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Okay, very simple, very simple. Yeah, we need we need to

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talk to Bill Plashki about some things
today, Rodney, we need we need

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to address some things with him.
Whenever you have a little, uh,

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what do I say a little confusion. You're wondering. You know, who's

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gonna eventually set the record straight.
Who's gonna find that information, Who's gonna

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who's gonna be that guy to kind
of shoot us straight, look us in

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the eye and tell us what's what. There's only one guy. You gotta

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go to, Fred. You gotta
go to Plasky. Let's do it right.

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You gotta go to past La times, Bill Plasky. Cut the crack.

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What do you want year? What
do you do bother me? What

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do you want? Well? I
want to start with this grumpy mcgrumps a

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lot. That's Fred's moniker, not
your worst. Thanks for that, all

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right? And that's that's where I
want to get. Where you want to

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start, That's exactly where I want
to start. Didn't you didn't you lay

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the hammer on him a little heavier
or now? No one? Thing is

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all overdue. He's so tough on
his players, and he's he's gone overboard

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this year. These are this year's
recruiting class. There's a bunch of seventeen

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eight year old kids five thousand miles
from home. They're struggling, and he's

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throw him under the bus. And
postgame press conferences and Besides that, there's

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also this daily and this happens every
game, and I get complaints about it

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for people every game about it's kind
of on the sideline that has kind of

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go on the bench and his profanity
and his domaining manner. He's a great

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coach, he's a great guy.
I mean, I love doing him.

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But he's gone where he's gone through
far this time, and the delusion has

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gotten to him and he's taken out
on the players and he's very unprofessional.

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But like you said, this is
the guy who we din't haven't known since

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he's been at UCLA and probably before
that. People that go back with him,

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this is who he is, isn't
It's not something new or it shouldn't

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be shocking to anybody that has kind
of been around him or seeing him coach.

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I think it's gotten worse. I
mean I think I think this year

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has gotten worse because his team is
the team is is bad. I think

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it's really I don't think he's handled
very well. I think the sounding would

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be a sound of a great coach
is a great because the coach under audiversity

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and he's got a ton of university
right now, and not so enough for

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the press conference. That was unconstable. That was that was that was Lincoln

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Riley. We we kill him.
I mean, I know makes a great

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guy and everybody likes you and I
like him, but there's certain things you've

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got to do and say coaches U, C, l A and one of

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them be accountable. And he wasn't
able. Were you shocked by that?

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By him not showing up? Bill? And have you ever had someone like

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like that to him? I came
to the game just to talk to him.

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I was stunned. Yeah. Well
when when they when they brought into

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the assistant coach showed up, I'm
like, what's this? And they and

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then mixed They said, well Mick
was talking to his players. Well we

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did it all, we did it
all night talk committed, We don't.

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I didn't really want to be so
I was. I was absolutely stunned,

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and it was very unprofessional. And
as far it was beneath UCLA, all

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the tough times you had, Stevell
haven't always talked, Ben Allen talks,

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Steve Alper talk, they all talk. I just was very disappointed in Mick

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and I don't think I don't know
you all follow us too tough. I

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didn't I didn't. I mean,
I think, look, we talked about

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it right afterwards, and we've talked
about you know, as players, as

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as media, as you know,
if you're a part of it, we

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all have responsibilities. It's not like
as nineteen seventies or sixties where you could

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do your own thing. Part of
contracts and part of the reason why you

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know, teams and leagues are getting
all this money is because of the access

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as well, and that's all part
of it. And you've got to you

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know, it's not as you know, and a lot of coaches minds is

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not the same thing, but it
is. Part of your job is to

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be accessible to the media. So
no, I didn't think you were hard

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at all. As much as sometimes
you hate to do postgame press conferences or

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talk about the game, especially if
it's bad, you've got to grow up

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and do it. And that's part
of it. And then he made a

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scene on the court during the game, took this car off through his quarter

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against it on the floor, cursed
out, the officials, got a technical

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foul, costs the team four points. I mean, that was bad.

