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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: We begin anew this hour with Little pro Bouncy Ball.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of games ending not that far before we
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  Speaker 1: cracked the powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio. So here
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  Speaker 1: we are in our lead this hour from the Mile
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  Speaker 1: High City, from Denver, there was game number what is it,
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  Speaker 1: Game five the that's right, the Timberwolves and Nuggets from
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  Speaker 1: the Mile High City and the Wolves a chance to
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  Speaker 1: stomp out like a cigarette Denver and advance out of
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  Speaker 1: the opening round of the playoffs. However, they have to
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  Speaker 1: do it shorthanded. That was the big lead up to
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  Speaker 1: the game. That was the big storyline coming into the game.
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  Speaker 1: As ant man Anthony Edwards, I know there are other
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  Speaker 1: people heard that he's the headliner there and it's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be out multiple weeks. His knee went snap, crackle, pop,
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  Speaker 1: and so he's out for a while. And that was
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  Speaker 1: the setup see figure right in Minnesota. Other people will
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  Speaker 1: step up. How did that go? So, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you watch this or not, Perhaps not Nicoley Jokic. He'd
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  Speaker 1: been a slump not evemore, at least slump bluster performance
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  Speaker 1: for Nicola Jokicic there as he went out and painted
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  Speaker 1: a masterpiece. Twenty seven point, sixteen assists and twelve rebounds,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, and a partridge in a pear tree. And
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  Speaker 1: the better name for that, I believe is the gangster turm,
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  Speaker 1: the triple double. So the vintage Joker was back for
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  Speaker 1: the Denver basketball team. Jamal Murray. He played well as well.
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  Speaker 1: The Nuggets look completely lost for a couple of games,
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  Speaker 1: were not here. It's amazing how much better they look
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  Speaker 1: when the other teams short handed. Jamal Murray twenty four points,
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  Speaker 1: seven assists. The Nuggets never trailed after the first quarter.
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  Speaker 1: This was such an easy win. I think Queen Roxanne
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  Speaker 1: cashed in on this because she's always betting on the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 1: There and Denver led by as many as twenty seven points,
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  Speaker 1: and so they stave off elimination. The only time we
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  Speaker 1: use the word stave is in sports. Stave off elimination.
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  Speaker 1: A cakewalk win over minaesulta who still leads the series
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  Speaker 1: three games to two, heading back for game six. Little
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  Speaker 1: home cooking for game six. But the better story, you
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  Speaker 1: know where it is. Yeah, the better story is in
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  Speaker 1: the losing locker room. So let us discuss. And that's
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping up point. The question. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: the eye doctor. You're looking at the eye chart. So
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  Speaker 1: how are things looking right now? For the timm Wolves,
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  Speaker 1: how are things looking?
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  Speaker 3: So?
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  Speaker 1: I've got metamorphosis, Paris Baguette and Freedo's and we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to move within range of your ear drums, is what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do. So A the theme for Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: was I have that think, I have that sinking feeling.
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  Speaker 1: I have that sinking feeling is the theme here and
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  Speaker 1: the vibe in the Twin Cities. In that locker room,
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  Speaker 1: it shifted from finger biting to chew your own arm off.
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  Speaker 1: Holy crap, get some bass salts and start chewing your
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  Speaker 1: arm off. It was like that, And then, so how
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  Speaker 1: are things looking now, if you look at the forecast,
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  Speaker 1: it's doom with gloom mixed in. At this point, Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: looks cooked, overcooked and barely reheated, luke warm. At this
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  Speaker 1: particular moment, and with Anthony Edwards out, the Wolves have
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  Speaker 1: become what you'd expect the team without their top player
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  Speaker 1: to become. It's a horror movie without the monster. Where
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  Speaker 1: did the monster go? I don't see the monster. Where
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  Speaker 1: did the monster mash? There's no monster, so they didn't
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  Speaker 1: manage to hang around loosely. I say, hang around for
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  Speaker 1: twenty four minutes, which is fine. The problem is, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how to get around this. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: these players would love to play less than that, because
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  Speaker 1: we know they don't like playing in the regular season,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm sure they would love to play less than
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  Speaker 1: forty eight minutes. However, they have yet to change that rule,
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  Speaker 1: so it's still forty eight minutes. So if you play
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  Speaker 1: okay for twenty four minutes, and I guess the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: which is garbage time because of the third quarter onslaught
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  Speaker 1: there a bombardment by the Nuggets halftime adjustments. Nothing's changed
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  Speaker 1: more in my lifetime. Wink wink, nod nod. Denver outscored
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota thirty seven to twenty four. They turned what had
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  Speaker 1: been somewhat competitive the game into a basketball clinic. And
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  Speaker 1: that's how that went. The Nuggets didn't just run their offense,
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  Speaker 1: did not just run the office. They ran essentially. It
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  Speaker 1: was like a Ted talk on ball movement. If my
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  Speaker 1: math is correct. They finished with thirty five assists and
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  Speaker 1: they shot over fifty five percent. Was like fifty six percent.
