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[Assistant] Or drowsiness, leading to them becoming unresponsive if not treated. This is also known as a diabetic coma.


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[Assistant] While you wait for help to arrive, keep checking their level of response.


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[Assistant] If they become unresponsive at any point, open their airway, check their breathing and prepare to treat an unresponsive casualty.


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[Assistant] If a person who is receiving treatment for diabetes misses a meal or takes part in a lot of exercise, their blood sugar level will fall.


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[Assistant] On rare occasions, low blood sugar levels can occur after binge drinking and after having a seizure or epileptic fit.


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[Assistant] People who suffer from diabetes may recognize when a hypoglycemic episode is coming on or starting and know that they need to eat something to bring their blood sugar level up.


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[Assistant] They may have their own blood testing kit to check their blood sugar level.


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[Assistant] But sometimes they may fail to recognise their symptoms in time and without help they may quickly become weak, confused and unresponsive.


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[Assistant] If you suspect hypoglycemia, help the person to sit down. If they have their own glucose gel or glucose tablets, help them to take them.


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[Assistant] If not, you need to give them something sugary, such as a 150ml glass of fruit juice or non-diet fizzy drink.


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[Assistant] Three teaspoons of sugar or sugar lumps or sugary sweets. For example, three jelly babies.


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[Assistant] If they improve quickly, give them more of the sugary food or drink and let them rest.


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[Assistant] If they have their blood glucose testing kit with them, help them to use it, check their blood sugar level and stay with them until they feel completely better.


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[Assistant] If they do not improve quickly, look for any other reason why they're unwell and then call 999 or 112 for emergency help. Do not give them anything to eat or drink as they may choke. While waiting, keep checking their level of response.


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[Assistant] If they become unresponsive, open their airway, check their breathing and prepare to treat an unresponsive casualty.


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[Assistant] If they have hyperglycemia, high blood sugar levels, call 999 or 112.


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[Assistant] If they have hypoglycemia, low blood sugar levels and are alert, give them a hundred and fifty millilitre sugary drink or three jelly babies. Sit them down and let them rest.


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[Assistant] If you think someone has had a head injury, there's six key things you may find.


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[Assistant] They may have become unresponsive, even for a short time. They may be a scalp wound. They may come from dizziness or nausea.


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[Assistant] They may have memory loss of events at the time of the injury or before the injury occurred. They may have a headache. They may be confused. If you are worried about someone,


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[Assistant] Who has had a head injury, you should get medical advice.


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[Assistant] With someone who has had a severe head injury, you may find that they have had a severe blow to the head.


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[Assistant] A responsiveness or a deteriorating level of response?


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[Assistant] Leakage of blood or water flowed from the ear or nose. Unequal pupil size. If a casualty has any of the signs of a severe head injury, seek emergency medical help.


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[Assistant] To treat someone with a minor head injury, sit them down and give them something cool to hold against the injury, like an ice pack,


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[Assistant] Assess their level of response using the AVPU scale. Ask yourself, A, is a casualty alert? Are their eyes open? Do they respond appropriately to commands? V, does the casualty respond to your voice? Can she answer simple questions? P,


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[Assistant] The head injury is probably minor. Keep monitoring the level of response, breathing, and watch for any changes.


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[Assistant] Treating the scalp wounds like a blade by applying direct pressure to the wound.


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[Assistant] When the case has recovered, ask a responsible person to monitor and look after them.


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[Assistant] If a casualty has sustained an injury to the head whilst playing sports, do not allow them to return to the sport until they have been fully assessed by a medical practitioner. Advise to seek medical advice if their condition gets worse, they're over 65, they've had previous brain surgery, they've taken anti-clotting medication, they've been drinking or taking drugs,


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[Assistant] Or, if there's no responsible person to look after them.


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[Assistant] Continue to monitor the levels of response while waiting for help to arrive.


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[Assistant] If you think someone with a minor head injury is getting worse, they may show these signs. Increased drowsiness, persistent headache, confusion, dizziness, difficulty walking, difficulty speaking, vomiting, double vision, seizures.


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[Assistant] If you're concerned, call 999 or 112 for emergency help and monitor their level of response. So remember,


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[Assistant] When treating a minor head injury, sit them down.


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[Assistant] Treat any scar wounds and check the level of response.


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[Assistant] If they have a severe head injury, call 999 or 112 for emergency help. And that's how we treat someone with a head injury.


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[Assistant] Joe Mixon, Stefan Diggs, Nico Collins, Tankdell, Dalton Schultz.


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[Assistant] The big picture of the bills. They made a bunch of moves this offseason to shed salary cap.


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[Assistant] They ended up re-signing Deion Dawkins, but they lost their center, they lost their devious white, they've lost their fun digs now.


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[Assistant] You look at Houston on the other hand in the similar situation in Chicago where they're stockpiling older assets on high contracts.


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[Assistant] That's the bounce you get with a rookie quarterback on a rookie contract versus paying Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes or Joe Burrow or Deshaun Watson. That tier money is when you're on a rookie contract, you have all that money that's spread elsewhere. So it's a damn good roster now.


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[Assistant] It's loaded. I mean, offensively. And you look at the complimentary styles of the receivers. So you have Tankdale.


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[Assistant] Little undersized, but blazing speed. Yeah. Stephon Diggs, a route running tactician, and Nico Collins, 6'4", 220. Right. And they got mixed in.


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[Assistant] So they're gonna draft someone in the first round, which that actually could affect the Browns now in the draft. That's another team who we didn't circle as a potential wide receiver drafting team. I think the Bills have to go wide receiver in round one now.


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[Assistant] He's playing with another great quarterback. From Houston's standpoint, I love this. Because they traded a second round pick in 2025, so it's not even this year's second round pick, it's next year's second round pick, and it's from Minnesota.


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[Assistant] But you're not getting a Stefan Diggs at this stage of his career in the second round. No matter who you draft, it's not gonna be that caliber of receiver right off the bat. And while you have CJ Stroud on this rookie contract,


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[Assistant] You have to take advantage of the years where his cap hit is so much lower than it will be in five, six years when he's getting paid like the top tier quarterbacks in football. So when you have a guy under that contract structure and you have the money to spend elsewhere.


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[Assistant] You have to be aggressive and maximize those opportunities. And I'm, and you mentioned Operation Stockpile.


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[Assistant] When you have the opportunity to stockpile talent across the board, cause your quarterback's making 2 million, 3 million, whatever the, it's not that low, but whatever it is, you have to take advantage of it.


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[Assistant] You want to hear the two pitchers in baseball history since 1901.


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[Assistant] That have 20 strikeouts, at least 12 innings pitched,


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[Assistant] One or zero walks allowed and no runs allowed in their first two starts of the season. Shane Bieber. Shane Bieber, end.


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[Assistant] Shane Bieber in 2020. The only pitcher ever. Now, granted, it's two starts. He pitched against Oakland, who has a triple A at best lineup.


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[Assistant] Seattle's lineup's no juggernaut, but Shane Bieber through two starts has looked every bit of the part of an ace the Guardians had in 2020. They hoped to have last season, he struggled due to injuries, and now they have back this season. The one downside of this is the better Bieber pitches early, the more likely I think he is to be traded.


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[Assistant] At the mid-season deadline or at the trade deadline mid-season because the return on his value will be at sky-high, but


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[Assistant] The Guardians have been begging for an ace with all the other variables in this rotation. You have Gavin Williams who's hurt already. Tanner Bobby didn't look great in this first start, one start, whatever. Logan Allen, Tristan McKenzie, Cookie Carrasco. Those guys are a bit of question marks still. This guy was supposed to be the proven commodity in the rotation. Every five days he'd give the ball to Shane.


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[Assistant] You think you have a great chance to pick up a win and so far through two starts, he has delivered on every ounce of that promise. Offensively, it was great to see Bo Nailer.


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[Assistant] Hit a homerun, get two RBI's on the board through that. They made solid contact off a good pitcher, Luis Castillo, who has struggled earlier in the season.


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[Assistant] But the big picture for me is James Eber looks back to the form the Guardians needed him to be at in order to compete this season in the AOCentral.


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[Assistant] Still on the cell phone. Still on the cell phone. I'm curious if Jay noticed this or if you guys did. You know there's a pitching ninja on twitter where they overlay all the pitches together? Yea, sure. And I put it in tag word, you wanna pull up the pitching ninja one?


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[Assistant] His arm angle on his breaking balls and fastballs so far through two starts this season have been almost identical, which may be making up for the lack of velocity as hitters just simply can't pick up.


