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David Kaplan talks Chicago Sports, John Bohnenkamp on the Hawkeyes & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hour number two Miller and Condon welcome back Iowa sports
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radio network John Bowen camp he was part of the presser
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yesterday. Ben McCollum, Iowa men's
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basketball coach met the media yesterday Bowen camp with the
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recap coming up with that toward the bottom of the hour.
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Another keyword as well. About 1520 minutes from right
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now, but Cappy joins the program.
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David Kaplan ESPN 1000 his YouTube channel with plenty of
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views. Captain, you get more people
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tuning into your your recap after a disheartening loss or a
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big win. What are your numbers say?
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That's a really good question and great to be with you guys.
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I would say like a great, great win.
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Like if they win tonight with a, you know, a home run in the
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ninth inning, I will get a ton of views.
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But a messed up game like last night, we also get a ton.
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It's the ones where they win like they beat the Pirates 3 to
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2. People are like.
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That was just OK. We get good views, we always get
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good views, but it's not anywhere like the two extreme.
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I bet, and you certainly had that yesterday.
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What was the PCA blowback like? A not forgetting how many outs
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And I'm anxious to pick your brain on this because I'm
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watching the game last night and I couldn't believe you tried to
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lay down a bunt. And that's unless Kyle Tucker
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missed a sign there was a safety squeeze or a suicide squeeze.
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I don't believe that that's what that that situation called for.
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But I was blown away A by him losing track of the outs.
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I know what happens, but come on.
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And then the the bunches blood just had me pulling my hair out.
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Was that called for? Did he do it on his own?
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So he called for the bun himself.
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He did it on his own and they Craig after the game was asked
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by Taylor McGregor from Marquee was that a call from the bench.
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He said no, that was not a call from the bench.
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That was something Pete did on his own and it was just poor
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execution. Now, you and I will disagree on
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the premise of him doing it because, look, you're a he's a
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fast guy. He should be able to know how to
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bunk. You're a Major League Baseball
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player. You should be able to get a bunk
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down it. He unfortunately is not good at
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that part of the game. He's great at other stuff.
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He's a lousy bunter. But in the 7th inning, you're
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down a run. You're not playing well the last
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few days. You need a win like a starving
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man needs a ham sandwich. And guess what?
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If he gets that bunk down anywhere other than back to the
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pitcher, Kyle Tucker, if you watch the replay, is reading it
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the whole way. Not a suicide.
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It's not even a safety squeeze and he's reading it.
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As soon as he goes sees it go back to the pitcher, he retreats
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over to 3rd and they gun PCA out and Suzuki gets over to 2nd.
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If he just does his job and lays A bunt down, the game's tied.
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So I had no issue with him doing that.
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And with his wheels. If it's a really good bunt, he
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might beat it out anyway. But you cannot lay a bunt down
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like that and push it right back to the pitcher.
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Can't do it. It's been a bad half week plus
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now for this squad going back to the weekend, the runs, flying
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out of the field against Seattle and Wrigley.
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Is it panic time? Is it concern time?
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Is it it's just the lull of a baseball season?
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How do you see what's happening right now?
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I don't. I'm not panicked.
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I was ticked off. I despise the Cardinals.
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I loathe them. But I'm not panicked by this
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team at all because I do believe Jed will make one or two good
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moves, maybe more than that before the deadline.
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But what bothers me is to look at the line up like I'll do
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every afternoon when it drops. I go on the MLBF, I look and I'm
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like Gansby Swanson hitting 4th for what reason?
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And then last night after hitting fourth on Tuesday,
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Wednesday they have him in the five hole and of course he makes
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the last out of the game. Great play by Arenado, but
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Dansby Swanson should never ever have been up in that situation.
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Hitting $1.54 with men in scoring position.
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That isn't good. So why would you not have Nico
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Horner there? And the other issue is you're a
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bat short because Matt Shaw looks horrible at the plate.
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Looks very good defensively, but what we thought was fixed, it's
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caught up with him. He's not very good at the plate.
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So do you go out and try and trade for Alex Bregman?
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Do you try and trade for Eugenio Suarez?
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I don't know who's going to be available, but if Boston's
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basically waving the white flag by trading Rafael Devers, then
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let's go see if Bregman is healthy.
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Let's get him over here. Yeah, because Bregman apparently
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is. The rumor is he's going to opt
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out after this year anyways in Boston.
