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near the Canadian border. John, a lot of

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now might be Pod baseball might be dodge

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baseball where do you wanna go? Baseball, hot

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dogs Apple pie and Chevrolet. Here we go.

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Let's talk first of all about the Pad.

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They're wrapping up this road trip in Texas.

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They come home. They have a chance to

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put a streak together, You know, they have

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won 10 of their last 13, John, but

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they've not made up a lot of ground

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on the dodgers as they got Seth for

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fireworks on July fourth, there were still 7

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and a half back,

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and the dodgers and the Atlanta Brave who

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they're chasing for the number 1 seed in

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the wild card spot, all have big games

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in hand on the pad, so they really

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need to put a string together. 1 they

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come off this game and tech Sis, they're

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gonna come home. They get Arizona, then they

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get Seattle,

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and then they're gonna work their way towards

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the all star break So plain and simple,

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they've just gotta continue to stay hot and

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hope they can close the gap a little

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bit on the touch.

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That being said,

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I'm a little bit concerned about this fiction

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staff. With the real dillon cease stand out.

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Is this the right handed version of Blake

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sn. This is kinda stunning John, what has

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happened to him.

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Dillon sees at a 2 point 19ER

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and his first 8 starts with the pot

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after the trade from the White sox

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Since that point in time, a 6 point

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52ERA

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plagued by home runs, plagued by walks

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played by the inability to get out of

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the fourth inning. So that's an issue right

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now, can he write himself a second issue

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is because they've run out of pitching, They're

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keep sending adam a m out there, the

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Rookie from El Paso,

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and he struggled. He has good innings, but

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he doesn't serve... 5. He's got a earn

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run average

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right now of 7.52.

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So I think the burning question because we

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have a great unknown. We don't know when

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da is gonna be back and whether do

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with the elbow is gonna be the do

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we knew. And we're still at least a

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month away, and that includes continued bull penn

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sessions, and that continues

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to also involve possible

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you know, run ups and rehab starts how

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Joe Mu Elbow is gonna react. I mean,

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he's been off and he's gonna be off

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probably another month. And then obviously, we're waiting

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to see where Fernando Tat.

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Good piece of news, Xander Bog tonight, beginning

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a rehab assignment and open... Pass coming off

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the fractured shoulder.

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David Paw

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to run home run, waiting for him to

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find his swing if this can cut him

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loose and he becomes a contributor that's gonna

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help the Pod team right now.

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Hey. How about the cool news, pro far?

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Tat

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named the starting positions for the All star

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game in a couple of weeks.

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4 will start in left, tat can play,

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but he'll make an appearance then we're gonna

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wait as they choose the pitching staff. Robert

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Suarez will get chosen, and I think the

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Rookie of the year, Canada Jackson Merrill. Has

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to be chosen to.

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Spinning back to the first topic, which is

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the pitching.

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Cease

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The unknown with the 2 right hand da

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and Mu,

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and the phone calls it A j Pro

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and his scouts are making while they're on

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the road looking.

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Of the pictures that are out there that

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might be on the trade block before August

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first,

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Zach Olsen, Tampa bay,

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might be on his way out.

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Surprise story, Colorado

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top picture this year in a miserable season.

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Cal Quan trill has evidently been put on

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the trade block.

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The angels Tyler Anderson journey.

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He could be on the trade block as

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well as Sean Man. The issue is

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3 of the 4 that I just mentioned

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are pod,

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and I don't think you're gonna get them

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dirt cheap. So the question is, do you

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pursue Zach Elf who

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penetrated a long time ago, the Pursue Quan

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who's really evolved into a rock studies,

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very steady starting right hand, the attacker rental

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on Sean Man and at what price do

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you pay to make those deals go through.

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So, John, I posted a lot of things

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on the Pottery Bulletin board, it... Your turn

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back in San diego,

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give me an opinion or 2 or 3.

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Well, last Night I checked, the pad are

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up too nothing. It's the jerks and profile

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game. He's

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scored 2 runs hit a laser beam homer

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and threw a guy out at home plate.

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So he's earning that all star bid. You

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know, it's interesting to you brought up cal

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coin control. Because remember, a aj, I think

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picked him, like, number 7 overall, even though

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he was coming off of... What was it

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Tommy John or shoulder surgery or something, but

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they had all this confidence. Yeah. It's Stanford.

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So, you know, he ended up going to

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Cleveland. He did alright. I'm surprised he hasn't

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stuck in Cleveland, and that might not be

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a bad guy guy to pick up. But

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to your point, I don't know if we

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can count on musk grove. I don't even

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know what's going on with da.

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M went 4 innings gabe up 4 runs

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and they still kinda won. So, yeah, they're

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kinda piecing it together like Mc with duct

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tape and bailing wire. I guess the burning

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question though, can you trust this

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rotation if there is no surely? And if

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there is no healthy must grow or Do

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you believe the second half of the season

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you can live with this rotation and then

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qualify for a wild spot and do you

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trust this rotation to be able to win

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a a of wildcard card game you can

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go to the second run it, it's a

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big, big issue, and then what complicates it

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obviously is ownership public stands. You're not trading

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any more hot prospects.

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And by the way, we can't really take

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on very much more salary.

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Although some of these guys had all think

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are knocking down.

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Significant amounts of money. So that's where we

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are with the pot. Let's go from that.

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Let's go to the dodgers.

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S Ot,

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is not going to go to home run

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derby. He's gonna continue to rehab that right

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elbow.

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Obviously, there is concern with the amount stress

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a player puts on his body during home

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run derby, they don't wanna run the risk.

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Even though major league baseball this past week,

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change the structure of home run derby. It'll

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just be the top 4 guys after they're

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at Bat move on. It's not gonna be

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head to head competition. You're gonna limit the

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number of is a guy is gonna see.

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But at the end of the day, there's

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a lot of stress with these guys and

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the power swings, etcetera. Ot is not gonna

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participate.

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Piece of good news, but it's only the

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first piece of good news first step forward,

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Clayton K who shut down for about 10

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days with sore in the search group her

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shoulder has thrown his first bull pen, and

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he'll try to throw another. Then he's gonna

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throw off a major league mound, then he'll

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throw some batting practice. He was asked how

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he feels. He says, I feel okay, but

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let's be realistic guys. I have an old

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man arm at where he is, but K

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has taken first step forward.

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Y Yam.

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Who had the brilliant start and went down

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with the stirring grow charter cuff is not

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feeling any pain. He's doing all types of

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weight work

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and stress. He's not thrown yet. So he's

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ways away from being ready to rejoin the

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Dodge rotation. And then, of course, we talked

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about pro and potential trades. You got Andrew

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Friedman and Brandon Go, as general manager,

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and they have resources. They have assets sits,

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and they're not afraid to take on salary.

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The dodgers have been in conduct with the

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Chicago white sox philadelphia. You said the pitches

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staff carrot Crochet. He's got 2 years of

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arbitration eligibility left, but the price to get

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him will be steep. The doctors are also

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talking about hex sent was cardinal pitcher jack

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Fl, who's had a siege of injuries, but

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his bounced back and has had a really

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competitive season with the Detroit. And they're talking

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to the Met about Louis Sever at 1

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time was a pretty solid picture with the

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New York Yankee He has not not been

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the same picture, but he gets skies out.

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He might be a back end of the

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rotation guy. So it looks like the dodgers

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might be ready to jump in the trademark

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market. It just because of the injury situation

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to so many of their pictures and and

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the great unknown about K shaw, the great

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unknown was Walker Viola of the Great known

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with Dustin May. So that's my Dodge report.

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Then John Reilly from Left field. What have

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you got to say? Well lost last night

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12 to 4. To the Arizona diamondback. So

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their pitching got rough up? You know, what's

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the status on Bobby Miller? I mean, he

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was down doing the aaa

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rehab as he come back to the big

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club? Yeah. He's made 2 starts. He has

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struggled.

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He... He's got no arm problems.

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His velocity is not quite word was before.

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Their monitoring his innings and pitches thrown. He's

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at 2 competitive darts, but he's also had

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a bad inning in each of them, but

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he is back

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into the rotation. So you got Tyler glass

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now. They got Gavin stone, it was 9

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and 2 and had the lead last night

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and the bull pin gave it up in

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that 12 run a double to the Arizona

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diamondback.

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And then after that, your wishing and hoping

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Bobby Miller can hang in there that gives

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you 3 starters but there is wafer thin

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on starters

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as the pot are. So if you're a

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Pod fan, if you're a dodge fan, wherever

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you walk you us on live stream right

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now. Jump into the fans forum chat box.

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Give us your impressions. Are you concerned the

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Ponder have enough farms? Do you think the

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dodgers will make trade because they've always been

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aggressive at the trade deadline to add depth

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to their pitching staff. So that's the baseball

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topic on the table. John, would go from

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that We're talking hoops.

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Talking hoops at the hacks saw holiday cook

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out. Okay. Here we go. Let's talk lakers.

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Lakers basketball. What a strange week. What a

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strange 10 days for the lakers this all

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started, obviously

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with a hiring of jj re as the

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head coach. And then the draft

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and not so much what they took with

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the first round pick, Dalton Connect, the 3

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point shooter from Tennessee,

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but what they did at pick 55 is

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selection of Usc Part time guard and Lebron

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James son braun.

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They held the press conference with the number

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1 and number 2 draft picks and it

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was really strange

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to watch John. It was almost as if

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Dalton Connect was an afterthought

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at the press conference.

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Nobody wanted to ask him questions. They wanted

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to talk to Bran. They wanted to talk

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to Bran about his dad Lebron to me.

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It was a really strange first time meeting

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these guys press conference.

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You know, Bran, Ronnie tried to handle it

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correctly. He said I I give thanks for

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being given this chance. He was then interrupted

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by the general manager Rob Po who then.

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Chimed in,

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we're not giving you anything you've earned this

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to which my response watching it was, what

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did he earn? He went through 1 workout

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with the lakers. He went through a couple

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of workout ski against Rookie

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in the Nba draft and chair. What did

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he earn to get this? And then the

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complicated

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John, and this this kinda really stunned me,

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because you and I have joked and used

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the word about, Oh, that's a legacy draft.

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You know, dad plays with a lakers so

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I'll take the kid. So they took them

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at 55 when nobody else was gonna draft

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them. So they took them, and they just

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gave him a 4 year guaranteed

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contract as the fifteenth guy on the roster.

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The last guy on the roster,

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and there's no 2 way cause.

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Not that he's gonna go to the G

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league unless he approves it. He wound up

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getting a 4 year, 8000000

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guaranteed

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contract. Nobody gives Ga deep contracts

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except to this, the legacy son of Lebron

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James. So that to me was was really

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strange. And, of course, then that was followed

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by Lebron,

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signing his 2 year contract extension with an

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option for a third. 2 years, hundred 2000000.

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He gave the lakers a little bit of

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a discount So maybe if they could, they

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could go get another veteran player, but they've

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absolutely failed with that. It also includes a

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no trade cause.

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Ronnie didn't wanna talk about the word ne,

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which I think is kind of an unfair

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thing. The kids got an opportunity, give the

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kids some breathing room in space and let's

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just see what kind of player he is.

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However,

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I'm gonna throw this out out to you.

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You and I have critique and analyzed rob

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Paul his job as general manager.

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And obviously, he's tried really hard to find

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the right fit of veteran players

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around Lebron James, and it hasn't really happened.

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And here we are, I thought this week.

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This drives on the point. Does he really

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know what he's doing?

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Rob Po,

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John gave opt in clauses

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to virtually all the 3 agencies signed the

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last year on a half. All these guys

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that sit on the bench that are turf,

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Part time players,

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why would you give opt in clauses

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to Dean Russell who was sitting there on

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the street a year ago unemployed? Why would

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you do it to Cam Red to Jackson

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Hicks

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to Jared Van.