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[Assistant] What's a fastball? What's an off speed pitch? And I'm not sure and I'm not going to pretend to tell you guys I went back and watched every pitch last year in 2020.


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[Assistant] I don't remember it looking as identical as it has through two starts this season, and that may be how he's able to overcome a 91 mile an hour fastball versus a 93 mile an hour fastball with so much movement.


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[Assistant] Wait a minute, it's almost identicable if you're looking side by side here. Where it comes out for both pitches is...


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[Assistant] Today's pitching matchup's tough too. Logan Allen versus George Kirby for Seattle. Yeaah, that's an edge.


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[Assistant] In your mind bowl, let's say the Guardians are able to win tonight, take two series to start the season on the West Coast, three or four from Oakland, two or three from Seattle.


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[Assistant] To start the season five and two on the west coast. Granted, Oakland is what it is, but Seattle's a contender. It'd be a big confidence booster.


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[Assistant] I was going to say, there's more just faster guys in baseball now. How many guys in the Guardians, I mean, Naylor's not a slug by any means, but he's not really churning up the base pass. Other than that, they don't.


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[Assistant] And to your point on the defensive first baseman, like the guardians, even if they have a better offensive season than last year, they're still not an offensive juggernaut. So being able to save every run to help win a game


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[Assistant] 3-2 or 4-3 as opposed to giving up an extra run by a baserunner getting on by a fumbled ball or a stretch that wasn't executed properly.


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[Assistant] That could add up over the course of a season. Absolutely. And four, five, six of those plays could equal two or three wins down the stretch. And in the AL Central, two or three wins could be the difference between being the division winner or having a chance to fight for a wild card spot.


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[Assistant] And one last guy you didn't mention, Will Brennan, his average isn't there, but he's hit the ball hard. A lot.


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[Assistant] No, he's hit the ball well. He's hit the ball significantly harder than he had any stretcher. Austin Hedges on the other hand.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Yeah, it's time for basketball guys. So. Crushed the Jazz last night, Bull. They did. They let them know.


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[Assistant] But we're playing very well. Yeaah, it's funny, the one thing we know about the Cavs is they're inconsistent.


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[Assistant] The one thing we know about Cleveland over the last month is their inconsistency. They haven't won back to back games.


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[Assistant] Back-to-back, just two. Yea. Since the end of February. Right. Who do they got next? They play Phoenix tonight, which is what matters. Phoenix not coming off a back-to-back. Utah's a team trying to lose, by the way. They are intentionally taking it to keep their own draft.


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[Assistant] However you want to say it, they are not competing with the true intention of winning. The Cavs absolutely smoked them last night.


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[Assistant] Utah did what Charlotte tried to do last week and what Miami did two weeks ago against Pick and Rolls, which was Blitz trying to get the ball out of Daris Garland's hands. Last night we did that whole film breakdown last week, G. They went out that night against Charlotte and laid a giant egg.


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[Assistant] Well, last night he kicked it out to either Evan Mobley or Jared Allen, and those two made tremendous decisions.


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[Assistant] Off the backside, uh, three on four, four on three, whatever situation you looked at. Both things at five assists. To me that was the most impressive part of the whole game. And no turnover, one turnover between the two. Ten assists between the two, one turnover.


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[Assistant] If Daris is gonna kick the ball and let those two play four on three and they can lead the operation,


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[Assistant] With the efficiency they did last night, they're a really tough team to guard. However, Utah's one of the worst defensive teams in basketball. You can't really look too much into it.


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[Assistant] Can I give you a Meryl stat? Nine times this season, he's hit five or more threes off the bench. The most of any player in the league.


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[Assistant] He can. He can. We'll see. He can, though. He can. He's an other goat. You can't bet on it, though. You can't bet on it.


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[Assistant] A heroic turnaround from Darius Garland. It would take Evan Mobley to unlock his three point shot. You need Jared Allen to go back to how he was playing in December and January. You need Sam Merrill to continue shooting and making 6-3s a game. You need Karris Levert.


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[Assistant] He's not going to re-sign. If Donovan re-signs? If he doesn't re-sign, what are you doing? You trade Donovan.


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[Assistant] If he says, I'm not signing the extension, you have to trade diamond. You have no other choice. So this summer? Yea.


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[Assistant] It just depends on your expectation. If you think this team can legitimately win a championship at fully health this season, which I don't, I don't, but if they were 100% healthy and they got to the second round and lost, it's a giant disappointment.


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[Assistant] I think, and we talked about this when we did the topic maybe a month ago, like who's closest to winning a championship? The Guardians, the Browns, or the Cavs?


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[Assistant] I think they're sealing with the current roster construction with Donovan and Darius being theoretically your two best players as undersized guards and two non-shooting bigs.


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[Assistant] Mopley can change. Mopley's made a couple more shots. The three against Philly on Friday was big. Made another three last night, but he's not a shooter yet. Right. You're capped.


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[Assistant] LeBron could shoot, not a great shooter. Dwayne was a slasher. Could shoot, not a shooter. When you had Bosz working in the high post, it just clogs everything up. Now, basketball has changed drastically since 2012 when they won their first championship and those years.


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[Assistant] You like the spacing in the Chip Kelly offense, the initial spread offense in football, Oregon, remember those teams? It was sideline to sideline. We can't recruit the same level of...


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[Assistant] Uh, interior guys as a USC, or a Georgia, or an Alabama. So we're gonna spread them out, make them taste our little guys.


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[Assistant] Spacing opens up so much. And the fact that Mobley on Friday against Philadelphia. It was a broken play. I still have no idea. Me and Errol were looking at this the other day. It worked and it was a great shot because it worked. If he had missed that shot, we would have been.


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[Assistant] Ripping our hair out and yelling at the screen, what kind of freaking offense was that that you designed?


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[Assistant] Because Darius ignored the play and just kicked it to an open mobile in the corner. Great shot. The fact he stepped up and shot that. The fact that since then, he made threes against Denver and last night against Utah.


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[Assistant] It's a step in the right direction. He is not there yet. He's not. Not close.


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[Assistant] But it's a step in the right direction that at least he has the confidence to catch, rise and pull without thinking and hesitating, is this the right shot? Screw whether it's the right shot or not. He has to shoot that and if, and it's a big if.


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[Assistant] If he can become a more consistent three-point shooter, at least confidence-wise in these next six games and into the playoffs.


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[Assistant] I'm not saying the two big lineup is their best lineup. I do not believe it is.


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[Assistant] But you can survive stretches in certain matchups if Moby will take that shot. Yeaah. And having Moby on the court is one of your four best players. That's undisputed.


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[Assistant] Your best players on the court should lead you to the best result basketball wise. And while I don't think it's their best closing lineup right now, and if you needed a bucket, 10 seconds left, I don't think Mobley's in that five man lineup. The fact that he's shown the willingness to shoot,


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[Assistant] Without hesitation and make those shots over the last three games at least gives me a little confidence that teams will have to look his direction for a split second.


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[Assistant] They ran something yesterday that I've never seen them run for, the dribble handoff, the uphill dribble handoff one. They ran a play for mobile yesterday. I'm not going to break it down, but they've never done this in the history of...


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[Assistant] Uh, in the history of, nah, the uphill handoff one. And, I think it's the next one. Nope, next one, one more, one more, one more. This one.


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[Assistant] They've never done a dribble handoff for Evan Mobley coming off the wing like this. Ever. Ever. That's the first time in the history of the Cavs have ever run that. And he looked so confident in it.


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[Assistant] That's the progression we need to see for Mowgli. Yeah. And it may be a little thing each and every game.


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[Assistant] But that's something he didn't have the capability or the confidence to do help a month ago.


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[Assistant] His contributions, just a couple numbers for you. How were his contributions in the playoffs last year? How'd he do there? Well, you can say that about Evan Mobley, you can say that about Jared Allen, you can say that about Donna Mitchell, you can say that about Darius Garden, you can say that about JB Bickerstaff, you can say that about Danny Green, I mean, who can't you say that about on the catcher?


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[Assistant] Go ahead. I was terrible. Jason said he's gonna win us a playoff game and he couldn't make a shot. So I just was looking at, at this, the numbers. And Deanway hasn't played in over a month now.


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[Assistant] And they brought in Marcus Morris who's had some flashes, they played Damian Jones, James a little bit, no, Jones or James? Doesn't matter. Jones, whatever. Couple minutes. Uh, the one thing with Dean Wade that the other guys can't replicate is he's a 6'9 wing defender.


