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[Assistant] And we have a couple viewer questions. Like I said, we're not doing overtime. We have to be on a stream. We'll announce why hopefully with some very good news a little later in the afternoon. So we're gonna end with.


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[Assistant] A little bit of Ash this show, we usually do this for overtime on Fridays, we're gonna get them in here. Uh, first one's from our guy Eddie, and it's for G.


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[Assistant] In honor of his recent passing, does anyone have a moment in their life that would have been gold on Jerry Springer?


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[Assistant] What about that? That's awesome. I like that one right there. I'm gonna do that.


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[Assistant] Well, it is. I'm right here as G Bush walks in here. But, uh, what happened yesterday was about 1120 WKYC IT team.


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[Assistant] Did some internet maintenance, which essentially shuts down the internet, restarts it, boots it up. Sometimes they forget


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[Assistant] That although we are in WKYC's building, we are on a different wavelength than the rest of the internet. However, when they affect it upstairs, it affects us.


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[Assistant] Just give me a big show, we got Joe Thomas joining us, we're gonna give out some end of year awards, and we need you guys. Everyone out there, I'm talking to you, specifically, not that other person, you. We need you to vote and help us, uh, choose some winners here.


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[Assistant] The survey or poll, whatever you wanna call it, is pinned on our Twitter page. We put it on the community tab. Uh, Earl, uh, you're upstairs listening right now. Drop it in the YouTube chat as we speak. Please, we have over 600 responses already. If you haven't voted, please vote. And on Tuesday, we are handing out the awards. The voting ends tonight at midnight. So you gotta do it today.


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[Assistant] Pinned on our Twitter page, on our community tab. Earl's gonna drop it in the chat. Please vote and help us announce the winners. And we're gonna start with the Cavs.


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[Assistant] Currently, the two backup safeties listed as the Brown's second stringers.


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[Assistant] The Anthony Bellas G-Mentioned and Bubba Bolden.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I didn't know he was technically listed as their backup safety, but.


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[Assistant] This is something Jim Schwartz said about McLeod back during their time in Philly. It's a direct quote from a press conference from Schwartz.


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[Assistant] I'll put my name on Rodney McLeod any day, Schwartz said at a press conference on Tuesday. That guy plays the game the way it's supposed to be played. He's tough. He may not be the biggest guy in the field, but he's a warrior. He's going to do everything he can to make the play. That guy is a winner.


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[Assistant] He's a G-League two-way guy on the Cavs, a shooter. About a 6'4 white guy who can choose.


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[Assistant] I have him on my fantasy team, that's the reason I know. The dude could ball, but he's a legit playoff caliber wing guy.


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[Assistant] And a signing bonus you can apply online at precast.com slash careers to learn more. We had over 230 votes in this poll. 77% says no, they would not want to see Dylan Brooks in a Cavaliers uniform next season.


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[Assistant] Okay, I don't think it's like the most terrible thing a team can do, but-


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[Assistant] Under no circumstances, to me when I read that,


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[Assistant] What's the difference? Let me tell you something. For a guy who's played his entire career in Memphis, has been a contributor to that team. He's also had some bonehead moments and you could blame whatever you want on him. I don't think it's all his fault. The wording of under no circumstances,


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[Assistant] Now we did draft grades for the 2023 draft earlier this week. And as you mentioned, Bull, it's impossible to really grade. You're just basing on value, positional needs and that stuff. But it's a guess.


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[Assistant] Three years out, you can actually grade the picks on production, how they did, and how they've become.


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[Assistant] At 88, they took Jordan Elliott, the defensive tackle from Missouri. And at number 97, they took Jacob Phillips, a linebacker out of LSU. And for the day three picks.


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[Assistant] It took Harrison Bryant, a tight end from Washington. Nick Harris, an interior offensive lineman, plays some center, plays some guard. And Donovan Peoples-Jones, the six round pick out of Michigan, has been a very productive receiver. So we'll go down the list.


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[Assistant] Right. Does that factor into your grading at all though? That two tackles selected after him. Tristan Wirfs has turned out to be an all-pro, and then Mackay Bechtin who's been hurt but when he has been healthy has been a stalwart. Does that factor into the grading whatsoever?


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[Assistant] Alright, we're onto the day three picks. We have three of these. Let's start with Harrison Bryant, the tight end out of Washington. He was a fourth round pick, right? Fourth round pick, correct.


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[Assistant] Two more to get to. Let's go to their fifth round pick that year.


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[Assistant] So our flash in the past brought us past 12, and you know, when it's 12 o'clock, it is the lunch hour of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show, sponsored by Call of Gracing, the official NASCAR team of Northeast Ohio. We gave our draft grades, Jason, looking back in that 2020 draft before we taught Guardians. How would you grade AB's overall haul?


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[Assistant] April grades for the AL Central are out for ESPN. Steve, if you take 179 full, what you got right there, 218.


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[Assistant] It's not a great division. Let's be frank. ESPN gave Minnesota a B plus, Cleveland a C minus, Detroit a D, Kansas City an F, and Chicago an F minus minus minus. They literally put three minuses in the article. I wanted to be a little more polite. I just put one.


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[Assistant] But they got, cause three looked like one giant dash and didn't look right. But they got an F-, minus, minus, minus. Overall, too harsh, too fair, just right for the Guardians.


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[Assistant] I real quick, when this came out in April, Detroit was 8-21, they've won 3 of the last 4, and I believe Minnesota was 5 games over 500 at the end of April. So the couple has changed in the last 2-3 days, but still.


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[Assistant] As a team, I was looking up the stuff this morning and gee, I'll get back to you in a sec, but the guardians have 17 home runs, 16 teams in the league have double that.


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[Assistant] But even if you go at average, like, and gee, you talk about not getting hit for power, hit singles, doubles, that's what this team is kind of doing.


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[Assistant] Have an on base over 350. So you have Jose at 375. That's good. Quan 361 and that is it.


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[Assistant] But you have Jimenez, who they just paid. Were you 17?


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[Assistant] Give me a sec, but according to the schedule for the Guardians,


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[Assistant] Tomorrow's pitching matchup is Peyton Battlefield vs. Bailey Ober.


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[Assistant] Game two is Logan Allen versus Gray. Is that Sunny Gray? Sunny Gray.


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[Assistant] It is 12 31, which means it's time to remind the good folks out there that the ultimate Cleveland sports shows lunch hour is brought to us by colleague racing, the official NASCAR sponsor of Northeast Ohio. And with that.


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[Assistant] Let's welcome on Cavs legend Phil Hubbard, Canton McKinley High School. The alum of G Bush as well. What's up Phil, how you doing man?


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, it's actually even worse. Yeah, it's worse. We're trying to reconnect. Hey Phil, drop out and click that link again.


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[Assistant] Uh, one last reminder to everybody real quick that the lunch hour of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show is sponsored by Colleague Racing, the official and only NASCAR team of Northeast Ohio.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, we're talking Jordan LeBron, which is a good segue to the take that I have. Yeah. That you didn't like during our break earlier, but. Yeah. I do believe that if you win MVP. Oh yeah, this is terrible. In any season, if you are voted the league MVP, it should be an automatic to the Hall of Fame.


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[Assistant] I do- Derrick Rose is the hole where this all started. I do think Derrick Rose should be the hole.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, he averaged 19 points a game four years ago. That's meaningless now, but he has a three year stretch before he got hurt from 2009 to 2012 where he was arguably the best or second best point. Not long enough. You know what? I didn't want to


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[Assistant] First off, Bull puts up a kid and I'm, I don't know his name. He was like two foot three. And he crouched down the strike zone. They're nine years old! How tall are you expecting to be? I grouped him into Aaron and he sent it to the, to left field.


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[Assistant] That's the place where I rented a house from my studio last year.


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[Assistant] Or actually earlier this year. And that's where my beautiful cow, Stjärna, lives during the winters. So I'm gonna go there now and see if they have internet and phone connection. Cause I need to make some calls. Uhm, yeaah. I hope so.


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[Assistant] Now I'm here in Myckeljönsö, just outside their little store. They have a little grocery store here.


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[Assistant] I think it might be the best grocery store in the world. Because it's super small but they have so many things. And uh, it's a very tiny village. It's only like 70-80 people living here and it's really hard for small villages like this to keep a grocery store alive. But the people that live here


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[Assistant] They are really, you know, fighting for it. They are, give of their time and energy to, to make it work. And I think that's amazing.


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[Assistant] Aww. I can't wait to have her back in Grunstjärn in the summer again. On the green fields.


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[Assistant] As usual, every day we go in here. Cause we, we actually keep the fire alive all day. Unless when we're sleeping.


