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[Assistant] That's right. And his answer was so embarrassing. Oh, I don't know, I'm not sure. And it wasn't even like, it wasn't really, it's not like Jim, when he asked the question, was like, brutal about it. Which he had every right to be, but he wasn't.


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[Assistant] That's a warning. We're gonna fire your ass too. Shut the hell up. That's it. That's what they're saying. And the reality is that most of


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[Assistant] And most of the people who are talent on NFL Network that are black are just former players. Almost all of them. People that are not former players that are black rarely get an opportunity. Almost all of them.


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[Assistant] We call that the baller's deer. Most of our members are, uh, most of our subscribers, or members, yes, our coaches here, members.


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[Assistant] Now remember, Tristan McKenzie's had a bad spring, which I generally disregard.


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[Assistant] But now he left yesterday's game in what was his last spring training start.


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[Assistant] With what's being described as a sore right arm. Now, Zach Meisel and others


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[Assistant] My assumption was, okay, they're saying that maybe he would have stayed in if it were the regular season game. However, we've talked about this before, Jay.


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[Assistant] And so we'll know, well we'll know before that because if he's not going to pitch Friday, he'll probably go on the injured list. Now, I hope I'm just being scared, you're being scared for nothing.


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[Assistant] But when my second best pitcher, my second most important pitcher,


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[Assistant] Uh, leaves the game due to, uh, like if it was a, uh, a tweak of his knee, of his, uh, toe or, or, or he was just, I don't know, whatever, cold, no big deal. But when it's arm.


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[Assistant] Well, we'll know in the next 48 hours because they have to set their roster. They'll probably, I guess they don't have to.


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[Assistant] It is so great. And by the way, I mentioned this at the time when I watched it, I'll mention it again. So lame that Ventura. Come on dude.


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[Assistant] too big to pitch. Right. used to talk about back i flexible and being like no strong you can be. And I d


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[Assistant] That is it. You see so many, like I feel like there's so many, now they baby the players more. They do. And any little tweet, like back in the day, guys would pitch through more. Plus, you know, if you had, if you had to have Tommy John surgery back in the day, your career was over. It was it. You just didn't pitch anymore.


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[Assistant] You pitched! Yeah, right. I mean, it's a game with 12 innings you pitched back in the day. You pitched! By the way, one last thing on, uh, the Guardians have finalized their roster pending injuries on Tristan McKenzie.


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[Assistant] Two like journeyman kind of veteran backup catchers, Kay Gallagher and a guy named Mebris Valoria, I think is how you pronounce it. He was with Kansas City. He's not, Gallagher's been around a while.


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[Assistant] Maybe you could sneak them in. I know, I know. It's not tradition. It's a minor criticism. It's not that big a deal. You rarely see three catchers these days. It's very rare. I can't remember the last time. Unless one of the guys, there are a couple teams who have done it. In most cases.


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[Assistant] Lester's captain. Lester, yeaah. But, but it's very rare and usually when you see it, it's because one of the three is a really good hitter who could, you might DH or maybe even could play first base a little bit.


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[Assistant] Right, but you rarely see it with three catcher only guys. I mean, it's odd, but they probably won't do it for those. It's more than 10% of their roster. Yeah, that's weird.


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[Assistant] I haven't never. Not where all four teams are unexpected.


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[Assistant] I don't watch a ton of college basketball, but UConn is the only one of these four teams I had ever seen play before the tournament.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but there's been more upsets this year than other years though.


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[Assistant] I think it is the cheat code. But he's prob- but he's probably not gonna give me that much more because there's not gonna be a big underdog direction.


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[Assistant] Well and that, and unlike college football.


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[Assistant] See in college football, if you gotta play three years. So if you have a great year at a small college, well you have incentive to transfer to Ohio State to Alabama. In college basketball, it's almost the opposite because


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[Assistant] Kentucky or whatever, these top schools are going to have so many good players that if you don't get to play, well, I want to go to...


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[Assistant] I can't remember. I remember, not in this division, but remember when Donovan McNabb got traded to Washington. Yea, that's true. Yea. Now he was at the end of his career, but you don't see that very often. No, you really don't.


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[Assistant] Michael Lorenzen, remember him? He was on the news. He was really even starting for somebody this year. What? Bigger.


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[Assistant] When you're arguing with your buddies, you don't wait for the other guy to shut up before you go. It's like this.


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[Assistant] I don't go that far, but I was having a conversation at the little league field yesterday about how if I hadn't quit baseball my senior year, I would have played division three. Does that count?


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[Assistant] First of all, I've never been starts a fight guy. I, when I was younger, as a teenager, into my early twenties, I was ready to fight guy. Yeah. And had a lot of fights.


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[Assistant] But I haven't had a, I haven't gotten into a real fight in forever. And I certainly would never start a fight. You know, I would fight if I had to, but I probably wouldn't be as good a fighter as I was.


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[Assistant] Well, but the thing about political, which is annoying, is that there's a lot wrapped into it. There's some things that I, like I'll bring up that I don't look at as political, but other people will take it as political. Yeah, political, like anything that's uncomfortable.


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[Assistant] After, uh, I think we're gonna do this for your top five. Uhm, top music, we're gonna do top five people who you just don't like.


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[Assistant] See, you, you became not that guy. Nobody wants to invite a guy to come in to round out their roster and he comes in jacking up threes. Right? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Hard worker. Smart on the floor. Not afraid to get his nose dirty. Takes a charge.


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[Assistant] Quarter century is a long time. Here's why people don't like it. It's like saying, hey, uh,


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[Assistant] Gee Bushman, I see you're doing good now. You've been grinding for a long time.


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[Assistant] And somebody comes up to me and say, I saw you on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show, man. That's really great, man. You know, this is the first promotion you've had since you haven't been with your ex-wife. That's beautiful. You're like, you see them, like, you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah, no, I get it. I'd have to, I'd be like, what are you talking about here? I mean, like, is that backhanded or something?


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[Assistant] Because you're mentioning somebody who willfully left you, right? But their accomplishment is tied to them.


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[Assistant] I think the, the, for guys like Darius Garland or Mobley who are drafted here, I think that it does, it does mean a little bit of an accomplishment, but when you talk about guys like maybe Jared Allen or Donovan Mitchell, they're like, they don't see it that way.


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[Assistant] I'm not really a big momentum team like Bull said when you talk about momentum for veteran teams, but when it comes to teams like, uh, young guys, listen.


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[Assistant] Young guys are too naive, like they're dumb, they don't understand they ain't supposed to be winning.


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[Assistant] Like somebody can get high, like when you got guys with that, that momentum, and we've all played on teams that, like, that don't get along.


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[Assistant] That don't have any chemistry and have no momentum and you come to practice, you're like, I don't even want to be here right now. You just don't want to be there because it's like you don't have that feeling. But when you get young guys and you start to believe you can do anything, you start to feel like I'm hot. You start to feel like.


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[Assistant] We got an opportunity. If you go into the playoffs with a really great winning streak and you're in your, you feel like your stroke is down. You feel like you guys are hitting all the rotations. I think you could be a team that can be scary because then you go into the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Focus, you go into the playoffs with that energy level. If you're, if you're an older team, you, you kinda figure like, okay, I could turn it on and off. Young teams don't even know what on and off is. Right. They're just kinda just playing.


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[Assistant] Mcnuggets is, is, is high rolling. Slowly but surely turning this up into a mover and shaker. Yea, he's a high roller. I did meet- The Fieldhouse!


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[Assistant] Or Tennessee before that. I was watching them. I watched them. Me and my dad was watching one of their games and I forget who they were playing. It was the SEC. It was Tennessee.


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[Assistant] And they gave them the business bad. They was down, Tennessee was outta here, like early, like 10, it was like, they were down 30.


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[Assistant] I think they- They won one series that year. I think they beat the Celtics.


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[Assistant] The big man is back. Remember sinners were down.


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[Assistant] The whole Deshaun Watson move. See, the Deshaun Watson 230, the subject and predicate, right? That 230, he didn't get that immediately. He had to sit out first. So Lamar Jackson saw that, oh okay, he said, I'm not playing for you no more.


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[Assistant] And so when he sat out that year, what it did, it gave the market time to catch up a little bit. So now the teams that were bad, they started taking nails that year. There's always going to be a team that's four or something. And desperate. And desperate.


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[Assistant] Five teams that said, we can't take this no more. And, out of those five teams, some of them couldn't get up to get to the top of the quarterback. Some of them weren't in contention for that. Some of them can't get a draft picked, drafted number one. So guess what?


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[Assistant] Deshaun Watson became the prize. So Lamar Jackson actually is looking at what Deshaun Watson did in totality, and this is the first step of him saying, oh, if y'all not gon' willfully give it to me.


