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[Assistant] Hey, hey, hey, listen, he, uh, he's, uh, he's, he's down at the, uh, 35th Street laundromat. Watch.


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[Assistant] He, his shoulders was movin', I'm like, man, why you runnin' like this? Why your shoulders movin'? Are you supposed to be, you're supposed to be more fluent than that, Julio?


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[Assistant] Alright, now you finally get to one. He ain't bad. He ain't bad. He ain't bad. I could, I see, I could, I could, see defense alignment, what I could do with you, I could plug you in for a couple plays, spell somebody.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Take up a gap or two. You might make an extra play. But for the most part, we just ask you to be large and in charge. That's it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't want to see none of it. Listen, they made it very clear. You ever, you ever know that you could apologize to somebody without apologizing? Like you said something, your wife didn't really like it. So you just, you know what? Here you go, baby. We're gonna go out to eat and I got you a gift. She's like, what is this for?


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[Assistant] You're like, I'm not gonna say I was, I was really in the wrong here, but just look at my actions. Andrew Berry telling me, hey listen guys.


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[Assistant] I would be rushing Miles Garret. He might not like it. Just Miles Garret be like, look, even though Miles Garret can rush inside, man, you don't want to. Every once in a while. Every once in a while you stand him up and be running him. I think Jim Schwartz is going to try it. But yeah, I definitely take that package. Give me Justin Houston. I can get him. He a hundred though.


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[Assistant] You know, eh, especially if they're official business, do they feed you? Like, like in college? Yea, they have to. Like, do they, like, do you go out?


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[Assistant] I did, I did get some lunch like last year or something. It was on Saturday. I was there. I got some of that meat, that roast beef lunch.


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[Assistant] Hey Kareem Hunt, listen, for the amount of money he gon' get...


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[Assistant] I hope he got his agent together and he get his financial advisor, cause I don't think he gonna get another big payday, but a little bit of money.


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[Assistant] We'll see what some incentives they can get him to six. I'll take it. Frank Clark is from the area. I love a good pass rusher and I like Ionitis. I just Leonitis same difference. I just like the name and both of them. I like all four of those smiley, smiley, smiley.


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[Assistant] If you, if it was the decision, you know what, what would put me over the, you over the top. If Jashon Watson went to Stefanski, say look.


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[Assistant] Hey, I like what we got right now, but we lost Michael Woods. I was working out what in my life that kid.


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[Assistant] And the thing that we're missing is they got multiple, they don't have high picks, but they got multiple picks. And these guys that they're gonna bring in are younger and cheaper. That's true.


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[Assistant] I don't like, I just don't. This is, this is why.


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[Assistant] It just rubs me the wrong way because it's so many people that be carrying water for this organization. They, I'm tired of hearing how great they are and how they do stuff. Oh, you, you a grown ass man. You can't answer a question.


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[Assistant] See, this is the, you know, why you looking crazy? Because you, you, hardball, I remember. See, I'm petty enough to, I saved this article.


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[Assistant] I'm petty like this. I saved it in my notes.


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[Assistant] Uh, you're getting my notes now. I'm taking notes now. I say hardball praises Raven's zero tolerance policy, right? Uh-huh. Now this is zero tolerance in concerns of what they was talking about with Ja'Shaun Watson.


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[Assistant] Harbaugh chose not to unleash publicly over the Washington decision, instead pointing to his own franchise for zero tolerance policy.


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[Assistant] I respect what owner Steve Baschati and former team president Dick Cass has created here almost 10 years ago, hardball said.


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[Assistant] Basically, we're a kind of zero tolerance. You have to know the truth.


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[Assistant] You have to try to understand the circumstances. We stayed from that particular situation. When we draft players, we sign them as free agents. That's Steve decisions, and I'm glad we have that policy. Now listen, you did all that talking.


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[Assistant] You did all of that, that gyrating. Oh, look at the Cleveland Browns, all these picks. This is what you get for signing a guy. We here in Baltimore have a standard. Oh really, do you? You're only good as the guy that's snapping that ball. I want to see how good hardball looks now. They already was talking about you a couple years ago, hardball.


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[Assistant] You, you sitting up, you see his face when they ask that question? He looks horrified. Didn't we tell them we put a gag order? Didn't we say we were not talking about that? Get up outta here. Now y'all gotta figure out old Cleveland Browns, how it is to be the new Cleveland Browns. Cause guess what? You gonna have to find a quarterback.


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[Assistant] And it's harder than it looks. And you ain't got the Wizard of Oz who you stole from us to go out here and make the moves for you. Now, let's see what you gonna do.


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[Assistant] All year. You might be looking at foreign something, dawg.


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[Assistant] Basically, Lamar Jackson got to a point where it's like...


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[Assistant] You wouldn't treat your franchise guy like that, right? He's almost thinking like this. He's almost thinking like, hold on now, hold on. Now Deshaun Watson was, was, was accused of all this stuff here.


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[Assistant] And I saw the Hasims riding for him. I saw the Hasims taking the bullets. I seen them taking the darts. I thought, they came up at the end of the press conference. He still got his money. He did.


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[Assistant] I asked for the money. These dudes, my own team start trashing me in the press. My own team started, if you that good, go get it from somewhere else. That's tough. If you trying to negotiate with your wife, you say, if you don't like me so much, go find another husband. That's not gonna work.


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[Assistant] This is why I always tell young people in the business, if you come into this business or any business,


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[Assistant] Don't be enamored what somebody else make. Nope.


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[Assistant] You, listen, if, if they gonna offer you some money that you ain't never seen in your life,


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[Assistant] Take it and be like excited about it because it changed your life. But the first thing you need to do is understand if you go around pocket watching somebody else, you gonna


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[Assistant] Cause at the end of the day, at the end of the day, if you know what a number somebody else make, you're not going to be satisfied.


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[Assistant] Man, the whole half of the season. Half of the season. Because like, like you said, I don't, so if you got,


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[Assistant] Electric, you know, people say stuff all the time. So if you can throw a fastball by somebody and they know it's coming, that's how I know you got something.


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[Assistant] You still can get people out, right? You still can, you can still do what you need to do, but if you got medium stuff, you throwing in the low nineties, you're breaking pitches and you can't locate them for strikes, then you can get really get in trouble because now


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[Assistant] Guys can, you can, you can actually go up there and be fooled and they hit a home run on you. Right. So, for me, I, I look at it half the season, and I'm looking at it from the, from the perspective of, you got Savala, you got Plisak, I don't trust Karen Cech.


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[Assistant] There's three right there. And what's the, what's the common denominator? They don't have electric stuff. They, they gotta hit spots. They gotta hit.


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[Assistant] I'm looking at least for, I need another arm, at least at the all star break, or I need to get me one of these young dudes to bring up. Because if he's not going to bring it, I need to bring one of these young dudes up quick.


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[Assistant] I guess the two guys, how, how close, how long is it going to be before you think either Gavin Williams or Bobby is Bobby?


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[Assistant] Do you think that Tito gives him more leash? Cause the guardians are really good at like...


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[Assistant] Like, like very constricted games, like close games, 2-1, 3-4, they always seem to pull it out. Like, do you think because, you know, they're winning those games at 5-2, if they got a good record and the bats really help them out, do you think that gives them a


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[Assistant] For the first time, I would say if you asked me the Guardian's biggest needs, I would, obviously you would never, usually you would never get to the pitching. Pitching was always a strong suit. But for once, now I look at it and say,


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[Assistant] The guys that, I mean, when you get Miles Straw that's hittin', when you get Quan that's hittin', everybody seems to be hittin' the ball well. Now granted, it's April.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and so he was saying that, you know, his goals, what he wanted to do. He said, you know, obviously he wants to win a championship. He wants to win the MVP.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and he talked about one of the reasons why he wanted to stay here and I thought it was a really good interview because, you know,


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[Assistant] It's funny because he has a personality, even though he can't speak English, or he can, but he's not comfortable in front of the camera using it.


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[Assistant] How he wanted to be here and why he signed that deal. And it was crazy because


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[Assistant] He's one of the most passionate dudes I've seen talk about being in the city of Cleveland, like, yo, I'mma retire here. I thought it was a really good interview and just, you know, when you talk about the MVP, I mean, he started off, I mean, I mean, has he started off better? I mean, he's hitting safely in what, seven, eight games in a row? Yeah, I mean.


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[Assistant] What have you seen from his plate appearances? Uhm, have you liked his approach up there?


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[Assistant] Uh, and then secondly, uh, Arius, uhm, what have you seen from his play appearances as well? Obviously, they look like they're gonna use him as a platoon guy all over the infield, uhm, to spot, uh, spell people. Those two guys, what have you seen so far, uh, early on with those guys?


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[Assistant] My, listen, I gave him the most generic joint in the world. I'm like, I forgot we was competing in these headlines. That's right. Should we go to Brad now, Mikey?


