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[Assistant] Well, at some point, it's not a white flag, but it is kind of a white flag, and you're just in inning-eating mode. Just save the bullpen, and it's embarrassing. You know, I'm sure Corey Kluber wanted to dig a hole and hide under the mound.


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[Assistant] When it's a veteran like that and he's pitching in front of the crowd that used to adore him, I thought there might have been a little bit more, uh, human decency involved.


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[Assistant] Um, and there's a faction will stand and cheer. I w that I can tell my kids it was, I thought it was g look, Corey Kluber is one fan favorites for the, for


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[Assistant] And they're still dead last in home runs and that's not a surprise because they were way trailing. But in the last couple of weeks, this is what's really reason for me to be excited. They were 30th in batting average. They're 21st now. Yep.


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[Assistant] Baseball's streaky, a lot of times a team can all slump at once. And I think if you're Tito this morning and you're waking up with a one and a half game deficit, you're waking up today and you're saying, yeah, this team can do it.


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[Assistant] Because there's never any, there's, there's, I know that we get down on players and I know there's a lot of talk in our chat about get rid of Rosario and put Rosario. No. No. Like Tito is nothing but patient. You're not in the East. To a fault. To a fault. However, when Rosario is hitting 275 in August,


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[Assistant] What, what's happened to Jose? These guys now watch them. They're gonna all stay hot together at the same time. And if they can turn seven and four over their last 11 into say,


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[Assistant] None of it matters. None of it matters now. So get these guys hot. You got your pitching staff has already kind of resolved itself and you know what it is now. Just keep these


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[Assistant] I'm trying to think, like the years that Ramirez left, he was gone by 2001, I think.


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[Assistant] I gotta tell you, there's something special about the multiple homer game. There really is a point where it looks like a beach ball and you're like, I'm not missing, I'm not missing today.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm gonna wear yellow. Boogie comes on. He's awesome. Boogie's great. We love him. We're gonna hopefully get another TFL. He's among league leaders in the tapas for loss this year. Uhm, okay.


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[Assistant] It's not official, the Suns haven't released him yet. He's not been officially weighed. But they have made public statements that they're moving on from 38-year-old Chris Paul. Do you want him on the Cavs? Gee.


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[Assistant] But you've never seen him play basketball as a 39 year old.


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[Assistant] And, you know, I mean, I know he would love to play with LeBron James. LeBron would probably love to play with him. I mean, I think the question on the surface is laughable because he wouldn't come here. Ever. But if you're running the Cavaliers today, are you reaching out?


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[Assistant] It was a case, when I first saw the headline, I'm like, wow, cause it's Chris Paul. It's a name, he's a Hall of Famer. All time great. And you get excited about that, but you, you have to be really careful. And Cleveland sports teams in general have been guilty of doing this over the years.


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[Assistant] When you see an available name, and we're doing it right now with DeAndre Hopkins, and I'm not saying DeAndre Hopkins is at the same place in his career that Chris Paul is, Hopkins clearly has more life in him, but


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[Assistant] 30 as an NFL, 31 as an NFL wide receiver is sort of 35 to an NFL, NBA point guard.


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[Assistant] And you can't pay for what someone used to be. You can't get enamored by, we have a chance to get Chris Paul. First of all, I don't think they do, but I would pass hardcore on that. And the biggest reason is because this team has a defined area of need and that's not it. So it's, it's kind of like,


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[Assistant] When, you know, if, if, I still think, and we're going to talk about this in a little bit, about what move we want to see the Browns make.


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[Assistant] DeAndre Hopkins would be nice, but I talked to Jim Donovan yesterday. He's like, Jay, this team's wide-out core is incredible. Tillman has looked great in OTAs.


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[Assistant] Uh, the kid from the Jets has looked great from, uh, what Jimmy has been able to see at OTAs.


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[Assistant] He said, uh, Watson has looked incredibly sharp and he's taking control of the team on the field. It's clearly his show.


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[Assistant] So, I don't want to see the Browns take the bait on a big name, DeAndre Hopkins, in an area that doesn't help them. And it's the same with the Cavs. We've got needs.


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[Assistant] And I don't think a backup point guard is one of them. So don't be enamored by the big name. Go for what you know you need. You need a shooter. You desperately need a shooter. You need a three. You know, you need things, but Chris Paul isn't one of them.


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[Assistant] No, but it wasn't even about the money. It was a similar situation for, that I mentioned with the Cavs. Like they have some needs and you know, is this, if you're the Celtics, you're asking one question, who is the player that puts us over the hump? And the answer to that with Chris Paul is he's not it.


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[Assistant] But here's the thing, in Chris Paul, you're not, do you have an 82 game point guard? No. For the regular season and a guy you can count on for four playoff series? Cause that's what they need. But you don't need him for 82 games in the regular season. No, but you're going to need him for four playoff series. And that's a high intensity level of basketball. I don't think he can survive it. I don't, I don't.


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[Assistant] He's partially on the plate. I'm not even going to say he's dessert. He's third or fourth option.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so you've got your entrée and if it's the Lakers, that's still...


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[Assistant] Without question, LeBron James. I know some people think that Anthony Davis is the guy.


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[Assistant] He has to be great for them to win a title, but I still think if they take Lebron off that team, they have no chance.


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[Assistant] So I think it's still LeBron and then AD and he would be a piece. He would definitely, I think, and I think LeBron, they've had a great relationship through the years. And it's the one guy that LeBron hasn't played with. That he wants to play with. It's the one guy he hasn't. And I think Chris Paul wants to play with LeBron. To your point, he's going to have to take a significant pay cut to do it.


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[Assistant] You want to find personality types like they had in Golden State. Yea. I just think KD...


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[Assistant] You talk about rubbing people the wrong way and Chris Paul, like,


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[Assistant] And you know what? I'm good with that. I really am. I'm good with that because I think it's a smart move by the league because ultimately when you have these big three teams, what it feels like is you're putting too many superstars in one city.


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[Assistant] Every, every, the league is big enough. Every team should have a superstar or quasi-superstar player on its roster.


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[Assistant] You do. That's very important. And that puts a premium on drafting and developing. And that's the way it should be. And by the way, Denver's done both extremely well. That's why they're on top of the heap right now. All right, we've got a couple of minutes. Greg Pruitt was slated to join us at noon. We've got


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[Assistant] You want to do the Njoku topic and the read or how do you want to do this before we get into Greg?


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[Assistant] This year's tournament. They're going to make it an event. It's going to be a party. Um, it's not going to be waste management level in Phoenix because that is the single best event in golf right now. It's not close.


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[Assistant] And I mean, for me, it was always the Masters. Now if you give me one ticket to a golf event, I'm going to the TPC out in Scottsdale and I'm watching the Waste Management open.


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[Assistant] They're trying to do that with this event. They've got a four-year contract with it. They're going to build it every year. A lot of big things are planned for this year. Uhm, Paige Speranic, you guys know who I'm talking about, the Instagram model, big in golf.


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[Assistant] She's gonna come in, she's playing in the Pro-Am on Thursday, I think.


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[Assistant] So they're working on getting him in for Saturday, but there are also other big names, music every night, top notch music acts. It's going to be really cool.


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[Assistant] Uh, David Njoku, named by, it's PFF, right? Top 10 Tied Ending with number 10. They get that right?


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[Assistant] That's fine. I have no problem with that. But, to your point on the stats, he's 8th in receptions. Okay, that's where you want him to be. 10th in targets, 8th in yards. But here's where things get really wonky for me. He's tied for 11th with 8 other guys with 4 touchdowns. And so,


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[Assistant] We talked about this last year at this time when he got the extension.


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[Assistant] Did we like it? Well, he's in the fold. I like it. I said at the time, I don't like it. I'd like to keep him on the team. Why would you drastically overpay for that position? Why? I know it's a position that Stefanski is enamored with.


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[Assistant] But here's the facts of the matter, just the pure hard facts. And this is why I think his time here so far has been a disappointment. It could all change this year. If they use him the way they, I think they will and they should, he should be a thousand yards, eight touchdowns, maybe 10. He should be a pivotal piece to this offense.


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[Assistant] However, when you compare them to the bar, who's the standard? Easily. Travis Kelsey.


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[Assistant] Travis Kelsey, his contract, four years, 57 million. Njoku.


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[Assistant] Four years, 54 million. Yeah. He's making Travis Kelsey money. Here's where the rubber meets the road. Here's where the rubber meets the road. Kelsey, two times the number of receptions.


