July 17, 2024 • 38 mins
Brian Noe & Eddie Garcia talk about the All-Star Game, what worked and what didn't. The explanation from country singer Ingrid Andress for her national anthem disaster, the disastrous performance from #2 overall pick Alex Sarr and how it didn't even move the needle, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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the way tire buying should be. So, Eddie, I caught
a little bit of the All Star game. I had
the whole game on, but you know, I was busy
and I wasn't glued to the TV the whole time.
But safe same same thing.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, I was glued at the start because we talked
about yesterday. I wanted to see Paul Skeens. Yeah, and
he did get to face Aaron Judge. Witch was school
and has won any of work. But that's what I
was lucked in for that. And then afterwards monitored.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, right, same thing here where look, man, it was
funny too because Juan Soto he walked and so we
got the matchup of Skeens facing Aaron Judge and it
was like all right, here we go. And it was
one pitch he grounded out like the ad bat was
over before you knew it, so it was anti climatic.
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But I gotta say, Eddie, I much prefer this being
an exhibition game, cause it's more fun that way, right,
Like some of the miked up conversations were fun. It's
just looser. I hated that home field advantage would go
to the winning league based on the All Star Game.
I always thought that was stupid. I'm glad that it
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doesn't mean anything now, right like just time it counts,
that was the whole slogan. I'm much happier with it
being an exhibition I think it's a lot more fun
that way.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I mean, I agree, I don't know if if it's
necessarily more fun. I just thought it was a total
overreaction to, you know, what was obviously a rare event
where he had to tie. You know, it wasn't what
you wanted. But I thought it was, just, like I said,
way over the top to actually tie something as important
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as home field advantage in the World Series to what
happens in an exhibition game. I just thought that was silly.
So I'm glad they've done away with that for sure.
And yeah, I think that they've they've done a bit
of a better job with I think the player just
telling the players, hey, let's make sure we take this seriously,
and you know not, I know, they try their best
to get everybody in the game and use a lot
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of pictures and all that kind of stuff. Is fine.
I have a problem with that. But yeah, overall it
was it was it was a good game. It was
fairly entertaining. I's still the uniform thing is still a thing.
I just I just hate it. But you know, I
don't know, there's got to be something better they can
do than that, because you know, like when you are
monitoring like you and I were, and you glance over,
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you're like, who the hell's hitting? Like if you know that,
you know guys in a guardian's uniform or whatever, at
least that gives you a little bit of a quick
reference as to you know who that is. Maybe that
kind of thing, I just you know, I mean, I mean,
maybe a Major League Baseball doesn't like the selling point
that well, you can be more casual in watching the
game and kind of figure out what's going on as
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the selling point for doing that, I just but it
just looks weird and I I'm just not a fan.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, I think I would do the exact opposite of
what they are doing, where everybody has the same uniforms.
Like let's just take the National League, same uniforms, but
they'll have the logo. Let's say there's a player from
the Cubs, right, so the Cubs logo is on the sleeves,
and then they have a Cub's hat. But it's like,
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I would do the opposite. I would have like a
full Cubs jersey just with all National League hats, you
know what I mean. I think it just catches your
eye better that way, where it still looks a bit uniform.
If you make the hats look drastically different between the
AL and the NL, and you just have everybody wear
their normal jersey, I think that's better. They've done that
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before in the All Star Game. I think it looks
better that way, because, yeah, you gotta squint a little
bit and you're like, wait a minute, who is this
guy gonna? If you see a Yankee wearing pinstripes, you're like, oh, okay,
I get it, I know who this is. I would
do it now. I'm with you on that. I think
you should have the players you use their actual uniforms
instead of wearing these boring NL and AL uniforms. It'd
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be one thing if they were like really jazzed, uh
they're like really snazzy new school uniforms or something. They
look very very boring and dull. So I don't think
they did themselves any favors that way.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, maybe you could, you know, trying to get both
sides happy, because obviously they want to sell product. Maybe
you could have a special uniform for each team, but
it's still their uniform, right, it's still their colors, they're
still wearing their hat, but you do something to it
to make it special, so you know that this is
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an All Star uniform, you know, if you're buying it,
if you want to get that special All Star uniform,
but it still is in the spirit of what those
teams unifor are now mean. Yeah, that would be to
me a compromise where you can still recognize immediately what
team that guy plays for, but it's also something different
and special that you could sell.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Right if it was like, I'm a Cardinals fan, right, Eddie,
So if it's a Cardinals uniform and it's got some
type of All Star game patch, I'm much more likely
to buy that jersey than I am like this generic
National League uniform with the guy's name on the back
and the number. It's like, who's buying that? You think
you're gonna bump into people wearing like National League and
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American League jerseys. No, for the All Star Game. I
don't think that's the case. But it was fun. I
enjoyed it. You had Jared Duran from the Red Sox.
He was named MVP, hit a two run homer, a
lot more scoring than was expected. Right. The total, if
you're into that sort of thing, Eddie was seven and
there were three runs scored right away. Otani went yard
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three run homer, and then the American League came right
back they scored three or vice versa. The American League
came right back, they scored three runs. So you normally
don't see six runs and basically one inning right there.
But I thought it was fun. I give it a
thumbs up. Across the board. We did get Eddie related
to the All Star festivities, we got an apology. Yeah,
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so this might have been the biggest news with all
the All Star festivities. It was the national anthem gone wrong.
You see this the follow up to it, Eddie? Yes, yeah,
so our girl Ingrid andres she messed up the national
anthem pretty badly before the home run derby on Monday.
Just so we're all on the same page, Eddie, not
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for anything, you know, dramatic effect, a bit of the
rendition from Ingrid on Monday. Yeah, the crowd whoa not
exactly hitting the high notes there? Well, she came out
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with the statement, Eddie. In an apology, she wrote, I'm
not gonna bes y'all, I was drunk last night. I'm
checking myself into a facility today to get the help
I need. That was not me last night. I apologize
to MLB, all the fans and this country I love
so much for that rendition. I'll let y'all know how
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rehab is. I hear it super fun XO Ingrid. So hey,
listen up, we're pulling for her. I believe her that
she had a few before the anthem. It definitely sounded
that way.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
But explains it. It certainly explains a little bit of it.
If she's hammered, then yeah, sounded like somebody drunk singing.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It did sound like that. It definitely had that effect.
So look, if she really does need this help, I
hope she gets it and I hope she's all good.
I do find this funny, though, Eddie, because some people
rushed to her defense and we're saying, oh, I mean
the Global Life Field. This was the Athletics, Levi Weaver. Okay,
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so rushing to the aid of Ingrid. This is an
independent singer and songwriter right rites for the Athletic and
admitted that Global Life Field doesn't boast the best acoustics. Okay,
this is what Weaver wrote. This is after Ingrid butchered
the anthem on Monday. I toured for ten years as
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a musician, and if you offered me a shot to
sing in this place, I would give it a hard pass,
hard pass. It's hard to sound good in there. So
uh ever tried to blame it on the field over there.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, I'm sure you know, if a true professional singer
was in there, it would sound just fine. I'm sure
They've had plenty of anthems at Globealife Stadium, probably one
for every home game, right, and I'm guessing they all
most of them sounded pretty good, So I'm not buying it.