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[Assistant] I like that. I undersold myself. Of course you would like it. It's yours. I undersold it. I didn't, I didn't know the genius behind it. I mean, it's, it's solid.


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[Assistant] I'm watching my weight. I'm watching my weight.


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[Assistant] Obviously. It hasn't been in the first week. Obviously, I don't think what he's doing at the plate is sustainable. Uhm, do you think, where are you, where's your margin for him? What, you know, where does he have to hit for you to say, okay, he's the mainstay in this lineup still?


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[Assistant] Enough power, uhm, to compete. I think they can make the playoffs. But when you say you talk about winning the World Series, do they have enough power to do that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but in recent years, no. Because I'm trying to think about a team who...


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[Assistant] Just, alright, we're gonna steal bases, we'll move runners, we're gonna, uh, put the ball in play. I mean, the Cardinals had teams like that back in the day.


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[Assistant] I would never, like, doing them pregame shows, like, it's horrible, cause you might as well be outside and we out there at nine.


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[Assistant] You had to have community life. Yeah. But my best experience was


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[Assistant] Man, and we, I never, so first, full disclosure, I never got to stay home for nothing.


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[Assistant] Like, my mom's like, if school's open, you're going. Like, you know, last week at school, people don't be there. Like, people just be like, yea, I'm done. I'll be there with the teacher. Yea, you're going all the way to the last day. So this happened to be, so in 94, the Indians,


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[Assistant] People remember that Dave was Dave was good before the strike happened, right? So it was like in first place. It was battling with the White Sox. Um, and then so that year strike happens seasons done and next year they come back 95 opening day.


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[Assistant] They had the all white suit on with the Indians across the chest. And I'm sitting there and I'm like, man, for some reason, I don't know if I was legitimately sick or how I got this off.


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[Assistant] But I was able to be at the crib, and I'm like, man. Like, so I didn't have no cable in my room.


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[Assistant] So I'm watching, I got the old school prong system with the rabbit ears. So we got the joints, you know, you put the rabbit ears on the prongs in the back.


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[Assistant] Clarity. I said, bro, this was, this is, this is HD. This is HD. Is this gonna come? I watched that game, man. I was so pumped. I was up there sitting around my room. They ended up losing that game, by the way. But that year was like, I can't remember that year because at that point,


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[Assistant] The Browns wasn't here and I was so, I was just so excited that we had anything. Right. And I knew the Guardians was or the Indians was going to be the best thing moving. And then that 95 year came around. I think my whole family watched every single like that was available. Yeah. So yeah, that was the start of it.


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[Assistant] Shout out to, shout out to Curtis. You're stealing your idea. Yeah, they stole that. Curtis got that from when he was here. Shout out to, but listen, we, we working on a deal. He told me when I give my mascot, he gonna let my mascot come and run with, with, with their mascots. Oh, good. I like that. So like, yeah, you lucky I had to see, lucky I had to buy something. You was out of here.


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[Assistant] When you had that lineup, you would have to, you would have to come into Cleveland and a lineup was just, there was never enough runs. You had to beat, you had to beat the Indians by eight.


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[Assistant] Because, at any given time, they can get lofted and started off. Kenny lofted up, Kenny's on. Now all of a sudden Omar get on. Now you got guys that can run a little bit. Now, you got-


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[Assistant] Three through seven that get hit to the three run home runs.


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[Assistant] What was, what was the, as you living outside the market, what was, what was the perception of watching the Indians back there?


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[Assistant] It had a corporate feeling where guys was too, too, you know, had too many, many bags of money. He'd be sitting down there going crazy. Now you see a lot of regular guys, regular people down there. I think when you talk about, you know, uh, the playoff games against the Yankees, that last year, that place was loud as hell.


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[Assistant] But there is, there is a stat I was looking at the other day. Don't they take it like, uh, like when he told looking at it, it's like an advanced metric when they take a look at good baseball hitting ballparks, like they take a look at them.


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[Assistant] Is, is progressive field a medium ballpark? Is it a hitters ballpark?


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[Assistant] They still, they had McCutcheon, what's that, that'd be like 2014, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, so Purchase Sena Anderson, the Browns are actually hosting Tennessee wide receiver Jalen Hyatt for a visit today.


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[Assistant] So, Bull, to your point about not knowing the future with Omari Cooper and the Browns actually preparing themselves to be one year ahead, like the Steelers used to do. I think they can package a couple of those picks and if Jalen Hyatt is there in the second round.


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[Assistant] That can be their pick and he probably can step in and start right away.


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[Assistant] Adam the Bull and my man Mikey McNuggets with no sauce. Uh, they'll all be together 50,000 square feet of ball car bliss.


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[Assistant] No, but it is 12 o'clock, which means our 12 o'clock lunch hour of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show is brought to you by Collic Racing, the official NASCAR team of Northeast Ohio.


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[Assistant] So like me and Mikey been going back and forth about this. Yeah. And Jason, I'm curious to know what you really think. I feel like, uh, well, the question is basically, is Donovan Mitchell having the best single season ever in Cleveland Cavaliers history? Mike says, no, I'm leaning towards yes.


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[Assistant] Uh, in his first year. What are those records? Most three-pointers made in this season. He's the first Cavalier ever to score 40 points in three straight games. He has the most 40 point games in a single season in Cavalier's history, and he scores 71 points. I've never seen LeBron James do none of that.


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[Assistant] Well first of all, Mikey wanted to lead LeBron out, I wanted to lead LeBron in. I don't know if you've all noticed or not, I'm not afraid, so. Don't be afraid.


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[Assistant] You gotta make your argument. You gotta have LeBron in there. I just feel like this, yeaah, you can say LeBron won two MVPs, but I've seen Donovan Mitchell do something, a lot of things in a single season that I've never seen LeBron do.


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[Assistant] In the same year, and that's not to like take anything away from how great LeBron is.


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[Assistant] I've never seen Lebron score 71 points. I've never seen Lebron score 40 points three straight times. I've never seen him score 40 points 12 times in a season. I've never seen him lead the team in three pointers made in a season. It's just a lot of different things.


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[Assistant] So you all think best non LeBron season ever, second best Cavalier single season ever. Is that what I'm hearing?


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[Assistant] Next thing I know, and no one in the press knew this was happening.


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[Assistant] There was a press conference with all Bill Clinton's accusers right before the debate.


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[Assistant] Umzinga was the queen regnant of the joint kingdoms of Ndongo and Mutamba in modern day Angola. She stood up to the Portuguese colonialists and defended her people from enslavement.


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[Assistant] Her brilliance, pride, and perseverance force the Portuguese to recognize her kingdoms, and she remains a symbol of freedom and resistance to oppression to this day.


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[Assistant] Nsinga was the daughter of Prince Kilumbo and his favorite concubine, Kinjela Ka Mkombay. She was born during a difficult delivery. Her name, Nsinga, meaning to twist or to turn, was given to her because she emerged with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck.


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[Assistant] This was thought to be a sign that the child would grow to be a powerful and proud person.


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[Assistant] A wise woman present at the birth predicted that the baby would grow to be a queen.


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[Assistant] When Unsinga was 10, her father ascended the throne and became Ungola, or King of Undongo. Unsinga was a bright and engaging child and was favored by her father. As she was a girl, she was not seen as a potential heir or competitor for the throne, like her brothers.


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[Assistant] So her father felt free to lavish attention on her. The princess was trained as a warrior to fight alongside her father and brothers. She was also taught how to read and write by Portuguese missionaries.


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[Assistant] She was nearly always by her father's side as he attended his many official duties including legal councils, war councils, and important rituals. And she learned a great deal along the way.


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[Assistant] But in recent years, they had exhausted the coastal population and turned their attention inland to find more people to subjugate.


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[Assistant] And fill the endless current of slave ships bound for the Americas.


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[Assistant] They wanted to seize Ndongo land and were happy to sell their prisoners of war to the Europeans. Additionally, many of the Ndongo leaders were willing to sell their own countrymen into bondage.


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[Assistant] King Colombo tried both diplomacy and warfare to defend his people, but more and more of them were being stolen away.


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[Assistant] Umbandi had long been jealous of Nsinga's exalted position in their father's eyes.


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[Assistant] He was paranoid that her baby son might one day rise up against him, so he had the child murdered.


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[Assistant] And from a safe distance, they watched as their homeland fell into chaos, famine, and terror under Umbandi's weak and inept rule.


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[Assistant] Umbandi attempted to negotiate with the Portuguese, but he was no match for the indomitable colonial powers and was driven from his court.


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[Assistant] In desperation, he begged his sister to help him by serving as his ambassador to the Portuguese. She was an ideal choice for this mission as she spoke fluent Portuguese. Out of a desire to help her people, she agreed.


