June 6, 2024 • 40 mins
A FLEX ALERT before the Dodgers-Pirates game in Pittsburgh. Latest on the news that the Lakers are talking with UCONN's Danny Hurley about their head coaching vacancy. What happened to JJ Redick? If the Lakers can land Hurley is it a "homerun hire" like the Chargers hiring Jim Harbaugh? Secret Textoso Roundup
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Matt, because you're in Chicago adjacentIndiana. Matt is gone for the
weekend, but still on the radio. The Dodgers are on a trip,
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and so is Matt Muney Smith.They can't beat the buckles, but we'll
see what happens tonight. With WalkerBuehler on the mound, we are hopeful
about a lot of things actually,because of the big news about the Lakers,
Oh jj Reddick stop the world shamsDanny Hurley and Adrian war Chanowski and
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the not so fast my friend,that is still a developing story. If
that wasn't the story, we weregoing to be talking to Dontrell Willis and
lamenting the fact that the Dodgers lookterrible so far on this very important road
trip where they're going to take onthe New York Yankees in the very next
series tomorrow. We'll only be onfor two hours from one to three today,
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only an hour and a half fromone to two thirty, and that
is because the Dodgers are on anEast coast trip, meeting flex alerts all
week and hopeful music alert. Fuckdoes Ronnie hide hopeful music and not Sharon?
But on it? You will neverfind it? You're kidding me.
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It is like me and you can'tfind it. Why are you trying to
set me? Why I've moved it? It can't be discovered. You trying
to be in there. We haven'tused it all week? Yes, so
what there's hope that needs to beexplored. There's hope. It's a superflex
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as Matt says there is no hopefulmusic at noon, dude, hopeful music
at noon, saying a new candidateis on the horizon. A man of
great arrogance as well, however,an accomplished college basketball coach, a real
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coach, an actual, accomplished,highly desired, sought after head coaching talent
by just about every coaching opening availablein college or professional sport from a coaching
family, someone that who has donethat, managed to accomplish something that we
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have not seen done in decades bywinning back to back NCAA championships. He'd
be a favorite to win a thirdstraight. And yet the Lakers. And
one of the beauty things, oneof the beautiful things about this is and
I like Pat McAfee. He's avery nice person. He's always been kind
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to me. But you're on ESPN, Adrian Woljinearowski is the best information man
you have in that building. Well, he's basically adorned by the league other
than the well, I mean,Jay Glazer created it. But he's the
guy basketball. He's the guy yeah, and he is in him. He's
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anointed by the league, So theleague gives. It's almost like John Haymon
or Kenny in baseball, and ofcourse uh, in the world of football,
it's Adam Schefter. Uh. Heis the guy that the league tells
so pretty accurate stuff if he comesout with something. So for McAfee on
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the Evil four Letter who employs Adrianwij Narowski, careful you're in the state
of Indiana, Matt, you watchout what you say about McAfee. They'll
find your parents' house and they'll digit up. They are a few hours
south, so I may I mayescape their their iire. But uh to
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repeatedly put on that trecarnwar soaked freakto peddle his freaking rich Paul wars of
JJ Reddick is expected to be hired. Lebron James isn't involved. He's the
next pat Riley and all this bsonly to not have adriy and come on
your show? Did he have shamsinstead? Just drop a well, well,
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I think you just had him onlike a day ago. For the
old JJ Reddick is expected to benamed the next guy. Maybe Woj won't
do it. Maybe there's some place, I mean where he's like few you
don't put shams on. The guywas my protegee when I left Yahoo.
He freaking said that he could doa better job than me, so they
kept him on. And that's notwhat I heard, Beat. I heard
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he like Norby was the best manin my wedding. You got it fine,
Good for Woj. He's an oldfriend and he reached out and told
us, Unfortunately he can't do itanymore because of his contract with the Evil
four Letter, because they're terrified,the cowards that they are to put them
on a show that he enjoyed comingon. That used to put him on
before anybody even knew how to pronouncehis freaking namech Wojiowski they used to call
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him. He's like now it's WojNorowski. And he drank He drank the
kool aid, there's no doubt aboutit. And U and took the check.
He's done a he's done a fabulousjob doing the Nosparatus bidding. And
it does seem like this is real. But did McAfee not discuss it in
a real way? What was Idon't know, what's your beef? He
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what's your McAfee beef? Matt?My McAfee beef is why are you putting
on the competition? Like because wecan't get Adrian ESGN says he cannot come
on our show. He loved comingon their show case. Am I wrong
with this? He reached out,just like John Ayman didn't said I can't
do it anymore. Yeah, hesaid he can't come on with you guys.
And yet somehow the Evil four letteris like, yeah, put the
guy on from the Athletic pat goahead. It's not like we have a
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guy that we restrict from going onanywhere else. Yeah. Well, if
I had to guess Matt, Iwould say it's personal. Matt, You're
right, though, doesn't make anysense. McAfee has every other ESPN analyst
on because he's an ESPN show now, so then what is it pissed?
Because they do have Yeah? PersonalAnd now Woch got the last laugh with
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his bombs well with the boat andlook, is this gonna happen? I
don't know, but I'm hopeful.I mean, it signals professionalism, It
signals maybe they aren't as dumb asI thought they were. And they were
going to hire JJ Reddick and they'reactually going to hire someone that you know,
we talked about like a month ago, and we said, where where
is Rick Carlisle? Where is budenholesor where is Thibodeaux. Where are these
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professionals that know how to coach,that command respect in a huddle? And
the Lakers routinely don't go down thatpath. The JJ Reddick trial balloon has
been much like the Chinese spy balloon, just blowing blowing around America. It
really, I mean, and theyand what is Genie if she's paying attention
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and Rob Polinka doing. They're gettingabsolutely skewered by everybody in the media that's
not Shamsharania or somebody carrying water forLebron and Rich Paul. And they have
plenty of those people, but Iguess not enough to make people feel good
about JJ Reddick. Perhaps his ESPNcontract and the drawn out nature of waiting
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for the finals to end has createda vacuum in which they could work a
little bit and say, maybe maybewhat we're planning on doing is not the
right thing. But it's a prettyinteresting like it's an unbelievable crevass. Right
between hiring JJ Reddick, former NBAplayer friend of Lebron's, you tried to
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say all this stuff about how he'slike a young pat Riley and how he
came from coach k and all ofthis stuff, all of these kind of
side dishes to the main and O'spodcast, okay, that's that's okay.
This is a hardcore basketball podcast.They're doing exits and O's over there,
okay, side dishes to the maincourse. That really is a nothing burger
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if you're trying to sell this guyas a coach, because he's never been
a coach. So from going fromthat and not to Budenholzer, Sam Cassell
or any of these guys Barrego,Ben Carrol or whatever, you jump all
the way to one of the biggestcoaches in the world right now, although
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not not a NBA guy. Andthey're gonna say that, Like they said
about Harbaugh when he was hired awayfrom Stanford, they said, well,
is he a guy you know thatcan coach in the right will and work
with professionals with the Niners And itdid. Uh So, I mean it's
a little bit like that. Butthis is a guy with well, I
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don't know how you would compare hiscoaching experience to JJ reddick Os is the
I mean one and eighty degree difference. This this is someone who has thought
of as one of the great motivators, one of the great tacticians, one
of the great in game adjustment makers, someone who knows when to twist the
nipples of his players to get thebest out of them and turn it on
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at the right moment. Remember theywere struggling a little bit earlier. As
soon as the calendar flipped to January, they immediately ran rough shot over the
rest of college basketball and humiliated everybodythat was in their way en route to
another tournament title. And and Idon't think you can discount you know,
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the the pedigree and the lineage,and the fact that you know, his
father is considered one of the great, if not the you know, one
of the greatest high school basketball coachesof all time, JJ Redick. He
came from He exactly. It's apodcast. It's an Axis and O's podcast.