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What's happened is all 4 those guys opted

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in to continue to get paid rather than

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go out on the open market and by

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opting in

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they grab what was left in the lakers

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salary cap by the throat and the lakers

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have no money. I mean, it's absolutely stunning

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why would you give journey men on the

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street guys, Not stars,

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Why would you give journey men on the

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street guys opting clauses that could paralyzed,

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your salary cap. And all 15 other other

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roster spots are now slot. If they try

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to get anybody else in here, they're gonna

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be over the luxury tax. And they're right

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now at a hundred 88000000

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dollars, which is a stunning

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statistic for a team that annually now become

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a play team in the Nba playoffs. Now

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where do they go? The last name out

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there that they're trying to get access to

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is Demand Der ro.

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Tremendous Veteran guard, but he's h 34. He's

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with the Chicago bulls. But Chicago wants to

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do a sign and trade.

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Chicago wants 1 of the Lakers number 1

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picks.

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Chicago doesn't want any of the roof rack

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at the back end of the roster. All

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those guys that opted in. The polls don't

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want any of that

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demand Rose would like to come, but the

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only weather the lakers can add him is

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they gotta subtract salary. And they gotta find

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a 13 that's willing to take stimulus roof

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raf off the lakers roster.

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And the depth of the story involving the

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failure to get Clay Thompson.

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They met with Clay Thompson last Saturday night.

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They thought they had a gentleman's agreement that

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they would work a son trade with Golden

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state to get him.

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Went back to the warriors on the weekend,

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and the warriors said, we want you're number

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1, and we want something else. Or the

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lakers are not trading Austin Reeves and the

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lakers are not trading Rue, H.

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And in Golden States says We're not taken

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on any of that other money. We're not

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taking on any of those other guys that

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sat on your bench. All season the whole

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deal fell apart, and then Goal and stay

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wound up doing the 3 team deal. The

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Book k Thompson in Dallas that also involved

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the Charlotte hornets and a flip flop of

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draft picks. So that's a great headline you

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just posted lakers. Have they improved, as Sitting

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here during my holiday cook out and you're

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sitting back there getting ready to have hamburgers

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and, hot dogs. I don't think Lakers improved

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at all. Another paralyzed

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because of the sal ray cap. So, John,

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that's a summary of where the lakers are,

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you tell me your reaction although those different

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topics on the table.

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Well, first of all, the Bro James thing,

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I mean, that is the very definition of

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privilege. Right right with Lebron and everything he's

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getting to get his kid there. No trade

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deals. Everyone's locked and loaded on their contracts.

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That's definitely a privilege thing. Pal going all

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in on L j and the family.

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I like the way the warriors kinda stuck

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it to the lakers there. I mean, this

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is their rival. They're

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division rival. And, yeah, they wanna get a

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lot for clay. They're not gonna give Clay

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away especially to the lakers. So the fact

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that he ended up going to Dallas is

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probably just as good, but I I kinda

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thought Clay was destined to be a lake.

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And, you know, you've you've got the situation

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where... Yeah. They could make a run at

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Demand Ro, and there's also potential, although a

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lot of other teams are in on Utah

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Jazz 7 foot shooting forward, Laurie Marketing,

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But the problem is you gotta give up

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a number 1. And the other thing is

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this the other guy wanna take any of

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your other players

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because you... They've got a shed payroll. So

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I just... I think they're

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paralyzed to me is the right word. Okay.

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We go from the lakers, let's talk about

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the other team in Southern California, John. Yeah,

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the clippers and and they just traded Paul

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George. I mean, what what are they gonna

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do to kinda replace him right now, Lee?

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Well, I think the biggest question,

531
00:20:32,696 --> 00:20:35,169
good posting right there. How do you replace

532
00:20:35,328 --> 00:20:37,323
Paul George. And by the way, they didn't

533
00:20:37,323 --> 00:20:38,440
trade him? He opted it out?

534
00:20:39,090 --> 00:20:40,915
He jumped us a free and. He didn't

535
00:20:40,915 --> 00:20:42,526
even give them an opportunity

536
00:20:43,136 --> 00:20:45,199
to opt in and then as part of

537
00:20:45,199 --> 00:20:47,000
the opt in, allow him to be shops

538
00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,913
somewhere else. So he really walked away, signed

539
00:20:49,913 --> 00:20:51,669
a 4 year 212000000

540
00:20:51,669 --> 00:20:54,383
dollar contract. The big issue with Paul George.

541
00:20:54,463 --> 00:20:56,115
And we had talked about this before

542
00:20:56,552 --> 00:20:59,996
They refused to give him 4 years guaranteed.

543
00:21:00,531 --> 00:21:02,838
You know, after Ka Leonard agreed to a

544
00:21:02,838 --> 00:21:06,116
3 year guarantee, the general consensus was Let's

545
00:21:06,116 --> 00:21:08,184
hold this team together. Let's see if we

546
00:21:08,184 --> 00:21:09,854
can make another run of or get everybody

547
00:21:09,854 --> 00:21:11,763
healthy and then Paul George goes out and

548
00:21:11,763 --> 00:21:13,773
demands 4 years across the board in his

549
00:21:13,773 --> 00:21:15,211
pocket and and the clippers said,

550
00:21:16,010 --> 00:21:18,088
absolutely not. So that's a burning question.

551
00:21:18,727 --> 00:21:19,047
You know,

552
00:21:20,006 --> 00:21:22,013
How do you replace all the things that

553
00:21:22,172 --> 00:21:25,268
Paul George brought to the starting lineup. Second

554
00:21:25,268 --> 00:21:27,650
big question for me. I'm sorry. I'm a

555
00:21:27,650 --> 00:21:29,971
big c Leonard fan But you please tell

556
00:21:29,971 --> 00:21:32,443
me somebody who's got chronic problems whose right

557
00:21:32,443 --> 00:21:34,675
knee, gets clearance to go play in the

558
00:21:34,994 --> 00:21:36,987
Olympics for the whole Nba season to follow,

559
00:21:37,386 --> 00:21:39,315
considering He missed so much at the end

560
00:21:39,315 --> 00:21:41,787
of the season, and his absence was so

561
00:21:41,787 --> 00:21:44,579
costly and posts season. I just don't understand

562
00:21:44,579 --> 00:21:45,239
the clippers

563
00:21:45,616 --> 00:21:46,812
allowing that to happen.

564
00:21:47,450 --> 00:21:48,738
Next thing on the horizon.

565
00:21:49,692 --> 00:21:52,951
Russell Westbrook opted in to stay another year,

566
00:21:53,189 --> 00:21:55,574
but there's a... There's a... An agreement that

567
00:21:55,574 --> 00:21:56,448
he's gonna be traded.

568
00:21:57,099 --> 00:21:58,850
I hear he's gonna be an sign and

569
00:21:58,850 --> 00:22:01,158
trade, and he's gonna wind up maybe going

570
00:22:01,158 --> 00:22:03,387
into the Golden State warriors or he's gonna

571
00:22:03,387 --> 00:22:05,710
go to the Denver nuggets. Because they just

572
00:22:05,710 --> 00:22:08,415
lost their lead point guard Con caldwell Pope

573
00:22:08,415 --> 00:22:09,687
who jumped to Orlando.

574
00:22:10,244 --> 00:22:12,649
There's another sign and trey the clippers are

575
00:22:12,649 --> 00:22:14,647
working on. And this is for a pretty

576
00:22:14,647 --> 00:22:16,165
good player, but this is a guy It's

577
00:22:16,165 --> 00:22:17,923
got a lot of controversy. His name is

578
00:22:18,083 --> 00:22:18,962
Miles Bridges.

579
00:22:19,442 --> 00:22:22,010
He scored 17 points a game, but he's

580
00:22:22,010 --> 00:22:24,789
had problems off the floor domestic abuse. He

581
00:22:24,789 --> 00:22:27,172
sat almost a full calendar year.

582
00:22:27,807 --> 00:22:29,712
It's an issue. What kind of guy are

583
00:22:29,712 --> 00:22:32,270
you bringing in The other issue is the

584
00:22:32,270 --> 00:22:34,417
price, and I'm not so sure I like

585
00:22:34,417 --> 00:22:35,053
this trade.

586
00:22:35,847 --> 00:22:36,904
The rumor is

587
00:22:37,835 --> 00:22:39,527
miles bridges to the clippers

588
00:22:39,902 --> 00:22:43,767
for shooting forward, Norman Powell, guard terrence man

589
00:22:43,986 --> 00:22:46,082
and draft picks because you have to make

590
00:22:46,220 --> 00:22:47,039
contract values

591
00:22:47,656 --> 00:22:47,896
match.

592
00:22:48,629 --> 00:22:49,988
I don't know about the kind of citizen

593
00:22:49,988 --> 00:22:51,826
it is, and you're given away of I

594
00:22:51,826 --> 00:22:54,303
think a pretty good player in Norman powell.

595
00:22:54,703 --> 00:22:56,461
And then on top of that, if you

596
00:22:56,461 --> 00:22:57,260
bring pal,

597
00:22:57,913 --> 00:22:59,347
should say if he bring bridges in from

598
00:22:59,506 --> 00:23:02,293
Charlotte with his track record of problems off

599
00:23:02,293 --> 00:23:04,682
the court. They just got a guy who

600
00:23:04,682 --> 00:23:07,029
missed a whole year with problems off court

601
00:23:07,167 --> 00:23:07,907
I in

602
00:23:09,163 --> 00:23:09,482
Kenny,

603
00:23:12,355 --> 00:23:14,750
I'm sorry, the guard, Kevin Porter from Houston.

604
00:23:15,164 --> 00:23:16,684
Was suspended for a whole year. He couldn't

605
00:23:16,684 --> 00:23:18,865
play in the league last year. Just been

606
00:23:18,924 --> 00:23:21,484
reinstated. He wound up go into Greece. He

607
00:23:21,484 --> 00:23:23,565
got arrested. He got suspended for a whole

608
00:23:23,565 --> 00:23:26,220
calendar year. So you're bringing porter and bridges

609
00:23:26,220 --> 00:23:26,380
in,

610
00:23:27,180 --> 00:23:29,579
cut irritated backgrounds there. And by the way,

611
00:23:29,820 --> 00:23:32,220
I have not met anybody yet of the

612
00:23:32,220 --> 00:23:34,860
media eyes that I interact with, that can

613
00:23:34,860 --> 00:23:37,007
believe the clippers gave James Harden 2 years

614
00:23:37,007 --> 00:23:39,391
105000000

615
00:23:39,391 --> 00:23:40,130
a season

616
00:23:40,599 --> 00:23:42,346
for guy that's obviously in the twilight of

617
00:23:42,346 --> 00:23:44,356
his career and a guy that always fades

618
00:23:44,650 --> 00:23:47,272
in posts season play. So John, I shot

619
00:23:47,272 --> 00:23:49,123
a bunch 3 point shots I hit most

620
00:23:49,123 --> 00:23:50,422
of them. Give me your

621
00:23:50,801 --> 00:23:53,278
back rebound to the comments about what's going

622
00:23:53,278 --> 00:23:55,436
on with clippers. Yeah. Of course, you hit

623
00:23:55,436 --> 00:23:57,527
most of your 3 point shots. Yeah. I'd

624
00:23:57,527 --> 00:23:59,120
like to see you out there playing horse

625
00:23:59,199 --> 00:24:01,907
Hacks, the Hacks saw holiday Cook. You know,

626
00:24:02,943 --> 00:24:05,253
1 of the questions I have is why

627
00:24:05,253 --> 00:24:07,413
do we see sign and trade deals in

628
00:24:07,413 --> 00:24:10,191
the Nba. When that dynamic doesn't really play

629
00:24:10,191 --> 00:24:11,461
as much of a role in the other

630
00:24:11,461 --> 00:24:11,699
sports.

