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Will Aaron Rodgers be Mike Tomlin's Security Blanket? · Sports Exchange

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  Speaker 1: Good me. Anybody, welcome to another edition of the Sports Exchange.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Scott Morgan Roth Motor City, man Mouth.
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  Speaker 1: Have a voted crewed right and a really good one,
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  Speaker 1: I might say, And the title says it all. Will
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers be Mike Tomon security blanket?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Let me go ahead and introduce the crew real quickly.
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  Speaker 1: George Acorn, welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Back, good you being here, Scott, Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Candy a blank Thank you, Scott, Willie ep Dan my grandson.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, Hello, thank you guys so much for having
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  Speaker 4: me again. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Hello hello, hello all right, well we appreciate you too.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Christener, I mean I Tom was one of my
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  Speaker 2: favorites to be a good little deal, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Sure? Well, and last but not least, Taylor Phillips.
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  Speaker 5: Get ready to unleash hell.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and you're going on the country club tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Good thing. So Aaron Rodgers is a Pittsburgh Steeler and
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  Speaker 1: Paul actually dolphin the other day with DK Metcalf. So
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  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts, Willy about Aaron Rodgers going to
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  Speaker 1: steel Town?
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  Speaker 4: Are you serious right now? No?
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  Speaker 1: You want me to wear that hat?
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Seriously?
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  Speaker 4: Really, man, Look, when is the last time Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 4: won a playoff game?
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  Speaker 5: Not in a few years?
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  Speaker 2: Not?
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  Speaker 4: Everybody answer once? I want to say two thousand and sixteen? Serious,
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  Speaker 4: is that right? Twenty sixteen? I think I heard that somewhere.
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  Speaker 4: So what about Aaron Rodgers in the last ten seasons
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  Speaker 4: that has happened that is gonna make us believe that
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna all of a sudden turn around for the
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  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Steelers. So good for him that he's there, He
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  Speaker 4: gets to play another year, he gets an opportunity to
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  Speaker 4: earn another nineteen million dollars with incentives. Right, But is
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  Speaker 4: it gonna make a difference in terms of the Steelers
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  Speaker 4: getting getting either any further in the playoffs than they have?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think so. I mean, he sucks in the postseason.
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  Speaker 4: That's my opinion. That's actually a fact.
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  Speaker 1: Well. The one thing about this is this is really
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  Speaker 1: is not fake news. Because hey, Joshua George, just so
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  Speaker 1: I know you tend to get confused on me, this
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  Speaker 1: is a sports exchange. The one year looking for tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: hockey is sports raft. Even though you know you'll be
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  Speaker 1: tied up with your hockey game, will leave it at that. Okay, Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: with your thoughts about Rogers going to.
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  Speaker 2: I say this, Willie tom was one of my favorite coaches,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just because of it's a psychological thing he
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  Speaker 2: does with certain players and being able to and the
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  Speaker 2: ability to continue to win some games even though you've
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  Speaker 2: got Duck Donnie see dut Hodges, you get Mason Rudolph,
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  Speaker 2: you get you know, and it's like a zillion different
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  Speaker 2: type of a zillion different type of quarterbacks. You know,
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  Speaker 2: fourth strings the guys and they still two and two
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  Speaker 2: with before the starter gets back. I mean, he just
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  Speaker 2: knows a way to psychologically get in their head to
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  Speaker 2: keep winning, you know, like regular season games now not
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  Speaker 2: doing it in the playoffs. But here's the thing. He
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  Speaker 2: has said himself he's getting close to regularly to retirements.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard this from him, and it's like he's been
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  Speaker 2: coaching he was thirty four years old. He said he's
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  Speaker 2: getting closer than not. Something is telling me that. And
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  Speaker 2: you got to realize they didn't even go after Kirk Cousins,
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  Speaker 2: who would want to start right and he's not much
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  Speaker 2: on the thing. Something is telling me, guess what, this
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  Speaker 2: is not a move you get for a super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: at all.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you got you got.
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  Speaker 2: One guy who is and they haven't been there since
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  Speaker 2: sixteen to the won a playoff game, and they haven't
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  Speaker 2: and neither has Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 6: So this isn't a move what they're looking at what
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  Speaker 6: he is.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to do considering the issue with the issue with
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  Speaker 2: the Bengals right now, the issues of Bengals. They're gonna lose,
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  Speaker 2: probably lose Trey Hendrickson because he's cheap and they spent
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  Speaker 2: all that money, and then they're going to and then
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  Speaker 2: they're having all kinds of.
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  Speaker 6: Issues with a guard and they're having an issue with
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  Speaker 6: all that.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna have an even worse defense and the Browns
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  Speaker 2: of the Browns. So something tells me that he's making
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  Speaker 2: this move to have them to have his possibility and
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  Speaker 2: this is what his move is. I have a thought process.
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  Speaker 2: I have a possibility of getting a home game when
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  Speaker 2: because of Chris bo Boswell, you know, win the end,
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  Speaker 2: get but absolutely stomped by Kansas City the next week,
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  Speaker 2: but they can say they won a playoff game.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just I'm just I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: Saying you're you're right, what Willie, You're right I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying it's gonna happen. I'm saying that's exactly how his
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  Speaker 2: thought process is. Because they don't have anything to go to,
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  Speaker 2: a super Bowl, to go along, to go anything.
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  Speaker 6: That's the thought process. If they would have hypothetically had
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  Speaker 6: the thought process.
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  Speaker 2: And it would work out and they win that quote
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  Speaker 2: unquote home playoff game, they would do that, then they
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  Speaker 2: could build on something else and go use Will Howard
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  Speaker 2: or any of their thought processes. That's what their thing is.
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  Speaker 2: But if it doesn't work and you have wasted it
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  Speaker 2: with an old guy, You've wasted a season with your
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  Speaker 2: draft pick, You've wasted all of this kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and you probably don't have a chance to get it back.
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  Speaker 6: So it's kind of a risk.
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  Speaker 1: In the middle of this, I can't go back to
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  Speaker 1: Jade wants and then will he can respond. I love
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  Speaker 1: his comments. Go ahead, who wants to read this one?
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  Speaker 4: So, ladies and gentleman, Aaron Rodgers can't be a securely blanket.
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  Speaker 4: He's old enough to have a favorite blanket and a
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  Speaker 4: spot on the couch.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, now you want to respond to that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not denying what you're saying. Willie and you're laughing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not denying that at all. The fact, I think
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  Speaker 2: you're right. I'm saying this is what the plan I
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  Speaker 2: think is for tom Win to try to just get
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  Speaker 2: a playoff win.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I didn't take it as you were, you know,
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  Speaker 4: anything that was disagreeing or anything like that. I actually
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  Speaker 4: just had a question because for them to win a
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  Speaker 4: home playoff game, that means they have to win the division.
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  Speaker 4: So are we thinking that they're going to win the
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  Speaker 4: division over Cincinnati and over.