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[Assistant] There was actually someone that watched my vlog.


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[Assistant] Actually, we don't have so much wood left now when I look. Oh no! What? It's only December!


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[Assistant] I haven't actually thought about that until I looked now when I was talking about this.


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[Assistant] It's only December and we have to keep the fire alive until May. At least we need it for January, February, March and April.


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[Assistant] It's minus 25 Celsius degrees right now. But it's beautiful, as always. It's like when it's super cold it's always super beautiful. Hmm. It seems like the camera is getting...


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[Assistant] A bit weird, I don't know if on the display it looks like the camera is drunk or something. I guess the cold is not so good for the camera equipment.


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[Assistant] We have to, uh, shovel away for him, so he can come up to the roof. And also we have to move the ladder. So, muah.


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[Assistant] So you know it's very cold outside and inside when this one freezes to ice.


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[Assistant] Right. I really hope the camera can take this, because it's really cold outside now. It's like 26 minus Celsius degrees. I've been struggling so hard with this vlog, because of this scene that I'm taking now, where I sit down and talk to you.


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[Assistant] And that's because I felt that I really needed to share something with you, because we...


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[Assistant] We are in a situation that just drains me so much that made me feel so depressed lately. And I just be feeling so sad. And I mean, I don't need to share it with you, but...


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[Assistant] If I don't do that, I feel like I can't continue vlogging in a way, because...


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[Assistant] And it's just something with vlogging that, eh, it's, it feels like I open up so much more, cause you get to see me, you hear me, I share so much more than I do in my normal blogs, as I usually do.


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[Assistant] And it feels more important to me to be honest with stuff, especially things that really affect me and our lives.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I've been struggling so much with this because this is the third time I tried to record this and I did several days ago I tried to sit down and talk and share, you know, my feelings and what's going on, but it just...


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[Assistant] I mean, I still feel the same feelings, but uhm, I feel more stabilized now. Maybe I can just share with you, uh,


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[Assistant] What I feel without making it too long and too complicated. And also, I mean, this is not a super serious thing, but it's very, eh, huge for me and for Johan and for people living here. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But it is all because of this big reason. I mean, it affects all spectres of my life. So, to explain to you in the best way what's going on, I have to start seven years ago.


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[Assistant] Seven years ago I lived here. Uh, I had lived here for one year.


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[Assistant] I mean, life was good. I was starting with the photography and the writing and the blogging. But that summer, all the people that lived here in this village and other villages around, uh, we got some terrible news. There was this big company called Forska.


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[Assistant] That had sent in an application to the municipalities here. They wanted to build the biggest wind turbine park in Sweden.


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[Assistant] Here. On the other side of the lake. Like two, three kilometers from here. And, uh, I mean, I guess it would be fine with five, ten winter beans. But this was, uh, over two hundred winter beans.


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[Assistant] And eh, they would be 210 meters tall. Eh, with flashing intensive white light. And they would build over 100 kilometers of roads in the forest.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I have so hard to find the words, but uhm, there's so much I want to say about this. Like, the wind turbine industry is a sensitive subject, I know that. Uh, but making so big industries in this beautiful nature areas.


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[Assistant] I mean, we were shocked. We were so many people that were shocked. The people living here and the Sami people that have their reindeers here during the winters.


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[Assistant] This is why this is so hard to speak about, because I feel like I want to talk so much about-


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[Assistant] And, but it was a long process. Uhm, they got yes from Ard.


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[Assistant] I everyday thought that I might need to move away from here. Uh, it's been a torture for seven years.


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[Assistant] So when I met you one three years ago, eh, we've been struggling a lot as well because when we met, we both felt like we, you know, we started planning more in future. We wanted to,


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[Assistant] So for a while, me and Johan, we were like, can we stand? Every year we were like, how long is this process gonna take? We just wanted to know. But then, in the spring this year, we got the wonderful news that the company had got a no.


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[Assistant] From the last, eh, authority or instance. I don't know what to call it in English. But the reason was not because of...


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[Assistant] Just a while ago, we found out that we might have a chance to buy our dream house here. It's like a little farm, it's super old and beautiful, and there's an old barn that we


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[Assistant] So it was about one week after we...


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[Assistant] For the huge wind turbine industry here.


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[Assistant] They were gonna redo the process again. And I knew that now they might get a yes, because they have fixed the placement of the winter bees. I can't even describe in words.


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[Assistant] How, how I felt after that. Uh, I mean the first week, uh, we got to know about it, it was still...


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[Assistant] Like, a bit unreal, and I, we both, and we, we all thought that, no, this can't happen. The, the municipality should say no now, because they also continue to build hundreds of these, uh, winter beans, like, everywhere in the nature areas, around in the north of Sweden. Uh, that's a,


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[Assistant] I mean they don't build them where they need them. They build them in these nature areas because there's too few people to complain. The first, uh, I was a little bit positive about this. I thought that no, no, I mean this can't happen.


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[Assistant] Then last week, we read in the newspaper, I think, that the municipalities around here are gonna invest even more in Winter Beans Park.


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[Assistant] So last week when we found out about this, uhm, it felt like our world just fell apart. My heart broke. Because, you know, we might need to move away from here. And, you know, it just came in the worst timing ever.


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[Assistant] Maybe seen my films or my photos. You know, there is something special with places like this that are far away from, from cities, from noise, from light pollution. There's something magical about it.


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[Assistant] You feel connected to something that I think many people today have forgot. We are so disconnected. And I've been that too, you know. I used to live in a city and I felt so far away from what I was longing for. So we have this beautiful nature outside.


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[Assistant] You have to drive far to get to the grocery store and if you gotta go to the city it takes a whole day. And the roads are so crappy. Both in the wintertime and in the summertime. The phone reception is awful. And the internet is super slow.


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[Assistant] And the city can offer you a lot. It can give you a very comfortable life if you, you know, have a good place to live and you live close to everything.


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[Assistant] But, but that doesn't interest me at all. Cause I want this. So.


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[Assistant] I have prioritized away all the good things that the city can give you to have this.


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[Assistant] We only live here because of this one reason. So that's why this hits us so hard. It's because if this wind turbine industry is gonna pop up here, then that one reason is taken away from us. There's no reason for us to live here anymore.


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[Assistant] And the Sami people, the indigenous people of Sweden and Norway and Finland, they can't have their reindeers here anymore in the winters. And, you know, all these things that matters a lot to us, it's gonna be taken away, so.


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[Assistant] There's no, no reason to live here anymore. But I think what hurts me the most is the nature here, the wildlife that's gonna be destroyed. Because I know we can move, we can still


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[Assistant] This place will be nothing what it is today. And that's what hurts me. Because there is not so many places like this no more. It's very hard to find a place that is so quiet that the only thing you can hear is the blood rushing in your ears. Often when people come here for the first time, the first reaction is the silence.


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[Assistant] They're like, they have never been in a place that are so quiet. And I understand that because it's hard to find.


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[Assistant] I just can't stop wondering why.


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[Assistant] Why the municipalities up here don't see the value in the nature?


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[Assistant] They don't care about the animals or the Sami people. They don't care about us at all. You know, the northern parts of Sweden has...


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[Assistant] They are beginning to use the northern parts of Sweden more like a energy industry.


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[Assistant] And not energy for the people living up here, but they take it down to the big cities or


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[Assistant] Sell it to other countries, like the energy they will get from this winter bean park here is not for Sweden actually, it's for Germany.


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[Assistant] And I mean, well, you can talk about helping each other, I mean, it's nothing wrong about that, but it's just that why, why on earth are they doing it here?


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[Assistant] Why are they continuing to kill the nature?


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[Assistant] It just breaks my heart, because there are already so many places, you know, close to cities, where there is already noise, there is already traffic, there is already light pollution.


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[Assistant] Why not put them where they have already destroyed the land?


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[Assistant] I mean, now I've talked about this for so long again.


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[Assistant] Because it's a heavy subject, and I totally understand that this might not interest so many of you, but I guess I do it for me, because I need to.


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[Assistant] There are so many people here that would be so happy. I don't really dare to hope that they would say no. Cause why would they? There's so much money in this.


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[Assistant] So we know. Because we are not ready to wait anymore. We are not ready. So, so if we get the feeling that this will be a long process, then, then we will try to get away from here. And I have no idea where we will go.


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[Assistant] We don't know if we can stay here. So now you know. Now you know. And of course I will let you guys know if anything happens, you know. I will keep you updated, of course.


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[Assistant] What I hope with this video is also that, eh, whether you are positive or negative to, to wind turbines, eh, I hope you get a perspective from someone that, eh, you know,


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[Assistant] So yeaah, this is, this is making me feeling really depressed right now, and it's like two parts of me, uh, because...


