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The CLIPPERS are being investigated for COLLUSION! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  If it is the worldwide sports radio network.
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  The Los Angeles Clippers and star forward Kawhi Leonard are
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  under investigation by the league after reports surfaced
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  Wednesday from journalist Pablo Torre that owner Steve Ballmer
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  and the Claw circumvented the salary cap by giving Leonard a
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  no show job for $28 million. How hard will Adam Silver in the
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  NBA come down on the league's richest owner and on a franchise
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  that was supposed to be on the rebound after the disaster that
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  was the Donald Sterling era? Then we're going to break down
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  the rest of the AFC before tomorrow's season opener between
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  the Cowboys and Eagles. We'll let you know the teams to
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  beat who's going to surprise the world.
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  And before that, we'll find out who is in like Flynn.
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  Crack a six pack with Speedy on another all new live
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  action-packed Wednesday night edition of Jabba.
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  And the match going to give him a significant You're going to
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  have a ton of money to spend. Why not put it in one of the top
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  three offensive players in the league?
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  We're going to be looking at Aaron Judge and saying that he
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  can't win the big game, Michael Jordan said.
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  I played 82 games. You don't see LeBron doing.
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  That a game. Where you got to go before I
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  And yes, as everybody attacked me yesterday after the show, it
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  is not a holiday for soldiers, it's a holiday for work.
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  So I hope everybody enjoyed their non work day for Labor
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  Day. How are you?
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  How are you Speedy? How are you, Jabba?
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  Well, I was drafting for two teams I drafted for yours.
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  I well. First of all, let's cut you off
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  over here. I told you when we were going to
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  do this draft that I was not going to pick 53 players on a
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  roster. So I already said it's your turn
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  to do it. I will just play the roster when
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  you pick the team and I don't even want to know my roster
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  until the show is on. No, we're going to.
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  We'll reveal it with a surprise with Chris when he comes on.
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  OK, we'll have a surprise with the old Chris Lombardi.
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  Jabba, how are you? Good, good.
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  We got an overcast day like usually here in good old
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  Nebraska, but other than that, everything's good, man.
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  Just been playing. I got one of those new like
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  desks that you can like raise up and down.
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  You look like a you look like a little fella.
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  I'm not going. To use.
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  I know it's weird like. I'm not going to use the other
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  one. I don't want to get myself in
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  trouble on the show you keep. Going.
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  Now we just see your your small athletic head.
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  As we all know, Jabba lost 30 lbs.
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  Congratulations to Jabba Chamberlain losing 30 lbs.
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  You look damn good man, you really do.
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  Thanks. You look, it's great too,
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  because I got one of those those, I don't know what they're
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  viral, whatever, those walking treadmills too.
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  But you don't need that, you're outside all the time.
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  I know, but like if, if it's raining or something and you got
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  like a meeting or something, it's nice to be able to get all
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  your stuff done, walk and still be able to be productive and oh
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  so get some stuff done. So wait a second.
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  You got a treadmill. So when you're on a meeting
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  call, you're going to be walking the treadmill.
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  That's what you're going to be doing.
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  You're. Just going to be chilling.
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  Out and nobody hears the treadmill in the background.
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  Really, it's quiet. I'm always on a meeting when I'm
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  on the treadmill and people say how could you be on a meeting?
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  I'm at the gym and I have my headsets.
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  That yeah, because you're at the gym.
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  Yeah, but you can't hear anything because it's sound.
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  What do they call it? The sound barrier earphones
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  where you. Reducing or.
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  No, no, no. It's like.
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  AI think that's I think that's a sham because you can still hear
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  stuff. I yeah, probably you can hear
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  stuff, but I can't hear nothing. It's like completely closed up
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  air with nothing coming through those headsets.
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  So I actually love doing those meetings when I'm on the
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  treadmill now and and I've been on the treadmill practically
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  five days a week. I'm going about 2 1/2 three
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  miles a day and I am at 20. I think I said I was at 2:02
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  today. I lost almost 3334 lbs.
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  So at, I think two months ago I was 234, I dropped about 32 lbs.
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  So I'm very happy. I had an A1C that was absolutely
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  horrific and my doctor said I, I was pre diabetic so I had to do
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  something about it. So I had to cut out some sugar
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  drinks. So now I'm just going with the
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  watering meal, ladies and gentlemen.
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  So if you want to go to Walmart and get your meal, get the acai
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  or the acai Berry and go over there.
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  Actually, it's really delicious and it there's no sugar in it,
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  so artificial. What do they call that
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  sweetener? So I.
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  Absolutely, or whatever it is. Yeah, it's sweetener, but my
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  doctor says I could do it and I could take it and I've been
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  doing it. So I've been doing it.
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  Caffeine bot, baby. I I'm not a caffeine drinker.
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  I'm not a coffee drinker. A coffee as the Bostonites or
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  Boston, Boston Ice, as they say, it's coffee, not coffee.
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  I I don't use coffee, by the way.
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  I say coffee. So I try I'm going to correct my
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  spelling in my my English language as fish is the quote on
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  quote teacher on on this quota over here today.
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  So anyways, Pablo Torre on The Athletic podcast Pablo Torre
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  Finds Out, reported a bombshell story earlier on Tuesday
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  suggesting the LA Clippers paid Kawhi Leonard $28 million to
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  work a no show job in order to pay him more than a Max contract
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  allowed by the NBA salary cap when they signed him to an
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  extension before the 2021 and 2022 season.
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  This this situation revolves around the company Aspiration,
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  which Clipper owner Steve Ballmer made a $300 million
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  partnership with in I'm sorry within 2021, including a $50
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  million personal investment. Aspiration went bankrupt and is
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  under federal investigation with their Co founder already
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  pleading guilty to two counts of wire fraud and defrauding
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  investors and lenders of more than $248 million.
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  Ballmer allegedly set up a four year, $28 million deal between
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  between aspirations and Leonard's personal LLCKL two
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  Aspire where he did not have to do anything and get paid, but
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  would be voided if he left the Clippers.
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  The timing and nature of the deal makes it look like Ballmer
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  gave Kawhi an extra $28 million Max contract allowed in order to
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  keep him in LA. The Clippers and Ballmer flatly
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  deny any wrongdoing, but the NBA came out a few hours ago with a
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  statement that the Clippers and this Kawhi Leonard situation are
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  now under an NBA investigation. In 2000, when the Timberwolves
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  were found to skirt the salary cap with Joe Smith, they were
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  stripped of five first round picks, fine 3.5 million, and
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  band coach Kevin McHale and owner Glenn Taylor for the year
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  while avoiding Smith's contract. This is a very, very interesting
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  story. And again, a story that Pablo
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  Torre has come out with. Now when Pablo comes out and he
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  investigates these stories, these stories obviously have
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  some legs and has some back end to the story.
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  Kawhi Leonard to me is one of my favorite players.
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  I've been watching. Kawhi Leonard when he was
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  drafted by the San Antonio Spurs, he won championships with
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  the San Antonio Spurs. Then he went over there to
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  Toronto and won a championship with Toronto and he had to
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  decide where he was going to go. Now he wanted to go back to LA,
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  as we all know, where he went to school.
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  He went to San Diego State and he wanted to go back home and he
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  wanted to be closer to home with his mom and his family.
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  And it was between the LA Lakers and the LA Clippers.
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  He didn't want to go to the Lakers, and one of the main
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  reasons why he didn't want to go to the Lakers was because of
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  LeBron James. So it was the LA Clippers or
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  somewhere else, maybe Golden State because that's another
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  California team. But the fact is he decided to go
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  to the Clippers and a lot of people when he decided to go to
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  Clippers were questioning why would he go to an organization
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  that always loses when they had Doc Rivers and Chris Paul there
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  and Lob City. It didn't work.
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  It never worked, and we could go back in time for the Clippers
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  organization. They were an absolute debacle
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  and you think about Kawhi Leonard, this guy was the best
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  two way player in basketball at the time when he decided to go
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  to LA. Now he had knee problems and
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  before he signed the contract there were questions on why the
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  LA Clippers would give him an extension and give him a
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  contract when they knew after bringing him to the organization
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  he might need knee surgery. But nevertheless, adding a
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  superstar play like Kawhi and the way the organization was now
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  building through owner Steve Ballmer, a fairly new owner, one
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  of the richest owners in professional sports, they needed
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  a way to draw this man to the organization.
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  And knowing that if they can set up some kind of flaw in the
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  contract and create a company, a corporation called Aspiration,
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  they can find a way to give Kawhi Leonard $28 million more
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  where he would accept going to an LA Clipper team that
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  obviously was in a rebuilding stage and obviously was trying
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  to find a way to draw more superstars to come and play
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  there. Kawhi Leonard is a guy that I'm
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  not saying had anything fully to do with this because we don't
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  know the full story, but we all know Steve Ballmer comes from an
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  organization, a very well known organization, a computer
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  organization called Microsoft and Bill Gates.
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  If anybody knows about Bill Gates and his back end story,
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  he's a very smart man, but he stole a lot of people's ideas.
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  That's how he became rich. Now, just because you steal
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  ideas and you bring it to the forefront does not mean you
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  can't make billions of dollars off those deals.
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  And that's what obviously Bill Gates did.
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  But when you hear a story like this and you talk about the past
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  of what the NBA has done to organizations, including, as we
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  said, the Timberwolves, the Minnesota Timberwolves, and what
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  they did to the GM and the owner and Kevin McHale.
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  And I remember it very, very well because Kevin McHale was
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  the one that was in the forefront of drafting Kevin
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  Garnett. Do we remember Kevin Garnett,
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  one of the greatest power forwards of all time and also
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  behind drafting well, making the trade and then drafting Stefan
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  Marbury? If you remember that when you
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  look at the fact of what the NBA did to Kevin McHale ownership in
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  Glenn Taylor over there in Minnesota at the time in 2000,
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  you would honestly believe that If the NBA investigates this
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  story and looks deeper into it, there has to be some kind of
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  hammer being dropped on an organization like the LA
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  Clippers. First of all, that is patent
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  with money. This is an organization is the
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  richest organization and professional basketball.
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  Think about it. The Lakers just sold their
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  organization for what, twelve $13 billion?
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  You talk about the Clippers and you talk about Ballmer.
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  Ballmer is a guy that's very smart.
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  He understands business. He understands how to hide and
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  deliver money to players and people in a business standpoint.
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  Aspirations. I remember the patch that they
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  were wearing on their jersey at the time this was going on.
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  I remember it when Fish told me we were going to get into this
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  story. I remember it very, very well.
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  I didn't even know what aspiration was.
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  I know the Nike sign. I know the Jordan sign, which
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  most NBA teams are wearing on their jerseys now, and now the
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  NBA is allowing teams to use sponsorships to put on their
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  jerseys, which we're going to see in the next two to three
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  years. You're going to see a lot of
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  different things on NBA jerseys. As a matter of fact, if you go
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  to Europe and you see the European jerseys, that's all
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  they do. All their sponsors are promoted
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  on their jerseys. You, you obviously have to
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  understand the way the NBA works.
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  You have to understand how professional sports work.
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  College football has agreed to bring in NIL deals, paying
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  players to play college football, the NBA, and the money
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  that these guys are making. As we as I brought up and what's
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  that smell yesterday, There are players that are making 10s of
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  millions of dollars and never step on the basketball court
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  once in a game. Just think about it.