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  Speaker 1: I got to look at the box four, but it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was good. And meanwhile, all those really nice things
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  Speaker 1: that were being said and written about Rudy Gobert and
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  Speaker 1: that he'd cracked the code, he had solved the issues
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  Speaker 1: that he had had in the past, and that he
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  Speaker 1: was now the Jokic stopper. And there were many basketball
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  Speaker 1: Bleeding Heart bloggers that wrote that very thing, that Gobert
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  Speaker 1: had solved it. He had after years and years of studying,
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  Speaker 1: he had figured it out and he went from the
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  Speaker 1: Jokic stopper to the Jokic speck. Did he buy a ticket?
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  Speaker 1: Did he know he did not buy a ticket? Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: here you go. The defense was just strictly optional in
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  Speaker 1: general for Minnesota when you allow a team to get
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  Speaker 1: that many assists, you've done something terribly wrong. There's no movement.
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  Speaker 1: There's no foot movee. You know. To me, the media
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  Speaker 1: don't need me to break it down. I'm just pointing
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  Speaker 1: that out anyway. So ant Man with him out of
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  Speaker 1: the lineup for the Wolves, Gonzo, the team undergoing a
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  Speaker 1: metamorphosis so that they need that superhero ant Man obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't have the fire Breathing Dragon, and they
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  Speaker 1: replaced the fire Breathing Dragon without him in the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: They had a clown with halatosis, which is granted, you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get near someone that has alatosis. However,
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  Speaker 1: it's not the same as a fire breathing dragon. It's
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  Speaker 1: just not And going back for some home cooking. Surely
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  Speaker 1: the Wolves utility players who are going to have to
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  Speaker 1: play because An Edwards gonna be out for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks, which the way this looked in this game,
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  Speaker 1: do wanna be a prisoner of the moment. It did
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  Speaker 1: not look like that's gonna be. He's gonna be able
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  Speaker 1: to play again, Like that's it. They'll be done by
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  Speaker 1: the time he comes back and go fishing in can
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  Speaker 1: Kooner go to court with all the women suing him
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  Speaker 1: for children. I don't know do any of that, but anyway, listen,
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  Speaker 1: the role players will step up at home. You got
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  Speaker 1: to keep it real based on we do the show
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  Speaker 1: right now looking at things this makeshift lineup for the Timberwolves.
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  Speaker 1: It's like dropping a bowling ball into Lake Superior and saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: can it float? Well, no, it's not gonna float. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's sinking. That's what they do. You drop a bowling
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  Speaker 1: ball off a boat in the middle of the lake.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna fall to the bottom of lake. Now meanwhile
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  Speaker 1: speing a falling, free falling. We love losers. On the
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  Speaker 1: Ben Malor Show, we talk losers. And how about this
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  Speaker 1: the Orlando the Orlando Magic, And I don't think I
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  Speaker 1: was alive the last time the Orlando Magic won a
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  Speaker 1: playoff series. Orlando one win away from taking down the
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  Speaker 1: number seed and winning their first playoff series in sixteen years. Holly,
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  Speaker 1: crap on a cracker, I understand a bad couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: Sixteen years. That means a child is born as in
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  Speaker 1: high school in their life they never witnessed. That's like
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  Speaker 1: the Magic winning plaoff series. That's like the Raiders when
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  Speaker 1: they drafted Fernando Mendoza this year. They've never won a
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  Speaker 1: playoff game in his life. There are some really sucky
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  Speaker 1: teams in sports. The Orlando Magic have been one of
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  Speaker 1: those teams over the years, but not right now. As
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  Speaker 1: Desmond Bane. We love the name, great villain name Desmond Bane,
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  Speaker 1: and the great Franz Wagner stepped up. Bain had twenty
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  Speaker 1: two points, Wagner with nineteen in three quarters. The Magic
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  Speaker 1: make the team from Motown vanish at least for a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. In ninety four to eighty eight the final,
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  Speaker 1: it was a close game, it was any game in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and the team that's the lesser team
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  Speaker 1: made the play. So that means, if my math is correct,
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  Speaker 1: the Magic are now up three games to one. They
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  Speaker 1: have a lead in that series, and they are on
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  Speaker 1: the brink of eliminating the Big Bad Pistons. And the
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  Speaker 1: Pistons are back. The Pistons are back. The Pistons are back. No,
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  Speaker 1: they're not. No, they're not. No, they're not not right now,
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  Speaker 1: not good. So Game five will be Wednesday back in Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: And the question who gets the biggest slice of the
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  Speaker 1: Detroit style blame pizza for the Pistons. So the Pistons
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  Speaker 1: didn't just lose this particular game, it's bigger than that.
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  Speaker 1: They filed a formal request and if you saw this
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  Speaker 1: online or not, a formal request to exit the postseason
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  Speaker 1: as quickly as possible, because they're on their way. They
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  Speaker 1: are on their way to doing just that. And Detroit
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  Speaker 1: looked like they had swallowed a bottle of stupid pills
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  Speaker 1: and then they chased that down with a gallon of confusion,
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  Speaker 1: which we do not recommend. And you can't be the
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  Speaker 1: top seed in a conference and play like you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to get a higher draft pick. You want more lottery balls.
