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Chuck in the Morning 8-26 H3: Hard Knocks takeaways, Baseball Brunch, CFB craziness · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: ORCHESTRA PLAYS 8 o'clock hour here on this hump day.
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Speaker 1: Good to have you with us when I say us.
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Speaker 1: Sanders Hurst is here. My name is Chuck Powell. No
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Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan here today. She's expected to be back tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: We're not entirely sure she's going to make it. Last report,
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Speaker 1: she had her flight canceled back from Hawaii. Could be
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Speaker 1: a convenient excuse. Don't fall for it, Rich. She's in Hawaii. And, oh,
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Speaker 1: of all places to be stranded and abandoned. So terrible.
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Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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Speaker 1: Like we don't see through your you sit on a
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Speaker 1: throne of lies ryan.
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Speaker 3: Leave it to her to nuke my sleep schedule geez uh.
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Speaker 1: Well i don't know um she sounded pretty forlorn just
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Speaker 1: how you'd expect someone to sound that was trying to
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Speaker 1: pull a fast.
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Speaker 3: One exactly that's exactly what someone who was just trying
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Speaker 3: to stay in hawaii to stay in hawaii would say.
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Speaker 1: Right right right did you get tickets to don ho
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Speaker 1: or something.
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Speaker 4: Right at the last second. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So you had to extend your stay an extra day,
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Speaker 1: but you had to throw the boss off. I don't know.
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Speaker 4: We'll see.
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Speaker 1: But it started with, I mean, she really did. If
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Speaker 1: it's a lie, she layered it. Started off with five-hour
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Speaker 1: delay and very distraught about it. And then later in
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Speaker 1: the day, it was, flight just got canceled. I don't
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Speaker 1: know when I'm going to be back.
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Speaker 3: She is.
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Speaker 1: So on one hand, I think that's one of the
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Speaker 1: worst things in the world for that doesn't include like
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Speaker 1: a crime, uh, is to be inconvenienced to such a
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Speaker 1: great level by an airport airline or, or just anything
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Speaker 1: to do with travel. Oh gosh. I hate, I hate
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Speaker 1: that aspect. Um, but on the other hand, man.
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Speaker 4: Really reads like a lie too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So, We'll see.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some hard knocks. Another episode last night.
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Speaker 1: We'll get back into baseball here in a little bit.
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Speaker 1: But the episode, you know what the biggest thing, my
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Speaker 1: biggest takeaway, even more so than the single shot of
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Speaker 1: Bud Clark at his locker, which I pointed out earlier,
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Speaker 1: that to me was the most compelling moment of the
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Speaker 1: entire episode. But my true biggest takeaway, the thing that
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Speaker 1: really affected and impacted me the most was how much
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Speaker 1: I want a nutritionist.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they did highlight that aspect pretty heavily.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if professional athletes don't already have it, well,
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Speaker 1: I mean, they have a job that keeps them in shape.
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Speaker 1: They make millions of dollars. They play a sport for
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Speaker 1: a living. They become famous. They have fans. Girls tend
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Speaker 1: to like them. I mean, there's a lot of great
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Speaker 1: things about being a professional athlete, but I may have
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Speaker 1: uncovered the best thing about it last night, at least
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Speaker 1: the modern-day athlete. People 20 years ago will tell you,
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Speaker 1: you used to get like a can of peanuts and
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Speaker 1: a Budweiser. That's what we got on the plane. These guys,
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Speaker 1: I mean, the nutritionist comes up there and outlines, all right,
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Speaker 1: here we're going to feed you this amazing food at
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Speaker 1: this point to make sure that you're hydrated. And then
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Speaker 1: on the plane, you're going to have this snack and
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Speaker 1: then this meal and then all of this water so
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Speaker 1: that you can keep your electrolytes up and remain hydrated.
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Speaker 1: You're going to a warmer climate in Nashville. Then they
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Speaker 1: land and they've got another spread of food, which is
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Speaker 1: for their benefit, of course. It's for their health, for
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Speaker 1: their maximum abilities and efficiencies on the football field. But
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Speaker 1: my goodness, all I'm seeing is you guys just eat
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Speaker 1: like a king for free on top of the millions
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Speaker 1: of dollars that you make. And you've got somebody that's
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Speaker 1: mapped it out so you don't even have to feel
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Speaker 1: guilty about it. They're making sure you're eating healthy most
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Speaker 1: of the time. Or if you're a lineman, you don't
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Speaker 1: even have to worry about that. To me, I think
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Speaker 1: maybe we've just uncovered what should be the thing most
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Speaker 1: envied about professional athletes, to have a professional chef and
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Speaker 1: a professional nutritionist, and maybe one in the same, give
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Speaker 1: me that. If I don't accomplish anything else in my life,
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Speaker 1: I hope I accomplish that before I die.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that would be pretty cool to have
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Speaker 3: someone just basically map out exactly what you're going to eat,
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Speaker 3: because I'm going to tell you.
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Speaker 1: I've done all the shopping for you. You don't have
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Speaker 1: to do a damn thing but eat.
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Speaker 3: I know, and that is an underrated annoyance for me.
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Speaker 3: Not only just the food preparation process.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But actually choosing what to eat and like doing it yourself,
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Speaker 3: mapping out exactly what you're going to like.
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Speaker 1: No, it's exhaust. I don't want to do that every day.
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Speaker 1: I've done it for twice as long as you've done
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Speaker 1: in my life.
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Speaker 3: It's true.
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Speaker 1: I mean, just going to the grocery store alone. I mean, the, whatever,
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Speaker 1: whenever I hear on my way home, The unicorn's like,
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Speaker 1: could you pick something up for me at the store?
