5-20-23 Hour 3

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Sports Radio, the stages set.The Final four have made their way to
the Eastern and Western Conference Finals.We now have I mean, listen,
guys, you he cracked me upwith this one. You've been talking about
the Timberwolves. You've been talking aboutAnthony Edwards. You did not pick them

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to beat the Nuggets. You've beentalking about how great he's the next Jordan,
this, that and the other thing. Timberwolves are fun, blah blah.
But you took the Nuggets, Timberwolveswinning in seven. I have a
music embarrassing with Dan Patrick did afew hours ago that I felt like this,
but I was a little bit different. Dan Patrick was yelling and screaming
about how for you people who thoughtthe Timberwolves were gonna sweep the Nuggets,

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and then you hopped off the bandwagon, then you got back on the bandwagon.
Now you're not allowed on, I'mlike, you know what, that
there really wasn't me. I wason the nugget bandwagon, like on the
top of it, staring like,whoa, hey, that Edwards is pretty?
Can we go back? Can Igo watch him some more? And
I'm driving by and now it felloff and I'm slowly walking back like I
said, you were good. Iknow I wasn't necessarily riding with you,

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but I do need a ride now, so can I can? Please please?
You were the guy in a ninetiesrom com who didn't know he was
in love with the girl next doorlike you were. You would just you
were just come in every day,mat Anthony Edwards. Oh my god,
how amazing, He's great? Whatever, call Anythony. Town's playing great.
Listen. I don't like Rudy Gobert, but man, the stifle tower whatever.

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Like every day you had something greatto say about Minnesota. And then
I'm the I'm the like pudgy gaybest friend over here, like girl,
you love Minnesota? Come on,now, are you sure you talk about
them all the time? Dude?Look at the way you look at Anthony
Edwards. Come on, But Itrying to take my gay character in a
different direction. I don't know ifyou know, because how dare your stereotype

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gay people? How dare you verytwenty four of you? Look? Thank
you, thank you. I'm woke. I don't know what I have to
do to get angry emails. Huhgood kid, the Red Sox Minnesota.
Even though the younger fan, maybethe woke fan, the younger fan would

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say, Minnesota is all about dunksand Anthony Edward highlights and Adam Sandler movies
and Mike Conley being underrated. That'swhat Minnesota is all about. Karl Anthony
Towns. Mike Colly's been underrated forten years now. Yeah, like we
when are we ever gonna? Like? We all go that dude's underrated,
but no one again, just likeyou, You're looking at her like,
oh look at me. I lookat Karl Anthony Town's washing his car.

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Wow, Like it's you're in love. You already be in love with Michael
Conley. It's okay. Someone calledKarl Anthony Towns in the postgame press conference.
Somebody's uncle to Memorial Day cookout wearingflip flops. We're losing for twenty
years, Yeah, talking about likejust yelling at random people. Oh,
I get the hirer and hired higher. But that whole that the thing you're

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like, well, you usually haveto lose to get whatever what we just
lost? Like we lost it?Like oh my god, I was.
There's so much to like about.They're having fun, so their hoighlights,
they live on social they go.But why Minnesota is winning games and Anthony
Edwards wasn't great in that first half? Why they win games is how good
they are defensively. They're a fantasticdefensive team. And I know that's not

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gonna get the clicks and get peopleall worked up and have. They are
so good defensively. And here's whathappened in the game yesterday. They have
twenty one points scored with halfway togo in the second quarter. I remember
this because I'm like, that's gottabe twenty one. Like I just watched
the baser shoot seventy percent from thefield of the OL's got twenty one points
with eight minutes to go in thesecond That's how good defensively they were.

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And they knew that would be thegame play. They said, Okay,
Anthony Edwards, you're not gonna bea star on offense. Somebody's got to
guard Jamal Murray at some point inthis game. Jokic is fantastic. Murray
can get hot, but if someonejust slows down Murray, they can't have
Jokic make every single shot. MichaelForder Junior at one point was the number
one high school player in the country. Didn't play great at Missouri. I

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know he got hurt, still gotdrafted in the first round. Had some
moments. Same with Aaron Gordon,had some moments. NBA Champions. They
won it all last year. Iget that, But Minnesota said, let's
lock him up, let's play reallygood defense. We've got Rudy Gobert multiple
time. I believe only three playersin NBA history are four time Defensive Player
of the Year winners and will playdefense and win the game. That's what

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they did down by twenty on theroad to the defending NBA champions. They
got hot, they balanced it,they made it tougher in the fourth quarter,
and they got a balanced team.So I love this comparison somebody had
about Anthony and Edwards, and youknow, I think he's the modern day
Jordan. His style is much morelike Michael Jordan. That is Lebron or
Kobe or anybody else. But it'snot ninety six Jordan. It's not ninety

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eight Jordan. Beck. You mightremember this better than I do. This
is like late eighties Jordan, youknow, like the Jordan that was putting
up sixty point games against the Celtics. Mostly famous quote by Larry Bird a
god who was wearing sneakers against ustoday or something like that, or have
some variation of that quote. Soyoung Jordan when he's trying to get by
Detroit and trying to get by Bostonand he's in his early twenties, That's