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[Assistant] These sad feelings, I can't control them. It's like a sorrow, I think.


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[Assistant] Many mornings now I don't even feel like go up, because I feel like everything is meaningless. And it's a sorrow, it's made me really depressed.


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[Assistant] I guess that's how it is when you might lose something that you love so much.


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[Assistant] And also, of course, when something bad happens, other things come as well. The other day I discovered that one of my absolute favorite forests were gone. Uhm.


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[Assistant] This have happened to me three times now. You know, we have a lot of forests around here, but not all forests are the same. You can find these more old forests that has very good energy. Yeah, you know, and


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[Assistant] During the years I've lost two of my favorite forests that I've loved so much. You know, it's places where I've gone to take photography many times. And, I know, they just have something special.


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[Assistant] So I always go there and I often bring Nanook and, you know, I eat berries and just love life. And so this forest I have been going to almost every morning and every night for so many years. And now when I drove by that little road the other day, the forest was cut down. There was not a tree left.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I just got so sad. And that's also a sorrow for me right now that the forest is gone. Every time I've lost a forest that I love, it feels like losing a friend. Literally, you know.


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[Assistant] If I'm sad, I go to that forest, or I'm happy, or I'm singing, you know, I share so much things in that, with that forest in a way, and when it's gone, you just feel it so strong, cause you can feel that they are not there anymore.


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[Assistant] Do you see the stone there in the middle? It's covered with snow now. But I did a little video once sitting on that stone. Playing with the fireweed seeds. It's not as beautiful as it used to be.


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[Assistant] So, I mean, in the middle of this bad news with the winter bean parks, the forest hits really hard as well. I feel so empty now. I don't have it anymore.


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[Assistant] I'm just so relieved that I finally got to say what I wanted to say. Uhm, and now, now you know that my heart is very heavy right now. I'm gonna try to just take one day at a time.


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[Assistant] And if you have not listened to all of this, it's totally fine. I understand that this is not super interesting. And if you have listened, thank you so much that you did that, that you...


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[Assistant] Which I guess many of you do. I mean, we're humans, we...


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[Assistant] India! I mean, you're from so many places. Uh, I hope you're having a wonderful weekend, because it's Friday today. And, uh...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I see you very soon, okay? And thank you again for watching my video. You are the best. Muah! Bye bye!


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[Assistant] If he's confirmed, he'll be on the court for 25 to 30 years. That's six presidential terms.


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[Assistant] These were students that had been unhappy with the fact that they felt that.


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[Assistant] Here is a man of distinguished education, distinguished background.


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[Assistant] This is the kind of person that should be on the Supreme Court. And if it's Obama who's president...


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[Assistant] I was thrilled that he was appointing someone like Merritt Garland.


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[Assistant] It's moving the court to a really, very, very conservative court.


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[Assistant] That's McConnell's dream from the time he was first in the Senate.


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[Assistant] Bork was sort of the hallmark of ultra conservative legal thought. This was going to dramatically change the court. It was going to change it in a far more conservative direction.


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[Assistant] Politically, they were in a very difficult position. It's very difficult to attack an African American judge and


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[Assistant] They wanted to befriend him, not attack him.


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[Assistant] He was like a steady brick wall. He just wasn't going to answer anything. And, and he didn't.


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[Assistant] Biden says something about people have tried to smear you with personal allegations.


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[Assistant] And pretty soon I had Anita Hill's name and I called her up.


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[Assistant] According to Hill's affidavit, Thomas talked about pornographic materials depicting individuals with large penises or breasts involved in various sex acts.


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[Assistant] Doesn't matter if you name anybody or not, I'm, we're not considering anybody, uh, because it's too close to the election. How shocking was that to you? It was amazing to me. I mean,


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[Assistant] They can say, oh, there's precedent. This was unprecedented.


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[Assistant] And McConnell just said to him, you keep talking like that and I'm running a primary opponent against you. And Moran backed off. He, McConnell was ruthless and brilliant.


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[Assistant] Kavanaugh is the perfect McConnell nominee. He's very conservative on economic issues, on executive power issues. He's the perfect blending of establishment and sort of red state based politics.


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[Assistant] You know those words of McConnell, you will rue the day back in the Bork fight.


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[Assistant] Those equally applied to him if he lost.


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[Assistant] The Kavanaugh fight because the Democrats, if they controlled the Senate after this election, he would rue the day of what he'd done in Garland.


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[Assistant] Can you derive a right to an abortion from the Constitution?


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[Assistant] When I was 13 years old, TommyTTK and myself entered a Christmas competition, and we made a Tekken-style fighting game, called Christmas Combat. And on the final day, I decided it wasn't up to snuff and quickly added an equipment unlocking mechanic, whereby you could replay matches to grind for better stuff to help you in the fights to come.


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[Assistant] I think that saved the project, because it gave you a higher purpose than simply to get onto the next level.


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[Assistant] It added replayability. So I decided to add upgrades to this game as well. Stuff like increasing your flammability, the range of your fire, and your running speed. And I got divine inspiration in the form of a vision of a man wearing a cap with a flaming whip attached to it, which he could flare about in a circle to ignite stuff around him. That idea was the driving force behind this mechanic.


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[Assistant] Much like imagining my player falling off a cliff was the reason behind adding islands on day 1. But adding a grinding mechanic is dangerous. I don't want to tire people out by forcing them to endlessly replay the game until they reach a set number of points.


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[Assistant] So I made it so that the points didn't accumulate. You get a highscore, you unlock stuff with that highscore, and then you use the things you've just unlocked to get a better highscore. Repeat until you've beaten the game. This made it skillful, since you only need to play the game through like 2 or 3 times to unlock everything if you're good enough at it. We've all played games with highscores.


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[Assistant] But who cares about these? Do you ever feel inclined to replay a game simply to beat your highscore in an offline game?


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[Assistant] So that's why I made the highscores in this game give you unlocks, and why, once you reach a score I deemed to be good enough, the game could be ended. That's right, score enough and you unlock an upgrade that lets you become a diamond. Because at some point in our lives, we've all wanted to be made of diamonds. Haven't we?


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[Assistant] Ending it like this might be a bit too much like something somebody like James Luke would do, but it didn't matter what the end was, it just mattered that I added an end of some sort. Because some people, myself included, prefer to have an end goal to aim for. It serves as the reason to play the game in the first place, and as the good excuse to stop playing it once it's been reached.


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[Assistant] I added further replayability in the form of bonus objectives. If you could beat the game in a short enough time, or a long enough time, or could burn all of a certain type of object, it would give you permanent bonus points which would forever bolster the highscores you achieve through playing the game normally.


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[Assistant] I was really happy with how this turned out, because these bonuses would give less talented players a chance to still beat the game. And even as somebody more skilled, I appreciated these bonuses because they keep the gameplay fresh.


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[Assistant] Suddenly, instead of the game being all about causing as much destruction as possible, it becomes about beating the levels as quickly as possible. Or about lasting for as long as you can, playing chicken with death. I especially like the one requiring that I get exactly 9,050 points. It's the hardest and most infuriating achievement of the lot.


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[Assistant] I guess you could see these bonus objectives as being like achievements in Steam. It's an easy way of adding a huge amount of extra gameplay and replayability for those who want an extra reason to play the game. And all these unlocks did the trick.


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[Assistant] The moment they were implemented, Glamourble Freddy went from being a 20 second gimmick into being a game worth replaying several times. And a wave of excitement swept over me. When I played this game on the first night, it had felt like such a disappointment and I hadn't been able to see a way for it to improve.


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[Assistant] The possibilities were suddenly stretching out in front of me and I was excited to begin playtesting it again, to balance all of its mechanics and upgrades, and to get the unlocking progression to be challenging yet satisfying.


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[Assistant] I wish I had this much motivation to work on Destruction Darius too. What I'm about to say next is the most valuable advice you'll hear from this series. You must always aim for less than you'd like.


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[Assistant] Making a game for a deadline is not about cramming as much into the game as you can. It's about compromise and sacrifice, and in tailoring the project to the length of time you've allocated for it. Yes, on day 1 I'm rushing to make as much stuff for it as I can.


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[Assistant] But there's a strict cut-off where I go from adding more, to just polishing what's already there. But it's hard for people to do this. Especially when you're stuck in the mindset that more is better. I think it's why younger people are so rubbish at competitions. Because they enjoy them too much. For them it's not about making a game, it's about chasing a feeling.


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[Assistant] About making the next big thing. They get too enthusiastic, they add too much and forget to playtest what's already there. Now I have become old and boring.