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, it gets so angry. And it's not
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Speaker 1: that big a deal. It's very, it's not, I have,
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Speaker 1: I have several grocery stores.
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Speaker 4: Conveniently located around me.
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Speaker 1: It's not a big deal, but it's just like, all
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Speaker 1: I want to do is go to home and eat myself.
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Speaker 1: And now I got to go to the grocery store.
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Speaker 1: But going to the store, picking things out at the store,
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Speaker 1: trying to choose healthy things while you're at the store,
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Speaker 1: and yet also some treats for yourself. And then invariably
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Speaker 1: you get to the cash register now or I go
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Speaker 1: to the.
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Speaker 4: Automatic line, whatever it is.
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Speaker 1: Self-checkout. Self-checkout line. And then you see the $ 3, 000 bill
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Speaker 1: for one bag of groceries, and then that's hard to
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Speaker 1: take on. And then you've got to take them home,
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Speaker 1: and then you've got to put everything away.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I know.
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Speaker 1: And in my house, because I live with a germphobe,
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Speaker 1: I have to clean our groceries before I put them
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Speaker 1: all away. Can you imagine that, that you have to
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Speaker 1: clean your groceries before you put them all away? And
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Speaker 1: then by the time you're done with that, you're like,
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Speaker 1: I'm starving, but I don't want.
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Speaker 3: To work anything.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't want to work anymore to make any.
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Speaker 1: So imagine if you just came home and your best friend,
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Speaker 1: your nutritionist and your chef, personal chef was there and
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Speaker 1: has taken care of everything and all you had to do,
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Speaker 1: you didn't even have to write a check.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: Like you would at home. If I ever get this
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Speaker 1: in my life, I'll have to at home. But as
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Speaker 1: a professional athlete, no, no. You just make the tackle
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Speaker 1: that week, and you get all of this treatment right
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Speaker 1: at your fingertips. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Could you imagine someone like 100 years ago listening in
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Speaker 3: the future into this segment right now and be like, man,
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Speaker 3: these guys are complaining about having all these options to
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Speaker 3: eat food? Like, what? And they just sound like they're
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Speaker 3: distraught by this.
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Speaker 1: But compared to what we watched last night at Hard Knocks?
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Speaker 1: I know. Come on.
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Speaker 3: I know. I know.
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Speaker 1: It's like a red carpet, culinary red carpet. I mean,
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Speaker 1: at all times, you don't have to choose.
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Speaker 4: You don't have to make.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about whether or not it's
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Speaker 1: healthy or not. We've got you taken care of. We're
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Speaker 1: going to make sure you carve up the day before
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Speaker 1: you play football so you can just eat all the
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Speaker 1: pancakes that you want.
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Speaker 4: My goodness.
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Speaker 3: Now imagine doing that for someone else. And that's what
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Speaker 3: I have to do as well with my little one.
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Speaker 3: You're not even doing it for yourself anymore. All right.
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Speaker 1: Let's get into some actual other things that took place
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Speaker 1: last night. It really was the Bobo Clark show. As
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Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, I do– I mean– It was a
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Speaker 1: little bit hard to watch. It was almost like a movie,
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Speaker 1: like when you see a prequel. Once upon a time,
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Speaker 1: we didn't have prequels. That wasn't a thing with movie going. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so do I. And then as soon as somebody, but
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Speaker 1: you already know the ending. And then it turns out
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Speaker 1: we don't care because it's interesting to see how it
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Speaker 1: built up to the stuff that we already knew. And
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Speaker 1: so now everything's got a prequel. And I don't know
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Speaker 1: why we were hesitant in our music development. our movie
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Speaker 1: industries and show industries not to go down this road
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Speaker 1: because it's fascinating. It's fascinating how it builds up to
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Speaker 1: what you already knew about the characters and the storyline.
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Speaker 1: And so we kind of got that last night with
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Speaker 1: Hard Knocks, at least here in Seattle. Maybe somebody in
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati is not paying attention to Seahawks camp and may
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Speaker 1: not know the names Jake Bobo or Bud Clark. But
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Speaker 1: here we were invested in that storyline, and we already
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Speaker 1: knew how the movie was going to end last night.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they started with a healthy Jake Bobo in
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Speaker 1: the wide receiver room with Coach Jackson there in the
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Speaker 1: wide receiver room, who's turned out to be somewhat of
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Speaker 1: a star on Hard Knocks.
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Speaker 3: Take time.
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Speaker 1: And just having a conversation about his role. And I
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Speaker 1: loved his line when he said, you don't think I
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Speaker 1: know that? I loved that line from Jake Bobo last night.
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Speaker 1: You don't think I know what my role is on
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Speaker 1: this team? Um, and so we got to see him healthy.
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Speaker 1: And for those that knew, we knew it was going
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Speaker 1: to end sadly. And then to actually see what occurred,
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Speaker 1: see his reaction, how much pain he was in both
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Speaker 1: physically and emotionally. I mean, it was sort of like
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Speaker 1: watching a prequel movie last night. And then we had
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Speaker 1: the same storyline with Bud Clark. So I, I appreciate
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Speaker 1: the way hard knocks handled it. I thought it was
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Speaker 1: brilliantly done last night. I mean, they, they should win
10:29
Speaker 1: some awards for this sucker because I really liked the
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Speaker 1: way that they're conducting this, these episodes. Um, but to
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Speaker 1: make that, that compelling when you already knew what the
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Speaker 1: outcome was and to get a individuals a little bit
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Speaker 1: more and to see how everybody rallies around them, not
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Speaker 1: just on the field when we are watching the game,
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Speaker 1: but in the locker room. Like Julian Love, as soon
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Speaker 1: as he came in, he didn't go to his locker.