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what Anthony Edwards is right now.He is the younger version of Jordan,
where he hasn't gotten the wins yet. He's got an incredible skill set,
he's still learning. He's really gooddefensively. So that's where we are in
his journey right now. I'm shockedthe Wolves are here. I'm shocked that
Timberwolves are able to get this goodthis fast. But we got a really
good matchup between the Timberwolves now theMavericks, who have now two of the

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most unlikable guys on their team.I can't stand Kyrie. We've covered that.
What happened to Luca, Like Luca. Luca has triple doubles. When
did he turn into lebron screw itthe rest after every Luca knock it off?
Gosh, man, wait, whatwould Adam Silver go back to his
home planet because he's clear on alienIf Minnesota and Indiana was the finals,

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he would leave right, he wouldhop on his thing and like Noah,
Nope, nope, didn't I almosthad Dallas and Boston. Nope, I'm
out. Did you see did Isend you the gift today? That's going
viral of someone wrote the conference finalcities are minnieap Minneapolis, Indiana. I
did it twice. That's the firsttime in the history of sports. I'm
having a rough day on the microphonetoday. The first time in the history

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of sports in Annapolis has a conferencefinal. So we'll go Indiana, Minnesota,
Boston. That combination plus Dallas andit was David Stern choking on a
water man because if David Stern thelake, David Stern would not have allowed
that. According to Twitter, no, no way, no way, not
a chance. Nick should have advancedif that was happening, all right,

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paces can't be Boston. I believeit was plus eight hundred plus seven to
eighty, depending on what app you'reusing. That's about the range of the
Cavaliers series. Who's got a betterchance of being Boston, Dallas or Minnesota?
Oo ooh, Dallas or Minnesota.I would lean towards Minnesota because their

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low post presence against an injured Porzingisand an old Al Horford who played really
good in the most recent game.I would say Minnesota has a better chance
to be Boston. I want tosee that more too. I mean,
there's younger. I think there'll bea lot more trash talk from them.
But what about Kyrie going back toBoston? Come on, that'd be fun,

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wouldn't it wouldn't it be a goodtime. How loudly they would boo
him, it would be all awesome. I don't want to have that happen.
You know what. Kyrie would makeit all about race, politics,
slat earth flat. I don't needthat. I'd rather watch Anthony Edwards dunk
on people or Rudy Gobert talks man. I don't need Kyrie. And like
Luke, Luca's great, Luca's afantastic player. Just can you calm down

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a little bit about and not?I've said this on the show before.
I like the competition when Brady andLebron like, you should want every call
when you're playing because you're being competitive. But Luca, can we turn it
down a little bit please? You'reyou're a likable guy. I like your
style, not every call, notevery single one. I think, well,

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I think, I think what you'reseeing. I think he's he's made
Kyrie more likable, and Kyrie's madehim less likable. I think they've kind
of found it. They found thatBatman and Robin common ground together. You
usually have to learn to live withit. You're just gonna have to learn
to live with I'm rooting for Minnesota. I want Minnesota. I like Minnesota

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in Indiana, but it's likely gonnabe Minnesota and Boston. You don't think
it could be Dallas in Boston.My heart tells me I don't want deaths
because, Yeah, because you finallyrealized that neighbor next door took the glasses
off, dropped the ponytail. Wow, she's been hot the whole time.
You finally realize you're in love withMinnesota. Did you find it weird that

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Mark Cuban was hugging the players eventhough like he's technically not the primary owner
anymore. Like he's got this weirdloophole where it's like I still own the
Mavericks but not that much, butI'm not really the boss, but I
still get through all the fun stuffthat I want. Yeah. No,
I hug our guys every time forthey go on play, because I thank
him for, you know, riskingeverything for us. I guess I should
have rephrased that, like Mark Cuban'sbeen the face of the Mavericks for a

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long time, him and Dirk,and I thought he was gonna take a
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you get to own the Mavericks andmake a ton of money and have less
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Global campus, we give our students. Credit credit it's Lovak and guzz on
the voice of the Capitol Regions SportsFan Fox Sports ninety five, nine and
nine eighty. As you, uhmay or may not know, I've been
I've been up against it. TodayWe'll say I've been having some some some

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issues, some details, some thingshappening, but I still feel like,
maybe, just maybe my day isbetter than Shohio Tani's. Is that Is
that a fair assessment? The Otanitake you've had may go down. I
don't know if it's your favorite take, but it takes that age. Well,
this one right now, Levac isaging very well. Let's reset it

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for those who might be enjoyed usfor those who don't know. One more
time on the Levaco Tani take.Then this goes back pre scandal, pre
betting investigations. This goes back tothe free agency with the dog. So,
for whatever reason, he wouldn't tellus where he was gonna sign,
he didn't want anybody to know whohe even talked to, whatever, And

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then he said his dog's name wasa clue. I guess somewhere like the
dog's name is like blue or somethinglike that, So it is Dodger Blue.
But I told you that I feelas though he is gonna go down
as the weirdest professional athlete the historyof mankind. I feel he is the
Michael Jackson of the MLB. Thenthe scandal happened, and then the interpreter

