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  Speaker 2: This is the best of Stu Gotson Company Live on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Is he we have a problem?
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  Speaker 3: Is it that you can't see because I'm looking at
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  Speaker 3: your eyeglasses. They're over here in the studio and you're
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  Speaker 3: in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Now I bought another pair. Okay, it's the best scam going,
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  Speaker 1: these pharmacy glasses that you buy and then you lose
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  Speaker 1: them a week later and have to go buy at
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  Speaker 1: the three pack. It's unbelievable. Well, that finally is You're good. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: now you have But that is not the problem. The
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  Speaker 1: problem is I realized during the update there from Mike
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  Speaker 1: that there is a Yankee game going on right now,
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  Speaker 1: and that means Taylor is going to be distracted pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: The Atire show Aaron Judge with his eighth homer of
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  Speaker 1: the year, Aaron Judge, and.
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  Speaker 4: We got a big home run from John Carlos Stanton.
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  Speaker 3: He's playing Wow, Ye, Taylor, you can't have it both ways.
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  Speaker 3: This is your least favorite Yankee team ever? Like, how
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  Speaker 3: are you so locked in?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not moving off that take. I watch every Yankee game,
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty two games. There are gonna be
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  Speaker 4: times where my least favorite team is still playing and
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  Speaker 4: I'm still gonna watch the games, and I'm still gonna
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  Speaker 4: try to support them. My least favorite Yankee team is
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  Speaker 4: still one of my favorite Yankee teams.
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  Speaker 3: Taylor, you think, cause you mentioned how many games they were,
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  Speaker 3: you think the Yankees could ever go undefeated.
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  Speaker 4: They would have to be a lot better.
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe you watch every game. That's such a commitment,
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  Speaker 3: Like I can't even watch. I still haven't seen episode
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  Speaker 3: one of season three of Euphouria yet because it's like
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  Speaker 3: I got other things.
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  Speaker 1: To do, right, Well, the E and Euphouria stands for
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  Speaker 1: every couple of years. I mean, it's all Willy Nelly hazard.
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  Speaker 1: The way they released these new seasons, it's unbelievable. Who knows.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you better watch it now, is he? The
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  Speaker 1: next season is going to be five years from now?
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  Speaker 3: Well that's why I'm thinking, you know what, let the
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  Speaker 3: episodes pile up.
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  Speaker 5: I got plenty of time to watch them, right, But.
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  Speaker 1: I'm laughing because the Aaron Judge World Baseball Classic takes
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  Speaker 1: are not aging well. I mean, he's having a season, Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: he is, and you were.
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  Speaker 4: Worried about me. My only complaint with Aaron Judge right
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  Speaker 4: now is they're playing the Angels in this series, and
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  Speaker 4: every time Mike Trout hits a home run, they cut
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  Speaker 4: to Aaron Judge, and Aaron Judge is having a chuckle
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  Speaker 4: fest in the outfield every time Mike Trout hits a
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  Speaker 4: home run like that, right, because they're they're doing this
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  Speaker 4: thing where they're appreciating each other's greatness because they're just
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  Speaker 4: alternating who's turn it is to hit a home run
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  Speaker 4: seemingly every at bat. But Aaron Judge, I don't need
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  Speaker 4: you looking like you're having the time of your life.
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  Speaker 4: Every time Mike Trout hits one four hundred feet.
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  Speaker 1: He's supposed to look upset. I'm with you on that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you know what when you said Mike Trout, I
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  Speaker 3: thought the same exact thing when you said gian Carlos Stanton,
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  Speaker 3: he's playing and not say like Mike Trout has heard
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  Speaker 3: all the time. You just never hear from him because
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  Speaker 3: he's in that, you know, waste land of Anaheim.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Roger mcdabbell is going to join us. At about
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. Many people in the audience are saying, who
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  Speaker 1: the hell is Roger McDowell. He was a relief pitcher
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  Speaker 1: mid eighties for the New York Mets and other teams.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a personal one for me, as he
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  Speaker 1: was a member of my favorite team, the nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: six New York Mets. The last time I was happy
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  Speaker 1: being a sports fan the mid eighties pretty much. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that. Sean Merrimana to join us
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  Speaker 1: in our number two? Is he ice? Yeah? Go ahead?
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  Speaker 3: That sounds so personal with you and McDowell, I'll probably
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  Speaker 3: just say that one out if you're good, You.
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  Speaker 5: Guys could just have at it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I need him all to myself. I want
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  Speaker 1: him all to myself, I do. But is he the
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  Speaker 1: play in tournament which I said is a waste of time?
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  Speaker 1: And here's what happened. Since I said it's a waste
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  Speaker 1: of time, we have had the greatest playing game in
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  Speaker 1: the history of playing games with the Hornet and Heat
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  Speaker 1: and we had Steph Curry with a performance for the
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  Speaker 1: Ages last night. I mean, I don't believe man.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so good that guy.
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  Speaker 3: It's becoming like almost an expectation for Steph, Like if
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  Speaker 3: there's a big game, a big moment, no matter what
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  Speaker 3: his physical stature is, he's going to do something spectacular.
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  Speaker 5: And yesterday you could see the effort. You could see it.
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  Speaker 5: It's a little harder than.
