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You're listening to the downbeat on ninety
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from the scuttle butt, RA will
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bit of a warning for something coming
up, and also the first sighting of

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this in the spring. Plus in
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bit of a deep dive. I
want to actually do the cubby hole.

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I want to call it the cubby
hole. Bring it back. I'm done

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a long time about something that's going
on in the skies and why it's weird,

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it's incestual, it's all strange.
Eight o'clock, I think this Morning

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News eight thirty. We're in to
a draft at nine for a TV show

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that's back tonight. Cavn's making us
do another draft. It's gonna be odd.

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I don't have one. I'll figure
that out till nine o'clock. Yet,

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at nine o'clock, I have so
many questions about this. Well,

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why weren't they asked last night?
Well, because I figured I could answer

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them myself by doing a little research. No one wants to do research.

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Though I failed at research. I
new researching. I don't know anything about

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this show, Okay, that's what's
outstanding. That okay, but it's the

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most popular show in the world one
of them. Yeah, yes, okay,

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Draft nine and well I activate the
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take part in the draft to say, just pick your ten weirdest responses and

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activate the randomizer or if once we
can, I'm open activating any and all

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randomizers. Can we activate the randomizer
for sports? Yes? Can we do

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that right now? We should do
it now? Is Rob Low here?

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Would you freak out? Ah?
I'd freak out more of Rob Low walk

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in here? What would you do
to be like, oh my god,

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it's Rob Low. Holy what are
you doing here? Freak out? Yeah?

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I would drink out. You'd freak
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I think you'd be unexpectedly Yeah,
but freak out. I would would.

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I wouldn't even I'd stand up.
I guess Holy crap, Rob Low,

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Way, God, it's Rob Low. Have a c man. Yeah,

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I think it would be. It
would be so surprising. We'll find you

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some headphones. It would be shocking
right there right there. So if Rob

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Low, if you're listening and you
want to pop in, we will accommodate

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you like a true gentleman. I
saw another article about John ham It wasn't

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more locations, but it was just
more the fact that he's going to be

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here for a few months among us. Oh there's more locations. What he

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ordered at a custard place is an
article. We could get John Hamm on

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the show. Thanks. I mean, that says you know, and I

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think you might want it like to
do. He's like, screw it,

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man, it's gonna be cool for
an actor like I'm gonna go live in

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Dallas tech or Fort Worth, Texas
for three months or whatever. I don't

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know. It takes a shoot show, I think when it's their job.

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Though they viewed as I'd rather be
at home. No, I know,

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Oh yeah, but it's exciting and
then a trial of food, and I

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mean he seems to be it was
having fun in the pictures that look like

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with his wife. Well yeah,
he wasn't gonna look like he was hating

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every minute of his existence as a
vintage shop. I'd freak out more if

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freaking Don Draper were sitting across from
me more than I would if Rob Low

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was. If Don Draper walking there
in a full Madman's suit, if he

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came in here in his suit.
I wouldn't be able to contain myself.

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Really, yes, he'd start cranking
Rod. He's one of my favorite characters

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of all time. Don Draper,
I love that show so much. What

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if Polly Walnuts walked in? We
have a real story on our hands,

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Mikey, a real story Paulie Walnuts. No, it's not Polly Wants It's

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it's Mike Fisher. Oh no,
damn it. I couldn't lock the door

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quick enough if I saw him meafing
around out in the hallway. I have

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an email for John Ham's publicist.
Okay, I'm not gonna send it.

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Seems like a lot of work.
BAV's lost you click send love emails.

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No, you burn like a half
a calorie by the burnout reel. Someone

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just send us a picture of Danny's
new driver's license. Oh no, because

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you said you need a new driver's
license. You used to wear his kimono.

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Oh no, why do they have
Danny looking? That is so stupid.