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[Assistant] While most Africans wore European style clothing when meeting with the Portuguese, Mzonga dressed herself in the finest apparel of her people.


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[Assistant] To display to them that her culture was not inferior.


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[Assistant] When she arrived in the port city of Luanda to meet the governor,


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[Assistant] All of the Portuguese men were sitting in chairs. However, there was no chair for Nzanga.


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[Assistant] And instead ordered one of her servants to get on all fours on the mat and act as her throne.


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[Assistant] She was a talented and fierce negotiator, and while face to face with the governor, they agreed terms of a peace treaty.


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[Assistant] The Portuguese would withdraw their troops from Ndanga, cease demanding tribute and raiding the land for human chattel, and recognize the kingdom's independent sovereignty.


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[Assistant] In return, Nsinga agreed to trade with the Portuguese, study Christianity, and be baptized.


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[Assistant] Nsinga remained in Luanda for six months where she learned the Catholic faith and how to better understand the Portuguese culture. She was baptized and took the Christian name Donna Ana de Sousa in honor of the governor's wife who stood as her godmother.


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[Assistant] Nsenga returned home in triumph and glory.


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[Assistant] And she publicly berated her brother for his weakness and failure as a leader. Mbandi had lost all support from the people.


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[Assistant] And in disgrace, he committed suicide by drinking poison.


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[Assistant] Years earlier, Mbandi had entrusted his son to the care of the enemy warrior in Mangalas.


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[Assistant] And he had been living with them ever since. Nzinga met with the chief of the Emongolas. She flattered and seduced him and agreed to marry him. But when the Emongolas arrived for the wedding ceremony, Nzinga seized her nephew, stabbed him to death, and threw his body in the river.


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[Assistant] But she still had detractors among the nobility who were opposed to a woman's right to rule. Nsinga thus began living as a man.


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[Assistant] A common practice among female rulers in Central and West Africa used to maintain their power.


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[Assistant] She engaged in masculine pursuits and took multiple husbands known as Chebatos. In Ndongo, the Chebatos existed as a third sex.


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[Assistant] They dressed as women and were able to marry men or women without stigma. They were an honored group of shaman who served as spiritual arbiters in political and military decisions and performed burial rites.


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[Assistant] Nsinga's Chibato husbands lived among her maids in waiting, but were forbidden to engage in sexual relationships with them.


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[Assistant] The peace Mzanga had negotiated with the Portuguese couldn't stand against the steamroller of imperialism and slavery.


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[Assistant] The Portuguese once again began to demand tribute, both monetary and human, from Mundongo.


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[Assistant] The Queen sent messengers into neighboring lands armed with words of freedom and resistance and many people unhappy living under the thumb of the Europeans fled to Ndongo.


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[Assistant] When the Portuguese demanded Nzinga return the people they saw as their property,


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[Assistant] She replied that there were no slaves in her kingdom.


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[Assistant] The Portuguese now saw that they would not be able to intimidate this dignified warrior queen or bend her to their will.


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[Assistant] Nzinga was proud, but she was also cunning.


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[Assistant] She knew that she would not win in an all-out war with the Portuguese. So she fled with her supporters to the Matamba region where she courted new allies and planned her next move.


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[Assistant] Nsinga continued to welcome escaped enslaved people and warriors from other tribes and her army grew.


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[Assistant] Back in Ndongo, the Portuguese installed a puppet king, forced the people to convert to Christianity.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, another European power, the Dutch, moved onto the scene.


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[Assistant] The Dutch had already overtaken the neighboring area of the Congo.


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[Assistant] Nzinga looked at this powerful enemy of her enemies and sent her emissaries. She allied herself with the Dutch and together they went to war with the Portuguese. Nzinga personally led her army into battle.


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[Assistant] They took her sister, Mkumbu, called Lady Barbara as a prisoner and forced Nzinga to retreat once more.


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[Assistant] The Queen continued to fight the Portuguese for decades, primarily using guerrilla tactics against their much stronger army.


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[Assistant] But eventually she resigned herself that this was a battle she could not win with military might.


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[Assistant] First, she placed her military forces between the Portuguese and the lands they raided for people to enslave, cutting off the slave trade in the area.


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[Assistant] Next, she reached out directly to the Catholic missionaries, claiming she wanted to convert her kingdoms to Christianity.


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[Assistant] The missionaries were so enthralled by Queen Monsinga that many of them volunteered to act as her emissaries to the European leadership and even to the Pope.


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[Assistant] With the might of the church on Nzinga's side, the Portuguese governor had little choice but to open up peace negotiations, release her sister, and eventually recognize Queen Nzinga as the official ruler of Ndongo and Matomba.


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[Assistant] Now in her 70s and finally secure on her throne, Nzinga turned her focus on domestic matters and concentrated on rebuilding her people who had been devastated by decades of warfare.


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[Assistant] She resettled refugees of the slave trade in her lands and encouraged women to bear children.


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[Assistant] And she promoted trade by capitalizing on her kingdom's strategic position.


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[Assistant] As the gateway between the coast and the central African interior.


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[Assistant] She waged one more military campaign to rid her people of the continued threat of the Umbangala warriors. She decapitated the Umbangala leader and brought his head to the Portuguese governor.


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[Assistant] In her final years, Nzinga maintained her hard-won peace with the Portuguese by building churches and hosting baptisms. The 75-year-old queen also entered into a monogamous Christian marriage with a handsome young warrior, one-third her age.


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[Assistant] Buttonsinga also maintained the pride of her people and her place as their queen. She dressed fabulously, sporting the finest brocades, silks, velvets and perfumes from Europe, while maintaining the style of her African people.


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[Assistant] And she always wore a royal crown when conducting official duties.


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[Assistant] She was briefly succeeded by her sister, Mungumbu, who outlived her by three years. After that, the kingdom fell into civil war over which male heir would reign next.


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[Assistant] Sell to the ever-expanding Portuguese slave trade.


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[Assistant] And was incorporated into Portuguese Angola in 1671, eight years after her death.


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[Assistant] Button Singa did pave the way for women to lead.


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[Assistant] Women in Angola display remarkable social independence and are found in the country's army, police, government and economic sectors.


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[Assistant] Queen Nzinga is revered for her political, martial and diplomatic brilliance. She is held up as a symbol of freedom and resistance to oppression and is celebrated as the Mother of Angola.


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[Assistant] If you enjoyed this video, please like, subscribe, comment your thoughts, and check out my other Royal History videos. If you really want to help, please consider supporting me on Patreon. A link is in the description. Thank you for watching!


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[Assistant] I think that was a signal to everybody, certainly to me and the rest of the media, that this was the Trump we were going to get in the White House. That it wasn't going to be any sort of a reset, it was going to be the angry same, the same Trump that was out there on a campaign, campaign trail.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to Minecraft, but in a bit of a different way. My minimap is bigger now. Oh, that's probably from my recording hockey. I don't care, but.


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[Assistant] This is modern Minecraft, not vanilla Minecraft, because... It's a-


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[Assistant] It's a big debate whether modded is better because it is a substantial change to the game, but I like modded. I like vanilla as well, but honestly, I kind of prefer modded because, you know, there's like, a lot of stuff added to the game, and uhm,


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[Assistant] It gets pretty crazy. If you've ever played Modded, you know what I mean. But, if you've...


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[Assistant] There was an alt pack back in... I think 1.8 was stoneblock 1?


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[Assistant] And then there was Stoneblock 2 in 1.12, and they're like my favourite modpacks so far, because, you know, I like this kind of survival element where you're stuck in some place where it seems like you can do absolutely nothing, and uhm, you just build your way up from there.


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[Assistant] And I wanted to do that again, but 1.12 felt like a bit too far of a downgrade. So I found this pack, Sky, uh, not Sky Factory, Stone Factory. Oh, which isn't strictly a stone block, but it's kind of a spiritual successor to it. So.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna be playing this. Now I'd like to figure out why my minimap is so big. There we go. Switch it back to the smaller one. I don't even really need it because it's just black, but...


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[Assistant] I'll leave it there because it adds to the modded experience. So, what do I need to do first? Story.


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[Assistant] Stone technology, oh right, that's the name. Stone technology, not stone factory. That was a different one and it was crap. This one's better. Stone technology takes place in a stone block. You are stuck there for eternity. Fortunately.


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[Assistant] Yes, I can sp- I can speak, yay. Fortunately, you are a talented inventor. By discovering and exploiting elemental technologies, you may well discover more powerful ones. Be patient and vault and bold and you can make this place livable.


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[Assistant] Give me that XP. Oh my god, that took me up by almost 5 levels. I was not expecting that. Quests. The quest book will guide you through your adventure. You can access the quests from your inventory at the top left, around here.


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[Assistant] If you have any doubts about the usefulness of an item slash block, you can consult with the wiki of the mod in question. There should be a link to it if this pack is done well.