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Speaker 1: He went to go see Bud Clark and make sure
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Speaker 1: that he's okay and then gave him a pep talk
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Speaker 1: about you're going to be fine and you still need
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Speaker 1: to be around us. You can still absorb a lot
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Speaker 1: this season from just being around us. I mean, all
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Speaker 1: of that was just sensational to see. And frankly, I
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Speaker 1: know that in some ways, Anders, it was Hard to watch,
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Speaker 1: like Greg pointed out a little bit earlier. But on
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Speaker 1: the other hand, man, Bud Clark and Jake Bobo couldn't
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Speaker 1: have come off better. I guarantee you they picked up
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Speaker 1: people rooting for them in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Marion, Ohio, you
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Speaker 1: name it. People became Jake Bobo, Bud Clark closet fans
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Speaker 1: last night because of how well they came off. And
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Speaker 1: how well the story was told.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and with Jake Bobo specifically, there's a little sad
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Speaker 3: aspect to this. Like, Bud Clark, I think it was
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Speaker 3: kind of more of a freak injury that just kind
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Speaker 3: of happened right in the game.
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Speaker 1: Got rolled up.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that kind of stuff just happens. With Jake Bobo,
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Speaker 3: the way they portrayed it, I don't know if this
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Speaker 3: was intentional or if this is kind of exactly how
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Speaker 3: it went. Earlier in the episode, when he was having
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Speaker 3: that conversation with his wide receiver coach... He was telling him, hey,
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Speaker 3: you've lost a little bit of your edge. I need
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Speaker 3: you to play this role again. And it was then
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Speaker 3: revealed that he was working through some hamstring issues, which
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Speaker 3: I just looked it up. Can a bad hamstring lead
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Speaker 3: to a knee injury because of the loss of stability?
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Speaker 3: And there is a yes there. So I'm wondering if
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Speaker 3: maybe he rushed himself back a little bit just to
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Speaker 3: kind of prove himself. prove his coach right that he
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Speaker 3: still believes that that's his role on the team and
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Speaker 3: then well.
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Speaker 1: How about the fact that right before practice cooper cup
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Speaker 1: is told you know what we're not gonna let you
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Speaker 1: go so he ends up running all of cooper cups
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Speaker 1: reps exactly i mean how serendipitous is that in an
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Speaker 1: Usually serendipity we think of in a positive manner, but
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Speaker 1: how negatively serendipitous was that?
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Speaker 3: Well, and you can also look at it in a
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Speaker 3: positive way. You could be like, man, that could have
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Speaker 3: been Cooper Cup that had that injury. And how much
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Speaker 3: differently would we feel about that as Seahawks fans? And look,
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Speaker 3: you don't want to pit one guy getting injured versus another,
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Speaker 3: but that's kind of what you have to do in
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Speaker 3: these situations. And taking the Hugh Millen side of things, like, hey,
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Speaker 3: if you were to choose one guy of those two
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Speaker 3: to get injured... it would probably be Jake Bobo, but
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Speaker 3: yet also, like, when you watch what happened ahead of
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Speaker 3: that time, like, man, I feel for him, man. He
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Speaker 3: was trying to work his way back from an injury,
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Speaker 3: and I just wonder if he pushed himself a little
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Speaker 3: too much, because I know how.
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Speaker 1: Well, there was certainly an element of that yeah and
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Speaker 1: there was also an element of the coaches putting pressure
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Speaker 1: on him to be a dog 100 i mean all
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Speaker 1: of that led it was incorporated into the story i
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Speaker 1: mean there's a reason why you arrived at that conclusion
13:39
Speaker 1: because that's the way hbo weaved the tail and so
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Speaker 1: it's impossible not to factor those things in and and
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Speaker 1: you as a professional athlete just have to kind of
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Speaker 1: chalk that up to um Okay. I mean, I get it.
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Speaker 1: I get that I'm expendable. I get that they wanted
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Speaker 1: this out of me. I get that athletes get hurt
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Speaker 1: all the time. Um, and, and yet if I don't
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Speaker 1: answer the bell, how do I look in the, if
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Speaker 1: I tell them I'm hurt when I just started the
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Speaker 1: episode or started the week by saying I'm a dog
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Speaker 1: and I know my role on this team.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it all played in, it was, it was sad.
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Speaker 4: It was tragic.
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Speaker 1: It was also uplifting to some degree. Um, at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, I think what Greg led with
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Speaker 1: at seven Oh five was right. You got to see
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Speaker 1: the brutal reality behind the scenes, but you also got
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Speaker 1: to see, you know, some of the great aspects of
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Speaker 1: being a teammate and teamwork and the sacrifices that go
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Speaker 1: into that and the support that you get, um, So
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Speaker 1: it was just freaking compelling. That's all I can tell you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then how about Mike McDonald's sad moment talking
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Speaker 3: about his former guy that he played with? You got
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Speaker 3: me crying, McDonald. Exactly. Yeah, and I almost like when
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Speaker 3: there's an inability to really describe how you're feeling. You
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Speaker 3: obviously love when the coaches can explain articulate exactly like
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Speaker 3: yes i i totally agree with you i relate to
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Speaker 3: that everything um but also him just not being able
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Speaker 3: to get any words out it's just like you can
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Speaker 3: tell exactly how he feels about him you know what
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Speaker 3: i mean oj.
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Speaker 1: Well i thought he did well and then got choked
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Speaker 1: exactly yeah exactly right so i love that oj brigance
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Speaker 1: is his name he's a former coach of his but
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Speaker 1: uh Or it was on the coaching staff with him,
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Speaker 1: I should say. And yeah, that was amazing. And it
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Speaker 1: gave us another reason to like Mike McDonald. And it
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Speaker 1: gave his players another reason to like him. Because I
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Speaker 1: love when Leonard Williams came up to him in practice
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Speaker 1: and was like, I appreciate you sharing that with us.
