Hour 1 – NBA MVP Leak, CFP Expansion, PGA Championship

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Speaker 3: We don't know.

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Speaker 2: They want to make sure that they have a date locked down, but they also have to factor in are they going to be having an eighteen game schedule by then, which I'm told they will be. They also are hoping to have their new TV deals done, but that's slowed down a little bit. But that's why that's been held off for almost a month now. But they're expected to vote on it tomorrow. I was told a month ago the paperwork had been done. This is a mere formality, yes.

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Speaker 3: Paul, Yeah. Dan.

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Speaker 4: A number of NFL reporters this morning have reported that the vote will be tomorrow, but in none of those articles does it say the date of said Nashville super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what they're holding off.

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Speaker 2: I mean, even Atlanta they weren't sure because are we going to have an eighteen game schedule next season? Not this one coming up? And that's why it was that date was kind of in a state of flux, and the same thing for Nashville in twenty thirty. From what I'm told, this was done almost a month ago. All Right, pull question, first hour of the program, Dylan, You've got the honors, all.

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Speaker 5: Right, Den Todd sent me this one off of the SGA leak if you want to call that. Do you care if the league awards leak out before the official announcement?

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes I do? Or not even a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Well, I have to let reporters do their job. We can't pick and choose when they're going to go. Well, maybe I shouldn't do this. I don't like this on draft night when they tip the picks. But then I'm not on social media. If I was given this information, I would have revealed it. That's my job. If I can. I'm not invited to a surprise party here now. It's this is the information. Season's been over for a while. It's a regular season award. Somebody in the NFL NBA home office told somebody who probably told somebody who probably told somebody who told Schams that this is happening. But if I was given the information, I can't sit here and rail against him when I'm telling you something that is, you know, a couple of years away before they played the Super Bowl. It's not like Shalms is saying, hey, in twenty thirty, you know who's going to win the MVP victor when Ben Yama, Wow, now that would be interesting.

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Speaker 3: I don't have any.

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Speaker 2: Problem with it. You know, I don't use social media with the draft because I don't want to be tipped off. And you know there are insiders who say they can get every single pick. Jay Glazer can get every single pick before it happens. He's told me that, but he doesn't do social media the way ones did.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Paul, this is a tough one because journalistically, like you said, Scham's almost has somewhat of an obligation once he gets the info not to hold it. He's not supposed to do favors for anybody. But you'd wish people wouldn't report this stuff and let the event play out because it's newsworthy. But it's a planned announcement, and it does feel like doesn't feel like the NFL wouldn't let this happen with their MVP and all their awards. They seem to never let this happen.

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Speaker 2: I don't even remember, you know, if we've had leaks with the NFL MVP and some of the honors that they have, I don't know. It just feels like the information is available if you know the right person to talk to. And Sham's has been around. He learned from Loaje and you know he had a sourcer too, told him that SGA is getting the MVP.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Marvin, but also twenty five thirty, even twenty years ago, there wasn't an official announcement on inside the NBA or Amazon Prime or ESPN or whatever. They just leaked it out. There wasn't a specific announcement when they were giving out the MVP.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody was up in arms where all of a sudden you've found out that such and such was going to win the MVA, like if Michael Jordan was winning the MVP, or Charles Barkley or Karl Malone. I don't remember any social unrest of don't do that, don't spoil, don't tell us our Christmas gifts before Christmas? Here, yes, Tom, At.

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Speaker 7: The very least I could appreciate the sensitivity if they had been promoting this for a while, which they were they kind of they get this exclusive and they're a new partner with the NBA, and then you know, Sham swoops in and says that you know, and journalistically he's got the info, he should go with it. But I can at least that I'm surprised the NBA didn't gather the troops ahead of time, and not that they'd be able to prevent it. But hey, you know, this is one of the new partners. Let's all play nice. We're all part of the same family. We're all kind of in bed together with the sport. Let them have this. They've been promoting this as the big news about who got the MVP.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't pick and choose when it comes to breaking stories. I mean, there are people who break stories all the time. I mean, go back to Chefty breaking the news that Andrew Luck was retiring. And Andrew Luck is on the sidelines of a preseason game. He could have waited until, you know, the next morning because Andrew Luck was going to have a press conference.

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Speaker 3: I mean, but I don't blame them.