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati screwed the way that they're doing their defense, their
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  Speaker 2: screwed the mess and all this go with Baltimore. Really,
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  Speaker 2: they had a two game lead on Baltimore last year
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  Speaker 2: before they bomb.
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  Speaker 6: So there's a you can never tell the possibilities of
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  Speaker 6: the thing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they bomb because they're quarterbacks again, So they're
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  Speaker 2: hoping that Aaron Rodgers, if you just use it. Remember
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna have Caleb Johnson and and the other I
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  Speaker 2: forget they are the running back. But they're gonna they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a run war. Yeah, Jaleen Warren, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna have their run game. They're gonna have all
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  Speaker 2: this stuff, I mean all and I think they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: win ten again. It's like, it's just because the guy
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  Speaker 2: wins ten games with two two of the games being
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  Speaker 2: Duck Hodges.
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  Speaker 1: He just does.
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  Speaker 2: He is psychologically good enough to do that. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he's an next as an Ose guy, but I
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  Speaker 2: love how he does. But that's just the same.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough, Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Aaron Rodgers has been really struggling to win
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  Speaker 5: a playoff game, and now he's old and washed up.
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  Speaker 5: I'm hoping to God that this is this is his
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  Speaker 5: last year in the NFL because he has washed up.
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  Speaker 5: Like I just said, he he's like over forty years old. Wow,
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  Speaker 5: forty one. Yep, there you go. So the steel after that,
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  Speaker 5: the Steelers have to move on from Mike Donald because
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  Speaker 5: he is an over loyal, walking cliche machine. The standard
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  Speaker 5: is the standard, Okay, Candy.
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  Speaker 7: I think they brought Aaron Rodgers in one makes big
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  Speaker 7: name MVP quarterback. Granted he is in the decline of
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  Speaker 7: his years. I get that, but I think the Steelers
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  Speaker 7: also look and say, how many quarterbacks have we had
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  Speaker 7: since Ben Roethlisberger? What has been the success in green Bay?
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  Speaker 7: The success in Green Bay is to draft a quarterback
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  Speaker 7: and sit them behind somebody. Now, what I've heard is
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  Speaker 7: that Aaron Rodgers has actually taken to will Howard and
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  Speaker 7: is mentoring him. Now, we'll that remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 7: But is this a way for the Steelers to try
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  Speaker 7: and get their next quarterback up to par without throwing
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  Speaker 7: him into the wolves Like some of these teams are
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  Speaker 7: drafting quarterbacks and throwing them in right away, and it's
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  Speaker 7: too early. They don't know the speed of the game,
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  Speaker 7: they don't know all of any of that. And their
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  Speaker 7: option was Mason Rudolph or Aaron And I think, honestly,
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  Speaker 7: I think they knew that Aaron was gonna come. I
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  Speaker 7: think Aaron just didn't come. Now, if you've heard, we've
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  Speaker 7: heard that he's now married. He's been married a couple
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  Speaker 7: of months. He had personal things that he was going through,
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  Speaker 7: and maybe all of that led up to the timing
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  Speaker 7: of his signing, and the Steelers probably knew that.
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  Speaker 6: I think I've read that he's spiritually married to himself.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I still have to be conscious of
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  Speaker 1: something that very very important. I need to make sure
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  Speaker 1: Willie Epting is in on every subject today. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna do everything I can for mister Willy to keep
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  Speaker 1: my comments as concise as possible to make sure Willie
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  Speaker 1: is the man, Okay, And that's not easy for me
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  Speaker 1: to do, but I will only do it for Willie.
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  Speaker 1: And I know he's laughing at me because we've known
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  Speaker 1: each other for a long time because he knows that
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  Speaker 1: is a major league challenge for me, right well, but
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  Speaker 1: I will try.
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  Speaker 4: I plead the fifth.
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  Speaker 7: So before before I turn it over to George, I
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  Speaker 7: just want to say there is no NFL quarterback that
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  Speaker 7: has ever lost to all thirty two franchises, and there
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  Speaker 7: are only four that have beaten all thirty two, and
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  Speaker 7: that would be Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Brett Farr, and
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  Speaker 7: Drew Brees. Now, ironically, the Steelers do play the Packers,
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  Speaker 7: and that is the only team that Aaron Rodgers has
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  Speaker 7: not beat yet, so he could add himself to this list. Ironically,
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  Speaker 7: the Steelers also play the Jets, who we used to
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  Speaker 7: play for, and the NFC North, and they play all
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  Speaker 7: of those old division rivals that Aaron might want to
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  Speaker 7: get revenge against.
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  Speaker 1: And Willie, you don't have to plead the fifth because
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  Speaker 1: sometimes body language says it all when you're laughing at me,
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  Speaker 1: and you know you're right, that I'm right, then I'm going.
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  Speaker 5: To try to keep it concise.
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  Speaker 1: But that's that's why I love working with you, because
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  Speaker 1: you're the only person, the person that would call me
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  Speaker 1: scooter and I haven't heard that name since I was
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  Speaker 1: seven years old playing hockey.
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  Speaker 4: Well, sometimes the loudest things we can say contain absolutely
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  Speaker 4: no words.
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  Speaker 1: So that I say a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things that contain no words. Kidding with you, Willie, not
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  Speaker 1: just not just I'm kidding with you. You know I
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  Speaker 1: am right. And as far as Patrick Hughes's comments are concerned,
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  Speaker 1: they should pick up Amari Cooper. That would be a
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  Speaker 1: good move.
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  Speaker 4: The cow Oh to Steelers, Oh, he's out.
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  Speaker 5: There, He's available like a tank bull.
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  Speaker 1: All right, go ahead. We gotta leave it to Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: And I only have one sentence to say on this
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  Speaker 1: one sentence.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he last won a playoff game in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: when it was with Green Bay. Okay, all right, so
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  Speaker 3: he hasn't had a winning season. I'm not counting that
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  Speaker 3: Jets season of twenty twenty three where he actually was
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  Speaker 3: one to Oh, I'm not counting that. You have to
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  Speaker 3: go back to twenty twenty one. He was thirteen and
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  Speaker 3: three from the Packers. So does he have something left
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  Speaker 3: in the tank? Yes, he does, he does. They're two
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  Speaker 3: run dependent in Pittsburgh. They need more passing, they need
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  Speaker 3: more ground, you know, a complimentary to the ground game.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know. I don't think it was too
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  Speaker 3: bad of a little bit of a risk, but maybe
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  Speaker 3: not too bad of a risk if you're a Tomlinson
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  Speaker 3: in the Steelers. They've always gone for big name quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: over the years. We know that of Bradshaw and Roethlis
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  Speaker 3: Further come to mind. But I really think that I
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  Speaker 3: agree with was it you Taylor had said this is
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  Speaker 3: probably his last year. I really think it's probably true.
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  Speaker 3: But but if he wents thirteen games and stays healthy,
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  Speaker 3: but that's probably not going to happen, he could come
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  Speaker 3: back again. But it's worth a chance. It's worth a
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  Speaker 3: chance for the Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: All right, on national broadcast, I'm gonna say my one sentence.
