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Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez. They
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I'm your solo host, Ja Gonzala. Steve has had to bail out for

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an event that he had to attend, but I do have Jason here working

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the board and keeping me company.
So we're gonna go straight into breaking news.

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Eye on the ball, breaking news. Okay, The number eighteen ring

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Arizona men's golf team has um there
has made the Anti Double A Nationals,

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which will be which is going to
be having the Bay Area. The Arizona

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Wildcats are the fourth seed in the
double NC eight um Morgan Hill Regional,

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which will be happening on May fifteen, good to May seventeen. All right,

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so they qualified. That's that's good
for them. I know that it

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wasn't looking good in the Pac twelf
tournament, so uh it sounds like they

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came back and got in. So
now you got men's tennis, uh hosting

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an NC Double A regional. You
got the the you got um uh the

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um the men's golf in the regional. The women's golf was in a regional.

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They didn't advance out of that,
but oh no, that's still coming

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up. So you know, some
spring sports doing well, except not so

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much for baseball and softball. It's
been a struggle. Yeah. And also

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Arizona won the Ncuba Brian Regional a
year ago by defeating the runner of pepper

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Dyne on buy five strokes on out
at Texas A and L. Right,

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so it's good on them with the
Jim Anderson's team. Good team, they're

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they're good. You know, both
programs doing really well. Um uh.

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You know they've got they've got new
digs out of Tucson Country Club, so

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that obviously that's halpening them. So
good for both of those teams. Yeah,

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like you already mentioned um, Arizona
men's tennis will be hosting UM the

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first ever nub Nuble Tournament UM at
a Lannel Robinson Tennis Center on Friday,

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May fifth and sixth. Right,
right, then they've got I think Boise

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State. Yeah, both stayed up
first two o'clock tomorrow, yes, okay,

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all right, yep. And some
national news, Joel Embiid was named

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the MVP right off the NBA season. Um, he's actually the seventh international

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player to win the award ever in
three which is pretty special. That's that's

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the number I hadn't heard. Yeah. Yeah, so he's been is one,

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right, yeah, honest is one? Um, Okage is another one.

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Those guys are all recent, yea, all recent three and the past

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years. Um to go a little
bit further back, Tim Duncan is also

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an okay one, Steve Nash as
well, I'm hackem a larger one is

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another one, and then Dirk Okay, he's the seventh one. All right?

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Yeah wow, interesting, good well. Congratulation Joel Embing, I mean,

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Bial council. You know, a
good guy. I know we talked

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about him and yeah, you know
he's got he's got a great game.

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He plays hard. Uh, he
gives it everything. He's got every game.

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And you you know, you like
guys like that to win this thing.

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Yeah, people road for him.
Very cool. Uh. Some Phoenix

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Suns news all right. Chris Paul
is expected to be reevaluated in one week

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after mri um on his growing injury, so he's expected to miss Games three

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and five. Whoa, um,
so, how do you three and four

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H three three four and five three
four and five sons are preparing to be

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without him. Whoa who whoa,
whoa whoa. He's old. Yeah,

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I mean he's old. He's wearing
out. You know that. People talk

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a lot about how you know he's
you know, you get to the end

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of the season and you know your
body is not what your body used to

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be. So yeah, I mean
that's unfortunate for the Suns. I mean

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I think things are you're falling now, I don't say falling apart, but

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working against them. Right on,
somebody had them as the team to be

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coming out of the coming out of
the uh West West Yeah kind of thing.

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It's that kind of thing. It's
the Nuggets now honestly looking really good.

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Right with Colden State losing last night. Yeah, um, it kind

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of looks like the Nuggets are lining
up and people have not been they've been

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They've everybody put the Nuggets behind the
Suns of Golden Stak. Yeah. For

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whatever reason, the Nuggets were the
best team all year long, number one

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seed, you know, like one
of the best offenses, defense, Like

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they've been the best team the whole
season. For whatever reason, the national

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media, you know sports books are
just not respect. I think part is

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because looks like you're you're old fat
that comes over at Christmas. I mean,

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he doesn't look like like the physical
specimen of like like a Yannis or

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even a Joel mb you're you know, one of those guys. He's he's

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just kind of lumpy. Yeah.
Well, I mean if you really watch

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his game, you can see how
he can me and he can ball like.

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He's a really good player, and
he's incredibly physical. I mean it's

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hard to get in his way and
keep him from going through you. Yeah,

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exactly. And unfortunately for Chris Paul, this is is what like I

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feel like every o season he's been
getting gets like they come up against they

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the Sun's at the beginning, like
really close to you know, getting taking

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that next step, the winning a
championship, and every single season it just

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Chris BA goes out kind of injury. Unfortunately. You kind of feel like

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at this point they're gonna have to
do something different for next year, right,

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Yeah, because and I don't know
if he's ready to retire. Yeah,

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I think he has one more year
on his content, but you know,

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you you got to get somebody who
at this time of the year,

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is ready to help you win a
championship and he's just not available. Yeah,

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and I think their backup point guard
his campaign and unfortunately hasn't really produced

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for them so much. So Yeah, so I know I think I think,

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well, I feel I feel bad
for him. I feel bad for

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the Suns, But it is what
it is. You know. You go

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with those guys and that's what you
get. Yeah, and then some more

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A little bit more Suns News on
Monty confirmed that Terrence Raws and TJ.

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Warren beginning more plays time in game
three Soup off the bench. I don't

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know what do you think that means? Yeah, I mean I don't really

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it isn't gonna help it. I
mean you obviously think it's gonna help where

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he wouldn't do it right, It's
like he's reaching for something exactly. Yeah,

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he's kind of just gonna see what
happens. I putting those guys out

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there, hopefully they can get the
production off the bench and help them.

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You'll get a win series. Man. Well, I you know they got

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to win the next two. Yeah, they have. You can't go down

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three one, no, knowing that
there's at least two more games back in

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uh back in Denver. Yeah.
Okay, So Packers quarterback Jordan Love officially

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signed his one year contract extension that
ties him to Green Bay through the twenty

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four season. So we're gonna package
twenty twenty four. Yeah, so he's

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gonna Packers have their quarterback and moving
forward at least for this year and next.