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Ippi looked to be the fall guy. And now there's more coming about this
over the weekend. This report comesfrom Yahoo's Sports. Yahoo Sports is reporting
that one of Otani's former teammates,David Fletcher, has now been involved in
this. He placed bets with bookmakerMatthew bo We're gonna called Boyer bow Yer

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a bookmaker. Does it even matterwhat his name is? I believe we
call him b money in the trades, right, So Fletcher also Colby Schultz,
who's a former Kansasity Royal minor leaguer. Fletcher, by the way,
is currently in Triple A Gwinnette,which is the affiliate of the Atlanta Braves.
So Fletcher, according to reports,placed bets on multiple sports, but

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not baseball. Illegal bookmakers forbidden byMajor League Baseball. Uh oh, somebody
popped up, all right, Soanother guy named David Fletcher is involved.
Well that's interesting, but let's takea little deeper. Into that. According
to Yahoo and also according to ESPN, Fletcher was with Otani for his entire
tenuere on the Angels, from twentyeighteen when they joined the team as rookies

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to leaving both at the end ofthe twenty twenty three season, and according
to some reports, Fletcher was knownto be one of Otani's best friends on
the team. Oh. Now,the Angels moved off of Fletcher's contract in
Decembers. He touched on there he'dearlier in his career five year, twenty
six million dollars deal in twenty twentyone as a catcher. Now Levac hearing

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these things that Otani's best friend onthe Angels for multiple seasons was also using
the same bookmaker was also placing illegalwagers. Uh, what is your take
on the details emerging involving this scandalinvolving baseball's best But some still say Otani's

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involvement was minimal. But so there'sno time Otani speaks some English, right?
I believe so? Because how doeshe have a best friend named David
Fletcher? Like was impy? Theone in between that too, like,
hey, show, how do youwant to get tacos? Later? I
would love to know, Hey show, Hey, but like I don't know

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ability to speak any former Japanese,Chinese, any pretty much any lanuage not
English. And then he back tohim, did like, did Ippy have
to translate all that too? Isthat how Ippy found out? What a
bet? Hey show, you shouldbet with this guy. He's really good.
And oh, I'll do that too. I don't know this again.

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I've always thought to show he hadtiny gamble I've on ever since this started,
I have thought he did. He'spart of it, you know,
Ipp, He's the good soldier.Pay me and I'll do it. I'll
lay down, I'll go away.And now that we're finding about mister Fletcher
as well, I feel like I'mattacking Yahoo Sports here. But I need
to read this word for a wordbecause when this comes back years from now,

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mark this article. Save the articleout today by Jack Bauer. Gosh,
I just butchered two names. BayerMan, I'm killing this five o'clock
hour here, Jack Bayer. JackBauer is a superhero. Jack Bayer had
these two interesting quotes quote while Tani'steammate popping up in the scandal involving his
former interpreter might raise some eyebrows.The details are reported don't really seem to

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change much of what's already known aboutthe Los Angeles Dodger stars involvement. It's
so interesting how much people like goTani because like, like I've I've always
had a little weird vibe on him, because you don't anybody you compared to
a Yankee. Great, they're undermy microscope. Like, I mean,
look, how long time for meto start liking Trout, you know,

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because he got he got compared tosomebody's Buster said he was better. Buster
only said he was better than MickeyMantle. This, so he's always been
under my microsrope. People want tomake excuses for him all day long.
I wonder if he was a Yankee, if they would still make excuses for
him. Uh, I would sayyes. I would say if anybody who's
this power internationally Yankees Met's Angels Dodgers, they would probably make excuse for me,

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Like I even have let me havethe second paragraph too, The federal
criminal can plan against Sara Also anIpi Mi Suhara, the interpreter, made
clear that the government considers Otani tobe a victim. Then he went on
reportedly agreed to plead guilty of bankfrauds subscribe you to a false tax return,
faces decades in prison. Otani consentedto federal agents searching his phone,

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which found no mention of any illegalgambling between him and me, Suhara,
Really, is it Tim Robinson whohas the gift? You sure about that?
You sure? Because now another teammatehas been busted for working with this
guy. So at this point,please, like, does anybody really,

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honestly with a brain in their headthink Otani didn't know what was going on?
Like you're telling me his two bestfriends on the team were legally placing
wagers with a book maker and Otanididn't know. Otani had no clue what
was going so they were having privateconference. Is he the Karen of the
friend group? Can you believe Otanathinks he's so good? I played,

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I hit and I pitched man Likewhat nobody thinks that Otani was? It?
Come on, write an article itsays he was involved a v and
flatcher? Who you guys tonight?You know I'm gonna bet the the Cowboys.
I like the Cowboys this one,and uh, you know, maybe
I'll take uh Scheffler in the uhin the PGA, Oh cool, and

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walks out Tani, what do youguys saw him about? Nothing? You
wouldn't care, you wouldn't enjoy it. Let's just get do another crunch loser,
like what there's no way? Likeall right? So like if if
you walked into a room Boston,Dan and I are talking about betting something,
guys walks in, what do youguys? What are you guys talking
about our side? Whether or notwe're gonna take the Rangers win the cup?