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[Assistant] Somebody will. Now, if he sits out of here, he might, they may say, well, you know, is that going to be bad for Lamar Jackson? No, not really, because you know what his game is. So you're telling me Lamar Jackson only going to train, get faster, work on his game, and then he's going to come back in a year? They'll say he hold his Lamar 26.


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[Assistant] I think, I think what happened here, and this is, this is, I've been in counseling before, and uh, you know, the counselor has told me, listen, one of the things you wanna do, if you wanna be in a marriage, first thing you gotta understand is, do not embarrass your wife in public. Right?


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[Assistant] Just don't do it. So when you see Lamar Jackson, he's sitting here, right? When Daniel Jones is going through his stuff?


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[Assistant] When, when, when you got, uh, you, you know, uh, Aaron Rodgers going through his situation, when you got all these other guys that are going through it and they're doing other different things that kind of be like, their team could come out and bash them a little bit, right?


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[Assistant] He says, these guys are operating behind closed doors. They not doing nothing. But you out here, I'm a franchise quarterback. I done put on for y'all. And y'all out here talking about, don't talk to this agent. They making you look crazy. Like, Mark Jackson's out here trying to try, he has his next door neighbor negotiate for him.


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[Assistant] We don't think you worth what you, what, what the contract that you want, right?


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[Assistant] He wants more, they want to pay less. So when they put him on the non-negotiable contract, right, so basically other teams can bid on it, I don't think he liked that. I thought he was trying to, he said, you going to put me out there like, you going to gauge my work based on what they offer.


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[Assistant] I would say, I would say the commanders are a good spot. Uh, I think the Atlanta...


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[Assistant] I think the- I think the Atlanta Falcons would be a smash. People down there in Atlanta would be-


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[Assistant] I guess, to me, I think where he's playing, I don't think he plays next year. I think he sits out, Baltimore won't trade him, uh, and he's not gonna play next year.


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[Assistant] The Steelers, Steelers and Ravens for the most part, they live off of reputation.


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[Assistant] That, that, listen, they, they got five star reputation. This is like going to that steakhouse, right? Nah, I'm not gonna say it because we all know you, you go to a steakhouse and be like, oh yeah, man, roots crisp.


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[Assistant] You'd be like, but yeaah, is that really the top steakhouse in the game? No, you just got, you know. It's probably the top chain steakhouse, but it is a chain. It's a chain bro. So like those are staples. The Steelers, they all, people will tell you the Steelers defense is good even when they try.


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[Assistant] You know, you know, I, I've come around a little bit, you know, I got some more information. I think Andrew Baryden came around a little bit too. I think that, uh, he believes that nowadays you have to have


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[Assistant] I go back and I look at the Eagles last year. It was lights out. These dudes was crazy. I go back and look at what the 49ers was doing. Crazy. But as soon as the 49ers lost their quarterback, I think a lot of people realized like,


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[Assistant] It don't matter how good you are on defense. Now.


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[Assistant] You, you, you can't stop these dudes every play. You just cannot.


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[Assistant] But even as Philadelphia went on to play the Kansas City Chiefs, I think it was really demoralizing that the Eagles were at 100%.


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[Assistant] Kansas City was nowhere near 100%. And they still won that game because of their offense. I think the telltale sign is Andrew Berry said, alright, well let me get some guys over here.


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[Assistant] We're not going to spend too much. We're going to get some dudes to fill some holes on defense. Get them on the cheap. Get them on the cheap. We're going to try to bimba don't break and do some things because even though, even though in the AFC it don't matter. But I think him going out and getting two receivers and then even the fact that


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[Assistant] They still still talk about Jerry Judy and the Browns name is still listed. Yeah, I don't, I don't know if I believe it.


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[Assistant] And I'm looking at the mock drafts and the mocks on ESPN, the mock simulator on PFF, they got them taking another receiver. It's crazy.


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[Assistant] We talked about that. I saw Joe Burrow throw for 500 yards back to back and I changed everything I said. Like not this year, but the last year it went to the Super Bowl. He was playing the Kansas City Chiefs. I think he threw up like 500.


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[Assistant] Then next week he came back for another 400. I said, look, we sitting here doing this 200 feet in 272. Ain't gonna do it.


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[Assistant] You know, you know, sometimes he just, you know, as a, cause I talked to him when he came on and it's just...


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[Assistant] You know, sometimes as an African American, you know, you just feel like you really don't.


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[Assistant] You don't matter in the scheme of things, right? You just don't, like, you know.


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[Assistant] He's one of the most decorated writers of our generation pretty much.


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[Assistant] What does that say to people like me or people like that want to be in the media, that want to cover sports? If they can do that to one of your icons, what can they do to you? You don't matter like that.


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[Assistant] I look around every single day when I'm here in the city of Cleveland.


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[Assistant] You look around, you wanna maybe one, two, three black guys on air. Silence. And so my thing is, if you can't ask a question to your boss and say, look, you told me, you said, come back to me and ask me in a year and see what I show and prove him did. He comes back and asks him.


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[Assistant] As a man, if you're so sensitive as a man that you can't take no heat, that you can't be at the top of the food chain and make 40 million dollars a year but not account for the stuff that you said you wanted to do?


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[Assistant] Why are you even at the top of the food chain?


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[Assistant] I gotta be able to take that criticism and that heat. And as a man, you should have said, you know what Jim?


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[Assistant] That's a very good question. And I have not done what I told you I was going to do, but I'm going to tell you what, we going to fix it and get it done.


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[Assistant] As an African American, if you get the, if you have the opportunity to be in front of people, you have a responsibility to speak about certain things that affect the people that look like you and where you come from. And if they have an opportunity and you are here, you have to. You just can't, because guess what? He's gonna be cool, right? And he understood that. He came on here and said that.


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[Assistant] But he had to make it be known. That everything ain't on an up and up in this game, man. If you got all these African Americans that are playing on that field.


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[Assistant] How is it that 90% of the people that write about them, how, how is it that 90% of the people that don't identify, don't know where they come from, don't understand their plight, how can they then write the narrative?


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[Assistant] I heard some people say, Terrell Owens ain't a first ballot Hall of Famer. Why? Because you didn't like him?


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[Assistant] How dare you use your pen? How dare you use your influence to judge what happened on the field because you don't identify with somebody? See, that's the problem. If you don't have representation, you don't have representations with the league and when it comes to health, you don't have representation. They don't even, matter of fact, they don't even want you to write about it.


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[Assistant] Basically they say you better shut up and dance.


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[Assistant] Alright, we gotta do a membership push.


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[Assistant] That makes me nervous. I always say this man, like when pitchers, when pitchers play poorly, right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, usually they don't pitch poorly because they're just getting hit hard. Usually they pitch poorly because something was wrong.


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[Assistant] Now look, I didn't have a lot of surgeries. There's ways they can minimize it. In utero ACL, technically that is a leg injury, right?


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[Assistant] They could have said shoulder stiffness. They could have said a lot of things forearm tightness. They said arm.


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[Assistant] I'll ask you, you just question. You know, I'm in science, and I, you know, there's a documentary, I think it's a couple years old, that they talked about how pitching is the most unnatural


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[Assistant] Underhand is a natural throwing question. So my thing is why is it if they're pitching less innings?


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[Assistant] I don't remember, I don't remember Randy Johnson getting hurt. Like I don't remember Nolan Ryan. I don't remember all the Tommy Johns. I don't remember.


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[Assistant] That's still, if you're at home, if you want to just see what we're talking about.


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[Assistant] Make an L with it right here. Yeaah. And twist your arm this way or this way.


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[Assistant] They said that ligament only takes five to seven pounds of pressure before it snaps.


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[Assistant] So, but don't you, don't you, did he choose for...


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[Assistant] But I think we, I think one thing that we not, we not examining is...


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[Assistant] Gilbert Arena said it, he said, this is the new, this new normal. It might be. It's college free agency. Right. Like, like the guys can hop around. The transfer portal got jumping and, and football, right?


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[Assistant] But it was already jumping in basketball for years. But once football happened, now dudes will transfer two, three times. They'll be like, you know what, I was playing for Butler.


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[Assistant] And you, and you start to look at guys that are developing. If you, if you've been playing somewhere third year, you graduate, you got your degree.


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[Assistant] And you concentrating on just working on your game. You go transfer to one of these schools, San Diego State. And now guess what? You 24, 23, playing against some 18 year old. Like, is there a difference between a grown, you've been lifting weight three years.


