October 3, 2024 • 35 mins
Doug talks about the Brewers come-from-behind win over the Mets in game two of their wild card series and explains why the in-game experience for baseball games can be overrated. Doug welcomes BYU head coach Kalani Sitake onto the show to talk about how the Cougars season is going as they are undefeated after five weeks. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through a game of "I Feel A Draft".
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today's question. And I say that because last night there
was four baseball games on and I'm watching and I
the Mets are up three to one of the app
three read it two and nobody's on. It's the eighth inning,
so I kind of got caught up in the I
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went over to start streaming and I saw what was it?
And I've seen the movie Deadpool and Wolverine. I'm like
a just kind of throw that on. I had some
other work to do, watching some other stuff, like I
was looking for a movie. I put a movie on,
so started to close my eyes, fall asleep, wake up.
And then all of a sudden, I look at my
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phone and I realized that the Brewers win five to three.
So I go back or a wind back on the
TV and see what I missed this morning, and Jackson
Traio it's Hits. There you go, Hits the home run,
and I'm like kicking myself. And then so I was thinking, Okay,
if I was there, I wouldn't have been able to
flip off the TV. Okay, if I was there, I
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wouldn't flip off the TV, or I wouldn't have been
able to search. You know, it's like the ADHD kicks
in and you're like, I'm watching all right, let's just
and I was like invested in watching the game a
little bit, and you know, we're sitting there talking and
watching and you know, and then I'm starting to think, Okay,
I could go to tonight's Brewers game, or I could
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watch it on TV. Now full disclosure, your boys like
the Keynotes speaker at Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Clinic tonight. So
I wouldn't be able to get there right at the
start of the game, but you can go watch like
the meat of the baseball game if you wanted. And
then I kind of got into a further thing would
I would tell you this, not only is baseball, does
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baseball have a greater what's the what's the word? The
jumping intensity? The jumping importance of every pitch regular season
to postseason is way greater than anything in the regular season,
like just pronouncedly better the intensity. NBA is like that
as well. NFL is pretty intense anyway, it does get
a little bit more intense. I think in the playoffs
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baseball the greatest jump in intensity. But also well it
goes from a change like regular season baseball is hard
to watch on TV sometimes because what happened to me
last night was I was in regular season mentality. Oh, hey,
do you want to watch a chick flick? Hey do
you want to watch Deadpool? Wolver Raine? Or who watched?
Watch the baseball Like in a baseball game, you're like, eh,
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there's one hundred and sixty two of them. One hundred
sixty two and again I'm watching last night, I'm thinking
I don't like absolute statements, and that's part of what
I hate about hockey. Guy going nothing better than overtime
playoff hockey, Like, is it really good? Sure? I could
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point out the randomness of who wins in some stray
slap shot that you know that ends up deflecting off
of three different people and ends up in the back
of the net shore, but playoff hockey, overtime hockey, great hockey,
hard to watch on TV. Baseball. And here's the thing,
Jay stew you have j Stu goes to as many
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Dodger games as he can. I would say of the
people that work at Fox Sports Radio on any level,
you go to more Dodger games than anyone on the
national anyone who does nationally does Fox Sports Radio. If
you look at our entire lineup, our whole lineup has
different producers and associate producers and all kinds of people.
I would say, Ja Stu goes to it has gone
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to more Dodger games than anybody else. Is that fair,
Jay Stu? Sure, I'll take that, Okay, But would you
rather watch the Dodgers in person in the playoffs or
rather watch the Dodgers on TV in the play.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's an easy answer for me.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
And I actually got my son wanted to go to
the game on Saturday, and I said, take your grandpa,
Because the first thing that I think about when someone
says let's go to the Dodger game is the pain
in the acid's going to be to get in, the
expensiveness once you get there, and then the pain in
the acid is to get out. I would much rather
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be on the couch watching that game. And it's going
to be a game Dodgers podres Saturday nights.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Gotta be a huge game. Sorry night.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I think part of it is you're you know, you're
caught up in all of the other which is a
real thing, right, Like to go to a Dodger game.
It is the worst place on earth to get into.
It just is it's beautiful. It's intervened and overlooks downtown
in La. If you get at the right time, you
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look out the sunset, it's it's crazy. Once you get
in the stadium. There's zero bad things about Dodger Stadium. Zero.
I am not a I'm not a hardcore or even
light cord like Dodger fan, and I can tell you,
as an Angel fan, I have so much jealousy of
the fact that Dodger sam was already great and they
continue to add to it. And every time they every sing,
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everything they seem to do to tweak it makes it better.
But it is pany has to get to and there's
lots of Los Angelinos. And here's the other part. And
I don't know if this bothers you Jays too, because
I would be one of the other people. But the
crowd that makes up of Dodger playoff game is different
than the crowd that makes up a regular season Dodger game.
And it's not just that there are different people that
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having come out. It's people that they talk with authority
about things that they haven't paid any attention to. You
know what I'm talking about, right, of course, they start
they start talking about the Dodger lineup and talking about
showing town Like, dude, you hadn't been here ever. You
watch like two Dodger games a year. You're coming up
with opinion on this stuff. But they want to act,
they want to like validate their fanhood, and so they
talk to stuff. But I generally agree with you. Can
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you imagine missing playoff because especially like, look, you have
really really good seats maybe, but you still can't truly
see those pitches on the black, like you just can't.
And I'll also like last night was ESPN, but I'll
also credit the guys at Fox. They kind of invented
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this way of covering baseball where you're zooming in and
getting way up close and personal and you see the
actual emotions of the moment and the facial strains and
the facial ticks of some of these guys. It's truly
a well covered event. It's baseball is not made for
TV in the regular season. The postseason, I don't think
it's made for anything else. And yeah, I know the
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crowds will be full and they matter and they care,
But how good is that? I love watching postseason baseball
on television?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Like how far? How long is the drive? If you
wanted to go to the game tonight, like out forty.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Five, our forty five, But I'm going to be I'm
not going to be super close, probably hour fifteen away.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I mean, it's just, man, I think that it speaks to,
first of all, how spoiled I've been. I've had a
you know, major league teams in my city, in my
entire life. So I'm just spoiled. And then I would
think of that ninety minute drive to get there. Screw that,
you know.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, no, it's an investment right now, A minute there
to get there. Then you got to park, then you
got to pay for parking. I will say, the Brewers
they have they have this pop these popcorn stands that
they have real Wisconsin butter, and they put the butter
in the popcorn and it's literally the greatest popcorn. It's incredible.
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And I've gone to like four Brewers games this year.
I've gone to some concerts there. Every time I go there,
I get the popcorn and I get the next one
for somebody else. I'm like, try this, It's the greatest
thing you've ever in your life. And they're like, yeah,
it's just popcorns. And then they bite and they're like,
what is on that? M real Wisconsin butter with I
guess real Wisconsin, real Wisconsin salt. That's so good, so good.