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Speaker 2: These guys get paid millions and millions of dollars for breaking news. He just did his job. I don't have any problem with that whatsoever. You might not like it because it spoiled the moment. I think SGA, if you ask him, are you winning the MVP, he would have said, yeah, I am. And if you Jokers, SGA winning the MVP, he would have went yeah. By the way, the NBA got what it wanted, But be careful what you ask for. Go back to the Dream Team in nineteen ninety two, massacring everybody. You know, they're just running through every country. It's like a game of risk when you're rolling the dice and you're just taking out countries. That's what the Dream Team did well. The rest of the world said, you know, maybe we'll start playing this game, maybe we'll be a little bit more serious. If you look at the timeframe of ninety two to where we are now and look at all these players. Sga is from Canada. The last American born MVP was twenty eighteen. That was James Harden Jokers the third player ever to finish top two in the MVP voting six consecutive years, joining Larry Bird and Bill Russell. Instead of it day SATA, the day of the day stat of the day it comes that what stat.

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Speaker 3: Of the day pop.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when you factor in Don chich U, Jannis Embiid, Joker, Sga, the world has the best players. There's more depth in the United States, but the world has the top players right now.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Marvin, I know SGA's from Canada, but I wouldn't put him in the same category as guys like Joker and Luca only because he played American grassroots basketball. He played AAU basketball, he played at Kentucky, he played high school basketball in Tennessee. So I don't want to put him in the same category as they're developing differently in Canada. He did all this stuff in the American you know basketball grassroots system.

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Speaker 2: Well, Steve Nash then did the same thing, went to college in the United States, Santa Clara.

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Speaker 6: Correct, Okay, I just I'm just not putting him in the same category as they're develop opening them differently over there. He's playing in North America, he's not playing in Europe.

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Speaker 2: But does this go back to Damon Stotdomire and Vince Carter what they did to Canada. Now they kind of opened the doors to there's some great basketball. Tracy McGrady and that kind of birthed a whole new generation here. So okay, they're not, you know, from Germany or Africa, but they're from outside. I'm gonna give Canada win here, Marvin. Okay, if you want to go ahead, I am. I'm gonna give him a win.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Paul, Based off what Marvin said, are we calling Canada before Europe calls Canada because I think we're closer we can.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've tried to call Canada our own, so I mean technically, I'm gonna let Canada speak for itself, yes, Paul.

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Speaker 4: SJ also played two years of basketball in the United States and Chattanooga, Tennessee two years. Yeah, that's basically half American.

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Speaker 5: Dylan and I guess a large percentage of people out there didn't even know SJA was Canadians. I feel like we could probably claim him. I'm sure a lot of people just assumed he's from America.

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Speaker 3: Like RJ. Barrett, same thing with Steve Nash. Yeah, people didn't know. You know.

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Speaker 2: It's like, man, that that little kid at Santa Clara, he's pretty good.

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Speaker 3: You know, he's Canadian. Get out of here, yes, Marvin.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no one would think that because SJA went to Kentucky. Yeah, so you're not even thinking he's Canadian.

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Speaker 2: Nothing says American basketball like going to Kentucky. Well, at least it used to, Yes.

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Speaker 4: Paul, SGA's mom is from Antigua and Barbuda. So there's two more countries involving them. Oh I think they're two different countries. Yeah, i'd claim those.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so no surprise Sga wins the MVP. He's already and he's got a title as well. That really helps because if you win two titles, or you win two MVPs, I should say, and you don't have a title, that's when we're not going to be voting for you for a while. We want to have some coronation that says, Okay, he's at m VP and he's won a title. Now it's two m vps in favor to win a second title. What other poll questions for the first hour, Dylan.

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Speaker 5: We got a couple options then the or do you want to wait till after the break or do you want to do them now?

