Hour 1 – James Harden and LeBron James Both Down for Different Reasons, NCAA Tournament expands

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Speaker 4: Well, you know what always helps.

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Speaker 2: You're going against James Harden and playoff James is just not very good. The Cavs are paying James Harden and Evan Mobley just under one hundred million dollars combined this season. Harden's defense, we know, is a problem, more turnovers than points in two games against the Pistons, mobiley nine points, one rebound last night, And with James Harden, we could accept that he wasn't going to play defense, didn't even have to try playing defense.

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Speaker 4: But the Cavaliers are in a win down.

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Speaker 2: Mode because you got a couple of really good players and you do have a nucleus to make a deep run. If not go to the NBA Finals. You trade Darius Garland to the Clippers and you get James Harden. Well, I don't know what James Harden did in the playoffs. Where you go, you know what, we want that on our team, great gutter season player doesn't come up big in the postseason, and we've seen that so far, and he doesn't give you the offensive burst that he once did where you can go, you know what, we can look past that. He looks old. He's playing old, and Detroit's taking advantage of that. Now, Cleveland can still come back and win this series. They have the talent to do that. But James Harden should be a benefit. He should be a positive, He should be something more special.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: I like Darius Garland.

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Speaker 2: I think he made a couple of All Star games, and maybe they thought, well, he's not a big guy, kind of frail. Maybe he's not gonna come up big in the postseason. Can is he durable? Whatever their reasoning was, the Clippers probably said, wait, we can get younger and get rid of James Arden.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we'll do that.

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Speaker 2: And look, there was a time where I said on this show, I thought he was musty TV. I thought that he was incredible as an offensive weapon. I think one year he averaged thirty six, thirty seven and ten and he was ball dominant. But I was okay with it. It's like Russell Westbrook, ball dominant. But there was a time when you couldn't take your eyes off of him. And then you realize that you had Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Kevin Durant on the same team in OKC, And you wonder if they had beaten the Warriors that year when they were up three to one, how would that have changed history. Now, James Harden wanted to have his own team, That's why he went to Houston. Russ was there for a little while longer. Then Durant decided, I can't beat him.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to join him.

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Speaker 2: But you had that moment, and I wonder how history would have been written changed if that did.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Mark, Yeah, you got to think about they got to the finals in twenty twelve.

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Speaker 3: They were super young.

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Speaker 5: They were almost like the ninety five Orlando Magic where you keep thinking they're going to get back there a couple time. That's why I hate that term they'll be back, because they're young and they just kind of all went their separate ways.

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Speaker 2: I think if they beat the Warriors, Kevin Durant doesn't join the Warriors, and then maybe Golden State is not winning an extra title or two. Once again, it's a small moment, but it kind of came into my head to crystallized last night when I'm watching.

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Speaker 4: Harden and I think we're gonna look at Harden.

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Speaker 2: Now, Durant won a couple of titles, Ben Harden was an MVP, but I think, you know, when you're writing the history of James Harden, it's gonna be a little bumpy. Like Durant has the titles that helps and one of the all time scores, but it's a little bumpy there as well. And what went on in Houston. We still haven't gotten to the bottom of that. But it feels like Kevin Durant is going to be on yet another team next year.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Mark James Harden.

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Speaker 5: He feels like he's gonna be one of those guys that just put up a lot of numbers that didn't amount to anything, a lot of empty calories.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a great regular season player, but you know we're so focused on postseason. You know that's changed here in the last you know, thirty years. Maybe when it comes to arguments, you're like, well, what do you do in the postseason? Nobody ever says what did Bonds do in the postseason? That doesn't come up. I don't think people can tell you how many World Series titles did Babe Ruth win.

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Speaker 4: You don't know.

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Speaker 2: But certain players we do, say Tom Brady, we know, Patrick Mahomes, we know. You know, there's certain success that goes along with certain players in certain sports.

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Speaker 4: But you know, when I.

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Speaker 2: Look at Kevin Durant, okay, two titles, one of the great scorers of all time, what could have been an okay? See James Harden will be just like man, that's a lot of points or a lot of assists, a lot of bad playoff games. You know. Same with Russell Westbrook. I appreciate that he plays hard every game. He's a scorer, not a shooter. He's entertaining. There's certain players where we do attach the what did you do in the big games, the big moments. Well, Iverson was a wonderful regular season player. Postseason he went to an NBA finals. He took a very suspect team to the NBA Finals, But we do point that out as a positive there, and I think that's sometimes where we pick and choose. When you're trying to win an argument. You're like, well, what did he do in the postseason? What kind of defensive player was he? Yes, Dylan.