What case I think podcast. Ithink you guys are missing the biggest
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thing about this whole coach search.Well, you mentioned it. A balloon
they put up in the air tosee how Laker fans, Laker Nation would
react. You guys quickly forget RobPolinka listens to the show, and the
fans listen to your guys input.And when the fans call in. I
got my ear two to that too, just really expiate and then the opportunity
to talk to you guys got itright there. Yep, all those calls
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we took that said no way toJJ and Danny's my Manny. You know,
we had all of those going.It's like pick here. It was
like big or small and Rogan andRodney, but we did it the other
way, so clearly he was listening. I played. I have to self
report I did play some games.Uh what on Thursday and Friday and Monday
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and Tuesday. On the Fox Sportsradio show, they play a game every
final uh break of the hour.What's the game? The game I played
was are you in or are youout? In or out? Oh?
You play right now? All righthere we go, Are you in or
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are you out? Mayonnaise on ahamburger? I mean, if that's how
it comes, I'm in. Seethis is a good discussion. That's a
good jumping off point. They hadone like, uh like eggs and I
was like, yeah, eggs areimportant. I'm in. Yeah. I
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was like, you hadn't got anythingelse, guys, are you in or
are you out? And uh,this really feels like that is the choice
for Danny Hurley. Will he takeit? Matt? You know they're talking
about Coach K talking about Coach Kright now. And by the way,
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interestingly enough, Coach K part ofthe coaching search, remember, and that's
what we thought was going to beused to uh give credence and gravity to
the JJ Reddick higher Like, oh, we had Coach K and he talked
about how this is one of thesmartest players and hardest workers and on point,
you always knew he'd be a greatcode. That's what I figured it
was gonna be. That's why Ihere Coach K so he can sell jj
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Reddick instead. Coach K is like, hey, that dude's an a hole.
Spends more time jelling up his hairthan he does drawn up it.
Now, but I think you're right. I think it was a bit of
a trial balloon and hearing Eudonnis Haslamsay everyone is going to roll their eyes
and hair and Robert Ry on ourshow two days ago say this is crazy,
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there's no way this makes sense,and James Worthy dropping an s bomb
about half the crap that's come outof JJ Reddick's mouth. I've got to
believe that carries a little bit ofweight. You're absolutely right, Matt,
And I think what you said offthe air about the Harball hire is pretty
accurate too. It's similar, right, I mean, I yeah, other
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than the fact that he's not beena pro coach before. It's like,
right, I guess it would bethe Harball hire the first time around when
he went to the Niners. Butthis is the hottest basketball This is the
Harbaugh of college basketball program building guy, and this is the guy you want
to hire. Yeah, the doorand says you guys are losers. Okay,
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Lebron, you won a Mickey MouseChampionship, you got bounced in three
first rounds, you missed the playoffsonce, and you made it to a
conference finals. Congratulations. I justwent back to back national championships and I
come from a family of winners,and we're going to change. This thing
is going to change, and Ithink that's what you need. Like,
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did they need a full culture changesomething that Frank Vogel, you know,
he was able to do it withthe defense and get those guys to coming
on that side of the ball andended up leading him to that COVID year
title. But that went away quicklyas Lebron started walking all over him after
the Russell Westbrook trade and was bitchingabout Vogel's rotations. He never gave Luke
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Walton a chance, He never gaveDarvin Ham a chance. Was going on
a stupid Mind the Game podcast whereyou know they're really talking exces and O's
over there and would essentially throw themunder the bus for his coaching decisions.
And this is a guy that's nononsense. Like you said, there's there's
an arrogance to Dan Earley where hedidn't take any s And I think you've
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got to be able to have thatsort of attitude. You're gonna try to
coach that nightmare of a person.Yeah, how does that translate to what
he will be able to do?There's it's hard to say. If you
look at it in the pantheon ofUSC football, right you could say,
wow, they dawdled around and madeand of course revisionist history. You could
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look back and say, well,right now, Lincoln Riley's not too different
than Clay Helton, and you're right. But before that you could say,
my god, you know they hiredLane Kiffin, they hired Sark, then
they hired Helton. I mean they'resitting here messing around tread and water,
tread and water, tread and water. Somebody comes up with one hundred million
dollars to hire Lincoln Riley and restaffUSC and quote unquote fix USC football.
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It feels a little bit like they'reI mean, they're throwing everything at the
wall to try to get this guy. Yeah, if he says no,
where do they go? And Ithink if he says no, and then
they got a problem, you know, they have to make sure he does
it. I think, I reallydo think there is a strong parallel with
the Chargers. Like you said,you're hiring these first time head coaches.
There's some of the lowest paid coachesin the league, their first time opportunities,
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their longtime assistance or the hot crewhatever it was. And finally they
were like, it's just not working. We are in Los Angeles and we
have got to, you know,take this franchise in a different direction,
have it viewed in a different way. And the only way to do that
is to have someone at the headof it that commands demands and exudes respect
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and expectation of excellence. Somebody that'spresence will overcome your past exactly. And
then the Lakers have this great past, but they've created this complicated present,
right, Like they've excited this almostit's like a knot that can't be untied,
and maybe Dan Hurley is the guyto untie it. It certainly is
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a bold move, Cotton. It'sand look because it leaked out. I
mean, everybody knew the Chargers wantedHarbaugh, right, That's like it was
just it was obvious. It wasfrom halfway. As soon as Brandon Staley
was fired, the fan base,the media, everybody was pushing in that
direction, you know. And hehad tried to make some adjustments to his
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contract in Michigan to get guarantees aboutif he were in fact going to be
suspended that he would not you know, that he would still make every every
dollar that he was promised, thathe would have multiple years gear and they
didn't want to necessarily do that,and that you know, the Chargers caught
a break. So how will Yukonpushed back? How? You know,
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what what the counter What will bethe counter offer they make? Does Dan
Hurley really want us move to movehis family? Now? Stores is beautiful?
Now, this is a gorgeous test. Fuck, this is a very
special crime riddled Town just outside ofHartford, So it seems to line up
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that that they should, you know, have that, and now that it's
leaked, they've just got to doThey've got to give him whatever he wants.
And I think that's what happened withHarbaugh is once it leaked and once
all that momentum found its way behindthat, it's like, hey, guys,
nothing else is going to do,Like there is not Mike Rabel isn't
going to do it. Ben Johnsonisn't going to do it. You have
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to figure out a way to makethis happen. And I feel like,
now that this is leaked out fromWOJ that yeah, you better figure this
out because Danny Hurley uh is nowin the minds of all your sponsors,
the people that have been giving youall this because you have Lebron James for
all these years and you've done Diddleywith it. To bring in JJ Reddick
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now would be an absolute, justbe an abject failure. So what happens
to JJ Reddick that they're going tosay, well, it was never real
anyway. Everybody the media just ranaway with that. We don't know how
that happened. There would never Therewere never any serious talks about JJ Reddick.
You probably probably you know the Hey, we interviewed JJ, just like
we interviewed Chris Quinn, just likewe interviewed James Barrego. We wanted to
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make sure we uncovered you know,he looked under every rock and covered every
base, and ultimately Danny was ourguy, and that's who we settled on.
And we told you it was goingto be a lengthy process that we
wanted to make sure we took ourtime, and we knew how important this
hire was because of this window wehave right now and the belief that we
have a championship caliber team, andyou know that's and then they can and
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then the other thing with this,they can look what they can do.
