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<v Speaker 1>The sports page with The Orlando Sentinel at FM ninety

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<v Speaker 1>six to nine.

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<v Speaker 2>In the games, Mike the Bulldog beyond you on jr R.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, Bulldog, it's just me and you are f one insider.

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<v Speaker 1>Taco Bob is off since the series is off this week.

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<v Speaker 1>I guess he's, you know, enjoying some downtime.

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<v Speaker 2>He's been well, he's been working hard, you know, keeping

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<v Speaker 2>up with that over all these months and years. Sure, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>doing his research. Yeah. What about the Indiana Pacers. My god,

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<v Speaker 2>they fuck the odds yet again. Last night blew out

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<v Speaker 2>heavily favored Oklahoma City won a wait to ninety one

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<v Speaker 2>in Game six of the NBA Finals. We got ourselves

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<v Speaker 2>a Game seven coming up on Sunday night. So, man,

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<v Speaker 2>the Pacers are. What an incredible story they are. They

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<v Speaker 2>started out the regular season. I think they were like

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<v Speaker 2>ten and fifteen during their first twenty five games. Then

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<v Speaker 2>they make a run into the playoffs. We've talked a

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<v Speaker 2>lot about the five comebacks from fifteen points or more

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<v Speaker 2>down in the playoffs. They come back five times from

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<v Speaker 2>fifteen or more.

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<v Speaker 1>They got off to another slow start last night before

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<v Speaker 1>then just blowing it open.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they were down. I think they were down ten

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<v Speaker 2>to two early in the game, missed their first eight shots.

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<v Speaker 2>Then over the next twenty four minutes they outscored the

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<v Speaker 2>Thunder sixty eight the thirty two. It was such a

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<v Speaker 2>blowout that the thunder starters didn't even play the fourth quarter.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you see the stat that this is gonna be

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<v Speaker 1>the first NBA Finals Game seven since twenty sixteen.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's pretty wild. Yeah, good news for the Thunder.

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<v Speaker 2>By the way, home teams are fifteen and four in

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<v Speaker 2>the Finals in game seven, so that Sunday game is

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<v Speaker 2>an okay. See. But I'll tell you what, if Indiana

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<v Speaker 2>wins this game. I don't know what the narrative will

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<v Speaker 2>be of Indiana wins games, Devin. Will it be that

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<v Speaker 2>OKC choked because they were the heavy favorites coming into

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<v Speaker 2>the series, or will it be that Indiana is just

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<v Speaker 2>a bunch of gritty underdogs had a great playoffs. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been I've been saying it since they've been doing

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<v Speaker 1>all of what you just described throughout these playoffs. It's

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<v Speaker 1>almost like Team of Destiny type stuff, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And we were calling the Magic the Gritty Committee

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<v Speaker 2>during the regular season. I think Indiana is the real

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<v Speaker 2>gritty committee what they played during the playoffs. So yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>we'll see what happens. But Game seven is on Sunday.

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<v Speaker 2>In baseball, did you see the team.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh Hunter Biggie, who was just sitting in the dugout

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<v Speaker 1>night in his own business.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, he's u he's on injured reserve. He was,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, standing on the top row of the dugout

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<v Speaker 2>last night, and a foul ball just lined right into

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<v Speaker 2>the dugout and it was with Baltimore Orioles catcher Adleie Rutchman,

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<v Speaker 2>who's left hand. It just sharply pulls the pitch into

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<v Speaker 2>the Tampa Bay dugout and right in the face of

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<v Speaker 2>Hunter Biggie, and he went down like a sack of potatoes.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm luckily it looks like he's gonna be okay, although

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<v Speaker 2>he was, you know, taken to the hospital. The ball,

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<v Speaker 2>by the way, came off for Rutchman's bat at one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred and five miles prow God. You know, imagine normally.

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<v Speaker 1>The picture that always has that in the back of

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<v Speaker 1>their head when they're on the mound, that you're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>get one drilled right up at you. You know, you

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<v Speaker 1>gotta be on your toes there, but as you're in

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<v Speaker 1>the standing there in the dug.