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Yeah, at least for that.
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a quarterback in the draft, so
you see, we'll see what that means.

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You'll probably just need to make sure
they had a decent backup or something.

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But all right. Yeah, the
wide receiver Randall Cobbs signs a one

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year deal with the New York Jets, so another weapon or the for the

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Jets. I think it's funny that
that that, you know, um,

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Aaron Rodgers, like, you know, felt like he didn't have guys around

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him. Yet he keeps going back
and getting the guys that he Yah Bay,

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Green Bay. Now they're all they're
all over in New York. But

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yeah, I don't know, you
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I'm I loved Aaron Rodgers. I
thought he was great. I loved it

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when he won a Super Bowl,
especially when he went through the thing that

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he went through with the draft,
and then he was behind um uh Brett

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Farve all those years, and I
was really rooting for him. But over

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the last several years, I've just
kind of lost interest in that guy.

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I just feel like he's been more
of a pain than anything. Right,

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Um, he's underachieved because he hasn't
been able to get his team back to

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a Super Bowl. I'm not sure
I'm rooting for him anymore. Yeah,

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it's been hard to root some of
the things he said, you know,

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in the media and what some of
his on field, you know what you've

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been saying. But I think he
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They're very talented defense and he has
you know a lot of weapons offensively,

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right, so I believe you can
actually you know, do something in the

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ABC just he might, but there
he's in a tough division, so yeah,

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good quarterbacks in that division. So
yeah, I think he still has

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another you know, year or two
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Yeah, we'll see what happens with
them. Um. On June twenty nine

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in Las Vegas, Steph Curry,
Klay Thompson, We'll be playing against Travis

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Kelsey at hatch from home in the
Capitol One golf match. So that should

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be kind of fun. I saw
that, you know. I know Steph

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Curry is a really good golfer.
Yeah, and he's like a nearly pro

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level guyfer. I don't know about
those other three guys, So I don't

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know if I want to turn on
the TV and watch bad golf. If

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I want to see bad golf,
I'll go golfing, right. Yeah,

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I think it might be kind of
fun. See. I like those things

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when it's like a Steph Curry and
uh whoever last year they did like with

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two pros last year they did um
like Aaron Rodgers. I think Tom and

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some other NFL guys are guess golf
a little bit more. But I like

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it when there's a couple of pros
because you know you're gonna get some decent

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golf and then to play with a
couple of guys like that very first one

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that they did. It was Phil
Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Um Peyton Manning

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and Tiger Woods Peyton Manning film.
Uh Tiger Woods not paying Manny, Yeah,

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yeah, Tiger Woods, Peyton Manning, Phil Mickelson and was it Tom

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Brady, Mike might have been.
Um, yeah, I think those four

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games that was fun because you know
the rivalry. I think it was Payton

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Manning, Tom Brady, you know
the rivalry they had, you know the

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rivalry that Michelson was. I watched
that. Yeah, that was fun.

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But I don't know if again final
to watch Steph Curry and three bad players

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play golf. So yeah, okay, um leono MESSI will be is planning

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on leaving PSG after this season,
it's over with um. He was apparently

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suspended without paying for twooths by PSC
by UM after visiting Saudio Rabio dopumation right,

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which is huge news, and the
Bleacher Report actually reported that his reps

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are in talks on a four hundred
million dollars pre season contract to play in

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the Audio Pro League. Um,
if he does end up leaving PSG,

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he's like eighty years old. Yeah, they're gonna pay him another four hundred

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mills. I mean him, right, he just helped win the World Cups.

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Yeah, I mean I take that
if i'm him, but only cow

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Yeah. Well again, the decides
are just like setting money on fire.

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So yeah, I don't get Ronaldo, you know, to be the highest

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paid football player, ever ever gonna
do the same thing for Messy Yeah,

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yeah, you know, all right, I got breaking his Max months and

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just hit the bottom of the ninth
Grand Slam to beat the Dodgers. I

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mean to beat the Phillies. Dodgers
come back and from a five one deficit

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and went ten to six. I'm
happy. I'm going home happy. I'm

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a little upset with myself that I
didn't take the uh the money line after

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they were down five one and it
was really high and I had it.

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I thought about it. I looked
at it. Maybe you're right, maybe

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you're you're getting your understanding what goes
on over here. But the Max months,

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he's been hot as hell. Yeah
he had I know they didn't manage.

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But he had an interesting stat He
was the only player other than Barry

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Bonds to have less than twenty hits
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runs in nineteen hits and eleven home
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Okay, that's yeah, all right, Um yeah, so uh,

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I think we're we're getting close to
our break. We're gonna have Greg Hanson

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coming on in a couple of minutes. Um. For those of you,

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we're just talking golf. For those
of you interested in golf, Horry McElroy

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is the favorite is the favorite to
win the Wells Fargo Championship, which starts

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tomorrow in North Carolina. Patrick He's
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the whole thing. Tony Fena,
who just won, he's plus four hundred.

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Patrick Canley, who has been good
all all season long, He's a

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plus twelve hundred. UM. The
odds for the game tonight, the Celtics

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are currently a seven and a half
point favorite. UM. They're minus three

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fifty on the money line and the
over hundreds two sixteen and a half the

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money. The over hunder seems low, don't you think? No? Really,

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no, did you watch the first
game? I think they smashed the

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overall field because the first game was
only offense. So I feel like both

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teams will adjustment the over it's going
to be a lot lower. Yes.

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The Warriors, who play tomorrow are
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half and their minus two thirty on
the money line. So if you want

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you want some basketball stuff to do, there's a there's a a couple of

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great uh boosted parlays. Jason Tatum
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uh and um um, I can't
think Jaylen Brown to have more than to

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have two plus three pointers. So
you can get that at plus one hundred

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pretty good odds. I mean I
like that honestly. Well, we we

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got taken to the to the woodshed
last night on on on Lebron and okay

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Lebron and Steph scoring uh scoring sixty
plus points. Yeah, I mean Jalen

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Brown the other day he only attempted
ten shots, but he was eighty percent

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from the field. Yeah, so
he let you in the ball really well.