They can now sell the BRONI pickat fifty five and say, look at
what a great developer of young talentDanny Hurley is. He's taken these kids,
for these transfers from the IVY Leagueand from D two and a Jac's
and turning them into national champion.You saying, now, well, suddenly,
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wait a minute, I just startedto feel like the dog wagging its
time, as opposed to the tailwagging the dog and all of a sudden,
now you start wagging me again withBrian. Am I hopeful that they
that they pass on that as well. And Danny Hurley says, no,
you're not taking the six foot oneguy that can't shoot. I'm sorry,
we're taking I hope that's the case, certainly, and maybe that'll be part
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of the negotiation, Like, hey, I've got to say in personnel,
and you know, if someone's therethat that that I really want, we're
gonna take him because he's gonna fitwhat we want to do better. I
do hope. And he has thattype of leverage, right, I think
Jim Harbaugh probably had that type ofleverage, like, yeah, I'm gonna
I'm gonna work with Joe Hartiz andwe're gonna have a great partnership. But
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you know, if it's Joe Altonthe Leak Neighbors sitting there at number five,
you better bet your ass you knowwhere we're going to go. Yeah,
well, Joe Ortiz ain't taking thatjob. He's taking the job to
work with Jim Harbaugh. For godsakes. He worked with the brother And
that's another interesting part of it.Like Harball goes to the Chargers he's a
football coach. He's a program builder, a franchise resurrector whatever you want to
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call it. And he starts hiswork and he does his thing. No
one player is too big of it. I mean, they just got rid
of Keenan Allen, the whole receivingcorps right away, and everybody got all
butt hurt and nobody cares now it'sover. How does that mesh with this
complete and total like there was nobodyrunning the Chargers in some confounding, creepy
way like the Lakers. No,and it's not like those didn't have any
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success, right, And it's notlike those people are all I mean Lebron
and Rich Paul and Adele and allthese and Rob Polenka and all this bs.
I mean, the same people whohave been doing all this stuff will
presumably still be there when you hiredDan Hurley. How does that mix?
And does he want to deal withthat? Yeah? I think it's I
think it's telling him telling them I'mnot leaving and us I get this,
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this and this this is what Iwant. I do want personnel control.
I do want it. You know, it's the Brad Stevens contract when he
left Butler for the Celtics. It'san eight year deal, and it's like,
yeah, that's that's what you're givingme. I love I love the
whole Dan Hurley thing. I mean, he comes off as a little bit
of an unsavory personality, but youcan't to me at least, but you
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can't argue with his success. I'msure Harbaugh is the same way to a
lot of people, and I don'tfeel that way. But if you're Dan
Hurley, I mean, think aboutit. Do you want to go from
being the most celebrated person in yoursport too becoming the daytime TV fodder on
sports television and throwing yourself into thatLaker vortex and not really knowing what's going
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to happen. I mean, Iget, I know what you mean,
Matt, but working with Lebron sucks. Oh yeah, it sucks for everybody
but Lebron and his people and andmaybe Tristan Thompson hand his paper. Mama.
It's a tough call. I hearlike I hear you, and I
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think it's I think it's a matterof you know, I was only half
joking. I want to live instores, Connecticut and have to figure out
how to, you know, restockyour roster every single year by scouring the
portal, making sure your offering themat Camp Spencer was the guy's name.
I was thinking of the you know, and making sure you've got the biggest
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offer and it never turns off.You know? Is that still? Is
that still you know? Exciting foryou? I don't know. It's gonna
have to be a big number.And the Lakers, very much like the
Chargers, do not like spending moneyon their coaches. So this and very
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maybe maybe this is their way toget out of the Lebron business. You
know, maybe this is a Hey, Lebron, you got three years,
this guy's got eight. Guess who'sgot more poll around here? Well,
maybe then he'll just leave. Wecan only hope. My god, talk
about a development, and if itled to that, my god, let's
go talk about manna from heaven.Right, Polenka, We'll be right back
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with more on this very shocking andimpactful story about Danny Hurley potentially coming and
saving the Lakers. The Dodgers arein Pittsburgh, they're getting there, they're
getting their s pushed in. Plusthey are that could change. With Walker
Bieler on the mound. We're onlyon for an hour a half and Tim
Kates takes over with Morocco Casino Dodgerson deck at two thirty Pirates Dodgers,
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an hour of PMS. A shortshow today Tomorrow slightly long, younger,
but still a superflex as the Dodgersmake their way to the Bronx to take
on the Bombers the Yankees for athree game set over the weekend a week
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For something like just came through thetextoso or something. No, oh,
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because Aaron Judge is still pissed andhis leg fell off. Hitting the
freaking dugout in right field at DodgersStadium did a better gate than the outfield,
you bums. It's it's upsetting andwe'll talk about that. But the
big story today is the Lakers courtshipof Dan Hurley, which no one saw
coming. Warzanowski dropped the WOJ bombright on Lebron's neck and we talked a
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little bit about it last segment.But it is interesting, Matt because that
insider kind of war between Warnarowski andthe Sharoon Balloon and who their sources are.
Sharon works for Lebron, Woj worksfor everybody but Lebron and his people.
How does that play into this?Yeah? I think that's you know,
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for people that do what we doand know not the entire backstory,
but a little bit of it.You know, by all accounts, you
come across NBA people that are nationalwriters, they will tell you that that
Adrian Wojnarowski is out for blood,that there are threats that are just shy
of death made to agents and organizationsif they try to welcome in a new
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information person to the fold. Heruled it with an iron fist. ESPN
paid him handsomely to pull it awayfrom Utah and bring it to the four
letter and his, as you liketo sayp Young Padawan Lerner Scham's Sharania was
only all too happy to assume thevacated throne he left behind at Yahoo.
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Developed his own set of contexts,primarily Rich Paul in clutch sports to share
while soaked in drakar nowar his ownbit of breaking news. And he was
the one really that was way aheadof the JJ Reddick narrative, ahead of
everybody else, really puffing his chesty, which makes you think that that was
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the clutch sports agenda. That's good. They wanted to be the head coach.
I'm more than think it. Iknow it. Oh, I know
it now. So what's happening rightnow is clutch sports like a duck where
they look all cool on top ofthe water, but underwater they're working hard
with their web feet, freaking out, splashing all over the place. What's
their reaction, what's the reaction goingto be from Lemroue in his camp.
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I hope the Lakers are thinking,don't care, you know, don't care.
This is beyond the wishes and whimsof a forty year old that was
trying to get us to hire JJand draft his son Browny. We are
more concerned with the development of AustinReeves and Anthony Davis as our future.
Whatever moves they may be making,either by keeping the seventeenth pick or packaging
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that for someone like Trey Young orone of the Darius Garlands somebody like that,
he tell them a jump from wherethey were, right, it is,
I mean for the better, rightif you think about it, Like
remember that movie School of Rock,Yes, yeah, with Jack Black Jack
Black, and he plays he's actinglike he's his friend, mister Schneebley.
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He's not mister Schneebley. Mister Schneebley'shis nebish friend that he lives with and
that he's controlled by the angry,fierce, terrible Sarah Silverman in that movie,
right, right, and the wholemovie he just gets absolutely led around
by his puzzo hairs by Sarah Silverman. Right, it's the whole movie,
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the whole movie, and then rightat the very end, with no indication
that things would be any different.Mister Schneebley, the Nebbish friend slams the
door in Sarah Silverman's face and walksaway from her. And that's like the
big moment. But there was noindication before that they were ever going to
do something like that, mister Sneapley. No, the Lakers have now that
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looks like they're doing that to Lebron'sface, like he's Sarah Silverman and they're
mister Sneebley. They'd be nibbish andcontrolled all this time and now they've changed
their way. Yeah, it's clearthat that Sham's was not getting his information
from the Lakers. So if you'renot getting it from the Lakers, where
are you getting it from? Youknow, are you getting it from JJ?
Are you getting from Sarah Silverman?Is where you're getting it? Or
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if your two most valuable assets whenit comes to asking who you you know
to to whom would you like toplay for this upcoming season Lebron James Anthony
Davis, both represented by Clutch Sports, that that is where you would probably
be getting that information that a dand or Lebron were pushing the JJ Reddick
higher. So you know, that'swhere the whole Lebron's not involved in this
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is complete, you know, bs. And the interesting thing is now kind
of going through the news if yougoogle Dan early on and then hit the
news tab, there are like allof the East Coast outlets are like,
don't do it, Dan, don'tgo there. No that you kind't want
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to make this jump. We onlyreally deal with Gabby hurlbut's Twitter, our
old, our old intern who's areal East Coast swear, so to speak.