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He's wearing a kimono, He's got
his face all powder, look like

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a had a little ranger hat on, and the autograph on the bottom is

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just ding you And you're an organ
Donner. Who did that? Who wasted

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this morning minutes of their life putting
that together? I don't know. It's

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nine to four to h phone number
didn't give Bayless another Uh, Texas,

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let's pub the s out of the
upcoming Saint Patrick's Day Parade. Let's have

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a huge turnout. Come on,
y'all. And I'm like, that's good.

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I just want to, like,
I have no idea for even I

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know that last year for the Saint
Patrick's Day Parade, we learned about three

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days before the parade happened that we
were supposed to be involved. And I

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imagine that'll happen again this year.
When is it? Is it the Saturday

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or something next Saturday? A week
from Saturday? Yeah, so sixteenth?

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Or's at ten days away? Fifteen
sixteenth, something like that. Yeah,

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yeah, we were on the float. We you guys, you weren't there?

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Were you? I was there.
I was in a golf tournament out

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of town. I was there representing
the station in iHeartMedia and the float you

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said iHeart Media on it, didn't
say the freak. No. Looks like

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y'all had a great time though.
It's pretty fun. I mean, the

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traffic's a whipping and getting out of
there, my god, peeing, Oh

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impossibly. Yeah, but throwing stuff
at people who just want can they want

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action stuff? You really do,
truly feel like you own the world.

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When you're on one of those floats. You got a box of beads.

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People are freaking out. The power
dynamic is real. You can get high

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off that power. Power about Danny. People want you, they want you.

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You are really somebody when you're on
a float. It is It's true.

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You can be anyone on a float. It's a moment where you really

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are someone. Well, Kevin,
okay. They responded to my text,

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Well, Kevin, we've got some
time. Let's figure it out. You

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figure it out. Then, I
have nothing. I have no power.

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I have nothing. I do what
I'm told. Well, we went last

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year, so now you two have
to go this year and on us I

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went the year before that. Yeah, that's probably not gonna happen. Some

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guy just said Rob Low would eat
you guys's lunch. He would, He

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really wouldn't. I think it's wild
you guys thinking like you wouldn't have an

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ass. You guys would have a
wild reaction that you've never had. Probably

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if Rob Low unexpectedly walked in.
I don't think so. I don't think

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you'd be able to play it cool. I could play it cool with Rob

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Low, not John Ham. I
should the surprise factor. I'd be surprised.

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I'd be like, oh my god, hey, there he is,

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Rob Low, and I would stand
up to shake his hand. I guess,

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but I wouldn't be hands shaking Jesus. All right, you get a

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minute. I'd ask him if he's
here to eat my lunch. Rob Low

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would eat you guys's lunch. He
walks, are you guys who like the

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floor? And where the three?
I don't know. Okay, So you're

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gonna activate the randomizer for sports?
Oh yeah, I forgot got almighty.

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What sport are we going to talk
about? Let's act? Oh sorry,

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Harry, let's activate the randomizer.
It's gonna kill a minute. It's a

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jam. What instrument is that?
Is it an instrument? It's a violin?

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Okay, I'm choosing. I'm choosing
Rangers. Damn it, hit it

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again, weird because we did them
some maths earlier. We'll do it a

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minute though. The Rangers in spring
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much yet. But I saw something
yesterday and it did pique my attention.

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First of all, the other day
why att Langford and two home runs in

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a game? And then yesterday that
Kevin Carter had two home runs in a

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game, and there was an article. Did you know that the Rangers have

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had fifty seven different left fielders and
since twenty thirteen? Okay, so fifty

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seven left fielders since twenty thirteen.
Can you name who the leader was in

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all that time? Since twenty thirteen? He's twenty thirteen, since David Murphy

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quit being their left fielder. So
they've had a left fielder problem since twenty

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thirteen. And it's kind of solved
now because I'll tak Evan Carter. Your

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left fielder now will be Evan Carter. Uh No, And he's played it.

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He's played it. But I'm talking
like the most games in left field

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since twenty thirteen. Good God,
kind of caught me with one foot off

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the merry go round here tell you
kind of a little bit of a Ranger

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dark period right after the big letdown
in eleven. Yeah, is that kind

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of checked out for a little while, put off the gas a little.