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[Assistant] You think about the game differently, and it's just, like, I've never seen anything like this, and I don't think it's going back. I don't think, when I started seeing Kentucky take these L's,


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[Assistant] See, kids are smart nowadays. Everybody is realizing, I can market myself. I can do a lot of stuff myself. Why would I need to go to Kentucky to be the guy? I'm gonna sit behind seven guys?


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[Assistant] So are we saying that the only regular season games people watch are NFL games?


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[Assistant] Have there, has there ever been a trade between the stealers?


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[Assistant] Lifting weights is, lifting weights is a drug. Like, you, you do know you, like, it's addicting. It's addicting. Like, you get positive endorphins, that's why you get certain people that will say, if I don't work out today,


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[Assistant] Two weeks, all it takes is two weeks to build a habit on anything. Yeah. Two weeks. If you do it consistently, then you'll be like, okay. Top five, buddy.


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[Assistant] I'll be, I'll be at places, like, here's the thing, I'm the person who you think ain't gonna show up, but then actually do show up. That's true. They be like, damn, he showed up, I thought he was.


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[Assistant] I had, listen, it's so crazy. We literally had to work.


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[Assistant] I'm like, bro, you know you live wayyyy. That guy is really annoying. And he always live on the way other side of town. It is no hard highway to get there. Yeah, never easy.


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[Assistant] It's skyrocketing. We should, we should play him the first tape. So we do the first, we doing our first inaugural show. We doing the taping. It's bull. I think it was like five. You sat there and didn't say anything for half an hour. Hey, I was sitting here. You think you interrupt now? Bro, these people sat around all the executives here, all the people from channel three and they say go.


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[Assistant] Boy, these dudes went back. Oh my gosh. They go back and forth. You had PTSD. I was over here like this.


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[Assistant] That's my favorite line in the movie. That's so grandiose that you, big in one game, would have gotten


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[Assistant] Bro, I liked it. I don't talk about sports so much. I wanted to be known like people. I need you to Google. Did G-Push even play? Like that's how least a lot of the time I talk about my playing career. I just don't even say nothing.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to think of, like, what could be so, like, even if, like, I guess the only way is somebody, like, really disrespects your wife or something. Or a kid.


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[Assistant] Now listen, the number one is, if you poll the audience, they won't tell you. The number one guy they hate is if you make it all about race. They don't like it. People go crazy over that. You know what? It's all about race. I can't live my life because I feel like yeaah.


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[Assistant] He, he, he was pretty amazing. Did you go to, did you take dance lessons?


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[Assistant] Let's give him some of these. Uhm, alright, so, uh, I can't wait to see you. I mean, just watching you on that video was just so impressive, so please perform for us.


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[Assistant] Okay, you keep dancing. We're gonna keep posting them on Ellentube. I wanna post every video that you do. We wanna keep you out there and people s- to see you. And also, I got you something to wear next time, uh, you- So, we're gonna give you this show.


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[Assistant] Guys, I got one thing to add. I got a super chat to read. We'll get back into this. Okay, great. One differentiating factor between Judy and DPJ as players. Last season, Judy, 392 yards after catch. Yeah, very good after catch. DPJ, 191. They had only two. Guys, there's no comparison. Yeah, but I also should be pointed


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[Assistant] We got two super chats real quick. Haleem, Yousef says the Broncos have Sutton, Hamler, and Patrick on good contracts. Cooper will be gone after this year. We won't extend him. That's why we need Judy. And then Problem Solving with JD said what about Tremaine Edmonds? He signed a massive contract with the Bears. He's off the table. We did ask the internet last night though what they would be willing to part ways with.


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[Assistant] So we asked the internet, what would you be willing to part ways with for Jerry Judy? We saw a plethora of answers. Anthony, let's take the first tag board here. Steve Dwight on sports says 42 on a fourth round period. Next.


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[Assistant] With Tyvis here, we gotta talk special teams real quick. Yes, we do. The Browns have made a conscious effort to bring in some special teams aces. No one knows special teams on this panel, like our boy Tyvis Powell. So Tyvis, are we underrating the overall value of these three signs in joining Knesset? Mike Ford and Matthew Long. And how much better can this Brown special teams unit be with these three guys?


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[Assistant] Dominated the Nets last night for the majority of the game. The Nets came back late, but there's something that was said on ESPN Radio in Cleveland yesterday that got us in a stir, Twitter in a stir, that I want to address here. Brian Windhorse was on ESPN Radio in Cleveland yesterday.


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[Assistant] And said essentially the Cavs, or hinted at the Cavs maybe having a hint of buyer's remorse because the Donovan Mitchell trade took them from being


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[Assistant] Okay to good, but it may not take them from okay to great and to win a title. You obviously have to be great. And now with Mitchell, they don't have the assets to go out and acquire more talent to bring them from being good to being great, which is obviously a very thin line, but a very hard threshold to cross. So.


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[Assistant] 72 games into the season now with 9 to go, 10 to go.


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[Assistant] Do you believe the calves have an ounce of buyer's remorse for the Donovan military?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm gonna need another massage after you guys just, the stop signs don't exist in today's show, but it's okay because stop signs also don't exist in NASCAR and Call of Gracing is the official sponsor of the ultimate sports show and NASCAR's official, Northeast Ohio's official NASCAR team. Let's talk about Otani though, and the Guardians. This was thrown around. Shout out Eddie for the suggestion. Great topic.


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[Assistant] Should the guardians go all in for half a year of Otani to win the title?


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[Assistant] Dalvin Tomlinson was a five-star prospect coming out of high school.


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[Assistant] False. False. Tyvis says false. Tyvis says true. Oh no, I'm the only one.


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[Assistant] J says false, G says false, Bull and Tyvis say true, so two of you will be right. And with that, Tyvis Powell takes the lead. It is true.


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[Assistant] Question number three, Galvin Tomlinson rep 225 pounds 33 times on the bench press at the NFL complex.


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[Assistant] True, true, true, false. And Gbush, the only one that got this, only 22 reps.


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[Assistant] False, false, true, true, two trues, two falses, and the trues are correct.


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[Assistant] Uh, three, I believe. Okay, oh, okay. G. Bush's defensive lineman. This one should be up his alley. Oh, geez. Steve, let's take it. According to PFF, Tomlinson has never missed more than four tackles in a season.


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[Assistant] Tomlinson's nickname is the Renaissance Man, because on top of being an athlete, he's also an artist and musician.


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[Assistant] Etting into the final question. Tomlinson wears number 94 because he was born in 1994. True or false?


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[Assistant] Steve, before you take it, when you hit that graphic, Anthony wants you to announce the winner.


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[Assistant] This might have been your best show today, Thavis. You killed it today. No joke.


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[Assistant] What's coming up on Overtime? Oh yea, Overtime, a question that Bull's son's friend asked. Oh yea. Ron and MJ in their primes are the best high school team in the country. I thought about this.


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[Assistant] So what happens with machine learning or artificial intelligence, initially with AlphaGo, is that the machine is fed all kinds of Go games. And then it studies them, learns from them, and it figures out its own moves.


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[Assistant] And because it's an AI system, it's not just following instructions, it's figuring out its own instructions. It comes up with moves that humans hadn't thought of before. So it studies games that humans have played. It knows the rules.


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[Assistant] And then it comes up with creative moves.


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[Assistant] And over time it shifted a little bit. And now it's more, we love technology.


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[Assistant] So the whole nature of Wired has gone from a champion of technological change to more of a observer of technology.


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[Assistant] Throughout history, there's been a complicated relationship between humans and machines. We've always worried about machines, and it's always been fine.


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[Assistant] And we don't know how AI will change the labor force, but it will be okay. So that argument exists.


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[Assistant] There's another argument, which is what I think most of them believe deep down, which is, this is different.


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[Assistant] We're gonna have labor force disruption like we've never seen before. And if that happens, will they blame us?


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[Assistant] And that there will be a Chinese tech sector, and there will be an American tech sector.


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[Assistant] And the third world gets to choose this or that. And that's not a world that's good for anybody.


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[Assistant] If you had asked me 20 years ago what will happen to China, I would have said, wow, over time, great firewall will break down.


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[Assistant] Eventually, it will become a much more democratic place, with free expression and lots of western values. And the last time I checked, that has not happened.


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[Assistant] In fact, technology has become a tool of control.


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[Assistant] And as China has gone through this amazing period of growth and wealth and openness in certain ways, there has not been the democratic transformation that I thought. And it may turn out that in fact, technology is a better tool for authoritarian governments than it is for democratic governments.


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[Assistant] We are the first one to really take facial recognition to commercial quality.


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[Assistant] Nevermind. What? Seems she didn't last long. Wasn't me. Nobody said it was you. Yeah, but you wanted to. Okay.


