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[Assistant] It's pretty crazy, yeah, cause when you think about it, like, there's, there's two basic dispositions, I would say, when you're going into a battle where you could be angry and aggressive and really seem like you're wanting to attack the person and then the other attitude is to be dismissive. Funny as fuck. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And just sort of clown them.


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[Assistant] See, that's the thing about you is that you're so seasoned that it's kinda like you can, you can...


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[Assistant] Play with it, like, in a sense, like, when you go out there in the fucking samurai outfit, I mean, that's like the ultimate way of you saying like, look, look how serious I'm, like, I'm gonna fuck you up lyrically, but also I'm not taking myself so seriously that you're gonna be able to hurt how I feel about myself. You see me wearing a fucking kimono.


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[Assistant] But by the time somebody ends up in a battle with somebody like you, like an Asian guy, is gonna have to really, really be used to hearing a bunch of fucking Asian jokes, right?


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[Assistant] At what, like how did you really start to build your name as a battle rapper? Like what, what was it that actually made you start getting respect and made you feel like you were actually climbing the ranks?


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[Assistant] And was there no real leagues prior to this? No. Really?


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[Assistant] Do you ever feel weird about that? That you are like, you go on camera.


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[Assistant] You do battles where you say things that you would never say. Really, that's like the strange thing. It's like, the reaction you must get from other people based on the fact that you can go in the ring and say things that are so, in a lot of ways it's like stand-up comedy. It is, it is stand-up comedy and that's why people should understand that. It's competitive stand-up comedy and the rhyming is just part of the challenge.


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[Assistant] Do you feel like rap, battle rap is in a lot of ways it's like the most pure form of lyricism just in the sense that


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[Assistant] You know, there's nothing that's like more of a raw example of who you are as a rapper than to go on stage face to face and to really just put it all on the line.


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[Assistant] What's a day- I quit sometimes. What's a day in your life like at this point in your life?


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[Assistant] You want anything right here? Go crazy. Oh man, I'm gonna fucking eat some of these gummies. Uhm, yeaah, so, okay. But let's talk about that. Well, it's CBD edibles. See? Exactly. If I was performing. If you were doing a battle. And I said edibles instead of edibles.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so what, explain that situation, because that's something that I know you've talked about a million times, but people definitely are gonna want to just hear that story.


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[Assistant] Like almost like it's the first time I'm talking about it. Because right now at this moment there are thousands of people googling this fight to just see what I'm talking about.


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[Assistant] How would you rate the overall health of the battle world at this point both in real life and online?


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[Assistant] Okay, let's say this. You know that in two months you have to battle, you know, blank person that you consider to be a formidable challenge. Right. What is the next two months like in your brain and things that you're doing to get ready for that?


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[Assistant] So you just write a ton and then just go through and try to really like focus in on what the best stuff is? Or do you have stuff in mind for certain things that he might say? You have like whole things written in case he says this?


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[Assistant] It is weird to think that like there's like a type of rapping that goes on in battles that is like really hard to find outside of battles and just in the sense of like really shoveling each bar full of so many consonants or so many syllables that rhyme with the next bar.


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[Assistant] That it's like, it's such a flex to be able to say like, look, I just made sensical sentences out of these insane string of syllables and I actually made this work.


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[Assistant] Lyrical, miracle, spiritual. Like lyrical, miracle, spiritual is like the cliche way of thing.


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[Assistant] It's really, as a hip-hop fan, do you feel like in a lot of ways that sort of disillusioned you to the whole thing?


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[Assistant] What you mean like? Like just knowing that that many people aren't actually writing their own shit. And I'm gonna be real with you, I don't know that many people who don't write their own shit. I know of some artists.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Five-digit paychecks and- How much preparation would you have to do if you were gonna battle somebody that you thought was trash? That you thought you could just beat them like- I'll just fucking freestyle, bro.


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[Assistant] He's probably the only person who really sort of battle rapped on this podcast because he started basically rapping his verse from one of his songs at this dude Sam Pepper and he, one of the lines was, uh, Bella Hadid hit my DMs with an XO and he said it like it was the most lethal bar ever.


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[Assistant] Is that, so that's the plan is to figure out how to do events where people can sort of, because that's normally when you go to these battles, it's just a couple of relatively big name battles, right? There's no way for somebody to get a chance if they, uh, to really build their name up if there are nobody, right? Like how do you go from sort of scratch?


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[Assistant] No, but I just can't imagine you battling somebody who was like really trying to be something that they aren't because you're just so experienced with like telling people what they are. And if they're, if it's sort of obvious that they're not valid and I feel like you could just tell them that


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[Assistant] Right. Yeah, you were saying to me, uh, privately that you wish that you had been, like, consistently putting shit up on YouTube throughout your career.


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[Assistant] I saw Harlow battle Joe Budden, and he just immediately, like, don't you ever put your hands on a woman. Oh yeaah, see it was fire right? That was my favorite part of the battle. That was amazing, like, it was just so well done.


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[Assistant] Okay, but to what extent is a good poker face like a big part of being a good battler? To be able to sit there and hear something that brutalizes your soul.


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[Assistant] I mean I think it's a good approach because it's like you want to sh- to keep reminding the audience that this is a battle. They don't actually mean what they're saying. The fact that I can appreciate it is proof that this is just talk.


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[Assistant] A lot of people though, accuse them of faking their beef, and I don't believe that, well I don't believe that at all to be totally honest, I don't believe that they fake their beef.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean the whole thing was ridiculous and extra as fuck, but I don't really think that it was like fake-faked. I believe that to a certain extent they probably knew that by hyping it up that it was helping their careers and everything. But, you know, there has been a lot of rap beef that people have rumored or said like, oh, this is, this is actually like fake for real. Like this is something where, uh, oh you want one? Barewood. Pre-rolled blunts. Good stuff. Got the big fat one right here too. Hey Sparky! Usually need a torch to light this one.


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[Assistant] No, it's okay. I don't mind at all when people do that here, but- How am I gonna put it up? There was a bunch of girls in my crib the other day and they were- Oh, you want someone to put it up?


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[Assistant] Hey, that's another thing we go get into, girls in battle rap. Yeah, I've seen you fucking telling this fat girl so many- Oh god, it was the meanest shit I've ever seen. Oh, you're talking about-


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[Assistant] Uh, where did, uh, or what's the status currently of your relationship with Daylight?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I was listening to it and thinking like, is this a troll to just hype his friend up and make you sound like a fucking psychopath?


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[Assistant] Right. Yeah. You run into a lot of situations where you feel like you need a gun on you?


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[Assistant] You ever shot somebody? No. Never came to it?


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[Assistant] I've seen a bunch of different battles where people tried to be like, oh, you, you got your grape street goons with you, blah, blah, blah. Like what's, what's your connection to them?


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[Assistant] You try to stay out of all that like claiming to be with whatever.


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[Assistant] Fucking crazy. Uhm, so, but is Daylight from Grave Street? Uhm. Is that part of what they're saying?


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[Assistant] From your perspective, isn't there supposed to come, like every great athlete is supposed to just hit a certain age where their skills start to go downhill?


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[Assistant] And when I think about even the funniest, coolest, like, 22-year-olds that I know, they still don't have, like, much of a perspective on hip-hop history to be able to sit there and have a conversation about how something that's happening today compares to- Life in general. 50 Cent, Jay-Z, whatever the fuck we've all seen before. Yea, and just life in general. Life in general. It's really hard, and like, I-I think-


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're right though, because it's like, if you were 18 right now, and you had all the ammunition that you already have in your fucking brain, in terms of what you know about rapping, and you had that drive of like, non-stop wanna go,


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[Assistant] He was just the kind of motherfucker who literally like one time I got into a situation when I was running around by myself. He's just down as fuck. I was running around by myself and got into a situation where some people ran up on me or whatever. I'm having a conversation with him. He's...


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[Assistant] It's all about that. I like your attitude on it because it's like at the end of the day, gin or cannabis could never really be that like forefather, that guide to like battle rap and shit because of the fact that they really tried to distance themselves from it at certain points.


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[Assistant] There's just so much that you're putting on the line when you go to battle as an established rapper. Like, there's just so much to lose once you have like a, like a successful mainstream career, right? Really? You know what?


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[Assistant] But people just seem so jarred by his flow. Because it's off beat. But it makes sense to me because there's so many fucking rappers that I've listened to over the years that you could put in a pretty similar category.


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[Assistant] It's LA gangster shit software. If it's the first LA rapper that you've listened to since YG, I totally understand why it seems weird to you.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, uh, Draco just is like, just a darker version of Blueface. Blueface came out and kinda like, cleaned up his style to me a little bit and just came with like a more like, fun version of it. Meanwhile also, Draco's locked up. But uhm,


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[Assistant] What about 6ix9ine? He had like the biggest 2018. What do you think of him as a rapper?