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so you know, just a lot, you know, the normal stuff

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happening. We want to we want
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little bit about some of the ceo
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you know, a lot of things
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Greg? Uh? Still uh you're
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know that. So what one of
the topics Greg that we been Steve and

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I've been talking about a lot and
it, you know, over and over

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against I just want to get your
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it. There's this whole idea that
because we don't already know the entire Arizona

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basketball roster for the fall, that
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He doesn't know what he's doing.
Some people say I've lost faith in

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him as a recruiter. You've got
other people saying, you know, we

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need to know who he's recruiting.
We have a right to know because we're

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fans. I mean, how do
we get the how do we get fans

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to just relax? They probably won't
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I mean, people are going to
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don't you complain about Mike Hopkins or
Jared Hoss or Bobby Hurley? Right?

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I noticed hur Hurly's lost nine guys
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he brought in a guy today from
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or Sam Houston State, Houston Christians. Yeah, that's who they signed.

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I mean, Tommy Lloyd's not going
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right. And I don't know if
people are because Tommy is such the opposite

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of Sean Miller, where people had
no doubt that Sean Miller was living,

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living and breathing basketball at all times, whereas you've figured Tommy Lloyd is too,

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but he doesn't show it like Sean
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maybe he's too relaxed or something.
I just feel like that that's sort of

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a field that people have for him. I think you're I think you're right

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in the aspect that he probably has
a lot more well rounded life than Sean

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Miller did, who was basketball only
who never you know, going out in

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public. Tommy Lloyd's got a social
life, like his daughters on a rodeo

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tour, which takes a ton of
time. He's got a real life,

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which is to me encouraging. And
look, there's not one person and in

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the PAC twelve is a more qualified
recruiter than Tommy Lloyd. Twenty two years

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he recruited for Gone zagat the highest
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Who else would you want recruiting that
Tommy Lloyd? Really in the PAC twelve?

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Name one person? Well, that's
that nobody, right, that's the

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point. Right, Yet do you
have all these people say, well,

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he's only got seven guys on his
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he's got it. I don't think
I don't think he can do this.

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He's not the head coach at Arizona
needs Um, all right, who would

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you hire Tommy Lloyd? It's just
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Utah hired Craig Smith away from the
Utah State and that's on a scale of

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one to ten, that's a five, right, Um, Kyle Smith went

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to Washington State from San Francisco,
He's maybe a five and a half.

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I think that's about it. Callis
hired a zero point zero and now and

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now they got their new coaches Utah
Valley State and that's probably a one point

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five. So how about Wayne Tinkle. I'm taking us too far, but

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yeah, there's just nobody better in
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talk your roster. And beyond that, it doesn't get mentioned very often,

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said Jack Murphy has been a dogged
recruiter for twenty years. Yea, he

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knows. He's the guy who went
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So he got all of Sean Hiller's
European guys, you know, Leydon

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Miller's career. So they got two
guys who you would trust more than almost

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anybody in this league. Yeah.
Well again and well as we speak,

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so it looks like somebody named a
player named Jaden Bradley has just who Arizona

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has just announced him as having signed
with Arizona. He's a freshman out of

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I don't know where. They didn't
they didn't put any of his bio up

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there, but Jaden Bradley signed with
Arizona. Yeah, you know he he

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averied six a game at Alabama?
Oh god, was he the kid?

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Was he the kid that was with
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of that shooting. I don't know
if he was with him or not.

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Um, but I watched him.
They played they were eliminated by San Diego

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State, right, and he played
five minutes in that game. So well,

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that's maybe he's got a big upside. Maybe he's really got a big

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upside. Well, that's it.
They picked up that's it. They picked

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up Hazy. He was a five
star coming out of high school. So

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yeah, he visited Memphis, I
know that, and two weeks ago,

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and I think North Carolina State was
his other visits. So he did have

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reasonably good schools after him. Yeah, well he was at Alabama, so

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that's who. That's what they got. So anyways, all right, um,

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okay, let's move on. So
I want to talk about your really

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bad Yankees because now they're already talking
about getting rid of you know, I

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mean, what the hell brouh Greg, what the hell they leave they leave

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major League Baseball and injuries there's not
even closed. Yeah, and until they

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get those guys back and performing,
there's no way they can challenge Toronto and

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Tampa Bay. So I'm not going
to get freaked out over it because They've

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won enough that I'm good with it. I mean, when the Dodgers have

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a bad year, do you freak
out? No? I don't think I

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do. Um, you know,
I mean I freak out when people give

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me crap about it. But uh, you know, I mean, like,

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you know, am I disappointed when
they losing the playoffs? Shure?

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But you know, but they haven't
won as many championships either as the Yankees

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have over the over the last years, or at least in our lifetimes.

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Right, You're right, you do
have planning, But um, you know,

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I guess I don't live. I
know, I don't live and die

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with these teams like maybe I used
to. I remember watching the eighty eight

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World Series just pacing back and forth
during every game. I wouldn't even say,

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I just have the game on in
my living room and I'm just pacing

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back and forth around my couch,
you know, watching these games and those

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days when I went by the wayside
a long time ago. But you know,

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I mean looking at a team like
Tampa Bay that you know what they're

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doing, Baltimore's come out and they're
they're pretty damn good. I mean,

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and then then on the flip side
of that, you got Oakland and they're

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awful and they just want to get
the hell out of Oakland. I mean,

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when you're paying attention to Major League
Baseball, what are the things that

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you're paying attention to? Um,
you know what struct me more than anything

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is I don't know the players like
I used to. Yeah, And it's

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not that there's a ton of turnover. It's just as there's so many good

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young players, and many of them
Latino players, right, who are just

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really good and you don't appreciate.
Like when you watch the Atlanta Braves.

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Yeah, I've watched a couple of
instance them the other nine. I went,

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Oh, the Yankees don't have players
like this. Yeah, Yankees got

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guys you've heard of. But man, the Braves actually have players. Yeah,

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and so did the Rays. Yeah, and the Astros. Every time

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the Astros win the World Series,
I go, where do they get these

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guys? Yeah, you've never heard
of them, and suddenly you can't get

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them out. Yeah. Yeah,
I went to I went to I finally

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went to Fenway Park earlier this year
and caught a game. Oh yeah,

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And you know, I used to
be that guy that I'd go to.