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[Assistant] Who can also shoot? So when you want to go with your one big lineup traditionally,


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[Assistant] Whether it's Allen or Mopley, at the five you can play Wade, at the four, their rebounding numbers don't suffer at all. He's actually a better percentage rebounder than anyone on the Cavs not named Jared Allen or Evan Mopley. So they're a better rebounding team with him on the court. And I was just looking at some random numbers, and this I thought was funny. With Dean Wade on the court this season, the Cavs are 36 and 18. Without Dean Wade this season, they're 10 and 12. It's a 45-1 percentage. Without Donovan Mitchell this season, yeaah.


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[Assistant] So that's been better without Donovan Mitchell than it had been without Dean Wade, which doesn't mean a ton.


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[Assistant] The net rating stuff should mean more then. If you want to look at, take out the win-loss record. He has a plus 8.3 net rating. It's the highest on the team.


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[Assistant] NBA.com. I know nothing about that rating. Offensive rating and defensive rating. So per 100 possessions, how many points does the team score with you on the court? That's your offensive rating. How many points does your team allow per 100 possessions? That's your defensive rating. Your net rating is the difference between your offensive rating and your defensive rating. Anything in the plus, plus, positive, anything in the negative, bad.


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[Assistant] Dean Wade has a plus 8.3 net rating. The highest of any player on the Cavs outside of Pete Nance, who's played like two games. He doesn't count.


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[Assistant] Well, what I'm saying, he, it does for every player, even if they play two games. So, he's at 8.3, Donovan Mitchell is at 7.4.


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[Assistant] So he's a point better than Donna Mitchell in the net rating. And defensively, his net rating.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, 8.3 would be one of, I can give you the exact number. It's one of the better marks in the entire NBA for guys who play 20 minutes a game.


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[Assistant] Uh, Dean Witt is the highest defensive rating of any player in the NBA.


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[Assistant] He can't be the best defensive player in the NBA. It's how good is your team defensively when you're on the court? So when he's on the court, and he's playing 20 minutes a game in 55 games, so.


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[Assistant] It can't hurt, it can't hurt. The other guys, real quick, the other guys in the top 10 of defensive rating, Dean Wade won.


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[Assistant] You have three guys, four guys from Minnesota in the top ten. It's the best defensive team in basketball. Nasreed, Kyle Anderson, Rudy Gobert is fifth, Mike Conley sixth, Aaron Holliday and two guys from the Celtics.


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[Assistant] We started the show Jensen today talking about Shane Bieber and his terrific second start following his terrific first start.


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[Assistant] When you look at Shane and watch his first two starts, 14 innings this season, 20 strikeouts, one walk.


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[Assistant] Does he look every bit as back as he did in 2020 when he won the Cy Young? And what has impressed you most about his first two starts for the Guardians this season?


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[Assistant] Jensen, the Guardians start the season off with 10 straight road games. They play 8 games in a row without a day off, then they get a day off on the 2.


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[Assistant] Games to finish up the series against Minnesota before they have the home opener here on Monday.


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[Assistant] Did Major League Baseball kind of do them dirty with this opening schedule? Because it seems like most teams had a series and a day off between, but eight straight days to start the season on the road on the West Coast. Seems like a pretty dirty deed for the Guardians to get their 2024 campaign underway.


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[Assistant] Jensen, what's been the, uh, biggest noticeable difference in your eyes in how the Guardians have approached their effects this season under Steven Vought compared to how they did the last few years under Terry Francona?


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[Assistant] And stay on the topic of vote. Jensen, obviously you played, and it's not, it's not a new trend here, but we've seen managers.


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[Assistant] Come from playing a year off and the next thing you know they're managing MLB club.


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[Assistant] How would you have felt as a player if a guy who was a peer of yours for many years


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[Assistant] All of a sudden a year later was your new manager. How do you think that relationship player to manager works when these are guys who played against vote for five, six, seven years, just literally a year and a half ago. Loriano played with him. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Non-Guardians question, Jensen, but a baseball question. How impressive and kind of...


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[Assistant] Crazy is that Mookie Betts has been able to go from a gold glove outfield to a second baseman to now playing shortstop.


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[Assistant] While also being maybe one of the three or four best hitters in all of baseball. From all your time playing.


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[Assistant] To see a guy go across the diamond like that, that has to be one of the most unique.


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[Assistant] Kind of stories in baseball I can remember. So, how crazy is that he's able to do it at such a high level across all three phases?


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[Assistant] It means the Browns are competent and not near the top of the draft, which is a good thing.


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[Assistant] Field Yates put out his two round mock this morning and had them taking Trey Benson, the running back, the first running back off the board in the second round.


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[Assistant] Feels weird cause it just signed Foreman as well, but also I don't think anything at this point would surprise me.


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[Assistant] I'm not surprised by anything at this point, because I think anything's on the table. And if I had to tell you right now, as of April, it's April 3rd.


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[Assistant] At 1227 PM, what I'm most confident the Browns will do, it's trade back.


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[Assistant] You know there's going to be at least four quarterbacks in the first round. At least four, by 54 you assume Penics and Bo Nicks go to. Yeaah. So six of the first 54 picks are quarterbacks. Right. Doesn't affect the Browns board.


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[Assistant] Of the names that G just mentioned, Harrison Jr. definitely gone.


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[Assistant] Both the LSU guys are gone. Thomas gone. Adunze gone. Those four could all be top 15 picks.


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[Assistant] This receiver draft, and I've seen guys who I trust, like Dane Bruegler in particular tweeted this out, he goes,


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[Assistant] I hear all that, but if you're telling me a guy like Dane Brugger who studies this way more than any of us do, says


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[Assistant] Between 4 and 16, it's a crapshoot. I like all these guys, it's personal preference.


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[Assistant] I have a hard time believing it won't have at least a shot at a guy who a lot of people like. That's not gonna be an absurd reach at that point.


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[Assistant] You're gonna say the track record sucks? I'm not gonna argue. I'm just saying, guys who you like.


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[Assistant] And the Packers, while it did work this season, they missed their entire window of a quarterback and a rookie contract.


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[Assistant] Like they got lucky that all these second round picks happened to hit and fill out their team. Because they had all this money to spend elsewhere while Jordan Love was on his rookie deal. He's gonna, it's his last year's deal now. He's gonna get paid.


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[Assistant] That's my point, so, it worked out, it was a risky move, it worked.


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[Assistant] If anyone will be there at 54 of the guys we talk about,


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[Assistant] Now, college football playoff, the SEC championship out drew up at every regular season college football game outside of Ohio State, Michigan.


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[Assistant] UConn, Tennessee. Right. Iowa, LSU now is blossoming to that. Huge. South Carolina versus any team in the SEC. Yes. They've gone on a tremendous streak. They've won championships. Don Scaly's best coach in basketball.


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[Assistant] What has elevated women's basketball in particular, to the mainstream over the last few years, is simple, star power.


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[Assistant] And you look at the Iowa LSU game on Sunday. I'll use that as just a microcosm with a big picture of the entire scope. It's not just isolated to those two, I'm just going to use that as an example.


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[Assistant] Katelyn Clark is the biggest star women's basketball has ever seen. Hands down, bar none. There's not a close second.


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[Assistant] Angel Reese is on that Mount Rushmore of personalities in college basketball in the women's game right now.


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[Assistant] I bet you the casual person can name more players between Iowa and LSU.


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[Assistant] Than they could on any individual WNBA team right now.


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[Assistant] You go back to, you go back to what happened in the championship last year. And you have the trash talk back and forth, right? Which I'm all for by the way. I love it. All for it. You had Angel Reese giving it to us. I can't see. You had the revenge, the rematch, the storyline. That game on Sunday.


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[Assistant] Between LSU, or on Monday, when it was Monday, yea. On Monday night, between LSU and Iowa. Yea. Had every storyline you would hope for in a big game. Take sport out of it. Yea.


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[Assistant] Every single storyline, you have Kim Mulkey, a coach, who is a divisive, you love her or you hate her.


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[Assistant] You have Kaitlyn Clark, who by the way, as much celebration as she gets, there's a lot of people who do not like Kaitlyn Clark. And same with Angel Reese. And same with Flu Jay Johnson. And the other girls on Iowa. Martin. Marshall. Uh, 45. They've been playing together for 45.


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[Assistant] I don't want to say the underdog, but you have the homegrown team versus the team of transfers in LSU.


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[Assistant] It was a class that if you take the names, the gender, and the sport out of the equation, by pure storyline.


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[Assistant] She's the closest player we've seen to Steph Curry, male or female, since Steph Curry.


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[Assistant] And it's funny because women's basketball in particular, and men to an extent, and I'm gonna give you the comparison in a sec, has modeled itself after the NBA game now.