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[Assistant] Kelsey, two times more than two times the yards. Yep. Three times the touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Those are the plays that seasons are made and broken on. Those plays, right there. Because every team in the league is a player to


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[Assistant] From being in the playoffs. And so with this, and that's been the rub for me on David Ninjoku. You look at him and you're like, huh. This dude jumped seven feet in the high jump in high school. You look at him and you're like, well, if I'm going into the lab and I'm going to build a tight end,


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[Assistant] He's gonna look like David Njoka. Exactly like Njoka. Then you look at his production and you look at what he's done on the field. He had one of the top ten catches last year in the NFL by most people's count. I know when the NFL network or whoever counted them down. Didn't have it in there. He wasn't in there. I think was it the catch against Washington? It was the one against Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay. Fourth down in the end zone, one hand.


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[Assistant] And so here's what frustrates me about him. He's that guy. He can be that guy.


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[Assistant] So that's his ceiling. His floor is the drop against the Saints that would have won the game. And that's a huge gap. Travis Kelsey's ceiling and floor are like this much apart.


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[Assistant] The way we look at players in the NFL is commensurate with what their pay is.


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[Assistant] Oftentimes, you mentioned it earlier, you know, teams in the NBA are going to have to start winning on rookie deals.


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[Assistant] And, and the NFL is very much that way. You know, when you look at when the Seahawks won their Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] They had their quarterback on a rookie deal. So they were able to spread a lot of that money out in other positions. Eagles last year. Eagles last year.


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[Assistant] The problem with David Najoku is his paycheck. If he was a middle of the road


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[Assistant] In terms of salary, you wouldn't have these high expectations, but when you pay a guy elite money at a position, you need that player to be a pro bowler.


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[Assistant] You need that player to be an all-pro. You need that player to be a difference maker. My hope for what the Browns are going to do this year on offense


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[Assistant] Is, they're gonna use Injoku to move the sticks, and to score six in the red zone.


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[Assistant] That's what you want your big tight end to do. You want, and by the way, he's a big athletic tight end.


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[Assistant] His catch radius is insane. He has a great athletic ability. A lot of your tight ends, not so much anymore, they used to be, but some of your tight ends still in the league are the big slow plotters. But they got great hands and they're gonna move the sticks. He's a guy with this great physical set of skills.


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[Assistant] And we're just, we're waiting on him. What are we not with in Joku? Year 6?


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[Assistant] Potential's great, you know, you need to have potential, but for me, potential will keep you in the league three years. If potential hasn't turned into performance. This is actually going to be his seventh season. Seventh year. Okay, guys.


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[Assistant] It's time, I mean it's time for David Njoku to be a breakout. You mentioned earlier, aptly you were right, the top three names in the tight end game.


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[Assistant] Why isn't he in there? And you can ask a hundred NFL fans to name the top three tight ends. None of them are going to name David and Joku.


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[Assistant] So, so, and you're talking about a guy who just last year got a contract that I think at the time made him either the number one or number two paid tight end in the game.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's more than time. I like David. I really do. And I think he can be a real difference maker in this offense. I'm excited because when I talked to Jim yesterday, he, he never sugarcoats anything. He just gives it to me straight.


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[Assistant] This is how the conversation started. Jay?


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[Assistant] Your football team looks really good right now. Yeah, we talked about it on... They look really good right now.


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[Assistant] Like, I mean, I had, I had three different reporters that were going to, that saw him in the OTAs definitively say,


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[Assistant] They're ready to acknowledge that this was a major mistake. So how we went from where we were there two weeks ago to now where he's looking like Tom Brady. So here's the thing.


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[Assistant] And I'm an old man, I'm grizzled, I'm 195 pounds of scar tissue. Okay?


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[Assistant] So excuse me for being old and crusty, but here's my, my, my new mantra, and I turned this leaf a couple of years ago. Show me the baby. Yeaah. Don't tell me about the labor. I don't want to hear about the labor.


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[Assistant] It's tough. It's tough for everybody. They're working hard. They're supposed to work hard. They paid a lot of money. They better be lifting weights. They better be making workout videos that you don't get free points because you're in the gym.


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[Assistant] You're supposed to be doing that, okay? All 31 of the other guys are doing that. Show me the baby.


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[Assistant] And then you know what? I'll be the first to stand up and say, this dude is awesome.


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[Assistant] But I can't anoint him as the next Tom Brady or the next Dan Marino off OTAs. Yeah, no, there's win football games when they matter and I am going to be as on board as anybody. But right now I'm so scarred. You've got, it's like I'm from Missouri. Their state motto is show me.


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[Assistant] They're the show me state. I live in a state of show me.


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[Assistant] I was told by the experts that the Cavs are going to make a playoff run.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there are people, and look, I understand your enthusiasm, particularly you young folks, you know, gee, you're kind of in the middle now, you know, you still drinking the Kool-Aid and you want to believe this, but what I'm saying is I've wanted to believe this for 50 years.


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[Assistant] I've wanted to believe that, oh, this is our year. And I'm always disappointed. So now I'm just, look, I'm the kid who put his hand on the stove 50 years in a row. I knew it was hot, but I still did it.


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[Assistant] He's entrenched, and I'm like, I don't see how. There's no way. I mean, every single one of the players want him gone.


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[Assistant] They feel like, so you have to understand, this is more about money, it's about ego. So you've got Dustin Johnson.


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[Assistant] Brooks Kapka, Phil Mickelson, some of the biggest names in the game.


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[Assistant] That's basically said to the PGA tour, we don't like the way you're doing business. We don't like how you restrict us. We're going to go over to this other entity and we're going to make boatloads of money. And they're like, okay, cool. Enjoy your life, but you're out of our life.


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[Assistant] And this was a common mantra I heard from many of them. I've never had to apologize for being a member of the PGA. Never had to apologize for that. You now have guys taking large sums of money who are now taking money


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[Assistant] And by the way, this, you know, one of the fascinating things, the golf, the money world in golf is really complicated. It's very complicated.


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[Assistant] I read something, I didn't see it at the time, but I read it within this past week.


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[Assistant] The players that did that now yes, they're all going to be tainted. Their reputations are going to be tainted. These guys are coming back with


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[Assistant] Eight figures. And with nine figures. Right. And some of them a hundred million dollars in their pockets.


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[Assistant] And they've got the reputation ding. They also got a hundred million dollars in their bank account. And then you've got guys like Rory who said, I don't ever want to play with these guys, ever. That's the equivalent of, cause they're teammates, really. They're all in this together.


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[Assistant] Now they've gotta, he's gonna have to wait until the first time Kepka has to walk in a, in a final Sunday pairing with Rory. And that will happen.


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[Assistant] That will happen. They're top players. They're going to be on the top of the leaderboard. They're going to be paired together. Wait until the random pairings of a regular PGA Tour event or a major comes out. And on Thursday, you've got Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka, and Rory McElroy.


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[Assistant] And so, and here's the biggest part of this. So now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they have the stain of going and playing for the Saudi money.


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[Assistant] But so does the PGA now, and so do all of the other PGA players, because Rory came out yesterday, I believe it was yesterday, maybe Wednesday, and made a comment, well, you know what, I'd rather have that Saudi money be our enemy than our, or be our friend than our enemy. So I mean, at two? Like, he's


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[Assistant] Did you guys have a conversation about central time versus eastern time? Steve Becker set it up.


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[Assistant] I don't know if he's, you know, I don't know that he's back in Oklahoma if he is.


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[Assistant] 33, that's a lot. The 33 touchdown seems high for Jacobs. What about Joe Mix?


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[Assistant] AFC South. Yeah, let's go with Johnny Taylor.


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[Assistant] Okay guys, you ready for our next one? By the way, Steve just texted Home is in Ohio for Greg Pruitt. So, it wasn't time snafu. I dunno.


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[Assistant] You wanna go with Ackler then? Cause we, we, I feel good it's one of the two. I do.


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[Assistant] Uh, the vikings running back that's, uh, of Dalvin Cooke. Dalvin Cooke. He doesn't have that many touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Yeah, made the Pro Bowl this year and you've had like a losing record and more interceptions than touchdown. Pro Bowl.


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[Assistant] So let's throw him out for now. But he is in the same division. Is Joe Mixon? Benner Pro Bowler? Ramon Gray Stevenson?


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[Assistant] That's the other thing too. I thought, man, that's kind of low for his touchdown total. Oh, my apologies on that one. Touchdowns rushing and receiving.


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[Assistant] Did you guys see the text from Steve? There's a super chat. Someone asked where y'all posting up for the game tomorrow. Do we know where the tickets are? I have no idea.


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[Assistant] That's a good point. That's a really good point. Uh, I'll piggyback off what you said. So if you're going to use the house and the Browns analogy, the owner of the house, the Haslums, just went to Milwaukee and bought a vacation house.


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[Assistant] Before you go buy a vacation house in Milwaukee, why you buying a vacation house in Milwaukee?