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We'll see. What about Nico Horner?
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Capo is good to see, see him finally put one over the fence.
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His first home run of the year, which is kind of surprising.
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Not that he's a big power guy, but you know, he's got, you
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would have thought that, you know, 8/10/12 a year, but it was
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good to see that. Do you want him moved up further
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in the lineup just because you know he's his contact?
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Usually make contact with the ball?
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I do because I don't want Dansby Swanson there.
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He's a very streaky hitter. I know he's got, you know, good
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pop. He's probably second or third in
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home runs by shortstops. I think Lindor's probably got to
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be #1 but he is a very streaky hitter, excellent fielder, good
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base runner, good guy. But guess what?
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With men in scoring position, he's been horrible all year,
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$1.54 is awful. So I do not want to see him
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anywhere near the heart of the line up.
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I want to see him tonight in the seven or 8 hole.
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You want to get back to a more prominent spot, then earn your
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way back because right now, dude, you suck.
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Ben Brown got sent down here. He'll be a re learning, maybe a
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third pitch that would be helpful.
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Maybe cutting a rug at Denny Arthur's.
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What do you want to see from Ben Brown and is the best course for
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this year him to become a bullpen arm?
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Yeah, unless you tell me that Jed's not going to go add
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multiple starters or at least one high end starter.
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We get a high end starter back tomorrow.
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Imanaga Kyon has got to get fixed because he had a run of
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nine of his last 10 starts were quality starts and then the last
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two he's got a batting practice pitcher.
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He's been horrible. So he's not going anywhere but
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with Imonaga back and then you got Matt Boyd going tonight and
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now no more Ben Brown, you got Cade Horton.
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I mean where you got to add another arm here.
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You got to go get an elite high end arm whether that is staying
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the off Contra whether that I wouldn't call him high end, but
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he's good. Edward Cabrera from the Marlins
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might be available. So unless Boston's going to say
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you know what, we're blowing everything up.
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We'll trade you Garrett Crochet and they're not going to.
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I don't know where you're going to get these arms because
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Arizona is still in the race. Why would they blow things up
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and trade Gallon and Kelly and the Cubs can't wait until the
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deadline to at least address 1 move and we I may not know
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anything on Boston, Atlanta, the health of Chris Sale, the
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Arizona Diamondbacks until closer to end of July.
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In Boston says they're going to be buyers.
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I'll believe it when I see it. You're right, Colin Ray has to,
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I mean, he's he's done what he's been asked.
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It was probably better than anybody anticipated.
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But so we had Birchy on earlier. He thinks it's going to be on
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Casey that everybody's calling for, He said by Steros as well.
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But he expects Casey to be the guy, maybe the main piece in any
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trade. Is that what you're hearing
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from, you know, from Chicago that when they get to, when
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they're, you know, when they call and ask that they are the
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player that most people want back?
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Is either one of those two? Yeah, I hear Owen Casey and I
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also hear that people like Jackson Wiggins the pitcher, so,
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and he's got really good stuff and I hear the organization is
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super high on him. So, you know, if you look at
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Jackson Wiggins, his numbers are really good at AA, really good.
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He's a big guy, like 652-3240. Well, if you have a high end
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scouting report on him where that dude can be a 12 in our
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rotation within two years, boy, I'd be really leery of trading a
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guy like that. I mean, we saw a guy last night
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make his debut for the Reds. He was drafted last June.
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So if these guys are coming this quick, I'd rather keep him.
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But again, you're trying to win a World Series, so sometimes you
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have to give up players you don't want to part with.
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You mentioned a couple of third base targets.
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What else are you hearing kind of in the rumor mill as it
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pertains starting pitching obviously at the top of the
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list, but what are you kind of hearing right now?
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Some guys that the Cubs are scouting, targeting.
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Yeah, they, they're monitoring the Arizona situation.
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They are monitoring the, the Marlin situation very, very
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closely. Texas Rangers situation.
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They have, you know, a handful of interesting arms.
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I don't think they're trading Jacob the ground, but you've got
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a Valdi that's down there. You've got Tyler Malley is
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another one that's there. And then they're looking at
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Pittsburgh where Mitch Keller and David Bednar could be
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available. They're not trading Paul scheme.
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I I somebody tweeted, what would we have to give up for Paul
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schemes? The franchise.