631
00:24:12,413 --> 00:24:14,690
Well, it's something that it fits the collect

632
00:24:14,729 --> 00:24:17,424
of bargaining agreement, although the... There... There's a

633
00:24:17,424 --> 00:24:18,717
new thing called the

634
00:24:19,169 --> 00:24:20,278
Cb Apron,

635
00:24:20,675 --> 00:24:22,394
which allows you to go above

636
00:24:22,834 --> 00:24:25,652
the luxury tax, but there's all types of

637
00:24:25,951 --> 00:24:28,109
restrictions. If the lakers go up above a

638
00:24:28,109 --> 00:24:29,488
hundred 88000000

639
00:24:29,627 --> 00:24:33,076
luxury tax, sign trades go away. There's a

640
00:24:33,076 --> 00:24:36,759
penalty that goes away. The exemptions, mid level

641
00:24:36,976 --> 00:24:39,602
exemption, the rookie exceptions, all that stuff goes

642
00:24:39,602 --> 00:24:41,831
away if you go over the apron.

643
00:24:42,244 --> 00:24:43,832
And if you go over the second apron

644
00:24:43,832 --> 00:24:45,580
and which should be like 200000000

645
00:24:45,580 --> 00:24:45,898
dollars,

646
00:24:46,454 --> 00:24:48,599
you lose first round draft. So they put

647
00:24:48,599 --> 00:24:50,426
this in as a cost control.

648
00:24:51,238 --> 00:24:53,392
Signing trades have been part of the Nba

649
00:24:53,392 --> 00:24:54,132
more recently,

650
00:24:54,748 --> 00:24:56,823
but it's it's not something that's used a

651
00:24:56,823 --> 00:24:59,566
great deal, but here You keep the player

652
00:24:59,859 --> 00:25:01,763
with the promise you're gonna trade the player

653
00:25:01,763 --> 00:25:04,325
and you get some form of compensation back

654
00:25:04,539 --> 00:25:06,879
for the player like a Russell West brook

655
00:25:07,258 --> 00:25:09,016
Maybe it's a number 1 pick. Maybe it's

656
00:25:09,016 --> 00:25:11,013
a young prospect. Maybe it's a bunch of

657
00:25:11,013 --> 00:25:13,250
number two's down the road. So sign in

658
00:25:13,250 --> 00:25:16,058
trades are part of the Nba collective bargaining

659
00:25:16,058 --> 00:25:18,371
agreement, but that stuff has start to go

660
00:25:18,371 --> 00:25:20,865
away because of the new quote Apron rules

661
00:25:21,162 --> 00:25:23,236
that Have just kicked it. And by the

662
00:25:23,236 --> 00:25:25,719
way, there'll be a couple Mu Canadians here

663
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of the side court. If you wanna show

664
00:25:27,629 --> 00:25:29,379
up and we'll shoot threes and see which

665
00:25:29,379 --> 00:25:31,153
1 of the old dogs still has

666
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I would love that. That we should just

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do a podcast out on a court and

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and and have a great time people would

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Let's go to the second half, John, you

745
00:28:31,291 --> 00:28:34,019
want to talk a little Pro football. Yeah.

746
00:28:34,259 --> 00:28:35,854
Pro football. We've been talking a lot about

747
00:28:35,854 --> 00:28:38,326
the Nfl Sunday ticket lawsuit, but there seems

748
00:28:38,326 --> 00:28:40,422
like there's things going on with the raiders

749
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:41,916
and with some of the pac 12 teams.

750
00:28:42,648 --> 00:28:44,640
Let's talk first of all about the situation

751
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,871
with John Gru. You know, John Gru lost

752
00:28:46,871 --> 00:28:49,420
his head coaching job while with the raiders.

753
00:28:50,470 --> 00:28:53,174
Because of emails that he had written criticizing

754
00:28:53,254 --> 00:28:56,356
Roger Ge, the homophobic comments, etcetera,

755
00:28:56,848 --> 00:28:58,837
He made those emails to bruce Allen, the

756
00:28:58,837 --> 00:29:01,383
former president of the Washington commanders. They all

757
00:29:01,383 --> 00:29:02,019
got fired.

758
00:29:02,655 --> 00:29:05,494
Well, he sued the Nfl. He has charged

759
00:29:05,534 --> 00:29:07,282
a Good dell on the Nfl league office.

760
00:29:07,759 --> 00:29:10,143
It's the 1 that leaked all the emails

761
00:29:10,143 --> 00:29:13,162
to public, that got him fired. While they

762
00:29:13,162 --> 00:29:14,059
filed the lawsuit

763
00:29:14,448 --> 00:29:16,908
went to the Nevada Court of appeals. They

764
00:29:16,908 --> 00:29:19,051
threw it out of court. They said you

765
00:29:19,051 --> 00:29:21,193
were an employee of the raiders. You know

766
00:29:21,193 --> 00:29:24,227
the collective bargaining agreement, if there's any dispute

767
00:29:24,227 --> 00:29:26,636
about contracts that has to go back to

768
00:29:26,932 --> 00:29:27,091
arbitration,

769
00:29:27,807 --> 00:29:28,307
Nfl

770
00:29:28,682 --> 00:29:31,899
arbitration and gas who is the ar trader

771
00:29:32,114 --> 00:29:33,703
in the arbitration cases.

772
00:29:34,179 --> 00:29:35,633
The guy that's being sued

773
00:29:36,086 --> 00:29:38,231
Nfl Commissioner or Roger Ge. So that's where

774
00:29:38,231 --> 00:29:40,470
we you are with that situation This is

775
00:29:40,470 --> 00:29:41,526
gonna take forever.

776
00:29:41,979 --> 00:29:43,909
By the way, there's 60000000

777
00:29:43,965 --> 00:29:46,531
dollars still owed to John Gru

778
00:29:47,079 --> 00:29:49,329
by because of the termination of his raider

779
00:29:49,465 --> 00:29:52,408
contract. The second item is about the death

780
00:29:52,408 --> 00:29:55,373
of the pac 12. We've talked extensively about

781
00:29:55,373 --> 00:29:58,009
that. And, of course, going forward in the

782
00:29:58,009 --> 00:30:00,485
fall, there'll be only 2 teams left. It's

783
00:30:00,485 --> 00:30:03,706
now the pack 2, Oregon State Beaver, Washington

784
00:30:03,842 --> 00:30:04,558
state Cougar.

785
00:30:05,114 --> 00:30:06,784
Well, as they reached the end of the

786
00:30:06,784 --> 00:30:08,772
line with a pac 12 conference it went

787
00:30:08,772 --> 00:30:10,123
back to 19 15.

788
00:30:10,934 --> 00:30:13,565
Was an enormous amount of money in the

789
00:30:13,565 --> 00:30:16,196
pot in the pack 12 coffers, and they

790
00:30:16,196 --> 00:30:18,827
had to determine who was gonna get that

791
00:30:18,827 --> 00:30:20,832
money what share would go to the teams

792
00:30:20,832 --> 00:30:23,617
like Usc and Ucla who left to go

793
00:30:23,617 --> 00:30:25,685
to the big 10, Oregon in Washington all

794
00:30:25,685 --> 00:30:28,246
the schools that jump the corner schools have

795
00:30:28,246 --> 00:30:29,598
wound up going to the big 12.

796
00:30:30,235 --> 00:30:32,701
There's 255000000

797
00:30:32,701 --> 00:30:33,789
dollars that was

798
00:30:34,149 --> 00:30:35,348
behind in the settlement.

799
00:30:35,907 --> 00:30:38,944
Oregon state in Washington state jointly are operating

800
00:30:38,944 --> 00:30:40,782
the Pac 2 conference for 2 years.

801
00:30:41,342 --> 00:30:43,714
Well, those 2 schools have now decided of

802
00:30:43,834 --> 00:30:45,190
255000000.

803
00:30:45,829 --> 00:30:48,323
They're gonna take 40000000

804
00:30:48,382 --> 00:30:49,201
a piece

805
00:30:49,897 --> 00:30:51,904
because the damage done by the death of

806
00:30:51,904 --> 00:30:54,372
the pack 12, the 40000000 of the Beaver

807
00:30:54,372 --> 00:30:56,384
and of the Cougar will go to replace

808
00:30:56,679 --> 00:30:59,703
the Tv media money they lost. The rest

809
00:30:59,703 --> 00:31:01,864
of the money is gonna be put into

810
00:31:01,864 --> 00:31:05,121
a reserve. And in 20 25, I think

811
00:31:05,121 --> 00:31:07,186
it's about... I wanna say it's a hundred

812
00:31:07,186 --> 00:31:08,750
70000000 that will be left

813
00:31:09,429 --> 00:31:11,107
that hundred 70000000

814
00:31:11,107 --> 00:31:13,125
will be left to be used

815
00:31:13,584 --> 00:31:16,700
to lure whatever schools gonna come back in

816
00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:19,909
the rebuilt package. They're gonna add 6. And

817
00:31:19,909 --> 00:31:21,346
that could be the aztec text, and it

818
00:31:21,346 --> 00:31:23,262
could be boise. You it could be fresno.

819
00:31:23,342 --> 00:31:25,736
It might be air force. It may be

820
00:31:25,736 --> 00:31:27,289
some of the tops schools

821
00:31:27,665 --> 00:31:29,738
in the Mountain west, and then whatever else

822
00:31:29,738 --> 00:31:31,172
is out there that they might be able

823
00:31:31,172 --> 00:31:33,107
to cherry pick, that's what they're gonna use

824
00:31:33,245 --> 00:31:34,440
the hundred 70000000.

825
00:31:34,774 --> 00:31:37,235
So it's a really interesting story how Oregon

826
00:31:37,235 --> 00:31:39,959
state Washington state who have been badly damaged

827
00:31:40,808 --> 00:31:42,023
are gonna be able to

828
00:31:42,397 --> 00:31:44,089
get some of this money back from the

829
00:31:44,089 --> 00:31:45,450
pack 12, and then they're gonna put the

830
00:31:45,450 --> 00:31:47,690
rest restaurant the reserves to use to sales

831
00:31:47,690 --> 00:31:49,450
pitch. The 6 other schools are gonna try

832
00:31:49,450 --> 00:31:50,109
to lure

833
00:31:50,424 --> 00:31:54,093
after the 20 25 season. So John, your

834
00:31:54,093 --> 00:31:56,167
reaction on the Beaver that Cougar on the

835
00:31:56,167 --> 00:31:58,480
raider nation. Well, I'll tell you what, That

836
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,075
plan sounds like a good deal for the

837
00:32:00,075 --> 00:32:02,003
pack 12. I mean, the Beaver and the

838
00:32:02,083 --> 00:32:03,997
Cougar get a little relief, you know, from

839
00:32:03,997 --> 00:32:05,910
all the chaos that that was surrounding them.

840
00:32:06,388 --> 00:32:07,982
And, yeah, they can buy out some of

841
00:32:07,982 --> 00:32:09,593
these other contracts to get some teams in.

842
00:32:09,752 --> 00:32:12,466
I I wanna see a good West Coast

843
00:32:12,466 --> 00:32:14,622
conference, you know? And some of those mountain

844
00:32:14,781 --> 00:32:17,256
West teams like the Aztec deserve to be

845
00:32:17,256 --> 00:32:19,662
promoted I just hope that it becomes a

846
00:32:19,662 --> 00:32:22,530
power 5 conference and not simply a second

847
00:32:22,530 --> 00:32:22,689
tier.

848
00:32:23,406 --> 00:32:24,920
You could argue with me a great length,

849
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:26,912
but the problem I have. It's it sure

850
00:32:26,912 --> 00:32:29,401
looks like it talks like it walks like,

851
00:32:30,678 --> 00:32:33,153
not west too. Does not look like pack

852
00:32:33,153 --> 00:32:34,990
12. And, you know, to be a back

853
00:32:34,990 --> 00:32:36,746
12 team. You're gonna need big time N

854
00:32:36,746 --> 00:32:38,669
I money. And I don't really see that

855
00:32:38,907 --> 00:32:40,415
N type money, and I don't know what

856
00:32:40,415 --> 00:32:43,033
kind of Td contracts they're gonna get going

857
00:32:43,033 --> 00:32:45,651
forward if they become part in 20 25.