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[Assistant] Which was fucking good. Well, it's just amazing that he actually pulled it off. He pulled it off. I don't know that I've ever seen anybody come out and then just put out another song that is such a completely different genre. And he's just a kid. And then it worked.


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[Assistant] I wish the whole world had like the battle rap rules, though, where it's like, because in the battle rap world is how I wish it worked, which is you can make a racist joke as long as it's funny, and if it's not funny, everybody's just gonna let you know, boo, that was fucking lame.


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[Assistant] So that's fucking common to go to a battle and to hear somebody bring up somebody's dead homies or whatever.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you this. Say you were to battle Kevin Hart. A guy who is maxed out on the funny scale, but definitely probably I'm assuming doesn't have any like technical rap skills. And obviously like the crowd is gonna be drawn.


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[Assistant] The crowd is gonna be really in his corner because he's so famous and stuff. How, how do you think, what are the odds that he could-


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[Assistant] I sometimes feel like your bars like, might just go over people's heads.


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[Assistant] But yeaah. That was crazy. We just hit the two hour mark. Did we? Damn. I feel like we're probably gonna end up doing podcasts together in the future because I feel like we still have a lot to talk about.


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[Assistant] You know what would be fun? Is if we did a live show someday where it was just me and you, and it's like, yo, you thinking you can rap? Come into the store, but you're gonna get roasted by him.


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[Assistant] Alright, to everybody watching at home, thank you so much for being tuned in. Uh, to anybody who donated to have their songs checked out, I'm gonna stop this livestream and restart it as soon as we're ready, so uh,


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[Assistant] Don't worry, you will get handled. Uh, huge thanks to Zaster for letting me learn all about battling through him and shit. It's been one of my favorite interviews I've ever done just in the sense that I got to like learn so much leading up to it and shit. Really appreciate it.


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[Assistant] Man, that was like the trash, bro. Like, when you get new information like that, you gotta, like, that was, that was Def Con 4. I'm like, oh.


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[Assistant] I just worry, when Lose or Draw, I was gonna wear it anyway because it's fire, but I really gotta put more to that because they play well. But no, listen, I go to JB, man.


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[Assistant] Shout out, we killed JB, and I'm a person who says, if I'm gonna kill you one time for doing something bad, when you do something good, I gotta give you your credit. And JB, I thought,


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[Assistant] Had the correct temperament. I thought he cleaned all his rotation stuff up. I thought that he was brilliant for what he did.


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[Assistant] Uh, in terms of Isaac O'Cora started it off, two turnovers, two fouls. See ya. I got, come on, sit beside me, come talk to me. Like your grandma used to do when you used to be doing too much. Come here, come here. Sit right here. Sit right here. Don't you move either. Don't you move.


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[Assistant] He was at Rutgers. He was like, no, I understand Darius Garland did his thing, but this is me.


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[Assistant] Me, I'm not him, I'm just, I'm, I'm him's buddy. So I'm him's boy. So he got into involved him downstairs. It was just, it was just a.


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[Assistant] You know, the intensity, we got so much to get into, but I think JB, he has, he has a very tough, he has a tough answer, a tough situation now, when you play that well.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And you look like you got Karis. It looked like you got Jetty.


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[Assistant] And Danny played him a little bit, that's fine. And if he hit, he hit one three, could have hit another three, but stepped out of bounds. So it looks like those are his three cats coming off the bench. And does he throw Harris Laverne in that starting lineup for moving forward?


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[Assistant] Play that style of basketball, not aggressively, and that defensive intensity, and I don't even think the LeBron team played like that. They didn't, they didn't play that level of defense. When you watched them play in the second half, second quarter on, they were contesting every shot.


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[Assistant] Runts and couldn't, shout out to Jason Lloyd for what he said.


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[Assistant] He said, you know, let's be clear, Jalen Brunson is a nice ball player. We like Jalen Brunson. But come on man, Jalen Brunson is not the second coming Allen Iverson or something. He's a nice ball player. And when they started shutting his water off, his utilities got cut off. He couldn't get left.


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[Assistant] Julius Randall was frustrated by the length of Allen and Mobley. It seemed like they either tipped, contested, blocked most of those shots underneath the basket. And so when you're playing like that and your defense is rotating and they look elite on that side.


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[Assistant] Come back to Cleveland 2-2, Cavs are in good shape. And I'm going to tell you what, you thought it was live and that atmosphere was going to be crazy. Can you imagine on Friday, it's a Friday night in the garden and they ain't been, listen, they are going to be on A-10 and so the Cavs are going to have to really


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[Assistant] Weather the storm. What I, what I look to see is...


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[Assistant] It might be a game. Lebron used to do this a lot. Uhm, on the road.


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[Assistant] It's kind of what we did to them. We do not want to get down 14, 15 points in a quarter. Not in the garden. Not in the garden because here's the thing.


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[Assistant] If you thought you was getting sketchy non-calls now, by the way, I can't even say it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I've been watching all the NBA, first of all, shout out to the NBA. The NBA playoffs are, I mean, watching these games is fantastic. It's amazing.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, like for some reason, like we're growing up, you can't even watch the Browns. He was like, wow, the Browns in there is like, yeah, the game's not sold out. It's blacked out in your area. I've seen the Kings play maybe once or twice and one of those games was playing the Cavs. Right, right, right. Yeah. But De'Aaron Fox, good.


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[Assistant] Which I didn't know. I didn't know he was like that. I forgot. The Suns is so crazy. Devin Booker had a monster day. The Suns. See Kevin Durant, you sneaky, dirty. He gets on my nerves, bro. See.


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[Assistant] With these other dudes with similar skill sets. So it's like, who you gonna pick? You gonna stop me or Booker. You can't just double both of us because one of us is gonna be open.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Kevin Durant, Chris Paul, uhm, and he threw in, uh, a couple of other guys. He's only given up like six field goals. The entire- Really? Yeah, like he's just-


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[Assistant] The fact that it's all pitch black and dark from the second row back. It's like they spot shadow only the famous people. They're like, listen, if you were row five, they got the lights completely off. I don't know how the hell


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[Assistant] Now, now, this is, this always baffles me. So like, all these big cities, right? Uhm, like,


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[Assistant] In Boston and in New York, are, is there subways like attached to that? So you could just get on the subway and go right to the garden?


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[Assistant] Thirteen. Thirteen. Thirteen and thirteen. I mean. You see here, this is, what I loved what they did was.


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[Assistant] They're, they're known for a defensive team, but what I love is, you know, I'm just so fascinated with the pick and roll game.


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[Assistant] So basically when, when you looking at


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[Assistant] You know, Jalen Brunson and what he was able to do the first game, even though he was in foul trouble, I thought he was able to rest on defense a little bit. I thought, you know what I'm saying, they was able to hide him a little bit and, you know, teams with smaller guards like Steph Curry.


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[Assistant] They're notorious for trying to hide him so that he can stay fresh and still be able to have that energy on offense. But I think JB did something really, really good. I think they basically said, you know what?


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[Assistant] Let's figure out if you can shoot all them jumpers and do all that stuff. We gonna put you in a pick and roll every single time.


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[Assistant] And so the amount of energy it takes for a small guard to be trying to get over top of a big, fighting over screens, fighting under screens. He's doing all of that and now his legs.


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[Assistant] It's the biggest part of what his game is, because obviously he has to shoot over length, he has to shoot over longer defenders at the rim, because the, the Cavs got two wind protectors. It's just, he, I don't, it looked as if...


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[Assistant] He didn't have his legs and I thought they did a good job of making him say, you're going to play both sides of the court today. And I thought that, I thought that was one of the big wrinkles that they did from game one to game two.


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[Assistant] Like, if you're gonna play receiver and you play in that practice, people don't understand. All they do is run and come back.


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[Assistant] It's like dogs, they play fetch, but let run and then sometimes you don't even get to rock. I'd be like, nah, I'm not going to be running these backside routes. I'm running this coverage off. At least DBs start off 20 yards off the ball, but these dudes.


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[Assistant] He's off the list. He got off the list like two years ago. He's such a likable.


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[Assistant] It's a hard sport to officiate. I think if you watch over the totality of the entire playoffs, they've been letting the guys play the same way.


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[Assistant] What's your take on Isaac Kikoro? Uh, do you think JB has a, a, I guess a conundrum on his hands? He's rolled with Isaac the majority of the year. They like what he can give you defensively, but Karis Levert just, I mean, he has the ability to kind of,


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[Assistant] Pick it up and all of a sudden he gets it going and Cavs offense becomes a different type beast.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, with the ACL thing, I just think with Ricky Rubio, I'd tell him both of my ACLs, and...