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That's and then that's like whether ornot you do it, but you're
gonna talk about it. This issuch a stupid comparison. But I've already
butchered two things in this conversation.Let's do a third. Now, the
movie Dewey Cox with Jen c Riley, that running gag in the movie.
Or they're like, Dowey, youdon't want any of this. It's dangerous
and like it's whatever it is,that's a dry right like that? I

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feel like was an otan you don'twant any of this? Show? Hey,
what are you guys doing? We'replacing illegal wagers on sports? What
you're doing? What? Like comeon? Like we went through this with
tea and the fake girlfriend we wentthrough. We went through this with Johnny
Manziel's like family was rich. Wehave the evidence in front of us that

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huh, well wait a second,everyone said he wasn't in Come on,
like at this point, if Otani, let me ask you this question over
under zero point five games, Otani'seventually suspended by Major League Baseball under they're
not gonna touch him. They're notgonna touch him. It's he's gonna have
to do. We're gonna have tofind out something so weird that they're gonna

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that people don't love anymore. They'renot gonna they don't want him. They
don't want him to be dirty.You ever, in a perfect world,
shoe Otani is Major League Baseball wayto sell Dodgers uniforms to every Asian child
across the planet, some of themthat they didn't make. That was wrong.
I'm sorry. Please send all complaintsto the guys that guy's mispronounced during

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the sexton Jack Bauer and Matthew Boyer. I don't even know my email anymore.
Man. It's it is. It'sit's amazing that they don't want they
don't want to believe he screwed up. They don't want to believe he did
it. They don't want this scandalat all, Like Pete Rose going wrong,
going I wish I had interpreters,is like that should be all it
took for them to go all right, We're sorry, We're gonna take a

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look. Here's what I'm confused by. So we found Fletcher, we found
me Suhara, we found the Ialready forgot his name, the Royals player
Schultz. So we're finding all thesepeople. So we figured out other people
who aren't as popular as Otani,but we have nothing on Otani? Nothing?
So was he that much smarter thanthem? Did he have someone place

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the bets for him? Did hereally just like? Was he that Dumb's
not the right wood phrases? They'relike, did he really not care?
Was it really just hear say thathis friends are placing wagers? They got
all right, cool guys? Oris he or is he legitimately smart enough
to never be the one who placesthe wager? Because if you're never the
one who does, if you giveenough plausible deniability, you know, even

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if they did, if they wentafter him right now, are all they're
going to find is that he thethat if he's one who did the betting,
and then every time he wanted tobet, he looked everyone, what
is the line on this game?And if he went so and so his
minus two forty? Oh yeah,you know what, put put five grand
on it? Okay, cool,done. People should care about athletes wagering

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on sports. I want to makesure, like it is extremely important.
Now they've claimed they haven't bet onbaseball. I do believe that there's no
reason for me to believe they havebet on beat baseball. If every report
says they haven't been on baseball,I won't I won't go a is that
far to just continue to wonder aboutthis? But we've seen it now,
Lavak, right, like Calvin Ridleywas suspended in the NFL. We've seen
athletes suspended. We saw the portersituation going on in the NBA. And

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I know, in comparison to ShoeHayotani, his name is far more popular
than those players. So for all, I understand that. But what if
they just said, you know what, show Aotani, we found evidence on
you. You're suspended now for MajorLeague Baseball for the next forty games.
They're like, well, breaking news, Dodger Stars show Ayotoni suspended by Major
League Baseball for forty games for workingwith an illegal bookmaker, and he placed

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wagers on European soccer, like withthe reaction be like, oh my god,
he's the devil. Ah, he'snot a bit like is it just
because it's baseball? And Pete Rose? Is it just because of the part
of it? Right? Like,the NFL has moved on from this.
Basketball has moved quickly and swiftly.With what happened with Porter. It is
Yontay Porter, John Te Porter underlike this feels like it's just because it's

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baseball. It's being treated far differently. Well, here's here's the deal.
Let's say that somewhere they know ifthey peel the too many layers off this
onion. He has bet on baseball. Let's say somewhere, if they peel
the too many layers of that onion, he bet against the Angels. Well,
now it's a lifetime banned, andthere's nothing you can do about it
because there's another guy who's been bannedfor life and he's the hit king.

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So it's not like you can go, well, we've never had to do
that before. So he's we bannedhim for a year and now he's back.
It's okay, No, no,no, he can't do that.
You have to you have to throwthe book. You have to because otherwise
Pete Rose goes sue the hell outof you, and he's probably gonna win.
I do like how some outlets andget credit to Yahoo in a combination

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of their reporting coming through ESPN.Other outlets today have used this phrase.
Major League Baseball has opened an investigationagainst David Fletcher, which makes it sound
a little bit more. I don'tknow which hunting maybe is not the right
term there, but it's like,hey, look, uh, we basically
did what we want to do withOtani. We gotta find some more people.