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  We had a coach, as I brought up yesterday that was making
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  $150,000 playing for the Lakers and riding the bench, and
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  players were saying to that specific coach, Coach, how could
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  you live on $150,000 when the average American don't even
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  break $100,000 a year? Think about it.
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  And now you look at these stories and I'm sure this isn't
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  the first time we've heard this. I'm sure this isn't the first or
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  the last time we're going to hear an owner maneuver some kind
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  of way to deliver more money to a player under the table and try
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  to play like he knew nothing about it.
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  Now, obviously, he has come out and agreed and pleaded guilty to
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  two counts of wire fraud. OK, Just think about that.
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  Wire fraud is a felony. That is a felony.
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  And you also think that if it was me or you, and I'm talking
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  about Speedy, you're not Jabba because Jabba is Jabba
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  Chamberlain. He's a multi millionaire.
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  So we all know who Jabba Chamberlain is.
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  But if it was me or Speedy that does something like that, we're
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  going to jail. We're going to jail for at least
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  5 to 10 years at least for two felonies or two felony counts of
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  that magnitude. Ohtani, going back to what we
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  have heard and the stories behind the whole Tony debacle
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  with the condos and the money that was delivered or
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  disappeared as his agent claims that it wasn't these two fellas
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  money divided out when they were trying to build these
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  condominiums. I honestly believe that the NBA
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  will brush this under the rug. I do because the NBA knows that
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  Steve Ballmer is is a very important piece to the growth of
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  the NBA and NBA business sponsorships, advertisements.
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  This is a guy that's a mastermind of understanding how
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  to build businesses around his professional sports team.
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  And I, I do believe that Steve Ballmer with the money that he
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  has behind him as we see money talks and bull, you know, what
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  walks Steve Ballmer is a guy that understands how to figure
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  out how to negotiate things and brush things in places that you
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  will never talk about or find ever again.
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  Now, this isn't David Stern. Now, if it was David Stern that
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  was behind this situation, you know, David Stern will drop the
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  hammer on ownership. You know, David Stern will
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  absolutely press on the Clippers and do what he did in 2000 to
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  the Timberwolves. I think that was his final, I
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  think final two or three years if I'm not mistaken.
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  Yeah, because I know Garnett was just trade to the plastics.
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  It was right around that. David Stern was still running
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  the NBA organization. He gave Adam Silver the reins.
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  I think if I'm not mistaken, it was 2005 or 2006.
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  It was right after Eli Manning was drafted, if I'm not
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  mistaken, when David Stern walked away and gave the reins
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  to Adam Silver. Adam Silver has, and I'm not
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  saying he's ruined the league. I'm not saying that, and I'm not
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  saying that Adam Silver isn't a smart, intelligent man.
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  Adam Silver has let the players control the league.
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  He has let the players decide where and how the league should
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  be run, as we all call it. The LJA on this show, the LeBron
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  James Association, and then, and this is a big league which has
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  become international because of Michael Jordan and now LeBron
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  James. It's big all over the place.
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  We talk about how soccer, European football is big all
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  around the world. Basketball is coming to that
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  point. Basketball is becoming that
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  second international sport. It's not hockey.
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  I know everybody's going to say, well, what about hockey?
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  Hockey's big internationally, but it's not as big as
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  basketball is. Basketball is played in over 200
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  countries. All you need is a basketball.
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  You don't even need sneakers anymore.
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  You could go, you can run up and down a court and shoot a
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  basketball. And with the money that
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  sponsorships and sneaker deals that these players are getting,
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  as we have attacked many different WNBA players,
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  attacking Caitlin Clark on what she's doing for the WNBA, we all
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  know that money does grow on trees for the NBA.
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  And $28 million to an NBA team is nothing.
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  It's pennies. It's nothing to a guy like Steve
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  Ballmer, the amount of money that is being brought in through
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  TV deals and sponsorships. So we all know the NBA knows
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  that $28 million. Oh, we'll just brush this under
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  the rug. Well, we'll give a fine.
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  You're not going to lose draft picks.
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  It's not going to be like it was in 2000 because Adam Silver has
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  allowed ownership and allowed players to control the league,
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  not the commissioner, as the commissioner should be stepping
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  in and saying what he should be saying as a commissioner and
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  attacking ownership and why you should not be paying players
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  onto the table that kind of money when you're giving these
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  guys multi million mega deals. You're talking about Steph
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  Curry, who just got, I'm sorry, not even Steph Curry.
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  Brown from the from the the Celtics just got a $400 million
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  contract. Jason Tatum, I'm Did he just get
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  a contract? Yeah, he got one last.
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  Year. What was it, 500 million?
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  He was low 300. I think his was 310.
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  And then you'll look at Shay this last season, so.
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  I mean, it's ridiculous. These players are making
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  ridiculous amount of money, more than we're going to be talking
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  about basketball players making more than baseball players a
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  year. Just think about that.
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  This is very few players on a basketball team.
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  What is there 1213 guys on a roster?
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  And it's like, I think there's 15 technically, but like.
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  You know what I'm doing, what I'm speaking.
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  To them, there can be, yeah, there can be a total of 14, I
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  think 14 or 15. Yeah, so but you're 13 players
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  usually only play if if depending on a coach, if even
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  Tom Thibodeau only played eight guys.
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  But you know what I mean If if it's a.
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  Certain, but even even that 11th and 12th dudes still getting
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  like a million or two to do nothing.
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  Less no the 11th or 12th guy on an NBA team like it makes more
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  than a lot of second line NHL players.
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  It's ridiculous how much these guys are making.
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  I wonder. I mean.
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  How much do you think though, really?
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  An average guy playing, riding the bench.
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  I know there was a Knick player, a big man that the Knicks gave
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  an extension to and they were paying him if I'm not I'm not
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  mistaken, 8 or 9 million a year and he didn't step on a
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  basketball court once that season.
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  And then the Knicks decided to drop him and pay pay off the
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  contract. I think they signed up to A2
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  year deal worth about 16,000,000.
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  I don't remember the player. It was a big man, 7 foot 7 foot
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  guy. I I I draw a blank on the name
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  too. I think it was in the Phil
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  Jackson era. It was in the Phil Jackson era,
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  and I remember it because, and it was either in a Phil Jackson
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  or Jeff Hornacek, Jerome James, Jerome James, that's who it was.
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  And I remember when the Knicks gave him that big guy.
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  He didn't step on the Court One time when that season, not once.
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  He was terrible. Absolutely, it says the average
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  NBA just bench salary like the minimum contract is between 1.1
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  and 3.3 and it just depends on experience how many years you
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  have but it could be up to 12 point. 4 if.
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  You're a mid level. Think about that.
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  If I was a parent right now and I'm sitting pretty and I say,
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  hey, son, you're athletic. You're about 6 foot 36 foot
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  four. What would you what, what would
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  we put you in? What kind of sport do you enjoy
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  playing? Football's too.
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  It's too much of a contact sport.
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  I don't want you to have CTI, don't want you to have brain
• 24:00
  trauma in the future. Baseball, you got to go up to
• 24:03
  single A and AA and AAA. You might never step on a
• 24:06
  baseball field and you definitely don't want to get
• 24:08
  paid that rinky dinky money in the minors.
• 24:11
  And and then you talk about hockey, hockey, there's the AHL,
• 24:17
  there's junior and then AHL. But are you ever going to step
• 24:20
  on an NHL ice? And, and if you do, an average
• 24:23
  player is probably bringing in 500,000.
• 24:26
  Honestly, the sport that I'm telling my kid to play is
• 24:30
  basketball. Why?
• 24:32
  You know, there's no contact whatsoever because if you lay a
• 24:35
  pinky, they're at the free throw line.
• 24:37
  And internationally, you go to Europe right now, they're paying
• 24:40
  guys five $6,000,000 to play international basketball.
• 24:43
  Ask Stephon Marbury. We have a statue over there of
• 24:46
  him in China. And then yeah, here in the NBA,
• 24:51
  if you're a bench player, even if you're AG League player,
• 24:54
  there are G League players that were not drafted that we're
• 24:58
  making $500,000 a year. Sometimes before they were
• 25:02
  drafted. Yeah, 17 years old Mitchell
• 25:04
  Robinson, if I, if I'm not mistaken, was making like
• 25:07
  $350,000 playing overseas because he didn't play college
• 25:12
  ball. He decided that year he was
• 25:14
  going to go to the NBA drafts, which was a big mistake because
• 25:17
  he probably was a top ten, top 15 pick if he played for SMUI
• 25:21
  remember it. And instead, instead he decided,
• 25:24
  Hey, you know what, I'm going to go play overseas.
• 25:26
  I don't want to play college ball.
• 25:28
  I don't want to play if if I'm not miss.
• 25:30
  It was Larry Brown decided to step down.
• 25:32
  I I don't know. He was in a scandal, so he had
• 25:34
  to step down, I think so little before the Arizona scandal.
• 25:37
  So that's why he probably decided to go overseas.
• 25:39
  I don't remember the whole story, but the fact is and the
• 25:43
  NBA and the amount of money these players are bringing in is
• 25:46
  significant and ownership. I am not surprised that they're
• 25:50
  paying these players under the under the table and they're
• 25:53
  going to find ways to create LLC's corporations.
• 25:57
  And what is $300 million to a guy like Ballmer?
• 26:00
  It's nothing. This guy is what he's worth
• 26:03
  about $22 billion, $300 million is like $30 in his pocket.
• 26:09
  It's not a lot of money. It really isn't.
• 26:12
  Oh, it's not $30.00, but you know, $30,000 in his pocket.
• 26:15
  He's not crying about losing 300 million.
• 26:18
  He added the best player, the best two way player at the point
• 26:21
  of no return in the NBAI don't care if he had knee problems.
• 26:26
  This guy was the best two way player and he just come and came
• 26:28
  off winning a championship with a Toronto Raptor team that
• 26:33
  honestly had no business winning a championship.
• 26:35
  That's what I'm saying. So I'm going all in on it. 28
• 26:39
  million, I'll give you let's let's give you a nice 40
• 26:43
  million. That's nothing to me. 300
• 26:45
  million open up a corporation. I'm losing money.
• 26:47
  Who cares? I'm I'm Steve Ballmer, I'll
• 26:50
  just, I'll take another billion out and put it in my pocket.
• 26:53
  Who cares? As we all know, Stevie, Uncle
• 26:55
  Stevie, he paid, he paid Mr. Juan Soto $768 million and he
• 27:04
  made a billion dollars the year before that.
• 27:06
  What is $768 million to a guy that's a hedge fund owner and
• 27:11
  he's he's bringing in one to $2 billion a year?
• 27:15
  Honestly speak, and I've made that analogy before, the the
• 27:18
  Clippers are a lot like the New York Mets.
• 27:20
  When Steve Cohen bought the Mets.
• 27:22
  Cohen was involved in scandals at the time that he ended up
• 27:24
  being wrongly, wrongfully accused of, but still was
• 27:27
  involved in a lot of stuff like that.
• 27:29
  Trying to do it with the Mets, trying to, especially when they
• 27:31
  traded for Lindor at the time. I think that was when the
• 27:33
  scandal really start to took off more and both those teams are
• 27:37
  the 2 richest owners in sports. They're both like high profile
• 27:40
  getting these big name guys and both both teams.