And you don't understand how obnoxious andhorrible, and by you I mean
the listenership. You do not understandhow annoying these Yukon fans are. You
don't know, they're terrible, anightmare. Did you see the Gino rim
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A thing about Caitlin Clark about DannyHurley he was on with I don't know,
I think you might have been onwith DP and he said I was
out with Dan last night. Idon't know what's going to happen. I
don't know where this is going.But I did lean over and say,
hey, I bet you could wina lot of championships with the Lakers,
at least a lot more than aguy who's never coached. Yeah, Arima,
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take that shot at JJ Reddick Jayarrogant buffoon. Oh we got a
tweet from Magic Johnson. Guys,Ah, here we go the story.
It did come out two hours ago, so my fault, we're not seeing
it, he posted at eleven tenam Pacific time. We'll take it at
Magic Johnson on Twitter. I heardthe great news. The Lakers owner GM
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and GM Rob Polinka have had conversationswith back to back NCAA champion and current
Yukon head coach Dan Hurley about becomingthe next Lakers head coach. I'm so
excited and thrilled. This would bea game changer for the Lakers organization,
Lebron a d, the rest ofthe Lakers players, Lakers Nation, and
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the NBA coach. Hurley can coachhis butt off, laugh out loud.
Well, now that Magic's waiting andconsidering the great decisions that he made while
running the Lakers, Yeah, that'show do you walk away from it?
Now? You can't? I remember. Yeah, there's a deep irony there
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because I remember when Magic was hiredas the executive for the Lakers and everybody
was saying this is a game change, yes, and then only to have
him resign right before a game andreally one of the most odd and humility
moves in Laker history, which wasand it's still a very very famous meme
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or gift, the I'm not goingto be here tomorrow thing, and to
hear him chime in about how thismove is a game changer. I don't
know, Matta rings a little hollowa little bit. I believe the presser
that he held was in the tunnelat Staple Center while a game was going
on, or was it pregame shootaround or it was that pregame shoot around
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in the chick hern press room becausehe saw Plasky was there. He's like,
since you're here, I'm going tomake an announce Yeah, come on
out here into the bowels of Comeon out here, into the tunnel underneath
the stands. I got something tosay. Yeah. But that's you know,
that's the sentiment that is the rossacross the NBA media verse that holy
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hell, you dumbasses were about tomake one of the dumbest moves ever,
and now you're gonna get out ofthis with one of the most sought after
head coaches in all of in allof sport, amateur or professional. And
I believe Danny Hurley's wife, DanicaHurley, is gonna ultimately make this decision.
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I don't know if that's her namesounds right? Well apparently, he
said on a podcast a couple ofweeks ago with Mike Francisca. Is that
his name from New York francessa?Yeah? Uh? Coach Hurley said,
I believe it's Francesca. She wasasked about maybe leaving Yukon going to the
NBA at some point in his career, and he says he's open to it,
but his wife is from the EastCoast and he'd have to sell her
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on that. And she's a realchild. Yeah, Danica, She's like
Amy Adams and the Marky Mark Boxingmovie. I mean she's a real child.
Oh yeah, she does. Lookshe does have an East Coast vibe
to her, that's for sure.I would say if you were to say,
hey, is she more likely tobe on the Real Housewives of Beverly
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Hills or New Jersey? It ain'teven close. You know, whenever I'm
around You're right, Whenever I'm aroundHarbaugh or Chip Kelly or those guys,
you know. And it's been decadesand decades. I mean they're the most
East Coast type of guys that youcan be around, sports types, you
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know. And they love Manhattan Beach. Yeah I don't, but they love
it. Harball loves Manhattan Beach.Chip Kelly would be like, it's the
best. See Vince Vaughan and BruceFeldman. I was like, okay,
she's a Greek and does look Greek? Andrea Siraktes Sinaktes Huh. Yes.
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They were students at Seaton Hall inJersey with an s or a s I
r a k I d e ssina kithys. You read it. Were
not right, that's beautiful. Welllook they moved to the South Bay,
right, and then she is frontrow with my brother singing this some salt
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these at Saint Catherine's Greek Orthodox Church. Exactly right. You got to be
part of this. You have toreach out, madam a little bit shut,
to your friend Joey and say,hey, you need help with the
wife. I'm the guy Joey.When they took they took, they were
like, hey, let me leadyou to go say hi to Joey.
Bus. When I was at theCharters thing, and I walked like five
yards and then I just broke offto the car see and then I had
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to fill that void. I'm hangingout with Joey for two hours. You
need to reach out to your friendJoey and say if you need help with
the wives. Sia Akidi's I'm yourguy. By the way, the latest
is from John Fanta from Fox andCollege Basketball says people he's talking to you,
says they believe they'll get a decisionin the next seventy two hours.
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From a Bali Craft Danny Early,he's holding us all hostage. Who have
ever guessed that you could be thehero in this situation? Pee? All
the negativity directed at the Lakers,and yet you could convince this Greek wife
of his. I think if they'regoing to reach out to a local,
famous Greek, that go straight toRita Wilson dead and alive guid next or
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maybe we'll just keep chopping it upabout this. I'll trust some money.
At five to seventy ela Sports LiveEverywhere on the iHeartRadio app going to the
bottom of the hour, Dodgers Piratescoming up trying to salvage a win,
invade the sweep three forty pm,first pitch tomorrow we'll be on one to
three doing Dodgers v Yankees, andVassy's got Jason Hayward on Marango Casino Dodgers
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on deck. Tim Kates takes overat two thirty, like Matt said,
and we'll be on for two hourstomorrow from one to three. Another flex
alert when they take on the Yanks. Uh, Matt, some textoso's here
and react your text us a finebrought to you by your sokel Toyota dealers.
We make it easy. This says, just admit you guys were wrong,
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and like we made up the wholejj Reddick thing and just ran with
the narrative like the moon hoax ofone hundred plus years ago. Listen,
the moon hoax does not have tocatch strays from you, Matt. When
I talk about the moonlighted on theMoon that guy left his family picture there,
I'm talking about the moon Hoaks beforethe other Stanley Kubrick alleged moon hoax,
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the real Moonhoaks. Yeah, we'rereporting on what guys like Shams and
all those other idiots out there arereporting that the vehicle for us to attack
Lebron. We were wrong, wewere wrong. Lebron was never involved in
the JJ Reddick thing was never athing. Just admit that you were wrong.
Oh yeah, I was wrong,and thank god there was nothing ever
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there. It was a nothing burger. This is about Hurley moving west.
My dad moved us from Philly tod C. To the DC area for
a government job during the seventies wherethe economy sucked, and my mom busted
his balls for fifteen years for turnfamily away from Philly and Jersey. She
had six brothers and sisters and mydad had three. It was only one
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hundred and sixty miles, but shebusted his balls forever. It's great,
we'll see, we'll see what happenshere. But look there you go,
magic opening his mouth just like hedid when the Lakers were the front runner
for Kawhi Leonard. He backed outbecause he ran his mouth before anything happened,
and then we got stuck with PubeScalp Lebron. I mean, I
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is magic, Our Drake is everything. He touched go to s kind of
right. He told us mccurt didn'tknow the parking lot at Dodger Stadium,
and that was a lie. Hedid and no one stepped to it.
So Hurley's wife is more Newberry Streetthan Wiltshire. Ooh good one. She's
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more Seaton Hall than Lmu. Ibelieve Mulberry Pizza was on Newberry Street.
If that is the case, thatis that is a very clever texto.
So do you think that she alsowears John Fluvog's shoes, which should also
be found on Newberry Street. TheClippers can now draft Bronny and get lebron
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and the brow too. They specializein broken players. The options are endlessly
and miss Once Magic Johnson gets involved, who knows what direction this could go.