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[Assistant] There are very few traditional low post centers now. Right.


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[Assistant] Every team, now even, even Iowa, who has a, a post player, sets a ton of pick and rolls, they play five out.


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[Assistant] But they're not traditionally posting her up and running an entire offense. Which on the contrary, we're about to see a clash in the men's final four and the men's championship between 7-4 Zach Eady and 7-2 Donovan Klingon. That has taken basketball back 20 years to post play while the women's game


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[Assistant] I can give you first hand experience working with A&M because when I was at A&M.


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[Assistant] The men's basketball team, while I was there, wasn't very good. They never made the tournament while I was there. The women's team, I went to two Sweet 16s with. And they got, you got to travel with the team, and Gary Blair with the Hall of Fame coach was awesome, and Gary wanted as much media as possible. Dawn Staley does a great job.


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[Assistant] Getting local media involved so they cover the team more. Anything you ever ask for on the women's side. Hey, can we do an interview with Player X?


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[Assistant] They wanted you to help promote their own game, which is a shame because even at A&M.


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[Assistant] They were the significantly better team and they drew 25% of the crowd.


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[Assistant] And South Carolina has, if not the best, a top two or three college basketball on a women's side environment. They sell out.


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[Assistant] Everything that you've ever heard about why women's sports don't get the respect they deserve would be amplified the second she stepped on the court. That would be the biggest...


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[Assistant] I don't think, I mean, no disrespect, she's playing like, she's six foot, the starting guard at Iowa is six three, she's been playing at six five centers.


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[Assistant] Well, Kobe did when he retired, so maybe when LeBron retires, he'll enter that phase of his life. Speaking of LeBron, ain't this kid gonna do? No, it's fake, don't, it's not, not.


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[Assistant] I see Halim in the gym all the time. What up, Halim? He's my guy.


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[Assistant] I think he's saying because he has two years left on his deal at a high hit. Yea, but we don't know what the cap it is.


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[Assistant] I didn't like what I saw from Diggs. He killed my fantasy team. It may be a little personal bias, but he absolutely destroyed my fantasy team down the street. Yea, but the money don't matter.


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[Assistant] So we did the PFF mock draft as a group a couple weeks ago. ESPN actually last week created their own mock draft simulator, so you guys were each technologically advanced enough to create one for yourself, send it in, and we're gonna discuss and have the viewers vote on which mock draft they liked the best.


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[Assistant] My dad could do it. I texted Jason at first to be like, Hey, can you test this out? Let me know if it's as easy as I think it should be. And he didn't answer for a while. So I texted my dad and my dad.


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[Assistant] Before we start though, Earl, I know you got something you want to mention this morning.


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[Assistant] There's that. Okay, Mike. Awesome. We're going to talk some Cavs and their decision to set up a first round matchup with.


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[Assistant] eBay guaranteed fit is only available for U.S. customers. So I'll ask you guys this very simply, very plainly, point blank.


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[Assistant] Jamie Bickerstaff said before the game yesterday, the Cavs had a plan. They'd play their starters three quarters. They let the other guys play the fourth.


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[Assistant] He admitted to scoreboard watching before the game and in his post game comments admitted they were keeping an eye on the other scores around the league.


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[Assistant] They stuck to it. And the New York game ended way after their game ended, so there was no guarantee that win or lose, they would have locked up a different seed. So that's why I say it seems.


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[Assistant] But it could also be interpreted as a scaredy cat move. So do you think it was the smart move too?


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[Assistant] Nine, nine games really, cause definitely Oklahoma City finished tied, so.


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[Assistant] The lateral quickness was back. He had good elevation on his jump shot. I thought it was 75 ish percent and now he gets 10 days essentially from that game. That should be huge. Now he should look great in game one. My concern


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[Assistant] So Jay, real quick, I looked up the last 20 years of NBA standings to try and see if two through eight was as clustered as the Eastern conferences this year. Couldn't find another example. No, I can't ever remember it.


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[Assistant] Two through eight, I think, I don't want to say NBA history, but at least what I can search on ESPN and Quick Database, the most clustered we've ever seen on Eastern or Western Conference. Two through eight, also in terms of teams intentionally setting up matchups in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] I was talking to somebody who is very well connected in the NBA yesterday about the Cav situation and I'll tell you guys what he said on tomorrow's Ultimate Cav show, but he also said he was not a fan, but then he's followed up with


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[Assistant] With that being said, if I was the Lakers, I'm throwing the seven eight game and trying to win the eight. So I don't have to see Denver in the first round. So he doesn't like that, but he also knows teams.


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[Assistant] So that is, uh, different, not necessarily apples to apples exactly.


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[Assistant] I would want Miami. Well, they want revenge from last year because…


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[Assistant] I've been told that I'm a competitive person. Ant, would you agree with that? Absolutely. He's seen me play pickup, I think he understands.


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[Assistant] Building up amazing cities that bring you big time money and the best part is messing with my friends. I can charge them rent on my iconic properties, just a classic monopoly. I can also rob their vaults of riches for myself and the leaderboard show me who the biggest monopoly tycoon is.


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[Assistant] Initial thoughts on the actual on-court situation, Cavs vs. Magic, okay?


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[Assistant] There are no excuses not to win the Sears. I'm serious. No excuses.


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[Assistant] We knew that going into it, and it could happen. It's gonna be a rock fight. Jared Allen in his post game interviews yesterday said it's gonna be a fight to 85. I went through and watched Orlando's game against Milwaukee yesterday. Jalen Suggs, if you're unfamiliar with how much of a dog he is defensively, you're going to learn very quickly. He made Dame Lillard look like he was 65 years old last night.


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[Assistant] He held him to two of 14 from the floor. Two of 14, that's a guy who without Giannis in the lineup has been taking over 25 shots a game. Held him to 14 shot attempts, only made two of them.


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[Assistant] Him against Mitchell is going to be a hell of a matchup. Bankero is an absolute monster. And without Dean Wade, they don't have a ton of size on the wings to match up with Palo who's a legit 6'10 guy with some strength.


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[Assistant] It's going to be a rock fight, but at the end of the day, when you strip this down to the bare minimum, Cavs have the best player, a better roster, more playoff experience and home court advantage. If you check the box at all four of those categories.


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[Assistant] I will hear no excuses. If it doesn't go in the Cleveland Cavaliers favor and they're not playing Boston or whoever in round two, head's gotta roll.


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[Assistant] I will pick the caps to when I have not determined how many games yet. Okay, that's fair. You can get back to us on that. Yeah, we'll do our official predictions on Friday, but.


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[Assistant] Jason, you were at the guardians game yesterday where they were able to walk off the New York Yankees in 10 innings. The first two games of the series went to New York, so the guardians were able to salvage one of three. But I want to start with one thing that Jason tweeted out yesterday before we talk about the big picture, the starting pitching and the walk off. The cheers for the Yankees, Jason, really pissed you off.


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[Assistant] I thought- Yeah, how big was the walk off yesterday? Salvage at least one of the three games from the game.


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[Assistant] Uh, Floriel got out and we are going to move on to some brown stuff here. But first, passion, drive and patience. That's the winning formula for championships. It's also what helps.


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[Assistant] With over 122 million parts for your number one ride or die, you'll always find exactly what you're looking for. And with eBay's guaranteed fit, your part is guaranteed to fit your ride every time.


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[Assistant] or your money back because with ebay motors you're burning rubber not cash with all the parts you need at the prices you want.


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[Assistant] It's easy to make your car the MVP and bring home some big wins. So keep your ride or die alive at ebaymotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. eBay's guaranteed fit is only available to US customers.


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[Assistant] We are a week and a half away from the NFL draft. The Browns do not pick till number 54, but that will not stop us from enjoying mock draft Mondays. We used ESPN's draft simulator for this round of mock drafts and Earl.


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[Assistant] You're up first. How did you think the Brown's mock draft fell when you ran it through ESPN's mock draft simulator?


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[Assistant] Yup. And it is still 0-0. But Curry, Curry's also giving up two hits. Curry's pitching very well. That's great. And he's ended the sixth. Three strikeouts, one walk, two hits, and five innings of work. We're gonna move on, but first, we all know I'm a competitive person.


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[Assistant] Doesn't matter if it's sports, so it doesn't matter if it's the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. If there's something to compete at, you know I'm competing in.


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[Assistant] My next competitive adventure is Monopoly Go. I'm a huge fan and I'm sure you've heard of it by now because it's been downloaded over 150 million times. It's a great twist on Monopoly where you play not one, but multiple.