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  Speaker 1: He was not going out on a bad note with
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  Speaker 1: the New York Jets, So he's going back to the
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers to try to leave his career on the
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  Speaker 1: best note possible. Period.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody agreed, agreed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to sit here and leave as a
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  Speaker 1: Jet when things worked out last year, at least a
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  Speaker 1: gold aut like Tomlin and try to salvage somebody your
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  Speaker 1: career and that's it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm done when Patrick cues right for over three thousand
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  Speaker 3: yards with the Jets last.
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  Speaker 1: Year, so what did he have? Twenty eight touchdowns and
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  Speaker 1: eleven interceptions at Paul Boston? Really, seriously, really, I would
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  Speaker 1: wait for you to shoo this like going, come on,
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  Speaker 1: We're moving to next upday. Don't look at no research anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You're done with this topic, all right, all right, now
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  Speaker 1: the Connecticut son are exporting a sale and franchise and relocation.
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  Speaker 1: I think the best bet Boston. I think a friend
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  Speaker 1: of a friend of mine, Dominica Maury. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you've ever met him, Willie, but he actually writes
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  Speaker 1: of the Heartford Current. I met him through another organization,
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  Speaker 1: and so during the women's final four told me that
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  Speaker 1: Boston looks like the most likely place if it would
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  Speaker 1: make sense, right, you ended up seeing, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: Boston Brewin played games in Hartford, and Hartford seems to
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  Speaker 1: lose teams anyway, So I don't know. I think that
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  Speaker 1: the Connecticut Center headed to Boston. What do you think, Willie?
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  Speaker 4: How about the already played it? How thought they already
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  Speaker 4: played in Boston? To be honest with you, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: what are they playing in stores?
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  Speaker 1: Is that right?
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  Speaker 4: They're playing in stores?
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  Speaker 1: I think they're playing the Mohegan Sun.
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  Speaker 4: Oh okay, Well be that as it may. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 4: sure Boston would welcome them. Boston is a major media market.
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  Speaker 4: Boston is a lot of times considered by many people
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  Speaker 4: as to be title town because of the Patriots and
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  Speaker 4: the Bruins, and even the Celtics last year, and even
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  Speaker 4: the rest Sox to a degree. So I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 4: that the that the city of Boston would be a
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  Speaker 4: win win situation for them because of the market, just
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  Speaker 4: because of the market itself, precisely.
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  Speaker 2: I would give an absolute prediction to this if it's Boston.
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  Speaker 2: If it's Boston and they open that up, I am
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  Speaker 2: gonna predict and probably guarantee that their first person they
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  Speaker 2: tried to go after, the first girl, is gonna try
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  Speaker 2: to go after his kkin cart, because that would be
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  Speaker 2: their larry bird.
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  Speaker 6: That will be that will be their verry bird, and.
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  Speaker 2: They will try to go and I mean, especially the
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  Speaker 2: phil stands and the type of game that she plays
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  Speaker 2: is so much like it, and it just be like
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  Speaker 2: and I mean, it'd just be a marketing machine just
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  Speaker 2: to be able to put something like this, and it's like,
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  Speaker 2: I could absolutely see it.
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  Speaker 4: Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: Connecticut Sun.
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  Speaker 1: Wow?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they they they could. Man, that's they're looking. They're
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  Speaker 5: looking to be sold.
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  Speaker 1: Huh wow.
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  Speaker 5: Geez well, all I can all I can say is
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  Speaker 5: I wish them good luck.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough. Don't you need to go no more? That's
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  Speaker 1: all right. You gave me your best shot. I have
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  Speaker 1: no problem with that. Again, it's something I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the w NBA because somebody in that area
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  Speaker 1: right or told me about it. He's only to talk.
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  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden I get this as say,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is right, and he's actually gonna be writing
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  Speaker 1: a book on Jim Calhoun. And I'm hoping he gets
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy on at some point down the road. Andy some
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  Speaker 1: thoughts about this.
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  Speaker 7: On August twentieth, twenty twenty four, the Connecticut Son and
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  Speaker 7: the Los Angeles Sparks played the first ever women's game
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  Speaker 7: basketball game at TD Garden in Boston. It was a
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  Speaker 7: sold out affair. We don't have any media superstars, and
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  Speaker 7: we're still able to gardner that kind of attention in Boston. So, yes,
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  Speaker 7: is Boston the front runner? Yes, they're the first front runner.
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  Speaker 7: The second would be Philadelphia, and the third is Denver.
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  Speaker 8: Interesting cities, George, No, the third is Detroit, not Denver.
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  Speaker 8: I'll go with the other d But Boston is going
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  Speaker 8: to get it, no question about it. Hey, you know,
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  Speaker 8: I don't blame the WNBA for going into Connecticut.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yukhon dominated and continue to dominate women's basketball. So
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  Speaker 3: the move to Connecticut was a brilliant move back by
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  Speaker 3: the WNBA when they made it. But now they's see
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  Speaker 3: the light and you really got to go to a
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  Speaker 3: big city. And Boston's got great basketball fans as we
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  Speaker 3: all know.
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  Speaker 8: So I would definitely think that that should be a
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  Speaker 8: good positive move for if the Connecticut son indeed are
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: closing up shop.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, Boston, I think we all agree on that
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: all right. Now on or non sports topics tonight, I
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: promised last week I go over something about Robin Williams,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do exactly that. Robin Williams asked for
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: duncon to hire at least ten homeless people in all
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: of his films, helping over fifteen hundred throughout his career,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: and had a unique clause in his contract. Unbelievable And
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: that you talk about a guy who's legendary wants to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: help homeless people. That's just too unbelievable. Just again, I'd
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: like to mention, here's another good one down want people,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Another good Field story. Iowa man passes away and uses
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: life shaving. He's just sent thirty three strangers to college.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: He spent sixty seven years working as a carpenter at
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the same company, was never married, no children, and lived
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: a monest life. How about those two for feel good story? Well,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: what do you think about those?