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<v Speaker 2>House, good lord, yeah, Lynch, I want your opinion on

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<v Speaker 2>something that happened that was sort of you know, under

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<v Speaker 2>the radar in college football yesterday. And so there's a

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<v Speaker 2>new amendment approved by the Florida Board of Governors, which

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<v Speaker 2>oversees education higher education, State of Florida. New amendment yesterday

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<v Speaker 2>where the state schools talking about UCF uf FSU, they

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<v Speaker 2>can now allocate more than twenty two million dollars annually

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<v Speaker 2>to paying athletes. All right, This isn't the NCAA saying, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>you pay your athletes. This is the Florida Board of

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<v Speaker 2>Governors saying that public universities can utilize up to twenty

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<v Speaker 2>two and a half million dollars in non athletic funding

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<v Speaker 2>to cover paying athletes. In other words, our state government

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<v Speaker 2>is allowing college athletic programs to take money from the

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<v Speaker 2>general fund of the university to pay athletes. Do you

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<v Speaker 2>understand what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 1>I do understand what you're saying. And the general funds

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<v Speaker 1>consists of money coming from.

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<v Speaker 2>Where coming from the you know, taxpayer funded are general university.

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<v Speaker 1>Can donors donate to a university's general fund.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know where donors can just continue. But the

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<v Speaker 2>fact of the matter is this money is supposed to

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<v Speaker 2>be used on educational purposes out of the general athletic

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<v Speaker 2>fund or out of the general university fund. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>like this. These football programs make plenty of money. If

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<v Speaker 2>they can't pay their athletes out of their own budget,

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<v Speaker 2>the state government should not be bailing them out with

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<v Speaker 2>money that should be going elsewhere. That's my point on this.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well, where I'm going with it is it just

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<v Speaker 1>sound on from where you just described. Yeah, I know

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<v Speaker 1>that's wrong. I would would give you that. But if

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<v Speaker 1>if private donors are able to contribute to the general

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<v Speaker 1>fund in ear market for athletics, I have no problem

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<v Speaker 1>with that.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think I don't think that would be permitted

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<v Speaker 2>under it NCAAs. But who the hell is The fact

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<v Speaker 2>of the matter is our state universities are now getting

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<v Speaker 2>government auts to pay their players. That's the bottom line,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm not for it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. So anyway, Yeah, you got to keep up with

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<v Speaker 1>you got to keep up with the Ohio States and

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<v Speaker 1>the Texas you know of the world.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I guess by the way, Shadua Sanders two

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<v Speaker 2>speeding tickets now, Jesus, one of them one hundred and

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<v Speaker 2>one miles per hour, the other ninety one miles per hour.

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<v Speaker 2>All have all both happened after midnight up in Cleveland.

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<v Speaker 2>So I think that's a little bit of a red flag,

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<v Speaker 2>don't you sure.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they're gonna be going faster than that at Pocono

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<v Speaker 1>though this weekend.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Pocono Nascar up in the Poconos. Have you ever

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<v Speaker 2>been up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.

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<v Speaker 1>I may have driven through. I don't know. I haven't

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<v Speaker 1>spent any quality time there.

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<v Speaker 2>It's beautiful, is it?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Full up there? Yeah, and that and the race is

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<v Speaker 2>always packed. They get fired up up in Pocono for

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<v Speaker 2>the NASCAR race. I'm picking, by the way, Kyle Larson.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you're going out on a limbit there. How about

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<v Speaker 1>College World Series getting started this weekend. We get a

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<v Speaker 1>LS and Coastal Carolina.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, as we said yesterday, Coastal Carolina. What a great story.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, one fifty five games during the regular season

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<v Speaker 2>this year. Now they're in the College World Series playing

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<v Speaker 2>the the LSU, one of the premier powerhouses in college

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<v Speaker 2>baseball over the last thirty years, so it's gonna be

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<v Speaker 2>in an underdog. It's sort of like the NBA Finals.

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<v Speaker 2>You got the underdog story and you got the heavy favorite.

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<v Speaker 2>So hopefully Coastal Carolina gets it done.

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<v Speaker 1>Mike the Bulldog Theyonkey. He is the host of open

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