NBA All Star Game Reaction

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That's about an hour and a half from now. Karan Butler,
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Will ask him his thoughts on the new look Cavaliers,
which we saw twice before the All Star All Star break.
All right, let's talk All Star games, shall we? Did
they fix it? Yeah? Yeah, okay, yeah, I believe what

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happened yesterday and the ratings and the reaction to the game,
a lot of it. It's a perfect storm. Get to
that in a moment. First, dear Fergie, Okay, the Star
Spangled Banner can be a very difficult song to sing that.
I think we all know, each one of us, at

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some point in time have gotten the verses screwed up.
Don't act like you haven't you've looked. You had to
look up at the screen and be like, wait, where
is the word somewhere? Mm hmmm. Right, So she did,
in fact get the words right. She wasn't intending this.
People have tried to make it like it's Roseanne bar

(02:26):
screaming the national anthem. And no, this was not like
third level, her level her. She was trying to protest
by clowning it. I just felt like Fergie was trying
to play the part of Marilyn Monroe singing to JFK.
The differences that song was happy Birthday. She she sexually
sang to the then youngest president in the history of

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the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It is not a
breathy song. It is not an R and B song.
And if you're trying to do Marvin Gay, I don't
know Marvin Gay. Marvin Gay is not a friend of mine.
But you, my lady, or no, Marvin Gay. It didn't
come off as intended. That said, she did at least

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get the words right, So we'll give her somewhat of
a pass. Uh. I like Pharoe Williams. It seems like
he's doing the Benjamin button and aging backwards. I thought
the choreography was great, but got that music was just
a racket, just a racket, And people criticized just and Timberlake,
like the just nimily was great, play like five or

(03:33):
six of his best songs. He's sang, he danced, he
was good. Played little piano, little homage to Prince. That's
what the halftime show is supposed to be. Not we
saw from Pharrell Whims choreography great. It looked like they
were all having fun. It was well shot, it was
well lit. It was interesting. But when the song is bad,
it's like when you order something from a great restaurant

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and like the ambiance is great, the services good. The
wine was good. You know, I had some Brussels sprouts
in the side. The plating was good. How is the
steak cold and undercooked? That was the half type performance.
All right, enough, let's get to the game. Team Lebron
wins Lebron James UH All Star Game m v P.

(04:16):
Here's Lebron After the game. I had a real game
feel to it. And it starts with us all these
guys right here, and these guys came in with the
right mindset this UH, this weekend, and we wanted to
give our beautiful fans and our beautiful game played in
over two crunches in the world a show. And uh,
we said we wanted to do it, and we came
out and we did that. So I mean, we got
the best league in the world, and we want to
continue to do that every single day. Look, I here's

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what it was, a perfect storm. Last year was so bad.
I didn't even watch it, Ill be dnest with you,
but I I've I've watched some highlights of how bad
the defense was. I looked at the number of three
point shots taken. I've heard the narrative. Plus it was
in New Orleans, which means all those dudes were going out,
not that they weren't going out in l A. Um,

(04:59):
it was bad. It was so So you start with
the fact that last year's game was bad, then you
add in the Laura ingram nontroversy controversy, right, combine it
with Lebron having that seven week stretch where we had
the worst plus minus in the league and the Calves
all of a sudden looking re energized over the last

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two games, and Lebron potentially coming to l A and hey,
where was the All Star Game played? Los Angeles, Paul
George also the eye of affection for many Lakers fans.
You had five players from southern California playing in the game.
See had all these things kind of working for you.

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With the NBA last year was the worst. They gave
ownership to Lebron and to Steph which at least made
those two want to play better. Those two want to
lead some You add in some youth to the game, right,
do you like? Joel Embiid hadn't been there before? Felt
like he was playing harder blocking shot because he didn't
he hadn't been to a bunch of All Star games.

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He couldn't take it for granted. All of those things
combined and I thought the All Star Game was better.
But part of it was the bar was set so
low from last year. It was a culmination of things,
combined with it being in Los Angeles, who was trying
to recruit two players to take their max contracts, playing
the house where Kobe built, No Lakers, there's we did

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the whole thing. It worked, but will it work long term?
Where's the All Star Game? Next year? Is? Next year?
Did Charlotte finally get it back next year? Because next
year it feels like you're gonna have to keep tinkering
with it, keep trying to make it special. Look, it's
the hardest thing with being married is trying to make

(06:47):
each state ses. My wife and I we we did
this last week. We're like, hey, let's just go out
and have dinner. We gotta sit here, my wife, my
my mom came down, watched the kids, who went and
had dinner, and we hadn't. I've been traveling so much
with gone with Super Bowl and then gone in New
York last week. I had one night we went and
had dinner. It was nice. But we talked to each

(07:09):
other several times a day on the phone. We text
each other kind of constantly. Like I can't say that
it was it. It's an effort to make it special.
It was seventeen years. Doesn't mean I don't like her company,
but like, okay, we've talked about that topic. I know
your stance on that topic. We talked right, Like we
talked about all these things. So it's hard. So if

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it was me and I'm the commissioner of the NBA,
I keep tinkering with it. The first thing is I
think all teams should wear their traditional jerseys Home and Road.
I like that one was black. Team Lebron was white.
Team Stuff was black. They put their teeth logo on it.
But I always thought one of the cool things with

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All Star Games is when you're wearing your own team's
jersey and you're playing together. Let's all wear our darks
today balls and everybody else wears at home whites. But
you know, this year you had two captains. Obviously, next
year you run the possibility of having the same two captains,
or at least one of those two captains. Again, do
you have legends pick Next year they're going to televise

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the picts, which I love, which I love um, but
it also feels like, look you could, you could. I
like the idea of money and win or take all
make it more money, more money, more competitive, And it
was great they were playing for charity, but like when
you're playing for yourself too, and I help. I think

(08:32):
the money this year helped them play a little bit harder,
at least in the in the last part of the
fourth quarter. So did they fix it temporarily? Yeah, it
showed that you can, at least in spots play hard.
They're getting a lot of credit for playing hard when
really was. Joel and Bid blocked a couple of shots
early in the game, and then the last part of

(08:53):
the fourth quarter they did in fact compete and switched
screens and make some shots and foul each other to
pretend like they were playing hard. But let's not act
like this was you know some Eastern Conference nineteen nineties
series where they're they're clotheslining each other, fighting over ever
loose ball, playing through pain and blood, sweat and tears
to win a game. For an All Star game, they

(09:14):
played a little bit better, a little bit more team
oriented basketball at both ends of the floor, but for
a basketball game, it was a tough watch for about
three quarters. The culmination of Laura Ingram Lebron possibly come
into l A playing in Staples Center, five guys from
southern California trying to show out on some level for
the home, for their family, for their hometown fans. The

(09:35):
fact the league was embarrassed last year made it better.
But you probably want to continue to reinvent yourself if
you're the NBA. NBA champion. Karen Butler tough juice joints
the show up coming next. I'll ask him if he
thinks they fixed the All Star Game, or did I
do have one idea for a tinker Eventually and we'll

(09:58):
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that appeared to be refreshed, but they are actually better
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He's tough juice, He's corn butler. He joins us on
the Doug Gottlieb Show. Uh your thoughts like insummation of
the All Star Game? What's your media reaction? Uh? You
know what, I loved it. You know, I thought it
was exceptionally Well, I thought people was campine a amazing
level and just seeing how you know, the competition of

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having like mixed teams from each coast, like you talked
about the East Coast, talk about the West Coast, the
Western Conference. It was just it was amazing to see it.
And you know, I I actually just stayed in tune
and I was engaged for four quarters. Um. Okay, So
do you think this is sustainable? Like the idea like
last year? My thought Koran was, it's kind of the
perfect storm. It's in l A. You've got five so

(12:29):
Cal guys playing on both teams combined. You know Lebron well,
you know, because the first half of the season for
a good portion wasn't going the way he wanted and
he's still kind of trying to prove his dominance over
the league and 't l A where they want him. Um,
and you know Laura Ingram's nonsensical comments, you know, before
the weekend began, Like I I kind of felt like

(12:50):
perfect storm motivated guys, motivated Lebron motivated the league a
little bit. I just don't know how sustainable that is. Uh,
do you think you can continue to get that level
of competition at least in the fourth quarter in years
to come. Well do you you touched on it? You
know that the the energy and the momentum favor exactly
what you said. The conversation of what Lebron was motive

(13:12):
motivated by, you know, all the talk of him possibly
coming to Los Angeles and free agency. You know, that's
the big elephant in the room to everybody you know,
continues to talk about and we'll talk about even more
as the final approaches, and you know, just the new
player format of the West, the Western Conference All Stars
and the Eastern Conference All Stars, you know, being messed

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together where you know you have k D and Lebron
on the same team, and fast forward from even that,
you know you're looking at so many things just as
an NBA as a whole. Like I love the concept
of Chris Webber's idea where he said, like you should
treat like a pickup game. For instance, have all the

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All Stars there, you have two captains, and you you
picked guys randomly, like on the spot, like okay, this
this the jersey they were, and this is who we're
rocking with right there on All Star Day, no one
knows who's gonna be teammates and anything. I think that
adds another dramatic uh component to the game as well,

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Like that would just be amazing. Here's here's it. Here's
the problem. I know, but here's the problem with it.
Somebody's gonna get picked last, right, those last those I understand, Like, look,
that sounds great. You have great perspective, but if you
if you, you know, I know they're gonna televise it
next year, but you can televise that those last two
dudes are gonna be hurt. They always are hurt, even

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if they're like, well, you're an All Star, that's okay,
You're still mad that your last dude picked. Okay, you
have to do it like, okay, it's aphabetical order, so
you can't be mad at your name ends with what about? What?
What about? This is an idea, um, if you you
have over twenty All stars one on half four teams,
why not play it like it's a jam, read like

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it's a pickup game. King of the court. I mean
you can do that too, but then it you know,
obviously you want to continue to enhance the game, but
you don't want to take away from what's been traditional
you know, so I feel like basketball grass root in
the essence and the heart of the game. It starts
with pick up and what Chris Webber has has stated

(15:22):
was just like amazing because that's a pickup format. I'm
coming with two captains. You can't leave the court because
it's your ball, or you can't play. But look, I
got all this talent right here, and the two best
players picked the talent. I got ten guys. You got
to all right, let's rock, let's play, let's compete, and
then adds the component like I'm wondering who Lebron gonna

(15:43):
have on his squad or who k d gonna have
on his team. It's the same format. It's pick up basketball.
And let me just tell you. And ain't like we're
playing at you know, the y m c A or
a rec center or something. If you get picked glass,
you're still All Star? Are you still there? You still
on the stage. So it shouldn't matter. Question Karen Butler
joining us on the Doug Gottlip Show, Um, what was

(16:04):
Fergy trying to do? I'm still trying to figure it out.
What was she trying to do? That was you? Listen?
I have so much respect for a talent. I heard
them list off her and run down her credentials as
being a multi Grammy Award winner and you know, being
one of the members of the Black Eyed Peas and
et cetera. But that right there was this crazy. I mean,

(16:30):
I'm still it's not a sec Listen, it's not a
sexy song. I hate to ferget. I hate to tell
you it's not a sexy song. Like just singing sight
up like she's got a great voice, not a sexy
song just singing. She does she she does have a
great voice. But at the same time, like for instance,
Marvin Gay like and that's what I compare to. I

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think that's what she was trying to do, Marvin Gay thing.
I think, yeah, she was trying to turn it into
her own and it just didn't happen. You know. That's
like the quote, like the the hashtag after that should
have been like see what happened was and then that
like that was this That was just crazy. But I'm
still a buy a record, I still a supporter no
matter what. Jarn Butler joining us, all right, tough to

(17:13):
help me out. Look, the Calves look better the last
two games before the break, but they're younger, they got
better energy, Their benches obviously better, but it's a it's
a different game when you get to the playoffs, and
they might have added they might have just switched out
point guards, right, adding George Hillen, who's a good player
and a good fit opposite Lebron. Remember last year they