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You need to explain that. I
didn't think the fans and it's play out

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here from fans every game was ship
behind a bench, and they're continually appalled

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by his increasing bad behavior. I
think somebody would need to say something to

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them. I really do. I
mean, would you think Fred did you

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think Bill was too hard on Meck? Well, here's yeah, I actually

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did a little bit. I did. I mean, I first, I

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agree with you that he should have
spoken after the game. I also understood

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the UCLA guy saying, well,
you know, he's gonna be a while,

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and we didn't want people to sit
around for an hour. Okay,

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I get that. I don't like
it, but I got it. I

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got that. Uh, his demeanor, his behavior, He's really been the

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same guy Bill No all along.
I think he's gotten worse. I just

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think the pressure we didn't we didn't
get these complaints three years ago, but

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we're getting all the time now.
I mean, I'm getting from people who

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see him on the road, who
sit behind the bench, win on the

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road, they hear him. I'm
getting a lot of this now, and

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he's and what he said against after
the Stanford game last week was really really

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you know, unkind unfortunate. The
meaning he says players were smart. He

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says players were smart, well,
he said the blame was all the players,

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not him. Every by one of
his players who was struggling, he

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said, it's him, not me. That's just wrong. You got to

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say it's always You're the coach.
Act like it. It's you. It's

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your responsibility, take the heat,
shoulder the burden, cover for the kids.

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Don't throw some eighteen year old kid
who is who is you know at

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five thousand dollars in home, probably
homesick, struggling to fit the tack twelve

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basketball both on under the bus.
Gotta protect the kids, right, you

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gotta protect these and and the other
thing is, look, I get it.

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I understand there are certain things that
happen on a moment's notice and in

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life that you got to deal with
and you maybe have to deal with the

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kids. And hey, I'm talking
to my kids right now. I'm I'm

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not gonna be able to make the
press conference. But like you said,

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you came there to speak to him. It didn't matter how long you had

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to wait. You were ready to
wait for him, and that that deserved

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and uh an explanation. Right,
everybody was wait. It wasn't just me.

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Everybody was gonna wait. We gonna
waited all night for him. He's

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the head coach. Yeah, you
wait for the head coach. Yeah,

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all right. On the topic of
coaches, Darvin Ham, all of a

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sudden, those reports surfaced that he
might be on the hot seat. Rodney

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and I could not figure that out. I mean, I didn't think and

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I do not think the Lakers would
make a change. Do you think that

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was a bit overblown? Yes,
I mean, well a lot. I

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would. A column came the King
firements. That's absolutely insane as the dumbest

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thing I've ever heard. I think. No, No, I think the

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players are are seven. The players
don't like his rotations, they don't like

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his strategies. They don't I don't
think they respect is basketball like you.

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That's what I hear. But you
know what, they need to play better.

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They were the same players who played
great. Ye know last season,

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all the role players are doing terrible. He played in the tournament. They

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played well too. So what are
we talking about? Yeah, play and

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Darwin. The sturt all about three
weeks of guys complaining, and I think

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that did get overblown. I mean, I know, I mean I think

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it's real. The discontent was real. So I think the Lakers are front

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offers is back of him. I
think he's being back in front office.

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I think it's I think that's going
to be. I just can't imagine him

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making a change. I mean,
I just can't talk. If you lost

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five in a row, he's gone. And that's ridiculous. This guy saved

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your butt last year. You were
two to ten and he took it to

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the conference finals. Are you kidding
me? Behind all this, of course,

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the voice behind all this who's not
been heard is Lebron. And obviously

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if Lebron had was really supportive,
he would say more about him. Lebron

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doesn't like to talk much about him. So there's a concern that Lebron it

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does not like him as a coach. But I say to that, I

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say, you know what, Lebron
could be gone that year, Recker.

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This year, he could go where
where Bron's being drafted. He may even

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be with the Lakers next year.
You can't count out of Lebron, you

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can't count out of the malcontent,
struggling role players. Just go with your

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gut, and for my money,
Can has been a great coach. It's

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just absurd that they think about get
rid of him. You really think Lebron

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is whispering in the background. Oh
he always is. Gray. Come on,

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you guys know that anything you see
that comes out of that locker room,

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maybe Lebron doesn't start it, maybe
he doesn't participate in it, but

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he certainly endorses it, and they
wouldn't come out. There's no way a

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player in there he's going to complain
to a writer. Let's you think Lebron's

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got back? Fred? Did you
actually ask Bill Plaski? Do you think

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Lebron is whispering in the background?
Yeah, But here's why I asked that.

