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Then everybody, and welcome to fire
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the Motor City Manmouth. Please to
be joined by my regulars, Jeremy Ball

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right, what's up smoking? Right
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Morgan was basketball and George corn I
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night. Well, we got a
few topics we're going to talk about tonight

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as we go into the sports weekend, and the first one is one.

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I hate to say it, but
the only word I can describe for this

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is laughable. And when I'm laughable, no, it's not laughable enough.

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Where I'm losing my head my hat
over at this, Jeremy. I won't

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go that far to you. Let
you get the gratification thing. It's that

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but all kidding aside. The NBA's
new in season tournament to reported league debut

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in December. The final four will
take place from December seventh or the ninth

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in Las Vegas. The players for
the tournament champion will earn each received five

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hundred grand First of all, Jeremy, what do you think of this new

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in season tournament? Is this what's
forcing the All Star Game? Oh?

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Actually, it isn't. It isn't
replacing it. No, oh god.

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So we're gonna have a mid season
champion and then they automatically get like a

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one or two seed then in the
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Is that what this is all about? I have no idea what it's all

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about. Really, If that's what
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mid season champion and they're automatically in
and takes away one of those bottom feeder

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seeds, isn't that good for the
sport? Is Let's say they win that

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tournament for their division, their conference, and the other one wins it for

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their conference. They should be the
number one seed for the first half,

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which you will eliminate that bottom feeder, the play one of the players.

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It'll increase the level of competition at
the end of the season. All I

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can say is this reminds me of
Bowl Games, which is a participation event.

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Really, this is so laughable if
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it comes to describing the NBA play
in tournament. Give me a break,

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all right, George, do you
have any more intellectual insights over this?

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Yeah, I'm like, I'm still, yeah, trying to sort through my

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mind to details. Like Jeremy said, I don't think they're gonna do that,

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Jeremy. I'm not quite sure though, if they're gonna see people after

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the season ends. But it begs
the bigger question and than what the heck

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are you doing. You're doing it
for ratings, you're doing it for money,

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You're doing it to line the coffers
of guys that are rich already,

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these players and these owners. It
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a stretch and you're trying to horn
in, hold in whatever on the marketing

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dollars. Obviously, in the month
of December, which as we know,

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is a lot of family, a
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this and that, a lot of
football. And here you go, mister

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NBA, mister Silver, trying to
put your mark on on what typically we

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expect sports fans in December. Like
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college bowl games are our special They're
privileged games, especially the ones obviously in

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the National Championship Series. But this
I'm having trouble understanding. I know he

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wants to do it for money,
and I know he wants to ratings grab,

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but this is just going to extend
the season. Guys, we know

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it as because like you said,
they're not they're not replacing the All Star

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Game, so they're still going to
give you an all Star break to all

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the teams. I don't I don't
like it, all right, Jamie,

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go ahead, read the chat room
and out all right. First love,

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Patty Grinds, I completely agree this
is dumb. They need the bottom four

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teams to play for the number one
pick instead of the lottery. Absolutely,

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And I say in football, if
you have two teams tied, instead of

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flipping a coin, you could call
it the toilet Bowl and have them two

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teams play in the NFL for it. All right, Well you get Candy

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Evelyn, she's our crack researcher from
the Maybe this will I'll put a little

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bit added that for the title game
will count toward the NBA's regular season the

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end. The league announced the full
details of the event will be revealed Saturday

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at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas during
the fan event NBA Con and will be

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broadcast live on ESPN's NBA Today.
Okay, of course, all right,

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whatever, thank you Candy for the
information. At you, Candy. I'm

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still I think I must be suffering
a dumb pill because none of the I

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stand a better chance of taking a
foreign language at the age of sixty,

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even though I struggled when I was
seventeen in high school doing that. So

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this is all I'll say is the
NBA Playing Tournament is a foreign language to

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me, That's all I NBA Playing
Tournament isn't. The n season Tournament is

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to me considered affable and a desperate
money grab. And let's see, I

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want to say, see who said
the different money grab? My bat must

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smoking dad? Yeah, your dad, Your dad nailed it, all right?