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had Kyrie. Now you don't have anybody else who can
create his own shot. If if that is in fact
you're starting lineup? Do you think the Calves got discernibly
better for the postseason, not for the regular season with
the trades they made. I do believe that they have
got significantly better, you know, from what you touched on
the athletic standpoint more you and you know what this

(17:57):
this is what I would have to say, because there's
warranted Chemistry on teams is so important. It's not always
about having the best talent. It's about having the best
role players and guys that embraces their role and that's
gonna enhance the team. Gonna sacrifice for the team, Gonna
set better picks, gonna set you know, play better defense,
Gonna run the floor so you give real estate, you know,

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to a guy like Lebron James, whatever the case, but
you cannot have a situation where you have you know,
guys that you know who was all All Stars and
future Hall of Famers in etcetera. You know, you name
it your borderline hall of Famers. So certain guys that's
not gonna run the floor as hard or not gonna
embrace a lesser role or you know, um, let's just

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face it. The truth of the matter is, you know
some guys in contract seasons and they don't want to
do less and not exceed, knowing that the end game
is playing the Warriors and they may not get past
that hurdle and they're gonna be judged by whether they
was able to win the championship or not. So like
all those components, was thrown into the fire and they
couldn't like iron it out. There's a lot of wrinkles

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they couldn't get through. They had great leadership and the
Wayne Wade and those guys been through do everything, battle tested,
but they just couldn't get over the hump. So change
was needed. And now we're in the honeymoon phase of
the change. When trades happened, everybody is excited, just like
when UH coaches get fired or whatever. It change up
you know, guys who out there and play extremely hard,
four or five game win streak, and then it's right

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back to the same team because the foundation hasn't really changed,
you know what I mean. So it's gonna be interesting
to see what happened like mid in March with the
Cavaliers or is this is the honeymoon phase, Like I'm
not gonna judge them just on the three games or whatever.
The cave is going to All Star Break. I need
to see more Corn Butler joining us on the Dug

(19:46):
Got the show, Tough Juices what everybody in the league
calls him, that's his nickname. He's an All Stars, an
NBA champion. Of course a broadcaster. T n T does
ESPN games, does Spectrum games as well. He's all across
the broadcast the channels. When you're watching hoo Pro or college.
Um okay, so uh, while you're taking await and see
a approach with the Cleveland Cavaliers, you also know all

(20:07):
these guys, they all respect you, They all talk. Was
the talk of the All Star Game that Lebron is
coming to l A or has that been put on
pause as well? That the conversation has been that because
Dave and did a player poll about it. You know,
that was the question, like, hey, Lebron's in l A.
Will he actually come to l A? Why does l
A make sense? You know, even even to the fact

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that you know, you had, you know, Kobe statements where
like he loves the young nucleus. Sometimes you don't need
a superstar. You just need the build off the talent
and the young nubles that you have, that that camaraderie
that already exists. Like there's so many things the conversation
and it's really all stirred and geared at you know,
Lebron James, Will he come to l A? Will this

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be the place? You know? He has this multimedia company here,
he's in the film. You know, he's about the green
light of the new house party, you know, like all
these things. So I mean, it's a it's a it's
a super attractive market for him life after basketball, and
he's already doing it. He can do it from Cleveland,
he could do it from Houston, he could do it
from San Antonio. But l A makes a lot of

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sense just because the space where he's trying to dominate,
the conquer next phase of his career yeah, I I
tend to agree with you. I'm a little concerned about
the Warriors bench. Um. I understand that everybody is acting
as if, Look, Andrea Gudala will get back. You know,
will will will be will be much more locked in
once the postseason starts. But you know, I don't know. Man.

(21:35):
He han't playing very well and probably his best contribution
to the Warriors has been when he coached that one
night against the Suns. You got Iguadala and Livingston. They're
still waiting on Jordan Bell to get back healthy. Um,
what are your thoughts on that Warriors bench in comparison
to the benches they've had in the past. Look, Nick
Young is gonna have to be huge, Sean Liviston is

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gonna have to be huge for the Warriors. More forward.
Andrea go Dolla is exactly what he's always been. He's
a He's a great professional, a great veteran guy. You know,
a guy that can show you flashes and do things
only consistent. He's all. He's the m v P of
the Finals, where if you put him in situations to
make down and the knockdown shots consistently, he can show

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you flashes and do it and make you respect them,
but at the same time you're looking at another team
in the Western Conference. And make no mistake, Houston is
a huge threat. And now adding on guys like Joe Johnson,
having uh Gerald Green, Chris Paul There another playmaker you know,
um Eric Gordon, you know, having stretch guys, you know Capella,

(22:40):
James Hardness playing significantly well like all these components. If
they can play defense and continue to knock down shots
and not live by just the perimeter shots because they
have two guys, can can create, get to the paint
seventeen on the end, can score in between games, get
to the file line. They know how to value possessions

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like that's that's gonna be an interesting series. Like before
it was just like you know what, Golden State got
that easy. Now it's more intriguing because the personnel has
changed with the Houston Rockets, and you know they're having
problems on the opposing end. What you just touched on
with Andre Ga Dollar somebody else applying that depth down
to the stretch and scoring. So Nick Young is huge,

(23:22):
swaggyp is huge for that series. Yeah, and they didn't
did SWAGGYP has some thought they would do but they
to this point they have not added anybody in the
buy out market, but there's still time. Um. Last thing,
there's some uh Adam Silver discussed the possibility of changing
the playoff format to a one through sixteen regardless of conference. Um,
your initial reaction is what I like it, you know,

(23:46):
I really do, because you know, I just want to
see the best teams play each other, you know what
I'm saying, Like that's I think that's what it's all about.
Like sports is all about competition. And so many times
we talked about things that we've never got a chance
to see. For instance, we never got a chance to
see the passing of the torch with Lebron and Kobe.
They're they're in different sides though, right that was that

(24:10):
was just that. That wasn't they wouldn't have changed now.
I would have loved to see the true passing of
the torch. I would have loved to see Kevin Durant
and Kobe and Kobe Bryant. I would say, Lebron James
and Kobe Bryant go go at it in the playoff
series with with with a chance of advancement on the line,
you know, like we saw Michael you know, and Magic

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go at it. You know, you saw the passing of
the torch. It was clear. It was like, you know what,
he's that dude, He's that guy going forward. We never
really saw that because no matter what the case may be,
as you saw with the sit down with Shock and Kobe, look,
I had a broken figure. I had. I had to
get a shot at halftime. They had to get another shot,

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you know, like he would have found a way to
impose his will on the series, to make it exactly
what we all wanted to see. And I think that's
what sports all about. So you know, I do like
the format and hopefully they can mess the best teams
and the best players and the best talent against each other,
you know, so that's what people want to see. Great stuff,
tough juice, Karan Butler, follow him on Twitter, I fall

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T players only, or of course covering the college game
as well. Tough Hues, thanks for joining us. Man all right,
it's Karan Butler, NBA Champion, NBA All Star joining us
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Philadelphia Eagles still have some changes coming their way and
they plan on interviewing a couple of different guys. Do
you Staley and also might grow their offensive coordinator position.

(25:56):
Down in Houston, Texans have informed linebacker Brian Cushion they're
going to release him. You know that's about right. Well,
it's a couple of different things. One needle in price
and pills. No look for people who don't remember Brian Cushing.
Of course now he's he torn his knee up, but
he's he's twice been caught with p E d s.
The first time the team, the team defended him like

(26:18):
he was done wrong. This is our guy. Then you
get caught a second time and we're done with you.
We we put our name out there for you. I'll
I shared this when he got suspended. This year that, Uh,
they didn't like. The guys in the locker room didn't
like when I went out when I didn't buy his
excuse the first time. Remember I don't remember his first

(26:39):
time he got caught with p DS. He was like, well,
I might have had a tumor. I might have had
a cancers tumor that that might have been what It's like,
what do you mean you might have had a tumor.
You're you're in Houston, right next to M. D Anderson
and you didn't go get checked on this thing. Like
that's the worst excuse ever. But the team wouldn't. I
couldn't get anybody from Houston because they were so defending him.
They felt like I defamed him when he was the
one clearly lying. Now they feel they're like, really, you

(27:02):
got suspend it again? We we just can't. We got
all these other tremendous defensive players who appeared to do
it the right way. We can't defend you any longer.
I think that's really what it comes down. Yeah, and
the second time you got suspended, as you're talking about
ten games last season. So moving from him to the
Charlotte Observer, Carolina Panthers Julius Peppers. He's thirty eight years
of age. He plans on returning in ten for seventeen

(27:25):
year in the league, and he's back with the Panthers.
He's planning on coming back. Yes, okay, be interesting for him.
Good Hooper spent to the final four two thousand of
my senior year. Crazy still playing. Dude's a beast. Uh
speaking of coming back, there was talk about it, and
I don't know. If there's talk, I don't I'll look

(27:45):
it up. Go ahead, all right, talk about coming back.
One of them is John Wall in the NBA Washington
Post is reporting he's no longer on crutches, so good
news for him. He had surgery on his knee just
a couple of weeks ago and they expect him back
within four to six weeks. In college basketball, the a
P Talk twenty five is out one through five. You've
got Virginia, Michigan State, Villanova, Xavier, and then Duke Who's

(28:07):
twenty two and five this season. In Major League Baseball,
John Haymond reporting Chris Tillman's coming back to the Baltimore
Orioles on a one year deal. Major League Baseball imposing
new restrictions on player visits to the mountain. Okay, hold on,
I want to talk about this one. We'll talk about
this inn Um, don't give away how many the number. Okay,
part of the discussion ahead. We'll tease that along the way.
And then one note real quick. In the National Hockey League,

(28:29):
two games going on right now, wildly the Islanders in
New York five three capitals and sabers or no scores.
Back to your d David Gascon. Thanks. Julius Peppers was
clear in the PD thing. That was he was one
of the Al Jazeera guys right when the Al Jazerra
thing had James Harrison, Clay Matthews, Julius Peppers, Peyton Manning,
Hayton Manning as well. Uh, Julis Peppers clears. That's very
important to note. Um, I love that the mound visit thing. So, David,

(28:53):
here's my question, what was the previous limit to mound visits?
Was there a previous limit? No, no limit, There is
an uncapped Now you couldn't You couldn't go twice with
the same picture as that right as that it was correct.
You can't go in the same ending with a picture,
but you go as many times you want with the picture.
You can only just go once an inning, Iny Ramos,
do do you know what the new limit is for

(29:13):
mound visits total in a game? I want to say,
is it six? Yeah? Six? It seems still like a
high number, Like I'm not sure, Like it's better, but
I'm not really sure it's First of all, like half
of it is those guys are stalling when they're walking
out there, you know, they walk out there like they're like,
I'm gonna need a time out, like time out of

(29:35):
like did I get the time out? I got the
time out? Did I get the time out? Like? Why
are you taking so long to walk out the I
just want to make sure I have the time out
before I can walk out there. Yes, Ryan Music, I
just I don't know how are you gonna be able
to differentiate when you're going out there to do a
mound visit? And then also say, but we're gonna put

(29:57):
that aside from actually making the change, like how many
times are you going? Are you gonna be able to
really go out there have a conversation, And then also
we then have to deal with the pitching changes, which
is what really takes up the amount of time like
it should be like you said, I agree, six is
way too much, so it should be like three. Like
you get to go out there to talk to your
picture once twice a game. Other than that, you're giving

(30:19):
him the hook. Well, the other part is this when
they make a pitching change. I have said this, Okay,
when you make a pitching change, the guy who comes
in should have a time livel how long it takes
him to get from the bullpen to the mound and
then we go. There is not another sport like in football.
If your quarterback it's hurt, or you change out quarter