• 27:43
  Now the Mets finally made the NLCS but before that they were
• 27:45
  doing nothing in the playoffs and the Clippers forget about
• 27:47
  it. They did nothing in the playoffs
• 27:48
  whatsoever even with Kawhi Leonard there.
• 27:51
  The best series, actually, was when Kawhi Leonard got hurt.
• 27:54
  They beat Utah and they went to the Western Conference finals
• 27:56
  before losing to Phoenix. And then you want to be
• 27:59
  established yourself as a reputation over the Lakers.
• 28:02
  Kawhi Leonard wanted that image. Oh, I don't want to play with
• 28:04
  LeBron James. I want to be my own guy.
• 28:06
  He brings in Paul George, helps the Thunder win a championship
• 28:09
  with all the draft picks and trading Shay and all that.
• 28:12
  Other stuff didn't they have to wait a year for Paul George?
• 28:14
  And if I'm not mistaken, when they made the move for Kawhi
• 28:17
  Leonard, he was out for 1 1/2 season because of the knee
• 28:20
  injury. They already knew that he had a
• 28:23
  knee injury and they still signed him and brought him to
• 28:27
  the LA Clippers. They didn't care about his knee
• 28:29
  injury because they got Kawhi Leonard a a champion not for one
• 28:34
  organization, but two. And how many times did we talk
• 28:37
  about like all these different Kawhi Leonard trade rumors too
• 28:39
  that we're going to have? Oh, they lost in 2022.
• 28:43
  They lost to Dallas, I think at the playoffs.
• 28:45
  Sorry, their window closing at that point that Kawhi Leonard
• 28:48
  randomly gets extended out of nowhere.
• 28:49
  We were talking about Kawhi Leonard, I think the Knicks one
• 28:51
  offseason as a trade potential. And if it didn't work out with
• 28:55
  the Clippers over there, then even last year too.
• 28:58
  The Clippers are getting old. Obviously, Paul George leaves,
• 29:00
  he goes to Philly and oh, Kawhi Leonard still signs another
• 29:03
  random extension. All of a sudden now you see.
• 29:05
  Wait a second. They at one point had Russell
• 29:08
  West, Westbrook, they had James. Now they have James Harden, they
• 29:11
  extended James Harden and and again, money is no object to
• 29:14
  Steve Ballmer, but who wants to go and play for the Clippers?
• 29:17
  They're the the little brother of the LA Lakers.
• 29:20
  Say whatever you want. Luke is there.
• 29:22
  LeBron might not want to be there anymore.
• 29:24
  The Lakers are Showtime. That's what they are.
• 29:27
  The Clippers are baby time. Nobody cares about the LA
• 29:30
  Clippers. Yeah, and they're trying to,
• 29:32
  like, establish themselves in the weirdest ways by, like,
• 29:35
  making these special kinds of seats in their arena.
• 29:36
  Oh, we're going to go separate ourselves from the Staples
• 29:39
  Center and establish ourselves or something else from the
• 29:42
  Lakers, too. Meanwhile, the Clippers, if you
• 29:43
  look at the history of their franchise, I think before the
• 29:45
  Chris Paul, Blake Griffin era, they were as Putras.
• 29:48
  Yeah, but think about it. I call it Dock City because
• 29:51
  that's all it was pretty. They were docking.
• 29:53
  And then they were Choke City. Alley.
• 29:55
  That's right, that's right, that's right.
• 29:58
  They were docking, they were choking and they were dropping
• 30:01
  at the end. Yeah, dropping with injuries
• 30:04
  too, because Chris Paul couldn't stay healthy.
• 30:06
  Now quite a letter to Paul. George Kest, stay healthy.
• 30:08
  Yeah, that's that's your ownership right there.
• 30:10
  So So what does Steve Baldwin decide to do?
• 30:12
  Let's go manipulate by going against the salary cap, which is
• 30:16
  obviously illegal. Now, I've always had a loosely
• 30:18
  objection to the way the NBA salary cap works as it is where
• 30:21
  I think you're right. It's very lenient towards the
• 30:23
  players where it gives them way too much room to all right,
• 30:25
  maybe if they trade a contract or two to make it work, but
• 30:27
  there's no right real salary cap like it is in the NFL type thing
• 30:31
  and these guys are manipulating it to that.
• 30:33
  What I don't understand is why create a corporation?
• 30:36
  And I know it and me and Fish were going back and forth.
• 30:39
  We were trying to figure that out because it is $28 million.
• 30:42
  You can't hide $28 million. You're going to have to find a
• 30:45
  way to claim it. So that's probably why Ballmer
• 30:48
  had to create a some kind of aspiration corporation.
• 30:52
  But again, the way he did and the way he set it up, how did he
• 30:55
  not think that somehow or some way the NBA wasn't going to
• 31:00
  figure this out and wasn't going to investigate it?
• 31:02
  That's and, and Steve Ballmer's a very smart man.
• 31:05
  He is a businessman. So that's why I'm a little
• 31:08
  turned off on this story on why Ballmer actually thought that
• 31:13
  there was no way the NBA was going to figure this out.
• 31:15
  Now, the LJA is completely different from what the NBA was
• 31:20
  when we had David Stern running the organization.
• 31:23
  But Adam Silver is a guy that is going to sit back.
• 31:26
  He's going to sit around the round table and have LeBron
• 31:29
  James leading that table and say, hey, you know what?
• 31:32
  It's just $28 million, you know. There's got to there's got to be
• 31:36
  more to that 28 million. Like, and I don't know if you
• 31:39
  guys saw it, but Cuban was going back and forth with Pablo and
• 31:43
  like, you know, come on his show because Cuban, he was on the
• 31:46
  side of Ballmer, obviously. But you know how they used to
• 31:49
  get away with it too and not have to create corporations.
• 31:52
  They used to give it to churches and it was, it was big in
• 31:55
  college and they could, they could go help the church.
• 31:59
  And are you really going to come out?
• 32:00
  Mind you, it wasn't $28 million, but that's the way that they
• 32:04
  could funnel and hide it where it wasn't a big deal.
• 32:06
  So the kid would go, you know, to the church and be like, hey,
• 32:09
  he, you know, he helped, you know, pick up chairs or whatever
• 32:12
  and picking up chairs got him 5 grand or what?
• 32:14
  And that's so that's kind of how they did so.
• 32:17
  But 28 million of of somebody that is a business guy that gets
• 32:23
  it. Yeah, 2028 mil is probably a
• 32:25
  throw in the hat, which is is disgusting to even say.
• 32:29
  But for him it really is. And to show like all of like the
• 32:35
  debtors and all the other stuff that like went with it.
• 32:37
  It's there. It there's more to it.
• 32:40
  I just don't know what angle it it is.
• 32:43
  So it wasn't his company allegedly, right?
• 32:46
  He wasn't a founder of the company.
• 32:48
  The founders went down for wire fraud and in basically running
• 32:52
  Ponzi scheme type things against with their investors.
• 32:56
  But one of the investors was Ballmer.
• 32:59
  Ballmer invested $50 million and then curiously, not even in the
• 33:05
  middle of the season. He did that right before the
• 33:06
  season. Around the same time Kawhi
• 33:08
  Leonard signed his extension with the with the Clippers.
• 33:11
  If you remember, this is also the year I believe speedy Paul
• 33:14
  George. So there was a big emphasis on
• 33:16
  this and it looks like Kawhi and his people who listen, there's a
• 33:20
  lot of stories about Kawhi's people, they going back to his
• 33:23
  uncle with not playing with the quad.
• 33:25
  But we, we know the Kawhi's people might have been like,
• 33:28
  well, you know, we want a little bit more than the Max.
• 33:31
  And they were like, all right, fine.
• 33:32
  I got a company. I know this guy.
• 33:34
  I'll give him $50 million. He'll give you 28,000,000 / 4
• 33:39
  years. As long as you stay with us for
• 33:41
  four years, you keep that extra 28 million, you leave, that's a
• 33:45
  little sweetener you don't get. And that's like, OK, that's a
• 33:48
  nice little icing on the deal, now I'm coming.
• 33:51
  I wonder what Paul George got personally, because if Kawhi got
• 33:55
  that, what did Paul George get? Because it sounds like that's
• 33:58
  how he plays, right? This isn't the first time he's
• 34:01
  done something like that. There's no way.
• 34:04
  By the way, Fish, before you consider Jamie Lee of the comic
• 34:06
  Kawhi needs to retire. Yeah, him and Steve Ballmer's
• 34:09
  funding. Kawhi Leonard and Paul George
• 34:10
  did not. Play Paul George is a waste of
• 34:12
  space everywhere he's gone ever since that horrific injury with
• 34:16
  Team USA, He is, he's still a great player, but he hasn't been
• 34:19
  the same player when he was with Indiana and and again, going
• 34:23
  back to the whole Kawhi Leonard situation with Chris Paul and
• 34:27
  now even James Harden. What did James Harden just get
• 34:29
  in his extension? He just signed an extension with
• 34:32
  Ballmer and you know, James Harden all about money.
• 34:34
  It's always been about money or he would have stayed with OP
• 34:38
  did. You see his?
• 34:38
  Did you see his videos today? No, I haven't seen his videos.
• 34:43
  James Harden, there was a workout video like, oh, he's
• 34:45
  getting fat. Yeah, we, we called him James
• 34:48
  Fatten. That's what we called him on
• 34:49
  this show because he he got fat all the time.
• 34:52
  And by the way, I remember somebody, an ex NFL player that
• 34:55
  told me, Eric Coleman told me that he would take James Harden
• 34:59
  over Allen Iverson of all time, which was an absolute ridiculous
• 35:03
  statement. I, it was one of the worst, you
• 35:05
  know, back and forth banter when it came to sports media I've
• 35:09
  ever had with an ex athlete. And Eric, if you're listening to
• 35:12
  the show, which I know he's been in tuned to the show a couple of
• 35:15
  times, especially when I talk about his Atlanta Falcons and
• 35:19
  his New York Jets. He has come out and told me that
• 35:23
  I maybe I should do a little bit more investigation on his teams.
• 35:27
  Well, let me ask you a question. If you really thought that James
• 35:32
  Fatten was ever as good as AI, well, tell me what year it was
• 35:38
  because even at the tail end of Allen Iverson's career, Allen
• 35:42
  Iverson in his bad years was putting up almost 20 points a
• 35:46
  game and he was still the third or fourth guy that was playing
• 35:50
  on a very good team. So it made absolutely no sense.
• 35:53
  And I, and again, Eric Coleman has his own obviously thoughts
• 35:57
  when it comes to sports and and and basketball, because he says
• 36:01
  I know basketball just as much as I know football.
• 36:03
  Well, if you knew basketball as much as you know football, you
• 36:06
  definitely wouldn't take James Harden over AI.
• 36:09
  James Harden is not a top ten player of all time.
• 36:12
  Alan Iverson is so terrible statement, but James Harden, I
• 36:16
  guarantee you, guarantee you was paid being paid under the under
• 36:21
  the table because if you look at his contract, the contract is
• 36:25
  not in a huge extension. I think if I'm not mistaken, he
• 36:28
  signed a three-year extension and get me the numbers.
• 36:31
  Does anybody have it? That's something my producer
• 36:34
  should be doing. What the?
• 36:36
  The James Harden contract. The most recent?
• 36:37
  One his new contract that he just signed it.
• 36:41
  Was like 100 million for three years or something, yeah.
• 36:44
  Two year, 81 1/2. Yeah, 81 I just had pulled.
