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[Assistant] Right, right, right. But you already have three spots where you don't have a legit major league starter. You've got no power all over the place except for third base. Your shortstop's been awful. Your second baseman's been awful. Your first baseman slash DH Naylor cannot hit lefties.


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[Assistant] That's right. And I don't know if the rest of these guys are going to pan out and Owen Miller is a small sample size, but they gave him away. They gave Will Benson away. He's been terrible so far in Cincinnati. He is a very small sample size. You gave away what's his name? Nolan Jones too. Like you had to give those guys away. At one point those guys were all decent prospects. Especially Nolan Jones and Will Benson.


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[Assistant] Exactly, and we can't keep doing this. They've got to get proven Major League players.


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[Assistant] No, there's no comparison, but the point is, yeaah, if you don't put better talent around him soon, then the rest of his career could get wasted. Now, the Guardians are never going to stay bad, unlike the Browns, you know, hopefully the Browns won't stay bad anymore. Obviously the Guardians is a much better run organization than the Browns. There's no comparison from that standpoint, but right now it's like,


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[Assistant] It's ugly, and we've been talking about the hitting, the bullpen's been awful. It's been awful.


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[Assistant] Uh, and the rotation's been up and down. Bieber's, you know, you look at his numbers, they're pretty good, but he's not dominant. No. Right? You know, Quantrill's been, been pretty bad.


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[Assistant] Allen's been mostly good. Couple bad starts. He's a young pitcher. He's been good. Bybee's been excellent for the most part. Uh. Rough bumps are coming though. Yeaah. For Bybee. The young pitchers are going to have ups and downs. Sure. You know, McKenzie's getting close to coming back. Savali. That'll be a boost. Listen, the rotation's fine. It's good enough. But.


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[Assistant] Agreed, I disagree with you on the, on the straw thing because in the bottom line to me is most centerfielders are very good defensively. Yeaah. So I could get a guy who's a little worse than him in centerfield, that's a much better hitter.


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[Assistant] I don't care that he's playing every day because the other eight guys can hit, but they don't have that. And so it hurts because you get no production out of him. You get nothing out of catcher. And again, just like last year, you have three spots in the lineup with no production. And that's not even including bell Jimenez and Rosario have given you no production, but even though you're expecting more.


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[Assistant] Think about some of their top-hitting prospects. You know, Zimmer, Bush.


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[Assistant] And a lot of their prospects have been hyped. You know, and that's why I would trade them because I don't know if these guys are going to be any good. Let's go. Let's get moving here. I agree with you. Trade Rosario now. You did a good job last year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's. Oh, Baltimore and St. Louis, you said? Yeah, St. Louis is right at the ship as I thought they would eventually. Baltimore has been great. Baltimore's bullpen is dynamite.


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[Assistant] Did you see my tweet yesterday, the record of the AL Central teams in games not, when they're not playing each other?


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[Assistant] I, I, I should figure out these four, these five teams' records against teams only in the East and West America.


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[Assistant] We'll see you on overtime. Talk about that bum Kyrie next.


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[Assistant] And I'd have to try to, you know, and his job was just to keep my dress sort of kept flying up. So his job was to just, I said, whatever you do, just keep my dress down. And he, the whole stunt, like he just made sure my dress. That's sweet. Very sweet. Did y'all get together? Did you date him? Never dated him. Really? There's just something about me that I guess he didn't.


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[Assistant] That's not true. I think it's true. No. He never, never. He was probably intimidated. Not at all. Yeah. There's nothing to intimidate. I'm not that. Yes you are. But we, but I think we're probably friends for that long because we didn't. Yeah.


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[Assistant] You know, I had to, I climbed a lot of stairs to get to where I am today.


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[Assistant] Now those ideas, which used to be on the fringe, are in the mainstream.


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[Assistant] In that moment it was visible that there was a reaction. Because he started crying. I mean, his emotions were evident. They were streaming down his face.


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[Assistant] Jones had no evidence whatsoever to prove that that didn't happen. And he said it many times.


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[Assistant] Because that's just what fit into his worldview. That's what, I mean, on some level it felt like that's what he wanted it to be.


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[Assistant] Stone was getting a big platform out of Jones. Stone could come on Jones' show and talk to what would ultimately be millions of people. I think that


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[Assistant] Someone in the mainstream, Trump, using the words that Jones had been using for decades, uhm, I think that emboldened Jones and it changed him as a personality.


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[Assistant] That summer was particularly important for Jones because he was on the rise at the time.


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[Assistant] Mr. President, I have to say that you're living up to every, everything I thought you would. You're one heck of a leader and we're all benefiting from it.


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[Assistant] And we're going to make this the greatest presidency that we've seen, not only in generations, but maybe ever. God bless all of you.


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[Assistant] And those people were sort of isolated and shunned and everybody felt like they had their number. But with social media and the internet, they find each other.


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[Assistant] FEMA sent 85 refrigerated trucks to New York City to hold the people who've perished.


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[Assistant] A volunteer firefighter in North Carolina, Edgar Madison Welsh. Here's the stories about Pizzagate being promoted by Alex Jones and others and decides somebody has to do something about it. Somebody has to save these kids.


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[Assistant] You know, armed with an assault rifle, barges into the restaurant on a Sunday afternoon, um, fires two shots as he goes looking for the mythical basement where the kids are supposedly being trafficked, um, and of course, uh,


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[Assistant] So uhm,


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[Assistant] Say it.


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[Assistant] So uhm, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, the founder is actually G Bush's high school coach, Antonio Hall, at Canton McKinley, and he will be on the show tomorrow at 1130. So all those questions, we don't know the answer to right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we asked the internet, you know, what was your favorite Jimmy Brown memory and what do you remember most? And we got some pretty good answers. We got a ton, so we're not going to get to all of them, but we sort through, we picked a couple of our favorites. Very good. And we'll do that towards the end of the show.


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[Assistant] The title of that, uh, article by the way is, Jim Brown, a comeback at 47. Are you serious?


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[Assistant] I want to have one read and then I'll gotta mention something from the 32 facts about 32, but today's show and in honor of Jim Brown, everything we talked today, Brown's is brought to us by Lorain County Community College. Your class is your future. You can register now for summer and fall classes. Learn more at LorainCCC.edu.


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[Assistant] To learn more on that list of 32 fun facts they sent out about Jim Brown, Jay, the one that stood out to me the most.


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[Assistant] But still, led the league in carries, led the league in rushing, 8 out of his 9 years.


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[Assistant] Was first team all-pro not, uh, eight of the nine and second team the one year he wasn't first. To take that kind of abuse on the football field and Boogie can speak to it, I mean.


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[Assistant] Running backs in today's day and age, their average career is a year and a half, two years, cause they're getting absolutely demolished by defensive linemen. I know it was a little different back in the sixties, but to never miss a game in nine years, that stood out to me more than anything. It was rough for back then.


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[Assistant] 90 seconds. The Browns just tweeted out, don't take yet Steve, the uh, 5 best plays of Jim Brown's career. Oh wow. Which, I'm watching it as, I obviously am not old enough, you weren't old enough, Boogie, I'm not sure if you've seen these. Do you want to take these full? We'll watch them and comment on them. I'd love to. Yeaah, I would love to.


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[Assistant] Alright, so this is, I'm gonna take it, not this one Steve, I'm gonna switch it, take it live as soon as it goes. These are the five best plays of Jim Brown's career by the Browns. Wow. And they count them down five to one. Yes.


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[Assistant] Alright. And your mic's alive, so talk through it.


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[Assistant] Look how different the passing game is now than back in the day.


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[Assistant] He's Derrick Henry's size, just so people out there to put in comparison. Yeah, he ran faster, but he's listed at essentially the same size as Derrick Henry, so it's not like we're talking about a 6'5 center. He's as tall as Derrick Henry?


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[Assistant] We'll get to Leroy, but I want to remind everybody that Boogie's joining us today. Boogie, a defensive star for the Pittsburgh Maulers if you want to check out.


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[Assistant] Great USFL action. $10 or less tickets, usfl.com. Check him out to see elite stars like Boogie Robertson's mother, guys. Boogie also had 8 tackles, 2 for a loss and a sack this week. So, shout out to Boogie who was named to the mid-season USFL defensive


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[Assistant] Nice. Very good. All right. And with that, our own personal running back, the one, the only Leroy Hoard. Leroy. Wow. He's got a different background.


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[Assistant] What a group. The greatest offensive player, the greatest defensive player and the greatest talker.


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[Assistant] We're gonna start to put a bow tie on our Jim Brown conversation. We're gonna do our-


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[Assistant] Top 5 running backs of all time. Get some viewer comments, but we have to start here.