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Literally don't have enough in your organization to get Paul
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scheme. You literally don't.
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Yep, the ballpark and the surrounding areas.
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Maybe he's a easily no doubt about that.
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David Kaplan joins us in cheering stone of Iowa sponsor.
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So cap you just think that you know every team goes through
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them. I mean we've we've seen good
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teams in the past, really good teams.
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World Series teams have a kind. I'm not saying they're going to
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win the World Series, but they're, you know, on that short
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list of teams that you think can this is just a, you know, it's a
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long year. They'll get, they'll work
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themselves out of it or cause for alarm.
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What's kind of the consensus? They'll work themselves out of
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it. Let's not forget the 2016 Cubs
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were a sub 500 team in July and in June they went on a run where
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they lost like six of eight and like 9 of 11.
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And so they had a good four week spell in there where you went
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that team's going to win the World Series and then they
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righted the ship, they got Chapman.
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See you later. Thanks for coming.
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And they won the World Series. So again, I don't know if this
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team is as good as that, but I do think as long as Jed is
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engaged on multiple fronts, you add to his pitching staff and
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then perhaps address third base, where like if you get rid of
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Bruhan or Birdie and you move Matt Shaw to the utility roll
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and then go get, let's call it Eugenio Suarez, who's in the
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final year of his contract. Now you're a totally different
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team because you may not have this youthful, really
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outstanding defender. 1/3 you got a guy with 45 home run thump
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in your lineup in Suarez. So we know this year for the
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Bears, it's going to be all about Caleb Williams.
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I mean, that's where the conversation is going to start
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seemingly every time that they come up.
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I do have a question about the backup spot.
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They went out and signed Case Keenum.
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Tyson Baigent's a guy that I think competent backup, still a
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ton of upside. I'm sure there's other teams in
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the league that would like him. What is the game plan at the
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quarterback position? Is it to keep all three of those
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guys active throughout the course of the season?
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Obviously debating about rosters and injuries and the like, but
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is that the game plan? A quarterback for the Bears?
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Yeah, I don't see a scenario we're not that where they're not
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having those three guys all there.
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I think Tyson Beijing a really good player and I think they
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like him. And so I think he'll be the two.
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The Case Keenan was brought in here and I think he understands
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his role at this stage of his career and, you know, upper 30s
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age wise, he's helping the mentor Caleb Williams.
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And then, you know, it's a great insurance policy to have and
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also to help mentor Tyson Beijing.
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So yeah, I mean, it's Caleb's job.
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I believe Beijing is locked in as the two and Case will be the
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three. Of the two rookies on the
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offensive side of the ball, tight end receiver Bertner
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Loveland, who has a bigger impact this year on the team.
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Close to Loveland, it's not close.
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I keep hearing from people that are around the situation that
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Burden, not the toughest cat in the world, like amazingly
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talented, does not know yet what it means to play through nagging
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injury and what being a professional football player is
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all about. Like being a Pro Football
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player. The people listening are like,
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what do you mean they have no idea, idea the injuries and the
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pain that these guys play through.
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And when I saw like Kevin Jenkins, he came out with a
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Stinger and they've got doctors helping him off the field on a
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cart and the whole deal and all. And Cruz said, dude, I got the
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only of those I got and I stayed in the game.
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He said you take your mind to places you can't believe you're
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going, but you find a way to be out there for the next snap.
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And that's not denigrating Kevin.
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Everybody processes pain and stuff like that in a different
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way. Luther Burton, I don't think
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it's to that point yet. You know, everyone's thrilled
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that he's here and that's great. There's also a reason why the
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guy entered last season as the number one receiver in the draft
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and was still on the board when the Bears were picking at 38.
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With that, is there a trade market for Cole comment,
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something that I mean outside of a six round draft pick with
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Loveland coming in this year, what could you see in that
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market and would it make sense or does it make more sense in
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the Ben Johnson offense to keep both those guys around?
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Yeah, I don't see a market for him, ABI.
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Don't think the bears would do that because there's no savings
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to them. Salary cap wise, I think it's
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$100,000 saving on dead cap money, that's it.
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Next year it's several million. So if you're asking me to make a
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wager, I'll bet you that he's here opening day.
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I'll bet you he's not here next year on opening day.
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Capital One More on baseball About the other team, the White
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Sox the Kettle Marte situation from last night.