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Speaker 1: And then they hugged it out over on the sideline,
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Speaker 1: even though Mike was like, no, no, no, I'm done
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Speaker 1: with that.
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Speaker 4: Don't remind me of it. I've already cried once. So, yeah.
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Speaker 3: There is a little bit of macho to Mike, which
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Speaker 3: I love.
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Speaker 4: I love that.
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Speaker 1: But it was the Bobo Clark episode, and it really
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Speaker 1: does as we get ready for the final preseason game.
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Speaker 1: I'm on Team Softee on this. I wish we didn't
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Speaker 1: have preseason games at all. They just seem more damaging
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Speaker 1: than effective now. I don't think we need three games
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Speaker 1: to determine the last guy on the roster. I don't
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Speaker 1: think we need to risk injuries to first stringers and
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Speaker 1: then when the first stringers are sat. I mean, there's
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Speaker 1: a reason they're sitting them. They don't want them hurt.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: So they're recognizing that this is not worth playing. There's
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Speaker 1: an element of recognition and I get it. Football guys,
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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald's, John Schneider's of the world. They're always thinking
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Speaker 1: about depth and the 53rd man on the roster. And
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Speaker 1: even that, even that practice squad is so important to
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Speaker 1: what we do around here. Yeah. Yeah. I understand all that.
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Speaker 1: But once you start taking big chunks and, out of
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Speaker 1: the depth of a Super Bowl roster, you don't want
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Speaker 1: to play another preseason game. I mean, maybe Mike does.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's just the football guy in him. But I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you right now, I got to think long and
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Speaker 1: hard about not playing even second stringers in this game
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Speaker 1: on Friday. I just lost three second stringers.
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Speaker 3: Important guys.
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Speaker 1: Three important second string players on the team. Why do
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Speaker 1: I even want to risk second stringers on Friday in
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Speaker 1: a meaningless game against the chiefs.
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Speaker 3: I just, you know, let.
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Speaker 1: This be the ultimate battle between third string teams. Guys,
17:32
Speaker 1: you want to talk about, you want to talk about
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Speaker 1: a bloodbath. If you're looking for entertainment, if that's my
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Speaker 1: roster spot, if that, yeah, there's might be one roster
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Speaker 1: spot available on this field tonight on both sides of
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Speaker 1: the football. Who wants it? Yeah. I, I mean, I,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to get excited about.
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Speaker 4: The names playing on Friday.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: So maybe we get excited about that. It's almost like
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Speaker 1: a movie. That's like Jean-Claude Van Damme movie right there.
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Speaker 1: There's one football game and only one player is going
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Speaker 1: to have a career. I don't know if I want
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Speaker 1: to risk even second stringers on Friday.
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Speaker 3: And they will.
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Speaker 1: They'll play them because they're just going to play them.
18:16
Speaker 1: They're going to talk themselves into, we need to see
18:19
Speaker 1: more work out of that guy and more work out
18:21
Speaker 1: of that guy. But I'm not sure that I would.
18:26
Speaker 1: I know I don't want to. I'd like to tap out.
18:29
Speaker 3: Of it entirely.
18:30
Speaker 1: Yeah.
18:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you have the Montori Fosters of the world.
18:34
Speaker 3: You want to see him, see if he can make
18:35
Speaker 3: this team.
18:35
Speaker 1: But as I said, he's already made the team, especially
18:37
Speaker 1: now that Bobo's hurt. I don't want to risk Montori Foster, too, now.
18:41
Speaker 3: That's true.
18:42
Speaker 1: He's one I'm not even going to play.
18:44
Speaker 3: Probably not.
18:44
Speaker 1: I don't want to play him. I mean, think about that.
18:47
Speaker 1: I mean, Montori Foster Jr. started with, for us, as
18:51
Speaker 1: Greg Bell sang, man, keep your eye on Montori Foster Jr.,
18:55
Speaker 1: And that happened at the very beginning of camp. And
18:57
Speaker 1: now he's one of the stars of our Knox. He's
19:00
Speaker 1: been one of the stars. He and his dad and
19:02
Speaker 1: his mom. Love that too, by the way, last night's episode.
19:04
Speaker 1: I mean, they've been major characters in this play, those three.
19:10
Speaker 1: And now, believe it or not, here we sit on
19:13
Speaker 1: the verge of the third preseason game. And I have
19:17
Speaker 1: drawn the conclusion that Montori Foster Jr. is too valuable
19:22
Speaker 1: to this team to risk on Friday.
19:23
Speaker 2: Yeah.
19:26
Speaker 3: That's where we've come at this point.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
19:29
Speaker 3: Tyrese Knight didn't even play in the second game.
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Speaker 1: Exactly.
19:32
Speaker 3: Because he played so well in the first game. All right, nope.
19:34
Speaker 1: We don't need to see anymore. He's too valuable to risk.
19:37
Speaker 3: Yeah.
19:38
Speaker 1: And now that Bobo's down, is Montori Foster too valuable
19:41
Speaker 1: to risk on Friday?
19:42
Speaker 3: There's an argument.
19:45
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll play.
19:46
Speaker 4: I think so, too.
19:47
Speaker 1: But you see my point. All right, coming up next,
19:53
Speaker 1: baseball brunch time. We'll recap last night's terrific win for
19:57
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20:04
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20:24
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20:31
Speaker 1: I'm Johnny Branch. And welcome to the Baseball Brunch, brought
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20:37
Speaker 1: at Breakfast earlier this morning, as a matter of fact.