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[Assistant] What do you guys think the Browns should do for the upcoming season, if anything at all, to honor Jim Brown?


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[Assistant] And I counted four different times to make sure that number was right. And it was 52. That's a lotta, that's a lotta damn films.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I did a- I spent about an hour and a half researching this yesterday. I did.


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[Assistant] For the, for Jared Allen, just played around with the trade machine. This was Friday. Right. I think it was Friday, right? But was it Friday? Yea, it was Friday.


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[Assistant] And I have people saying it's way too much, way too little, this team would never do it, that team would never do it.


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[Assistant] You're not gonna please any, everybody. It's impossible in this industry. Uh, but I do like when, at least in those situations, that I think we're gonna get to that same point here. This is Gutsy. With...


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[Assistant] When you have people on both sides saying that's not nearly enough for a trade.


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[Assistant] Now this is a little different and I'm gonna argue a certain way for certain players and you may disagree because you value something a little more than I do but before we get to this


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[Assistant] I think there's a clear top four. And I think there's a tier with five through seven that could be rearranged. Okay. So.


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[Assistant] With what we're talking about is ranking the 5 best running backs of all time. We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it. And this was not easy. Not easy at all. And we're gonna do it.


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[Assistant] But he did kind of, he ran in a similar style. Now it wasn't Jim Brown, but similar stylistic runner. He did. Jim Brown, physical, initiated the contact and you could definitely see there. He left his mark.


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[Assistant] So five and six came down to two people in my opinion. And I gave the edge to Adrian Peterson over Eric Dickerson with a longevity nod.


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[Assistant] The slight longevity, these two, if you wanted to tell me that Eric Dickerson should be five and Peterson six, fine, I'm not gonna throw a fit. I gave him the longevity nod. He won an MVP four time first team all pro. He's second on the all time single season rushing list behind Dickerson who still holds that record, but he gets the nod because he's been


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[Assistant] So like I said, these next four, I think it's one through four in some order.


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[Assistant] You could argue different things, but with number four, or with Emmet Smith.


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[Assistant] I know he's the all time rushing yards leader, all time touchdowns leader, he has three super bowls.


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[Assistant] And he's the most reliable back ever, but I don't think at the end of the day, he was as good at his peak as the three guys ahead of him on this list.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean he is the all time NFL leader in rushing and touchdown. So say what you want. That is an accomplishment in its own, but I don't think his peak was as high as the next three.


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[Assistant] Yea, save it at the end. Alright, 3 through 1 here, don't take it too deep.


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[Assistant] Almost impossible. That's why I asked you, are you sure you want to be in? And I am, and I spent a lot of time on this. I really, and people sometimes the top fives when they're silly, we throw them together. We have some fun. When it comes to this stuff, like.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna put my name on it unless I've fully researched and feel confident. Now granted,


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[Assistant] I didn't see any of these three guys playing live. Like I, Barry Sanders, who's coming up on this list at some point, I was four when he retired. So like, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I saw Barry Sanderson's entire career. So you guys can chime in. This is going off highlights, stats, research, everything. And at three.


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[Assistant] He walked away, and that's, I think, to me, that was a differentiating factor between him and Walter Payton. And we'll get to Walter Payton at one of the top two in a sec, but Payton had the longevity nod.


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[Assistant] Barry Sanders, unbelievable in his own right. You look through, he had a 2,000 yard season in 1997 with 11 touchdowns. He led the league with 16 touchdowns in 91, led the league in rushing four separate times. He was unbelievable. But his yards per carry for a guy who was as dynamic in as many big plays as he did, was a lot.


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[Assistant] Lower, it's only 4.4, which I guess plays to the fact that his line was terrible, so he was such a hit or miss.


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[Assistant] He carried the ball, it was phenomenal. Carried the ball 343 times for 1491 yards. He only had 4 touchdowns. But what season was that?


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[Assistant] Now, I'm gonna give you the case for each and then I'll tell you who I sided with at number one.


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[Assistant] Walter Payton, the only running back in NFL history to rush for 1,200 yards 10 times. Think about that for a second. In 10 separate seasons, Walter Payton rushed for 1,200 yards. That is stupid. Stupid. Third all time.


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[Assistant] Jim Brown, on the other hand. Short career, but arguably the most dominant during his era. Led the league in rushing in eight of his nine years. He was an all-pro in nine seasons, eight first team, one second team. He's the only quarterback, I mean, only non-quarterback, excuse me, to ever win three MVPs.


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[Assistant] To this day, I'm the only non-MVP. So I weighed...


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[Assistant] A little bit of longevity with Peyton over the pure dominance of Jim Brown, and this is not because of what happened over the weekend, but I came to the conclusion that the most dominant running back ever,


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[Assistant] Was Jim Brown. I couldn't get over the fact that he had, I understand different era, 60s.


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[Assistant] Last Barry, uh, last Walter Payton stat before we, uh, do some internet Jim Brown memories and we'll move on to The Guardians. How many passing touchdowns do you think Walter Payton threw in his career?


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[Assistant] You know, Barry Sanders never threw a passing touchdown, so now we have to, you know, picking hairs and that to bet. Hey, there you go. There's your, uh, what was his


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[Assistant] He threw 34 pa- uh, it was not good. He threw 34 passes in his career.


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[Assistant] Completed 11. 8 of those 11 went for touchdowns. He also threw 6 interceptions.


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[Assistant] We're gonna get to our internet comments and internet memories. I'm Jim Brown from our wonderful viewers and audience out there. And as always, whenever we ask the internet for responses, it's brought to us by


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[Assistant] We got some text on Haymarket, we got some YouTube community comments, uh, it's easiest to pull them in on Tagboard from Twitter, so we'll go with a couple tweets here. But this first one is from Michael.


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[Assistant] And don't say, well I was too young to get the privilege to watch him play the game of football.


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[Assistant] As a legendary human who was a Cleveland icon who helped unite people and build equality through athletics, he'll forever be remembered. The world lost a great man in the city, lost an icon, R.I.P., and we got


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[Assistant] I have to watch some Jim Brown. I don't know if I've ever seen him in a movie.


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[Assistant] Now those are the internet comments we got, we got so many that are coming in, it's hard to- Oh, we do have one super chat though, uh, Anthony sent it to me, give me one sec to pull it up. This is from...


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[Assistant] Where, where do you put it? Sorry. Uh, this from Maurice Lucas. No relation to me. My birthday is your show's anniversary. I live in Phoenix, but I was born in Cleveland. My name is Herman Moore and I went to Shaw High School. So thanks for watching, Maurice. We appreciate it. Nice. Very cool. And happy belated birthday about two weeks out, so. West Coast love. Yeah. Yes, sir. Alright.


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[Assistant] Any more Jim Brown stuff? I feel like we spent an hour 40 on it. We've covered it all. I think we have. Kudos to us. We did it. And, uh, we will miss Jim Brown here in Cleveland and around the country. No doubt. And some other sporting news.


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[Assistant] Not a good weekend for the Guardians, guys. Three losses to the Mets, each by one run.


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[Assistant] If you look across Boogie, one sec, if you look across the American League.


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[Assistant] There are only five teams in the entire American league with a negative run differential. Only five.


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[Assistant] The A's, minus 168, which is absurd. Just like, just flat out absurd.


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[Assistant] Jed, do you want to hear Tim? We have, we have Tim telling a story. You want to hear it? Sure. It's only, it's only a minute long. Yeah. All right, Steve. He underestimated me. Take it.


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[Assistant] Their whole team's really good. Spencer Strider's stacked, yeaah. Uh, real quick, one last reminder that the lunch hour of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show is sponsored by


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[Assistant] Joe Mazzulli yesterday was asked after the game. He fell on his sword. Have you lost the locker room? You lost your team? And he said, yeah. And to hear coach. You never hear them say that. Like admit and I'll find.


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[Assistant] Going on the road, knowing you're the prohibitive favorite, you're playing an eight seed, which as Bull alluded to, we said the regular season now means essentially nothing ever. It just goes to show you that the regular season. But to go into that scenario.


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[Assistant] Knowing the adjustments that had to be made. Knowing that they are a essentially a one man team with Jimmy Butler leading the show. And even though Gabe Vincent and the other role players have been phenomenal, Max Druse, Duncan Robinson. Vincent was the leading scorer.


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[Assistant] And not have your guys ready, and I stand by- Boogie, I actually would love for you to chime in here.