(30:39):
We change out wide receivers in any position you change out.
But let's just say quarterback is the same level importance.
Touching the ball throomble like you don't You can pass
on the sidelines, but you don't. Like Hey, guys, you
hold up. I want to run a little fly pattern
here so I can I can make sure the old
little cannons listened up. Don't you like how they introduced
the closers now though with Mariano Rivera Trevor Hoff. When
you get Hell's bells coming in as they walk into

(31:01):
the I think it's great that you do that at
the start of the inning. Right, I'm talking mid inning.
Even if you do that mid inning, what the hell
is the purpose is having a warm up bullpen? What
is the what is the point of that you're warm,
you're loose? Like, well, the mound isn't the same, okay,
so make the mound the same. Make it as close
to the same as possible. Like you know, like when

(31:22):
you check into an NBA game. Those guys checking in
the NBA game, at the end of the game, they'll
be like, well, can I get a couple of shots up?
You guys? Just wait over here, let me just get
a couple of shots off of of me. Just take a
free throw out? Good, lay up? Good? Can you get
go with threes? I just want to see go through
the net? All right, We're good, you guys ready, let's go,
Like you don't get to do that. And we're trying
to speed up baseball, And one of the answers is right,
and everybody pitching changes is a huge factor. Like I

(31:44):
kind of think this is an easy one. I kind
of think it's an easy one. And then I agree
with music like six seems like a lot. Six seems
like a lot. But I think part of the problem
is it's not necessarily how many visits you have. It's
how long it takes you to strolling out there and
stroll your little happy ass back, Like we already already

(32:05):
looks funny with these old men wearing uh, wearing baseball
uniforms and cleats, and they've got spikes and their spit
and grabbed themselves and walk out there and like everybody's
got to come and have a huge, you know, visit.
Worry about what you're getting Johnny for for his wedding.
That's just a nostalgie of the game though, right, That's
something that's just it's happened sixty years ago and it

(32:28):
still happens, and nobody wants to get rid of the
nostal Everybody says baseball Baseball does not take NFL games
take longer, Like that's the crazy part. NFL take games
take longer. Um, you know, the between innings thing, like
all right, like get out there, get your pitches and
let's go. But a part of it that actually works
for baseball, it works for TV as well baseball, as

(32:52):
you get up and take a leak and get a
beer and come back down. A matter of fact, I
almost wish they would take longer in between innings. That's
where the links should be right between the right and
then let's keep the keep it moving, keep moving, keep moving,
keep moving. But I just I don't really understand baseball.
They if they think their numbers are down strictly because
it it takes long because all these guys are striking,

(33:13):
striking out or walking seeing too many like let's go.
But I was stunned that there was an unlimited number
of bound visits previously six total. So what happens once
you get to six? You can't go out there anymore.
Now they'll be faking injuries because you know it doesn't
count against you if you have to have the trainer
come out and check, and the coaches like, well, and

(33:35):
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I'll tell you next, But first, I uh, I just
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(34:38):
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(35:20):
David Griffin, former general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers in
an hour and a half. I want to talk about
the possibility of a Gronk retirement next hour. He but
we'll also get to this upcoming in about ten minutes.
There's a lot of push. You just heard Karon Butler
or maybe the all Stary MEBA champion say, look, I
want to see the best teams play the best teams.

(35:42):
I want I'd love to see one through sixteen a
receipting of NBA teams regardless of East versus West. What
I'll give you my thoughts on the possibility of changing
the playoff format and why I think it does not
actually work. Let's get to a game time. This is
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(36:06):
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game today, David Good afternoon. Let's take a peek, and
we got big deal, little deal, no deal? All right,
so here we go, big deal, little deal or no deal.

(36:28):
Don Mets general manager Sandy Alderson says, Tim Tebow. That's right,
Tim Tebow will play in the majors. At some points,
that seems like a big deal. That's it. Like for
a guy who has really struggled to consistently hit a
baseball at a lower level to all of a sudden
be propelled to playing in the majors, seems like a

(36:48):
really big what was a cute fuzzy what a good
little minor league story? Right right? The you know minor
league is typical minor league promotion, Like, oh, they got
Tim Tebow. Okay, I'll go see that, you know now
to playing for the New York Mets. It feels like
a big deal. Yeah, jerusy Night would be interesting. He
bet at two last season, twenty four doubles, eight home runs,

(37:09):
fifty two runs better than a but at quorn to
Tibo himself, he's ship about twelve pounds. He's a little
bit more flexible, And Sandy Alderson said, somebody asked me
whether I think he'll be a major league player at
some point, and that's my guest. I think he will
play in the major leagues. That's my hope. And to
some extent now after a year and a half, a
modest expectation. That's not a modest expectation, Like when is

(37:30):
it a modest expectation. I just this, This is the
kind of thing you have to understand. When you're the
second team in the town. You're a Clipper fan, you
get that. You know you're Clipper fan, you get that.
If you're a White Sox fan, you get that. If
you're a Jets Mets or um uh Jets Mets who
are a Brooklyn Nets fan, Jets Mets Nets right that

(37:51):
this is the kind of thing they do. But you know, dude,
you're hitting you're you're hitting slightly above the Mendoza line
in minor league baseball. You're gonna play for the big boys.
That feels like it's destined to fail. And that's not
a triple A or double A. That's at the advanced
A level. So and it was good luck to him anyway.
It's moving on. Big deal, little deal or no deal.
Direct TV will raise the price of NFL Sunday Ticket

(38:14):
again this upcoming season. That feels like a big deal
to me. That feels like the kind of thing that
I may pass on. Um And I'll tell you why,
say why. I I like direct Tv. I like to
be onble to watch all these games and record them.
And I watched them. But Thursday Football, which moves to
Fox this year, that's a standalone game. You got set,
you got Sunday, two different windows, three different windows on Sunday.

(38:36):
Those are three standalone game and they got Monday. So yes,
there are some If you have red Zone, how many
of you guys actually watch the games as opposed to
watching red Zone? I almost feel like they'll have the
they're not reading fans now raising prices. I understand you
can have people dump their subscription. This is like Netflix.

(38:57):
Netflix rose, prices rose, and everybody's like, everybody's a dump Netflix.
Nobody dumped Netflix because it was a couple of dollars
a month more and you're like mine, whatever, And they're
making gobs and gobs of money. So probably financially it
ends up being a good thing for Direct TV because
you can withstand people bailing on the package. But just
the guy who's I've had the package since it came
into existence, every house I've ever purchased. I would only

(39:19):
buy it if you could get direct TV satellite. Otherwise
I'd have to cut down trees. Now, have you ever
threatened to cancer your subscription? Though? Yeah, I'm not threatening to.
I'm going to know, I know. But have they have
you ever done it where they Okay, we'll give you
the next season for free. Come on, that's old school,
a low budget move that I do all the time.
You have nothing wrong with that. They say this season

(39:39):
will be two nine three dollars for the NFL package,
But if you want the Red Zone channel, it increases
a hundred dollars to promise you can get the Red
Zone channel on regular cable. On Twitter? You know you
get the red Z. I wouldn't watch on Twitter. I
want to watch on my TV bootleg. You watching bootleg
of cour It is mad that his low budget right there.

(40:02):
That's even too blow budget for me. Oh Man, alright,
big gave a gascon. He lives in one one one
Federal Way, Studio City, California, nine double o two eight
oh Man, A big deal, little deal or no deal?
Last story got here. We mentioned the mound visits, but
Major League Baseball will not implement a twenty second pitch

(40:23):
clock this season. Big deal, little deal, or no deal
at all, that's a big deal. Speed this thing up.
You're gonn speed up. No mound business. You can speed
at the pitch count the clock. Come on, man, let's
get it going. This is game time on the duck.
Gottla show Tim Tebow to the major leagues. Come on, man,

(40:44):
what we're doing. What we're doing. Um, there's a there's
a push to change the NBA's playoff format, and some
of it is part of evolution. You know, college basketball,
they got four teams in more than college football has
started the large football playoff. Um, the NFL they're talking
about expanding their playoffs. They've already, you know, previously baseball

(41:06):
expanded their playoffs. What would the NBA do to follow suit? Why?
I think it's a mistake to break from the East
West tradition. That's upcoming next plus ja right next hour
in the Doug Gotlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. What Up
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the City of Angels. Soon to be one of Lebron
Paul George Kawai letter to Clay Thompson. I'm not sure

(41:28):
if you heard. They're all coming the wild recruiting weekend,
Kobe challenging the manhood of Paul George. You know we
gotta recruit you. Maybe you're not the guy here for
l A. That is awesome. What's that call when you
reverse psychology? Right? Awesome reverse psychology. But from Kobe being Bryant,
we got a ton to get to Jay right, head

(41:49):
coach of Villanova, who technically still atop the Big East
code co leaders, are actually a game back in the
win column a Big East leader Xavier, but they stopped
Xavier and since that over the weekend after stomping Xavier
in Philadelphia a couple of weeks before, they've dealt with
some injuries their back whole. And I understand people think

(42:11):
I don't like Villanova because I was reasonable about who
Villanova was when they got eliminated from the tournament the
three years before the national championship run, or even last year.
I actually think this year's team has more talent. Pure
talent don't win on pure talent, especially in college basketball.
More talent and depth than the national championship year. See

(42:32):
if Jay Wright agrees he's gonna join us half past
the hour, a ton to get to metric Ton. And
and the other part of the college basketball landscape which
is interesting is overall the sport has less talent, there's
less depth, less experience, and they have I think more
talent and more experience. It's more likely that they make
a tournament run this year than maybe any any other year,

(42:56):
even maybe the national championship year. And they people forget
they eviscerated Iowa. They beat They beat Oklahoma in the
final four, in the final four by forty four points.
All anybody remembers this Chris Jenkins game winning shot. Do
you remember the national semifinal they beat Buddy Heals by
forty four points. And here's the other part. It was

(43:17):
actually worse than that. They took their foot completely off
the gas pedal because Oklahoma came out trying to land
Haymakers started the second half cut a little bit, and
they just know but squashed him like a bug. And
I actually think this team, this year's team is better.
All right, he'll join us past the hour. So Adam
Silver has um has some thoughts. And what I like

(43:40):
about Adam Silver is I would call him part pragmatists,
part progressive. I love the idea that just the idea
that like look healthy to explore other options. Just this
hamster on a wheel, let's keep doing the same thing

(44:02):
because we've always done it that way. Like that feels
like ancient thinking. And for a new commissioner, a guy
who's trying to find kind of find his way. And
you know, for the most part, everything he said has
been well received. I still think that it's starting to
happen something. I still think that the league needs to
needs to deal with the players and and the officials.

(44:24):
I know they had a healthy conversation over the weekend
about how the players and officials get along, but like, look,
this is a bad look. Can't complain about every single
stinking call, and you can't have guys getting technicals and
thrown out of every single game, like just play let
them ref The refs need to be more human, and
the players need to know that the refs are in

(44:45):
fact human. But for the most part, Adam Silver has
found a way in an error in which we hate everything.
Like do you guys see the new Drake video? Ryan Music?
Did you see the new Drake video? I did not
see it God's Plan. Have you have you seen it? Um?
Almost God's Plan video? See the video, heard the song though? Okay,

(45:07):
God's Plan new drop, New Drake song and video. I
there's like to Drake songs previous to this one that
I like. I really like God. I like God's Plan UM,
and I like it even more because I saw the
video and I didn't realize it was a real thing.
Like he had like almost a million dollars in cash
and in Miami. I gave it to families who didn't

(45:28):
know what they were there for that he was given
it to them. Well, just the look on people's faces.
And no, money doesn't solve every one of our issues,
but it sure helps start the process. I mean, think
of have you been married? Almost almost every argument is
really about two things, right, maybe three kids? Money, sex.

(45:52):
That's about it. And one of the reasons that people
argue about kids, I mean, sometimes kids have issues or whatever,
but a lot of it is because kids are really expensive,
and if your kid has an issue, it costs a
lot of money to help get those issues worked out.
So really it's about money insects. That's what argument. That's
what married arguments are about. UM and my thought on

(46:20):
the Drake video was, this is a great thing. I
look on Twitter and of course there's always somebody who
finds a reason to hate it, and that's because we're
part of the everybody hates everything era. So for the
most part, in his short span now of being the
commissioner of the NBA, he's been beloved, not like beloved.