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[Assistant] I remember trying to play basketball after tearing my ACL. Like you just, yea, you see em? Yea, I got em. Yea, I got em. Yea, I got the lines. I got this and these are my tattoos. You know, this is a stat. It's a stat. I got a line on every part of my body. Like every limb and part, like there's a line from surgery. It's kinda crazy, right?


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[Assistant] Alright, I got one. My Achilles tendon. There you go. I tore that too. That sucks. I don't like that. That's the worst. Yeah. Uhm, no, but when you, when you trying to come back and play basketball, it's just.


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[Assistant] Like, you're not really, I kind of compare it to being like, you're not in control of your body. It's like, you're just, you're uncoordinated, it's like,


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[Assistant] The stuff you used to do where you didn't think like I'm going to run and I'm going to cut it, I'm going to jump and I'm going to do this. It just doesn't, it just feels like your lower body is kind of detached. And it takes a lot to get your explosiveness back, just to trust your leg.


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[Assistant] For Rubio, I can tell that he's not 100%. And usually you won't be 100% to year two after you do it anyway. Uhm, so, you know, I, I think...


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[Assistant] JB, uhm, and I'll ask you this question. Uhm, you said whoever's riding the hot hand, uhm,


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[Assistant] Do you think he has the heart to say, well look, I'm only going with seven. Cause I thought, I thought the way he handled it.


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[Assistant] Was, we didn't really see too many guys jump, jump in the game. He used Jetty and he also used, uh, he used LaVert and then you saw a little bit of Danny Green. And so, it was seven guys. And so, do you think you will see much more shorter rotations and getting guys in and out like that when we get to New York?


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[Assistant] I was just, I was just going to pivot to that. Do you believe, uhm, what they want to do is to get just the split in New York? Is that what they're looking for? Now obviously, I like to get a treaty. I like to, if you're going to give me two. But is that the objective?


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[Assistant] He got green. I got green for sure. Yeah. I picked Jetty because Jetty can give me that energy.


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[Assistant] Like when he just is on the court, first of all, he can hit a three at a higher rate. He does hit trade. And he showed me a little something when they had him on Jalen Brunson. He did not embarrass himself. He can get out in the break and finish. He gives you energy. He dives on the floor. I think he's a more,


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[Assistant] Go ahead. Yeaah. Defensively, I get what people say. Isaac Correll probably would be one of the better on the ball defenders, but see, it's different now. The way the Cavs is playing.


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[Assistant] They have two twin towers. They just, and so even if they get past Jetty, you still gotta see Evan Mobley, then you still gotta see Jared Allen at the top of the, or under the basket.


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[Assistant] You can make up from some of the stuff that you may lose defensively by being a good defensive team defense and the principles that they got. I just need all...


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[Assistant] Cause here's, if you don't do that, you muddy yourself down, and then the calves aren't.


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[Assistant] By the way, I love that. Like, if Julius Randall, and I know he can make him, but that's just not what it is. If Julius Randall is going to be shooting threes.


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[Assistant] Awesome, because guess what? Evan Mobley is going to contest that. He's going to contest it without filing you. He's going to not, you know, file a jump shooter. And so now that whole 6 foot, you know, he's about 6'8", 6'9", 6'10", whatever the case he is, 240, that whole weight


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[Assistant] Strength is nullified. And he's not getting those guys in foul trouble.


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[Assistant] If, if, if the Cavs mess, I'ma tell you what, the way they played defense yesterday, the Cavs mess around.


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[Assistant] You talking about like, McHale, Bridges? Bro. They actually could be one of the teams that I would literally say.


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[Assistant] In the playoffs, they're that good defensively that they could win a championship no matter how good offensive you are. And they are good offensively. And they're good offensively.


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[Assistant] Because that means, that means you could, that means you have two erasers and you have a long athletic wing that can guard the KD's, the Kawhi Leonard's. At that point, at that point, it'd be crazy. It'd be ridiculous.


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[Assistant] That's the problem. You have nothing to trade. That's the great thing about the NBA. You can't stack it like that. You used to. You used to, but what would happen would be you'd have to have somebody that was willing to come to your team.


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[Assistant] And we gotta, we gotta understand this too. Like, every game is its own entity. Yes. So we can get into this game, game three, and somebody get in foul trouble.


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[Assistant] He's, and let me, one more, somebody else, uh, threw that in there too. No Stevens, no Rubio. At this point. No, uh, what's his name? Dean Wade. Yeaah, the reason why Rubio's a plant, I just don't think he, he could stay in front of people. No. Uhm, and he, he's not.


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[Assistant] First of all, let's just go ahead and say it. This is my problem with guardians, people in general.


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[Assistant] You can't have it both ways. And sometimes when I hear a bunch of people who know a lot more than I do or cover it or figure it out and really watch this thing in depth, my issue is this. You can't have it both ways. You can't say that you don't have the resources to go out and get players.


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[Assistant] But yet and still you have resources in your minor leagues to go out and either trade those players to get better players, right?


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[Assistant] But then you don't do that, but then you're like, okay, well don't trade them. Just bring them up here and help me. And you still don't do that.


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[Assistant] So I'm like, you can't be sitting, like we sit there and look at these prospects as shiny toys. Yeah. And it's like, you know, we're sitting there on Christmas Day and it's January 15th and your mom still won't let you open a toy. Like come on, like what are we doing here? You look at the bullpen.


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[Assistant] Obviously Gadus is getting, listen, last two starts, he's banned. He actually just got


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[Assistant] And by the way, Bull, let's talk about this. Listen, we spent half the year killing Josh Bell.


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[Assistant] Oh, he been hit lately. We destroyed him. Yeah. Here's a guy. I did say he was uh. And you got a point. If Jay and Jason Lloyd come back up in here telling me


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[Assistant] That, that nailer should begin still getting hits against lefties.


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[Assistant] No, he's batting 161. He, he, he didn't flew, flew under the radar. We was killing Bell the whole half of the year. He's batting 161. He has two home runs. And if you're gonna be batting 161, I need your power numbers to be higher than that. And he's not really even a crazy, you know. He stinks in the field.


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[Assistant] I'm looking at it. Once again, I'm always worried about, I'm always worried about the power numbers. Uhm, and Jose's number, Jose's power numbers are down.


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[Assistant] Listen, Bull, I'm sitting here looking at these stats.


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[Assistant] If it get hot, like, it's like shorts weather. Like, hey, look, hey, we can't. Right. Because, because here's the thing.


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[Assistant] The Guardians, since they've been the Guardians, which are, which is a team that's good, and they always flee somebody in deals, and that, the way they're built.


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[Assistant] Top three pitcher staff where you would say, even if they don't get no hits, they may lose some one-nothing games, but if they get a lead on you in the third, fourth inning and they up four to two, chalk it up, you about to lose. They can't say that this year.


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[Assistant] This year, between industries, uh, and guys struggling, they don't have that. So something has to get. They're about to get old timey.


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[Assistant] Thoughts, thoughts about the, the division. Do you think it's just a two, two, two pony race? I still think the white socks. Guardians and uh, twins. You don't, you don't have to believe in the white socks.


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[Assistant] Did I miss it somehow? I thought he wasn't there at game two. I didn't see him. I didn't see him. I didn't see him game two.


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[Assistant] No, I think them 20 year old rappers is out there. I think they, I think they perped out. What was Spike Lee's last movie by the way?


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[Assistant] So really quickly, according to Celebrity Net Worth, Spike Lee is worth $60 million. However, the cheapest jet that you can buy, a mid-size economy jet, a private one, is about $18 million.


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[Assistant] I, I, I was on Twitter, I say, he's like,


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[Assistant] He came back and was like, yeah, I really want to be here. I was like, hey man, good to have you dog. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And then you get the thing where I think pro football talk came out. Somebody was like, he definitely wanted to trade. We switched agents for a reason. We get it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, like Jim Swartz, when you, when you hear him talk.


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[Assistant] In a way he talks about how he was a dude back in the day.


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[Assistant] Uhm, just being a dude that used to go, uh, go for, for Bill Belichick and different things and just staying in, just creating different things. I, I got some tapes.


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[Assistant] Where he's talking to the coaches at, at seminars and he's talking about all the different wrinkles that they got and how they try to do things. Sometimes man, when you get, when you get a new coach in, and I don't know, did you guys switch any coordinators or anything while you was at Ohio State?


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[Assistant] So, so you can, you can tell by this, there's certain guys that maybe if you not playing, the coach is previous to you.


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[Assistant] They had a certain level of guys that they wanted, right? They liked him for some reason. You felt like, man, this dude ain't even nice like that. Why do you, why is he playing over me? Then you get a new coach, right? And then that first week you go to practice, you get there, and the first week


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[Assistant] The coach said, I ain't got no picks. Everybody starts over. The guys that were starting


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[Assistant] That is the most uncomfortable feeling in the world because you know how hard it is to now prove yourself again. And you can get that in a minute or two. I think Jim Schwarz told him like, look bro.