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[Assistant] Draw a line in the effing sand. Let's go. Or on one side, go. And he did not do that. He fell on his sword. Boogie, is it the same in a football locker room where it's on the players to kind of get up for the moment? Or do you guys rely on the coach to almost set the scene and get you guys ready for war?


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[Assistant] I would take Denver and to Boogie's point with the coaching adjustments and Boogie, I hate to go back to the Lakers, but there's nothing to break down in the Heat Celtics game. The Nuggets Lakers series has come down to Bruce Brown.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's not a real thing and you know it. But I- I must be rubbing off on you.


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[Assistant] Awesome. I wish I had a birthday for him. Like, how does that work with the, do they gotta bring their money too? No, I'll take care of it.


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[Assistant] The father of the birthday. Here's what you do. You always bring, hey listen, this is, uh, I got lost somewhere. This is a 20 for a cab. If something happens, you figure it out. It's 20.


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[Assistant] No, the Browns would never admit that. Of course. Look, we put them on over the, like, we put them on the pedestal, right? Like, you know, like I said yesterday, I mean, to your, I mean, we had three quarterbacks in there. I thought it was, uh, Deshaun Watson, it was Trevor Lawrence.


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[Assistant] People could say if you wanted to pick them.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of people that can be mad as hell about the Lamar comment. I was expected- I was leaning toward- more towards Lamar Jackson than the rest of them. Lamar Jackson to me is like-


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[Assistant] I mean, he's one of MVP. I can't, I can't knock that, bro. I can understand if you say, well, he'd be injured. Okay, that's great. Uhm, but some people can say Trevor Lawrence. Listen, he played well one year and that was last year. That was it. And, uh, that, that's the only.


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[Assistant] Here's the thing, if I would have said that, or somebody else would have said that, they wouldn't really even took it like that. You know the reason they'd be saying that.


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[Assistant] I've already been told y'all. Stop playing around with me. I've put the expectations out there. I need that.


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[Assistant] And we was talking about we don't need Baker to be that great. And then we decided we was going to trade three first round picks. No, I want that all of a sudden. That's right.


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[Assistant] That is why, that is why I was so hot before, cause people said, oh!


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[Assistant] See, sometimes when you're in a fan base, you don't realize that you could take advantage of certain things, right? You could take advantage of the fact that the AFC was not as good as it is, and when you see a guy like Patrick Mahomes go into the locker room and he's gone the whole second half, you're like, dude, this is your shot. Are you gonna seize it, or are you gonna just be the Browns?


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[Assistant] They just turned out to be the Browns. And then you thought, well, look, we're going to be back there. Look at this team. No, it don't work that way, man. Now you looking three, just three years later.


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[Assistant] The climate is completely different. Completely different. Now you're going to have to play the best you've ever seen. You may see the Browns be the best team you've ever seen in your life.


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[Assistant] And you still might not even make it to the AMC Championship. That's very true.


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[Assistant] And they got the same guys. Like say for instance, if you look at Josh Allen or you look at Burrow, like they've done that two years, three years with guys and it's the same people. It's the same offenses. Like we hoping that Deshaun Watson, hey, my week six is clicking. Like we haven't seen


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[Assistant] And let's be truthful. In my lifetime, we have not seen a prolific offense. Nope.


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[Assistant] Ever! Like, it's like, there's been middling.


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[Assistant] And this is why it's very important for the Browns. Like so many times we see the Browns get to a point where it's almost like they're out of it before it even starts.


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[Assistant] They can't lose a bunch of games and then be like, all right, well the middle of the schedule is easy. So now they got to win five or six. No, like we're in that situation all the time. Every year they're in that situation and it's too, the division is too good for that. I could understand if our division was the, the AL Central.


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[Assistant] Yes. Right. If we were in those divisions, boom, I would say great. Now it's, it's just, it just seems like they're, they're, they're up against it. They gotta be ready to go week one.


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[Assistant] But they have to win a playoff game. If you win an AFC championship game and you're playing against an NFC team, you automatically got a shot. Yeah, I mean, Philadelphia is really the favorite. San Francisco is really good.


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[Assistant] And most of all, is it when you look at the individual years for MVPs, aren't usually those MVPs at a historical level? All of them. Like this past year.


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[Assistant] Like, because of what he was doing on the ground, right? You look at the historical level, I can look at Tom Brady a couple years ago. These guys are all, if you went to the MVP or close to the MVP, you're talking 5,000 yards, you're talking 35, 36 touchdowns.


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[Assistant] So all of those dudes, if you win MVP, you are playing at a historical level. Now, in my situation, I look at it like, hey, guess what? If you get a guy like Deshaun Watson,


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[Assistant] And you say he plays at a all time level and you can get home field advantage?


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[Assistant] That could, that helps you tremendously because other than that, you're playing on the road. You said I gotta win three road games against historical greatest teams of all time. Like that's tough to do. So I'll take that during the regular season if they're going to put themselves in a position to be, to get a home field game. I mean, the Chiefs just lost


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[Assistant] There is proof Deshaun Watson is working out. He is doing calisthenics. I was never worried about that. They have the snap count down. They know what he sounds like under center. I think, uh, I think a lot of people are excited.


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[Assistant] You know, Tim, you know, I asked, uh, you know, Bull and some of the baseball guys, Jay, uhm, you know, when we look at this, this, uh, you know, the roster and how the Guardians are always able.


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[Assistant] To find a picture. They're, they're always able to develop pitching. They, you know, as soon as they leave, you know, we've been talking about, uh, Bieber, um, maybe, uh, trading him to get, get a bat or get something in return from him. One of the things that we're getting is,


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[Assistant] Hey, you, you take a look at the guys they are able to develop. They can do it when it comes to pitching, but when it comes to, uh, you know, power bats or guys in the corner outfield, why is it that they're so able and adept at developing pitching, but it doesn't seem like they've been able to.


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[Assistant] You know, Tim, we talked about, uh, you know, trades and different things. Uh, we were in here just, you know, playing around one day. We're doing a show and I say, look.


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[Assistant] Back up, get a little prospects. You know, at the time I'm like, but, but is there too, is there, is there a big enough package or I would trade anybody for him, right? Even if it was a rental for six, six or seven, eight months, right?


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[Assistant] When you look at his talent level, do you believe that, you know, A, there are teams out there that have enough that would trade for him or B, is, is there no package that's big enough for him based on what he can give you?


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[Assistant] You know, we, we go to the, the historically, you know, bad to the historically good, the American League East, uhm,


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[Assistant] The, you know, it's led by the Rays. I mean, they, they jump out to one of the best stars that we've seen in a long time. Um, how good is.


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[Assistant] That's crazy, boy. How good, Tim, is this division, American and Lee East?


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[Assistant] 0 for 27 with 21 strikeouts. When you got, when you got 21 strikeouts out of 27 plate appearance.


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[Assistant] That means you not even up going up there with an approach. No. That means you just swinging at pitches bro. There's no, there's no.


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[Assistant] No, no, unacceptable. He should have already been chilling and I was going to wait till Memorial Day, but listen, when you play baseball, listen, you, you're not even up there with like, you know, your third base coach say, listen and get in there and hit your pitch. That is, I mean,


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[Assistant] That, that is unacceptable. Like that, like at the end of the day.


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[Assistant] You owe it to your team to put somebody in there to at least have a shot.


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[Assistant] You owe it to the other guys, because at the end of the day, they looking at those numbers just like you are. They know what a good guy is, and if you see a guy killing it down there, and it just so happens to be somebody's brother on the team, you know they really know.


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[Assistant] Very little for right field. Very little for right field. And your left fielder, which is a power position, they're using that like a, like, if Quan plays center field, I wouldn't have a


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[Assistant] I don't even, I don't even think they can sustain two years in a row playing like that. Because it, like some of the hits you hit, you get, you hit it right at somebody, right? Or you found a hole somewhere, or it's a bloop single. Like in baseball, sometimes people clean that up.


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[Assistant] And I'm gonna give y'all, I wasn't gonna say it, but I think you're starting to see the decline of Jose Ramirez. I don't think so.


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[Assistant] You're not, you're not gonna see a jump off a, a roof. But I'm thinking, I don't think he, you're starting to see a decrease in power.


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[Assistant] I would, I don't understand. This is, this goes to, I guess, the way you construct a defense. When I look at the, what the...


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[Assistant] Uh, the Vikings had, I mean, you, you had Zedaria Smith, you, you had Galvin Thomason. How was their defensive front? How was the defense in general so bad? And you even had Hunter, Neil Hunter over there. What, like, was it, was it the scheme? Was it the coach? How, how did that happen? Because


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[Assistant] In a lot of ways, we were trying to figure out whether it was our defensive line here or was it the coaching that really caused us to be so terrible.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, uh, Jadavian Clowney had that. Now, Jadavian, uh, he went and told the team, allegedly, uh, that he was only going to play on certain downs and distances. So that may be, uh, you know, a step too far as far as being an independent contractor.


