July 18, 2025 • 40 mins
Brian Noe talks about Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick exchanging statements/barbs about who took a bigger risk when joining forces on the Patriots, Caitlin Clark missing the WNBA All-Star Game, undeserving "All-Stars", and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh what is going on? Happy? Uh late night slash
early morning to you as we roll on. I've got
some bad news. I hate to start a fresh hour
with bad news. But Oreo, the neighborhood cat, had to leave,
had to leave, only had time for one hour tonight.
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She's gone. She had stuff to do, she had a
hot date, she had to go to the bathroom. I
don't know what it was, but she's gone. Yeah. I
will happily let you know if she returns. Yeah, but yeah,
I had to go. Unfortunate unfortunate news. If you're just
catching up, this is a neighborhood cat. This is not
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my cat, but she comes and isits all the time.
It's kind of my cat, but not technically my cat.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You have a food dish and water bowl for her.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's true, but it's to be fair. It's like a
cool whip, you know, can hainter. That's the makeshift water dish.
Do you like cool whip over ready whip? I do.
Cool whip is the best. Cool Whip is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, coolip is the superior whip.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I only like it on pumpkin pie.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Now that's a ridiculous statement. Come on, what else do
you put it on everything. You could put cool whip
on everything. It would taste better. Strawberries in there, Yeah,
strawberries are fantastic with cool whip. You put it on
your pie, put it on your cheesecake. You can put
it on all kinds of stuff. I put it on
my tacos. I bet they're better. I bet it does.
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I bet it makes them better. I'm gonna try it
next time I eat taco cream. No, I don't have
sour I don't use sour cream on tacos. That's terrible.
I don't need that. I don't need that in my life.
Lorena weirdo. Yeah, hey, I admit it. I am a
food weirdo for sure. I'll tell you who else. Are
a couple of weirdos here? That would be Robert Kraft
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and Bill Belichick. Why are they weirdosed? So here's the story.
It's not this long winded hard to follow, like what's
going on here, It's very easy to follow. So Robert Kraft,
team owner of the Patriots, he appeared on a podcast recently,
and he was talking about the decision to hire Bill
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Belichick way back when, right, and so he was emphasizing
what a big risk. It was they had to give
up a first round pick to acquire Bill Belichick from
the Jets, and so Craft was basically saying, hey, Belichick
didn't exactly crush it as the Browns head coach, and
now we're giving up a first round pick to get
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this guy. It's risky. It's risky. So Belichick he catches
word of this and he's like, you know what, time
to release a rare public statement. And so Belichick counters
what Kraft said by saying that he was the one,
Belichick that took the bigger risk by leaving a more
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stable situation with the Jets. So Belichick's basically saying, hey,
look man, the Jets were way better than the Patriots
at the time, and I'm the one taking the bigger risk.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Here.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Look at the Patriots before I got there, grease fire.
So if anyone's taking a risk, it's me. This guy
over here, the hoodie is what he's talking about. So
it boils down to this, at least in my mind,
I think both are right to a degree. It was
a risk for both of them. It was a risk
for Robert Kraft to give up a first round pick
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to get Belichick. Now we didn't know it would turn
out the way it did, and he was gonna win
six rings and they were gonna draft Tom Brady. We
didn't know that the guy was basically a dud in Cleveland.
They made it to one playoff game. He's a sub
five hundred coach. Let me look it up and verify that.
But he did not have great success with the Browns,
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right that Bill Belichick over there, Yeah, he's right that
the Patriots did take a risk. And also all right,
let me see here, so Brown's yeah, sub five hundred
thirty six and forty four. That that's what we're working
with right there. So yeah, it was a risk for
the Patriots and for Belichick as well. The Patriots were
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not even close to a great organization. They were a
laughing stock of the league. Is like the old Patriots.
It was Andre Tippett. That's it. They had Andre Tippett.
What else, nothing? Really, They just had Andre Tippett. That's
really all that was going on with the Patriots forever,
you know. And then they got Belichick and that started
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to change things. Then they got Brady and that really
changed things. But they're both right to a degree. It's
just turned into what it's always turned into with these guys.
Lately it's a contest of like who Schlong is larger.
That's basically what it is. And Belichick so no, no,
I took the bigger risk, and Craft is like, well no,
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I mean you can't overlook how big of a risk
it was. It's just I would add four inches. That's
a great trup timely drop. Very well done, Loraina, love that.
Would you add for to Craft? Belichick? I don't know.
I'm not sure. We'll leave that up for interpretation right there,
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but tremendous job by you'll love that. And we got
more coop sound into the show. It was a highly
featured show of coop here. So this is the bigger
picture though, with Craft and Belichick, this shows you how
things fell apart. They're going back and forth with who
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took the bigger risk? Who cares? Who cares? The answer
to that question is they care, but they shouldn't because
it doesn't matter. But they're highly competitive, and if they
I want to be the guy that's known as I
took the bigger risk. And you see this all throughout
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sports history. There's some with crafton Belichick of hey, I
should get the credit you know, it's that it was
Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson where it's like I'm great, No, no,
I'm great, I'm the one. Jerry Jones. Think about that.
He wanted to get credit for the Cowboys becoming this
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dynasty and Jimmy Johnson was getting all the flowers and
Jerry couldn't stand it. He couldn't stand not getting credit.
And that's happened many times. You ever watched the Last
Dance with the nineteen ninety Chicago Bulls their GM Jerry Krause,
he wanted to get more credit than he got. He
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had these ridiculous statements. He wanted to run Phil Jackson
out of town. He's like, you know, it's the team,
it's not the players, it's the overall franchise, and a
lot of players took it the wrong and he just
wanted to get more credit than he got. And that
was a big reason why they why it's called the
Last Dance and why they moved on from some legendary
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players and a chance to win another championship. Jerry Krause
wanted more credit. And that's the undoing of a lot
of dynasties, I'm telling you. With Craft and Belichick. You
might think this is a small thing, and Craft is like,
hey man, you can't underestimate the risk I took hiring
Bill Belichick. I took a big risk. I was the
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one who had stones of brass, you know. I took
this big risk. And look look at the fruit that
it's bared. Huh. Then it's basically Kraft just patting himself
on the back. And it's also Belichick doing the same
freaking thing. No, I took the bigger risk. I mean,
I look at the Patriots before I got there, before
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I got there, look at them, look at them, you know.
And I had this more stable thing going on with
the Jets. But I looked at that and I said,
you know what, Bill, sometimes you had gotta look risk
in the eye and say bring it on. I took
that risk. And look what. It's just a bunch of
ego driven blah blah blatt. That's all it is. That's
all it is. And you wonder why they couldn't wait
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to get rid of each other, you know what I mean,
it's because of stuff like this. This is where being
competitive goes wrong. You know how Dave Chappelle had those
skits when keeping it real goes wrong. This is when
keeping it competitive goes wrong. It's happened with the Patriots
with crafton Belichick. It happened with the Cowboys with Jimmy
and Jerry. It happened with the Bulls with Jerry Krause
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and Phil Jackson, and then also all the other layers
with the Last Dance. Remember Scottie Pippen was ticked off
and these perceived slights that weren't even really there. Like
some of these bulls acted like Michael Jordan was like, yeah, yah,
I was unbelievable, and I had this team of scrubs
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that I had just to put on my back and
take them to the Promised Land. That's not what was
said at all. That's just what you heard. That's what
you're making up. This is when being competitive goes wrong.
And that's a big part why the Craft Belichick marriage
fell apart. I don't know why. I don't know why.
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There's this need, this like insatiable need to get credit.
If you're winning titles and just printing money, who cares
if all these people are like, wow, Brady and Belichick.
Brady and Belichick, let him say that you're Robert Kraft.
You have all the money in the world. What do
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you care? Why do you care? If people aren't saying,
you know what, there's no Brady and Belichick if not
for Robert Craft. I mean, Robert Kraft deserves full credit.
