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Alright, welcome in, what's right we nick right episode 224.

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A ton to do today. The

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NFL officially changed its kickoff rule.

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I'm actually fascinated by that. I think it's

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a good change. We do

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need to get into the gambling

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scandals now plural

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encircling our sports leagues. Also since you've

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last seen me, I had surgery on

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my arm. I have a steel plate

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there. So that's why you see this

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rat, but otherwise I'm doing great. Before

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we get to any of that though, this is

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not a sports topic. This is just

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a, my

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thoughts on something that just happened. So overnight,

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if you haven't seen it, a

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ship crashed into the Francis Scott

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Key bridge in Baltimore and

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the bridge collapsed and obviously

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thoughts. And if you're the prayerful type

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prayers with the missing people

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and with anyone in

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the moment directly impacted. But

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the reason I'm starting the show with that is that

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will be one

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of the

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three, maybe one of the

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two single biggest things to happen

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in this country this year. I

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don't think people have fully yet. It

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just happened hours ago, wrapped their minds

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around what that bridge

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in that port city being

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destroyed by a

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ship gone awry means, but

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what it means for people's

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livelihoods, what it means

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for commerce, what it means

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for trade, what it means for

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a city that couldn't really take

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many more body blows. What it

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means for the, their economy is

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right now. almost

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unfathomable. And so I

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don't want to start the show off on a down

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note, but this is this is

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the type

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of worldwide

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event that I

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don't know if, and again

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it just happened overnight so a lot of

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you guys are probably just finding about it

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right now, but the impact of it and

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the import of that is

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almost impossible to overstate.

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So if you have friends, family,

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loved ones, anyone, obviously

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you're checking on them to make sure they're safe

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if they're in the Baltimore area, make sure they

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weren't on the bridge, anything like that. But

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furthermore, if you have

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anyone that works in

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Baltimore, check on them because

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their lives are about to be turned upside

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down for

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not a short period of time. And

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so I know that's an odd way to start

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the show, but I really believe

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it's one of the most significant events to happen

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in this country in at least a

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year. And I don't

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want to say it's nobody's fault, we don't know what happened, it looks

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like I'm not

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a shipping expert, but a

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ship from Singapore lost

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control and ran into

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the bridge. And so there's that,

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it is an odd way to start the

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show, I admit. We will do a very

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harsh tone shift in about 20 seconds

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to the regular show, but

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it is a very very

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significant event for

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the entire world, particularly for the

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United States and for the good people of

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Baltimore. Okay, now to the official

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sports show, I know it's an awkward transition,

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but I'm alright with that. Here's what did

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not make the cut, the Miz offering to

3:54

trade in Jason, Kelsie and WWE, that doesn't

3:56

make a lot of sense to me. Patrick

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Mahomes evidently lost a big So

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he had to dress up like a cow. I don't really

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care about that either. And now,

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speaking of things I don't care about, we

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have our… Damanze

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was wearing these sunglasses, if you're watching

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on YouTube, as a

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gag when I sat down to see

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him in the chair in LA. And

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I thought they looked so good on him. I,

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you know, I decided to use my 51% voting

4:24

power of the show and mandated

4:26

that he not only wear those shades

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today, but that might just be his

4:31

look moving forward. So give us those

4:33

thoughts in the comments. So

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you're now seeing Damanze. Damanze, the

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producers also want me to talk about

4:40

The Bachelorette, which I understand

4:43

is wildly popular, but I know

4:45

nothing about. So

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go ahead. We're having a… Well, this

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is… Okay, so this is the

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NFL coaches photo, which is not

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The Bachelorette. Here's the

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thing about the NFL coaches photo, if

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you're watching on YouTube. There are people,

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most know… There's my guy Andy Reid looking

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as glorious as ever. Is that Dave Kanalis

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next to him? I know it's the Harbaugh

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brothers. I think we're about to run through

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a quick little quiz for you. So

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I think you got the first one, obviously. Okay,

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real quick, before we move on to any more,

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I was going to say, yeah, so

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it goes John Harbaugh, Jim Harbaugh,

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Andy Reid, I think Dave Kanalis.