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I'd go to a baseball game and
I'd want it to last three hours because

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I didn't want it to end fast, because I wanted to, you know,

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soak it all in. We go
to Fenway Park, catchy game goes

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just a little over two and a
half hours, and I was happy,

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and I got the hell out of
there, had a great time. What

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do you think of all the new
rules, and especially the way games have

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been shortened. Do you like it? Do you not like it? Do

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you think it's wrecked the game?
What do you think? Yeah? I

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love it. When I saw the
average two thirty six, you know,

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down the full half hour, the
games just went on and on and on,

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and as a lifelong baseball fan,
even I I couldn't watch the nine

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in the game. I don't watched
the nine in the game for a long

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time. Yeah, And so to
me, it's encouraging. And it's going

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to stay that way. You know, they're not going to change it now.

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And now they're gonna have the auto. They're gonna try the automatic umpiring

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computer write TRIPLEA this year and probably
use it next year. Would Yeah,

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I think think for that too,
because all those low breaking sliders that almost

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no umpire in the world knows if
it's a strike or not anymore because they

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break so sharply and so quickly.
Yeah, but now the computers will call

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it accurately. I think I read
about a week ago somebody, as you

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would expect, tracks all the umpires
calls and one home played umpire miss nineteen

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calls in a game. You know, we'll all go for them. We

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asked it, but we had ed
Bospa the show a few weeks ago.

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We asked him that, We said, would you like that? He said,

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I absolutely one would like it because
you just know that if you throw

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a strike that it's going to be
called a strike. And uh, I

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mean, I guess they'll have,
you know, fine tune the way that

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they do they set that up,
because you know every players strike zone is

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different. But you know, if
they if they have a foolproof way of

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setting that up and if a guy
throws a strike it's a strike, then

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yeah, I mean, how can
you not like that? Right? It's

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it's just like instant replay. You
want them to get the thing right.

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Yeah, And it's um to me
it's the hardest job in sports as being

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a baseball home plate umpire getting those
calls right. I mean, I'm piring

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the NFL or no, I take
that back, NBA, So I don't

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know, that's got to be harder
on home play on Pire. Yeah,

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but I to me, it's kind
of like, okay, let's see what

406
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that looks like when you know when
or when they do it. But I'll

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be sh all right, hey man, Bejean Robinson, how cool is that

408
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for not just for him, for
his grandfather Cleo, who we all know,

409
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for that family, Um, you
know, for two soon to have

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a guy like that, I mean, how much did you follow that?

411
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And how cool did you think that
was? It was so historic in a

412
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Tucson perspective that it just captured me
that there's a guy that good. It

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was just unfortunate he didn't play at
the u of A came along at the

414
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wrong time. And to me,
if he's injury free, he could be

415
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one of the most identifiable players in
the NFL in the next seven or eight

416
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years. Right, But we both
know that injury free is the hardest part

417
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of it, especially for a running
back. Um. You know, my

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son Adam said, we had this
conversation last night. He said, do

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you think Bijon can be the greatest
athlete ever to come out of Tucson?

420
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Wow? And I'm like, so
I started thinking, Okay, who are

421
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they right? You know you're minded? Me goes to Sean Elliot. You

422
00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:04.279
think a guy like Eddie Leone who
had a you know, long major league

423
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baseball career, Eddie Vossberg. But
you know, you look at where he

424
00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:15.279
is today and if he materializes the
way you think he can or should.

425
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I think you might be able to
say yes to that, yeah, because

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you put it in the perspective that
only Sean Elliot's been drafted higher from a

427
00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:27.640
major sport ever out of Tucson,
and he played what thirteen years in the

428
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NBA, was an All Star,
won an NBA championship, and then his

429
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career basically got injured because he needed
a kidney transplant. But I mean,

430
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that's a really good career for anybody. So I would say if Vjean can

431
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have anything that compares to Sean Elliott's
career, it would be a very successful

432
00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:51.119
yeah for him. You know,
you're talking maybe at at best, you

433
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know, five to seven years as
a running back, because you look at

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even a guy like se Quon Barkley, right, he's already kind of on

435
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the downside. You know, you
see and you go, that guy was

436
00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:04.720
incredible, such a specimen, and
he's already on the downside. What's the

437
00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:10.119
name Derrick Henry, who's like two
years ago? Would you want to get

438
00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:12.759
in his way? And now it's
like again, a guy who's started to

439
00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:17.200
become an afterthought at running back.
You know, now one of the top

440
00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:18.960
running backs in the league anymore.
He's one of the top running backs,

441
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but not the top running back in
the league. You know, you hope

442
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:26.440
for for Bejean to haven't you know, a really good five years and then

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maybe a couple of years after that
that he's still you know, considered one

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of the top guys. You know. I think there was something to that

445
00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:38.880
with Tadame Cherry because he cherried I
think it was seven hundred and forty three

446
00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:44.359
times and three years at Arizona,
which was a load and then some Yeah,

447
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and I remember when he declared for
the NFL draft and somebody mentioned the

448
00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:52.240
rich Rod that he probably cherried too
much, and rich Rod lost if I

449
00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.599
don't know if you were there,
though I wasn't thought that was the worst

450
00:30:56.599 --> 00:31:00.480
statement he'd ever heard. And then
but in retrospect, and at the time,

451
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:03.799
I thought rich Rod was wrong because
he overused him. Yeah he did.