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[Assistant] Like a pretty easy to spot difference. That's what you'd think, but with the internet's love for Chungus, it's kinda hard to tell. Chungus? Big fat house cats. They're great. Real corn-fed lookin' fluffballs. But... a mountain lion. If not friend, then why friend shape?


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[Assistant] I really do think the world has entered a new era. Uh, artificial intelligence holds so much promise, but it's gonna reshape every aspect of the economy, so many aspects of our lives, because AI is a little bit like electricity. Everybody's going to use it.


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[Assistant] It's going to create all kinds of benefits in ways large and small and challenges for us as well.


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[Assistant] I find the reaction among other tech companies to at this point be pretty much all over the place. Some people are saying, you're right to raise this, these are good ideas. Some people say, we're not sure these are good ideas, but you're right to raise it. And some people are saying we don't want regulation.


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[Assistant] The auto industry is better because there are safety standards. Pharmaceuticals, even food products, all of these industries are better because the public has confidence in the products in part because of a mixture of responsible companies and responsible regulations.


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[Assistant] What up man, we had a great weekend this weekend. I'ma go ahead and get the Cubs stuff out the way cause it's not too interesting. We had a horrible day on Sunday. Uh, AJ finished 34th.


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[Assistant] And Justin finished 19th. The cars just didn't, couldn't find themselves in the front. Although Justin Haley was running in the top 10 before a late race crash took him out.


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[Assistant] But Jay and company been on Saturday as when everything got, uh, got real interesting. Karlik Raeson, uh, shout out to Karlik Raeson. Thanks for the gifts. AJ Almendinger, man, sat on the pole, dominated the race, won the Xfinity race.


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[Assistant] Back to back wins at this particular racetrack. Wow. Pit balls 250, uh, at the new Texas road course. So yeah, man, much love to our sponsor.


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[Assistant] He's turning into one hell of a world course driver. He really is. He's one of the best on the.


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely. Like right now at this stage, when it comes down to road courses, it's between him and Chase Elliott and he's been winning a lot more of those road courses than Chase has.


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[Assistant] I think so, and I'm a huge stock car fan, which is NASCAR is, which is what NASCAR is, but if you look at a lot of the Indy cars,


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[Assistant] Another different race and format, they turn right and they turn left. They don't, they just don't turn left.


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[Assistant] So just think about this real quick because I know we got to get to top 5. So like my favorite driver, Al Thomas Dale Jr. And I became a Chase Elliott fan because of his Xfinity team, JR Motorsports. Well, when he was first starting up the team, he was trying to find competent drivers to drive the race cars.


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[Assistant] Entire stock car after you done totaled it, that cost a lot of money. So you can't be out here tearing up equipment.


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[Assistant] That's on the cheap side of it. That's like a team that's running 43rd through 43rd. You know what I mean? Like those top teams, Hendrick Motorsports, Carlic Racing, Gibbs Racing, they're spending probably, and I'm throwing this out, they're probably about 2 million a car. Minimal.


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[Assistant] That's insane. Alright. You better have a deep.


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[Assistant] One more quick fact though. So NASCAR switched over to stage wins. Uh, this was A.J. Allmendinger's 12th NASCAR Infinity Roadcore stage win, which makes him most, uh, all time for the Xfinity series since they've been keeping us that.


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[Assistant] People are at greater risk of mortality for over 20 years after they lose their job due to uhm,


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[Assistant] Due to no fault of their own, so something like automation or offshoring.


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[Assistant] Children of parents who have lost their job due to automation are more likely to repeat a grade, they're more likely to drop out of school, they're more likely to be suspended from school, and they have lower educational attainment over their entire lifetimes.


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[Assistant] The New Yankee Workshop features the craftsmanship of Norm Abram.


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[Assistant] Norm Abram is the author of the book, The New Yankee Workshop.


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[Assistant] Which is available in bookstores and libraries nationwide.


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[Assistant] We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. And it was my mistake. And I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] Take your seats, please. Mr. Secretary, please call the roll.


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[Assistant] Ayes 36, noes 0. The measure passes. Immediate transmittal to the


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[Assistant] Malcolm, can I ask you a question? Yeah, sure. Do you think, do you think we can, uhm, we could do something together?


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[Assistant] I don't know. It's downhill from here. Weekends is in sight. You've already fought the uphill battle now is down.


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[Assistant] Come on now. I was ziplining, first of all, which was an incredible experience. It was something that I never got to do before and I really enjoyed it, you know. The first time you do it, because we had 13 ziplines we had to do and it was one of those events that I didn't sign up. What do you mean you had to do? I had to do it because they signed, the crew signed me up. What if you were like too scared to do it? I don't know. You would have had to just face your fears.


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[Assistant] That's the thing, okay. As I've gotten older in my life, I'm more, I've become more of a why not guy. As a kid, I used to be like, oh no, that's cautious. Now I'm like,


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, if he's out on the floor, whoever's checking him or whoever Kevin loves checking is getting the ball from the cast because they know what it is.


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[Assistant] Vivas? Well, if you look, it's a lot of ways you can look at it, you know. They're mad at Lamar for taking the business aspect and then in return, they took the business aspect with giving him the non-exclusive franchise tag or whatever it's called. You guys think he didn't play in that playoff game because he hadn't gotten paid?


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[Assistant] But if I'm paid and my money's secure, what's the harm of going out there and at least giving the threat to the other team that I'm still there? You know, they still have to game plan for me because you don't know what Lamar you're going to get. So that's the part. If he was paid, he probably would have went out there and played. The fact that he wasn't paid,


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[Assistant] I'm not about to go out there and risk getting hurt even more, like that makes no sense. So he took the business part, and now they responded by doing the business thing by saying, hey,


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[Assistant] If somebody else wanna give us two first round picks for this guy, we'll take it. And then Baltimore on top of that, they went to the playoffs this year. Obviously he missed a nice chunk of this season. That defense is always gonna keep them in games. If somebody gonna give Baltimore two first round picks for Lamar Jackson, they should take those two first round picks.


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[Assistant] Get the rest of that offense, get those wide receivers together and then address the quarterback situation next year. And I think that's the smart way to do, but I'm not mad. I'm not mad at both sides. I think both sides are doing the right thing business-wise. I agree with you. I'm not.


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[Assistant] You know why? Because his running backs hasn't been good


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[Assistant] So what's been happening is when he was at an MVP level, he had two good running backs and it was the threat of the run game and trying to stop him in the run game and the passing game. When you don't got that, he's taking everything on his shoulders. Now. I'm the main quarterback and running back. So that's why he's not being able to finish. Well, that was the case too.


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[Assistant] It's interesting though because now they have a new offensive coordinator who's an air raid type of guy. But they have no quarterback, no wide receiver.


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[Assistant] But to be fair on this one though, with the Lamar thing, it's not just him. When you look at


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[Assistant] The injury of the Baltimore Ravens. Their ride receivers get hurt every year. At some point, that organization has to look at the strength coaches and say, what are we doing that we can't stay healthy? I think they were one of the most, they had one of the most guys on IR this past season.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So at some point, you gotta look at the strength staff and say, what are we doing in the offseason to get these guys, why aren't their bodies able to sustain that many games? Because that's a problem.


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[Assistant] And, and Rashard Bateman, I think he got on Twitter and he just went after the Ravens organization on Twitter like a couple days ago. They're a mess right now. Yeah, and he was saying that y'all need to stop blaming the wire receiver, cause I guess


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[Assistant] Well, I'ma tell you, cause I had this conversation with a guy who's on the NFLPA. He said that if you want to get, you can get guaranteed contracts. But like I said, you got to give up something. So we'll give you guaranteed contracts. We'll make sure that if you on the roster, your money is there.


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[Assistant] But guess what? The moment we cut you, we didn't give you no healthcare after for five years. We ain't taking care of none of your medical bills, none of that stuff. Would you take that deal?


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[Assistant] Why you, why you plan and as a 53 person on our roster, your money is 100% guaranteed, but the day we cut you, we'll owe you nothing else. So what do you, what would you, would you take that deal?


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[Assistant] But it's, but it's just so much, it's so much give and pull, give and take in this whole thing. You want guaranteed contracts, but you gotta give up something and they give it, the pensions is gone. We don't owe you no pension at 55, like that's gone. We'll give you all the money now, but we ain't give you no money at 55 or 65 or whatever it is.


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[Assistant] I'm not ready to say, it's difficult to say because they get a new OC in there. I don't know what their offense is going to look like. If he's doing the pass thing, then they ain't going to win too much.


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[Assistant] With a good, with a good defense, they always got a chance. I give them, I give them 500. Well, it ain't no 500. 8. I give them 8. 6 games. I'm going 5 wins for the rest. I give them 8. I wouldn't be mad at that either. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] You know what, some of the current players came this year. This was the first time ever that they actually had current players. They had Tommy Eichenberg, the middle linebacker, Steele Chambers, the outside linebacker. Give a better football name.