There are more questions and answers atthis point, but we'll continue to
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chop it up with your fun factand your quick hits and then launch you
into Dodger Baseball coming up next.Thanks for listening on this Crunchy Groove. Thursday,
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Matt, because you're in Chicago adjacentIndiana. Matt is gone for the
weekend, but still on the radio. The Dodgers are on a trip,
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and so is Matt Muney Smith.They can't beat the buckles, but we'll
see what happens tonight. With WalkerBuehler on the mound, we are hopeful
about a lot of things actually,because of the big news about the Lakers,
Oh jj Reddick stop the world shamsDanny Hurley and Adrian war Chanowski and
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the not so fast my friend,that is still a developing story. If
that wasn't the story, we weregoing to be talking to Dontrell Willis and
lamenting the fact that the Dodgers lookterrible so far on this very important road
trip where they're going to take onthe New York Yankees in the very next
series tomorrow. We'll only be onfor two hours from one to three today,
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only an hour and a half fromone to two thirty, and that
is because the Dodgers are on anEast coast trip, meeting flex alerts all
week and hopeful music alert. Fuckdoes Ronnie hide hopeful music and not Sharon?
But on it? You will neverfind it? You're kidding me.
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It is like me and you can'tfind it. Why are you trying to
set me? Why I've moved it? It can't be discovered. You trying
to be in there. We haven'tused it all week? Yes, so
what there's hope that needs to beexplored. There's hope. It's a superflex
(02:45):
as Matt says there is no hopefulmusic at noon, dude, hopeful music
at noon, saying a new candidateis on the horizon. A man of
great arrogance as well, however,an accomplished college basketball coach, a real
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coach, an actual, accomplished,highly desired, sought after head coaching talent
by just about every coaching opening availablein college or professional sport from a coaching
family, someone that who has donethat, managed to accomplish something that we
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have not seen done in decades bywinning back to back NCAA championships. He'd
be a favorite to win a thirdstraight. And yet the Lakers. And
one of the beauty things, oneof the beautiful things about this is and
I like Pat McAfee. He's avery nice person. He's always been kind
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to me. But you're on ESPN, Adrian Woljinearowski is the best information man
you have in that building. Well, he's basically adorned by the league other
than the well, I mean,Jay Glazer created it. But he's the
guy basketball. He's the guy yeah, and he is in him. He's
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anointed by the league, So theleague gives. It's almost like John Haymon
or Kenny in baseball, and ofcourse uh, in the world of football,
it's Adam Schefter. Uh. Heis the guy that the league tells
so pretty accurate stuff if he comesout with something. So for McAfee on
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the Evil four Letter who employs Adrianwij Narowski, careful you're in the state
of Indiana, Matt, you watchout what you say about McAfee. They'll
find your parents' house and they'll digit up. They are a few hours
south, so I may I mayescape their their iire. But uh to
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repeatedly put on that trecarnwar soaked freakto peddle his freaking rich Paul wars of
JJ Reddick is expected to be hired. Lebron James isn't involved. He's the
next pat Riley and all this bsonly to not have adriy and come on
your show? Did he have shamsinstead? Just drop a well, well,
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I think you just had him onlike a day ago. For the
old JJ Reddick is expected to benamed the next guy. Maybe Woj won't
do it. Maybe there's some place, I mean where he's like few you
don't put shams on. The guywas my protegee when I left Yahoo.
He freaking said that he could doa better job than me, so they
kept him on. And that's notwhat I heard, Beat. I heard
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he like Norby was the best manin my wedding. You got it fine,
Good for Woj. He's an oldfriend and he reached out and told
us, Unfortunately he can't do itanymore because of his contract with the Evil
four Letter, because they're terrified,the cowards that they are to put them
on a show that he enjoyed comingon. That used to put him on
before anybody even knew how to pronouncehis freaking namech Wojiowski they used to call
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him. He's like now it's WojNorowski. And he drank He drank the
kool aid, there's no doubt aboutit. And U and took the check.
He's done a he's done a fabulousjob doing the Nosparatus bidding. And
it does seem like this is real. But did McAfee not discuss it in
a real way? What was Idon't know, what's your beef? He
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what's your McAfee beef? Matt?My McAfee beef is why are you putting
on the competition? Like because wecan't get Adrian ESGN says he cannot come
on our show. He loved comingon their show case. Am I wrong
with this? He reached out,just like John Ayman didn't said I can't
do it anymore. Yeah, hesaid he can't come on with you guys.
And yet somehow the Evil four letteris like, yeah, put the
guy on from the Athletic pat goahead. It's not like we have a
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guy that we restrict from going onanywhere else. Yeah. Well, if
I had to guess Matt, Iwould say it's personal. Matt, You're
right, though, doesn't make anysense. McAfee has every other ESPN analyst
on because he's an ESPN show now, so then what is it pissed?
Because they do have Yeah? PersonalAnd now Woch got the last laugh with
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his bombs well with the boat andlook, is this gonna happen? I
don't know, but I'm hopeful.I mean, it signals professionalism, It
signals maybe they aren't as dumb asI thought they were. And they were
going to hire JJ Reddick and they'reactually going to hire someone that you know,
we talked about like a month ago, and we said, where where
is Rick Carlisle? Where is budenholesor where is Thibodeaux. Where are these
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professionals that know how to coach,that command respect in a huddle? And
the Lakers routinely don't go down thatpath. The JJ Reddick trial balloon has
been much like the Chinese spy balloon, just blowing blowing around America. It
really, I mean, and theyand what is Genie if she's paying attention
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and Rob Polinka doing. They're gettingabsolutely skewered by everybody in the media that's
not Shamsharania or somebody carrying water forLebron and Rich Paul. And they have
plenty of those people, but Iguess not enough to make people feel good
about JJ Reddick. Perhaps his ESPNcontract and the drawn out nature of waiting
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for the finals to end has createda vacuum in which they could work a
little bit and say, maybe maybewhat we're planning on doing is not the
right thing. But it's a prettyinteresting like it's an unbelievable crevass. Right
between hiring JJ Reddick, former NBAplayer friend of Lebron's, you tried to
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say all this stuff about how he'slike a young pat Riley and how he
came from coach k and all ofthis stuff, all of these kind of
side dishes to the main and O'spodcast, okay, that's that's okay.
This is a hardcore basketball podcast.They're doing exits and O's over there,
okay, side dishes to the maincourse. That really is a nothing burger
(09:09):
if you're trying to sell this guyas a coach, because he's never been
a coach. So from going fromthat and not to Budenholzer, Sam Cassell
or any of these guys Barrego,Ben Carrol or whatever, you jump all
the way to one of the biggestcoaches in the world right now, although
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not not a NBA guy. Andthey're gonna say that, Like they said
about Harbaugh when he was hired awayfrom Stanford, they said, well,
is he a guy you know thatcan coach in the right will and work
with professionals with the Niners And itdid. Uh So, I mean it's
a little bit like that. Butthis is a guy with well, I
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don't know how you would compare hiscoaching experience to JJ reddick Os is the
I mean one and eighty degree difference. This this is someone who has thought
of as one of the great motivators, one of the great tacticians, one
of the great in game adjustment makers, someone who knows when to twist the
nipples of his players to get thebest out of them and turn it on
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at the right moment. Remember theywere struggling a little bit earlier. As
soon as the calendar flipped to January, they immediately ran rough shot over the
rest of college basketball and humiliated everybodythat was in their way en route to
another tournament title. And and Idon't think you can discount you know,
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the the pedigree and the lineage,and the fact that you know, his
father is considered one of the great, if not the you know, one
of the greatest high school basketball coachesof all time, JJ Redick. He
came from He exactly. It's apodcast. It's an Axis and O's podcast.
What case I think podcast. Ithink you guys are missing the biggest
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thing about this whole coach search.Well, you mentioned it. A balloon
they put up in the air tosee how Laker fans, Laker Nation would
react. You guys quickly forget RobPolinka listens to the show, and the
fans listen to your guys input.And when the fans call in. I
got my ear two to that too, just really expiate and then the opportunity
to talk to you guys got itright there. Yep, all those calls
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we took that said no way toJJ and Danny's my Manny. You know,
we had all of those going.It's like pick here. It was
like big or small and Rogan andRodney, but we did it the other
way, so clearly he was listening. I played. I have to self
report I did play some games.Uh what on Thursday and Friday and Monday
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and Tuesday. On the Fox Sportsradio show, they play a game every
final uh break of the hour.What's the game? The game I played
was are you in or are youout? In or out? Oh?