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: I mean Robin Williams, especially with the way that he
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: passed away and depression in the mental health issues that
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: I'm very, very fond and am an advocate for. This
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: just goes to show you that you never know what
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: a person is dealing with. And I had a conversation
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: with my physical therapist about this same subject because we
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: were talking about Robin Williams and somebody mentioned, oh my gosh,
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: what's his name, Anchorman will Ferrell. Somebody mentioned Will Ferrell
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: in the fact that he was he acts or he
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: portrays or he has the same sort of personality as
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Robin Williams. And the fact that he's always on but
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: you don't know what he's silently dealing with. And for
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: for Robin Williams to be silently dealing with whatever it
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: was he was dealing with and deal to still have
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: the mindset to do what he did nothing short of remarkable, man.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: And uh when he when he when he passed, you know,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: we lost the we lost a great ones.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Well, this fact is another way for all of us
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: here on a network to honor Robin Williams. Like you see,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: we talked about last week and I was determined to
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: bring it on tonight's show. And I really wanted to
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: do that, so I I ww a, man, more power
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: to Jacob say this.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I said this once I was talking to somebody about
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: this with Frank Sinatra, you know from the deal I
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: said it was the same. I'm want to say it
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: with Robin Williams. There's little rules that a political thing says,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: if you commit suicide, you will not go blah blah
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: blah blah blah. He made it just being exceptionally honest
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: and I'm just doing it from a human aspect and
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: everything like that. He made it. The man did so much.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: For people.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: He did so much for people. He did it, and
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: it's like the.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Whole idea of what you're supposed to do to go through.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Life and go after the afterlife and everything is the
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: best thing you can do for people in this world.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: He did it. He did it, and I have no
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: question he made it. And it's all how I'm gonna
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: say with that. But and in truth, really one of
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: my favorite movies is Patch Adams, even if the Patch
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Adams himself can't stand it, but I love the idea
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: because the way that Robin Williams could be Patch Adams
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: is himself. He could have been hive. You believed it,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: You completely believed it, that he was helping these people
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: and you believe this, and it's like, this is the
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: biggest thing with this is don't do this to try
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: to get don't ever do We found out after he
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: died that he did all this. Don't do this to
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: try to get all the press in the world. Don't
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: do this saying oh I'm a good guy. Don't don't
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: do it because the government tells me to don't do that.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Just be Robin, just be him. Here, I am, okay,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: here you are. I would do it for it's genuine
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: and that's the best way. If we could all think
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: like that, that's the way we go. It's like, let's
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: not do it because someone tells us or where the
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: or we have for our people telling us around us
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: are peers telling us to do it. It's got to
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: be genuine. There was genuine with him.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: We can commentary chake them, all right, Taylor.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Robin Williams was a star and a talent, as in
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: the movie Cinema Industry Missus Doubtfire Flever, the voice of
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: the Genie in Aladdin. I will always remember him as
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: that as that voice and character. Now his mental health issues, yeah,
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: it's it's just another example of why you should talk
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: to someone professionally.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: And uh.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: But it's it's just tragic that that he passed away
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: that way. Uh And and that just teaches us all
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: a lesson, Katie, Go.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Ahead, Taylor.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: He also had Louis Bidi's mentioned he decided to do that.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: He got diagnosed with that, which would it would have
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: ended up. He is a He was a full physical
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: comedian which would have taken the rest of his body.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: So he decided to do it that way. He did
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: that mental health issues, but it was his career was over.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: True, Jacob, I have heard that he had park he
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: was diagnosed with Parkinson's.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: I mean, anytime you have a neurological disorder, it's tough.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Those are tough. Those are tough things to live with,
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: and it's tough for you and it's tough for the
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: family too. Always I would say, reach out, see Kelp.
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: There are there are lots of ways that you can
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: get help. There are a lot of support avenues. I
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: would just encourage everybody to use one of those avenues
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: because it is tough. And if you think about Robin Williams,
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: man he touched so many different people with all the
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: different things that he did, not only the homeless, but
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: even the movies that I mean in his TV show
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: like he was on Mork and Mindy, like you just
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: remember and they always say laughter is the best medicine,
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: and look at how many times he made you laugh.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: Just sad that he was had the mental illness that
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: he did and that he's no longer with us.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: George, well, yeah, I mean it is sad the way
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: he died, no question about it. But let's talk about
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: what Scott said. That he insisted on these people that
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: also were in need as part of the crew, the
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: stage crew and jobs. That's outstanding. I never knew that
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: about that until you mentioned it tonight. That was just
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: a great way for him to express his love of
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: his fellow man and woman, and he did it by
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: having them be part of his movies, which were, as
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: we all know, superior to so many others. But his
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: kind of heart, his kindness, that's also sadly missing now
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: because he helped those individuals out on the movie set
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: in different roles and minor things that they did, and
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: I'm sure he constantly compensated them well. But the point
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: is is that we're going to miss that part of
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: him too. Maybe hopefully people that know him and work
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: with him in production companies are doing the same thing
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: and we just don't know about it.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: So willly a quick question for you only for only
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: you ever been to La Yes, then you and then
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: you know where I'm going with this, right, I don't know.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Keep going.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I've been to a lot of big cities, but I've
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: never seen a homeless situation worse than I've seen it
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: in LA.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I can tell you West Oakland
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: is pretty bad.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, well that's why I was going. So West Oakland's bad,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: but you go to LA it's bad. So why did
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I bring this topic into play? Because my heart was
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: in LA and obviously you bringing in West Oakland. And
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: when you see that he's willing to help these people out,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that puts an excell exclamation point on the topic. Rest
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: in peace, Robin Williams. That's why I wanted to come
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: up with and let the audience know that you certainly
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: had a big, strong heart for the homeless people, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: now we have a hard, big heart too on your
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: member memory. As long as the other guy, the Iowa man,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: let's not lose sight of him. He helped three three
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: people get to college. How do you want to lose
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: sight of that situation? But obviously Robin william stood out.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to my town. I'm going to
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: start off with this real quickly. Florida Atlantic University football
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: will play the Florida Gators in twenty fifty six and
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the University of South Florida and the USF season opener
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: will take place versus Boise State. What's in your town, Willie?
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: This row a couple of openers out there for two
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: schools that have a vessitor so fa, you get Florida
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: twenty play six to make the money over swamp and
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: U accepted Boise State. There you go, will You would
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: talk about your town.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to go to the Dallas Cowboys. And
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: it is never and I mean never too early to
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: troll the Dallas Cowboys. So apparently dak Prescott in OTAs
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: went like fourteen out of eighteen with four touchdowns in
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: OTA's and it's already being uttered around here. The Dallas
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Cowboys are going to the Super Bowl. Here we are
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: in June, and once again the Dallas Cowboys have won
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: the off season for the I don't know forty eight
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: consecutive year for being the most talked about team in June.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: That's your town, That's my town.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, I like it, Jacob, your time, Willie to actually
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: try and try thinking of the fitement that the Bears
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: are trying to get right now. But it's Caleb Williams.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Even though they're gonna go five to twelve again.