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Where Yeah, all right, we
gotta definitely a money grab. Where

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are we at? All right?
A very bottom comment. There you go,

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Ken, your comment so good now
everybody can see it. Thank you,

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Dad, and agrees with Patty G. There you go, all right,

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money grab? Well, nevertheless,
this is what we have an in

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season tournament. You know. The
best way to combat the thing is just

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play eighties and nineties basketball when it
really matter instead of a jump shooting league.

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That's what I would do all these
gimmicks. I didn't have a problem

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with the playing tournament. I think
that was pretty intriguing, one of Silver's

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better ideas, but he hadn't had
many other ones than that. I want,

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I don't have a problem with.
I can live with that, But

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this other stuff is what it is, so all right, all of them.

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But that's I hate to play in
tournament because that puts it at basically

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half the field gets into the playoffs
anymore. Might as well throw out more

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participation awards. Oh yeah, no, I'm with you all the way.

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I mean, I agree, I
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you know, But again, the
NBA is in such dire straights to find

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any way it possibly can so that
they can keep it interesting. But why

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don't you go back to what made
it all great, playing defense and playing

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basketball the hard way. Nobody had
super teams unless you traded for them.

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Okay, traded players agree these each
other's buddies. Yea, for the love

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of God, bring back the hand
check. Yeah right, I'll like DC.

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I this one's got to go up
because he's falling into my territory.

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Because I wouldn't say I surrender.
I say DC, You're the best,

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my friend. And that's why that
comment got out there. Although I struggle

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with Spanish and probably regretting it in
the Miami market that I should have learned

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it, because I can tell you
how many zoom calls I struggled with because

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I didn't know Spanish. And when
you're in Miami, cover of the Marlins,

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you have to have a lot of
the bilingual people. We never got

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thoughts about the new end season tournament? Have we done everything in our power

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to chastise the idea? Not that
anybody's gonna listen to us anyway. Well,

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I'll weigh in. I do like
to play in and I'll tell you

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why at the end of the season. Is because it gives cities and teams

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that are very close the chance the
opportunity. It's kind of like a wild

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card round. So I don't mind
that at all. At the end of

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the season. I think Silver did
a nice job with that tournament. He

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keeps it very brief, he keeps
it to one two. I think maybe

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possibly have to pay it is it
just two or three games you play.

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And I do like that format because, like I said, it brings those

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cities, those franchises that are just
trying to eke into the playoff. It's

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a chance to play against competition that
is about the same as them. In

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other words, you know, a
seventh seed against the eight seed or eight

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versus nine, whatever the heck he
uses that formula. But no, I

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am against Like you said, guy
said, I don't like this other tournament

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early in the season at all.
In season turning and brings up another one,

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another one NBA Governor's voting on July
eleventh, regarding flopping get rid of

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it. Yeah, I think they're
going to do some things in the summer

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league to try and unforce. Yes, I saw that, and my dad

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says, there's a new French perfume. As though it's called sweet surrender.

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It comes in a black bottle of
the yellow stripe down its back. Dad's

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got a great sense of humor.
One of these days we're going to get

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him on here. We will by
hook or by crook. See this guy

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in first. All right, let's
want a baseball like trout is surgery of

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broken risk. He's out forty eight
weeks, tough, look angels or forty

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five and forty four going into it. I don't know, Jeremy, some

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thoughts about Mike trout Man. Such
an amazing talent, but like the last

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three years, has struggled to stay
on the field. Availability is the best

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ability. And I knew when they
did that big contract for such a long

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period of dime it may bite them
in the butt. Yeah, okay,

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George, Mike is a great ball
player. You know, everybody kind of

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annointed him as the second Coming when
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And I know he's you know,
they they've they've tried hard. Baseball

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has to make him more outgoing and
more fan friendly, whatever you want to

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call it. But boy, oh
boy, this is a real blow to

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the Angels. That franchise has been
lollygagging for how many years now? And

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Otani is there, but I'm telling
you, you know they need Mike Trout's

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bat for sure. This is really
really going to harm their chances to make

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the postseason. It's unfortunate. We've
had it though other teams have had it

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and been able to somehow bear through
it, but not. I don't think

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the Angels can, although you know, it's a long season and we'll see,

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but it is definitely a heartbreaker for
the Angels, franchising, their fans.