Robert Craft, Robert Kraft, I mean, bro, you gotta just
let that go and just keep a good thing humming
and keep bringing money. I don't let this competitive drive
of I need credit to overtake you. It's happened so
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many times in sports history. This is just another example
of it. All right, with that, let me go out
to the militia here, let me go to Seattle. We
were talking about the Seattle music scene for a while
and Seashell pipe Guy wants to check in here. What's
going on? Pipe Guy? How are thanks you on Fox
Sports Radio?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Hey Man, Good to hear your voice, dude. I just
thought i'd call in. You know, you guys are talking
about Seattle music, So I figured, why not that when
competitiveness goes wrong or something that was hilarious, bro, But
that happens in music too, right, everybody wants to take
credit for everything.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And absolutely totally right about that. Yeah, a lot of
bands have fallen apart for exactly the same exact reason.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Yeah, And I think it's I think it's weird because
I feel like we're all just channeling it and then
we're all tapped into like whatever the sort, and it's like, well, yeah,
but I mean we're just finishing each other's sentences, you know,
as a as a full band, like uh, like some
other bands like Sound Garden, I mean their early stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I would put.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Them in that on that list, along with like Als
and Chains and stuff like that. I don't think, you know,
heart like they're they're well known for being a Seattle
band around here. That's that's definitely not like out of
left field or anything, you know, like I could see
them being in there and some of their bridges, some
of the like most creative bridges ever.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
So, but copy right, there's a fan of this call
you know show.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Yeah, and I'm with Coop on tool too. Man, they're.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Show. Why wait a minute, it is what Brian.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
But you're saying to be with Coop. Coop is saying
they don't have one bad song. Are you on board
with that? That that's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I'm not sure about a bad song. I'm partial to
like their first couple like like Undertow.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
I really like the heavier stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yeah, and that's a little more like the early Soundgarden.
And do you guys know the band Skinyard No, Skinyard
is Jack and Dino's band and Matt Cameron. Jack and
Dino was the subpop uh producer, engineer, and Matt Cameron
the drummer from Soundgarden Pearl Jam recently retired. That was
his first band. So that first album he wrote Reptile
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that second track on the first album, Dude Life Hack.
You can listen to that whole first album without commercials
on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Nice, very nice. Appreciate that good stuff. Well, yeah, but
you know, the tool thing is ridiculous. See sell you're
doing well. You know, I hear you on heart. That's great.
But man, like every I contend, every band, even legendary bands,
have some stinker songs. They all do. Like there's no
band that doesn't have at least a couple of bad songs,
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you know, like they all do. You could go right
down the list, the Beatles, legendary bands all have bad songs.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh, Yellow Submarine song.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Is trash, horrible song, great song. Great comment by you
always makes me think of a song. It's a it's
a horrible song. Coop, here's the thing, here's the song.
All right, there's the creative process. We all live in
a yellow submarine. Now repeat that seventy five times boom
hit songs. Terrible song. It's funny. I always think of
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San Diego. You can like two of these these ships,
you know. And so we went on a ship and
I walked off it. And this dude, this he just
he's just standing, he's sitting there and he goes, uh,
we all live in a yellow submarine. It's metaphor. I
don't know. Oh, I thought it was hilarious, just just
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sitting there just saying, you know, hey, just so you know,
it's metaphor, metaphor for life right there. It might be
a metaphor, but it's a sucky song, is what it is.
Sorry to be so brash, but it's true. Sometimes the
truth hurts. But do you any music thoughts for sports thoughts?
Feel free to check in eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox is your phone number. Our guy Seashell is
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deep in the music game right there, you know, naming
members of bands and side projects and all kinds of stuff. Man,
he's talking about heart and their bridges, and that was Hey,
he's pretty deep into music. Lost me a tool though,
just lost me with that all. We gotta get to
this coming up next. Why do what I think are?
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Why are smart leagues? I would consider them smart leagues
in many aspects? Why do smart leagues insist on doing
such dumb things? Just this simple question that and a
simple example I got out there. Then we'll do that.
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Love mixing it up with the militia good stuff. Yeah,
So easy question here, Why do smart leagues do dumb things?
So what got me thinking about this is Caitlin Clark
being hurt. So you probably heard like the top of
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the hour updates, Caitlin Clark has another groin injury. She's
not gonna be competing in the WNBA All Star Game.
She's not gonna be in the three point Contest, but
she will be present. She will be there, she just
won't be competing. And so it makes me think of
what we just saw in the MLB All Star Game,
and it also made me think of the NFL. So,
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if you take it, peace pot Piece, like Denzel said
in Man on Fire, Love that as one of my
favorite part part Peace pot Piece I want you. That's
what Denzel was saying. But if you go piece by
piece on this one, if you look at the MLB
All Star Game, So Jacob Mizerowski, he's this young pitcher,
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only five starts. He was fantastic in the five starts collectively,
but only five starts, and he was named an All
Star Game replacement. Like no problem, ish, right, If you're
just named a replacement, I'm a problem with that. But
the path that MLB took to get there, so they
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named a bunch of replacement All Stars, you should get
replacement status. You shouldn't get All Star status. Those are
two completely different things in my mind. If you've got
the All Star team, boom, here it is, and then
you have a pictur or two that's like, hey, I'd
love to be there, but I just pitched on Sunday,
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so I'm not going to be available on Tuesday for
the game. And the MLB's like, okay, cool, we got
to name the next guy. And MLB looked to the Phillies.
There were a couple of players that pitchers that had
better resumes than Misrowski did. You had Christopher Sanchez better
resume inarguable ranger sworez better resume inarguable. But those pitchers
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weren't available either on Tuesday, so MLB approached them and
they were like, hey, Christopher Sanchez, see that you've you
pitched a ton of innings. Your er is really good.
You're next in line. Can you pitch on Tuesday? And
Sanchez is like, actually, no, I can't. I'm gonna be
able to and they're like, all right, well screw it.
Then you're not an All Star. And then they went
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to Ranger Swerrez and they're like, hey, Ranger, you've been
pretty good. You got the resume here certainly all star caliber.
Can you pitch on Tuesday? And Rangers like, no, I
just pitched right before the All Star break. I can't
pitch on Tuesday. And they're like, well, I guess you're
not an All Star either, and they ended up with
Jacob Mazerowski. Ridiculous process. What I think should have happened
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is you have your All Star team and if anybody
needs to be replaced because they can't make it, they're injured,
they can't make the All Star Game. They're a pitcher
and they just threw on Saturday or Sunday, and they're
like I'm not turning around on Tuesday and facing some
of the best hitters in the game throwing gas when
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that's not my routine. I don't want to take even
a small chance that I could tweak something, that I
could get banged up. Hey, if you say I can't
make it, that all you do. You're on the team.
Then you name a replacement, and they're known as just
that they are a replacement. That's it, right, they're crowd fillers.
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It was like at the Grammys or whatever. You go
and you sit in the seat, but you're not an
All Star. You don't get All Star classification. If you
look at Jacob Mitzerowski, he's like Baseball Reference page. I
love anything that ends in reference, like Pro Football Reference,
Basketball Reference, Baseball Reference. Go to it all the time.
If you go to Baseball Reference and look at Jacob Mizerowski,
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it says one time All Star. It should not say
that he's a replacement All Star. So Caitlin Clark, she
can't compete in the WNBA All Star Game. Whoever replaces
her should be an alternate, should be just that a replacement.
They should not get All Star status. They're just filling in.
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Am I crazy? Why the leagues make this way more
difficult than they need to. The NFL did this last year.