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: But still it's but I'm gonna say my time, we're
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: gonna do Atlanta here.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: And yes, they tried to do with all of these
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: deals with the Tipodobian fired and everything. Quinn Snyder was
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: one of those that they tried to be able to
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: interview and they said no that the Hawks and know also,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: so that's all of those that they're gonna keep him
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: and and we'll just say it also Billy Donovan, they
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: tried him also. At this point in time, they're gonna
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: be going after the They're just gonna go after the
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: next the decks of the last one in the bar
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: three in the morning.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Okay, Mark Jackson.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Well you know what, well, actually we're gonna talk about
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: that next week. Okay, sorry, but you know what, I'm
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: glad you do the teaser out there. Thank you, Willie.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. We can easily spend a fair amount
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: of time. I may have to reduce topics because Mark
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Jackson may be the equivalent to Mark my word. That
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: was one of the things I was seeing how the
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: g M T eight, Willie, you don't have to take
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the bit that's called great mind stick collect go ahead, all.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: Right in my state of Michigan, of course, the Tigers
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: still seven and a half games up on the Minnesota
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Twins in the Ale Centrals, might might be soon to
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: be seven games back unless the Rangers come back at
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: Target Field. Right now, they're trying to rally in the
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: top of the eight, down six to two to the Twins.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: But anyway, the Tigers at the best record in Major
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: League Baseball, they're in a buyer's market. They'll have to
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: stock up on relievers. The plus they'll have to start
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: to at a quality starter in replacement of Jackson Joe
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: who was out for the rest of the season with
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: Tommy John surgery. And they'll have to add a third
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: baseman that could help mentor Zach mcinstry who has although
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: still has already seven triples, but he's he just has
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: to be smart, a smarter player. Also, the Tigers need
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: a better clean up here because their offense has had
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: way too many games where they can't score very many
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: runs per game. And that and so Scott Harrison, Jack
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: Greenbrik really have to stock up at the trade deadline.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: So obviously I live down here in Florida right now,
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: and I would be remiss. Josh, I'm gonna give you
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: your du here. Stanley Cup Finals. The Panthers are playing
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: hot right now. They took game three, so they are
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: up two games to one, but they they wouldn't want
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: it pretty convincingly, although I will admit it definitely lived
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: up to what people call a hockey game, whereas they
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: had a fight, like if you haven't seen that third
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: period and all the fights. At one point, all five
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: guys on the ice were fighting all five of the
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: other guys on the ice, so it was a big fight,
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: but they won six to one. For those of you
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: that know that, I'm really from originally from Wisconsin, and
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: so I am a big Packer fan. We did part
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: ways with Jayra Alexander this week and now we have
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: forty six million in cap space that we can go
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: out and do whatever we want with, which is something
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: that's very unusual because the Packers normally don't have a
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: lot of that cap space. They have moved bow Melton
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: from a wide receiver to a cornerback and they're trying
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: him out there. His brother plays for the Cardinals that
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: same But I do want to put out there even
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: though today is Vince Lambardi's birthday. If you guys didn't
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: know that he was born June eleventh, nineteen thirteen. Of
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: course he's no longer with us, but happy birthday, Vincelambarti.
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: They all play for that trophy, so let's say happy
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: birthday to Vince Lambardi.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Well, if you're going to mention that, I believe yesterday
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: was late and birthday too, So the rest of peace
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: and Judy, now that you've brought it up, so she's
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: nined of COVID nineteen Willie bent the lost from me
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: and then a hard one to swallow. But and Judy
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: love you very much. We will now dedicate the show
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: to you. Okay. So with that said, all right, George
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: my town.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm not gonna mention Tigers because my colleague down there, Taylor,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: already talked about them. So the Detroit Grand Prix, which
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: was held a couple of weeks ago here in Motown
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: for the second, I'm sorry for the third year downtown
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: after moving from Belle Isle, which is an island course,
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: did Great Indy Car as you guys might might or
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: may not know, assigned a deal with Fox Sports and
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: the Indy five hundred Detroit Grand Prix. All these races
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: are now on Fox and the ratings went way up
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: for Detroit's race, which was on a Sunday starting at
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: twelve thirty in the afternoon, quite early. But the fact
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: matter is it's good news for Fox, but it's also
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: good news for Detroit. The people were coming downtown, The
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: people were.
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: Buying tickets, they were buying food, they were buying souvenirs
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: and everything else and enjoying the ground pride. And although
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: Roger Penski's team didn't win, it was a hell of
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: race and it's.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Another gold star I put next to Detroit and they
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: did a great job with Detroit Indie Racing League schedule.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, very good. I'm gonna have one to Woolli's my town.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: How do you like that graduation to Texas Longhorns or
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: was that a party shot for you later?
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: No, I was actually shocked when I talked about that
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: on my show last week. I just thought that the
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: Texas Lady Longhorns had won a championship before, but obviously not.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, all those great Longhorn baseball teams from the past,
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: ate up, all of that publicity, were all of that,
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, and for them to do it
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: the way that they did it, in Norman was tremendous.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so congratulation to the Texas lady Longhorns are winning
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: the softball College Women's World Series. And it's been a
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: good year for the Longhorns because Candy and I saw
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: them at the final four out in Tampa. They fell short,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: then again to the Connecticut Husky then again with gena
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: orem out they're going to fall short anyways. Two they
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: didn't play the long Horns. I don't believe they did,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: but that was gino Oriama was on a mission to
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: get that. Anyways, But the Texas Longhorns women's programs have
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: been great, you know, the one in obviously basketball, and
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: then winning the Women's College World Series as a feather
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: in their cap. So I just wanted to make sure
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: we brought that up here, as Willy, because that's a
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: heck of an accomplishment to these young ladies. And since
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: we've talked about women's sports a lot more between Connecticut
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Sun and then so we obviously talked about last week,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I want to spend at least one segment talk about
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: women's sports every opportunity we get to do it. This
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: is just another opportunity to do that, all right, One thing.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: We're gonna go to a Baseball Factor night. We go
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: to a station break and then we have a couple
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: more topics I want to get to. So we're around
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: a pretty good time projectory baseball facts. On April seventeenth,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty three, Mickey Mantle hits an estimated five hundred
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: and sixty five but bomb at Griffiths five hundred and
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: sixty five. Yes, Taylor, I said, five sixty Wow, Tom
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: in Griffiths stay the longest hover ever at the ballparking.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: On that same day, Mickey Mantle makes his debut. What
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: are you say that one there, Willie? And you know
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: it's the next one Mickey Mantle. I got a couple
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: of hydro stoptachues with him flinging the bat in my house,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Nicky Mantle, great stop makes it to the Big Show.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: What do they want Mickey Mantle? I mean the mick
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: right with it? What was it nineteen what sixty one?
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: Murderer's Row with him and Roger Maris and the rest. Yeah, yeah,
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: that that look. Some of those Yankee lineups or some
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: of the Yankee lineups that they have tried it out
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: here in recent years. I've actually coined them Murderers Role
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Edition whatever that year was. But I never got a
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: chance to see Mickey Mantle play in person, of course,
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: so but everything that I've seen on tape and wherever else,
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: obviously he was one of the greatest. And you know
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: what I love about Mickey Mantle is that he had
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: a just a hint of controversy about him. That's funny.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what, Willie actually did meet him one
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: time over at Fort Lauderdale Stadium because the Yankee was
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: just train over at Fort Lauderdale at Fort Lauderdale State.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: He was a nice guy.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Is that worth anything? I don't know. But I got
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: his statues and they cost me a boatload of money
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: when I paid for him for some back on the day.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: Well, nobody can name drop the way the scooter can
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: name drop.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that. I've got a lost for
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: words with that one.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: My work.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you this. It's it's good that
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: they have murderers rollback because there was a murder of
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: row in the sixties. You go through the eighties, it
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: was Mistermeanor's role. It was that and it's and now
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: you're getting back to the thing again in nineties they
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: had in again because he had all those World series
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: in nineties and two thousands from ninety five on, you know,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: and then we'll get into it again. And it's like
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: the biggest deal about it with the Yankees, regardless of anything,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: is it is better for baseball in it. I get it,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: really is. It gets the attention. There's so many people
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: that hate the Yankees, you know, as much as you
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: have everything. So regardless of anything, here's the deal. No
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: matter what, think about this for a second. When the
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Miami Marlin before tomorrow is then and Arizona Diamondbacks won
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: their world periods against the Yankees, all right, you know,
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: it's like that's it means more than if they beat
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Pirates. It's just the truth and what we need,
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: what we need to understand and stuff like this is
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: there's so many people that have a hate for the
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Yankees in have the bitterness way. Well, without him, they
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: just wouldn't be the second.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, we also need to understand five hundred
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: and sixty five feet is a long way.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: And you know, one of my favorite mentors, Handelescano, had
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: a good home run phrase.