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The fan obviously just a disgrace that you know, somebody
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would stoop to that low. What's kind of been the fallout?
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Has Major League Baseball got involved?
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I know that the White Sox are going to they're going to ban
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him from the ballpark likely forever.
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But that that was that was I mean, I was unfortunate.
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I felt AFL bad for Marte and just be you know that this is
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the world we're living in now. What what does MLB get involved?
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Are they going to wait to see how the White Sox handle things?
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I don't think MLB gets involved. The White Sox have already
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banned this fan for life from the ballpark this morning, and
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then they're playing right now. It just started and they
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acknowledged him in his first at bat.
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I didn't see it. I'm going to go in and look
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because I'm talking to you guys. But they were going to
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acknowledge him on the scoreboard and then we were
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encouraging, as was the other sports station in town,
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encouraging a standing ovation from whatever kind of crowd that
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they're going to have when he comes to the plate.
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It because I'm speaking as a native Chicagoan.
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I want that guy to know AI got a lot of friends, my brother, my
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business partner who are die hard Sox fans.
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That is not representative of what the White Sox fan is A&B.
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That is not how we treat people in Chicago.
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And because there was some jackaloon in the stands yelling
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about his mother, who was killed in a car accident that reduced
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him to sobbing on the field. Everybody processes grief in a
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different way where something like that might fire me up more.
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Some people, they literally can't handle it.
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And he couldn't. And he was crying, and his
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manager was hugging him and consoling him.
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And, I mean, she died in 2017, I believe.
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And so he said this is still a horrific thing in his mind.
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The mind is a difficult thing to understand.
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And so if it's affected him that way last night, what type of a
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lunatic goes to a dark place like that and says something
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like that that can tell Marte that, that tells me all I need
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to know about that human being. And I said on the radio today,
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I'd like that guy's name because I want to out him on radio on
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YouTube, and I hope his bosses see it and they fire him from
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his job because what he did was despicable.
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Tonight NBA draft round one as they have separated now over 2
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days. Bulls sit at #12 Who is the
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apple of your icappy? Who do you want the Bulls to
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draft tonight? Well, if they can get up and get
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Ace Bailey, that would be really intriguing from Rutgers.
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Does he want to play there? Well, reportedly he wants to
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play only in a big market. New York, Chicago, LA.
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He wouldn't even work out for Philly.
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Which? That shocked me.
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He's not working out for anybody.
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He's trying to drive himself down the board so that he can
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end up in a destination where he feels is a big market that can
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build his brand. The whole deal.
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I don't understand who counsels these players.
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You're talking to a guy who scouted four years in the
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league, and I would go away from some guys blown away at how well
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they were handling the draft process.
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Like, boy, that guy gets it. That guy is sharp.
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Look how he carries himself. And they put on all the airs,
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the way they dressed, the way they shook your hand, looked you
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in the eye. And then there were other guys
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you're like, do you know you're interviewing for a multi
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$1,000,000 job? It's it's literally amazing to
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me how poor the guidance is some of these guys get.
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But Ace Bailey's a wildly talented kid out of Rutgers,
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6-7. I mean, the Bulls could use
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talent like that. I just can't believe he's going
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to be on the board at 12. We will talk to you in seven
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days, Kappa. Thank you buddy, as always.
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I look forward to it and let's find a way to win a damn
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baseball game tonight all. Right, preaching the choir.
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Good stuff. David Kaplan joins us ESPN 1000
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More keywords coming up throughout the afternoon on the
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drive from 2:00 until 5. John Bowen camp next on I Were
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you surprised? McCollum said he's still
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shopping around, still wants one more player on that roster.
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Where's he going to go? Well, he mentioned international
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and that's kind of the speculation that's been out
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there. You know the different.
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Try to figure that part of it out.
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Have. You heard?
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Are they kicking the tires if they got somebody in mind?
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Well, you know, there was that De Ritter kid that we talked
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about a month and a half ago, that same destined for Virginia.
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Then maybe that was is off. That isn't going to be eligible.
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Apparently he showed up again last week in Virginia.
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So that went off. But I think they're still
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sniffing around. The one part though, of the
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quote that I was most interested, he talked about guys
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possibly reclassifying and all of a sudden if you get a guy
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that would be a high school senior this year but
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reclassifies and goes a year early, if maybe that's something
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or if it's just something he said because that is a route you
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can go. Is there a name that's behind
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it? So I want to dig into that one a
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little bit more with Bowen Camp. You'll join Trent next.