• 36:47
  Out 40 million a year. 40 million so you definitely I
• 36:50
  definitely believe he was getting paid.
• 36:51
  He's getting paid under the table at least 11:50 more
• 36:54
  $1,000,000 because think about. Isn't that what he's doing like?
• 36:58
  An average star is making every star in the NBA is making 50
• 37:03
  million or more. If you look at it, if you look
• 37:05
  at the numbers and it all started with game time.
• 37:08
  Game time was making. He he got an extension with
• 37:11
  Portland worth about 60 million a year.
• 37:14
  Then he went over there to Milwaukee and now he's back with
• 37:17
  Portland, which makes no sense by the way.
• 37:19
  But nevertheless, that was when we saw the transition of these
• 37:23
  extension in these big one year, 2 year contracts that these
• 37:27
  players are getting. And now the average star in the
• 37:30
  NBA is making 50 million or more.
• 37:32
  So you're going to tell me right now James Harden, really,
• 37:35
  because Kawhi Leonard is back and forth and he's not 100%
• 37:38
  healthy. James Harden, who is the best
• 37:40
  player on the Clippers right now, isn't getting 50 million or
• 37:43
  more. Come on, guys, come on.
• 37:45
  Especially the way the Clippers love to load manage everything
• 37:47
  and the way James Harden likes to.
• 37:48
  Make Ballmer is not cheaping out on this one.
• 37:51
  No, he's not cheaping out, he's just paying him in different
• 37:53
  ways to say all right, we have enough cap space to go get a
• 37:56
  random all washed up old guy again.
• 37:58
  Well, James Harden. James Harden's Not that.
• 38:00
  Bad speed. No, he's fine.
• 38:02
  No, I'm saying who's going to be pairing with James Harden
• 38:04
  because the Clippers don't develop young players around.
• 38:06
  He doesn't play any. He doesn't play a lick of
• 38:08
  defense, but. The guy offense.
• 38:10
  That's what's happened to him in the last five years is the
• 38:12
  defense went. He was never a good defensive.
• 38:15
  Right. But at least he was he was a
• 38:16
  high effort defensive. Oh yeah, high at times.
• 38:19
  He'll stop at the foul. Line at times.
• 38:21
  He'll stop at the foul line and let you run past.
• 38:23
  Not a game sevens, but at times. Listen.
• 38:26
  James Sardis has missed 12 threes.
• 38:28
  He he was like the players were like a ball and he was like with
• 38:32
  the guy with the red sash. Oh, hey, oh, hey, that's what
• 38:35
  James Harden would do, play defense.
• 38:37
  He let you run right past him. It didn't matter to him as long
• 38:40
  as he get his. 50 The Matador. The matador, that's what it is.
• 38:44
  That was his name is Strip. Club So here's my problem with
• 38:46
  all this. If Kawhi Leonard gets a Max
• 38:49
  contract in the NBA but also receives $28 million on top of
• 38:55
  it, doesn't that mean the market says that Kawhi Leonard is worth
• 39:00
  $28 million more than a Max contract?
• 39:03
  And shouldn't he be allowed to make that money?
• 39:07
  Because if not, you are intentionally gaming the market
• 39:11
  to keep players salaries down. That's why people argue against
• 39:15
  the salary cap. And that's Kawhi Leonard, who is
• 39:17
  past his prime. Think about what we're, you
• 39:20
  know, we said when LeBron was at the height of his powers, how
• 39:23
  much he really should have been getting paid.
• 39:25
  That guy shouldn't have gotten a Max contract.
• 39:27
  He should have made been making over $100 million a year for
• 39:30
  about a decade straight because that's what that guy was really
• 39:34
  worth if he was out on an open market getting that kind of
• 39:38
  money. And that's not even including,
• 39:41
  you know, his side projects and all those things, you know, his
• 39:44
  movie studio company, you know, you know, that's what happens.
• 39:48
  His movie studio, his Blaze Pizza Company, I mean,
• 39:52
  everything. The man owns LA.
• 39:54
  Red wine. Hyperbaric chambers.
• 39:56
  He's he's Magic Johnson S Magic Johnson owns everything.
• 40:00
  He owns movie theaters, he owns sports teams, he owns pizza
• 40:04
  delivery companies, he owns Uber companies.
• 40:08
  I mean that guy is is a multi multi multi billionaire by all
• 40:13
  the companies he has built around his basketball career and
• 40:17
  LeBron. He's doing the same thing as
• 40:18
  he's come out and said when he's done with basketball, he's going
• 40:21
  to own an NBA team, AKA Alex Rodriguez as he owns the
• 40:24
  Timberwolves. So not surprised when you're
• 40:28
  hearing stories like this as NBA players are bringing in a brush
• 40:32
  fire of money. And I'm telling you 50 million,
• 40:35
  just think about it, $50 million for 82 games.
• 40:39
  Most of these guys don't even make the playoffs.
• 40:41
  Think about that. You're you're talking about guys
• 40:44
  like Trey Young, right? He plays for the Atlanta Hawks.
• 40:48
  The Atlanta Hawks are not a really good basketball.
• 40:51
  They're up and down. How many times in the last 7-8
• 40:54
  years have they made the playoffs?
• 40:55
  3 Just think about it. He's been in the NBA for almost
• 40:59
  7 years. Trey Young Trey Young has made
• 41:01
  the playoffs for three out of the seven years, if I'm not
• 41:05
  mistaken. And they, like the all the other
• 41:06
  years they were a play in team like they weren't even that
• 41:09
  good. And he's bringing in almost 40
• 41:11
  something $50 million and the guy hasn't even really got his
• 41:14
  next extension. It's ridiculous.
• 41:16
  Steph Curry just signed a $275 million contract.
• 41:20
  What was it 2 years ago? It's crazy.
• 41:23
  It's crazy amount of money. This is Monopoly money.
• 41:26
  The NBA is Monopoly. All they got to do is jump from
• 41:29
  one place to another, 01 whore to the other as we all know NBA
• 41:33
  players like to do as Will Chamberlain.
• 41:36
  I don't know if anyone can top that record 10,000 women as he's
• 41:41
  come out and say. Sure, it was a round Number of
• 41:44
  10,000, you know. He said 10,000 women.
• 41:46
  Right rounded up fish, it's a 10,000.
• 41:47
  You think he was at 9999? He must have only one more.
• 41:51
  That's it. I'm done after this one.
• 41:54
  That's the number I was shooting for.
• 41:56
  I'm going to stop it. Exactly, he was.
• 41:57
  Final push Will Chamberlain was counting women who he was
• 42:01
  sleeping with, and Bill Russell was counting championships.
• 42:04
  That's the difference. How many rings?
• 42:09
  Do you think he do you think he counted like because there ain't
• 42:12
  no chance it was just one at a time?
• 42:14
  Do you think like if there was like a group of me counted that
• 42:16
  as one or did he count that as like if there was 4, did he
• 42:20
  count it as 4? Did he count the stats job?
• 42:22
  I'm going to. Have.
• 42:23
  How many days does it take to count that you know, like?
• 42:27
  First of all, does he have like a clicker?
• 42:28
  Did he write it down or? Yeah, what do you do?
• 42:30
  I'm very high. I mean, no computers back then.
• 42:32
  Maybe a typewriter? Remember that commercial?
• 42:35
  How many licks does it get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop
• 42:39
  and it's 123. I don't know if if he was
• 42:43
  licking that many times he would get to the end of the Tootsie
• 42:46
  Roll pop when it came to these women.
• 42:49
  It said it claimed in a 1991 autobiography, A View From
• 42:54
  Above, he slept with 20,000 women on.
• 42:57
  Life, that's even more. Multiplied by two.
• 43:00
  Still round Number though. Still a round Number.
• 43:03
  Yeah, you're right. Fish.
• 43:04
  How did it? How did it not fall off?
• 43:07
  Well, I mean the man. You know what his nickname was?
• 43:11
  You know what his nickname was? His nickname was Goliath.
• 43:14
  Wilt the still? No, it was Goliath.
• 43:16
  That was his nickname. They called him Goliath, so
• 43:20
  David and Goliath, you know, he was the biggest man in many
• 43:24
  different ways. Speeding.
• 43:25
  You might know I. Would not know, but I'm sure,
• 43:27
  I'm sure if Nathan, if Nathan has access to time travel, he
• 43:30
  might want to live that life. You know they say that if that
• 43:34
  story was true. David, I love Lisa Ann.
• 43:36
  Throw the rock at like the speed of a bullet, almost with like
• 43:40
  one of those slingshots. I saw like one of those
• 43:41
  Mythbusters how fast you could throw a rock like that.
• 43:44
  Pretty fast. You can throw like through some
• 43:47
  stuff. It's pretty crazy.
• 43:48
  I'm not throwing any rocks at Wilt Chamberlain if he was still
• 43:51
  alive, because I would be afraid he'd grab me with his palm of
• 43:54
  his hand and take me and throw me 50 miles away.
• 43:57
  I mean, that guy's hands were bigger than Shaquille O'Neal.
• 44:00
  Think about that. You.
• 44:02
  I don't know if anybody's met or seen Shaquille O'Neal in person.
• 44:05
  His hands are ridiculous. Just think about.
• 44:08
  He shook my elbow. You shook your elbow.
• 44:12
  Very specific. Yeah, hey, Jabba, what a nice
• 44:16
  elbow you have over there. It was unlike he he we stood up
• 44:20
  and I was like, OK, here we go. And then like shook my hand and
• 44:24
  I was like whoa. He was so nice though.
• 44:28
  And then he took off and just walked down the street and went
• 44:30
  back to his hotel. Whoa, I like that song.
• 44:33
  Like, whoa. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 44:38
  we're moving on to the next segment as we are getting in to
• 44:42
  our AFC preview. Duty Dodger.
• 44:49
  Pass Liquor. All right, let's go, baby.
• 44:51
  Let's go AFC. All right, we have the division
• 44:55
  betting odds up for all of the. AFC we already.
• 44:59
  Talked about the AFC West previously.
• 45:04
  Well, a lot of us, we're not picking the Kansas City Chiefs
• 45:08
  to be the favorites, but they are the favorite still at -110
• 45:12
  in the West. The Broncos sitting at 2nd at
• 45:14
  plus 280. A lot of us pick them.
• 45:16
  The Chargers not far behind, plus 340.
• 45:19
  Pretty loaded division this year.
• 45:20
  Raiders not much of a chance at plus 1100 like all of us said.
• 45:25
  So let's begin our talk tonight about the AFC SA, particularly
• 45:33
  strong division. You got the Titans, the Colts,
• 45:35
  the Texans and Jaguars. Who do we think is the favorite?
• 45:40
  The Houston Texans, 100% it's going to be the Houston Texans.
• 45:44
  CJ Strout and and a guy that his sophomore year wasn't as strong
• 45:49
  as his freshman year, but it was pretty damn good.
• 45:51
  CJ Strout is absolutely for real.
• 45:54
  Nico Collins is one of the best underrated wide receivers in the
• 45:58
  league. You can see it if you play in
• 46:00
  fantasy right now. He's one of the top five fantasy
• 46:03
  guys right now. And, and honestly, when you look
• 46:06
  at the weapons that they have and, and what they're going to
• 46:08
  provide this year, they don't have the running game with Joe
• 46:11
  Mixon, but they added Chubb. I think Chubb is going to give
• 46:14
  him a significant decent running game.