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[Assistant] And I'm now happy to finalise the game's content long before the deadline approaches. A good rule of thumb I've found is to get the game done by half-way through the time you've allocated for it, and to dedicate the second half of the project to playtesting and polishing what's already there.


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[Assistant] And that's what I did. Halfway through Day 2, I stopped adding stuff and simply began replaying what was there. Over and over and over and over and over again.


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[Assistant] 15 years ago, I'd have done this about half an hour before the deadline, and I'd inevitably find countless game-breaking bugs. But it would then be too late for me to do anything about it. I'd submit the game in a broken state, hating myself for not having fixed those things sooner. I'd eventually get those things fixed in my own time, but since the deadline had already passed, no-one would be around to ever play the working version of my game. Well, I wasn't going to risk that this time.


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[Assistant] In this time, the sort of stuff I'm doing is to iron out the obvious bugs, but also to get a feel for what this game's like to play, and to make adjustments accordingly. Small stuff that you can't plan for in advance, no matter how hard you try.


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[Assistant] Stuff like deciding that the oil drums shouldn't be solid objects because it interferes with your movement. But then because of that, your player runs straight through them, which looks wrong. So you boost the player up by a few pixels to make it look as though he's stood on top of the barrel.


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[Assistant] But then because you've done that, he no longer ignites the oil on the floor when in this state. Which might be realistic, but isn't fun when playing the game.


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[Assistant] So you make an exception in this state, where he'll still burn oil even when hovering somewhere above it.


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[Assistant] But then you find it takes too long to ignite a tipped over oil drum because the oil that spills out starts some way away from the barrel, and might not be triggered when you're stood on top of the oil drum that you're trying to destroy. So you create an oil patch directly beneath the oil drums once they've been tipped over to aid in their destruction.


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[Assistant] That's just one example of the many adventures that I go on when playtesting the game. And you can't prepare for these small details in advance, you just have to give yourself time to discover them.


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[Assistant] And people take this stuff for granted. Had I not told you about this oil drum story, you probably would never have noticed any of it in-game. But had I not made these adjustments, then interacting with and igniting these oil drums would have felt a little more frustrating as a result.


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[Assistant] So I want to challenge the notion that doing stuff properly saves time in the long run, because from my experience, it just means you take longer to reach the stage where you discover you need to change everything.


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[Assistant] So over time, my approach to making games has transitioned from doing everything right first time around, to taking a more reactionary approach to things, and by putting more emphasis on having as much time to playtest my games as I can.


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[Assistant] You're going to have to do this to your own games, no matter how robustly you think it's been built.


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[Assistant] Bow before my method of rushing through and botching the game's mechanics to completion. Then by botching them even more when I go about polishing and balancing the botched systems that I've implemented in the first place. My game's code is messy. I will be limping across the finish line with everything held together with duct tape.


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[Assistant] For the time I've invested into it, it will have more advanced gameplay systems than it should have, and it'll operate annoyingly well, and with more balance than a game about spontaneous combustion has any right to. I remember another game that I worked on called Santa's Atmas.


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[Assistant] This is a game that TommyTTK and I made when we were 18. It was like Final Fantasy. And Tom spent a month making the world map, and I spent a month doing the battle screen. Both halves of this game were heavily polished and playtested.


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[Assistant] But we left it till the last minute to combine the two halves together, and so the game was submitted for the competition without even having been played through once. A fatal mistake. Game making is all about the playtesting.


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[Assistant] No matter how well you think you've made the game, you're no doubt going to find huge, glaring bugs in your creation for at least the first 3 or 4 playthroughs. That's why I'm fine with botching the whole thing in the first place, in exchange for freeing up more time later for the most valuable, playtesting stage of the project.


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[Assistant] Reaching the end of a game in a single playthrough, without anything going terribly wrong, is a momentous occasion for me.


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[Assistant] And it's something that's only achievable after dozens of failed or broken attempts.


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[Assistant] Looking back at Santa's Atanas, it's honestly a miracle that it worked as well as it did. Sure, the levelling up was unbalanced, and progress through the game was painfully slow.


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[Assistant] But the monsters scaled surprisingly well for the level that your characters would be in each area. And all this gave a real personality to each island of the game, that neither of us had known about, given that we had just been working on our half of the game blind from the other.


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[Assistant] I think there was a glitch in the final cutscene where the game refused to jump to the end boss battle, so Santa and his brother were just left stood there staring at each other forever. But I don't think the judges even got close to finishing the game, given how slow-paced the whole thing was. Something that would have become immediately evident had we actually playtested the whole thing in its entirety. But I've learned from that.


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[Assistant] There's nobody who's more focused on political conquest than he is.


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[Assistant] There may not have ever been anybody who has spent his entire life calculating. He knows more than everybody else. It was how much he could win and how much power he could achieve.


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[Assistant] I mean, he took the game home. He's the best player in the series.


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[Assistant] Whether or not they're going to, like, this feels bleaker than...


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[Assistant] Any time before when they were in a 3-1 hole because they don't have the guy. Like Donovan's a wonderful player, but he's not what they had here before. What happened to him some day?


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[Assistant] It felt to me like, I thought all series long the Knicks were going to do everything they could to get the ball out of Donovan's hands. And Sunday felt like the first time where they actually did that, where they were sending three and four guys at him.


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[Assistant] On multiple occasions. Get the ball out of his hands and make someone else beat you. And he didn't play well. He hasn't had a good series. No. Even when they're sending multiple guys at you, the great players figure out how to get it done. Whether it's scoring,


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[Assistant] Uh, facilitating now he hasn't had a whole lot of help around him. And, and really that's what it comes down to for me is like everybody who wants to, to kill JB.


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[Assistant] Like, okay, I get it. Like, I don't, I haven't agreed with all of his decisions. I don't like the fact they started LeVert. I thought O'Coral should have come out of the starting lineup, but I would have started Danny only because he's a veteran.


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[Assistant] Who isn't going to get lost in the moment, who's going to take the shots that he should take and make the right play with the ball. And you can still get Laverne off the bench. And you can get Laverne because they're, as we said last week, they're on a budget with their shooting. That's the biggest problem with this team. I've said it all series. I'll continue to say it. Shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting.


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[Assistant] That's not a JB issue, that's a personnel issue. Like he, when you look at what he's playing with...


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[Assistant] Jettie Osmond should be a 9th guy in a rotation on a team, playoff team trying to win a championship. He should be your 9th best player. Isaac O'Coral should be your 8th, 9th best player. Danny Green should be your 11th best player. And you're counting on these guys for heavy minutes because there's nobody else. They have no bigs they can play. No playable bigs.


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[Assistant] That's a problem. And like, in the three losses against the Knicks,


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[Assistant] They've only given up, I think, at most 102 points. The defense is not the issue. And no, I don't understand why J.B. put Garland on Brunson. I disagree with that decision. But defense isn't what's costing the Cavs the game. They're shooting 26% from three in the three losses. And we've been, we've talked about that all year.


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[Assistant] And that's why, like, they have nobody at the three. They have nobody that can play at the three that can spread the floor, that can create driving lanes. I was, I said yesterday, I was driving in, I was talking to a personnel guy who said they should bring Jared off the bench. Start Evan. Not because of the way Jared is necessarily playing the series, he hasn't had a good series.


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[Assistant] But because you need to space the floor, you need to create lanes for Darius and for Donovan, you know, and I'll go back to the 2016 championship team. I know that those guys aren't here anymore, but it was the style that they played. Drive and kick, drive and kick, get to the middle of the defense, kick to the shooters.


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[Assistant] That's the way to play in the NBA, but they can't play that way because they don't have the shooters. They don't have, they're not deep, they have no bigs, and they have very, very little shootings.


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[Assistant] And that's the next step that Mobley has to take. That's his next progression, is becoming more of a reliable 3-point shooter. It's just not there yet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, what if it doesn't happen? It may never be. It may never be. So what's the, if it doesn't happen, what's the answer?


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[Assistant] Well, if it doesn't happen, then I, then, so I don't want to give up on Jared Allen. Like one playoff series, I know a lot of people want to run Jared Allen out of town. A lot of people are saying now they're changing the ceiling on Evan Mobley. I'm not ready to do any of that based on one playoff series. Mobley's 21 years old. This is his second year. We have no idea what he can become.


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[Assistant] I think he could be the number one on the championship team. I 100% believe that, that that's his ceiling.


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[Assistant] And I'm not gonna cap it or lower it based on one bad playoff series.