So Drake May had a pretty good year with the Patriots, right,
he was a Pro Bowl fill in. If you look
at his Pro Football Reference page, one time Pro bowler,
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it's like, what he was a fill in. He's just
a replacement guy. He wasn't one of the guys that
initially made it. What are we doing here? Like again,
if you're looking at this and like Brian, what's the
big deal?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Man?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
This is not a big deal. It's for the fans
who cares. Some people might have that attitude. And the
thing I would throw out there is it's something that
Kyle Schwarber talked about. He's with the Phillies there and
he talked about his teammates not being named to the
All Star team. And it's like when we do the
reunion thing when it's ten years from now or whatever,
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that's part of your resume. They read it off. They're
like five time All Stars, so and so that's part
of the deal. So it matters. And so for the
Phillies pitchers who were next in line for them not
to get the nod just because they were unavailable to
pitch on Tuesday is weird. But I also add that
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if they just replacing someone, if they're just filling in,
you shouldn't get All Star status anyway. It should be
here's the team. Here's who the the fans voted for.
Here's who the players voted for. Here's the team. We
have X amount of players. Here it is, and whoever
can't make it okay? Cool? We got to replace them
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with these other dudes. They shouldn't get All Star status.
How do you sneak in? That's the ultimate backdoor cover
right there?
Speaker 8 (22:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
HiT's the late bucket from half court to cover the spread.
It's more than that. You're not an All Star. But
just because someone is hurt or pitches on Saturday or
Sunday before the All Star Game, now you're an All Star.
That's the dumbest thing ever. Why did they make this
more complicated than it needs to be. If your a replacement,
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then that's all the status you get. You're a replacement
All Star doesn't mean you're an All Star. And here's
some audio here to back this up. Because the late
great Kobe Bryant when he was in his final season
in the NBA and he had the retirement tour. When
he's on the road, they do these grand you know,
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entrances for him. They announced him and you know, five
time champion. They rattle off his accomplishments. This was one
of them on the road in Detroit, and they rattle
off how many All Star Game appearances he had, how
many times he was an All Star? Checked us out.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Hat six six two twelve pounds, Marion High School.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I think it's final had the pot of all in
Hills playing the season seventeen, the All Star, seventeen time
All Star right there, and they rattled off pretty much
everything else Kobe did in his career is way too long,
so I just condensed it. Here's a portion of when
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he was in Charlotte again his final season grand entrance.
They're announcing him, They announced how many times he was
an All Star. It was side by side with how
many times do you want to ring? Like this matters.
It's part of your resume. So if you're an All Star, great,
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If you need to be replaced, you're just a replacement, dude.
You shouldn't get All Star status for that. Why is
this so? Why is it so difficult? It's not difficult
at all. It's very easy, system, very and yet these
leagues just complicated. I don't know why this whole Miserrowski thing.
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I didn't think of it at the time. I thought
it was ridiculous at the time that Christopher Sanchez and
Ranger Suarez got bypassed because they were unavailable, and then
they went to Maserowski. I thought that was ridiculous. So
the more I think about it, none of those freaking
guys should have had All Star status. If they're just replacements,
you're just the alternate man. You're you're the crowd filler.
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You're sitting in the seat that needs to be filled.
That that doesn't mean that those are your tickets. That
doesn't mean that those are your seats. You're just filling in.
All right, Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is
your phone number? I want to hear from Craig. He's
in Wisconsin. Has a thought on this All Star Game madness?
What's going on? Craig, You're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (25:20):
Good evening? Right, So he plays in the game. I
don't care who it is, just because I'm from Wisconsin.
It's a real But if you play in the game,
you're an All Star. Right, you played in the game.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
No, you're not not at all. Why not, because you're
an alternate. You're a replacement. You weren't voted in. You're
a replacement for a guy who's not there. That doesn't
mean you're an All Star. You played in the game,
doesn't mean you're an All Star.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
Well, are you a talk show host tonight?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
You're a replacement, that's what I am. I'm a talk
that's a bad comparison.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
You still told somebody you host.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Okay, I it's right.
I'm a fill in a host. This doesn't mean because
I'm filling in tonight that it's no longer the Ben
Mallor Show and it's the Brian No Show. I'm filling
in for Big Ben Maller. This isn't my shift from
now on. I'm filling in just as Miserowski was doing.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
What You're a host on the show tonight, right.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, as a fill in?
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Yep.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
But you don't don't. We don't say here's a fill
in host.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, they do. Actually, at the very top of the hour,
now filling in for Ben Maller, here's Brian No. Listen
at the top of the hour they say exactly that.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
And filling in for big Ben Maller is.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Brian No, that's right, that's what they should do for
all these replacement players, you know, and now filling in
for I don't know who the original picture was, and
then the Jacob Miserowski, No man if Drake may he
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competed in the Pro Bowl festivities the Patriots quarterback. Just
because you are a fill in doesn't mean you should
get Pro Bowl status. Just because you're a fill in
doesn't mean you should get All Star status.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
You should get All Star status because a bunch of
people vote you in, not about how you played. Because
people voted you in.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
They didn't vote in ms Rowski. Dude, what don't you understand, Craig,
He's a replacement. He wasn't voted in.
Speaker 8 (27:28):
But the people who do get voted in, and there's
other people should be in front of them. That's okay,
though it's a popularity contest.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well that's another subject, Craig, and there's someone no, no, no, listen,
you're getting into a completely different subject. Well we're talking.
What I'm talking about is replacements. That's what I'm focused
on now. If you want to expand it and talk
about well, hey, listen, there's a representative from every team
that's that doesn't mean we're getting the best players in there.
That's a different converse. That's fine, we can have that conversation,
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but it's a different conversation. What I'm focused on are
the replacements, like Caitlin Clark. That's the story that started
this whole thing. Caitlyn Clark isn't gonna be healthy for
the WNBA All Star Game. Whoever fills in for her.
She's a replacement. She shouldn't get All Star status just
because she's filling in for an injured player. She wasn't
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originally voted in. She's just a replacement. You shouldn't get
All Star status for that. In my book, Hey, some
people disagree. Some people look at it like Craig and
I appreciate him checking in. They look at the Hey,
you played in the game, you should get All Star status.
I completely disagree just because you fill in and take
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the place. Like imagine if they had to keep going
and going and going and going to find someone who's available.
And now we're getting well down the list and we're
getting a guy that Wow, man, his credentials are pretty bad.
And now just because he plays in the game, he's
technically an All Star, he's recognized as such. That's ridiculous.
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That makes no sense none. It just doesn't. But that's
why I come out on it. Eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox is your phone number? Good stuff? Though
I didn't know where we're gonna get spirited over that,
but here we are.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I'm on your side with it, Brian.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Is it making sense to a radar Unless you're an
All Star?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
You can be a stand in?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
That's right, right, Yes.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
That does like same with like hait. No, I can't.
He's not an All Star. Yeahink period.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, I'm on board here. I agree with you with me.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Nice Tyler Huntley pro bowler?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yes, great example, Come on, man, Snoop Huntley. I didn't
realize his nickname was Snoop until he played for the Dolphins.
I did not know that and I was like, wow, okay,
Snoop Huntley it is. But yeah, Tyler Huntley is a
Pro Bowl dude, what are we doing He's not. I
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bet if I go right now, I'm doing it right now,
It'll say one time pro bowler Tyler Huntley. Let's see
it again. I'm a little slow on the draw when
it comes to googling things. But here we go Tyler Huntley.
There it is played for the Ravens, played for the Dolphins,
one time Pro Bowl. That's freaking ridiculous. It's well, he
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played in the game, though, I don't care. I don't
care that he played in the game. He's not voted in.
He's nowhere near a Pro bowler. He's like, I don't
know what number alternate he was. How many people did
they have to call before they got to Tyler Huntley?
At that point, it's warm body status. We need any
warm body we can get to be in this freaking
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game here. You shouldn't get Pro Bowl status for that.
That's a joke. That's an absolute joke.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
It is somebody just DM ME I think it was.
Who was it here? I think it was KGB. He
said that, he said that no one would take the
spot if they weren't named All Stars.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I disagree with that. Why why would you? So You've
got an open invitation to be on that stage and
rub rub elbows with some of the best players in
the game, and you're like, nah, I'd just rather not.