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  Speaker 1: And the way they play, that's the old Pistons, Like
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  Speaker 1: this is just dumb, da dum, dumb dumb watching these
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  Speaker 1: guys play. Kid Cuttingham, he gets the appetizers, he gets
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  Speaker 1: half the Detroit style pie as well. We'll give them
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  Speaker 1: half the pizza pie here. Kid Cuttingham, who was a
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  Speaker 1: former top pick himself, played like he was auditioning for
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  Speaker 1: a job at Paris bag Get, but not just Paris
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  Speaker 1: bag Get. He wanted to be the guy handing out
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  Speaker 1: the turnovers like it was the grand opening of the franchise,
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  Speaker 1: like they were opening a new Paris Baggett, and he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to hand them out eight eight turnovers, eight of them,
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  Speaker 1: many of them really atrocious, like some turnovers like Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I get it, and then there are some that are
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  Speaker 1: just bonehead plays. And he had a lot of those,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of charitable contributions for Cad Cunningham to the
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  Speaker 1: Orlando Transition Fund because those turnovers often lead to easy
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  Speaker 1: points for the opposition, and a lot of donations there.
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  Speaker 1: Now the supporting cast, also for the Pistons. I circled
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  Speaker 1: a couple of names on the notes app on my
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  Speaker 1: phone when I was watching this monstrosity. And Duncan Robinson.
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  Speaker 1: Now we don't only talk about Duncan Robinson because he's
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  Speaker 1: a role player. Duncan Robinson, though we've determined he played
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  Speaker 1: with the Miami. He's passed around a little bit, and
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't just cold like they needed to call medical
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  Speaker 1: professionals because it was like frostbite with Duncan Robinson. Here
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  Speaker 1: was not a good situation there. And if he's not
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  Speaker 1: hitting the outside shot, which he did not consistently make
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  Speaker 1: the three point shot in this game. Duncan Robinson, You're
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  Speaker 1: better off if you're the Pistons grabbing eighty one year
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  Speaker 1: old broadcaster George Blaha and putting him out there than
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  Speaker 1: Duncan Robinson. Okay, because at least Blaja knows Piston's history.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that Duncan Robinson does, so put him
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  Speaker 1: out there. Meanwhile, Jalen Duran got absolutely posterized on a
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  Speaker 1: hammered dunk by some guy I've never heard of on Orlando.
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  Speaker 1: And Isaiah Stewart, who's like the baddest man, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's like the only bad boy kind of player on
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  Speaker 1: the Pistons. Really and really quite very very quiet for
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  Speaker 1: Detroit all series long compared to what they had done
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  Speaker 1: in the regular season, and the interior dominance, which you
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  Speaker 1: just assumed would show up for the Pistons has not
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  Speaker 1: shown up. It was expected to be that way, and
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  Speaker 1: they would physically exert their will. That has not taken
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  Speaker 1: place against a Orlando team with the already been determined.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to fire their coach because they don't like him,
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  Speaker 1: the players don't like him, and all those things that
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  Speaker 1: were being tossed out into the grapevine, and so far
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  Speaker 1: that has not materialized. It's actually Detroit coach JB. Bickerstaff
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  Speaker 1: who's got to be looking behind his back at this point.
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  Speaker 1: If the Pistons do not get this done, it's not
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  Speaker 1: like they've had a back breaking injury to have that
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  Speaker 1: as the excuse. The fall guy, the rotations the Pistons
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  Speaker 1: have been. The word I will use is be drackled
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  Speaker 1: and frazzled to another word I will use the Pistons
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  Speaker 1: here in Detroit. If they do end up losing this series,
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  Speaker 1: and they're real, real close to losing this series, then
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  Speaker 1: they might have to just change the name from Pistons,
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the name Pistons and rebrand it. They
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  Speaker 1: can be the Detroit Squeaky Breaks because they're clearly the
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  Speaker 1: breaks are squeaking. You might want to go down to
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  Speaker 1: pet Boys. Get that checked out now. Last word to
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  Speaker 1: the Valley of the Sun we go or shade Us
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  Speaker 1: Alexander the former Clipper thirty one points and chet Holmgren
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  Speaker 1: who looks like Skeletor added twenty four and Okac the
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  Speaker 1: reigning champions of pro bouncy Ball beat the Suns yet again,
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  Speaker 1: and they say let's crank up the band. For the
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  Speaker 1: Phoenix basketball team.
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  Speaker 4: Na da da daa Hey, good bye, see you later.
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  Speaker 4: Sons four games, sweep, kick in your ass, get out
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  Speaker 4: of here. So they're done business like for Oklahoma City
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  Speaker 4: and overybody. Kyrie in Okase the only known Thunder fan
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  Speaker 4: that contributes to the show a lot. I haven't heard
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  Speaker 4: from him in months.