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I got a duck out, but Trent and John will talk Hawkeyes when we
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come back tomorrow. 12:30 Bill Seals is going to be here.
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Are we going to do anything on the draft?
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Tomorrow, yeah, Chris Monster is going to join us.
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Also our old friend College BB News than an NFL draft scout or
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NBA draft scout pretty good too. Yes, yeah, I really like Chris.
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We'll also talk. I want to talk to him.
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He's based in Minnesota about the Timberwolves offseason as
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they were rumblings about Durant or and said no, that's not a
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place that he's going to go. Obviously ended up in Houston
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over the weekend, but what the offseason looks like and kind of
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going forward with the Timberwolves roster.
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Yeah, fascinating. By the way, if Speaking of Bulls
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draft, there was their first round pick 4th overall in what
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year was it, 2001? He spent a couple of Fridays ago
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at Circus Sports. Oh really, Marcus Pfizer was
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there at at Circa with buddy Chris Shipley.
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Good stuff that that's coming up next.
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John Bowen Camp joins Trent as that we take you until 2:00 here
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on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Trey kind of back with you as Miller and kind of continues on
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the Iowa Sports Radio Network. Ken had to duck out a little bit
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early today for his other job. He'll be back with us tomorrow,
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though, at noon. And instead we welcome in the
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self-proclaimed wise owl on the Iowa Hawkeye beat.
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He is John Bowenkamp from The Associated Press, Iowa college
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basketball news and a whole lot more.
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What's happening, John? Not.
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Much. I'm doing well.
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So yesterday a little media availability.
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You guys got some open practice last week, Ben McCollum working
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the masses, right, and working you guys on the beat a little
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bit and and being able to see this team, talk to some guys at
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building those relationships, all very important as you look
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to rebuild this program. I'll back up before we kind of
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get into a few INS and outs and going back to the hiring,
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getting Ben McCullum to come here.
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As we found out more and more about his background, being born
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in Iowa City, growing up such a big Hawkeye fan in the way that
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it feels like he's really endeared himself well to the
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program. And then he took it a step
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further and and made a little subtle jab to our friends up in
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AVEs. Feels like he is pushing all the
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right buttons here in the first couple months on the job.
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Yeah. I mean, you know, we and we
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talked about that back when he was hired and I said, you know,
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you always want to win the press conference, but you're going to
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have to win on the court obviously.
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But he has not only won the press conference, he has won the
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last couple months in terms of putting together this roster,
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you know, going out, you know, to the I club events, which for
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some reason they don't have one in southeast Iowa, which I'll
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call that the complaint for another day.
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But but, but anyway, but I mean he's out there, you know, and
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he's and he's and then again, the little jab yesterday at the
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rival. I just have really liked what he
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has done. And you know, and I mean,
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obviously, you know, he had a lot of right, you know, he had a
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lot of right buttons the day that that he was hired and he
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mentioned guys that, you know, you can tell he understood the
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history of Iowa basketball. You know, it's easy to say BJ
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Armstrong and you know, those kind of guys.
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But when you're bringing up Val Barnes, his name and some of his
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little, you know, the history of the of the of the program.
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So I like what he has done. I, you know, and I've said this
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before, I like this roster he's put together in listening to the
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these guys last week and this week.
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I like what they're saying of, of how this summer is going.
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And, and, and I mean, so I think where they're at right now is a
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really good place, you know, as, as you get in the later into the
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summer and get into the fall. You look at this roster and you
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can definitely see that there's holes that still could be
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filled. He talked a little bit about
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that. I'm searching in the market.
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I think the part of that quote though that maybe open my eyes a
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little bit more, he was talking about the international market.
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We know they've kicked the tires on a few different guys out
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there, some other ones that might be out there as though the
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portals pretty well picked over at this point.
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But he also mentioned reclassifying.
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Did you take it as him just mentioning different avenues
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that they can go or do we read into it that maybe they do have
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somebody in mind that could reclassify and come a year
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early? I do think it's it was probably
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just these are all the different avenues available.
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You know, he mentioned the international play, you know,
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international players, which, you know, right now, like I
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always having a problem getting one of their a couple of their
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players, though, I think, you know, so so I don't know if
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right now that's a good way to go because you may not be able
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to get them in, you know, get them in.