They're not gonna find anybody to do that. I completely
disagree with that. You wouldn't go right. Like again, Jacob Mizerowski,
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you're telling me the only reason he went there is
because he got All Star status. There's no chance. Let's
say my idea. They finally think logically and say, okay,
you're just a replacement. You don't get All Star status,
all right? And then MLB approaches Miszowski and says, hey,
five stars, fantastic. We want to invite you to the
(31:53):
All Star Game. Will you accept? He's gonna be like,
do I get All Star status? Do I get recognized
as an All Star? And they're like, actually, no, you're
a replacement. You don't get that status. And he's just like, yeah, no,
I'm good. There's no chance, he says, yet, that's ridiculous.
I don't buy that at all. Don't buy it at all.
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It's like, look, man, don't I think it's important to
consider worst case scenario, but don't act like worst case
scenario is how could I say this is as likely
as you're making it out to be, You know what
I mean? Like, it's important to consider worst case scenario.
(32:36):
The person that texted you justin it's something to consider. Hey,
if you don't get All Star status. Are there gonna
be players that are going to the All Star Game?
Are they just gonna say, yeah, I'm good, I'm busy,
I'm just a replacement. No thanks. I mean it's something
to consider, but I don't buy it. I don't. I
don't like no one. You can't find anyone who would
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compete on that stage and elbows with that type of
greatness on both rosters. Hey, and really, Baseball, I'll be like, look, man,
this isn't just about you. This is for the game
of for the game of baseball. This is for Major
League Baseball as a whole represent our game. We're inviting
you and the league collectively is just gonna say, nah,
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I'm good. I don't buy that at all. I just
don't buy it. All right, We'll get more from the
Militia right around the Corner, also available on X at
the no Show top of the hour. Looking forward to
this the most impactful NFL contract ever. It might not
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be one that you're thinking it is, but I think
that's exactly what it is. We'll do that at the
top of the hour. Militia around the Corner. I'm Brian
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Speaker 1 (34:02):
I'm probably knowing for Big Ben Mallard here on Fox
Sports Radio. I mean, I just don't get it. I listen, man.
I understand that people have their bands or whatever, their
musical artists that they love, and those bands or artists
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can do no wrong. But to think this is a banger,
I just don't even get it. I really don't. Beatles
had some great songs. This is not one of them.
It's a terrible song. Now, just Lorae. If you just
keep that going, they I want to say, they at
(34:47):
least sixty five more times with the Yellow Submarine thing.
Even the verses suck, Like, who thinks this is a
good song. I just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I sang that inquire one year.
Speaker 9 (35:09):
And I think yourself, Yeah, it was absolutely embarrassing. I
can't believe we did that in front of the whole class. Yeah,
scarred by the whole student body.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, we all have skeletons in the closet there. Lorena
you know, Look.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
They were doing a lot of acid at the time.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
That's no excuse. Hendrix was doing a ton of acid.
And look at his amazing music. He didn't come up
with anything as lame as Yellow Submarine.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Look, it was uh you know, I think I think
Ringo wrote that song. It was like one of like
three Beatles songs that he wrote.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Man freaking Ringo. I want to hear the other two.
I hope the other two were better. Paul was like,
all right, forget that, going forward, Ringo someone taking his pen? Answer,
that's right, all right, Let's get out to Poppy is
in San Diego. Let's get some picks from old Poppy
(36:08):
over here. What's going on Poppy here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
Hey, honorary guess ran oh right here, part of the
real family. Hey, that's a pleasure. I'm gonna give you
some picks. Let's go off right at the back. Look tomorrow,
it's a revenge game for who you guys know the Brewer.
Look at the Dodgers they got thank thank around sweat
and I really like the picture goth Now and you.
Speaker 8 (36:30):
Can take the money line, guys, minus one ada right now,
or we're gonna go for the minus one and a
half runt because they're gonna think they're gonna win by
more than two runs. In La Old Tony's probably gonna
hit a room run. So that's the future prop bat
for you. And we're gonna close it right here strong
with the UFC of Brian O. UFC three eighteen, we
(36:50):
got Max Holloway. He's a BMX champion against Dustin Prayer
and he's from Louisiana. And the thing is the UFC fight.
It's gonna be in Louisiana, Brian, But you got to
think about like this, it's in Louisiana, right, ticket prices
are off the root, like it's in Las Vegas, so
not the locals are gonna be there. It's only gonna
be people that are traveling, not the locals there. I
(37:14):
did like justin Premier the locals right there. It's just
retiring match, Brian.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
No, like he's retiring.
Speaker 8 (37:21):
But I gotta go with Max Holloway. He's a champion
and that's plus one hundred, that's even money. So that's
what I'm liking for UFC. And what do you think
about that? Brian?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I'm just disappointed we didn't get any Summer League picks
in here, Poppy. I gotta be honest with you, man,
where are those?
Speaker 8 (37:38):
Yeah, well, look on the Summer League game with a
good better do is look at the lines. Whatever you're
seeing on there. We can take one right now, and
we're gonna go with their dogs because with the Summer League,
all the best players are not playing there. So I mean,
what are you like in Brian? I just what's the
underdog that you're liking.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I haven't looked for the games tomorrow, and sometimes the
lines don't even come out for a little bit. But
I do like the Raptors to win it all. It's
down to the final four and the Raptors are playing
real defense. I don't know what the future odds are.
It's got to be plus money, like they're all gonna
be plus money. But I'd imagine that the Raptors are
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probably the favorite. They've played really well. They're undefeated. I
think they have the best point differential still, but they
play real defense. Poppy, I'm kicking myself. I had a
two leg parlay ready to go. I had the older
in the Hornets, I had the over in the Hornets game.
I had the under in the Raptors game, and both
were easy cashes, and I didn't play it. What's wrong
with me? Pop?
Speaker 8 (38:36):
Oh, it's okay. You're gonna bounce back and just to
a straight bat, Brian, both of them straight and you'll
be fine. You know, you'll hit one, and if you
don't hit the other ones, at least you cash one
even money.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
No doubt. That's good advice, Poppy. I appreciate that.
Speaker 8 (38:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
He's right. I rarely play the parlays every now and then.
You know, I'll dabble a little dabble here and there
won't kill you.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
I need to issue a correction.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
What do you have?
Speaker 8 (39:01):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Ringo did not write Yellow Submarine. That was written by
by Paul and John.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Paul and John.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
It was written for Ringo to sing. Ringo wrote Octopus's Garden.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
I'm not familiar with that one. I'd have to check
that out and report back to you. I don't know
that one as well. I've heard, however many times I've
heard Yellow Submarine. It's it's been a lot, and it's
been too many, like like one is too many. It's
a bad song. Sorry, I don't know what to tell you,
but yeah, Dustin Pourier taken on Max Holloway Poppy is
(39:38):
team Holloway on that? Okay? Fair enough?
Speaker 8 (39:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
What what other bright ideas did the Beatles have? Did
Ringo sing anything else?
Speaker 8 (39:48):
That?
Speaker 1 (39:48):
That's a It was that Ringo the whole time singing
that song.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
I mean, I think there's parts where there's like.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
All of them they on that one. Gotcha group play?
Huh Yeah, only you, Coop, I swear only you. That's
the new I'm gonna add that to the collection. Over here.
We've got the Great Wall of DC, We've got TJ Reeves. Hey, Coop,
(40:15):
how's it going good? We're gonna add group Play to
the list of the list of hits greatest hits of
Coop over there? All right? Coming up next, this is
the most impactful NFL contract of all time.
Oh what is going on? Happy? Uh late night slash
early morning to you as we roll on. I've got
some bad news. I hate to start a fresh hour
with bad news. But Oreo, the neighborhood cat, had to leave,
had to leave, only had time for one hour tonight.