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  Speaker 1: I know he's happy wherever Kyrie is. That his Thunder
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  Speaker 1: from down under got it done in a large way
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  Speaker 1: down Oklahoma City. If you look at their recent play
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  Speaker 1: last three seasons, they have played twelve first round games
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  Speaker 1: their record twelve in all, they have not lost a
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  Speaker 1: single game in the first round. I didn't play in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. That sounds pretty good. And it gets even better.
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  Speaker 1: They have another cupcake lined up most likely the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: are purple and gold cupcake. That should be a sweet
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  Speaker 1: Ballso for Oklahoma they should be sitting at eight and oh.
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  Speaker 1: They should be eight and oh going to the conference
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  Speaker 1: to the second or third round, third round of the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: because the Lakers are not that good and Houston's no good,
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  Speaker 1: so either way they're playing a tomato can in the
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  Speaker 1: second round. Oklahoma City, so they're gonna win that. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the story here is in the losing locker room. Phoenix
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  Speaker 1: has had now ten straight losses in the playoffs, ten
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  Speaker 1: straight losses. They going back to twenty twenty three, way back.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that was a long time ago, twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: and they have not won a playoff game. And that's
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  Speaker 1: on my own ten. So the question why are things
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  Speaker 1: so bleak for Devin Booker in the Valley of the Sun.
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  Speaker 1: Why are things so bleak? So to me, Devin Booker's
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  Speaker 1: got to eat this. No barbecue sauce, no honey mustard,
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  Speaker 1: maybe ranch dressing, because that's the devil's blood. But that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Ten straight playoff loss is ten ten for the team
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  Speaker 1: from Arizona. There at some point here, if you're an authentic,
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  Speaker 1: non ripoff franchise player, don't you stop the bleeding on that. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying you win if you're under man I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying that. My argument is that if you are
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  Speaker 1: a truly dominant super nova in that business of pro
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  Speaker 1: bouncy ball, you don't lose ten in a row as
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  Speaker 1: the headliner in the plus. Is that a fair argument
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  Speaker 1: or not? I believe that is a fair argument to
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  Speaker 1: make about Devin Booker. Now, I know the fanboys will
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  Speaker 1: make all kinds of excuses because that's what they do,
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  Speaker 1: and the bots and the algorithm and all that. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: what is this guy? I don't believe we love Devin Booker.
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  Speaker 1: He buys lemonade from kids. Okay, great, He's not getting
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  Speaker 1: paid hundreds of millions of dollars for that. And my god,
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  Speaker 1: Booker is not just the face of the franchise. No,
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  Speaker 1: he's the face of the collapse. What has gone on
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  Speaker 1: here and Phoenix. You watch them of these playoffs and
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  Speaker 1: it just very generic. It feels very generic, like a
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  Speaker 1: generic cereal box where they've got a lot of bright
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  Speaker 1: colors and not a lot of flavor. There's just not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of flavor there. And a real superstar is
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  Speaker 1: able to take generic parts and at least for a
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  Speaker 1: game or two, make them look premium. You feel me
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  Speaker 1: on that, You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: we can all agree on that. I see you nod
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  Speaker 1: in your head. Yes. And so Devin Booker. I thought
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  Speaker 1: of this when I was making the long drive in
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  Speaker 1: from the north Woods here, and Devin Booker should be
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  Speaker 1: sponsored by Fredo's he's the cousin of the Freeto Bandito.
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  Speaker 1: The stat Bandito is his name. He's their first cousin
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  Speaker 1: of the Freeto Bandito. Steve stats. While the wins are
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  Speaker 1: not there, and where's the after burner? Where is the
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  Speaker 1: after burner? Where's the Hey, I'm going to put my
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  Speaker 1: team on the back game and we're not gonna get swept.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna go wreck at Ralph Turbo time. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: see that. Did you see that? I didn't see that.