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But you know, I, I mean, obviously there's a lot of ways
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to go to fill this. And then I said this back when
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they were looking to fill the roster.
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I said, you know, there's you know, they kept talking about
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transfer portal. I'm like, you know, there's
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other places and you know, and maybe he and he didn't mention
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it yesterday. Maybe they look at a JUCO guy
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that's still available and, and trust me, there are some of
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those guys out there and you know, they may be looking for a
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certain piece, you know, and and they may be looking for some
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size. Everybody wants size, you know,
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on their team. So that might be kind of hard to
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find. But I mean, obviously they're
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they're going to look for maybe that one last piece of his
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roster and, and, and he'll look anywhere to find it.
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One guy that you guys didn't get an opportunity to see last week
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in the open practice was Alvaro Fulgaris, who's over with one of
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the Spanish national teams. Heard so many good things and
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somebody that I talked to that does a lot of scouting out east
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mentioned that he is going to be a great fit for them.
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But he's at a typical 5I mean he might be playing power forward.
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What we saw from Manoa, and I know you watch it a lot of
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Missouri Valley Conference basketball also is a guy that
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played 20 minutes a game last year.
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It's one thing to do it in the NVC, it'll be a different doing
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it in the Big 10. How equipped are they inside
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with their bigs? You know, I, I think they're OK.
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Again, you got to kind of look sometimes around the league and
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see what everybody else has, you know, and, and, and I think
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where they're at, I think they're in a pretty good place,
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but I, I still think they could probably use a little more size.
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And again, going back to what we were just talking about, maybe
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that's what they're looking for right now.
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You know, a a true, you know, really big powerful, you know,
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inside guy, a big power 4 or a tenner.
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I don't know how many of those are still out there right now,
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but I mean, obviously they want to look for something like that.
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But I do think they're in pretty good shape there.
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And again, they're going to run the ball, they're going to
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they're going to they're going to they're going to be getting
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up and down the court, they're going to be shooting threes,
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that sort of thing. I don't know necessarily if it's
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an issue right now. We'll find out when Big 10 play
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starts. But I think right now, I do
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think they're in pretty good shape right now.
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You, I saw Trevin Yorak and that might be a guy that could help
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out this season, not for long stretches, but can he give them,
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you know, 1012 minutes a game, something like that.
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What have you seen out of your rock?
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The kid from here, W Dewayne Valley.
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I, you know, I liked what I saw last week.
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I mean, I, I, I thought he was, he looked, he looked equipped to
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play the game. If they, you know, and if they
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needed him for 15 or 20 minutes, he, you know, you with high
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school guys sometimes when they get in there with the older
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players and, and he does have a lot of older players in this,
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you can kind of see that age difference.
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But I didn't really see that last week.
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I saw a guy that that, like you said, can give them 10 to 15
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minutes, do a lot of good things.
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Obviously he's going to have to get stronger.
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It is a different game than than what he has played in high
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school. But again, you've got time to do
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that and, and listening to the players talk, they really are
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hitting the weight room. And so, I mean, he'll develop
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over time, but I do think he's in a really good place right now
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to start the season that he can be a key part of this rotation.
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This group, where's your expectations for them right now?
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When you look at the squad, the way they're constructed, is it
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an NCAA tournament team or is that even too much hope in your
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number one? No, I think, I think you know,
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when you look back to, you know, maybe 5-10 years ago, you know,
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first year coach is coming in, it's really hard to get to the
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tournament now it's not. And you look at the guys he's
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brought in. He brought in six guys from the
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team that won 31 games and and made it to the tournament, won
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its conference. These guys know how to win.
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You added some pieces around them, guys who know how to win.
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You added some young kids who you know, who have come from
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winning progress. These guys know how to win, and
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that is a big deal sometimes with college basketball rosters.
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I don't think it's out of, you know, and I've said this before,
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I don't think it's out of the realm to think that they can get
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the NC tournament finish in that top 8 or 9 in the Big 10.
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A lot of things have to go right.
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There's going to have to be some development.
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There's going to have to be some air base going to have to find
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their role. You know, you don't want to be
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searching for that, you know, in the end of December and January.
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But I do think this this roster is equipped to get them to the
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NBA tournament. How long they last.
