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Dallas Mavericks GM Nico Harrison holds secret media session · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Does Dallas stand for the.
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  Speaker 2: Dallas Wings or does it stand for dumb ass?
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  Speaker 1: Nico?
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  Speaker 2: We get a media availability and that did not allow
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  Speaker 2: cameras for recording devices. Mavericks general manager, Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Craig. How about that? Dumbfounded?
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  Speaker 3: When I saw the report that Nico Harrison was holding
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  Speaker 3: a meeting with select members of the Dallas media, but
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  Speaker 3: they could not record it. They couldn't bring tape recorders,
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  Speaker 3: they couldn't record it with their phone, they couldn't video
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  Speaker 3: record it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe that.
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  Speaker 3: Here we are a month, two months removed from the
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  Speaker 3: Leucodonta's trade, and Nico Harrison still does not get it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it just screams insecurity, Craig, It screams of
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  Speaker 3: This team is trying to defend their actions. But guess what,
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  Speaker 3: you can't defend it. You've lost the trade, you've lost
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  Speaker 3: the fan base. But they keep doing things that makes
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  Speaker 3: it worse and worse. I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The thing I guess that really gets me is what
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  Speaker 2: I'm not understanding about this is that.
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  Speaker 1: Surely, surely he.
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  Speaker 2: And the Dumont family and all of that, Patrick Dumont
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  Speaker 2: and the rest of the ownership group and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Surely they understand now if they didn't initially, how horrible
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  Speaker 2: this has become in terms of public relations, for the organization,
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  Speaker 2: for the fan base, all those things.
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  Speaker 1: And even if even.
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  Speaker 2: If your idea was just to try to make money
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  Speaker 2: off the whole thing, and he really didn't care about
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  Speaker 2: the players, which that seems to be screaming the message
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  Speaker 2: coming from them. But even if that is indeed the case,
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't you want to do something to at least put
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  Speaker 2: a little damage control on it? And maybe the damage
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  Speaker 2: is irreparable now, But if you thought it couldn't get worse,
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  Speaker 2: it gets worse with a thing like this where somebody says, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'll meet with some members of the media, but there's
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  Speaker 2: to be no recording of this, and uh and no photography.
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  Speaker 1: And and none of that. What's the point I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you're.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he's he's you know, with whatever some members of
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  Speaker 2: the media to explain, So, does that mean that they
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  Speaker 2: in turn are not allowed to write about that or
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  Speaker 2: talk about that on the air or on camera or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Is that what that means? If so, what's the point
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  Speaker 2: of even having that meeting? Because if you're thinking that
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  Speaker 2: maybe somewhere down the line that that a columnist or
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  Speaker 2: whoever is in there is going to do you a
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  Speaker 2: solid by not bashing you.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's silly in its own right. So anyway, I
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  Speaker 1: when I saw that, I was.
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  Speaker 2: Like, really so because maybe this is on a media
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  Speaker 2: level kind of like what they did last week. And
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  Speaker 2: here's what I mean by that cameraon I listen. I
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  Speaker 2: understand the motivation behind doing the tribute video to Luka Doncic.
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  Speaker 2: I think it would have made them look worse if
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  Speaker 2: they just ignored it. So I think they had to
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  Speaker 2: do that, and it was really well done what they
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if they were expecting this, but whether
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  Speaker 2: they were or not, the unexpected consequence for a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people, it just made it worse for fans a
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  Speaker 2: lot of times. In a lot of cases, it just
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  Speaker 2: kind of inflamed their passions all the more. You can't
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  Speaker 2: really control it at that point. If you're the Mavericks,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't really have a choice. They had to do
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  Speaker 2: the tribute video, even though it was going to make
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  Speaker 2: people a lot of angrier.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in this case, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Like, maybe we can, you know, do a little damage
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  Speaker 2: control and have Nico explain it to some of the
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  Speaker 2: media that covers the team extensively or whatever, the select media, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: explain it. But all that's going to do is backfire
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  Speaker 2: on the rest of the media who aren't invited, who
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  Speaker 2: don't get to write about, who don't get to record it.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the unintended consequence there. So I just I
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  Speaker 2: keep seeing them blow one toe off of their foot
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  Speaker 2: time with this, with every move they make. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: unfathomable to me that an organization with professional people, whether
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  Speaker 2: you whether you know basketball or not, and who is
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  Speaker 2: it Patrick Dumont Cameron who readily admitted to not knowing
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  Speaker 2: you know whatever for a pick and roll from picking
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  Speaker 2: his nose or whatever. Even if you don't know basketball,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to have some sense of under nderstanding what
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  Speaker 2: moves like this are going to do in terms of
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  Speaker 2: alienating your fan base, your local media, and even some
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  Speaker 2: national media.