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  Speaker 1: I did see a lot of good bitching at the officials, though,
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  Speaker 1: I did see that, a lot of complaining and blaming
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  Speaker 1: the referees rather than just yourself for not being good
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  Speaker 1: enough to get her done. And as a franchise in general,
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  Speaker 1: aside from Devin Booker, it's the Beg's classic man in
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  Speaker 1: the middle. They're just kind of in the middle. They're
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  Speaker 1: right around playoff team and can't seem to get They tried,
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  Speaker 1: they tried to bring in Devin. You know, they brought
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  Speaker 1: Devin Booker some help, Kevin Durant, and they brought in
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  Speaker 1: Bradley Beal and that didn't work. And man, the Sun's
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• 18:56
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• 18:59
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from deep in the
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Heart of Texas. We go to Dallas where the Cowboys.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: The guy that won the genetic lottery, Stephen Jones, who
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: would have no business at an NFL STADIU unless he
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: bought a ticket. Now he gets to help run the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: team in Texas and he's continuing the ongoing tradition that
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: is the longest running soaproper. If people talk about The
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Simpsons the longest running show, but in terms of soap operas,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: it's the one they put on in Dallas. The son
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: of Jerry Jones said somewhat recent we talked about it
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: on the show in a previous episode, that the Cowboys
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: would not be signing George Pickens to a long term contract.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: They just want him to play. I believe he's like
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: twenty five. They want him to play this season on
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the franchise tag, so hopefully he'll be able to pay
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: his bills twenty seven million dollars. It's gonna be tough,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: you know, he's you gotta cut back a little bit,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: you know, and not get that third car, that fourth house.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: You might have to cut back on that. Uh so easy, peasy, right, However,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: these are the Cowboys and uh yeah, did you really
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: think it would be easy? And yeah, So if you
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: have not heard the latest, I believe that you can
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: figure out. I'm not using my poker face here, you
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: can figure out where we're going. The pre eminent NFL insider,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the one that's not canoodling coaches, Adam Schefter, talked about
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: how messy, how messy things are headed between the Cowboys
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: and George Pickens, Schefter telling us that Pickett's the wide receiver,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: wants a long term contract, no, no kidding, and if not,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: he wants to enter the portal. He would like a trade.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: He would like a trade. And the Cowboys have been
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: very clear they do not want to give him a
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: long term contract. His agent has been very clear they
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: expected a long term contract. You know what that is impasse,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: that's loggerheads, is what that is. And so that's where
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: we are jumping off point. Let us discuss the question
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: George Pickens considers demanding a trade away from the Cowboys.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Your reaction a right to my observations. They got McDonald's
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: abdominizer and high priest, and we will combine all of
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: these things together, and you and I we are going
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: to dial back, is what we're gonna do. And yes
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: we are, all right.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: So number one, number number one, number one.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So welcome to the latest episode in
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the longest running series. This is a new spin off
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: this year. It's the Pickens Problem is the headline. Oh my,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the Pickens Problem. These soap opera scandal brought to you
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: by Jerry's World, The Dallas Cowboys, where the drama is
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the brand and the chaos is the merch. And despite
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: not winning, that's it. You keep selling the merch. People
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: buy the merch, merch, merch, merch. So Jerry Jones just
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: slapped a franchise tag this offseason on George Pickens and
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: it was more than that though. He actually lit a
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: fuse and it's essentially double dog daring George Pickins. Jerry
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Jones is double dog daring George Pickens to play angry,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: play angry, angry, angry, angry. That's what he wants. However,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you gotta believe behind closed doors, Jerry Jones is doing
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: his own McDonald's commercial because his mindset right now, he's saying,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I'm loving it. I'm loving it. Here we go e
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: week out right because any move that keeps the Cowboys
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: up front in gas baggery, what we do and the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: cyber world the headlines, that is a win and win
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: and win. I have free chicken dinner for Jerry Jones.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: And so he's going full Emerald the Gassi, the old
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: celebrity cheft. You say, let's kick it up a couple
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: of notches here and lean in to the heat. That's
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: just kind of lean into it. Now. The reality is
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: that Dallas did not just play tag you're it with Pickens.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: They adopted a full blown headache, which is not bad
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: for the brand against most teams. Oh, I don't want,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I want to run away from it. But Pickens is
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: he's leaning hard into the Diva wide receiver's story arc,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: which you kind of already knew, right, you knew that already,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: demanding trade. It's just a ticking time bomb. It's a
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: combustible situation, and it up the age old question is
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the player worth the migraine? Is the player? Pickens is
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: really good? You know, he reminds me of uh, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: before my time, of course, because god knows, I wasn't
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: here when Michael Vick was playing quarterback for the other Foxx.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: But Michael Vick would be the top quarterback in the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: NFL for four games, he would be the worst quarterback
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: in the NFL for four or five games, and the
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: rest of the games he was somewhere in the middle.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: That's about where George Pickens is. Like, for four weeks,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: he will be the top wide receiver in the NFL.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: He'll be better than Justin Jefferson and Puka Nakua and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: all these other guys. And then for four or five
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: weeks he'll be the worst. And that's usually that's usually
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: how that goes, right, And so this is a classic
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones rat trap, is what it is. He always
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: falls in love with the idea of a player. You
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: fall in love with the idea of a player rather
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: than the reality, and you convince yourself that, hey, I'm
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the only dude that can figure figure out how to
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: navigate this, and I can manage the unmanageable. That's kind