452
00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:07.279
I mean, you think about that
guy to the NFL. He just

453
00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:10.559
he was out of he was out
of carries. Yeah, you know,

454
00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:14.240
yeah, I mean that that Oregon
game here when they beat Oregon in the

455
00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:15.880
rain over here. What do you
care? You like forty four times or

456
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:19.640
forty six times? In that game. I mean, and I mean,

457
00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:26.480
you can't your body has so much
And you're right, I truly believe when

458
00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:29.880
he got you went to the NFL
like that. Man, This this is

459
00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:33.240
gonna be tough because he did get
used up quite a bit during that period

460
00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:37.640
of time. This is a long
time ago, but you remember it when

461
00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:42.279
Vance Johnson came to Arizona as a
tailback. Joy. You remember how good

462
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:45.880
he was that first year and a
half some tailback and then he got to

463
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:51.599
snot knocked out of him and he
was never the same guy again until fortunately

464
00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:55.440
for him, and they moved him
to receiver and found his place. Yeah,

465
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and he didn't get the snot knocked
out of remember game, Yeah yeah,

466
00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:04.079
but I always said that that's what
happened to Vance. Yeah, no

467
00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:06.400
doubt, no doubt. And you
know some of these other guys that you

468
00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:08.240
know, again you think of the
you know, these great running backs who

469
00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:12.799
were great. They're great for three
years, four years, and then and

470
00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:15.880
then you know, then they slide
and that you know, they hang on.

471
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:19.119
I mean, you know, I
remember Emmitt Smith coming to the Cardinals.

472
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:21.759
I'm like, that guy was like
one of the greatest running backs ever

473
00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:24.559
and yet boom. He was you
know, he was done and it happened

474
00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:29.640
fast, right and I and it
makes you understand why a guy like Barry

475
00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:32.279
Sanders said, that's it for me. I'm I'm you know, I'm out

476
00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:37.920
of here because I got to live
my life. How about Christian McCaffrey.

477
00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:42.160
Yeah, when he's healthy, he's
he's the best running back in the league.

478
00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:46.200
And right, yeah, that's where
that's the key. When he's healthy.

479
00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:50.960
I've had him on my fantasy team
enough to know how often he he

480
00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:57.319
isn't healthy. Uh so I don't
know. All right, let's let's let's

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00:32:57.319 --> 00:32:59.400
skip forward. We got about another
minute, a minute and a half.

482
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Softball and baseball. What the hell
Arizona softball and baseball? I mean,

483
00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:15.559
what do you do? I looked
up yesterday the NCAA softball statistics. Arizona's

484
00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:23.680
team ERA and softball is two hundred
and first out Oklahoma, which is you

485
00:33:23.720 --> 00:33:29.079
know, the Oklahoma is what Arizona
used to be right there. TM ERA

486
00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:37.079
is old point eight oh and Arizona's
is four point two eight out. So

487
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:42.559
it's pitching, Okay, it has
to be said. You know, Taran

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00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:45.880
Moats, the pitching coach over there, legend, you know, wildcat royalty

489
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:51.119
and softball. Um, how much
vat do you put at her feet?

490
00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:54.759
Or is it just flat out they
got to recruit better? Or is it

491
00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:58.880
obviously both? But you know,
how much? How much can you lay

492
00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:05.400
a tearn moats feet? I would
say, now it's on recruiting, not

493
00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:10.119
on terran because if you look at
Oklahoma's Oklahoma's forty eight and one, forty

494
00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:16.000
eight and one, they have three
pitchers, one's fourteen and all one's fifteen

495
00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:22.360
and all one's fourteen and one,
and they were all like the National Gatorade

496
00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:25.079
Players of the Year. I looked
it up, and they're out of places

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00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:31.519
you never would recruit in Nebraska,
Illinois. Yeah, so it's to me,

498
00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:36.840
it's it's recruiting plus. And I
read this maybe two days ago that

499
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:43.079
Oklahoma's NIEL is now paying each softball
starter fifty thousand a year. There's nowhere

500
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as own as matching that for softball. Wow, And who knows if that's

501
00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:52.800
true or not, but somebody wrote
it. And but Oklahoma has so much

502
00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:57.159
money, I wouldn't be surprised if
they can pay fifty thousand to a softball

503
00:34:57.159 --> 00:35:00.559
player. Geez, that's a whole
that's a that's a discussion for a whole

504
00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:04.960
another, a whole another show.
Because we did have Adam Lazarus from Arizona

505
00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:07.559
assist on a little bit ago,
explaining, you know, Claire find some

506
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:10.760
things for us, but that's become
such a whole another thing, so we'll

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00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:15.400
have that conversation another day. Hey, Greg, appreciate you taking the time

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00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:17.480
with me to Daniel. We did
this last minute, but it's always fun

509
00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:21.199
to get you on and pick your
brain on so many things. So thanks

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00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:24.440
a whole bunch for doing this.
Thanks all right, talk you later.

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All right, let's take our last
break of the day. We'll be back.

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00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:30.239
We'll take your calls. Five two
zero four one seventy four forty.

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Jason and I will be here to
wrap up the wrap up the show.

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Welcome back time the balling on Fox
Sports fourteen fifteen. From your post

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to Jakin Zalez. Steve Rivera had
to leave for a previous engagement part of

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his other business if he does,
and but I do have Jason here,

571
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so we talk a little bit of
NBA and here in a minute. But

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00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:45.679
again the breaking news said Jaden Bradley, of freshman from Alabama who jumped into

573
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the transfer portal, has said he's
committed to Arizona. He's a point guard,

574
00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:57.320
was on the SEC All freshman team
is apparently headed to Arizona. There's

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00:39:57.360 --> 00:40:00.800
a little bit of baggage there,
I think, and that he his name

576
00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:06.119
was associated with that tragic shooting in
at Alabama. He was at the scene

577
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when that occurred. Don't know what
all the circumstances are as to why he

578
00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:13.079
was there. He was not.
He was not the player who brought the

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gun to the scene Brandon Miller,
who a lot of people felt should have

580
00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:19.920
been suspended because of all that.
So his name is just shows up in

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those reports. I thought, in
the interest of complete transparency on this that

582
00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:29.119
we should mention that. But by
all accounts, you got guys like Jeff

583
00:40:29.159 --> 00:40:32.480
Goodman all the local media saying that
it's a good pickup for Arizona. Yeah,

584
00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:37.679
and Tommy Lloyd is also excited about
the pickup. He actually said in

585
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:42.320
the quote that I have here that
we were excited Jada and his family joined

586
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:45.840
our program. He had an outstanding
freshman season for one of the top teams

587
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in the country. We know that
as he continues to grow his game,

588
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he can really make an impact on
our program to help make everyone better as

589
00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:55.960
well. So the fact that Tommy
is out there actually talking about him means

590
00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:00.960
that it's official he signed or whatever
whatever a commitment. There has to be

591
00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:05.840
uh that he you know he has
coming to Arizona. It's not like you

592
00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:08.880
know, a high school recruit of
commitst eight months ahead of signing day.

