:55
of what they do. And I, I love, I love a
29:58
reference that they did when they were getting Tony KU coach
30:04
and they went and played him and he was like, I got him first
30:07
half, you got him second-half and Tony Kukoch scored seven
30:11
points and it was like, this is what I'm going to do.
30:15
I just think with with this team too, I think they they have
30:21
scores and they have a little bit of length, not necessarily
30:27
as as much as the others, but I think they're going to.
30:33
I would love to see Game 7. Don't get me wrong, I love I I
30:37
love elimination games. I love, I love pay end all meets
30:41
all games. I love those.
30:43
I love them. But you know what's going to
30:45
happen. I know.
30:46
But we know what's going to happen in this time.
30:48
Let's stop pretending that this game is going to be close.
30:51
They're going to hunt Halliburton every series, every
30:55
possession, rather down the court, every single one.
30:58
They're going after him on defense.
31:01
It doesn't matter if he makes a single.
31:02
Step. Well, so do do you think too at
31:04
this point, too? Now you got TJ McConnell that's
31:08
going to step up? Have to.
31:10
You're going to need you don't have a random bench player it.
31:13
Wasn't McConnell at the end though?
31:14
Speedy in Game 5, right? It was close In game five, it
31:17
was a it was A1 possession game with about 8 minutes left,
31:20
right. What happens?
31:23
They give the ball more to Nemhard and Nemhard.
31:29
Look, I like the defense, like he played really good defense on
31:31
Jaylen Brunson. But in that Knick series as
31:34
well, he is a butcher on the offensive side.
31:36
You cannot have him as a ball handler and decision maker.
31:40
It's like when the Knicks use Miles McBride as a point guard.
31:45
He just sometimes dribbles into traffic and throws the ball
31:47
away. And against OKC, they murdered
31:50
them at the end of the fourth quarter.
31:52
We already watched the highlights.
31:53
That was all in the fourth quarterback to back-to-back to
31:56
back place basically. Not exactly, but within like 3
31:59
minutes. It was devastating and it was
32:01
just bad offensive basketball and that's why they need
32:05
Taliburden to make those correct decisions.
32:07
Nemhart really shouldn't be in charge of that much of the
32:10
offense. I think, you know, look,
32:12
Carlisle is a masterful coach, maybe the best coach in the NBA
32:17
this year. The way that he's coached, at
32:19
least in the play offs. It's hard to argue he's not
32:21
right. You know, I don't think that you
32:23
can say anything about what he did against what's his face, who
32:29
won the coach of the year, Cleveland Kenny Atkinson shut
32:33
them down right away. Got Tom Thibodeau to lose his
32:36
job. He was out coached so badly.
32:39
I mean, think about that for a second.
32:40
How good of a coaching job he's done.
32:43
Maybe he has something for him this game.
32:44
But if they don't have Halliburton at full speed,
32:48
they're going. To I don't I don't think he's
32:50
going to be full speed anyways. If you, if you get him like
32:53
listening to, you know, all the analysts, however you want to
32:59
say it, if you get him at 80%, then he's got to play right.
33:05
And who knows how bad it is. Like, I know with like we played
33:10
through injuries and, and we've talked about this before.
33:12
It's like when you get to this point, it's like you got to play
33:15
through, you got to play through some stuff, right.
33:19
But if it's that bad, how like how many minutes is he going to
33:23
get? Is he going to try play?
33:24
Is he going to be productive or not?
33:25
And. What type of role will he be in?
33:27
Is the other question like? What is I?
33:29
Agree. What is I?
33:30
Agree. Obviously, obviously he's going
33:33
to play and not be used as a decoy.
33:34
It's not going to be thought of that way.
33:35
It's just going to be, is he going to be more of a spacing
33:39
guy to create shots for others? And that's why I'm saying two of
33:42
those random bench players for Indiana, whether it's the
33:45
combination of Obi Toppin like you were saying, Java,
33:47
McConnell, he had a nice Game 5. Is it the combination of Nemhart
33:52
and Nesmith bouncing back? Is it Obi Toppin playing like
33:55
you did in game one like which which you're going to need at
33:58
least two out of those five players to be?
34:02
They got they got options though, right?
34:04
They're going to need guys that have done it.
34:06
They're going to. Need two of those.