• 46:16
  But again, Cesar Shroud is a guy that's not only a pocket present
• 46:20
  quarterback, he's going to step in, he's going to step out.
• 46:22
  He's going to use his legs. He's got a tremendous amount of
• 46:25
  weapons. And and by the way, one of the
• 46:27
  more underrated defenses in all of football, Top five top 6
• 46:31
  defenses in football. I love the Texans in this
• 46:35
  division. I could see them winning 10 or
• 46:36
  11 games. Yeah, definitely 10 or 11 games
• 46:38
  has to be the window when you look at the way that they've
• 46:41
  improved a lot on that front 7. They're one of the best probably
• 46:43
  pass rushing duos. When you look at Danielle Hunter
• 46:45
  and Will Anderson, combined with the fact that, like you're
• 46:48
  saying, even though they have some receivers hurt, they still
• 46:49
  draft the two of them. The only thing that concerns me
• 46:51
  a little bit is the offensive line.
• 46:53
  Obviously losing tonsil in the offseason.
• 46:54
  They haven't really drafted well at those positions.
• 46:56
  They have a couple rookies that they're trying to work in, so
• 46:59
  that might be the only thing holding them back from maybe
• 47:01
  taking that big leap like we're thinking the Broncos could do.
• 47:03
  But their defense is very complete, too.
• 47:05
  Obviously paying Stingley, Jalen Petrie is a very underrated
• 47:07
  safety as well, and they're a linebacker factory with Tobecca.
• 47:10
  Ryan's there. I love Ryan's and Ryan's is one
• 47:13
  of the guys that I think was up for coach of the year last year.
• 47:17
  Very well deserved to be a top three coach of the year and had
• 47:21
  a chance again to take his team far into the playoffs again.
• 47:25
  They they had a lot of injuries last year.
• 47:27
  They're going into the season with some some losses and their
• 47:31
  wide receiving core that they thought they were going to have
• 47:34
  for the next three to four years.
• 47:35
  They're missing one big name they did have they did add
• 47:39
  Hollins in the draft. I think Hollins is going to play
• 47:42
  a big part in their offense. He could be the number 2 on this
• 47:45
  team with Nico, Nico Collins. We'll see.
• 47:47
  But I I like the Texans. I think they're going to be
• 47:49
  explosive and and again, a defense, they can shut you down.
• 47:54
  Yeah, I think CJ Stroud is just going to get better, too.
• 47:57
  I think it's always funny when you talk about like coaches of
• 47:59
  the year, too. And I know it's kind of a side
• 48:00
  note, but like, what do you think?
• 48:02
  Like sets, Like he's deserving of coach of the year, but like
• 48:05
  there's got to be something that sets like him apart.
• 48:07
  Like the X's and O's are just like what he's he's built with
• 48:11
  the team. There's There were no
• 48:12
  expectations for that Texans team in 2023 when they made the
• 48:16
  playoffs. They were supposed to be.
• 48:18
  They were the number three pick in the draft.
• 48:19
  They dropped the Will Anderson. They traded up.
• 48:21
  They had expectations to improve, but they were never
• 48:24
  expected to be anywhere close to a playoff team.
• 48:28
  Don't forget about their special teams being pretty excellent as
• 48:30
  well. You got Amy Fairbear and one of
• 48:33
  the bigger legs in the NFL, Townsend, pretty good punter.
• 48:36
  They were ranked 6th, tied for 6th in the NFL specials as well.
• 48:40
  It's just a really well coached team with some really good young
• 48:43
  talent. Expecting them to get better.
• 48:45
  I love the two Iowa State receivers they took, especially
• 48:48
  Higgins. I think they're going to both
• 48:50
  play a big impact with them if that passing game really takes
• 48:53
  off this year. So they're the favorites, but
• 48:54
  they're the only favorite in the AFC that you can get it plus
• 48:58
  money guys. So that might, if you really
• 49:00
  believe in the Texans, you can get them.
• 49:02
  Currently on FanDuel at plus 1/15.
• 49:07
  After that, we got the Jaguars coming in at plus 260 and the
• 49:11
  Colts at plus 340. Not a lot of faith in Cam Ward
• 49:15
  in this first year. Titans are sitting in the last
• 49:19
  +700. Probably not good news for Brian
• 49:21
  Callahan and the staff over there.
• 49:23
  Well, I will say this. They have a great defense.
• 49:25
  This is a defense that was one of the top 10 defenses in the
• 49:28
  league. Tennessee has Jeffrey Simmons,
• 49:31
  who's a great pass rusher, one of the best sack leaders when it
• 49:35
  comes to defensive lines in all of football, and they're going
• 49:38
  to be able to get at you. The problem with them is
• 49:40
  offensively, they have a young quarterback in Ward and they do
• 49:44
  have Ridley. Calvin Ridley is good.
• 49:46
  They added Tyler Lockett in the offseason and and they do who
• 49:49
  have a pretty decent running game.
• 49:51
  The problem with them is are you going to depend on a guy like
• 49:54
  Tony Pollard all season long who can't stay healthy, is second
• 49:57
  year coach who almost lost his job in the offseason.
• 50:00
  So I I don't know if, if if he starts the season very, very
• 50:04
  slow and he doesn't have, you know, put off at least one or
• 50:08
  two wins in his first five or six games.
• 50:10
  Do they fire their head coach? That is the question.
• 50:13
  And, and like I said over the last last couple of weeks, I've
• 50:16
  heard he was on the hot seat in the offseason.
• 50:18
  So very interesting story with the Tennessee Titans.
• 50:21
  You're right, the defense is definitely strong in the front
• 50:23
  7. They've tended to develop well
• 50:24
  when it comes to their their pass rush.
• 50:26
  Obviously losing Harold Landry could hurt, but they've lost him
• 50:29
  a lot of the 2023 season frables last year and their defense was
• 50:31
  still very good. Offensive line is still a little
• 50:33
  questionable. They don't haven't drafted as
• 50:35
  well as they usually do when it comes to that and that's going
• 50:37
  to be a big key for Cam Ward. Is he going to be able to extend
• 50:39
  plays right away? Tony Pollard, you're right, he's
• 50:42
  kind of an inconsistent runner as a pure runner.
• 50:44
  And Ty J Spears, he's already heard.
• 50:45
  Where are they going to get the kind of depth I kind of see like
• 50:47
  a six win team. They'll improve, but they're not
• 50:49
  there yet. No, I'm interested to see what
• 50:52
  Cam Ward does, if he, if he can slow the game down, Obviously
• 50:55
  the jump from college to NFL to see if he can slow down.
• 50:58
  Obviously he seems like he has the demeanor throughout all of
• 51:01
  his interviews and the way he conducts himself.
• 51:03
  And you know, how he's focused in what he, his preparation for
• 51:07
  the game and, and how he's talked about it.
• 51:09
  And yeah, it's, it's always like when you when you're doing these
• 51:12
  fantasy dresses as we all talk about, it's like, OK, you're
• 51:15
  going to get certain guys. Pollard's one of those guys.
• 51:16
  When is he going to get hurt? It's not, it's not if, it's,
• 51:19
  it's when. And so I think, yeah, probably 5
• 51:22
  or 6. But I'm interested to see how
• 51:24
  Cam reacts to the NFL and and makes the adjustment.
• 51:27
  I think that second best team right now is the Jacksonville
• 51:29
  Jaguars in the South. I I really do believe that.
• 51:32
  The question is, is their defense going to be able to hold
• 51:35
  up? It's been a big problem back and
• 51:37
  forth over the last two seasons. Liam Cohen is a is a young
• 51:41
  coach. He's taking over.
• 51:43
  He's a good, smart coach. But they have multiple running
• 51:46
  backs and Travis Etienne is not the number one guy anymore.
• 51:50
  They've got three. They got a triple headed monster
• 51:54
  and we don't know. And if you're a drafter, you're
• 51:56
  not drafting any one of these guys because you don't know
• 51:58
  who's going to start and who's going to finish.
• 52:00
  And again, Brian Thomas is sensational.
• 52:03
  I think he's one of the more underrated young wide receivers
• 52:06
  in the league. And I said it three years from
• 52:08
  now, this guy's going to be the number one run wide receiver in
• 52:11
  all the fantasy. This guy is so explosive.
• 52:13
  Look who was throwing him the ball last year.
• 52:16
  It wasn't even yes, Mr. Trevor Lawrence, So and, and this guy
• 52:20
  put on, they had 12 touchdowns or 11 touchdowns and he had over
• 52:23
  1200 yards and he didn't even have him.
• 52:25
  He had Mac Jones throwing him the ball.
• 52:27
  Trevor Lawrence has got to stay healthy.
• 52:28
  This is his chance right now under Liam Cohen to show and
• 52:32
  prove himself to be a franchise quarterback.
• 52:35
  And here's another thing that I'm going to say, Travis, AKA
• 52:38
  Gremlin himself, he needs to show up and play 2 headed the
• 52:45
  type of football defensively and offensively.
• 52:48
  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Travis the Gremlin hunter, the
• 52:52
  Unicorn, as he calls himself needs to show up week by week
• 52:56
  depending if he's playing defense or he's playing offense.
• 52:59
  He has said that he's going to be more of a wide receiver this
• 53:02
  year than a corner. I think Mr. Liam Cohen should
• 53:05
  have chose corner over wide receiver.
• 53:08
  I just don't know if he's going to hold up and he's going to be
• 53:11
  the player. That didn't come out that he was
• 53:13
  wide receiver 1 and cornerback 2.
• 53:15
  Wide receiver Two No. He's wide receiver 2 and he's
• 53:19
  going to play probably in sub packages in I don't know if he's
• 53:22
  going to be in the slaughter outside speedy.
• 53:24
  I would imagine they probably put.
• 53:25
  Him Jordan Lewis they sign he was the cowboy slot corner so I
• 53:28
  don't know even he might rotate in some.
• 53:30
  I think there may be some like they may play some like 425
• 53:34
  stuff where there's there's a lot of D backs.
• 53:37
  He's not. A lot of teams are playing a lot
• 53:38
  of. Are you still thinking like the
• 53:40
  60, sixty, 70% mark on the defensive side?
• 53:43
  If he grows, he should. That's what he should be doing.
• 53:47
  Well, you guys find Thomas, they're everything they're
• 53:49
  saying is he's #2 receiver, he's going to play more than half the
• 53:52
  snaps of receiver and he's only going to be in sub packages.
• 53:55
  So that probably is about 1/3 of the time on on defense.
• 53:59
  So that add those things up together, you might get to that
• 54:01
  high 60s Java like you're saying, but his his first year,
• 54:05
  I don't think they're going to want him to go that high and I
• 54:07
  don't think they want him to go that high in general.
• 54:10
  But you know, this guy is a one-of-a-kind guy and he had to
• 54:14
  say that you're going to do this with him if he was going to go
• 54:16
  there in the draft, right? So.
• 54:18
  Brian Thomas is going to be the number one, and Travis, AKA
• 54:22
  Gremlin Hunter is never going to be the number one over there as
• 54:25
  long as Brian Thomas is there. This guy is so explosive.
• 54:28
  He's going to be so fun to watch.
• 54:30
  Anybody that drafted him in your draft, you're looking and
• 54:34
  searching for a treat this year. He's your treat.