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[Assistant] Because here, fiscally and financially, why would you waste an asset? Like, you were a first round pick.


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[Assistant] Why would I then put all this time, resources, and money into you just for you to get to this fifth year and be like yeaah, we're gonna let him go free agency. You can't, you can't do that. Especially if you know he can play. We got problems with guys that it was third round pick, second round that can't play.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna ask you about this dude because when he came out I thought he was gonna be that deal.


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[Assistant] That's right. I think what happened to Miles Garrett was if you go back, I want to say about 2017, 2018 around that era.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Miles Garrett was getting a lot of personal files. He was. He was, like, he was. They were calling him a dirty player. Yea, they were calling him a dirty player. Yea. Then he had the Mesa Rudolph thing. Please refer to him by his proper nickname, The Great Gazoo. Yes, The Great Gazoo with his big head. Yea. He, like, he beat him, he beat him down with his own helmet.


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[Assistant] Like, so Bob Garrett was like, you know what, he was like, you know what, let me go ahead and fall back. They try to suspend. By the way, that's corny. I saw Aaron Donnell beat somebody to death almost in practice. Against the Bengals. Against the Bengals. And he got nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Zero.


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[Assistant] And we not bout to act, see, see, I wouldn't, I don't even know if I was on, I don't even know if I was popping back then. We not bout to act like.


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[Assistant] At the end of the day, Miles, I think Miles Garrett was like, I'm going to calm down. That suspension was, looking back, he should have been suspended one game. That's it. And Aaron Donaldson.


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[Assistant] We, we, we, we is kind of soft. I'm over, I'm over Schwartz. I like the fact that he said they excited.


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[Assistant] What happened to bumping around coverage? What happened to that? I don't see it. It's still there.


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[Assistant] Before I go, Earl, you had your hand up.


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[Assistant] You know, at one point in time, I was really heavy into like politics and...


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[Assistant] You know, but people, you know, whether it's the left or right, people used to do stuff to get on my nerves, and I used to hate it, and I used to write these long posts. And then uhm, one day, it just dawned on me, like,


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[Assistant] This stuff been going on for years. Like, this ain't nothing new. Like, they gonna do that and they gonna continue to do that. My thing is, instead of writing them posts doing all that other stuff, like, how you gonna change people's lives? What do you do? So,


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[Assistant] First time I went and started going to correctional facilities talking to these young kids that's in there that's doing 25 to life, or guys in there that's doing 10 years, they 16. The thought process is,


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[Assistant] Donald Trump or Joe Biden don't exist in there. And them Walls, 25 years, their life, and that's all they dealing with this time.


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[Assistant] And how you gonna be able to go in there and try to tell them, okay, you getting out, here's what you can do to get out, here's some advice, here's some job skills. These people...


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[Assistant] But at the end of the day, what are you gonna do to make your own little positive stamp on what you can control? I can't control nothing about Deshaun Watson. We probably, I can't control nothing with no politicians. At the end of the day, I watch the Browns, I talk about the Browns, and he's on the squad. And he said it best. I love to hear what you just said.


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[Assistant] Their behaviors, like the people who have great behavior, have access to internet, have access to YouTube. Those who are, uh, you know.


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[Assistant] Shoes not, cause by the way, they, they really still be going at it with each other inside. Like, there's always something, something going on. Even when you're inside, you know, they tell you got to keep your head on a swivel cause they'll have a cold something and you see people with


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[Assistant] You know, mad correction officers going into one cell. So it's always, you got to keep that on a swivel. But yeah.


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[Assistant] Did you see this, did you see this Earl? And the rest of you guys?


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[Assistant] Nick Chubb, there was something out a couple of days ago about


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[Assistant] The best fantasy players, right? The best fantasy players coming out. They didn't put him in the top 10.


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[Assistant] I do too. I think, I think Nick Chubb finally is starting to like, he's starting to figure this thing out, like.


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[Assistant] I think he's taking the bull by the reins. He's like, listen man, y'all cats been marginalizing me a little bit. Y'all acting like I ain't nice. I think he might even take the, like, Nick Chubb probably feels like he can catch the ball too. He probably feel like, well, I just haven't had the opportunity. Kareem Hunt was here. That was his role. He cost screen.


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[Assistant] No, and even in college, Nick Chubb has always been splitting carrots.


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[Assistant] So I think maybe it's to a point where he's like, maybe he wants to be known as a dude, like hey.


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[Assistant] I want my Derek Henry year. I want my 1900. I want my 2000 yards. I think he's gonna, I mean, I still think he's gonna get a lot of carry.


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[Assistant] It says right here, this is from NFL.com, it says, Watson said on Tuesday, uh, that the year in Cleveland has made a big difference. Honestly, as night and day he told reporters, uh, he talked about last year, I was a whirlwind, uh, but it was a good learning lesson for myself.


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[Assistant] And for me, uhm, to be able to grow. Coming in this year, I'm, I'm ahead of the game where I was, uhm, previously, uh, and he just talks about how much more comfortable he is, uh, you know, doing what he thinks he said. Yeaah. I think in, uh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, even when he came last year, he didn't say nothing about feeling good. He was just like, yeah, I'mma go, I'mma show up and see what happens. But it was all new. He got traded.


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[Assistant] The cool thing about it is that when that ain't hanging over your head,


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[Assistant] You know, so people that use that against you, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's damned if you do, damned if you don't. If you come out and aggressive, they talking about, now think about it, all last year, he needs to be rehabilitated.


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[Assistant] Like, I'm like, rehabilitated is like an incarceration word, like.


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[Assistant] Like it, he, you saying it like this man need to come like figure out what the, you know, counseling and all this other stuff. And so if you come out and show that aggressiveness, like, well, look, see, this is what I told you. He was aggressive. I don't think he should be doing that. I don't think she'd be talking. He should be now this year.


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[Assistant] You can come out and you can play football. You can get your guys together. They know you, you've been in the building. And now you can really go out now and play with that, that intention to really embarrass people. Now you can't, hey, listen, we don't care about nothing like what happened last year. You can't stop me now. I'm about to smoke you out. That's just what we talk about.


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[Assistant] And to be honest with you, as he's going through this, your family life is screwed. So you're talking about how much money you're going to lose. Like you're trying to figure out new people in the locker room. You ain't never really lived here. Ain't on top of that due to what the allegations are.


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[Assistant] You still gotta try to work your relationship out. Like, like, think about that. Like, if you're trying to work your relationship out with somebody and that's on TV every single day.


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[Assistant] But I just, you know, it hits different when you see, it's always hard being successful African American male and for you to make it to the pinnacle and die at 31. It's just, every time it hit me like,


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[Assistant] What a shame. And that's anybody, like that's anybody who's gone through those things, but you know, it just tells you.


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[Assistant] Sometimes you don't be living in a moment like that, you know. Sometimes you work a lot and you try to- Can end at any time. But you gotta, you better live every second, right today, not tomorrow, because you don't know when your time up, man. And it's just, you know, it's sad, but uhm, that's just a note for us.


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[Assistant] He hit the arm. He's too tall. He's too tall, so he couldn't, he had to go back. He's dying.


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[Assistant] Where is the ceiling? I don't think it's the ceiling. I just, I've never seen any asset or business appreciated exponentially. I've never seen it.


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[Assistant] Like six billion is... I don't under... I'm trying to figure out, first of all, who has six billion dollars? Second of all... Not many. When they give you that six billion...


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[Assistant] The fact that they can give that to you and they're guaranteeing you a return, it's crazy.


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[Assistant] That's so, it's so ridiculous to me. I just, and when you look at it, you know, we talked about ownership and the good part about this is we'll get to examine minority ownership. We'll get to figure out Magic Johnson is involved in it. We don't know how much of a stake he put up or what his controlling interest is.


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[Assistant] We'll get an opportunity to talk about that. And by the way, are you guys a little stunned that he went out that quietly? Snyder went out


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[Assistant] And you were doing this because it was the NCAA tournament and a person was trying to figure out the algorithm, right?


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[Assistant] I love that man. You did that right there, man. That first game. You like that? I like that man. I feel a little better because I thought I was only feeling like that, but you know, you come in here and that's what happens. I'm going to say it like. Who's your X factor? X factor.


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[Assistant] Because I'm under the preface that I'm rotating people about here quick.


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[Assistant] I don't got no time. There's no time. Sometimes. How deep are you going? Typically, the playoff roster is 80 and no more. It's 80. Nice guy. We'll get in trouble.


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[Assistant] And somebody, so Lamar Stevenson and, uh, Isaac Acora was the same person, give or take. So if you play- So it's 8.5 then. So if you play one of them, the other one ain't playing in the series. So I'mma go with 8, I'mma go with, uh, Jetty.