You play right now? All righthere we go, Are you in or
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are you out? Mayonnaise on ahamburger? I mean, if that's how
it comes, I'm in. Seethis is a good discussion. That's a
good jumping off point. They hadone like, uh like eggs and I
was like, yeah, eggs areimportant. I'm in. Yeah. I
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was like, you hadn't got anythingelse, guys, are you in or
are you out? And uh,this really feels like that is the choice
for Danny Hurley. Will he takeit? Matt? You know they're talking
about Coach K talking about Coach Kright now. And by the way,
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interestingly enough, Coach K part ofthe coaching search, remember, and that's
what we thought was going to beused to uh give credence and gravity to
the JJ Reddick higher Like, oh, we had Coach K and he talked
about how this is one of thesmartest players and hardest workers and on point,
you always knew he'd be a greatcode. That's what I figured it
was gonna be. That's why Ihere Coach K so he can sell jj
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Reddick instead. Coach K is like, hey, that dude's an a hole.
Spends more time jelling up his hairthan he does drawn up it.
Now, but I think you're right. I think it was a bit of
a trial balloon and hearing Eudonnis Haslamsay everyone is going to roll their eyes
and hair and Robert Ry on ourshow two days ago say this is crazy,
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there's no way this makes sense,and James Worthy dropping an s bomb
about half the crap that's come outof JJ Reddick's mouth. I've got to
believe that carries a little bit ofweight. You're absolutely right, Matt,
And I think what you said offthe air about the Harball hire is pretty
accurate too. It's similar, right, I mean, I yeah, other
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than the fact that he's not beena pro coach before. It's like,
right, I guess it would bethe Harball hire the first time around when
he went to the Niners. Butthis is the hottest basketball This is the
Harbaugh of college basketball program building guy, and this is the guy you want
to hire. Yeah, the doorand says you guys are losers. Okay,
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Lebron, you won a Mickey MouseChampionship, you got bounced in three
first rounds, you missed the playoffsonce, and you made it to a
conference finals. Congratulations. I justwent back to back national championships and I
come from a family of winners,and we're going to change. This thing
is going to change, and Ithink that's what you need. Like,
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did they need a full culture changesomething that Frank Vogel, you know,
he was able to do it withthe defense and get those guys to coming
on that side of the ball andended up leading him to that COVID year
title. But that went away quicklyas Lebron started walking all over him after
the Russell Westbrook trade and was bitchingabout Vogel's rotations. He never gave Luke
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Walton a chance, He never gaveDarvin Ham a chance. Was going on
a stupid Mind the Game podcast whereyou know they're really talking exces and O's
over there and would essentially throw themunder the bus for his coaching decisions.
And this is a guy that's nononsense. Like you said, there's there's
an arrogance to Dan Earley where hedidn't take any s And I think you've
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got to be able to have thatsort of attitude. You're gonna try to
coach that nightmare of a person.Yeah, how does that translate to what
he will be able to do?There's it's hard to say. If you
look at it in the pantheon ofUSC football, right you could say,
wow, they dawdled around and madeand of course revisionist history. You could
(15:41):
look back and say, well,right now, Lincoln Riley's not too different
than Clay Helton, and you're right. But before that you could say,
my god, you know they hiredLane Kiffin, they hired Sark, then
they hired Helton. I mean they'resitting here messing around tread and water,
tread and water, tread and water. Somebody comes up with one hundred million
dollars to hire Lincoln Riley and restaffUSC and quote unquote fix USC football.
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It feels a little bit like they'reI mean, they're throwing everything at the
wall to try to get this guy. Yeah, if he says no,
where do they go? And Ithink if he says no, and then
they got a problem, you know, they have to make sure he does
it. I think, I reallydo think there is a strong parallel with
the Chargers. Like you said,you're hiring these first time head coaches.
There's some of the lowest paid coachesin the league, their first time opportunities,
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their longtime assistance or the hot crewhatever it was. And finally they
were like, it's just not working. We are in Los Angeles and we
have got to, you know,take this franchise in a different direction,
have it viewed in a different way. And the only way to do that
is to have someone at the headof it that commands demands and exudes respect
(16:57):
and expectation of excellence. Somebody that'spresence will overcome your past exactly. And
then the Lakers have this great past, but they've created this complicated present,
right, Like they've excited this almostit's like a knot that can't be untied,
and maybe Dan Hurley is the guyto untie it. It certainly is
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a bold move, Cotton. It'sand look because it leaked out. I
mean, everybody knew the Chargers wantedHarbaugh, right, That's like it was
just it was obvious. It wasfrom halfway. As soon as Brandon Staley
was fired, the fan base,the media, everybody was pushing in that
direction, you know. And hehad tried to make some adjustments to his
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contract in Michigan to get guarantees aboutif he were in fact going to be
suspended that he would not you know, that he would still make every every
dollar that he was promised, thathe would have multiple years gear and they
didn't want to necessarily do that,and that you know, the Chargers caught
a break. So how will Yukonpushed back? How? You know,
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what what the counter What will bethe counter offer they make? Does Dan
Hurley really want us move to movehis family? Now? Stores is beautiful?
Now, this is a gorgeous test. Fuck, this is a very
special crime riddled Town just outside ofHartford, So it seems to line up
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that that they should, you know, have that, and now that it's
leaked, they've just got to doThey've got to give him whatever he wants.
And I think that's what happened withHarbaugh is once it leaked and once
all that momentum found its way behindthat, it's like, hey, guys,
nothing else is going to do,Like there is not Mike Rabel isn't
going to do it. Ben Johnsonisn't going to do it. You have
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to figure out a way to makethis happen. And I feel like,
now that this is leaked out fromWOJ that yeah, you better figure this
out because Danny Hurley uh is nowin the minds of all your sponsors,
the people that have been giving youall this because you have Lebron James for
all these years and you've done Diddleywith it. To bring in JJ Reddick
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now would be an absolute, justbe an abject failure. So what happens
to JJ Reddick that they're going tosay, well, it was never real
anyway. Everybody the media just ranaway with that. We don't know how
that happened. There would never Therewere never any serious talks about JJ Reddick.
You probably probably you know the Hey, we interviewed JJ, just like
we interviewed Chris Quinn, just likewe interviewed James Barrego. We wanted to
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make sure we uncovered you know,he looked under every rock and covered every
base, and ultimately Danny was ourguy, and that's who we settled on.
And we told you it was goingto be a lengthy process that we
wanted to make sure we took ourtime, and we knew how important this
hire was because of this window wehave right now and the belief that we
have a championship caliber team, andyou know that's and then they can and
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then the other thing with this,they can look what they can do.
They can now sell the BRONI pickat fifty five and say, look at
what a great developer of young talentDanny Hurley is. He's taken these kids,
for these transfers from the IVY Leagueand from D two and a Jac's
and turning them into national champion.You saying, now, well, suddenly,
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wait a minute, I just startedto feel like the dog wagging its
time, as opposed to the tailwagging the dog and all of a sudden,
now you start wagging me again withBrian. Am I hopeful that they
that they pass on that as well. And Danny Hurley says, no,
you're not taking the six foot oneguy that can't shoot. I'm sorry,
we're taking I hope that's the case, certainly, and maybe that'll be part
(20:33):
of the negotiation, Like, hey, I've got to say in personnel,
and you know, if someone's therethat that that I really want, we're
gonna take him because he's gonna fitwhat we want to do better. I
do hope. And he has thattype of leverage, right, I think
Jim Harbaugh probably had that type ofleverage, like, yeah, I'm gonna
I'm gonna work with Joe Hartiz andwe're gonna have a great partnership. But
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you know, if it's Joe Altonthe Leak Neighbors sitting there at number five,
you better bet your ass you knowwhere we're going to go. Yeah,
well, Joe Ortiz ain't taking thatjob. He's taking the job to
work with Jim Harbaugh. For godsakes. He worked with the brother And
that's another interesting part of it.Like Harball goes to the Chargers he's a
football coach. He's a program builder, a franchise resurrector whatever you want to
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call it. And he starts hiswork and he does his thing. No
one player is too big of it. I mean, they just got rid
of Keenan Allen, the whole receivingcorps right away, and everybody got all
butt hurt and nobody cares now it'sover. How does that mesh with this
complete and total like there was nobodyrunning the Chargers in some confounding, creepy
way like the Lakers. No,and it's not like those didn't have any
(21:38):
success, right, And it's notlike those people are all I mean Lebron
and Rich Paul and Adele and allthese and Rob Polenka and all this bs.