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  Speaker 1: It used to be for Steve.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little bit more difficult. You can see some
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  Speaker 3: of that effort. Really am putting it in there. But
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  Speaker 3: when he hit that one to three and then fell
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  Speaker 3: into the stands and asked the fan did it go in?
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Good?
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  Speaker 3: And then turned around and celebrated. I mean, that guy,
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  Speaker 3: he's just a gift to basketball. He's so much fun
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  Speaker 3: to watch. When you get a performance like that, you
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  Speaker 3: say to yourself, I need that guy in the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Also, he has well play better during the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: About that, well, he.
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  Speaker 5: Was heard, so he couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 1: That's a question. When he asked the fan that question,
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  Speaker 1: he knew the answer correct, of.
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  Speaker 3: Course, Yeah, you know, he knew the answer. It was
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  Speaker 3: this classic Steph Currage. Just the best probably celebrator in
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  Speaker 3: the history of basketball.
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  Speaker 4: Stu I am shocked that this was the angle you
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  Speaker 4: took from this Warriors game. Ye, I'm logged into your
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  Speaker 4: Twitter account so I could post poll questions faster.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And yesterday I'm watching the I'm watching a baseball game.
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  Speaker 4: I have the Warriors game on and a smaller TV,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm not really paying too much attention to it.
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  Speaker 4: But all of a sudden, I start getting notifications left
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  Speaker 4: and right, and I'm like, what is happening right now?
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  Speaker 4: And then I look to the Warriors game and Al
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  Speaker 4: Horford is turning back the clocks. He goes four for
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  Speaker 4: four in the fourth quarter from three, and it feels
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  Speaker 4: like whenever Al Horford does something, that's a chance for
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  Speaker 4: a Stu Gott's victory lap.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, listen, I have said Al Horford should be a
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  Speaker 1: first ballot Hall of Famer. He has multiple championships. He's
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  Speaker 1: one of the best power forwards to ever play the game.
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  Speaker 1: He can shoot threes, he can defend, he can grab rebounds,
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  Speaker 1: he does the little things. Whatever you need Al Horford
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  Speaker 1: to do, he does them for you. And I am
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  Speaker 1: telling you the so Celtics do not win that NBA
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  Speaker 1: championship if not for one Al Horford.
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  Speaker 5: How about that is huh yeah, no, I mean that
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  Speaker 5: was his only Well.
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  Speaker 1: You don't say three? Well, I just.
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  Speaker 3: Could hung up on you saying he got multiple championships,
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  Speaker 3: were you including college?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I just whatever, he's Al Horford, I mean, yeah, no, no,
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  Speaker 5: just making sure.
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  Speaker 3: I just didn't want to mislead the people because I
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  Speaker 3: know in your brand you're thinking he's a three time champion.
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  Speaker 5: Yeh ok two of them were in college. That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, one for alcouts is three. Okay. That's the way
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  Speaker 1: I look at he's that important to a team.
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  Speaker 4: He is and Al Horford. What Al Horford brings to
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  Speaker 4: the table for a team Steve Gotts is kind of
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  Speaker 4: right in Al Horford's prime, if you could get five
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  Speaker 4: Al Horfords, I like that team's chance to win a
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  Speaker 4: time Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: I don't even think it has to be in his prime.
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  Speaker 3: Horford has somehow gotten like, not necessarily better, but more
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  Speaker 3: useful the older he gets, because that three point shots
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  Speaker 3: so much more reliable. And I don't know what it is,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's reputation or what, but his on ball defense
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  Speaker 3: continues to be great. How I have no idea I
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  Speaker 3: think he might get away with a few things, but
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  Speaker 3: at his age, he should not be able to stop
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  Speaker 3: guards at his size, but somehow he does.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone makes it into that Basketball Hall of Fame. It's
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  Speaker 1: why I hate that Hall of Fame is Al Horford
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  Speaker 1: Does he have a chance to get it? And he'd
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  Speaker 1: be first ballot for me if it were my decisions.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, because it's the Basketball Hall of Fame, the
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  Speaker 3: Naysmith Hall of Fame, and you can include his back
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  Speaker 3: to back championships in college.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's a possibility, but I think it's a
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  Speaker 5: real long shot. Like how many All Star Games has
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  Speaker 5: he made? Too? Maybe so Stu.
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  Speaker 4: I'm on Basketball Reference right now and they have their
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  Speaker 4: Hall of Fame probability. Yeah, Al Horford is at twenty
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  Speaker 4: six point five percent, so really it's not looking too well.
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  Speaker 4: But maybe he has a opposite of Russell Wilson, where
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  Speaker 4: if the Warriors could go on a run and they
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  Speaker 4: win a title, he could.
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  Speaker 1: Get himself into the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 4: And Al Horford he is aging like a fine wine.
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  Speaker 1: Oh he really is. He's got ten years left at least. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: I've kind of I think I changed my mind on
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  Speaker 3: that he's made five All Star Games. Yeah, and historically,
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  Speaker 3: at least in my mind, ever since I believe it
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  Speaker 3: was Mitch Richmond made the Hall of Fame with five
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  Speaker 3: All Star Games. I was like, Okay, that's the minimum.
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  Speaker 3: You get five your Hall of Fame potential.