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[Assistant] I'ma go with Karis Levert, obviously. And then I got Ricky Rubio. Everybody else, we're gonna have to figure it out. So that means, your bigs can't be in foul trouble. And that means, if you're gonna start Brunson, on Brunson, Isaac Okoro,


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[Assistant] You need him to limit the ability to get to the basket and things like that.


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[Assistant] Here's the biggest X Factor. Can you hit your open threes?


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[Assistant] We was like, what? What you mean Kevin Love ain't playing with you? Who you gonna play there? Nope. We gonna go with Tristan Thompson. We gon- So the rotation to me is huge, Jay, because...


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[Assistant] We go 8D and I like the fact that the next bitch is better than ours.


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[Assistant] You'd like that. Yes, because you don't know what that, that makes you, none of your starters can take off.


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[Assistant] What are you doing? I look at it like this now. I will say.


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[Assistant] You may get an opportunity to see somebody blossom, right? When I watch playoff games, there's always one or two guys.


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[Assistant] Who step it up and get to a point where they're saying.


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[Assistant] This kid is showing us he's a star. I remember Trey Young doing it. I remember Paul George back in the day with the Miami Heat, right? Guys that haven't established it.


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[Assistant] In game to game situations, you look at like Darius Garland, right?


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[Assistant] For me, it hinges on what is he going to be able to bring you? Cause if, if you got, uh, you know, Donovan Mitchell, he's going to get, he's going to do what he does. He's been playoff tested. He's going to be 30 plus a night pushing.


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[Assistant] Yes. Now, if Darius Garland says, oh, let me add 25 to that. Series done.


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[Assistant] Why? Because my defensive guys, we gonna ratchet that up. You got two rim protectors, and that's the thing that a lot of people don't have in the league. You just need to figure out where you're gonna get enough points to get these, to get guys to move. Because if you look at the Cavs team,


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[Assistant] They, I liked it, I liked what they, they got an instant offense dude off, off the bench and carried subvert. They got the closer in Donovan Mitchell. It all depends on how Darius Garland is able to feed the bigs and get them involved so that, you know, it puts that pressure.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to lie. They're going to be out for blood that game. Kobe, Kobe, Jordan, LeBron. They've all said it when they go to man.


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[Assistant] Oh, we got a problem. So they're going to let, by the way, this is, this is not my, my, my concern. I'm not scared.


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[Assistant] The physicality. I'm not sure if Jared Allen


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[Assistant] In the NBA. The NBA need not have to dig Ralph in the corner somewhere. They're gonna let him play. You not gonna get them calls like that. Like, cause to be truthful, I was gonna go there, but I didn't want to go there already. Get your money off.


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[Assistant] Brad, you know what's so funny about that is all of these things. The reason why the Knicks should be scared is this. If Julius Randall go off, well, he got 32. All right, if Brunson go off.


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[Assistant] He gonna go off and get me some two point shot. Well, you know, you get in the lane and do, alright, you got some 30 plus. See, but here's the problem with, with, with the Cavs.


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[Assistant] If Darius Garland go off, we've seen him get 50. We've seen Caris Lambert get 50. And we've seen Donovan Mitchell get 70.


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[Assistant] Now, I'm not saying that's all gonna come together at once, but you can be awful in a layoff, and the advantage that the Cavs got is that Donovan Mitchell gonna come in on a new level.


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[Assistant] I got, I got Cavs in seven. They pull it together, uhm, and they run away from them at home, uh, and they finish it off here at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse.


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[Assistant] We gonna, we gonna, we gonna find out, Jay, and I'm gonna, I'll say this about Donovan Mitchell, right, cause I've, we've seen it here. We've been mentioning LeBron's names, we've been mentioning certain people's names and how he, look, the reason we did not lose


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[Assistant] Even in the earlier rounds in 2018, I watched one of the worst Cavs teams of all time.


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[Assistant] I watched LeBron James get the Pacers out of here, get the Raptors up out of here, then go to the Boston Garden in game seven and masterfully dictate what they were going to do.


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[Assistant] No, no, but we gonna, we gonna decide whether Donovan Mitchell is a superstar of, of the highest link, or he's just a good player.


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[Assistant] This is going to be quite interesting. But in the first round, don't you give the edge to the team with the best player on the court if it's a first round series.


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[Assistant] The Cavs, we talked defense earlier, the Cavs have two elite defenders underneath the basket. If you were telling me Evan Mobley is a defensive player of the year,


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[Assistant] You should not have no problems putting him on, on, on Julius Randolph and being like-


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[Assistant] Oh sweet, I was all about 4-1 on the other one. Okay, on the Celtics. Nets is out of here. So Hawks will win a game. Yeah, Nets is out of here.


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[Assistant] I got him in seven. Steven Adams is not playing in that series. He's done for the year.


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[Assistant] Right? Uh, that's the muscle. That's the thug it up guy. Uh, Jaron Jackson, you know, he's, he's a player of the year, but then they got to do Pocahontas with the braids, right? Like the two, the two pigtails. I mean, uh, Brooks, Brooks, Pocahontas ain't talking about none of this. You guys are both going Lakers. I'm going Lakers.


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[Assistant] Swagger, you play with that reckless abandon, like you can't stop me and I'll fight you with my dad. Especially in the playoff. My dad will too. I got all kind of pistols. I'm bringing the guns to the locker room. Like come on Gilbert Arenas. Y'all gonna get beat by the Lakers. Like he's an NRA car care man.


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[Assistant] Can I ask y'all this? I think the only way that anybody in the league office or any of the sponsors of television stations like the Cavs, is if the Cavs upset people and then they see the brown in the finals.


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[Assistant] That is fact. You do not see, when is the last time you saw a top big star foul out of a playoff game? I know. They will not allow that.


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[Assistant] It just, you like, what happened bro? I know. Once they give you that stigma, it's over.


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[Assistant] First, because he don't really even finish that good around the rim like that, like, so, at least Allen Iverson could finish over tall people. And take a game over, if he had to.


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[Assistant] So that's another thing too, you gotta look at that, like maybe, I don't know what the sample size is on them, what minutes you got, what, you know, what.


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[Assistant] That's another thing too, like, wouldn't it be interesting if Evan Mobley just started getting like 25 points a game in the playoff? See, I don't know if he can on this roster. Right. Could he, under what circumstances, could you be like,


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[Assistant] Evan Moby led the Cavs in scoring again today and he had 30.


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[Assistant] Kevin Durant was a shooter. He was a shooter. He came out the womb just pulling up from 15.


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[Assistant] I'm starting to think it's more like Kevin Durant, Lamarcus Aldridge.


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[Assistant] I think, I think he, he remind, he might have that Lamarcus Aldridge range when he was back in Portland. He giggy that, like the, by the way.


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[Assistant] I was just in the time machine the other day. Uh oh. I got in the time machine and I was watching the New York Knicks versus the Chicago Bulls. Who was in there?


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[Assistant] And yo man, X-Man Xavier McDaniel was knocking down


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[Assistant] 18 footer after 18 footer. And I'm saying, bro, this is the hottest I've ever seen this man in his life. The X man was not hitting like that. I don't understand that. By the way, he had his own shoes too.


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[Assistant] It was black and white and they had this little X like, I remember that. But I'm like, when did X-Man start? And then I just noticed that the Knicks had every power forward.


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[Assistant] And I will give him, we were during the Deshaun Watson situation and it was going down.


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[Assistant] I'll give, you know, I'll give the NFL some sort of credit here by saying, hey, I know how it could be to sit around that round table full of made men and tell you one of your own, hey.


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[Assistant] But we speak it in terms of the Redskins back then. The Redskins were known as one of the best organizations in the game.


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[Assistant] Mark Ripper, he played the Bills in, I believe it was 91 or?


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[Assistant] I always remember when the Browns used to, because they never really played them that much, it seemed like, I used to always have this feeling when they say, hey, we're going to RFK Stadium. And I'm like, I ain't never seen the Browns play good in RFK, ever. Like, like.


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[Assistant] As a young dude growing up, not understanding, I'm from Canton, I didn't really get it, like, like, so, as I started to get older and I started to look into the political nature of it, I started to come away feeling different, I'm like,


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[Assistant] Did he get railroaded? Cause like he was, he, he basically was like, hey, I'm gonna just be a good soldier and wait my turn. Yeah, we'll see. The Cavs got a new arena.


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[Assistant] So, is this, is this true financially? I heard, as I was looking at different stuff on the internet.


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[Assistant] But I would argue, I would argue he could get more, because like the Washington Commanders, it don't matter. We gon' always show up, it don't matter, we gon' buy merch, we got brownsbackers, and if I'm them, I'm sayin' look, you name me one more loyal fanbase, they gon' call, they gon' call.


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[Assistant] That's not peanuts. 55 million dollars. I would literally have to think about getting out of it. So at that point, I'd have to think, I had to think about, I had to cash my chips.