858
00:32:46,463 --> 00:32:47,261
Of the pack.

859
00:32:47,819 --> 00:32:50,075
And what's your take on the whole gru

860
00:32:50,612 --> 00:32:53,740
situation? You know, his his opinion is I

861
00:32:53,740 --> 00:32:56,059
was not in the Nfl when these emails

862
00:32:56,059 --> 00:32:58,460
were written. I was an employee at Espn.

863
00:32:59,019 --> 00:33:00,860
I should have never been fired and how

864
00:33:00,860 --> 00:33:03,432
dare you leak Pc emails such etcetera. I

865
00:33:03,432 --> 00:33:05,507
think Gru lawsuit is like to stand on

866
00:33:05,587 --> 00:33:05,747
Sean.

867
00:33:06,465 --> 00:33:09,018
Well, with g a bum. I mean, I

868
00:33:09,018 --> 00:33:10,509
used to kinda like him you the whole

869
00:33:10,629 --> 00:33:12,455
chuck thing, and if we liked him on

870
00:33:12,455 --> 00:33:14,362
television, but the more we're learning about this

871
00:33:14,362 --> 00:33:16,426
guy. I'm I'm glad he's gone. But, Lee,

872
00:33:16,506 --> 00:33:18,412
did you say he's still getting paid?

873
00:33:19,301 --> 00:33:20,016
On his deal.

874
00:33:21,128 --> 00:33:22,320
There's 60000000

875
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,782
dollars una unattended for that has not been

876
00:33:24,782 --> 00:33:26,450
paid for because he's in the middle of

877
00:33:26,450 --> 00:33:27,007
his lawsuit.

878
00:33:27,499 --> 00:33:29,889
That's what this lawsuit is all about, not

879
00:33:29,889 --> 00:33:31,881
so much just the hatred for Roger Good

880
00:33:31,881 --> 00:33:33,793
and what happened in the Nfl. But the

881
00:33:33,793 --> 00:33:36,043
fact he is owed 60000000 from the remainder

882
00:33:36,043 --> 00:33:38,441
of the raiders contract and the raiders could

883
00:33:38,441 --> 00:33:40,299
be off the hook if the gru thing

884
00:33:40,598 --> 00:33:42,676
goes down the drain. Okay. Those are all

885
00:33:42,676 --> 00:33:43,176
things

886
00:33:43,955 --> 00:33:45,568
Nfl. Go ahead and laugh at the guy

887
00:33:45,568 --> 00:33:47,326
if you wish. No. I was just gonna

888
00:33:47,326 --> 00:33:49,085
say though that I want 1 of those

889
00:33:49,085 --> 00:33:50,923
jobs. I wanna be Monty Williams, you know,

890
00:33:51,003 --> 00:33:52,761
and get big money and not have to

891
00:33:52,761 --> 00:33:54,040
work. You think that's doable?

892
00:33:54,612 --> 00:33:56,756
Anything's possible, John in this day and age.

893
00:33:57,074 --> 00:34:00,092
Hey, Raider nation. You're a fan. Get on

894
00:34:00,092 --> 00:34:02,237
the phone, get on the into the chat

895
00:34:02,237 --> 00:34:05,115
box tell us your impressions of Goo public

896
00:34:05,115 --> 00:34:07,422
stance. I was not working for the Nfl,

897
00:34:07,819 --> 00:34:10,144
you don't have a right to take my

898
00:34:10,144 --> 00:34:12,221
job away after I got hired because those

899
00:34:12,221 --> 00:34:14,619
emails I sent where while I was in

900
00:34:15,098 --> 00:34:15,598
Espn

901
00:34:16,057 --> 00:34:19,188
employee as s and slimy. As those emails

902
00:34:19,188 --> 00:34:22,304
were. From football. John, Hockey hotline is open,

903
00:34:22,463 --> 00:34:24,541
O Canada network will be joining us shortly.

904
00:34:24,860 --> 00:34:27,112
Go ahead. Yeah. Here we go. Free agency,

905
00:34:27,272 --> 00:34:29,589
a hundred and 33 players make a move.

906
00:34:29,829 --> 00:34:33,358
That's unbelievable. This is amazing salary happened in

907
00:34:33,358 --> 00:34:35,978
the n f Nhl just went up. We

908
00:34:35,978 --> 00:34:38,679
saw the unbelievable Tv radian with the Edmonton

909
00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:41,355
in Or, Florida Panthers Stanley Cup Final

910
00:34:41,712 --> 00:34:44,438
all time record that went up, and now

911
00:34:44,494 --> 00:34:47,777
the payday for the players. This was staggering.

912
00:34:48,310 --> 00:34:50,218
If you look at these names, I'm gonna

913
00:34:50,218 --> 00:34:52,460
go through the best names on the board

914
00:34:52,460 --> 00:34:53,335
that changed teams.

915
00:34:53,972 --> 00:34:57,844
Hundred 33 players changed teams in the first

916
00:34:57,964 --> 00:35:01,385
2 days of Nhl free agency. John The

917
00:35:01,385 --> 00:35:05,228
league collectively spent 1200000000.0

918
00:35:05,284 --> 00:35:07,606
dollars in the first 2 days with contracts.

919
00:35:07,765 --> 00:35:10,385
Now, their questions you have to ask.

920
00:35:11,099 --> 00:35:11,893
Las Vegas,

921
00:35:12,449 --> 00:35:15,721
let their 42 goal score, their top veteran,

922
00:35:16,277 --> 00:35:18,028
Jonathan Marshall so go.

923
00:35:18,665 --> 00:35:20,972
He wound up going to the Nashville predators.

924
00:35:21,450 --> 00:35:23,773
That is stunning. They also lost a couple

925
00:35:23,773 --> 00:35:24,489
of defense.

926
00:35:25,126 --> 00:35:28,070
And traded a gold tender. Vegas just not

927
00:35:28,070 --> 00:35:30,219
quite the same hockey team right now, but

928
00:35:30,219 --> 00:35:32,860
they did not wanna give Marsha so 8000000

929
00:35:32,860 --> 00:35:33,735
dollars a season.

930
00:35:34,530 --> 00:35:35,030
Winnipeg.

931
00:35:35,644 --> 00:35:37,951
You trade a number 1 draft pick and

932
00:35:37,951 --> 00:35:40,532
other asset to try to make a deal

933
00:35:40,666 --> 00:35:43,047
and you rent Sean Mann Mona hand, and

934
00:35:43,047 --> 00:35:44,476
you let him go at the end of

935
00:35:44,476 --> 00:35:45,110
the season.

936
00:35:45,666 --> 00:35:48,458
He... These scored 32 goals He goes to

937
00:35:48,458 --> 00:35:49,807
the Columbus blue jackets,

938
00:35:50,283 --> 00:35:52,346
Winnipeg just elected not to give him a

939
00:35:52,346 --> 00:35:54,806
6 to 7 or an 8 year contract.

940
00:35:55,678 --> 00:35:57,860
Bad 24 hours in Vancouver.

941
00:35:58,472 --> 00:35:58,631
Hey.

942
00:35:59,822 --> 00:36:02,523
You traded number ones and number twos to

943
00:36:02,523 --> 00:36:05,244
get Elias lin home and he really well

944
00:36:05,244 --> 00:36:06,545
for you in the post season

945
00:36:06,844 --> 00:36:08,144
to get them out of calgary

946
00:36:08,605 --> 00:36:10,605
and because of the cap issues that you

947
00:36:10,605 --> 00:36:12,980
got, you couldn't offer the time to contract

948
00:36:13,577 --> 00:36:16,469
He went to the Boston Ruins as did

949
00:36:16,608 --> 00:36:19,239
their top defense or maybe I should say

950
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:20,536
top second defense

951
00:36:20,913 --> 00:36:21,812
in the playoffs

952
00:36:22,124 --> 00:36:24,198
a Nike nikita Z off, he went to

953
00:36:24,277 --> 00:36:26,989
Boston. Now both those guys got mega contracts

954
00:36:26,989 --> 00:36:29,643
and the broom have added some real zip

955
00:36:29,861 --> 00:36:32,827
and physicality to their lineup But this is

956
00:36:32,827 --> 00:36:35,700
to me, it's devastating to the Vancouver Ko

957
00:36:35,700 --> 00:36:37,615
were just a surprise team last season.

958
00:36:38,413 --> 00:36:39,131
Tampa Bay.

959
00:36:39,784 --> 00:36:42,900
I don't rationalize how you treat a hall

960
00:36:42,900 --> 00:36:45,378
of fame, like Steve Stem coast, the way

961
00:36:45,378 --> 00:36:47,316
you did. He's been a life

962
00:36:47,789 --> 00:36:52,175
in the Sunshine state. John, He scored 555

963
00:36:52,175 --> 00:36:54,488
goals in his career. He's going to the

964
00:36:54,488 --> 00:36:56,721
hall of fame in Toronto the minute. He

965
00:36:56,721 --> 00:36:57,854
hangs up The skate,

966
00:36:58,413 --> 00:37:00,731
they didn't resign them, and he wound up

967
00:37:00,731 --> 00:37:02,430
going to Nashville also

968
00:37:02,809 --> 00:37:05,446
with March so on a 4 year very

969
00:37:05,446 --> 00:37:08,090
affordable contract. Why would Tampa do that.

970
00:37:09,044 --> 00:37:11,427
Meanwhile, the La Kings, they got burned, they

971
00:37:11,427 --> 00:37:13,809
lost 1 of their better defense and Matt

972
00:37:13,968 --> 00:37:16,606
Roy. They lost 1 of their check centers

973
00:37:16,606 --> 00:37:17,663
in Blake Lou.

974
00:37:18,436 --> 00:37:21,856
The Anaheim Ducks, please explain to me, they

975
00:37:21,856 --> 00:37:23,227
had all these draft.

976
00:37:23,706 --> 00:37:25,701
They had over 30000000

977
00:37:25,701 --> 00:37:28,254
dollars in salary cap, and they did nothing.

978
00:37:28,813 --> 00:37:30,031
They signed 2

979
00:37:30,505 --> 00:37:31,065
back end,

980
00:37:31,784 --> 00:37:34,184
journey and players who are not game changers

981
00:37:34,184 --> 00:37:34,984
as free agents.

982
00:37:35,625 --> 00:37:38,940
They lost Max Jones. They're they're more physical

983
00:37:39,079 --> 00:37:39,880
power forward.

984
00:37:40,359 --> 00:37:42,679
They still have John Gibson the gold tender

985
00:37:42,679 --> 00:37:43,420
who's kinda

986
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:44,219
chained

987
00:37:45,159 --> 00:37:47,973
to the goal post in Anaheim and not

988
00:37:47,973 --> 00:37:51,409
plain. I just don't understand what their general

989
00:37:51,409 --> 00:37:53,567
manager has done and I'm the only 1

990
00:37:53,567 --> 00:37:55,977
know people around the N o Nhl. For

991
00:37:55,977 --> 00:37:58,309
starting to question just the whole method of

992
00:37:58,447 --> 00:38:00,597
operation of Pad Verb. And of course, they

993
00:38:00,597 --> 00:38:02,827
had this prize first round draft and none

994
00:38:02,827 --> 00:38:04,635
of those guys are Nhl ready

995
00:38:05,387 --> 00:38:07,289
Like, and on top of that, what happens

996
00:38:07,289 --> 00:38:10,141
in Anaheim stings what happens to the goals,

997
00:38:10,458 --> 00:38:13,039
and the goals lost their top 4

998
00:38:13,737 --> 00:38:17,033
veteran journey A nhl players who all left

999
00:38:17,172 --> 00:38:19,422
within about a 2 hour span on the

1000
00:38:19,422 --> 00:38:21,887
first day of free agency and went other

1001
00:38:21,887 --> 00:38:25,069
places. So right now, it's like Anaheim fans

1002
00:38:25,069 --> 00:38:27,706
are being sentenced to another year of 45

1003
00:38:27,706 --> 00:38:30,009
losses because they just did not add any

1004
00:38:30,009 --> 00:38:32,471
veteran players and then add any game chambers,

1005
00:38:33,264 --> 00:38:36,172
changers to the stockpile group of young players

1006
00:38:36,391 --> 00:38:38,789
that the force fed, so not not good.