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Speaker 2: Play of the Day coming up, settle on our poll question and your phone calls as well. Each seven to seven three DP show got some college football news, the college football playoff discussions, all signs are pointing to the SEC Spring meetings that's next week in Destin, Florida. That is going to be big. It appears the SEC and ESPN they are opposing expanding to twenty four teams. The SEC currently has a TV deal with ESPN and ABC that runs through twenty thirty four. The conference has said that it will consider a sixteen team structure, but it's remained against the twenty four team. The SEC is the only conference with this position. Keep this in mind with the SEC, if you factor in the championship game, media rights, tickets, ancillary events, it's about one hundred and fifty million dollars just for that, and they're not willing to give up the branding, the presence, the revenue for the greater good. It doesn't appear likely to change anytime soon. Therefore, we might be looking at a sixteen team playoff schedule, not twenty four. But the SEC and ESPN, surprise surprise, in lockstep being against a twenty four team schedule.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Paulin, but they.

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Speaker 4: Can both come off great here at the SEC and ESPN, because it feels like the fans almost universally don't want twenty four teams at all as a playoffs.

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Speaker 3: I can't think of anyone will.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but what are we going to do about it if we get it? I guess I'm saying, seventy six teams with the NCAA, there's nothing we could do.

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Speaker 3: I guess I'm saying to get here.

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Speaker 4: It would be refreshing to not expand in an era where everything's expanding. If college football holds serve for a little bit, they'll come off really well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're not holding serve. They are expanding. They're going to sixteen teams. If they wanted to be for the greater good, hey let's make it twelve. They're going to sixteen, and then they'll eventually get to twenty or twenty four. It's just like the NFL, you know, when they say, oh, we haven't had any discussions about eighteen game schedule, really because I've heard of the discussions that you're having. They just you know, this is semantics when it comes to these things. Now, you want to have something that's called an official discussion as opposed to we're just talking a little bit here, just buddies, you know, socializing a little bit, cocktail party. Hey, what do you think about an eighteen games schedule. Well, I'm good with it because the Cowboys are going to make money, all right. Robert Kraft's been talking about eighteen games. That probably is the hold up for Nashville announcing that they'll host the super Bowl because.

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Speaker 3: They don't know what the date is.

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Speaker 2: Imagine saying, hey, you're going to get an event somewhere in this area, might be that week or that week. Try planning for that, yes, dyling, But.

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Speaker 5: Are the only possibilities for the date either what it currently is with the seventeen game schedule, or it would just be exactly a week later?

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Speaker 3: Like is that?

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Speaker 2: Are those the only I don't know if they're going to add another bye week. I don't know what they're going to do. I don't have any information on that, but I'm guessing that it would be a week later. It just seems like that would be the logic attached to this. But you know, you want to have a big rollout announcement and it's going to be this date, you know, this weekend, and then you plan accordingly.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: So that's the information on college football that I have. You got basketball Tonight Spurs six and a half point underdogs against the thunder and then the Cabs tomorrow night seven and a half point underdogs against the Knicks. The Detroit Pistons I think got a tap on the shoulder to let them know. You can be really good during the regular season, but if you want to be really good in the playoffs, need to take a couple of swings, and Detroit did not. If you're adding Kevin Quarte and that's it, you're not scaring anybody. We knew that they needed another consistent scorer. Cleveland at least took a swing and went out and got James Harden. Now I didn't like the trade just because if you're getting him for the postseason, we know he's not a big time postseason performer, and he wasn't yesterday either in Game seven, so here you go.

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Speaker 3: He had nine points two of ten. Now they won.

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Speaker 2: So we're not going to focus or most people won't focus on this, but let me factor in the last six times James Arden has played in a game seven last night two for ten, twenty twenty six. Let's see Toronto three for nine, Denver two for eight. Now these are the teams that he faced. Boston he went three for eleven in twenty twenty three, twenty twenty one, five for seventeen against Milwaukee twenty twenty four for fifteen. He was on the winning team in three of the six. But these are all subpar performances for a first ballot Hall of Famer two for ten, three for nine, two for eight, three for eleven, five for seventeen, four for fifteen.

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Speaker 3: But for the.

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Speaker 2: Pistons, you know, they were a pleasant surprise last year and then you thought, okay, they've been there, tough battle against the Knicks, and then they proved it wasn't a fluke because they were great during the regular sason regular s. But cade Cunningham, as much as everybody wanted to include him in the MDP conversation, this is this is where legacies are built. This is where you validate that when somebody says, man, that guy played his heart out, he played great.

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Speaker 3: Well, he didn't.

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Speaker 2: When you don't score in the second half of a game seven unless you're injured injured, man, I got a problem with that. I got a big problem with that. But you know, JB. Bickerstaff had a wonderful year as the head coach of the Pistons and doesn't sound like he's too disappointed his team didn't advance.