Although I have long been critical of the pre recorded
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national anthems, which do happen mostly at the super Bowl
from what I understand. Famously, the Whitney Houston amazing rendition
in the Super Bowl in Tampa was actually lip SYNCD
and she recorded that, which took a lot of the
luster off it for me. But I've always said, look,
if you're a professional singer and they're paying you, I
guess the super Bowl they don't pay them? Is that
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the legendary story. They don't actually pay them to do
it in the super Bowl because they're getting so much
off of it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I know that's for the halftime.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Okay, maybe it's not the anthem. You're right, maybe it
is halftime. But regardless, I've always thought, if you're the
Superstar and you're being paid to sing the anthem, to
not actually sing the anthem is bull crap. Yeah, but
this is an argument for the other way. I guess, right,
if you're saying, well, something goes wrong and blah blah blah,
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then this would be an argument the other way. But
I still I still want them to actually sing it,
even if they screw it up in that dead Look,
this brought a lot of attention to the All Star Game.
Whether whether it was good or bad, we're talking about it,
so there's always that.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, not all bad for MLB. I'd argue, not all
bad for Ingrid. I didn't know this. Did you know
her before? I didn't either. She's got some really popular songs.
Depending on the music that you listen to or the
genres that you're into.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Well, if you believe there's no bad publicity, then I
guess you would agree with that. But I'm not somebody
who believes that. I think sometimes bad publicity is bad
and it hurts your career. And I know she's come
out with this statement now, and you know, hopefully, I
don't know what should I say. Hopefully she's telling the truth,
because if I say that, then I'm hoping that she
actually has a problem. But I mean, I mean, I
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hate everything as a conspiracy. But you know, let's be honest, ive,
if she were going to make a play to explain herself,
this is the perfect play because now she generates sympathy
for herself and she's explained why it was so bad.
It's not because I'm a talentless you know nothing. It's
because I was drunk. So I mean, it is a
smart play. If it was a play, I don't know
if it is or not, but yeah, I don't know.
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I don't think this like, because look, if you're someone
who was on the fence about seeing her perform, I'm
probably not gonna go see her now because she was terrible.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Wit So wait, you think she's just gonna be hammered
every time she's going to rehab?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You know, Yeah, I'll tell you this doesn't help. It
doesn't help her in any way.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Are you gonna go see her in concert because you
felt sorry for Well maybe you would because you feel
sorry for Brownie James, So maybe you would do that.
I don't know about I would not.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
We are gonna get back into no God, but there's
this story that we have to get into around the quarter.
You'll actually enjoy this, But I'm with you. Let meet
you halfway. I think there are times, definitely where there's
such a thing as bad publicity. Yes you're getting talked about,
Yes your name is being discussed, but this is overall
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a bad thing that absolutely happens from time to time.
But I think this with Ingrid and she's going to rehab. Yeah,
she screwed up the anthem, but it's not the like
the biggest black stain on her career, and I think
there are a lot of people like you and me.
We didn't even know about her now we do now
going forward, if she's I don't know, she's on the
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Country Music Awards and they're like, hey, performing live Ingrid Andres,
we're gonna be like, oh, it's the girl from the Anthem.
I want to see how she sounds right now. I
don't think this hurts her at all.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I would be like, well, first of all, I wouldn't
be watching that show, but it just it will just
for the sake of argument, I'd be like, wow, let
me see what else is on. I don't need to
hear this, you know. I don't want to say There's
some things I could say on one day.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But I hear you. I just think it helps her notoriety,
that's all I mean. I think that her fans aren't
going anywhere, and I think people like you and me
are at least aware of her. I don't think that's
a bad thing, you know. I don't think it's just
like a boycott across the country where they're like, screw
this girl, I'm out from now on because she messed
up the Anthem. I think people are more times than
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now they're having fun with this. We're like, yeah, she
screwed it up, hopefully she gets clean. I think that's
largely the feeling. All right, We got a lot to
do here, Eddie. Of course ball is on the menu.
Football that's right, meaning football. We're getting closer and closer
training camp right around the corner, preseason, the real season.
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So there's some interesting stuff to talk about. Trade request,
a trade denial, A couple of the stories that we'll
get into. One that I think is fantastic here non
ball meaning football here, this is one of the greatest
examples of sugarcoating your true feelings, and it is so weak.
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Speaker 5 (15:12):
Though.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You know, I would like to do a deep dive
on uncrustables here in a little bit, Eddie, because we
had an interesting conversation off the year, and we'll bring
onto the year of course, feel free, Malard Militia, not
just on uncrustables, anything else on your mind eight seven
seven Fox. I would imagine Marcel's team on crustables. I
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would think he'd be big on that. We'll get to
that in a few minutes here, Eddie, but let's play
this off first, because this is one of the greatest
examples of sugar coating your true feelings. So Jalen Brown
of the Boston Celtics Just Want a Championship was just
named Finals MVP. He was sitting courtside at a Summer
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League game recently and he was seen telling the people
next to him, I don't think Bronnie is a pro.
And so the video blew up. We're talking like eighty
thousand likes in that neighborhood on Twitter, and so Jayleen
Brown he felt the need to sort of clarify and
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he posted this again. He's seen in this video saying
I don't think Bronni's a pro. The follow up tweet
is it's a flex to have your son alongside you
in the NBA. It reflects greatness and longevity. Bronni has
all the tools around him to be successful. I look
forward to watching his growth. What how could you go
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from one video I don't think he's a pro to
that being the follow up tweet that is sugarcoating. If
you look up sugarcoating, there's got to be a picture
of Jalen Brown there. What is that, Eddie? I just
want to if you think Bronni's gonna think, just say it.
Don't sugarcoat. It's always got it, all the tools around him.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
We just don't say anything. Just let you know the
video you speak for itself. I mean, if it's not
like he's you know, a teammate of lebron or something,
or I guess a potential teammate of Bronnie. Right. If
that were the case, then you could understand the spin.
Then you don't want to create any friction in the
locker room and blah blah blah. But yeah, I mean,
you know you're a Celtic. What the hell are you
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care what the Lakers do? As a matter of fact,
you're supposed to hate them. I mean, they probably don't anymore,
because that's just the way it is in sports these days.
But I would have just said nothing and you know,
walked away from it. Now, maybe he gets asked the
question at some point if he does a podcast or something.
But now there's there's no need to Uh. If you
really feel that way, which I'm sure he does, then
there's no need to to sugarcoat it.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah right, I don't understand why you would walk it
back like that. You know, it's a great example, right
if this is a teammate, especially fine, right if you're
caught on camera saying the wrong thing about a fifty
fifth overall pick where you're like, I just don't think
this guy has the goods. Yeah, you got to walk
that back if that's your teammate, but that's your rival.
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I just don't understand that unless he just doesn't want
to upset lebron That to me has a lot more
to do with Lebron than Bronni. Why would Jalen Brown
care if Bronnie's not gonna be my friend right now?
Let me let me talk him up over That just
doesn't make any sense. I'm with you, man. I would
either say nothing and just let it speak for itself,
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or if someone pressed me and said, hey, did you
say this? If I'm gonna say anything, I'd be like, yeah,
I said it, because that's what I think. I don't
understand the need to just spin it this way. What's
the gains? It's silly to me, but I think that's
where we are, Eddie. There are a lot of people
that they're not saying what they truly feel about Bronnie James,
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and that's weird to me. I always want your true opinion.