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And then best I can tell that guy

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next to Dave Kanalis is producer Matt Ford.

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And shout out to him for getting in the picture. But

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I don't know who that is. All right,

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go ahead. There you go. Matt's in

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both places. I don't know what

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else we have. We can go through it quickly because

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I know for the audio listeners, this probably isn't really

5:44

popping for them because they can't see what we're doing.

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I don't know who that is. I cannot

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identify… That's Brian

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Callahan. Oh,

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Brian Callahan. He just got

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his first head coaching job. Shout out Brian Callahan. All

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right, next. who's

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the guy with the lock? well

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he's sitting next to Mike McDaniel

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I I'm not good at this and

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this is not my bit guys this Kyle Branton PFT

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commenters bit we should have run this fight before him.

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Their last names are a little similar. Just

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tell me who they are I don't think this is good

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content. Tell me who they are quickly. Mike

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McDonald Mike McDonald oh the Ravens D

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coordinator and who's the guy on the

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other side of him Zach

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Taylor. The other yellow circle that's

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Zach Taylor glow up

6:33

Zach Taylor good for

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him I should have known that you know what

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it's kind of a grainy photo but I'm not

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good at things like that I'm not good at

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like remembering players numbers I'm not remember good at

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remembering coaches faces okay now to the

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actual show so

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I'm just gonna take this from here before

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we get to some of the other topics

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because last week we said to Monza we

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were gonna wait and hold off on the

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Otani story until more news came out and

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I'm glad we did and

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then as the Otani story Otani

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finally talks and we'll get into that

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there's a John T. Porter story and you might

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say who's John T. Porter and he's the brother of

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Michael Porter Jr. he was a

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big-time recruit from Mizzou who never really

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got his career off the ground because

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of injuries he's on a two-way contract

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and there are very suspicious

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betting patterns involving his

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player props and

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games he left early with injury

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or ailment I want

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to start with Otani and

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I'm gonna start in a place that

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I don't think anyone else has

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started or discussed but to me it

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is the most obvious which

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is this the

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Otani story can

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be about gambling in the micro in

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the macro to

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me what it is about is this You

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can't in any

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walk of life, whether it

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be the United Nations, International

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Communication, or

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the world's greatest baseball

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player, have just

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one factor authentication on your

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interpreter. I

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know that sounds ridiculous, but

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I mean this adamantly. Every

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time I read anything about the

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Otani story, what comes to mind

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is, gotta have two interpreters. The

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idea that you

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would ever be totally

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reliant on one

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other person in all

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communications, in

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all business dealings, financial

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dealings, everything, it's

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one guy. Of

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course that guy is susceptible to corruption.

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Of course you're susceptible to

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getting robbed. You gotta go

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to interpreters. And

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I'm not blaming Otani for this, because

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it seems like the solo interpreter is

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what everyone always does, but that has

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always struck me as

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perilous. If

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the interpreter has his own ulterior

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motives, or dishonesty,

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or whatever, and it doesn't have to be a

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gambling problem, allegedly, it could be anything. You

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know what? I'm mad at the

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guy I work for. I want

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him to look like a jerk in the media. It

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could be, I don't like that reporter.

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I don't want his actual smart

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question to be perceived as a

9:41

smart question. I

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can't ama- and I really empathize

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with Otani, or with anyone

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that has to do business

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dealings or real communication

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through an interpreter, because you've

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gotta feel a little powerless.

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And because of that and the reason

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I'm starting there it is

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because of that That

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I tend to believe Oh Tani so

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here's what I mean and This

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is the angle that I don't think enough people

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have looked at it from if

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every single Interaction

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you have with

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your employer with your

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teammates with your sponsors is

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run through another individual

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who is literally translating That

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obviously is the person you

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trust more than any person in the

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world that That

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obviously is a person who would

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have access to your bank accounts

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that obviously is a person you

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would implicitly believe

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in and So

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like who would be the easiest

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person in the world for

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me to scam The

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answer is Damanze

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or my wife or Diora

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not because they're dumb but

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because they we

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operate from a place of like

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implicit trust if Damanze

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called me and was you know what