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[Assistant] You cannot, what's the, what's the pelicans owner? The pelicans owner like guns, the guns and the cavalry could not.


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[Assistant] The city owes it to itself that if you want to talk about because I know they do got some money because that gambling money is real right right now. Now you got sin taxes and all this other stuff. Nothing is if you're going to do it and you want the taxpayers money in a recession.


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[Assistant] I feel you gotta, you gotta fiscally be responsible and say, we need this video to attract more than the Cleveland Browns year round.


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[Assistant] I think that this season they have six home runs in the entire season.


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[Assistant] You know, you know what's scared? He didn't hit 200 last year. You know what's scared for me, Jay, is we've seen the Guardians not have bats. We've seen Guardian players, you know, not be able to, not run runners in or score in position. We've seen guys, you know, swing and miss and whiff when you got an opportunity to move runners or have sacrifice flies. But what we have not seen,


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[Assistant] Is, uh, we've always assumed the Guardians starting rotation and bullpen were A plus, grade A.


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[Assistant] Now you got two guys on the DL. I know. You got a couple of dudes that you kinda shake you on that's relievers.


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[Assistant] Klaus A, he survived, like, Klaus A don't even look like he got the same stuff as he had last year. He could come in and he was one, two, three. So you can't have, you can't have two things at once. You gotta have elite, elite pitching, and you can survive and try to move runners along, but you can't have both. You can't struggle.


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[Assistant] Who was that? Who was the dude? I was watching Old Guard Indians, who used to play first base and his last name was Perry. I'm trying to think, who was that? Oh, yea yea yea yea yea.


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[Assistant] They got velocity. See, I'm a, I'm a, I mean.


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[Assistant] You can be, uh, I can't deal with the Tom Candidates of the world. I can't do it. Like if you're going to be a dude, uh, the time of when you got Abbott or Smoltz and Glavin and Jim Abbott, those guys are cool, but I need guys that can, that could put some heat on this.


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[Assistant] That Strasburg curveball, you gotta have something like that because you're not gonna be up there because think about it, if you miss...


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[Assistant] That's a three run homer. Like you missed your change up. Oh, there we go. You down three runs.


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[Assistant] The last time I seen dudes just hitting home runs like that, uh, there's a team called the Houston Astros.


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[Assistant] Uh, they need to, they need to trade water. Now at the time... Because of their pitching? Yes. At the time...


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[Assistant] They had came off two series wins. They won the Oakland series, won the Mariners series.


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[Assistant] Now you starting to see the effects of that a little bit, right? Because now, the pitching, we was worried about that.


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[Assistant] But now it's just like you got a car, the transmission go out, you might as well go ahead and chalk it up because if the transmission go, you, you might have to replace something on the starter. You got to replace everything else go past that. So the situation that I'll be looking at is I think in the first half of the year or first third of the year.


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[Assistant] They gotta just tread water. They gotta stay, they gotta stay close and they could not let the twins run away from them. Cause think about it, that wild card game is getting funny because if the Rays is going to win that division, then you left with the Yankees, you left with the Red Sox that can be vied for something. And if you don't win your division because of the twins, I don't, I don't foresee you making the playoffs.


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[Assistant] And, when you ratchet that up to the intensity, and plus, when you're not used to doing something, I've seen pictures for the first time look awkward, stepping off the rubber throne places.


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[Assistant] So here's what happened. Remember? This is funny. When Hurry Up Offenses first started.


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[Assistant] Defenses that we had no answer. You guys weren't conditioned for that. The coaches would tell you, listen, if we're getting touched, they would give us a sign from the, from the sideline. Fall down. And they would say, fake an injury. Fall down. Yep. Got a cramp.


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[Assistant] And so it, so that would be, so offices were killing people with this fast tempo. They would get up. They had the cards and you, and you can't breathe. Like there was no huddle. I can't breathe. Guys couldn't. I was like, so you used to people.


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[Assistant] Lining up in a huddle and you in a huddle. They hold hands. The quarterback gets on one knee, unstraps his buckle. He only got his helmet strapped on. He's like XZ 35. That's like a smoke break.


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[Assistant] You got the big uglies walking up here getting in they stance like this. They still gotta make calls.


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[Assistant] Guess what? That's 35 seconds. Then they started, then they started being like, no, we're just gonna call two players. We're gonna be in the hurry.


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[Assistant] Before, when you had Bruce Smith, when you had Reggie White, they wouldn't rotate nobody, they played every shot. No, they stayed every play. Now you need eight guys to play, right? And now, when they running and they blocking you,


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[Assistant] You trying to catch your air, and now, you getting cut, it ain't the fact that you getting blown off the ball, it's the fact that you got missed assignments now. You were supposed to be an A-gap, but you were a B-gap.


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[Assistant] Adam the Bull came in here yesterday and he said, listen, I know y'all see my text message. I need some help.


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[Assistant] I asked Brad, can you get your man to sign it? That ain't happenin'. Michael Jordan like, bruh listen, Brad is not on the block list.


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[Assistant] It would be bad basketball. Just because of what's at stake. So, so you think about it.


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[Assistant] It's almost rewarding you from saying, look, we might not be as good as these other teams.


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[Assistant] We got one minute left. So, I, I mean, I like it. Uh, here's the thing.


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[Assistant] Could the rest of the teams compete? Like how good would, if you got the number one pick, how good would the Trey Blazers be? Would they be?


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[Assistant] Like, say for instance, say for instance, Steph, say for instance, Steph Curry gets injured for the year. So the goal is.


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[Assistant] Don't say words, get the number one pick, they get, they get Wimbley Almond, whatever his name is. And now, we go and say words. You know, you know, here.


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[Assistant] Loneliness is a problem in modern Japan. In fact, there are companies throughout Japan that provide fake families for people who are lonely. I'm not making this up. And I thought, why don't I get a fake family while I'm here in Tokyo?


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[Assistant] Specifically, uh, when he lost his temper. In the kitchen.


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[Assistant] Oh, hug and shake the hands but no kissing. So just like my current marriage.


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[Assistant] Like? She looks very beautiful. Thank you. May I ask how old she is? Oh, 48. Okay. It is close to my own age.


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[Assistant] How old is she? That's very good. I think she has a good sense of humor. Do you have any father candidates? Oh my God. I feel like I've already disappointed him.


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[Assistant] Is it possible for me to rent someone who could pretend to be a bully that was mean to me in high school and I can beat the shit out of them?


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[Assistant] Okay, I swear to God this is real. I left family romance about an hour and twenty minutes ago. I am back in my hotel room in Tokyo and I have a family.


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[Assistant] Could you do that? Could you laugh if I tell a joke? Sure. Okay, let me ask you a question. Uh, do you guys like ramen?


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[Assistant] It would mean a lot to me if you said I like you more than your brothers.


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[Assistant] Sounds when you're opening tabs. Sounds when you're closing tabs.


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[Assistant] All kinds of stuff. And you can mix and match anything you want. There's even a Let's Game It Out mod. And who doesn't want this? Hey there, it's Josh.


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[Assistant] Oh, it just places us here in the water, in familiar territory. And let's see if that really was our personal cave. Down we go!


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[Assistant] Welp, it just brings you back down. And you can just keep doing this. Over and over and over again. I'm glad we've made this for ourselves. Well, I'm just gonna leave that right there and we're going back up. Huh? What? Wha-


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[Assistant] That was a cop out my boy. We should, we should track his baseball bets, baseball bets separate. We do.


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[Assistant] Okay, cause he, like, he claims that's his wheelhouse. His baseball. He's really, really good in baseball. So I'm curious to see as the year goes on.


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[Assistant] You wouldn't want to see them come back. Burn those with the Cavs jerseys of the powder blue. Are you talking about the Michael Jordan wizards colors?


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[Assistant] You can't pay everybody, like I know everyone thinks that Cap is a myth, but the Browns are kind of getting up against it if he wants a new contract.


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[Assistant] I don't need any more defensive players that we're questioning the effort on because we saw that last year and I, I don't, I don't need any more selfish guys that, listen,


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[Assistant] I'm all about capitalism especially in the NFL. Make as much money as you can because it's a really short amount of time to do it. But when you mix that with


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[Assistant] I wouldn't mind seeing an upgrade of some sort I don't think this is the answer.


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[Assistant] But so many teams are in nickel now, just 4-3-3-4 men as much as they did 10 years ago.


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[Assistant] Third round linebacker that's better than him. Probably not. Not this year. Okay. Uh, but here's my thing. I guess is where I fall on it. The Bucks have had him for four years. They don't want to pay him. What does that tell you?


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[Assistant] I don't think, I don't think the Bucks give a damn about PFF. I think they see him every day in practice. They see him on the field. They've got more tape on them than anybody. And when the team that's always a trigger for me, when the team that has you is willing to send you off because they don't want to pay you, what do they know?