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I don't know what to Tennessee, but I do think this is a team
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that can get there. Some news coming down, Matt
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Norlander from CBS Sports had it that the NCAA is increasing the
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number of regular season games from 31 to 32.
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Of course, the hope that goes along with it, it'll lead to
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more high profile non conference games coming.
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Anything that you read into this, an extra game, let's hope
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it's not Mississippi Valley State and it's a match up
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against Mississippi. It's yeah, I mean, I think
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that's going to be kind of the hope of doing that.
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But this is a revenue grab. This is like he said, this is
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this is power conference teams getting and wanting to get
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another home game, you know, whether it's against, you know,
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another power conference team or another cupcake.
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That's going to depend on the coach.
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But I do think that that that it is a big deal for this because I
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do think you're just getting one more game.
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And, and, and one of the things they brought up is playing a non
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conference game during the conference schedule.
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You know, Illinois did that last year and I think they're doing
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it again this year. A lot of times, you know, that
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kind of went away. I mean, I remember back in the
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80s and 90s, you know, Iowa play Duke, you know, and then what?
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And well, and, and so I think maybe that's kind of what
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they're wanting this to be, is to play another power conference
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team in January and February if you've got an open date.
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And so I, I, yeah. And so I think that's what
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they're wanting to do with it. Let's hope that is the case.
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Now from the good news, an extra game.
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We're not going to argue about that.
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Extra games in the NCAA tournament expending this thing
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out to 72 or 76. John, do you read it?
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A point. This is going to happen kicking
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and screaming all we want. This is going to happen either
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72 or 76. I'm afraid it's going to happen
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because I think they want that Tuesday and Wednesday TV
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windows. I think they want an all day
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thing there. But you know, they keep talking.
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It was so funny to listen to them talk about when they were
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trying to explain this and they brought up the Indiana State
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team that didn't make it a couple years ago.
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And I'm like, you guys aren't doing this to help Indiana
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State. You know, you're not doing this
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to help a Valley school. You're doing this to get it, you
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know, to get a an 18 and 12 Vanderbilt team in, you know, or
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Ole Miss or somebody like that. It is just, you know, or, or to
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to lump all those 16 seeds and 15 seeds into that first game.
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So you're not dealing with them on the weekend, you know, the
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OVC champion and the Summit League champion and making them
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play an extra game. That's where I think this is
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going with this. I don't think it's, you know, to
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out of the goodness of their heart to help those mid major
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teams that are really good. One football question for you
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and just in general as we go through this offseason, you guys
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get availability, got Big 10, then media days, Iowa media days
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will lead up to the season. It's a long build up to get
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there. Just where you sit on June 25th
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when you look at this football team for this season, 2025.
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Only kind of where you are when you look overall at the program.
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Probably better than what a lot of people think.
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I mean, I, I, I and, and, and it's in my mind that what makes
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that, what makes me say that is Mark Gronowski.
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You know, I mean, I know where he came from.
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I know how he can play. And I just think this is their
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best quarterback they've had in a while.
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And if they can protect him, and I think they can, if he's got
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the pieces around him and the receivers and then running
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backs, which I think he does, I think this is a very good
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offense. You know, to me, the biggest
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question is, you know, what, where, who kind of emerges on
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defense right now? Who's that Jay Higgins?
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Who's that Nick Jackson? You know, those kind of guys.
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But offensively, I think they're in a really good place right
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now. And getting back to the
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quarterback thing, I think they're in a really good place
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in, you know, and not just the starting quarterback, but the
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backup quarterback. And so I just, I just think this
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offense is in a better place now in under Tim Lester and I just
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that to me gives me some confidence about this team.
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You still like watching the Dodgers play?
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Oh, it's just fun, you know? I mean, it wouldn't be when you
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get to watch excellent night and night out.
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You know, you can't. You got to do it.
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And I mean, it's starting to become a runaway now.
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There's a cream. I always think cream comes to
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the top. Cream is there now in June.
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Oh boy, it was. It's a different life than I
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certainly leave. Hey, Jack Dreyer, he got he was
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the opener of what, last night of the season?
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What are you seeing from the former Hawkeye and the Johnston
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Dragon, Jack Dreyer? He's been really good.
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I mean, I mean, he you know, he's been that kind of he's been
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that middle guy when they've had to do these bullpen games.