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I mean as he did actually a few

11:33

months ago was like hey What's

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your recommendations on how I file

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taxes? like that

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conversation starts from a place

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of This person

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will only ever Give

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me good advice will only ever or

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even if it's not good advice Give

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me their what they think is good

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advice and will only ever have my

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best interests at heart and so

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within that moment I was like oh

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boy I got upside down

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in some investments my credits wrecked

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and I need to start fresh

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I'm going to rip off DeMonday's

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credit he would he would

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he would be the easiest mark in the

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world because of our

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relationship so if

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if Otani relies on this

12:20

guy for everything then

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of course this guy could

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rip him off for millions of dollars and

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so that is then

12:31

where I actually when

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it comes to the Otani part of this have

12:37

more of an issue with the Dodgers and

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so this is a paragraph from the

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athletic that I think is the

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most intriguing part of the story

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also a quote also

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under scrutiny is

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how the Dodgers and

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Otani's representatives entrusted

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Mizahara who's the interpreter entrusted

13:02

Mizahara enough to have him

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be the lone point

13:06

person to Otani while

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they knew Mizahara

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was the subject of this

13:13

line of questioning rather

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that rather they followed

13:18

their typical order of operations

13:21

every communication went from the

13:23

Dodgers agent Nez

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Belalo pardon me if I mispronounced

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it or his representatives at

13:29

CAA went through Mizahara even

13:32

without Otani present this

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meant no one from

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the Dodgers or

13:39

CAA supposedly ever

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talked to Otani directly

13:44

about the looming story

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involving Mizahara before the

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interpreter talked to the

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entire team after Wednesday's

13:52

opener Mizahara

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now claims he never misinterpreted anything

13:56

while interpreting for Otani but think

13:59

about that a moment. What

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that is saying is

14:03

that the Dodgers and Otani's

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representatives were aware

14:09

that there were these allegations of

14:11

some level of impropriety by the

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interpreter. And at

14:16

no point did they

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then be like, hey, can

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we find someone else that speaks

14:24

Japanese? Tell them in

14:26

here. Get Shohei in

14:28

here. Tell the interpreter to go

14:30

somewhere else for a minute while

14:33

we make sure Shohei knows everything.

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That is wild. That

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is so irresponsible. That to me is

14:40

the most suspicious part of this. The

14:44

idea that they would say, oh my

14:46

goodness, the interpreter is

14:48

subjected to a gambling probe. Somebody's

14:50

got to tell Otani. We'll

14:53

have the interpreter do it. What? That

14:56

seems like at

14:59

best incredibly careless

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and at worst nefarious.

15:05

And the reason I say at worst nefarious

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is it makes me wonder

15:09

if everyone was hoping that somehow this

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story could just go away. That

15:15

somehow that the

15:17

company line of interpreter

15:20

did all of this on his own

15:23

and then Otani because he's such

15:25

a great guy just covered the

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debts. That's the

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cleanest version of this because

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the new version, which

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is the interpreter

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did all this on his own and

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then stole from Otani, that

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involves not MLB

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investigations, not even just IRS

15:46

investigations, but

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federal investigations. That

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involves subpoena power. That

15:53

involves depositions. That involves

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talking under oath. And

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it would again. Again, my

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initial read on it is folks

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were hoping that this could go

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away, and it obviously isn't.

16:09

Now, as a gambler, there

16:12

are also a lot of other, to

16:14

me, curious questions that arose,

16:18

up to and including, what

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bookie is

16:24

giving this guy

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multiple millions of dollars

16:30

in credit? I'm

16:33

sure we'll be made whole at some point.

16:36

Unless the guy

16:38

was representing, listen,

16:40

I'm backed by one

16:43

of the biggest sports stars in the world. Now,

16:45

that doesn't mean he was banked by one

16:47

of the biggest sports guys in the world.