• 54:37
  He's a nice ice cream sundae that you can put extra fudge on
• 54:41
  because this guy's going to have 14 touchdowns if Trevor Lawrence
• 54:44
  stays healthy. 1415 touchdowns, 14, 1500 yards, and he's going
• 54:50
  to be up for one of the offensive players of the year.
• 54:52
  I'm telling you, he's that kind of player, fun to watch and he's
• 54:56
  going to be able to go out there and put up those numbers.
• 54:58
  Errol, you mentioned it to the second level talent on this
• 55:00
  Jaguars team definitely screams like it could be a borderline
• 55:03
  playoff team. Just the trenches, the
• 55:06
  defensive. Side to the secondary to you're
• 55:10
  going to bet the Travis the gremlin hunter is going to be
• 55:13
  able to play two way football and he's going to have to be
• 55:16
  your number one corner possibly because your corner play is
• 55:20
  really there's no depth on that team right really not I like.
• 55:23
  Tyson Campbell's in #1 corner, but after that they're very
• 55:25
  questionable. They they signed as as a safety
• 55:28
  Darnell Savage from Green Bay who's played well, but he's also
• 55:30
  injury prone. And then their pass rush too.
• 55:32
  Outside of Josh Allen, Eric Armstead's been injury prone and
• 55:36
  Trayvon Walker's been a bust of a number one pick.
• 55:38
  Yeah, absolutely. And then got got a job.
• 55:42
  No, no, it's just I fishy kind of said it's like, yeah, he may
• 55:48
  be capable to do it, but do you really want him doing that in
• 55:51
  his first year? Like, and especially like you
• 55:52
  said, there's just no depth in in, in what they're going to do.
• 55:55
  So what I mean, one of your main attractions is obviously to, to
• 55:59
  your team, but I mean, I'm, I don't think I'm risking, you
• 56:02
  know, getting 60s, you know, 70% what I mean, we've had guys say
• 56:07
  it's, it's going to be that 60 to 70% mark that have that have
• 56:09
  played in the league. So I I don't know.
• 56:12
  I'm going, I'm putting at the corner position.
• 56:14
  That's where they need the depth.
• 56:16
  He is better as a corner than a wide receiver.
• 56:19
  I think they're making a mistake.
• 56:20
  I'm telling you, I think they're making a mistake.
• 56:22
  But hey, I'm not a coach in the NFL.
• 56:24
  We'll, we'll see what Mr. Cohen's going to do at the end
• 56:27
  of the season when the media is going to attack him and say,
• 56:30
  well, I don't know if you should have done it this way.
• 56:32
  I think he should have went the other route well.
• 56:36
  You know, Cohen was pretty Dang good with Baker Mayfield, so I
• 56:39
  I'm willing to give him a shot with that kind of firepower.
• 56:42
  If Hunter is, you know, maybe not.
• 56:44
  So was Canalis. What did Canalis do with
• 56:46
  Carolina last year? Well, I mean, look, you got
• 56:49
  Brian Thomas, you got toys. You look, they didn't have toys
• 56:52
  over there, right? They they realize they can kind
• 56:53
  of use Bryce Young by the end of the season.
• 56:55
  There's some toys over here. If they can get Trevor Lawrence
• 56:58
  to play halfway decent, and that's going to be the story of
• 57:01
  their season. If he can play halfway decent,
• 57:03
  they get a shot at this division.
• 57:04
  They really do. And then there's you're
• 57:05
  absolutely right. And then there's the Colts and
• 57:07
  the Colts, no Richardson this year, Daniel Dimes, Danny Dimes
• 57:13
  is now the starting quarterback. And then the question.
• 57:16
  A lot of Giant fans don't like it, but I think he has an
• 57:19
  opportunity now with a better coach, a guy that I think will
• 57:22
  be able to run his offense through Daniel Jones and a great
• 57:26
  running game. Jonathan Taylor this year is
• 57:28
  healthy. No contract disputes this guy.
• 57:31
  It could be up for an MVP. This guy is explosive.
• 57:35
  He could put up the numbers. He could go out there and
• 57:37
  absolutely dominate a game and really kill a game.
• 57:40
  And by the way, Indiana has a very good offensive line.
• 57:45
  This is a very good often offensive like Quinton Nelson.
• 57:49
  They've got a tremendous offensive line from the tackles
• 57:52
  position to the garden center position.
• 57:54
  So I like it and their defense a little questionable, but I think
• 57:59
  they're they're running game and they have Pittman.
• 58:01
  I think they're going to have a a pretty good depth offensively.
• 58:05
  And Daniel Jones, if he stays healthy, and we might see Riley
• 58:08
  Leonard this year if he goes down.
• 58:09
  Hopefully Richardson, we don't see him at all this year.
• 58:12
  He was an absolute bust. But I think Daniel, Daniel Jones
• 58:15
  is going to have a better year than people think, yeah.
• 58:17
  Last year they were very close with a really bad defense and
• 58:20
  they're trying to make patch things together at both corner
• 58:22
  and on the defensive line. They bring in Xavion, Howard,
• 58:24
  Charvarius were trying to reverse Rebirth, some veteran
• 58:26
  corners and they had. They've had trouble drafting
• 58:29
  Edge rosters really since they had Frannie and Mathis.
• 58:31
  It's been a curse for them for a while.
• 58:32
  They're good linebacker, but you're right that offensive line
• 58:34
  is top ten in football. Braden Smith's a very good one
• 58:37
  for an on Ryman who is on my all 22 team.
• 58:39
  Last year was very good and like you said, Daniel Jones is just a
• 58:42
  better thrower of the football. So they're going to be a little
• 58:44
  more efficient than Anthony Richardson.
• 58:46
  How much more is it going to be the question that'll be the
• 58:47
  difference in the making the playoffs?
• 58:49
  And I don't want everybody to jump on this that I think Danny
• 58:51
  Dimes is going to put up 4000 yards and he's going to run for
• 58:55
  like 8 touchdowns. All I'm saying is he's going to
• 58:58
  be efficient. He's going to put up decent
• 59:00
  numbers. And if you need a quarterback in
• 59:02
  your fan Tennessee league, if it's 14 or even 16 teams, you
• 59:07
  can pick up a guy like Danny Dimes and and maybe depend 3000
• 59:10
  yards or 3200 yards, 8 touchdowns, 7 touchdowns run in
• 59:15
  and maybe 700 yards when it comes to mobile because he's a
• 59:18
  mobile quarterback that can make plays in the open field.
• 59:21
  Giant fans know that. Well, he could before he got
• 59:25
  hurt, you know, And then he got hurt and then he wasn't as good
• 59:29
  and not as accurate and he can't hit anybody in the preseason, if
• 59:32
  you watched any of the games, he doesn't he hit, he misses open
• 59:34
  receivers like looking like arch man you.
• 59:37
  Just hate 1 Daniel Jones because he was a.
• 59:40
  Giant, tell me if I'm wrong. He missed everybody in the
• 59:42
  preseason. Wide open guys, you hate him.
• 59:44
  It doesn't matter if he was good, it's preseason, nobody
• 59:48
  cares. Watched him for a number of
• 59:50
  years. So he does not know how to run
• 59:53
  an offense that works in the NFL.
• 59:56
  I don't expect them. This is how they're going to
• 59:58
  win. He throws the ball 15 * a game.
• 1:00:02
  Jonathan Stewart gets 37 carries behind a great offensive line
• 1:00:07
  and they play 1980s and 1990s football.
• 1:00:10
  That's the only way they're winning with Daniel Jones
• 1:00:12
  record. And you're right, Speedy.
• 1:00:13
  He's better than Anthony Richard.
• 1:00:15
  Jonathan, but that. Says a lot about Anthony
• 1:00:17
  Richard. Not retired.
• 1:00:19
  He's come a long way since you guys interviewed at the Super
• 1:00:21
  Bowl. He.
• 1:00:21
  Retired. He was playing, he was walking
• 1:00:24
  around with his backpack over there.
• 1:00:26
  Radio raw, that's as close as he's going to get to a football
• 1:00:29
  field and hopefully he has some footballs in that basketball
• 1:00:32
  bag. So I honestly Daniel Jones is
• 1:00:35
  not as bad as you think he is, but hey, only time will tell.
• 1:00:39
  True that. All right, so let's get to the
• 1:00:41
  next division. We got and we only got about 8
• 1:00:44
  minutes for this, so we're going to go a little quicker.
• 1:00:46
  Right now. We've got the AFC North.
• 1:00:49
  Everyone knows the Browns are terrible.
• 1:00:51
  Let's start there. How bad do you think the odds
• 1:00:53
  are? Let's just guess For the Browns
• 1:00:55
  to win that division. 1700? No worse.
• 1:00:59
  Really. Plus 2200.
• 1:01:01
  Worse. 5. 1000 No 3000 + 3000 for the Browns to win, I'm
• 1:01:09
  betting on you want to talk about that debacle?
• 1:01:11
  You want to just move. On No, let's move on.
• 1:01:12
  I, I think they're going to be really, really bad and, and
• 1:01:15
  honestly. I think it's obvious.
• 1:01:17
  I'm interested to see what they're going to do with Jerry
• 1:01:19
  Judy. If he starts off really strong,
• 1:01:20
  do they move him at the trade deadline because Jerry Judy
• 1:01:23
  might? Be a nice He was good because
• 1:01:24
  Jamis was throwing jump balls to him.
• 1:01:26
  And let's face it, no, they don't have Jamis throwing to him
• 1:01:29
  right now. How long before Jamis just goes
• 1:01:31
  to the media? Like stop trying to be a
• 1:01:34
  quarterback at this point. I think it's going to be soon
• 1:01:36
  and I think he's going to be great with the media.
• 1:01:38
  Joe Flacco is not a bad quarterback, and I think he's
• 1:01:40
  going to be able to. Get How long is he going to stay
• 1:01:42
  healthy at age 40, though? That's fine, That's fine.
• 1:01:45
  I think Jerry Judy is going to have a better year than you
• 1:01:48
  think he's going to have. I just.
• 1:01:49
  Don't think it's going to be as good as last year.
• 1:01:51
  I think if they, if you're hoping that that guy who's never
• 1:01:53
  shown that he was that good, you know, to do that, I don't know,
• 1:01:56
  but they got the Steelers at plus 550.
• 1:01:59
  Not a lot of faith in your boy a Rod Errol after his performance
• 1:02:04
  in MetLife Stadium last year. I like the kid Johnson that they
• 1:02:07
  drafted in the third round. The running back.
• 1:02:09
  I think he I think he's going to be the starting running back.
• 1:02:12
  I know everybody keeps thinking that it's going to be Warren and
• 1:02:15
  he's going to run away with the because he could be a three back
• 1:02:18
  type of running back and that's why they decided to move Naji
• 1:02:20
  Harris and not bring him back. I think obviously it's going to
• 1:02:24
  be Johnson. I think he's going to be the
• 1:02:25
  number one guy and it's going to be Warren again, where you're
• 1:02:27
  going to be able to move him around.
• 1:02:29
  He can catch the ball in the backfield.
• 1:02:30
  The question is who's the number two guy as the wide receiver?
• 1:02:33
  You know, DK Metcalf is there. We understand that they have two
• 1:02:36
  tight ends there. Their offensive line is fairly
• 1:02:39
  good. And Mike Tomlin is this his
• 1:02:41
  final year? Because I know he's under
• 1:02:43
  contract. I know he extended his contract,
• 1:02:45
  but if he has another year where he gets knocked out if they
• 1:02:49
  don't make the playoffs, but if they make the playoffs and get
• 1:02:51
  knocked out in the first round, Oh my God, yeah.