I don't want the sugar coated version. I don't want
the hey, I'm trying to maintain relationships version. I want
to know what you actually think. And we're not getting
that with Jalen Brown on this one, not at least
in the follow up tweet. I think we got it
in the first video. Yeah, not in the follow up tweet.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
No, I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, there was somebody else who had a Bronnie James
like performance on Tuesday Night. How about this, Eddie, So
your number two overall pick with the Washington Wizards, our
guy Alex sar he was oh for fifteen from the
field against the Blazers. Yeah, zero points, oh for fifteen. Now,
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how would you feel about that? That's your number two
overall pick, Eddie. Not over not good, not good.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I mean, I know it's a meaningless game, but I
don't know how you you spin that maybe Jalen Brown
could triggercoat it somehow and say, well he got a
lot of good shots off.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah right, yeah, exactly well the party said, he said,
uh oh, he's he has all the tools around him
to be successful, you know. And you could say that
about Alex Sarr as well. I look forward to watching
his growth. Alex Sar's got to grow from over fifteen
in a summer League game. There, right, that's a brutal now, Eddie,
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I promise you this is not me picking a fight.
All right. You might not believe me, but this is true.
I would just like to point out the number two
overall pick went over fifteen in a summer league game,
and exactly nobody cares. Nobody's crushing the guy. Nobody's heavily
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criticizing him.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Because nobody knows who this guy is. I don't have
no idea this guy is. Is he a European player?
Do he play college? Yeah? There you go. Nobody knows
who he is. Kind of hard to get Dalla worked
up over somebody you don't know who.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
He is, that's right, but he's the number two overall pick,
and that blows my mind that we're getting wall to
wall reaction coverage, you know, positivity negativity, it's twenty four
to seven with your mind. It does blow my mind
because he's the fifty fifth overall pick. I know, he's
Lebron's kid.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, that might be an important factor.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
It is, it's a huge factor. I understand that it's
a story, but it's NonStop coverage. It blows my mind
that fifty fifth overall is getting fifty times the coverage
as the number two overall guy. The number two overall
guy is a non story. It doesn't even move the
meter at all.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, I'm not surprised at all by that. That doesn't
surprise me one bit. I mean one guy is known
and the other guy is not known.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Now he doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
But if he turned it turns out to the next
Darko Milicic or something, then that that'll be a story.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
How has he done in his other Summer League games?
Has he been good in his other Summer League games?
I don't know, Maybe.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Has been better. He's had at least a game that
was much better than this one. Okay, Tuesday night.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
So this is just an embarrassing game then for him?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah, yeah it is, but it's a little bit nuanced, right,
Like I understand that Bronnie is going to get a
lot more coverage for obvious reasons. I'm just surprised that
zero for fifteen in a summer league game from the
number two overall pick, Like the meter isn't even moving barely,
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you know what I mean, it's just stuck all the
way on the left and not moving a bit. That
that part surprises me, that we don't get a little
bit like this isn't a one or two on the meter,
it is a z row. That part is is kind
of surprising to me. It's just odd to me that
a pick that high could have so little effect on
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anything basketball related or the sports world. It's just it's
just me, you know what I mean, it's flatlining here.
It's crazy to me.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Over fifteen, it's not crazy to me.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
No, not at all. Huh.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I guess if we knew who he was baby, But
we don't know who the guy is, no idea this
guy is. It's not like when you and I were
young and we actually knew the top you know, ten
picks or more in the NBA draft. I mean, I
know when I saw the list of the guys who
were going to be invited to attend the draft in person.
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I think it was like fifteen guys and I had
heard of two of them. M I just don't know
these guys anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, that's hey, man, it's the international players are getting.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well it's not just that, though, it's not just that.
That's part of it. But yeah, Also, there are no
real college stars anymore. I knew one, maybe two college
players by name, and they're just you know, they're the
really good guys aren't going to college, or the ones
that are there, they're there briefly, even the ones that
aren't good or briefly if you talk about Ronnie James.
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But I mean, there's no college, really college stars anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Well, that's the thing, is uh. If we're talking international players,
have you ever because I haven't, Eddie, have you just
checked out an international game where there's an NBA draft
prospect hooping it up? Have you just like, hey, let
me check out some French hoops over here. I hear
this guy Alex Saar might be a top five pick.
(24:12):
I've never done that.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
But well, if you've never done it, you know I'd
never done it because I don't give a crap about
the NBA, so I mean, we'll put it in. We'll
put it in my wheelhouse. Have I ever watched a
international hockey game to check out some hot shot? No,
I have not. I don't even know where I would
watch that. First of all, somewhere on the internet, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
I don't know either someone's IG live. I don't know
where I would go for that. But yeah, it's I
watch college hoops because I bet college hoops, you know.
And I'll watch March Madness because I love March Madness.
And I'll see some players like Reed Shepherd some other
guys that got drafted, and I'm like, oh, okay, good,
I'm familiar with him. I'm not familiar with Alex Saar
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or the number one pick. I can't even pronounce his name,
Recharche or something. I No, I don't know this guy.
But still, even though we're completely unaware, he still is
Alex Ar the number two overall pick. And it's it
just it does. It's not flooring to me, but it
is a bit surprising that the number two overall pick
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doesn't move the meter at all, and Bronnie James is
moving the meter. It's the exact opposite it's all the
way to the right, like it is redlining, Like, well,
you can't get enough of it. It's wild to me,
but that's where we are right now.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, I don't, I don't. I don't think it's wild.
It doesn't surprise me at all. People have polarizing opinions
about right, Bronnie James. He's done something that is controversial.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
So fair, But put it this way, who is more
likely to have an actual impact in the NBA? Is
it Alex Sar or is it Bronnie James.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I would think it's Alex R because he's probably gonna.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yes, it's one hundred percent. And Alex Sar so a
guy that could actually get meaningful minutes, that could if he,
you know, develops the right way, he could make a
real impact. It's got it at least a shot to
do that. He doesn't move the meter at all. The
guy that was lucky to get drafted and because his
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dad is an NBA superstar, right the guy doesn't even
belong in the NBA right now, and yet we can't
get enough of him, Like, the chances of Bronni making
an actual difference in the NBA are so low, So
that's the part that I mean Eddie is like Alex
Sar could actually be a player. Bronnie I don't think
ever will. And we're spending all of our time on
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Bronnie and we just don't care about the dude that
could actually make an impact. That's that's crazy to me,
but hey, I understand it.
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Speaker 2 (26:58):
Back to the NFL, where wide receiver Devonte Adams agent
says that the trade rumors are baseless and unfounded speculation.
He says there have been no trade talks with DeVante
Adams and the Las Vegas Raiders. Of course, right this
is all stemming from the Aaron Rodgers comment about getting
to play with Davante again and speculation maybe he was
(27:21):
going to trade him to the Jets, but agent says no.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Agent says no, a lot of speculation right there. I'm
hoping he gets traded. I don't want him to just
be awesome on the Raiders, who are going to win
maybe six or seven games this year. I'd much rather
see him with the Jets. That'd be way more fun
as an NFL fan and I'm a Dolphins fan, Eddie.
But are you a bigger NFL fan than a Steelers fan?