(00:22):
She's gone. She had stuff to do, she had a
hot date, she had to go to the bathroom. I
don't know what it was, but she's gone. Yeah. I
will happily let you know if she returns. Yeah, but yeah,
I had to go. Unfortunate unfortunate news. If you're just
catching up, this is a neighborhood cat. This is not
(00:43):
my cat, but she comes and isits all the time.
It's kind of my cat, but not technically my cat.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You have a food dish and water bowl for her.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's true, but it's to be fair. It's like a
cool whip, you know, can hainter. That's the makeshift water dish.
Do you like cool whip over ready whip? I do.
Cool whip is the best. Cool Whip is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, coolip is the superior whip.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I only like it on pumpkin pie.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Now that's a ridiculous statement. Come on, what else do
you put it on everything. You could put cool whip
on everything. It would taste better. Strawberries in there, Yeah,
strawberries are fantastic with cool whip. You put it on
your pie, put it on your cheesecake. You can put
it on all kinds of stuff. I put it on
my tacos. I bet they're better. I bet it does.
(01:37):
I bet it makes them better. I'm gonna try it
next time I eat taco cream. No, I don't have
sour I don't use sour cream on tacos. That's terrible.
I don't need that. I don't need that in my life.
Lorena weirdo. Yeah, hey, I admit it. I am a
food weirdo for sure. I'll tell you who else. Are
a couple of weirdos here? That would be Robert Kraft
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and Bill Belichick. Why are they weirdosed? So here's the story.
It's not this long winded hard to follow, like what's
going on here, It's very easy to follow. So Robert Kraft,
team owner of the Patriots, he appeared on a podcast recently,
and he was talking about the decision to hire Bill
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Belichick way back when, right, and so he was emphasizing
what a big risk. It was they had to give
up a first round pick to acquire Bill Belichick from
the Jets, and so Craft was basically saying, hey, Belichick
didn't exactly crush it as the Browns head coach, and
now we're giving up a first round pick to get
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this guy. It's risky. It's risky. So Belichick he catches
word of this and he's like, you know what, time
to release a rare public statement. And so Belichick counters
what Kraft said by saying that he was the one,
Belichick that took the bigger risk by leaving a more
(03:02):
stable situation with the Jets. So Belichick's basically saying, hey,
look man, the Jets were way better than the Patriots
at the time, and I'm the one taking the bigger risk.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Here.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Look at the Patriots before I got there, grease fire.
So if anyone's taking a risk, it's me. This guy
over here, the hoodie is what he's talking about. So
it boils down to this, at least in my mind,
I think both are right to a degree. It was
a risk for both of them. It was a risk
for Robert Kraft to give up a first round pick
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to get Belichick. Now we didn't know it would turn
out the way it did, and he was gonna win
six rings and they were gonna draft Tom Brady. We
didn't know that the guy was basically a dud in Cleveland.
They made it to one playoff game. He's a sub
five hundred coach. Let me look it up and verify that.
But he did not have great success with the Browns,
(03:58):
right that Bill Belichick over there, Yeah, he's right that
the Patriots did take a risk. And also all right,
let me see here, so Brown's yeah, sub five hundred
thirty six and forty four. That that's what we're working
with right there. So yeah, it was a risk for
the Patriots and for Belichick as well. The Patriots were
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not even close to a great organization. They were a
laughing stock of the league. Is like the old Patriots.
It was Andre Tippett. That's it. They had Andre Tippett.
What else, nothing? Really, They just had Andre Tippett. That's
really all that was going on with the Patriots forever,
you know. And then they got Belichick and that started
(04:43):
to change things. Then they got Brady and that really
changed things. But they're both right to a degree. It's
just turned into what it's always turned into with these guys.
Lately it's a contest of like who Schlong is larger.
That's basically what it is. And Belichick so no, no,
I took the bigger risk, and Craft is like, well no,
(05:03):
I mean you can't overlook how big of a risk
it was. It's just I would add four inches. That's
a great trup timely drop. Very well done, Loraina, love that.
Would you add for to Craft? Belichick? I don't know.
I'm not sure. We'll leave that up for interpretation right there,
(05:24):
but tremendous job by you'll love that. And we got
more coop sound into the show. It was a highly
featured show of coop here. So this is the bigger
picture though, with Craft and Belichick, this shows you how
things fell apart. They're going back and forth with who
(05:44):
took the bigger risk? Who cares? Who cares? The answer
to that question is they care, but they shouldn't because
it doesn't matter. But they're highly competitive, and if they
I want to be the guy that's known as I
took the bigger risk. And you see this all throughout
(06:04):
sports history. There's some with crafton Belichick of hey, I
should get the credit you know, it's that it was
Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson where it's like I'm great, No, no,
I'm great, I'm the one. Jerry Jones. Think about that.
He wanted to get credit for the Cowboys becoming this
(06:25):
dynasty and Jimmy Johnson was getting all the flowers and
Jerry couldn't stand it. He couldn't stand not getting credit.
And that's happened many times. You ever watched the Last
Dance with the nineteen ninety Chicago Bulls their GM Jerry Krause,
he wanted to get more credit than he got. He
(06:49):
had these ridiculous statements. He wanted to run Phil Jackson
out of town. He's like, you know, it's the team,
it's not the players, it's the overall franchise, and a
lot of players took it the wrong and he just
wanted to get more credit than he got. And that
was a big reason why they why it's called the
Last Dance and why they moved on from some legendary
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players and a chance to win another championship. Jerry Krause
wanted more credit. And that's the undoing of a lot
of dynasties, I'm telling you. With Craft and Belichick. You
might think this is a small thing, and Craft is like,
hey man, you can't underestimate the risk I took hiring
Bill Belichick. I took a big risk. I was the
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one who had stones of brass, you know. I took
this big risk. And look look at the fruit that
it's bared. Huh. Then it's basically Kraft just patting himself
on the back. And it's also Belichick doing the same
freaking thing. No, I took the bigger risk. I mean,
I look at the Patriots before I got there, before
(07:59):
I got there, look at them, look at them, you know.
And I had this more stable thing going on with
the Jets. But I looked at that and I said,
you know what, Bill, sometimes you had gotta look risk
in the eye and say bring it on. I took
that risk. And look what. It's just a bunch of
ego driven blah blah blatt. That's all it is. That's
all it is. And you wonder why they couldn't wait
(08:22):
to get rid of each other, you know what I mean,
it's because of stuff like this. This is where being
competitive goes wrong. You know how Dave Chappelle had those
skits when keeping it real goes wrong. This is when
keeping it competitive goes wrong. It's happened with the Patriots
with crafton Belichick. It happened with the Cowboys with Jimmy
and Jerry. It happened with the Bulls with Jerry Krause
(08:44):
and Phil Jackson, and then also all the other layers
with the Last Dance. Remember Scottie Pippen was ticked off
and these perceived slights that weren't even really there. Like
some of these bulls acted like Michael Jordan was like, yeah, yah,
I was unbelievable, and I had this team of scrubs
(09:04):
that I had just to put on my back and
take them to the Promised Land. That's not what was
said at all. That's just what you heard. That's what
you're making up. This is when being competitive goes wrong.
And that's a big part why the Craft Belichick marriage
fell apart. I don't know why. I don't know why.
(09:25):
There's this need, this like insatiable need to get credit.
If you're winning titles and just printing money, who cares
if all these people are like, wow, Brady and Belichick.
Brady and Belichick, let him say that you're Robert Kraft.
You have all the money in the world. What do
(09:46):
you care? Why do you care? If people aren't saying,
you know what, there's no Brady and Belichick if not
for Robert Craft. I mean, Robert Kraft deserves full credit.