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Here's ah, here's a Brewer's Garrett Mitchell steps up, uh
At steps to the plate down to in a tie
game in the eighth inning.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Like center field.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It is a god.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yeah, Garritli sare go ahead to run home.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You run in the bottle of the eight city.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
So good.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The other thing about playoff baseball is, I know, like basketball,
games can get away with you, get away from you
really quickly. It's one of the things about coaching that
you learned, and I do actually I know. I haven't
coached in college, but I do actually know that like those,
they can get away from you really quick. Football game
it can like, right, you can give a touchdown, pick six, like, well,
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what happened you blink? But baseball literally can change the
one swing.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Of the bat.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
One swing of the bat, you know, you can be
shutting a team completely down, then one swinging the bat like, wait,
what happened? We lost? It's over. The Mets dominated that
game until they didn't won one tie heading the Game three,
which will be tonight at the American Family Insurance Field.
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Stut Gottleep show. You're on sports radio. Oh go ahead, Dan, I'm.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Sorry, that's all right.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
If you're going to be in the Dallas tonight, Doug,
it would not take you just an hour and fifteen
to Milwaukee. It may take you closer to two hours. Really,
that's the case.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yes, what are the Dells that I'm going to Wisconsin Dell's.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Yeah, Wisconsin Dell's is the home to the most water
parks in the entire world. What it is a summer
vacation extravaganda extravaganza. Yes, everybody goes to the Dells during
the summer. But now they've made it a year round spot.
So they have indoor water parks. So you have the
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Kalahari and they'll have an indoor water park. They have
an indoor amusement park. Yeah, it's enormous.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Really, Yes, I got to call my son, dude, indoor
water park. We are all about water park as you know,
We're all about roller coasters and water parks.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You know, howlly do the outdoor water parks open.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Well, here's the thing is, because they have to get
a lot of kids from around the world come in
and work the summers. So usually Labor Day is the cutoff,
like that's the end. So all of the outdoor attractions
usually will shut down around Labor Day, but the indoor
ones are open year round.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Bulmer, because I was going to say, I mean, you know,
I know the Midwest still having like a little influx
of nice warmer weather here in there and you could
get out there, but I guess you'll have to go
for the indoor ones for now.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It falls got here. It's a beautiful like early fall,
high sixties, low seventies. Last week was still kind of
Indian summer. So if they were if they could have
had it open last weekend, it would have worked. But
now it's now, it's probably probably too chilly for that. Yeah,
but the indoor water park that sounds indoor water park.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Though.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You can get that smell of the chlorine a little
bit like I love it.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Oh yeah, do you love that smell? But your you
know what's off in there too?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yes, humid, Yes it is it is. It is humid
in there. It is human there.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
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Speaker 1 (12:08):
Stuck OTLP Show Fox Sports Radio. Oh, I see what
you did, Sammy, What do you want to talk about?
Tyreek Hill? So, Tyreek Hill has had quite the year, right,
He had a good start of the season. Then he
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nearly got arrested for speeding outside the stadium. People tried
to make him into a sympathetic figure. Then he had
to blow up on the sideline as he's playing with
inferior quarterback, play with on the shelf with the concussion.
Here's Tua Nocuse. Here's Tyreek Hill. When he talked earlier
this week whether or not he's happy with Dolphins, I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Just focused on right here and right now.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
We got a beautiful team here and I want to
be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
We got a great situation here.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Our family loves it.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
I enjoy the weather's great, the fans of the obviously,
my parents always taught me to know control the controllables,
and I only can control so much.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
So with that being said, you all know the NFL,
at the biding, whatever happens happens.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So I'm moving forward.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
I would love to be here.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I love Danu. Okay, you'd love to. I mean, you
did sign a big contract extension and with a bunch
of money. But okay, anytime somebody tries to convince you
how happy they are, doesn't that usually mean they're not
that happy, doesn't it? There's there's some like expression for that.
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There's some saying for that is there not Jay stud
Dan Byerbody, Like when somebody's really try to convince you
how happy they are, like, yeah, he's miserable, isn't he?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
What is it? Faming? Interest?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Is that? Is that a good way to describe it?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Faining is like faking No. I'm saying when somebody goes, no, no,
I'm happy. I'm so happy. What's not to be happy about?
They're compensating and then you go like, hey, he's miserable.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I think overcompensating is the word. And I think the
antithesis to this is the doth protest too much? Right,
That's where you're goind of getting at You're saying something
a little too too eagerly, and im the opposite.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, I'm happy, No, love it. I love it here.
I just we want to do great things like you
know anyway, any you have no quarterback none. That's the
Gottlieb Show. You're on Fox Sports Radio and let's catch
up with one of the most beloved coaches in college
football as he is. It's not just he's returned to
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previous glory. BYU is five and Oh a win over SMU,
who at the time I don't think people knew would
be as competitive in the ACC as they have been.
I went over Wyoming, which of course is at a
mile high in altitude, a huge win over Kansas State
at home, and then most recently a win over over Baylor.
So two and zero in the Big twelve. Colonia Sataki
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joins us in the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. Coach,
piece of cake for you.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Right, it's been good. I mean, I think the considering
we're five and zero and I believe we can still
play better football. There's still some some things that I'd
like to see is be better at. But I think
every every football coach is probably saying that right now,
and having a bye week right now in order to
be able to just get our guys ready to clean
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up a lot of the things that we can do.
There's some self scout also more anything just kind of
evaluate how we're going along and the schemes and how
we're are we focusing on the fundamentals all that stuff matters,
so we're really getting some extra work done. I'm excited
to get on this this. I wish we had a
game this weekend, but we'll worry about that when it
gets here next week.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Okay, well you don't have a game this week. You
do have Boi U's first ever Jewish quarterback, right, so
he's celebrating as am I Russia Shana is starting tonight. Of course,
jum Kapor actually follows next week when you guys are
when you guys are playing, what was it like to
recruit him, you know, a place that obviously you came
to as a student, being the first ever Jewish quarterback.
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What was that conversation like?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Well, I think the key for us was just talking
to him as a football player, but also as a person.
What type of guy is he and what does he
value in life? And obviously he values his faith, and
letting him know that that he could be free to
live his religion here at by you or a faith
based institution. So encourage our players to have a great
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relationship with God, regardless what their religion is. And you
know him coming here, you're able to see how comfortable
he was here, but also how enlightening it was for
our team to get to know more about the Jewish
faith no more. I mean, we had we had people
of his faith come come through and they bought some
food trucks and we had culture foods and he was
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able to share with the players type of foods that
they eat and things like that, and it's just unique.
We were always about learning and trying to get to
know more about other things good that we can be
connected with the Jewish faith and then I understand a
little bit more about their beliefs. And then and then
then you tie that into life and tied it into football.
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I want to coach great young man. I want to
coach good kids. He is a great one raise the
right way. Happen to be a different faith and than
most of the guys and then the guys on the team.
But there's a lot of a lot of similarities in
terms of looking at how he loves his faith, how
he honors God, how he cherishes the people that sacrifice
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to get into where he's at right now. And he's
a perfect fit for our program.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You know, there've always been people that say, ah, there's
a ceiling at b y U. Right, there's a ceiling.
You know, they got they got older kids because he
got the Mormon kids coming off the mission. It feels
like having somebody of a different faith maybe helps break
through that ceiling. Is that is that fair?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I think I'm just I'm I'm excited just to coach
good people and be around good people and and and
there's good people in all different faiths. So we have
players are our team that that that are that are
of the Muslim faith and and different Christian groups that
we have in our team. And uh, I think I
think we want to look at what divides us. It's
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look at what actually we have in common. And when
we can build on that and respect it, good things
can happen. And in a team setting for that. And
you know, when you're looking at the age of the
team and all that, everybody's old. Now COVID year made
everybody old. So welcome, Welcome to the b YU life everyone.