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Our story's not starting at up.Who else was his buddy on the
team? What's his name? Thecatcher? Fletcher? Yeah, in the
in Triple A. Let's see what'she's up to. Who else? Some
guy for the Royals? Can youchat it? Oh? Yeah, here
we go, Here we go.Making our case look a little bit better.
It feels like when you open aninvestigation of whoever Otani was hanging out
with, but don't pick Otani.I don't know if it makes it more

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obvious or less obvious. You're tryingto avoid the big target. It's so
it's so obvious to me. Butunless there's something just so diabolically obvious that
we can't ignore it, they're gonnaignore it. So here we are,
and it's kind of insulting. Now, like how many more people like does

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he need to be before it becomeslike insulting? Like an again, I
almost like, you know how tornI was before the Pete Rose interview when
we talked to Pete Rose. Ispent years of my life hating that man
because it's it's bad enough to cheatto win. That's bad. I don't
like it. I wouldn't do it, but it's a million times worse to

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cheat to lose. And in myhead, because you bet and everything else,
you may very well have cheated.You may have bet to lose.
And if you bet to lose,did you change the lineup that day?
Did you make a move too earlyor too late? Did you do something
to lose on purpose? But whenhe sat down across from us that he
owned it and he said, listen, ever hand a million bucks I did.

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I didn't want to lose it.I was like, you know,
what I'm okay with you, Likeit's a you spent enough time in jail,
you can come out now. Butlike, this is a guy everybody
likes and they just don't want todo it. They don't want to they
don't want to go after him.This is going to sound very mean,
but you listening will probably laugh andhopefully realize, welcome, guys. This

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is adulthood. This is what happensas you get older. I'm marvel at
how dumb the human race is.Every day. I'm marvel at how dumb
people are. I think I've foundout people being dumber through videos now like
we have the Internet has helped usrealize how dumb people are. It's truly
remarkable. Now. Social media isthe cause of this because if you put

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anything in a graphic or share itquick enough, people won't ever look if
it's true or not. I don'tknow. Saw it here on TikTok says
this is a two year old whodunks at a ten foot rim. The
graphic said two year old? Whatdo you mean they're lying to me?
I don't know. ESPN said,Otani wasn't involved. I don't know.
Manti Tale's girlfriends seem to be likewhatever is fat gosh. I can make

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this a political thing, but Idon't really feel like doing that. But
that's what I've found out. Thehuman race is actually dumber than I realized.
And there's days after days where that'sconfirmed. And this is what it
is, embarrassing insulting at this point. Please, if you think, oh,
Tony didn't wager on sports, Iactually want to have an adult,
normal human conversation with you. Ican grow on the DMS at Tom guys,

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t y g. It was easy. Butac europed into this too at
the Jeff Levac on Twitter. Allright, that's right, And by the
way, I did bet on baseball. You did, You're willing to admit
it right now? I did.I did, And as of this moment,
that's here's here's the interesting thing that'scoming up right right now. You
can bet on the i FL,you can bet on the Indoor Football League.

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You can't on the AFL yet,but there's gonna be a point where
you going able to bet on theAFL. I have zero control over whether
we want or not. But youwatched the sweet Game and tell me you
don't want to bet all many everyweek you and I are allowed guess what,
you and I are allowed to wagearound the games. I hope,
I hope. I mean you arebecause you're a commentator. You know how

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I may, I literally may notbe able to, like we have to
wait the hot Fiel league ruling,because it's only right, you know what
I mean. If you, I'llbe and I'll be perfectly honestly, I'll
push for a league ruling because ifI do, like you, go into
that game against Southwest Kansas, Iprobably would have made us a twenty two
point favorite, maybe more, andI would have taken this. Uh,
but you know, I need toknow if I can, just because there's

(28:17):
a little brotherhood. This is alittle too locker roomy talk, but it
is one of the first things Ifound out taking a job in sports media
that blew me away. That also, I thought, wow, this is
kind of cool. How many playby play broadcasters wager on the game they're
calling. I was stunned. Yeah, Like, I don't want to say
any names. That's not fair.I'm sure you could figure it out quick
enough. And it's broadcasters telling storiesabout other broadcasters. You would be shocked.

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But guess what they have great information. Why wouldn't they They have the
information, they're not influencing the game. So I was stunned by how many
broadcasters wager around the games they called. And then I thought, can you
start texting me more often and lettingme know what you know so I can
also wager on that game. No, they're not gonna do that. They
don't know how scar Jo feeling,by the way, love at She's amazing,

(29:06):
absolutely amazing. A lot of birddo do, though. I think
it's top Gunner. I think it'sthe West Texas Desert Hawks mascot has been
douking on my truck. I feelbecause they're that big. I uh,
I will tell you that this isthis week's game. Friday's game is sponsored
by Mohawk Chevrole. Oh very cool, Yeah, very very cool, very

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and Guzz on ninety five to nineFox Sports Radio DAP for the dip Tip

(30:33):
live from the GT Toys Dude,that's toys with a Z so I just
sent out a text message a seeyou know I need your help real quick.
Okay, I've never been on acruise. You been on a cruise?
I am. I was on acruise very young, though, like
twelve thirteen. Maybe would you goagain? I think I would go again.