Robert Craft, Robert Kraft, I mean, bro, you gotta just
let that go and just keep a good thing humming
and keep bringing money. I don't let this competitive drive
of I need credit to overtake you. It's happened so
(10:09):
many times in sports history. This is just another example
of it. All right, with that, let me go out
to the militia here, let me go to Seattle. We
were talking about the Seattle music scene for a while
and Seashell pipe Guy wants to check in here. What's
going on? Pipe Guy? How are thanks you on Fox
Sports Radio?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Hey Man, Good to hear your voice, dude. I just
thought i'd call in. You know, you guys are talking
about Seattle music, So I figured, why not that when
competitiveness goes wrong or something that was hilarious, bro, But
that happens in music too, right, everybody wants to take
credit for everything.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And absolutely totally right about that. Yeah, a lot of
bands have fallen apart for exactly the same exact reason.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Yeah, And I think it's I think it's weird because
I feel like we're all just channeling it and then
we're all tapped into like whatever the sort, and it's like, well, yeah,
but I mean we're just finishing each other's sentences, you know,
as a as a full band, like uh, like some
other bands like Sound Garden, I mean their early stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I would put.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Them in that on that list, along with like Als
and Chains and stuff like that. I don't think, you know,
heart like they're they're well known for being a Seattle
band around here. That's that's definitely not like out of
left field or anything, you know, like I could see
them being in there and some of their bridges, some
of the like most creative bridges ever.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
So, but copy right, there's a fan of this call
you know show.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Yeah, and I'm with Coop on tool too. Man, they're.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Show. Why wait a minute, it is what Brian.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
But you're saying to be with Coop. Coop is saying
they don't have one bad song. Are you on board
with that? That that's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I'm not sure about a bad song. I'm partial to
like their first couple like like Undertow.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
I really like the heavier stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yeah, and that's a little more like the early Soundgarden.
And do you guys know the band Skinyard No, Skinyard
is Jack and Dino's band and Matt Cameron. Jack and
Dino was the subpop uh producer, engineer, and Matt Cameron
the drummer from Soundgarden Pearl Jam recently retired. That was
his first band. So that first album he wrote Reptile
(12:37):
that second track on the first album, Dude Life Hack.
You can listen to that whole first album without commercials
on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Nice, very nice. Appreciate that good stuff. Well, yeah, but
you know, the tool thing is ridiculous. See sell you're
doing well. You know, I hear you on heart. That's great.
But man, like every I contend, every band, even legendary bands,
have some stinker songs. They all do. Like there's no
band that doesn't have at least a couple of bad songs,
(13:07):
you know, like they all do. You could go right
down the list, the Beatles, legendary bands all have bad songs.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh, Yellow Submarine song.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Is trash, horrible song, great song. Great comment by you
always makes me think of a song. It's a it's
a horrible song. Coop, here's the thing, here's the song.
All right, there's the creative process. We all live in
a yellow submarine. Now repeat that seventy five times boom
hit songs. Terrible song. It's funny. I always think of
(13:40):
San Diego. You can like two of these these ships,
you know. And so we went on a ship and
I walked off it. And this dude, this he just
he's just standing, he's sitting there and he goes, uh,
we all live in a yellow submarine. It's metaphor. I
don't know. Oh, I thought it was hilarious, just just
(14:02):
sitting there just saying, you know, hey, just so you know,
it's metaphor, metaphor for life right there. It might be
a metaphor, but it's a sucky song, is what it is.
Sorry to be so brash, but it's true. Sometimes the
truth hurts. But do you any music thoughts for sports thoughts?
Feel free to check in eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox is your phone number. Our guy Seashell is
(14:25):
deep in the music game right there, you know, naming
members of bands and side projects and all kinds of stuff. Man,
he's talking about heart and their bridges, and that was Hey,
he's pretty deep into music. Lost me a tool though,
just lost me with that all. We gotta get to
this coming up next. Why do what I think are?
(14:47):
Why are smart leagues? I would consider them smart leagues
in many aspects? Why do smart leagues insist on doing
such dumb things? Just this simple question that and a
simple example I got out there. Then we'll do that.
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Love mixing it up with the militia good stuff. Yeah,
So easy question here, Why do smart leagues do dumb things?
So what got me thinking about this is Caitlin Clark
being hurt. So you probably heard like the top of
(16:28):
the hour updates, Caitlin Clark has another groin injury. She's
not gonna be competing in the WNBA All Star Game.
She's not gonna be in the three point Contest, but
she will be present. She will be there, she just
won't be competing. And so it makes me think of
what we just saw in the MLB All Star Game,
and it also made me think of the NFL. So,
(16:50):
if you take it, peace pot Piece, like Denzel said
in Man on Fire, Love that as one of my
favorite part part Peace pot Piece I want you. That's
what Denzel was saying. But if you go piece by
piece on this one, if you look at the MLB
All Star Game, So Jacob Mizerowski, he's this young pitcher,
(17:13):
only five starts. He was fantastic in the five starts collectively,
but only five starts, and he was named an All
Star Game replacement. Like no problem, ish, right, If you're
just named a replacement, I'm a problem with that. But
the path that MLB took to get there, so they
(17:34):
named a bunch of replacement All Stars, you should get
replacement status. You shouldn't get All Star status. Those are
two completely different things in my mind. If you've got
the All Star team, boom, here it is, and then
you have a pictur or two that's like, hey, I'd
love to be there, but I just pitched on Sunday,
(17:57):
so I'm not going to be available on Tuesday for
the game. And the MLB's like, okay, cool, we got
to name the next guy. And MLB looked to the Phillies.
There were a couple of players that pitchers that had
better resumes than Misrowski did. You had Christopher Sanchez better
resume inarguable ranger sworez better resume inarguable. But those pitchers
(18:21):
weren't available either on Tuesday, so MLB approached them and
they were like, hey, Christopher Sanchez, see that you've you
pitched a ton of innings. Your er is really good.
You're next in line. Can you pitch on Tuesday? And
Sanchez is like, actually, no, I can't. I'm gonna be
able to and they're like, all right, well screw it.
Then you're not an All Star. And then they went
(18:43):
to Ranger Swerrez and they're like, hey, Ranger, you've been
pretty good. You got the resume here certainly all star caliber.
Can you pitch on Tuesday? And Rangers like, no, I
just pitched right before the All Star break. I can't
pitch on Tuesday. And they're like, well, I guess you're
not an All Star either, and they ended up with
Jacob Mazerowski. Ridiculous process. What I think should have happened
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is you have your All Star team and if anybody
needs to be replaced because they can't make it, they're injured,
they can't make the All Star Game. They're a pitcher
and they just threw on Saturday or Sunday, and they're
like I'm not turning around on Tuesday and facing some
of the best hitters in the game throwing gas when
(19:29):
that's not my routine. I don't want to take even
a small chance that I could tweak something, that I
could get banged up. Hey, if you say I can't
make it, that all you do. You're on the team.
Then you name a replacement, and they're known as just
that they are a replacement. That's it, right, they're crowd fillers.
(19:53):
It was like at the Grammys or whatever. You go
and you sit in the seat, but you're not an
All Star. You don't get All Star classification. If you
look at Jacob Mitzerowski, he's like Baseball Reference page. I
love anything that ends in reference, like Pro Football Reference,
Basketball Reference, Baseball Reference. Go to it all the time.
If you go to Baseball Reference and look at Jacob Mizerowski,
(20:15):
it says one time All Star. It should not say
that he's a replacement All Star. So Caitlin Clark, she
can't compete in the WNBA All Star Game. Whoever replaces
her should be an alternate, should be just that a replacement.
They should not get All Star status. They're just filling in.
(20:39):
Am I crazy? Why the leagues make this way more
difficult than they need to. The NFL did this last year.