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[Assistant] Well, that's it. So what we found out is that Steel is actually his middle name.


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[Assistant] Malcolm, first of all, I wanted to tell you, thank you for coming on this show. Uhm, our executive producer said that you are one of his favorite Eagles to play. So Steve Becker, Steve Becker, I handled that for you.


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[Assistant] Transition into the Cleveland Browns. Obviously, you know, we just got, uh, Jim Schwartz as the defensive coordinator. You played for Jim Schwartz and he credits you as one of his favorite players. Tell us about his defense and what we can expect to see next year for the Cleveland Browns.


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[Assistant] Malcolm, obviously the Eagles came a little short this year against Kansas City.


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[Assistant] I was really pulling for y'all. I thought y'all had this thing won. Uhm, what, what, what do you got to say about the, just the, the breakdown from a coverage standpoint, you know, when, uh, Kansas City kept hitting those motions and they was, I guess we were, the Eagles were rolling coverage. What do you think they could have done better to, to play those two plays that left too wide open touchdown?


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[Assistant] Well, Malcolm, we know, you know, this past year, why you've been...


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[Assistant] You know, watching the NFL, you also have written a book, uh, what winners won't tell you. Uhm, tell us about that process, you know, and what we can expect when we read this book.


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[Assistant] I'm glad that you, I'm glad you went there and talked about your experience as a nickel because here at the Cleveland Browns we got a little dilemma going on at the nickel position. We got three corners all who feels that they want to play outside and I get it because you know obviously corners you get the big money from playing outside but


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[Assistant] When you look at this Cleveland Brown roster, is there a guy that you can look at and say he can be like the Malcolm Jenkins of this defense? I don't know how familiar you are with the Browns roster though.


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[Assistant] Let me, let me ask you this. What is your thoughts on the current state of Ohio State right now? I gotta know. Gotta beat Michigan.


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[Assistant] That's why I like you, cause somebody asked me that question on the Buckeye cruise and I said exactly what you just said.


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[Assistant] When in the good work, tell them I'm available. If they need me to go up against somebody, tell them that you are available. Throw me that slider and I'ma send it across the defense and then tell them, tell them, you know what, just write my contract up and then send it to my agent and if it's good, I'll sign.


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[Assistant] I got, I got two things. One is a question and the second is a statement. So the first one is out of all the young guys that's there, who do you trust the most to be able to take that next step and ultimately turn into an All-Star? That's first. And secondly, if you turn around, you see what they're doing behind you?


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[Assistant] You really wanna, wait a minute, you really wanna feel that pain to watch a 29 year old guy just take you, move over the fence? I mean, you talking about putting your best pitch out there and it just, pew, gone.


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[Assistant] So alright, so listen. I looked at him too, that's funny.


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[Assistant] The way he phrased it was that he'd make it seem like nowadays in a game of football, you can just, you don't have to establish the run, you can just pass. And I think that's not true. I think that's actually kind of false. I think for the Cleveland Browns...


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[Assistant] Yes, that's true. You don't have to establish the run with the Cleveland Browns because you have Nick Chubb as runnerback. It's like the Titans. If I got Derrick Henry back there, of course, as a defender, I'm thinking to myself, if, or a linebacker, if he even gets play action, I'm going to have to step up to it because I have to get this guy before he gets going. But if it's,


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[Assistant] I don't know, uh, Clyde Edwards Hilaire, who don't really get the ball, why would I step up? I'm not stepping up for that.


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[Assistant] I like the pistol too. Yeah, I mean, cause that's still a downhill. If he's a downhill guy, I mean, that's essentially still downhill. He just catch it, turn around and it's still in the spread.


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[Assistant] I would take, I would take Hopkins, I would take Cooks. So, so, so, okay, cause I wasn't here for this. Did y'all talk about this? Yeah. See, I wasn't here for that one. So y'all, y'all rather, I rather Cooks as well. Yeah. But Hopkins, I wouldn't want to keep DPJ and Hop, cause I essentially think they like the same guy.


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[Assistant] By the way, Paris Campbell, he fits the mold. He is, I think he's like 26. He's still young.


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[Assistant] I would love to see him do that with G. Bush.


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[Assistant] That the Browns win the Super Bowl, it will be world peace and clean.


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[Assistant] My answer is, I would take Lebron. Why? Because it actually comes with a championship. If you get Victor Wimiyamba as great as he is, as great as a prospect he is, it doesn't guarantee you a championship. Politically, that's a J answer. He's probably going to say the same thing.


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[Assistant] This is funny because they asked me this on, I said this on the radio and I don't know if I should have, but uh, they was saying, could you, since Aaron Rodgers did the darkness thing, they were saying, could you do that for, for a million dollars for, I don't, they didn't put like a time limit.


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[Assistant] And I said, oh, they said, how long could you go for a million dollars? And I said, well, my sister was in jail and she was in the hole for a week. So she could do that. Then I know I can, I'm good for at least a week. So did she at least have like a little window?


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[Assistant] Come on, I'll do it quick. Come on, real quick. I'll make it real quick. Go ahead, go to him.


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[Assistant] Here we go. We don't roll the thing. No, we only have 60 seconds. My final take is this. I was one of those guys that's always been about you need to work, work, work, work, work, work, no break.


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[Assistant] And it wasn't until I just took this last break recently with my wife for the seven days that obviously y'all know I went on the cruise, I realized the importance of taking that break is.


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[Assistant] To finally just spend some one-on-one time with no kids and just focus on my wife and I seen her just smile and it made me happy.


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[Assistant] It's good for your marriage. It's the end of the day though. The message is to take breaks especially when you got kids. Take one on one time with your wife or your significant other and really embrace each other because you don't want to be that couple that's only together for the kids.


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[Assistant] Have to choke on the meat. Oh no.


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[Assistant] Outside of the view of, uh, people who might have cameras and whatnot. So if they're partying, it's mostly in their hotel rooms. But I think there's a lot more, uh, time spent playing video games at this point than there is going out and spending it on the clubs. But like, if you hear the stories from a generation ago of players,


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[Assistant] Uhm, having been on team charter buses, like, there's almost always a beverage, uhm, in somebody's hand. So, I mean, listen, you gotta wind down after three and a half hours, right? But, uh, baseball managers, without a doubt, have a long history of being able to, uh, being able to, uh, finish off a 12-pack in record time. That's right.


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[Assistant] I mean, they have something like 8,000 games of data, uh, on this, uhm, to look at through the minor leagues, and they saw a significant reduction, more than 25 minutes.


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[Assistant] But listen, the time of games has been a huge issue, and I think it's, it's, uhm, you know, it...


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[Assistant] It gets exacerbated in the postseason when you hear people complain about how late the games start because kids can't stay up to the end. If they're playing two hour and 40 minute games, it makes a big difference on whether or not you can let your kids stay up to the end of the game. I think it's over the case in the course of the regular season, right? It makes it more likely for you to be able to stay to watch the end of the game if you go and attend it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, whether it's via streaming outlets or via, you know, more traditional broadcasts, I think all of those things are important for the future there.


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[Assistant] That it increased, uhm, that it increased, uhm, the, the amount of stolen base attempts. And even early in spring training, we've seen nearly one more attempt per game. You know, the last three years we've had the highest success rate in stolen base.


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[Assistant] So I think there's a hope that that will change as to what it means, I mean, for defense, I think you're seeing teams


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[Assistant] But we'll see what happens. The bigger bases, I mean, it's a safety thing as much as anything. Maybe it makes a bang bang play, go to the runner a little bit more. Certainly the stolen base success rate has been higher in spring training this year than it was last year by almost 10%. I mean, it went from 72% to like 82% so far, but it's also spring training. So I would take that with a heaping grain of salt. So.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they would like the game to look more like it did in the 80s, I think, which is, you know, lots of, of, uhm, you know, super athletic players that are able to take advantage of, uh, speed and, and, you know, doubles and triples is what their market research shows, the league's market research shows what fans want.


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[Assistant] But I do worry that we spend too much time trying to retrofit the game to what we wanted it to be or what we remember it to be versus what it actually is or needs to be going forward. And so I'm hoping that there's a happy medium there with it where we see an increase in those athletic plays, but that it isn't at the


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[Assistant] That we just don't try and force the issue too much so that it takes away what with some of the things that that are really special in the game now, which is the power for both pitchers and hitters.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, think about that time that you're talking about too. I mean, what was it that ended up leading to that, right? I mean, we ended up with, with a decade long steroid scandal in baseball that at least was somewhat responsible for that resurgence.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think there's a lot of different ways to potentially go about it. Because I agree with you. I think it's, you know, baseball's popularity is waning a little bit. It is, it is certainly an older audience. Let's put it that way. That whatever, over the last 20 years, whenever they've done,


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[Assistant] Uhm, the age demographic that MLB searches for is what the NBA has, right? They want younger fans. That's more buying power. It's more like long-term fans. It's more lifelong. So I think.