• 39:43
  Speaker 9: You know, what he said, Where did he hit it?
• 39:50
  Speaker 9: I mean, I want to ask this, have you ever
• 39:52
  Speaker 9: heard of mh Have you really how do you know him?
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: Didn't pay for the Phillies?
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: No, Andelos Scott?
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Oh no, then I don't know, aren't you?
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Six, I'm talking about Andrew Lostano. I gotta get
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: this man a copy of my book. He's in it anyway.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: He's one of my mentors. This guy, Oh will he will?
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: You know where you'll be in the next one? Okay?
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: And this guy here, I was working with him the
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Channel seven and eight over at NBC.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: Where did he hit it?
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: That's two that you got tonight? Okay?
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: Like way out of the ballpark?
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Like five five feet? Okay? Right, who's next you Taylor?
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: Of course. When when you hit a ball like five
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: hundred and sixty five feet like you mentioned, you know
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: it's way out of the entire ballpark. Period. Enough said,
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: But Mickey Mantle has been the master, not just the
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: luckiest guy on the face of the earth. He was
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: the master in my eyes even before I was born.
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: I've looked up his main portion me the matter of
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: his history, and he's one of the greatest Yankee ball players.
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: Of all time period.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Good no, okay, well, all right, Candy.
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: Mickey was raised by his father to become a baseball
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: player and was trained early on to become a switch hitter.
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: He is the only player to hit one hundred and
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: fifty home runs from each side of the plate. He
• 41:33
  Speaker 7: hit five hundred and thirty six career home runs while
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: batting three hundred or more ten times, in his sixteenth
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: all time in home runs per bat at bat and
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: seventeenth in on base percentage. He won a Triple Crown
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: in fifty six. He was an All Star for sixteen seasons,
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: playing in sixteen of the twenty All Star Games that
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: he was selected for. He also won Golden Gloves. Obviously,
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: he appeared in twelve World Series, but he also lived
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: life hard right for those of you that don't know,
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: He died from liver cancer brought on by years of
• 42:11
  Speaker 7: alcohol abuse, and actually his sons died from alcoholism as well,
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: two of them.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: One of his best friends with Chilly Martin.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: By the way, I have one thing that I wanted
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: to add on this thing. We talked about five hundred
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: and sixty five feet for Mickey Mayo. I have something
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: to be said here you think of how strong that
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: is that you have to be, and the and there
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: is no peed to those they at all?
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: How country strong were these people?
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think about for instance, I'll think about
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: Jack Nicholas, He's able to hit them in one of
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: the term as three hundred and sixty five yards off
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: those't go for Simon and with the clubs that have
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: no bend. And it's like, and it's just like, I'm
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: just using that as an example. When you hear Mickey
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: mantledo in five sixty five, you hear Frank Howard and
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: all those guys, You're hearing these just like, how naturally
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: strong were these people? Truthfully? And has the PDEs actually
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: made us weaker? I have to ask these things because
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: you don't hear naturally strong people hitting like that anymore
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: at all. It's like, is it just because we get
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: so much help with our body that it's gotten weaker?
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Because these are just brutally strong people in the past,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: all right, George.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: Well, Mickey Mantle was one of the greatest, no question
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: about it. The Tigers said clinched the pennant back in
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: nineteen sixty eight, and they were playing the Yankees the
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: next day, terrible crowd. Obviously, everybody was excited that night
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: with Boyd Detroit, Wan Nicky came to the plate, Denny McClain,
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: they made it all look like it was all up
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: and on the up and up. But Denny McClain groved
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: that ball in there for Mickey to take one final
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: swing to and I don't remember who he was chasing
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: in the all time home run list, but McLean grooved
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: it in there for and manno cleared the elfield wall
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: at Tiger Stadium different than the one you mentioned, Scott,
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: but that is remarkable that many times, Oh my god,
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: that guy would show the power, demonstrate the power hitting
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: it off the roof in Detroit, or like you said,
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: the one over five hundred and sixty plus yards, that
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: incredible distance in strength that that man had. But yeah,
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: you know it's the fans really turned out to watch
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: Mickey mannon all around the league in the America ling
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: and they still are a top draw.
• 44:45
  Speaker 8: Of course, the Yankees are so one of the greatest
• 44:49
  Speaker 8: Janks of all time. Mickey Mann, I love it. Thanks
• 44:51
  Speaker 8: for bringing him into our discussion tonight, Scott.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: You're very welcome. George. All right, go to a station break.
• 44:56
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• 44:58
  Speaker 1: two more topics. Got pund up on it. Anybody it
• 45:00
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• 45:02
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• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Candy. All right, Well, you know I normally
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: don't bring up politics, but I'm not really bringing up politics.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: But Donald Trump wants to stop changing names for teams.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: But in my mind, the only two that did make
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: sense for the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Attempts. I'll
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: bring him up because he said it. I don't care
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: how many of us probably think it, but that's the Donald.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Remember he used to own the New Jersey Generals, and
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: he's the same guy that wanted to compete with the
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: NFL during the spring. I'm not getting at it. I'm
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: not going to paper. The only time I understand changing
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: names in certain are Isla and Tennessee had the Oilers
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: that they had to go ahead and tanged to the
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Titans three.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: I get that.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: I still to this day though, don't understand why the
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Washington Redskins had to go away. I love that name.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think it should ever in the Cleveland Indians
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: there tradition. I'm gonna leave it at that. So forget
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: about who I mentioned at the beginning with the initials
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: DC Donald Trump. Okay, although we're not talking Donald Duck.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: We're talking Donald Trump. But from when you look at
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: the overall perspective, Willie, what are your thoughts about teams
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: changing names? You like it or you don't.
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: I don't really have a problem with the Indians or
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: the Riskins or the Seminoles or you know, the black
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: Hawks or whoever else. Well, I take what I do
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: have a problem with. I have a problem with teams
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: that are named after the state they play in instead
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: of the city. I do have a problem with that. Okay,
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: that's my that's my piece, and I'm sticking to it.
• 48:03
  Speaker 10: No problem, Okay, I've said my piece. You can say
• 48:08
  Speaker 10: you're a jacob o. The Redskins did not need to leave.