20:41
Speaker 1: And so we serve up to you a recap of
20:44
Speaker 1: last night's Mariners win over the Philadelphia Phillies. Lo and behold,
20:48
Speaker 1: look who's playing some good baseball right now. It is
20:51
Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners who, against the best competition they've faced
20:56
Speaker 1: all year long, have now gone 8-4 over a 12-game span.
21:00
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not earth-shattering to go 8-4 over a
21:04
Speaker 1: 12-game span, but considering... that they started that 12-game span
21:09
Speaker 1: at rock bottom, facing such good competition consistently for the
21:14
Speaker 1: next 12 games, and to have kind of picked themselves up,
21:18
Speaker 1: dust themselves off after having their backs pressed firmly to
21:22
Speaker 1: the wall. It actually is pretty impressive. long overdue that
21:26
Speaker 1: they're actually playing their best baseball when they absolutely have to.
21:31
Speaker 1: And the Philadelphia Phillies who came into this series having
21:34
Speaker 1: won nine straight games, everything they were touching was, it
21:37
Speaker 1: was like the Midas touch. Everything was just turned into
21:40
Speaker 1: gold for them. And then they ran into the Mariners
21:43
Speaker 1: who beat them up two nights ago. And then last night,
21:46
Speaker 1: they just served them up a slice of George Kirby
21:48
Speaker 1: who dominated last night. for seven and two-thirds innings, allowing
21:53
Speaker 1: just one run, striking out nine. He wanted to go
21:56
Speaker 1: through the eighth. Dan decided not to take him through
21:59
Speaker 1: the eighth. And one of the reasons is because you
22:03
Speaker 1: built a three-run lead thanks to Dom Canzone. Flicks to
22:09
Speaker 1: the gap. Left center field. Big six!
22:12
Speaker 3: Ward is in. Crawford on his heels.
22:15
Speaker 1: Dom can zone. Left on left. Strikes again. And it's
22:21
Speaker 1: 4-1 Mariners. You want to talk about a strange frickin'
22:27
Speaker 1: thing that has happened this year in Major League Baseball.
22:30
Speaker 1: And thanks to Aaron on the call, Mariners TV. We
22:33
Speaker 1: could have got a little Healy in there, don't you think? Oh, yeah.
22:35
Speaker 3: I probably should.
22:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, he shortchanged it.
22:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did.
22:38
Speaker 1: I did.
22:38
Speaker 3: He probably is listening and like, dang it.
22:40
Speaker 4: Yeah.
22:41
Speaker 3: They must not like me very much.
22:41
Speaker 1: What's the deal with that? We love you, Ryan.
22:44
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
22:45
Speaker 1: I'll see him later. You and I have to have
22:47
Speaker 1: a talking to anyway. Are you going to dance for him?
22:50
Speaker 4: Yes. That's what I meant by talking to.
22:53
Speaker 1: He's going to see my dance moves once and for all. Yeah, right.
22:56
Speaker 4: He's going to love them.
22:57
Speaker 3: Seriously.
22:58
Speaker 4: He is really going to brag.
22:59
Speaker 2: Mind blown.
22:59
Speaker 1: He is really going to brag to his friends about it.
23:01
Speaker 1: He'll probably call Kevin Pillar immediately. Anyway, for whatever reason,
23:09
Speaker 1: this is, again, baseball is so weird. For some reason
23:13
Speaker 1: this year, do you know that lefties are dominating lefties?
23:17
Speaker 3: Like across baseball?
23:18
Speaker 1: Across baseball.
23:19
Speaker 3: Not just Mariners?
23:20
Speaker 1: Not just Mariners. Well, Mariners probably are the lesser example.
23:24
Speaker 4: Right.
23:24
Speaker 1: I mean, we talked about it yesterday. Please don't think
23:27
Speaker 1: you bring in lefties to face Schwarber and Harper and
23:30
Speaker 1: Arise and that you're doing something clever because you're pretty
23:34
Speaker 1: much just playing into their strengths this season. For some reason,
23:38
Speaker 1: they're hitting lefties better than they are righties. The bottom
23:41
Speaker 1: of the lineup, not necessarily the case, which is why
23:44
Speaker 1: I offered that warning at the end of the show yesterday.
23:48
Speaker 1: that throw your lefty matchups to the bottom of the order. Now,
23:52
Speaker 1: George Kirby pitched so well that it didn't matter. But
23:55
Speaker 1: the point is that, like, Willier Abreu from Boston is
23:59
Speaker 1: murdering left-handers. Shohei Otani is murdering. Freddie Freeman. I mean,
24:04
Speaker 1: those are all great hitters. Well, Abreu's a really good
24:07
Speaker 1: hitter who's had a great season. Those are some great hitters.
24:10
Speaker 1: But the point is that usually that's something that managers did,
24:14
Speaker 1: lefty on lefty, right? For some reason, it's not working.
24:18
Speaker 1: this year. Like reverse splits are so exaggerated this year.
24:23
Speaker 1: It's stunning. And I say that because of Dom Canzone.
24:28
Speaker 1: I mean, keep in mind at the beginning of the season,
24:31
Speaker 1: we were still locked in this, well, Dom can't hit lefties.
24:34
Speaker 1: Even though Anders and I are screaming on stove. He
24:37
Speaker 1: did last year. He actually did hit lefties pretty well
24:40
Speaker 1: last year. He didn't the year before, but then again,
24:42
Speaker 1: you didn't give him any chances. But last year, he
24:45
Speaker 1: at least put the ball in play. And usually what
24:47
Speaker 1: happens when you graduate from, I can't hit major league
24:50
Speaker 1: lefties to, I'm at least putting the ball in play.