(46:45):
His players go after the president. He steers clear of controversy.
You know, players complain about the officiating. He steers clear
of controversy. Kevin Durant leaves the Oklahoma City Thunder to
go the Golden Say Words, he steers clear of controversy.
New collective bart in agreement. East're clear of controversy. There's
still no clarity on what they're gonna do with the
one and done rule. They haven't figured out how to

(47:08):
stop these super teams from forming. And yet no one's
saying like Adam Silver's lost control of his league. But
Adam Silver think as identified a problem which many of
us have discussed, which is the imbalance of power between
Western Conference teams and Eastern Conference teams. Here's his thoughts
on changing the playoff format. When we get to the playoffs,
should we be soon are we taking either the best

(47:31):
sixteen teams or even if we go eight from the West,
eight from the East, seating one through sixteen going into
the into the playoffs. And that is something that has
gotten serious attention, not not just recently but over the
last few years at the league office. So look, they're
paying attention to it. It's very important to note they're
not changing it. So don't run around at the office.

(47:54):
Don't go down to twenty four hour fitness to be
like yo, I heard they're changing the playoff format. Like, no,
they're discussing it because it's what smart people do. They
discuss it and discuss it and discuss it, and they
discuss it some more and maybe they throw up some
potential formulas and it's a great It's it's in theory,
it's great in practice. Really hard. Um. I do believe

(48:20):
that the Western Conference is better, discernibly better. Maybe maybe
Like as of right now, Minnesota is the fourth best
team in the West, would they be better than the
fourth best team in the East, the Washington Wizards. Probably
not bet in the Calves, Nope, but in the Celtics
are not raptors, Like the balance is actually a lot

(48:44):
more even than you think. You think Oklahoma City, like, man,
they got Paul George, and they got Carmelo Anthony and
they got Russell Westbrook and see if it Adams like.
They're in fifth in the West, which may speak to
the power of the West. But the Nuggets are in six,
the Trailblazer and seven. The Pelicans are eight. The Pelicans
are eighth, and they don't have DeMarcus Cousins. Isn't that strong.

(49:04):
It's just not. The perception is the West is strong
because they have both the Rockets and the Warriors, and
the thought is the Spurs. But if the West was
so strong, then why have the Spurs been able to
be thirty five and twenty four without Kawhi Leonard playing
much of that first half of the season. It's just
not It's not that dominant. Additionally, ultimately, this will even

(49:25):
itself out. It always does. At some point the Philadelphia
seventies sixers will be a consistent playoff team, which they
they're They're on the brink of getting into the playoffs
the first time since the rebuild. The Knicks couldn't be
this bad forever. The Celtics have a ton of young talent.
They're gonna be good for a long time. We'll see
if the Calves end up losing Lebron James. Meanwhile, the Wizards,

(49:49):
the Pacers, the Bucks have Janison and the Koopo. They're
gonna be good for a long long time. The reason
that it's super flawed is you don't have balanced schedules.
I'm a big allan scheduled guy, So you can't throw
them into the same pot when they don't have the
same record. You have to have East West, not just
for rivalry sake, but for context sake. Here's what I mean.

(50:14):
This is the problem with Big ten football. If you
want to tell me that the West is better in
the East and deeper in the East, all right, I'll
buy it. I still think it's deeper. I don't think
it's that much deeper. Like the Lakers are in what
eleventh place? They're not a good team. They're in eleventh places.
They're in the East as well, right, the Jazz who
have lost all these different players, and like, like the

(50:35):
Jazz arine tenth place, Like they're not great either. They
wouldn't be great in the East. But whatever you want
to tell me the West is a little bit better. Fine,
But the Western Conference teams play against the Western Conference
teams more, so you can't say we're gonna do well.
It's all six best best sixteen teams because you can
only go by record, and if the Eastern Conference teams
play against the Eastern Conference teams more This is a

(50:57):
lot like Wisconsin in the in the Big Ten. You
can't compare the the the record of Wisconsin this year
in the Big Ten in football, who only played Michigan
from the other side and played them at home, with
Ohio State, who played Oklahoma at a conference played Michigan,
played Penn State, played Michigan State. You can't or Michigan

(51:18):
who played the Penn State, Ohio State UM both on
the road and then had to go to Wisconsin. Unbalanced
schedules makes it impossible to evaluate the East versus the West,
so I change. It's simply an overreaction to the perception
that the West is dominant over the East, and it

(51:40):
really isn't. The Warriors are dominant, the Rockets seem to
be dominant, but if yet to do anything much in
the playoffs. We think the Spurs are always going to
be good, but they're going through a bit of a
refresh here. But they're still you know, they're winning, but
they're not that much more talented than anybody else, especially
without why Leonard, tell me where the depth of the

(52:03):
West really is. You want to tell me it's the Timberwolves, Fine,
but there's no no stat, no record that would tell
you they are in fact dominant against the East or
against anybody in basketball. So listen to what Adam Silver saying.
We discussed it. It's interesting. We just don't know a
perfect plan yet. If you go top sixteen teams regardless

(52:27):
of record, would mean the thought would be you'd have
more teams from the West involved. But the problem is
that that's not really a reality. If you went eight
and eight, you're gonna go based upon record and seating teams,
and that's not fair because they're the context matters in
the East plays more against the East. There's not a

(52:49):
balance schedule. If you're gonna completely remake the schedule regardless
of division and have everybody play each other the same
number of times, it's still not truly a balance schedule.
But then, and maybe only then, could you have a
sixteen team winner take all, doesn't matter where you are tournament.
But until that happens, it's a conversation that doesn't really
fix the problem. And I'm not sure the problem is

(53:13):
as pronounced as some people would lead you to believe.
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Jay Wright joins the show upcoming next. He's won a
national championship. He's won was it fur consecutive New Big

(53:36):
East crowns and took another step towards a fifth consecutive
Big East crown This Saturday. I'll ask him to measure
out this year's team and how it feels as opposed
to previous year's teams. That's upcoming next in the Doug
Gotlip Show, Fox Sports Tradeo broadcasting from the studios of

(54:01):
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(54:25):
Doug Golip Show, Fox Sports Radio. For those of us
in the outside, you had've seen Eric pass Saw got hurt,
didn't play in the St. John's. They lose to St. John's,
who had been, you know, winless in Big East play
up until the past week and a half. You know,
they lose two out of three. Pascal was hurt. Philip
phil Booth, who of course is a star for them

(54:45):
when they won the national championship. Uh, he's been out
in the past couple of weeks and uh. And then
of course that they had some bench injuries and the
bench got shorter. They lose two out of three before
bouncing back in a massive way this weekend with a
win over Xavier on Fox Sports Going Overhead coach j
Wright joins us on the Doug gott Leaves Show here
on Fox Sports Radio. Jay, thanks so much for taking

(55:08):
time with us. Congrats on the wind and was amazing
and yet felt like Round Hug Day all over again. Um,
going into Saturday, what was your level of confidence that
you could get to win. We were feel good coming
to the game because we had gotten some guys back
and they had started to practice. You know, losing Phil
Booth was a blow. To us and um, Eric Pascal,

(55:32):
It's is kind of weird how that happened, and we
found out on the way to the to the game
that he wasn't go to play. Um, so just kind
of weird circumstances. Every team goes through doing a year.
And the other thing was we had two other players, um,
Jermaine Samuel's and Colin Gillespie broke their hands also, so
they didn't practice for a long time and they were freshmen.

(55:55):
So it's we've been kind of getting guys back a
little bit. We've been piecemelling it. So going into the
Xavier game, we were better than we looked in the
two losses. Okay, So um, you walk into that building
and one of the things that I think has helped
in games like that for you is because you've dominated
the Big East, you're everybody's biggest game, right and so

(56:18):
even though you have some young pieces you mentioned Gillespie
and Samuel's and but you know, and and Amari didn't
play obviously last year, but everybody else you've played in
environments like that, how much does that help you process
the zoo that was the Sinta Center and where your
guys could focus even right after the jump. All that's

(56:40):
a very important point, Doug, because our guys are used
to that. You know, it's been, um since the New
Big East started kind of in the last four years.
You Um, even in the first year of the New
Big East. You know when we went to Xavier, well
that was the first time that that villan Ova played Xavier,

(57:03):
you know, in the new league, So it was a
big game. UM. So our guys, everybody comes in this
program is used to that now and you know that, UM,
everywhere we go where you know, where the the big game,
and uh, they don't really know any other way, which
is pretty cool because in the beginning it was you know,
in the first year was kind of new. Second year

(57:24):
you had a little bit of experience. But now the
guys that are here that they really don't know any
other way and they actually enjoy those atmospheres. Am I
crazy to say this team has more more talent than
the national championship team? Now, you're you're probably right, it does.
But as you know, um, just having talent doesn't um

(57:48):
ensure you that type of success. You know, probably you know,
probably the top five, top six, we probably do have
more talent, but there's so many intangibles to a guy
like Ryan Archidiacono as a as a senior and Daniel
Chef who as seniors brought to that team. You know,
we don't have any seniors on this team. Um, so

(58:11):
that's a little bit different, but it also gives us
the chance to improve more than that team had the
ability to do at the end of the year. Yeah.
And the other part about improving is granted, Like you
know you're you're down flour guys, Um going back a
couple of weeks ago or a a week and a half ago, right,
so you mentioned too broken hands, booth, Pascal, you know,
have all these injuries that might actually help you here

(58:33):
for the stretch run where um, you know Dante has
to take a bigger role. Um that you know you
can't be can't be passing. Were the guys that you had,
the guys in that room had to kind of explore
all the different attributes, especially at the offensive end, that
might help you for the stretch runfair definitely exactly. That's

(58:55):
what I meant earlier when I said, um, we we
weren't uh, we were feeling much better going into this
avier game than we actually looked in the st John's
game and the Providence game for instance, and no excuses,
everybody's going through it during the season, just that it's
it's why we felt better going into Xavier. Um the St.

(59:18):
John's game. You know, on the way as we're leaving
for the game, uh, you know, we find out Eric
Tosca is not playing well. Jermaine Samuels was coming off
a broken hand. He wasn't supposed to play in that game.
He had only come back for one day. So he
plays in the St. John's game with literally half a
day practice and thinking he's not gonna play well. He

(59:40):
you know, then he gets to play in that game,
and we get a couple of days practice and we
got Providence. He plays in the Providence game a lot more. Um,
you know St. John's game. Colin Gillespie had only had
a game or two back from a broken hand, so
he hadn't played that much. Now he has to play
a lot. So it didn't look good in the St.
John game of the Province. But those games really helped

(01:00:01):
those guys because they played a lot. Now we go
at Xavier, Colin Wellspie has a great game at Xavier.
Jermaine Samuels gives us great minutes off the bench, and
um Damir Cosby Rowntreet, another freshman plays really well because
he had to play a lot in those games. Even
though we lost, he played a lot. Yeah, Jay right
joining us on the dug Ot Lip Show. I guess.