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[Assistant] I'm talking hundreds in crazy locations building up amazing cities that bring you big money and the best part is messing with your friends. You can charge rent on iconic properties like Classic Monopoly and you can also rob their vaults of riches.


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[Assistant] For yourself and the leaderboard show you who the biggest monopoly tycoon truly is. But it's not just my competitive side that loves it. You can team up with friends and people all around the world in time tournaments to earn huge rewards. So get it on the game and join your friends. Just download the monopoly go app. It is free in the app store or on Google play.


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[Assistant] Jay, you weren't here last week when we talked about this. Earl, you were behind the glass, but...


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[Assistant] Jimmy Hazmat said extensions were very close for Kevin Stefanski and Andrew Berry. We talked about why they may not have come yet, but that's not what I want to ask today. Let's just assume for the sake of this, it's going to happen at some point.


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[Assistant] Big picture wise, and Earl, I want to start with you. Why is continuity at the head coach and general manager position so important for any franchise, but specifically what would it mean for the Cleveland Browns moving forward?


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[Assistant] Marathon Monday in Boston is a tremendous day though. Time for Super Chats, we're gonna do our top 5 in overtime by the way. Super Chats, first one from Evan419 says, going into the playoffs with JB as head coach is like boarding the Titanic while knowing the ending.


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[Assistant] Uh, Brody's bottom line says, the Cavs, this was in relation to the Cavs avoiding Philly and Miami. It's a loser move, Cavs weren't gonna play Miami or Philly until the second round anyway.


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[Assistant] Haleem Youssef says, Jason hit it on the head. This all started going downhill when they lost the spider tack. The pitch clock exacerbated everything and took it to the next level. Just give them the tacky bag back. And Mud says, if AB and Kevin


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[Assistant] Don't get the extensions and get fired. Not going to happen, but what if, would D. Podesta get fired too? Once again, I want to read it. They're not getting fired. I'm just asking the question. Yeah, they're not getting fired.


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[Assistant] Plus, ba-da-da-da-da, you're lovin' him. Mikey McNuggets.


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[Assistant] They didn't really have a response. Sometimes no response is the best response at all.


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[Assistant] I don't see it. I'm not saying I would. I'm not saying I would. I'm just saying I think he will. I think he's Mack Jones and Kenny Pickett. Same caliber. Or Daniel Jones. I think he's more Daniel Jones than those two.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then also the way you guys cut and the way your defense is too. I think that that's one thing that has hurt us within the times that they have lost.


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[Assistant] I have an idea. I have an idea. A legitimate idea. Next Friday, piece together your most street worthy fit.


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[Assistant] Has one Mikey McNuggets ever sported frosted tips?


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[Assistant] But you could frost that up and make it white. No, no, no. He just needs to go to my barber.


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[Assistant] So I know you go to the same barber every time. I do too. Once a month, usually around the first of the month or so, you know, maybe every five, six weeks or whatever, you go in and get it, you know, get it fresh.


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[Assistant] I had them come pick up my lawn mower, my tractor, because it wasn't going uphill well last year. It was going real slow uphill.


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[Assistant] I'm like, what the heck's wrong with this? It's only five years old. We bought it when we built the house. Oh, we'll go come pick it up. He calls me this morning, $1,200 worth. I said, yeah, well, how much is a new one?


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[Assistant] He said 3000. I said, okay, so now wait a minute. I'm going to put 1200 in a five year old machine.


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[Assistant] Because it works, it's functional, and if you have a flat lawn, it's perfect. And it's only five years old, it's a damn nice machine, and...


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[Assistant] Here's what it is, you ready for this? 75 a cut, and most of the summer you need two cuts a week. So at two cuts a week, at 150 a week, I could pay for a new one in one summer!


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[Assistant] What would be, other than to create more cap space?


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[Assistant] His contract in a vacuum, what would be the benefit of doing that?


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[Assistant] Right, the way I understand it, it's a joint deal between the owners and the players. Because per the agreement between the players and the league, there is a percentage of all revenue that has to go to players. So that determines the salary cap. My understanding of it.


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[Assistant] Is there going to be a day of reckoning though, where we keep kicking the can down and we've done that on so many players. Look at Conklin's deal.


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[Assistant] Look at Watson's deal. I mean, the slide that we showed with Watson, for the next three years, he's 25% of the team's payroll.


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[Assistant] 25% one player. By the way, if you do the math, he's 2% of the roster.


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[Assistant] If this, if part of restructuring his deal meant adding years to it,


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[Assistant] That would be an absolute positive one thousand percent no for me.


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[Assistant] Does, is that part of the deal? So in other words, could they just restructure for the three remaining, not add anything, just the three remaining?


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[Assistant] Moving parts to the salary cap work. Because I once upon a time, I thought I knew.


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[Assistant] All of these deals that have put them in peril and they were at one point projected to be way over the salary cap. They do all this weird math and restructuring and now, oh, we're good.


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[Assistant] I just, I can't help but thinking, I'm relating it to a household.


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[Assistant] $10,000 a year, but they spend $12,000 a year. They're kicking $2,000 a year down the road, correct? Which includes interest payments and everything else, so it's far more than $2,000. Somehow, someway,


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[Assistant] There has to be something punitive in the future for constantly being over the salary cap. And I don't know when that hits us.


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[Assistant] An astounding amount of money every year. And now with the interest rate being higher, it was fine to add to the debt when the interest rate was zero.


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[Assistant] You're borrowing money now at 5, 6, 7 percent.


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[Assistant] You are putting yourself, now, on the national debt, there is a day of reckoning.


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[Assistant] No, not anymore. We borrow internationally for a large sum of that and that's the problem. And the other part of that problem is we now spend more money


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[Assistant] Talk, having discussions during my years at ESPN with people that knew this. That was their jam. That was what they studied. ESPN has an expert that's just a cap person. And he, he always used to drill in


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[Assistant] To my head and any buddy heads that was watching or doing a segment with them.


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[Assistant] You can exceed the cap, it's, it's punitive, but at some point,


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[Assistant] There will be a reckoning. And I don't know when that is for the Browns. It's amazing to me how effectively they keep kicking that can down the road. But we have seen in the past, recent past, Denver, Atlanta, others that were mired in cap hell.


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[Assistant] Well, one of the things that the league's doing is they're offering the networks or streamers the right to purchase the Christmas Day game. And the expected bid's supposed to start at $100 million. So there's another, if they do three games on Christmas Day and that's the expectation, you just added another $300 million to the revenue.


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[Assistant] And he just said, that's the cost of winning a championship. And he wrote those checks. So if Jimmy's the same guy...


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[Assistant] That's not ca- No, no, you're gonna say that this is a positive for Jimmy Haslam.


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[Assistant] The fact that he's willing to spend is positive. I'm gonna tell you why that's terrifying. Why? Could you imagine?


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[Assistant] He's out spending everybody in the league by a to- by 50 million dollars.


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[Assistant] It is a good thing that he's willing to spend that money. But what's terrifying to me is...


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[Assistant] If you tell me there's an NFL team that is spending 50 million dollars in raw cash.


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[Assistant] Over the next, like, okay, San Francisco made it to a Super Bowl. It's working for them. Who's number three on that list? Philadelphia, 280 million.


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[Assistant] I'm terrified because even with a 50 million dollar spending advantage. The next twenty.


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[Assistant] No, because the quarterback they had, who's had a very checkered past since he's left, has actually produced more than the quarterback they went out and paid 230 million for.


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[Assistant] I am intrigued by the idea that they get 33 million dollars in cap space.


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[Assistant] If it's gonna be, if it means that Jimmy has to write a big check but it gets us out of cap hell, write that check, Jimmy. Write that check. And here's the thing. This is the way I hope the story ends. In Dan Gilbert's case, look at all of the money Dan spent.


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[Assistant] Which won, I believe, 12 or 14 divisional titles in a row. Won one World Series and it was at our expense.


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[Assistant] So what, what, if you're Jimmy Haslam and you're looking at Dan Gilbert's model,


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[Assistant] Maybe his model is the right way. I'll spend till the end of the earth


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[Assistant] But I gotta deliver one. And in Dan Gilbert's case, he sat there on parade day because that was the day of fruition. That was the day that


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[Assistant] For Jimmy Haslam to be able to sit on the streets of Cleveland and watch a parade that I don't care if it's in early February or not.


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[Assistant] The streets would be lined with millions of people.


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[Assistant] Knowing the Browns are spending 50 million dollars more than their closest competitor next year, it's gotta happen now.