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Speaker 6: I think it's always tough when you start to really bounce around to team to team, like like Duran and Harden have both done. As your play is getting worse or less efficient and you're just third, fourth, fifth, sixth team in a short period of time, people kind of start to get a little disillusioned.

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Speaker 2: I think, well, sometimes when you go, oh, I didn't know James Harden was in Cleveland, Like that's not a good sign, you disappear a little bit, yes, like, oh, okay, he's in Cleveland. Oh maybe he'll get a title, Maybe he'll get a chance, And I don't know what that is. I mean, he's not going to get that title this year, probably won't get a title. But he's bounced around, and you know, we've seen that with Durant as well. Now this isn't work it out. I want to go play with my buddies in Brooklyn, And same thing with James Harden. Just kind of vagabonds, gypsies, hall of famers, but when you put everybody under the same roof, they're all Hall of famers. But there they got in there for different reasons. Yeah, Paul James.

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Speaker 7: Harden has been on six teams in the past six seasons, but he had a run from twenty fourteen through twenty twenty. He was MVP second, second, first, second, third.

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Speaker 4: That's a run. Yeah, that's a run. Yeah, he was great.

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Speaker 2: He changed the game and you may not like how he changed the game with his step back, but he did change the game. It's just like Genobili with a Euro step you changed the game.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Marvin, I think ring culture has kind of hurt the NBA because a lot of times what happened with Lebron. You're a great player, but you haven't won any rings, and the same thing would Harden. Those guys are trying to chase championships and then people don't like the way they chase those championships.

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Speaker 3: But you're on them because they haven't won any titles.

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Speaker 2: The Thunder looked great last night. SGA has not dominated, which is the scary part of this. They haven't needed it. There's so much depth with OKC, and they have so many draft picks coming up, and there's no place to put these draft picks.

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Speaker 4: And you might see OKC.

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Speaker 2: You know, they have the Clippers unprotected pick, they have Utah's top eight protected pick, the Rockets top four protected pick, the Sixers top four protected pick, and also a top four protected pick in twenty twenty seven. Then they have more draft picks in twenty twenty seven. This is the draft though, that everybody tanked for, because you have five or six players who will probably start right away. Okay, see, doesn't have enough room right now. They got guys coming off the bench, their ninth or tenth guy. Those guys are ready, they want to play. They get buckets.

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Speaker 8: Yes, Dylan, Why are the Thunder just gonna absorb the Clippers and to their organization at this point because they may as well.

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Speaker 2: I mean that trade, I mean that's the herschel Walker trade for the NBA Paul George. It might be a better outcome than what happened for the Cowboys with the Minnesota Vikings. But you know you're watching last night, Austin Reeves played well, Lebron played well. It's just not enough when I don't get anything out of DeAndre Eighten. Yeah, I mean you got to. You gotta give me more than three points. But Holmegrun and Hartenstein, you know, they bang him around. I mean they make him work. And DeAndre eighth that's where, okay, you don't have Luca, all right, DeAndre Ayton still walks out there as a seven footer act like one. Reeves did play better. Although you know now you're hearing the Lakers saying that they're not getting calls, they're being disrespected. In fact, here is JJ Reddick. He now the entire team surrounded the officials at the end of a game. I've never seen this before. Almost they had a summit with the officials to talk about not getting calls. Here is JJ Reddick on Lebron not getting the benefit of the doubt.

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Speaker 9: Well, it gets clompered on that one, you know, with Jaylen Williams coming over trying to block the shot when he spun based on dork that was in that.

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Speaker 3: Stretch as well.

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Speaker 9: Lebron has the worst whistle of any star player I've ever seen. I mean I've been with him two years now. You know, there's again the smaller guys, because they can be theatric they typically draw more fouls, and the bigger players that are, you know, built like Lebron, it's hard for them. But he gets clobbered, and he got clobbered again to night a bunch and that's not like a new thing that's not specific to this crew or you know this this series. He gets found a lot that doesn't happen to me. Gets hit on the head more than a player I've seen on drives, and it rarely gets called.