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Yeah, if indeed this is Otani's
last year, one would have thought

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they would have had one hundred and
sixty two games or one hundred and fifty

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with Otani and Trout. But it's
not going to happen, unfortunately. And

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I've worked with the Angels in the
past. Tim Mead used to be in

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charge of their media, and Tim
and I are really good friends, and

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the Angels, to me, they
have a world title under Mike Socio whatever

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really been relevant in the postseason.
I just feel bad for the organization and

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knowing that Otani could probably pick his
price when it's also done all right,

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final topic of the night, San
Diego State will be staying in the Mountain

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West for now. This is a
blow to the PAC twelve, sighting uncertainty

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that no deal is expected to be
announced imminently. San Diego State University will

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be in the Mountain West. As
I mentioned, no team in southern cal

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So, when you talk about the
position that PAC twelve commissioners in George Cliford

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call, you talk about a commissioner
that's in a vine, you'll lose UCLA

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and you use USC and then you
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in southern CAW. How relevant is
the PAC twelve And do you think that

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San Diego State made the right move? And I think they're committed there for

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at least two more years, Jeremy, I think San Diego State did the

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perfect move. I think the PAC
twelve is slowly becoming the Pact nine.

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I think Oregon is the next team
to leave, right because I don't see

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them staying if the level of competition
doesn't remain at a high level and without

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USC and UCLA, I don't see
a high level staying there. What's their

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biggest competition now, Stanford, right, George, Yeah. I remember when

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I went to a journalism conference many
many years ago, I met a young

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guy that was a student at San
Diego State University, and he was so

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excited about that school, and he
was really pushing the especially the basketball,

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but the football too, And I'll
never forget that kind of stuck in my

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head. So I've always had a
kind of a soft spot for San Diego

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State when it comes to athletics.
Just so you know, it's a wonderful

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area as we know, it's a
it's a beautiful part of California. It's

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and it's a very good university.
And I agree with Jeremy. I think

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they were smart and not jumping because
obviously the Pac ten is looking for help

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right now, guys. I mean
they're having all kinds of problem hemorrhaging if

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you will, and and and getting
getting getting teams to stay or even enticing

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new ones to come on board,
like San Diego State. All that being

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said, um no, I think
San Diego State did the best thing also

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to just to stay put for now. And and it's and it's a shame

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because that Pac ten Big Ten rivalry
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guys, us guys know what the
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sports is so football, so darn
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I don't like it. Well,
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and Steve Fisher. We all know
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San Diego State. And I'll make
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made a good move holding off the
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fight a way to avoid avoid any
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Stanford and California going, but I
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most likely ones because they want that
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that's big city in Seattle. Time
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Jeremy, any closing thoughts on this
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all right, we'll about you.
George, Yeah, good job,

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and I'm looking forward to seeing how
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UCLA and something care all I know
and San Diego State, good job and

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just resisting it right now for going
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So all right, Jeremy, we'll
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ahead, Okay, I want you
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I have for you. Is the
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the rising salaries in the NFL.
What do you think, George? Yeah,

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I thought about it a little bit, not too much, not too

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deeply, but I think that,
Yeah, the salaries are just getting way

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out of hand. I mean,
they're obviously escalating, and it's it's it

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is a good good thing to think
about it. I'm not sure if there's

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one solid answer I could give you, but I think teams will still pressure

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will be under pressure. I mean
to covet that position, and obviously than

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more positions on a team. I'm
not trying to walk, but I think

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I think that the quarterback, franchise
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but don't get me wrong, there
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There will be a lot. And
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here in Detroit, and you know
Jared Goff and all these naysayers. You

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know, the guy's not going to
make it, and and look at the

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splendid job he did last year,
and you know it, and it comes

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to a point, well, yeah, but been in another other one or

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two years whatever. They have to
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I understand all of that is going
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to say, I still think there
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least for now. Scott, what
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I agree with George one hundred percent
for now. But I think the salaries

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are out of control. As Patty
grimes to say, yes, eventually the

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balls the bubbles will burst for the
QB salaries. It's inevitable. I mean,

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how much can you pay the quarterback? Anyways, there has to be

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a limit in terms of Remember,
you do have a salary. Happened this

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sport and we got to pay most
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you can't fill out a roster.
So yeah, I think that's inevitable that

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the bubbles will burst, But I'd
say the next couple of years and then

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you have to really look at it
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so much you could pay one player. I say one thing before I add

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to it. Though, as we
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been devalued, and once upon a
time that they were one of the highest

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paying positions out there. Go ahead, Okay, I want to give my

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take on it now, and now
I'll give you why I bring this up.