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[Assistant] One home should be a palace. Right. It should be everything you want in a home. Right. That's their first home.


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[Assistant] And they're the landlord and we're the tenants. We're living here. We ain't going anywhere.


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[Assistant] Get your first home in order and then go buy a second home. Right. Don't, they've already got, and they, oh by the way, they got a third vacation rental in Columbus in the soccer field.


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[Assistant] It is, but that's a temporary boost. Like, Messi's at the end of his career. He's, he's...


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[Assistant] How much of a windfall that's going to be long-term for the league, we don't know. But what could happen is he could draw other big-name players from Europe to come here. And the whole idea is to boost the league up all at once. And that's just essentially... But I've seen other times... When Beckham came, it was going to change life in soccer in America.


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[Assistant] Raise up to a new level, but unless he's selling the team today.


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[Assistant] I don't know that, you know, if he holds this team for 10 years, Messi will be out of the league for a long time by then. So I don't know. I just, your analogy, get your house in order, then go buy a vacation house and then fix that one up. But get this one to where it's a palace and we're living in it. We're the tenants. We have to deal with this.


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[Assistant] A, I don't think they're going to make any more moves. I don't.


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[Assistant] If they were gonna, and I talked to Jim Donovan yesterday also about DeAndre Hopkins, what do you think? He's like, if he comes here, it'll be at the Brown's price, not his.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, I don't think it'll come to that because I think someone will end up, and they always do, someone's gonna need a wide receiver, whether it's to start the season or three weeks in, a top tier wide receiver goes down and uh-oh, his paycheck just went way up.


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[Assistant] Somebody's gonna have a desperate, we need a guy now. You know, Jamar Chase is gonna go down, or this one's gonna go down. Or the team's not playing as well as they should, they thought they would. Right, they need another receiver. So, he'll be smart, he'll wait this out. I don't think it's gonna be here in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] I still say, and I maintain this all along, and I know that you've uh, upgraded dramatically your defensive front, which by proxy should make your linebacking core better. For me, when you look at the, where's the glaring weakness? Because there's a saying in pro sports, you're as strong as your weakest link.


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[Assistant] What do they all have in common, G. Bush? They got linebackers that tackle. Derrick Brooks. Ray Lewis. Look at the Bears linebackers that they have. So it's a staple for great football teams and we have basically said that we don't need them.


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[Assistant] It's thin pickings, but I'm telling you, last year we were going into the season saying,


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[Assistant] We're on injured reserve at the end of last year. All of them. Totally valid. So we're gonna, we're gonna hope that a band-aid, first-aid crew at Linebacker is gonna all suddenly be healthy and outstanding just because we upgraded the defensive front. And that's why. And we might be at week eight saying, they missed on Linebacker, they closed their eyes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the psychological is there for the next year. And so all these guys are coming off season ending injuries and we're just expect that we're going to wave this magic wand. And I don't get it. I don't understand how, you know, a great team.


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[Assistant] Is strong in every area. Like when you look at baseball, your World Series winners, they've got good pitching, they've got good hitting. They might not be extraordinary in any one of them, but they're top tier in both. No glare and weaknesses. The Browns have this flashing red light, neon sign, linebackers, linebackers, and that's all I see. And I, to your point, Mike,


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[Assistant] There is no magic move that you can go out and make, but they knew last year at this time that this was a weakness and they knew the Bears were ready to move on from Smith and they let a team in our division that finished ahead of us last year go out and get him and he made a huge difference in that defense.


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[Assistant] Every time Kevin Stefanski talks, he says, you know, our football team is, uh, you know, Andrew Berry's job every day is to be looking at ways to make our football team better. Well, the way they can make this football team better is take an area of need right now that is a glaring weakness. Glaring weakness.


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[Assistant] And bring somebody in that's gonna shore up the position.


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[Assistant] And maybe they're confident that they already got that player on roster.


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[Assistant] And maybe they're hoping that these players are suddenly gonna all be healthy and stay healthy. Cause to your point, when you have a season ending injury, the psychology of coming back from that is often times bigger than the actual- He knows physical. He knows better than anybody. Yea, you do.


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[Assistant] And the fear too. So, you know, these guys, all these guys too, this is their livelihood.


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[Assistant] You know, an injury for, uh, you know, uh, weekend warrior sucks because you lose a year and you have to rehab to come back, but you can still come back and play the game you love. These guys know now


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[Assistant] I don't know that I'm going to be good enough to get another paycheck to stay in the league. So it's a fear of getting re-injured is always in your mind. So are you really truly ever going to be that player in that first year back that you were the year before? Because you're holding back. You may not know it, but you're not all gas, no breaks. And that can be a problem.


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[Assistant] They had, they compared being gay to black. Ain't this about a bitch.


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[Assistant] Uh, youtube.com slash nojumper. I'm just making sure that it's working. Swipe up, bitches. Just tell them to go on nojumper. They can watch it afterwards too, you know.


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[Assistant] Just making sure it's actually... It says we're live. Yup, there it is. First comment, you're gay. Fuck you. Uhm, alright. No jumper, coolest podcast in the world. I'm out here with my man, Pompano Randy, who I'm just meeting for the very, very first time. How the fuck are you feeling, bro?


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[Assistant] Let me ask you this, when a girl comes up to you and says, what do you do? What do you say?


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[Assistant] Jump my daddy? You jumped my daddy. I did not. Is that just an accusation you throw around?


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[Assistant] I mean, maybe. Nah, I don't really jump that many people in my life, to be honest with you. And I definitely don't think I jumped anyone that looks like they could be your father.


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[Assistant] See, I'm a hard person to roast because I just get way too analytical. I just start trying to make like actual sense out of it. Drawing me sense. A little bit.


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[Assistant] I think about that every time I watch one of your videos roasting somebody because I'm like, man, if, if you were to really think about what he's saying.


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[Assistant] Do you have really strong memories of just roasting motherfuckers on the playground when you were a kid and everything?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, you know, it's hard for a lot of white people, I think, to understand, like, what that's all about. Is that, like, you know, in a lot of environments, in the hood and shit, that's really how people, like, sort shit out. Like, figure out who's on top. It's like, you don't have to fight. You can just, like, make fun of each other's mothers and just figure it out from there.


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[Assistant] If you ever cross the line and had a wrestling session turned into a fight, probably happens all the time.


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[Assistant] See I had a couple different people run up on me and I feel like it never really, it never ends up in like a bad situation cause I still ain't got like beat up. I mean I did get beat up but there was no video of it.


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[Assistant] No, it'll definitely go down. We got a whole lot of shoppers around here, yea.


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[Assistant] I mean, that was just some retarded ass shit. I had people being like, oh, you're so crazy. He just laughed in his face. It's like, bro, why do you think I was laughing? Cause I was nervous as fuck. Cause I didn't know what the fuck was about to happen.


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[Assistant] I don't feel like I can shit my pants no matter how scared I was. Unless I was already carrying one around on me right then at that moment ready to drop.


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[Assistant] Cause like, okay, this is the one thing I'll say about that situation when the dude ran up on me is that it didn't seem like he was gonna shoot me because he was all jumping around and he was like, give me your own money and then he was just moving and shit and I'm like, this doesn't, it doesn't feel real. It doesn't feel like how you would really rob somebody. And then also I'm seeing my guy walk up right behind him with his pistol at this dude's head.


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[Assistant] So as he's trying to rob me, I'm already like, partially thinking like, holy fuck, is this guy gonna get shot before he shoots me? Yeah.


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[Assistant] And I only had like three seconds to think all that. And then he got his head kicked in so bad that I don't know what the fuck is going on with his brain. His brain is probably going through a lot right now.


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[Assistant] Is it violent? Is it like really bad? You see blood. Okay, that's probably, yeah.


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[Assistant] See, YouTube's okay with fights as long as it's not like, graphic. I'll give them a little bit of a review.


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[Assistant] Or I'll put it on my Twitter, it's like, oh man, you out here in the basketball shorts?


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[Assistant] Yo, there's like, if you were to like leak part of this, you could definitely say that. Like damn, Pompano Randy fought Travis Scott.


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[Assistant] Oh shit, if they let, if they let you rock em on the top like this, you got em in the full mount. You hold em by his braids.


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[Assistant] They did. Yeah, it was like last year, they posted an actual- I feel like when I go to Worldstar, I'm just seeing these brutal fucking knockouts at this point. Like it's just the worst knockouts ever. I like to see a nice little scrap that doesn't necessarily end in like a devastating head injury.


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[Assistant] You know, that's just good. What I really hate though is watching a girl fight where they just lock up and just hold the hair. Yea, that's shit.


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[Assistant] Veneers. They look good. I was just thinking before, I'm like, he either got veneers or he has really good teeth.