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Because I'm a bigger NFL fan than a Dolphins fan,
and I love my fans.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
No, no, I'm not. I certainly NFL, college football, and
NHL I do. I will watch and more football. I
will watch whatever the biggest games are for the week.
In baseball, and I'm a lukewarm baseball fan, I will.
I'm more of a team fan than I am a
(28:09):
baseball fan. I don't you know Yankees, Red Sox play
each other. I don't care any more than I would,
you know, Royal Shreins or whatever. But but I do. Yeah,
I do like to watch whatever like the big game
is that there's a big matchup coming up in football,
college football, pro or hockey. I will. I will definitely
check that out. But no, I am more of a
fan of my teams than I am generally speaking the league.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, it's only the NFL for me. I don't think
there's anything else where. It's my team above the league
as a whole. But the NFL is different. I love
I've loved the Dolphins since I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
You know I love them, but let me test Let
me test out that theory. If the Dolphins are playing
a random game and there is like some super super
you know, a list NFL game, You're gonna watch that
game over the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Game, I would go side by side, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
All right, you have to pick, though I don't.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I don't do I I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
For the argument, I'm saying you have to pick. I'm
testing how you know your loyalty to the NFL over
your team.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Okay, so I don't. I'm not avoiding the question. Give
me record wise, how bad are the Fins at that stage?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I will say, you know, five hundred, not terrible.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Not kay, And this this game is a Blockbuster game.
This other game right, yeah, yeah, I'm watching the other
game and I'm flipping over to my Fins. If I
had to, I would absolutely watch them both. But if
I had to pick, I would go with the Blockbuster game.
All right, Yeah, you would love this. Back to my
Fresno days, Eddie, when the Dolphins were one in fifteen
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in O seven, that was the same season the Patriots
went sixteen to oh in the regular season. But I
would go to a sports bar in Fresno and toward
the end of the season. Every week it was like
he was watching this Dolphins game and I'd have to
sheepishly just raise my hand, like, dude's me, you know,
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still a fan.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Was it was it the World Sports Cafe.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
No, it wasn't. That's oh gosh, that was Tim McDonald's place.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yes, yes it was.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he got mad at me after a
high school game. Yeah, he got upset at me. I
just asked him a random question about was he surprised
his team got tackled in the end zone for a safety?
He just goes stupid question and whatever the follow up
question was, he just walked away while he was mumbling,
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like the freaking media guys or whatever. I don't know.
I thought it was hand We asked the heart hitting questions,
you know, especially at that time. But no, it was
Bjay's brew House is where I would go to at
that time, and man, they hated me, you know, drinking
my dues, asking for refills of do Will, just sitting
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there for the early and afternoon games. They hated me
over there, but I didn't care. I'm going to watch ball.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
We got some news here on Poppy's prediction from yesterday
half right, half wrong, So we'll have that around the corner. Also, Eddie,
I feel like we have to do maybe a medium
dive on something in the food world that I'm actually unexperienced.
(31:34):
I don't have experience here inexperienced. We'll see where you
come out on this but interesting discussion off the year. Melissa,
You're more than welcome to get on in here. Eight
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Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, so Eddie, last night, our guy Poppy checked in
and talked about Matas Matas Matas, right, yeah, the Bulls
lottery pick now did some crack research over here because
we weren't quite sure how to pronounce his last name, right,
So this is version one Bozalis, so we went boo
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Zellis right now, this is Mark Jones and how he
says its jealous. He just goes Buzzellis. So I don't
know if it's Boo or buz uh. But Matas played
pretty well on Tuesday night Summer League Action. Eighteen points
four blocks, pretty good, right, Eddie. Now the bad news
is Poppy said, take him against the Pistons. They lost.
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They lost by eight points against the Pistons. But our
guy Boozellis slash buzzellis playing pretty well so far. Not
a bad prediction by Poppy. I don't know he's gonna
be Rookie of the Year, like Poppy said, because he
met the guy. But eighteen points four blocks not bad,
not bad, albeit in a losing effort. Right, Eddie, Sure,
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are you gonna go boo or bah for bzills?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Oh? You know I got always gotta go.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Boo, You gotta go boo. Okay, how about this call?
Apparently hit a game winning shot for a team mcnight
on his birthday. You tell me this is a good caller,
not Eddie.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Birthday cake mattas boozillis everybody can get a piece.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
No thumbs down, a little cheesy, but you know you
get it's fine, fired up, you know, fired up for
that shot.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I do enjoy some good birthday cake, though.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
What kind? What's your favorite?
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
White cake, white frosting, white cake.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
It is so boring.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Wow, Lorena, what that cake makes me nauseous? Good more
for me? It's delicious. What kind of bougie cake do you.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Like, Rena?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Well, you know here it comes. I can't wait to
hear this.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Back in the day, you know, I was a classic
chocolate girl. But boring.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Oh my god, ah.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Boy, chocolate cake is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Chocolate's overrated, yellow cake, chocolate frosting.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Answer discussion, Coop.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Fairly.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
All right, sorry, Coop, this is you're not involved in
this important discussion.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
U Bryan with tours. You know, I'm good with pretty
much anything. I don't mind any of your selections. I'll
tell you this, not a huge chocolate cake fan, not huge.
But what about a lemon love Lemon love?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Lemon lemon cake?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
So good? Sa I'm so sophisticated now, Like I said
chocolate was back in the day. Yeah, lemon cake is fantastic.
It's outstanding. The militia is outstanding as well. Militia knocking
on the door. You know we're gonna let him in here, Eddie,
let's start it off with keg drinking Steve Steve, You're
on Fox Sports Radio. What's going on?
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Well, man, I'm glad, I'm glad you're drinking the great Brownie,
Little Brownie in debate many I don't. I kind of
like the guy, you know, I got. I kind of
like him. The problem is Rich Paul Mans Lebron's just
backing his kid. He's he's gonna do what he's gonna do.
And hey, Steve Pocket.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Steve, I'm with you. I'm with you, but tread just
a little advice. Tread lightly. Eddie dislikes anybody rooting for
Brownie James. He's completely again, I don't dislike him.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Stupid people.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
I routed him, I roomed okay long. I hate Rich Paul.
Rich Paul is an is ruining the NBA.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
That's why would you root for him if you dislike uh.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
I want I want, I want all of his clients
to fail. I want all of his all of all
of his that these guys are so scared, even even
this guy from the Celtics is so scared from the
backlash of the rich called stable of goons that are
probably gonna come half hack hacking, Adham, I got, I
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got no bet the kids. The kid tries he had
a terrible man. God God bless him. But Screwy's, Screwby's,
these aged millionaires who are ruining, these sullen millionaires ruining
the NBA. They're just ruining, ruin in the game, and
the ratings are kind of half. Nobody wants to watch
watch these clowns anymore. And this is the reason why,
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because you can't. You have to have your your carmon
at a spot for a guy who does not deserve
to be there and get some multi million dollars. That's
that's genie busters for privilege to give him a contract.
It's not the NBA has to crack down on Rich
Paul telling people that he's gonna go to Australia if
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he's not gonna go to Phoenix. So that's that's tampering. Man.
You gotta you gotta clobber these guys over the head.
And they're just gonna let the players.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Don Why Okay, all right, Steve appreciate.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
Danny's home.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Boml he racked himself.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
What happens boom?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I appreciate that cow about. It's a juicy rumor, but
is that all it is?