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Speaker 9: Based up this year playing at home game seven, especially what you just start in Cleveland. How big of a disappointment.

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Speaker 10: It's not a disappointment at all. I'm not ever will I be disappointed in these guys. These guys every single day give us what they got, you know. So it is not a disappointment. It's a loss, and it's a tough loss. But you know that adjective will never be used as this group. I don't like the direction of your question, and I'll be honest with you, like, these guys have improved massively and done a great job.

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Speaker 2: No, look, they're both right. He's protecting his players. But the reporter is saying is like, are you satisfied that you got this far? Because I would be disappointed. We have the number one seed, we're hosting game seven, Your best player didn't score in the second half. Yeah, I'm disappointed. Now, you don't want to throw your team under the bus, But I think you've got to be honest with the fans and say, yeah, and you know what, we'll be back here next year. We will learn from this moment. But I think really Detroit has to go out and be aggressive here. I you know, when ever, somebody talks about, well, you know, they got draft picks for three years down the road. Everything is now. Your moment is now, Cleveland's moment is now. That's what you have to go for now instead of well, you know what, we're in good shape down the road. No, you know who's in good shape down the road. Oklahoma City, they're really good now and they're ready to go for the next couple of years. The Spurs, they're in a win now mode, but they're set up for the next couple of years.

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Speaker 3: Go for it now.

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Speaker 2: That's the key, because you can sit here and go, well, we don't want to take that chance. We don't want to spend that money. We don't want to make that trade. But then you might be right where Detroit is. And if you said to them, should you have made another move or two? And the answer is obvious, it's yes.

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll get to some phone calls here.

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Speaker 2: By the way, there was a moment on Friday night when the Timberwolves were bowing out and Anthony Edwards with about nine minutes to go. I believe he checked out of the game and gave an early handshake to all the members of the San Antonio Spurs. Now he was saying, hey, look, I'm just paying respects and we weren't going to win that game. We're down big, and I wanted to go over there and let them know. I was impressed. Non paraphrasing, but and Lebron did this a couple of years ago. Lebron in twenty eighteen against the Warriors, four minutes to go, trailing one O two to seventy seven, and he went over and congratulated the San Antonio Spurs. Anthony Edwards could be, you know, well intentioned, but with nine minutes to go, I can't do that. How about I just go hey, you know, like I point to the bench, AA guys, thumbs up. Man, there's going to be a handshake line. This isn't the NBA Finals where it's chaos once it's over and.

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Speaker 3: There's nine minutes to go. But Anthony Edward's over there.

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Speaker 2: I thought he was going to sit on the bench with him when he walked over and he's dapping everybody up, dy, Is it.

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Speaker 3: Okay if I sn over here for a little while.

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Speaker 2: I was just surprised. And you gotta read the room here, I mean, your team yes, you're getting blown out and you're gonna go down there and congratulate them. How about we wait, like, I don't know, six or seven minutes before you do it.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Paul, I was watching it play out, and I was for a second it's like, oh, that's classy of him. Then I looked back up, as like eight forty nine left on the clock. That's a one minute and thirty seconds left on the clock. Move maybe what's the time that you should be You could do that and be unscathed.

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Speaker 2: Okay, when is it too early? I'm not gonna say when is it too late? Because after the game is when most people shake hands with the opposition.

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Speaker 3: Yes, do it.

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Speaker 5: I think you just wait until the game's over. It's like getting congratulated on a bet that you've had before the game's over. Like things, lots of stuff can happen. Eight whatever minutes left on the clock is not nothing. They're down thirty three, but like it's it's just a bad look. And I guess you can Okay, I got a factor in what is the point differential? And then I look at the time, because if you're down eighteen with nine to go, you're not going over to the bench.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Paul, we just showed the video again and you're right. He's in the huddle like he's getting a towel, maybe a drink from a trainer. I thought he was retiring from the NBA and he's saying bye to all these guys.

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Speaker 2: He's I think he's diagramming a play for them to run against the Timberwolves. Hey, you know what I would do. I'd go right at Rudy Gobert. Yes, Tom, what's the rush?