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[Assistant] But that was a free look. They swapped like sixes and sevens or something. Like they gave up hardly anything.


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[Assistant] I don't think the Browns even realistically have that much cap space left. I mean, yes, okay, fine. They can go out and create more, but where they stand today, I don't believe they even have that much left.


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[Assistant] Jason? I was going to say less than ten. And so I like Tyves' number. I, you know, I would put it somewhere around four. You argued. It's so good.


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[Assistant] So, his value is going to be down and I think that they are going to get to the point where they have to make, uh, a decision on the guards. I've said it a million times, 30 million in guards is a luxury when you're paying your quarterback as much as they're paying to Sean. So that decision time, there, there is a,


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[Assistant] I didn't see yesterday, uh, I saw the whatever, but I didn't see the show yesterday.


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[Assistant] I, I didn't, like, we all talked last year like Greg didn't have a great year. And I saw a lot of metrics, again, the advanced numbers, that he wasn't as bad as we thought.


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[Assistant] I don't know that his value is at its peak right now either. Why are you trading from a deficit? Why are you trading guys, like if I'm going to move someone, I want to move someone when their value is at its highest. And I don't think, really I don't think anyone on the Browns right now is coming off the type of season where you would say, well Chubb, I'm not entertaining that nonsense.


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[Assistant] But I do believe that part of the reason he got so much is because he asked out.


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[Assistant] He bought back in, he was a team player, so they made him whole.


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[Assistant] On the back end. Exactly. And I could see a very similar scenario with Greg where he gets paid


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[Assistant] Alright People's Champ, you just cut to Sean, so I want to see the chat come after you. Come on, burn him like y'all burned me last time.


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[Assistant] Alright, I'm gonna, I'm gonna do a minor flip on yours. I'm gonna keep Herbert. Okay. I'm gonna trade Dashawn and cut Lamar because Lamar is out there right now for the taking. Anybody wants him just to offer him a contract and ain't nobody stepping up. So what does that tell you? I think you could actually get more in trade for Dashawn than you could Lamar. Really? Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's because he's under contract. So you, it's a big number, but they just massaged the number, they just re- redid it, and another team theoretically could redo it again.


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[Assistant] And you know, I will say, like, I really like Justin Herbert, but-


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[Assistant] Henry is, I ain't gonna say he cooked, but he's not cooked.


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[Assistant] I want Nick here. No, I don't care about them. They can hate me. That's fine. But Taylor being on a rookie deal is going to bring the most back.


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[Assistant] When, when Derek Henry hits the wall and falls off.


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[Assistant] What age is he at? What carries is he at? And how much


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[Assistant] How much longer does Nick get? You know, we think that's going to be the case, but we don't know. And I'm on your side. I think that's going to be the case, but we don't know.


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[Assistant] But he's not what he was three years ago, Omari. No, I wouldn't say that. He's on the downside. What's Iuk's contract? You know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, Terry, I'm the exact same way again. Keep Terry Tradeiukin. Uh, yeaah.


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[Assistant] If you're going off of last season. And that's what teams are going to operate.


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[Assistant] I thought Friar Muth would bring back the most in that trade, no?


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[Assistant] Well, if he would have caught the ball in the end zone against the Saints that hit him right here, I'd feel a lot better about keeping him. You hit him in the mouth.


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[Assistant] I'm keeping the Joku, trading Friar Muth, and cutting. So you win me. Again! I think we're like in lockstep on all these.


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[Assistant] I'm keeping cold. I'm keeping cold on none of them.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm keeping Tyrod, they're right. He's more of a better fit with, as a Deshaun backup. I'll keep Tyrod, cut, trade Colt, and cut that.


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[Assistant] Michael and Tiger have never made me laugh like Tyvis does. I'm keeping my guy. I'm keeping Tyvis. I appreciate you. I'm keeping Tyvis. Thank you so much.


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[Assistant] You got the wrong one in that category anyway.


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[Assistant] Well, you hit on the last point you made was where I was going to start. Jerry Jackson, I don't have a vote. I lost all my voting privileges when I left the beat. I used to be one of those people you talk about. We used to sit in the room and group things.


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[Assistant] But, uh, I don't have a vote anymore, but if I did, it would be Evan Mobley. Uh, Jared Jackson is off my list just because he hadn't played enough. He's, he's missed too many games. And, uh, Brooke Lopez is nice.


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[Assistant] Jared Allen's probably gonna cannibalize some of Evans' votes, not necessarily people voting for Jared, just saying, well Jared, he's got Jared next to him, and it's true, and you can't really get around that. Jared Allen is a tent pole to what they do defensively.


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[Assistant] And when Jared's not out there, it almost feels like everything sort of deteriorates a little bit. So I think that's gonna hurt Evan's chances. But if you watch Evan night in and night out, if you watch him play,


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[Assistant] The body control that he has of being able to alter shots, block shots, and not foul. The way he can position his body, the way he can guard the post, the way he can guard on the perimeter.


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[Assistant] He's only going to get better. I'd love to pick at the time. Before that draft, I'd said like,


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[Assistant] He's been hurt a lot, a lot, a lot. And Scotty Barnes, I hated that. He won rookie of the year last year. I thought that was a mistake and Barnes has not hit a good second year. Mobley to me is going to be the best player in the draft and I kind of stumbled over my words, but I have, I believe if he adds a three point shot and he can make threes consistently, he will be in MVP discussions down the road. That's how good of a Mobley can be.


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[Assistant] Draymond's in the conversation still. I don't think he's going to win it, but he's in the conversation.


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[Assistant] So that was the, you know. There was a time they tried to protect him from some of the bigger centers to your point. They didn't want him going up against. They sort of released that a little bit and they were comfortable with him now. But yeah, I mean, he's better, you know, I mean, you want to guard playing center, you know, he's, he's not a natural center. I think he should be a three, but they don't want him guarding threes.


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[Assistant] They don't want him trying to guard Kevin Durant for an entire game or LeBron for an entire game. Switch onto him for a few possessions, okay fine. Trying to guard him for 35 minutes a night, probably not the greatest. And he's got to develop more of an offensive, deeper range to get to his game to play the three.


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[Assistant] I mean, I thought in Miami, LeBron should have won Defensive Player of the Year and MVP. He had a couple years where... I know somebody that did do that.


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[Assistant] You cashing checks now? For the bucks? You on Jimmy's payroll now? You on the Haslam payroll cashing checks on the bucks?


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[Assistant] It is remarkable how good he has been though, given his, Brook Lopez. How old he is.


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[Assistant] I mean, he's, him and Robin are the same age. Robin can't move. He, oh, listen, he's, and Brooke is doing like, it's super facts. All credit to him. He's having a great year, but I'm not voting for him.


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[Assistant] It's time to have the Tanner Bybee conversation. It's a lot sooner than we thought it was going to be. I'm not saying bring him up now. He was actually, he's on schedule to pitch today, uh, just based on the fact that he pitched on Friday.


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[Assistant] And generally the Guardians like to have, historically, just look at the, look at their track record. Bieber had eight starts of AAA before they brought him up.


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[Assistant] Uh, Savalli was around that eight, Plicek was around four, Bibe's only had one. If this was June, I think Tanner Bibe would be here for those who aren't familiar with him.


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[Assistant] One of the crown jewels of their farm system. He's probably a notch below Gavin Williams and Daniel Espino, but not by much.


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[Assistant] He's much like Shane Bieber. He was the command guy in college. Mid-round pick. He was a fifth round pick. Shane was a fourth round pick. Did not throw hard in college. Now he's throwing 98 in AAA. And that could easily become 99-100 as we get into June and the weather warms. So...


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[Assistant] I just, I don't feel comfortable with Gaddis and Battenfield in the rotation. I certainly don't feel comfortable with them pitching on consecutive days. You're going to burn out the bullpen. The bullpen is terrific.


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[Assistant] But, we saw what happened yesterday. Now you got Battenfield going today. They do have an off day next week. It wouldn't shock me if they try and reconfigure this a little bit. Gaddis slid into the number two spot in the rotation only because of timing. McKenzie got hurt.


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[Assistant] And so he was your number two starter, so just on the timing of the schedule.


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[Assistant] So with the off day on Thursday, maybe they can reconfigure some things.


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[Assistant] But I just don't like throwing those guys on back-to-back days. And I think you're going to burn out your bullpen. That's more concerning to me than anything that happened yesterday in the game with Gary Cole.


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[Assistant] It ain't. It's, it's Bieber. And really the thing that


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[Assistant] I think this puts more pressure on calquantral because you need 6 and 7 innings out of cal every start because you don't know what you're going to get out of batting field. You don't know what you're going to get out of gaddis.


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[Assistant] That's, cause I'm, I mean they've already played four extra inning games, they've already sort of stretched this bullpen at times, and we're only two weeks into the season. The Guardians bullpen is terrific.