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  Speaker 5: He's got his five.
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  Speaker 1: He got five, he's got two national championships, he's got
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  Speaker 1: an NBA championship. Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown they've never
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  Speaker 1: won one without him. I mean, how about that? The
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  Speaker 1: same about Drew Holliday.
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  Speaker 5: The reason why.
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  Speaker 4: I want Al Horford to get in is because you're
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  Speaker 4: looking at some of the numbers Al Horford's put up
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  Speaker 4: in his career. He's a twelve point seven points per
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  Speaker 4: game career scorer, seven point seven rebounds, three point two assists.
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  Speaker 4: If Al Horford gets in, we have the new answer
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  Speaker 4: for who is the worst Hall of Famer.
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  Speaker 1: We watch your tongue, young man numbers. He's about little things, okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's about what he says in a time out. It's
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  Speaker 1: about a pregame speech, a little halftime motivation. It's how
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  Speaker 1: he takes the rookies under his wing and he teaches
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  Speaker 1: them the ropes of the NBA. That's what Al Horford
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  Speaker 1: is all about. Anything he gives you in the way
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  Speaker 1: in numbers is just a bonus, Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: He was an All Star in twenty eighteen, which seems
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  Speaker 3: way too recent for him to have been an All Star.
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  Speaker 3: Average for the season twelve point nine points, seven point
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  Speaker 3: four rebound, Yeah, fit somehow in defensive Player of the
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  Speaker 3: Year ranking.
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  Speaker 5: I'm telling you, man, everybody loves them, Sam al.
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  Speaker 1: Horford, who doesn't Draymond Green's gonna get into the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame right easily? Correct?
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  Speaker 5: Obviously he might already be there, really somehow.
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  Speaker 1: He was so good last night. You loved Draymond Green's
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  Speaker 1: game last night, didn't you.
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  Speaker 5: So it's it's.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy because Steve Kur said after the game, and he's not.
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  Speaker 3: This isn't the first time he said this, suggesting that
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  Speaker 3: he might be the best defensive player of all time.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Who you think of when you think greatest defensive player
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  Speaker 3: in NBA history. Maybe Bill Russell. But if you're thinking
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  Speaker 3: Bill Russell, you need to update that. I think Jordan
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  Speaker 3: might be.
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  Speaker 1: You think Jordan, I mean Jordan pip In. You know
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  Speaker 1: those two goes pretty much, well, that's two people.
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  Speaker 4: He almost only thinks Michael Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: What it's really about it. I mean, that's what makes
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  Speaker 1: him so great. He was just as good defensively as
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  Speaker 1: he was offensively anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, and you don't think that Draymond Green. Maybe, look,
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  Speaker 3: take a deep breath, think about this. Okay, maybe it's
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  Speaker 3: possible that Draymond Green is a better defensive player than
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  Speaker 3: Michael Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it this way. Okay, you take a deep breath. Right,
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  Speaker 1: Imagine Draymond guarding Michael and Michael guarding Draymon. Huh. It's
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  Speaker 1: a good point, thank you. Michael would light Draymond up
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  Speaker 1: for fifty.
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  Speaker 5: Fifty every night, But how does that make him at.
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  Speaker 1: Out? We'll go from one of tech. Thank you, Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: So I believe that's what we in the business call
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  Speaker 4: a checkmate.
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  Speaker 5: If that's the case, I don't know how to play chess.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how this game is played, Taylor, putting
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  Speaker 1: on the polls that you control my Twitter account? Is
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  Speaker 1: that what we in the business call it? Checkmate?
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  Speaker 5: The only way?
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  Speaker 3: So if Michael Jordan was playing one on one against
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  Speaker 3: Draymond Green, and then playing a second one on one
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  Speaker 3: game against himself, then we would know who the better
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  Speaker 3: defender is I gut they're both defending Michael Jordan. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure I'll take this back after I say it,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 5: I can defend Draymond Green for about a point.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you don't need to be the greatest defender of
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  Speaker 3: all time to defend Draymond Green. So I don't really
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  Speaker 3: know if I buy that, but hey, i've been checkmated.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna do about it.
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  Speaker 1: I am now looking up Michael Jordan. How many times
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  Speaker 1: he made the NBA All Defensive First Team.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it was not all of them, all of them,
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  Speaker 5: he made all of them.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll take a quick time out here eight
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  Speaker 1: seven seven ninety nine on Fox. I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving out that phone number since we have Roder
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  Speaker 1: McDowell coming up next, but I wanted to ask the question,
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  Speaker 1: Jordan or Draymond who's the better defender? Eight seven seven nine.
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  Speaker 3: You know that's going to come back MJ like you
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  Speaker 3: know that is he? I'm sorry, it's good to me this. Yes, no,
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  Speaker 3: I don't hate this. It just depends on who the
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  Speaker 3: audience is, right. If it's a bunch of people over
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  Speaker 3: thirty five they're all going to say, Jordan, if it's
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of under thirties, they're gonna actually think about it.
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  Speaker 1: and Company wherever you get your podcast. It is a
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  Speaker 1: think about It Thursday. As Taylor continues to counter program
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  Speaker 1: a local show down in Miami. So Chris give me
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  Speaker 1: the imaging please?