34:07
Guys get 15, speedy. We've already seen him do it in
34:10
the series, get in the Eastern Conference Finals.
34:13
Most Valuable Player. Siakam is able to get over 40
34:17
points on his own. He can.
34:19
He's that good and he's been good at times in this series.
34:23
He is their best player. After Halliburton, let's face
34:27
it, he is their next best player.
34:28
It's time just like Jalen Williams stepped up for OKC,
34:31
that the next best player on Indianapolis or Indiana rather
34:35
has to step up. He just has to or else they have
34:37
no chance. And I and I think Siakam will do
34:40
his best. I bet he has a good game.
34:42
But without without Halliburton, he's going to have to make all
34:45
like the Gretzky assists tonight.
34:47
You know, like kind of like what we're saying Pippen did you know
34:49
where he's making the pass to set up the open shot.
34:52
You know, it's not that he's the he's doing the direct assist.
34:55
He's reversed the ball the right way to get there to be an easy
34:58
decision for the next guy to get the right basket, either shot or
35:01
pass. And if he can do that, they can
35:03
get by with it. But they're going to need
35:05
someone else to handle the ball because he's going to get
35:07
hounded full court and with so how?
35:10
So, fish, how much do you think you've relied on Halliburton all
35:14
this time? You got to put him off ball.
35:17
How much you have to? You can't make him the point
35:20
guard, you know, as the I mean, look, you can play him at point
35:23
guard, but he shouldn't be carrying the ball up.
35:26
He really shouldn't. You may want to so.
35:29
You're trying to lessen his load.
35:31
On I just think, OK, CS too smart and they're just going to
35:34
pressure him because that leg is going to give that he's not
35:37
healthy. We know he's not healthy and
35:39
everybody knows a calf injury that just makes you vulnerable
35:43
for other injuries. That's the big problem with the
35:46
calf entry. And look, how many times have we
35:48
seen someone with a bad calf or hurt their calf and then they
35:52
keep playing on it and then their Achilles ghost.
35:54
Didn't it just happened to Jason Tatum?
35:57
Didn't it just happened to him? One of the five to seven best
36:01
players in basketball. And that's what the.
36:03
Other plan for a year so but but how do you how do you manage
36:06
that load? Though I mean, it's game six of
36:08
the. Finals, The other, the other
36:09
thing, the other thing, this is the one way you can do it.
36:12
And you saw them dominate against the Knicks at the end of
36:14
that series and you saw it even when they came back in game one
36:18
is the transition points. Maybe they just got to start
36:20
with that type of methodology. Whenever you get a rebound, have
36:23
everyone else be ready to run that quickly so you don't have
36:25
to rely on Halliburton handling the ball like a traditional
36:29
point guard would. And that's the Pacers mindset.
36:33
They're trying to play fast of the fourth fastest offensive
36:36
team and obviously they're one of the top 10 offenses in the
36:38
NBA during the regular season because of that.
36:40
And they took it to another level in the playoffs as as a
36:43
result, when Cleveland and the Knicks both tried to play those
36:47
types of half court defenses, they couldn't because they had
36:50
to play the transition defense back that way and exposed badly
36:53
the Knicks half court defense and perimeter defense
36:56
especially. And then even against the Cavs,
36:58
they were making a lot of tough contested shots because of that.
37:01
So they have to get back to that style of play so Tyrese
37:04
Halliburton doesn't get worn down handling the ball as often
37:08
in the beginning of the game if he has to do it later in the
37:10
game if they're down, yeah, you got to try something at your
37:13
season's on the line. Yeah, you can make those crazy
37:15
shots like we saw him do against Cleveland, where you have to
37:17
bring the ball back off a missed free throw.
37:19
You want to save it for moments like that where you're playing
37:22
an inbound game and he doesn't have to move as much and he can
37:25
still create for himself at that point.
37:27
So if. It's it's kind of kind of be
37:29
like what we've talked about before.
37:31
It's going to be like 2 halves of the game.
37:33
Like who either makes the adjustment or doesn't and how he
37:39
So is he going to be less of a force in the first half or
37:43
second-half like? I think ball handling wise, Fish
37:46
is that's what fish is getting at is you don't want him being
37:48
worn down as a ball handler. That's why I'm saying like if
37:51
you know that you have a one-on-one match up with with
37:54
the shooter on the defensive side of the ball and you're an
37:57
off the ball defender, start running.