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[Assistant] But man, you're really running the risk of overworking some of these guys.


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[Assistant] Uh, so that's just where my concern is Cal Quantrill really has to deliver. He's gotten off to slow starts historically, but they really need him to eat some innings here, especially over the next few weeks with, with both McKenzie and Alcivali down.


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[Assistant] So we got two quants, what you got? You got two wrong answers. Sorry guys. It's Andre Semenez. That's what I said. It's not even close. I knew it! I knew he was going to say it.


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[Assistant] Jimenez was a, I mean, the year he put up last year at his age 22 season, he was over 7 war. He was like 7.4 war. And I think too much weight is given defensively to war statistics. But, a 7.4 war.


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[Assistant] At your age 22 season, Robbie Alomar wasn't a Seven War player until he was age 31 season. Like, the things he's doing, he's on an MVP track. This is a cop-out answer. No, it's not! He had a seven...


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[Assistant] Because, so like the thing with MVP, there are some exceptions. El Tuve won it twice as a second baseman. Pedroia won it as a second baseman. But the MVP really has become like a first base outfield type of ward.


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[Assistant] Like you gotta have monster power numbers to be in the conversation. I think Bryant, Chris Bryant won one as the third baseman. So there are, like don't come at me with all the exceptions because there have been a few guys. But by and large, if you look over the last 20 years, it's predominantly first base and outfield guys.


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[Assistant] But I do think Jimenez can join Altuve and Pedroia in that MVP race.


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[Assistant] When you're, I mean, I think Altuvia was a 7.8, he was a 7.8 war player when he won MVP. I think Pedroia was around 7 when he won the MVP. And Jimenez is already there at age 22.


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[Assistant] And they've got him locked up for the next decade. You know, where's he going to be four or five years from now? I think if he stays at second base, they could move him to short after this year. But to me, he's too good at second. He's proven himself.


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[Assistant] To be elite defensively at second, I think he stays there and I think he's in MVP discussions sooner than later at the rate that he's going.


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[Assistant] I gotta call a 20 second timeout because channel 3 WKYC is so pristine. There is a street sweeper cleaning the garage right now. I've never seen that before.


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[Assistant] The studio is like we're attached to the parking garage. I'm watching a street sweeper go up and down and clean.


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[Assistant] I can't see that. It's a street sweeper. Like it's, it's got the vrrr and I got ADD. So Kyle, I have missed the last three minutes of our conversation because I'm watching the street sweeper.


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[Assistant] It's amazing. I've never seen anything like it. But anyway, how many quarterbacks are going to the first round? Let's go back to quarterbacks. Hennan Hooker, any shot there? Are we at four, five? Where is it?


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[Assistant] Well, I didn't see the Hawks game, I'll be honest. We were at Friends House, but I was shocked at the score. I thought Miami would roll. I still think Miami is going to get in. I think they'll be either Toronto or Chicago. I'll be really shocked if they lose entirely. And Miami don't tank. With Pat Riley, they don't ever tank. They lost LeBron and said, I want


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[Assistant] Lebron had 30, 10, and 6 and didn't play well. Like, that was, that was like a typical game one Lebron. Yea, it was. Only problem was that was like game six and a half last night. Yea, like. And he was playing it like it was game one, like never.


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[Assistant] Until he drove on the floor, like the last five minutes, he was balling. But until then, I just thought he was in cruise control the whole night. They were down 15 at one point. I thought, what is going on?


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[Assistant] They did not play well. I still think, I mean, I don't know if we talked about, I don't think we did. I think they're going to conference finals. I've thought that for a while.


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[Assistant] They can just. I think the Suns, I think, we're probably getting ahead, but I'm not here Friday, so screw it. I'm going to say what I want to say. Let's do that. I think it's Suns Lakers Conference Finals in the West. Suns probably win that, but I think the Lakers, I think they really needed to win that game last night. I think they got a better path as the seven than the eight.


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[Assistant] I don't know, but if he thinks AD is healthy and motivated, engaged, like LeBron has said multiple times, if I, it's worse to get there and lose, I'd really not get there at all.


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[Assistant] But, so if he doesn't think they can win, but the fact that he came back as quick as he did from the injury tells me he's locked in and motivated. I think they can make the conference finals.


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[Assistant] He's on record multiple times, he said for years, I don't care about seeding, I don't care where we're at, just get me in and get out of the way. Now, is that still, is he still that guy? I don't know. But, the West, who in the West scares you that you think they can't beat? There's no team in the West.


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[Assistant] All right, so this morning, as always, me and McNuggets, we chopping it up, getting ready for the show.


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[Assistant] And we got to talking about, you know, what current Browns player could be moved to.


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[Assistant] Gain a better asset at a different position for the Cleveland Browns.


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[Assistant] And we start talking about Wyatt Teller. Wyatt Teller and, uh, Joel Botonio are the only two guards on the same team in the NFL making 15 plus million per season.


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[Assistant] Could you see Wyatt Teller being involved in some type of package to acquire Devin White or-


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[Assistant] You all said we need another wire receiver. If Tampa Bay is trying to sled, uh, shed dollars, what about trying to go get Chris Godwin for a wire teller type swap?


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[Assistant] They fired 140 rounds from an AR-15.


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[Assistant] Once again, students had been gunned down in a school.


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[Assistant] An unrivaled power that would ultimately become a target.


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[Assistant] But that would begin to change with the assassinations of the 1960s.


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[Assistant] And Robert F. Kennedy, a Saturday night special. Armed conflict broke out on America's streets. In Washington, the response, gun control.


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[Assistant] Two sides faced off. Hunters versus gun rights activists.


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[Assistant] A gun control group formed around him in opposition to the NRA, which had launched a full-scale lobbying effort in the capital.


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[Assistant] The anti-gun movement had found a president willing to take up their cause.


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[Assistant] Near the end of his presidency, Clinton would take on the NRA one last time.


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[Assistant] As the two assailants seen here enter the room and hunt for student victims, they had killed 13 and wounded 23 more.


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[Assistant] Including home videos of the attackers and their weapons.


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[Assistant] They had assembled a small arsenal, sawed-off shotguns, a 9mm carbine rifle, and a Tec-9 pistol with a 30-round magazine.


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[Assistant] The shooter's got a friend to buy some of the weapons at a gun show, which didn't require a background check. It would become known as the gun show loophole.


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[Assistant] In the wake of the shootings, thousands protested in Denver.


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[Assistant] Demanding that something, anything, be done.


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[Assistant] The protesters had a specific target, guns and the NRA.


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[Assistant] Top executives of the NRA weighed how to respond. They issued a public statement of sympathy, and then sent out their most famous member, movie star Charlton Heston.


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[Assistant] Despite the shooting, the NRA stayed focused on its core belief. The right to own guns.


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[Assistant] That the government would use Columbine to restrict and then take away their guns.


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[Assistant] Within weeks, while speaking to the Columbine community, President Clinton would push back on the NRA and rally the gun control forces.


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[Assistant] Clinton proposed a bill to close that gun show loophole.


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[Assistant] One month after Columbine, the NRA had lost the first round.


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[Assistant] The bill then headed to the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.


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[Assistant] And that was where the National Rifle Association would make it stand, under the leadership of Wayne Lapierre.


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[Assistant] And surprisingly for the NRA, he was not a gun enthusiast. More comfortable on K Street than in a duck blind.


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[Assistant] It also grades members of both parties, punishing them if they break with the NRA on guns.


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[Assistant] After the NRA lobbying blitz, the White House came up 22 votes short.


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[Assistant] One year after Columbine, it was time for another NRA national convention.


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[Assistant] They had overwhelmed the Clinton administration and successfully demonstrated their power in Congress. It had been a very good year for the NRA.


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[Assistant] It was time to settle a score with the man who had broken that tie vote in the Senate, Al Gore.


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[Assistant] And on election day, the NRA was rewarded.


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[Assistant] Gore was an example to Democrats of the risk of going up against the NRA.


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[Assistant] The Supreme Court would rule that individuals had a constitutional right to own guns.


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[Assistant] Congress would pass a law to protect gun makers from lawsuits. The gun control forces were left in disarray.


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[Assistant] But eventually the NRA would be threatened by two events.


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[Assistant] Nicole Hockley's son, Dylan, was another first grader at Sandy Hook.


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[Assistant] Like Clinton before him, President Obama took up the cause of gun control. He handed the job to Vice President Joe Biden.


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[Assistant] At the NRA, they knew another political fight was coming.


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[Assistant] Obama had long supported gun restrictions.


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[Assistant] For the NRA, it was time to activate the playbook.


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[Assistant] They wanted an ally who could reach out to NRA members, and they knew just the man.


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[Assistant] Joe Manchin, who had an A rating from the NRA, was shaken by the Newtown shootings.