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[Assistant] Nah, it's fine, I can figure it out. Some of the quests are inspired by the Ragnar mod 6. Yes. That is... If I've got my facts correct, the guy that did the quest, or just like this whole questing mod, as...


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[Assistant] Kind of inspired by the old Feed the Beast quests? I dunno, I didn't fiddle around with that too much. Anyway.


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[Assistant] Next one. Goals. The goal of the mod pack is to complete all of the quests, as you can probably tell. This will require you have explored in depth the majority of the mods in the pack. Yep. I am fully aware of that, and I've already checked it out. That's a lot of crap.


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[Assistant] Sir. Oh, also, the fact that there's inferior emessence.


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[Assistant] We're getting into mystical agriculture at some point. Support, Stone Technology is my first modpack and I made it alone. Props to him, it looks pretty good. It's probably not perfect, so if you have any questions or suggestions don't hesitate to contact me on the modpack discord. Made by Vaderz, props to him. So, give me some food. I have completed Stone Technology.


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[Assistant] Progression. Right, start. Here you can see the path to unlocking new technologies. Okay.


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[Assistant] So, next is create. Complete andesite casing task.


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[Assistant] So then, create is there, and does that case, okay.


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[Assistant] I think I'm just gonna start in this for the beginning. So, 32 oak logs, and it gives me 8 logs back. Yep.


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[Assistant] Yes, the excavation modernist does work with trees. Good. So, let's see, I'm holding my bind.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that makes everything so much easier. Right.


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[Assistant] And then as with most mods, you've probably seen this before, you can either crouch repeatedly, and it'll do a bone meal effect, or


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[Assistant] Sometimes it also works with sprinting around, but not all the time. Anyway, I just need to get to 32 logs. This should be the last tree.


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[Assistant] And there we go. 33 logs, I got one more than I needed to. Okay.


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[Assistant] So, there we go, give me the o'glogs. So, what to get next? Stone hammer. Gives me another hammer. Right, so that's how we do ex nihilo stuff.


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[Assistant] Okay, so crook, use crook to destroy leaves and collect silkworm, and use silkworm on leaves to create infesting leaves. Right, this is just normal ex nihilo stuff. Oh, and it's ex nihilo sequentia.


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[Assistant] Right, so that's got different stuff. Chicken bait!


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[Assistant] I haven't touched ex nihilo since 1.12, so a lot of this is gonna seem new to me. Right.


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[Assistant] The usual recipes. Okay, good. I'm gonna skip doing vanilla tools and just go straight to tinkers because it'll just make my life much, much easier.


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[Assistant] Two wood plus two sticks makes patterns. Oh, it only makes three. That... ...obsolete some of my maths.


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[Assistant] Hold on a minute. Uuuh, the crafting station is... Aaaaah.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, okay, it's changed. Oh well. But I was right that he needed this. That's how you make the crafting station now. Ah. And then... Should have the... Nope. Hmm. What was it then? Tinker station. Ooh! Okay. And then the part builder? Ah. Part builder's just a little different. Okay.


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[Assistant] And it has just been progressively nerfed more and more.


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[Assistant] Wait, where's the stencil table? I need that, don't I? Yea, where's the stencil table? Sten... There isn't one. Okay then.


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[Assistant] Axe head, binding, and stick, they are all the same. Oh, they got rid of the longsword. Oh well, that was my personal favourite, but it was pretty good. Uh, ooh!


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[Assistant] I hope Tinkers works the same way as it always has. Uh, does it have XP on it? No, they might not level up anymore. Oh well, they're still good to just have a custom tool.


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[Assistant] Let's see, does this change anything if I get some more wood? I don't really need more wood, I have plenty, but yeah.


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[Assistant] Nope, it doesn't look like it has XP. Oh well. That's not that big of a deal. So.


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[Assistant] What next? 100 seed brick, oh jeez. Let's start with sieving and what not. So, stone hammer.


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[Assistant] I need cobblestone and any kind of stick.


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[Assistant] How do I get the cobblestone? Oh, right, I make the Tinkus pickaxe.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean, I could make just a vanilla pickaxe, but if I'm going all in tinkers, I may as well make a tinkers pickaxe. Oh, it consumes a pattern every time. That's...


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[Assistant] Honestly, that seems like a more, a better change balance-wise. Right.


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[Assistant] So now I can just- oh, I've got auto-jump. Now I can just mine some of the stone out of the walls.


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[Assistant] I kind of want to maintain this central area.


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe I can just dig walls, dig rooms out of the side. I don't know, cause I like this central area. It's quite aesthetically pleasing. Anyway, I just need to get a bunch of stone. I think 19 is fine for now.


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[Assistant] Oh right, I need to get silkworms too. Ooh, there's netherite mesh. Hm. What's the recipe for a sieve?


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[Assistant] Uh, the same. Okay. So, give me a bunch of wood. I need to make slabs. I need more wood. Slabs go there. Wood goes on the outside. I still need more wood.


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[Assistant] And I make the sieve. Yea, I don't need logs. I can get more quite easily. There. Six sieves, and that'll be fine.


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[Assistant] So then I just, there we go, vein mine the leaves and it gives me a bunch of silkworms. And then I can use these silkworms to infest the tree. The more times you infest it, the faster it'll go.


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[Assistant] Which I can then use to get stuff like gravel, sand, and dust, which is an ex-needle-o thing. Gave me another sieve. Cool. Crook.


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[Assistant] And another hammer. I am going to be burning through these hammers quite a lot, so I guess that's a good thing.


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[Assistant] Right. Ooh, they've got Snad! Ooh! Snad's very nice.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna make these barrels because then I can get, uh, water and other liquid stuff.


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[Assistant] Go away windows. Well, the leaves seem to be done. So give me all that string. Geez, that is a lot of string. Okay. I was expecting like maybe one stack.


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[Assistant] I don't really need a particular place for them quite yet. I'll just throw them down. Anywhere's fine. Now, anything in particular it's asking for.


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[Assistant] Thanks for the three extra strings. Ooh, right, the heavy sieve. That's how you can... sieve compressed stuff, but... it's... not.


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[Assistant] I can only start down the tree of getting all the different meshes, but I might leave that for later.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there we go. Oak crucible. And the barrels should just be this. Yep. And.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna need plenty of barrels. I'm just gonna turn all of these into barrels. There we go, five barrels seems fine. So, this oak crucible, I can fill with saplings, and it should slowly make water. Although I might need to put a torch under it. I can try that. Yeah, I just needed to put a torch under it. There we go. Slowly making water, and then,


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[Assistant] I might have to use bottles before I can use a bucket, and I can put it into these barrels where I can make stuff like clay.


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[Assistant] No, I just made one from a different mod. Okay.


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[Assistant] It's actually supposed to be made like that. The X-Compressium one.


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[Assistant] I don't know what to do with this though, because it's kind of a crap crucible compared to this one.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's asking for an iron one. Okay, so yeaah. I am gonna have to start sieving various things. 12 dirt. Yeaah. I've got stuff to make dirt.


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[Assistant] I can use some of my silkworms, cause when am I gonna need 52 of them?


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[Assistant] And all you need to do is take some kind of organic matter like silkworms or string or saplings or leaves, seeds even, and you just fill up these barrels and it composts itself into dirt. And it's asking me to make how many?


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[Assistant] In fact, I'll get that going again. You've got eight. Okay.


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[Assistant] And I guess while I wait for that to go, I can do the hammering stuff.


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[Assistant] So, if I just get a bunch of this cobblestone, I'm hoping I can vein mine it. Use the hammer.


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[Assistant] Yes, vein mine it, and it turns itself into gravel.


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[Assistant] And then, if I do the same with gravel, it becomes sand, and if I do it with sand, it becomes dust. And other than the vanilla crafting recipes with them, the main usage is to sieve them to get various different resources, like, gravel you can use to get metals, sand you can use to get


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[Assistant] And then dust comes, dust gives you the powdery things like gunpowder and redstone or glowstone.


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[Assistant] All of that stuff. In general, I think sand is the least useful. Oh yea, and you can sieve dirt to get seeds. But, gravel is probably the most useful because it's... Oh. It's not giving me anything.


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[Assistant] Why? In the sieve. It's a 10% chance for one flint in the silk mesh. I mean I can just use three to get one flint. I'll probably just do that then. Right. So I'm just gonna...


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[Assistant] Oh, actually no, this is done. Right, after composting all of that.


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[Assistant] I don't have too much string left, but that's fine, I can get it quite easily. And I've got all the dirt that it asked for. Now I have 16. And do I use that to get clay?


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[Assistant] No, I think that's also with dust, but I need water first. Oh right, ancient- oh no. Wait, hang on. What gives ancient spores? Dirt. Jeez, that's a really low chance, even in the good meshes.