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the way tire buying should be. So, Eddie, I caught
a little bit of the All Star game. I had
the whole game on, but you know, I was busy
and I wasn't glued to the TV the whole time.
But safe same same thing.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, I was glued at the start because we talked
about yesterday. I wanted to see Paul Skeens. Yeah, and
he did get to face Aaron Judge. Witch was school
and has won any of work. But that's what I
was lucked in for that. And then afterwards monitored.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, right, same thing here where look, man, it was
funny too because Juan Soto he walked and so we
got the matchup of Skeens facing Aaron Judge and it
was like all right, here we go. And it was
one pitch he grounded out like the ad bat was
over before you knew it, so it was anti climatic.
(01:09):
But I gotta say, Eddie, I much prefer this being
an exhibition game, cause it's more fun that way, right,
Like some of the miked up conversations were fun. It's
just looser. I hated that home field advantage would go
to the winning league based on the All Star Game.
I always thought that was stupid. I'm glad that it
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doesn't mean anything now, right like just time it counts,
that was the whole slogan. I'm much happier with it
being an exhibition I think it's a lot more fun
that way.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I mean, I agree, I don't know if if it's
necessarily more fun. I just thought it was a total
overreaction to, you know, what was obviously a rare event
where he had to tie. You know, it wasn't what
you wanted. But I thought it was, just, like I said,
way over the top to actually tie something as important
(02:03):
as home field advantage in the World Series to what
happens in an exhibition game. I just thought that was silly.
So I'm glad they've done away with that for sure.
And yeah, I think that they've they've done a bit
of a better job with I think the player just
telling the players, hey, let's make sure we take this seriously,
and you know not, I know, they try their best
to get everybody in the game and use a lot
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of pictures and all that kind of stuff. Is fine.
I have a problem with that. But yeah, overall it
was it was it was a good game. It was
fairly entertaining. I's still the uniform thing is still a thing.
I just I just hate it. But you know, I
don't know, there's got to be something better they can
do than that, because you know, like when you are
monitoring like you and I were, and you glance over,
(02:46):
you're like, who the hell's hitting? Like if you know that,
you know guys in a guardian's uniform or whatever, at
least that gives you a little bit of a quick
reference as to you know who that is. Maybe that
kind of thing, I just you know, I mean, I mean,
maybe a Major League Baseball doesn't like the selling point
that well, you can be more casual in watching the
game and kind of figure out what's going on as
(03:06):
the selling point for doing that, I just but it
just looks weird and I I'm just not a fan.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, I think I would do the exact opposite of
what they are doing, where everybody has the same uniforms.
Like let's just take the National League, same uniforms, but
they'll have the logo. Let's say there's a player from
the Cubs, right, so the Cubs logo is on the sleeves,
and then they have a Cub's hat. But it's like,
(03:34):
I would do the opposite. I would have like a
full Cubs jersey just with all National League hats, you
know what I mean. I think it just catches your
eye better that way, where it still looks a bit uniform.
If you make the hats look drastically different between the
AL and the NL, and you just have everybody wear
their normal jersey, I think that's better. They've done that
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before in the All Star Game. I think it looks
better that way, because, yeah, you gotta squint a little
bit and you're like, wait a minute, who is this
guy gonna? If you see a Yankee wearing pinstripes, you're like, oh, okay,
I get it, I know who this is. I would
do it now. I'm with you on that. I think
you should have the players you use their actual uniforms
instead of wearing these boring NL and AL uniforms. It'd
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be one thing if they were like really jazzed, uh
they're like really snazzy new school uniforms or something. They
look very very boring and dull. So I don't think
they did themselves any favors that way.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, maybe you could, you know, trying to get both
sides happy, because obviously they want to sell product. Maybe
you could have a special uniform for each team, but
it's still their uniform, right, it's still their colors, they're
still wearing their hat, but you do something to it
to make it special, so you know that this is
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an All Star uniform, you know, if you're buying it,
if you want to get that special All Star uniform,
but it still is in the spirit of what those
teams unifor are now mean. Yeah, that would be to
me a compromise where you can still recognize immediately what
team that guy plays for, but it's also something different
and special that you could sell.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Right if it was like, I'm a Cardinals fan, right, Eddie,
So if it's a Cardinals uniform and it's got some
type of All Star game patch, I'm much more likely
to buy that jersey than I am like this generic
National League uniform with the guy's name on the back
and the number. It's like, who's buying that? You think
you're gonna bump into people wearing like National League and
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American League jerseys. No, for the All Star Game. I
don't think that's the case. But it was fun. I
enjoyed it. You had Jared Duran from the Red Sox.
He was named MVP, hit a two run homer, a
lot more scoring than was expected. Right. The total, if
you're into that sort of thing, Eddie was seven and
there were three runs scored right away. Otani went yard
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three run homer, and then the American League came right
back they scored three or vice versa. The American League
came right back, they scored three runs. So you normally
don't see six runs and basically one inning right there.
But I thought it was fun. I give it a
thumbs up. Across the board. We did get Eddie related
to the All Star festivities, we got an apology. Yeah,
(06:18):
so this might have been the biggest news with all
the All Star festivities. It was the national anthem gone wrong.
You see this the follow up to it, Eddie? Yes, yeah,
so our girl Ingrid andres she messed up the national
anthem pretty badly before the home run derby on Monday.
Just so we're all on the same page, Eddie, not
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for anything, you know, dramatic effect, a bit of the
rendition from Ingrid on Monday. Yeah, the crowd whoa not
exactly hitting the high notes there? Well, she came out
(07:01):
with the statement, Eddie. In an apology, she wrote, I'm
not gonna bes y'all, I was drunk last night. I'm
checking myself into a facility today to get the help
I need. That was not me last night. I apologize
to MLB, all the fans and this country I love
so much for that rendition. I'll let y'all know how
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rehab is. I hear it super fun XO Ingrid. So hey,
listen up, we're pulling for her. I believe her that
she had a few before the anthem. It definitely sounded
that way.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
But explains it. It certainly explains a little bit of it.
If she's hammered, then yeah, sounded like somebody drunk singing.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It did sound like that. It definitely had that effect.
So look, if she really does need this help, I
hope she gets it and I hope she's all good.
I do find this funny, though, Eddie, because some people
rushed to her defense and we're saying, oh, I mean
the Global Life Field. This was the Athletics, Levi Weaver. Okay,
(08:08):
so rushing to the aid of Ingrid. This is an
independent singer and songwriter right rites for the Athletic and
admitted that Global Life Field doesn't boast the best acoustics. Okay,
this is what Weaver wrote. This is after Ingrid butchered
the anthem on Monday. I toured for ten years as
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a musician, and if you offered me a shot to
sing in this place, I would give it a hard pass,
hard pass. It's hard to sound good in there. So
uh ever tried to blame it on the field over there.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, I'm sure you know, if a true professional singer
was in there, it would sound just fine. I'm sure
They've had plenty of anthems at Globealife Stadium, probably one
for every home game, right, and I'm guessing they all
most of them sounded pretty good, So I'm not buying it.