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Now you guys, Now you guys are all old. And
now you can't sit there and say we're the only
ones that are old. But the reason why we're older
is because we have a good number of players that
go on missions two years of their life in the
prime part of their life. And they don't go out
there to do workouts and things like that. They go
out there to serve others. And when you have people
that do that, willing to serve others, others in front
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and in front of them their own needs when they
come back. It's a great setting for the teams become
great teammates, and then we work with them to try
getting better shape, but mentally and spiritually in the best
shape of their life. So all we have to do
is match the physical with the rest, and it works
out in a great team setting for us.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Can you win the Big twelve without running the ball
better than you've run it so far?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
We win the Big I would do whatever it takes
to win games, whatever phase it is, whether it's special teams, defense,
or offense. I don't think we can just say this
is how we want to win. We'll take it however
it comes. I want us, our team to be ready
to be flexible enough to play complimenting football. What we
can lead on all three phases, maybe one week one
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phase does it needs needs a little bit more from
them than the others, But I think we're willing to
do that. We have a great team dynamic, and it's
a team game four reasons, so I'm not really focused
on the result, whether it's a win or loss, more
than I am guys to play at their best. That's
spent my focus the lot of the best. We can
live with the results.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Klini Sataki had coach number seventeen ranked five and oh
Byu Cougar's cooks are off this week as they continue
in a Big Twelve play, what is the biggest difference
in terms of the opposition and one's like.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Well, the biggest difference is that it's tough football. And
so you look at the parody in the Big Twelve,
even from last year, that was a that was an
eye opening experience. We knew that it was going to
be tough, but there's nothing more important than actually the
experience itself. So when we went through it, played nine
games in a row in this conference, realized that, man,
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this conference is really good everybody. We knew that going
into it, but there's anotherhing to know it an nothing
to feel it. And so when the players felt that
it's uncharted territory now that they know about it more,
it gave them a little bit more of a Okay,
this is a comparison. What I know what it was
like last year. I need to be ready this summer
and be ready to Jannuy. So the team has a
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different sense of urgency in terms of working out and
getting ready to go. So January saw a new team
and in regards to working out and taking the field,
understanding this team, all the little things that details became
more important. And now we're seeing the result of that.
So I'm excited to see these guys continue to play.
I want to get better as a team, but the
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important things. We have a great foundation built around love
and trust with each other, and it's working so far.
So we've got to keep building on it, stay humble
and hungry, and keep trying to get better.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You mentioned you have this bye week this week, and
obviously after you know, you play three road games in
your first five games, Like, that's not Power five football
usually does. That's not how it usually it works. So
I'm sure you need the time off. How do you
get balanced between the time off and keeping them sharp
and working on things? What's that let that balance like
for you at this point in the season.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Well, the balance for us is we're still practicing, So
this week is still practice, just like if there's a game.
The only difference is there's no game on Saturday, so
we are they approach work hard, grind, get to the practices,
find ways and make mistakes in practice, learn from them,
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and then at the end of the week, it's a
lot cleaner differences. We don't play games, so we're not
going to get beat up physically that way, so we
can recover over the weekend, start again, and then we
get a little bit more extra focus on Arizona that's
coming into our Frost Stadium. And they had a great
game last week. They went up to Salt Lake City
and beat Utah. Really tough environment to play, and so
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we know that they're ready for this moment. We just
got to be ready for it for ourselves.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, I'm honest, and I'm sure they made lots of
fans in provo by beating the guys in Salt Lake.
But also I'm sure got your guys extra attention because
of the respect I know you guys have for Utah's program. Coach, coach,
last last thing, what would it mean to you personally,
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considering it's your alma matter to get this team to
the playoff.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I'm just trying to get us to week six. I'm
trying to get us to the next step. I'll say
something about the playoffs that we've never had a path
as clear as that it is now in by history.
If you want to get to the playoffs, you win
the conference that's never been done before in the independence
era in Mountain West, and then the whack that's never
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been as clear. So now we have that, we understand
the path in the road that takes to get there.
But we can't do it by looking further ahead. We
need to stick stick to what's in front of us,
and that's Arizona. That's just bye week in Arizona next week.
And I think we have that type of mentality. Find
ways to get better, stay humble, don't assume anything other
than hard work that needs to be done.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
We can do that.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I feel good about what we can get done next week.
I'm not really walking past that as a team. It's
inappropriate for me to do that when we know how tough.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
College football is, no question, no question. But I do
knowing the history, know what Lavelle Edwards did there and
how many great seasons you had and you couldn't get
that shot. I do know that there's a different level
of importance and a different level of joy that would
come with getting just that opportunity, which now is a
possibility with this, with this new league and with the
new College Fall Playoff Coach Jellius and honored to catch
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up with you. Your programs obviously in a great place.
Thanks so much for joining us on Fox Sports Tradio.
Thank you so much well, pleasures all ours, I mean, buyer, you,
me and Jay stew were old enough to remember when
BYU used to be in the Whack and they had
you know, I mean, I'm not going to sit here
and say I remember Steve Young. I definitely don't remember
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Jim McMahon playing there, but the Debt mers as well,
and they always had a quarterback and they threw it
around and put up big points, but they were never
considered at the level of college football. I was elite
and then you seem like the Holiday Bowl, and now
that obviously college football has changed. They're in the league,
they're competing in the league, and they can actually, you know,
they could actually get to the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
It is one of the still contested national championships, especially
with utes fans of our generation. Really, I mean, people
still will contest what b why you did in the
early to mid eighties, but you're right, like that was
the only path that they had and the only that's
where college football was set up back then, where you're
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just ending up your bowl. You fed to the Holiday Bowl,
and that's all that they could do at the time.
That's the only place that they could go. Now it
seems like such a foreign concept, But I think that
was difficult for people to to understand or grasp on
how you could claim a national champion in a Holiday Bowl.
But they did, and forty years later people are still
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arguing about it.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yep, yeah, it is. It is netty stuff now.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
People argue more about that than the like the split
national championship between Nebraska and Michigan or Colorado and Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Like Georgia Tech. Yes, bring them back, bring them back. Yes.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
By the way, props to Sam on his Nico Collins pick.
Jason Stewart said, you know, we got to give Sam
credit when.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
We were talking about to apologize.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
We need to apologize.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
How apologies not needed? I just you know, I just
have an eye for these things, and I for talent.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
You we've talked about programs we wanted to see back.
Remember that a couple of weeks ago, and Georgia Tech
was when I died on that Upscure Hill.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I really did it perish there?
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Did I say BYU?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I thought I said b YU In my my draft,
I thought b YU was my first rounding.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Mine was Miami and then Georgia Tech because they do
draw so much attention now, not so much because they
are in.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
The Big twelve.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
But by the way, I know that like they're they're
pretty high up there in Provo. I'm not sure how high,
but I don't think that's one of the most unbelievably
beautiful settings for college football. With those mountains in the
background there Provo. I mean sometimes there's snow Captain. It's
just gorgeous, just gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
The Wasatch Mountains.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah you got me. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Yes, they are.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Yeah, at Rice Ecles as well. In Salt Lake City
you get that backdrop, but not as much of in Provo.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Pro is just yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I was. I was stuck in Provo on a Sunday once.