24:54
Speaker 1: When you have power, then the following year, when given
24:58
Speaker 1: the opportunity, once you feel comfortable, you're not going to
25:01
Speaker 1: swing and miss every single time. Suddenly, putting the ball
25:04
Speaker 1: in play turns into doing damage. And he's done damage
25:08
Speaker 1: this year. He has been not only good and worthy
25:13
Speaker 1: of a full-time role, Anders, Dom Canzone's hitting lefties better
25:19
Speaker 1: than he's hitting righties this year.
25:22
Speaker 3: He's slugging more versus righties, so this kind of plays
25:24
Speaker 3: into the okay, he maybe is a little more of
25:27
Speaker 3: a contact hitter versus left-handed pitching than he is against
25:30
Speaker 3: right-handed pitching, and then Righties, he tries to slug a
25:32
Speaker 3: little bit more. But either way, he's been just slightly
25:36
Speaker 3: more effective. As you mentioned, he has an 837 OPS
25:39
Speaker 3: versus lefties and a 799 versus righties.
25:40
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
25:42
Speaker 3: That's just wild to me.
25:43
Speaker 1: For a guy that a couple months ago, we're not
25:46
Speaker 1: going to play him against lefties.
25:48
Speaker 3: And look, a lot of people that are very anti...
25:52
Speaker 3: Analytics are going to point to the fact that... Yeah, well,
25:55
Speaker 3: they should do that to every player. We don't need
25:58
Speaker 3: platoons anymore. That's not what we're suggesting. That's not what
26:02
Speaker 3: I'm suggesting.
26:02
Speaker 1: No, we're not. But I am suggesting that I do believe,
26:06
Speaker 1: and this probably is analytically blamed, metrically blamed, that teams
26:12
Speaker 1: abandon way too soon. They label a guy way too
26:16
Speaker 1: soon in his major league career. Well, you can't hit lefties.
26:19
Speaker 4: Why not?
26:20
Speaker 1: Well, because you're left-handed. That's a hard reputation to live
26:26
Speaker 1: down when you're not given the opportunity to prove, I
26:29
Speaker 1: have improved in that area. Dom Ganzone was angry he
26:33
Speaker 1: was not facing lefties at the beginning of the year.
26:36
Speaker 1: And the moment they started letting him do it, he's
26:38
Speaker 1: done nothing but hit.
26:40
Speaker 3: And that's where I say, if it's analytically driven, you're
26:44
Speaker 3: actually looking at the analytics and saying, he can actually
26:46
Speaker 3: hit left-handed pitching.
26:48
Speaker 1: So.
26:49
Speaker 3: Again, I'm going to go on a rant, but we're not.
26:52
Speaker 3: Blaming analytics for platoons is, I think, a little oversimplifying
26:56
Speaker 3: what's actually going on. You can see that there are
26:58
Speaker 3: some guys that can do it better than others.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's value, I believe, in platooning, but I also
27:04
Speaker 1: think that major league organizations and managers have been too
27:08
Speaker 1: guilty in the modern day to just label a guy
27:10
Speaker 1: right off the bat. I think Dom Canzone was one
27:13
Speaker 1: of them. Luke Raley at this point has proven I
27:15
Speaker 1: can't hit lefties. Dom Canzone never got, I think, the
27:19
Speaker 1: full opportunity to prove them otherwise, that he actually can.
27:25
Speaker 1: And then really out of necessity, you gave him the
27:29
Speaker 1: chance to and he's been better against left-handed pitchers than
27:33
Speaker 1: he is against righties this year, which is incredible. Dan
27:37
Speaker 1: Wilson spoke after the game, though, about his pitcher, George Kirby,
27:41
Speaker 1: and why he took him out in the eighth.
27:43
Speaker 2: Those decisions are difficult, but George, he still was seemingly
27:51
Speaker 2: fairly strong, but we just felt like that was a
27:53
Speaker 2: good opportunity there, and Chucky came in, did the job,
27:57
Speaker 2: got the lefty, and we were on our way, but
28:00
Speaker 2: Can't say enough about the job George did tonight. Coming
28:03
Speaker 2: off of a tougher one in Milwaukee, we talked about
28:05
Speaker 2: making adjustments, and he really attacked today. That's what you want.
28:10
Speaker 2: You started to want to stay in there. I thought
28:14
Speaker 2: his fire tonight, his competitiveness was outstanding. Just a great
28:20
Speaker 2: outing from top to finish.
28:22
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, as somebody that's been critical of
28:26
Speaker 1: Dan's bullpen decisions, I think it was the right one
28:29
Speaker 1: to send George out for the eighth.
28:31
Speaker 3: For Arias, too, to take him out of there, right?
28:34
Speaker 1: Well, I think there was an argument that you only
28:39
Speaker 1: had one guy on base and that he was at
28:42
Speaker 1: 92 pitches, you could have pushed it further. With George,
28:46
Speaker 1: I don't think that it would have been a mistake
28:47
Speaker 1: to keep him in, but I didn't have a problem
28:50
Speaker 1: with the decision to take him out either. And so
28:55
Speaker 1: you bring in Ferrer, he only throws a third of
28:57
Speaker 1: an inning, throw just a couple pitches and should be
29:00
Speaker 1: available again tonight. And then I think the plan the
29:03
Speaker 1: entire time would have been to use Munoz in the
29:05
Speaker 1: ninth whether the score was two to one or four
29:07
Speaker 1: to one or whatever the case may be. So certainly
29:10
Speaker 1: not a day. I mean, George kind of took care
29:13
Speaker 1: of the bullpen decisions for Dan last night. Whenever we
29:18
Speaker 1: can make it easier, the whole organization's going to benefit.