Although I have long been critical of the pre recorded
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national anthems, which do happen mostly at the super Bowl
from what I understand. Famously, the Whitney Houston amazing rendition
in the Super Bowl in Tampa was actually lip SYNCD
and she recorded that, which took a lot of the
luster off it for me. But I've always said, look,
if you're a professional singer and they're paying you, I
guess the super Bowl they don't pay them? Is that
(09:27):
the legendary story. They don't actually pay them to do
it in the super Bowl because they're getting so much
off of it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I know that's for the halftime.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Okay, maybe it's not the anthem. You're right, maybe it
is halftime. But regardless, I've always thought, if you're the
Superstar and you're being paid to sing the anthem, to
not actually sing the anthem is bull crap. Yeah, but
this is an argument for the other way. I guess, right,
if you're saying, well, something goes wrong and blah blah blah,
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then this would be an argument the other way. But
I still I still want them to actually sing it,
even if they screw it up in that dead Look,
this brought a lot of attention to the All Star Game.
Whether whether it was good or bad, we're talking about it,
so there's always that.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, not all bad for MLB. I'd argue, not all
bad for Ingrid. I didn't know this. Did you know
her before? I didn't either. She's got some really popular songs.
Depending on the music that you listen to or the
genres that you're into.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Well, if you believe there's no bad publicity, then I
guess you would agree with that. But I'm not somebody
who believes that. I think sometimes bad publicity is bad
and it hurts your career. And I know she's come
out with this statement now, and you know, hopefully, I
don't know what should I say. Hopefully she's telling the truth,
because if I say that, then I'm hoping that she
actually has a problem. But I mean, I mean, I
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hate everything as a conspiracy. But you know, let's be honest, ive,
if she were going to make a play to explain herself,
this is the perfect play because now she generates sympathy
for herself and she's explained why it was so bad.
It's not because I'm a talentless you know nothing. It's
because I was drunk. So I mean, it is a
smart play. If it was a play, I don't know
if it is or not, but yeah, I don't know.
(11:08):
I don't think this like, because look, if you're someone
who was on the fence about seeing her perform, I'm
probably not gonna go see her now because she was terrible.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Wit So wait, you think she's just gonna be hammered
every time she's going to rehab?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You know, Yeah, I'll tell you this doesn't help. It
doesn't help her in any way.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Are you gonna go see her in concert because you
felt sorry for Well maybe you would because you feel
sorry for Brownie James, So maybe you would do that.
I don't know about I would not.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
We are gonna get back into no God, but there's
this story that we have to get into around the quarter.
You'll actually enjoy this, But I'm with you. Let meet
you halfway. I think there are times, definitely where there's
such a thing as bad publicity. Yes you're getting talked about,
Yes your name is being discussed, but this is overall
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a bad thing that absolutely happens from time to time.
But I think this with Ingrid and she's going to rehab. Yeah,
she screwed up the anthem, but it's not the like
the biggest black stain on her career, and I think
there are a lot of people like you and me.
We didn't even know about her now we do now
going forward, if she's I don't know, she's on the
(12:23):
Country Music Awards and they're like, hey, performing live Ingrid Andres,
we're gonna be like, oh, it's the girl from the Anthem.
I want to see how she sounds right now. I
don't think this hurts her at all.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I would be like, well, first of all, I wouldn't
be watching that show, but it just it will just
for the sake of argument, I'd be like, wow, let
me see what else is on. I don't need to
hear this, you know. I don't want to say There's
some things I could say on one day.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But I hear you. I just think it helps her notoriety,
that's all I mean. I think that her fans aren't
going anywhere, and I think people like you and me
are at least aware of her. I don't think that's
a bad thing, you know. I don't think it's just
like a boycott across the country where they're like, screw
this girl, I'm out from now on because she messed
up the Anthem. I think people are more times than
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now they're having fun with this. We're like, yeah, she
screwed it up, hopefully she gets clean. I think that's
largely the feeling. All right, We got a lot to
do here, Eddie. Of course ball is on the menu.
Football that's right, meaning football. We're getting closer and closer
training camp right around the corner, preseason, the real season.
(13:30):
So there's some interesting stuff to talk about. Trade request,
a trade denial, A couple of the stories that we'll
get into. One that I think is fantastic here non
ball meaning football here, this is one of the greatest
examples of sugarcoating your true feelings, and it is so weak.
(13:51):
We will get into that around the corner. He's Eddie Garcia,
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Speaker 5 (15:12):
Though.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You know, I would like to do a deep dive
on uncrustables here in a little bit, Eddie, because we
had an interesting conversation off the year, and we'll bring
onto the year of course, feel free, Malard Militia, not
just on uncrustables, anything else on your mind eight seven
seven Fox. I would imagine Marcel's team on crustables. I
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would think he'd be big on that. We'll get to
that in a few minutes here, Eddie, but let's play
this off first, because this is one of the greatest
examples of sugar coating your true feelings. So Jalen Brown
of the Boston Celtics Just Want a Championship was just
named Finals MVP. He was sitting courtside at a Summer
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League game recently and he was seen telling the people
next to him, I don't think Bronnie is a pro.
And so the video blew up. We're talking like eighty
thousand likes in that neighborhood on Twitter, and so Jayleen
Brown he felt the need to sort of clarify and
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he posted this again. He's seen in this video saying
I don't think Bronni's a pro. The follow up tweet
is it's a flex to have your son alongside you
in the NBA. It reflects greatness and longevity. Bronni has
all the tools around him to be successful. I look
forward to watching his growth. What how could you go
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from one video I don't think he's a pro to
that being the follow up tweet that is sugarcoating. If
you look up sugarcoating, there's got to be a picture
of Jalen Brown there. What is that, Eddie? I just
want to if you think Bronni's gonna think, just say it.
Don't sugarcoat. It's always got it, all the tools around him.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
We just don't say anything. Just let you know the
video you speak for itself. I mean, if it's not
like he's you know, a teammate of lebron or something,
or I guess a potential teammate of Bronnie. Right. If
that were the case, then you could understand the spin.
Then you don't want to create any friction in the
locker room and blah blah blah. But yeah, I mean,
you know you're a Celtic. What the hell are you
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care what the Lakers do? As a matter of fact,
you're supposed to hate them. I mean, they probably don't anymore,
because that's just the way it is in sports these days.
But I would have just said nothing and you know,
walked away from it. Now, maybe he gets asked the
question at some point if he does a podcast or something.
But now there's there's no need to Uh. If you
really feel that way, which I'm sure he does, then
there's no need to to sugarcoat it.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah right, I don't understand why you would walk it
back like that. You know, it's a great example, right
if this is a teammate, especially fine, right if you're
caught on camera saying the wrong thing about a fifty
fifth overall pick where you're like, I just don't think
this guy has the goods. Yeah, you got to walk
that back if that's your teammate, but that's your rival.
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I just don't understand that unless he just doesn't want
to upset lebron That to me has a lot more
to do with Lebron than Bronni. Why would Jalen Brown
care if Bronnie's not gonna be my friend right now?
Let me let me talk him up over That just
doesn't make any sense. I'm with you, man. I would
either say nothing and just let it speak for itself,
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or if someone pressed me and said, hey, did you
say this? If I'm gonna say anything, I'd be like, yeah,
I said it, because that's what I think. I don't
understand the need to just spin it this way. What's
the gains? It's silly to me, but I think that's
where we are, Eddie. There are a lot of people
that they're not saying what they truly feel about Bronnie James,
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and that's weird to me. I always want your true opinion.