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Number one, there has only been
three quarterbacks that are not on a

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rookie contract that's won the Super Bowl
since the year two thousand. That would

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be Tom Brady on the least the
market value, Peyton Manning, and Matthew

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Stafford. That's it. All.
The rest of the qbs that have won

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a Super Bowl have been on a
rookie contract. Wow. So with that

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being said, I think that unless
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there will be no such thing as
a franchise QB. Going forward,

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they're gonna it'll always be regurgitate and
recycled through the draft, because the talent

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coming out of the draft is way
better than what we used to see coming

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out of the draft. You usually
used to see maybe what one or two

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quarterbacks be good out of a draft
class. And lately we've seen three or

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four out of the draft class,
and not all of them were first rounders.

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Yeah, but I'll tell you to
bring all their fourth rounders. Look

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at all the other players that have
been drafted later in the drafted. Joe

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Montana stands out to me. I
don't care about Tom Brady. You were

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lucky. They were lucky that a
guy like him fell at Joe Montana in

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the third round too. Yeah,
and I'm rasing the second round. There

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you go. Yah, it's very
interesting. Yeah, Like I like your

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parting shot. That was a really
good one. That's thinking man's parting shot

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there, all right, George,
Well, my parting shot is going to

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be something that my colleague Joe the
Point of the Metro Times, formerly of

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the Free Press, formerly of the
New York Times route and he's very,

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very thoughtful in his writing and I
have to share it with you, guys.

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What's the future of Comerica Park.
This ballpark was built in two thousand.

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This ballpark is now twenty three years
old, and it is showing its

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age. Can you believe the ferris
wheel is shut down? The carouselt They

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spend all this money on these two
beautiful rides for the children, and they're

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both shut down. There's a water
stations and hydration stadiums where you could fill

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up a bottle for water if you
cannot afford the high prices of bottled water

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and pop and beer. They're not
working, Joe said in his article Chris

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Ellich, if this isn't an eye
opener, and Scott Harris should be for

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you guys, you have to do
something to maintain this stadium properly, to

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enhance it, to bring more fans
down there. I know you can't do

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nothing about everybody getting drenched with rain
or drenched with heat and sunshine. There's

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no overhangs, as we know at
Comerica Park like we had at Tiger Stadium.

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But I'm telling you LaPoint had a
good column and it's making a lot

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of noise from the readers that have
seen it. And posted it on Facebook.

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So all I'm doing is kind of
chiming in, But I'm saying the

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same thing Chris Ellich and your mother
and who's ever else involved in this franchise.

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You guys better get some forward thinking
right now, because you can't leave

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this ballpark just you know, I
don't want to say ruined, but just

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be laxadaisical and keeping a high standard
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stadium. I doubt if they'll be
able to afford to build a new one,

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at least not as owners. I
doubt if they'll do that, even

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though the point suggested that this column
that would have to come. I believe

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with a new ownership. Now,
I was always thought that these ballparks are

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bill now are mental last fifteen one
hundred years. Milwaukee's having the same problem

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with Miller Park. I mean,
think about it. Now, they have

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four hundred some million dollars of maintenance. What are you're gonna do? They're

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all built to last, So good
luck, you know, and then look

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at what happened. Texas goes and
build a new one right away, you

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know, so you got something.
Well, Well, Atlanta did a good

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thing by going suburbs. But they
felt like that's where they're fan base,

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so I have no and plus are
you using their other one for Georgia State

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football, So it's not that's not
a total. My parting shot is actually

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in the Detroit area. Phillip's Philip
about Philip Zadina. Oh, I'm going

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to fill the net with pucks,
you know. Okay, Well, when

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you want to talk about hitting rock
bottom, nobody claims you in the waiver

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market really, so, in my
opinion, let's talk about the modern day

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bust. He didn't want to stay
with the Red Wings because number one,

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he didn't have any chance to go
out there and make it in a system

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which obviously their system is starting to
become a lot steeper in prospects. But

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Philip Zadina, I'm glad that you
didn't want to play with the Red Wings

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because now it seems like nobody wants
to take you on with that salary.

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My best thing for you to go, Phillips zena go back to Europe.

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You're no good in the National Hockey
League. You are a bust. Bust.