16:51

But as a, again,

16:54

as a lifelong gambler, let

16:57

me tell you typically how something

16:59

like this would go. If

17:03

I brought Damanze to

17:06

my semi-weekly poker

17:08

game, and he played

17:10

with me a couple times, and

17:13

he was introduced as my guy, or

17:16

even if I didn't bring him, but everyone

17:18

publicly knew he was with me,

17:21

and then Damanze showed up without

17:23

me and lost money,

17:27

he probably could do that a

17:29

couple times and

17:31

be like, hey, yeah, just put it on my dad's tab. But

17:36

by about the third time, or

17:39

if and when the figure got to a

17:41

real amount of money, I

17:43

would get a phone call. Like hey, I'm

17:46

sure everything's fine, not accusing anyone of anything, but

17:48

just so you know, Damanze

17:51

has run up this much on your

17:53

tab. Are you good? Are

17:56

we cool? Do you want us to cut him off?

17:59

Whatever. The idea

18:01

that this got to millions

18:05

and then the marker was called in

18:08

strikes me as abnormal.

18:12

Okay? And I know that

18:14

there's a lot of these days, what

18:17

I would call just misinformation about

18:20

how gambling works. I know there

18:22

was a story. Bruno Mars owes

18:24

the MGM 50 million.

18:26

No, he doesn't. No, he

18:29

doesn't. I'm telling you right now

18:31

with knowing nothing, that's

18:34

not true. You know how I know it?

18:36

You can't run up a 50 million dollar

18:38

bill. Not possible. Doesn't

18:40

matter how liquid you are. Doesn't matter. Now,

18:43

I theoretically there, if

18:45

the play is we want the bill

18:47

to run up so high, so we

18:49

theoretically quote, own the guy. I understand

18:52

that that sounds good in the movies.

18:54

That's not how these things actually work

18:56

out. At some point,

18:59

gambling debts become too large

19:01

to be paid. And

19:04

that's why they need to be. That's why anyone

19:06

that's ever gambled with a bookie, you

19:08

have a figure. So

19:10

if you bet a hundred bucks a weekend, maybe

19:13

the figure is $500. If

19:15

you bet 10,000 a weekend, maybe the figure

19:17

is $50,000. Whatever

19:19

it is, the figure is, once

19:23

I am plus or minus this

19:25

amount, we clear the ledgers. You

19:28

either pay up every Tuesday morning

19:30

or you pay up when the number hits a

19:33

figure. That's how it works. The

19:35

idea that Otani's

19:37

interpreter figure would

19:39

be, you know, at least

19:41

north of a few

19:44

million dollars strikes

19:46

me as odd. And

19:51

that's another thing that I would want further

19:54

investigated. None

19:57

of this implies Otani.

20:00

to blame here or that

20:02

Otani had knowledge of it. One

20:06

other thing about how this could happen on the

20:08

money side of things, and then we'll get to

20:11

John T. Porter. The

20:14

money side of things is

20:17

a whole nother issue, which

20:19

is people are like, how could you not know this much

20:22

money was taken out of

20:24

your account? And

20:27

the answer is, if you

20:30

trust people to handle your money, you're

20:34

every one of us, myself

20:37

included, that trusts

20:39

other people to

20:41

handle our money is susceptible

20:43

to being stolen from. And

20:46

it is a trade off that a

20:49

lot of us that trust other people to handle our

20:51

money, just

20:53

sign up for and keep our fingers crossed.