1007
00:38:39,108 --> 00:38:41,665
But what a what a fuck wild 48

1008
00:38:41,665 --> 00:38:44,302
hours in the National Hockey League. So John

1009
00:38:44,302 --> 00:38:46,525
jump in there with your best snapshot.

1010
00:38:47,319 --> 00:38:49,860
So a hundred and 33 players in 2

1011
00:38:49,860 --> 00:38:52,662
days. That's what, like, 4 team. Right? I

1012
00:38:52,662 --> 00:38:54,977
mean, that are moving around. That's unbelievable. It's

1013
00:38:54,977 --> 00:38:57,931
weird how some teams are spending, like drunken

1014
00:38:57,931 --> 00:38:59,688
sailors, you know, they're binge binging on all

1015
00:38:59,688 --> 00:39:02,258
this money flowing into the Shell. And yet

1016
00:39:02,737 --> 00:39:04,415
Anaheim didn't make a move. I mean, are

1017
00:39:04,415 --> 00:39:06,652
are they gonna just keep rolling out the

1018
00:39:06,652 --> 00:39:08,329
kids and and hoping they can grow up?

1019
00:39:08,981 --> 00:39:10,890
There's nobody left on the draft board. There's

1020
00:39:10,890 --> 00:39:12,639
nobody left on the free agent board that's

1021
00:39:12,639 --> 00:39:14,945
gonna be a difference maker. And I really

1022
00:39:14,945 --> 00:39:16,693
felt and I subscribed to all the things

1023
00:39:16,773 --> 00:39:18,618
Pat Beak was doing to try to fix

1024
00:39:18,618 --> 00:39:19,336
the roster.

1025
00:39:19,974 --> 00:39:22,150
I can't subscribe to this any longer

1026
00:39:22,766 --> 00:39:25,240
because you've got no veteran players.

1027
00:39:25,891 --> 00:39:27,641
And you got the bolt under who I

1028
00:39:27,641 --> 00:39:30,187
thought could have been a a pawn to

1029
00:39:30,187 --> 00:39:32,668
go get some veteran role players that front,

1030
00:39:32,827 --> 00:39:34,896
and they didn't do it. And they had

1031
00:39:34,896 --> 00:39:37,601
30 plus million in cap space. I would

1032
00:39:37,601 --> 00:39:38,953
have thought that would have gone out and

1033
00:39:38,953 --> 00:39:41,219
tried to rent couple of veteran good players

1034
00:39:41,355 --> 00:39:43,106
that might have been difference makers, but they

1035
00:39:43,106 --> 00:39:44,776
didn't do any of that. And they had

1036
00:39:44,776 --> 00:39:46,527
a they had a nice run in the

1037
00:39:46,527 --> 00:39:48,460
draft But all those guys are 18 and

1038
00:39:48,460 --> 00:39:50,480
19 and they're not ready made to play

1039
00:39:50,539 --> 00:39:52,460
in the National Hockey League. How they're not

1040
00:39:52,460 --> 00:39:54,059
ready to play for the San Diego gulf.

1041
00:39:54,299 --> 00:39:55,991
And then the to let the goals top

1042
00:39:55,991 --> 00:39:58,942
for who veteran and guys leave whom the

1043
00:39:58,942 --> 00:40:00,378
ducks had sign to place here to be

1044
00:40:00,378 --> 00:40:02,292
stabilized to let those guys go.

1045
00:40:03,089 --> 00:40:05,659
I just don't understand it. So Hockey hotline

1046
00:40:05,659 --> 00:40:07,420
is open, feel free to jump on board

1047
00:40:07,420 --> 00:40:09,820
in fans form. You have an opinion about

1048
00:40:09,820 --> 00:40:12,139
what just happened. See, I told you you

1049
00:40:12,139 --> 00:40:14,309
should continued to skate. Hell, you could have

1050
00:40:14,309 --> 00:40:16,219
made 8000000 dollars a year and been 1

1051
00:40:16,219 --> 00:40:17,833
of those 133

1052
00:40:17,890 --> 00:40:19,880
free agents assigned in the first 2 days.

1053
00:40:20,278 --> 00:40:22,506
Ak Hotline the chat box is open, feel

1054
00:40:22,506 --> 00:40:24,677
free. To jump on board. So we go

1055
00:40:24,677 --> 00:40:25,737
from all of that

1056
00:40:26,275 --> 00:40:29,791
to just a devastating week in soccer. Yeah.

1057
00:40:30,110 --> 00:40:32,382
Team Us hey, kinda really

1058
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,633
laid a turd in the Cop America tournament.

1059
00:40:35,952 --> 00:40:38,585
Boy these fans were abusive. You know, this

1060
00:40:38,585 --> 00:40:40,275
was supposed to be the ramp up to

1061
00:40:40,275 --> 00:40:41,152
the excitement

1062
00:40:41,631 --> 00:40:44,981
For the 20 26 world cup. This cop

1063
00:40:44,981 --> 00:40:45,481
tournament

1064
00:40:46,017 --> 00:40:47,851
because all these games were played here in

1065
00:40:47,851 --> 00:40:48,545
the states

1066
00:40:48,901 --> 00:40:51,382
home field advantage if you will for team

1067
00:40:51,516 --> 00:40:53,259
usa, You know, and they came out of

1068
00:40:53,259 --> 00:40:55,556
the gates and they stump Bolivia in the

1069
00:40:55,556 --> 00:40:57,555
first game and you looked at the roster,

1070
00:40:57,952 --> 00:41:00,333
and we had talked extensively about Christian

1071
00:41:01,047 --> 00:41:03,031
And how he's grown as a player and

1072
00:41:03,031 --> 00:41:05,034
a man as a leader, and we saw

1073
00:41:05,034 --> 00:41:06,792
the young guys, and they all played Well

1074
00:41:06,792 --> 00:41:09,349
against Bolivia, and then they got mug in

1075
00:41:09,349 --> 00:41:10,868
the back Alley by Panama.

1076
00:41:11,347 --> 00:41:13,505
And then they got beat by Y uruguay.

1077
00:41:14,078 --> 00:41:16,547
And the referee in both games 2 and

1078
00:41:16,547 --> 00:41:19,836
games 3 have come under enormous criticism.

1079
00:41:20,372 --> 00:41:22,930
And in the second half of the loss

1080
00:41:22,930 --> 00:41:25,232
to your uruguay that eliminated then the other

1081
00:41:25,232 --> 00:41:27,534
night. All you could hear was not the

1082
00:41:27,534 --> 00:41:28,590
fans cheering

1083
00:41:28,978 --> 00:41:32,311
all you could hear was fire Greg, fire,

1084
00:41:32,549 --> 00:41:34,319
Greg talking about Greg Be,

1085
00:41:34,850 --> 00:41:36,835
the head coach of Team Usa. It was

1086
00:41:36,835 --> 00:41:39,073
brought in to rebuild this roster.

1087
00:41:39,629 --> 00:41:41,536
I'm gonna take a different stance, and this

1088
00:41:41,536 --> 00:41:43,681
might not be very popular. But the last

1089
00:41:43,839 --> 00:41:45,666
I checked it's my podcast although you have

1090
00:41:45,666 --> 00:41:48,317
it you are entitled to an opinion in

1091
00:41:48,317 --> 00:41:51,034
the fans forum. You need time to build

1092
00:41:51,034 --> 00:41:53,751
and grow young players, and he jammed a

1093
00:41:53,751 --> 00:41:55,843
lot of young players on the pitch to

1094
00:41:55,843 --> 00:41:56,557
go with Christian.

1095
00:41:57,670 --> 00:42:00,052
1 of them logan got hurt in the

1096
00:42:00,052 --> 00:42:02,775
game against y uruguay. So that's a big

1097
00:42:02,831 --> 00:42:03,387
issue there.

1098
00:42:04,181 --> 00:42:04,681
Secondly,

1099
00:42:05,150 --> 00:42:07,070
He went with a lot of younger players

1100
00:42:07,070 --> 00:42:07,949
on the back line.

1101
00:42:08,909 --> 00:42:11,469
John Brooks is not there. Couple the other

1102
00:42:11,469 --> 00:42:13,640
veteran defenders were not there, and then Matt

1103
00:42:13,799 --> 00:42:15,788
Turner got hurt got ding up with a

1104
00:42:15,788 --> 00:42:18,811
leg injury in the Uruguay game. And then

1105
00:42:18,811 --> 00:42:19,311
the,

1106
00:42:19,925 --> 00:42:21,538
and this is not gonna be a bailout

1107
00:42:21,929 --> 00:42:24,396
excuse, but I really thought that they got

1108
00:42:24,396 --> 00:42:27,183
screwed by the off in game 2 and

1109
00:42:27,183 --> 00:42:29,945
in Game 3. There were 28

1110
00:42:30,144 --> 00:42:30,623
foul.

1111
00:42:31,820 --> 00:42:35,651
Got mu, and yet, hardly any yellow cards,

1112
00:42:36,289 --> 00:42:38,619
no red cards against the opponents. I mean,

1113
00:42:38,778 --> 00:42:41,249
you talk about the shin kicking, and you

1114
00:42:41,249 --> 00:42:43,322
talk about the elbows and the forearm police

1115
00:42:43,322 --> 00:42:44,598
it just took a battering,

1116
00:42:44,996 --> 00:42:46,885
and they did nothing. And they had to

1117
00:42:47,084 --> 00:42:49,078
strain at the end of the game against

1118
00:42:49,476 --> 00:42:51,869
Uruguay, because he stormed to the referee.

1119
00:42:52,906 --> 00:42:55,139
Uruguay was allowed to score a goal on

1120
00:42:55,139 --> 00:42:57,702
what looked like a really blatant off side,

1121
00:42:58,179 --> 00:43:00,802
and they went to Va video assistance for

1122
00:43:00,802 --> 00:43:01,437
the referee.

1123
00:43:01,835 --> 00:43:05,252
It showed the Uruguay player was outside and

1124
00:43:05,252 --> 00:43:08,719
the judge From Peru, the referee from Peru

1125
00:43:09,177 --> 00:43:10,214
allowed it to be a goal.

1126
00:43:11,970 --> 00:43:14,125
Confronted, the referee at the end of the

1127
00:43:14,125 --> 00:43:17,163
game screaming adam, and then Political, I think

1128
00:43:17,163 --> 00:43:18,911
is gonna get fined by Fifa.

1129
00:43:20,899 --> 00:43:21,399
Turned

1130
00:43:22,012 --> 00:43:24,813
pointed to the Uruguay Hud. Where they all

1131
00:43:24,813 --> 00:43:27,307
were celebrating. He told the referee

1132
00:43:27,765 --> 00:43:28,584
from Peru

1133
00:43:28,962 --> 00:43:30,180
to go celebrate

1134
00:43:30,638 --> 00:43:33,448
with team Y uruguay K gave them the

1135
00:43:33,448 --> 00:43:35,226
victory. So now there's gonna

1136
00:43:35,686 --> 00:43:37,844
review as to whether Be holt is the

1137
00:43:37,844 --> 00:43:40,161
right coach. I think he gotta stay the

1138
00:43:40,161 --> 00:43:42,331
course. I just don't think you mean fire

1139
00:43:42,331 --> 00:43:42,831
coaches

1140
00:43:43,285 --> 00:43:46,624
after every international tournament granted. They haven't done

1141
00:43:46,624 --> 00:43:49,247
well against the top rated teams for Fifa,

1142
00:43:49,565 --> 00:43:51,289
but this was a rebuild

1143
00:43:51,647 --> 00:43:53,895
So when you got as the cornerstone.