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Here's why you've been a cheerleader.
Lebron is the puppet master and pull

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into all the strings since he's been
here. Did you ask Bill Plaski?

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Come on, you know what I
did. And here's why, Because give

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them what happened last year and as
well as they played, and they got

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to the conference finals and they won
the end season tournament, and Lebron is

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having an incredible year. I just
don't even know what he'd have to bitch

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about, to be honest with you, I mean, what is he complaining

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about. He looks great. They're
not winning, man, Yeah, but

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yeah, he looks great and not
winning. That's exactly right, right,

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He's exactly right. He looks great, he's I'm awed by I am literally

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awed by him every home to see
him play. He's incredible. But they're

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not winning, and he's thirty nine
years old, and he's running out of

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a chance to win. And I
think that that's that's what God has up

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said. And you saw look at
his quote the other night, look closely

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at him. He's asked about Darvin, he gives a short sentence. He's

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asked about time. He's asked about
the Clippers, and he calls him the

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Tylu Clippers, and he's raised and
raised about his buddy Tylo. It was

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really an interesting uh bit of disparity
there between his quotes about Darwin and his

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quotes about Tylerumber. When Lebron likes
you, you know it. When he

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doesn't like you, you know it
too. All right, Well, real

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quick, how big a game is
this for Matthew Stafford. I think it's

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I think you don't talking about this
somebody that today. I think the pressure

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is all Jared Golf. Yeah,
Stafford is Stafford won a Super Bowl.

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He's beloved to Detroit. Nobody's gonna
booing and they love him there. He's

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going home with a concreting hero already. But Jered Golf has to prove himself.

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To show across the field from a
guy who didn't believe in it would

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cut him loose. I think the
Cuns. I think Stafford's got a last

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game. I think Goff's got all
the pressure, all the pressure. I

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think that's to decide the game.
I think Golf is not even able to

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hold up under the withering stare of
Sean McVay. I think that's the meaning

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the story of the game. Mm
hmm. Well, I think it's a

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big game. I told Rodney earlier. I think it's a big game for

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the city of Detroit, a city
and uh continually rebuilding. I think it

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means an awful lot to those guys
here. You're city Fred, your puns

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were right. Yeah, absolutely,
you're going back to the game. I'm

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not. No, I'm gonna be
uh. And you know, and I've

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told the story Bill. It's weird. None of my sons have ever been

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to the city of Detroit, and
for whatever reason, they are Lions fans.

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I have no idea why. And
they live and dialog in the blood.

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Yeah, and I looked and growing
up. I never even brought it

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up to them. It's just that's
where they went. It's in the blood,

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Fred, It's very cool. It's
very cool. It's cool. Well

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for your sake, So your stents
are share over the Lions obviously. Oh

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yeah, yeah. I took the
three of them when the Lions played the

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Chargers this year at so Far.
I took them to the game and the

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Lions won, and it was a
shootout, probably the best game of that

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Sunday. They had the very best
time, you know what. It was

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a great moment I and it was
the first time in a long time I

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had all tread them together. It
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the Lions. I'm really happy.
Now who are you? Who are you

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rooting for? Fred? Well,
here's what I said. My heart says

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the Lions, but my head says
the Rams. Your your wallet says the

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Rams. The Rams. Who in
you made more money? Bet your wallet

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always go all the way readership.
There you go, head, don't bet

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your heart. Bill, thanks for
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Guys are aweso to see it.
Our good buddy Bill Plashki. All

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right, we need spirituality, and
we're gonna have that spirituality when Vic joins

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us next. Yeah, come on
Tuesday, Come on. It's been a

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great show. We got to cap
it off with a great spirituality. Come

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on, Freddy. Oh we desperately
need it, you know. Plash he

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comes on, blew up the whole
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It blew it to hell, just
blew it up. So now we

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have to have somebody bring it back, somebody who will talk about Otani san

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and Yamamoto son. Yes, then
there's only one, Frett, only one,

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only one person that can do that. It is Vic the brick with

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the daily haiku and Vic that afternoon
he's picked up the javelin a lie Yammoto