So Drake May had a pretty good year with the Patriots, right,
he was a Pro Bowl fill in. If you look
at his Pro Football Reference page, one time Pro bowler,
(21:00):
it's like, what he was a fill in. He's just
a replacement guy. He wasn't one of the guys that
initially made it. What are we doing here? Like again,
if you're looking at this and like Brian, what's the
big deal?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Man?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
This is not a big deal. It's for the fans
who cares. Some people might have that attitude. And the
thing I would throw out there is it's something that
Kyle Schwarber talked about. He's with the Phillies there and
he talked about his teammates not being named to the
All Star team. And it's like when we do the
reunion thing when it's ten years from now or whatever,
(21:37):
that's part of your resume. They read it off. They're
like five time All Stars, so and so that's part
of the deal. So it matters. And so for the
Phillies pitchers who were next in line for them not
to get the nod just because they were unavailable to
pitch on Tuesday is weird. But I also add that
(21:59):
if they just replacing someone, if they're just filling in,
you shouldn't get All Star status anyway. It should be
here's the team. Here's who the the fans voted for.
Here's who the players voted for. Here's the team. We
have X amount of players. Here it is, and whoever
can't make it okay? Cool? We got to replace them
(22:20):
with these other dudes. They shouldn't get All Star status.
How do you sneak in? That's the ultimate backdoor cover
right there?
Speaker 8 (22:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
HiT's the late bucket from half court to cover the spread.
It's more than that. You're not an All Star. But
just because someone is hurt or pitches on Saturday or
Sunday before the All Star Game, now you're an All Star.
That's the dumbest thing ever. Why did they make this
more complicated than it needs to be. If your a replacement,
(22:52):
then that's all the status you get. You're a replacement
All Star doesn't mean you're an All Star. And here's
some audio here to back this up. Because the late
great Kobe Bryant when he was in his final season
in the NBA and he had the retirement tour. When
he's on the road, they do these grand you know,
(23:14):
entrances for him. They announced him and you know, five
time champion. They rattle off his accomplishments. This was one
of them on the road in Detroit, and they rattle
off how many All Star Game appearances he had, how
many times he was an All Star? Checked us out.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Hat six six two twelve pounds, Marion High School.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I think it's final had the pot of all in
Hills playing the season seventeen, the All Star, seventeen time
All Star right there, and they rattled off pretty much
everything else Kobe did in his career is way too long,
so I just condensed it. Here's a portion of when
(23:56):
he was in Charlotte again his final season grand entrance.
They're announcing him, They announced how many times he was
an All Star. It was side by side with how
many times do you want to ring? Like this matters.
It's part of your resume. So if you're an All Star, great,
(24:18):
If you need to be replaced, you're just a replacement, dude.
You shouldn't get All Star status for that. Why is
this so? Why is it so difficult? It's not difficult
at all. It's very easy, system, very and yet these
leagues just complicated. I don't know why this whole Miserrowski thing.
(24:40):
I didn't think of it at the time. I thought
it was ridiculous at the time that Christopher Sanchez and
Ranger Suarez got bypassed because they were unavailable, and then
they went to Maserowski. I thought that was ridiculous. So
the more I think about it, none of those freaking
guys should have had All Star status. If they're just replacements,
you're just the alternate man. You're you're the crowd filler.
(25:02):
You're sitting in the seat that needs to be filled.
That that doesn't mean that those are your tickets. That
doesn't mean that those are your seats. You're just filling in.
All right, Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is
your phone number? I want to hear from Craig. He's
in Wisconsin. Has a thought on this All Star Game madness?
What's going on? Craig, You're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (25:20):
Good evening? Right, So he plays in the game. I
don't care who it is, just because I'm from Wisconsin.
It's a real But if you play in the game,
you're an All Star. Right, you played in the game.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
No, you're not not at all. Why not, because you're
an alternate. You're a replacement. You weren't voted in. You're
a replacement for a guy who's not there. That doesn't
mean you're an All Star. You played in the game,
doesn't mean you're an All Star.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
Well, are you a talk show host tonight?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
You're a replacement, that's what I am. I'm a talk
that's a bad comparison.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
You still told somebody you host.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Okay, I it's right.
I'm a fill in a host. This doesn't mean because
I'm filling in tonight that it's no longer the Ben
Mallor Show and it's the Brian No Show. I'm filling
in for Big Ben Maller. This isn't my shift from
now on. I'm filling in just as Miserowski was doing.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
What You're a host on the show tonight, right.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, as a fill in?
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Yep.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
But you don't don't. We don't say here's a fill
in host.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, they do. Actually, at the very top of the hour,
now filling in for Ben Maller, here's Brian No. Listen
at the top of the hour they say exactly that.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
And filling in for big Ben Maller is.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Brian No, that's right, that's what they should do for
all these replacement players, you know, and now filling in
for I don't know who the original picture was, and
then the Jacob Miserowski, No man if Drake may he
(27:01):
competed in the Pro Bowl festivities the Patriots quarterback. Just
because you are a fill in doesn't mean you should
get Pro Bowl status. Just because you're a fill in
doesn't mean you should get All Star status.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
You should get All Star status because a bunch of
people vote you in, not about how you played. Because
people voted you in.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
They didn't vote in ms Rowski. Dude, what don't you understand, Craig,
He's a replacement. He wasn't voted in.
Speaker 8 (27:28):
But the people who do get voted in, and there's
other people should be in front of them. That's okay,
though it's a popularity contest.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well that's another subject, Craig, and there's someone no, no, no, listen,
you're getting into a completely different subject. Well we're talking.
What I'm talking about is replacements. That's what I'm focused
on now. If you want to expand it and talk
about well, hey, listen, there's a representative from every team
that's that doesn't mean we're getting the best players in there.
That's a different converse. That's fine, we can have that conversation,
(28:01):
but it's a different conversation. What I'm focused on are
the replacements, like Caitlin Clark. That's the story that started
this whole thing. Caitlyn Clark isn't gonna be healthy for
the WNBA All Star Game. Whoever fills in for her.
She's a replacement. She shouldn't get All Star status just
because she's filling in for an injured player. She wasn't
(28:22):
originally voted in. She's just a replacement. You shouldn't get
All Star status for that. In my book, Hey, some
people disagree. Some people look at it like Craig and
I appreciate him checking in. They look at the Hey,
you played in the game, you should get All Star status.
I completely disagree just because you fill in and take
(28:43):
the place. Like imagine if they had to keep going
and going and going and going to find someone who's available.
And now we're getting well down the list and we're
getting a guy that Wow, man, his credentials are pretty bad.
And now just because he plays in the game, he's
technically an All Star, he's recognized as such. That's ridiculous.
(29:06):
That makes no sense none. It just doesn't. But that's
why I come out on it. Eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox is your phone number? Good stuff? Though
I didn't know where we're gonna get spirited over that,
but here we are.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I'm on your side with it, Brian.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Is it making sense to a radar Unless you're an
All Star?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
You can be a stand in?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
That's right, right, Yes.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
That does like same with like hait. No, I can't.
He's not an All Star. Yeahink period.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, I'm on board here. I agree with you with me.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Nice Tyler Huntley pro bowler?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yes, great example, Come on, man, Snoop Huntley. I didn't
realize his nickname was Snoop until he played for the Dolphins.
I did not know that and I was like, wow, okay,
Snoop Huntley it is. But yeah, Tyler Huntley is a
Pro Bowl dude, what are we doing He's not. I
(30:04):
bet if I go right now, I'm doing it right now,
It'll say one time pro bowler Tyler Huntley. Let's see
it again. I'm a little slow on the draw when
it comes to googling things. But here we go Tyler Huntley.
There it is played for the Ravens, played for the Dolphins,
one time Pro Bowl. That's freaking ridiculous. It's well, he
(30:29):
played in the game, though, I don't care. I don't
care that he played in the game. He's not voted in.
He's nowhere near a Pro bowler. He's like, I don't
know what number alternate he was. How many people did
they have to call before they got to Tyler Huntley?
At that point, it's warm body status. We need any
warm body we can get to be in this freaking
(30:51):
game here. You shouldn't get Pro Bowl status for that.
That's a joke. That's an absolute joke.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
It is somebody just DM ME I think it was.
