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Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man,

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I'm forty. Go ahead, make
my day every single week. I

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put my freaking heart and soul into
this. I don't go out there and

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laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's
funny to me. I don't wanna go

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out there and get embarrassed on Monday
night football. For everybody, I think

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this is the beginning of a beautiful
friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from

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yesterday. Still the same person I
was yesterday, and I got the same

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thing for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You

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play to win the game. You
don't play to just play it. That's

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a great thing about sports. You
play to win. I don't care if

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you don't have any wins. You
go play to win. When you start

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telling me it doesn't matter to retire, get out for the matter. Never

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has it mattered as much as last
night's game at rick Wood Field In Major

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League Baseball, maybe they're starting to
get it a little bit. Major League

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Baseball has done a really good job
of creating these types of memorable events and

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helping people understand the legacy of the
game. In this case, the Negro

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leagues. It was pretty special.
Fox of course does a really good job

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with it. And you had all
these patriarchs, if you will, representing

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the Negro League's Cardinals beat the Giant
six' five. Not that that's the

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most important part of the story,
but this is the event that Willie Mays

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they were hoping would be before he
recognized he would not be able to make

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it, and eventually obviously he passed
a couple of days ago. But Major

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League Baseball has done a really nice
job. Remember they've done the game in

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Iowa for the Field of Dreams.
That's been really cool. This taking their

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game internationally has been important, whether
it be in London or whether it be

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in Japan or Korea or Mexico.
And they've been doing that for a while

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now. But all those things are
really important for Major League Baseball. Other

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sports have done it. I think
it's brilliant. I think it's well done.

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The only thing I would ask is, you know, especially like the

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Field of Dreams, you wish you
would have more true fans out there rather

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than representatives of Major League Baseball.
But in the end, a job well

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done, pretty cool event. I
don't know if you had a chance to

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watch it. Hopefully you did,
but it was special. Tigers post the

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White Sox in the first of a
three game weekend series starting tonight. Detroit

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has dropped four in a row ten
of thirteen. They sit twelve games back

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in the division. Chicago is arguably
the worst team in baseball. They've lost

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seven of ten. They have a
league worst seven road wins and just twenty

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wins overall, fewest in baseball.
Jack Flaherty throws against Eric Fetti in the

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series opener to then it'll be kent
to Maida in the middle game, and

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then Rhee Olsen in the series wrap
up. I don't want to be too

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dramatic here, but you lose this
series to the worst team in baseball,

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a team that has, I hate
to phrase, nothing to play for,

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but I mean they're just going through
the motions, and they've been going through

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the motions for a while. It
is a really, really tough spot for

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Pedro, Griffall and Chicago. I
do like the White Sox manager. He's

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a good man. I've had a
chance to talk with him at length about

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a lot of different things in the
past, and I do I've always enjoyed

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those conversations. I don't know what
kind of manager he is, to be

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honest with you, Usually you want
to talk to people who are close enough

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to them and see them on a
regular basis, are at their games,

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you get an idea from them friends
of mine who broadcast their games on radio

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and TV. Then you can kind
of look for tendencies. But as far

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as a person, he's a really
good person. I can't figure out.

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Well, I can, but I
choose to tread very carefully why that team

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is so flipping bad. And I'm
not going to sit here and talk Chicago

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White Sox baseball with you. It's
just it's surprising considering some of the talent

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quote unquote that they have on their
team, like Andrew Benin. Tendee has

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been horrible, like the worst of
his career, but beyond one of the

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worst players the game has seen in
a long time in everything he's trying to

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do. And when he was in
Kansas City, when he was in Boston,

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I thought he was really good,
Like I would have taken that dude.

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That dude helped his team win a
national championship at South Carolina. He's

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an amazing player at the collegiate level. He was really, really good in

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Boston, Kansas City, he gave
him a shot in the arm. He

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goes to Chicago, false apart.
It's awful. Eloyjmenez not good, Yoonn

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Mancata not good. Luisa Robert,
a guy who's has as much talent probably

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as any player in the American League. Just horrible, horrible. So I

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don't want to be too dramatic,
like I said, but you lose that

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series, your season is over.
You lose this series at home against that

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team, especially when you have this
pitching two of your three starters, I

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would consider who are having very good
seasons to that team, and I can't

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imagine how you come back from it. I can't imagine how you return.