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Son, it's fred Rogen Yellow.
He can throw a javelin, fling a

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discus, Rodney Pete heavy dB ry. Did did you do track and field

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at the USC as well? No? I didn't. I played baseball,

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Victor. That was the third baseman
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Yes, sir, he is the
essence of decathlon. He does it

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all. It's Kevin Figures now shot, come on now and in for Riti

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today. She's wondering if Jim Harbaugh
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Newton built up forever, bolt up, just because I'm always gonna built up,

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Katie. I love I love the
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you're with them year in and year
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of it. They're on the breakthrough. I'm with you. There's gonna be

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a breakthrough offseason, and it revolves
around Jim Harball. But more in that

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later. Everybody says to me,
Vic k Passa with the last week caliente

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hot Japanese impoet left on the free
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showta Imanaga. Well, the Dodgers, you know, very under the radar

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to this guy who'd be in middle
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know, behind Bulah, Yamamoto,
Glass, Noow Miller, don't forget Tony

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Gonsel and Dustin May. Don't forget
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But according to New York Posts John
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Angels have pulled out of the Immanagathan
sweepstakes. Still in it, Cubs,

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Red Sox and the Mets. Who
I think if they signed, put them

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in the bullpen, because their bullpen
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Vic the Mets or the bullpen Mets, well Angels as well, but

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the Mets bullpen is really in great
need. But you know, but who

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cares. There is an iman Haga
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If there's no deal for Ima Naga, he stays in Yokohama. Really exactly

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this feel. So if somebody comes
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IMAA is not signed Thursday by two
o'clock exactly right. So you know,

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teams are clamoring right now to make
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not of the you know, high
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you know number three in the rotation
A number four be a very nice picker

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for someone. Yes, you got
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no a little bit. How dominant
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mean I picked the Wolverines to win
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Well, I thought they'd just be
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They own the trenches, totally owned
the offensive line. I mean three hundred

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and three yards rushing most ever won
a championship game that was insane. So

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hail Hail to Michigan, y'all.
Yeah, although Michael Pennix played the worst

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game he played in two years,
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He missed a lot of open throws. He was just I felt bad

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for him because it was on the
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He was beaten up. I think
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but they hit him a lot.
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of the game. He was he
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him a while to clear his head. This was This was an amazing performance

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spired by Michigan on both sides of
the ball. So now what for Jim

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Harbaugh. First Michigan title in twenty
six years. He's restored the domination of

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the Wolverines in Anna Aubor. He's
been there nine years already. It doesn't

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seem like he's been there nine years. No, but he's been there nine

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years. Yeah, it doesn't,
but he has right, he went through

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he went through those dark days and
when he first got there, losing to

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what losing to Michigan, stayed a
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he went through it. And you
know a lot of people just jumped

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on or just a recognizing him of
late. But he went through those lumps.

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Boy, they were questioning. There
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not he was the right guy at
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around, and here we are.
Well, Harball after the game planted seeds

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of maybe returning to Michigan. He
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a month after Valentine's Day. So
there were signs of maybe a tenth year

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in ann Arbor. But don't they
Charges have to make an incredible offer to

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Harball? Control money, the whole
thing. The ball is in the Chargers

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corner at this point because Jim has
San Diego roots from and he coached the

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Torrero's you know, back in the
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It's up to the Charges, It's
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to just make a bold move.
No, well, yeah, the question

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I've said, all, yeah,
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money. I think it has to
do with control. Why not give Harball

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control? I don't understand this control
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last few years. Look where you
look, where you are. I mean

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you have justin Herbert. You've got
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needs a harbor to guide him.
No, I mean you just have Harbaugh

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guiding Herbert. I'm sure Harball Love
would love to nurture the career of her

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of her of Herbert. At this
point, I say, give him could

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control, Give it to him,
give him the money and let the bolts

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break out. What are you gonna
lose at the end of the day.

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You know you picked the players,
You coach the players, that's all you.

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You got nobody else to blame but
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right. This control issue thing is, it's really very nebulous and really meaningless.

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You need the head coach to be
in control anyway. Yes, what

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if Parcels say you want me to
cook the meal, you gotta let me

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buy the groceries. Baby, yep. Look at Sean. Look at Sean

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McVay with the Rams. I think
he has a pretty good working relationship with

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less sneed. Yeah, yes he
does. But he has total control.