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  Speaker 3: It's almost like they want to control the narrative by saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna have these select people come in, these reporters
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  Speaker 3: that we know, but we want to tell the story
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  Speaker 3: our own way. But the thing is, Craig, you can't
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  Speaker 3: do that the story's been told, and Nico Harrison and
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  Speaker 3: Rick Welts, the CEO, who also spoke with this select
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  Speaker 3: group of Dallas media, they don't understand it that you've.
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  Speaker 1: Already lost to trade.
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  Speaker 3: No matter how many times you explain it, you're not
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  Speaker 3: gonna be able to make it make sense.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's like when someone cheats on their partner and they
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  Speaker 3: keep coming back with different excuses in time and time again,
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  Speaker 3: you know you've already cheated. It's too late, You've already
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  Speaker 3: treated Luca Doncis. It's too late. And in one of
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  Speaker 3: the comments from Rick Welts that and it's funny because
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  Speaker 3: it's screamed Jerry Jones. And I think back to the
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  Speaker 3: last this end of season press conference, and it may
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  Speaker 3: have been even before the season started with Jerry Jones.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was an aux nerd well Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 3: and Stephen Jones and Mike McCarthy, and it may have
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  Speaker 3: been forget. Clarence Still may have asked the question about
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  Speaker 3: can you sense the fan base is now apathetic? And
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  Speaker 3: Stephen Jones said, well, no, look at our season ticket sales.
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  Speaker 3: They've gone up right, which is complete bull crap because
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  Speaker 3: we all know Dallas Cowboys fans are more apathetic than ever.
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  Speaker 3: But Rick Welt said in this media Craig when asked
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  Speaker 3: about you know, the the fiery fans and all of that,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, the Channing fire and Eco and losing
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  Speaker 3: the fan base, and Welt said, well, you know, actually
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  Speaker 3: look at our season ticket reneal Rate. It's gone up.
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  Speaker 3: They don't get it, Craig Welt's, Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones.
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  Speaker 3: They don't understand what is happening to the city of
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  Speaker 3: Dallas and how these two franchises are completely losing their
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  Speaker 3: fan base for two separate reasons but also two similar reasons,
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  Speaker 3: and that they're being run by brain dead people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just it's just and I didn't think that
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  Speaker 2: it could be made much worse than it has been made,
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  Speaker 2: so it's but apparently it has been.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I said, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Unfathomable to meet professional people not understanding the damage that
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  Speaker 2: goes to your organization, whether you're you know, a basketball
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  Speaker 2: purist or no basketball or whatever, but just understanding how
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  Speaker 2: that alienates large groups of people. And now they've you know,
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  Speaker 2: added it to those of the media who are not
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  Speaker 2: allowed to be present for that you know that's you're
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  Speaker 2: not going to win any friends or influence anybody by
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  Speaker 2: doing that. So anyway that's it's made. Let me put
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  Speaker 2: it to you this way, Cameron. It has been well
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  Speaker 2: established on this program that the NBA team you root
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  Speaker 2: for is the Oklahoma City Thunder. Given that to a
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  Speaker 2: long suffering and I do emphasize the words suffering Cowboys fan.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think that fans are like in Dallas
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  Speaker 2: who've been long suffering Cowboys and Navericks fans? What they're
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  Speaker 2: going through now with two owners who continually alienate the
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  Speaker 2: fan base, at least the Rangers. You know, when they
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  Speaker 2: when they stumble over themselves, they try to make it right.
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  Speaker 2: And they made it right in the most obvious way
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  Speaker 2: by winning a world championship in twenty twenty three, So
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  Speaker 2: they bought themselves a few years of grace, I think,
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  Speaker 2: but even with some of.
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  Speaker 1: The moves that they've made in the past.
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  Speaker 2: But this, you know, the Mavericks get to the NBA
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  Speaker 2: Finals a year ago, and I think folks were excited
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  Speaker 2: about what could come with healthy bodies, and then this
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  Speaker 2: deal comes and it just starts to blow everything up.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine what it must be like for long
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  Speaker 2: suffering Mavericks and Cowboys fans.
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  Speaker 3: They're mental health must be in the gutter right now, Greg,
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  Speaker 3: And hey, you mentioned you know the Mavericks and Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: The Stars are completely collapsing right now. They're on a
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  Speaker 3: six game losing streak after looking like one of the
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  Speaker 3: best teams in hockey. And then the Rangers, who after
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  Speaker 3: an offseason of spending, can't hit the baseball. So things
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  Speaker 3: aren't going great in Dallas right now
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  Speaker 1: For the professional sports franchises.