20:56

That's just the truth. Right

21:01

now there are three

21:03

people in the world who

21:05

if they wanted to, could

21:09

probably, I

21:14

don't wanna say clean me out, but

21:17

get tens

21:20

of thousands of dollars without

21:23

me potentially knowing about it for

21:25

months. And you

21:27

might say, that's not supposed to be a

21:29

flex, that's not anything about how much money

21:32

I have or whatever, it's just the

21:34

people in charge of my actual

21:36

money, am

21:41

I, I get bank

21:45

statements every month, that's true. That's

21:47

a PDF file. Am I

21:49

calling the bank every month, getting

21:52

a human being on the phone, saying

21:55

here's the account number, read me

21:57

the balance, no. Are

22:01

those are PDF files pretty easily

22:03

forgible if you really want to

22:05

yeah So

22:08

I know folks tend not to have

22:10

sympathy when people have money stolen like

22:12

how could you not know and the

22:14

answer is It's

22:17

pretty easy not to know because the whole

22:19

idea behind it is I'm paying you to

22:21

take care of this Because either I'm not

22:23

good at it, or I don't have time

22:25

for it So I find

22:27

it totally believable that otani could

22:29

have a few

22:31

million dollars Siphoned out

22:34

of his account and him not know it. So

22:37

there's a lot of to me unfair

22:40

Speculation about otani's

22:43

involvement that doesn't deal in

22:45

the real world of how The

22:48

and I don't know how the uber wealthy work

22:50

I don't even know how the actual wealthy work,

22:52

but I know how I work and I've got

22:54

a decent amount of money But how the uber

22:56

wealthy you know what I mean how often

22:59

they're actually being like all right Let

23:01

me call Bank of America and do

23:03

a self audit. It's just not happening

23:06

Okay, so that's the otani thing

23:09

Did that make sense to you to monitor everything I did

23:11

there sorry that I'm kind of icing you out here But

23:14

I just want to this is to know that they

23:16

may want to Yeah,

23:18

I get this is one of the touchier subjects

23:20

I guess but at the end there it kind

23:23

of sound like you were saying that there's no

23:25

way otani knew that the money was Being taken

23:27

like of how did that much money

23:30

you're taking? I'm not saying there's

23:32

no way he knew I'm saying I find it

23:35

Absolutely believable that he didn't

23:37

know I think

23:39

there are some people saying he had to

23:41

know and What I'm saying

23:43

is that I

23:46

know this sounds weird But

23:48

if you've got thirty five hundred dollars to

23:50

your name You

23:52

are going to know if someone took a hundred

23:55

and twenty bucks from you if

23:57

you've got two hundred million your

24:00

name you might not know if someone

24:06

eventually yeah go

24:08

ahead yeah no that was the same thing

24:10

i was saying like four and a half million to otani right now

24:12

is i don't know what that is but right

24:16

it's not it's not it is it

24:19

is the only way you're gonna find out is

24:21

if you do a self audit because there is

24:23

nothing it is not an amount

24:25

to where there's ever a purchase or a

24:27

thing he's trying to do that he can't

24:29

do also like

24:31

otani's liquid cash is not his

24:34

real value his contract is the

24:37

seven hundred million fully guaranteed he

24:39

has that he can borrow against

24:41

that he can do whatever he

24:43

wants so alright so there's

24:45

that now the

24:47

jante porter thing is actually way more of

24:51

a canary in the coal mine yeah

24:55

sinister listen i'm not going to accuse jante

24:57

porter of anything what i will say is

24:59

this the circumstantial

25:01

evidence appears to be overwhelming

25:05

but take jante porter out

25:07

of this uh

25:11

this is now where we have to have a real

25:13

discussion about gambling and

25:16

about player props and

25:18

about this specific

25:21

type of corruption being

25:24

inevitable and our

25:27

sports leagues needing to decide whether

25:31

or not they're going to care so

25:34

i have been on the record about this that

25:36

when it comes to pro basketball and pro football

25:39

the sports we talk about the sports we

25:41

gamble on that i don't

25:43

think fixed games are actually a problem

25:45

or a thing and that's

25:48

because i know how gambling works i

25:51

know that it is

25:53

all it is incredibly difficult

25:56

to get you see all these fake

25:59

tickets online I know that out

26:01

there is a $80,000

26:04

John T Porter same game part that that's

26:06

not a real thing guys and

26:09

if it is a really honestly if there

26:11

was a sportsbook out there that was accepting an

26:16

$80,000 same game parlay on an eighth man.