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No, I mean doesn't McVeigh.
I don't think he has to. He

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might have finally say over the fifty
three man roster. But I don't know

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if he has guard the fortunes the
rams. I still think less less less

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has a lot of power less.
Oh yeah, it's a collective, but

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he has a major, insane,
powerful role in shaping the and shaping the

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roster. Yes, but there's control. There's there's levels of this that there's

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control, and then there's total control. Hill Belichick has total control, Pete

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Carroll has total control. Like there's
a few and far between where the head

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coach literally is the head of the
snake at every turn. But it can't

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work. Belichick and and Pete have
been great. It can work for sure,

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But you speak of Belichick, is
Belichick in the mix at all?

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He better not be. Yeah,
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I'll do respect. I'll do respect. Now, considering what he said

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the other day, like he'd willing
to be willing to give up control.

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Wouldn't it be as if if the
Patriots said we're done, that he would

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just say he's done. It's either
the Patriots or nothing, and he would

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just retire at that point. Field. That's kind of the vibe that I

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get. Yeah, it feels that
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that way to be honest with you. What else does he have to uh

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approve other than I didn't go out
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end of the day, nobody's gonna
care about the last couple of years.

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They're gonna look at twenty years of
twenty whatever years that he's been at the

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Patriots and seven titles. Mm hmm. I mean nine tastes of the Super

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Bowl for Belichick is unbelievable. Yeah, but but he lost to my Jets

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on the way out. Yeah,
can't stop. Can't stop't stop. Gallichick

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lost to the Jets. Man,
Finally Jets got him one. That's what's

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It's named Vic. That's what's got
him keeping coming back. Can't he has

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Jets taste of the Jets in his
vouth. He can't take it. Yeah,

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they got your bill. Come on, let's keep it moving now.

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We yet to get to it,
but we need it. Come on,

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Rodney Pete bred Rogan, Bick the
Brick Jacobs, come on, baby.

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The bounce back after the Laker loss
last night totally crushed the Suns by twenty

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seven. Yeah, that's because that's
because Kawai sat for three minutes the night

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before. That was the whole difference. That was an odd ball move.

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You know, if he hadn't sat
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have won last night, the final
three minutes. Basically, yes, ready,

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I'm sorry, I still didn't I
something went wrong, something sideways there.

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You were flummoxed. You were flumixed
by the clauseting, and I think

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everyone was. This minute restriction is
should it be that that harsh? It's

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not should the close game with your
with your hated rival the Lakers. Something

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else happened. That's another thing Vic
that we Yeah, we talked about a

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lot, but yeah, it's against
the Lakers. It's not against Orlando.

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Go play those three minutes against the
Lakers. You want to continue that domination.

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It's a bizarre domination, but it
is domination of the Clippers over the

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Lakers. But the Lakers wanted it
more. Again, the Lakers side pieces

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suddenly showed up. You know,
Christian Wood became Christian Wood. That's the

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recipe for disaster. If your eye
pieces are showing up, there's a designated

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area in crypto for them to be
sitting there. They shouldn't be showing up

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on the floor. Yeah, and
don't show up to the funeral. No,

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god, Yeah, the real awkward
moments was that sixteen or nineteen now

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for the Clippers six guys and double
figures. I was, I was,

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I really was a wild win.
You know what. You're watching it and

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they're playing really superb basketball on the
other side. How bout are the Sons?

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Yeah? Yeah, what's going on? And they're three headed monster?

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Was all there? Book Booker's there, of course, Kd's there. Raley

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Beal, Bill Bill is health,
you know healthy. No, I think

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the Clippers own the Suns. That's
twice in five days. The Clippers have

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taken care of business with this with
the Suns. This is not a good

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look for Frank Vogel, like he
doesn't have a great look for the Clippers

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right well, because when they traded
for Bradley Beal, they gave everybody else

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up. Yeah, and when Beale
got hurt, what she always does,

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and he plays five games, But
I think is what he's played. That

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happens, and Bookers miss time and
Kd's miss time. You have one of

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those guys out, you'd run out
of a bunch of G leaguers as their

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teammates five hundred record is what you
get, Yeah, because they can't afford

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anybody else. Yep, yep.
And fellas, are you as bummed as

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I am the jama Rans out for
the season with the That's awful. That

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was so sad. That is horrible
news. I mean, you know,

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of course from Memphis, it's a
gigantic body blow. But for basketball fans,

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you just you know, you love
seeing them play. We understand that,

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you know the issue is a twenty
five game suspension, but you know

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you watch Joe play. You were
rooting for his comeback. And fellas,

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are you as large a fan of
Prince as I am? Oh? Could

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you stop the iconic album? Stop
it? The iconic album Purple Rain.