37:59
Like, OK, he makes the shot, he makes the shot fine, but start
38:02
running and trust your big men to be able to get those
38:05
rebounds. Trust Miles Turner, trust
38:07
Siakam, trust guys like Thomas Bryan off the bench to get those
38:10
rebounds if you need to and start pushing quickly.
38:14
Get a guy in an outlet pass where you're past half court
38:17
within a second or two after the guy gets the rebound well.
38:22
You know, as far as Halliburton goes, he's really the most
38:26
important player in the entire playoffs.
38:29
What he's been able to do has been absolutely remarkable.
38:32
We got to give him his flowers a little bit because I do think
38:35
they're going to get blown out tonight.
38:36
I don't think this is going to be a close game.
38:38
I actually am super excited to see the Pacers fans suffer the
38:42
way that we had to suffer at their hands.
38:43
A little bit, a little bit, a little bit speedy.
38:46
I'm I'm a little malicious here. It's a great run if Carlisle
38:50
comes up with a way to stop it. I mean, power to him.
38:53
I really just don't see it. If Jalen Williams is going to be
38:56
that good as the secondary scorer.
38:58
I don't know what answer you have.
39:00
You can't stop both of those guys.
39:02
You don't have enough horses to do it.
39:03
You're going to need a superhuman effort from Siakam
39:06
and you need you're going to need like Halliburton to turn
39:08
into like Willis Reed or some shit like that.
39:11
It's it's going to be something like miraculous, but we've seen
39:14
miracles this post season from from the Pacers.
39:17
You never know. That's why they play the games,
39:19
right? So let's let's see the game.
39:22
You know, we're going to be able to recap it next week when
39:25
Aerial gets back. The bus family is raking in the
39:28
money. They just sold the Lakers
39:31
majority stake to the Lakers. They're going to hold on to 15%.
39:34
But they sold the Lakers for a record $10 billion.
39:41
Yes, the doctor Evil Pinky, because that's almost, he said
39:45
what, 100 billion or something in the movie?
39:47
Oh my God, $10 billion. Let's get into it right away.
39:51
The Lakers were sold for 10 billion yesterday, the largest
39:54
sale of a professional sports team in sports history by almost
39:58
4 billion. If you could do the math, that's
40:01
40% of the higher. The Bus family sold the team to
40:06
TWG Global CEO Mark Walter, who had a 26% stake in the Lakers
40:14
already and is the majority owner or of the group, the
40:18
Guggenheim Group or whatever it is.
40:19
I guess that's what TWG is in the Dodgers.
40:22
So he's basically the. Man like the Dodgers, Something
40:24
world, Guggenheim. I forget what the T stands for.
40:27
Guggenheim, I think, was a guy who died on the Titanic.
40:30
I guess his name is still being used and he's got a museum
40:33
somewhere in the city. I know that.
40:34
But the Bus family will still control, like I said, 15% of the
40:37
Lakers. And here's a really cool thing.
40:39
Jeanie Buss will remain the governor of the franchise.
40:43
One league source believes this is a scary thing for the NBA
40:46
because the Lakers can now be run like a real business.
40:50
Yes, we can that we're definitely going to talk about
40:52
the Lakers doing kind of weird stuff over the years.
40:54
Luka Doncic tweeted that the Buss family deserves a lot of
40:57
credit for making the Lakers an amazing organization and welcome
41:00
it to LA earlier this year. Luka's eligible for the four
41:03
year 229 Max extension that he's probably going to take, and
41:07
LeBron is likely to opt into his $52.6 million player option for
41:13
this season. Following the sale, 14 NBA teams
41:16
have now changed ownership since the CBA in 2011, since Jerry
41:21
Buss and listen to this Jerry Buss bought the Lakers in 1979.
41:25
The Lakers have won over 60% of their games, 11 total
41:28
championships, most in the NBA in that span.
41:31
One last thing, he bought it for $67 million.
41:37
He sell the family is selling it for $10 billion.