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: of the argument. I can manage the unmanageable. And you're like, well, no,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: you can't. You can't do that. And we're watching a
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: collision course between the player empowerment movement and the player
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: entitlement movement, and there's a fork in the road, and
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: which way is this going to go? George Pickens wants
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: a massive deal. Jerry just wants a good show. And
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: then when the Cowboys report the Thousand Oaks to Oxnard,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: he wants to have everyone there. And if not, it's
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: fine as long as you show up for a week
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: one of the regular season. It's September. It's the same
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Cowboys story arc. The names change, the story arcs are
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the same. Last year you might remember the Cowboy soap opera,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: it was a guy named Micah Parsons and that ended
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: with a trip to the frozen tundra of Green Bay
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and a stop at the Cheese Castle in Kenosha for
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: all the delicious cheese courage you could possibly want. That's it. Now,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: moving on from that, so we know who's gonna win.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: By the way, Jerry Jones is gonna get what Jerry
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Jones wanted wants, And if Pickens wants the contract, then
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Jerry's not gonna give it to him and go play
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: somewhere else. And Jerry if he could trade George Pickens
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: to he traded last year Michael Parsons to Green Bay.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: If he could send George Pickens to the Winnipeg Blue Bobbers,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: he would he would make that happen, all right now,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: speaking of wide receivers having issues, there's a theme. Here
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: we go to Buffalo. Here we go Buffalo. The Bills
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: big shot Brandon Bean. Brandon Bean continued to publicly support
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: wide receiver Keon Coleman as the draft is now coming gone.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Keyon Coleman was not traded because he sucks, nobody wants him.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: He told local radio in Buffalo that a couple of
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: teams did contact the Bills. This is from the general
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: manager there contacted the Bills reached out with interest in
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Keon Coleman. However, they have said they've hit the reset
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: button on the player and the it says, hopefully the
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: fan base everyone is behind him. Spoiler alert, they're not.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I think his best year is yet to come in
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. That was a direct quote from the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Buffalo executive. So the question, what is your instinct? What
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: is your instinct on the Bills endorsement, the GM's endorsement
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: of Keon Coleman yet again after the draft, so he
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: did use the word best, which we know means as
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: good as all the rest. It smells like preemptive damage
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: control to me. That's what it smells like to me.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Before the breakup hits. And the owner already hinted, not
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: even hinted, he said the pick was a mistake. And
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: so now the GM step sins like, oh, listen, I
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: got some nice for breeze here, and I'm gonna put
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: this air freshener out and everything's gonna smell great. Well,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: it still smells like poop poop, but you've got a
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: little sin of flower on top of the poo pooh
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: is what you've got. Congratulations and heck, at this point
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: it smells like burnt popcorn. That's one of the worst
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: smells in the world. That was the only rule when
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I started at this company. The only rule was you
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: cannot make microwave popcorn because the big boss did not
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: like microwave popcorn. And that was the only rule. So
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: they're selling next year will be different. Next year is
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: going to be different. Like a late night infomercial for
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: the Abdominizer promising six pack abs I don't know if
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: anyone's old enough to have remembered the abdominizer. It was
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: like in the eighties and nineties. It's on YouTube, there's
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: an infomer it's pretty good, so it's not no, it's
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: some reset button. They said the same crap last year,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: some reset button in the snooze alarm. And then inevitably,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: the way this works using my crystal ball, the way
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: this works.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: Is you kind of delay delay, delay, delay delay day.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Just like that, and then you hope the smoke disappears.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: And Keon Coleman did not help his case last year.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Eventually he'll be gone. It was late. He was healthy,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: scratched in some games. He was also benched in games
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: he wasn't scratched in. That was like his greatest hits
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: album on how to not take advantage of an opportunity
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: when it presents himself. And he's about as reliable as
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: public airport wi fi, which I learned on my trip
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: over the weekend. Not very reliable, not very reliable at
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of these airports. And when I become the president,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I will fix airport WiFi. That'll be my only thing.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: And then I'll step out and I'll resign from the presidency.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I will pick public, I will pick up public Wi
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Fi at airports, and that'll be my issue. So we've
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: seen this type movie. I talked about George Pickens The
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Cowboys and how they play with the Buffalo Bills with
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the young wide receiver who was drafted I think early
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: second round Keon Coleman, if I remember, So this is
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the high hope disappearing act like a magician who only
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: knows one trick and botches. It's that's what I'm like,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: you only know one track and you screw that up. Now,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: the malar Rosetta stone, the Malo Rosetta Stone shows the
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Bills would have, should have and could have traded the player.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Nobody really wanted him. Nobody wanted him, and you know,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: like for a pick swap, who cares. The Bills couldn't
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: trade him. They couldn't even get some coins and a
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: dead rat out of a sofa for Keon Coleman at
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: this point, so it sunk cost. Fallacy is what this is.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: And you're pouring good money after bad like it's kind
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: of like having a bucket that's got leaks in it
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: and you keep refilling the bucket. Well, that doesn't seem
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: to make a lot of sense. Why do you keep
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: refilling the buckets? Bad job by you. All right, Meanwhile
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: we go to the NBA, but not the playoffs in
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: the NBA. Interesting story out of Miami, and one of
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: our p ones in South Florida sent me an email, San,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: did you see what Riley said? We're strowed. And I'm like,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: all right, let me check this out. So I looked
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: at what pat Riley said, the Heat president pat Riley
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: at the end of season review and all that. Pat