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  Speaker 6: You know that segment talk about a Tuesday on Howks
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  Speaker 6: Crowder and soamiro. This is like that, but bigger, bigger
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  Speaker 6: and better, better, better, and forty eight hours later, this
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  Speaker 6: is think about It Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: Imaging so formal. It is great imaging, Chris, you don't
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  Speaker 4: want to know how much we spent on that imaging.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have dollars.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the Yankee trailing now six to four daily.
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  Speaker 4: My least favorite team. You're gonna you have kids, one
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  Speaker 4: of your kids is your least favorite kid. This just
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  Speaker 4: happens to be my least favorite Yankee team. Doesn't mean
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  Speaker 4: I don't love them, just my least favorite.
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  Speaker 1: I understand, Yes, So today's.
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  Speaker 4: Think about It Thursday. The White Sox are honoring their
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  Speaker 4: super fan, Pope Leo with a Pope hat giveaway in August.
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  Speaker 4: It was initially announced as a special ticket giveaway, but
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  Speaker 4: it was so popular amongst their fans that they've decided
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  Speaker 4: now everybody in attendance will get said hat. So my
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  Speaker 4: question for you guys, what are the best and worst
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  Speaker 4: promotional giveaways at a sporting event?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's the worst.
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  Speaker 3: I can't imagine an entire crowd of people in Pope
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  Speaker 3: hats is gonna look good, nor are you do you
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  Speaker 3: can you imagine what they're going to do with it afterward?
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  Speaker 5: Like when are you going to sport this pope hat?
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  Speaker 1: Right? And it's August, I mean a little hot for uh, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, someone's gonna throw off in that pope hat from.
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  Speaker 1: Two put it on the ball tailer is so I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna throw up in the po pat from Too much beer.
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  Speaker 5: Does kind of make you look like a Game of
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  Speaker 5: Thrones character.
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  Speaker 4: Though, so for me, my favorite giveaway growing up as
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  Speaker 4: a kid going to Yankee games was bat Day. I
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  Speaker 4: can remember being seven years old and walking out a
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  Speaker 4: Yankee stadium with a full sized bat, which was awesome swinging.
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  Speaker 3: That little sized really yep, full size. They can't still
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  Speaker 3: be doing that.
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  Speaker 4: No, I highly doubt it, but full sized bat just
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  Speaker 4: swinging it in the parking lot. Bibblehead Nights kind of
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  Speaker 4: hit or miss for me. The Yankees do a George
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: Costanza bibblehead night, which is popular. Sometimes they get a
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: little too cute with the bobbleheads, like Max Fried has
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: a Mandalorian bobblehead Night where he's dressed up as the
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Mandalorian's that's a.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: Little too cute.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: For me, I think babbleheads always land as a promotional
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: item in terms of getting excited, and then if it
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: lets you down, it lets you down. That's part of
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: the thing, right, I think bibbleheads are pretty much number
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: one kind of gold standard giveaway.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: I've got two Aaron Eck Blad bobbleheads in my house.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: I have no idea why. I'm not a huge Blad fan.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Just got happened to go to that game, and you
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: can't throw those away.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: A couple of bobbleheads cutting it up. Huh.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: One of them is still in the box just in
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: case Aaron neck really in mid condition.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: So Stu.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: Actually, after this show today, I'm getting on a flight
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: and going back to New York for the week, and
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking about going to the Yankee game tomorrow just
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: because of the giveaway they're doing. It's a hockey jersey giveaway,
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: but the hockey jersey is a Yankee jersey.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: That one's interesting that the shirt or close giveaway is
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: always tough because the sizes are not they don't ary, right,
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: They're just gonna give you a large size and hope
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: you can deal with it.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: What are you thinking here? Is he do you have one.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it. That's what I'm doing. It's not good.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: This is just a think about It Thursdays, so you're
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: supposed to think about it, so it's.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: Not like we're waiting for a final, firm answer.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: I do think you mentioned that day. I think mini
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: bats or mini anything like. If you give me a
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: mini basketball, I'm all about it.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: You can't really give those away in a basketball game
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: because it probably have three hundred of them end up
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: on the court somehow.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: But you give me a mini item of some sort,
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: I'm down.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I am. I'm looking at some promotions right now.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: In nineteen forty two, the Giants had scrap Metal Night.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I mean it's terrible. Free admission for bringing scrap metal
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: resulted in ten thousand children causing a field invasion and
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: a forfeitted game. I mean that you.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Said nineteen forty two. Yeah, probably probably for the war.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, scrap metal was big back then. You're right,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: I understand what you're saying.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Yes, Stu, I have a guest that wants to contribute
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: on Today's Think About It Thursday. Really it's it's Ai
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: Colin Coward.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Well, this is exciting. We haven't heard from Ai Colin
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Coward in quite some time. This is very very exciting.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Colin, Hey, Ai Colin Coward.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: What are the best and worst promotional giveaways at a
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: sporting event?
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: The best giveaways are the ones you actually use or display. Bobbleheads,
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: replica jerseys, a good hat, even a seat cushion for
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: a long game. The worst ones are the why did
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: you even make this items? Bags of soil, tiny squares
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: of bubble wrap, weird novelty stuff that ends up in
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: the parking lot before the second quarter. A great promo
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: feels like a souvenir and a flex. A bad promo
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: feels like clutter with a.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Logo, what do you think about the White Sox while
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: honoring Pope Leo with the Pope hat giveaway?