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[Assistant] But, you know, let's talk about Zedaria Smith and, uhm, yes, he is a very good contractor to what he brings to the table. If healthy, I mean.


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[Assistant] I said this earlier, I said, uh, even when you look at Jadevi Clowney and Zedaria Smith, Zedaria Smith has way more, uh, uh, uh, he has better traits, uh, as a pass rusher.


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[Assistant] Then a guy who, uh, who may be more athletic, uh, when you look at his been, when you look at him being able to turn and him being able to rush inside a little bit more, um, little more functional power when he's transitioning to the quarterback. I said that Zedaria Smith probably is the best pass rusher Miles Garter's played with. Do you disagree with that?


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[Assistant] Now he said, I ain't gonna say what I'm gonna say, but you know, say thumbs up. You know what I'm saying? I'm not going, I'm not gonna be Twitter thumbing. I'm not gonna be Twitter thumbing. We hear what you're saying.


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[Assistant] Cause I don't really be involved in it. I'm just looking around. But here's the thing.


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[Assistant] At the end of the day, what we're not going to do is we're not going to take time to jump on, on these, these lines and jump on people's timelines. I don't know who this guy is. Uh, Sarge BKM at G Bush is bull your boss.


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[Assistant] Are you his water boy? He baits you every day and you kowtow every time. I know it won't matter, but I am so done with you. I hope others follow me.


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[Assistant] It's about platform, uhm, and, er, I don't know what that said, my brother. Well, let me tell you, my brother, you can't gas like G. Bush. He hears the thing, bro.


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[Assistant] Just because you black and I'm black don't mean we come from the same area. And as, uh, one, uh, Stephen A. Smith said, listen,


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[Assistant] I disagree with everybody, and I disagree when it counts.


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[Assistant] I don't see y'all calling out Roger Goodell in the NFL. I don't see y'all calling out. Listen, I had arguments with people that really can get you up out of here.


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[Assistant] How many times you done had them conversations? So when I say something, I stand on intent toes from nothing. I came from nothing. I came from sleeping on couches, telling people what I think. At the end of the day, bulls stand on his word.


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[Assistant] J stand on his word, McNugget stand on, ain't nobody up in the UCSS. We have conversations. Ain't nobody, everybody in here has got their own opinion. If it's from the, from the directors to the producers.


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[Assistant] We had conversations. Ain't nobody over know nobody. And what y'all gotta understand here in sports is sometimes somebody gonna have an opinion about something. That's that man's opinion. If you got a problem with that man's opinion, go talk to him or maybe you should have a conversation with him and verbally joust and do some things at the end of the day. Our job here.


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[Assistant] Cause you guys winning championships over there. We want that same energy over here.


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[Assistant] But sometimes you gotta realize that, that, that you might be used to filet mignon and we've been dealing with hamburger helper. So it's two different levels to it. So like.


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[Assistant] You can't come with that energy and expect everybody to be on. But like Bull said, if y'all come win games, you ain't no disrespect to Kansas City.


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[Assistant] You never gonna have a better fan base than you got right here. That's right. Axe LeBron James. He broke the scoring record in LA.


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[Assistant] If he tell you to a man, he wish he probably broke that scoring record here because we gonna support you, we gonna ride with you. It's a feeling you get when you ride through the Muni lot. Ain't no Muni lot in Kansas City. Ain't no Muni lot. Ain't nobody, you ain't gonna see one in 15, one in 16 and you still got thousands of people supporting you.


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[Assistant] Like that. No disrespect to no other fan base is the best fan base in the world because they gonna come mess with you and they gonna genuinely show you love no matter if you win or lose and that's why I advocate so hard for them because they deserve better, they deserve more. So if it's between the players,


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[Assistant] Or the, or the guys, at the end of the day, the Browns uniforms is going to last forever.


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[Assistant] That, that's going to be here. So I represent the brand. I'm going to be gone. One day you'll be gone. One day McNuggets will be gone. And they'll still be talking about the Browns in the Muni line. So at the end of the day, that's what I support. And if you get on the bandwagon, I'm sure they'll support you too.


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[Assistant] You know, it's a three point shooter. The question, my question is, Can we get his dad into it? Right, right. Can we get your pops? How much better does it make? I think it does make them nominally better. Just a tick better offensively. Obviously they would get a little bit worse defensively.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I mean, I could see it's a move that says we're trying to do something.


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[Assistant] I like it. I like the move. I like the way he explained it. You can get me, you can get me two starters in there. Uh, which if you give me two starters, that means I can drop a core off the bench. I can have Laverte coming off the bench. You can still keep Jetty off the bench.


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[Assistant] I'm not banking on it. We'll figure it out. Like, we, you know, all you need is, you need to figure out during the year which three or four guys, three guys that you can count on in the playoffs. If Rubio's one of them, cool.


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[Assistant] If he's not, alright. If El Correo is one of the guys, cause he can, he's developed some shooting, okay. But, you know, if you get two starters, I ain't got a problem with that.


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[Assistant] I would do both of those. I would do the Dallas trade still. I like the San Antonio trade. San Antonio trade I think.


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[Assistant] Gets San Antonio a lot better. A lot quicker. Like I think that really makes.


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[Assistant] So here's the thing, like they wanna get, they wanna get for the rappers.


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[Assistant] They want to get Scottie Barnes. Now OG Ananobe is playing small forward, but Scottie Barnes plays small forward.


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[Assistant] When you get a player like, uh, Scotty Barnes who's already rookie of the year.


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[Assistant] What happens is they start being, they start, the agents start looking at different things. Like, hold on bro, he playing a lot of minutes at power forward. He is not a power forward. We see Scotty Barnes as a small forward. So they probably would not trade this. They would probably not trade.


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[Assistant] Uh, OGN and OB straight up for Jared Allen. And the reason is, you know, uhm, that's just not enough going back. But if you are going to move Scotty Barnes directly to the small four position,


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[Assistant] Here's what we can do. We'll get you Isaac Ikoro, who can now come off the bench.


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[Assistant] And that can play behind Fred Van Vliet if you want to guard somebody. Fred Van Vliet is kind of small, but Isaac O'Goro can guard- Man, believe the free agent, by the way. I think they'll keep him, right?


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[Assistant] If you, if you them, I mean, you develop them into, he's an all-star, right?


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[Assistant] I just don't think Toronto would do it. By the way, if you do look at it, it makes, uh, I think of it in the trade machine, it makes the Cavs six games better, and it makes them five games worse.


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[Assistant] Theoretically, here's a shooter. Theoretically, uh, Isaac O'Coro can guard three positions. It makes a little bit of sense. But if they wanted, if they wanted something besides Dean Way, I wouldn't have a problem putting with, now if they had a first round pick, I think they'd take the deal. A first round pick, uh.


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[Assistant] I'ma tell you what, I'll give you credit. You pulled it off. You could blend in, like you could be Mexican right there, you could be Puerto Rican, you could be Italian, you could be Greek, Jewish, like you, like you, like you could be anything.


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[Assistant] And they would have seen me repeatedly chucking rocks at the ground, picking fights with bins and swiping at a tree while filming it all on a hand-held camera. You see, I couldn't sleep. I guess that I was busy thinking about the game and had decided that what it needed was oomph.


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[Assistant] My early morning antics were to get some decent sound samples to ensure that my game's crumbling rocks and splattering bodies sounded just right. I made it so that boulders would roll across the ground or shatter if landing from a height.


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[Assistant] If a rock wall was damaged but not destroyed, it would eventually crack, releasing dust and yet more physics-based debris. You'd have thought I was addicted to Red Faction or something. This all sounds like a bad joke, doesn't it? With a project this short, most people would, quite rightly, be working harder than the core gameplay for the project rather than wasting time on graphical effects.


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[Assistant] But there is reason to my madness. On the first day I said that this competition isn't really about making a great game. Pewdiepie's been involved with past competitions on the site and he himself has said that it's about making games which are fun to watch.


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[Assistant] As far as I'm concerned, this game will have about 30 seconds to impress before people lose interest and move on to something else. I need something to keep people hooked, and the exploding showers of Maltesers serve that purpose beautifully. It's something I've skipped on in the past and they've suffered as a result. Shoot a bad guy into Ragnaromine and it sounds, and looks, boring. Nothing happens. There's no feedback.