593
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:13.639
The fact that Tommy is actually talking
about it means that he is coming to

594
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Arizona next year. So again,
you know, now you're starting to see

595
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:21.360
if well we had faith in you
all along, Tommy, we knew yeah,

596
00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:25.000
and you know you Steve and I
and you know earlier Um Adam Green.

597
00:41:25.079 --> 00:41:28.960
Today on the show, we've been
talking about how fans have just been

598
00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:30.719
losing their minds, that Tommy hasn't
been getting enough guys out of the portal.

599
00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:35.960
But um, for the most part, a good reaction to the uh

600
00:41:36.119 --> 00:41:40.920
to Jade Bradley joining Arizona So very
cool, all right, Jason, you're

601
00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:45.159
our resident NBA expert, so uh
to uh, you know, you know,

602
00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:47.840
there's you know, we've been paying
as much attention as we could to

603
00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:52.239
the Steve and I are you know
where we we know just enough to be

604
00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:57.199
dangerous to make stupid bets like we
did last night. But you've got uh,

605
00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:00.400
You've got the the Sixers and the
Celtics to night. Give us,

606
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:02.039
yeah, your thoughts on that.
I think it's a musk win for the

607
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:05.760
Celtics. I know that might be
kind of crazy to some people hearing a

608
00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:09.480
game to hes a musk win,
but I believe that the Sixers are very

609
00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:13.599
hungry, very desperate team right now. Joel and beat is coming back with

610
00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:16.039
Game two and they're looking to take
a two leading the series to all go

611
00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:20.039
road on the road. Yeah,
so I think the Celtics are, you

612
00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:22.400
know, in very you know,
very very like desperate, like urgency,

613
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:25.119
urgency to get this win tonight,
to even end out before they go back

614
00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:28.400
to Philadelha. They have to they
have to, they have to do.

615
00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:31.360
Yeah, they can't go back to
Philly down to no way. And from

616
00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:35.159
what I've been seeing from Boston a
lot is they've been playing with a lack

617
00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:37.360
of urgency for whatever reason, Like
in the in the last years against the

618
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:40.400
Hawks, like they're a better team. They had a chance to put the

619
00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:45.119
Hawks away when Johnson Murder was out
for a game and they let try Young

620
00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:49.559
you know I a game winning shot
on them, and they just extend the

621
00:42:49.639 --> 00:42:52.239
series and give Joe and Be more
time to rest. And then in this

622
00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:54.199
series, Joe and Be missus game
one because of his injury, and they

623
00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:58.920
lay James drop forty five on them
and do the same thing basically James,

624
00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:02.320
Yeah, old James exactly, James
Harden, who's never been mister clutch in

625
00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:06.559
the playoffs. Yeah no, so
yeah, tonight is a musk went for

626
00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:08.559
the Celtics. They cannot go down
boat. So who who at the Celtics

627
00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:13.119
has to take charge of this?
Dalen Brown, Jason Tatum, the big

628
00:43:13.159 --> 00:43:15.400
two, the super star players.
They have to you know, they have

629
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:19.960
to come out fast, you know, urgency, play defense hard. Do

630
00:43:19.960 --> 00:43:22.599
you not come up anything easy?
And really just you know, gnol it

631
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:25.599
up on the Sixers, right,
okay? And then the Warriors and the

632
00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:28.920
Lakers smarter than now. The Warriors
they lost a game at home, so

633
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:30.840
they're in the same situation, yeah
as the Celtics. Right, the Warriors

634
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:35.079
cannot afford to lose another game to
the Lakers at home. Yeah, no

635
00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:37.039
way. I think the Warriors made
like twenty one threes, I believe,

636
00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:39.960
and now the first time they've ever
done that and laws the game. The

637
00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:44.719
Wars also typically never lose the game
one at home, so they also are

638
00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:46.400
kind of in the same as spot
where they need to win game two,

639
00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:50.559
and I believe they will. Like
Steve said earlier, they ended the game

640
00:43:50.679 --> 00:43:52.960
like a fourteen old run to close
it and then Jordan pools you know,

641
00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:55.679
crazy shot at the end. Did
you think it was a crazy shot.

642
00:43:55.679 --> 00:44:00.159
I did. Yeah, I think
he needed to step in if he could

643
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:05.000
have or passed it and look better
shot. But I think the moment as

644
00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:07.440
soon as you caught the ball,
he immediately shot it. I don't think

645
00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:08.840
he should have done that at that
time. Yeah. Yeah, well,

646
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:12.360
when you when you have a little
bit of time and I look, I

647
00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:16.119
know that we all saw the video
the Lakers blanketed Steph Curry. He probably

648
00:44:16.159 --> 00:44:20.119
wasn't gonna get a shot. But
you have Clay Thompson, Yeah, right,

649
00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:23.440
you have you know, Jordan Pulls
like number three on the list of

650
00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:27.360
guys you want to taking. Of
course, I just think if you want

651
00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:30.599
have stepped in a little bit closer
or maybe pass it and then like maybe

652
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:32.199
try and cut and like look for
a better shot. I just think,

653
00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:36.599
yeah, there was fourteen seconds on
the clock, had enough time to make

654
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:38.199
another pass or two, or try
and drive in the lane for like a

655
00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:40.920
two point shot. But he just
immediately caught him. They just shot it.

656
00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:45.159
If he doesn't miss it so badly, it was just it was a

657
00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:46.079
claim. Yeah, I mean it
was a suit. I mean if it

658
00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:49.760
goes like you know, looks like
it's got a shot. I mean he

659
00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:52.360
let it go and you knew that
wasn't a right close. Yeah, you

660
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:54.320
think that people would have felt a
little bit better about if he not if

661
00:44:54.360 --> 00:44:58.559
he made I was, if he
hadn't missed it by so much. It

662
00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:00.480
was like you had no business right
because you missed it by that much.