(01:00:23):
I guess people think it's a weird year. And it's
maybe because the Kentucky's the u c l as the
Dukes maybe not not as down as the other programs.
Can's obviously sustained some losses, but still the top the
Big Twelve, tie the top the Big Twelve. I think
it's because Indiana probably not gonna make deternament. I think
it's because the blue Bloods might be maybe are a

(01:00:43):
little bit down, although you guys are quickly becoming a
college basketball blue blood. How would you if you had
to characterize this season to somebody who hasn't been paying attention.
Would you say it's a down year? Would you say
it's a blue bloods? How would you characterize it? Yeah?
I would. I would characterize it exactly how you said
that it's a down year for the blue Bloods in
the regular season. But I'm sure those guys are looking

(01:01:08):
at it. Let's let's say the Kansas is, the even,
the Texas is, the Dukes, the the Kentucky's nobody, even
Michigan State. You know, they're at the top, but maybe
not playing as everyone expected them to. You know, um,
you know Indiana. I'm sure those guys are saying, you

(01:01:32):
know what, this is our chance to struggle a little bit.
During the regular season. We don't get to do that
a lot, but maybe we get hot at the at
the end of the season and we get hot in
the tournament. I don't I don't hear anybody saying, you
know what, I hope we get matched up against Kansas
in the second round, and I hope we get matched

(01:01:52):
up against Kentucky in the second round. Nobody saying that.
You know, um, there's place I used to work. ESPN.
They've they seemingly have handed out the National Player of
the Year trophy to Trey Young. And I like Trey
and I know you've interacted with him, and I know
like he's not there's not there's no unlikable part of
him as a kid, and he's put up remarkable, remarkable numbers.

(01:02:14):
But I watched Jalen play and look, I mean, it's
one thing to average twenty game and five assists and
less than two turnovers game to shoot fifty four percent
from the field as a point guard forty three and um,
your guys defensive numbers are off the charts, your twenty
four and three. You just go into two Xavier and
beat them on their home turf in and what was

(01:02:37):
an absolute zoo of an atmosphere before that game, and
you just silence that crowd. Um, give me your sense
from a guy who's coached players of the year, player
of the year candidates, you know what, what about Jalen's
year has been special for you to coach? Well, I
appreciate you mentioning that and and describing his his UH

(01:02:58):
numbers as you did, because you know, when you're coaching
the guys and you're telling them that you don't have
control over whether you're national Player of the Year or not,
you know it says it's all about it's about a
hype machine, you know. And um, as you said, you
know ESPN does a great job of that, and UM,
I can't you know, I can't coach the guys and

(01:03:20):
say we don't want to concentrate on that stuff. Let's
let's be the best player you can be and then
let's see what our destiny is at the end and
then go out and be promoting it all the time
because and then you're not legit, but it is. It's
it's You stated it very well. If you look at
efficiency and a guy that's a leader, he's a point

(01:03:42):
guard and as a you look at his numbers and
what his team's doing. Jalen could go get thirty five
every night with these, but he plays the game to win.
He plays the game to lead his team. There's a
great play at the end of the Xavier game where
we either the shot crocks, there's a like forty five
seconds left, we have a ball, so there's a shot

(01:04:03):
clock differential. We have to take a shot. They're going
to get the ball back for the last shot. It's
a fifteen point game or something like that. He runs
pick and roll. He's got a wide open shot to
get a three, and he chooses to throw it underneath
and get it dunk for Eric Pascal. So you know,
if he's going for numbers, he gets the three, but
he gets his teammated dunk. That's what a great player does.

(01:04:24):
And um, I'd love to see him get Player of
the Year but you know we're not gonna work to
do that. I thank you for mentioning it. I think
he's the best player in the country. I think he's
the best leader in the country. I think he's the
most efficient player in the country. Um, and I feel
bad sometimes when I see the hype machine for Trey Young.
And like you said, if Trey Young wins it, he's

(01:04:44):
a great kid and a hell of a player, you're
not gonna be upset about it. But I do, I
really do believe that Jalen is the best I agree
with you. How does he lead? Because he doesn't strike
me as being a yeller and a streamer, but but
he obviously leads. Is it simply by a example? Does
he talk to guy like? What? What is his his
leadership style? You know? The final piece of his leadership

(01:05:08):
style is starting to get into guy's faces. And we're
gonna have practice today and the highlight of all the
highlights of that game that we're going to show the
staff is Jalen after they score in transition, getting up
and getting in Chale bridges his face because he didn't

(01:05:29):
step up and stop the ball in transition. And that's
something that that Jalen doesn't like to do a lot,
but we're trying to get him to do to be
the final piece because he leads by example. By academically,
he graduates in three years. He's a machine academically. He's
the hardest working guy on the team. He's in the
gym first and last. Every day. He eats the right way.

(01:05:52):
He's the most mature person in this program and the
most committed, including me. He's more mature than me. He
He's incredible in terms of how he leads his life.
But the final pieces, he's got to come out of
him so and get uncomfortable and get into his teammate's
faces at the right time. And he did that at Xavier,

(01:06:14):
and we're gonna accentuate that more than anything else he's done.
You know, Look, there's a piece out there. I think
he asked me and actually dot com has Rotten has
written a piece today which I was reading earlier. Coming in.
I always talks about over the last five years, you
guys have been the best program, uh in college basketball,
and kind of here's the journey. Yet four those five
years we've talked about in the past that you guys

(01:06:35):
haven't made it out of the first weekend. So you
gotta you gotta it's a little bit of draw. You
gotta be lucky, you gotta be healthy, you gotta make shots.
Off of the year you won national championship. You went
the first two months of the season without making shots,
and then in the tournament you made so many shots
that you just blew the doors off of people. I mean,
you beat Oklahoma by forty four points in the national semifinal,
but even that took a last second shot to beat
North Carolina. So that everything kind of has to work out.

(01:06:58):
But does it does it feel like that kind of
special year? You know, it does, Doug, But those years
when we lost the second round, it did. Man. Uh,
you know, maybe I don't know, Maybe that has something
to do with why are we're losing the second round
sometimes that I've feeling so good about him? I don't know.

(01:07:20):
I and I've you know, I've tried different little things
as a head coach, and and what I've learned over
those those five years because we've had great regular seasons. Um,
it's just you know, you gotta do. You gotta do
what you do. You gotta do the best you can,
make the best decisions you can. And each year is unique. Um.

(01:07:43):
For instance, this year, you know, we're coming down the
stretch here where like we we feel like we can
get a lot better. We're just getting guys back. We
haven't we don't have to Phil Booth back yet. He
hasn't even practiced yet, just got his cast off. So
we feel like we can keep improving at the end,
where those other years at the end into the year,
we were just trying to keep everybody healthy, stay fresh
because we had everybody, you know, and except for last year.

(01:08:06):
Last year we only had seven guys because we you know,
we we lost the Mary Spellman. Um. You know, we
had still Booth out for the season last year. So
every year is different. But I always feel like it's
the year and I've learned that you've got to make
the best decision you can, do the best you can
and then at the end of the year, your destiny
will reveal itself to you and you just gotta live

(01:08:26):
with it all right, last thing on the conference, and
I know you were all supposed to show for the
conferences either we cover or that we play in, and like, look,
this is a league to which um, I thought everybody
thought st John's would be better, um, And obviously they were.
They were good in the night they played you and
you guys couldn't make a shot, um. And you know
George Town's rebuilding to Paul's rebuilding. But the rest of
the league by and large was great out of conference,

(01:08:48):
I mean great out of conference. And yet now it's
beating up on each other. Now it's beatne themselves. And
so you know, Marquette, they had a big win over
the weekend, but you know there and you guys went
in there. One this year is opposed to last year.
But they're below five. And now what looked like the
deepest league in the country feels like a league to
which you feel five teams will probably get in and
I don't know who else get you know, like you

(01:09:10):
gotta all right seton Hall still alives. How would how
would you, um, if you're trying to be fair to
how good this league is as opposed to the rest
of the country. You've seen it all, you've coached against
it all, You've played the Gunzagas of the world, you
played Tennessee already this season. What are your thoughts on
the depth of quality teams within the conference? Well, it's
two interesting points you brought up there. First, I'll address

(01:09:34):
the depth of the conference. But the second point that's
really interesting is how when the conference is really good
top to bottom, how you can actually hurt each other.
You know, um, I think this year topped the bottom
one to ten. I don't even know who's ten is
the Paul ten because I look at them all the same.

(01:09:55):
But you know the pol twice depot went in Xavier
and almost had Xavier beat St. John's at the bottom
beat us and I I wasn't and beat right, they
do maybe Duke at Madison Square Garden, which let's be honest,
that's more Duke's home court than St. John's home court. Yeah, exactly.

(01:10:16):
And we played at St. John's and Law and won
by seven. So when they came in here and we
found out if Prescott wasn't playing for a game, we
we we all put up, man, this is gonna be brutal.
And they lost their best player, LaVette. Marcus LaVette is
arguably better than Ponds, and he didn't play this year.

(01:10:39):
That's what happened to them in the in the Big
East season, and then they started to figure out out
how we're gonna do this without him. So I think
top to bottom. If that, if they're the worst team
and Xavier or sort of one of the best teams,
it's the best it's ever been. And I'm even including
the old Big East days because you know, in the

(01:11:00):
old Big East day we have great ones at the top.
The bottom were Old DePaul at the bottom, of Rutgers
at the bottom. Even before that, when we would have
like back in the eighties and we would have like
an eight nine game, you know, it might be you know,
maybe bc Um, you know Seaton Hall. Back then, it

(01:11:20):
might they most maybe you had two teams that were down.
Maybe used to have the old eight nine game, there
was a single game both of them might be down,
and then maybe the seven other teams were. But this
this year, one through ten, when we go to that tournament,
everybody in this league knows whoever's ten. But do you
imagine if Sincohn's is ten, you got to play them

(01:11:41):
at the Garden first game. So that's one part of it.
The second part of it because of that you mentioned it,
like Marquette, we won like a one or two point
game at Marquette. This year they might be on the
Bubble for some tough losses, but they were they were
they to St. John's, they it might hurt them even

(01:12:04):
though they did really well out of conference. So it's
it's it's those numbers of who makes the tournament and
what's the best conferences. It's really difficult to determinent know
what's happened to you guys. It happens in the Big Twelve, honestly.
And you know the league I played in where where
when you have those ten team double round robin leagues
and the team when everybody's kind of alike, and you know,

(01:12:24):
you beat up on each other, and you look at
the one they have nine conference and I was like, yeah,
all those teams are good as opposed to you know,
there are other leagues to which the bottom there's a definitive.
And if you play, for example, in the Pac twelve,
if you play Washington State twice, you know, and you
play uh, You're that's that's two wins, right, So if
you play Washington and you play Cal twice, that's four
wins you have. Whereas there there are four wins you

(01:12:45):
can chalk up in the Big Twelve or in the
Big East, because those the teams at the bottom are
just not that far away from the teams to the top.
And then you look at and then there could be
a year, for instance, like last year, where the top
six are good and there's a clear separation between the
bottom four. So it works out. You get six teams in,
you get sixty percent of your teams in at the conference.

(01:13:08):
That's a hell of a year for your conference. But
it works out because there's a separation between the bottom
four and that the numbers work out. You don't hurt
each other, you know, but when it's real strong one
through ten, you can hurt each other. Well, listen, it's
good to see your team get back getting healthy. Phil,
Phil when do you when do you think we'll see him?
Will you play against Creton? You believe Saturday? I think

(01:13:30):
we have a good shot against Creighton. Um, we're gonna
try him this week and see if we can get
him for any type of minutes against the Poland Wednesday.
All right, well, listen, get out to practice. I know
you got some film to watch in the meantime. Congrats
and to win. Austin watched this team and uh, I
cannot tell you how much respect I have for the
season and the way in which Jalen carries himself. It's
it's been amazing to watch. I hope selfishly, I hope

(01:13:52):
he comes back for another year. But obviously he's done
so far just about as much as you can do
in in three years of playing college basketball. I agree
we sent on that man. Thanks, Thanks Doug. Good talking
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Friday March second, and right, Lebron James versus Laura Ingram

(01:16:51):
took center stage all weekend long. Here's Dan Patrick's take
on that face off I love the fact that Lebron
James put himself out there. If Michael Jordan's Tiger Woods
and Derek Jeter weren't comfortable, that's fine, that's on them.
I don't it's not I don't even have to agree
with what one of these athletes says. I don't have
to agree with what Colin Kaepernick does or says Malcolm Jenkins.