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[Assistant] It's got to happen with the Sean Watson as the quarterback, with Nick Chubb on whatever wheels he has left. With the Mari Cooper. I mean, the window, although it's not slammed shut after the 24 season,


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[Assistant] It's more closing than opening. All these, remember the days of all these young guys that we had in here. Miles Garrett's no longer in the young guy category. He's in the aging veteran category.


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[Assistant] You gotta win now, and maybe that's why he's saying, I don't care if I have to spend 300 million more than the San Francisco 49ers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know that this question comes with a disclaimer.


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[Assistant] You were explaining this morning, you'd sent these out last night. When I saw it, I'm like, wow, Mikey taking his wife and Dino. Bang, bang. And you want to be clear on the morning call this morning that no, that's not, you know, I'm just throwing it out there. And I don't believe it.


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[Assistant] Tito had the entire season without his number one and number two pitchers. I think collectively they may have won three or four games between Bieber and Mackenzie. I'm just trying off the top of my head to think that it may have been slightly more.


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[Assistant] But he lost both at the start of the season, and Tristan didn't come back, and Bieber did come back at the end.


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[Assistant] And was still managed, still managed to get this team the equivalent of 5 games under 500. The record says 76 and 86 is 10 games under 500. But if you look at it, 5 more wins and they're 81 and 81.


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[Assistant] Uhm, he finished under 500, I believe twice. And the only other time it was barely under 500.


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[Assistant] Uh, and that might have been his first season when he inherited a train wreck of a roster.


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[Assistant] And obviously we know what he did in terms of taking them to the playoffs, winning divisions within one game of a World Series. Uhm, so no, there's no way I can kick dirt on Tito. What I can do...


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[Assistant] Is take that dirt and grow flowers for, uh, for Stephen Vought.


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[Assistant] Stephen Vought, eh, looks like he's been in that dugout for 50 years.


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[Assistant] I think he's, you know, you don't even want to call them tactical mistakes because everything is subjective. He's made a few moves that I wouldn't have.


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[Assistant] But, uh, that, that certainly, you know, some of them worked out, some of them didn't. They've lost three games. They're nine and three.


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[Assistant] Two of their losses came on a bases loaded walk to push in the winning run. The other loss came...


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[Assistant] Because Scott Barlow can't throw strikes. He's not the same guy that we remember when he was with the Royals. And when he does throw strikes, I think he's afraid that his fastball isn't as lethal as it used to be.


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[Assistant] So he, he's getting hit a little bit harder than he's probably accustomed to. So he walked himself into a terrible position the other night, gave up a two run double. That was the ball game. That, those are their three losses.


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[Assistant] One of them, they were down 5-0, the Barlow loss, and scratched back to get it even 5-5.


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[Assistant] They ended up losing 7-5 in the ninth, I believe. The next night, they were down 5-0 again early in the game, and they scratched back again


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[Assistant] Nothing but flowers for you. He's created a wonderful culture. He keeps saying one word. If you listen to votes, news conferences, he keeps saying this. Love.


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[Assistant] Love, love, love. This team loves each other. They love each other. They love being here. That is worth, it's like almost like a second paycheck. So, I can't.


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[Assistant] That's crazy. I mean, actually at the trade deadline, camps are open.


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[Assistant] I mean that's how close the two, you know, run into one another. Uhm, I do always say that I break the season into thirds.


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[Assistant] I look at where they are on June 1st, and then again I look at where they are on August 1st, and


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[Assistant] Look, they're not going to win 75% of their games this year. Not a chance that happens. I think they've done it because they've beaten up on some really bad teams. The White Sox and the A's.


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[Assistant] And with the white socks and their injuries, and they just had another key injury to a, to their best player. It's just, so I don't wanna, I don't wanna blow the horn too early on this team. Uhm, but I'd rather be nine and three than three and nine.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it is, I'm sure, I remember when I would come home to Cleveland when it was for an assignment, it just felt right. I went to bed easier, I woke up in a better mood, uhm, there is something very special about home.


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[Assistant] That's what I thought. Uhm, when you look at this Yankees team, uhm,


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[Assistant] Obviously we were talking in the last segment about the Browns and how much money they are spending and what they've actually seen as a return on that investment. The Yankees were always a team that were out in front with in terms of team payroll and here recently the Dodgers and there are other teams that have just caught up to them and


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[Assistant] They've got the roster. They went out and added a huge piece. This, I would think that this is a team that fans are expecting should, should go deep into the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's really amazing when you consider the amount of money that is at stake with all these pitchers and the rate of injury that someone hasn't done a serious deep dive into things like spin rate, which has become a huge buzzword over the last decade and guys are doing


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[Assistant] All they can to increase their spin rate. Okay, well, while the spin rate has gone up, has the rate of injury gone up? Is there a correlation? I talk to old timers all the time that pitch, and I call them old timers, in the 90s and the 2000s, hell.


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[Assistant] I'm doing a piece coming up about the 94 Indians because it's basically 30 years since the resurgence of baseball here in Cleveland and they ended up not making the playoffs that year because there was a strike. But at the time the season was canceled because of the strike, I think there was 113 games in.


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[Assistant] The Indians led all of baseball with 17 complete games.


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[Assistant] And it was, and the season was two thirds of the way through. They were on pace to go, you know, 22, 23 complete games. I don't know that you'll have that many total complete games in baseball combined in a season anymore because they're treated with such kid gloves. Eric, we only have a minute and I want to ask this to you, uh, as we, as we say goodbye.


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[Assistant] And it's not really Yankees or Guardians related, but it's baseball related. Trevor Bauer is a guy who's out there and available, and the Guardians lose Shane Bieber for the year. Obviously he's got a past with


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[Assistant] Uh, the Indians when he pitched here as, as a member of the Indians. And he had a real issue. I think Tito just was done with him.


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[Assistant] Is he gonna be signed by anybody this year? Because as you know, from a legal standpoint,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I kind of agree. Eric, it's great to see you again. Enjoy the uh, Guardians and Yankee series while you're in town. And uh, good, best of luck to you and your team the rest of the way, unless they run into our Guardians in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Eric Boland writes for Newsday. He's covered the Yankees for a very long time, uh, entrenched in that city as a terrific baseball writer. He's obviously very knowledgeable about the Yankees, and we appreciate his time here on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. All right, Mike, I saw this on the rundown.


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[Assistant] Wasn't really sure what to expect from it. So go ahead and explain it to me. I have a feeling this could be entertaining.


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[Assistant] And to me, there's no question Deshaun Watson has the skill set to become


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[Assistant] An MVP candidate. He doesn't have to win it. I'm not saying either one of these guys are going to win it because I don't think they will. But we're just talking about one vote.


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[Assistant] And if he does this, if he throws for 40 touchdowns and 10 picks, he's winning the MVP.


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[Assistant] Are the one seed in the AFC. Yeaah. And his numbers are 40 touch 10 picks.


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[Assistant] He has no choice. I mean, the voters have no choice. But to say yeaah, they may begrudgingly vote for him. But if it's that obvious, and let's just say, you know, look, Patrick Mahomes' numbers last regular season were nowhere near MVP numbers. They just weren't.


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[Assistant] So if he has another season like that, and there's not somebody that is in that ballpark, he's gonna get votes. I look at Evan Mobley's skill set, and you know where I stand on him. I think he's a nice player. I think he's a really nice player. I think he's a super nice guy.


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[Assistant] But that part of it keeps him from ever being THE guy. He doesn't have that killer's edge. Kobe!


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[Assistant] Jordan, I mean you think of these guys, these guys will cut your heart out and stomp on it in front of their family.


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[Assistant] Evan Mobley, uh, I just, unless he completely changes his...


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[Assistant] Internal personality and the way he plays the game, he's a really nice player.


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[Assistant] You know what's stunning to me? I know we couldn't do the Cavs talk. We'll do it in the TV show at 1230 by the way. Watch Channel 3 at 1230. What is stunning to me is, with three games left in the season, there is still a possibility


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[Assistant] Brought some shooters in here, and they're gonna lose considerably more games this year than last. And they're in a fight for a playoff spot?


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[Assistant] I would think that if I'm betting, I'm betting more that they're both gonna be here after the 24th season. But I mean, gosh.


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[Assistant] I don't know how you trade garland. Don't know how you trade them.


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[Assistant] Here's what Darius Garland is. Darius Garland, I've called this before, he's a better version of Colin Sexton. He can gather stats. I love his game. But close and late?


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[Assistant] He's just a mistake prone player. Whether it's not getting a shot off or it's an unforced error on a turnover or a bad decision or driving to the basket and getting a bad shot. When the game gets tight, I don't want him as...