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Speaker 2: So well, there was a play a continuation that the officials missed. But Lebron is theatrical as well. I mean, let's be honest here, I know Sga is. Lebron is theatrical. Does he get fouled? Not more than anybody I've ever seen. Shack got fouled, Wilt Chamberlain got fouled more than anybody I ever saw, every single play. Because this is what happens when you're Lebron in you're six' nine and you're two. Sixty IF i hit, you may not. React that's why he's. Theatrical he has to sell it because it really doesn't affect. HIM a lot of times With, Shaq shack could play through your contact and you'd, think, oh he didn't get, fouled it didn't affect, anything but he. Did and the same With. Lebron so that's why you See lebron where he is theatrical and officials don't like seeing, it although it feels like they're okay With sja's selling it all the, time BUT i understand. It when you're the big guy on the, blog you're not getting any sympathy.

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Speaker 4: There, Yes, marvin.

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Speaker 5: All this stuff is taking away from how Good Oklahoma city is because we just talk about them getting away with maybe some foul, calls with guys Like loudor And Alice caruso playing physical all the time and getting the benefit of the. Doubt and they're such a, good deep. Team and now they're playing a marquee team like The lake or so now it's On Front street on how they.

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Speaker 4: Play, yeah and that's the other.

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Speaker 2: Thing now you're Seeing Kate, cunningham you've already Seen brunson because The knicks are always on PRIMETIME. Tv you're SEEING sga again where he's going to go back to BACK mvp and may go back to back with.

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Speaker 4: Titles so now you have to have them in the.

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Speaker 2: Conversation it's just Like joker when you win AN nba, Title now you're. Legitimate hey you WANT, MVPs now win a. Title, Giannis hey you WANT, Mvp now win a. Title, indeed we're waiting for. That it'll probably never, happen but you're looking for. Validation. HERE sga has given you. Validation he's a great. Player he's not. Exciting they're not. Exciting but it's like The San Antonio spurs efficiency deal with. Us you don't get style. POINTS i Mean Golden state if that was the, Case Golden state had style points that would last. Forever but you don't get style. Points you know The Miami heat with D wade And bosh And lebron style. Points but you want to be. Efficient you want to be great night, in night. Out AND i look At okac the WAY i Did San. Antonio they just have players who know their. Roles they're, deep we like to, say they're well, coached and they're the team to be the fact you're going INTO la AND la is an eight and a half point underdog in their biggest game of the. Year tells you just about everything you need to know about this.

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Speaker 7: Series, Yeampom, hey, kids piling the car and let's go down to the stadium to watch some.

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Speaker 2: Efficiency, hey you want to see guys? Flop are we watching?

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Speaker 4: Soccer? No, no we're watching THE. Nba, Yes, Marvin.

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Speaker 5: And that's the number one reason WHY sga isn't a bigger star than he should.

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Speaker 4: Be, yeah but he created.

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Speaker 3: This OH i, know But i'm just saying that's the reason.

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Speaker 2: TRUE i don't, know kind of a case by, case BECAUSE i think it's almost not at. ALL i was pretty good, about you, know years ago when we did. IT i was pretty leaning on some of the things that were set certainly By. Todd but if you have a moment where McLevin is trying to, balance you, know he's spinning the ball in his finger and it smacked him in the face and broke his, glasses, well then, sorry that's everybody's going to find out about. That let's poll question for the first hour of the. Program we got a couple dan on the topic of. Flopping this is FROM. Pauli flopping is. Smart it's on the rest to call it or soft.

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Speaker 4: And bad for the.

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Speaker 2: Product, Okay sga is. Flopping he's not making the. Call he's making you make the. Call chad homegrun with an elbow like you, know there's certain plays moments you gotta sell. It you, know there's a there's a famous moment Where Kareem Abdul jabbar gets a rebound and he swings his arm against The celtics and the, finals and it looks like it Hits Larry. Bird it, doesn't But larry sells it Like kareem just you, know threw an elbow at.

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Speaker 4: HIM i, mean it.

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Speaker 2: Happens you're always looking for an edge and if you're. Flopping it's like some of the greatest soccer players of all time flop because IF i can get an unfair, Advantage i'm going to do. It they're not worried about the. Aesthetics we are THE nba should. Be but you, know it's unfortunate that we look AT sga and the first thing we think of, is well you might think of is he. Flops he's really good at drawing. Fouls how about. That that's a dressed up way of, saying but he's really good at. It harden really good at. It they change the roles For harden because Of, HARDON i should, say Because Trey young was then doing. It if you can get an, advantage if it's an unfair. Advantage it's still your advantage until they, change until they decide that they're not buying in to what you're. Selling, yes, bil is.