(01:17:14):
I don't have to agree with it, but I have
to look at it and understand that you're putting yourself
out there, You're willing to be involved in the conversation.
You're looking Is there a solution? Can I just sit
here and just play a game? You know? Then if
you don't say anything, then somebody's gonna say, how do
you just play basketball? And you don't care about these
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(01:17:38):
n r A or Yeah, So these athletes are put
in a real conundrum there. Look, I was embarrassed. Poet
Lura Ingram said, I just was because I just don't
like the idea that Laura Ingram works for Fox News.
If you missed it last week, she called out Lebron

(01:17:58):
James because in a piece I think it was on
the Uninterrupted Run, Right is that one? What it was
on UM? He said that the president doesn't care about people,
but he used some terse words. And what I what
I really don't like is she went to Dartmouth, she
went to Virginia UM. And I felt like her judgment

(01:18:19):
was not based upon what he said, but from his
lack of a college education. Right she had. Look, if
you want to pick apart any part of my me debating,
you pick apart the substance of my debate. Don't pick
apart the person, because the truth is that Lebron though
he did not go to college, and I don't agree
with everything he says. I don't agree with a lot

(01:18:40):
of things he says are a lot of things he does.
I can listen to him, though, and understand he's a
pretty intelligent person. And I felt like it was an
attack on his intelligence, not because he appeared to be unintelligible,
but because he didn't go to college. And that isn't
a mistake of arrogance, A right, that is the that
is the type of elitism which some on Laura Ingram

(01:19:01):
side would would accuse others of. Yeah, I do think
it's generally a better, better, better thing to do is
to go to college surround yourself with people trying to
obtain social and literal education. But Lebron James has lived,
It's become a pretty good story and pretty good leader
in h in the community, has done a lot of

(01:19:22):
things to help other kids get to college. And to
simply say he's unintelligent because of something he said, and
maybe the way in which you took it, I thought
was elitism at its worst. At its worst, it was
just a bad look all around. Maybe the most impressive
part about it wasn't that Lebron spoke out and Lebron
took offense to it, because that's who Lebron has always been.

(01:19:45):
But it's that he pointed out in his first response
to her that she got what she wanted because they're
talking about it, which is where I think everybody is torn.
Do I do I fight back or do I pretend
like she did exist. It's really it's a it's a
very hard place to Lebron to be in. Now here's
the part though, that I will um. I will challenge

(01:20:09):
Lebron and lebrons defenders on. I have no problem with
Lebron James or anybody else speaking out on politics. But
if you take a political stand, you have to be
prepared for people to counter that political stand with their
own beliefs. Again, I don't like what Laura Ingram said,
and her point was not too All she could have
done was say, if she thinks that the president does
care about people, point out why she thinks the president

(01:20:31):
cares about people, and it makes his remarks seem unintelligent
or ill informed. She didn't do that. She simply did
name calling elitist. You didn't go to college. And by
the way, she even screwed that thing up. Then she
made up. As someone once said, shut up in dribble.
No one one said that. You just said it. Don't
quote somebody something that's not a quote. I hate that. Uh.

(01:20:56):
The only thing worse than that is copying somebody's quote
and then pretending to like a your own what's in
her name? I said that, Actually that was Shakespeare, right.
That's the only thing that's worse. But the only the
one thing the Lebron and any of these other politically
active athletes need to understand is I have no problem
with you thrusting yourself into a political discussion, but understand
political discourse comes at a price, and that means that

(01:21:19):
your stance can be uh can be slaughtered by the
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(01:21:41):
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(01:22:49):
and just under twenty minutes, the former general manager most
recently of the Cleveland Cavaliers get his thoughts on what
they've done to remake the calves in such short order,
Kobe Altman pulling off that to six for four trade,
going back to last week, a week and a half ago.
But um, let me just kind of give you my

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general reaction. The first thing was the Laura Ingram deal,
Laura Ingram calling out Lebron James, the the the one part.
I think it's really important for people to understand. I
don't like Laura Ingram's commentary. I'm not a huge fan
of her show. I do think that there are a portion,

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there's a portion I don't know how big, I don't
know how small of people who watched her who were like, Yeah, yeah,
you didn't go to college, you don't know what you're
talking about. You just stick to dribbling. But I don't
actually think that's the way in which political discourse is
supposed to be going one because it the the irony

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too it is. There's a portion of people who didn't
go to college who actually probably agree with her and
don't understand what she's saying. Like she's saying that your feelings,
your thoughts, your stance against the President United States aren't
valid because you simply because you didn't go to college.
Like that's the most arrogant thing you can ever say. Look,

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I truly believe that of all of people, better go
to college because it's good. It's a prerequisite for almost
any job now, and it's gonna be an even greater
prerequisite in the future because college is though more difficult
to get into at the high end. Uh, they're more
accessible in junior college and University of Phoenix type places,

(01:24:34):
online courses um at the middle to low end than
they used to be. They're not as affordable, but there are,
Like there's a lot, a lot to it. But the
idea that anyone who didn't go to college be like, oh, yeah,
lord Ingram, stick to him, win your basketball, like if
you didn't go to college. But she's saying, is you're
too dumb to comment on the president. No, she's saying

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Lebron's too dumb. Like, no, she's kind of saying anybody
who didn't go to college, like and even might not
even understand in the second part, like that's assuming that
somebody didn't go to college because they're not smart, or
that if somebody's syntax sometimes like look, I I get
frustrated when anybody doesn't use the right tense and a word.
Please don't say we was. And I'm not saying it's Lebron,
but there are others that are pretty bright people that

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will say we was, like we are is not we
was or we were not we was. But the point
is that you can get you can make syntax Errison
still be intelligent and make intelligent points. If you are
going to um if you're going to attack Lebron's point,

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which was the president doesn't care about people. If you're
gonna if you want to make him sound uninformed, unintelligent,
simply pick up apart the argument and point possessed the
counter argument. And that's where Lebron and players and supporters
of what I would say is a very like music
and I have discussed this. Both of us grew up

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thinking we were fairly liberal and most of our social beliefs,
and now you see some of the stages like man,
I feel conservative, right we in truth, you're right down
the middle like most people. UM. Anyway, if if you
want to inject yourselves into political conversations, you can, but
you better be willing to hear the other side. If

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you can't hear the other side, you're not fit for
this discussion, regardless of your level of education. The irony
to the entire thing is um. One of the kind
of talking points for conservatives is they call uh liberals
liberal elites, right New York liberal elites because they went

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to college and are educated and have a a thoughtful
educated by their perspective perspective on the situation, like Laura
Ingram went to Dartmouth and Virginia, she is simply a
conservative elitist. She thinks she's smarter than Lebron because she
went to two incredible universities and comes from a highly

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educated background. But I'm guessing she hasn't lived because the
perfect example of why, how Laura Ingram you have to
live to know more than be educated no, is when
she was at Dartmouth she I think she was the
editor of the school newspaper, and she was staunchly uh
anti homosexual, And turns out like her brother is homosexual,

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and she's since completely reversed course on that, right, because
once you you have to live to know, Like, hey,
how do you feel like homosexuals? I feel this way,
Like what if I said your brother is homosexual? Like, okay,
well maybe that's different. Um. I thought it was fairly offensive.
I thought it was very telling. I'm not I'm not

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gonna say I don't think that every player that leaves
high school for the pros is uneducated. Like Robert Swift
member Robert Swift, Like there was a guy who needed
to go to college, needed to surround himself, came from Bakersfield,
went straight to the Seattle SuperSonics, flamed out out of money,
drug problem, uh you know, gun collector whatever, bankrupt. Like

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there's a dude who happens to be white who came
started to high school and wasn't ready for the bright
lights and big time Lebron James pretty smart, dude, may
not have been college educated, but has made a pretty
good living for himself, never been involved in trouble. And
oh yeah, by the way, you look at the money
he's raising for kids and acron to go to college.
He obviously values education. It just wasn't the right path

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for him. So she looked like a clown for the
way in which she called him out, And um, I
thought the only the the one point I would make
for anybody who supports Lebron is hey, it hasn't to me.
My support for Lebron has nothing to do with what
he said. It has to do with the fact that

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she came at him, used upon how smart he is.
She called him dumb. She she if it was if
she was a guy and he was a woman, he
would have been telling her, why don't you just stay
in the kitchen, right, Why don't you just dribble a
basketball as a kind to go back to the kitchen
and make me a sandwich? Male Chauvin is calling a woman.
That's what she did. It's not okay? All right? Now

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for the All Star Game. Don't love All Star games.
Not a huge racing fan, but I I coached two
games with my son's basketball. Then we went to K
one speed. You guys know that K one speed is?
Do they have those nationally? Like indoor go carts? They
got like adult go carts, which I have not yet driven.
But now I'm like every time I go, I'm like man,
I gotta get behind, but I'm there for my kid.
Let him do it. And he's like, you should go

(01:29:43):
do that. So his best buddies in town on vacation
and staying with us, they all they want to do
is go to K one speed. They raced around like
three or four times. So it made us want to
watch the daytone of five um, which is I thought.
I thought the best part about it was the Peyton
Manning deal. Do you see payment and driving the pace car.
He's driving the pace car and there's a thirty one

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degree embankment. One degrees. Forty five is the ninety obviously
is you know, is like a right angle. So forty
five is you know, halfway thirty one. So Payments. Here
is a grown man, a great athlete, and he's sitting
there driving, and there's a guy who's almost like a

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driving instructor, holding onto the wheel and helping him on
the embankment. To take a listen, this is the coverage
on Fox Sports. How's it going out there? But you
got a death grip on that steering wheel? Man, Well,
I'll tell you I've never I've been up right, I've
been on my back. I've never been sideways before, So
this is a little different Bill and the guy's holding

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out to the steering wheel. It's unbelievable. It's a really
kind of remarkable thing. You're like, wow, that must actually
be crazy to drive. It's like to those of us
who grew up in the Star Ski and Hutch and
then Dukes of Hazard era, remember how cars they used
to have those stunt cars where they go up kind
of on the side, you know, to get through an alleyway,
and then they get him back like nobody does that.

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That's got a NASCAR. And then of course we watched
the All Star Game and my son was commenting, He's like, Dad,
how come they don't play defense? How come they don't
pass the ball that much? How come it looks like
they're not playing hard. How come Steph Curry's eating popcorn
during the third quarter on the bench. You guys, dontice

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they cut the kiss stuff. Carey had a big old
thing a popcorn, And so we're supposed to act like, man,
they played hard the whole game, Like, no, they didn't.
They played hard, Like the last five minute, it was
like it was a better version of what we saw
last year. They were they did play to win at
the very end of the game. They're super skilled, super
talented players. If I had to guess, Draymond Green drank

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more than anybody else the entire weekend leading up to
the game, because he looked like, man, this is the
last thing I want to do but run that booze out.
And he did. And it was a competitive last you know,
ten or so possessions in Lebron James's team one, but
it was a perfect storm. It's in l A, which
brings brighter stars to the game. It's in l A,

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which brings the Lebron conversation, the Paul George conversation. There's
five so cow guys, you know, Paul George, Russell Westbrook,
James Harden. Who usted I forgetting Paul George Just James Harden.
Uh two more so cow guys on the team. Ust
are my forgetting Ramos? The so cow guys on the team.
Paul George, you know Kauai didn't play? Who the who?