Who was it here? I think it was KGB. He
said that, he said that no one would take the
spot if they weren't named All Stars.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I disagree with that. Why why would you? So You've
got an open invitation to be on that stage and
rub rub elbows with some of the best players in
the game, and you're like, nah, I'd just rather not.
They're not gonna find anybody to do that. I completely
disagree with that. You wouldn't go right. Like again, Jacob Mizerowski,
(31:33):
you're telling me the only reason he went there is
because he got All Star status. There's no chance. Let's
say my idea. They finally think logically and say, okay,
you're just a replacement. You don't get All Star status,
all right? And then MLB approaches Miszowski and says, hey,
five stars, fantastic. We want to invite you to the
(31:53):
All Star Game. Will you accept? He's gonna be like,
do I get All Star status? Do I get recognized
as an All Star? And they're like, actually, no, you're
a replacement. You don't get that status. And he's just like, yeah, no,
I'm good. There's no chance, he says, yet, that's ridiculous.
I don't buy that at all. Don't buy it at all.
(32:15):
It's like, look, man, don't I think it's important to
consider worst case scenario, but don't act like worst case
scenario is how could I say this is as likely
as you're making it out to be, You know what
I mean? Like, it's important to consider worst case scenario.
(32:36):
The person that texted you justin it's something to consider. Hey,
if you don't get All Star status. Are there gonna
be players that are going to the All Star Game?
Are they just gonna say, yeah, I'm good, I'm busy,
I'm just a replacement. No thanks. I mean it's something
to consider, but I don't buy it. I don't. I
don't like no one. You can't find anyone who would
(32:57):
compete on that stage and elbows with that type of
greatness on both rosters. Hey, and really, Baseball, I'll be like, look, man,
this isn't just about you. This is for the game
of for the game of baseball. This is for Major
League Baseball as a whole represent our game. We're inviting
you and the league collectively is just gonna say, nah,
(33:19):
I'm good. I don't buy that at all. I just
don't buy it. All right, We'll get more from the
Militia right around the Corner, also available on X at
the no Show top of the hour. Looking forward to
this the most impactful NFL contract ever. It might not
(33:40):
be one that you're thinking it is, but I think
that's exactly what it is. We'll do that at the
top of the hour. Militia around the Corner. I'm Brian
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Speaker 1 (34:02):
I'm probably knowing for Big Ben Mallard here on Fox
Sports Radio. I mean, I just don't get it. I listen, man.
I understand that people have their bands or whatever, their
musical artists that they love, and those bands or artists
(34:26):
can do no wrong. But to think this is a banger,
I just don't even get it. I really don't. Beatles
had some great songs. This is not one of them.
It's a terrible song. Now, just Lorae. If you just
keep that going, they I want to say, they at
(34:47):
least sixty five more times with the Yellow Submarine thing.
Even the verses suck, Like, who thinks this is a
good song. I just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I sang that inquire one year.
Speaker 9 (35:09):
And I think yourself, Yeah, it was absolutely embarrassing. I
can't believe we did that in front of the whole class. Yeah,
scarred by the whole student body.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, we all have skeletons in the closet there. Lorena
you know, Look.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
They were doing a lot of acid at the time.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
That's no excuse. Hendrix was doing a ton of acid.
And look at his amazing music. He didn't come up
with anything as lame as Yellow Submarine.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Look, it was uh you know, I think I think
Ringo wrote that song. It was like one of like
three Beatles songs that he wrote.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Man freaking Ringo. I want to hear the other two.
I hope the other two were better. Paul was like,
all right, forget that, going forward, Ringo someone taking his pen? Answer,
that's right, all right, Let's get out to Poppy is
in San Diego. Let's get some picks from old Poppy
(36:08):
over here. What's going on Poppy here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
Hey, honorary guess ran oh right here, part of the
real family. Hey, that's a pleasure. I'm gonna give you
some picks. Let's go off right at the back. Look tomorrow,
it's a revenge game for who you guys know the Brewer.
Look at the Dodgers they got thank thank around sweat
and I really like the picture goth Now and you.
Speaker 8 (36:30):
Can take the money line, guys, minus one ada right now,
or we're gonna go for the minus one and a
half runt because they're gonna think they're gonna win by
more than two runs. In La Old Tony's probably gonna
hit a room run. So that's the future prop bat
for you. And we're gonna close it right here strong
with the UFC of Brian O. UFC three eighteen, we
(36:50):
got Max Holloway. He's a BMX champion against Dustin Prayer
and he's from Louisiana. And the thing is the UFC fight.
It's gonna be in Louisiana, Brian, But you got to
think about like this, it's in Louisiana, right, ticket prices
are off the root, like it's in Las Vegas, so
not the locals are gonna be there. It's only gonna
be people that are traveling, not the locals there. I
(37:14):
did like justin Premier the locals right there. It's just
retiring match, Brian.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
No, like he's retiring.
Speaker 8 (37:21):
But I gotta go with Max Holloway. He's a champion
and that's plus one hundred, that's even money. So that's
what I'm liking for UFC. And what do you think
about that? Brian?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I'm just disappointed we didn't get any Summer League picks
in here, Poppy. I gotta be honest with you, man,
where are those?
Speaker 8 (37:38):
Yeah, well, look on the Summer League game with a
good better do is look at the lines. Whatever you're
seeing on there. We can take one right now, and
we're gonna go with their dogs because with the Summer League,
all the best players are not playing there. So I mean,
what are you like in Brian? I just what's the
underdog that you're liking.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I haven't looked for the games tomorrow, and sometimes the
lines don't even come out for a little bit. But
I do like the Raptors to win it all. It's
down to the final four and the Raptors are playing
real defense. I don't know what the future odds are.
It's got to be plus money, like they're all gonna
be plus money. But I'd imagine that the Raptors are
(38:17):
probably the favorite. They've played really well. They're undefeated. I
think they have the best point differential still, but they
play real defense. Poppy, I'm kicking myself. I had a
two leg parlay ready to go. I had the older
in the Hornets, I had the over in the Hornets game.
I had the under in the Raptors game, and both
were easy cashes, and I didn't play it. What's wrong
with me? Pop?
Speaker 8 (38:36):
Oh, it's okay. You're gonna bounce back and just to
a straight bat, Brian, both of them straight and you'll
be fine. You know, you'll hit one, and if you
don't hit the other ones, at least you cash one
even money.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
No doubt. That's good advice, Poppy. I appreciate that.
Speaker 8 (38:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
He's right. I rarely play the parlays every now and then.
You know, I'll dabble a little dabble here and there
won't kill you.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
I need to issue a correction.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
What do you have?
Speaker 8 (39:01):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Ringo did not write Yellow Submarine. That was written by
by Paul and John.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Paul and John.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
It was written for Ringo to sing. Ringo wrote Octopus's Garden.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
I'm not familiar with that one. I'd have to check
that out and report back to you. I don't know
that one as well. I've heard, however many times I've
heard Yellow Submarine. It's it's been a lot, and it's
been too many, like like one is too many. It's
a bad song. Sorry, I don't know what to tell you,
but yeah, Dustin Pourier taken on Max Holloway Poppy is
(39:38):
team Holloway on that? Okay? Fair enough?
Speaker 8 (39:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
What what other bright ideas did the Beatles have? Did
Ringo sing anything else?
Speaker 8 (39:48):
That?
Speaker 1 (39:48):
That's a It was that Ringo the whole time singing
that song.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
I mean, I think there's parts where there's like.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
All of them they on that one. Gotcha group play?
Huh Yeah, only you, Coop, I swear only you. That's
the new I'm gonna add that to the collection. Over here.
We've got the Great Wall of DC, We've got TJ Reeves. Hey, Coop,
(40:15):
how's it going good? We're gonna add group Play to
the list of the list of hits greatest hits of
Coop over there? All right? Coming up next, this is
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