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: I love it. Sports is supposed to be fun and
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: a Pope hat shaped like a miter with the White
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: Sox logo is the kind of weird, memorable giveaway people
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: actually keep, and the move to give it to everybody
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: On August eleventh against Cincinnati, smart nothing kills a promo
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: like telling most of the stadium sorry, you don't qualify.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: And Colin, you didn't even mention that Pope Leo is
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: a White Sox fan, which kind of adds to the
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: entry of it.
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's cool because it's real. He's a Chicago guy.
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: He's been a longtime White Sox fan, and he's not
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: hiding it. Even when somebody yells go Cubs and he
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: fires back. They lost. That's the whole charm. It makes
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: him feel like a normal fan with a global job.
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: That's not a gimmick, that's personality.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Colin.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Do you think it's a bit dangerous for teams to
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: give away full sized baseball bats at games?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's playing with fire.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: Handing out full sized baseball bats to a crowd is
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: just begging for one idiot to turn the concourse into
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: a problem. Teams already deal with foul balls and broken
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: bats flying into seats, so why add another hard object
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: that can become a weapon or a liability. If you
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: want the vibe, do a mini bat or a foam bat,
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: same fun, none of the chaos.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Wow is he he?
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: You agree with your point?
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, hey, I don't know how is he feels
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: about that? I mean, but better than the actual college,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's quicker, he's better.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, better than any of us.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Too.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: I'm worried about my job.
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: Frankly, every time he played AI call and I'm like, Wow,
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: what would I be as a fast food worker or
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: something like that, because I don't think I can do
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: better than Ai Colin.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: We have any more. He's so good. I mean, listen
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the third question. I forget what it was, but he
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: would fumble around for at least two minutes before he
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: gave an answer. Not Ai Collin. Ai Colin spits it
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: right back at you. So Taylor Man, he should be
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: hosted a show this What did he say? You useless
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: giveaway like a bag of soil. Yeah, yes, they've done
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: that before.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Bag of soil night.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: That was the real thing.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if I.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Had a guess, it's like, you just get some outfield dirt.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Because in terms of practicality, hey, throw this in your
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: garden something like that. You know, maybe not the worst
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: thing in the world, but in terms of carrying it
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: around practically during a game, not the best.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: So Stu. Actually, one time I took a tour of
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Yankee Stadium when I was probably seven or eight, and
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: the only thing I got on the tour I went
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: with a ziploc bag and I went to the warning track,
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: and when I went to the warning track, I looked
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: to see if anybody was looking. I bent down. I
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: scooped as much of the warning track into said bag,
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: and then I put it on my wall with tape
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: and my mom was looking at it, like, you gotta
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: take that down.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: That is dirt.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: My mom's an interior decorator, and she was like, we
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: are not putting dirt up on your wall.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but did you tell her mom, this is not
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: just any sort of dirt here, Okay, this is dirt
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: from the Yankee outfield. And did it change her minds?
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: I mean no, she didn't care. So I think where
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: she was mad is my dad would always take me
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: to these things. And my dad would never say no
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: to anything one because he's Italian and he doesn't really
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: understand the significant impact that some of these things had.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Like when I went to a Yankee red socket in
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: one time, I was like, Dad, can I buy the shirt?
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: And it was one of those shirts that says Buck
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Foston and he was like he was like, yeah, I
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: don't understand that. So I'm going back to the house
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: and I'm like all sly wearing it. And the second
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: my mom sees it. She took that shirt off me
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: as I was walking in and in one sweet motion,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: threw it in the.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Trash I love, and then yelled me your dad.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is Italian man raising this new found American
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: who's learning his way than this country.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: It's just like Buck Foston. What does that mean is
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: that one of the players. Is it Boston? Any good?
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Oh? My god? Is he? How do we feel about
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen the Brewers did paint your own Bobblehead night?
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: About that?
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: Man?
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: That is lazy?
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, don't make me do the work. Brewers, seriously,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: do me a favorite. Don't make me do the work.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Peyt No, damn bobblehead And when I get there, just
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: give it to me.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: But if you were in the front office, dude, you
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: would make the fans.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Do the work. Right.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: That's a stud God's front office.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: I've ever seen one.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: For me, cat Nights the most overrated. I don't think
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: I've ever worn a hat giveaway.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: Oh man, you scared me for a second. I thought
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: you said cat Night.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Could you imagine the chaos if they allow us a
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: bunch of cats in a stadium like they do the dogs.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Wow, that would be insane.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I'm certain they have. By the way, dog night, I mean,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: do me a favor. I go to a baseball game
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: to watch baseball. I don't need to deal with a dog.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Leave him at home.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Gotson Company
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Live Weekday. Said three pm Eastern twelve pm Pacific.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I want to play some sound for Israel Goudyeirez from
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: one Stephen A. Smith, the greatest of all time, the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: greatest ever do this. You're debating that.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Really it should be debated, right, every goat debate should
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: have especially with Steven A.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Wait, you guys don't view him as the goat of
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: sports media.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: I mean all time is a long time sale is
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: up there.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: So I've viewed Steven A. Smith as the goat of
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: sports media. But Steven A. Smith himself would respect the
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: fact that we're even having this debate.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: You're right, I'm sorry, but Steven A. Smith, for me,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: is the greatest to ever do this. I am the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: commissioner of sports radio and he is on my all
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: time sports media team.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: How about that?