I'm not sure it was not bad, it was just
it wasn't a lot to do. You could go to
the restaurant. There were restaurants opened, obviously, no booze and stuff,
but I remember it was like I was doing a game.
It was early it may have been it was just
I think it was in December. It was a BYU
air Force game and the Maryout Center, but neither team
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was particularly good at the time, and somehow it ended
up on ABC. It was after air Force had had
been pretty good the first time. Joe Scott was there.
Just Scott's back there as head coach. Anyway, they played
BYU and I remember getting done and I couldn't fly
out that day because there was snow and ice back
in Hartford, and so I was like, all right, well
college football, I mean NFL Sunday in Provo. It was different.
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Beautiful area though. Forty five forty five excuse me, four
five hundred forty nine feet above sea level is Provo, Utah.
There's your answer, So not quite a mile high, but
as as I think I was, am appropriately said, pretty
high up there, right.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
That's that's He's right, probably enough to you'd notice the
difference a little bit.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
No, no, how you.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Breathey five yeah, forty five Absolutely, you're huffing and puffing.
It's some Wyoming's like seventy two hundred feet. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
But for what's the highest you've ever been up Doug.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
What do you mean untilay a basketball game?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
No, like just in like hiking.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Like I've been in Colorado in a breck Breckenridge outside
record fourteen thousand feet and it was never never that
very hard to breathe and you group, I mean.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I was in a big sky when I went skiing
last last summer, I mean summer last winter. But I
don't know the elevation it was. I don't know the
elevation in big Sky. And we didn't go to Yeah,
I mean, I guess we went to the resorts. So
we went out and went skiing, and I had no idea.
But I haven't been hiking up there.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
This conversation, by the way, was a plot premise in
an episode of the King of Queens where Doug had
to go on a work trip with Carrie Yeah, and
she gave him a book to read because they had
no TVs.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
And it was about Mount Everest.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
And then her boss asked him how high he's been,
and he just remembered from the Book of Everest. He
said twenty nine thirty two feet. The boss is, like,
you've climbed Mount Everest, Doug, Like, yep, yes, I have sure.
Oh it's one of the better ones.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
He did an Oxygen tank. Yeah right.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Doug came to the toast of the town.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Oh, Doug and King of Queen. Yeah, yes, Doug Heffertin, Doug,
Doug hiffertin there you go. King of Queen's kind of unreal.
You know, it's interesting. We always talked about a favorite
suitcom really, yes, what was the something about was the
Raymond one? Everybody loves R Raymond. I thought that was
good the same time, same sort of a lot of
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similar setups there, right.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Yeah, there was a connection. It was kind of like
a spin off. Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Ray Romano appeared in a couple episodes. Ray Romano's brother.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Was in King of Queens for the early seasons.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I didn't know Rare romana Hun brother.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Brings me back to Hi, Larry, I think his name
was Larry.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
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Speaker 8 (30:54):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Hey Dan, what's the game today, Doug? The game today is.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I feel a draft.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
I also like to make a correction, not as big
as the Bob Newhart error that Iowa Sam made and
Mary Tyler Moore. Larry Romano and Ray Romano are not related.
Same last name but no relation.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
It's right.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I did that last I did that last.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Week with McPherson one.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, Don McPherson, Yeah, it was bad. I thought maybe
the quarterback. I'm just not I thought the sun was
mixed race.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I didn't know, but I do need to correct down.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I don't think anything's worse than when Sam said that
Bob Newhart was on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. We
got so many tweets just ripping them apart for that one.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Oh, this is what we're drafting today, A little bit, Doug,
of what you started the show with. We're drafting the
sports that we most enjoyed watching live.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
And I do when you say live, you mean in person, yes,
not dead or no.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I mean it's like if I click on like I
have you two TV, I cook on live it is live. Hey,
so like yeah, that's technically live it live it doors live.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
That that is a fair clarification. Jason, you'll pick first,
Doug you'll pick second, Sam will pick third, and I'll
pick fourth, and then we'll reverse it. Please clarify what
level of sport as well, whether it be professional, whether
it be collegiate, whether it be high school.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Please clarify. All right, Jason, you're on the clock.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I'll take it from here. You know, I'm going to
contradict something I just said thirty minutes ago. But I
hate getting to the baseball game. I hate getting home
from the baseball game. But when I'm there, especially if
I have good company, there's nothing better than watching baseball live.
For me, it's it's my speed. I love the nuance,
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I love the hot dog. I like the beer, Baseball Number.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
One, Baseball, Baseball, MLB, right, Major League base Ball. He
likes watching John Ramos is a what is Lucas now?
Lucas is like got like fourteen.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Iowa.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Sam may have the suedor reperds colonels in minor league
baseball and.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
His colonels that roll.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Doug, you're up second.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
You're on the cross in person?
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Yes, in person?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Uh wow. So it's it's one of two. I'm gonna
go college football, all right. I'm gonna go college football.
The only downside to college football is and they've done
a better job, which ad just in the comments. The
clocks run and whatever is they can be really long.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
There's still a lot of waiting around, especially still.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
A lot of it with the replay. There's a lot
of way I mean, but but college football, the pomp,
the circumstance, the tradition, the tailgate, the atmosphere. College football.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
That's my pick, all right, Sam, you're up at number three.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
Well, college football was my pick. But you know, I've
only been to one NFL game and it was fun.
But I'm gonna say college basketball because I've been a
lot of games at Carver Hawckey Arena. It's back and forth.
Especially Fran McCaffrey's style, it's very fun to watch, you know,
catch a T shirt from the t shirt canon or something.
So I'm gonna go college basketball, all right.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
I at number four, I'm gonna go high school football.
There is something about Friday nights. I don't know if
it's because it starts your weekend being out a high
school football game. Fall, the chill is in the air.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Absolutely. And then number five, I will go NHL hockey.
I really enjoy going to hockey games live. I don't
go to them a lot, but I've enjoyed every single
one that I've gone to, So I am having NHL
Hockey on my list. By the way, golf wouldn't make
my top six rounds. If you want to watch golf,
stay home, all right, Sam, you're back on the clock.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
I think I'll go with minor league baseball. The beers
are usually very cheap, hot dogs are for all. The
concessions a affordable. There's a lot of giveaways, there's a
lot of fireworks, shows, entertainment, and you don't always have
to pay attention to what's going on because you know
it's it's minor league baseball. So minor league baseball, senior
Rebi's colonel.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
It's a good times role.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Doug College basketball was taken by Sam.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
It's oh he was, yeah, Oh Carver Hawkeye, that's right. Well,
he was probably choosing women's college basketball to bet.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
It was really fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
No, it's really not.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
It was.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
It was great, yes, but that's not The sport is
not fun to watch. The player is fun to watch.
Have we said that NFL football? No, I've had a
great time in a football and EDI football all right.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
And Jason last pick international soccer.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
It's a good call. I haven't been yet. We maybe
we need to plan a show trip. Well, we'll do
that after we do throw it back Thursday next to
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today's question. And I say that because last night there
was four baseball games on and I'm watching and I
the Mets are up three to one of the app
three read it two and nobody's on. It's the eighth inning,
so I kind of got caught up in the I
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went over to start streaming and I saw what was it?