(30:55):
I mean you view life differently asa twelve year old to like if
I went in college, I probablywould have it. If I'm going as
a parent now, i'd probably sayno, no, no, I'm not.
I mean, like I'm not bringingmy kid. Oh, if you're
going, this is probably it's closeto you a college the way I live
right now. If you're going kidless, even though your kid's grown now,
you're going just a solo trip ona cruise for how long? Much of
my friends it's like an eight dayeight days. Yeah, A bunch of

(31:18):
my friends are going on a cruisefor one of my friends, my friend
Selina's birthday, and a bunch ofmy friends are all going to go on
a cruise. So like, hey, you should go, and we got
a great deal and I went.I don't know about cruises. I'd love
to hang out with these guys.No, think I might do it.
Knowing you. It's all it's allinclusive. I would say your wheelhouse would

(31:38):
be a three to four day cruise. I think it. You think by
like six seven, I'm gonna beclimbing the walls. Yes, because you
don't like you don't like being crowds, you know, like being confined to
certain places. Your mind starts togo in different directions. Eight days would
be tough for you. I wouldput you as like a three four max
five day crew. I've been ontrips with you for seven eight days.

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You are ready to get out ofthat city by about j five. Yes,
you can't get off the cruise biltthat's true. I think I'm gonna
do it because and then I'll probablynever do another cruise again for the rest
of my life because it's the pricerange is right. It's it's like,

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when would it be January? Okay, so what would that mean? So
I missed a couple I missing Iprobably miss an NFL game. I'm thinking
in my head like if you wentin January, if you could time this
up where it's like if Lovac withthe final week of January and then flip
the around and then did New Orleansfor the Super Bowl because remember the calendar
is different this year. I believethe Super bowls on the ninth, so
we all so I would get backand then we would go basically potentially yeah,

(32:44):
because that would be what the seventhwould be a Friday, so the
third would be Radio Row week.So you could time this up where you
could go the final week of Januaryfor a cruise and then just say,
you know what, just drop meoff in New Orleans. This is gonna
save me a flight. Just justyou know, it's a buy you right,
just pull up the pull up theship right here. Aren't you guys
under water anyways? Let me out, guys, so nobody. Then it's

(33:08):
an even longer trip from al Moneyfor two. I would that's my recommendation.
I think you'd have a great time. You'd have a lot of fun.
Eight days is a long time.Yeah, five ports. I don't,
yeah, I don't. Let mesee, I'm probably gonna do it,
just because again, if I don'tdo this one, I probably never
do one. And and you heardwhat I've been through recently. So you

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and I were texting over the weekend, even though we weren't texting about cruises.
Actually we were at one point.I didn't give you any advice that
we'd say it for the air.Today. We talked about it on the
air. Uh, we both werewatching the Fury. Youchick, you sick,
You'll stick. I've heard about fivedifferent pronunciations of that guy's the last
name, who's now the lineal undefeatedheavyweight champion of the world. The first

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time in a decade and twenty fiveyears, I should say that we saw
two undefeated heavyweights battle it out forthe top prize. I know I usually
if I ask you a question,but I'm gonna cut you off. I'm
gonna go first. Here. I'ma big Tyson Fury fan. My house
is packed with Fury fans. They'reall my sister in laws. My brother
in law was a little confused byTyson Fury. I have questions more about

(34:15):
his life than anything else. Now, maybe maybe he shouldn't have brought the
beer. Now I'm considered what Iwas drinking if he didn't know what Tyson
Fury was. Anyways, Uh,Tyson Fury entertaining clowning in the ring.
The entrance is always great. Iwould say he probably lost that fight.
Now he did lose. It wasa split decision the standing knockdown in the

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mid rounds. He didn't hit thecanvas, but that the ducts a point
off the scorecard. So if onejudge didn't have that as a ten eight
round, it would have been adraw. Eh seven five six' six.
Here's the thing you have to rememberabout Tyson Fury. A lot of
fighters could do this game about theplay, but let's just go through it

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quickly. Okay, he becomes thingsbecause of the Clitch Goo fight. Really,
nobody knew who he was. Hewas a huge underdog. That fight
would put you to sleep. Iknow that because I've watched it pre Tyson
Fury popularity. I actually fell asleepduring the fight, that's how boring it
was. So then Anthony Joshua doesn'twant to fight him, so that's the
reason he fights Wilder, and he'sa big underdog in that fight. And

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that's the epic fight where Fury's winning. He gets kot in the eleven.
That actually doesn't because he gets up, but some officials would have stopped the
fight right there. That's a draw. You go watch Wilder Fury two and
three. There's a few moments inthose fights where the officials again could have
stepped in because Wilder's wailing on Fury. He gets knocked down a bunch,
so we can make an argument hecould have lost to Wilder the first time,

(35:44):
the second time, the third time, but a draw in two wins.
Then there's a fight in between.People don't remember where Fury was getting
ready for a fight with Joshua,and then things happened and Joshua got beat
by Ruiz that his cut was somassive on his eye that if it was
anybody but Tyson Fury, they wouldhave called the fight. People forget that.
Then he almost got upset. Itwas lost an eye, almost lost

(36:04):
an eye. Then he has thefight with France and Ghano a few months
ago where I was like, ohwin, it'll be oh uh, didn't
Ghana beat Fury? So he saidabout what was that? Five six fights
where he could have made arguing hecould have lost, and finally I think
he lost. Then Ghano fight wayworse than this one. I think I
would I have more of an argumentfor him beating You'll stick, yeah,