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Speaker 6: There like a solution, though BECAUSE i, mean obviously it would have to come from the officiating. Side it's not going to come for the. Players but like you, said you just don't call. It, Yeah but, like how do we make that happen because, you like you, said. Soccer i'm not the biggest soccer, fan but i'll you, Know i'll tappen from time to time some of The Premier league. Games just the diving and the flopping it. Is it makes for a bad. Product like whether you.

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Speaker 2: Win, well that's why you have a, Commissioner that's why you have people who are. Overseers and there is a, rule just call. IT i, mean there was a pitch clock that had been in baseball for. Decades they was written in the rule. Book they just didn't call.

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Speaker 4: It just call.

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Speaker 2: It you go to the free throw. Line there's a time element when you go to the free throw. Line you can't spend you, know sixty seconds, there so call. It there's a lot of things that we don't call. That there is legislation that says it's in the rule.

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Speaker 4: Book.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Pull the NBA's anti flopping rule has been in the book since twenty twenty, four and it basically says the reps have the authority to call it on the defender if he's trying to sell it.

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Speaker 2: Out, yeah just that's that would be HOW i would start to clean it. Up i'm gonna guess you're gonna stop doing it and if you're not getting the, calls, Yes, Marvin AND.

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Speaker 5: I think that's the frustrating part with someone LIKE. Sga he's so talented without all of the drawing of the files and getting to the free throw line and being called a foul.

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Speaker 3: Merging he's too good for all.

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Speaker 4: THAT i.

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Speaker 2: KNOW i, know but you have some of the greatest players of all. Time did it you sell?

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Speaker 4: It? Yes.

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Speaker 5: MARK i think the difference is someone Like kobe And, jordan those guys would try to make the shot as well as get. Fouled he just pump fakes, it just drops the ball and goes to the free throw.

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Speaker 3: Line.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well harden created this, too where he would draw contact into.

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Speaker 4: You he would use your aggression against.

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Speaker 2: You if you had your hands, out he was going to take the ball into your.

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Speaker 4: Hands you, know you just have.

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Speaker 2: To once you say this or you call this or don't call, this word gets around really. Quickly they're not calling that. Anymore, Yeah.

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Speaker 7: PAUL i hate to say this because he's our, guy but the first PLAYER i remember doing this Was Reggie. Miller reggie would go up for a, shot they would graze his arm and he would flail his arms up and the ball would fly out and he'd get the. Call i'm sure others did, it but that's a GUY i, Remember.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Reggie and he said that on the show that he did it and he was really good at doing. It you didn't like, it but if he was on your team or the team you root, for you're, like, Hey i'm fine with. It it's like nobody Liked Pete rose except for the people In cincinnati who Loved Pete rose because of the way he. Played and then When pete went To philadelphia Or, montreal you're, like you, know now you root against, Him, Yes Biling.

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Speaker 6: It's tough when those guys are also good, Too LIKE i think Of Brad marshaan on The. BRUINS i despised, him but it was like he was such a. Nuisance but he was also just.

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Speaker 4: A really good hockey, player says, Like.

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Speaker 2: Chucks what's the pole question for the first? Hour so we have the one about. Flopping, Okay we've got a couple. Others this is kind of a random. One but you want to get caught what would you want to get caught? In less an avalanche or?

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Speaker 4: Hurricane oh, Yeah todd asked me, this AND i JUST i just kept. Walking but in.

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Speaker 11: The top seas they are expected to probably meet each other in The Stanley Cup, final so it's not that. RANDOM i know we've had discussions about natural disasters and weather, before but, avalanche, hurricane which one do you think you got a better chance of getting out?

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Speaker 6: Of it's sort of a modification of A PAUL i Think paul brought up In pittsburgh that we didn't get around.

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Speaker 8: To it's, it's you, know dodging natural.

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Speaker 2: Disasters, yeah, yeah when did we come up with natural disasters for? Nicknames what was the first natural disaster that we came up?

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Speaker 4: With and, go, yeah probably? Volcano well, wait.

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Speaker 3: You mean a sports?

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Speaker 4: Team who's the? Volcano?

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Speaker 6: OH i thought you're talking about like in real. LIFE i was, like the first natural disaster was probably a, volcano that, tornado The Hawaii fighting.