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Speaker 7: Because you want to be the first one to congratulate them. Besides the fact that there's too much time left and crazier things have happened in sports. I also think there was a mumma with coach Finch kind of gave him a little look like what was that one where'd you just go? As he was going back to the bench as well.

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Speaker 2: This isn't like it's the Olympics where you're not going to see somebody, you're not gonna be back for a couple of years. Chances are you're probably gonna see them next year in a few months, yes, Dylan.

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Speaker 5: Or is it kind of a gamesmanship thing where you go congratulate them on winning and then run back over and be like, all right, guys, we got nine minutes to turn this thing around.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna take their foot off the gas, Okay, all right, maybe yes, Marvin.

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Speaker 6: I think the big difference is Lebron was walking off of the court and shaking steph in clay in Draymont's hands and he walked off the court. Anthony Edwards went to their huddle and like interrupted their huddle while they're like calling in diagramming plays to congratulate them with eight minutes left. Not a good look at all.

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Speaker 2: Well, Lebron walking off the floor is not a good LOOKI no, No, he's getting subbed out. Yeah, but even then at four minutes, you know, you can just acknowledge if it's in passing and it's casual, like hey, they just want to say congratulations, see you guys, I mean, Anthony Edwards, you're getting blown out and then you're going to go in there huddle.

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Speaker 3: Was just awkward, That's all all right?

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Speaker 2: Eight seven seven to three DP show email address DPA, Danpatrick dot com Twitter handle a DP show Chris and Syracuse leads us off. Good morning, Chris, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 11: Hey?

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Speaker 12: Thanks?

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Speaker 11: And hey, I got a comment for you and I got a best and a couple of worse. You just hit by one big worst. Yeah, Anthony Edwards and not a good look at all. And you know, I was listening to your rich Issen interview on your birthday and you had Pat Sajak on the DP show many years ago, and he sounds just like rich. I don't know if Marvin can do a back to back at the tape of the two, but yeah, it's pretty amazy. And my best. New York next open the finals at home. I'm worried.

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Speaker 2: Oh we lost you, Chris. Well, let me see, do we have a better connection?

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Speaker 11: Yeah? Am I there?

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Speaker 3: Dan? Yeah?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, great, I'm sorry about that. My best the New York Knicks opening the conference finals at home tomorrow night. I'm worried. Though this isn't Atlanta or Philly. I hope the Knicks are to grind. Everyone has them fade a complete going to the finals, but they haven't had to grind in a while, so I hope they can shift into that mode. And I guess I'll throw a worse two Friday Night, the guy named Yastremsky walks off the Boston Red Socks and also with the Calves. I mentioned it last week. I wonder how if the Cats do make a run in happen to win it all, how much that would affect Lebron's decision next year. I don't think he would want to go back to Cleveland.

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Speaker 2: Then, yeah, I wonder about that too, if that's in play, because I don't know, do you want James harden back? Well, let's see what happens. You know, this next series against the Knicks, it might go a long way. And do you want James harden back? Thank you Chris Buddha in San Francisco, Hi Buddha?

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Speaker 1: What up?

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Speaker 9: DP?

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Speaker 13: Happy Monday boys? Looking good in the main cave, Dan lot going on this weekend, DP. My Dodg is doing work a man like you, guys, said an early DAP. Game seven is disappointing in Detroit, bording to Cancun. Best and worst of the weekend DP, the PGA Championship, Aaron Raye battling through the weekend and coming through with that heroic sixty eight foot birdie putt on seventeen, and then I don't know if he saw he signed the guy's baby. It was hilarious, man, and worse of the weekend d and I hesitate to bring this up, but can we please shut off the broadcast mice when Golfer's tee off. It's getting bad, man, I mean it's starting to sound like the tea boxes are sponsored by Fireball. I mean, I can only hear baba booi so many times.

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Speaker 3: It's not.

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Speaker 9: Good.

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Speaker 2: Good, Thank you, Buddha. I'm there with you when you get somebody. I wish that they would point out the person who says something.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: I think there's some events that they do that, but not everything needs to be the waste management phoenix.

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Speaker 3: Open here.

00:30:01
Speaker 2: And you're right in between the microphone on the tea box where you hear somebody yelling or the incessant bird sounds that are piped in. It feels like there was one bird the previous week. He never shut up, and it felt like he was just following along wherever the leaders were. And I'm going, is that real? Is that bird real? Quail hollow? Was it a quail a quail hollow? Yes, Paul, But if it's.