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We have initial wounded, licky initial
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first name, see last name,
Oh Willie Calhoun. There you go.

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Yeah, okay, and only one
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two was two yeah, three was
gallow. The point is and this whole

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uh you know thing I was reading
was about the idea that it's kind of

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solved now since twenty thirteen when David
Murphy left to go to Cleveland. They

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have it fixed now. They even
ran out Mike Napoli at left field for

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a little bit, so I remember
that I do. It can only be

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best described as an experiment when you
played with no no jersey, no shirt

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on, like when you mix vinegar
with baking soda in a two liter bottle.

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So they're gonna have to make a
decision on why Langford They could put

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him there like now, like let
him play not left field necessarily probably to

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play DH Do you have a double
still play right field? Leoti is still

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there to play center. Evan Carter's
gonna play left field. But this is

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one guy. So Keith Law named
White Langford number six on his top one

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hundred prospects, but another rival scout
said this, it took two games to

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put him in my mount rushmore of
best prospects I've ever seen, talking about

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why at Langford he's number two behind
Julio roverie Is of the Mariner. It

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ain't gonna take long if he continues
on this path. It won't take long

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for Leotis to be on the bench. And you'll Evan Connor, Evan Carter

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and center and Langford and left White
Langford look like he looks like White Langford

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exactly what lean and white? He's
not lean like that. No, he's

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not lean like he's bigger, but
but he's not big like Josh Young,

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you know, he's not like Pete
and Cavelia. Well, he's got trout

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face a little bit because I had
to hear somebody say he's a trout style

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and I what a name to throw
out there? Okay, yeah, yeah,

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but there's more power there, like
is he five tool manig? Well,

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no, it's so the question is
a little bit about defense. But

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every assignment that he had, even
in college, like he had gotten better

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and improved. But he's hitter,
pure hitter guy. I wish I could

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do that, what get better and
improve? No, dh it up though,

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too, and then dullies can date
some you don't have to wear any

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of these guys out too much.
Dude, I don't know they're gonna be

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good because I don't know if it's
the pitching, well will be good,

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but like going and a clear cut
and make the playoff team because I think

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the pitching is gonna have to be
a question until you get guys back in

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June, July, and August.
But that offense is going to do exactly

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what it did last year. That's
beat everyone's brain in. Man. You

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I'm not concerned. But this whole
thing about wait til the Cavalry arrives with

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de Gram insureser and you're talking about
a guy that's always injured, and and

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you're talking about another dude that's forty
and at the end of his career.

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I don't know if I look at
that as like some big savior situation,

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you better just be good with what
you have. Well, that's why I

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think that Jordan Montgomery was such a
big you know, yeah, a priority

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for them, and we still don't
know, We still don't know. It

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certainly seems like they're not going to
sign him. But how rare is it

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these days that a dude, because
I mean Langford was drafted fourth overall in

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twenty twenty three. Yeah, that's
quite fast tracking. They nearly called him

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up last year before the playoffs.
Is that ever happen nowadays? Or that's

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a complete rarity, right that you? I mean one year, but and

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he flew through the minors. Well, they got They got lucky in the

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draft too. They did draft lottery
for the first ten picks or something instead

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of you know, to avoid tanking. So they got lucky, got the

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fourth pick, and I think the
team one team took a like a high

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school shortstop or high school pitcher or
something ahead of that maybe wasn't exactly projected,

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and he fell in their lap.
I mean, they got really lucky

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with him. But then once he
finally like he took a couple weeks off,

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went to the miners and he started
high a and just started mashing,

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and they're like, okay, well
he's hitting everything right now and we need

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to win games. Maybe we'll call
him up. They nearly did it.

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Yeah, that was the Paul Skeans
one. And I saw, yeah he

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was the one one. Didn't he
hit like one O three on the on

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the gun this week? I saw
he was the pirates. I saw a

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clip of him pitching the other day. Yeah, it was Paul Skans.