41:43
I don't know. I got, I don't got the ROI
41:45
Jabba, but I think I would take that that deal every single time
41:50
and twice on Sundays. Well, I mean, it's, you got to
41:53
understand too, like he's, he's done it for so long and, and
41:57
just the story history of what the Lakers are and the players
42:01
that they've had and guys that have been there that have done
42:06
certain things. It's, it doesn't surprise me by
42:11
any means. I it's interesting to me that
42:20
he's he, he's obviously already a he's a minority owner already.
42:25
And now he's like, I just have a buttload of money.
42:27
So I'm going to, I'm going to buy it and then still let her
42:32
run it because they've done it for so long.
42:36
So I don't, I don't honestly like, and it was listening to
42:43
Tim Legler on the show the other day.
42:45
He was like, yeah, it's 10 billion reasons why they sold
42:49
the team. But it's just it's a weird
42:53
dynamic and and kind of what you touched on earlier too is like,
42:58
So what is that value of Luca? What is that value of LeBron?
43:04
I would say it's pretty high. And I, I like, as annoying as
43:10
Errol is, and I hope he's listening and on his cruise and
43:15
doing whatever, but I don't think he's very far.
43:20
I'm, I'm not saying it's the LGA, but I think has a very big
43:25
impact on it because you don't have people like that, like
43:30
Jordan when he bought the Bobcats, like you think about
43:34
those things, right? And so his impact is very
43:40
similar. He'll never be Jordan because
43:43
nobody's, nobody's buying Lebron's 20 years and they're
43:47
not reproducing Lebron's 20 years ago, you know, But they do
43:52
that with Jordans. I mean, Jordan, there's only one
43:56
Jordan. I mean, we have this debate all
43:58
the time. There's only, there's only one
44:00
Jordan. Lebron's been on a bunch of
44:02
teams, you know, I guess he's been with the Lakers now.
44:05
How many years has been speeding 2018?
44:07
Was his first year with the Lakers.
44:09
So 7 years with the Lakers I guess.
44:11
Is this going to be his? 1819 was the first year, so that
44:16
would be. So 7.
44:17
This will be his 7th year with the Lakers so.
44:20
Yeah. No, no, he's pretty much like 7
44:23
years, except with a shortened year.
44:24
Yeah. So it's about 7:00.
44:25
Years, right, right, right, right.
44:26
The the COVID year. So if I'm a Laker fan, I'm
44:32
jacked up because now the bus family, you always were worried
44:37
that they were going to do something really stupid.
44:40
You just were because they always fought each other for
44:43
control for years, like who was going to have more say?
44:46
And you could always tell Jeannie was getting frustrated
44:48
with her brothers and that there was sometimes that, you know,
44:52
one of the brothers had the year of Rob Pelanka.
44:54
And but over time, it seems to settle that Jeannie's in charge
44:59
and running the day-to-day. And Mark Walter decided we're
45:03
going to keep you doing that for instead in the contract or the
45:06
thing that I read. I, I guess it's not a contract.
45:08
The thing that we read was about for the foreseeable future, for
45:11
a number of years, Jeanie Buss is going to stay running the
45:14
Lakers, I guess, as the president of the Lakers, I
45:17
guess. Operations or whatever it is
45:20
I'm. Sure, we'll get a cool title
45:22
from them at some point soon in the news presser.
45:26
If you're an LA fan, don't you have blind faith in Walter at
45:30
this point? This is the guy that brought
45:33
Shohei Otani over to LA that made that didn't even need a
45:38
healthy show. Hey Otani to embarrass the
45:40
Yankees in the World Series last year that I would argue should
45:44
be the prohibitive favorites again, even though they're
45:47
suffering more injuries to their pitching than anyone else.
45:50
It doesn't matter. They have more money.
45:52
They still have guys. Guys will come back.
45:55
They're fine. Snell will be back soon.
45:58
They just have all these guys because they have unlimited
46:00
resources because their owner is putting and money where the
46:04
mouth is. Fish, they're being strategic.
46:05
They're pitching position players in the 6th inning to
46:08
make sure they don't pitch. They have any more pitching
46:09
injuries. Well.
46:14
I don't know if I'd go that far, but.
46:16
I, I, I do think sarcasm, I do think the, well, look, there's,
46:20
there's some weird stuff out there, but the, the Dodgers for
46:23
the most part, should be looked at as the best ownership group
46:28
in baseball because they're putting all the money and
46:30
resources into their, their, their product.