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[Assistant] Death Giver 2 in comparison rewards you with showers of blood, flailing bodies and splattery sound effects. With this game I aim to take it to the next level. Unfortunately my early morning antics were mostly wasted since there were better, royalty-free samples available online.


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[Assistant] I feel like a better game developer now than I was at the start of this project just for considering unlimited mines to be a possibility. But with unlimited mines, I had to yet again change how the gameplay worked. Allowing the player to throw the mines across the levels like grenades was more enjoyable.


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[Assistant] I tried grid-based movement at one point but it felt limiting and blocky, so I quickly returned to the free-move option.


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[Assistant] Having unlimited mines is a difficult gameplay feature to balance. I mean, there's nothing that can stop players from blasting through the level to the finish line. I didn't want there to be, that's what made the game fun. But there still had to be a challenge. Instead of working out HOW to get to the end of the level, I shifted the game's scoring system to be about damage and time.


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[Assistant] You now had to reach the finish line as quickly as possible whilst still in one piece.


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[Assistant] I later settled on 2 gameplay modes, speedrun and destruction. This would let players get a high score in different ways by changing how the score was allocated.


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[Assistant] Speedrun's scoring is 80% based on time, 10% on destruction and 10% remaining health. Destruction is 80% destruction, 10% time and 10% health. I thought that it was important to keep it as a weighted mixture rather than just 100% of one gameplay type, as a mix opens up more gameplay possibilities to separate a good score from an excellent one. Imagine if destruction was 100% about blowing things up.


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[Assistant] How could the game tell between 2 players who have completely destroyed everything? That's where the 10% time comes in.


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[Assistant] I struggled with how timing should be rated. I don't know how quickly people will be able to manage each level, so I decided to have the perfect time for each level at 0 seconds.


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[Assistant] This means that no-one will ever be able to manage a perfect score in this game since it always takes at least a bit of time to complete it. But this method made more sense than the alternatives. For some reason, after all the gameplay decisions I had been making, allowing the player's minds to hurt the player was the one that felt counter-intuitive.


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[Assistant] How dare the player's weapon be able to hurt them! It's as if they're being betrayed and punished for using their own tool! I left this damage in but I still don't 100% like it when I get caught in a mines blast for the reasons mentioned previously.


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[Assistant] But there had to be more that could damage the player than just that. And there was.


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[Assistant] Since there was so much debris flying about the level, why not make THAT hurt as well? This is perfect!


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[Assistant] That pointless graphical effect had now become crucial to gameplay. How hadn't I thought of this sooner? My younger self was so stupid! This meant reducing how many were flying across the screen to make it possible to avoid them. The shadows for the rubble originally went off at a 45 degree angle like the rest of the shadows, but I changed it so that they remained directly below the debris so that you could easily see if you were about to be crushed.


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[Assistant] I don't mind sacrificing graphical realism or ammo constraints in exchange for better and less frustrating gameplay. Fun trumps all.


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[Assistant] And those wooden crates? At the moment they're just something you can easily blast through. They're no fun at all. So why not make them fire out splinters?


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[Assistant] Wow, so the stone walls rain damage down from above you, and the wooden ones bounce about at ground level. This is becoming beautifully chaotic. All it took then was to balance the damage.


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[Assistant] And I made some pretty aggressive decisions. Boulders landing on your head would take off a quarter, but it happened so infrequently that I ended up not caring. The dirt boulders in the final game are still like this, you can see how harmless they felt. But I made concrete boulders an instakill and I regret nothing.


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[Assistant] It worked better than I had expected, since it's totally up to you when you choose to blow up the walls and you only have yourself to blame if you then try to rush past them as they're still exploding. There's a real thrill to running to the end with instakill blocks landing all around you.


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[Assistant] They WILL chase you down and make their attack feel personal and they WILL get you just as you're about to finish the level. They're so random and unpredictable I clench my butt super tight whenever a wooden crate gets blown up.


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[Assistant] But you can choose to hide somewhere safe when they blow up and unlike the instakill boulders, walls will protect you. Both of these gameplay mechanics implement risk and reward. You have to reach the ending quickly, but have to weigh that against being killed along the way. The game encourages gambling. For this competition, you're not allowed to use stuff that you've made previously. But there's a big flaw to this.


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[Assistant] I have experience. You know those 3D Malteser fountains? I had discovered how to do this several years ago. I made it again for this project but it only took a fraction of the time because I knew how to do it and avoided a lot of the playtesting that's involved in figuring it out for the first time.


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[Assistant] The Shadow and Boulder are completely separate. They have no way of communicating with each other. This could be a disaster, but it works because they start with the same direction, velocity and so on, then rely on the consistency of the computer to keep them in sync.


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[Assistant] Does this, combined with how quickly you can make things in a game maker such as Fusion 2.5, allow for me to make a game in 3 days that would take MUCH longer if attempted by somebody with less experience or with a more difficult game-making tool?


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[Assistant] And I've added to my experience with this project. I accidentally made the flying boulders look better by mistake. I made 4 different images to add variety and stored them all as different directions to keep them separate from each other. I forgot about this and made the images rotate in the air to make them look as though they were rolling.


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[Assistant] Watching me work, it doesn't look as though I'd do anything with the rest of it. But I was. I was endlessly replaying the level and fixing any bugs that I could find. These don't have to be mistakes either.


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[Assistant] I actually made the game more buggy in some places. For example, every time a boulder landed it would make a smashing sound. This was overwhelming when there was a lot of action on screen and it was getting in the way of more important sounds, such as the explosion itself or any splat sounds from the player getting hurt. I changed it so that less important samples only play if they aren't already being played.


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[Assistant] The result is that some impacts don't make a noise, but you don't really care because your ears are busy listening to the more important things instead. But yeah, small things like this go a long way towards ensuring that the game itself is solid and reliable to play.


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[Assistant] DUDE! You're 2 thirds through your competition and you still haven't made a single level! But really, I'm saving time by not making them.


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[Assistant] It might take a minute to fix a bug with a single level. If I had 4, it could take more than 4 times as long to fix!


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[Assistant] I can make a mistake and not fix one properly and only realise later on once the problem had grown even bigger. I want to talk about this another time since it's a very important part of game design, especially for larger and more complicated projects. There is a solution, but I didn't have time to implement a level editor into this 3 day competition.


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[Assistant] All I have to do now is to add the menu, highscore system and all of the levels that this game will need. Oh and I'll have to playtest and polish it all as well. Easy.


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[Assistant] I can split my time in game development up into 3 stages. Up till 2004 I made ambitious games but didn't know what I was doing. From 2011 onwards I made simple but fun flash games with decent amounts of polish. But between these times was when I made my most exciting project.


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[Assistant] When I had the ambition to think them up and the ability to pull them off, even if they were a little rough around the edges. Two of my favourites were made in late 2009 and I've been looking forward to telling you about them for as long as this series has been going.


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[Assistant] First was the Almost Heaven Crisis. I feel this whole series has been leading up to this game. Which is funny, cos it's not a good game.


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[Assistant] The controls are fiddly, people lack animations, their AI is abysmal and the world is buggy. But it's the most complicated game that I've ever released, and in part because of this, it's also very creepy. A bit of a backstory into the location.


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[Assistant] We travelled to Luxillion Valley for inspiration, since its most depressing network of ruins and aqueducts known to mankind was a setting for one of the Omen movies. I then started work on the game, first focusing on giving the game AMBIENCE.


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[Assistant] There's a 24 hour cycle and numerous weather conditions, all with their own unique sound effects and lighting styles. It's amazing how much of a difference sound can make.


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[Assistant] The other citizens help to shoot the zombies, but apart from that, they're mute, which just adds to the sense of being very alone in a very hostile place.


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[Assistant] It was also the first game of mine to load level layouts. The game itself played out on a single frame, which meant that any changes to the graphics or gameplay only had to be done on that one level and it would carry across to all of the game's levels. It was a novelty for me at the time but is a necessity for any complicated game project.


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[Assistant] The world is made up of a dozen or so individual areas which you can jump between by running off the side of the screen. In one of them starts a horde of zombies who can quickly infect other NPCs. Your goal is to kill them all, or just to survive for as long as possible. Easy, right? You just find a part of the map where there aren't any zombies. Only, you can't. Because they'll find you.


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[Assistant] Every character in the game wanders about between the zones, even if they aren't loaded. This is what makes the game eerie.


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[Assistant] You'll be walking through the middle of nowhere, only to come across a guy who you previously met a few days ago in a town on the other side of the world. Or maybe he'll be a zombie by now. Who knows.


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[Assistant] The Almost Heaven Crisis is a very successful and playable experiment into what is essentially radiant AI.