29:25
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, because this is sometimes really hard. Uh, but, uh,
29:31
Speaker 1: George kind of took care of all of those decisions
29:33
Speaker 1: last night. And I would just say, as you're getting
29:36
Speaker 1: ready to begin tonight, everybody. should be available. Certainly Munoz,
29:43
Speaker 1: or today, Ferrer, everybody should be available for tonight because
29:49
Speaker 1: of what George did to kind of reset the bullpen
29:52
Speaker 1: last night.
29:53
Speaker 4: Didn't have to use Spire.
29:54
Speaker 1: So, you know, you got Brian Wu going today. We
29:58
Speaker 1: don't know how healthy Brian Wu is. We don't know
30:01
Speaker 1: if he's going to be able to go distance today.
30:07
Speaker 1: Probably will err on the side of caution. You probably
30:10
Speaker 1: will take him out prematurely today. So it's a good
30:13
Speaker 1: thing that you've got every weapon at your disposal here
30:18
Speaker 1: for this game. So yes, the blowout the night before helped.
30:22
Speaker 1: And then George going nearly eight innings last night also helped.
30:26
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear any excuses anytime soon about
30:30
Speaker 1: bullpen being tired and we had to go with Davila.
30:35
Speaker 1: We had no other choice. I don't want to hear
30:37
Speaker 1: that in close game.
30:38
Speaker 3: Or leaving Brian Wu in there when he's fatigued a
30:41
Speaker 3: little bit, if he shows that, right? So let's be
30:45
Speaker 3: aggressive today, for sure.
30:46
Speaker 1: All right, so what did we learn today, kids, on
30:48
Speaker 1: the baseball brunch? We learned that Canzone can hit left-handers.
30:53
Speaker 1: We also learned that the team is playing really good
30:57
Speaker 1: baseball right now. We didn't discuss this, but we did
31:01
Speaker 1: learn that Cal Raleigh is locked in. He had another
31:04
Speaker 1: home run last night. That's four and two games. And
31:08
Speaker 1: we learned that Dan's pen game improves when the starting
31:12
Speaker 1: pitcher is removes all decisions from his fingertips.
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Speaker 3: Yes, we learned a lot today.
31:18
Speaker 1: We learned a lot today. All right, coming up next,
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31:27
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Speaker 1: he's got training camp information. He's starting to slip out
33:03
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Speaker 1: here in a little bit with Dave. But let's talk
33:11
Speaker 1: a little college football. I mean, credit to the Big
33:15
Speaker 1: Ten and the SEC, by the way, for both saying, okay,
33:20
Speaker 1: we're not doing this. Um, we're going to go ahead
33:22
Speaker 1: and ban players that have declared themselves pros in the WNBA,
33:27
Speaker 1: the NBA, the NFL. If you've done that, if you've
33:30
Speaker 1: gone to that length, if you've been on a practice field,
33:33
Speaker 1: have been to training camp. No, you cannot come back
33:36
Speaker 1: and play in our conferences. And so the two big
33:39
Speaker 1: conferences have done that. I would imagine it starts a trend.
33:45
Speaker 1: We shall see. But we certainly can't feel in today's
33:50
Speaker 1: game like we're at any kind of finish line because
33:54
Speaker 1: somebody's going to sue. And it might be Lane Kiffin.
33:56
Speaker 1: It might be LSU. The Louisiana lawmaker might have... provided
34:03
Speaker 1: this window to begin with, might have something to say
34:07
Speaker 1: about it. So we're probably not at the finish line
34:10
Speaker 1: of this story. So at least the SEC and Big
34:14
Speaker 1: Ten seem to be on the same page on this, though,
34:17
Speaker 1: that this just goes beyond where we want to see
34:22
Speaker 1: college go, college athletics go. So Again, I don't I
34:27
Speaker 1: don't take anything as written in stone when it comes
34:30
Speaker 1: to this stuff. But I at least think that I
34:35
Speaker 1: believe that the SEC and Big Ten legitimately don't want
34:40
Speaker 1: this to happen. Yeah.
34:41
Speaker 3: Well, I'm curious how the other conferences respond, because apparently
34:45
Speaker 3: to John Rothstein, the Pac-12 is discussing now whether or
34:50
Speaker 3: not it will enforce similar eligibility rules as.
34:53
Speaker 1: The Texas Tech will be for it.
34:56
Speaker 3: Seriously. But I do wonder.
34:58
Speaker 1: Hey, has Justin Fields got any eligibility? He's backing up
35:02
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes these days.
35:04
Speaker 3: Might as well have him play with us on Saturdays
35:06
Speaker 3: and then check it out on Sundays, you know what
35:08
Speaker 3: I mean? Even if he's still on the team. Yeah,
35:11
Speaker 3: because I wonder if there's any sentiment whatsoever. I'm probably
35:15
Speaker 3: way off base on this, but I wonder if there's anything,
35:17
Speaker 3: any sort of feeling around the non-Power 4, so like
35:22
Speaker 3: the Pac-12 now, the non-Power 4 schools to be like, well,
35:25
Speaker 3: you guys left us in the dust. We're going to
35:27
Speaker 3: play dirty now. Let's go grab some former NFL players.
35:32
Speaker 1: There's probably a little bit of that. There probably is
35:35
Speaker 1: an element, and I think that maybe the Big Ten
35:38
Speaker 1: and the SEC would not sweat that if they decided
35:41
Speaker 1: to go down that road. I mean, we're not talking
35:43
Speaker 1: about any great college football players, but there are experienced
35:48
Speaker 1: ones that at least are fringe NFL players.
35:53
Speaker 3: Sure.