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So that's the thing I'm looking for
this weekend. I know it's kind of

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a weak way for you to look
at things and what you're looking forward to

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this weekend, but I pick out
little things when it comes to a series.

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Sometimes it's how well a certain player
may be playing on your team.

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Sometimes it might be how bad a
certain player is playing on your team,

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to see if they can correct themselves. And quite honestly, sometimes I really

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look forward to watching another player on
the opposite team. Seriously, I mean,

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I like going in and watching Bobby
Wit Junior play for Kansas City.

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If Kansas City were in town right
now and Detroit was playing them, the

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highlight for me would be Bobby Witch
Junior. Because there's really not many people

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on the Tigers now. You want
the Tigers to do well, don't get

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it twisted. It's just that it's
not the highlight of your game right there.

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Jared Durhan of Boston is a fun
player to watch. Rod fail Devers

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unbelievable player for Boston right New York's
in town. Are you looking more forward

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to watching a certain Tigers player or
are you looking forward to watching Aaron Judge

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if he's healthy. So that's what
I'm looking for this weekend. Game six

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of the Stanley Cup Finals faces off
tonight at Edmonton. Oilers have won the

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last two games by scoring thirteen goals
overall. They are trying to become the

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second team of twenty eight to ever
win it all after trailing three games to

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none. Who's the other other team. It's the Toronto Maple Leafs in nineteen

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forty two, who were down three
games to none to none other than the

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Detroit Red Wings. And they came
back and won. Florida will try and

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avoid that tonight. If you believe
in momentum, which I mean I use

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the word quite a bit in sports
and writing and all these I can't say

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that I always believe in it.
If you do, I mean, Florida

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had the momentum, right, They're
up three games to none. There's momentum.

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Something stops it. Now Do you
believe Edmonton has the momentum? So

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they're playing better? It's pretty obvious
they've done something to solve Sergei Bobrovski,

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and they did so probably at the
end of what game three, and now

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it is clicked for them. So
I'm excited for that. The Stanley Cup

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Finals has to do with one of
our two pool questions. So does another

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story that's big in sports. We'll
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League's Tribute at rickwood Field last night
on Fox, if you watched the coverage

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in general, stealing the show was
Reggie Jackson's pregame storytelling. It's amazing what

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he went through. Who was there
to help him? What would have happened

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if they weren't Reggie Jackson? When
they I think what they thought they were

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going to get is these are these
beautifully spunned yarns of storytelling from Reggie Jackson

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about Rick wood Field, And instead
what they got was a deep down,

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true truth of raw emotion on what
happened to him and the experiences that he

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had to have. Where he was
staying in Joe Rudy's house, sleeping on

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his couch three to four nights a
week, and people threatened to burn the

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building down if he didn't get out. Where his team would go to,

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and this was with the Oakland A's
early on, where his teams would go

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to various places to eat, and
they were turned away because of Reggie Jackson's

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skin color. And how McNamara the
manager, and Roley Fingers and Joe Rudy

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and Dave Duncan and others said,
well them, we're not even here either.

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How Charlie Finley, the owner of
the A's, brought him his team

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to his country club and they would
not allow him to eat. They pointed

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him out specifically, and Charlie Finley
said them, We're going to go down

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and have burgers instead, And eventually
they did allow them to eat, But

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who would want to eat there anyway
if that's either either policy or be their

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beliefs, or see both. And
Reggie Jackson kept saying, I wouldn't wish

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it on anybody. And had it
not been for certain teammates who believed in

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him didn't bin into that racist mindset, he would never have been the player

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he was because he would have been
thrown out. He would have been he

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would have gotten in so many fights
that something else, his path would have

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gone much differently. That was as
good a storytelling as any you've heard all