• 48:12
  Speaker 10: Redskins is often name and.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: It needs to come back. But the main thing about
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: the Redskins and probably the Indians also is now they
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: probably have to talk to the USPTO because the main
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: thing is when the you know, Patt and Trademark Office.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: The one thing is when the Redskins left, they literally
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: made a rule at the time staying you can't make
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: money off of this name. They did never talk about
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: this with high school. They were talking about with everybody,
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: so they took it away from everyone. Now with the
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: new person in office, that could easily change, but they
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: had before you could even get the Redskins name back.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: You got to remember, you gotta remember by itself. Magic
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Johnson is part owner with the the Commanders right now, Commanders,
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: and he is always looking to have money. So I
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: don't think he's gonna stop the name. Oh he's going
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: to stop the name of the Redskins coming back. I
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: think he would stop it if they would say you
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: can't make any money off of it, you know, as
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: you know as far as those So I think that's
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: the biggest thing is they just have to talk. They
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: just have to make a deal with the Patent Trademark
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: Office and be able to get it back. And but
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: the one biggest thing about it is are we going
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: to go through this garbage again? If they changed the
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: party and all this kind of stuff like that. It's
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: just it's an annoyance. Someone there's gonna be someone in office,
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter what party there is. That just stops the lunas. See,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: just get back to the normal and the everything and
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: just quit try and control everybody.
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: M Taylor, none of this name changing bothers me whatsoever. Indians, Guardians, Redskins, Commanders,
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: it doesn't really matter, Oka Candy.
• 49:58
  Speaker 7: I always thought that a mascot was something that you
• 50:03
  Speaker 7: kind of valued. You look, I mean, not noting that
• 50:05
  Speaker 7: you looked up to it, but like it was in
• 50:08
  Speaker 7: a different You're even if you're playing somebody that has
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: a name that it's not derogatory. I mean, you're you're
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: cheering for them, You're you're always trying to lift them up. Now,
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: I'll be honest with you, Uh. I am an Indian.
• 50:29
  Speaker 7: I actually lived when I grew up, I lived in
• 50:32
  Speaker 7: a subdivision that was an Indian. All the names of
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: the streets were Indians. My team mascot from high school
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: was the Indians. I see nothing wrong with those types
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: of names. Do I think they needed to be changed? No,
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: I don't. But I'm also not an Indian, like I
• 51:00
  Speaker 7: was never an Indian, and so to walk in their
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: shoes and to see it from their perspective. I can't
• 51:07
  Speaker 7: because I you know, I'm I didn't grow up that way.
• 51:13
  Speaker 7: But I don't think that it's a derogatory thing. So
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: that's my two sons.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: On on it, Okay, George, Well it bothers me about
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: it is there seems to be inconsistency. You know, Indianza
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: is deemed not a good name, you know, Redskins not
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: a good name. But then we've left other teams with
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: Indian related names, nicknames, you know, and it just seems like,
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: you know, they're they're circling certain names that they don't like.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: I guess I don't know, Like, well, New York Yankees,
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: now Yankee was kind of a slur name. You were
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: calling Americans Yankees Yanks. Nobody ever got upset about that.
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: I just think that, uh, I wish it could be settled,
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: but it's never going to be settled. You know, if
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: one politician likes it in one dozen or one team
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: and the other one dozen majorly you know, the Commissioner's
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: office doesn't like it, it's unfortunate. But I see how
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: sometimes it could get people upset. But they don't mean
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: any ill will by it. They're just trying to honor,
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: especially the tribes that sue you know, the tribes that
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: were so great at Native American tribes. But it's interesting
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: to talk about though.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well the President talked about it. You'll get
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: attention for it. And then well, and that's why everybody
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: looks that way. Everybody likes its crazy because he has
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: to think about team names instead of what he's doing.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: I'll leave it at that period, all right. Under the
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Detroit Pistons, let's talk a little bit of basketball. Talk
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: about Draymond Green on his podcast, Kate Cunningham will bring
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: a championship to the Detroit Pistons. Do you agree? Will
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: he that he will bring a championship to the Detroit
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Christs Ramond Green?
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, what is Draymond Green?
• 53:10
  Speaker 11: Though?
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: Seriously no, I mean they very easy. I shouldn't say easily.
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: They very well could have beaten the Knicks in the
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: first round of the playoffs. They just didn't get the
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: right bounces at the right time. And I think there's
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: a little bit of an experienced factor with that too,
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: because they hadn't been to the playoffs in what six
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: years something like that. They've got the pieces in place,
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: and Kate is a terrific piece to build around championship.
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: I think it might be a little too soon to
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: say that, but obviously, who knows.
• 53:49
  Speaker 11: Good point, Jacob, it's a not retired, aging aging player
• 53:56
  Speaker 11: who's had four rings trying to get a fit and
• 53:58
  Speaker 11: go home and go to Detroit.
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: That's exactly what he's that.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: He will bring it, which means he wants to be there.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: It's just the truth he wants to he just he's
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: saying it without sprinklin you know, he's sprinkling the seeds.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: But he doesn't want collusion. He doesn't want all that
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: kind of craft, but does exactly how he's doing it.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: He wants to be there so he can be able
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: to help get.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Him the title, say sor reality belt. Hey Man Green,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: he's a Michigan Minton guy, right, well, yeah, well that's
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: what I mean. He's a Minton guy. He loves Michigan
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: and Detroit Pistons, and I can't blame him for one
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: to see the Pistons went in and they had a
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: good year. Okay, go ahead, and mister Mann and also
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: in the chat room, George and Dicky so waiting for
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: the Chicago Black Hoops in Florida, State s wants to
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: change the days. Well, I don't think that will ever happen.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: I think you're right. Okay, go ahead, Taylor.
• 54:56
  Speaker 5: Yep souh Yeah, Draymond Green to the Pistons, if that's
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: a possibility, that could.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: He don't lose sight of what the topic is. Okay,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: we're not saying he's going to. He says he believes
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: that Kate Cunningham will go ahead and bring him a championship.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: That's what the top against Taylor, right right, right.
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: While wild Kate Cunningham is a great player, he's also
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: a turnover machine, of course a lot. I've seen him
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: turn the ball over several times per game, and that
• 55:30
  Speaker 5: has to stop. He's got to work on limiting the
• 55:33
  Speaker 5: turnovers producing them. I'm not seeing the limiting them, but
• 55:36
  Speaker 5: reducing them. He's got to be smarter with the and
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: more aggressive with the basketball. Also, he needs to take
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: it to the rack. And he's like, too swapped. You
• 55:46
  Speaker 5: got to pass the ball, try to find somebody open.
• 55:49
  Speaker 5: That's just the way basketball works, fundamental basketball. He's still
• 55:54
  Speaker 5: gonna learn mm hmm, Candy.
• 55:58
  Speaker 7: And what I'm going to say is no one player
• 56:03
  Speaker 7: can bring the championship to their city. If that were
• 56:07
  Speaker 7: the case, I would say Giannis would have way more
• 56:10
  Speaker 7: than one title so far in his career because he
• 56:14
  Speaker 7: is one of the best NBA players. It takes a team.