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Riley pushed back on the idea that he's an old geezer. Now,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: this is what happens. You get older, all of a sudden,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: one day you wake up and suddenly the world finks
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: you're an old fart and you're in a geezer. And
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: that's what Riley's going through right now. But he's pushing
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: back against that, pushing back now. When asked whether or
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: not he's going to step aside because the Miami heater
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: in the rough patch, and Riley said, no, quote, I'm
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: not going to retire, I'm not going to resign. I'm
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: not going to step aside. Riley said, I have the
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: same attitude as I had in that press conference on
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: the imagination period. He said, I want another parade. I
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: want another parade down Biscayne Boulevard. If it may come,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: it may not, he said, close. Quote all right. Question
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: for the Esteemed panel, which you are a part of,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: how do you interpret the message from pat Riley on
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the Miami Heat future or his future? So as we
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: decode this pat Riley, because this wasn't just a quote,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: This was a Ryle's manifesto, a pat Riley manifesto, the
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: old radio color commentator for the Lakers with check Hern
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: who ended up coaching the team and became a Hall
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: of Famer. Now years ago, when I started as a
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: radio stringer radar reporter, I was out around the Lakers lot.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: I heard a lot of amazing pat Riley stories. He
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: just kind of left the Lakers at that point. He
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: went off to the Knickerbockers and a long, long time ago.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Everyone's got a pat Riley story. I liked the guy,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: even though he's known for the Showtime Enemy and all
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: that stuff. Eighty one years old, and Riley's not easing
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: into the sunset. He's digging a trench, is what he's doing.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: And I like the machismo of pat Riley. And he's like,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: he's staring at father Time and you say, hey, father Time,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: come get me, bro. That's what he's saying, a father
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: time and it's admirable. Is it a little unhinged? Absolutely, absolutely,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: it's a little little unhinged. The high priest of what
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: is known as heat culture in South Florida, and he's
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the he's the high priest there and he's he's kind
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: of turned into a bit of a cult heat culture,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: and it looks really good when the heat win. When
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: they don't win, it looks kind of embarrassing. The Heat culture,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: I guess, was running up the score and having that
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: cham eighty plus point game for bam Adebayo, one of
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the biggest jokes in the history of the NBA. Fraudulent,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: and pat Riley was cheering along. Is that heat culture,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: my fat ass? That's heat culture? Anyway, back to the point,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: so just the general mindset of I ain't I love.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: That's from the old country and it's refreshing. And let's
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: not ignore though, the other side of the argument and
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: the guy that was upset our listener in he says,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: not in Miami, but he's in South Florida, so take
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: your pick. The Heat have been have been spinning their wheels,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: stuck in basketball purgatory of late waiting for the superstar
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: to fall from hoop heaven and mentioned earlier the Suns
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: who got swept by Okay, see, they've not won in
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: ten consecutive playoff games with the Miami Heat have no
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: playoff wins since twenty twenty three, and they're still selling
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: We're gonna be aggressive this Summer're gonna aggress aggressive summers,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna put extra suntam
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: lotion on for Mike the leprecaunt Hawaiian tropic suntam lotion
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: because that's what Michael lepperkund likes. We can put that on.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: And those aggressive, aggressive summers they're selling like a timeshare presentation,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: which you all everyone hates timeshare. So what's what's all
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: this really about? Belief or denial? Belief or denial at
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: some point the conviction and delusion share the same zip code.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: But we're pulling for Riley. How can this end in
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: a positive way? Well, the obvious one will be honest
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: to dent to Koombo who's gonna be the next big
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: name NBA player. I don't know how much he's got left.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: He'll be the next one to change teams? Does he
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: end up in Miami? Doesn't seem like the gambling market
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: says he's the favorite to go to Miami. Outside of that,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: who else do the Suns finally give up Devin Booker
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: with all those empty numbers and say this isn't working out?
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Do they trade him? Is he even good enough? Probably not?
• 36:38
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• 36:46
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grill?
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: All right? Ben?
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: The draft came and went and Brandon and I you
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: could still remember the forty nine ers. When asked if
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: he will be cut since the team didn't find any
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: trade partners during the draft, Jim John Lynch said, not
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: anytime soon.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Ben. What do you think the eventual outcome is for Ayuk? Well,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: nobody wants him number one, number two. He doesn't seem
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: to really want to play football, so that's it doesn't
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: seem like he's too stressed out about it. He's in
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the music and social media and all that stuff. So
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: they'll just hold on to him and they'll screw them
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: over and cut them right before training camp. That's what
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I predict.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: What happened next, Malik Neighbors made it be known on
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  Speaker 3: social media that he did not approve of the Giants
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  Speaker 3: draft picks, more specifically that they passed on Caleb Downs twice.
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  Speaker 1: Ben, do you think that was a big mistake by
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  Speaker 1: the Giants. Well, the mistake was made by Malik Neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: It's good for what we do that he said that
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  Speaker 1: he gave an honest take. He does not like the
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  Speaker 1: Giants picks. He should become a Giant podcaster or get
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  Speaker 1: a radio show and give. From what I understand, the
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  Speaker 1: Hardball has called him into the principal's office and is
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  Speaker 1: going to have a talk with You think Eliite Neighbors
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  Speaker 1: did a mock draft? How great would you imagine these
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  Speaker 1: guys doing. I don't even do it much. Yeh. You
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  Speaker 1: imagine you in a mock draft. You're freaking NFL player, dude, Like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: I love that he did it because it's hilarious to
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  Speaker 1: me that you're critiquing the team that you play for
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  Speaker 1: and all that and anyway next.