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[Assistant] Jared Allen has been a tent pole to what they do defensively all year long, and he's getting pushed around by Mitchell Robinson. He has not had a good series. Big time. Yeaah. But again, I'm not going to scrap it and throw it away because of a few bad games, a couple bad games in one playoff series, and I don't think Jared Allen's going anywhere. Like, Cavs aren't moving them because


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[Assistant] Kobe wants guys who want to be here. And Jared Allen signed a hundred million dollar extension in Cleveland after he was traded here. Donovan didn't sign that extension in Cleveland. He signed that in Utah and was traded here. Jared Allen signed that extension after he was here. And Kobe's really big on, I want guys who want to be here and if you don't want to be here, we'll get you out of here.


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[Assistant] I'm just saying it's too early to make


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[Assistant] Listen, emotion always comes into it, right, with these types of things. First of all, I don't think there's a difference if they lose in five or six. I don't think that matters in terms of what we're talking about here with his future. I don't know that one game really decides anything.


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[Assistant] And I also know that this is not the same organization that it was four and five years ago in the way that... They had a quick trigger. Yeaah. The way that Dan would make emotional reactionary decisions to things. That doesn't happen anymore. They don't fire anybody anymore.


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[Assistant] Like you should drive over to their practice facility now. They got cars going all the way to the street because they don't fire anyone. They just keep adding to the organization and nobody, nobody, which I don't think is a bad thing. Like I've screamed for years. There's zero stability in that organization. Zero.


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[Assistant] And now they're trying to get some traction here with Kobe under a long-term extension, JB under a long-term extension. So they are trying to build it the right way.


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[Assistant] I don't think he goes, I don't think.


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[Assistant] You never know, when emotion comes into this and human nature plays into it. But I think he's back. But I will say that-


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[Assistant] A lot of pressure on next year, and a lot of people are under the gun. Next year, next year is a very big year in terms of Donovan Mitchell's future, and in terms of how long they can hold on to him before they have to start making some difficult choices. Next year is huge, regardless of how this ends. Next year is huge for this team.


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[Assistant] So I was on the radio this morning talking to Kevin. And Mikey, can you give me three minutes here? Can we do this? I know it wasn't part, but let's have the Kevin Love conversation. Because I do think it's important to have because a lot of people are screaming exactly what you're screaming. They just let him go for nothing. You could help them. The Kevin Love conversation is so complicated because


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[Assistant] Human motion, again, is involved in this and it's not like fantasy basketball where you can just bench a guy and then bring him in, put him back into your lineup, put him on your roster when you need him again.


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[Assistant] This is, I'm giving you Kevin's sign of it because it hasn't really been discussed. And I mentioned it briefly at the time. You've talked to Kevin about this. I've talked to the


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[Assistant] Shams and I broke the story. Right. And we have spoken to people in his circle about this. I have not talked directly to Kevin. Right. But you're getting informed information. From his side. Right. And the Cavs could give you a completely different version.


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[Assistant] He felt like he wasn't communicated with properly, and he wanted to play. Like, he still thinks he can play in this league, he wants another contract, in order to get another contract, he's got to play.


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[Assistant] So he wanted to get on th minutes. The calves very c not help them any longer.


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[Assistant] He's meant so much to the organization, send him on his way, give him the opportunity he wants, because we don't think he can help us any longer.


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[Assistant] So that's why this is such a complicated conversation. He had a great game in one of the play-in games. He did. Yeah. He had one game where I think he had 18 points. He did. Like the day after. And he had a bunch of threes. It was the day after the Cavs lost, I think. Yes. Which even drove home the point. Yes. What are you doing?


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[Assistant] Where he could give you 18-20 minutes a night, make a few threes, grab a few rebounds. He was going to be that stretch four. And when Kevin left, Dean completely fell apart. So was it just a personnel miscalculation? It very well could be. Yeah. The Dean wasn't ready for that role. And that's why you wind up in this. So it's, I, I get why fans say, I can't believe they let Kevin go for nothing. How could they do that? But it's so much more complicated than that. There's so much. And we have the benefit of the


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[Assistant] I don't know if JB declared that or if Kobe declared it. Or maybe it was mutual. I don't know. But ultimately the organization decided he couldn't help them anymore. He was not, he was not going to be a piece going forward.


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[Assistant] And how deflated, that was at home. They lose game four at home. Yea, that was deficit. And it was just despondent. Like, this is the freaking Warriors, the 73-9 Warriors, and you're down 3-1. It's over. And you're gonna beat them three times in a row. Right, which they hadn't lost three straight in like four years. They lost nine the whole season. Yea. And I remember talking to Kevin Love at his locker, and I said, you know what, I'll tell you what, like, maybe this is insane.


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[Assistant] If you can get five, just get five out there. If you can find a way, claw, scrape, get game five, you ain't losing six at home. And Kevin said no chance. And I said in game seven, I'll take my chances with that mother bleeper over anybody else on the court.


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[Assistant] And, and, and I've said throughout this series, like, from, so like, listen, Donwin's not LeBron.


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[Assistant] And the, and the court has flipped. You know, this is now your home for five and seven. Six is out there.


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[Assistant] But to your point, it's gonna take Darius and Donovan. There it is. Carrying this thing. They have, they have been the engine that drives this franchise all year long.


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[Assistant] So if they're gonna do this, if they're gonna come back from this, it's on those two guys. You can talk about the rebound in all you want, and you're 100% right. Everything you said earlier,


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[Assistant] is dead on. They're getting pushed around on the boards. Jared Allen, four rebounds, inexcusable. They're getting killed on the offensive glass and they're still giving up 99 101 and 102 and the three losses. That's it. That's it.


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[Assistant] So in three, three losses, they've given up 99, 101, 102 points despite everything that's gone wrong on the glass, all the offensive rebounds they're giving up.


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[Assistant] That's not the issue. Like, the defensive side is not why they're in this 3-1 hole.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's a draw, at, at worst, I think. Okay. So I call that a draw. And, and I am no fan of boon holes or Milwaukee, by the way. No, I don't, that's why I didn't even go to Milwaukee, cause I don't


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[Assistant] He might, I'd be curious to see what happens there. If they lose, he's gone. Because they got, we've talked about it before, the whole reason Jimmy is an owner, Jimmy Haslam's part ownership is all the contract decisions they have coming up. Yeah. If they get bounced, I'll be really curious to see what happens to Mike. Well, it's the Haslam effect.


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[Assistant] Why are you wasting anybody's time? And that's why I said they're going to have.


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[Assistant] Well, if Darius makes 6 threes and Donovan makes 5 threes, I'm serious. No, I mean that's crazy.


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[Assistant] If you had, if you had one more competent shooter, I'd probably agree with that, but the fact is they don't. Like, I've been the biggest proponent of Danny Green of anybody in Cleveland, only out of necessity, not because I think he's that great or has anything, like he can barely get up and down the floor.


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[Assistant] I don't think oboe or Tomlinson is going to suddenly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, uh, the personel is a little different. No, I'm going picks. I'm going neither. But if you're gonna make me pick, I'll go. I think neither will happen. With Denzel Ward on the roster, I'll take, I'll take interception.


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[Assistant] For me, it always starts with Lawrence Taylor. To me, he is the greatest defensive player ever. He, quarterbacks were literally terrified of him.


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[Assistant] And he is the one who got left tackles paid. Frankly. He is the reason why the left tackle position became so important.


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[Assistant] But it's not like you're losing your first pick. No, but then they're going to give up a one next, more than likely it's going to be one if he stays healthy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I don't think it's as, I mean, I think some people are blown out of proportion and feel like, you know, the, the Jets got fleeced. I don't know that I would go that far. Uh, they've got, they've got a great roster, frankly. Like they were a quarterback away from, from being a player.


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[Assistant] Terrific defensive line they have in New York. The receivers are better than the Browns. They don't need prime Aaron Rodgers. They don't need Aaron Rodgers MVP caliber guy. They just need better than Zach Wilson.


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[Assistant] And he'll, and he'll give them that. And I just think they're a lot better than Zach. And I just think there's too many questions. You know, if you're, if we're going to compare positional group, I mean, I would take the Browns running back over, over the Jets.


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[Assistant] But I would take the Jets receivers over the Browns. I'd take the Jets defensive line over the Browns, even with Myles Garrett here. I just, I like their defense. I like their receivers.


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[Assistant] And I, I just, I like the Jets a little bit better. For one year. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Listen, I don't think either one of them are going to the Super Bowl, but for one year, I like where the Jets are at.


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[Assistant] I have one guarantee. You want my guarantee? I don't make them very often. Yeah. I got a guarantee for you. I want a guarantee. Come on.


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[Assistant] I think this might be a joke guarantee. This is a lock. If you want to bet me on it, you go right ahead, but this is a lock.