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: But I want to play some sound and get the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: reaction from one Israel goody eras because we have spoken
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: you and I is he about Kawhi Leonard. What a
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: polarizing figure he is, and last night Steph Curry bounced
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: him out of the playoffs. Here is Steven A. Smith
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: talking about Kawhi Leonard.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: He's supposed to be the face of the franchise.
• 24:39
  Speaker 10: The last five years, the Clippers have missed the playoffs,
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: got bounced in the first round the next three years,
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: and now they've missed the playoffs again. So as far
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: as I'm concerned, if you're talking about how to view
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: his season individually, in terms of his numbers averaging nearly
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: twenty eight and six on the season, of course those
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: numbers are very, very impressive, But in the same break,
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: the investment that has been made in him over the
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: years has not reached fruition his ability to carry a
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: team to something that isn't true because he's gone home
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: in the first round or they've missed the playoffs the
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: last five damn years, and it's solidified the fact that
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: he is not the person that you would want as
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: the leader of your franchise. His individual skills are what
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: they are, but in terms of galvanizing the troops, in
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: terms of carrying a franchise and all the responsibilities that
• 25:29
  Speaker 10: come with it.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: That's not him, really, who was doing it in Toronto?
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Who was that.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Who've galvanized troops in Toronto and led them and won
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: a championship with them over the arguably greatest team of
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: all time, although it was injured Warriors. Like, that's one
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: of the most ridiculous takes I've ever heard. If you
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: look at the last few years, if you just come
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: onto a microphone and say, I don't think Kawhi Leonard
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: should be the leader of your franchise because he's always hurt,
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: I'm good with that. You can There's nothing I can
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: say about that. He played two playoff games in twenty three.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: He played two playoff games in twenty four, Okay, so
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: it wasn't like he was there for all of that
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: first round even And so yeah, we have multiple examples
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: of if Kawhi Leonard was the leader of your team,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: that he can win you a championship. Frankly, he probably
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: should have three, if not for one big ray Allen shot.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: So I just feel like Kawhi Leonard is misunderstood because
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: he likes his privacy, likes to be quiet, and when
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: it comes to a no nonsense basketball player. Listen, he
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: leads the league and no nonsense, Like, there is absolutely
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: zero nonsense in that dude.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: Okay, So that's the type of player you want.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Like if Kawhi Leonard was on the Miami Heat and
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: you're gonna tell me he's.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: Gonna stay healthy. What a perfect extension of the coach
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: on the floor.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: And that guy even if you make him, you tell
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: him to run, he's probably not gonna run.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: But still he is a.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Perfect extension of the coach out there. And I just
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: I just don't buy it. It's just recency biases.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: What that is?
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Taylor put it on the poll. Please, does Kawhi Leonard
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: lead the league in no nonsense?
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Not a single ounce of nonsense, right buddy?
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: Now?
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: And I understand what you're saying. I also understand kind
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: of what Steven A. Smith is saying. He's not consistent
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: enough in terms of playing where you want him to
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: lead your franchise, in terms of just being available. But
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: and I think that's part of the frustration with Kawhi
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Leonard is he we all see the greatness every single
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: time he takes the court. We could see just how
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: great that guy is as a basketball player and a competitor,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: by the way, and he has won two NBA titles,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: But I think there is a feeling amongst NBA fans
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: that if that guy were simply available, if he treated
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: his career slightly differently than he has, that's a guy
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: that should have four or five NBA championships. Is that fair?