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  Speaker 3: It is being reported that Billy Donovan is waiting for
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  Speaker 3: the Golden State Warriors job to open up. Anythink Donovan
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  Speaker 3: becomes the curR successor.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe it. Number one because it's a terrible job.
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  Speaker 1: And number two Billy Donovan like, what do you think
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  Speaker 1: you just coach the bulls. It's gonna be the Bulls,
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  Speaker 1: except they got a different logo and they're in a
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  Speaker 1: different time zone. The war is gonna suck for years?
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  Speaker 1: And no way we go? Yeah, here we go, Here
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  Speaker 1: in to our contestants. We have Tree from Chicago. Hello Tree,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome Big Ben. What's up man? You still I'm good man?
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  Speaker 1: We don't have a lot of time. Who do you
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  Speaker 1: want to partner up with Tree. I'm gonna take cool man.
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  Speaker 1: How dare you? How dare you? Shame on you? All right,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: hold on a secon. All right, we have JC down
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  Speaker 1: the road here in Sherman Oaks. Hello, j C. Welcome, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: good shirt? You ready to do this? JC? I'm ready?
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  Speaker 1: All right, very good. Who do you want to partner
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  Speaker 1: up with? J? C? Lorena or Bill Miller?
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  Speaker 2: No offense, but I would love to win someone to
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  Speaker 2: partner up with.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Ben. All right, oh, hall of fame.
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  Speaker 4: Look at that arena, Hall of fame, whatever, Hall of famer?
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, here we go.
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  Speaker 3: All right, gentlemen, this is the Penelope Cruz edition of
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  Speaker 3: Meller's Amount of Money.
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  Speaker 1: She turns fifty two years old today. God.
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  Speaker 3: The categories are Vanilla Skuy nine on the fringe and
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  Speaker 3: the bride Tree. Which category would you like?
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  Speaker 1: On the fringe? On the fringe?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: And JC? How about you.
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  Speaker 3: Guy? Vanella Skuy All right, Tree, you and I are
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  Speaker 3: up first. Our category is on the fringe. These athletes
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  Speaker 3: are all fringe Hall of famers. I need the first
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  Speaker 3: and last name. Forty five seconds? Are you ready? Do it?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Let's begin, all right? He is Peyton's brother. Yes, this
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  Speaker 3: guy was the tight end for the Dallas Cowboys for
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  Speaker 3: a long time. Yes, this guy was a Cy Young
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  Speaker 3: winning pitcher for the Seattle Mariners of.
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  Speaker 1: The King Bernand yes, there we go.
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  Speaker 3: This guy was opposite of Isaac Bruce on the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: This guy was the longtime point guard for the Toronto Raps.
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  Speaker 1: Oh dam, No, newer than that calwer. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, this guy was the second baseman for the Phillies
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  Speaker 3: and the Dodgers. And there's a rule named after him.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, all right, we're gonna stay Chase Chase. He
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  Speaker 1: took out I was at that game Dodgers Mets in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. He took out the Wow, what a hard ass,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: all right? Uh, the Vanilla's guy. These athletes have all
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  Speaker 1: been in notable car accidents. Are you ready? JC?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: The greatest golfer in the world. He just got caught
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  Speaker 1: driving under the influence. Yes, quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: He had a problem on a motorcycle. Former Steeler quarterback
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  Speaker 1: he messed up. Yes, Levar's kid for the Charlotte Hornets
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  Speaker 1: guard point guardy good job. Raiders wide receiver was driving
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  Speaker 1: drunkeys in jail. Right now. He killed the young lady
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  Speaker 1: and her dog in a car acci all right. Defensive
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  Speaker 1: star for the Chiefs in the eighties and nineties. He
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: was in a major car accident, was paralyzed years ago.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Defensive player, defensive end, sac guy, a great Dodger Brooklyn
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  Speaker 1: Dodger catcher from the nineteen fifties. Who was enough? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. All right. He only said the last
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: that counts. Everyone knows what he meant.
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  Speaker 3: Many.
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  Speaker 1: That's wait, wait, he said, Campanella. That's a guy's name. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: then I guess one's sixty. Okay, yeah, all right, Tree.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want nine or.
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  Speaker 3: The bride her nine? Alright? These athletes all war number nine.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: Let's begin, all right. This guy hit four hundred for
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: the Red Sox. Okay, Williams, Yes, this guy was killed
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: by his girlfriend in a murder suicide.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: McNair, Yes. This guy was the point guard for the Spurs,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: the French guy, Tony Balker.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think. Uh, let's see, let's see
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: that this guy was the quarterback.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: You're running, you're stalling.
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  Speaker 4: What are you stalling for?
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Why would you stall? Quarterback for the Saints? Oh my god,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: this is win job we won. I got that.
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  Speaker 4: I read election fraud, Election fraud, fraud