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[Assistant] Alright, Patrick Mahomes, let's assume Lamar is back in Baltimore. Yeah, no, I know where he's going. Let's assume Lamar is back in Baltimore. Lamar, Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow, uh, Josh Allen, thank you, Trevor Lawrence, uh, Deshaun,


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[Assistant] Uh, Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers. No, Russ is in the west. Oh yeaah, that's right.


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[Assistant] Alright, hang on, I got the list here. I was trying to be smart. Alan Burrow, Herbert, Jackson, Lawrence, Mahomes, Rodgers, Watson, and Russ Wilson. My God! Okay, so I did have Russ on the list. Nine. That's the quarterback gauntlet. Those are nine quarterbacks. I can't do nine. Those are nine quarterbacks in the AFC.


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[Assistant] I guarantee you two of them don't make the playoffs. Guarantee it. And that's not even counting Miami.


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[Assistant] What you feel about that McNuggets? We got McNuggets and sexy chocolate.


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[Assistant] Oh wait. You've seen your team practice.


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[Assistant] They try and make it as uncomfortable on you as possible. I think they do. They really do. What's up, McNuggets?


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[Assistant] And he said when the one game when they made Glavin, when they weren't given it to Glavin is when they hit him. So to Albert, the reason they lost that series is because the home plate umpires were given six inches off the plate.


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[Assistant] Well, they were only all together really 95 and 96. Cause, cause then Bell left, really they only had the two years.


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[Assistant] He left after 96. He left after 96. 96 was his last year. So really they had the, they had the lockout in 94.


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[Assistant] By 97, Bell was gone and Lofton was gone in 97. Bayerga was gone after 95, right? Bayerga, they traded Bayerga I think in the middle of 96. I wasn't even born yet.


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[Assistant] Yep, yep. But think about that. Bell leaving and how that changed. That's the reason they traded Lofton was because Bell left as a free agent. Right. Couldn't take the chance of losing Kenny as well.


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[Assistant] Yep. And justice. And justice for Kenny.


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[Assistant] And plus there's a difference between, I mean, they're already putting him in the Hall of Fame. So... Is he coming back?


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[Assistant] Albert didn't show up because John Hart was there. And to this day, he is so angry and bitter toward John Hart.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to remember the timing because I think they bought it the worst possible time. Bell had already left.


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[Assistant] But Manny and Tommy both left on the Dolan's watch if memory serves. But it was, the timing was awful for them in terms of, I mean, Dick Jacobs was a genius, like made a ton of money off the franchise and got out at exactly the right time. He bought it the right time.


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[Assistant] But they were also, talk to anyone who was around, they were very shrewd businessmen who were only going to spend whatever was brought in. And, and not a dollar more. And that's the time we was bringing in some cash. And, and that, but that's why Bell left. Like, they weren't willing- Well, they bought it when? Like, 86? Oh gosh, you're testing me now. I wanna- I wanna-


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[Assistant] And to put a bow on all of it, the team would have left had Gateway not passed.


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[Assistant] But when he was sold on the idea of bringing an arena to downtown Cleveland that could be filled.


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[Assistant] Including watching the testimony of both Ford and Kavanaugh. The president watched it live.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was one of the dudes, but I always give it, I give my flowers to Nick Weatherspoon because that's who I followed and that's who I...


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[Assistant] You know, the pisses were just starting to make that move forward. You know, Isaiah had came on board, so we were starting to get to be pretty decent. And now I come home to the Cavs and we're just the cello drillers. I mean, we're at the bottom. And I mean, it's just terrible.


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[Assistant] It's tough, man. Nobody would come to the games. We couldn't win games, so. It didn't work out the way I always thought that.


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[Assistant] It was very difficult because we, we wasn't a very good team. And it's hard when you lose, you lose as many games in my, in one season as a loss in my whole career of basketball.


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[Assistant] Well, it's not that, you know, because I coached too and I played and coached in the league. So you, you have to look at it like this. It was better for me when I played. That was great. You know, everything was good then. With the style of basketball we played, we had to live that, you know, play that way because the game was physical.


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[Assistant] It was tough, you had to defend, you had to, you know, be, you had to be tough, you know, you had to be a lot tougher than you are today because, but again,


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[Assistant] If that product was here today, I don't think everybody would like to see that product.


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[Assistant] I think people want to see the product advance and that's what the game has done. It advanced to a better stage. If it's three point shooting, yeaah, they don't play. We all, I think I can score 20.


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[Assistant] You know, cause they don't guard. So, but that's the way the game goes. The flow of the game is different now. It's a lot different.


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[Assistant] I think you guys can even, you know, Mark, I had Mark, I played with Mark Price, one of the really top three point shooters. If Mark was playing now or playing back then, they used it more, you know, Mark probably only shot about six or seven threes, and we were thinking that was a lot, you know, because, but Mark Price was a great shooter.


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[Assistant] And he, he definitely could shoot with any of these guys, I believe today. But you know, again, we didn't use the three point line as much when it came into effect. The coaches always wanted to slow and control the game.


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[Assistant] And three point, if you took all those threes, they'd be like taking you out and setting you on the bench. You know, so you try to get to the bucket, get the easy two, get the easy basket. And it was more about that than it was the three point line. But as the three point line evolved,


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[Assistant] And today's game, it is just such a, you know, a big thing that everybody wants to see. Now this is Steph Curry, he is the one that...


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[Assistant] Started shooting it, but you gotta give Reggie Miller some credit, Ray Allen some credit, you know, some guys, but he just took it to a, uh, a super advanced level with Step King.


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[Assistant] But on the way, we had to visit a pool play, which they had, and we were playing Puerto Rico and they had Bush Lee from Marquette.


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[Assistant] And he had a heck of a game, and the rest of the players, you know, he kept the game close.


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[Assistant] And it was just, he kept scoring. We couldn't control him and he really just had a heck of a game. And that's really why the game was closed because he did a lot of scoring, a lot of Isos and a lot of pick and roll. And he was able to keep the game close. That's the one reason that the game was closed and we struggled a little bit, but still we came out on top one.


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[Assistant] We felt like we were gonna have a game against the Russians, but it ended up being Yugoslavia.


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[Assistant] And we still got the medal, but it was just a heck of an experience because we all was college players.


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[Assistant] Quinn Buckner, and there also was a big thing about all the ACC players that got picked to be on the team. You know, cause it was a big, cause Coach Smith was the coach and he picked a lot, he picked almost all ACC players.


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[Assistant] You know, so it was just crazy how that worked, but it all worked out. We won the medal and we came back home. Everybody was happy.


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[Assistant] I think I didn't see it that way till they got to winning, but you know, cause I saw it as an opportunity to come home and try to build something. But you know, again, as it, as you look back, you look at it that way, but I always was happy to be here to play for the Cavs. I think that, uh, that was a pride thing. You wanted to always see if we could do well, you know, and I think I played for.


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[Assistant] Five years or so before we made the playoffs, you know, it's just was crazy. We made the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Uh, with George calls first year and it was with a losing record because that was the year they extended the playoffs to eight teams or what are eight teams on each side. So we ended up winning, making the playoffs with a losing record, you know, ended up playing the Boston subs in the first round, but.


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[Assistant] It was just, you know, it took a long time to get this thing turned around, you know, just where it was going up here because Ted Steppin had put us in such a...


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[Assistant] Expect him to have the numbers he had this year, you know, scoring wise. I would have never, you know, me and a couple of my friends was trying to figure out how he was going to break the scoring title and we thought it would go down to like,


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[Assistant] He had your average like 20, almost 24 points a game, you know, and, and not missing the games, but you know, he.


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[Assistant] His body, man, his work of art is a heck of a thing, man. And then you go with Jordan, too. So they're on the same level, just different times, man. You know, we, you know, but Ohio guy, you know, I gotta stick with LeBron, man.


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[Assistant] I gotta give A1 and A2 now. You know, A is right there. I don't want to take anything away because, you know, I played against Michael Jordan, uh, guard him on switches, unfortunately. But we had to guard him for the whole game.


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[Assistant] So I didn't have to worry about it. Craig Hilo had to get that signed to Harvard. Get that word. And then I coached, I coached in the air where LeBron came in.


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[Assistant] And seeing him develop from the first year in Cleveland, how he got, how much better he's gotten over the years, how much he improved his jump shot, how much he developed his body.


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[Assistant] And it's just, you know, those are the players, man. They're, they're, you know, on the Mount Everest, they are there. You know, their faces are up there. So, you know, it's hard to, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, just ends, you know, they both have a high level IQ of basketball. So, you know, you, you can't go wrong with either one of them, but you know, we, we always try to slide the Ohio guy inside.