(36:29):
the little Stick, the Ukrainian nightmarethere than I do. I thought Gan
beat him. I thought, yeah, I think so. Alexander Yusik he
was better. But it was weird, dude, because there was it was
it was like two different fights.Like if if you ever see those old
magazine I think it was Mad magazine, where like you fold the cover and

(36:50):
it's a whole nother picture, Likewhen it's out wide, it's like a
big map, and then you foldit and it's like your mom, like
it's their face or whatever. Youknow, it was like that's what it
was. If you he took certainrounds out, you know, if you
half the rounds, it looked likeit was completely dominant from music. The
other half is completly dominant from Fury. But the way Fury reacted like I

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I didn't think Fury was ever inany real danger, Like it didn't really
feel like it. The lamest partabout that whole fight. I mean,
the under card was about six hourslong. If you're not a Fury fan,
the comments he said post fight werepretty lame. Oh my god.
I hold on though, if you'regonna do it, like if you're gonna

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say I really won that fight,go all in, like feelings be damned,
and he did it like your boyFury went well. You know,
there's a lot of people feel badfor him because of the Ukraine. And
I'm just like I kind of thought, like, I wonder, I wonder

(37:55):
how many people are rooting for himbecause of the blue and yellow, not
just because he's of who he isas a boxer. I thought it a
lot during the fight. I wascurious of it. And it's just like
for me, it's like a socialexercise, like how many people were like
because I also, for whatever reason, I had no idea how long YOUU
craz's been going on? Like itwhat four years now? Yeah? I

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mean it's the same time. Yeah. So the fact, like you said,
if you're gonna if you're gonna say, hey, I really won that
fight. You know, people ancall you a whimp liar this that they're
gonna trash it right, just callin, just be a full villain,
full heel. I won the fight. People are just being nice one because
he's from Ukraine. If they havea rematch coming in October. I just
I didn't react as much to thatcommon as most of the internet and sports

(38:38):
fans did. He's like, allright, he's already in entertainer mode,
he's already in promoter mode. Ifhe's got to be the bad guy the
villain for the fight coming up inOctober, to find a way to sell
more pay per views, get peoplemore interested in again, here's how you
do it. So I think Iunderstand the entertainment value. I know that
feels like how could he say sucha thing? Listen to what fighters say,

(39:00):
boxers UFC like they say some wildstuff to promote fights. So maybe
I took it more entertaining. Ifyou don't like Fury, you're like,
this guy's ridiculous. I want toremind people, for those who aren't the
biggest fight fans, one of themost gracious fighters in victory and defeat,
but more so defeat gracious when hedoes this is Connor McGregor. Like people

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know, Connor McGregor is the allbeen trash talker, the one fight that
people can look at. Thermalga madeoff fight, but remember it's Dermalga made
us people who jump into the octagon. It wasn't McGregor jumping out of the
octagon. He he has done thatbefore, but that was in a different
trash all though, Right right,So McGregor's always humble in defeat. Not
a lot of fighters are always likethat, So yeah, I get it.

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I think it was more about sellingthe next pay per view than maybe
not accepting lost one of his career. The only time McGregor was really who
was it? I can't geez Whenhe stepped back, he broke his ankle.
Oh gosh, why am I blanking? I Michael Chandler, not Eddie
Edwards, not Cowboy Serony, notalthough oh gosh, I can't not down

(40:07):
Serony. Oh gosh, I'm gonnahave to look at it too here,
not Leon Edwards. Oh my gosh, how do we both fumble that?
Levac? I can see him.I can see him. Dustin Poirier,
Oh yeah, Poory, that onehe was little but I but again,
if there's one where you have adecent excuse, you stepped back and I
didn't have a milk in training camp, Like, I don't know what it

(40:29):
was. My leg just snapped likethat's that one. That's probably the worst
he's ever been in defeat. Didyou see Jake Jillenhall this weekend on SNL?
Was that a real sketch, theone about Scooby Doo. Yeah,
Oh my gosh. I thought theywere like someone like CGI that Well,
how they get allowed on television?Oh my gosh, that is like rated
NC seventeen. That skied Little Dark, Little Dark Little in the in his

(40:52):
monologue because it was the forty ninthup, it's the forty end of the
forty nine season and he says,the forty nine the number Conna McGregor accidentally
hit me while we were while wewere filming rode out. He's like,
what do you not the times Ihid from Connor mcgure because I'm actually afraid
of him. No, I gottago back and watch that. Ryan Gosson
might have been an all timer,so Steve Gillen Hall. But that's sketches,

(41:15):
just dark. There's a couple ofreally good sketches. But I didn't
get to watch the whole thing again, I was My weekend was a little
scattered. I don't want to makethis about disappointment on a Monday showing man,
but you are disappointed in Tyson Fury, Disappointed in Tyson Fury as we
talked about in the show, disappointedin the Knicks and the Fireals. Wanted
to see different endings for that.H two other ones to add the list.