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[Assistant] Pick the damn ball up and dribble. Darius, we're winning. We want the clock to go away. What are you doing?


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[Assistant] Okay, so it's a shot clock. Well then that makes sense. I still just, I just don't want him in the game close and late. By the way, he has a defensive liability close and late.


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[Assistant] Right? I mean, doesn't it seem more often than not, JD brings him out of the game in those, you know, when you're managing for one possession, he's out of the game when they're on defense.


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[Assistant] Well, given the tenure of NFL coaches,


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[Assistant] And, I mean, most of them are gone in five years. And he's already four seasons in the bank.


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[Assistant] This is a bargain. There was a bargain right here. The scary thing about that is he's going to, my fear is you'll get poached.


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[Assistant] By a Dodgers team. Okay, okay. Or you know, like if he has a lot of success here. Early? In his first two years.


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[Assistant] You know, how loyal is he going to be to Cleveland where he had no ties? Kerry wanted to come to Cleveland. Think about that.


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[Assistant] His dad played here. He spent some young years here in Cleveland. He knew the organization very well.


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[Assistant] Unless. But see, here's the thing. Last year he was coach of the year. But there were points last year.


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[Assistant] Go back the year before, especially. There were points last year where people were calling for his job.


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[Assistant] Top three or four tenured coaches in the NFL, depending on what happens with hardball.


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[Assistant] Where, where is Defanski at four? Probably middle of the pack.


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[Assistant] I'm telling you, these dudes have a shelf life of like three years.


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[Assistant] Wow, that's a strange year. A year where only two head coaches got fired in the office.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that one. Mitchell ain't resigning. Mitchell is not resigning.


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[Assistant] They had key injuries to two of their three stars and went 18 and two in one of the hottest stretches of Cavalier basketball we've ever seen.


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[Assistant] I start throwing, I start throwing on the 17th. What's today, the 12th? I think it's next Wednesday. There you go. And that didn't come without a lot of my blood, sweat and tears. And blood was part of it. But I tell you, I am a little unnerved.


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[Assistant] This is the first time I've ever had anything done to my elbow. I've had my shoulder worked on. I had a torn labrum and biceps tendon.


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[Assistant] Uh, but I tell you, I, there were times last year where I thought I had no hit stuff. I gave up two hits.


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[Assistant] That are here in Cleveland. Nice. The team that won the World Series down in breaking news. Thank you for that, Steve. Nice. I'm sure everybody's on warmth. Zito's waiting here. Yes. So, here's the thing.


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[Assistant] If we could close the deal and win, this is worldwide. There are teams from, uh, there will be athletes from I believe a hundred and over a hundred countries.


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[Assistant] If, if we win that, then in the span of 12 months, we would have won the city championship, the national world series, and the Pan American gold medal.


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[Assistant] My deal is I play and they sometimes pay my entry fees for tournaments.


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[Assistant] And here's the thing, here's the thing. By July, I think the games are 12th to the 19th.


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[Assistant] By then I should be, you know, barring any setbacks, which, you know, that happens.


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[Assistant] I chose not to have Tommy John surgery. I went through a procedure that other guys recently have gone through and didn't work out so well for them. I don't know. We put you at first base, dawg. I can definitely play, no I can play shortstop and hit even if I can't pitch.


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[Assistant] Well look, look, it's his decision, it's his hair. I will say this to you Earl, there is a hell of a lot more to you than hair.


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[Assistant] I did, but she's too much about the grind. He's put in so much work. You think he's gonna leave this behind?


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[Assistant] Wildly successful. And this was before we had to pay them $20 an hour. You're making 10 cents on the dollar at a wildly successful restaurant.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we are for April Fools. This is, this is a, this is a new thing we're gonna try. We're all wearing green, which means we're all invisible. This is a chroma key shot. So today for the show, we will be fading in and out.


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[Assistant] Uh, if you celebrate Easter weekend, I hope you had a fantastic weekend and were able to enjoy it with family.


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[Assistant] Neck injury, so he's on the DL. What kind of DL he's on, we don't know, but he's out today. So, the panel is...


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[Assistant] A lot to get to. I am glad you're here today though, because we've got a lot of guardians and calves issues. Cavaliers, wow. The building is on fire. It feels like, now,


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[Assistant] I'm just gonna make one statement. We'll talk about the cans later. It feels Philadelphia Eagles-esque.


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[Assistant] And what we watched last night, if that's any indication of what we're gonna get, it's gonna be one and done in the playoffs. And who knows what Donovan Mitchell decides to do.


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[Assistant] Yup, that's exactly right. Um, yikes. This, it is, it's bad. It really is bad. Uh, I was gonna talk about the browns. This, you can think about this. I'm gonna throw this out there, let it marinate for a while, and then we're gonna talk about it later. If you choose not to


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[Assistant] Like Deshaun Watson, does that make you a bad Browns fan?


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[Assistant] This is a fascinating question. We are gonna ask it. We are gonna talk about it. So think about that at home. If you're not a fan of Deshaun Watson, does that


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[Assistant] Man, I tell you that that's really tough to do. My son sent Tyvis and I a text, Corey, where he built a seven game opening day parlay. And he winded up my reaction. I'm like, are you nuts?


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[Assistant] Man oh man. Yeah, it's just, it's a crapshoot. And baseball is underway. The season began, uh, last week. The Guardians looked like they were off and running. They get three great wins and then yesterday they hit a little bit of a speed bump. Actually, Blackburn


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[Assistant] I watched his, I didn't watch it, I read about his last two starts in spring training, the A's pitcher who started yesterday. And I think he went like 12 or 13 innings and only allowed two hits.


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[Assistant] So he clearly figured something out as spring training went along and he carried that right into the opener. He looked like their ace because the other pitchers that they threw at the, at the, uh, guardians had no chance.


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[Assistant] And then, they, they, they're not just gonna move. We're gonna hold this over the city for three years.


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[Assistant] We talked about that on Friday. They protested. They said we're going to come, but we're not going to come in and watch the product.


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[Assistant] Love to hear stories like that. Shout out to you, Joe. Yeah, love to hear stories and we'll follow him. I love to hear that he's working with kids and that the kids really responded to him and they enjoyed him.


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[Assistant] I've got a lot of first impressions, but I want to preface all of it by saying this was extended spring training. It really was. I put nothing into the fact that they were three and one. I put nothing into the fact that they're


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[Assistant] You know, except for Shane Bieber, I think Shane Bieber, what he did is transferable to the Seattle lineup.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Bieber looked like Cy Young again. He had control of everything. The extra velocity has made his off-speed stuff that much more dangerous. And it's not just that his fastball's a few ticks higher. It's how it changes what everything else looks like.


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[Assistant] And the difference now between his off-speed stuff and his fastball is the difference in miles per hour that you want in the front of the rotation guy. So I think what he did is transferable.


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[Assistant] I also think what Jimenez did is transferable because he hit a lot of different kinds of pitching and was aggressive. I said on Friday, I felt that Steven Vogt overthought the opening day lineup. I did not like Hosey in the two. I particularly did not like Jimenez in the seven.


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[Assistant] I think, I think it looked like he rectified that right away. I mean it was just maybe an experiment that he was trying. I didn't love it.


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[Assistant] But I just, I look at who's the power source. Well that's easy. I want to put him in a spot in my lineup where we can maximize those 25 or 30 home runs. You do that when he's hitting with a lot of guys on base.


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[Assistant] The most men he can have on base in his first half bat is one. Right. And as you go through the lineup, if it's flipping by the time he comes up and not leading off,


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[Assistant] The chances of the 8-9 hitters getting on base are much lower than that of a 1-2 hitter. I just think statistically, and you know I'm not a big analytics guy, but in this particular case, I like getting him more at bats.


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[Assistant] What that comes out to over the course of a season, it's negligible compared to how much impact he can have with more runners on base.


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[Assistant] He's already been a great player. I think they showed a graphic, I think it was on Friday or Saturday.


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[Assistant] Might have been Friday. They showed a graphic comparing Stephen Kwan's offensive production.


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[Assistant] Now, I don't know that he'll ever have Altuve's power.


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[Assistant] But if he can have the average and the stolen bases, he made a play defensively Friday night where the runner-on first and second were moving.


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[Assistant] The ball was hit to Steven in left field.


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[Assistant] He alertly, as he was feeling the ball, saw that the runner who was running on the hit got caught off second base. And instead of throwing to third, like 99% of fielders would automatically do because that's the book.