35:53
Speaker 1: And would improve some of those teams. Now, from my perspective,
35:57
Speaker 1: if it's going to happen, I'd like for it to
35:59
Speaker 1: happen that way, and maybe we could create a little
36:01
Speaker 1: more competitive balance.
36:02
Speaker 2: Totally.
36:02
Speaker 1: If anybody's going to get a boost, then why not
36:05
Speaker 1: have it be the other conferences, not the Big Ten
36:08
Speaker 1: and not the SEC? But I don't want this to exist, period. Right.
36:15
Speaker 1: And it's just another example of, no, that's... All right,
36:20
Speaker 1: we gave you an inch, you're taking a mile.
36:22
Speaker 3: I mean.
36:23
Speaker 1: I knew we were going to deal with some of
36:25
Speaker 1: this stuff. I know that we're going to deal with
36:28
Speaker 1: some more of this stuff. It's not done. People are
36:32
Speaker 1: still 24 seven, trying to find loopholes and baseball. They still,
36:37
Speaker 1: despite the Houston Astros scandal, teams are still trying to
36:40
Speaker 1: read and steal signs. Like, In college football, people are
36:44
Speaker 1: still trying to find loopholes in the rules and how
36:48
Speaker 1: they can get to a player and how we can
36:50
Speaker 1: avoid being caught, even if it is a rule. I mean,
36:53
Speaker 1: that's just been going on forever. It's going to continue
36:56
Speaker 1: to go on. But I guess, and I knew we
37:01
Speaker 1: were going to have an element of this, but for
37:04
Speaker 1: the recognition to have already occurred that this is not,
37:08
Speaker 1: even though we want to change college football and college athletics,
37:12
Speaker 1: And we want to start paying some players. We know
37:17
Speaker 1: we can't have some of the stuff that's going on.
37:21
Speaker 1: And so they say it, but who's tangibly doing anything
37:24
Speaker 1: about it? I would like an update on the group.
37:28
Speaker 1: You know, please, an update on the group that is like, no.
37:32
Speaker 1: And here's what we're going to do to fight this.
37:34
Speaker 1: Because were we supposed to have NCAA was digging in
37:38
Speaker 1: on this last year and we had oh, players can
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Speaker 1: only make this much money. And the NIL was just like,
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Speaker 1: I don't care what you say. And they're still paying
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Speaker 1: them an exorbitant amount of money.
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Speaker 3: Way more than that cap that we heard about.
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Speaker 1: Right, we were supposed to have a cap and we
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Speaker 1: don't even hear about the cap. Months later, we don't
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Speaker 1: even hear about the cap. The cap was completely ignored.
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Speaker 1: And so I know there are people that are like,
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Speaker 1: this cannot stand. And my guess is, if I'm being logical...
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Speaker 1: They're waiting for all of the mischief to be done
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Speaker 1: so that they can't get caught off guard by something else.
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Speaker 1: But we all know what has to happen. There has
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Speaker 1: to be a governing body. We have to turn it
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Speaker 1: into professional football. There needs to be a commissioner. There
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Speaker 1: needs to be an assistant commissioner. We know they need
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Speaker 1: a collective bargaining agreement. If this is the way we're
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Speaker 1: going to do it, we've got to put rules in place.
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Speaker 1: It's just like the wild, wild west. It's been compared
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Speaker 1: to the wild, wild west over and over. And there
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Speaker 1: was this feeling in the wild, wild west, no rules.
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Speaker 1: We ain't going to play by any rules of no government.
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Speaker 1: And then they're like, oh, damn, if Sparky didn't get
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Speaker 1: shot too.
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Speaker 3: We need rules.
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Speaker 1: Somebody put down some damn rules. Well, nobody's following the
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Speaker 1: rules because we sold them on this idea that we
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Speaker 1: weren't going to have any rules. We'll call the Earp brothers.
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Speaker 1: They'll come in here and start shooting people in the
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Speaker 1: OK Corral and we'll get some darn rules. You know,
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Speaker 1: they allowed it to go crazy to emphasize the importance
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Speaker 1: of the rules. When do we get to the point
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Speaker 1: where we acknowledge it's crazy?
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think we've gotten to that point, hopefully.
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Speaker 1: When do we call in the Earp brothers, okay? Because
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Speaker 1: I think it's time. I knew we were going to
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Speaker 1: have a period of time like this. I knew it.
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Speaker 1: And I think that it actually is going to be
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Speaker 1: beneficial in the long run. But we know what needs
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Speaker 1: to be done, and it doesn't feel like there is
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Speaker 1: anybody working toward that. All we have is lip service of,
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Speaker 1: this is what needs to be done. Well, is anybody
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Speaker 1: actually doing it? Some lawyers and some college football coaches,
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Speaker 1: are they actually on this, and they're just not telling us?
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Speaker 1: Are they meeting secretly in an underground room? lab to
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Speaker 1: figure out how we're going to get that accomplished because
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Speaker 1: i'd like an update if nick saban and jay billis
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Speaker 1: and others are really working on this stuff i'd really
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Speaker 1: like to know what's going on.
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Speaker 3: Yeah The biggest question is who's incentivized to do anything
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Speaker 3: about it, right? Because the players aren't. They're getting paid more. Really,
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Speaker 3: the schools aren't that much because they are able to
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Speaker 3: circumvent all these rules to make their football teams better,
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Speaker 3: at least the big schools. So I don't know who's
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Speaker 3: incentivized to change something. And that's the big question for me,
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Speaker 3: whether it will actually happen.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'll say this. I think the same people that
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Speaker 1: are working on that are working on the Kraken's roster.
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Speaker 1: All right, Dave Richards is going to join us next.
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