46:33
They're finding creative ways to add free agents with this
46:36
deferred money gambit that they figured out before anyone else
46:40
did. Anyone else could have done it.
46:42
It was this, it was there sitting on the table.
46:44
They came up with it. I hate that argument fish though
46:47
because it's been happening for so many years.
46:52
Well, they it's like, so this is weird, but I'm thinking about
46:56
like an economics lesson I once taught Java where the, the movie
46:59
The Big Short and the housing crisis that happened in like
47:02
2008. If you ever saw that movie, it
47:04
was a great movie, Brad Pitt, Steve Carell, and it was all
47:07
about like, you know, shit, I'm losing my my train of thought.
47:13
I don't. I can't remember why I brought.
47:15
It up No but but no but think about that though too, where
47:18
it's like you have Bobby and me to be getting paid Candy Griffey
47:21
getting paid by the Reds. He was like the third highest on
47:24
their payroll. You have guys that there's been
47:27
plenty of contracts that have done this for a long.
47:30
Time, I'm sorry. So what I was saying is like
47:32
some sometimes agma good GM finds a loophole, you know what
47:36
I mean? And there were so many.
47:38
Loop holes. Is it a loophole though?
47:41
Or is it just it's a? Loophole in the CBA that they
47:44
didn't think of. But they're allowed to do it.
47:46
So everybody. CBA until the next CBA.
47:50
If people don't want it, they're going to reject it.
47:52
But guess what? They're not going to vote
47:53
against it because all that does is inflate people's salaries and
47:56
nobody's going to be against that, right?
47:59
Like, it would be very silly to be against that.
48:00
Unless the owners gang up and try to lower the amount of money
48:03
they're spending for some reason, I don't see how players
48:06
are going to oppose that ever. It's weird we see these these
48:10
numbers with funny money and a team like the Dodgers can stack
48:12
themselves. It's a little different in the
48:15
NBA. It's different parameters,
48:17
different rules. But it's but it's also the same
48:19
time you you got to look at it too.
48:21
Like when you have somebody that signs a contract in front of
48:25
you, it just sets you up to be able to sign either the same
48:30
contract and you have a barrier of what like I can sign for
48:37
because they do that. And so it's just.
48:41
Jabba like it's if they were able to think of everything and
48:46
they would have put it in the CBA.
48:47
Well, they don't think of everything because we as players
48:52
think of it differently. They think of it as owners and
48:55
do it differently. So it's.
48:57
Speedy, let me pose it to you. Think about all the different
49:01
coaches like a Belichick that would do anything to get an
49:04
edge. This happens in business every
49:07
day of the week with great businessmen and in the economy
49:10
in 2008 and for the decade preceding it, people were buying
49:14
these, you know, like people's debt from their mortgages and
49:18
trading on it. And it was a loophole that
49:20
people were able to find ways to make lots of money, sell bad
49:23
mortgages, and the whole market crashed.
49:25
That would be worst case scenario for this deferred money
49:28
experiment. Most likely what's going to
49:31
happen is everyone's going to make money and there will be
49:33
some teams that can't do the deferred and you're going to
49:35
have a parody widen. In my opinion, in the league
49:38
between the haves and the have nots, even with collective
49:41
bargaining, I don't really care about that.
49:43
We could talk about the baseball stuff another time.
49:45
I want to talk about if now I'm a Lakers fan, I have that guy as
49:50
my owner, that guy that wants to do those things for my
49:53
franchise, That guy who's going to do whatever it takes to put
49:56
in a winning product up there, including spend more money than
49:59
everyone else in the league and find loopholes to find ways to
50:02
spend even more money so I can have even better players in
50:05
depth. You know, we just we talked
50:07
about the loophole the Panthers used to add Marshand in the last
50:10
segment because the Kucherov, I guess we call it the.
50:14
Kucherov, now Edmonton's being investigated for the same thing.
50:18
Well, because now you're going to see in the next CBA, they're
50:20
going to write language into it to get rid of that.
50:22
They have to because that's a bad rule and somebody, but
50:25
somebody figured it out. That's trying real hard and you
50:28
got to give them credit for coming up with it.
50:30
It's a loophole and it's somebody in business trying to
50:34
find a way around the rules or through the rules.