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[Assistant] So is that how you got the note X? Yea, that's how I got the note X. Oh wow, okay.


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[Assistant] How far away did you live from him? Because that's like the weird thing that people don't realize is that all this shit in Florida is like within like an hour of each other down there.


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[Assistant] Uh, your parents, your house you grew up in, just overall.


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[Assistant] So were you aware of like how different the worlds were that you were traveling between when you would go between the two different environments?


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[Assistant] Which, which side did you find yourself more drawn towards?


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[Assistant] I mean, generally, is that a specific club or you just mean like shitty little clubs? Like shitty little clubs.


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[Assistant] Is that how you feel, or do you feel like you would be able to take yourself out of that environment, or you think you would just be bored? I know a lot of people that are just in love with the bullshit, and they could maybe try to go move somewhere quiet and boring, but it's just not gonna work.


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[Assistant] No, that is so true. I mean, that's the same problem that happens to rappers and shit is that they get out of that environment and then all of a sudden they don't really know what they're supposed to be talking about.


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[Assistant] But even if you're super respected in your area and shit, you can still run into bullshit. Like is there just a lot of shit that goes down in that area in general, regardless of if you feel like you're a target?


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[Assistant] That's crazy, yeaah. I mean, you've seen that video, what was it, Meek Mill telling, telling Kodak that he got to stay out of his hometown?


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[Assistant] But like, young boy was getting in all this shit in his hometown and then he tried to move out here to Calabasas and be on some chill shit and then I heard he's moving back.


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[Assistant] There's nothing better than just being around your family and the people who actually know you from when you were young and shit, too.


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[Assistant] And that's what I think about with the young boy. Like I've been to his hometown to see him perform one time and it was crazy as fuck to see all his family and just have like 20 of his boys around and shit. And just to see like how at home he must feel in that environment. But then when you would just move off to a mansion in LA or whatever and you just like duck off and you got like a couple of your homies with you. It's like that lifestyle is like kinda.


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[Assistant] It's kind of boring, kind of like clean cut, cut off from everything. It's like maybe you get to go to the club once in a while or whatever, but it sort of like steals away like the soul that you might feel in your, in your content. I guess it's different for you because you're doing something that's so to the ground. It's different than being a rapper.


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[Assistant] When did your, uh, Instagram profile start to really pop off when you really felt like you started to make a name for yourself? Is there any particular video?


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[Assistant] So did, was that something that you had been thinking about beforehand? Because it's like you gotta care to a certain extent in order to like go put your fucking some crazy ass blue suit on just to make a funny video and everything. Like did you, had you seen like the plan? Were you thinking like, yo I could be like Supreme Patty or Bunk or like Fatboy or some shit like that?


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[Assistant] It's crazy for me, like, just to see, like, young people who, you know, it was always just rap.


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[Assistant] Or like maybe doing something illegal, you know? And it's just dope to see people who, cause there's, there's almost no like, cost of entry. Like you just really like, still do it with your phone. And even like the biggest dude, like I see Haha Davis getting


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[Assistant] Millions and millions of views. Crazy amount of followers. He's still just making the video on his phone. He ain't like going in a direction to like, shit, let's get super high quality cameras and everything like that.


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[Assistant] So how'd you actually start really kicking it with Kodak and shit? Cause I see you in the club with him and shit. I'm like, what is going on? This dude is really on some shit.


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[Assistant] Him, not his friends or anything. Nah, I fought a couple of his friends too. Really, you remember how this fight went? I almost just let that skip over. I'm like fucking thinking about the blood I'm smelling in the background and shit.


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[Assistant] But so then, what, your shit started popping off, he shouted you out, and then you guys just became friends from there?


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[Assistant] Were you watching his whole rap career from down the street? Like, damn, this dude's blowing up.


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[Assistant] See, I remember it was the song Skrilla, that was the first one that I heard, but then I seen mad shit from before that when he was young as fuck, that I was like, holy shit, he was, that, that Ambitions one over that Wale beat, he went crazy on that shit when he was like 16 or something.


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[Assistant] There's something about the fact that he's like, I don't, like, I don't wanna call, he's not,


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[Assistant] Alright, he's like, somewhere on the spectrum, in the sense that he's like, kinda crazy, like, he's not like a regular dude, but the music is so much better than any regular dude. I'm trying not to be offensive in how I say this.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Is that the dudes in here? Yeah. That's what's up. No, yeah. I feel like, but okay, so that's interesting when you said about Gucci though, cause I feel like Gucci, like we all love Gucci so much, but part of why we love Gucci was the fact that he was fucked up. He was drinking a crazy ass amount of lean. He was just the wild and crazy guns.


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[Assistant] I just said the lame thing to say that like, he was just unstable. Like, he was just, you didn't know what the fuck you were gonna get out of Gucci at that time, and that's when every once in a while he would wow the fuck out on Twitter, there'd be a clip of him beating the shit out of someone. People forget about the clip of Gucci beating the shit out of the girl in the club.


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[Assistant] Bro, cause the girl's on stage trying to dance with him and try to vibe whatever. And then he just BOOM! It's crazy as fuck, bro.


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[Assistant] I ain't trying to hear that. Nah, GZ cool and everything, but that was actually honestly like...


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[Assistant] You know, I was young enough, and I wasn't that young, when Gucci and Jeezy were popping off, that I was like, nah, I'm fucking with Gucci. Like, I didn't feel like I could really fuck with both of them because I was too young to be like, I had to pick sides.


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[Assistant] I think Youngboy might be crazy on the Kodak. I don't really know Kodak like that, but...


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[Assistant] I've been knowing about Melly since before he got out of jail the other time because of his manager, Trak. I met him randomly when I was in the studio with fucking Grownboy Trapp and he actually just put me on Melly while Melly was still locked up. So to see all this, huh? To my Trapp with the dread. Uh, does he have dread still? Grownboy Trapp? He's from Florida too.


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[Assistant] No, trap school. But uh, yo, but like the whole thing with Melly was crazy as fuck because you were really seeing him become like one of the top dudes from Florida. Like the same shit that we've seen happen to like X, Kodak, Pump, like there's a lot of like real like bosses.


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[Assistant] Up until, you know, Kodak came out really, is like, there wasn't really any like young, hot, new dudes coming out of Florida. And then Kodak sort of like set the precedent, but then we had like more and more people coming out after that, and then Nelly was like totally up to be like the next big star out of Florida.


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[Assistant] I was in the studio with Melly when he first got out the most recent time and he, he had like a weird relationship going with his manager where he would go in the studio and just like freestyle for like 10 minutes and then his manager would say alright, yo take this part, take this part and like he would actually handle like recomposing the freestyle that he did. Yeaah. And they would make the verse out of that.


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[Assistant] Because he was like locked up when he wrote it, I think. Shit. What do you think about that case? You think you're gonna get out?


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[Assistant] Right, my thing is like, shit, my thing is like shit, like, he might be guilty, I don't know, I wasn't there. I'm just hoping he's not guilty. I'm hoping it's all a big misunderstanding.


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[Assistant] You know? Pretty much. How'd, uh, how'd you find out about the ex situation when he passed?


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[Assistant] But just what the fuck, like I mean, I don't even understand how the fuck anybody could have ended up in that situation. I guess that goes without saying, but I mean, so.


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[Assistant] I don't know, but you didn't really know him like that, like, you never would have thought that anything, obviously you would have never thought anything like that would have happened, but...


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[Assistant] I don't know. Was it, was it, it was a crazy time for Florida in general when that shit went down. Cause I went out there for the service and everything and it just seemed like there was a black cloud over the whole fucking state.


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[Assistant] I got levels in my head, like this certain level, like if I know you, I might not, I might still rather DM with you. I might rather you not have my number.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but there's certain people that I'm like, man, I would rather this dude not be able to call me at three in the morning.


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[Assistant] This is like an extra level of pressure. Uhm, so like, where do you see like what you're doing with your career and everything in terms of where you could potentially take what you already built for yourself?


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[Assistant] Bro, you need to just be like a full-blown YouTuber. A YouTuber?


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[Assistant] I could just see you like making videos talking about different topics or like doing vlogs, like just- Like roasting people, right? Some of that, but like I feel like just in general, like if you just had like a maybe like a better camera.


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[Assistant] And you just like made videos of you just even just like sitting at a little table just talking and shit, but it was like high quality. I mean, I think you've got the gift of gab and that's what's really all about to be a YouTuber or whatever is you just got to have the ability to just talk.


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[Assistant] You could do interviews so easy, like it's literally just like a table, set up a camera, you don't need all those microphones and shit, you just set up the- put a microphone on the camera.