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If you want to go out there
and fill the nets up with buck

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do it. The European way,
because you're not cut out for the National

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Hockey League and big league hockey.
The Red Wings could have kept him around

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and the minor leagues, what Grand
Rapids, but he wanted to league.

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Well you know what, good luck? Okay. I remember we talked about

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Johnny Manziel not living up to the
hype. Well, you know what,

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Phillips ZDNA didn't either. And as
far as I'm concerned, you know,

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I'll be as biases. I want
them about the Wings. They've always been,

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They've always owned a special place in
my heart. I get that.

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But there's still an original original sixteen
with eleven Stanley cups, and people want

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to play for the Red Wings.
They really want to play for the Red

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Wings. Maybe the Arizona Coyotes weren't
that stupid, after all, they could

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have had him, but they didn't
want him, and he's slid to Detroit.

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I don't know what the Cardinal Coyotes
ended up getting. Not the point

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good riddence fell up, Zadina.
Maybe you need to go back across a

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big pond and disappear once overall nobody
cares about you. Anyways, Go ahead,

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Jeremy. One more thing. I
mentioned it on my show last week.

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I didn't really get a chance to
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graduated from the University of Arkansas,
drafted by the Patriots. Play was a

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journeyman around the league a few years
had his first year as a high school

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coach. Ryan Mallett passed away last
Wednesday in a drowning accident. In my

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heart and deepest condolences go out to
his family. Okay, and Jeremy,

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well said, and his beautiful fiance
too. They were going to get married

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and she was also I understand,
you know, swimming at the time and

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just so heartwrenching and so heartbreaking and
thank you're five years old. Yeah,

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well, conway too soon, all
right, as we wrap up, fire

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up, We're gonna let Jeremy let
everybody know how they get ahold of Jeremy.

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And also before you do, we
have another episode coming out this Sunday

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called The Professor and the Pupil.
Hope you can join us, and they

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have on Jacob Christner to join us. We have a three man boot that

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day, So go ahead, Jeremy. Well, yeah, as you mentioned

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it, I am on the South
Florida Tribune channel on YouTube. So therefore,

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come on out check us about.
We have our show on Sunday,

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the Professor and Pupil. We have
Fire Up, which could be on a

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be on a Tuesday. It's whatever
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the Inside the Pigskin occasionally one hundred
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Up Michigan, Fire Up Wisconsin.
I never done Fire Up Florida yet,

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but I'm quite sure it'll happen eventually. Then there's my channel Kneecapping with the

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Detroit Lions, where I do during
the offseason. I do my Wednesday show

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about the NFL and my Friday show
about the Detroit Lions. Then there's Let's

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Talk Sports Networks show the Jeremy Bullwick
Show, where I get to interview podcasters,

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fans, and former players from different
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Then let's see what else do we
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do another one of those interview shows
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So I'm a busy guy. King
Yesterday. Are my favorite Canadian fan?

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There you go, got's in there
before we under the bu anything else you

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want to add. Smoking. I
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George your next Yeah. I got
a book called Detroit Sports Broadcasting on

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the Air, and Scott's in the
book. He's interviewing Muhammad Ali and Jimmy

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Connors. We got all kinds of
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It's a great read. There's a
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write for the Motor City Tribune under
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always a link to to acquire the
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Also, you can hear me on
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Exchange and whenever Scott needs me on
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wonderful network, and I appreciate being
asked to be on and enjoy it very

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much. You can reach me at
giicorn at yahoo dot com and also sang

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Sports ninety nine on Twitter and follow
me also in the pages of the Detroit

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Monitor, which is a local newspaper
here in town. So glad to be

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part of the show, and you
guys are terrific. Well, just the

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programming note that we will be running
a fire Up show, probably this one

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more often than not on Thursday nights
after my one on one interview, So

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we're going to be making Thursday nights
a two show night here on the network.

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What that said, great job by
Jeremy as always in George, I

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know what I get out of these
two guys, nothing short of outstanding excellent.

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So these guys do a really wonderful
job. So I'm probably have on

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my team. But that said,
this concluded this edition of Fire Up.

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My name is Scott Morgan, rutham
over City Manmouth. Want to thank everybody

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in the chat room that participated and
we will catch you on our next broadcast.

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Good night everybody, and thank you
for joy ask and I have yourself

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as safe and wonderful all weekend.
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