1144
00:43:54,349 --> 00:43:56,255
They've got Tim W, who got thrown out

1145
00:43:56,255 --> 00:43:58,242
of game too because of a red corps

1146
00:43:58,242 --> 00:43:59,695
card as a cornerstone,

1147
00:44:00,324 --> 00:44:04,074
you've got rain, you've got logan. You've got

1148
00:44:04,074 --> 00:44:06,307
other young guys, they gotta grow. And by

1149
00:44:06,307 --> 00:44:07,998
firing the coach and bring in somebody else

1150
00:44:07,998 --> 00:44:10,071
send different with the new system, I just

1151
00:44:10,071 --> 00:44:13,022
don't think is the proper move. But at

1152
00:44:13,022 --> 00:44:15,096
the end of the day, we thought this

1153
00:44:15,096 --> 00:44:17,661
would be the launching point for 20 26

1154
00:44:17,661 --> 00:44:20,206
and said it became a roadblock. Although I

1155
00:44:20,206 --> 00:44:21,718
tend to think the referee had a lot

1156
00:44:21,718 --> 00:44:24,025
to do with what happened in the game

1157
00:44:24,025 --> 00:44:26,928
2 loss and what happened in the ugly

1158
00:44:27,704 --> 00:44:30,097
decision to allow Your uruguay to score a

1159
00:44:30,097 --> 00:44:32,569
tainted goal. John, your turn. Yeah. Well I

1160
00:44:32,569 --> 00:44:33,925
mean, you know, it's always a bad look

1161
00:44:33,925 --> 00:44:35,600
to to bang on the reps. But, yeah,

1162
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,839
that was a legit off sides. You know,

1163
00:44:37,919 --> 00:44:39,586
that that should have been caught with the

1164
00:44:39,745 --> 00:44:40,857
Va, but it wasn't.

1165
00:44:41,889 --> 00:44:44,366
You know, the even Team usa looked even

1166
00:44:44,366 --> 00:44:46,510
in the win against Bolivia, they still seemed

1167
00:44:46,510 --> 00:44:48,336
under overwhelming. You know, I think they want

1168
00:44:48,336 --> 00:44:49,924
2 nothing, but it should have been, like

1169
00:44:49,924 --> 00:44:52,402
4 nothing or even more than that, but

1170
00:44:52,402 --> 00:44:55,425
those last 2 games against Panama and Uruguay

1171
00:44:55,425 --> 00:44:58,211
were so physical. And I just just... It

1172
00:44:58,211 --> 00:44:59,977
was like watching an N Bell game or

1173
00:44:59,977 --> 00:45:02,764
a rugby. You know, it was unbelievable. But

1174
00:45:02,764 --> 00:45:04,914
in my opinion, you you stick stay the

1175
00:45:04,914 --> 00:45:06,587
course of Bear holt, that you put the

1176
00:45:06,587 --> 00:45:08,180
blame on the players. They've gotta be able

1177
00:45:08,180 --> 00:45:10,349
to execute out there. You can't blame the

1178
00:45:10,349 --> 00:45:12,583
reps. That's a bad look. And and what

1179
00:45:12,583 --> 00:45:14,497
do we got? We got we got 1

1180
00:45:14,497 --> 00:45:17,230
more international tournament in 20 25, and then

1181
00:45:17,230 --> 00:45:19,630
in 26, it's the world cup. Well, they

1182
00:45:19,630 --> 00:45:21,389
got time to grow. I just don't think

1183
00:45:21,389 --> 00:45:23,640
they should blow this thing up. At this

1184
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,583
point in time. Hey, Hacks sauce holiday, cook

1185
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1202
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1203
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Sent me. John, it's your turn to take

1204
00:46:11,952 --> 00:46:14,672
over as your broadcast from La field It's

1205
00:46:14,672 --> 00:46:17,383
what we call fans form. Anybody got any

1206
00:46:17,383 --> 00:46:19,057
opinions on this holiday or they just all

1207
00:46:19,057 --> 00:46:21,210
drinking and beer. I think everyone's having a

1208
00:46:21,210 --> 00:46:22,978
good time on the fourth of July I

1209
00:46:22,978 --> 00:46:24,648
have a question that I wanna kick this.

1210
00:46:24,887 --> 00:46:26,716
I'm gonna put you on the spot. What's

1211
00:46:26,716 --> 00:46:27,750
your take on,

1212
00:46:28,704 --> 00:46:31,170
am m 07:60 getting rid of Darren Smith.

1213
00:46:32,784 --> 00:46:34,065
Typical management move,

1214
00:46:34,704 --> 00:46:37,105
corporate management has ruined sports talk radio in

1215
00:46:37,184 --> 00:46:39,425
San Diego. I found out about this the

1216
00:46:39,425 --> 00:46:42,544
other night just after call, it became public.

1217
00:46:43,181 --> 00:46:45,249
I was really stunned. Good guy,

1218
00:46:46,283 --> 00:46:46,783
conscientious

1219
00:46:47,570 --> 00:46:47,889
consistent,

1220
00:46:48,684 --> 00:46:48,923
steady,

1221
00:46:49,639 --> 00:46:49,957
intelligent.

1222
00:46:50,673 --> 00:46:52,503
He was a teammate of mind that the

1223
00:46:52,503 --> 00:46:54,507
mighty 10 90 for an extended period of

1224
00:46:54,507 --> 00:46:56,342
time landed on his feet over there.

1225
00:46:57,379 --> 00:46:59,692
I just don't understand the whole rationale. No.

1226
00:46:59,851 --> 00:47:01,287
I do understand the rationale.

1227
00:47:02,085 --> 00:47:04,413
Your contract is up, regardless who you are,

1228
00:47:04,652 --> 00:47:06,646
how much money you made, Your contract is

1229
00:47:06,646 --> 00:47:09,597
up, you're gone, whether it was Darren Smith,

1230
00:47:09,837 --> 00:47:11,751
good guy had been in this market a

1231
00:47:11,751 --> 00:47:12,548
long chunk of time.

1232
00:47:13,346 --> 00:47:15,039
Before that, the Coach John Can.

1233
00:47:15,599 --> 00:47:17,119
Before that, my friend got Kaplan.

1234
00:47:17,599 --> 00:47:19,199
Before that... Because I was the first 1

1235
00:47:19,199 --> 00:47:20,799
out the door, Hacks saw.

1236
00:47:21,599 --> 00:47:23,613
It's just a terrible way. There are so

1237
00:47:23,613 --> 00:47:26,722
many good sports stock guys on the street

1238
00:47:26,722 --> 00:47:27,700
in this market

1239
00:47:28,157 --> 00:47:28,794
without a job.

1240
00:47:29,990 --> 00:47:32,237
We're looking for somebody who would like to

1241
00:47:32,237 --> 00:47:34,151
get into the radio business and be a

1242
00:47:34,151 --> 00:47:36,544
leader, put us on a good signal, who

1243
00:47:36,544 --> 00:47:39,097
is the All star team of talk show

1244
00:47:39,097 --> 00:47:40,394
host that are out there

1245
00:47:40,771 --> 00:47:41,170
available.

1246
00:47:41,583 --> 00:47:44,543
But it's what management is doing and management

1247
00:47:44,598 --> 00:47:47,215
to me has just wrecked the marketplace from

1248
00:47:47,215 --> 00:47:49,540
something that was really, really.

1249
00:47:50,728 --> 00:47:52,327
Yeah. I mean, I always like Darren and

1250
00:47:52,486 --> 00:47:54,084
Marty, And there's it's... There's a good crew,

1251
00:47:54,244 --> 00:47:55,922
You know, and they... They they had a

1252
00:47:55,922 --> 00:47:58,375
different perspective on sports. Sometimes we talk about

1253
00:47:58,494 --> 00:48:00,320
societal issues on their on their show, which

1254
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:00,717
was great.

1255
00:48:01,829 --> 00:48:02,647
I was watching

1256
00:48:03,021 --> 00:48:05,268
Kaplan and Crew on Youtube. And

1257
00:48:05,641 --> 00:48:08,207
Scott went and told the whole backstory story

1258
00:48:08,207 --> 00:48:08,947
about how

1259
00:48:10,444 --> 00:48:12,462
you know, Darren was, I guess, a producer

1260
00:48:12,521 --> 00:48:13,021
for

1261
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,644
es Espn back in the day, and then

1262
00:48:15,644 --> 00:48:18,032
was it the producer for, where for Scott

1263
00:48:18,032 --> 00:48:20,420
and b r? And and then finally, he

1264
00:48:20,420 --> 00:48:21,947
said, you know, to to

1265
00:48:22,503 --> 00:48:24,572
to Darren. He says, you know, we've figured

1266
00:48:24,572 --> 00:48:26,799
out a blueprint on how to do this

1267
00:48:26,799 --> 00:48:28,963
online in the digital space. And I'm watching.

1268
00:48:29,202 --> 00:48:30,718
I'm going, yeah. Yeah. Scott, you've done a

1269
00:48:30,718 --> 00:48:32,552
good job building, but you know, Hacks sauce

1270
00:48:32,552 --> 00:48:34,467
is doing it too, and we're getting out

1271
00:48:34,467 --> 00:48:35,982
there with some more content. But, yeah, there's

1272
00:48:35,982 --> 00:48:37,178
a lot of good people here in San

1273
00:48:37,258 --> 00:48:38,237
Diego that

1274
00:48:38,548 --> 00:48:40,216
have a lot to say and they're not

1275
00:48:40,216 --> 00:48:40,931
on the radio.

1276
00:48:41,566 --> 00:48:43,734
And there's a lot of good management people

1277
00:48:44,186 --> 00:48:46,568
that we've all worked for at the original

1278
00:48:46,568 --> 00:48:48,574
6 90, and then at 10 90.

1279
00:48:49,375 --> 00:48:52,335
But again, you need resources, you need ownership.

1280
00:48:52,494 --> 00:48:54,949
This is a very different and nobody talks

1281
00:48:55,069 --> 00:48:57,168
about this. This is a very different

1282
00:48:57,546 --> 00:49:00,663
advertising market now that has really gone south,

1283
00:49:01,063 --> 00:49:04,273
whether it's Tv advertising revenue, whether it's radio

1284
00:49:04,273 --> 00:49:04,671
revenue,

1285
00:49:05,389 --> 00:49:07,782
a lot less dollars around to go to

1286
00:49:07,782 --> 00:49:10,355
the stations. And this is not an easy

1287
00:49:10,413 --> 00:49:12,668
format to finance it is a very

1288
00:49:13,299 --> 00:49:14,258
expensive format.

1289
00:49:14,658 --> 00:49:17,375
So we've talked amongst ourselves, each of us

1290
00:49:17,375 --> 00:49:21,152
are on different threats on social media about

1291
00:49:21,291 --> 00:49:23,105
how does this change? How can we make

1292
00:49:23,224 --> 00:49:25,686
different, but you need leadership that will step

1293
00:49:25,686 --> 00:49:27,751
up and say, I wanna be the management.

1294
00:49:27,990 --> 00:49:29,284
I can find the financing,

1295
00:49:29,658 --> 00:49:31,882
then you gotta find the signal to make

1296
00:49:31,882 --> 00:49:34,362
the whole thing go. So that's my theory.

1297
00:49:34,521 --> 00:49:37,387
We'll do a whole separate entity show 1

1298
00:49:37,387 --> 00:49:39,536
of these days just on the history of

1299
00:49:39,536 --> 00:49:41,526
sports talk radio in San Diego. I'm sorry.

1300
00:49:41,685 --> 00:49:44,572
I'm biased. It's not what it was once

1301
00:49:44,572 --> 00:49:45,132
upon a time,

1302
00:49:45,851 --> 00:49:49,606
because of corporate management, it's it's on there.