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[Assistant] He caught him off base, fired it to second, caught him in a rundown, and they ended the inning.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's little things like his baseball IQ is off the charts. So I think Stephen Kwan is gonna be the kind of player for a long time that Cleveland can really embrace. I did, my thoughts on Vought, and this is to be expected when he's new,


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[Assistant] I think every decision early in your career is magnified. Oh sure. Go back to the first time we all sat in these chairs and we were launching this show.


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[Assistant] We were different. We weren't as relaxed. We were pressing. We were trying too hard. All of that.


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[Assistant] I think Vought will settle in, but I do think he over-managed a little bit. What'd you think of the squeeze yesterday?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's, that's my thought exactly. I like it as a play. It's, you gotta use it judiciously, obviously. But to me, you should be able to call that with whoever's at the play. Yes, I agree. It's a bunt.


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[Assistant] From playing the game my whole life, I can tell you the percentage chance of putting the bat on the ball is never higher than when you're squared.


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[Assistant] All you have to do is essentially, I had a coach early in my life that said, look at the barrel as a glove.


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[Assistant] And when you're playing catch, you follow the ball wherever it's thrown into the glove. If you look at the barrel of the bat, the top 13, 14 inches of the bat as a glove,


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[Assistant] It should be easy to put a, and you're not swinging it so you're taking all the movement out of it. Right. You're jabbing at it. Yea. And it should be easy to do that. And it's a lost art today. It really is. Jay, guys can't do it. Nobody.


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't watch the batting practice all the time, but I don't think they even do it anymore. I don't think they work on it. I mean, the obvious, it's, proof is in the pudding. Yeah. I'd like to, I'd like to see a number on the percentage of bunt tries that are actually successful in whatever the objective was to move the runner over in this case to get the run home.


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[Assistant] Didn't love that. It's early. I'm not gonna beat him up for anything. I told Bull on Friday. He's got a month to two month long honeymoon for me. Sure. Uhm, he's gonna make mistakes. He's gonna do things where we're watching at home saying, what is he doing right now?


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[Assistant] Sure, figure it out. Figure it out early in the season. All the games all count for the same. You don't want to screw it up late in the season. Get those mistakes out of the way now.


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[Assistant] The big reliever that came in Saturday night, Smith. Is it Cade Smith? Oh yea. I was watching him throw. There were two guys that I didn't know that jumped off the mound at me when I was in spring training. One was Will Dion. I talked about him. He was the Clippers opening day starter. He was the little guy. It's like 5'7".


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[Assistant] I, uh, I asked Carl about him and he goes, wow, it's odd that you asked about him. Why do you ask about him? I said, I watched his bullpen. This guy's stuff, like forget where it's coming from and what that looks like. All those mechanics are great. I said, I just watched his stuff. It's unbelievable. He said, good eye. This guy is one at every level. He was a low level draft pick out of like Louisiana Lafayette.


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[Assistant] He's won at every level. He's going to be a big league pitcher. I saw he got the opening day start in Columbus. Wow, but he's not very far away. No, he's closer than I thought. I thought maybe he might be a year away depending on injuries. We could see him this year. The other guy that jumped off the mound to me was Kate Smith.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's hard not to have, to be impressed. His velocity is, I think if he, I don't know if he touches 100, he's high 90s, but I think he may touch 100, and he's imposing.


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[Assistant] And when you look at it, they talked about it Saturday night in the telecast, and it's funny because I wasn't standing with Bart and, and uhm, oh, who was he talking to?


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[Assistant] Hedges is like 6'8". It looks like a basketball. Cade Smith comes in there. He's like 6'5 or 6'6".


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[Assistant] Big, imposing, and I think he struck out five of the six outs he recorded in his two innings of relief. I think this kid's gonna be a difference maker for this team soon. Well, they need him because Trevor Stefan's out for the year. Stefan's out for the year and I think somebody else has got a game. I mean, Karen Cech has got the shoulder.


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[Assistant] And you know what? I thought yesterday, obviously the bullpen just imploded there in the ninth inning. And those are the guys that I worry about throwing strikes. Both of them, in their time this year, have been all over the zone. They can't come in and throw strikes.


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[Assistant] And he was good against the Guardians. In fact, I talked to Barlow about that in Arizona. I said, what is it like now to


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[Assistant] All in all, three in one is what you want. I think the big surprise for me was the fact that the Tigers swept the white side.


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[Assistant] I just would have thought, you know, 4-0, that, you know, Tigers got hot last year, finished above the Guardians, and they had a game or two. Yeah, they did. Finished above the Guardians, and they're definitely, their arrow's definitely going up after years of struggling and trying to figure it out.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that Miggie contract put them in a world of where they're a hundred lost team for four or five years in a row. Now they're ready.


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[Assistant] So all in all, three in one, it's, it's, it's a pretty good start. It's better than one in three against that trashy. It could have been a disaster.


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[Assistant] I can't wait to see it. It's like opening that present on Christmas Day when you know it's in the box. Like you knew what was in there, but you can't have it.


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[Assistant] And now we get to unwrap it and use it. And to me, that's what Mackenzie is today.


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[Assistant] When you're teetering on that edge, I did the same thing. I mean I have a, I had a slight tear in my UCL.


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[Assistant] Decided against surgery, had a procedure that's supposed to, you know, who knows? But the last thing the doctor said was, look, this is certainly not an insurance policy that you're not going to tear it again. We didn't do the long haul, we're doing the shortcut. And those always scare me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, especially with hi- he throws so hard and his frame is so- looks so fragile.


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[Assistant] You don't, the unknown when you come back is great. You know, it's not like a knee for, I mean, even for a running back, even though that's a big tool for him.


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[Assistant] This is it for the pitcher. That is it. And you can come back and be better than ever. You can also come back and not


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[Assistant] When you have it, you're not throwing a baseball for 12 months. Right. So, you know, you're looking at not only all of last season, but you're looking at maybe July of this year.


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[Assistant] And then you've got a small window to come out and perform. It's a risk. I hope you made the right choice.


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[Assistant] Yeah, hopefully it works out. Uh, three and one. All arrows are pointing up. We'll have a much better idea four or five days from now about what this team's gonna look like.


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[Assistant] Ramirez had one taken away too. He did, it could have been. In the first inning of Saturday's game, I think. The ball was over the fence. Al Fielder made a great play. He took it away. What do you think? You think the power surge is going to be an issue this year?


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[Assistant] He's saying all the right things. Uhm, I made the comparison earlier in the show. I'll stand by it. I hope they proved me wrong. They are pulling a Philadelphia Eagles.


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[Assistant] They went from a team that couldn't lose.


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[Assistant] They were 18 and 2 in the stretch after New Year's Day.


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[Assistant] They looked like they had figured out a new way to skin the cat, if you will. They were four out, one in. Everybody had a role.


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[Assistant] And all this thing is, there can be all these rolls, but if the gears go like this, the machine moves forward. But if the roll, if the gears are gnashing, it's just sitting still. And they're not moving it forward.


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[Assistant] Something happened Friday night that really surprised me. With the game in the balance, Evan Mobley jacks a three, and when it came out of his hand, I'm like, no! Yes!


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[Assistant] It went in. I think he shot two threes on the night. He made them both. But that moment...


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[Assistant] And Brad Doherty even said it, and it could be looked at as hyperbole. Brad said that's the biggest basket of his career.


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[Assistant] It could be, depending on what happens moving forward.


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[Assistant] Why would he say that that three, which ended up deciding the game was the biggest basket of his career? It's because he decided to pull the trigger. In that position.


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[Assistant] And there was no hesitation. He got the ball, he squared, he shot, and it was nothing but net. And I was like, oh my god.


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[Assistant] That's the unicorn we've been looking for. If, if that can be a predictor of what he's gonna look like going forward, then all bets are off. This team I think can soar to heights that I didn't think they could hit.


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[Assistant] But I just have serious doubts. I don't know what's wrong with Darius Garland. Darius Garland is all of a sudden afraid to shoot the ball. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Donovan Mitchell, I'm gonna give a pass. He didn't play well in either of the last two games. He missed some time.


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[Assistant] He's hurt. So he's injured. So I don't expect him to look that, you know, like the old Donovan Mitchell.


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[Assistant] Uh, I know there's still what, eight, seven games?


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[Assistant] I just don't have a high degree of confidence that they're going to


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[Assistant] But just come out and what I would have liked to hear him say, you could talk about effort. Effort's free.


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[Assistant] Effort, you can give the same amount of effort as...


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[Assistant] An NBA superstar. That's, it's just determination. How much are you gonna give?