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[Assistant] Okay, some of these are gonna be really hard to get, but I'm gonna do most of the sieving off camera because it is extremely tedious and pretty boring. At least to watch. Now I'm just gonna dig out some kind of a hole here using my hammer so that I can get


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[Assistant] Free cobblestone. Oh, actually, why use the hammer when the pickaxe gets cobblestone? I thought it would get me gravel. Oh well.


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[Assistant] So I need 126 cobblestone that I then turn into gravel. There we go.


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[Assistant] I got a little more than I needed, but I just wanted to finish clearing this out. So, now I need to hammer all of this. Do I even have enough durability?


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[Assistant] I don't know how to check. Oh well. I need three less than this. So this much gravel to get all of the meshes that I need.


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[Assistant] There we go. I just filled this back in with cobble. Now I just vein mine it all and there we go. That was much quicker. And then turn all of this into flint. And there we go. 42 flint.


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[Assistant] And one thing that took me quite a while to learn, you can just shift right click the meshes to get them out. I used to break them all the time.


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[Assistant] Now, I can start getting metals from my gravel. But...


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[Assistant] I think I've done enough for this video. I've started this off kinda set in stone what's gonna be happening. And uhm, why don't I take a quick look at what's to come. Oh! Three extra flint. Wow. Thank you.


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[Assistant] So, in this progression, eventually I'll get on to doing the create mod, which, actually, why don't we see, what do I need to start the underside casing?


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[Assistant] And there's like pebbles, which I get from sitting dirt. Okay.


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[Assistant] That seems like I can get started with that pretty soon. Anyway, oh wrong button. Create seems like a cool mod to be getting into, but...


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[Assistant] It does make some pretty big structures, and it gets kinda confusing, but it seems pretty fun. And then we get onto immersive engineering.


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[Assistant] Hoo boy, I've been forced to do immersive engineering multiple times before. And...


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[Assistant] Maybe forcing myself to use it, it'll be fun. I dunno. And then thermal, just expansion, foundation, whatever. Thermal is very, very good. This is like, the spiritual successor to ISE 2, even though ISE 2 does still exist in


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[Assistant] These modern mudpacks, but thermal expansion is very good. Industrial foregoing, I've used quite a lot before. It's annoying because plastic, but it seems pretty strong.


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[Assistant] So, I'm fine to use that, and I'm very familiar with it. Refined storage seems like the reincarnation of AU2, and it might be a bit more balanced and a bit easier to get, so,


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[Assistant] I'm excited to try using that. Environmental tech, that's just automate all systems for you involving mining. And it's very strong. Numata Craft is another kind of tech mod similar to immersive engineering but more modern-ish.


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[Assistant] I've barely touched it before, but it looks kinda complicated. Woot is a new mod. This just seems like quality of life stuff. Mechanism, very very strong. Mechanism is basically the upgraded version of thermal expansion. And...


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[Assistant] Ooh, they are very powerful machines. Mystical Agriculture, that's just, you can now farm metal. You can farm pretty much every important resource. And combined with, uhm, Immersive Engineering, with their garden cloches,


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[Assistant] It's very, very strong. Power, I've never touched much, but it also seems pretty good. Uhm, Psy seems maybe near.


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[Assistant] It also kind of reminds me of equivalent exchange. Oh, hi tree. Extended crafting, that's all just like very, very late game stuff. And then you get into the creative things. Like if I could show an example of a.


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[Assistant] Why would you go to all of this effort for some of the... I mean...


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[Assistant] It's just like extreme quality of life in the end of things. At the end of the day. This ultimate ingot, what the hell is this used for? The ultimate component?


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[Assistant] I think that's it, just the ultimate component. Like, what? This is just, even the Elite, or even the Advance is getting pretty crazy, like, god damn. This is...


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[Assistant] And it's still the same thing. Yeaah. This is, uh, very powerful. So anyway.


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[Assistant] You can kinda see where this is gonna go. All starting from pretty much nothing. So, I'm excited to get to the end of this. So, yea. I'll see you there. Bye.


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[Assistant] What other conclusion could he draw other than now it's time to try some stuff on my own?


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[Assistant] I've lived in this job for seven years and have learned repeatedly that you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Frankly, I see it as, uh, a lose-lose proposition, uhm, whatever we were gonna do was not gonna be the right thing for this particular Israeli government.


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[Assistant] The president wanted to speak and lay out what the US principles were going to be, uh, as we dealt with, uh, a region that was going through seismic change.


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[Assistant] If you look at the principles that we identified, uh, the notion of 67 lines with mutually agreed swaps is not at all a controversial idea.


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[Assistant] That's been the basis for every negotiation that is neared.


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[Assistant] Uh, neared a resolution over the history of this conflict.


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[Assistant] I've never seen, uhm, a foreign leader speak to the president like that, uhm, and certainly not in public, uhm, and I've never, certainly never seen it happen in the Oval Office.


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[Assistant] The decision was made, uh, to come directly at us. I mean, imagine the President of the United States going to...


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[Assistant] Jerusalem and saying things like that next to the Prime Minister. I mean, it was a fairly dramatic moment.


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[Assistant] Any military action would have precipitated, in our view, a much broader conflict with Iran. Uh, Iran would have been likely to respond with proxies, and that likely would have led to a chain of events where the United States is at war with Iran.


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[Assistant] We have an opportunity here to get more through diplomacy than we could accomplish even through taking military action. Uhm, and that was, that's an argument he's had with the Prime Minister multiple times over the course of the last two years now.


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[Assistant] Something this big could not have been done without exquisite presidential leadership. Mr. President, thank you for getting us over the finish line. Thank you for getting us where we are.


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[Assistant] This is the most unfortunate thing. We came in here in good faith, and we're entering into this kind of a discussion in the public view. But it's not bad Nancy. It's called transparency.


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[Assistant] Today, I'm announcing the House of Representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.


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[Assistant] But, you know. Opening day, 10 o'clock for, for your, for, for what? Teams fans? What are you gonna do? It's, you know. You gotta watch. It's been four or five.


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[Assistant] Giants fans, their team is playing at 11 o'clock a.m. local time. Yea, that happens a lot to West Coast teams. I mean, that's not great either.


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[Assistant] Can I tell you my plan for today? Sure. Baseball, baseball, baseball? Yes, I'm starting at one o'clock.


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[Assistant] When the show's over, I'm going to put the Yankees and Giants on my...


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[Assistant] On my radio. Then, I gotta run an errand real quick. I should be home about 2-20, 2-30. Cubs and Brewers start at 2-20.


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[Assistant] So I'll switch over to that. Then we go, when that game ends, I'll pick up the end of, I'm gonna go back and forth probably between the Mets and Marlins and the Phillies and the Rangers. And then it's seven o'clock.


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[Assistant] I'm watching White Sox Astros to see the defending champs play their first game. And then of course at 10 o'clock is the Guardians. So that's my day today. I'm doing nothing but watching.


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[Assistant] And check out my latest bet rivers podcast, which I put out yesterday afternoon. It is a 45 minute MLB preview. I start by talking about the guardians.


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[Assistant] And, uh, a lot about the Guardians, including the extension of Jimenez, uh, but then I talk about every team and make my World Series prediction, MVPs, Cy Youngs and all of that. So check it out, the bet yesterday, I won, I had the over and the, was it Rockets Nets, I think?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that game went way over. Uh, today we're starting with baseball, probably pick baseball basically every day all summer long.


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[Assistant] Uh, the rule is if a team is a favorite under minus 200, I'll pick it straight up. If it's over 200, I'm not going to pick the favorite. Well, if I pick the favorite over 200, which makes them an overwhelming favorite, I'll pick it with the run line because otherwise it's unfair.


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[Assistant] Starting tomorrow, if it's 150 will be the limit. Because if it's under 150, then they're not that big a failure.


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[Assistant] Or we could just do, if you want to get tricky, we could just, we could just, for baseball only, keep, uh,


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[Assistant] A running tally, like if I lose this one, I lose 180 points. If I win it, I gain 100.


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[Assistant] I will figure it out after the show, but anyway, I'm taking the Dodgers today. Uh, Julio Urias is a young pitcher on the Dodgers who's been really good, but has missed time every year. I think he puts it all together this year, starting with today. Very good.


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[Assistant] So Mike and I were talking about this, and it kinda, remember the guy who bet all those underdogs?


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[Assistant] Uh, in the NCAA tournament. Mike's kind of doing the opposite here to some degree. So he's telling me, we were talking about this because I said the A's and we were talking about this a little bit yesterday. Right. Maybe have the worst roster I've ever seen. Yeaah. Now, you never know with young players, now they don't have a lot of good prospects on their roster. I thought they got snookered on the Murphy. I thought they could have got more in that


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[Assistant] So it's like, who's running this? They just, a trade they made with the Braves a couple of years ago, they got.