1303
00:49:50,086 --> 00:49:51,858
But what we're doing on pipes cast work.

1304
00:49:52,336 --> 00:49:54,010
So John, we got anybody in a social

1305
00:49:54,010 --> 00:49:56,244
media platform wants to join us. Yeah. We

1306
00:49:56,244 --> 00:49:57,838
we got some comments here. Let's just go

1307
00:49:57,838 --> 00:49:59,433
here to the fans form. Let's go to

1308
00:49:59,592 --> 00:49:59,752
Greg.

1309
00:50:00,643 --> 00:50:02,232
And Greg says, Lee, we miss you in

1310
00:50:02,390 --> 00:50:04,296
Seattle, but what are your thoughts about the

1311
00:50:04,296 --> 00:50:06,202
mariner lack of hitting and a lack of

1312
00:50:06,202 --> 00:50:09,159
willingness to spend money. It is so frustrating

1313
00:50:09,159 --> 00:50:11,236
up here with their ownership. Well, you know,

1314
00:50:11,396 --> 00:50:12,674
I spent 3 years up there as a

1315
00:50:12,674 --> 00:50:15,071
voice of the C Ox 07:10 Cairo and

1316
00:50:15,071 --> 00:50:17,241
had a great time at I don't have

1317
00:50:17,241 --> 00:50:19,475
many regrets, but I had an opportunity maybe

1318
00:50:19,475 --> 00:50:21,070
to go up there and move my talk

1319
00:50:21,070 --> 00:50:22,586
show up there being stay as a voice

1320
00:50:22,586 --> 00:50:24,597
of the sea And at that point in

1321
00:50:24,597 --> 00:50:26,432
time, I just wasn't able to execute and

1322
00:50:26,432 --> 00:50:28,268
out from my contract in San Diego.

1323
00:50:28,987 --> 00:50:30,184
They got a great guy doing a Sea

1324
00:50:30,264 --> 00:50:32,394
Hawk, my longtime time friends Steve Ra 1

1325
00:50:32,514 --> 00:50:34,828
time receivers mode, The color analyst and just

1326
00:50:34,828 --> 00:50:37,062
a great person. You know, the the mariner

1327
00:50:37,062 --> 00:50:38,839
have kind of a a unique

1328
00:50:39,536 --> 00:50:40,070
situation with

1329
00:50:40,829 --> 00:50:41,329
management,

1330
00:50:41,789 --> 00:50:44,750
and Jerry D is their general manager, and,

1331
00:50:44,910 --> 00:50:46,110
of course, used to be here in Southern

1332
00:50:46,269 --> 00:50:46,769
California.

1333
00:50:47,324 --> 00:50:49,390
And he's always a wheeler dealer, but he's

1334
00:50:49,390 --> 00:50:52,647
never been able to execute a big blockbuster

1335
00:50:52,647 --> 00:50:53,862
deal. It's just

1336
00:50:54,236 --> 00:50:56,239
never been the same franchise, and I thought

1337
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:58,234
they had really arrived when they had each

1338
00:50:58,553 --> 00:51:00,867
Suzuki. And remember the year, I think they

1339
00:51:00,867 --> 00:51:02,303
won a hundred 16 games,

1340
00:51:02,862 --> 00:51:04,334
but they've trident to

1341
00:51:04,792 --> 00:51:06,707
agency, it hasn't worked. They've tried it through

1342
00:51:06,707 --> 00:51:08,942
the farm system. It's marginally worked.

1343
00:51:09,580 --> 00:51:11,416
I guess the burning question, you know,

1344
00:51:12,229 --> 00:51:13,585
should you be in a in a Pacific

1345
00:51:13,984 --> 00:51:16,775
Northwest great market or you're raising you know,

1346
00:51:17,573 --> 00:51:20,205
operating with a hundred 43000000 dollar payroll or

1347
00:51:20,205 --> 00:51:21,721
maybe or should be better served be a

1348
00:51:21,721 --> 00:51:22,014
hundred

1349
00:51:22,532 --> 00:51:24,520
70 or a hundred 80000000 dollar payroll. It's

1350
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,429
a big issue. They do have they do

1351
00:51:26,429 --> 00:51:28,179
have a really good young kitchen staff and

1352
00:51:28,179 --> 00:51:30,348
most of all that his homegrown grown, but

1353
00:51:30,348 --> 00:51:32,745
it's just it's just not the complete franchise

1354
00:51:32,745 --> 00:51:34,822
at this point in time. Hey, Greg, Good

1355
00:51:34,822 --> 00:51:36,181
to have you on board, and thanks for

1356
00:51:36,181 --> 00:51:38,271
following I hope you'll continue to stay with

1357
00:51:38,271 --> 00:51:40,586
us on our podcast. John. Next question. Okay.

1358
00:51:40,826 --> 00:51:42,182
Let's move on and and this is from

1359
00:51:42,342 --> 00:51:44,337
Steve talking about the Nhl. Like 3 parts,

1360
00:51:44,496 --> 00:51:46,664
but the first 1 is I can't believe

1361
00:51:46,664 --> 00:51:48,895
how many players are are moved around. The

1362
00:51:49,293 --> 00:51:52,081
Nhl has become the Nba. Everybody chasing the

1363
00:51:52,081 --> 00:51:52,241
money.

1364
00:51:52,893 --> 00:51:54,887
Everybody's trying to make 8 to 9000000 dollars

1365
00:51:54,887 --> 00:51:57,280
a year. Now, that being said, remember, this

1366
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,535
is all a byproduct of the collective bargaining

1367
00:51:59,593 --> 00:51:59,912
agreement.

1368
00:52:00,471 --> 00:52:02,519
As as the gross revenues and the n

1369
00:52:02,718 --> 00:52:04,625
nhl have gone up. The amount of money

1370
00:52:04,625 --> 00:52:06,453
that goes into the players pool goes up.

1371
00:52:06,850 --> 00:52:08,121
And that's why suddenly,

1372
00:52:08,757 --> 00:52:10,682
you've got 567

1373
00:52:10,682 --> 00:52:13,073
and some cases, 8 year contracts that are

1374
00:52:13,073 --> 00:52:15,942
averaging 7 or 8000000 dollars a year. The

1375
00:52:15,942 --> 00:52:17,989
money is monstrous, but they can afford it

1376
00:52:18,348 --> 00:52:19,405
just because

1377
00:52:19,780 --> 00:52:21,952
of the sellout outs because of the Tv

1378
00:52:22,009 --> 00:52:24,157
contract. So things have really changed in the

1379
00:52:24,635 --> 00:52:26,545
Nhl. It has caught up to the Nba,

1380
00:52:26,704 --> 00:52:27,554
which has caught up

1381
00:52:28,152 --> 00:52:30,464
obviously, to the gross revenue in baseball or

1382
00:52:30,464 --> 00:52:32,617
nobody has caught up to what the national

1383
00:52:32,617 --> 00:52:33,414
football is doing it.

1384
00:52:34,211 --> 00:52:35,566
Yeah. Steve goes on to say,

1385
00:52:36,378 --> 00:52:38,202
Nashville looks good, but I still don't like

1386
00:52:38,202 --> 00:52:40,051
him winning the Stanley Cup and

1387
00:52:40,503 --> 00:52:42,170
the ducks are a mess, get rid of

1388
00:52:42,170 --> 00:52:43,280
her. He's an idiot.

1389
00:52:43,855 --> 00:52:45,695
Well, Pat Bi has been given a chunk

1390
00:52:45,695 --> 00:52:47,695
of time to clean up the mess inherited.

1391
00:52:47,934 --> 00:52:49,614
And, you know, 1 of the problems, John,

1392
00:52:49,855 --> 00:52:51,788
and this is every club, You know, just

1393
00:52:51,788 --> 00:52:53,221
look up the road. This has happening with

1394
00:52:53,221 --> 00:52:55,790
a like Kings And it's happened other places

1395
00:52:55,847 --> 00:52:58,235
when you win. And if you win a

1396
00:52:58,314 --> 00:52:58,871
Stanley cup,

1397
00:52:59,682 --> 00:53:01,674
everybody's contract that comes up wants big money

1398
00:53:01,674 --> 00:53:03,266
and these guys are getting a big money,

1399
00:53:03,744 --> 00:53:05,417
but they're getting on 4 and 5 and

1400
00:53:05,417 --> 00:53:07,886
6 year contracts. While those guys get older

1401
00:53:07,886 --> 00:53:10,396
and fifth and 6 through seventh eighth year

1402
00:53:10,454 --> 00:53:12,451
contracts and suddenly you're you're on the hook,

1403
00:53:12,849 --> 00:53:14,606
and you're gonna have to hit the reset

1404
00:53:14,606 --> 00:53:16,522
button, which means you're gonna have the eat

1405
00:53:16,522 --> 00:53:19,090
contracts, get rid of players go try to

1406
00:53:19,090 --> 00:53:20,526
rebuild it through the draft it takes time,

1407
00:53:20,686 --> 00:53:22,759
but the ducks the ducks have been down

1408
00:53:22,759 --> 00:53:25,630
for such an extended period, and they've drafted

1409
00:53:25,630 --> 00:53:28,037
fairly well. They've force fed their kids, but

1410
00:53:28,037 --> 00:53:30,345
they don't have enough veterans around them. I'm

1411
00:53:30,345 --> 00:53:33,050
just I'm sorry. I'm sitting here really disappointed

1412
00:53:33,050 --> 00:53:35,518
in Verb beach, and I'm disappointed because that

1413
00:53:35,518 --> 00:53:37,085
impacts the San Diego gauls

1414
00:53:37,443 --> 00:53:39,750
if if they're letting guys go, and they're

1415
00:53:39,750 --> 00:53:41,603
not signing veteran guys to

1416
00:53:42,137 --> 00:53:44,468
help the goals and you're taking all the

1417
00:53:44,699 --> 00:53:46,604
and sending them to Anaheim and force feeding

1418
00:53:46,604 --> 00:53:48,930
them, just not a... It's not a good

1419
00:53:49,065 --> 00:53:51,129
situation. Hey. Thank you for the hockey hotline

1420
00:53:51,129 --> 00:53:53,290
call. John. We move on. We move on.

1421
00:53:53,449 --> 00:53:55,120
Like, hey, Let's go talk in to some

1422
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:56,473
of our social media comments.

1423
00:53:57,030 --> 00:53:57,269
And,

1424
00:53:57,985 --> 00:53:59,895
yeah, let's let's go here to a Willie

1425
00:53:59,974 --> 00:54:02,456
May's comment. This is from Pod rae o

1426
00:54:02,456 --> 00:54:04,681
6. He says, I've grown to love your

1427
00:54:04,681 --> 00:54:06,907
work good, sir. You only speak the truth

1428
00:54:06,907 --> 00:54:09,132
and it is legit, rest and peace, mister

1429
00:54:09,212 --> 00:54:09,450
Maze.

1430
00:54:10,264 --> 00:54:11,945
Say, hey, it was really something. You know,

1431
00:54:12,025 --> 00:54:13,545
the the morning he passed.

1432
00:54:14,184 --> 00:54:16,505
I was thinking about my career in sports

1433
00:54:16,505 --> 00:54:19,077
talk radio. And I I interviewed all those

1434
00:54:19,077 --> 00:54:21,554
great players of that era. Those guys were

1435
00:54:21,554 --> 00:54:22,273
my heroes,

1436
00:54:22,753 --> 00:54:25,070
who was never ever a phone number. I

1437
00:54:25,070 --> 00:54:26,994
wouldn't call to try to chase a guy

1438
00:54:26,994 --> 00:54:29,536
down, and I... It... The names just came

1439
00:54:29,536 --> 00:54:31,998
rushing back to me. I interviewed Willie. So

1440
00:54:31,998 --> 00:54:34,158
you interviewed Henry Era and I interviewed Mickey

1441
00:54:34,317 --> 00:54:34,556
Man.