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He's been the starter and I think that's kind of a good
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experience thing for him. But you know, he's got a couple
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of bad outings here there, but on a consistent basis he's been
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really good and he's been that middle guy that that they've
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needed and he's been a surprise. I mean, at the beginning of the
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year, I mean, you doing back in February, you didn't think much
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of his, his, his chances and he's got the chance.
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He's maybe most of it. He's got good stuff.
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He throws strikes and and and that's what you want out of
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that, out of that position and what he does.
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Fast forward to the middle of October, you and your Dodgers
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are back in the NLCS. On the other side, I'm going to
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give you 2 options. Either team from the East, the
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Phillies or the Mets, or a team from the West, the Giants or the
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Padres. Who would you rather see in an
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NLCS? I mean, I'm not scared of any of
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them, but I just, I would rather play the NL East teams because I
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hate playing the Padres of their, of their little brother
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act and the Giants or the Giants, you know, and, and, and
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it's like I don't want seven games of, of the little brother
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act. It's like I would rather play
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the Mets, Billy straight up. And I mean, there's no rivalry
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there. It's just baseball and it's, you
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know, and it's been all the other stuff that goes along with
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it wouldn't be there, but that's what I want.
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I'm gonna be anybody from the NL Central, so I'm not worried
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about. That oh, look at that, shots
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fired and John Bowenkamp saying that Padres and the Giants are
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little brothers. I think you're scared of them.
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I think that's what it. Is I'm not worried about today.
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I don't say that about the Giants.
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The Padres are little bread. Okay.
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Hey John, appreciate the time as always.
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Good catching up with you. Thanks.
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Have a good one. You too.
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John Boacamp from The Associated Press Check it in with us.
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Iowa College hoops.com and the AP is where you can find John's
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work. We'll take our final time out,
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come back on the other side and look to stay hot.
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Another winning night last night with my picks of the day
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presented by Circa Sports. 3 in one yesterday.
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Back to the well again tonight. My picks coming up next.
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As we come back, it's Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio
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Thanks for joining us today And each and every day throughout
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the summer months making a way up to football season.
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So we talked about at the top of the show with Ken starting to
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get excited, starting to dig in a little bit more.
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I mentioned I found a couple of point spreads last night,
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including Iowa, Penn State, Hawkeyes getting 10 1/2 in
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Kinnock Stadium. FanDuel has Iowa favored in the
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side Hawk game. DraftKings has a back the other
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way. A one other line though of note
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in college football, the Iowa Nebraska game, Black Friday
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course end of the season and I was a little bit surprised as
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Iowa at Nebraska, the Hawkeyes in that one are currently let me
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find it once again. 2 1/2 is what the Hawkeyes are getting
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over in Lincoln, grabbing some points in the game that's come
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down to the wire and I has got it every time.
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Something to put in the back pocket tonight.
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NBA draft lottery. Now you can lay what -50,000 on
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Cooper flag to be the number one pick.
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What would have to happen? Is it off the board?
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A lot of places that is the case also.
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But the NBA draft was as a youngster for me, one of my
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favorite events of the year, going from college basketball,
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my first love into the NBA, which actually like back in the
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90s and the 80s, it was the merging of these two worlds.
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And tonight, I don't know if I'm going to get over there.
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I will be watching baseball and certainly watching my Minnesota
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Twins and with it betting against my Minnesota Twins.
38:28
We'll go back to the well with my picks of the day presented by
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Circa Sports. Will grab the plus 1/15 with the
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Mariners tonight. Joe Ryan against George Kirby in
38:37
that matchup. Kirby coming off injury and has
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not been very good. Also going to play a total
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tonight, a rarity in my betting portfolio, but we're going to go
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under tonight in Kansas City as a Royals play host to the Rays.
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Rasmussen, who's been excellent for Tampa against Michael
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Walker, has been pretty good in his own right 3.24 ERA.
38:56
And then we'll play one in the WNBA.
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Give me the Valkyries again tonight.
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They're playing good basketball, 14 out of five against the
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Liberty, who are going the wrong way after their nine and O start
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to the season. They've lost three out of four.
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I'll take the points. Golden State Plus 9 1/2.
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That'll do it for the program today.
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The drive with Lucas is coming up next.
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He's solo. In fact, I'm going to hang out
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with him for a little bit to kick off the show.
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It's coming up next year on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.