50:36
That's not a not necessarily illegal.
50:38
I mean, how many times did Belichick try to sneak a guy
50:41
onto the field? You know what I mean?
50:44
John John Harbaugh and I forget who the other coach was still
50:47
mad about the whole offensive line LO ship ball role.
50:50
That look, he, he's definitely tried some stuff over the years.
50:54
And our dad Campbell's accelerated up.
50:56
I, I just really appreciate people.
50:59
Like if, if that was my owner, I'd be pumped up.
51:01
I, I know, I, I, I just know from what I saw last year as a
51:06
Yankee fan that I would take that guy to run any franchise
51:10
that I was rooting for. That franchise is scary.
51:14
They're petrifying and they haven't even hit their stride
51:16
in, in baseball yet. Now just imagine the things that
51:19
they're going to do. They're going to spend on role
51:21
players. They're not going to just, you
51:24
know, they're going to have their star.
51:25
You know, when LeBron leaves that they'll open up some, some
51:27
money a couple years from now, but they're going to have Luca
51:30
tied up. They're going to build around
51:32
them and they're going to find a way.
51:34
And LeBron, maybe he spends, Speaking of Scottie Pippen,
51:37
maybe he spends the last couple years of his career.
51:40
But Luke, Luke, Luke Lucas not going to get a supermax because
51:44
of what they're at. So no, he only gets the four
51:47
years because of the trade. Yes, the trade.
51:49
So it's he's so young. Are they, are they going to try
51:54
and like basically like you just said, build upon him where he
51:59
can get a supermax a little bit later and then build around him?
52:04
I don't I don't know that answer obviously.
52:07
I don't know exactly the rules on that Speedy.
52:10
I think it cuz he was just traded to them.
52:12
He can only get a four year deal.
52:14
That's the only I don't know if he's already signed the four
52:16
year deal that after that deal that he can sign a five year one
52:19
for the Max correct. I think that's how it.
52:21
Works because he signed his deal.
52:23
He signed his deal in 2022, so he had one more.
52:26
He has the one more year. That's why it's being talked
52:28
about. Right, so, so speedy.
52:30
So he has to, so he has to finish that contract and then
52:36
then is he eligible? For the Super after.
52:38
This deal he'll be eligible for the five year deal.
52:41
Okay. Yeah, that's the only reason.
52:43
It's only because of that. That's exactly what it is, new
52:46
team. And that's why I guess he wants
52:50
him to be able to negotiate it now.
52:52
But at the same time, I think Luca is also the reason he's
52:54
saying I would take it is I'm going to buy into this
52:56
philosophy of now we're actually going to be run right and not
52:59
have all these guys almost want to go to the Lakers.
53:02
And then maybe they dodged a bullet with some of them like
53:04
Paul George. But like all these guys that
53:06
want to go to the Lakers and then say no and you turn into
53:10
the Knicks W where nobody wants to go there because of your
53:13
ownership. But we have, we have our guests
53:16
waiting, but we have Gary Phillips going to talk about the
53:19
Yankees and this Dodgers. You know, I know I want to talk
53:22
a little bit about last year's World Series and this Dodgers
53:24
team for a little bit with them as well.
53:26
But before we get into that, guys, this Laker team is set up.
53:33
They have Luka Doncic, a top five player in the NBA.
53:37
They have LeBron James who was second team all NBA.
53:39
So technically he's still a 10 top ten player in the NBA.
53:43
They are ready to win. They absolutely are.
53:46
Now they have an ownership group running them that's going to do
53:49
everything they can to make that happen.
53:52
Is JJ Redick the guy though? Look, if he's not, he'll be gone
53:56
soon. I do think that if LeBron, as
53:59
long as Lebron's there, I have a feeling JJ will stay with them.
54:03
That's that's what I think. And I think JJ is getting better
54:05
as a coach, You know, you don't want to judge somebody on their
54:07
first year. You want to see how they make
54:09
adjustments in their second year.
54:11
I think I think he's earned that right.
54:14
So I'm excited to see it. I like JJ as a player and he's
54:18
obviously a brilliant basketball mine.
54:19
So we'll we'll see what happens with that.
54:21
It's definitely a unique team to coach.