• 56:20
  Speaker 7: It's a team sport, so you need complimentary players to him.
• 56:25
  Speaker 7: So could he be the catalyst that does that, Yes,
• 56:29
  Speaker 7: of course, but it takes more than just him. So
• 56:33
  Speaker 7: just like in Milwaukee, it takes more than just Giannis.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: George Well, I listened to a show a couple of
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: weeks ago after the Pistons got eliminated. It wasn't on
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: your network, Scott or Candy, but I thought that it
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: was pretty astute. And his observation was he did not
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: see Key Cunningham going and acting like he is the
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: true leader of the team. In every one of those
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: playoff games against the Knicks. He did not step up
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: to the challenge. Okay, so that's one man's opinion. I
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: see sort of what he said, getting back to what
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: Taylor said about too many turnovers or you look at
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: the stats and you see that, you know, a couple
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: of games, yeah he had twenty or you know, low
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: twenties or something like that. Kate can carry this team.
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: He just needs more seasoning and a full complimentary cast.
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: I think the Piston surprised a lot of people this year,
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: no question about it. And Draymond Green, you might be
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: into something, or maybe he's just saying that because he
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: still loves Michigan, the state of Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: We know that.
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  Speaker 3: But I think Draymond Green I carries a little bit
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: of respect because he is a champion, and whether you
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: like the guy or you don't, he sees a lot
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: in Cad Cunningham. So I'm I'm with him in that one.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I'll leaning with Lilly. I think it's really
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: a bit premature. But Trajan Langdon has some work to
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: do this offseason, and JB. Bickerstaff is a heck of
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: a coach. That's all I'm gonna say. Trajan link didn't
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: have some work to do. But things are looking good
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: in Detroit. I'm glad to see that they got in
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. The Red Wings have some work to do
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: to get away from that playoffs route. We'll get into
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: that to night. But I like where the Red Wings are.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: We certainly like where the Tigers are an alliance, but
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: the Pistons, this is a good field, good story, and
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: I don't blame Draymond dream for a hands optimism. All right,
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: let's go to pundit fund it real quick and then
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: any partying shots that apply. And Willy's gonna give his
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: information out there, and I think we're getting right in
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: there there, but I'm working on it, Willie. All right,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: So pundit fund it, Jacob, what you got? Okay?
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: Last night on my TikTok, I did a little deal.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: I was basically saying, this is a little message to Rick.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: It there.
• 58:50
  Speaker 6: He writes a to tweet or an x or whatever we're.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: Gonna call it.
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: Right, Twitter is always Twitter, Yeah, Twitter, Yeah, Yeah, there
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  Speaker 4: you go.
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  Speaker 1: Woo.
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  Speaker 6: I try to be nice to everybody. God only knows.
• 59:04
  Speaker 6: I spent more money on spilt liquor one year that
• 59:06
  Speaker 6: people have in a lifetime.
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: This guy's out of his mind.
• 59:10
  Speaker 6: I tried being nice and miss my last message to everyone.
• 59:13
  Speaker 6: I got more money than I got time.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: Go after yourself.
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: I made three million dollars and at seventy six years old.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: Woo, Okay, you have skin cancer right now, Rick, in
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: the second time in three years, and who knows which
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: one finally finishes yet, I know you're a freak of nature.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: But but I mean, we know what happens. Sometimes you're due.
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: But I'm gonna say this. You said you made three
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: million dollars last year. You probably spent four You always do,
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: And now you talk about I spent more money on
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: spilt liquor.
• 59:55
  Speaker 6: You're seventy six years old. You need to grow up.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: You have had five marriages, and you refuse to grow up.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: You used to go to the Hilton or the Hyatt
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: or the Saint Regis or somewhere in Tokyo and have
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: all the greatest things in the world with a four horsemen,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: and now you're going to Applebee's yelling at the bartenders.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: The whole thing that this started last night is because
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: I said, this is the adult debate of Hulkgan versus
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: Rick Player, the adult debate, not who's a better wrestler.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: All that guff we did ENDWAWW have all this stuff adult?
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: You know Gray Hairs, the Great Hair version of this.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: Hul Cogan is seventy one years old now and has
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: a second family, a couple of teenagers with it, and
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: he's trying.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: He started a beer deal. He started a beer and
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: started his own beer.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: He's going to have his own bar next to Madison
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: Square Garden the next three months, and he might buy
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: the intellectual property of Hooters when it goes bankrupt. This
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: is the thing I'm saying. We don't know if this
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: stuff works or not, but this is what I'm saying.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: This is what you need to do with money, not
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: spend it at an Apple Beeves while yelling at bartenders.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 6: This is the thing.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: It is time to grow up someday. Because the reason
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: I'm bringing this up is you talked about spending three money,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: and I said you probably spent four. You got three money,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: spent four. You've just left your kids with a whole
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: lot of hell when you do die, a lot of
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: hell because there's gonna be lawyers. There's gonna be lawsuits.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: He no question owes money to people. You're gonna be
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: You're gonna be responsible, and Hulk is gonna leave two
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: different sets of kids with a lot of money. Now,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: I'm just bringing this and I know what you're saying
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: with that, but there's a difference with acting like an
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: adult and acting like a child.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 6: You're still a child.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: Rick.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: It's like you got the biggest thing is the base.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: It's too late for you to make piles of money.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: Now your at your age and at your health. But
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: I can say that the best thing you can do
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: for them is pay your dang debt off and quit
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: messing around. So you don't leave your kids with crap,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: because you're about to leave them with a whole lot
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: of hell.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Pretty well done. That's a loaded one there. When you're
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: saying Willie.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I would say I would, I would say,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: so maybe he can sell all of those woos and
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: try to make up some of that debt.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know, hey, Jacob, I don't know if you
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: need a party shot. That one was loaded, dude.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 6: That's gonna be the one.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, that was a party shot all roller than
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: the one. Do you have one? Yeah?
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: Actually I do. And I know that you know you
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: brought up the current president, and you know everything that's
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: going on around the cry with these protests and these
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: ice aids and everything else or raids that should say aids,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: ice raids. I just want to tell everybody out there
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: one simple thing. If you, if we would just look
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: each other in.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 5: The eye.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 4: And have a conversation, we will find that there are
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: way more things that we have in common than that
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 4: we don't. I can think of five things off the
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: top of my head that would be a point of
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: unity for any conversation. Starter. Nobody wants the price of
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: eggs to be eight dollars a cardon. Nobody wants the
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: price of milk to be five dollars a gallon. Nobody
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: wants the price of gas to be seven dollars a
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: gallon in California or Hawaii. Those are three things right
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: there that we can find a point of unity. And
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: that's just that's just that part of it. I mean,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: there's always food and sports. So that's five things right
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: there off the top of my head that we could
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: just come together on and realize that politicians have made
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: billions of dollars by keeping us divided.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 7: Like it.
• 1:04:18
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• 1:04:20
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