I don't want the sugar coated version. I don't want
the hey, I'm trying to maintain relationships version. I want
to know what you actually think. And we're not getting
that with Jalen Brown on this one, not at least
in the follow up tweet. I think we got it
in the first video. Yeah, not in the follow up tweet.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
No, I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, there was somebody else who had a Bronnie James
like performance on Tuesday Night. How about this, Eddie, So
your number two overall pick with the Washington Wizards, our
guy Alex sar he was oh for fifteen from the
field against the Blazers. Yeah, zero points, oh for fifteen. Now,
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how would you feel about that? That's your number two
overall pick, Eddie. Not over not good, not good.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I mean, I know it's a meaningless game, but I
don't know how you you spin that maybe Jalen Brown
could triggercoat it somehow and say, well he got a
lot of good shots off.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah right, yeah, exactly well the party said, he said,
uh oh, he's he has all the tools around him
to be successful, you know. And you could say that
about Alex Sarr as well. I look forward to watching
his growth. Alex Sar's got to grow from over fifteen
in a summer League game. There, right, that's a brutal now, Eddie,
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I promise you this is not me picking a fight.
All right. You might not believe me, but this is true.
I would just like to point out the number two
overall pick went over fifteen in a summer league game,
and exactly nobody cares. Nobody's crushing the guy. Nobody's heavily
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criticizing him.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Because nobody knows who this guy is. I don't have
no idea this guy is. Is he a European player?
Do he play college? Yeah? There you go. Nobody knows
who he is. Kind of hard to get Dalla worked
up over somebody you don't know who.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
He is, that's right, but he's the number two overall pick,
and that blows my mind that we're getting wall to
wall reaction coverage, you know, positivity negativity, it's twenty four
to seven with your mind. It does blow my mind
because he's the fifty fifth overall pick. I know, he's
Lebron's kid.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, that might be an important factor.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
It is, it's a huge factor. I understand that it's
a story, but it's NonStop coverage. It blows my mind
that fifty fifth overall is getting fifty times the coverage
as the number two overall guy. The number two overall
guy is a non story. It doesn't even move the
meter at all.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, I'm not surprised at all by that. That doesn't
surprise me one bit. I mean one guy is known
and the other guy is not known.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Now he doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
But if he turned it turns out to the next
Darko Milicic or something, then that that'll be a story.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
How has he done in his other Summer League games?
Has he been good in his other Summer League games?
I don't know, Maybe.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Has been better. He's had at least a game that
was much better than this one. Okay, Tuesday night.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
So this is just an embarrassing game then for him?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah, yeah it is, but it's a little bit nuanced, right,
Like I understand that Bronnie is going to get a
lot more coverage for obvious reasons. I'm just surprised that
zero for fifteen in a summer league game from the
number two overall pick, Like the meter isn't even moving barely,
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you know what I mean, it's just stuck all the
way on the left and not moving a bit. That
that part surprises me, that we don't get a little
bit like this isn't a one or two on the meter,
it is a z row. That part is is kind
of surprising to me. It's just odd to me that
a pick that high could have so little effect on
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anything basketball related or the sports world. It's just it's
just me, you know what I mean, it's flatlining here.
It's crazy to me.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Over fifteen, it's not crazy to me.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
No, not at all. Huh.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I guess if we knew who he was baby, But
we don't know who the guy is, no idea this
guy is. It's not like when you and I were
young and we actually knew the top you know, ten
picks or more in the NBA draft. I mean, I
know when I saw the list of the guys who
were going to be invited to attend the draft in person.
(23:15):
I think it was like fifteen guys and I had
heard of two of them. M I just don't know
these guys anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, that's hey, man, it's the international players are getting.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well it's not just that, though, it's not just that.
That's part of it. But yeah, Also, there are no
real college stars anymore. I knew one, maybe two college
players by name, and they're just you know, they're the
really good guys aren't going to college, or the ones
that are there, they're there briefly, even the ones that
aren't good or briefly if you talk about Ronnie James.
(23:47):
But I mean, there's no college, really college stars anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Well, that's the thing, is uh. If we're talking international players,
have you ever because I haven't, Eddie, have you just
checked out an international game where there's an NBA draft
prospect hooping it up? Have you just like, hey, let
me check out some French hoops over here. I hear
this guy Alex Saar might be a top five pick.
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I've never done that.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
But well, if you've never done it, you know I'd
never done it because I don't give a crap about
the NBA, so I mean, we'll put it in. We'll
put it in my wheelhouse. Have I ever watched a
international hockey game to check out some hot shot? No,
I have not. I don't even know where I would
watch that. First of all, somewhere on the internet, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
I don't know either someone's IG live. I don't know
where I would go for that. But yeah, it's I
watch college hoops because I bet college hoops, you know.
And I'll watch March Madness because I love March Madness.
And I'll see some players like Reed Shepherd some other
guys that got drafted, and I'm like, oh, okay, good,
I'm familiar with him. I'm not familiar with Alex Saar
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or the number one pick. I can't even pronounce his name,
Recharche or something. I No, I don't know this guy.
But still, even though we're completely unaware, he still is
Alex Ar the number two overall pick. And it's it
just it does. It's not flooring to me, but it
is a bit surprising that the number two overall pick
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doesn't move the meter at all, and Bronnie James is
moving the meter. It's the exact opposite it's all the
way to the right, like it is redlining, Like, well,
you can't get enough of it. It's wild to me,
but that's where we are right now.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, I don't, I don't. I don't think it's wild.
It doesn't surprise me at all. People have polarizing opinions
about right, Bronnie James. He's done something that is controversial.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
So fair, But put it this way, who is more
likely to have an actual impact in the NBA? Is
it Alex Sar or is it Bronnie James.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I would think it's Alex R because he's probably gonna.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yes, it's one hundred percent. And Alex Sar so a
guy that could actually get meaningful minutes, that could if he,
you know, develops the right way, he could make a
real impact. It's got it at least a shot to
do that. He doesn't move the meter at all. The
guy that was lucky to get drafted and because his
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dad is an NBA superstar, right the guy doesn't even
belong in the NBA right now, and yet we can't
get enough of him, Like, the chances of Bronni making
an actual difference in the NBA are so low, So
that's the part that I mean Eddie is like Alex
Sar could actually be a player. Bronnie I don't think
ever will. And we're spending all of our time on
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Bronnie and we just don't care about the dude that
could actually make an impact. That's that's crazy to me,
but hey, I understand it.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
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Speaker 2 (26:58):
Back to the NFL, where wide receiver Devonte Adams agent
says that the trade rumors are baseless and unfounded speculation.
He says there have been no trade talks with DeVante
Adams and the Las Vegas Raiders. Of course, right this
is all stemming from the Aaron Rodgers comment about getting
to play with Davante again and speculation maybe he was
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going to trade him to the Jets, but agent says no.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Agent says no, a lot of speculation right there. I'm
hoping he gets traded. I don't want him to just
be awesome on the Raiders, who are going to win
maybe six or seven games this year. I'd much rather
see him with the Jets. That'd be way more fun
as an NFL fan and I'm a Dolphins fan, Eddie.
But are you a bigger NFL fan than a Steelers fan?
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Because I'm a bigger NFL fan than a Dolphins fan,
and I love my fans.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
No, no, I'm not. I certainly NFL, college football, and
NHL I do. I will watch and more football. I
will watch whatever the biggest games are for the week.