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[Assistant] Part of it is the gameplay. I do think the shorter games is going to make it more likely that casual fans will be, uh, interested in more games than they have been. You know, postseason, maybe you see them getting into five, six games a year, something like that. That's not insignificant.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I think the other thing is that there's just not a whole lot of free time for


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[Assistant] So I think there's challenges in trying to get those stars out there, but I think, you know, they kind of lucked into the home run race and that it was something that happened. And I realized this, this is.


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[Assistant] The crazy athleticism and the crazy power of the game. And, and I think you're starting to see that a little bit on social media. Uhm, you know, over the last five or six years as you, you know, if you follow like the pitching ninja and you see the nasty pitches, I think those are things that can get people excited in bits. I think making it more accessible.


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[Assistant] And I think, and this is kind of a longer term thing and it has to deal with, with something that, you know, three of the four major sports are dealing with in the regional sports networks demise is


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[Assistant] The Commissioner has been pretty consistent in the last year and a half, really since before the lockout was done. The number one priority for Major League Baseball is reach. They need to get the game into more people.


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[Assistant] And they need to get it on devices the younger fans are watching it. So I think all of those things, it's not a great answer. I know, but I mean, that's, that's kind of where they're working at and they're trying to, you know, they're trying to see if they can.


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[Assistant] Try enough different things that one of them catches hold and people can get excited about the game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's totally fair. I mean, I think, you know, the biggest stars you're going to be able to recognize, like everybody knows who Shohei Otani is, right? And that's, I think that's good that you have a player like that, but like, you know, I love Mike Trout, Mike Trout's


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[Assistant] Arguably the greatest player in the last 50 years, and he's going to go down as one of the all-time greats.


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[Assistant] Over the course of six months nationally and have everybody follow it. So yeah, I think there are, there are definitely ways that they have to market the stars better.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I know, like, it's been really hard to get guys to, uhm,


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[Assistant] To stay in Cleveland, right? And so like the thing that was most important, it seems like for, for


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[Assistant] Jose was to stay put, right? So Jose's there, you're gonna have him for the next, you know, several years as, as one of the stars of that team.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, like if you're gonna compare it to other free agent contracts or potential free agent contracts, yeaah, I left a lot of money on the table. It was a pre-free agent deal, so you're probably gonna sign for less money anyway when you do that than if you hit the market. So...


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[Assistant] Like, if there's any indication of what teams can actually spend, you should look at the San Diego pod race. And so anytime we talk about a player that is exceeding value based on the contract that they've signed, it's really another win for the owners. And so I think looking at it that way,


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[Assistant] I think it's great to have that, but I wouldn't put the dollar value behind it. I would just say that, like, you have one of the superstars who is committed to Guardians fans and has a chance to, to, you know, on a pretty good team, finally break that World Series record.


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[Assistant] They made pretty smart plays with Josh Bell and Mike Zanino and they're fortunate that they've developed this unbelievable pitching program, which should be, it really is the envy of every team in baseball. So uhm, I think they're in a lot of respects a model franchise. I mean, I think.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I think, I think they should. I mean, I think because of some of what you've talked about though, like their, their depth is in pitching and players up the middle, right? So does it make more sense to


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[Assistant] I mean, I was a little bit surprised to be honest that they didn't trade Rosario this winter. I think that's probably a testament to his role in the clubhouse as much as anything.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I think they're, you know, like, I like Rosario a lot, but I think you can upgrade one of those up-the-middle positions if you want, either internally or externally, and that's why I'm not convinced that Rosario stays there. Not too much, I think Jimenez can play shorter. I mean, even through the, what, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, with that dribble, Cabrera, right? Like, Cabrera was,


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[Assistant] And that's going back to college, like there was a, there was a really famous super regional game when he was at ECU where he went toe to toe with, with Kumar Rocker.


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[Assistant] And William's stuff is exceptional. I would not be surprised if he's up towards the end of the year. I don't know that I would look at their rotation as being a key for the postseason.


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[Assistant] I have bigger questions about their offense. I mean, what they did last year was a pretty neat trick, right? They singled their way to the postseason. I don't know that you can do that consistently. They don't walk very much. They really don't have any impact power. I think they have a big hole in right field. I'm not convinced that Oscar Gonzalez based on his approach is going to be an everyday player. So I think


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[Assistant] There are a number of players there that would be of interest, I think. Like, I would not be opposed to using like a George Valera to try and start a deal, or Valera and Rocchio. Uhm, I think Pittsburgh needs some, some, uhm, position players.


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[Assistant] It's, it's funny because what they've done the last couple of years is tried to alter the, the baseball so that they could reduce the number of home runs because 17, 18, 19, in particular, I think you can go back to 2016, we saw some of the highest non-steering era home run rates in baseball history and the ball was a little, um,


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[Assistant] Here's some of the things that we've learned about the baseball. Some of this we already knew, right? They make the baseballs in Costa Rica. They're all handmade, which is pretty incredible. Like, you think about that, that there's not a machine that puts them out.


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[Assistant] And as a result, there's a wide variation in what's acceptable for a baseball that makes its way into a major league game. And what was happening is something had changed in the.


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[Assistant] It's a really tricky line because they want to keep the integrity of the game together and the league is super sensitive to the fact that the baseball has been


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[Assistant] They've altered seemingly every year and nobody really knows what the ball is going to be like from season to season. Uhm, so they, they, they don't like that either. They've tried to tighten up the parameters on what makes a legal baseball.


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[Assistant] College baseball, I'm a big college baseball guy, right? I do college baseball games. I host a college baseball show.


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[Assistant] I feel healthier. I needed to be. It was getting in the way. I mean, some of it I couldn't help. You know, it's hard.


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[Assistant] You know, you're on crutches or you know, you can't do anything. You know, I was gaining weight. It's, I, I, everything was hard. You know, you know,


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[Assistant] Go down to the field for batting practice and I have to give myself a pep talk. You know, that's, that's a hard way to do stuff. So, I do feel a lot better this spring.


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[Assistant] No, I do, and I didn't. I was leaning on the coaches way too much, and they're really good at what they do, but it's not fair. I need to pull my end of it, and I feel like I'm able to now, which I'm appreciative of, because this job, even on good days, can get kind of hard, but


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[Assistant] You wanna be able to enjoy some of the, you know, like I said, when we lose, I get mad. But that doesn't mean you don't enjoy the day and, you know, it's just hard when you can't move around very well.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, uhm, I stayed in Cleveland for about three weeks, so I had to have a procedure done, and so that, that helped.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I was really proud of what we did.


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[Assistant] You know, anytime you're not the last team standing, there's going to be disappointment.


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[Assistant] I think if you look at it logically, and it's really hard to look at it logically when you're playing, but when you're done and you look at it logically, we did okay. As long as it was a step


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[Assistant] In the right direction and not a feel good story one year and you know, and that's what I told our guys about 10 minutes after the game in New York is that this has to be a jumping off point, not just a feel good story and move on.


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[Assistant] You try to learn from whatever you did last year. We try to learn what we did yesterday. That's one of our obligations.


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[Assistant] But, you move on. Even if you have a lot of the same guys, which we do, it'll be a different team. You watch, it'll be a different bullpen.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and we're gonna form a new identity. We don't know what that is yet. That's what we're here working on. But we'll forge one, and hopefully it's one that


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[Assistant] Has a lot of the same characteristics of last year because I like that way, the way we play the game.


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[Assistant] I've been, I've been in club houses when the season's over and somebody says, hey, what'd you think of the year? We were too young. We were just too young.


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[Assistant] They competed, they never back down from a challenge. All things we talk about, but that's way easier said than done.


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[Assistant] when you're talking about trying to shoot, they're footing, you know, in our l


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[Assistant] And, you know, sometimes that's, like I said, it's easier said than done when you're thinking in the back of your head, oh, I gotta get a hit or I might go triple A.


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[Assistant] You know, when Hosey doesn't get hits, he's mad maybe, but he knows he's coming back and you know, and these other guys like Jimenez...


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[Assistant] Was growing into where he knew he didn't have to go two for four or he's gonna sit the next night.


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[Assistant] So they were, you could see their confidence growing. I mean, I remember Quan in May, he was worried he was going to get sent down.