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Then Dylan Cruz. That dude,
whoever that is, he's going to be

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a great major league player. That
name. These are great names, Dylan

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Cruz and Max Clark. Those are
people who get voted for. Those dudes

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belong in the big leagues, as
does Wyatt Langford. Hell Walter Jenkins went

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fifth. Oh my god, big
leaguer. Jacob Wilson, Yes, Jacob

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Wilson's good about Rhett Louder. Yeah, is Walter j outfielder. Brett Louder

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sounds like a catcher, Htt Louder, he's a pitcher. Blake Mitchell golf

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these are Yeah, that's not like
golfer, but that's not like a baseball

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player too. These are dudes you'd
invent in a video game. If they

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didn't sign the nil deal, John
Dowd, you'd invent Blake Mitchell John Dowd

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exactly. Was that Barry Bonds?
Uh, Yes, that's a there's a

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fake John Dowd. Now in the
college football game, Arch Manning, who

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has opted out of NCAA football.
Tommy Troy shortstop, of course he is

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these These are good Tommy Troy,
that's dumb diamondback shortstop twelve pick overall anyway,

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go why at language? Yeah,
so pretty much everyone opted in like

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they have over ten thousand. Maybe
it was one hundred thousand. Either way,

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multiples of thousands of players have opted
into the college football game to take

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their six hundred dollars in free copy
of the game. Arch Manning the backup

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ates said no, I'm going to
focus on my focus on my career.

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He don't need your six hundred bucks. So he's not doing it. And

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it's like there, don't be a
jerk be in the game. Just you

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don't have to do anything. They
will create you put your jersey on,

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don't say no, you're the backup
at Texas. Who cares? It was

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interesting? So he's not. He
doesn't have to explain himself to you.

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Kevin, No, he doesn't.
I just think it's why be lame.

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Maybe he doesn't think it's lame.
Well, you'll never be a special guest

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on the Manning cast. Sucks for
you, Bud, and then back more

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MAVs. I'm with you, Mike. I try to be measured. I

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don't think you should know. It's
one of my big pet Peeves is when

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people go with the wind blows with
sports, when they play multiple games like

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this eighty two games, one hundred
and sixty two in baseball and people,

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oh, they're good, they're bad
now, they're good, now, they're

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bad now, you get a pretty
good over arching opinion of things. Ank

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themvs would go destroy Minnesota. I
think they'd go destroy Oklahoma City in the

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playoffs. I also think they would
get destroyed by Denver. They wo'd get

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destroyed by the Clippers. And I
think in a play in situation with Golden

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State or the Lakers, I don't
love that. If you don't make it

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out of the back four or whatever, if you get into the top six,

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you'll probably get a Minnesota or Oklahoma
City type. I think the MAVs

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gonna win that. But like you
start talking about some of those better teams,

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No, I don't think they're there
yet. I absolutely don't think that.

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I think they can add to this
next season. I think they will

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have decisions to make with the head
coach. But one thing that I would

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I just wanted to keep in mind
here because Bevericks were always going to give

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up a lot of points. Last
night, the Patris score a ton that

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Pacers aren't a great defensive team either, okay, or they hustled, they're

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not a great defensive team. But
on them, you know, if we

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had some guys hit some shots,
then you know it looks a little better

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for us. You know, MAXI
didn't play very well last night. Josh

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Green did not play well again.
Tim Hardaway only played twelve minutes, was

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bad again. But like the decision
was made that we're going to be fast,

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we're going to run. Remember that, Well, when that happens,

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guess what happens. The other team
gets more possessions, more chances at points,

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The points go up. I'm not
telling you the MAVs defense needs any

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excuses. I'm telling you their stats
were all ways. Is gonna be worse

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when you made a decision to not
hold the ball for twenty four seconds every

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time, and they did make that
decision. So their way to win games

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is to outrun people and outscore people, and they didn't do it last night.