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[Assistant] At the time, one of the better, bravest prospects, a guy named Kristen Pache, they just traded him for nothing yesterday because they were going to cut him.


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[Assistant] So the A's, unless you're a diehard baseball fan or an A's fan, you probably can't name a single player on the A's. So, uh, Mike is going to bet again, 10 bucks against the A's every single game this year. Now we were trying to decide, should he do it money line where they're going to be?


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[Assistant] A huge underdog every game. Or should he do it on the run line where the team that's playing them will only be minus 120 or minus 130? I think that's the safer play. I think that's what he should do. He's betting against the A's.


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[Assistant] They don't have, they have in their lineup, they have one good prospect, the kid they got.


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[Assistant] I can't remember which trade they got him in, named Asturi Ruiz, who's a nice prospect.


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[Assistant] That's it. The rest of the lineup is like journeymen 4A players and young guys who aren't high prospects. Their pitching staff stinks across the board. Bullpen. They got one or two decent arms in the pen. Rotation stinks. I, you know, I don't want to spend any more time on the A's.


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[Assistant] And before we get to the profits though, real quick, Trevor Stefan, we haven't mentioned this. Oh, that's right. Yeaah. He signed an extension, another long extension. Now, this one, you know, he's a...


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[Assistant] There's no downside. So now you've locked up one of your better setup guys. You've locked up your closer. You've locked up your best hitter and in Jimenez, probably your second best hitter.


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[Assistant] And the truth is, if Trevor Steffen were a free agent right now, I don't think he's making that much more than that. No, I don't think so either. He's certainly not getting a four year deal.


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[Assistant] Right. And I believe three of those four years where he was going to be arbitration eligible. So now they don't have to worry about this cost certainty over the next, they get one year free agency. And if he's really good, they pick up the options by the time that contracts over again, he's in his thirties because he's older for, yeah, he is. He's not.


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[Assistant] And so like all these guys they've signed, I can't remember Klaus A, his age at the end of his contract, but the other three are all like 30, 31, 32, like that's the end of their primes. And that's when you want to stop paying guys 10, 15 years.


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[Assistant] I don't think it'll be close. Now remember, Jose's a switch hitter.


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[Assistant] Now that's left more often because he faces more right-handed pitchers. And there's no more shift. Left-handed hitters in spring training


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[Assistant] Remember he got off to a terrible start. He was hitting like 220 in the middle of May and then the rest of the year he just killed it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, remember, when Francisco Lindor first came up, I'm not, you know, we'll see if he ends up following the same trajectory. We're gonna be extremely happy if he does.


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[Assistant] When Francisco Lindor first came up, he didn't have much power.


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[Assistant] It developed, and in year three, he started taking off. This is year three for him.


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[Assistant] But look at Lindor's first couple years. How many home runs did he have the first couple years?


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[Assistant] I hate to be Mr. Rainbow and Sunshine too much, but. You really have been, so you haven't had a negative yet. I've won. Rosario. Rosario's batting average.


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[Assistant] I've been saying since the moment they signed Josh Bell that he's got one more level to his game. Yeah. This team.


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[Assistant] Hens to find those levels for players like that. They do. And Josh Bell is gonna be happy.


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[Assistant] Josh Bell is gonna fit in well, small market, not a lot of pressure on him. Yeaah. I just think he's, I think he's, and I like this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well he's huge. He's very strong. He's massive. I got him with 33 home runs this year.


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[Assistant] They hit home runs. I'm not feeling as good about the pitching right now.


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[Assistant] I've got Jose with 34, Josh Bell with 33. 67 between them. Love it. I got him, 29.


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[Assistant] No, no. If he plays, if he's great this year in the minors, then at some point they bring him up and he splits time with Zanino, because those other two guys are journeymen. Right, yeaah. And they can move on from either of them. They're both like Luke Maileys, same caliber of player.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think he's just over. I got him a 26.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I'm excited to see the quicker games today. I know we've seen it in spring training a little, but I didn't, I haven't sat and watched an entire spring training game. And I watched, I watched some of the entire, uh, world baseball classic games, but then I used the rules there. So I'm excited to see the Cubs Brewers today. Cause I'm gonna watch that entire game and the guardians game tonight, the entire game.


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[Assistant] How much of a difference it is, beyond the total number, like just the way the game moves. I'm excited to see it.


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[Assistant] I just think wins is a product of the team, you know, like, you can pitch, a win is not an indicator for pitching well, necessarily.


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[Assistant] He might pick, he'll pitch well enough in four months to win ten games. Yeaah. But will the team back him? I don't know. I'm gonna say no to, that's just a, that's a big ass. That's a lot.


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[Assistant] Weeks? Yea, two to eight weeks. Bieber is the only one that's gonna consistently go deep in the games. Yea. You need the bullpen.


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[Assistant] like a top of the line. No, he's not going to just overpower guys. But he's a tier two strikeout pitcher. Yeah, I agree with that. I got him just over. I got him like with 205. I think it's going to be close. I think last start of the year, he goes over the 200 mark.


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[Assistant] I know, you're right, that's a really good analogy. When we did our fantasy baseball draft, uh, and listen, I make mistakes and I'm not saying I'm perfect at fantasy baseball, but I never draft closures high, ever. Because some emerge during the


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[Assistant] There's always guys to come out of nowhere. And even some of the better closers will, a guy from the year before,


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[Assistant] But that's what he's in the way minority with that. Way minority. There are guys who are closers going into the season, they blew two saves in the first week, they're out. They're done. And Tito gives closers more rope than any manager I can ever remember. And Klaus A was, you know, 1A, 1B with Diaz last year, is the best closer in baseball. By the way, closure.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. That doesn't happen. Very rare to have a, a, a closer be a, like you'll see it in one year, but to have a long term closer be a guy who's like a control pitcher. Yeaah, no. That almost never happens. Yeaah. You gotta be a, a lights out pitcher.


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[Assistant] Well, but if you factor in the odds... Yea, the odds are... I would actually go with Ramirez at 70 to 1. I think Quan has a better chance to lead the league in hits than Ramirez, but not a double the chance of Ramirez. So I would rather, if I'm betting, I'd rather take Ramirez at 70 to 1 than Quan at 33 to 1.


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[Assistant] You would automatically say Quan. But I think it's close enough that I'd rather take the long odds with Ramirez. Okay. I just can't see what...


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[Assistant] By the way, Freddie Freeman led the majors in Hicks last year. He had 199. Oh, he didn't get to 200.


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[Assistant] Ahmad Rosario was actually fourth in the league in hits list. He was 180.


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[Assistant] I think he'll be better, but he's not, like, to legally install on bases, you gotta get on the, like, his on base is probably under 300.


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[Assistant] Right. Right. But even, I just think, like, you got Cedric Mullins. I think Randy Arrozarena of the Rays is going to have a monster year this season.


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[Assistant] Exactly. So now all of those bang-bang plays are safe.


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[Assistant] He, he was my, when I did my predictions yesterday, he was my second choice for Cy Young behind Alec Manoa of the Blue Jays. He had even longer odds, I think, Manoa. But, you really like the Blue Jays, don't you?


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[Assistant] It is. But it's safe. Well, it can be. But usually there's new teams in the playoff. Although in the national league I picked the same six teams to make the playoff for last year. Uh, but uhm, anyway, so, but I think Bieber's got it. I think Bieber's right there. One of the top choices.


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[Assistant] It's even American League nationally. I mean, the Guardians are still lucky. The central divisions in both leagues are weak. Are the weakest divisions. I mean, the American League East, you might have all five teams over 500 this year. And Baltimore ain't even that trash no more. Baltimore's not bad. Boston should be decent. The Eastern divisions are the two best divisions in baseball.


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[Assistant] But overall as hitters, they don't have a stacked lineup and they got, they got a lot of old guys that I reason I don't like them this year is because I think a lot of their, they're already have nine guys on the injured list to start.


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[Assistant] They're old. And Judge is ridiculous. But Otani should win MVP every year. Right. And so, if I'm gonna bet a long shot, well I'm not gonna bet Ramirez, I'm gonna go with Jimenez. Even though he has almost no chance of winning, I might as well, uh.


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[Assistant] Well, did, did Babe Ruth? No, no, no, you don't have to. No, I'm saying. Oh, well, it's not young. Yeah, I see what you're saying. Also won the MVP.


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[Assistant] I got the guardians with 88 wins.


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[Assistant] Because he is an MVP type of player.


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[Assistant] He plays all season. He is as good as anybody in the field. He can steal bases, he can infer power, he can do it all. He just can't stay healthy. If he does, they're gonna be really scary with Correa and whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think they got, yeah, I mean I think there's a better than 50% chance they win the division. Obviously you never know with injuries and stuff. The White Sox gotta show me, you know, the White Sox have a lot of talent, they never put it together. I know they got a new manager.