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[Assistant] The world isn't static. It's living, breathing and changing around the player and it makes you feel like you're a very small and insignificant cog in a much larger machine. The impact it has on how the game feels is MASSIVE.


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[Assistant] Even as the developer who knows how it works, it still surprises me. This gets me excited because normally if you make something, the magic is lost since you can see through the illusion.


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[Assistant] But not so with this project. The replayability and potential for gameplay is MASSIVE.


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[Assistant] But this comes at a price. Even after dozens of hours of playtesting, the game is still super buggy.


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[Assistant] Sometimes, NPCs refuse to shoot zombies. Other times, it says that there are people in an area when there aren't. These are because of the leaps of faith I had to make when developing the game.


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[Assistant] Ideally you want to add a little bit and then to see if it works. But with such a complicated system, where the whole world and every character is stored across several databases, I'd often have to work blind for hours before reaching the next testable state. And even then, it can sometimes be hard to tell if it's working properly or not.


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[Assistant] I often had to wait for a situation to happen during actual gameplay. And this is despite the underlying mechanics being surprisingly simple. All of the NPCs are stored in a database which records their location. Every 15 seconds, it randomly moves them by one zone.


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[Assistant] They can't even infect people or die if they're not in the same zone as you are and once they enter your current location, they can't leave again.


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[Assistant] But you can, obviously. These limitations were done deliberately because I quickly realised that even with hundreds of NPCs roaming the world, if the majority of the action goes on off-screen, it's boring. And you'd think it would be predictable if everything happened on the same frame as yours. But it isn't at all. If I hadn't told you about the inner workings, you would never have guessed it.


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[Assistant] When you enter a new area, the game has to pretend it knows where everybody within the zone is standing. It places them in clear areas, deciding where infected and non-infected people should start based on the mixture and so on. It all works better than I could have imagined. And that's rare in the world of game design.


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[Assistant] In fact, this game's success was its downfall. This radiant AI was so impressive that it totally changed the game into something that I hadn't prepared for.


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[Assistant] With all the bugs that I was encountering and the things that I had learned about open-ended gameplay since the start of the project, I decided that it was best to learn what I could from this and to start it again from scratch, designing the game around this key feature instead.


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[Assistant] Don't get me wrong, the original game could support a lot of cool features that I didn't get around to properly implementing, like destructible terrain and unique characters. Every NPC, even the zombies, have their own unique names and strats, as well as hair, skin and clothing colours.


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[Assistant] I even wanted to make it so that you could talk to them like a text-based adventure game, asking them to follow you and so on, but never got around to any of these things once I got the Radiant AI working. But despite all that, the original game is beatable.


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[Assistant] It always ends with a frustrating chase as you hunt down the last zombie as he moves about the world.


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[Assistant] I have exciting plans for a sequel and have toyed with the idea for years. I have a working editor where you can quickly and easily construct a world and the game itself handles everything else, including how NPCs explore it.


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[Assistant] I had grenades that could blow up walls and it was going to be a key feature to make the combat feel juicy. A lot of the ideas found their way into Destruction Darius, even though it's a completely different genre.


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[Assistant] I wanted there to be strongholds, patrolled by professional gun-wielding NPCs. I wanted shipments of new people to fuel the zombie horde and even wanted action to go on in other parts of the world, instead relying on thousands of NPCs to make the place feel alive.


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[Assistant] I experimented with the idea of crowds where, instead of randomly moving from place to place, like-minded NPCs would group up so it would instead lead to huge battles where civilians clash with zombies. So the question is, why haven't I made this? I don't have an answer.


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[Assistant] I load it up a few times a year, add some more stuff to it and then leave it alone again as other projects take priority. If I didn't have other things to do, I would definitely have done something with it. I know that it's all possible. There isn't anything technically standing in the way of this game working.


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[Assistant] It's just that the undertaking is so large when compared with anything else that I've done before, I assume I'm going to fail, or run out of steam long before the end. It's one of those things that I'd like to get done before I die, though.


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[Assistant] Batsweeper was made in just 3 short days for a happy Halloween gamebuilder competition.


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[Assistant] The idea was that your character can blow and suck things with his hoover to help him to navigate pits, collect items and to protect himself from enemies. I can't take credit for this. A friend called JosiahCT was the brains behind a lot of the gameplay elements, so a big thank you to him for making this project possible.


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[Assistant] I dubbed TommyTTK's voice over my own narration and got my friend Ben, previously Casper from Santasatnas, to do the talking bat, though I didn't tell him what his role was. I voiced the batsweeper himself and HATE myself for using a voice that I'll never be able to top.


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[Assistant] The whole thing was a light-hearted joke between friends. Of course, storylines are very important to me so I ensure that all of my games feature an award-winning script.


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[Assistant] For the bat sweeper, a man who likes sweeping up rubbish sucks a bat up, so the king of bats tells him to stop, but he doesn't, so the king of bats kidnaps his mum.


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[Assistant] Eventually the batsweeper confronts him again, realises that it's all a misunderstanding, so returns the bats. At which point I suddenly realise that there wasn't much time left before the competition deadline and that the whole mum kidnapping hadn't been resolved. So I did this.


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[Assistant] I also had to cut out a lot of the middle levels for the same reason and nicely covered it up with this. Do you think anybody noticed? Until Destruction Darius, I'd probably say that this was my best game. It's simple and it's fun, which is the exact opposite of the sundown shambles game that I had made the previous year. I was learning!


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[Assistant] But you'd been grinding and hustling for like a long time. Tell me about that time.


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[Assistant] Okay, five cars. Now, here's my biggest question. You can't drive.


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[Assistant] Like, cause I think you should learn to drive, cause you know, you've got these incredible cars, these are cars that people dream about driving.


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[Assistant] Okay, so what you gotta do is slalom.


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[Assistant] On the internet, a wave of, uh, people watching these videos called ASMR videos, which I didn't know what they were, but this is something you're really into. Can you explain to me what it is and why you like it?


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[Assistant] So you've paid to the young folks. What's the oldest audience you think you've ever played to?


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[Assistant] Right, right, sure. And that left somebody wide open in the end zone. Yeah. You don't hold the level of competition that Jim Brown had to play against compared to Watts Payton against him in the... I mean, I do a little bit and that's why I think I put Barry Sanders ahead of him.


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[Assistant] Okay then, gangs, so I just want to take this video to sidestep a little bit and I want to perform another audit on this app to see if it satisfies any more of the conditions or criteria that make up a progressive web app in the eyes of Google and the Lighthouse audit.


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[Assistant] So what I'm going to do is go over here and go to audits and I'm just going to keep progressive web app checked. I'm keeping the others unchecked because I don't want to deviate from PWAs at the moment. And I'm going to come down here and say run audits.


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[Assistant] So again, this is just gonna run the report for us and then hopefully give us some results in a second. So before, installable right here.


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[Assistant] This was all lit up because all of these three conditions were satisfied, but before these two right here, these were not, and now they are satisfied, these conditions.


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[Assistant] And these conditions are the current page responds with a 200 when offline. And now it does because remember we have now cashed some assets so that we can serve them when the user is offline, the index page, plus any other pages that they might have visited while they are online. We cashed those as well.


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[Assistant] Now that is going to come when we deploy the application because we're going to be using a Firebase hosting.


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[Assistant] And when we upload something to Firebase, that is going to take care of redirecting HTTP traffic to HTTPS forest because it serves all our content over a secure connection. Okay. So this is looking pretty good. We've made some good headway with our progressive web app so far.


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[Assistant] Now there's one more thing I'd like to show you in this video and that requires us to go offline. So let me do this and refresh. And then I want to go over to the console.


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[Assistant] And you see this thing right here, an unknown error occurred when fetching the script. Now this is an expected error and it doesn't matter too much, but it's referring to the fact that it can't find the service worker because we've not cashed it. And you know what? We don't need to cash our service worker because if we cashed our service worker.


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[Assistant] Then a new one would never get updated, right? So that kind of defeats the object of having a service worker.


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[Assistant] So now we know that we're satisfying more of the conditions in our audit. I'm going to move on in the next video now to another part of this course, and that's to do with data. Now to store data, we're going to be using a database called Firebase Firestore. And we'll talk about that in the next video.


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[Assistant] Uh, I was struggling for like one hour before I finally found a good place to record this video.


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[Assistant] Uh, because I really wanted to record outside because it's a beautiful day and it's really warm outside.


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[Assistant] Uh, but it's a little bit of wind, so the wind was destroying the sound, you know, with wind noise. So when I finally found a good place, it was tons of mosquitoes.