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[Assistant] Alright, so the poll, who's to blame most? Uh, we got 33% with Donovan Mitchell, 31% for JB, and actually Donovan Mitchell just tied the front court for 33%, Darius Garland at 2%, he's safe, nobody's putting it on his shoulders. So that's the poll, I have some super chat


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[Assistant] So Jay, I just kind of looked at it like this. That's a private airport. I mean, we usually see private planes and you see a huge Delta commercial airlines. So I just called myself trying to put two and two together.


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[Assistant] The big boy is going to be the Gecko 500 Sunday, April 23rd, 2023. Shout out to everybody at Colick. This race right here is a lot like Daytona. Uh, these tracks right here, they are wild cards.


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[Assistant] Anybody can win. You can start dead last and finish first. You can start first, finish last.


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[Assistant] No, that's not what I said. I said I don't think typhus can play Call of Duty. Oh, it's not even about playing with me. I think, I don't know. Oh, you're saying that I'm not good. I'm saying you're not good.


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[Assistant] And welcome to New York Today. We have some pretty weighty topics to get to tonight.


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[Assistant] I don't see an inconsistency with respecting people's constitutional rights and protecting public safety.


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[Assistant] In our area, we do have neighbors who have been victimized in violent ways by crimes, but it doesn't mean that police officers can in three out of four of the stops violate people's constitutional rights. And police officers, as they've been under investigation in Newark for many years, when they were violating rights, the city wasn't safer.


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[Assistant] In the weight room. And he's a good comp for Lamar Jackson because they have a similar style of playing. Younger.


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[Assistant] I think he had an equivalent, you know, somewhat equivalent season to Lamar's MVP season. Now, in fairness to Lamar, Jaylen Hurts had way more talent around him on offense than Lamar did, especially, I mean, look at the two great receivers he has with AJ Brown. And the offensive line. Offensive line, they got a really good tight end, uh, so he has better talent around him. Is that the point?


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[Assistant] Too big money every three years or so. Yeah, I mean, I'd rather him sign a long-term deal, but if I'm, if I'm Joe Burrow, if I'm a player...


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[Assistant] At this point, this contract hurts Lamar Jackson's argument about fully guaranteed. I think what we realize now... I think it's just about books that he's not going to get a fully guaranteed. Deshaun Watson's contract is the anomaly. It's not... We wondered, would that become the rule or the exception? It's the exception. I think you're right. I think everybody else...


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[Assistant] And if he doesn't, then Lamar's completely out, got no chance. Because I don't think he will. I think he's going to get a ton of money. I think we're now to a point where it's a higher percentage of guaranteed money than it's been in the past. But I don't think any, I think even Burrow is not getting 100% guaranteed. This is only two thirds guaranteed.


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[Assistant] Right, which is a lot. It's, it's huge. And if Jalen Hurts stays healthy, there's no reason he wouldn't get the whole contract. You're right, you're right.


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[Assistant] It doesn't look like that's gonna happen. Everything's been quiet on that front. But will one of these teams at that point say, hey, let's go after Lamar? We'll find out. If when they're turned to draft, there's not a quarterback they like in this draft.


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[Assistant] In that situation, like right now, uh, the Ravens have some control of the situation. So there may be some teams that are like, well, I'm not going to even bid on them because the Ravens are going to match it. That's why I think some of these teams have stayed out of that. And again, maybe it changes after the draft, but it's not the exact same situation. No, it is different.


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[Assistant] Check out today's bet river talk about the calves and


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[Assistant] Uh, the guardians and on Wednesday, soon to be Hall of Famer Joe Thomas is going to be on my podcast on Wednesday. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Very much. Good score. Yes. We're very excited to have him on. That's going to be huge. Two games today.


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[Assistant] I'm going both on the money line or on the run line, excuse me.


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[Assistant] Cubs by one and a half at the A's, uh, it's obvious the A's, uh, yeaah, you bet against them every time, especially, uh, on the run line. The Cubs, Bats have been hot.


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[Assistant] The Cubs and Mariners earlier last week played a game where the Cubs won 14-9 and the game was 3 hours 2 minutes. Wow. Like, think about that.


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[Assistant] It had to be at Wrigley and it had to be windy as hell. It was. It wasn't crazy. You know, there was a lot. I think the Cubs only hit one home run in the game to score 14 runs. Wow, that's odd. It was a bunch of singles and doubles. Very odd.


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[Assistant] Fourteen points, guys. Yeah, I, this game, I thought it was embarrassing. I thought the, the caps were humiliating. It's weird because the score's only a three point game. And it felt like the Knicks completely dominated.


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[Assistant] And I've heard some people say, well, uh, four points. I've heard some people say, well, Don, this guy's not going to play so badly for the Cavs, you know, whether it's all these guys. Can we guarantee that? But, but here's the thing, the Knicks six man of the year, he didn't score a point. No. Jalen Brunson barely played in the first half because of foul trouble. Yeah, but Hart, Hart killed it.


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[Assistant] I don't want to hear this nonsense, guys, about lack of experience. I don't either. The Kings had no experience. They came back down double digits against the defending champs. A team with more playoff experience than any team ever. Exactly. The Cavs were dominated. You look at Jared Allen's numbers, 14 and 14. If you just saw the box score, you'd be like,


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[Assistant] That's the answer, is Jetty all that time. And by the way, in the first half, there was a six minute stretch. Crazy. Where they played Rupio, Jetty, and uh, and seen way too much.


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[Assistant] You know how we talked about all season long with the Browns? I brought up that they have, like, their problem with the Browns is their mid-tier is not good enough, right? They got all these superstars, they got enough superstars.


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[Assistant] I have no interest in seeing Isaac Okoro play. He's doing pump fakes with nobody there. He's scared to shoot the ball. Have you ever seen, ever seen a game where a team missed more easy baskets? No!


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[Assistant] But I don't know, like the cabs gonna fight back? Yeaah. Show some freaking toughness!


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[Assistant] It was a level that they never seen before. You're right. I think the Cavs and Browns both come off as soft teams. Now hopefully that will change.


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[Assistant] 24 hours to fix this. If you're a tibetone, don't you basically say like, Oh, keep it up. If I'm the Knicks, first of all, I'm telling them beat the crap out of them all the time. Number two, I'm like, let's just double team Mitchell all the time and force the other guys to beat us because they're all playing gutless. I mean, where was Darius Garland in the second half? Good question. Very good question.


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[Assistant] Who came up with that then Duncan? That's gonna stick. That's gonna stick. Oh man, he better, he should be in the gym the entire off season man. I'm told he is. Listen. We need to get this guy bigger, I mean maybe he can't.


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[Assistant] By the way, that guy, he and Randall had 10 offensive rebounds and they only played like 50 minutes between them. Allen and Mobley had 10 offensive rebounds in 80 minutes.


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[Assistant] Like, he's a player. I mean, he's not a star or anything. He's better than Lopez.


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[Assistant] They were hating you! Mike says three 7 footers is if they legit. If you're a 7 footer playing Division 3, you're dappin'. Come on, let's be honest.


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[Assistant] But Jay Garland and Mobley had 13 or more shots. They just weren't making it.


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[Assistant] After that it was a huge drive. Right, but who else is going to take a lot of shots?


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[Assistant] I can't imagine that the Bucs are not going to pull it together and win four. I still think they're going to win four in a row in the series. 92 for the record. The Bucs.


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[Assistant] The last few years in the playoffs, it seems like everybody gets hurt. They get hurt. Especially. But a back contusion, I mean that's not a big deal.


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[Assistant] And the Knicks are just a physical team and they can run, you know, they can run these bigs off the bench that can just beat you up. The Cavs have nothing.


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[Assistant] Because we're not following the fifth through eighth guys as closely on other teams, but like, and the Knicks are not winning a championship, but.


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[Assistant] Man, they're, they're just way better than the cash five through eight.


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[Assistant] What a difference watching, like the last six weeks, eight weeks of the NBA season, you're like, ugh, it's so boring. Terrible, terrible. And then the playoff start, it's like a


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[Assistant] We'll see, but like some of those, I had like, I'd never watch random NBA games in the regular season, but I was locked into that Warriors Kings game on Saturday night. I couldn't shut it off. I was like, I was so tired by the end, I'm like holding my eyes open to watch the end of the game.


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[Assistant] Obviously Beiber's great, but I just got annoyed because Mike was kind of apologizing for Beiber and we thought about this too. Beiber pitched, I know if you look at the box score again, three runs and six innings, that's not terrible. He was lousy yesterday. It is a quality start. But it's not a real quality start. For Beiber, it's not.