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Well, when you say treated his career the way that
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: he has, what do you mean by that?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Just you know, all the games off, not being ready
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: for certain moments, just stuff like that, whatever happened after
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: he won the first title in San Antonio.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: But that's all just it's actual injury issues that he's
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: dealing with. He's not just sitting out because maybe he'll
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: get hurt.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: He has.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: He's had a knee condition that he's had to navigate
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: his entire career. That's why it was so confusing when
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: he was leaving the Spurs and nobody could figure out
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: exactly what the issue was. So, you know, there are people,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: lesser players who might have retired with that type of uh,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: you know, knee situation that have enough money that you
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: know they never have to worry about money again. Instead,
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: he found a way to win another championship, found a
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: way to build get himself on a Clippers team that
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: might actually be legitimate. So I don't think him missing
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: time is a knock on him on how he.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: Approaches his career. That is strictly injury management.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: So Kawhi Leinner, for you, is a guy that you
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: would want to lead your basketball team, is what you're saying.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: But only if I knew he could actually be healthy.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: So I don't think many people even predicted he would
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: stay healthy this year. And you saw when he was
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: healthy how good these Clippers were, And so I think
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: that's the problem. I think that's where the uncertainty comes,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: even with James Harden. When James Harden's asking out, it's
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: not necessarily because he doesn't believe that Kawhi Leonard and
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: he can lead a team. It's because you might not
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: believe Kawhi Leonard is going to be around, and especially
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: when you think of you know, the potential and obviously
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: didn't happen this year, But any sort of punishment he
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: gets from the Aspiration deal and potentially you know, circumventing
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: the salary cap, all that stuff was in people's minds too.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: But if you tell me next year. Hey, if you
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: tell Kawhi, hey, you felt pretty good this year, you
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: think you can keep that up for whatever it is
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: seventy of eighty two next year in the playoffs. Absolutely,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: I'm taking that guy to lead my team.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: Stuart the Clippers. With the Clippers missing the playoffs thanks
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: to the Paul George trade, Oklahoma City now has a
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: pick in this year's lottery. They currently have a seven
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: point one percent chance to move up in the top four.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Is he when you're when you're looking at this trade,
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: I'm first off shocked that this trade is still still
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: seeing the effects.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Of it benefits for Oklahoma City.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, right, when when you factor in just that a
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: one for one trade of SGA for Paul George would
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: have been a win for OKC. Then you add in
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: the fact that one of the picks they got back
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: turned into Jalen Williams. Now they have an additional lottery
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: pick coming up. Could you make the argument this is
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: one of the most lopsided trades in NBA history, Yeah,
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: I think it was.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: It's already probably the most.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: You know, there are trades where somebody clearly overpaid, like
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Michael Bridges and all the first rounders for the Knicks.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: But that's you know, out of desperation. That's like a
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: finishing piece, if you will, for a team for a
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: trade like this to be two franchise type players, or
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: at least one. At the time, you didn't even know
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: what Shay was going to be. So when Shay turns
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: out to be a better player than Paul George, it's
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: already lopsided, right because they obviously had to give up
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: so much more to get them.
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  Speaker 5: So you throw in all those It's just it seems
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: like the trade that never ends. It's like you mentioned Taylor.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: So there's a seven point one percent chance for OKC
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: to move up into the lottery or to move up
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: into the top four in the lottery. Stu, there's a
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: scenario where the Thunder are the NBA champs for back
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: to back years and then the lottery plays out, and
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: who do they add to their team? AJ Debontsa, Yeah,
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Darren Peterson, maybe Caleb Wilson from North Carolina, Cam Boozer
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: from from Duke. There's a chance that this Thunder team
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: is on the vert Well, it's we're already there, that this.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Is already there.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Yes, we're in the middle on the verge of a dynasty.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: They might just get more reinforcements added to said Dinastasy.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: And it's not even necessarily just reinforcements, right, it's replacements
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: for when the other guys get expensive. Hey, Chet Holdenman,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: what have you done for me to you know, to
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: pay you max super max money? Okay, we're gonna stick
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: with cam Boozer maybe you know. I think it just
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: it gives them so many options to remain good and
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: you're not in salary cap hell, because you know they
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: planned ahead and got a little lucky with SGA.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Hopefully they use that pick on someone who plays the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: game in an exciting fashion because they lead the league
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: in ZZZ plus. I mean, how about that got someone
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: who could dunk? As that said. By the way, the
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: last time Kawhi Leonard played seventy plus games is he
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: twenty and sixty?
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: I didn't think it was in the NBA.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: I got to go wow.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, but I think that's what Steve and a
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Steven as absolutely factoring that in that part of it.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: In you don't want him leading your team because he's
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: never going to play seventy games unlike SGA.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Right, Listen, Toronto chose one year to man have that
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: guy lead that team. He's got the ultimate prize, so
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: name namely another guy who did that on a one
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: year loan when and.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Gave an entire country a championship, Like come on, like
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: we get what's happened lately.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: We've always known that his knee would be a problem,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: but it was supposed to be a problem that year
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: in Toronto.
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: They managed it.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: They you know, only had him play a certain number
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: of games, whatever, sixty games that year won a championship.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: So yes, I mean he did win the Raptors a championship.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: They kept going to the playoffs with Kyle Lowry who
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: you know, I think Teres Max. He told us was retiring,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: but they kept getting there with DeRozan and Lowry and
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Lowry and DeRozan and DeRozan and Lowry, and they kept
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: getting bounced out in the second round. And then incomes
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard boom NBA title.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: If I was Kawhi Leonard, I'd be a little less
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: worried about that knee and more worried about Pablo Torre
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: sniffing around.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: It's crazy how nothing has come of that.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Like there it feels like this is just one of
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: those things where they're just gonna let Kawhi's career end
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: and it's like we never.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: Got to the bottom of it.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Oh well, yeah, put it on the pole, Taylor. What'sh
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: your Kawhi Leonard be more worried about his knee or
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Pablo Torre? And I can answer the question. I love that,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I love Pablo, and I say this respectfully, but no
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: one cares. Stu.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: They asked him about that yesterday after they lost. Yeah,
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: the headline says, Kawhi mom on Clipper's future. Also, he's
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: not stressing the NBA's aspiration probe.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: He's always mom and he's never stressing.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, now I've got Pablo Torre and like some Corduroys,
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: a white T shirt with like a little sweater over it,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: just going to the floor, smacking the hardwood and just
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: standing right in front of Kawai Leonard and see what happens.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, is he I have too many things
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: in my life to worry about that. That how Kawhi
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: gets his money, where he's getting it from is not
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: one of them. I mean, I like fans lit, they
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: got enough stress in their own life. They don't care
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: about that stuff. Just give me a game, give me Kawhi,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: give me a big game. Let me turn it on
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: and entertain me. That's all I'm saying. All Right, No,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: who cares. I'll tell you who cares?