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[Assistant] So finally I get to sit down and make this video. I've been thinking about


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[Assistant] Actually it feels kinda good that it's been taking some time until this video because it's been a lot of feelings and you know, I think it's good to just let everything sink in for a little while and just take some time and


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[Assistant] Settle down and breathe. So our wedding day was magical.


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[Assistant] I couldn't feel more thankful because


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[Assistant] Giving thanks to all of you, my dear followers, uh, because we have...


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[Assistant] I got so much love from all of you these last weeks because of the wedding. So many beautiful comments on my social media platforms and so many beautiful gifts and letters and postcards and mails and...


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[Assistant] All this love and so many well wishes and congratulations and yeaah, both me and Johan


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[Assistant] It really means a lot and we are so happy to receive all this love from you guys. So, so thank you!


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[Assistant] Thank you so much. And also, I wanna thank you so much for the beautiful response on the previous video that I uploaded. Uhm, that was...


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[Assistant] I was not prepared that she would make this beautiful video. I was just crying when I saw it the first time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I was a little bit sad, uh, because uhm, you know,


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[Assistant] Of course I'm a photographer myself, so I could, you know, try my best to capture our day, uh, but


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[Assistant] I, I didn't want to worry about camera and angles and how to capture everything. Uh, so yeaah, I was feeling a little bit down, cause I didn't really know how to solve it. But of course I knew my brothers, so they can help me a little bit.


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[Assistant] She's a wedding photographer and she had always been thinking that if me and Johan get married she wanted to give us a free wedding photo session.


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[Assistant] And when I made a post on Instagram just one month before our wedding, eh, she got a little bit shocked because she didn't know anything yet that we would get married so soon. So she told me that if we wanted to, she would love to come and photograph our wedding.


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[Assistant] You know, experience it again and remember it again through the video and all the photos. If you wanna find out more about Sandra and give her some love and support because she made this video for us, just check out her Instagram or her website or her Facebook page in the links down below.


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[Assistant] So we were only, you know, the closest family. But still there was a lot to do. Uh, especially because we had our wedding at home. And I hadn't really thought about that, that we need plates for everyone, we need glasses for everyone. And also we wanted to have the dinner in the old, uh, barn, uh, in the same, uh,


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[Assistant] Dirty and a lot of bird shit to take away and a lot of stuff to carry out and then we of course wanted to decorate it and make it beautiful and we got so much help from our parents and families and our closest friends and we are so


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[Assistant] So everybody just sat around the fire and played the guitar and sang and...


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[Assistant] Ah, I don't know. That was his... I couldn't have asked for a more cozy and beautiful ending of the wedding.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, that was just the best ending on the best wedding day I could ever dream of. And the day after, I remember me and Johan sitting on the floor in our house opening gifts.


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[Assistant] And we were crying because we were so happy and thankful. Because everybody that had been there had made it to such a beautiful day. We felt like we had done nothing, you know? Everybody who was there made it to such a beautiful day and


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[Assistant] We, we just felt so, so much joy. And we planted some trees that we had got as wedding gifts. We got one cherry blossom tree and two apple trees.


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[Assistant] I will take care of them with all my heart. The time after the wedding has been quite intense because we had a lot of things to catch up with


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[Assistant] And also it's July, which is a very intense month. It feels like everything happens in July because everybody has vacation and it's just so many things you wanna be part of and...


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[Assistant] It's a lot of things going on in July and still we had a lot of things to do here at our home. So we didn't go on a honeymoon or anything like that. We have just been catching up a lot of work and


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[Assistant] You know, trying to find a routine in our life again. But that's been quite nice actually. And we are going to our cottage in the mountains later in the summer. And that's gonna be really nice. We really look forward to do that.


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[Assistant] Now in this moment, it feels like I don't even remember what we have been doing since the wedding, but it's been something new every day.


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[Assistant] I constantly had this feeling that we had to leave everything soon. It was like we were only here on a vacation during the summer. And I really tried to get that feeling away, because usually,


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[Assistant] But this time it was like I had this wall over my heart. Like I couldn't take it in. It felt like it was stopped. I remember I was walking around here showing our beautiful garden to people and it just felt empty. Like I couldn't.


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[Assistant] And we're not gonna leave it. And now it's, it's like I'm in love again with this place because it feels like


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[Assistant] I just moved here now because I think now my heart is ready to take it in before it was...


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[Assistant] So now I hope that we can keep this good and relaxed feeling as we continue catching up work, because that's what we're doing right now. Uh, but it actually feels really good to do so. I think that there's nothing that stress us more than


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[Assistant] I so much look forward to start painting in there now. So that's gonna be a huge focus the last week to come. Now my camera is heating itself up.


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[Assistant] I went back, I watched the full show, Anthony and Earl, they killed it. They, they really did, they held it down, all the content. We had the perfect panel for some of the talks yesterday, especially with the defensive line, Boogie being in, the John Morant conversation. Everybody said Boogie was great yesterday. The audacity of these two to my right. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I'm in here early. We've got a ton of work to do. That's amazing. And I'm looking around. I'm spinning in my circle chair upstairs. You can see it on my Twitter. I tweeted out the video. Both these two showed up late, but to their credit, they got their work in. They did. We have a great show coming up today. We're going to do your bet. I got a story that we're going to dive into things and a program note.


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[Assistant] Cecil Shorts, who is one of Earl's friends from high school, uh, had to reschedule. He's gonna come on Thursday now. He had a last minute emergency. So we will not have Cecil Shorts on the show today. I know it said on the coming up slate.


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[Assistant] But he will not be on today. He'll be on Thursday. Bull, let's get to your bet. Real quick, one more thing. I'm sorry. We keep giving Anthony and Earl kudos for doing their job yesterday. They forgot to update your standings over the weekend.


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[Assistant] Your baseball record at 27 and 15, you were still on fire. Jason actually owes me money because my A's bet hit all three times when I was in South Carolina.


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[Assistant] It did. So Jason knows you some cash in a sec, but bet rivers is bringing us both bet of the day as always, and you can check them out at bet rivers.com. Download the bet rivers app today for the latest lines, odds, and boost. And when you use deposit code sports, you receive a second chance bet up to $500. So get in on all the action. Now bet rivers.com download the app, check them out today.


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[Assistant] I do, I got, it's a two story combo here, but it's all related. So. Two story combo. Yeah, we're going to start.


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[Assistant] Uh, I mentioned on the show, but my grandpa passed away a couple weeks ago and I was unable to make it down to the funeral. The day I was supposed to fly down was the day the heavens opened up in Cleveland and the only flight that would have got me to Myrtle Beach in time was, uh, delayed and canceled. So I missed the funeral. So this past weekend, I went down to visit my grandma, spent some time with her.


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[Assistant] And we went out to dinner on Saturday with a bunch of her friends. Now my grandma's 82, she's doing great, but it was me.


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[Assistant] At dinner with five women, 60 and older. Right. So just picture the scene. And we're at dinner and the wait.


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[Assistant] She goes, oh, someone in the other room is a big fan. And I'm like, what? Okay.


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[Assistant] And she's like, okay, so as soon as the waitress leaves, look at my grandma. I'm like.


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[Assistant] Did you set me up? Like, am I getting punked? Did my brother call this in? Like, I'm in Myrtle Beach. I'm not in Cleveland now.


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[Assistant] She had no idea I was McNugget, so as soon as she was like, what's a McNugget? I was like, okay, you definitely didn't set me up.


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[Assistant] So about 20 minutes later, the manager of the restaurant, this guy named Mike comes over and he's like, McNuggets, what's up bro? And I was like.


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[Assistant] I got someone, a fan in Myrtle beach. Like this is awesome. He's like, Hey, I'm from Canton. I know G Bush, G I'm not, I'll show you a picture in a sec. You may know this guy. His name's Mike. He worked at Midtown Bistro. Uh, he's like, yo, watch the show every day. I'm from Canton. You guys keep me in touch with Cleveland sports down here in Myrtle beach. Thank you for what you guys do. I love the show. Love you guys. Can I get a picture? Of course. My grandma's got to be in it.


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[Assistant] So that happens. So yesterday, I guess on the show, Tyvis starts the show announcing I have a girlfriend.


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[Assistant] And as I'm getting gas, pumping gas, these three people walk by and they go, yo, McNuggets!


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[Assistant] What's up? Hey, love the show. Thomas put all your dirty laundry on, on the show today. What's up with that?