663
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:04.079
I think. I don't think so. I think because where he shot it

664
00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:06.760
was like thirty one feet out,
I believe, um, which was a

665
00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:09.639
second suppression Um stated. I think
it was so far away, which is

666
00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:13.280
why people were like, why did
he shoot that shot so far away?

667
00:45:13.480 --> 00:45:15.960
Like he has that range, but
at that moment, I feel like he

668
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:19.800
shot us look for a better shot, right all right? And then on

669
00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:22.599
Friday, the Suns are going to
the Suns are at home. But yeah

670
00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:25.559
to Zip Yeah, man, we
were talking about without Chris Paul. Yeah,

671
00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:28.800
I mean, Suns are in a
bad spot right now. I mean,

672
00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:30.679
you know, lack of Banch,
no Chris Paul. You know they

673
00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:34.199
are going back home, but they
just haven't looked great in the first two

674
00:45:34.199 --> 00:45:36.880
games, I believe. I think, you know, a second game,

675
00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:40.039
they made him more of a game
throughout throughout, but they still looked rough

676
00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:44.800
at different times. During the game. So can can Katie single handedly do

677
00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:46.079
this? No? You can't.
I mean, I don't know what's going

678
00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:50.719
on with Katie. He's he's having
trouble keeping the hand of the ball.

679
00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:52.639
He's had a lot of turnovers.
He's been playing, you know, up

680
00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:55.800
and down throughout the first few games. Um, you know, and they

681
00:45:57.039 --> 00:45:59.880
need help, like Kevin or is
a great players always different booked obviously,

682
00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:02.679
but they need more. You can
have a two v five out then expect

683
00:46:02.719 --> 00:46:06.719
to win a championship. You just
can't happen, all right, So do

684
00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:10.079
you take the three desperate teams to
win these next games? You know,

685
00:46:10.119 --> 00:46:14.360
let's say putting together, right,
you know somebody who might put together a

686
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:17.480
three game three teams? I see, I see. You go with the

687
00:46:17.559 --> 00:46:22.639
desperate teams? Or do you think
that you know the seventy sixers because of

688
00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:25.360
the way they won, the confidence
they might have. So, I mean,

689
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:30.400
people listening might not like this,
but I believe that the Nuggets will

690
00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:35.440
beat their Suns, the Celtics will
beat the Sixers, and the Warriors will

691
00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:37.280
be the Lakers. I have honestly
no faith in the Suns. If they

692
00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:40.360
got swept, I would not be
surprised whatsoever. Honestly, I just think

693
00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:44.440
the Suns are they're done. His
sons got swept. I mean, what

694
00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:47.440
does that do for Monnie Williams.
I mean, like, I don't know.

695
00:46:47.480 --> 00:46:51.119
I just think they're in a really
bad spot, Like they just they're

696
00:46:51.159 --> 00:46:54.360
looking for anything to help them and
they just don't have anything off the bench

697
00:46:54.440 --> 00:46:57.920
to like really help the team.
So I don't know, but I think

698
00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:00.599
the Celtics do win. Now.
I wasn think the Lake the Warriors,

699
00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:04.239
um get game too. Who's your
gonna be a champions of now? Um?

700
00:47:04.679 --> 00:47:07.280
Honestly, I'm not too sure.
I like the Lakers a lot right

701
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:08.599
now. I like the Nuggets round
right now, I think it's gonna be

702
00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:15.559
Lakers Nuggets Western Conference Finals and Miami
Heat. I'm philadefin Philadelphist Sexers Eastern Conference

703
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:21.679
Finals. So I need to see
who how they look. Yeah, yeah,

704
00:47:21.719 --> 00:47:23.000
it might be surprised early. Yeah, I think it's too early,

705
00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:25.400
but I need to see more.
But that's why I'm kind of looking at

706
00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:29.400
well again, as we were saying, you know, last hour, it's

707
00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:34.519
it's been fun playoffs because it's unpredictable
exactly right. It's just I mean the

708
00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:37.400
fact that the Bucks are not even
in it right now, that was crazy.

709
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:39.679
It's crazy, right. So I
think it's you know the fact that

710
00:47:39.719 --> 00:47:44.800
it's so out of whack. It's
kind of like the NCUBA A tournament right

711
00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:49.360
right right, it's just like throw
all the books out because it's it's this

712
00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:53.280
anything could happened, so you never
know. Yeah, yeah, yeah fire

713
00:47:53.320 --> 00:47:57.760
the Nuggets so good. I think
they just have a system and everyone plays

714
00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:00.639
their role to perfection. Um.
You know, they have you know,

715
00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:02.639
your kids, to have Jamal Murray
number two, and then you have a

716
00:48:02.719 --> 00:48:07.679
lot of good pieces around those two
guys, um, Jeff Green, Aaron

717
00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:10.039
Gordon, um, KCP. Like
you just have a lot of you know,

718
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:14.079
pieces around and then you have um
the head coach, Mike Malone.

719
00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:16.239
He just has a system that just
works. And they played they play play

720
00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:21.599
really good basketball all the time.
They don't really really hurt themselves that much,

721
00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:24.000
and they just play smart basketball,
you know every time. They So

722
00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:29.920
why why why people so many people
picking against them? I mean, I

723
00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:31.000
mean, like you said, because
it's not sexy. Yeah, I think

724
00:48:31.039 --> 00:48:34.519
so. I think it's not sexy. They don't have the big name,

725
00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:38.199
you know, super so Lebron and
staff, Kevin Durant books, like they

726
00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:43.000
don't have Jason Tatum. Like the
way Yokish plays is really beautiful basketball,

727
00:48:43.039 --> 00:48:47.159
but for whatever reason it is not
to it's not appealing to like the general

728
00:48:47.320 --> 00:48:51.920
like NBA fan or the support books
or whatever. But like, there are

729
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:53.280
a really good team if you actually
sit down and watch them play. I

730
00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:58.400
mean, I you know, I
guess I haven't seen the Celtics, Lousi

731
00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:00.000
the other nights. I got a
bad of them. Yeah, but I'm

732
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.840
looking at the eight teams in that
are left in the in the playoffs,

733
00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:07.599
and I feel like the Nuggets are
the best team. Yeah. I mean

734
00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:10.400
I would agree, like I think
the Lakers aren't better team, but as

735
00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:13.519
of right now, the Nuggets,
I looked they're playing better. Yeah.