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: The old school players who are already mad that the
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: new school players get all this money to begin with,
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: and now they get secret money and we're supposed to
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: be okay with it. Where was that secret money when
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: I was playing in the eighties.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Dang it, Sean Merriman is going, I'm looking forward to this.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Shawn Merriman was a menace when he played in the NFL,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: an amazing athlete. I'm really looking forward to this. Tailor,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: you had something.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a caller actually, who wants to talk
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard?
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Really wow? No one calling in on Draymond or Jordan?
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Who's the better defender? Huh? Eight seven seven ninety nine
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: on Fox? That is eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: We'll take a call here. Let's go to Mark in Miami. Mark,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on Fox Sports Radio.
• 35:37
  Speaker 9: What's up, fellows? Yeah, as far as the pole questions,
• 35:40
  Speaker 9: Jordan's by a landslide. It's not even close. Draymond's great lee,
• 35:45
  Speaker 9: but he's not on He's not nowhere near. An MJ
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: was the best elite perimeter defender and I don't think
• 35:50
  Speaker 9: there's a close debate on that. As far as Kawhi goes. Guys,
• 35:53
  Speaker 9: I've never Everybody talks about the Luca trade being the
• 35:56
  Speaker 9: worst trade. To me, this is my father worst trade.
• 35:59
  Speaker 9: When you look up all the assets the Clippers gave
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: up in that trade, you basically gave up an MVP
• 36:04
  Speaker 9: of the league. You set up a dynasty there in
• 36:06
  Speaker 9: Oklahoma City. The Clippers are still irrelevant, even though they
• 36:10
  Speaker 9: got the richest owner in all the sports and Bombers,
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: they probably got the nicest arena in all the sports,
• 36:15
  Speaker 9: and they still don't move the needle. There's a redhead
• 36:17
  Speaker 9: to steps out in their own city. And as great
• 36:19
  Speaker 9: as Kwahi is, he's the most odd superstar I think
• 36:22
  Speaker 9: maybe in the history of sports. He doesn't talk, he's mute,
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: he has no brands. He's just an all around great player,
• 36:29
  Speaker 9: but nobody knows anything about him. The only thing we
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: know he has a bizarre laugh and he has a
• 36:34
  Speaker 9: new balance steel that we discovered because he's in that commercial.
• 36:36
  Speaker 9: But at least for the mass you could say they
• 36:39
  Speaker 9: got Cooper Flagg, who to me is gonna be a
• 36:41
  Speaker 9: generational talent. So when you look at all those factors, guys,
• 36:44
  Speaker 9: to me, the Clippers making that trade and now they
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: have no assets left and they're pretty much gonna reboot,
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: and probably Kawhi is gonna is gonna bolt. And so
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: I'm just hoping that the Heat hand because I know
• 36:56
  Speaker 9: Miami's deperate. We haven't landed a whale. I think they're
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: gonna make a play for Kawahi. I really hope they don't.
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: That's what I was gonna ask you, Mark.
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: This is an anomaly. This is this year has been anomaly.
• 37:05
  Speaker 9: He's not gonna stay healthy. He's gonna play probably about
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: thirty games next year, and then he will be dumb
• 37:09
  Speaker 9: enough to the real aman and give him on a
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: big max deal to take him. So they better not
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: do it, guys, because I'm healing rumblings they're gonna be
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: that desperate to really go after him because of the
• 37:19
  Speaker 9: playing team that we become year after years. So I'm
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: just saying for Heat Nation, please don't do it, because
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: I have a bad feeling, guys that they're gonna be
• 37:26
  Speaker 9: so desperate they're gonna bite and take it. So thanks
• 37:28
  Speaker 9: for the time, fellas.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: Get that Man Break podcast.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, great, call rack them. I mean to Mark Show.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: Oh, Mark in Miami, that's what we go back.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Mark, I'm gonna give him find me on
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: social media. I'm gonna give you the hotline number so
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: you can just buzz in whenever you.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Want the hot You don't give anyone the hotline number.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: What are you're gonna give it the Mark?
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Mark in Miami just earned it.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: He did make me.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: He did make me think about a timeline where that
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: trade doesn't happen and it's just Kawhi, Leonard and SGA
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: on the Clippers and we all have to be serious
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: about the Clippers.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how about his Jordan take?
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Though?
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: Huh it was wrong?
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: What I mean? He was a defensive Player of the Year,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: nine time first Team All NBA Defense. What okay, we'll
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: see Yeah.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: Sean barn he was a great perimeter defender as a
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: man said, so we'll see Draymond he one through five.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: He didn't say that he was great. He said he
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: was the greatest of all time. That's what he said.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: He said market He said.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: It was the greatest perimeter defender. And I was like, okay,
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: so that Raymond does more?
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Do you know the hotline number?
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: I did?
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: That I don't get for nothing, right, That's why Taylor
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: didn't give it to you. He gave it to Mark.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: Okay, I mean you and Mark and Miami are going
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: to have a podcast