(01:32:34):
The two uh enst Ulsers, Damian Littlear's Northern California, Clay Thompson,
Clay Thompson's one, Jordan anyway we else I'm forgetting somebody else.
I already said Russell. I already said Russell Westburg. Man,
I'll remember it. I'll think of it in a second.
Once I get to it'll be brilliant. Anyway, I thought

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all of that, and you had Laura Ingram's comments, and
you end up kind of perfect. And because they had
played so or so in such disinterested fashion last year,
or you know, completely avoiding playing any sort of defense,
driving the ball, just shooting three. Stamar Drozins the other one,
by the way, who choked a free throw like his

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dad's there, His dad's been sick. He grew up in Compton.
Dad comes to the game, and he did choke a
free throw late, made one out of two and that
and he's a great free throw shooter, and he went
one of one of two down the stretched lake. But um, look,
it became a celebration. Sport became. We also paid attention
because Lebron and Kyrie were on the same team, because

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Lebron and k D were on the same team. But
let's not act like that was great basketball. Team staff
shot sixty five threes, team Lebron shot fifty eight threes. Yikes.
It was simply better than before. And the perfect storm
of I'm interested because of the guys playing with Lebron,

(01:33:59):
because Lebron after the lower Ingram comments, because of who
Lebron's play, because l A and everybody knows the Lakers
want a bunch of these guys, including Lebron, and they
play a little bit hard and they played in the past.
It made it a decent watch at least at the end. Um.
I can't figure out what Fergie was doing. She since

(01:34:20):
apologized said she did the best she could. I think
she was just doing too much right the classic don't
swing harder when you're not playing well in golf, swing smoother,
like just play it right down singles and doubles win.
You don't need to swing for the fences. She swung
for the fences and tried to have some sexy r
and b um, really soft sensual rendition of the Star

(01:34:47):
Spangled banner, and she bit butchered it, just butchered it.
There you go. Former Calves generlemanager David Griffin will join
the show up coming next. I'll get his thoughts on
the moves the Calves made and does it actually make
them better once the postseason begins, and does it make
them more likely to resign? Lebron James, especially considering that

(01:35:08):
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That's the tunes of John Ramos and the ones that
twos the one of the tunes that that got leave
that I'm playing. But I do enjoy this song immensely.
I'm with you on this one with David Griffin joins
this former Calves general manager. You like that, Jim, David.

(01:37:03):
Are you a fan of David Bowie? You're David Bowie guy.
Of course I'm not even that much. Yes, Well, like, look,
I I do have a thought on any kind of
classic rock or even rock or even oldies radio right
like these have. The world has spoken and said these
are great songs, classic songs. So even if you don't

(01:37:24):
like the genre, you know at least it's the best
of that genre. That's the reason that you can go
back and listen to any sort of seventies, eighties, nineties, sixties,
best of it literally has been decided, has been filtered. Um,
it has been judged, and the verdict is these are
the best of what we got. Yeah. No, I agree
with that. I'm a sheep in that way myself. If

(01:37:45):
you tell me it's good, I believe it good enough. Okay,
So let me get Let me get your reaction on
what had been wrong with the Cleveland Cavaliers as a
guy who had run that team up until the end
of last season, and you saw how much they struggled mightily.
They did have some injuries. What were your thoughts on
what exactly was what was what was the cause not

(01:38:07):
the symptoms, what was the cause of the illness with
the team? Yeah, so, I mean they were just spiritually broken, um.
And I think you could see it. It happened about
the time that Isaiah and Tristan came back from injury.
I think they won seventeen of eighteen or eighteen of
nineteen at one point. And when you have fewer mouths
to feed on a team, it's a lot easier. And

(01:38:29):
they were really playing well. Their rotations had made perfect
sense Uh, Kyle Korver and Chaining Fry were number one
and number two during that winning stretch on their team
in terms of plus minus um in each rotation they
were playing was was plus to the point where they
were actually better when Lebron sat down than at any

(01:38:52):
time in Lebron's time back in Cleveland. Everything was clicking
for them, and I think what happened was when I
Zaiah and Tristan came back, it changed both the starting
lineups and the bench lineups, and no rotation made sense anymore.
You had a lot of ball dominance in that first
group and not nearly enough defense. With Isaiah and vice versa.

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You you had a situation where the bench also wasn't
able to get stopped, but they didn't have enough playmaking
and play creation. So the fit was just all wrong.
When their pieces were healthy, and unfortunately they were able
to kind of swath the decks and start over again. Okay,
now they're also helped out though by Dan Gilbert, who

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I know. Like it's mixed in any any any post relationship,
it's mixed. There's good, there's bad. The one thing he
should get credit for is this has the potential of
financially being really damaging to the team in the future.
Right if Lebron does in fact doesn't opt out and
he you know, he sticks with this current contract and
they keep this they keep what they have. Uh, it

(01:39:56):
could be over a hundred and fifty million in luxury tech.
So there is something to the owner going like, hey,
do what you gotta do to try and fix it. Correct, Yeah,
no question, And even in the short term he went
seven million more to the bat in terms of tax.
So if you're a Cavs fan, Dan's exactly the kind
of owner you want because he's all about delivering championships

(01:40:18):
and he's never once blinked at doing what was necessary
to put his team in the best position to win.
And and that's what you asked for a right. Originally
it looked like they were trying, Uh, they're trying to
make a move for DeAndre Jordan's and ultimately they couldn't
get that one done. We know what was done. What's
your reaction to the moves that they made. Well, first

(01:40:39):
of all, I think Kobe Altman and his team did
just a truly remarkable job of of playing the cards
they were dealt in the off season. They were dealt
and almost untenable situation, and they found a way to
thrive in all of that adversity. Put that collection of deals,
they may put them in a really unique position to
be infinitely more competitive in the year and now and

(01:41:01):
have a far greater sustainable future. Uh. The Larry Nance
acquisition is a huge one. His defensive versatility is a really,
really big deal. But it gives them a similar rolling
dynamic finisher that DeAndre Jordan's might have, but it gives
it to them in the form of a guy who
has enough versatility to switch in the perimeter and when

(01:41:23):
you're gonna match up with Houston or Golden State, and
even with what Toronto is doing, now you know they're
moving bodies involved so much better. The Cavs teams have
not traditionally defended that very well. The Cavs defense is
always good in the playoffs when you can load up
opposite a pick and roll and if you move bodies
and ball, you can really put them in jeopardy. So

(01:41:44):
the addition of of Nance was huge in that regard.
And I think Rodney Hood is going to be a
re lex factor as well. I do too. David Driffin
hosts deals and dungs every Saturday on Sirius x M
NBA Radio. We heard multiple times every week on Sirius
x M NBA Radio as well. He's n FB our
guest of course. Most recently he was the general manager
of the Cleveland Cavaliers. They went to three straight NBA

(01:42:06):
Finals and and one one two years ago. Okay, so um,
I have I have two flaws that I found with
the acquisitions. Can I hit you with him? Alright? First
one is the same problem they had before. What happens
when Kevin Love gets back? Yep? And I think that's fair.
I think what's interesting is because Kevin is such an

(01:42:28):
elite defensive rebounder, He's actually much better defensively than people
give him credits for. I think people want to believe
Kevin is not a creative to the group defensively, and
he actually is. So I think having Larry on the
court and having Tristan on the court either one. It
gives them the opportunity to always keep a high level

(01:42:49):
defensive presence on the floor that pairs well with Kevin.
So I think the fit with Kevin's gonna be really,
really good. I think the question is gonna be how
do they keep all those wings happy, how they how
do they feed all of those mouths they have in
the backcourt? Can still keep the front court as sound
as it will be with Kevin's presence, because again, when

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you're an elite defensive rebounder and you shoot from three, yeah,
you're a really vital piece to a team led by
Lebron right and and he's also one of the things
he's been able to is play the five for them,
which opens up the lane for Lebron playing the four.
But if you put him at the five, now that
means you sit Tristan, you you, or you sit nance

(01:43:30):
and you're playing with those wings, so you almost have
and he's going everybody, Kevin Love is going to play.
You need his offense. You don't pay him max money
to have him sit. Even if he plays only thirty
minutes a game, that's still thirty minutes to which you
gotta juggle, juggle the roster. Second part is, um, Look,
this whole thing is based upon their ability to compete
at the very top level. And though yes you'll have

(01:43:52):
more ball movement and less ball dominance, one of the
things that made it work during your tenure there was
you had somebody opposite Lebron who could go get his
own shot, and I don't see that on this roster.
Am I missing it? Yeah? So I think Jordan Clarkson's
somebody that they're gonna hope can do more of that
in in big game situations than he ever has before.

(01:44:13):
Obviously he's never been in a situation where he's been
he's been asked to do that in playoffs basketball. But
Jordan is a guy that can go get a shot.
The other thing that Rodney Hood does that I think
makes them really interesting is Robby is just a basketball play.
He can a script escape drible left or right. He
can hit a pull up, so he's not going to

(01:44:34):
be stuck with it. Goes swing, swing, and he has
to shoot whatever shot he gets. He's going to be
able to put himself in position like a basketball player
to get to a shot. Now, it might be a
mid range pull up, but if you're efficient with that,
you're in good shape. I don't disagree with you that
Kyrie's absence is going to be felt in in the playoffs,

(01:44:55):
and the deeper they go in the playoffs, you feel
it more. But I think they're thought is that between
Jordan Clarkson and Hood. They'll have enough secondary playmaking and
facilitation to be able to absorb it. David Griffin joining us,
former general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Most recently, of course,
you can hear him on serious XM NBA radio. He
joins us on the Doug Gottlieb Show. Um. Look, it's

(01:45:16):
an impossible, uh question to put you on the spot.
But um, of course I have to ask it, and
I want your most honest opinions. But let's try. Okay, So,
but look, I mean it's impossible to know. I don't think.
I don't know if you unless you know, if you know,
if you feel free to blur it out. Do you
think legitimate this this changes the likelihood of Lebron staying

(01:45:39):
or leaving. You know, I think it probably puts a
greater likelihood that he stays just because he can see
a sustainable group that he could play with. Now again
you pointing this out, Dan is gonna have to be
comfortable with an all in payroll of more than a
quarter of a billion dollars in order to achieve it. Um,

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But I think, as Lebron, as you look to the future,
this younger, more athletic group that gives you a larger
larger margin of error for the regular season, even if
they may not be quite as well built for the
finals themselves. Because the margin of error will be so
much better, his experience in the regular season will be

(01:46:21):
an awful lot more enjoyable than it was at the
beginning of this year. So I think it puts them
in a better position. I still think that if he
makes the decision to go elsewhere, for everything he does
for Northeast Ohio, I think he's earned the right to
do it. But I certainly think this gave them the
best chance to keep them they've had. Here's let me

(01:46:43):
present to you the counter argument. If he feels reinvigorated
playing with younger players, couldn't the Lakers then use that
as part of their sale. Hey man, you come here,
we got a bunch of young dudes that you love
playing with two and we'll put another superstar around you,
and we'll have more cap flexibility than the team that
you're playing with in Cleveland. Sure and and Philly. I

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think gives them a similar situation of a bunch of
young guys uh that are really really potential stars in
the making. Um I think they could put themselves in
a position financially where they could be uh looking to
add some big talent as well. So yes, there's absolutely
threats to Cleveland in a way that I don't think
there were before. And I think it's because Lebron has

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already won the championship there and I think to some
degree he feels like he's delivered on what he promised,
and so now he's in a situation that whatever box
it is he's going to check with the decision, he
can do that without feeling like he owes something to Cleveland.
And I think that's meaningful, and as I said, I
think he's earned that. David great stuff man. Check out

(01:47:46):
his radio show. It's called Deals and Dunks every Saturday
on Sirius x m NBA Radio. He also pops on
other shows on Sirius x m NBA Radio and hopefully
he'll join us again as well, David Griffin, David, thanks
for joining us, Thanks so much. Pleasures always always mind
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Let's go to David Gascon find out what else is
going on in the world with sports. David Doug will
lead things off in college basketball with the new AP
Top twenty five out in Virginia your number one at
twenty four and to this season, followed by Michigan State
and Villanova. In the NBA, John Wall, after two weeks

(01:48:28):
from having surgery room crutch is removed. You won't need those.
He'll be back on the court within four to five weeks.
That's according to sources there in the Washington Post. Meanwhile,
on the National Football and do Steely might grow? Are
gonna get looks as the offensive Cornar Eagles will interview
both of them. Brian Cushing has been informed by the
Houston Texans that they will release him and Julius Peppers

(01:48:48):
at the thirty eight years of age, coming back for
a seventeen season. That's according to the Charlotte Observer. Meanwhile,
in the National Hockey leaue a couple of games right now,
Bruins and Flames time at one. Capital's lead the Sabers
to and that game is in Buffalo and a major
league Baseball a couple of news and notes. The league
itself is gonna impose stricter limits on mountain visits up
to six per nine innings. One thing that will not

(01:49:11):
implement as a twenty second pitch clock. And just coming
down the wire, John Hayman had reported originally the Red
Sox were close to landing free agent j D. Martinez.
Well Pedro Gomez is now confirming it. It's a five
year deal in place for j D. Martinez, a former
ARIS On a diamondback. He can opt out after two years.
If you recall his twenties seventeen season, it was a

(01:49:31):
monster one in the Desert, home runs, hundred four runs
driven in and a three oh three batting average. But
now he's heading to Boston. Um okay, So how much
did Boars say? I'm trying to remember how much Boars
said j D. Martinez would would probably be worth. Right,
Remember he put together book a book. Do you remember

(01:49:52):
how much it was? I don't off the top of
my head it was. I know he was talking at
him and then obviously a Hosper as well. Um up, okay,
So I remember it being in the hundred fifty plus
million variety and you know. One of the things he
does this is kind of classic Scott Boris in that
he makes the case for his guy to be worth
like a ridiculous sum of money, and so then you

(01:50:15):
end up signing him for a ridiculous sum of money.
But you think you got a serious deal. Go ahead,
music all right. So I'm looking at one story here
from Bleacher Report November fourteen, j D. Martinez is seeking
a seven year, two hundred and ten million dollar contracts.
Seven years, two hundred ten is thirty million a year.