54:24
I do think they need to figure out the role player situation
54:26
there. They need to get some more
54:27
shooters around those guys. They need to have a little bit
54:29
more defense better, you know, kind of try to get a three and D
54:33
wing in there for them as well. I mean, obviously Desmond Bayne
54:36
isn't coming, but there could be some other guys out there for
54:39
them. But before we get into that, we
54:41
got to talk about a different set of basketball.
54:43
We're going to talk about the WNBA.
54:46
Oh, here we go. Here we go.
54:48
Yeah, something smells in today's Deuce of the Day.
54:53
The deuce of the day you log not a log.
54:57
I don't have a log but. Oh yes, that is correct.
55:08
We got Caitlin Clark for our deuce of the day today.
55:12
Not because of anything she did, but because of how she's being
55:16
treated as a player in the WNBA. Look, first team all WNBA is a
55:22
rookie. There was a lot of beef, we know
55:25
it going on between her and Angel Reese dating back to
55:28
college. It became kind of a political
55:31
thing, a racial thing. Well, here's the thing that I
55:34
saw there was, and we're going to put the clip up in a second
55:36
of when she gets fouled with a flagrant foul in the most recent
55:40
game they played and it led to a skirmish in the WNBA fever, I
55:46
believe versus the Connecticut Sun, if I'm not mistaken, right.
55:49
So the so basically if you, I don't know if we got the clip
55:52
yet, but it's there. And what happens?
55:55
She's dribbling, she gets poked in the eye and she gets poked in
55:58
the eye. No call is made and she kind of
56:00
bumps into the person who was guarding her and kind of just
56:03
shoves her briefly and then someone comes on over and throws
56:07
her hard to the ground. Now here is where I'm talking
56:11
about my deuce today. I am not even mad at the team
56:15
that did that to her. I'm mad at her teammates because
56:19
if you watch this clip and here it is right now, she's doing
56:21
every she gets, she gets poked in the eye, kind of incidental
56:24
contact. She gets shoved to the ground.
56:26
Do you see anyone helping her walking off by?
56:32
Herself, So, so so are you, are you mad at that at the point or
56:36
I'm look, I'm what do you see with with Sophie Cunningham
56:40
doing it at the end of the game where she still was like, Hey,
56:45
I'm protecting. I I don't disagree with you
56:49
because like at the time, like I don't care if I'm not that dude,
56:58
but if that's my team, I don't give a shit.
57:02
Bro I'm an offensive lineman. I'm going to take.
57:05
Care of you hit my quarterback, I'm getting you.
57:07
You're going down, I'm getting. You.
57:09
That's that's that's the rule you.
57:12
Cannot it's, can not. It's an under what I I did love
57:17
what Sophie Cunningham did. I I did love that.
57:20
But that you know, that was later after they realized they.
57:22
Needed it was, but they, they realized that and like for her
57:27
because like her social media presence and what she does and
57:30
like she's the he's a very, very beautiful woman.
57:37
And I'm like, you did it and it wasn't even it, it wasn't a
57:43
basketball play. It was not like she was like,
57:46
I'm just taking your ass down. That's what I'm doing and I I
57:51
appreciate that, but at the same time, why aren't you at the same
57:55
time when I get pushed down? Why aren't you doing the same
57:59
thing? Because and it stinks to me,
58:01
Jabba, it's it stinks to high hell.
58:05
Yep. It stinks like a deuce of the
58:09
day. Yes, today's deuce of the day
58:11
goes to Caitlin Clark's teammates.
58:14
Not to mention the people knocking her down.
58:16
Both of them. Especially not helping her up.
58:20
You protect your teammates. They need, you know, the old
58:23
Rangers enforcer, Matt Rempe. You just signed A2 year deal.
58:27
They need the WNBA version of a Matt Rempe on that team.
58:30
We need to protect Caitlin. She needs the protection of some
58:35
kind of enforcer. I don't know what the equivalent
58:37
is of that, but get her on that Chicago Fever team.
58:42
It's been wonderful. Thanks everybody that came on
58:46
helped out tonight. Our interns have been fantastic
58:49
without Errol doing putting up the videos, putting up the
58:51
graphics. Really can't say enough about
58:54
Jake, Aaron and Zach. Thanks boys.
58:56
You know King Zach. They were.
58:58
They were fantastic. Another great job, Errol.
59:01
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