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[Assistant] Set it up on the table, boom, you can do, bro, cause that's what I'm telling you. It's like, I'm a 35 year old white guy. You are a funny ass young black dude and you're in the hood. If you fucking would just start making like high quality YouTube content off that shit, like I know your Instagram is booming and shit, but I feel like you could be crazy big on YouTube if you just figured it out how to.


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[Assistant] Cause people love this street shit like on YouTube. I don't know what it is, but they just love everything like in that regard.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if you see like people fucking, that's probably a good bet that you can't post that.


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[Assistant] I seen a full on threesome going down on the side of the street in Skid Row one time downtown LA.


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[Assistant] Chick bent over sucking a dick and getting fucked from behind. I almost got in a car accident just looking at it. I'm like...


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[Assistant] I feel like, yeaah, you're just sort of like building your platform right now. It feels like you're still kind of figuring out exactly what you want to do with the platform and with your talents. Cause like, the HaHa Davis dude, when I was having those conversations with him bro, he like, he went out and just started doing stand up comedy. And he got big, like he's pretty big doing that shit.


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[Assistant] I think it's just like, you have a naturally funny aura about you. Like, you know, when you see fat boy, he ain't even really doing like a skit most of the time. He's just like letting some personality out.


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[Assistant] I was thinking that when I was watching some of your videos and you're just roasting homeless people, I'm thinking like, oh my god, if I did that, I would get...


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[Assistant] What do you think of Boonk? Cause that's another child of Florida.


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[Assistant] You oughta take monk shit and just steal some shit. I always thought that was a good idea for just a YouTube account to just be stealing shit.


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[Assistant] I don't know why your mic seems like it's not working. Check, check, check, check, check. Check, check, check, check. Don't see my mind's working either.


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[Assistant] See, now I can hear it. I think it's just my headphones, dude. Maybe.


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[Assistant] Alright, so what uh, what do you got coming up? What are you planning on working on? You feel like you're just sort of figuring things out or you got anything big that like, you got coming?


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[Assistant] I can hear it again. Uh, nah, that's what's up. Yo, you know, one thing I want to say before we fucking wrap this up is that I was talking shit about this fucking Jamaican place in LA. I'm jamming, we jamming Caribbean Cafe.


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[Assistant] On a previous interview, I said that based on the name that it sounded like a bullshit ass Caribbean spot. Well, I now know that that's not true because I ate a bunch of it today.


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[Assistant] Nah, I just got- this ain't big, what you talking about? I just got this, this is my first


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[Assistant] See, I'm gonna think like, I'm not gonna try to actually roast you, but if I was gonna roast you, I might say something about your hairline.


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[Assistant] I'm not even, I can't even think of anything I can say about you.


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[Assistant] Oh really? Yeaah. But I've seen you almost tear up when Chief Keef is wrestling you.


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[Assistant] But what's the secret in that environment? I feel like the secret is just being confident. Like, if you, if you're really confident in yourself, then you're not gonna be able to get roasted, right?


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[Assistant] I mean, for me, it's like, see, that's why I feel like I can't really get roasted like that because it's like, I already know, like, you know, make fun of me for being old and having white hairs in my beard. It's like, hell yeah, I know. I'm fucking, I'm making fun of that shit too.


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[Assistant] Hey, if there's anybody down in South Florida who's like a real expert with the YouTube shit that might want to help you out with like the camera setup and everything, I feel like you could be a great YouTuber. It's possible.


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[Assistant] Like, could you imagine yourself actually like managing an artist at some point?


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[Assistant] Alright, shit. Well, yo, thank you for letting me, uh, leave at least a little bit of my self-confidence still intact.


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[Assistant] Maybe I'll try out the Just For Man for real. Just For Man? I mean they got it like right here, I could go buy it for like 10 bucks right now.


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[Assistant] That would be a really great way to say like, yo, thank you for having me on the podcast. Here, I stole you this. I would be so happy if I heard that.


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[Assistant] Nah, nah, we're gonna blow Pumpin' on Randy up. Don't forget about No Jumper.


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[Assistant] Couple years from now, I'm gonna be on my last dime. I'm gonna be like, yo, Randy, I need a brick.


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[Assistant] I did it wrong too, I saw the whole brick first. Alright, yo, I appreciate you, man.


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[Assistant] Guys, we'll be back soon with the daylight interview, assuming that these microphones are working good. Peace!


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[Assistant] You see me, you rocked me. Oh, you were rocked there? Yea, I was rocked right there.


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[Assistant] When we arrived at Fukushima Daiichi, it was so quiet.


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[Assistant] My dad was at, he was at my house and, and he's, uh, my mom and me putting stuff away and he's upstairs. Yeah, man. Guardians, six runs, man. The bats is going. Hey, hey, bats is going, Gary. I'm like, okay, let me see what you talk about. Next thing you know, man, this is a tie ball game. Next thing you know, man, the guardians.


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[Assistant] You are pretty much the, I would say, the representation most times of the organization. The executives aren't going to meet and you are the person that is the voice of the Browns. So I found it always very refreshing that when he does his hits after the games and when the Browns are bad, he says it.


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[Assistant] And he says it with a level of candor that a lot of people can't do or get off, right? Like- He's authentic, that's why. He gives that energy after the game and I've heard him say like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, no, he's not a Hall of Fame. See, I try to look at it differently. If he's going to do the numbers, I'm going to look at it through the eye test, right? Now, Miles Garrett is dominant when it comes to pass rushing, right? For the Browns, it's so difficult to watch it because


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[Assistant] He could be way better if he actually had A, a coach that was, was willing to put him in positions to get easier.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes. And I think Clowney is washed. I think Clowney is out of here.


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[Assistant] And his actions, like what do you mean you're only gonna go on third down? That seems crazy. But I'll say when you look at Miles Garrett,


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[Assistant] That's what I would like to see that number in the 20s. But one of the areas that I would love to see is you be able to dominate in two different facets. J.J. Watt was able to do that.


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[Assistant] By getting deflections and tip passes. I think one year he had 25 deflections.


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[Assistant] But he was dominant in that area, he was dominant as a pass rusher, and he was just disruptive. I would just like to see more disruptiveness.


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[Assistant] But, as McNugget said, with all those things being said, he is on a fast trajectory. The only player on that list, Reggie White at 90 sacks, which is crazy. Absurd.


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[Assistant] Well, to, to, to speak a little bit to the PFF grades, right? Uhm, when you look at the 92.5 overall.


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[Assistant] Usually that of a plus minus system when you're getting graded by coaches or you're getting graded by anybody who's watching you play.


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[Assistant] So, they're gonna give you a point if you, did you do your assignment, right? So if you're supposed to be in Seagap, where you in Seagap?


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[Assistant] Did you get penetration? Did you at least make the ball bounce somewhere else, even if you don't make the tackle? And then the big thing is if you have to allocate two resources to block Miles Gare, you also get a plus because that's one less player that you have to block.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, because here, as a pass rusher, Miles Garrett literally has about, I would say between five and ten opportunities to get sacks.


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[Assistant] Uh, you get an extra credit point for that too, because you're making him throw the ball quickly. So, you can do all of these things, right? You can be in your gap, you can put your hands up, you can have all these pluses, but when you look at the stat sheet, it doesn't say anything. Right.


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[Assistant] It's not showing up. It's difficult for you to flash. And so when he does flash and he does get sacks after being double teamed, now his grade is off the charts. Now you got a sack and you got double teamed. So that's why sometimes things like that happen when you look at the overall grades.


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[Assistant] To your point, the run, the run grade is at 68% because you're not effecting that play. You're not effect, like there should be a number of times where Miles Garrett lets somebody get outside of him, right? For context, what's TJ Watts PFF run grade?


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[Assistant] He, he did it in a way that was unique because he's really not trying to engage with


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[Assistant] Like, he's just like, oh I'm quick enough, I can run around you.


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[Assistant] And I can run underneath you. And I can get off blocks, I can shed. So you don't know what Aaron Donald's gonna do. And they give him a two way go a lot of times to maximize that. And now he can go left or right. So now you're guessing. Sometimes, and we have to take into consideration, defensive coordinators,


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[Assistant] I used to be defensive coordinator's nightmares because I wasn't gonna just be in my gap all the time like that.


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[Assistant] And sometimes we used to call it hiding people. When you got a team and you're not good,


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[Assistant] You gotta high people. Like, I know that's the best defensive tackle you got, but you have to do things schematically. Like, like sometimes coaches have their best performances with whack defenses because it forces them to be creative. You mean like gimmicked up? Like, they're like, hey, we had, when we played for OU,


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[Assistant] We used to have this defense called loop check, right? And we would line up and basically what we would do is we would turn and run diagonal down the sideline.


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[Assistant] Like down the line of scrimmage. At the snap of the ball? At the snap of the ball. Everybody.