00:30:31
Speaker 4: The same bird noise for hole after hole, that bird wasn't like a patron going from a hole to hole. That's probably piped in.

00:30:39
Speaker 3: I would think so.

00:30:40
Speaker 2: But yeah, the guy who yells out fireball or baba booie, Yeah, yes, yes, dyling.

00:30:47
Speaker 5: Rory Actually, uh, yesterday had a shot and someone screamed the USA afterwards, and you could just see him turn around and point his club into the gallery, like right at the.

00:30:57
Speaker 3: Guy thing being like get him out of here.

00:31:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just part of it, you know. The golf culture now, it feels like and you want to hear the sounds. You want to hear somebody strike the ball if you if you play well enough, you can tell when somebody hits a great shot what it sounds like. You know, it's just different. If you ever go to a driving range at an event where the pros are there and just listen to the shots and how they hit those shots, it's completely different than anybody you play with.

00:31:29
Speaker 11: Uh.

00:31:30
Speaker 2: But they guys used to talk about Tiger and you could you could hear Tiger's swing and how he hit, how he connected with the ball. You could tell the difference between those two. Whether that's true or not, they're just I love the sounds of the game, but I don't need to have somebody who's half liquored up yelling out Baba booie Gus in la Hi, Gus, what's on your mind?

00:31:57
Speaker 11: Good?

00:31:58
Speaker 9: More than Mitch Patrick opere in. They had a great weekend. Best of the weekend my Dodgers scoring thirty one runs against the Angels this past weekend. I know it was against the Angels, but last year they swept this the whole season, so it was great to see them at least get a win over little brother. Worst of the weekend news came out that our brand new shiny closer Edwin Diaz, is currently on the DL has been named in a federal cockfighting case. Not looking good. Apparently there's pictures of him in Dodger uniform and Dodger gear promoting the sport back in Puerto Rico or the sport out like I don't know what you call it, but promoting it. I not sure what's going to come of this, but it's federally banned all over, including Puerto Rico, so we'll see what comes of this. And then the odd one of the weekend. You boys just talked about it, along with christ and Theracuse, Anthony Edwards. I mean, I don't know. I mean maybe I'm just an old school type of guy. To where doing that with over eight and a half minutes to go just not acceptable. I mean, I don't care if I'm third string on that team. I would have checked them on the way back, being like, like, for real, you're doing that right now. You couldn't wait till after the game, You couldn't wait till two minutes to go. You got to do that with almost nine minutes. But from the game, you boys. Have a great week.

00:33:22
Speaker 2: Thank you, Gus. That's Gus in La. More phone calls coming up, we'll take a break. Play of the Day next.

00:33:27
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00:33:39
Speaker 8: Oh my God, of the day of the day.

00:33:49
Speaker 12: Check this out.

00:33:50
Speaker 1: Carol hits a fly ball in the deep left center field. That's back there.

00:34:03
Speaker 9: Yes on real.

00:34:07
Speaker 4: What a three game series this has been for the city of Chicago.

00:34:13
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00:35:19
Speaker 3: And on that.

00:35:20
Speaker 2: Course, it felt like everybody was kind of in contention because everybody was suffering through what everybody else was. Nobody had a real advantage there because the greens were just so challenging. But Aaron Rrai, he looked like he belonged and he had made a big jump to I think he's in the top twenty now in world rankings. Yes, Paul, you.

00:35:43
Speaker 4: Know I've seen his name on leaderboards before. But I think on Saturday when the announcer said, he's the guy who's known for wearing two gloves when he plays, and that's really rare.

00:35:52
Speaker 2: Like, oh, that guy, but that's a weird hook as a golfer. Yeah, and there're two black gloves as well. There was Tommy Gainey, who I think his nickname is Tommy two gloves Gainey. But that's the other guy that I remember, Uh, Teddy Bridgewater I think were two gloves, Yeah, Teddy, Teddy two gloves, Yes, Dylan, it.

00:36:15
Speaker 5: Just seems like from a dexterity standpoint, that would feel weird like I've always thought it was like I think Big Ben would wear a glove on his throwing hand. Kenny Pickett, that always just I was like, I don't know how you guys pull that off. Same with the golfing too, like one glove shirt, but you need a little.