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Speaker 7: Volcano was that the original? NAME i think The Miami hurricanes would be.

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Speaker 2: First, okay college team is probably, okay But i'm talking professional.

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Speaker 4: Sports the first natural disas aster team was.

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Speaker 7: Who, yeah there's The San jose, Earthquakes there's A Colorado, Avalanche Miami, Hurricanes Tampa bay, Lightning chicago fire which was not a positive In.

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Speaker 4: Chicago, no that was a bad, day believe. Me, yeah The Oglaba city.

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Speaker 7: Thunder the lightning's the. Danger the thunder is more. Entertainment, Yeah miami, heat but it's not the heat. Stroke and of course The indana fever and that's more of an, illness the natural.

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Speaker 2: Disass, yeah but that could be twenty four. Hours, yes, yeah you got a. Fever we got The Brooklyn. Cyclones, yeah minor. League but but what which one was the first?

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Speaker 12: One?

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Speaker 4: First for the professional?

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Speaker 7: Sports Colorado, AVALANCHE i think they were been, FIRST i, think.

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Speaker 2: But weren't they some other place before they went To? Colorado and, Yeah nordiak's, yeah The Quebec. Nordis maybe somebody will do some research here for.

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Speaker 4: Us he has.

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Speaker 11: Ton there was A wwf team wrestling team in nineteen ninety one called the natural.

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Speaker 3: Disasters so we should include.

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Speaker 2: Wrestling, no we should. Not we should, Not, no we should. Not we'll leave that up TO. Esk, yeah leave that up TO. Espn they've fallen in love with.

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Speaker 4: Wrestling. Yeah, Yeah i'm.

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Speaker 2: Waiting for like a scoreboard after a, match and they they give you like information analytics on. Wrestling they're all. In it's LIKE i tune in AND i, go what AM i watching? Here i'm Sure Seth rollins and some of these other guys And cody Something. ROADS i was gonna, Say Cody banks wasn't not A tv character or Movie, Frank, yeah, yes it's not real to. You and what they do is, no, no, NO i understand the. Entertainment BUT ESPN thee doesn't stand for entertainment. Anymore it doesn't it used. To so under that umbrella or that you know title That i'm, like all, right you want to, do but wrestling IS i, mean we're covering. Sports i'll tune in and all of a, Sudden i'll be, like, wait what are they talking?

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Speaker 4: About, yes, Yes, Marvin.

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Speaker 5: So you don't like it When Roman reigns is on first take the fight Before WrestleMania And they're, like, man what's gonna. Happen he's, LIKE i don't. Know i'm just gonna try my. Best you do know what's gonna.

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Speaker 2: Happen but IF espn wasn't covering wrestling or televising, wrestling or charging or being a, partner then they would not talk about. This so that's, sorry that's just a side vent. Here, Yes, DYLAN i THINK i found our natural disaster. Question, OKAY i believe The university Of tulsa The Golden. Hurricane, no, No i'm talking about PROFESSIONAL i think the first profession will Be Tampa Bay. Lightning, yeah they're nineteen NINETY i. Think, okay that's the first, disaster natural. Disaster, yeah, yeah college level, Though tulsa The Golden. Hurricanes, yeah and then five years Later miami was The.

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Speaker 3: Hurricanes.

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Speaker 2: Okaya stat of the day brought to you By been In. America the official trading cards of The Dan Patrick show gets phone calls coming. Up THE ncaa tournament has expanded to seventy six. Teams it's now official now when you think about, this since twenty, twenty SINCE, COVID nfl expands to fourteen playoff, TEAMS nba adds an in season tournament and play in. Games baseball expands to twelve playoff teams each, league The World cup moving from thirty two to forty eight, Teams college football to twelve teams now maybe sixteen and now maybe twenty. Four March madness expanding to seventy. Six the, expansion according to my, source will add approximately three hundred million dollars in additional revenue over the final six years of THE tv. Contracts there's your, answer ding, ding, ding ding. Ding that's why we're doing. It, yeah there's a lot of there's a lot of things going on with college, football college. BASKETBALL i did ask my source is it just a coincidence the college football playoffs And March madness are expanding in the same, Year he, says not. Particularly if, anything it's a clear sign of the power of THE sec In Big. Ten they want those four additional at large berths in. Basketball that's the reason the tournament expanded beyond sixty four and it continues. Today, so, man a lot is TO i, mean this is, moving this is fluid as far as what they're going to. Do everybody's looking for a LIVE tv, window that's what you're looking, for you, know even these games On, thanksgiving football games On. Thanksgiving you, KNOW i found this out yesterday That netflix has the one o'clock, game four thirty, game and Then fox will have the eight to fifteen. Game so these streaming partners.