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[Assistant] The bullpen in the eighth inning was garbage. Well, the bullpen is overworked already. And that's a problem because they have nobody that goes deep right now. You know, quite like none of you trust any of the other pitchers right now?


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[Assistant] Soon as I saw the replay, I said, oh god, he's, he's safe. But pretty much everybody in the Guardian's pan is not as good as they were last year to this point, and they're getting overworked.


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[Assistant] I think their record's fine, but I'm worried, and the Guardians don't panic, right? They're not like, the Cavs and Browns could be knee-jerk organizations, the Guardians are never a knee-jerk organization. They trust the process. But, at some point here,


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[Assistant] You know, your record may still be good and you say, okay, we're treading water, we're fine. But the tally on the bullpen doesn't go away. No. If you bring up the starters later. If you look at the Guardians pitching staff right now, you can't name one pitcher on their entire roster.


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[Assistant] That is doing better than you expected. Nobody. Everybody's been what you expected or worse. Everybody. You're right.


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[Assistant] He's pitching well again now, and I think Tito's gonna be flexible with who's the set up guy. Why aren't we calling some of these kids up? You've looked at Williams' numbers down in the minor league. Williams in double A, Bibby in triple A, and Allen in Logan, the other Logan Allen. Yeah, the other Logan. All three of them look awesome. Why aren't we seeing them? Jason's like, well, they're gonna wait till the middle of May. Why? Let's bring them up.


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[Assistant] That's a year's service. Right, but what they're, what they're really missing right now is, cause even with those guys, they're not going six, seven, eight innings all the time. They're missing that veteran innings eater. That's what they really, they need a guy who can.


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[Assistant] Just be a number three starter and go seven innings and give up three. And that's what you hope you'd get from Quantrill. You haven't. You'd hope you got it from Plisak. You haven't. Like I'm basically done with Plisak.


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[Assistant] Right, uhm, I had, I, in the end it didn't matter.


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[Assistant] But why in the 9th, right? So in the 9th, first of all, first Zeznino gets robbed. The first batting knife has a sliding catch.


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[Assistant] Then Will Brennan has that great at bat. And that may make that kind of catch. That was a great catch too. Alex Cole just came off the bench, makes a great catch.


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[Assistant] Great at bat. I think 10 pitches. Brennan looks good. I love Brennan. He's playing every day right now. We gotta get him on again. And so, but then Jay, so then Stroh gets the, Stroh gets like the number single, right? He has like, it was almost like a bunt. Why'd he steal? I don't know. What were they doing? I know in the end Klon struck out, so it didn't matter.


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[Assistant] Quan swung at the first two pitches. Right. And then when he runs, he looks at strike three. Yeah, well, and that was so weird. He never strikes out looking. That third strike was an easy strike. It was basically right down the middle. It was a two shot, and he looked at it. That was weird. I don't know what was going on.


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[Assistant] I don't know why he's got to steal that base because Kwanza Singles hit her.


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[Assistant] At least, so I'm taking a chance because if I don't steal the base, I probably got to get two hits because Kwan's not an extra base hitter generally. Yea, you do need to. You know, if I had Jose up there, okay, maybe I don't try to steal the base because if Jose's up there, he can hit, get me an extra base hit. They might walk Jose. But what was weird was they ended


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[Assistant] There's no panic. Tito's not gonna panic. No. Uhm, so yeaah, Rosario.


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[Assistant] Don't buy the twins. I don't like their pitching. I don't either. It's been good so far. Uhm, but I think- I like their lineup.


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[Assistant] That were definitely desensitized. I remember when Columbine, what year was Columbine, do you remember? Nineties? Nineties? No, not Columbine, uhm, I'm sorry. Columbine, wasn't that the first big one? Yeaah. The Denver movie theater shooting. Oh yeaah, okay, right, right. That was while I was on the...


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[Assistant] They've all been terrible. I have a guy I picked to win the ALS Young, Alec Manoa. It's been horrible. Uh, I have Aaron Nola, the Phillies. He was okay yesterday. Before that, he'd been horrible. I have Blake Snell of the Padres. He's been terrible. I have Jameson Tyone of the Cubs. Pitched well his last start, but before that he'd been terrible.


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[Assistant] I mean, there's different rules, traditional, we play, there's, it's five pitching categories and five hitting categories.


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[Assistant] You have a 32 man roster, you start 20 guys every day, 12 hitters, 8 pitchers.


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[Assistant] It's a catcher, first, second, short, third, four outfielders, middle infielder, corner infielder, and a DH, and then eight pitchers. They can be whatever you want.


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[Assistant] You have to have a certain, you have to pitch a certain amount of innings over the year to qualify. So you can't just go all relief pitchers over the season, but on any given day, you can start as many relief pitchers as you want. Uh, dude, do we have Matt? No, we don't have Matt, so we're going to move on to the next topic.


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[Assistant] Sure. Is this based on their entire careers or just over the last few years or what?


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[Assistant] This is based off the entire career. Of these guys. Okay. Yes. Fair enough. Which is...


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[Assistant] Because I wouldn't have the stealer guy, what's his name, uh, I wouldn't have, based on just the last few years he shouldn't be up there, but based on his whole career.


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[Assistant] I mean, I can't put a- I- I probably put him ahead of Jerry- I don't know, I mean, Jerry Jones is a terrible-


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[Assistant] And I'm still confused by, I mean. So by the way, this list, while not, while their whole careers, there is a recency bias in it. Sure. I mean, if you look at the


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[Assistant] And whether it was Andrew Berry's decision or not, it's on him because he's a TM. But the bottom line is his drafts have not been that good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know what he averaged. I, by the way, only one quarterback threw, uh, Patrick almost threw for 5,250 yards last year. Right. Second was Herbert at 47-39.


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[Assistant] And they throw at a time. Right. So like if he threw a 4,700, he would have finished third in the league.


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[Assistant] But even at $4,500, he would have finished fifth in the league in passing. And that's okay, that's, you know. Per game, sixth, cause...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't think his car, I don't buy that his car is going to go down. I think it's the second, like Nick, for all the complaints about Kareem Hunt, he averaged about eight and a half, uh, uh, rushing attempts per game. I don't think there's going to be a second back getting eight and a half rushing attempts per game. I think, I think they're going to give him, listen. Well, they like to spell guys. They spelling them. That's what he does.


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[Assistant] I just don't think that, I think Nick Chubb will have the same amount of rushing attempts. I think it depends on what Ford does. If they use Ford as the


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[Assistant] I think Ford could, you know, is gonna be more of a factor in the game. I like Ford, guys. I really like Ford.


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[Assistant] And we've gotta get to that point. And the Browns have never...


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[Assistant] At least since the passing game has become what it, what it is now. Which you would say, what, 2010? Uh, yeaah, okay, give or take, right? Right. The Browns have never had that offense that, you know, even the one good year. Give me the greatest show on turf. Like, they've never had that offense that was like, this is so much fun to watch. That a neutral fan would be like, I want to turn on and watch the Browns play.


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[Assistant] I always tell, uh, young fantasy baseball players, and I've been playing fantasy baseball since 1991,


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[Assistant] And often when new guys come, I'm in a 16 team league and we bring new guys in, they often panic early. They overreact to early season.


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[Assistant] And I rarely make a trade of significance in April because I like to see, because I gotta trust myself in that I drafted correctly and I let it be. I did make one small trade, uh, this week, but nothing blockbuster early. I think that's a panic move. Of the guys who you expected to be great and are not,


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[Assistant] For example, I have Alec Manoa on my team and he's been absolute trash.


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[Assistant] Uh, or a guy who's off to a great start that maybe you didn't expect. Who are some of the guys you're buying and selling in those categories?


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[Assistant] Matt, and let's talk about the Guardians who are, Ahmed Rosario's off to a bad start, Josh Bell's off to a bad start, uh, Josh Bell traditionally is bad in April, only had a good weekend, Ahmed Rosario got off to a bad start last year as well, uh, are you confident that both of those guys will bounce back?


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[Assistant] Hedges wasn't good at that either. Hedges was great at blocking the ball. Hedges was great at keeping balls in front of him. And he was a good pitchframer and Zanino's done a good job with that.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Game. That's true. Uh, gotta be better. By the way, the way Zanino's hitting, I don't think they need, I know the, again, the defense has been bad, but I think let's get rid of one of these catchers and bring it, cause like, you're not gonna pinch hit for him right now, cause he's a good hitter anyway. Yeah. So let's get another guy that you can,


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[Assistant] Yeaah, because you don't need, Zunino's hitting so well, I don't want to pitch it for him right now, so. Yeaah. I don't know.