• 1:02:54
  You can't bring them back nine straight years being knocked out
• 1:02:57
  in the first round. I I just, there's there's no
• 1:02:59
  depth. They're a good defensive team.
• 1:03:01
  They're always a great defensive team With TJ Watt there, they're
• 1:03:04
  going to be explosive on the defensive line.
• 1:03:06
  And they have very good secretary in Porter as well.
• 1:03:08
  So I think they're going to be fine.
• 1:03:10
  And they made that trade for, you know, trading.
• 1:03:13
  Was it Fitzpatrick in the offseason?
• 1:03:15
  Yeah. So, Jalen Ramsey, your boy.
• 1:03:17
  Jalen Ramsey is going to play a big part on the secondary and
• 1:03:20
  the defensive side of the ball. I think they're going to be a
• 1:03:22
  prolific top end defense, but offensively are they going to be
• 1:03:26
  able to do enough? Are they?
• 1:03:27
  And I think they're structured to just be an all world running
• 1:03:30
  team. A guy like Aaron Rodgers isn't
• 1:03:33
  the same guy he was when he was with Green Bay.
• 1:03:35
  Yeah, it's a bad fit because also DK Metcalf wants to stretch
• 1:03:38
  the field and he doesn't really have an elaborate route tree
• 1:03:40
  like the whole thing on different levels and Aaron
• 1:03:43
  Rodgers needs that type of guy at this point in his career.
• 1:03:46
  Fish. Well, you were mentioning with
• 1:03:47
  the tight ends too. I was curious on like, maybe
• 1:03:49
  they do they go that right? I love Darnell Washington out of
• 1:03:51
  the draft at the time when they got him, he's been a lot of
• 1:03:53
  injury issues. He's still got Friar, moved
• 1:03:55
  there. Now you got John Smith.
• 1:03:56
  So I see an 8-9 win team. Yeah, I, I don't know if it's
• 1:03:59
  going to be that that good job. What do you think?
• 1:04:02
  Yeah, I, I kind of, I kind of just want to see Aaron Rodgers
• 1:04:06
  go give the big middle finger to everybody, to be honest with
• 1:04:08
  you, just because I think it'll be hilarious.
• 1:04:11
  But I, I think they'll probably, he'll find a way to scratch
• 1:04:16
  probably seven or eight wins. I I don't see any more than
• 1:04:20
  that. I think it's the last year at
• 1:04:21
  Tomlin, right this, If they don't get to 500, be the first
• 1:04:25
  time in his career. I think that's going to happen
• 1:04:27
  this year. I don't think, I think he's
• 1:04:29
  going to be the thing he's going to be out.
• 1:04:31
  But let's move on to the top two teams in this division.
• 1:04:35
  The Ravens are sitting at -150 at the top of the division with
• 1:04:39
  the Bengals, I'm assuming with no faith in their defense
• 1:04:42
  whatsoever, at plus 240, despite the fact Joe Burrow might be a
• 1:04:47
  guy you can throw 5000 yards this year.
• 1:04:48
  Derrick Henry has to stay healthy.
• 1:04:50
  They need Derrick Henry to stay healthy and do not exactly what
• 1:04:53
  he did last year. But Lamar Jackson, we know what
• 1:04:56
  he can do offensively, the defense is going to be elite.
• 1:04:59
  We know they can go at it and they can they can compete with
• 1:05:02
  anybody offensively and defensively.
• 1:05:04
  I they're, they're a good running team.
• 1:05:06
  The question is, and I'll go back to it, the depth of their
• 1:05:10
  wide receiving corps. Do they have enough?
• 1:05:13
  They couldn't really show up in the playoffs.
• 1:05:15
  They haven't showed up in the playoffs back-to-back years.
• 1:05:18
  As far as the wide receivers are concerned, if they show Bateman
• 1:05:22
  stays healthy and they can do more on the offensive side of
• 1:05:25
  the ball with deep throats, Baltimore is going to be the
• 1:05:28
  best team in the AFCI. Don't think you can argue that.
• 1:05:30
  They've got everything and Lamar Jackson is by far the best wide,
• 1:05:35
  the best best quarterback in the NFLI.
• 1:05:37
  Don't think you could argue that.
• 1:05:39
  Two way guy that can use mobility and his arm strength to
• 1:05:43
  dominate a game. Yeah, the defense filled with
• 1:05:45
  the biggest thing they need and Malachi starts out of the draft.
• 1:05:47
  They had trouble guarding slot receivers.
• 1:05:49
  They get more corner depth as well.
• 1:05:50
  Bringing in Jair Alexander. Receiving depth, I agree with
• 1:05:53
  you, is a bit of a concern. We'll see what DeAndre Hopkins
• 1:05:55
  is, but Bateman when he was healthy last year was very good.
• 1:05:57
  I agree this is the best team in the AFC if they could stay
• 1:05:59
  healthy. And the Bengals, by the way,
• 1:06:02
  they got nothing defensively. I have no idea, no idea how
• 1:06:08
  they're gonna stop any other team.
• 1:06:09
  They're gonna have to put up 4050 parts, which they can.
• 1:06:12
  Joe Burrow, Higgins and and obviously Jamar Chase they got,
• 1:06:17
  I got Chase Brown, who could probably run the ball and he's
• 1:06:20
  so overrated. I don't know why anybody thinks
• 1:06:23
  a guy like Chase Brown is one of the elite running backs in the
• 1:06:26
  league, but nevertheless, the offensive lines and they're
• 1:06:29
  going to be able to put up points defensively.
• 1:06:31
  Trey Hendrickson might not even stay there.
• 1:06:33
  They might be traded at the trade deadline.
• 1:06:35
  They did extend them. They gave him a one year, $30
• 1:06:37
  million deal. I, I think he's underpaid for,
• 1:06:40
  to me, one of the best pass rushers in all the football.
• 1:06:42
  So that's what I got to say about the Bengals.
• 1:06:44
  They're not even making the playoffs.
• 1:06:46
  I I think they fall out, they miss the playoffs.
• 1:06:50
  Yeah, I mean, I do Before we move on, I do like Lamar Jackson
• 1:06:55
  being able to address what people said he wasn't great at.
• 1:06:58
  And he's becoming above average thrower now.
• 1:07:01
  So hats off to him. To be able to spread the floor,
• 1:07:03
  the floor spread the field. To be able to not only be 1
• 1:07:07
  dimensional, but but go and do the yeah floor field.
• 1:07:10
  Same thing, right? Before we get to the AFC East
• 1:07:14
  and Errol gets to spend some time on The Jets.
• 1:07:17
  No, I'm not going to spend too much.
• 1:07:18
  Time I I have to show you what ChatGPT thinks of the Indiana
• 1:07:23
  Jones version of Daniel Jones over here coming in with the
• 1:07:28
  whip into Indy trying to get to the AFC S title all right not
• 1:07:34
  really here we go guys to the AFC East.
• 1:07:38
  How bad do you think The Jets are?
• 1:07:40
  Fate are dogs in this division? I will say this, losing Elijah
• 1:07:45
  Vera Tucker today for the season definitely hurts the New York
• 1:07:49
  Jets, especially what they're going to do with Justin Fields
• 1:07:51
  and running the ball. You expected that this offensive
• 1:07:54
  line is going to be the strength of this team.
• 1:07:55
  I still think it's a strength. You didn't lose your tackles.
• 1:07:58
  But losing a guard of that magnitude, a guy that was
• 1:08:01
  looking to get a contract in the offseason, this this was his
• 1:08:04
  fifth year and and The Jets were talking about maybe extending
• 1:08:07
  them. I don't think they can.
• 1:08:08
  And now I'm hearing they're moving tipman possibly to the
• 1:08:12
  guard position and moving Myers as their center.
• 1:08:15
  I think that works. I think Tippmann's a better
• 1:08:17
  guard for his size than he is as a center.
• 1:08:20
  But again, I I thought, I thought that this team was going
• 1:08:24
  to have that depth. And now as far as the the
• 1:08:26
  defense, this is going to be an elite defense.
• 1:08:28
  There's no question. I think will McDonald's going to
• 1:08:31
  be one of the elite guys in the league when it comes to Sachs.
• 1:08:34
  I think he's going to go at you and he's going to be able to
• 1:08:36
  attack. He's got many different ways to
• 1:08:37
  beat you on the outside added added 15 lbs of muscle in the
• 1:08:41
  offseason and I now you have Jermaine Johnson whenever he
• 1:08:44
  comes back this year, is it week 3 or week 4, he's going to add
• 1:08:47
  that depth as far as the run defense and they added guys they
• 1:08:51
  made moves before the season in Phillips.
• 1:08:54
  I think they're going to be able to stop the run this year.
• 1:08:55
  So if they can get the triple team off of Quinton Williams,
• 1:09:00
  Quinn Williams can have one of his best seasons.
• 1:09:02
  I think he right behind the one Dexter Lauren, sexy Dexy, I
• 1:09:05
  think he's the second best defensive tackle in football.
• 1:09:08
  So we we want to see more Quinton Williams.
• 1:09:10
  We want to see what they could do Justin Fields, he can have a
• 1:09:14
  season. I think Aaron Glenn is the real
• 1:09:16
  deal. I think he's a great guy.
• 1:09:18
  I think they're going to be able to run the ball.
• 1:09:19
  Wide receivers, no depth whatsoever.
• 1:09:22
  I want to see what Taylor can do all season long.
• 1:09:24
  Young, Young, a young tight end. It usually takes three years for
• 1:09:28
  him to develop, but I think he's going to be fun to watch.
• 1:09:31
  Garrett Wilson will be fun. If you drafted him, he's going
• 1:09:33
  to put up 1000 yards. He's going to give you about 9
• 1:09:35
  or 10 touchdowns. But Justin Fields is the secret
• 1:09:38
  to the success of this offense so.
• 1:09:40
  Better than the Dolphins? Yes, better than the Dolphins.
• 1:09:44
  I actually have the opposite better than the Patriots because
• 1:09:46
  I think the Patriots are a little overhyped this year.
• 1:09:48
  I think I think they had a lot of free agents that they brought
• 1:09:51
  in. There's a lot of new all at
• 1:09:52
  once, especially with a new coaching staff.
• 1:09:53
  And they overpaid a lot of defensive players in my opinion.
• 1:09:56
  And their offense maybe got a little better, but I I don't
• 1:09:58
  know how much better that they got.
• 1:10:00
  The Jets to me, have a lot more real threats on offense.
• 1:10:02
  Like Errol saying the offensive line besides the Bills in this
• 1:10:05
  division is easily way better than the Patriots and the
• 1:10:07
  Dolphins. I don't think they're a playoff
• 1:10:08
  team, The Jets, but this reminds me of like the 2022 Lions.
• 1:10:11
  They're going to be in every game, establish A-Team culture,
• 1:10:14
  A-78 win team that's going to be very tough to beat.
• 1:10:16
  If they can get any level of a passing game, like a top 15 type
• 1:10:19
  passing game, they're a playoff team easily.