00:36:29
Speaker 3: Grip with your well maybe can you Pickett?

00:36:32
Speaker 2: Because he's got Marvin hands, he needed a glove that could help them day extensions.

00:36:39
Speaker 3: I'm having a really good day.

00:36:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yes, Aaron Rye said he started wearing two gloves at age eight and never stopped, though he was told a few times that's not traditional.

00:36:49
Speaker 12: But it worked.

00:36:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Dylan.

00:36:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a couple of stories about him that got a lot of run after the tournament. I say, like the gloves because he would play in the winter in like the middle of England. And then he obviously he has iron covers on his irons, which is unusual, but it was like a story about his dad saving up to get him as set of titleist irons back in the day, and he had iron covers.

00:37:11
Speaker 3: So it's like a know your roots kind of thing.

00:37:14
Speaker 2: That used to be a big deal covers for your irons and wouldn't rattle around on the golf cart or if you're just lugging them around. Aaron Rai first non American winner of the PGA Championship since Jason Day in Australia in twenty fifteen.

00:37:35
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00:37:43
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00:37:48
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00:38:01
Speaker 12: Hey Dan, Happy Monday. One of the best of the weekend. I had man, Dan Gilbert busting up, taking twenty five buses and busting fans up to Detroit for Game seven. Very cool for an owner and a team to do that. And then curious, who do you like? Man? I think the Spurs and Thunder are going to be a fantastic series. First time sixty two plus win team since nineteen ninety eight or playing in a series. I like the Spurs. I think the Spurs are going to pull it off. Do you agree? And if it does, anybody want to take a pie of the face bet and take Oklahoma City against my Spurs?

00:38:38
Speaker 3: Let me see Dylan is okay? Dylan? You raised your hand. You're going to take that?

00:38:43
Speaker 9: Yeah?

00:38:43
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Okay?

00:38:45
Speaker 2: All right, Cod you got Dylan in the back row. I just want to see seven games. I think, if you've listened long enough, I'm not rooting for anybody.

00:38:54
Speaker 13: You know.

00:38:54
Speaker 3: I do love scenarios.

00:38:56
Speaker 2: If I can get Wemby on a big stage here, I think that's great for the NBA. I don't want NBA fans, casual fans to not tune in to watch OKAC because they are a great team, great franchise. They got, you know, now two time MVP. It just we like something new, We like, hey, what's a different story here. I truly believe when you go back and look Karl Malone and Charles Barkley winning MVPs. While they did play great in those individual seasons, I think there was Michael Jordan fatigue. It's like, we need a new topic here, and we do this. We did this with Joker. I thought that you're like, okay, you know, Hardy won a couple, We're not going to give him a third. So an SGA played well and they won the MVP. We do move on quickly. It feels like just because we want a different story. Trip in Vegas, Hi, trip, welcome back. What do you have for me?

00:39:56
Speaker 12: Hey, good morning, DPLA is good to speak with y'all at a question in a comment and then the best of the weekend, the questions for you?

00:40:03
Speaker 10: Then surprises or did anybody try to go against your wishes?

00:40:06
Speaker 3: Friday for your birthday?

00:40:09
Speaker 2: Oh, the family, they had some surprises and we went to see David Byrne, the former lead singer of Talking Heads, and we had already seen him before on Broadway, and my kids wanted to go see him, and then a couple of surprises. They waited till Saturday. My birthday was Friday, but they waited Saturday and they got me, and of course I cried. You know, they got me some nice cards because I tell them, you don't have to buy me anything, just give me a card. And my granddaughter, who's three, gave me a work of art, you know, that she created. And so it was nice. It was just nice to have family in and nobody else. Yes, Paul, no drama, Oh no, okay, never drama.

00:41:00
Speaker 3: Just check it. It's uh well, everybody played nice. It was good.

00:41:04
Speaker 2: Got to hang out with grandkids over the weekend. Talk to my daughter about strategy of walking down the aisle giving the speech. I said, I'm going to give the best speech ever. Shows I like that, I said, I hope I give the best speech ever. One hour in the books. Two more to go on this Monday. Dan and The Dan Edge Dan Patrick Show.