I mean, the same people whohave been doing all this stuff will
presumably still be there when you hiredDan Hurley. How does that mix?
And does he want to deal withthat? Yeah? I think it's I
think it's telling him telling them I'mnot leaving and us I get this,
(22:00):
this and this this is what Iwant. I do want personnel control.
I do want it. You know, it's the Brad Stevens contract when he
left Butler for the Celtics. It'san eight year deal, and it's like,
yeah, that's that's what you're givingme. I love I love the
whole Dan Hurley thing. I mean, he comes off as a little bit
of an unsavory personality, but youcan't to me at least, but you
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can't argue with his success. I'msure Harbaugh is the same way to a
lot of people, and I don'tfeel that way. But if you're Dan
Hurley, I mean, think aboutit. Do you want to go from
being the most celebrated person in yoursport too becoming the daytime TV fodder on
sports television and throwing yourself into thatLaker vortex and not really knowing what's going
(22:47):
to happen. I mean, Iget, I know what you mean,
Matt, but working with Lebron sucks. Oh yeah, it sucks for everybody
but Lebron and his people and andmaybe Tristan Thompson hand his paper. Mama.
It's a tough call. I hearlike I hear you, and I
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think it's I think it's a matterof you know, I was only half
joking. I want to live instores, Connecticut and have to figure out
how to, you know, restockyour roster every single year by scouring the
portal, making sure your offering themat Camp Spencer was the guy's name.
I was thinking of the you know, and making sure you've got the biggest
(23:32):
offer and it never turns off.You know? Is that still? Is
that still you know? Exciting foryou? I don't know. It's gonna
have to be a big number.And the Lakers, very much like the
Chargers, do not like spending moneyon their coaches. So this and very
(23:55):
maybe maybe this is their way toget out of the Lebron business. You
know, maybe this is a Hey, Lebron, you got three years,
this guy's got eight. Guess who'sgot more poll around here? Well,
maybe then he'll just leave. Wecan only hope. My god, talk
about a development, and if itled to that, my god, let's
go talk about manna from heaven.Right, Polenka, We'll be right back
(24:22):
with more on this very shocking andimpactful story about Danny Hurley potentially coming and
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(25:10):
from tomorrow. It is the firststop of the Petro Send Money twenty twenty
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even though we'll be doing the broadcastfrom inside, and we will be
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pulling our first finalist of eleven sixone from each of our tour stops in
five from the online entries to wineleven thousand dollars cash and might just say,
oh no, what do you mean? Did you say? Oh no?
For something like just came through thetextoso or something. No, oh,
thanks, that's the first bad breakingnews, Hi said, Oh no,
(25:51):
because Aaron Judge is still pissed andhis leg fell off. Hitting the
freaking dugout in right field at DodgersStadium did a better gate than the outfield,
you bums. It's it's upsetting andwe'll talk about that. But the
big story today is the Lakers courtshipof Dan Hurley, which no one saw
coming. Warzanowski dropped the WOJ bombright on Lebron's neck and we talked a
(26:15):
little bit about it last segment.But it is interesting, Matt because that
insider kind of war between Warnarowski andthe Sharoon Balloon and who their sources are.
Sharon works for Lebron, Woj worksfor everybody but Lebron and his people.
How does that play into this?Yeah? I think that's you know,
(26:36):
for people that do what we doand know not the entire backstory,
but a little bit of it.You know, by all accounts, you
come across NBA people that are nationalwriters, they will tell you that that
Adrian Wojnarowski is out for blood,that there are threats that are just shy
of death made to agents and organizationsif they try to welcome in a new
(27:02):
information person to the fold. Heruled it with an iron fist. ESPN
paid him handsomely to pull it awayfrom Utah and bring it to the four
letter and his, as you liketo sayp Young Padawan Lerner Scham's Sharania was
only all too happy to assume thevacated throne he left behind at Yahoo.
(27:25):
Developed his own set of contexts,primarily Rich Paul in clutch sports to share
while soaked in drakar nowar his ownbit of breaking news. And he was
the one really that was way aheadof the JJ Reddick narrative, ahead of
everybody else, really puffing his chesty, which makes you think that that was
(27:45):
the clutch sports agenda. That's good. They wanted to be the head coach.
I'm more than think it. Iknow it. Oh, I know
it now. So what's happening rightnow is clutch sports like a duck where
they look all cool on top ofthe water, but underwater they're working hard
with their web feet, freaking out, splashing all over the place. What's
their reaction, what's the reaction goingto be from Lemroue in his camp.
(28:11):
I hope the Lakers are thinking,don't care, you know, don't care.
This is beyond the wishes and whimsof a forty year old that was
trying to get us to hire JJand draft his son Browny. We are
more concerned with the development of AustinReeves and Anthony Davis as our future.
Whatever moves they may be making,either by keeping the seventeenth pick or packaging
(28:33):
that for someone like Trey Young orone of the Darius Garlands somebody like that,
he tell them a jump from wherethey were, right, it is,
I mean for the better, rightif you think about it, Like
remember that movie School of Rock,Yes, yeah, with Jack Black Jack
Black, and he plays he's actinglike he's his friend, mister Schneebley.
(28:55):
He's not mister Schneebley. Mister Schneebley'shis nebish friend that he lives with and
that he's controlled by the angry,fierce, terrible Sarah Silverman in that movie,
right, right, and the wholemovie he just gets absolutely led around
by his puzzo hairs by Sarah Silverman. Right, it's the whole movie,
(29:15):
the whole movie, and then rightat the very end, with no indication
that things would be any different.Mister Schneebley, the Nebbish friend slams the
door in Sarah Silverman's face and walksaway from her. And that's like the
big moment. But there was noindication before that they were ever going to
do something like that, mister Sneapley. No, the Lakers have now that
(29:40):
looks like they're doing that to Lebron'sface, like he's Sarah Silverman and they're
mister Sneebley. They'd be nibbish andcontrolled all this time and now they've changed
their way. Yeah, it's clearthat that Sham's was not getting his information
from the Lakers. So if you'renot getting it from the Lakers, where
are you getting it from? Youknow, are you getting it from JJ?
Are you getting from Sarah Silverman?Is where you're getting it? Or
(30:03):
if your two most valuable assets whenit comes to asking who you you know
to to whom would you like toplay for this upcoming season Lebron James Anthony
Davis, both represented by Clutch Sports, that that is where you would probably
be getting that information that a dand or Lebron were pushing the JJ Reddick
higher. So you know, that'swhere the whole Lebron's not involved in this
(30:26):
is complete, you know, bs. And the interesting thing is now kind
of going through the news if yougoogle Dan early on and then hit the
news tab, there are like allof the East Coast outlets are like,
don't do it, Dan, don'tgo there. No that you kind't want
(30:47):
to make this jump. We onlyreally deal with Gabby hurlbut's Twitter, our
old, our old intern who's areal East Coast swear, so to speak.