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Speaker 4: They're.

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Speaker 2: Coming they're, Here, Amazon, netflix everybody wants to be. Involved, YouTube they all want to be.

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Speaker 4: Involved all.

00:30:20
Speaker 2: Right let me sneak in a couple of phone calls. Here let's See lucas And. Texas, Hi, luke what's on your mind?

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Speaker 4: Today Hey, dan good, Morning good.

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Speaker 12: Morning you know you AND i were going to throw back. Then in our, sports we like to see some of the classic aspects of the. GAME i know that you've talked about there being a potential return or over correction in THE nfl that need to go back to the running, backs feature running, backs or in THE, nba the guy that can hit the mid range. Jumper you, know those are just. Crucial AND i was having a conversation with my. Dad we were talking about. Baseball but in the, nineties how different it is. Today guys throw one hundred miles an hour for four innings and then get pulled. Out guys swing as hard as they can strike out a time and hit home. Runs so the question was which player from the nineties who epitomized that layer of, Baseball Greg, maddox who was very much control but not a lot of, speed Or Tony, gwynn who was a lot of back control but not a lot of home runs at. All which one of those do you think has a chance of coming back in some capacity in modern.

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Speaker 2: Baseball, Well tony gwyn could be a home run, hitter he, Said i'm not paid to hit twenty home, runs BUT i could great. Hitters you, know each Year row could have hit home. Runs Wade boggs could have hit more home, runs but they weren't paid to do. That they were paid to get on. Base Tony, Gwynn and even with his size when because he was around six two sixty, three former point guard in, COLLEGE i think that he could Have you, know With, maddox they would have, Said, Well maddox used to throw hard when he first came up with the, comes and then he figured it. Out he, SAID i don't want to throw all these. PITCHES i want you to get yourself, out and he would he would throw pitches that he knew that you would hit the. Ball but he was a what twelve time goal glove. Pitcher he was ready for the ball to be hit to him or his, infield so he mastered. THAT i, think you, know the scouts today would, go, yeah you, know they put the ball in, play you can get your bat on his. Stuff, well not realizing what he. Did nobody has really. Replicated like he was a crafty right. Hander usually it's a crafty left, hander But maddox was so. Brilliant you, Know glavin was a crafty left. Hander, Yes.

00:32:44
Speaker 5: Martin another, Guy Ricky henderson And Kenny lofton two like natural leadoff guys that had speed and Obviously ricky had more, power but they got the lineup going with their.

00:32:56
Speaker 3: Speed.

00:32:57
Speaker 2: Yeah AND i think that element is coming back because the bases are. Larger there's more movement in baseball. Now viewership is up so far this, year up significantly with, baseball and it might be because there is. Movement you, know you're more than just you either swing and, strikeout swing and hit a home. Run you either throw it and strike somebody, out or you throw it and you give up a home. Run AND i think that's good for baseball that it gets back to there's movement.

00:33:24
Speaker 4: There, yes DEALMY i, THINK.

00:33:26
Speaker 6: I Mean Rob manfred's had quite the pr turnaround over the last few years compared to like THE covid. Era, LIKE i, think the things that they're doing for baseball are actually working in a sport that traditionally people do not like to tinker with at.

00:33:40
Speaker 2: All viewership for national Exclusive baseball games through Last sunday is two point two eight. Million that's a forty four percent increase over last year and the best start in nine years For Major League baseballoo.

00:33:59
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Speaker 2: Three one lead here in the third here to see The canes radio. Network there's never a casual call of a goal, scored is? There certainly not in? Soccer BUT i know there's only a, couple you, know per. Match but like when it's nine to Six, avalanche like the ninth, one do you sound like It's game seven of The Stanley Cup?

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Speaker 4: Final that makes it nine to Six.

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Speaker 6: Right, Dan early? Results flopping in THE nba is smart on the rest call or soft and bad for the? Product ninety two percent say soft and bad for the. Product i'm inclined to. Agree and then what would you rather get? Caught in less an avalanche or. Hurricane seventy percent say, Avalanche AND i also agree with that.