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[Assistant] So, my job was to be a head up on the tackle and I had to get to a gap. Even if they were blocking me, I had to turn and run, run diagonally, right? Wow. Then the nose, he had to run diagonally. And everybody ran this way. And what happened was, they created this thing called the rope-a-dope technique.


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[Assistant] And our linebacker, uh, his name was Dennis Chukwuimeka. He was a really good linebacker in the Mac. And what they do, they say, you're doing the rope of a rope technique. What you're going to do is everybody's going to run that way.


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[Assistant] The ball should never stay frontside because everybody on our team is running that way. So the ball has to cut back. And he was, he would stand here, take two steps, and then scrape right off the backside.


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[Assistant] It was because we would do things like, alright, we got one guy.


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[Assistant] We're going to make sure that you can't block anybody. You're not going to run the front side. So the ball is going to spill. So you're really forcing them to kick it back the other way.


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[Assistant] So we got him as a transfer. We always spot shadow him. So what they would do is say, Chook, you're going to be right here. Yeah. If you, if the ball does not declare, it has to come back, you're standing there and they would send a strong safety Rob Stoker screaming off the edge as if he was blitzing. And so now if Chook doesn't hit him,


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[Assistant] You got another leverage player that's already there as well that can clean up the tackle. And people just didn't understand what we were running. They were like, what is, I've never seen this technique. Why is this lineman just getting up running across the field?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I think uhm, I think this year, there's so much on the line.


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[Assistant] Usually year after year goes by and you know, you get excited for the Browns around this time.


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[Assistant] And in the last couple of years, we've been over the top, joyous about the Browns because they brought in big names. We felt we had a franchise quarterback of Baker Mayfield. We made the playoffs. So we've been in the last five or so years with these expectation levels, but for myself,


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[Assistant] You know, Jim Donovan going through it, and he's gonna go through it, and he's gonna still call these games. Sure. He's gonna still, you look at the passing of Jim Brown, uhm, you know, they're gonna probably honor him throughout the season.


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[Assistant] You look at the culmination of this being a make or break year for Kevin Stefanski and Andrew Berry and they try to do what they can in making this roster better. And then you got Deshaun Watson first full year, uh, under center and you get an opportunity to see if he's going to bounce back. But for, for B.


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[Assistant] I think this year is gonna be, uhm, very special. It's either gonna be a make or break year for a lot of people, and I think for Miles Garrett, this is a make or break year when it comes to him putting himself in that level. Right now he's a great player, and he's an all-time great for the Browns.


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[Assistant] But he's not, he's made no qualms about it. He said upfront, I want to be one of the best to ever put the pads on at my position, right? And so we talked about just a few seconds ago where he's at in that pecking order.


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[Assistant] And this year he's going to have one of the best opportunities he's ever going to have to do it. It's Darius Smith, Oboe and the other side.


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[Assistant] You got two pass rushers and one guy in Zedaria Smith who's put up large numbers. The best pass rusher in my opinion that Miles Garry has ever played with by far. Not even close. Not even close. Tomlinson.


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[Assistant] Is a guy that's going to be in the middle that now you can't just be taken up to, you know, miles garret can't go and get triple team because guess what? You got other guys that can make plays.


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[Assistant] They put him around some of those guys.


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[Assistant] Jim Schwartz as I'm looking at it, and I've been just really just in the lab studying the way he goes about putting people in a place.


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[Assistant] He's not gonna, he's not gonna blitz all the time. And that's not what we saying.


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[Assistant] But what he is going to do, is he's going to take his best players?


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[Assistant] It's going to open him up to play a style of football that now you talk about the way Lawrence Taylor used to play where


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[Assistant] You don't know where Lawrence Taylor is. It's unpredictable. He plays outside linebacker, but Lawrence Taylor plays everything.


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[Assistant] Powerful. And he's just, I mean, he's versatile. He's another guy who does his best pass rushing over guards. Uhm, he has speed, he transitions to power very well. And this is a guy, how many, he's eight seasons, he has 54 and a half sacks right now. Uhm, you take a look, this guy is a bona fide


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[Assistant] Like, Miles Garrett is pretty much faster than most of every defensive lineman. He's probably stronger than all of them. And the thing that makes Miles Garrett so good is his bend is so elite. Like, uh, Genevieve M. Clowney, a lot of players play stiff.


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[Assistant] Right? You know, and without the bend, his bend is like he can transition his power and momentum from a crouching position.


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[Assistant] To the quarterback while, think about it, he's 280, 280, 285, 280, whatever the case is. So if he's that low, his body has to support 285 exploding, right? But then he's underneath a 320 pound tackle. So look at the amount of pressure and torque that is.


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[Assistant] 320 or above you, 285 you do the math. That's 700 some odd pounds that he's still able to turn and bend and keep his body and momentum upright. It's like a dragster.


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[Assistant] If you get, I think the watermark, if you look at the, the, like, there's a lot of, like, there's a lot of those with a lot of sacks. You got Doleman.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Kevin Green, there's a lot of people. You gotta really be in the 100, like the 100 is the bar, like okay. He only played 6 years.


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[Assistant] You know, UJ, I thought that was the first sign, but for me, what sealed it was...


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[Assistant] They came back a couple months later, right? And they're having a conversation about Tom Brady, right?


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[Assistant] And then the Tom Brady conversations, uh, Skip tells Shannon like, Hey man, you're jealous of Tom Brady.


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[Assistant] And, uh, Shannon takes his glasses off, like, and Skip's like, put your glasses back on. Yeah, like, what are you gonna do? Like, come on, like, what are you talking about, bro? And he's like, listen, Skip, I'm not, I'm not.


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[Assistant] She was worried about Tom Brady, like I'm in the Hall of Fame too, like you act like I'm garbage. She was like, nobody don't care about that. Like, so it was, you saw in real time, you seen Shannon's face where it was like,


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[Assistant] He felt like, oh, well, he made it personal, like me versus Tom Brady, and he, you, you talked about me as a player, like,


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[Assistant] I think, and I was gonna ask you, do you, do you believe that intrinsically when you do shows like that, right?


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[Assistant] It's, it's the very rare 1% or 2% of people that can talk and say certain things and then still leave, break up, come back and do the show again. Do you believe that those types of shows always will eventually end in something like that because


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[Assistant] What you're talking about is combative. Like you are, it's not nothing that you agree on. You practice combativeness and it's kind of hard not to cross the line that you may not know.


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[Assistant] Or a Super Bowl ring or the gold jacket. And he said, man, this is a rough one, man. I mean, the gold jacket and the NFL is probably one of the most difficult things to get into.


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[Assistant] This is one of the biggest things that you could possibly actually get in your life.


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[Assistant] So I've been looking at it like this, like even with PFF, right? We talk about how those grades are accurate. There was one thing, there was one thing that is very minute that they're missing. What is the play call?


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[Assistant] Even with Tybus, Tybus like, you know, Tybus played in the league when he, when it comes to defensive backs.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to be telling him what the defensive backs is going to do. That's his assignments. That's his, that's his lane.


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[Assistant] The lack of power is, is too. It's stunning. It's, it's debilitating because what happens is you saw the perfect case scenario yesterday. You're up 63. You look like you're dominating. And you did it.


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[Assistant] You're doing it, you're getting the bats are going, you're getting runs. You've worked your way into a position where you think, okay, let's close this out and get out of here with a win. And now we get to essentially from playing with the twins because it's in the division and you see how devastating.


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[Assistant] The, the, the two to three homerun, two, three homerun, homeruns are. You, you get it, you're down three, all of a sudden it's tie ball game.


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[Assistant] Oh, well, this is Alaina Sharps. She reached out to me. Fix the graphic, guys. As you know, uhm.


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[Assistant] She reached out to me after the Damar Hamlin situation. So one of the things is I'm, I'm being critical of the NFL, right? I've never been a person who's, who's held my tongue on certain things that I think the NFL does wrong.


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[Assistant] Um, and she reached out to me, um, because she had saw some things go down, obviously with the Deshaun Watson thing. Obviously when you go back and look at Ray Rice and some domestic things.


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[Assistant] But it was interesting, she reached out to me and said, you really spoke really passionately, uh, about Damar Hamlin.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, some of the things that's going on, whether it's player safety, whether it's financial literacy, whether it's domestic violence issues. And she reached out and said, hey, would you mind being a consultant and saying, you know, talking about some different things?


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[Assistant] You know, Elena, we've talked about that. Specifically, we've seen that in kind of the Deshaun Watson case.


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[Assistant] And uhm, when we talked uhm, off camera, you said something that was very interesting. There's a lot of times that people, uhm, their behavior or what they're doing, it may not be conscious, right? It may be something that we get in an organization in the workplace.