And I've seen the movie Deadpool and Wolverine. I'm like
a just kind of throw that on. I had some
other work to do, watching some other stuff, like I
was looking for a movie. I put a movie on,
so started to close my eyes, fall asleep, wake up.
And then all of a sudden, I look at my
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phone and I realized that the Brewers win five to three.
So I go back or a wind back on the
TV and see what I missed this morning, and Jackson
Traio it's Hits. There you go, Hits the home run,
and I'm like kicking myself. And then so I was thinking, Okay,
if I was there, I wouldn't have been able to
flip off the TV. Okay, if I was there, I
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wouldn't flip off the TV, or I wouldn't have been
able to search. You know, it's like the ADHD kicks
in and you're like, I'm watching all right, let's just
and I was like invested in watching the game a
little bit, and you know, we're sitting there talking and
watching and you know, and then I'm starting to think, Okay,
I could go to tonight's Brewers game, or I could
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watch it on TV. Now full disclosure, your boys like
the Keynotes speaker at Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Clinic tonight. So
I wouldn't be able to get there right at the
start of the game, but you can go watch like
the meat of the baseball game if you wanted. And
then I kind of got into a further thing would
I would tell you this, not only is baseball, does
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baseball have a greater what's the what's the word? The
jumping intensity? The jumping importance of every pitch regular season
to postseason is way greater than anything in the regular season,
like just pronouncedly better the intensity. NBA is like that
as well. NFL is pretty intense anyway, it does get
a little bit more intense. I think in the playoffs
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baseball the greatest jump in intensity. But also well it
goes from a change like regular season baseball is hard
to watch on TV sometimes because what happened to me
last night was I was in regular season mentality. Oh, hey,
do you want to watch a chick flick? Hey do
you want to watch Deadpool? Wolver Raine? Or who watched?
Watch the baseball Like in a baseball game, you're like, eh,
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there's one hundred and sixty two of them. One hundred
sixty two and again I'm watching last night, I'm thinking
I don't like absolute statements, and that's part of what
I hate about hockey. Guy going nothing better than overtime
playoff hockey, Like, is it really good? Sure? I could
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point out the randomness of who wins in some stray
slap shot that you know that ends up deflecting off
of three different people and ends up in the back
of the net shore, but playoff hockey, overtime hockey, great hockey,
hard to watch on TV. Baseball. And here's the thing,
Jay stew you have j Stu goes to as many
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Dodger games as he can. I would say of the
people that work at Fox Sports Radio on any level,
you go to more Dodger games than anyone on the
national anyone who does nationally does Fox Sports Radio. If
you look at our entire lineup, our whole lineup has
different producers and associate producers and all kinds of people.
I would say, Ja Stu goes to it has gone
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to more Dodger games than anybody else. Is that fair,
Jay Stu? Sure, I'll take that, Okay, But would you
rather watch the Dodgers in person in the playoffs or
rather watch the Dodgers on TV in the play.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's an easy answer for me.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
And I actually got my son wanted to go to
the game on Saturday, and I said, take your grandpa,
Because the first thing that I think about when someone
says let's go to the Dodger game is the pain
in the acid's going to be to get in, the
expensiveness once you get there, and then the pain in
the acid is to get out. I would much rather
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be on the couch watching that game. And it's going
to be a game Dodgers podres Saturday nights.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Gotta be a huge game. Sorry night.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I think part of it is you're you know, you're
caught up in all of the other which is a
real thing, right, Like to go to a Dodger game.
It is the worst place on earth to get into.
It just is it's beautiful. It's intervened and overlooks downtown
in La. If you get at the right time, you
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look out the sunset, it's it's crazy. Once you get
in the stadium. There's zero bad things about Dodger Stadium. Zero.
I am not a I'm not a hardcore or even
light cord like Dodger fan, and I can tell you,
as an Angel fan, I have so much jealousy of
the fact that Dodger sam was already great and they
continue to add to it. And every time they every sing,
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everything they seem to do to tweak it makes it better.
But it is pany has to get to and there's
lots of Los Angelinos. And here's the other part. And
I don't know if this bothers you Jays too, because
I would be one of the other people. But the
crowd that makes up of Dodger playoff game is different
than the crowd that makes up a regular season Dodger game.
And it's not just that there are different people that
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having come out. It's people that they talk with authority
about things that they haven't paid any attention to. You
know what I'm talking about, right, of course, they start
they start talking about the Dodger lineup and talking about
showing town Like, dude, you hadn't been here ever. You
watch like two Dodger games a year. You're coming up
with opinion on this stuff. But they want to act,
they want to like validate their fanhood, and so they
talk to stuff. But I generally agree with you. Can
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you imagine missing playoff because especially like, look, you have
really really good seats maybe, but you still can't truly
see those pitches on the black, like you just can't.
And I'll also like last night was ESPN, but I'll
also credit the guys at Fox. They kind of invented
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this way of covering baseball where you're zooming in and
getting way up close and personal and you see the
actual emotions of the moment and the facial strains and
the facial ticks of some of these guys. It's truly
a well covered event. It's baseball is not made for
TV in the regular season. The postseason, I don't think
it's made for anything else. And yeah, I know the
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crowds will be full and they matter and they care,
But how good is that? I love watching postseason baseball
on television?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Like how far? How long is the drive? If you
wanted to go to the game tonight, like out forty.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Five, our forty five, But I'm going to be I'm
not going to be super close, probably hour fifteen away.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I mean, it's just, man, I think that it speaks to,
first of all, how spoiled I've been. I've had a
you know, major league teams in my city, in my
entire life. So I'm just spoiled. And then I would
think of that ninety minute drive to get there. Screw that,
you know.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, no, it's an investment right now, A minute there
to get there. Then you got to park, then you
got to pay for parking. I will say, the Brewers
they have they have this pop these popcorn stands that
they have real Wisconsin butter, and they put the butter
in the popcorn and it's literally the greatest popcorn. It's incredible.
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And I've gone to like four Brewers games this year.
I've gone to some concerts there. Every time I go there,
I get the popcorn and I get the next one
for somebody else. I'm like, try this, It's the greatest
thing you've ever in your life. And they're like, yeah,
it's just popcorns. And then they bite and they're like,
what is on that? M real Wisconsin butter with I
guess real Wisconsin, real Wisconsin salt. That's so good, so good.
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Here's ah, here's a Brewer's Garrett Mitchell steps up, uh
At steps to the plate down to in a tie
game in the eighth inning.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Like center field.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It is a god.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yeah, Garritli sare go ahead to run home.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You run in the bottle of the eight city.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
So good.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The other thing about playoff baseball is, I know, like basketball,
games can get away with you, get away from you
really quickly. It's one of the things about coaching that
you learned, and I do actually I know. I haven't
coached in college, but I do actually know that like those,
they can get away from you really quick. Football game
it can like, right, you can give a touchdown, pick six, like, well,
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what happened you blink? But baseball literally can change the
one swing.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Of the bat.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
One swing of the bat, you know, you can be
shutting a team completely down, then one swinging the bat like, wait,
what happened? We lost? It's over. The Mets dominated that
game until they didn't won one tie heading the Game three,
which will be tonight at the American Family Insurance Field.