In baseball, and I'm a lukewarm baseball fan, I will.
I'm more of a team fan than I am a
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baseball fan. I don't you know Yankees, Red Sox play
each other. I don't care any more than I would,
you know, Royal Shreins or whatever. But but I do. Yeah,
I do like to watch whatever like the big game
is that there's a big matchup coming up in football,
college football, pro or hockey. I will. I will definitely
check that out. But no, I am more of a
fan of my teams than I am generally speaking the league.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, it's only the NFL for me. I don't think
there's anything else where. It's my team above the league
as a whole. But the NFL is different. I love
I've loved the Dolphins since I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
You know I love them, but let me test Let
me test out that theory. If the Dolphins are playing
a random game and there is like some super super
you know, a list NFL game, You're gonna watch that
game over the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Game, I would go side by side, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
All right, you have to pick, though I don't.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I don't do I I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
For the argument, I'm saying you have to pick. I'm
testing how you know your loyalty to the NFL over
your team.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Okay, so I don't. I'm not avoiding the question. Give
me record wise, how bad are the Fins at that stage?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I will say, you know, five hundred, not terrible.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Not kay, And this this game is a Blockbuster game.
This other game right, yeah, yeah, I'm watching the other
game and I'm flipping over to my Fins. If I
had to, I would absolutely watch them both. But if
I had to pick, I would go with the Blockbuster game.
All right, Yeah, you would love this. Back to my
Fresno days, Eddie, when the Dolphins were one in fifteen
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in O seven, that was the same season the Patriots
went sixteen to oh in the regular season. But I
would go to a sports bar in Fresno and toward
the end of the season. Every week it was like
he was watching this Dolphins game and I'd have to
sheepishly just raise my hand, like, dude's me, you know,
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still a fan.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Was it was it the World Sports Cafe.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
No, it wasn't. That's oh gosh, that was Tim McDonald's place.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yes, yes it was.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he got mad at me after a
high school game. Yeah, he got upset at me. I
just asked him a random question about was he surprised
his team got tackled in the end zone for a safety?
He just goes stupid question and whatever the follow up
question was, he just walked away while he was mumbling,
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like the freaking media guys or whatever. I don't know.
I thought it was hand We asked the heart hitting questions,
you know, especially at that time. But no, it was
Bjay's brew House is where I would go to at
that time, and man, they hated me, you know, drinking
my dues, asking for refills of do Will, just sitting
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there for the early and afternoon games. They hated me
over there, but I didn't care. I'm going to watch ball.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
We got some news here on Poppy's prediction from yesterday
half right, half wrong, So we'll have that around the corner. Also, Eddie,
I feel like we have to do maybe a medium
dive on something in the food world that I'm actually unexperienced.
(31:34):
I don't have experience here inexperienced. We'll see where you
come out on this but interesting discussion off the year. Melissa,
You're more than welcome to get on in here. Eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox is your number. We
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(32:29):
It's Brian No.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, so Eddie, last night, our guy Poppy checked in
and talked about Matas Matas Matas, right, yeah, the Bulls
lottery pick now did some crack research over here because
we weren't quite sure how to pronounce his last name, right,
So this is version one Bozalis, so we went boo
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Zellis right now, this is Mark Jones and how he
says its jealous. He just goes Buzzellis. So I don't
know if it's Boo or buz uh. But Matas played
pretty well on Tuesday night Summer League Action. Eighteen points
four blocks, pretty good, right, Eddie. Now the bad news
is Poppy said, take him against the Pistons. They lost.
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They lost by eight points against the Pistons. But our
guy Boozellis slash buzzellis playing pretty well so far. Not
a bad prediction by Poppy. I don't know he's gonna
be Rookie of the Year, like Poppy said, because he
met the guy. But eighteen points four blocks not bad,
not bad, albeit in a losing effort. Right, Eddie, Sure,
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are you gonna go boo or bah for bzills?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Oh? You know I got always gotta go.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Boo, You gotta go boo. Okay, how about this call?
Apparently hit a game winning shot for a team mcnight
on his birthday. You tell me this is a good caller,
not Eddie.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Birthday cake mattas boozillis everybody can get a piece.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
No thumbs down, a little cheesy, but you know you
get it's fine, fired up, you know, fired up for
that shot.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I do enjoy some good birthday cake, though.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
What kind? What's your favorite?
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
White cake, white frosting, white cake.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
It is so boring.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Wow, Lorena, what that cake makes me nauseous? Good more
for me? It's delicious. What kind of bougie cake do you.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Like, Rena?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Well, you know here it comes. I can't wait to
hear this.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Back in the day, you know, I was a classic
chocolate girl. But boring.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Oh my god, ah.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Boy, chocolate cake is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Chocolate's overrated, yellow cake, chocolate frosting.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Answer discussion, Coop.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Fairly.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
All right, sorry, Coop, this is you're not involved in
this important discussion.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
U Bryan with tours. You know, I'm good with pretty
much anything. I don't mind any of your selections. I'll
tell you this, not a huge chocolate cake fan, not huge.
But what about a lemon love Lemon love?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Lemon lemon cake?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
So good? Sa I'm so sophisticated now, Like I said
chocolate was back in the day. Yeah, lemon cake is fantastic.
It's outstanding. The militia is outstanding as well. Militia knocking
on the door. You know we're gonna let him in here, Eddie,
let's start it off with keg drinking Steve Steve, You're
on Fox Sports Radio. What's going on?
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Well, man, I'm glad, I'm glad you're drinking the great Brownie,
Little Brownie in debate many I don't. I kind of
like the guy, you know, I got. I kind of
like him. The problem is Rich Paul Mans Lebron's just
backing his kid. He's he's gonna do what he's gonna do.
And hey, Steve Pocket.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Steve, I'm with you. I'm with you, but tread just
a little advice. Tread lightly. Eddie dislikes anybody rooting for
Brownie James. He's completely again, I don't dislike him.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Stupid people.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
I routed him, I roomed okay long. I hate Rich Paul.
Rich Paul is an is ruining the NBA.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
That's why would you root for him if you dislike uh.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
I want I want, I want all of his clients
to fail. I want all of his all of all
of his that these guys are so scared, even even
this guy from the Celtics is so scared from the
backlash of the rich called stable of goons that are
probably gonna come half hack hacking, Adham, I got, I
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got no bet the kids. The kid tries he had
a terrible man. God God bless him. But Screwy's, Screwby's,
these aged millionaires who are ruining, these sullen millionaires ruining
the NBA. They're just ruining, ruin in the game, and
the ratings are kind of half. Nobody wants to watch
watch these clowns anymore. And this is the reason why,
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because you can't. You have to have your your carmon
at a spot for a guy who does not deserve
to be there and get some multi million dollars. That's
that's genie busters for privilege to give him a contract.
It's not the NBA has to crack down on Rich
Paul telling people that he's gonna go to Australia if
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he's not gonna go to Phoenix. So that's that's tampering. Man.
You gotta you gotta clobber these guys over the head.
And they're just gonna let the players.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Don Why Okay, all right, Steve appreciate.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
Danny's home.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Boml he racked himself.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
What happens boom?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I appreciate that cow about. It's a juicy rumor, but
is that all it is?
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