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[Assistant] You know, we may, uh, live by a certain code because we're not thinking, we're not aware of what we're saying and how that looks and how that is being perceived. Do you think that's an issue that the NFL and other professional teams have?


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[Assistant] In your, I would guess in your system and what you're trying to do, would this just target players or would this be something that executives, trainers, scouts, people in the front office would go through as well to kind of, you know, one thing called the email doku thing, right?


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[Assistant] People having relationships at work, which is always a bad thing. Like, it never really quite ends up well. Uhm, is this something that uhm, is this something that this program can help as well in that arena?


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[Assistant] I find it, I find it really fascinating that, you know, to me when, when Charles Barkley says I'm not a role model, right? Uhm, what we have to realize is that in today's society, I believe athletes


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[Assistant] Or at the highest end of the food chain. Because if you think about it,


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[Assistant] Athletes get in trouble for things that we are politicians don't even get in trouble for. Actually, openly, they openly do these things, right? Like, I juxtapose the fact that, you know, people can pose with AR-15s and John Moran looks like he might get suspended all year. What athletes don't understand is,


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[Assistant] That, that bar, they don't get the fact that, hey, my favorite rapper is Lil Durk and he has guns. He shoots, he, he don't get in trouble when he going to Instagram. Then you say, hey, my elected official for my precinct, he, he's a second amendment advocate, right? He's doing, but at the end of the day, athletes gotta understand.


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[Assistant] In this country, you at the highest level and you got the most spotlights when you at that given time. And so you just gotta be smart about what you're doing and understand where you at.


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[Assistant] And, and then now it's how much money you make. How many people ask for packs? He said, man, I had guys who, who gave me five bucks after a McKinley football game that was in line. Talk about what we doing today. He's like, what do you mean what we doing? Yeah.


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[Assistant] When you start watching teams and, you know, playoff basketball, finals basketball.


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[Assistant] It'll sober you right on up. When you got Aaron Gordon coming out the way he came out.


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[Assistant] And looking like he was, I don't know, the best. He looked like he was Karl Malone. He came out and scored the first, I think, four or five buckets to set the tone. He ended up seven and ten, 16.6 rebounds, but that's, that's your fifth option.


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[Assistant] That guy is not, when he starts coming out and doing that to you, and then Joker didn't even have a huge game, like it was a quiet 27.


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[Assistant] What are you gonna do when they play well? They ain't even played to their capabilities right now, so to me, this one is done.


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[Assistant] This ain't the duke of knee jerks. This is just pure analysis. This ain't no emotion. Like I say it soberly that you are very long, long way away from that.


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[Assistant] And congratulations to shout out to all the coaches that are afraid of innovation. I can go and show you players that wouldn't traditionally fit in what basketball is doing and say,


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[Assistant] Look how they changed the game. Steph Curry started shooting from half court. Yep. You know what you can do about it. You take a look at Lebron. How many times back in the day would they say, Lebron needs to be underneath the basket, he shouldn't be controlling the ball 24 hours a day. You look at what Yokich is doing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and Bam played pretty well. You know, shot almost 50% from the field. Bam played well. He had 25 points. I just think that for them to win a game, they're going to have to pull something. I think Kevin Love does have to play. I think they got, what they have to do is they need to go to the title approach. We want to shoot 43s a day.


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[Assistant] I think somebody, somebody said this. I forget who said it. I don't know whether it was Isaiah Thomas or somebody. He said, uh,


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[Assistant] Joker plays, like, the prime Arvita Sabonis. He plays, like, Arvita's, like, pre-injury, like, when he was one of the best dudes in the Eastern Hemisphere, like, he plays like them.


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[Assistant] Every step counts. Anthony was in there lifting in uncomfortable gear. He had Doc Martens on.


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[Assistant] We'd be having post game shows, and sometimes McNuggets might be at the game or out and about. He'd be like, yeah guys, I'm on my way. I'm like, where are you going? You're out of breath. I'm walking.


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[Assistant] I think she's just too cheap to pay for the direct flights and them layovers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sure. I mean, she's the best baseball researcher out there. Uhm, she started her career with ESPN in 2015.


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[Assistant] We were lucky enough to get her at MLB.com in 2019 and, uh, she's sort of blown up since she's come to MLB. I mean, she's, her Twitter presence is enormous. You probably have seen her as the girl who tweets, baseball is the best. If you, uh, don't know her by anything else, she just has an


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[Assistant] Unbelievable unmatched passion for baseball and it's just infectious and so it's sort of how she became known and of course it helps that she has every stat known to man behind that. Uhm, but we both started in 2019 full time for MLB.


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[Assistant] I was out at spring training for covering Cleveland's camp and our boss messaged me and said, Hey, this girl who's going to be starting with us in a couple of weeks is out there on a trip with her mom right now. I think she's going to be coming to Cleveland's game tonight. Do you have any interest in like meeting up with her?


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[Assistant] So I just said, sure, why not? I mean, might as well meet a co-worker. And so we met for...


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[Assistant] 15, 20 seconds. It wasn't even that long. We just said hi real quick, figured out what each other did and just said, alright, well, she was like, if you need any thoughts, ever keep in touch. And of course I was like, oh yeah, well of course I'm going to want that.


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[Assistant] What we ended up doing was just talking every single day, not just about baseball, but became really good friends. And so it was just this long distance relationship where she's based in New York, I'm in Cleveland, but we talked all the time and saw each other a handful of times after that.


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[Assistant] I mean, as, as good as you can. She, her attitude's unbelievable as you can see all throughout social media, uh, constantly. I think the biggest thing is you sort of touched on it, it's, it's just how painful it is that she's so young, and I think not many people realize that that can happen. It's always


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[Assistant] Sort of geared toward men who were maybe up in the 60s, 70s, it just seems like an older


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[Assistant] Uhm, he's an NBA researcher because of course they're like a match made in the hidden.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but he's been unbelievable for her, and uhm, he's sort of been the backbone of all of this. So yeaah, I think the biggest thing for her is just making sure that everyone understands that it's not just...


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[Assistant] Older men who have to get this. There's people out there all the time. It's not rare. Everyone wants to say it's rare. It's just underfunded. That's always her message. So she's used her platform to make sure that people know more about it. And I'm sure I'm positive that'll make a difference.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Rotoware's been amazing. They reached out to me last year and sent me a design and said, what do you think of this? And my jaw dropped. I couldn't believe that they figured out a way to...


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[Assistant] And put end ALS through baseball is the best, which is her signature mantra. It was just perfect. Absolutely perfect. So they surprised her with that.


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[Assistant] And not only is it a cool design, like that's one of the most comfortable t-shirts I have. And I've heard that from a lot of people. So definitely would recommend having that. If you just go to Rotoware's website, you can go on their Twitter page. They've promoted it like crazy. They've been amazing. So if you go on there, you can get a t-shirt.


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[Assistant] Uhm, or you can just go, Sarah's favorite charity is Project ALS. So if you're ever looking for anything, there's thousands out there. You could go to wherever, but if you're looking for one in particular, Project ALS is the one that Sarah's worked so closely with. So if you ever want to donate to help find a cure somehow, some way, that would be the one that Sarah would recommend.


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[Assistant] Like odds here just because the division is so bad right now So it seems like no matter what they're gonna do there's going to be some sort of a race There's gonna be some sort of a race at the end of the season. That's just what this is pointing toward


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[Assistant] Now, there's a difference between how confident in just making the playoffs and how confident I could be in them making a run. So they, they wouldn't be able to make a run being what they've been so far. Yes, they might be able to find a way to come out on top in the AL Central just because the division has struggled overall, but


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[Assistant] They need to make sure th on all cylinders to compet teams that are in the post


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[Assistant] Going here, making sure that when the offense is going that the bullpen can also back them up. And not when the bullpen lights out, then the offense can only get one run on the board. And the only way they win is if the pitching staff is perfect. It's trying to get all things to click at the same time. And I think that they're


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[Assistant] Confident in what they've seen from Josh Bell, Josh Naylor recently, those guys are starting, I mean, Naylor's


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[Assistant] He's shown indications of starting to get going here. He has six straight games with an RBI. Uhm, that's what they got him for. Knock-in runs, provide some power. He hasn't really done the power part yet, but...


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[Assistant] If they can get him going, if he can get the ball in the air rather than on the ground, he's a completely different player. So there's still reasons to have hope. There's still reasons to think that this team can catch fire. It's just whether or not they're going to do it.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that's the thing. I mean last year they weren't even in the middle of the pack and homeruns. Like they proved that they can get over that. It's not like homeruns is everything. They've never been that team.