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Stut Gottleep show. You're on sports radio. Oh go ahead, Dan, I'm.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Sorry, that's all right.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
If you're going to be in the Dallas tonight, Doug,
it would not take you just an hour and fifteen
to Milwaukee. It may take you closer to two hours. Really,
that's the case.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yes, what are the Dells that I'm going to Wisconsin Dell's.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Yeah, Wisconsin Dell's is the home to the most water
parks in the entire world. What it is a summer
vacation extravaganda extravaganza. Yes, everybody goes to the Dells during
the summer. But now they've made it a year round spot.
So they have indoor water parks. So you have the
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Kalahari and they'll have an indoor water park. They have
an indoor amusement park. Yeah, it's enormous.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Really, Yes, I got to call my son, dude, indoor
water park. We are all about water park as you know,
We're all about roller coasters and water parks.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You know, howlly do the outdoor water parks open.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Well, here's the thing is, because they have to get
a lot of kids from around the world come in
and work the summers. So usually Labor Day is the cutoff,
like that's the end. So all of the outdoor attractions
usually will shut down around Labor Day, but the indoor
ones are open year round.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Bulmer, because I was going to say, I mean, you know,
I know the Midwest still having like a little influx
of nice warmer weather here in there and you could
get out there, but I guess you'll have to go
for the indoor ones for now.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It falls got here. It's a beautiful like early fall,
high sixties, low seventies. Last week was still kind of
Indian summer. So if they were if they could have
had it open last weekend, it would have worked. But
now it's now, it's probably probably too chilly for that. Yeah,
but the indoor water park that sounds indoor water park.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Though.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You can get that smell of the chlorine a little
bit like I love it.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Oh yeah, do you love that smell? But your you
know what's off in there too?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yes, humid, Yes it is it is. It is humid
in there. It is human there.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
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Stuck OTLP Show Fox Sports Radio. Oh, I see what
you did, Sammy, What do you want to talk about?
Tyreek Hill? So, Tyreek Hill has had quite the year, right,
He had a good start of the season. Then he
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nearly got arrested for speeding outside the stadium. People tried
to make him into a sympathetic figure. Then he had
to blow up on the sideline as he's playing with
inferior quarterback, play with on the shelf with the concussion.
Here's Tua Nocuse. Here's Tyreek Hill. When he talked earlier
this week whether or not he's happy with Dolphins, I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Just focused on right here and right now.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
We got a beautiful team here and I want to
be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
We got a great situation here.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Our family loves it.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
I enjoy the weather's great, the fans of the obviously,
my parents always taught me to know control the controllables,
and I only can control so much.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
So with that being said, you all know the NFL,
at the biding, whatever happens happens.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So I'm moving forward.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
I would love to be here.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I love Danu. Okay, you'd love to. I mean, you
did sign a big contract extension and with a bunch
of money. But okay, anytime somebody tries to convince you
how happy they are, doesn't that usually mean they're not
that happy, doesn't it? There's there's some like expression for that.
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There's some saying for that is there not Jay stud
Dan Byerbody, Like when somebody's really try to convince you
how happy they are, like, yeah, he's miserable, isn't he?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
What is it? Faming? Interest?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Is that? Is that a good way to describe it?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Faining is like faking No. I'm saying when somebody goes, no, no,
I'm happy. I'm so happy. What's not to be happy about?
They're compensating and then you go like, hey, he's miserable.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I think overcompensating is the word. And I think the
antithesis to this is the doth protest too much? Right,
That's where you're goind of getting at You're saying something
a little too too eagerly, and im the opposite.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, I'm happy, No, love it. I love it here.
I just we want to do great things like you
know anyway, any you have no quarterback none. That's the
Gottlieb Show. You're on Fox Sports Radio and let's catch
up with one of the most beloved coaches in college
football as he is. It's not just he's returned to
his Alva manor, but returning his ALM monitor to their
(14:35):
previous glory. BYU is five and Oh a win over SMU,
who at the time I don't think people knew would
be as competitive in the ACC as they have been.
I went over Wyoming, which of course is at a
mile high in altitude, a huge win over Kansas State
at home, and then most recently a win over over Baylor.
So two and zero in the Big twelve. Colonia Sataki
(14:56):
joins us in the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. Coach,
piece of cake for you.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Right, it's been good. I mean, I think the considering
we're five and zero and I believe we can still
play better football. There's still some some things that I'd
like to see is be better at. But I think
every every football coach is probably saying that right now,
and having a bye week right now in order to
be able to just get our guys ready to clean
(15:21):
up a lot of the things that we can do.
There's some self scout also more anything just kind of
evaluate how we're going along and the schemes and how
we're are we focusing on the fundamentals all that stuff matters,
so we're really getting some extra work done. I'm excited
to get on this this. I wish we had a
game this weekend, but we'll worry about that when it
gets here next week.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Okay, well you don't have a game this week. You
do have Boi U's first ever Jewish quarterback, right, so
he's celebrating as am I Russia Shana is starting tonight. Of course,
jum Kapor actually follows next week when you guys are
when you guys are playing, what was it like to
recruit him, you know, a place that obviously you came
to as a student, being the first ever Jewish quarterback.
(16:02):
What was that conversation like?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Well, I think the key for us was just talking
to him as a football player, but also as a person.
What type of guy is he and what does he
value in life? And obviously he values his faith, and
letting him know that that he could be free to
live his religion here at by you or a faith
based institution. So encourage our players to have a great
(16:26):
relationship with God, regardless what their religion is. And you
know him coming here, you're able to see how comfortable
he was here, but also how enlightening it was for
our team to get to know more about the Jewish
faith no more. I mean, we had we had people
of his faith come come through and they bought some
food trucks and we had culture foods and he was
(16:49):
able to share with the players type of foods that
they eat and things like that, and it's just unique.
We were always about learning and trying to get to
know more about other things good that we can be
connected with the Jewish faith and then I understand a
little bit more about their beliefs. And then and then
then you tie that into life and tied it into football.
(17:09):
I want to coach great young man. I want to
coach good kids. He is a great one raise the
right way. Happen to be a different faith and than
most of the guys and then the guys on the team.
But there's a lot of a lot of similarities in
terms of looking at how he loves his faith, how
he honors God, how he cherishes the people that sacrifice
(17:29):
to get into where he's at right now. And he's
a perfect fit for our program.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You know, there've always been people that say, ah, there's
a ceiling at b y U. Right, there's a ceiling.
You know, they got they got older kids because he
got the Mormon kids coming off the mission. It feels
like having somebody of a different faith maybe helps break
through that ceiling. Is that is that fair?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I think I'm just I'm I'm excited just to coach
good people and be around good people and and and
there's good people in all different faiths. So we have
players are our team that that that are that are
of the Muslim faith and and different Christian groups that
we have in our team. And uh, I think I
think we want to look at what divides us. It's
(18:15):
look at what actually we have in common. And when
we can build on that and respect it, good things
can happen. And in a team setting for that. And
you know, when you're looking at the age of the
team and all that, everybody's old. Now COVID year made
everybody old. So welcome, Welcome to the b YU life everyone.