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season long. I've had the good
fortune of meeting Bridgie Jackson on a couple

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of different occasions in New York,
once in Houston, another had the chance

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to chat with him on the field
of play. Would never have been able

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to get that out of him by
any stretch, nor would my teammates at

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the time in the broadcast booth.
But he is Oftentimes people talk about his

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ego. Okay, we all have
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we all do. Some are just
bigger than others. But for them to

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kind of open that door. And
Alex Rodriguez is the one who asked the

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question, and I still think surprised
at the answer as everybody was. They

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just let him talk. It was
phenomenal and it was emotional afterwards. If

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you get a chance, I'm sure
it's on YouTube somewhere. If you get

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the chance, try to find that
and it'll open your eyes a little bit.

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No matter how you feel, it'll
open your eyes. It's impressive and

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like I said, very emotional.
Okay, maybe an emotional hire in Los

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Angeles, JJ Reddick to no one's
surprised. James Edwards told us this.

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Yesterday we had James Edwards from the
Atlantic on or from the Athletic excuse me,

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and he said, look, the
reason the Pistons on his list of

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possible candidates, The reason for no
JJ Reddick is because he's going to be

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the Lakers head coach. And what
happens later in the day yesterday he signs

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a four your contract to replace Darvin
ham. Reddick, a fifteen year vet,

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does a podcast with Lebron James,
so that shouldn't be a problem.

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The question is how long could he
last? Young guy? But how long

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could he last? Because the Lakers
haven't had a coach stayed more than three

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years since Phil Jackson in twenty eleven, which leads us to these poll questions.

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We have two of them, but
they're very simple and they're really easy.

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Is the Lakers head coaching job a
desirable one? Seventeen World championships.

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Some of the greatest players to ever
play the game of basketball have played in

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LA, whether be Kareem abdul Jabbar
or Magic Johnson, Elgin Baylor, Jerry

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West, James Worthy. You can
go on and on and on. There's

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a ton of them, all right, But with Lebron James there and I

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think this has come out to be
more accepted than before, and that is

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that he's a handful. He wants
to do everything. I mean, he's

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had nine coaches in his career.
That's a lot, it is. That's

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a lot for a guy who is
considered one of the greatest of all time.

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Remember in Miami. I mean,
let me ask you this. Do

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you think Eric Spolstra is a good
head coach? I think is a dynamite

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head coach. Would you love him
as your head coach? Absolutely? I'm

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not sure there's many coaches in the
NBA who you'd rather have than Eric Spolstra.

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He gets a ton out of his
teams. They seem to be always

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in that mix, there's something about
him, and because right hand man is

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Chris Quinn, my hope is that
the Pistons get a chance to talk to

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him and see if it's a good
fit. But he wanted Eric Spolster fired

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early on. Think about that.
How short sighted is that Lebron James in

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his infinite wisdom, and most people
would say, hey, listen, can't

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do anything wrong, right, He's
got the league in the basketball world by

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you know what, he wanted him
gone. That's heavy. So it's a

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as one website I forget which one
yesterday said, it's a daunting task because

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he has butted heads with just about
every single coach he has ever had.

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In fact, only two Spolster and
lou weren't let go while Lebron James was

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there. Five coaches were fired.
Luke Walton mutually parted ways before taking the

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King's job, and as I mentioned, James wanted Spolster fired. In twenty

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ten he started nine to eight,
all kinds of problems Lebron James had eyre

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toward his coach. They stuck it
out and look at what Spolstro was able

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to do. They went on to
win an NBA championship so that's one of

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the pole questions. Is a Lakers
head coaching job a desirable one? And

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we're going to replay our interview with
James Edwards from yesterday. We're going to

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play that here at six thirty five. The other pole question has to do

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with Game six or the Stanley Cup
Finals in general. Should Connor David win

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the con smythe which is given to
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Conor McDavid has forty two points.
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of any player in history. Wayne
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That's the question, and we'll tell
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playing on a losing team. There's
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the seven o'clock hour when we come
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