• 1:10:24
  Yeah. I mean, I, I just, I'm going to
• 1:10:25
  keep a clicker or a tally of of how many times we have to talk
• 1:10:28
  about The Jets and the good and the bad when when everything
• 1:10:31
  gets going because we know Errol's going to going to get
• 1:10:34
  going. But realistically, like Errol,
• 1:10:36
  like fandom aside and like a fan, like, do you think eight
• 1:10:40
  wins is realistic for The Jets? No.
• 1:10:42
  I think The Jets in a good season, 7 wins will be a good
• 1:10:46
  season for a guy like Aaron Glenn.
• 1:10:48
  I, I I don't think they get to 8 this year.
• 1:10:51
  A lot of people think they can win 10 the way the schedule is
• 1:10:53
  set up for them. I just don't.
• 1:10:55
  I don't think they have enough wide receivers.
• 1:10:58
  I think that's what they look in the draft next year.
• 1:11:00
  They look for a quarterback who probably is the future.
• 1:11:04
  We were talking about that yesterday with Mr. Booty.
• 1:11:08
  I expect, I expect that's where The Jets go with that and wide
• 1:11:12
  receiver. That's what they're missing.
• 1:11:14
  Maybe they make a trade for Myers if he becomes available or
• 1:11:17
  maybe Alave because we've heard Alave wants to move and he him
• 1:11:21
  and Justin Fields and Garrett Wilson are very close.
• 1:11:23
  So if The Jets could add Alave at some point, then we're
• 1:11:27
  talking about maybe a borderline 9 win team, but without that
• 1:11:31
  secondary wide receiver. Now, I I don't see it.
• 1:11:33
  I don't see it all. I do believe there are top three
• 1:11:35
  defense though. I do.
• 1:11:39
  Well guys, we have one obvious favorite in this division is the
• 1:11:43
  Buffalo Bills sitting at -270 to win the division.
• 1:11:47
  Very many people think of them as Super Bowl favorites going
• 1:11:51
  into the season from the AFC, at least to get there right.
• 1:11:55
  A lot of people picking the Eagles, but that would be pretty
• 1:11:58
  interesting match up. Josh Allen seems to be
• 1:12:01
  unstoppable to the the naked eye.
• 1:12:04
  He was able to beat the Chiefs in that in a snow game during
• 1:12:06
  the regular season. Couldn't get away with it by
• 1:12:09
  the, you know, skin of it. Knuckles of Dalton Kincaid not
• 1:12:12
  being able to make that catch in the post season.
• 1:12:15
  Pretty close to being a perfect throw as well in a impossible,
• 1:12:19
  impossible play with Spags with a corner blitz out of nowhere.
• 1:12:23
  We talked a lot of people at the Super Bowl about that play,
• 1:12:26
  guys. How good are the Bills and are
• 1:12:28
  they Super Bowl? Possibly.
• 1:12:30
  It's all about their defense and again this goes to coaching.
• 1:12:34
  This is might be the final year of their head coach if this team
• 1:12:37
  does not go to a Super Bowl and they fall short once again.
• 1:12:40
  They went to an AFC title game and lost against the same Kansas
• 1:12:44
  City Chief team. They're better than Kansas City.
• 1:12:46
  They are still one of the elite, one of the lead teams in the
• 1:12:49
  AFCI think they're the second best team, right behind
• 1:12:52
  Baltimore. They have the defense, they have
• 1:12:54
  the running game. They paid Cook in the offseason.
• 1:12:56
  I want to see Cook be used important parts of the game.
• 1:13:00
  They stopped running the ball against Kansas City in the AFC
• 1:13:04
  title game when they were absolutely killing Kansas City
• 1:13:06
  in the run game. And and by the way, I want to
• 1:13:09
  see Coleman actually take that next step as a number one wide
• 1:13:13
  receiver. They don't really have enough
• 1:13:15
  depth on the wide receiving. So they got to they got to on
• 1:13:18
  Kincaid to be that guy and be that guy that's going to be
• 1:13:21
  consistent, which she was inconsistent last year as the
• 1:13:25
  number one, I think pass catcher for the Buffalo Bills.
• 1:13:29
  So I do believe they're for real.
• 1:13:31
  I think there are 1011 win team. They are a Super Bowl contender.
• 1:13:35
  Josh Allen gets married. I looks very, very happy Hard
• 1:13:39
  Knocks. They look like they're fun team
• 1:13:41
  to watch and but McDermott is on the hot seat.
• 1:13:44
  But boys and I think if this team, if this team doesn't start
• 1:13:49
  off strong from the gates, they're going to have a problem.
• 1:13:52
  Yeah, I'm, well, it's one thing I'm worried about.
• 1:13:54
  I'll make it quick because our guess is in the secondary is the
• 1:13:56
  biggest thing because they can't draft corners to save their
• 1:13:58
  life. Safeties they've had issues
• 1:13:59
  with. It's weird to think like when
• 1:14:01
  McDermott started, they had a great secondary.
• 1:14:02
  Now they have a great pass rush and don't have the secondary.
• 1:14:04
  So they're going to need a couple of veteran pieces.
• 1:14:06
  I agree with the Ravens one. Bills 2, Chiefs 3 and Broncos 4
• 1:14:09
  for me in the AFC. There you go.
• 1:14:11
  Yeah. Yeah, I agree.
• 1:14:13
  Go ahead. White looked looked pretty good
• 1:14:16
  in Hard Knocks. Maybe he's really back from
• 1:14:19
  that. If that happens and he can play,
• 1:14:21
  you know, 75 to 85% of what he used to be as an all pro corner,
• 1:14:25
  that could give them just enough to to be really, really
• 1:14:29
  dangerous defensively. Guys, that's our AFC preview.
• 1:14:33
  It's been, it's going to be a real exciting season.
• 1:14:35
  I don't want to hear. I don't want to hear from Dion
• 1:14:37
  Dawkins all season. I can't stand the SOP.
• 1:14:40
  I can't stand that man. All right, So as long as he
• 1:14:44
  keeps his mouth shut, I'll be very excited.
• 1:14:46
  And I think Buffalo is definitely the team that beat in
• 1:14:49
  the AFC East. I don't think that is an
• 1:14:50
  argument. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:14:52
  my deuce of the day, the deuce of the day.
• 1:14:56
  You log not a log. I don't have a log but.
• 1:15:06
  Suck my indo. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:15:08
  my deuce of the day goes to the New England Patriots, as today
• 1:15:14
  they've come out and said that they're going to build a statue.
• 1:15:17
  Of who? Not Tom Brady, because it's
• 1:15:20
  already there of Bill Belichick. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, he's
• 1:15:25
  going to have a wonderful statue built over there in Fox.
• 1:15:30
  I call it Foxwoods because that's all I care about is going
• 1:15:34
  and making a bet. Ladies and gentlemen, what does
• 1:15:36
  that smell? It smells like garbage.
• 1:15:38
  I could care less about Bill Belichick.
• 1:15:40
  He walked out on the New York Jets 24 hours when he got the
• 1:15:43
  job. Bill Parcells just screwed up.
• 1:15:45
  And let me tell you something, Billy.
• 1:15:47
  Billy Bell, what are you doing over there with North Carolina?
• 1:15:50
  I'm going to tell you what, when you build the statue, I'll make
• 1:15:53
  make sure I lay a nice little. Doo Doo.
• 1:15:56
  On it. That's what I'm going to say.
• 1:15:58
  It's absolute crap I could care about.
• 1:16:00
  I can't care less about Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.
• 1:16:03
  And by the way, Tom, I know you're a little announcement
• 1:16:05
  when they announced your nice little statue.
• 1:16:08
  I'm going to tell you this about the New York Jets.
• 1:16:10
  If it wasn't for Bill Belichick leaving and going to your one
• 1:16:13
  and only New England Patriots, you would have been a New York
• 1:16:16
  Jet your ass. All right, that's it.
• 1:16:17
  That's my dues of the day. I had to say that I had to give
• 1:16:21
  that I could careless if they're building a statue or a nice
• 1:16:24
  little thumbs up right to Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, thank
• 1:16:27
  you to all the fans on the audio ends of Spotify and Apple and
• 1:16:31
  the video ends of Spotify and Apple.
• 1:16:33
  Thank you to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, worldwide sports radio
• 1:16:37
  network, RX, everybody that's tuning in and checking us out on
• 1:16:42
  social medias, all the social media networks that we're on
• 1:16:45
  and, and again, we're growing. We'd like to thank everybody
• 1:16:49
  and, and I apologize for some of the negative attacks.
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  I I attacked on on TikTok. I like all the emails that I'm
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  getting. So thank you to all the fans
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  that are reaching out and, and also the fans that are reaching
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  out to me to get the job. By the way, job was like, why
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  are they reaching out to you? They want.
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  They want their own pair of dudes.
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  Yeah, did you see Dudes became the exclusive sponsor of the
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  Tush push? That's right, as long as she's
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  using dude wipes and taking care of my 2 hole I'm.
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  Good. I think we need to reach out.
• 1:17:24
  Pretty on brand. I think we need to reach out to
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  them. I think we we are the kings of,
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  you know, populating the dude, right, dude?
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  Dude wipes, by the way. But I'm a little tired.
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  It's been a long day for me, a long week for me, but I'm just
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  happy. It was really good.
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  All the shows were great this week and honestly just getting
• 1:17:43
  better. I like I'd like to thank all the
• 1:17:45
  fans really seriously, all the fans that have tuned in and and
• 1:17:48
  checked us out and and all the new fans.
• 1:17:50
  Tell your friends, tell your family about us.
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  If you're if you're, if you're bored and you're sitting here
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  watching the Yankee game or watching the Yankees absolutely
• 1:17:57
  bomb a game they should have won.
• 1:17:58
  Well, you should be listening to our show because we would just
• 1:18:01
  absolutely kill them. Aaron Boone absolutely putrid in
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  the 8th inning when it comes to Devin Williams.
• 1:18:07
  Oh my God, horrible calling that idiot in.
• 1:18:10
  But anyways, that's it. We'll talk to you next week
• 1:18:13
  Monday. Who do we have on?
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  Nothing yet for Monday, but Wednesday Nathan was able to get
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  Jordan Ronan, who's the ESPN NFL Nation reporter for the New York
• 1:18:21
  Giants. Oh, that'll be.
• 1:18:22
  Fun 945. Jordan very big when it comes to
• 1:18:25
  Giants reporting. So getting Jordan on is is
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  pretty cool and I'm sure he'll have his take on where he thinks
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  the Giants are going to be. And and by the way, the Giants
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  will play game number one on Sunday.
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  So I'll ask him what he thought about the New York Giants on
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  Sunday. So there you go Jabba.
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  You have anything to say before we go, buddy?
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  No, the Yankees, just when, just when you like them, they do
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  this. Yeah.
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  Other than that, yeah. Nick, I guess.
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  I got enough goody, just just take your pills and go to bed.
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  He he lost his mojo when he lost his crown.
• 1:19:08
  And came to him. Goody was trying to track how
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  much the the last pitch Devin Williams threw compared to the
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  Comet he was. He tastes himself.
• 1:19:17
  Stop. That's not true.
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  He's just comparing the value of a second edition and a third
• 1:19:21
  edition. MU 2.
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  Actually, actually, I was admiring this man.
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  This man spent 33 years alone on an island because he didn't feel
• 1:19:29
  like talking to anyone. I feel like that right now.
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  I'm not doing any freaking tag team.
• 1:19:37
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's it for our show.
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  We'll talk to you next week. Good night.
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