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It's getting a lot of love.
Katie hit me. It's soon to be

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a musical for years after its release. One of my favorite pieces of music

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of all time. Elevated Prince into
the rock star stratosphere. Love it,

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you know, Uh, Washington didn't
do it justice last night. They had

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hashtag Purple Rain r E I N
H G N for them last night in

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the National Championship Game. Oh Purple
Rain. And then they go get their

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asses handed to them up front.
Great tribute to Prince there, Thanks Dogs

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Good. He was a lot of
adversity prints Prince and came out on the

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other side. Man. He lost
him too soon. Back in the back

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of the eighties, he opened for
the Rolling Stones. Only if you guys

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remember that tour, he plays Los
Angeles. He was opening for the Stones,

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was booed mercilessly in l A.
Was Prince disrespected? Dropped by the

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tour? Ye for George Thoroughgood and
the Destroyers, Go figure. I witnessed

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that tour nineteen eighty two Sun Devil
Stadium. I drove nine hours from Roswell,

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New Mexico to Tempee because I wanted
to. I really wanted to say

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Prince more than the Stones, and
I love the Stones, but I was

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so into Prince because his album broke
in eighty one. I think it was

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his first album. I think it
was like nineteen years old. Yeah,

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yeah, a true student, true
student of music. Vic. You know,

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Holly had an opportunity to go record
a song with Prince back at Paisley

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park Way back in the day wow
in the eighties. Yeah. The song

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was called Holly Don't Care and Prince
sang on the song. Is that right?

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Yeah, never been released, but
yeah, he still has. They

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got to release that tune. I
know, I know, but it's Prince,

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he owns everything, so it's a
you know, a little tough sledding,

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I hear you. But it will
be a musical soon. I saw

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that Michael Jackson musical which was fantastic. I can't wait for that Jacks when

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you're talking about VIC, Yeah,
mj was really good. I think it's

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have the pantages, right, yeah, pantagious absolutely, which leads us,

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which leads us all the way back
to oh you got it, okay,

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Rodney. But again, relations to
the people, you know, all the

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producers who have the foresight to make
Prince Purple Rain of musical. It's gonna

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be fantastic as this is high coup. Oh yeah, it's from Rand Setsu.

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Everybody, Oh yeah, Ran Setsu. Rand sets for first name,

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Torri ah k A t t O
r I Torri grend Setsu all right,

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sixteen fifty four to seventeen oh seven. A Samurai haiku poet who was absolutely

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nurtured by Basho. He was thought
to be Basho's most passionate devotee. What

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Rand Setsu very under the under the
radar doesn't get much publicity. Tory ran

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Setsu with a winter haiku for everybody
today, Right, I love it.

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This winter highkup for you on this
Tuesday, January the ninth from rand Setsu

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R A N S E T.
We got it. Wait, we got

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it wet. See this is where
the grumpy thing comes from. That wasn't

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necessary. I'm not grumpy at all. Get to it, Bick, we

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got it. He already said four
times. That wasn't grumpy. Right,

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I'm not grumpy. I'm not grumpy, but I mean it's Ransetsu a disciple

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of you're just saying it again for
the people in the back, just setting

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it up. Fred, there's a
whole art to it. Come on,

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you can't rush into the tranquility Fred, No, no, And we're certainly

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not a winter high crew for you. The snow fell in the night and

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people rouse each other up to see
the lovely sight. I'm feeling you,

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Freddie Ransetsu. Yeah, and Ransetsu
learned everything he knew from Basho together devotee

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Fredd a devotee Katie. Thank you, nice job today, Kevin, outstanding

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work. And Rodney back at it
tomorrow. Yes, sir,