1442
00:54:35,191 --> 00:54:38,369
I interviewed Sandy C. I interviewed a lot

1443
00:54:38,369 --> 00:54:40,458
of the boys of summer, the old Brooklyn

1444
00:54:40,991 --> 00:54:42,992
before they passed on the Duke of flat

1445
00:54:42,992 --> 00:54:45,214
bush, etcetera. And it's just... I just thought

1446
00:54:45,214 --> 00:54:47,435
back to that and thought how different all

1447
00:54:47,435 --> 00:54:49,260
those guys were. And those... That was the

1448
00:54:49,260 --> 00:54:51,998
golden era of baseball goes for really

1449
00:54:52,377 --> 00:54:55,809
really special people. So Pod 0 6. Thank

1450
00:54:55,809 --> 00:54:57,646
you for the compliment. I hope you'll continue

1451
00:54:57,646 --> 00:54:59,880
to join us every week. Follow my website,

1452
00:54:59,960 --> 00:55:02,852
and, yeah, I respect those guys of yesterday

1453
00:55:02,852 --> 00:55:05,650
your, John. Yeah. Say, hey, Willie. I mean,

1454
00:55:05,729 --> 00:55:07,647
that that guy was like a baseball God

1455
00:55:07,647 --> 00:55:09,166
when I was growing up in San Francisco.

1456
00:55:09,565 --> 00:55:11,920
Hey, let's switch over here to Noble Michael

1457
00:55:11,980 --> 00:55:14,059
and talk about Pad race. He says this

1458
00:55:14,059 --> 00:55:16,380
is getting old hacks saw. Just remember where

1459
00:55:16,380 --> 00:55:19,114
we were before pe pre. Look at the

1460
00:55:19,114 --> 00:55:21,914
those seats were filling and how exciting baseball

1461
00:55:21,914 --> 00:55:23,994
is in San Diego. I'm a happy fan

1462
00:55:23,994 --> 00:55:26,394
when you put things into perspective. That's happy

1463
00:55:26,394 --> 00:55:28,887
camper. And, you know, I I always told.

1464
00:55:29,207 --> 00:55:31,285
I remember the the first conversation I had

1465
00:55:31,285 --> 00:55:33,123
with Peter S when he came on board

1466
00:55:33,123 --> 00:55:35,041
a owner, and I said the same thing

1467
00:55:35,041 --> 00:55:37,714
to Ron Fowler. I said, I

1468
00:55:38,014 --> 00:55:38,514
understand

1469
00:55:38,894 --> 00:55:41,775
what the Pad were. And sometimes they they

1470
00:55:41,775 --> 00:55:44,014
had great seasons under John Moore and the

1471
00:55:44,014 --> 00:55:45,829
late general manager, Kevin Towers

1472
00:55:46,269 --> 00:55:48,190
And prior to that, they were small market,

1473
00:55:48,349 --> 00:55:50,110
and I didn't agree with the fire sales,

1474
00:55:50,269 --> 00:55:52,349
but it wasn't my dollar that was being

1475
00:55:52,349 --> 00:55:54,510
spent. At the end of the day, this

1476
00:55:54,510 --> 00:55:56,759
is a great base fall market, and these

1477
00:55:56,759 --> 00:55:59,467
guys have now proven it, You know, if

1478
00:55:59,467 --> 00:56:01,777
you put a great team on the field

1479
00:56:01,777 --> 00:56:03,469
on a fairly consistent basis.

1480
00:56:04,109 --> 00:56:06,269
And you add into the mix that our

1481
00:56:06,269 --> 00:56:08,929
community is a melting pot of people from

1482
00:56:09,070 --> 00:56:09,550
everywhere.

1483
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,903
Red sox fan comes see when Boston plays

1484
00:56:12,903 --> 00:56:16,480
her, giant fan, Dodge fan. Yankee fan, met

1485
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:16,718
fan.

1486
00:56:17,369 --> 00:56:19,432
Pirate fan. They'll all show up where in

1487
00:56:19,432 --> 00:56:19,908
their deer.

1488
00:56:20,622 --> 00:56:22,527
So we have the potential to draw more

1489
00:56:22,527 --> 00:56:25,304
than 3000000 and sell out if you give

1490
00:56:25,304 --> 00:56:27,394
me a good product, and they they have

1491
00:56:27,394 --> 00:56:30,275
collectively given this city a good product. Now,

1492
00:56:30,835 --> 00:56:31,795
have they overs spent?

1493
00:56:32,434 --> 00:56:34,969
Yeah. Is the payroll really high

1494
00:56:35,409 --> 00:56:35,809
Yeah.

1495
00:56:36,210 --> 00:56:38,130
Is there much more money that can be

1496
00:56:38,130 --> 00:56:40,050
squeezed out of this market? I mean, grace

1497
00:56:40,050 --> 00:56:42,449
ticket prices 38 percent of the last 3

1498
00:56:42,449 --> 00:56:44,505
years, John, that's in a awful big hike

1499
00:56:44,782 --> 00:56:46,926
and there's a much more advertising in money

1500
00:56:46,926 --> 00:56:49,388
that you can squeeze out of this marketplace.

1501
00:56:49,547 --> 00:56:50,262
I don't know.

1502
00:56:50,897 --> 00:56:52,088
That's the big issue. But

1503
00:56:52,723 --> 00:56:54,408
The fans are seeing a good product, but

1504
00:56:54,408 --> 00:56:56,242
a good product should be Pal. We're gonna

1505
00:56:56,242 --> 00:56:58,476
play a bunch of games in October? And

1506
00:56:58,476 --> 00:57:00,230
cheese can we get to the world series?

1507
00:57:00,549 --> 00:57:02,703
And as much as I subscribe to all

1508
00:57:02,703 --> 00:57:05,275
the things that aj k does, boots on

1509
00:57:05,275 --> 00:57:06,954
the ground I scouts and all that.

1510
00:57:07,994 --> 00:57:09,855
Understand this. In 9 years

1511
00:57:10,235 --> 00:57:11,969
he's given us 3 good months of base

1512
00:57:12,407 --> 00:57:14,712
3 good months. The year we chase down

1513
00:57:14,712 --> 00:57:16,540
and beat the dodgers in the playoffs, the

1514
00:57:16,540 --> 00:57:18,765
year we went to the national championship series.

1515
00:57:19,242 --> 00:57:20,832
The other years have been disappointment.

1516
00:57:21,324 --> 00:57:22,919
And as we sit here right now, the

1517
00:57:22,919 --> 00:57:25,152
powder you're trying to get hot, put themselves

1518
00:57:25,152 --> 00:57:27,226
into the chase for first place with the

1519
00:57:27,226 --> 00:57:29,458
dodgers, and they makes up ground, and they

1520
00:57:29,458 --> 00:57:30,575
give the ground etcetera.

1521
00:57:31,624 --> 00:57:33,691
They've traded the farm system away for the

1522
00:57:33,691 --> 00:57:35,361
third time in the 9 years at Aj

1523
00:57:35,361 --> 00:57:37,133
j spend here. There's not a lot that's

1524
00:57:37,190 --> 00:57:38,643
that's ready made. So

1525
00:57:38,954 --> 00:57:41,186
I appreciate the fans. I think the fans

1526
00:57:41,186 --> 00:57:42,701
are having a great time at Pet go

1527
00:57:42,780 --> 00:57:45,592
Park organizational. They've done a really great job

1528
00:57:45,810 --> 00:57:47,658
to make it an event and at it's

1529
00:57:47,658 --> 00:57:48,933
a destination point.

1530
00:57:49,651 --> 00:57:51,404
Of pal, I wanna I wanna see a

1531
00:57:51,404 --> 00:57:53,019
world series game

1532
00:57:53,396 --> 00:57:55,644
at Pit Park. We haven't seen not in

1533
00:57:55,644 --> 00:57:57,485
a long period of time dating back to

1534
00:57:57,485 --> 00:58:00,364
the the John Moore's literally, you know, Kevin

1535
00:58:00,525 --> 00:58:03,175
Towers era, and I just don't know if

1536
00:58:03,175 --> 00:58:05,265
there's much more money they can be wrong

1537
00:58:05,322 --> 00:58:07,230
out of this marketplace the way they're operating

1538
00:58:07,230 --> 00:58:08,900
in the franchise right now. I don't if

1539
00:58:08,900 --> 00:58:11,220
that makes sense, John, that's my spin. You're

1540
00:58:11,220 --> 00:58:13,203
the fan in La field go ahead. Well,

1541
00:58:13,361 --> 00:58:15,106
you know, San Diego always supports a winner,

1542
00:58:15,264 --> 00:58:17,881
You know, whether it's football or Nc double

1543
00:58:17,881 --> 00:58:18,381
basketball,

1544
00:58:18,769 --> 00:58:20,685
And, yeah, The pod their fans are showing

1545
00:58:20,685 --> 00:58:22,840
up. They... It's the vibe is so much

1546
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:24,836
better in San Diego now went than it

1547
00:58:24,836 --> 00:58:27,071
was when our starting shorts stop was Alex

1548
00:58:27,310 --> 00:58:29,474
Barista. I mean, back then, those are the

1549
00:58:29,474 --> 00:58:32,259
the the drags of Pod history that we

1550
00:58:32,259 --> 00:58:34,565
all endured it, watching every game, you know,

1551
00:58:34,645 --> 00:58:36,331
back on what was it probably channel 4

1552
00:58:36,490 --> 00:58:38,638
Pod raise a million years ago. But I

1553
00:58:38,797 --> 00:58:40,230
I tend to agree with Noble Michael. It's...

1554
00:58:40,389 --> 00:58:42,630
You know, it's way better, but we're not

1555
00:58:42,630 --> 00:58:44,296
at the top of the hill. It's kind

1556
00:58:44,296 --> 00:58:46,041
of in sight now where it was an

1557
00:58:46,041 --> 00:58:48,739
impossibility 10 years ago. Well, it's there, and

1558
00:58:48,739 --> 00:58:51,215
that's I think that that's the cool thing

1559
00:58:51,215 --> 00:58:53,840
about is they do put on some great

1560
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:54,795
shows at Pet,

1561
00:58:55,272 --> 00:58:57,474
and I've told you Sat that press box

1562
00:58:57,994 --> 00:58:58,155
when

1563
00:58:58,795 --> 00:59:01,035
Have these rallies and he's big showdown series

1564
00:59:01,035 --> 00:59:03,855
and it win some games, and the electricity

1565
00:59:03,994 --> 00:59:06,165
at Pet go park for base ball is

1566
00:59:06,165 --> 00:59:09,422
now almost even with the electricity when the

1567
00:59:09,422 --> 00:59:11,169
chargers had good teams and we were going

1568
00:59:11,169 --> 00:59:12,996
to the playoffs or going with the Super

1569
00:59:13,075 --> 00:59:13,844
Bowl. So thing is

1570
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sustainability, can they continue to do this? Is

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there more money out there that they can

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creatively bring in

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because, you know, our marketplace is only 3500000.0.

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And for them to draw 3200000.0

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last year was phenomenal. And they'll probably bust

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3300000.0

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in this season. I'm just hopeful that there

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will be games of importance

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in the month of October. Hey, John, this

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has been fabulous. We have pulled this off

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for another time doing our podcast

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just amazing

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Axon holiday cook out. I am at my

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cottage in the northern Adi

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right on the Canadian border in up State

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New York, and John, we didn't get blown

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off the air. We did not lose our

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connectivity, and the thunderstorms have yet to arrive.

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So this has been fun.

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Credit to you for helping

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get this on. Yeah. Right on, Lee, So

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I hope you and your family have a

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great independent say, holiday.

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Go out there and pursue your happiness today.

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Hey. And thanks for everybody watching our podcast

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be back in the studio next Monday for

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the bonus Monday podcast at 01:00 and to

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all of our followers. Thanks for joining us

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