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[Assistant] They've had bad chemistry. They lost a brain. A brain is gone. That's a huge loss for them. That's a big loss there. Obviously they got, you know, their rotation's good, but they've had a lot of injury problems there. They lost their closer because Liam Hendricks has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. We don't know if he's going to pitch at all this year. So, um.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I don't believe in the white. Tigers and Royals stink. They're both terrible teams again.


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[Assistant] Uh, in my predictions, I had them losing to the Blue Jays in the ALCS, which means obviously I think they can win the pennant.


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[Assistant] I didn't want to be too big a homer, which is part of the reason I picked the Blue Jays in that one, but, uh, yeaah, 12 to 1, I like their chances.


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[Assistant] That are clearly better than the Guardians. I really don't. Maybe I'm being naive. I think the Orioles are living on reputation. They've not had a great offseason.


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[Assistant] That they lost for a lander. And Lance McCullers is hurt. And he's been hurt a lot. I don't know when he's coming back.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think their lineup is top heavy. They obviously, their front of the line is really good, about two days out, two months.


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[Assistant] Nobody, there's nobody they can't beat in a playoff series. In the American league especially. So.


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[Assistant] Listen, if you, if you make, if you make the playoffs and they're healthy, there's no reason they can't. They could have won the World Series last year. I know it seems impossible sometimes.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. And now I can't remember if they made the playoffs last year or not. Did they get a wildcard last year? Wildcard had lost.


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[Assistant] Let's see, who did I, I picked to make the playoffs the Rays, the Blue Jays, the Guardians, the Twins.


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[Assistant] The Astros and the Mariners. So those teams were all Mariners were again, right around. So I would say the twins might be.


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[Assistant] I would give it to Bieber, but it's, I mean, it's neck and neck. I love Luis Castillo. He's a guy. He has him, doesn't get a lot of, you know, national press to some degree like Bieber because he played for some bad teams at Cincinnati and.


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[Assistant] He got traded out to the west coast in Seattle and he had a little dip right at the end of his career with Cincinnati and then he went to a good team in Seattle last year and he pitched great for them. It's part of the reason why I'm picking the


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[Assistant] My two biggest shocks from my predictions yesterday were the Yankees not making the playoffs and the Mariners winning the West. The Astros won the West by like 15 games and I think the Mariners are going to win the West. I like the Mariners a lot.


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[Assistant] I love their rotation led by Luis Castillo and Robbie Ray. So this is going to be a good series because you got great pitching matchup tonight. You're going to face some tough pitchers. The Mariners have


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[Assistant] Four starters I really like. They got Robbie Ray who I think pitches tomorrow. They got a couple of young guys, Logan Gilbert and, uh, George Kirby who are, have good, really good stuff. Gilbert pitched well last year, uh, so they're good. Castillo's an excellent pitcher, but, uh, not as good as Bieber.


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[Assistant] That matchup coach is really interesting because it's the two mid-majors. You talked about Florida Atlantic ready. San Diego State defensively, I mean,


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[Assistant] They've been magnificent on that end of the floor, and that seems to, you know, defense travels, it seems like, better than the offense, which is why I was leaning towards them, but I don't know, which way you leaning in that game?


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[Assistant] You coached in the Big East with Rutgers and a lot of our fan base doesn't care. This is a selfish question just for me.


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[Assistant] I grew up in New York as a huge St. John's fan because I grew up with Chris Mullin and Mark Jackson and Walter Berry.


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[Assistant] And Ronald Test, a little later, who I met at an airport and was like, was, I don't know, I met, sorry, I didn't meet Ronald Test at the airport, I met Malik Sealy at the airport, and Malik Sealy was an awesome, awesome dude. But anyway, St. John's, as you know, has gone down the tubes. They haven't been as good a team.


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[Assistant] Coach, I know you're in Vegas, the NIT Championship, UAB North Texas. You're on the selection committee as well. Who you, who you like it, who you think is going to win tonight? And what happened with UNC? They didn't, they didn't want to play in the NIT?


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[Assistant] It's interesting with these other tournaments, the NIT, and now they have this, the CBI thing, it's like,


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[Assistant] It's kind of like the bowl games in college football, like, sometimes you look at a game and you're like, well that team is better than that team, but you don't know what a team's motivation is going into these games, because you can't play for the highest championship in that, so. I would think as a player, like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, go play your ass off. Play to win. I know it's a very different story, division one and division three, but when I was in college and I would, you know, do play by play for the games at Brockport.


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[Assistant] There would be a couple of times, I don't know if you guys did this, there probably was a version in each.


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[Assistant] It wasn't called the NIT, but it was like a local tournament. And we always had fun, you know, you want to win. Sure. If you have a chance to play. Go ahead, Mikey.


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[Assistant] Right, I would say, listen, first of all, the caveat you're always going to say is you never know what Jimmy, because he does his own thing. I would think there are, like,


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[Assistant] Let's say, uh, there are a hundred scenarios that the Browns don't make the playoffs. A hundred different things to the Browns not making the playoffs. I would say there's


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[Assistant] Let's say the Browns won ten games and lost a tiebreaker to lose that last spot. Are you firing the coach over that? Probably not. Probably wouldn't. Probably not.


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[Assistant] And then Deshaun Watson gets hurt, misses the last five games, and they don't. Like, there are weird scenarios like that. But outside of those things, like, if they just are not good this year, he's out. He's gone. And everybody's gone.


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[Assistant] I gotta have, I gotta have improvement. He's right. The AFC is extremely tough. We all know this. This is as good as the AFC. I think there's a bigger differential between the AFC and the NFC than we've seen in a long time. I would agree with that. The AFC is very tough. There's no guarantee, even if Watson plays great, that the Browns are definitely going to make the playoffs.


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[Assistant] If, if Watson does play reasonably well, even if he's not as good as Houston, but way better than he was last year, he's, he's just very good next year, the expectation is they should make the playoffs. Even if they're the seventh seed, they gotta be in. At the very least, they have to be in the hunt.


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[Assistant] Minimum. And legitimately. Not like the 12th team on the board because they're 5 and 8. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I think if they don't make the playoffs, there's a 90% chance everybody's gone.


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[Assistant] That is cap- in my opinion, is capable. It doesn't mean anything- listen, anything's possible to the extreme.


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[Assistant] I think the realistic scenario for the Brown, the realistic best case scenario is they're the fourth best team in the AFC. I mean, that's the realistic, that's the high end. That's the realistic best case scenario. I would agree with that. They could be even higher than that, but that's a minuscule chance, but real, like somewhat reasonable.


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[Assistant] Best case scenario to me is they're the fourth best team heading into the playoffs.


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[Assistant] That doesn't mean they couldn't go to the Super Bowl, if they were, but whatever. And to me, the roster, they should be no worse than the 8th or 9th best team, now. But you could say, well, that's not good enough 8th or 9th. I don't agree with that.


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[Assistant] I, I don't. Okay. I'm just telling you right now, G, like going into the season, there's no way, like anything's possible. Good money's gonna pick them at best.


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[Assistant] Good line. Could they? Yes. I can't pick Deshaun Watson ahead of Burrow and Allen right now. Those guys have played


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[Assistant] Great. And Watson has it. And it's not like the Browns have this major advantage in other spots. There are some areas in the roster they have advantages over those teams, but not enough in the rest of the team that I could say, well, it's a, so if you're, I'm just saying.


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[Assistant] Scenario is there the sixth or seventh team in the AFC, which is good enough to make the playoffs. The roster is good enough to make the playoffs. If they don't again outside of another Deshaun injury.


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[Assistant] A bizarre tiebreaker when they win 10 games. Outside of those slim circumstances, there's no excuse. If they finish 8-9, 9-8.


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[Assistant] And they're healthy. I want everybody out. I want the coach out. I want the GM out. I'll keep Schwartz and, and, and, uh, and Bubba because they're here the first year, but I want the head coach and the GM the hell out of here if they don't make the playoffs pretty much.


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[Assistant] Right. But that's the thing. That's the difference between the good teams and the bad teams.


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[Assistant] Even, even the mediocre teams, except for maybe the worst three or four teams, even the mediocre sub, you know, below average teams, they'll have a couple of games like the Browns did where they look great. And you're like, well, why can't, but the teams that are great play that way consistent, not every game, but can smore off.


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[Assistant] No more. We never saw them together. The bottom line is fair, but the bottom line is for a second running back. Kareem Hunt punched the ball more than most second running backs and he wasn't playing that well. He wasn't as good last year.


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[Assistant] But again, Nick Chubb's been great with Stefanski. Amari Cooper was great with Stefanski. Who else is there? The only example is Odell, and Odell hasn't had a great season since the start of the year of the Giants.


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[Assistant] First of all Jarvis is not a great player.


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[Assistant] Play to play. He started getting hurt. And now his career is, you know, basically over.