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[Assistant] We never thought about it. I wish I'd have known, I'd have said something to him.


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[Assistant] They have something to fall back on which certainly helps.


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[Assistant] I think guys like Quan, I think he's strong enough mentally that if he does go through a tough time, he'll figure it out.


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[Assistant] I don't think people realize to be an everyday Major League player, you have to be so tough mentally because you get beat on so much and there's so much frustration and to be really good, I have a lot of respect for guys that can do that.


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[Assistant] Well that's the hope. And we never claimed to be the 27 Yankees.


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[Assistant] But we do have guys in place that we want to see how good this group can get. Uhm, you know, getting Josh Bell.


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[Assistant] It's a switch hitter that can hit behind hosie, especially against left-handers. We, we could get, we, we had some, we had some difficulties last year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that's not a knock on anybody, it's just we're a little thin. And when Hedgie was a free agent...


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[Assistant] We wanted to bring in somebody that cared first about the pitching and defense. And then hopefully, you know, when Zeno's healthy, he's hit 30 home runs. So that's really welcome also.


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[Assistant] But you know what? The stuff that we talk about every day, the reason we talk about it is because we believe in it. It's not just coach talk or manager talk. Because you don't know


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[Assistant] Where we're gonna get challenged. You don't know if guys are gonna get hurt. You know, if you lose three pitchers and if you start to make


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[Assistant] And then all of a sudden you lose your whole pitching staff. That's probably not going to come true. Okay, well your season doesn't end. You just keep competing. So, that's why we keep them in small segments. Like, hey, let's show up today. Let's see how good we can do.


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[Assistant] And then take enough time to learn from what we did and then move along.


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[Assistant] Yes, yeaah. That to me it is. Because you can get bogged down.


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[Assistant] You don't go up to the plate feeling real good about yourself, but when you're hitting good, you walk up there, you got a little swagger. The idea is to put the bat in the rear view mirror.


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[Assistant] And talk yourself into having some swagger anyway, which is not the easiest thing to do.


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[Assistant] The idea is we tried last year to really set a tone for how we were going to play. And I was really proud of our guys for that. Now the idea is they have a year under their belt.


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[Assistant] But it'll never slow down the way we play. It just makes it easier to hopefully make better decisions. So that's the idea is to kind of take it to another level.


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[Assistant] If you've ever seen security people manhandle a Chinese citizen, they're really brutal.


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[Assistant] They did this a couple of times, and then the tank turned off its motor. And then it seemed to me that all the tanks...


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[Assistant] Turned off their motors because it was really quiet.


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[Assistant] And I started to cry because I had seen so much shooting and so many people dying that I was sure this man would get crushed.


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[Assistant] So I remember thinking, I can't cry because I can't see. I want to watch this.


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[Assistant] And then after a while the young man jumps down and the tank turns on the motor and


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[Assistant] In Beijing, one in ten of the population was joining in. And that includes all the old people, all the little children. So it was massive.


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[Assistant] You had doctors and nurses and scientists and army people demonstrating.


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[Assistant] The Chinese Navy was demonstrating, and I thought, this is extraordinary, because who's left?


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[Assistant] It's just the top leaders who aren't out there.


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[Assistant] The people just flooded out and physically with their sheer numbers simply blocked the road.


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[Assistant] They just raked the buildings with their gunfire and they were shooting people. People were being killed on their, in their own kitchens.


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[Assistant] What was amazing was that the army used battlefield weapons. These bullets are the size of a man's thumb.


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[Assistant] And they're encased with this copper, a sort of soft


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[Assistant] Outer coating that when it's fired, it unfurls and it twists. They're like dum-dums, I guess. They twist so they, when they go through the victim, they tear up the victim inside.


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[Assistant] We went into the hospital through the back entrance where the staff goes. There was a smell. My friend said, you smell that? And I said, I smell something sweet. And she said, that's death. That's what you're smelling.


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[Assistant] People were running to the square and they were running from the square and people were racing to the square on bikes, racing out of the square on bikes. The ambulances started to go in.


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[Assistant] And then the soldiers would fire in their backs. I felt like I was watching some terrible opera.


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[Assistant] But the odd thing was that after a little while, like 40 minutes, an hour, people would gather their nerve again and


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[Assistant] Crawl back to the corner and start screaming at the soldiers.


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[Assistant] And then the commander would eventually give another signal, and the soldiers would raise their rifles again.


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[Assistant] And the people go, oh my god, and they'd run away and they'd shoot more in the backs. And this went on more than half a dozen times in the day. It was to me unbelievable.


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[Assistant] The soldiers shot everybody. Doctors, nurses, rescuers. Everybody was being shot at.


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[Assistant] I don't think they had him or they would have at that stage displayed him. I think that the people who took the Tank Man away were concerned people.


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[Assistant] If you've ever seen security people manhandle a Chinese citizen, they're really brutal. They twist your arm.


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[Assistant] Helped to the side of the road. He wasn't being arrested.


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[Assistant] Tells me he's still alive, he's still there, he has not been caught, and he's certainly not telling anybody that he's the man.


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[Assistant] You know, it's great to have a scoop but if no one can follow it, if no one can match it, then it doesn't exist.


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[Assistant] Are fluent in Chinese and have many sources, many connections, all kinds of information. No one could match it.


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[Assistant] I also took into account that the journalist who reported the story was not a resident foreign correspondent in Beijing.


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[Assistant] So one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century was floating in the top of a


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[Assistant] The party elders feared that the whole edifice of communism was going to collapse, like it was collapsing in the Soviet Union and in other parts of Eastern Europe. They needed to make a stand, and a bloody stand, to show their population, in effect to cow their population back into submission.


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[Assistant] Armor Personnel Carriers came and they began to ram the...


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[Assistant] Buses. Somebody threw some type of gasoline soaps.


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[Assistant] ... into the buses, and the buses illuminated the fire. Then, sometime after 9.30, you had more soldiers out there and live fire began.


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[Assistant] You had doctors outside involved in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.


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[Assistant] With red faces from, you know, stained from blood.


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[Assistant] The steps of the Museum of Revolutionary History, and then across the way on the steps of the Great Hall of the People, thousands of soldiers just felt the glint of their weaponry.


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[Assistant] It was clear to everyone from that point on, we were absolutely trapped. You had the military coming in from the west with their tanks. We knew there were tanks coming from the south up Qianmen Gate. And now on both sides of the square, you had hundreds if not thousands of soldiers.


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[Assistant] There was a lot of shooting, a lot of young people running towards the military, being shot, falling, and then running away.


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[Assistant] There was a lot of smoke. The lights were on on the square. And there was this continual announcement of under the martial law regulations, no one should be on the street. If you stay on the street, you will be responsible for what happens to you. This sort of continual base beat sort of of that evening was at these announcements.


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[Assistant] Up to this point has worked quite well for the communist party and for the elite and now the new middle class of China.


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[Assistant] The New Yankee Workshop features the craftsmanship of Norm Abram.


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[Assistant] Is the author of the book, The New Yankee Workshop, which is available in bookstores and libraries nationwide.


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[Assistant] Good show I am. G-Eazy is like the American cheese of cheeses.


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[Assistant] Hi I'm Jimmy Kimmel and this is the internet. I made it myself. Hit subscribe if you like it.


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[Assistant] It literally has not happened since that morning. He watches. He may be a watch. And I still have not met him. I haven't had to knock.


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[Assistant] Well, I did it a couple times and it still happened, but literally after the morning we discussed it, it has not happened since.


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[Assistant] So, he was, no, I don't think he seen me, but he was with his friend on the balcony and from my couch. You could see him. You could see out. So I saw him and I was gonna, he was drinking a beer with his buddy. I was gonna go out and be like, Hey man, what's up? I'm McNuggets. Nice to meet you. I'm McNuggets.


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[Assistant] Half the people in the gym know who I am as Mike, and half the people don't know who I am. And of the people who know me as Mike, there's a fraction that know what I do. And sometimes I was asked today, hey, you're McNuggets, right? And I'm lifting my buddy Cory, and Cory's like, Nuggets? Who's that?


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[Assistant] I think I've told you guys this story, I haven't told it on air, I'll tell it, but when I first became an on-air reporter in Tennessee, I was 24 and I was so excited because I was like, yes, I'm on air, this is the key to being famous. And in Tennessee, you know, you could be like a Z-list celebrity in real life, like a Z-, and you're an A-plus celebrity. His first assignment, by the way, was to go to a Klan rally.


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[Assistant] I wasn't that kind of part of Tennessee, I'll be honest. It was right in the Virginia, Tennessee border.


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[Assistant] And Bristol's a lot more civilized than Harley, Kentucky is.