And you don't understand how obnoxious andhorrible, and by you I mean
the listenership. You do not understandhow annoying these Yukon fans are. You
don't know, they're terrible, anightmare. Did you see the Gino rim
(31:15):
A thing about Caitlin Clark about DannyHurley he was on with I don't know,
I think you might have been onwith DP and he said I was
out with Dan last night. Idon't know what's going to happen. I
don't know where this is going.But I did lean over and say,
hey, I bet you could wina lot of championships with the Lakers,
at least a lot more than aguy who's never coached. Yeah, Arima,
(31:36):
take that shot at JJ Reddick Jayarrogant buffoon. Oh we got a
tweet from Magic Johnson. Guys,Ah, here we go the story.
It did come out two hours ago, so my fault, we're not seeing
it, he posted at eleven tenam Pacific time. We'll take it at
Magic Johnson on Twitter. I heardthe great news. The Lakers owner GM
(32:00):
and GM Rob Polinka have had conversationswith back to back NCAA champion and current
Yukon head coach Dan Hurley about becomingthe next Lakers head coach. I'm so
excited and thrilled. This would bea game changer for the Lakers organization,
Lebron a d, the rest ofthe Lakers players, Lakers Nation, and
(32:22):
the NBA coach. Hurley can coachhis butt off, laugh out loud.
Well, now that Magic's waiting andconsidering the great decisions that he made while
running the Lakers, Yeah, that'show do you walk away from it?
Now? You can't? I remember. Yeah, there's a deep irony there
(32:43):
because I remember when Magic was hiredas the executive for the Lakers and everybody
was saying this is a game change, yes, and then only to have
him resign right before a game andreally one of the most odd and humility
moves in Laker history, which wasand it's still a very very famous meme
(33:06):
or gift, the I'm not goingto be here tomorrow thing, and to
hear him chime in about how thismove is a game changer. I don't
know, Matta rings a little hollowa little bit. I believe the presser
that he held was in the tunnelat Staple Center while a game was going
on, or was it pregame shootaround or it was that pregame shoot around
(33:28):
in the chick hern press room becausehe saw Plasky was there. He's like,
since you're here, I'm going tomake an announce Yeah, come on
out here into the bowels of Comeon out here, into the tunnel underneath
the stands. I got something tosay. Yeah. But that's you know,
that's the sentiment that is the rossacross the NBA media verse that holy
(33:49):
hell, you dumbasses were about tomake one of the dumbest moves ever,
and now you're gonna get out ofthis with one of the most sought after
head coaches in all of in allof sport, amateur or professional. And
I believe Danny Hurley's wife, DanicaHurley, is gonna ultimately make this decision.
(34:10):
I don't know if that's her namesounds right? Well apparently, he
said on a podcast a couple ofweeks ago with Mike Francisca. Is that
his name from New York francessa?Yeah? Uh? Coach Hurley said,
I believe it's Francesca. She wasasked about maybe leaving Yukon going to the
NBA at some point in his career, and he says he's open to it,
but his wife is from the EastCoast and he'd have to sell her
(34:32):
on that. And she's a realchild. Yeah, Danica, She's like
Amy Adams and the Marky Mark Boxingmovie. I mean she's a real child.
Oh yeah, she does. Lookshe does have an East Coast vibe
to her, that's for sure.I would say if you were to say,
hey, is she more likely tobe on the Real Housewives of Beverly
(34:54):
Hills or New Jersey? It ain'teven close. You know, whenever I'm
around You're right, Whenever I'm aroundHarbaugh or Chip Kelly or those guys,
you know. And it's been decadesand decades. I mean they're the most
East Coast type of guys that youcan be around, sports types, you
(35:14):
know. And they love Manhattan Beach. Yeah I don't, but they love
it. Harball loves Manhattan Beach.Chip Kelly would be like, it's the
best. See Vince Vaughan and BruceFeldman. I was like, okay,
she's a Greek and does look Greek? Andrea Siraktes Sinaktes Huh. Yes.
(35:39):
They were students at Seaton Hall inJersey with an s or a s I
r a k I d e ssina kithys. You read it. Were
not right, that's beautiful. Welllook they moved to the South Bay,
right, and then she is frontrow with my brother singing this some salt
(36:00):
these at Saint Catherine's Greek Orthodox Church. Exactly right. You got to be
part of this. You have toreach out, madam a little bit shut,
to your friend Joey and say,hey, you need help with the
wife. I'm the guy Joey.When they took they took, they were
like, hey, let me leadyou to go say hi to Joey.
Bus. When I was at theCharters thing, and I walked like five
yards and then I just broke offto the car see and then I had
(36:24):
to fill that void. I'm hangingout with Joey for two hours. You
need to reach out to your friendJoey and say if you need help with
the wives. Sia Akidi's I'm yourguy. By the way, the latest
is from John Fanta from Fox andCollege Basketball says people he's talking to you,
says they believe they'll get a decisionin the next seventy two hours.
(36:45):
From a Bali Craft Danny Early,he's holding us all hostage. Who have
ever guessed that you could be thehero in this situation? Pee? All
the negativity directed at the Lakers,and yet you could convince this Greek wife
of his. I think if they'regoing to reach out to a local,
famous Greek, that go straight toRita Wilson dead and alive guid next or
(37:08):
maybe we'll just keep chopping it upabout this. I'll trust some money.
At five to seventy ela Sports LiveEverywhere on the iHeartRadio app going to the
bottom of the hour, Dodgers Piratescoming up trying to salvage a win,
invade the sweep three forty pm,first pitch tomorrow we'll be on one to
three doing Dodgers v Yankees, andVassy's got Jason Hayward on Marango Casino Dodgers
(37:32):
on deck. Tim Kates takes overat two thirty, like Matt said,
and we'll be on for two hourstomorrow from one to three. Another flex
alert when they take on the Yanks. Uh, Matt, some textoso's here
and react your text us a finebrought to you by your sokel Toyota dealers.
We make it easy. This says, just admit you guys were wrong,
(37:57):
and like we made up the wholejj Reddick thing and just ran with
the narrative like the moon hoax ofone hundred plus years ago. Listen,
the moon hoax does not have tocatch strays from you, Matt. When
I talk about the moonlighted on theMoon that guy left his family picture there,
I'm talking about the moon Hoaks beforethe other Stanley Kubrick alleged moon hoax,
(38:21):
the real Moonhoaks. Yeah, we'rereporting on what guys like Shams and
all those other idiots out there arereporting that the vehicle for us to attack
Lebron. We were wrong, wewere wrong. Lebron was never involved in
the JJ Reddick thing was never athing. Just admit that you were wrong.
Oh yeah, I was wrong,and thank god there was nothing ever
(38:44):
there. It was a nothing burger. This is about Hurley moving west.
My dad moved us from Philly tod C. To the DC area for
a government job during the seventies wherethe economy sucked, and my mom busted
his balls for fifteen years for turnfamily away from Philly and Jersey. She
had six brothers and sisters and mydad had three. It was only one
(39:06):
hundred and sixty miles, but shebusted his balls forever. It's great,
we'll see, we'll see what happenshere. But look there you go,
magic opening his mouth just like hedid when the Lakers were the front runner
for Kawhi Leonard. He backed outbecause he ran his mouth before anything happened,
and then we got stuck with PubeScalp Lebron. I mean, I
(39:38):
is magic, Our Drake is everything. He touched go to s kind of
right. He told us mccurt didn'tknow the parking lot at Dodger Stadium,
and that was a lie. Hedid and no one stepped to it.
So Hurley's wife is more Newberry Streetthan Wiltshire. Ooh good one. She's
(40:00):
more Seaton Hall than Lmu. Ibelieve Mulberry Pizza was on Newberry Street.
If that is the case, thatis that is a very clever texto.
So do you think that she alsowears John Fluvog's shoes, which should also
be found on Newberry Street. TheClippers can now draft Bronny and get lebron
(40:22):
and the brow too. They specializein broken players. The options are endlessly
and miss Once Magic Johnson gets involved, who knows what direction this could go.
There are more questions and answers atthis point, but we'll continue to
(40:45):
chop it up with your fun factand your quick hits and then launch you
into Dodger Baseball coming up next.Thanks for listening on this Crunchy Groove. Thursday,
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