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[Assistant] Okay. He had, first of all, it's a bad comparison to begin with because the, the error is that now you have guys putting up much bigger passing numbers because there's much more passing yards. I do stay corrected by the way.


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[Assistant] No, you're wrong. You can't be on a Hall of Fame track when you've never had a Hall of Fame season.


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[Assistant] He had zero Hall of Fame seasons. You don't go to the Hall of Fame with zero Hall of Fame. What is a Hall of Fame season? Well, Chris Carter went to the Hall of Fame. He wasn't in a Hall of Fame trajectory after his first four seasons. No he wasn't. And that's one player anyway.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jarvis in his first four years was a good, good player. Okay. Well, all I'm saying is we, what we look at is, I mean, there's 40 receivers, not 40 strong, 20, 25 receivers better than like you guys are making it seem like every wide receiver goes to all of fame. That's crazy with this.


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[Assistant] And we're comparing apples to oranges here too. By the way, who was the offensive coordinator for the Vikings when Stephon Diggs had his best season?


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[Assistant] Mediocre quarterback of Minnesota to Josh Allen. Of course he's going to put up bigger numbers.


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[Assistant] What is a Hall of Fame? I keep asking you, what is a Hall of Fame season? To me, at minimum, one of these two things, eight touchdowns, 1200 yards. He had nine touchdowns in one year.


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[Assistant] Of course, of course it's yet to be seen because he's only played six games and he didn't play well. He wasn't ready yet. He was rusty. And yes, it's fair to question, is he capable of having the creative, exciting playbook you need with Watson? However, it's also fair to say he never had the player that he was comfortable doing that with. That's true. You know?


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[Assistant] Not always, but usually. This would be the only reason for the Browns to trade for Kyler Murray.


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[Assistant] That's a good point. That, well, that's not the only reason. Yea, that's one of many reasons why they suck. Billy B, Billy B needs to know a right, needs a new theory because Moneyball ain't working.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like John Elway picked football. I got a recent example.


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[Assistant] Jeff Samarja, remember him? He was a really good receiver at Notre Dame. He was a hell of a pitcher. But he made his name in college, obviously, as a football. And he ended up signing with the Cubs, eventually went to the Giants. After a couple of good years early, he kind of went down the tubes, but still made a ton of money.


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[Assistant] Good gracious. He basically, with the Cubs early in his career, he pitched well, but then he went to the Giants, and for the Giants in the fi- He flamed out there, didn't he? He, he, with, he, most of his money made with the Giants, 90-something million. In his five years with the Giants, he had a 424 ERA.


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[Assistant] Guardians have officially announced the Jimenez extension by the way. It was obviously, it was all reports, but now it's official.


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[Assistant] It's, they officially say it's seven years through. The team is always the last to report it. Through the 29 season, the club, there was some confusion as to whether the contract started this year or next. And does it?


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[Assistant] Uh, well it's a seven year extension, so four, five, six, seven, eight, uh, so it starts this year. It does start this year. Yes. And so the club option is...


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[Assistant] So they control him through 20-30, which, you know, by that point he'll be 32, 31, whatever. 24 now.


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[Assistant] His 50 are in 1052. Right. That's not the same as though, he wasn't the same player that he was.


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[Assistant] What's the difference? I don't know. It's insane. So, so, so are you saying that did that play cost in the game? We have no idea.


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[Assistant] Then the home run. So, so he was already mountain down. He should have been about it here.


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[Assistant] Guys, that is the consequence of having a pitch clock. Now you're putting different things in the atmosphere. It's adding pressure and adding energy.


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[Assistant] You know what? Pictures are used to control an environment.


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[Assistant] Yes. This is, this is, if you listen to any Guardians loss, this is exactly what it sounds like. Cause we ain't even got to the sticks yet. This is all fiction.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna say the Guardians lineup is trash, but I'm gonna tell you what.


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[Assistant] This is the same broken record I said last year. And it's not about the Guardians. I know people love to talk about the pitching and guys and look at the minutiae of every pitch thrown. But the reality of this is, if the Guardians don't have power, this is the new age.


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[Assistant] Well, guess what? They didn't, they didn't, they did not go past, uh, just the first round. No, they did go past the first round.


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[Assistant] I get it, but if you, if you're a hitter, if you're supposed to be one of the main guys and they, you come out of spring training and they already talking about platoon in you.


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[Assistant] At the end of the year, last year, you can't tell me Will Brady was more of a better prospect than Gonzalez.


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[Assistant] Will Oscar take that? Will Oscar feel that? Cause you gotta think about it. He's, he's coming off of, uh, spring training where he wasn't bad. And so then you come into the season and it's like, okay, well they got Will, Will's doing this thing. If he's not in the lineup as a young guy, is that gonna mess with the psyche?


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[Assistant] You know, you know, so fascinating is that we get on Tony Romo for calling out every play and they said, I hate when you try to predict the play, but in baseball, we like it. We liked it at first.


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[Assistant] I think this is a part of a two pronged program. Yes, you got the timing right. The reason why people didn't like watching baseball is the level of activity.


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[Assistant] I don't understand Frank, right? Y'all might go 500. You just got, I mean, I don't even know. I don't know that the


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[Assistant] He should be, he should be higher than that. You know why? Because nobody in the national media thinks Deshaun Watson is gonna play well. Nobody. But that's the point.


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[Assistant] If they don't believe that he's going to play well, and he does play well, all of a sudden he's at the top of the ticket. Because they're going to say Deshaun Watson was finished. But you can say that about any bad team. No, no, no. But you think it's bad. No, no, no. But Deshaun


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[Assistant] Listen, if you look at any Browns poll, we just did a poll the other day where they had Pickett at 11 and the Steelers and the Ravens without a quarterback 12 and the Browns were 20. That's one poll. I can give you multiple polls. I've never seen one poll.


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[Assistant] When you're in last place and you got a quarterback that got controversy, Dave was worried about if the Browns was even going to be on TV. They was trying to black him out. I was like, y'all got blackout rules and even they're like, yeah, we not putting Deshaun Watson a number four. Listen, they was not having it last year. Now this year, if he comes back, Stefanski, it was left for dead. He's the next one on the hot seat.


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[Assistant] He comes into the season, he opens up a little more, he's showing his bright side, all of a sudden he gives you a playbook that's fun, entertaining, and Deshaun Watson plays well. All of a sudden, they go from last place,


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[Assistant] This is what happens, see, when you already rich, you can say, you can curse. Before you get, it'll be funny. Before you get rich, you can't curse.


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[Assistant] Why not? Let's hear why. Uhm, because I think if you look at what Damian Lillard is hitting, he hit for thought about 32 a game.


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[Assistant] I look at it like this. If Donovan Mitchell was not on his team from where Darius Garland was last year, Darius Garland would be averaging about 28 this year.


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[Assistant] To me, I think if you look at Donovan Mitchell and you look at Damian Lillard, they almost the same player.


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[Assistant] It's almost the same dude. Damian Lillard is a better ball handler. Um, but he's, I don't think it is, but he's a volume shooter. They shoot a lot of threes and they both need the basketball. There is Garland. He hasn't shown to be dominant off the ball. But one thing Darius Garland can do is spot up shoot and he ain't that old. Like,


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[Assistant] Now here's the thing, Mikey, he picked the wrong trade to be real truthful about it. So what's the right trade? The right trade is if I would make this move all day if he was talking about Luca. Now for me.


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[Assistant] Listen, Luca, I'm gonna tell you like this. He, he, he is smart enough to figure it out.


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[Assistant] If you said that I could get Luke, that's like saying I don't know if I could play with Lebron. Why you thinking Lebron keep getting new people? Because he's that good and you'd be like I at least gotta try.


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[Assistant] Brunson, but here's the thing, Brunson, did not Brunson thrive? Did he not, did he not get a big time deal?


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[Assistant] If you, if you, if you look at it, if you watch out there's Garland Plagues, you gonna give up some of the stuff that he has as far as his high handoffs, his lobs, his pick and roll. By the way, he's a star, Garland is almost a star who want to pick and roll, especially when he's doing it rolling to the rim and he got bigs to do that.


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[Assistant] Damien Liller is great. Don't get me twisted. Don't twist it. If they made the move, would I cry? No. I'm like, okay, well, perhaps it's still good. However, I still don't believe-


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[Assistant] Donovan Mitchell and Damon Lillard is a great fit.


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[Assistant] It's like, it's like, okay, well y'all gonna take turns shooting. I can see that happening. So for me- There's only so many shots in the game. The only way the Cavs, and this is the easiest way the Cavs get to the, get to the championship, is when, when Giannis woke up,


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[Assistant] You can actually watch it perfectly into the Guardians game. True. Yeaah. Uhm, yeaah. I might be resting people. I don't want nothing. They're two and a half up.