736
00:49:13.559 --> 00:49:17.039
Then the Nuggets have looked the best
team in the entire pall season right now,

737
00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:21.440
right so, you know, I
believe they should be favorited, but

738
00:49:21.559 --> 00:49:24.599
for whatever reason they're not. Yeah, yeah, all right. I don't

739
00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:29.199
know, man, I don't know
that I've paid more attention to the NBA

740
00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:31.519
playoffs ever than they have this year, and I guess part of it is

741
00:49:31.519 --> 00:49:36.599
because of that. It's just been
so so unpredictable. I mean, you

742
00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:42.079
know, I've been fascinated by the
Suns, and not fascinated like because I

743
00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:45.679
love them, fascinated by the fact
that here's a team to finish in the

744
00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:50.960
middle of the pack in the Western
Conference. Yet so many people think that

745
00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:54.800
they should, not that they could, but that they should win this thing.

746
00:49:54.840 --> 00:49:58.599
And I'm like, yeah, if
they should win it, why weren't

747
00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:00.519
they better the rest of the season. Another didn't get kad too late in

748
00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:05.079
the year, but still, you
know, they weren't that great. And

749
00:50:05.079 --> 00:50:07.360
then they add a piece like kd
Okay, but all of a sudden that

750
00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:09.400
makes them the best team. Yeah
in the NBA, I didn't. I

751
00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:15.159
don't see. Yeah, people they
general like media but what what whatevers?

752
00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:16.920
And they believe once you got a
superstar to a team, that team immediately

753
00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:21.239
should be in championship contention. But
when it comes to the playoffs, it's

754
00:50:21.280 --> 00:50:23.119
not just one or two players,
not not anymore. At least I can

755
00:50:23.199 --> 00:50:27.519
just you know, take care of
a team to do the championship and win

756
00:50:27.559 --> 00:50:30.639
at all. Right, Um,
you need a team like even Lebron when

757
00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:32.880
he was doing it all those years, he didn't always win it, right,

758
00:50:32.920 --> 00:50:37.519
he came again. He usually played
a team that had you know a

759
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:39.559
lot of players are pretty good,
and then they had superstars and then you

760
00:50:39.559 --> 00:50:43.480
know, he lost most of his
finals because it was just him and then

761
00:50:43.719 --> 00:50:45.800
you know, average players around him. Yeah, so I heard you remember

762
00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:52.719
him when it was him and Dwayne
Wade and Um Bosh and Chris Bosh.

763
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:54.719
Yeah, those Miami teams. You
know that there were other guys, right,

764
00:50:55.000 --> 00:51:00.199
and they were complimentary guys, right, Dwayne Wade did way different from

765
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:02.400
things than Lebron did. Yeah,
Chris Bosh, who was a really good

766
00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:06.880
player. Yeah, he did what
he did, and so they had pieces,

767
00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:08.320
as I said, Yeah, but
then you know the other two like

768
00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:13.800
that, what that first Cleveland team
that that that Lebron got to the NBA

769
00:51:13.880 --> 00:51:16.199
finals, You know, I mean
it's like it was him and nobody else

770
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:21.400
basically, right. And you know
this Phoenix Suns team, you have Devin

771
00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:28.840
Booker, you have Kevin Durant,
like well it exactly know he's struggling against

772
00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:30.239
the cage. And then yeah,
you know Chris bog just got here.

773
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:34.800
You have campaign Terrence Robs, but
like you don't really have you know,

774
00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:38.480
anyone else. I saw that the
starting five or starting or six for six

775
00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:42.719
people. So I mean it's gonna
be tough for the Suns to you know,

776
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:45.280
be the there's a Nuggas team.
All right, you're taking or giving

777
00:51:45.320 --> 00:51:49.039
the seven and a half points tonight
with the Celtics. I mean, are

778
00:51:49.039 --> 00:51:52.039
you giving the seven and a half
or you're taking the six ers and plus

779
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:55.519
the seven and a half I'm taking
you're taking the points? Yeah, I'm

780
00:51:55.559 --> 00:51:59.480
taking the point all right? Yeah
you think, but you think the Celtics

781
00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:04.840
win? Yeah, all right,
man, Okay, I'm gonna take your

782
00:52:04.840 --> 00:52:07.960
word. I'm not gonna do anything
with it. I don't, I don't

783
00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:09.440
Steve did anything with it. I'm
not gonna be able to watch a game.

784
00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:13.400
So yeah, well it's about to
start it because speak about fifteen minutes,

785
00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:15.960
so it should be fine. So
we'll be back to talk about it

786
00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:20.480
tomorrow. Um, Jason, I
appreciate stuff, you know, you and

787
00:52:20.519 --> 00:52:23.079
all of our interns are all back
NBA guys, and Steve and I are

788
00:52:23.360 --> 00:52:28.119
we know most other stuff. But
any days it thinks I appreciate the time

789
00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:30.280
doing this is fun. I hope
you're having a good time with us.

790
00:52:30.280 --> 00:52:34.440
Oh yeah, definitely. All right, we're gonna check out. Steve will

791
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:37.559
be back tomorrow. We'll have U, we'll have some some more guests for

792
00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:39.559
you. We are going to talk
Sugar Skulls on Friday. Hurt his Chin,

793
00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:43.840
the head coach of the Sugar Skulls. There's a home game on Saturday.

794
00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:46.639
It's gonna be a bobble Head day
at at the Arena. So we'll

795
00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:50.480
we'll line up some stuff for you
guys for tomorrow and so we'll be back

796
00:52:50.480 --> 00:52:52.360
with Steve. So be sure to
come back tomorrow. Thanks for being here.