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Speaker 8: Hurricane you.

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Speaker 2: CAN i can't out run an. Avalanche, NO i MEAN i. CAN i don't want to. Try i've been in a tornado, before like inside the no.

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Speaker 4: On on the.

00:36:29
Speaker 2: Outside my downtown of this is back in the eighties and a tornado ripped through AND i had friends who lived in the same. Neighborhood one house, gone the house next to, it not next to that one gone crazy and the Weather i'll never forget that cool weather that was attached to. It AND i just remember it was crazy how much damage it did in such a quick period of.

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Speaker 4: Time, yes, deal all.

00:37:03
Speaker 6: Right tornadoes is like the wildest of the natural. Disasters just, like how does this even? Happen like a? Volcano, okay it makes.

00:37:12
Speaker 4: Sense you. Know tsunami is the one that is still that one.

00:37:17
Speaker 6: That's usually a double banger, too because usually it's an earthquake and then the tsunami.

00:37:21
Speaker 2: Follows, yes, yes Uh zach And. Knoxville, Hi, zach what's on your mind?

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Speaker 14: TODAY, adp thanks for taking my call for The vegas. Team how about The vegas global? Warmings they slowly wear you. Down AND i just wanted to ask you about the flopping that's that's going. On do you Think Adam silver needs to step in and DARE i, say give the refs an agenda to not only you know that chet holmgrim play early when they went to the, MONITOR i felt like they when they reversed the, call they probably should.

00:37:56
Speaker 4: Have issued it technical for.

00:37:57
Speaker 14: Flopping do you think that they need to step in and start issuing texts?

00:38:01
Speaker 2: Along, yeah but they tried to do this two years. Ago but then you have the. Officials they have their own. Union they don't want to be told what to. Do they don't want to be. Embarrassed but you, know it's like calling past. Interference And i'm trying to get an update on the. REFEREES nfl. Referees they were getting ready to vote last night at eight o'clock AND i don't know how long discussions went, on BUT i think they THE nfl wants referees to go to training. CAMP i think they want them to be available more in the off. Season So i'm trying to get some information on. That aiden In, Utah, Hi, aiden what's on your?

00:38:42
Speaker 13: Mind, Yeah i'm, Morning Dan. MORAN i was wondering does can gms be put in The hall Of fame while they're currently? Active Because Sham presty is a. Mastermind, Okay i'm watching a J. Mitchell he's at thirtieth pickout Of ucy sent a. Barb oh, YEAH i should everybody saw him being a. Baller so how did they Get jared? McCain and about by the WHETHER i have lotters pick this?

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Speaker 4: Year, yeah pretty.

00:39:08
Speaker 2: Incredible, Uh Jerry west is he in The hall Of fame as A? Gm?

00:39:15
Speaker 4: Did Red?

00:39:15
Speaker 2: Arbac is he in for being A? Gm but NOBODY i don't think has been put in during their.

00:39:23
Speaker 4: Careers, Yes marvin.

00:39:26
Speaker 5: Feil epstein should have been put in in two thousand and four as soon as he won that championship with The Red.

00:39:30
Speaker 3: Sox, yes then with The cubs, Too.

00:39:33
Speaker 2: NO i, Know, YEAH i don't have any problems with. That you, know if you're an architect for a. Team we do criticize gms all the. Time we know their. Names, Yes, dylan that might be one of the.

00:39:46
Speaker 6: More underrated, things the fact that Theo epstein took the two longest standing curses in baseball and broke.

00:39:54
Speaker 4: Them, yeah WHAT'S theo doing?

00:39:57
Speaker 7: NOW i think he's a contributor TO, mlb like in that higher.

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Speaker 3: Office let me.

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Speaker 2: Check, oh he he like graduated graduated from well he was like ten when The Red. Sox that's. True he still looks like he's. Fifteen, Yeah, paul.

00:40:13
Speaker 7: He is a senior advisor To Fenway Sports.

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Speaker 2: Group oh, okay was he involved in the bloodshed there where everybody got? FIRED i do not. Know, Uh todd is going to be the first victim of the. Confessional so you have to go in once we go to commercial. Break if you're watching On, PEACOCK i don't know what the question is you have to.

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Speaker 4: ANSWER i don't look at it as.

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Speaker 11: VICTIM i look at as a special opportunity to, go you, know say something in.

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Speaker 3: Private okay that the world watching A tv will hear.

00:40:39
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