(18:37):
Now you guys, Now you guys are all old. And
now you can't sit there and say we're the only
ones that are old. But the reason why we're older
is because we have a good number of players that
go on missions two years of their life in the
prime part of their life. And they don't go out
there to do workouts and things like that. They go
out there to serve others. And when you have people
that do that, willing to serve others, others in front
(18:57):
and in front of them their own needs when they
come back. It's a great setting for the teams become
great teammates, and then we work with them to try
getting better shape, but mentally and spiritually in the best
shape of their life. So all we have to do
is match the physical with the rest, and it works
out in a great team setting for us.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Can you win the Big twelve without running the ball
better than you've run it so far?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
We win the Big I would do whatever it takes
to win games, whatever phase it is, whether it's special teams, defense,
or offense. I don't think we can just say this
is how we want to win. We'll take it however
it comes. I want us, our team to be ready
to be flexible enough to play complimenting football. What we
can lead on all three phases, maybe one week one
(19:44):
phase does it needs needs a little bit more from
them than the others, But I think we're willing to
do that. We have a great team dynamic, and it's
a team game four reasons, so I'm not really focused
on the result, whether it's a win or loss, more
than I am guys to play at their best. That's
spent my focus the lot of the best. We can
live with the results.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Klini Sataki had coach number seventeen ranked five and oh
Byu Cougar's cooks are off this week as they continue
in a Big Twelve play, what is the biggest difference
in terms of the opposition and one's like.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Well, the biggest difference is that it's tough football. And
so you look at the parody in the Big Twelve,
even from last year, that was a that was an
eye opening experience. We knew that it was going to
be tough, but there's nothing more important than actually the
experience itself. So when we went through it, played nine
games in a row in this conference, realized that, man,
(20:39):
this conference is really good everybody. We knew that going
into it, but there's anotherhing to know it an nothing
to feel it. And so when the players felt that
it's uncharted territory now that they know about it more,
it gave them a little bit more of a Okay,
this is a comparison. What I know what it was
like last year. I need to be ready this summer
and be ready to Jannuy. So the team has a
(21:01):
different sense of urgency in terms of working out and
getting ready to go. So January saw a new team
and in regards to working out and taking the field,
understanding this team, all the little things that details became
more important. And now we're seeing the result of that.
So I'm excited to see these guys continue to play.
I want to get better as a team, but the
(21:22):
important things. We have a great foundation built around love
and trust with each other, and it's working so far.
So we've got to keep building on it, stay humble
and hungry, and keep trying to get better.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You mentioned you have this bye week this week, and
obviously after you know, you play three road games in
your first five games, Like, that's not Power five football
usually does. That's not how it usually it works. So
I'm sure you need the time off. How do you
get balanced between the time off and keeping them sharp
and working on things? What's that let that balance like
for you at this point in the season.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Well, the balance for us is we're still practicing, So
this week is still practice, just like if there's a game.
The only difference is there's no game on Saturday, so
we are they approach work hard, grind, get to the practices,
find ways and make mistakes in practice, learn from them,
(22:18):
and then at the end of the week, it's a
lot cleaner differences. We don't play games, so we're not
going to get beat up physically that way, so we
can recover over the weekend, start again, and then we
get a little bit more extra focus on Arizona that's
coming into our Frost Stadium. And they had a great
game last week. They went up to Salt Lake City
and beat Utah. Really tough environment to play, and so
(22:41):
we know that they're ready for this moment. We just
got to be ready for it for ourselves.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, I'm honest, and I'm sure they made lots of
fans in provo by beating the guys in Salt Lake.
But also I'm sure got your guys extra attention because
of the respect I know you guys have for Utah's program. Coach, coach,
last last thing, what would it mean to you personally,
(23:05):
considering it's your alma matter to get this team to
the playoff.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I'm just trying to get us to week six. I'm
trying to get us to the next step. I'll say
something about the playoffs that we've never had a path
as clear as that it is now in by history.
If you want to get to the playoffs, you win
the conference that's never been done before in the independence
era in Mountain West, and then the whack that's never
(23:33):
been as clear. So now we have that, we understand
the path in the road that takes to get there.
But we can't do it by looking further ahead. We
need to stick stick to what's in front of us,
and that's Arizona. That's just bye week in Arizona next week.
And I think we have that type of mentality. Find
ways to get better, stay humble, don't assume anything other
than hard work that needs to be done.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
We can do that.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I feel good about what we can get done next week.
I'm not really walking past that as a team. It's
inappropriate for me to do that when we know how tough.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
College football is, no question, no question. But I do
knowing the history, know what Lavelle Edwards did there and
how many great seasons you had and you couldn't get
that shot. I do know that there's a different level
of importance and a different level of joy that would
come with getting just that opportunity, which now is a
possibility with this, with this new league and with the
new College Fall Playoff Coach Jellius and honored to catch
(24:26):
up with you. Your programs obviously in a great place.
Thanks so much for joining us on Fox Sports Tradio.
Thank you so much well, pleasures all ours, I mean, buyer, you,
me and Jay stew were old enough to remember when
BYU used to be in the Whack and they had
you know, I mean, I'm not going to sit here
and say I remember Steve Young. I definitely don't remember
(24:49):
Jim McMahon playing there, but the Debt mers as well,
and they always had a quarterback and they threw it
around and put up big points, but they were never
considered at the level of college football. I was elite
and then you seem like the Holiday Bowl, and now
that obviously college football has changed. They're in the league,
they're competing in the league, and they can actually, you know,
they could actually get to the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
It is one of the still contested national championships, especially
with utes fans of our generation. Really, I mean, people
still will contest what b why you did in the
early to mid eighties, but you're right, like that was
the only path that they had and the only that's
where college football was set up back then, where you're
(25:31):
just ending up your bowl. You fed to the Holiday Bowl,
and that's all that they could do at the time.
That's the only place that they could go. Now it
seems like such a foreign concept, But I think that
was difficult for people to to understand or grasp on
how you could claim a national champion in a Holiday Bowl.
But they did, and forty years later people are still
(25:52):
arguing about it.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yep, yeah, it is. It is netty stuff now.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
People argue more about that than the like the split
national championship between Nebraska and Michigan or Colorado and Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Like Georgia Tech. Yes, bring them back, bring them back. Yes.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
By the way, props to Sam on his Nico Collins pick.
Jason Stewart said, you know, we got to give Sam
credit when.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
We were talking about to apologize.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
We need to apologize.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
How apologies not needed? I just you know, I just
have an eye for these things, and I for talent.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
You we've talked about programs we wanted to see back.
Remember that a couple of weeks ago, and Georgia Tech
was when I died on that Upscure Hill.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I really did it perish there?
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Did I say BYU?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I thought I said b YU In my my draft,
I thought b YU was my first rounding.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Mine was Miami and then Georgia Tech because they do
draw so much attention now, not so much because they
are in.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
The Big twelve.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
But by the way, I know that like they're they're
pretty high up there in Provo. I'm not sure how high,
but I don't think that's one of the most unbelievably
beautiful settings for college football. With those mountains in the
background there Provo. I mean sometimes there's snow Captain. It's
just gorgeous, just gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
The Wasatch Mountains.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah you got me. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Yes, they are.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Yeah, at Rice Ecles as well. In Salt Lake City
you get that backdrop, but not as much of in Provo.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Pro is just yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I was. I was stuck in Provo on a Sunday once.