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[Assistant] Oh, I go, I went back this summer, I'm gonna go back next, I still got friends down there, but. Awesome.


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[Assistant] So I put on all my dating profiles, TV reporter, blew it up, and down in Tennessee, back in 2016, Facebook was huge. And it still is down there, like Facebook in Texas, no traction. Facebook here, I have no idea, I don't work with KYC, but down there the Facebook pay was massive.


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[Assistant] I usually don't just randomly offer what I do to people because it can somehow come back.


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[Assistant] You know what? But, but if you say, if you say like, Hey, had fun Saturday, but I don't see this going anywhere. Then it turns to the whole conversation. No, it doesn't have to. Well, then it's on her. But then I can go so I go after that, you're saying.


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[Assistant] He's like, just trying to be a little smarter. But he was like, I showed him the text.


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[Assistant] No, I haven't ghosted anyone. Good on you. Uhm, I did a different story though real quick, cause I know we got Chris Rose in a few minutes.


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[Assistant] But this is, this is really funny. So, I played basketball on Thursday nights, and last night two Cavs coaches came and played with us. Really? Uh, yea, Josh was one of their analytics coach. Nice. And their big man, big man development coach, Braxton, who's seven feet tall.


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[Assistant] And I was not on Braxton's team and they ran a pick and roll and I slid over to help side defense just naturally. And I was about to take a charge on a seven footer.


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[Assistant] And... And then you made a business decision. Well, I made a bi- and I bailed. And brassed in.


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[Assistant] If I take a chance, I'd be in the hospital right now, I would not be sitting anywhere. Any chance we get either one as guests down the road? It's the first time I've met them. They are both now aware of the show. As in, hey, what do you do? Well, that conversation came up. So they're aware of the show.


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[Assistant] They had a good time. He will tell the story of him dribbling the ball off the foot.


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[Assistant] Josh was really, he played football in college and he coached at Amherst when I was at Emerson and we beat them. And he was like, I knew you kind of looked familiar. That's funny. And I was like, yeah, I played three seconds and got a foul and they immediately took me out. He's like, okay, then you're not who I thought you were.


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[Assistant] But we beat, when they were number one in the country, we beat them. He was on the staff, uh, and that was the first time they were going to come back next Thursday. So hopefully we'll foster that relationship. And bring them in. We'll bring them in, yea.


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[Assistant] Chris Jackson Smith and Jigba is at the podium today. He's gonna not, he's gonna do drills but not run the 40 despite saying his hamstring is 100%.


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[Assistant] Is that kinda weird that he's not participating in the 40 when his hamstring is allegedly fully healthy after not playing all season?


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[Assistant] Chris, one more before you run, but I have, uh, BattleBots have infiltrated my TikTok algorithm and I can't swipe three or four times without seeing and watching an entire BattleBot fight, which if you haven't watched BattleBots, it is awesome. You do an awesome job on those calls. Who's the GOATBOT and which one is your personal favorite?


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[Assistant] Are you ringside for these? Yes. Kenny Florian, right? Kenny Florian's your co-host.


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[Assistant] What night of the week? I just watched on TikTok. I'll be on.


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[Assistant] I would love to, we should have a UCSS trip to Vegas to watch them film this.


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[Assistant] He's with Stefanski right now, so he could ask the fans. Oh, he's in the combine? I got tagged in so many tweets, like, is this the quells? Is he working for the Browns? And I was like, no, he's just there. He said he's working for us.


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[Assistant] I think he was late. I dunno. To me, high draft capital is first and second round. Linebackers don't typically go that high.


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[Assistant] Benefits to Browns is there aren't a ton of like elite elite. There's no Ro Kwon Smith out there. There's a list of guys. They're all good. Like Tremaine Emmons would be a nice fit. TJ Edge would be a nice fit. Levante David probably a little out of the price range. But there's two guys, Devin Bush and Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] And Denzel Pearman coming out of Vegas, who are both going to be relatively cheap options that I think are massive upgrades over what Cleveland currently has, especially in the interior, that if they could get either of those two,


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[Assistant] Four to five million dollars a year. I think that's a massive, or would be a massive, massive upgrade at a relative price compared to what they're going to have to spend in the other positions to revamp this defense.


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[Assistant] I do have some good news for Browns fans though. And De'Quel had told us this right after they hired Jim Schwartz. And this is a conversation I had with him in the gym.


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[Assistant] He said he talked to his boy Stephen Tollick. Remember Stephen Tollick played for the Titans for a long time under Schwartz? Tollick was an undersized, very late, I think he was actually undrafted, I don't even think he was drafted.


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[Assistant] A 5'10 guy who outside of his time in Tennessee was Schwartz and a very pedestrian NFL career.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. In Tennessee, he was extremely productive. And De'Quel called him after Schwartz hired him and goes, hey, what can you tell me about Jim Schwartz in preparation for coming on our show? And Tolick said he made me the best player I possibly could have been.


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[Assistant] He taught me how to play the position in his scheme better than anyone's ever taught me how to play linebacker. So what's your point?


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[Assistant] He can not only save JLK, but you bring someone in there like a Devin Bush who's really talented, who hasn't performed, and we can see a guy on a relatively cheap contract go from being solid like he was in Pittsburgh to really good. That's what you gotta hit up.


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[Assistant] Is that why they start in the wide nine? To get better angles to get to certain spots as opposed to going one on one?


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[Assistant] That fumble touchdown. No, no, no, but I'm saying, if you give it to them and add it to my home stats, my home set four touchdowns hurts at four touchdowns. Right?


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[Assistant] Is in the circle of where we were at. But we got off topic with G. Earl you gotta read.


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[Assistant] Is always awesome when he does that. Brings a ton of insight to the fans. You get to interact with him. It's a lot of fun too.


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[Assistant] They're a better team, we'll see if they have our number. It'll be, thank God I find someone to play a little defense.


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[Assistant] So, can I make the, I think Jose's better, but can I make the case for Lindor? You can try. Just to try. Just to present both sides. Yeaah. For their careers. Yeaah. Jose's played two more seasons.


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[Assistant] Or really, season and a half, he only played half of his first season. But for their careers, Jose's numbers are a 279 batting average.


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[Assistant] 192 RBIs, 660, uh, 102, 192 home runs, 666 RBIs, which we have to do something about. That's not a good number for them to be sitting on for RBIs.


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[Assistant] Season and a half fewer. 277 batting average, 184 home runs, 581 RBIs and a .816 OPS. In a more premier position.


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[Assistant] What's up Zach? Hey Zach, before we bring you in, we are so happy to have you with us, but shout out to the chat by the way. We had SHIELD, NA, Phil Bowman, and Derek Carso gift other people memberships today. Look at that. We have gifted seven memberships. SHIELD did five himself. Is that like you pay it forward at the Starbucks line? Yep. So shout out to those guys.


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[Assistant] Zach, this is my first full season of Guardians Baseball in Cleveland. I moved here mid-April of last year. We had Will Brennan on the show a couple weeks ago and he was awesome. So he's now my favorite guardian. So please, Zach, tell me why Will Brennan is going to be in the MVP race in 2023.


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[Assistant] Zach, outside of driving the Will Brennan bus, I'm also on the Tristan McKenzie train, I guess you could call it. Is there any- Because he's the only player that weighs less than Mike.


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[Assistant] Probably. That's actually probably a fact. Well Steve, no, I play more than Steven Kwan. Maybe. I don't know, besides the point.


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[Assistant] We had Chris Rose on Talkable Guardians and who do we have also from Spring Training? Well, Mandy Bell. So that she thought that Mackenzie could take that next up, be a legitimate Cy Young candidate heading in this season. Is there any chance that at the end of 2023, we're looking at Tristan Mackenzie as the best pitcher on this Guardians roster?


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[Assistant] Which is, I saw, I saw this plus 3000. I saw one.


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[Assistant] And I think he can win a Cy Young. It's like a shooter in basketball when you're not worried about missing anymore and you can just shoot the ball and let it fly.


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[Assistant] Yes we are. I got a question for you and Steve, get video number two ready. Who's going faster this weekend? Someone on the NASCAR track or what we're about to see when Steve pulls it up. We didn't play off the top of the show. We got to play this before we run. Video two.


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[Assistant] I was just, uh, uh, trying to deal with, so there, he's Roman. Uh-huh. Oh, really? So I got to meet his, uh, all of his Roman family. Oh, wow. Amazing. Wow. And there was a lot of during the, um, the service.


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[Assistant] It's like a spy. Like food spies. Really? And then later on, almost towards the vows, another woman said,


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[Assistant] Did you ever get any of that smoked mozzarella? Or no? Yea, it was like an angel crying on your tongue. Yea.