(01:50:35):
Go ahead. And then on February tenth, this was from Forbes,
where they were mentioning a report that had J. D.
Martinez is still considering a contract from the Boston Red
Sox we ended up signing with. But this one said
the reported terms were one for seven seven, so they
got five for one ten with a two year opt out. Yeah,

(01:50:57):
and and keep in mind he's thirty years of age. Right,
So here's here's the thing. Okay, Now you guys tell
me how you want to take it. I'll tell you.
So I think this is the beauty to Boris, right,
boars Is like, hey, we want seven million dollars duely,
it's crazy. So he signs for five one day, Like,

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what a deal? What a deal? I'll tell you the
Red Sox man, they really grinded him on price. Okay, five, four,
one ten, Let me kind of do the math in
my head. Five goes and as two and the ten
is twenty twenty one million dollars a year. Granted it's

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not thirty. He got twenty one million dollars a year.
And you're like, I got a deal. You know what
this is? Um? You guys ever shop at Coals? Yes,
as ever shopping coals coals and everything's on sale. And
you if you if you get the mail, like I
do you own know home? You get mail, there's always
like you get these discount things in your in your mailbox. Off.

(01:52:04):
You're like, dude, off And I go in and it's
already on sale, Like, man, this is awesome. I go
in there. This is I load up like I'm I'm
low budget, right, I'll get anything if it's on sale. Um.
I told you guys. When I go grocery shopping, like,
I will only buy something if it's on special and
regardless of what it's supposed to call. And I think
what they do with Coals is they jack up like
the retail price, so then the sale price, like you

(01:52:24):
think you're getting a deal off on an addition to off,
like look at the deal like, hey, you still paid
a bunch of money for a bunch of Nike sucks.
You already have Nike socks. You're like, wait, Nike sucks
cost thirty five dollars a pair, and I'm getting off. Yes,
that's exactly what it is. This is Scott Boris has
nailed it in terms of if he is he is
performing like Coals performs in the retail marks. I love

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it because you're looking at his age. And that's the
other thing too. You're you're telling the market that, hey,
this guy is gonna be playing in his mid to
late thirties, and so he's gonna be commanding max money
thirty five years of age. And I think that's part
of the bargaining chip that he has right now, where
he has the ability to opt down after a couple
of years. The same thing happens with Eric Costmer as well.

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You can opt down after five years on his big deal.
Mm hm hmm. Do you think he actually Because Romos
and I were talking about this off the air when
this first story was started breaking on Twitter. Do you
think he ends up actually taking that two year opt
out like almost everyone does, thinking they can get more
money or with what we've seen, are they going to

(01:53:30):
get cold feet about that? Because people in Major League
Baseball seemed to sort of correcting those massive contracts for
players who are later in their career, But did they
really right? Did they really know right? This is like, man,
we really again? This is the red six going, like
up top said a bunch of money high, like for
Jady Martinez billion dollars because you still look at guys

(01:53:53):
like Adrian Gonzalez and Matt Kemp, I mean, nowhere near
the production that they used to be and they're still
getting a ton of money, and I'm yeah, but those
those deals are old, aren't they? Okay? So the question
all that really matters is Machado and Harper next year,
That's what really. Machado and Harper are both up next year,
And how much does somebody getta pay for for Bryce Harper? Like,
if you're gonna pay that much for j D Martinez

(01:54:15):
Bryce Harper, is it was Bryce Harper twenty five years old.
I'm gonna say years old to be like twenty six.
He's had a couple of injuries, but he's He's argue,
you know, he's top five player in baseball. I've hit
her in baseball. How much is he gonna be worth?
There were thoughts at four hundreds, like I would never
I wouldn't spend I wouldn't spend you know, two hundred
three hundred million dollars on anyone player doesn't make any
sort of sense. But again, like the Red Sox are

(01:54:38):
sitting there going like, well, we won't spend thirty, but
we'll spend twenty one on J D. Martinez. What we
just spend on Bryce Harper. I think it's fascinating, absolutely fascinating. Yeah,
he turns twenty six in October. Yep, yep. So it's
it's classic Boars. Boris is to baseball what coals is
to retail. You think you're getting the best level, and

(01:55:00):
then you're like, yeah, I don't know if I say
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Guys like my Boris is like coals, the best, the best. No, No,
I got your deal. You thought you could pay thirty
You paid twenty one million on average. Like, yeah, you
paid twenty one minut average for J. D. Martinez. So
I love the I love the oider. We're gonna reset
the market here, and they did. I mean that's a
little bit less, but main. J D. Martinez one of

(01:56:27):
those guys to which you look at his career and uh,
he's put up decent numbers over the past couple of years. Remember,
he didn't make make it, really make it into the
bigs until he was on Houston traded him. He's part
of those terrible Houston teams to Detroit and had a
hundred RBI season in Detroit. Then um had a year

(01:56:51):
in which he was at disappointing. He's only been a
one time All Star, one time All Star. Fascinating. Gonna
be interesting to see how he hits outside of the Dome.
The friendly compines, Although the NL West, you have some
hitters parks like Arizona, like Colorado or Colorado, as some

(01:57:13):
people say, anybody pronounce the Colorado anymore? We are we
are of the things that are dying out, hopefully hopefully
racism is dying out. But also people that say Washington
and Colorado, Um, well we'd worder, yeah, worder. Let's get
to the press, the press, David gascon Joe and just

(01:57:36):
where do you hear Colorado at? Oh yeah, people say Colorado?
Oh yeah, yeah, I never really Yeah, We'll stick with
major League Baseball. On on the J. D. Martinez front
a couple of different things. John Morosi is now reporting
that it's a five year deal in place. Opt out
is after your number two. Yes, five hundred million dollars

(01:58:00):
on the contract, and according to Morosy, it's front loaded.
So forty five home runs last season, four runs driven
in a three oh three batting average. The American League
East billion dollars, right, Martinez, Stanton judge, everyone's going deep
in that division. Um, A couple of things we talked

(01:58:23):
about the pace of play in Major League Baseball. They've
imposed stricter limits on visits to the maulon so the
max is now six. Justin Verland are not too happy
about it. He takes to Twitter today on MLB pace
of play rules on max six visits to the mound.
If we're gonna make adjustments, I personally don't think limiting
mound visits between a catcher and picture is the way

(01:58:45):
to go. That that's a cross up and signs those guys,
the catchers that is can get hurt, yes, David, like
justin Berlin. At first, he goes after what mad because
Mad Dog said the Yankees are the favorite, Like when
actually the Astros are the favorites in Vegas? Okay, second,

(01:59:07):
so like, I don't really know what you're coming about.
Now you're going like, but we need more than six,
Like get the signs right or guess what you know
you can do just throw pitch. You guys have the
entire uh day leading up to the game to decide
on pitching signs. The entire day. You got the whole

(01:59:28):
You have spring training. You pitch once every five or
six days. You mean to tell me that you can't
figure it out? Like, come on, dude, really exactly not
so you bring up mad Dog in the odds with
Houston next season. There's also sorry that there's a provision
with that rule change, and it has for cross up signs.

(01:59:51):
In the event of team has exhausted all of its
mound visits in a game, the homeplate umpire can determine
if the capture and picture can meet again because of
science being crossed up. So you have to get permission
from the empire. So all is not lost for Justin Verlanders. So,
in addition to complaining about a rule that honestly doesn't
actually affect him, he doesn't actually know the new rule.

(02:00:14):
Got it a cool switch? You got over the National
Football Like, it's good to be Kirk Cousins right now,
He's got a couple of different ways he can go.
But Ian rap report reporting today are actually making a
statement on this one reason the Redskins won't franchise tag
Kirk Cousins because they don't want to trade him after
that because if he do gets franchise tagged thirty four

(02:00:34):
million dollars and he's not wanting to negotiate a long
term deal with a new team if they franchise and
then trade him off. Okay, um that that sounds like
something coming out of his camp, you know, like, I
don't want to get franchise because it'll count against the cap.
If he gets traded, he gets franchise, and like, look

(02:00:57):
they the Redskins obviously exposed the hand. He'll get signed away.
And I think if he gets signed away, they get
some sort of compensation. So I don't know exactly what
the compensation is, but regardless, he's gonna be throwing elsewhere
next year. And the question is does he want to
go win and play in a place maybe like Denver,
or does he want to make the most money or
you can go to go to Minnesota, or does you

(02:01:19):
want to make the most money, which might be the
Jets or Cleveland. Okay, gotta get paid, Gotta get paid.
Speaking of getting paid Dallas Cowboys. From our understand, the
Dallas Morning News is reporting that the Cowboys are gonna
franchise tag defensive and DeMarcus Lawrence. I'm looking to sign
a long term deal with him before March the sixth.
But if he is franchise tagged seventeen and a half

(02:01:39):
million dollars for team, that would leave out one wide
receiver his name Dez Bryant san Antonio, unless, of course,
they cut Dez Bryant's resigned him to a smaller deal.
So what you know? Like, Cowboys are fascinating. I don't
think Jason Witten can run anymore, but you can hide
him if you get another tight end. I don't think
Dez Bryant's a go to wide receiver, but if he
makes less mone do you can sign and go to

(02:02:01):
a draft to go to wide receiver fashion. You see
what that team does, and they should have some money
to spend because the quarterback only makes a million dollars.
You're a big fan of Tennessee Titans at all. I
don't know anybody who's a big fan of Tennessee. I
don't actually outside of Tennessee. There's nobody on earth who
walks around maybe in a way now outside of the
state of Tennessee. Who claims to be a Tennessee Titans fan. Alright, Well,
former Titans running back Eddie George is looking for a

(02:02:23):
change in the tailback position, talking about a couple of
different things. One in particulars Derrick Henry, who didn't get
a lot of look last season. DeMarco Murray's bass salary
this season is six point to five million dollars. But
Eddie George is saying, quote, he's got to get more
opportunities end quote. He's got to be given the opportunity
to be the go to guy and allow the game
to come to him. When speaking about Derrick Henry as

(02:02:45):
opposed to de Marco Murray, who's thirty years of age
and has two more years on his contract, Yeah, they
ended up cutting to Marco Murrays. He you know, I
like Eddie George, but this is a two headed monster.
They try and their power running team, and when one
goes down, they feature the other one, like they did
with Derrick Henry when Murray went down and Harry, just
twenty four years of age, let the Titans last season

(02:03:07):
with seven four yards on the ground and just a
hundred seventy six carries, so not a lot of wear
and tear on that young body back. Get out there
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