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And that's what this is all gonna
come down to. Josh Green has

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been bad for about a week and
a half. Tim Hardaway's been bad for

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about two weeks, and until that
gets settled, They're not gonna win games

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because those guys making shots and PJ. Washington making shots and Maxi making shots

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in the playoffs is gonna be the
difference in you winning series. We know

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what you're gonna get out of Luke
and Kyrie. Yeah, I mean,

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not anywhere close to burning my MAVs
hoodie and a and a homeless person fire.

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I will say this about the Pacers, and I've seen much like probably

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everybody else around here has seen two
Pacers games this year, and they're both

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against the MAVs. And if you
want to base your opinion on that team

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on those two games, nobody wants
to play them in the East. That

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team is effing scary. And I
don't know if it's just a matchup thing

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or if Carlisle's just got kids number
of it, but dude, that's a

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legit team. Well if they are
what they are from what I've seen,

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and what are they over their second
They are deep. They are so deep

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they're long, they can shoot you
out of the gym. And I disagree

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with defense because if defense is effort
and effort is defense, they had it.

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Those guys play max defense on every
possession from the beginning of the game

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all the way through the fourth quarter, at least what I saw MAVs show

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flashes. There were some like a
handful of possessions last night where the MAVs

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played such good defense, ran them
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made them take bad shots. But
it seems like Indiana does that on every

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damn possession. They played tough d
Pacers tweeted out their official account. First

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team to have nine players scoring double
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the Pacers last night. Nine different
dudes. They are not top heavy like

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we are, and we got some
dudes that. Okay, here's a question.

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Do we think Gafford might should start
ahead of Lively? Maybe? And

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yeah, it's a weird day to
ask that question when Lively played sixteen minutes

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and has zero points in one rebound. Yeah, he was invisible and not

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whatever. I think Lively is mature
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I don't think he's a fragile rookie
that would crumble if you change his role

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a little bit. And Gafford in
twenty one minutes had sixteen and ten and

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three blocks like active professional man.
The Gafford really showed up when it was

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already too late, Like, but
he was the only thing in the back

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half of that fourth quarter that gave
the MAVs any amount of life at all

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was Danny gafferd you just feel like
he looks like a starter and Lively has

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you know, if Luca's not setting
him up for Ali Oops, the Tasers

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dictated that a lot less. Yeah, no, I'm not. I love

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Lively, we all love Lively,
but I don't know. It feels almost

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like a forced experiment of of have
you know, you don't have him rolling

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and dunking, which I love,
but Gaffer's like kind of a no show

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two days ago. It's almost like
they alternate, like the Lively and Gafford

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getting both of you giving like good
performances. Has it like landed on the

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same game yet, like because Gaffer
was a no show the other that was

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a Philadelphia or the Boston game,
like Gafford wasn't didn't do much in that

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game, So you know, I
don't know, but I think anything it's

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like I think it's like just he's
like, let's simplify things, Like there's

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so many times when a guy would
just get in the paint and either no

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one would get in front of him, or the entire defense collapses on him

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and you kick it out to an
open guy. There were more open guys

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last night than actually in a long
time, and they're knocking down shots.

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It's over. They shot sixty percent
in the first half. Yeah, you

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know, and the map shot thirty
three percent from three. I mean,

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we always say it make three win
game. So having Boston the other night,

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they came out, couldn't hit a
shot where I'm able to keep it

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close because you just weren't connected that
much and your defense can't be relied on

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to get a ton of stops.
It's not what they are right now.

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Right, it might be what they
can become over time. I don't know

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how you get there. Might be
the playoffs maybe, but yeah, right

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now, I mean, I think
the questions about just kid are fair.

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They've been fair. But get out
of it. Win five game. See

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where you're at. I don't even
know what to say. You felt good

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about this thing ten days ago,
right, because it'll look like all cylinders

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firing after that trade, and now
it looks like they're a bag of turds.

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Let's go beat the heat tomorrow night. All right, Okay, all

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right, guys, we have our
first sighting of this of the spring next

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to ninety seven won the Freak