I'm not sure it was not bad, it was just
it wasn't a lot to do. You could go to
the restaurant. There were restaurants opened, obviously, no booze and stuff,
but I remember it was like I was doing a game.
It was early it may have been it was just
I think it was in December. It was a BYU
air Force game and the Maryout Center, but neither team
(27:38):
was particularly good at the time, and somehow it ended
up on ABC. It was after air Force had had
been pretty good the first time. Joe Scott was there.
Just Scott's back there as head coach. Anyway, they played
BYU and I remember getting done and I couldn't fly
out that day because there was snow and ice back
in Hartford, and so I was like, all right, well
college football, I mean NFL Sunday in Provo. It was different.
(28:00):
Beautiful area though. Forty five forty five excuse me, four
five hundred forty nine feet above sea level is Provo, Utah.
There's your answer, So not quite a mile high, but
as as I think I was, am appropriately said, pretty
high up there, right.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
That's that's He's right, probably enough to you'd notice the
difference a little bit.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
No, no, how you.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Breathey five yeah, forty five Absolutely, you're huffing and puffing.
It's some Wyoming's like seventy two hundred feet. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
But for what's the highest you've ever been up Doug.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
What do you mean untilay a basketball game?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
No, like just in like hiking.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Like I've been in Colorado in a breck Breckenridge outside
record fourteen thousand feet and it was never never that
very hard to breathe and you group, I mean.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I was in a big sky when I went skiing
last last summer, I mean summer last winter. But I
don't know the elevation it was. I don't know the
elevation in big Sky. And we didn't go to Yeah,
I mean, I guess we went to the resorts. So
we went out and went skiing, and I had no idea.
But I haven't been hiking up there.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
This conversation, by the way, was a plot premise in
an episode of the King of Queens where Doug had
to go on a work trip with Carrie Yeah, and
she gave him a book to read because they had
no TVs.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
And it was about Mount Everest.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
And then her boss asked him how high he's been,
and he just remembered from the Book of Everest. He
said twenty nine thirty two feet. The boss is, like,
you've climbed Mount Everest, Doug, Like, yep, yes, I have sure.
Oh it's one of the better ones.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
He did an Oxygen tank. Yeah right.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Doug came to the toast of the town.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Oh, Doug and King of Queen. Yeah, yes, Doug Heffertin, Doug,
Doug hiffertin there you go. King of Queen's kind of unreal.
You know, it's interesting. We always talked about a favorite
suitcom really, yes, what was the something about was the
Raymond one? Everybody loves R Raymond. I thought that was
good the same time, same sort of a lot of
(30:07):
similar setups there, right.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Yeah, there was a connection. It was kind of like
a spin off. Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Ray Romano appeared in a couple episodes. Ray Romano's brother.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Was in King of Queens for the early seasons.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I didn't know Rare romana Hun brother.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Brings me back to Hi, Larry, I think his name
was Larry.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
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Speaker 1 (30:33):
STUTGTTLIB Show, Fox Sports Radio. We got a good second
hour for you as well on the DG Show. Think
of like a John Mittal Coop's gonna join us. Oh yeah, don't.
We don't call it a throwback Thursday. Oh, it's top
the hour. We can't get to that until we get
to a game with Dan Byer.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Hey Dan, what's the game today, Doug? The game today is.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I feel a draft.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
I also like to make a correction, not as big
as the Bob Newhart error that Iowa Sam made and
Mary Tyler Moore. Larry Romano and Ray Romano are not related.
Same last name but no relation.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
It's right.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I did that last I did that last.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Week with McPherson one.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, Don McPherson, Yeah, it was bad. I thought maybe
the quarterback. I'm just not I thought the sun was
mixed race.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I didn't know, but I do need to correct down.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I don't think anything's worse than when Sam said that
Bob Newhart was on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. We
got so many tweets just ripping them apart for that one.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Oh, this is what we're drafting today, A little bit, Doug,
of what you started the show with. We're drafting the
sports that we most enjoyed watching live.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
And I do when you say live, you mean in person, yes,
not dead or no.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I mean it's like if I click on like I
have you two TV, I cook on live it is live. Hey,
so like yeah, that's technically live it live it doors live.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
That that is a fair clarification. Jason, you'll pick first,
Doug you'll pick second, Sam will pick third, and I'll
pick fourth, and then we'll reverse it. Please clarify what
level of sport as well, whether it be professional, whether
it be collegiate, whether it be high school.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Please clarify. All right, Jason, you're on the clock.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I'll take it from here. You know, I'm going to
contradict something I just said thirty minutes ago. But I
hate getting to the baseball game. I hate getting home
from the baseball game. But when I'm there, especially if
I have good company, there's nothing better than watching baseball live.
For me, it's it's my speed. I love the nuance,
(32:49):
I love the hot dog. I like the beer, Baseball Number.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
One, Baseball, Baseball, MLB, right, Major League base Ball. He
likes watching John Ramos is a what is Lucas now?
Lucas is like got like fourteen.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Iowa.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Sam may have the suedor reperds colonels in minor league
baseball and.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
His colonels that roll.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Doug, you're up second.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
You're on the cross in person?
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Yes, in person?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Uh wow. So it's it's one of two. I'm gonna
go college football, all right. I'm gonna go college football.
The only downside to college football is and they've done
a better job, which ad just in the comments. The
clocks run and whatever is they can be really long.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
There's still a lot of waiting around, especially still.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
A lot of it with the replay. There's a lot
of way I mean, but but college football, the pomp,
the circumstance, the tradition, the tailgate, the atmosphere. College football.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
That's my pick, all right, Sam, you're up at number three.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
Well, college football was my pick. But you know, I've
only been to one NFL game and it was fun.
But I'm gonna say college basketball because I've been a
lot of games at Carver Hawckey Arena. It's back and forth.
Especially Fran McCaffrey's style, it's very fun to watch, you know,
catch a T shirt from the t shirt canon or something.
So I'm gonna go college basketball, all right.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
I at number four, I'm gonna go high school football.
There is something about Friday nights. I don't know if
it's because it starts your weekend being out a high
school football game. Fall, the chill is in the air.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Absolutely. And then number five, I will go NHL hockey.
I really enjoy going to hockey games live. I don't
go to them a lot, but I've enjoyed every single
one that I've gone to, So I am having NHL
Hockey on my list. By the way, golf wouldn't make
my top six rounds. If you want to watch golf,
stay home, all right, Sam, you're back on the clock.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
I think I'll go with minor league baseball. The beers
are usually very cheap, hot dogs are for all. The
concessions a affordable. There's a lot of giveaways, there's a
lot of fireworks, shows, entertainment, and you don't always have
to pay attention to what's going on because you know
it's it's minor league baseball. So minor league baseball, senior
Rebi's colonel.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
It's a good times role.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Doug College basketball was taken by Sam.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
It's oh he was, yeah, Oh Carver Hawkeye, that's right. Well,
he was probably choosing women's college basketball to bet.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
It was really fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
No, it's really not.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
It was.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
It was great, yes, but that's not The sport is
not fun to watch. The player is fun to watch.
Have we said that NFL football? No, I've had a
great time in a football and EDI football all right.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
And Jason last pick international soccer.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
It's a good call. I haven't been yet. We maybe
we need to plan a show trip. Well, we'll do
that after we do throw it back Thursday next to
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