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[Assistant] And I was like, I still haven't listened. What'd he say? He's like, oh, you got to call him right now. So I called Tyvis on the spot. I'm like, Tyvis, I got three people here walking by. They said you aired out my dirty laundry. What's up? So Tyvis goes on his little backtrack, yada, yada. I didn't know. So yes, we'll clear the air. I do have a girlfriend. We'll call her Miss McNugget from now on. She is, uh, approved of that nickname. So.


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[Assistant] I will say, last thing, we'll move on to some real football, uh, about Ms. McNugget. She is the biggest director. She likes Director Steve more than she likes me. She's a Director Steve fan. Well, Steve's very likable.


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[Assistant] You talked about the Browns linebackers at best being average. I think it's potential on the defensive line is elite. Potential. I agree. Is elite. So we talked about this in the pre show meeting and I want, I want to pitch it to you and I want to start with you Bull and I want to end with G cause I know you guys are on different sides here.


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[Assistant] Do you think with the additions of Zedarius Smith, Oboe, Tomlinson, Ika, the rest of the guys they've had in Maguire, the Browns have the best defensive line in the division?


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[Assistant] Well, gee, before we get you guys the poll results, I know on the call, so Bull said they could be in the top five, Jason agreed. On the call this morning, you said you could make, at least on paper, the argument that the Browns defensive line is as good as anyone in the league.


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[Assistant] Jason, I had a dream and I'm, I'm going to pitch this out to you guys. And this was a dream. Yeah, this was.


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[Assistant] RIP move that G Bush alluded to and showed in that, uh, Twitter clip yesterday from Smith. And you had a double euro step with a bull rush in between an oboe going one on one with the right tackle from the wide nine.


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[Assistant] We got the poll results here from our question of the day which was the Cleveland Brown defensive line is the best in blank and the answer to the poll


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[Assistant] You can apply online at precast.com slash careers to learn more. The question was the Cleveland Browns defensive line is the best in blank. We gave them four options over 500 votes. 8% said the Browns have the best D line in football.


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[Assistant] 50% say the Browns have the best defensive line in the division.


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[Assistant] 9% say the best defensive line in the AFC conference, and 33% say none of the above. So. As opposed to the AFC non-conference? Well just, they don't have the best in any. Second best, third best, so. Alright, very good. Pretty split. That actually, the fact that we had a third say none.


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[Assistant] Pretty reasonable. Good job by there for not being too, uh, too by.


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[Assistant] Check him out at usvl.com. Well worth the news. Uh, the Cavs obviously had a wing issue this year. We know that.


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[Assistant] They had nobody to play really the three position, and when it counted most, they turned to Danny Green, Isaac Okuro, they tried Dean Wade, it didn't work. No matter how you slice and dice it, they have an issue with the three position. And they don't have a ton of money to spend. They have a mid-level exception. They could, they're going to bring back Karis Levert.


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[Assistant] But as it currently stands, Steve, you can take the graphic right here. These are the wings under contract, assuming Laverte comes back for the Cavaliers next season. Laverte, Okuro, Jetty Osmond, Lamar Stevens, Dean Wade, and Sam Merrill, who Bull did not know was a real player, who he is. Jason.


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[Assistant] Real quick, one sentence, would you give a scouting report on Sam Merritable? One sentence.


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[Assistant] The free agent market, the upcoming free agent market, for guys who I think realistically, these are three realistic targets for the Cavs, who I think could fill that 3 and D spot. I'm gonna present them to you, you guys tell me which one you like the most, and if any of the three can actually move the needle for the Cavs. First!


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[Assistant] Lakers, 3 and D wing, Malik Beasley. He's an unrestricted free agent. Number two, Dante DiVincenzo. He played postseason minutes for the Warriors this year, former Buck. He played at Villanova, won a national championship.


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[Assistant] And last but not least, Georges Niang of the 76ers, a little bigger 3-and-D guy. He's kind of more of a stretch 4 than a true 3-and-D, but it did shoot 40% from 3 this year. Can play in the playoffs, was in the 6ers rotation in this, uh, post-season. So not great, but of those three.


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[Assistant] I think he's, I think he's, I think, I don't believe, I'll double check, but he was on the list of wing free agents.


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[Assistant] 37, 38. Yeah, I was gonna say 35. They're all guys who have made threes. Beasley's fallen out of the rotation. He shot 36% this year. Uh, he's kind of fallen out of the Lakers rotation, but he was a bigger part of the offensive rotation in Minnesota and Utah. So let me ask you guys.


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[Assistant] I think DiVincenzo makes the most sense even though he's a little undersized for the three. So it's another smaller three for when the postseason rolls over. So can he defend other threes? He hustles. He's a better defender of a guard than a true wing.


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[Assistant] For his career, just to give you numbers. For DiVincenzo from 3.


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[Assistant] He shot 27% as a rookie. Not good. Three attempts.


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[Assistant] Next season, 34% on four attempts. Next season, 39% on five attempts. Then in Milwaukee in 2021, he got traded midway through the season. He only played 42 games that year, but he shot 35%. And this past season on five attempts per game, 5.3, he shot 39.7%. So pretty consistently a high thirties.


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[Assistant] I'm making 39 million next year, but I don't know how in the world they finagle it.


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[Assistant] Very Jared and Charis to equal Tobias. That's 40.


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[Assistant] Of course now, the new CBA, which sucks by the way, I'm very upset at the new CBA rules, but I finally understood the NBA salary cap, luxury tax, offenders, and now they completely changed everything. It's pain in the ass.


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[Assistant] I'd have to scour the, uh, the rosters again, but.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna, I'm gonna look up the Cavs current, uh, contract situations to see what we can add.


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[Assistant] So next season, 2023, 2024, Darius Garland's making 33 and a half million. I'm just going down the line. Garland's making 33 and a half million. Donovan makes 33.1. Jared Allen makes 20.


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[Assistant] They have James Harden possibly in the last year of his deal coming up. They have him be, they're going to have a new coach. Harris is a guy who wants to ball more than he gets in Philadelphia.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you a question. Will Philadelphia ever take a non-shooting center to pair with Joel Embiid?


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[Assistant] We have learned that it's not going to be easy for the Cavs to retool at all. And there are not a ton of options out there with how to do, uh, with how to go about doing so.


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[Assistant] You can make that argument. That actually leads right to the next topic. I'm glad you went there because...


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[Assistant] After Sunday's catastrophe for the sixes, I was talking to some people. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] In the league about who, who can really be an actual number one on a championship team.


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[Assistant] Just cause you win the MVP doesn't mean you can be a number one when it matters in the postseason as we've alluded to. Really?


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[Assistant] Who I think in certain tiers can be legit number ones and who I, I've completely written off until they show me something else. Alright, go ahead. So there's different tiers, I'll show you my tier, you guys then tell me if you have any issues with it, then we'll go to the next tier and so on and so on. So you ready?


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[Assistant] The first tier is the, there's no argument here. They've proven it before. We've seen them carry a team to a championship. And even in today's day and age, at their current state, I still think they can be option ones. And that's LeBron, Yanis, Steph, and Kawhi, who's always hurt, but when he's healthy, is still one of the two or three best players.


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[Assistant] The next tier is guys I know can be the best player in a championship team. They just haven't physically won a championship as Option A yet. So Steve you can take this, but this is...


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[Assistant] I truly believe that those guys can be the alpha dog.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you could argue it was him and Steph. He wasn't the true solidified number one, but I know he could be, despite what everyone says.


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[Assistant] Alright, the next tier is the I think they can.


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[Assistant] You go right to it, Steve. I think, and I'll explain real quick. I do think Booker is unstoppable offensively. And when he's in the rhythm, we saw in a couple of games against the Nuggets, back to back 45, 46 point games.


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[Assistant] Unbelievable. Jalen Brown, I actually wanted to put on the list above. I was talked out of it by some guys in the NBA. And Don Chich is clearly talented enough, but I don't think his style...


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[Assistant] Being the guy who has the ball 40, 45% of the time, his usage rate historically high. I don't think that style is conducive to winning a championship. So he's on the, I think they can be, but I'm not a hundred percent positive yet.


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[Assistant] I actually had Jalen Brown, a Bumpire, and the two guys I spoke with who, who no more basketball than I do were like, yeah, they knocked him down a list. Me and Earl actually had him a tier higher and they knocked him down.


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[Assistant] Poor Earl. Mitchell's coming at some point, don't worry. Uh, this is the maybe one day they could be, but it's too early, I haven't seen enough, but I've seen enough potential to think they possibly could be, and it's a three person list. That headline. It's Anthony Edwards, Shy Gildes Alexander, and Zion.


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[Assistant] So those are the people who I think could eventually be. And there's some guys like, for example, before we take this next one, Steve, Mowgli could be in there.