(41:36):
We're not going to see a runat the Triple Crown at the Belmont
at Saratoga sees the Gray the winnerin the Preakness stakes, even though Mystic
Dan didn't feel like the horse tobeat. That doesn't happen. So I
find that disappointing. I will dothe disappointment rankings quickly. What disappointed you
more? The fury finish, MysticDan not having an opportunity to run for
the Triple Crown at the Belmont ina few weeks here at Saratoga. Oh

(42:00):
A, Scottie Scheffler, in thewords of Cody Rhoades, not finishing the
story melting down. Yeah, youknow, I don't even know if we
call it a meltdown because it's oneof the lowest scores. I believe it
is the lowest score ever in thehistory of a Major. At least combine
all the golfers. Zan Man,as I call him, soft greens,
they're able to control the bounces.Which one of those disappointments you the most?

(42:21):
That Scheffler didn't finish that off,or that we won't see a triple
Crown run or fury possible. ObviouslyI only lost like fifty bucks on the
horses. It was a little bitmore than that. I'm not on Sky
Scheffler, So I'm gonna go PGA. PGA was most It's morning to me.
I just I loved that story.I mean the way he played on

(42:44):
Friday, where he's you know,he's he's aware while I'm holding that he's
gonna need the golf begins stretching inhis orange jumpsuit in a jail cell to
get ready for the For the mattermine, I would go. I would
go with the Preakness, just becausethat would have been such a fun storyline

(43:08):
to say I was there when MysticMystic Dan ran nurse your rhyme there.
Clearly we can say I have twoToddler's working on rhymes this week of that
happening. However, maybe both thingswere better like there would have been,
unfortunately for both Scotti Scheffler and forMystic Dan some big old asterisk next to
their accomplishment, because the haters ofScotti Scheffler would have said, oh you

(43:31):
mean the tournament they delayed so wecould play, Oh you mean, dude,
everything like the haters were gonna comeout for Scottie Scheffler and Mystic Dan.
What was he supposed to do?Like if he ran for the triple
Crown at Saratoga and he actually wonthe triple Crown. Oh what do you
do it with the real Belmont mileand a half? Like the haters would

(43:53):
have come out very similar to thelaw when the COVID season happened, of
how do you view that legacy andeverything else? I know those storylines are
coming, So maybe we benefited fromnon negativity creeping into the summer storylines.
But I was more disappointed in MysticDan not having a better show it in
that race. Even even if MysticDan lost by like a head or it

(44:14):
was a great battle, you couldhave had the classic rematch with Sometimes we've
seen in horse racing man a weekendwith so much hope and promise for Capitol
Regions sports fans, and so manydifferent storylines that could have been didn't So
much fun could have been was not? No, Yeah, I just I

(44:35):
said the I blocked a lot ofit out already because of the way my
brain has been battered during the lastcool days. So like I'm trying,
there's given me a point where Iget to, you know, you said
the next thing, I'm gonna getto what a great season. I'll get
there eventually. The Tyson Fury fight. That was more disappointing for you than

(45:00):
me, because I know how muchyou loved that guy. I felt like
it was a stupid loss. Buthe is such a weird dude. If
he could stop flipping his tongue aroundin public, that'd be great trying to
lick other fighters. The horse racing, and like I said, I just
for whatever reason, I'm not asdialed in as I usually am, which
is hysterical. It's gonna be thebiggest year of horse racing in the history

(45:20):
of Upstate New York. But wehave the Belmont and the Travers and I'm
over here right now going I'm alittle busy. I'm not really paying attention.
I gotta get better at that.And then the PGA man that Scheffler.
You know, I'm a Brooks Koepkafan, so I would have liked
seeing that. To have to haveBryson D. Chambeau kind of win the
weekend, not winning the winning thetournament, because that's the other thing,

(45:42):
too, is if you look now, everyone likes Bryson D. Schambau all
of a sudden, So like myfavorite golfer's nemesis is having a great weekend.
The dude that I thought was gonnawin. The two dudes I thought
were gonna win, one didn't finish. One like Pseudo collapsed because I thought
John Ram was so ticked off afterbeing told like this, that and the
other thing. I thought he wouldhave a good, good out and he

(46:04):
even make the cut. You know, it was Yeah for me, it's
PGA. It's so weird if youwent and told twenty five year old Jeff
that at some point forty seven yearold Justs can be very disappointed by a
PGA weekend. He's looking to go. You've bet a lot, didn't you.
He's gonna know right away sports majoringslegal then cool? Right, Wait,
I'm gonna wrager on golf? Ohno, yeah, I mean it's

(46:25):
the only way don't enjoy golf.LOVC We are live on location tomorrow.
We are back in Mohawk Conda threeto six, a new ride. I
might be driving around a new vehicletomorrow. This remote just so we could
so we can pick up your car. Thank you to everybody who's gonna be
out tomorrow, who joins us.Last through what you guys said about me

(46:45):
yesterday on the FIREBIRS broadcast. Youscheduled a Honda remote to pick up your
car. You and Andrewson tellow fatshame in me. I think every week
they just do Flock University for whateverkind of food Lavac wants to eat that
week, Gino's pizza this week?Is it? Yeah? All right?
Hen might's stop over. I don'tknow if you're welcome. What, yeah,

(47:08):
you go? You just go toHonda. We have some potential breaking
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Let's put it like that. MohawkattaTuesday, Envy Perrena Friday, No
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