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[Assistant] They weren't supposed to be that team coming into the area. Yeah, you add Josh Bell to the mix and you should have more than what you have, but they were never going to be looked at as this dangerous, power-hitting team.


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[Assistant] So they should be able to get over that, whether they're getting the power from him or not. It's just whether they're getting any type of production from those key spots. Because we thought, going into the year, Josh Bell's gonna be the difference maker for Jose Ramirez. You have that behind Jose, then he can finally get some better pitching, but whenever Josh Bell's struggling, then Jose can't benefit.


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[Assistant] Tito was just talking about it yesterday. Jose might get pitched more, like, carefully than any other hitter in the league. And so...


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[Assistant] That's the key. They just need to get some guys going. Uhm, even if it's just a handful, not everyone has to be going at the same time. Jose Ramirez just went through an 0 for 16, 0 for 16 stretch and they were figuring it out. So as long as someone can be going


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[Assistant] They should be able to do just enough at least to get through with the pitching staff that they have.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I'm not. I really think that this organization has believed in him from day one. What we saw from him from day one is it just seems like he's really a sound player. He seems like he's way more mature.


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[Assistant] And ready for the big leagues and what a player his age and experience level should be.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so for him to grind through the struggles that he had at the beginning of the season this year and get to this point is impressive to do that at the big league level without meaning a trip down to AAA.


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[Assistant] When you're this young and don't have much experience to draw back on,


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[Assistant] It's impressive, and so for him to get here, it's not too surprising. I really do think that Oscar Gonzalez ran into a lot of good luck last year just because uhm,


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[Assistant] He is ultra aggressive at the plate and you c- you couldn't ask Tito a question about Oscar without getting that type of a response like,


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[Assistant] Yes, he's been doing great, but he still is ultra aggressive. That word always came up. And so he was a little bit more exposed this year. The league made some corrections to how they were going to be pitching him. He started to get a little bit chase happy and


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[Assistant] I think it's difficult to rein that back in once your profile is that and then you're starting to be exposed at the big league level.


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[Assistant] It was just he was making such an impact on those pitches. And so whenever he's not making an impact on the pitch that he might be able to make contact with in the zone.


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[Assistant] That's whenever it goes really south. So I, I don't think I'm too surprised that Will Brennan was the one who ended up coming out on top here.


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[Assistant] It's tough to know on June 8th what their decision will be in the last week of July. Just because you don't know what the next six, seven weeks are going to bring. Are they going to be true contenders here? Do they need to try to find someone who's going to be an immediate impact bat?


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[Assistant] Because if you don't, then maybe you have a little wiggle room on what guys you're targeting. And I know it's not the popular answer, but maybe they do go with someone who might not be ready until next year or the year after that. They love to build for the future.


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[Assistant] I think that there's a great chance that he's dealt. I don't see why you wouldn't consider it. I don't see why you wouldn't shop it hardcore on the market just because


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[Assistant] He has a year and a half of control left that will bring a bigger return than what a year would in the offseason.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's teams that are highly competitive. You start thinking about the Rangers right now who just had the worst news with Jacob deGrom and they've been unbelievable. Their offense has been unbelievable. They want to win now.


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[Assistant] You think about those types of teams who are going to want starting pitching.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and Shane Bieber's a great option. Now the thing is, with Bieber though,


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[Assistant] His numbers are weird and like he's, he's, he's been great and he can still get them in the win column and he's still effective.


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[Assistant] But his underlying numbers are really going in the wrong direction. His velocity hasn't gone in the right direction over the last few years. Uhm, his strikeout rate has plummeted. There's like, he's a different pitcher it seems like every single year, but he still figures out how to be effective. So I don't know what that means for his trade value. I don't know what that means for how other teams are gonna value him.


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[Assistant] It's really difficult to know, especially at this point, but...


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[Assistant] Why, maybe he needs to work on more throwing or he's not ready and like, like defensively or, okay, sometimes it's not what it, if it's the player that's ready, it's what we need at the big league level. And if there's a spot for him, and I know that sends fans off right there because they say there definitely is a need because look at what the production has been. The answer's never been clear cut to us.


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[Assistant] And I'm shocked because I guess going into the year that it would have been at latest mid-May by the time we would see Bo Nailer and once he comes up then I


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[Assistant] Figured it wouldn't take long for him to be the top guy and for him to be the one who's getting most of the innings behind the plate.


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[Assistant] I know it's making fans frustrated because his numbers have been great, his performance has been great, especially offensively.


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[Assistant] And that's not what they've gotten at the big league level. So I want to say sooner than later, but I also would have answered that in March. So I really am not sure, but you would have to think that we're getting to the point that he's going to be coming up to the big leagues.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, Yanni Diaz would be someone that I would say definitely. I think that one's tough to sit there and watch and it has to be painful to see this success. And when you ask the organization about it, they just say, well, is there some guys out there that just need to change the scenery? And uhm, that's never really the answer that anyone's looking for.


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[Assistant] It's, it's difficult because you need to address as much as you can winning now and when that player is just not serving that role.


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[Assistant] He's taking up spots in the minor league system of guys that you're really trying to develop because their middle infield has just been overly jammed for so long now and when Owen Miller was in that mix,


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[Assistant] You have to cut some ties with some guys and sometimes you are going to lose out and sometimes it's not going to work out. I think it's way too soon now to know if they have lost out on someone like Owen Miller. It's a small sample size of him in Milwaukee and so.


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[Assistant] I don't know, and if Nolan Jones was here, would you rather have Nolan Jones in right field than Will Brennan? Will Brennan's finally getting going.


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[Assistant] I know there would be an argument that Will Brennan should be in center and Nolan Jones should be in right. I understand all of those things, but it's also like the team wants to make sure that that defense in center field. There's so many moving parts and it's just there's so many spots on the roster.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think especially with Owen Miller, it's trying to figure out what middle infielders are going to be here for the long term, and he just wasn't in that long term picture.


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[Assistant] I like to evaluate stats and things. I know everyone says average means nothing now, but I really don't believe that. I think it means something. And if a guy's able to get on base, that's important. And so for him to bring back batting average that everyone's staring at right now, I'm loving every second of it because it's so impressive.


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[Assistant] Uhm, in Minnesota anymore, Tito was like, poof, that's a relief. Because every time we talked about him in the past,


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[Assistant] When he's no longer, not even just in the division and like in the Ale Central, he's in a different league now. Tito loves him. I understand why. And it's been so fun to watch his numbers just continue to climb somehow. I don't know how he's doing it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, now all next week and we'll have a good time. My husband's whole family is Greek. They're from there. Uhm, so it'll be nice to be with people who actually speak the language and I don't just have to look like the dumb, well, I'll be the dumb tourist, but I at least will be with people who fit in a little bit better than I do.


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[Assistant] So after the Quakers experiment, the United States abandoned the use.


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[Assistant] Uh, but then in the 1970s we began to put unprecedented numbers of people in prison and so you had terribly overcrowded conditions in prisons that looked like they were about to become out of control.


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[Assistant] The other thing that happened was that there were increasing numbers of mentally ill prisoners coming into the prison system.


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[Assistant] Prison systems didn't have the resources to properly deal with them.


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[Assistant] Much more cost effective and intelligent ways of addressing these problems.


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[Assistant] It's actually resulted in an overall reduction in the amount of violence in the larger prison system, which is something no one, no one.


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[Assistant] To try to get to the bottom of why it is there's conflict between prisoners, and I'm gonna get to the root of the problem, you can actually try to address the problem in the here and now, rather than saying, well, there's always super max.


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[Assistant] Game design has a reputation for being a boring and lonely activity. Probably.


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[Assistant] On the receiving end, at least. I'm incredibly privileged to know TommyTTK.


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[Assistant] In primary school we made paper games together until the teachers shut our racket down. In secondary school, we made proper games. Mostly alone, but occasionally we collaborated on joint projects that always seemed to contain lots of old men with beards.


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[Assistant] We made an RPG called Santasatnas, splitting the project in two, with him working on the world map and myself on the battle screen.


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[Assistant] If you're interested in making an RPG system, this will be one of the challenges you face. How do you make a system that displays attacks one at a time, in the order that they're chosen?


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[Assistant] I made it so that it would create an invisible object that would float down the side of the screen, stacking on top of existing commands ahead of it in the battle queue, with the game working through the animations and commands for each one by one. Much like my old bouncy ball AI, it's an amateurish method, but it made it easy for me since my mind could grasp the concept of physical objects in a queue.


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[Assistant] Not just by casually blocking the bridge, but by going out of his way to ensure that you couldn't cross.


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[Assistant] The game was full of things like that. Casper knows way too much about windows and boats, only to be rudely put down by an angry and heartless Santa who Tom ensured interrupted other characters in the game and got their genders confused every time.