26:18

I thought I'm

26:21

not saying they deserve to Be

26:23

robbed, but there they are

26:27

They are I don't want to again. I don't want to

26:29

say they're asking for it But that is ripe

26:32

for this type of incident the

26:34

reason that I don't think you have

26:36

to worry about players Fixing

26:39

pro basketball or pro football games

26:41

because the money doesn't make sense

26:45

It is almost impossible To

26:48

get down more than 50 grand

26:51

on a random NBA game there

26:54

is Basically

26:57

no NBA player That

27:02

is involved enough to

27:05

have an a Definite

27:07

impact on the result of the game that $50,000

27:09

moves the needle for in The

27:14

NFL you can get down you

27:16

know a few hundred thousand on

27:19

a individual game but

27:22

Unless you get to the quarterback

27:25

it is very difficult to

27:28

guarantee You're going

27:30

to have the impact on a game as

27:33

a player and there are no

27:35

quarterbacks That it would make

27:37

sense to throw a game

27:39

for a few hundred thousand dollars in a

27:41

one-off incident And if you did it multiple

27:43

times it certainly makes no sense because now

27:46

your career is Over and even

27:48

if you don't get caught just because you must

27:50

be terrible because you keep losing us games So

27:53

my concern with game fixing and

27:55

gambling was always about college sports

27:57

because the money matters a lot

28:00

to the kids and

28:02

because kids brains are not fully developed

28:04

kids do dumb things and

28:06

there's been corruption and game fixing in

28:08

college sports for as long as college

28:10

sports have existed and

28:12

the refs because

28:14

the every ref can

28:17

have a massive impact on any

28:19

game and those amounts of money

28:21

all of a sudden do matter so

28:23

that's where the concern is for the fixing

28:26

portion of it but

28:29

then there's this whole sub

28:32

genre of gambling that

28:36

has become ubiquitous since

28:39

gambling became legal and

28:42

that's the individual player props that's

28:46

the same game parlays that

28:48

is the you can

28:50

bet on any player

28:53

doing anything and that's

28:57

where of course

28:59

the money could work out

29:01

for some of these guys of course

29:04

if a

29:06

guy's like hold on I don't even have the impact of

29:08

my team wins or loses I just

29:11

need to make sure that I

29:14

don't hit a three that

29:16

I don't get four assists and

29:20

all of a sudden I can theoretically

29:22

make you know ten

29:24

twenty thirty grand obviously

29:30

someone's going to fall into that trap

29:32

somebody and so

29:35

now is where

29:37

the tougher more awkward

29:39

conversations begin which

29:41

is do

29:43

our sports leagues care enough

29:46

about that to

29:48

tell their official gambling

29:50

partners which seem to be

29:52

this endless faucet of money for

29:55

podcasts television sports leagues all

29:57

of it hey People

30:01

want to bet a spread?

30:03

Okay. You're

30:06

going to have every single player

30:08

on the team a player prop

30:10

listed with high limits

30:12

on it of the bet

30:14

you'll accept then we're not

30:17

partnering with you. That's a

30:19

real question. And

30:22

the well

30:25

right so there's a lot of things right so

30:27

there's a lot of pieces of this where

30:30

that is all intertwined and

30:33

again I'm just here trying to be honest with

30:35

the audience. It is

30:37

also a spot

30:40

and Bamani has talked a lot about

30:42

this. Heralibos Volgaris has talked a lot

30:44

about this. It has become a

30:47

more and more even prior to this real

30:50

thing which is how

30:53

compromised a

30:55

lot of us opinion makers are. Because

30:58

all of us are either making money

31:00

off gambling sponsors used to

31:02

will in the future whatever it is. And

31:06

so the

31:08

question is do you want to be forthright

31:12

and honest with your

31:14

audience or do you want to

31:16

make sure that you know what I

31:18

mean? The money faucet turns

31:21

on. It's a top one right? And

31:24

so we talk a ton of gambling on

31:26

this show. We have in

31:28

during football season a specific gambling show.

31:30

I personally

31:32

am incredibly proud of

31:34

how we do it. First of

31:37

all I've been gambling my whole life. It

31:39

is something I enjoy. It is

31:41

something that I know a lot about. But also on

31:43

this show what do we do? We pick

31:45

games. We do at the end of each gambling episode.

31:48

We do one like silly long. You know what I mean?

31:50

We'll do D teaser

32:00

which is a straightforward bet and we

32:02

do the offer which

32:04

is I think the

32:06

way we position it as hey look

32:08

at this as a likely losing

32:11

wager but that you can have fun on

32:13

and I'm not telling people not to do

32:15

it but

32:18

the distinction between that and

32:21

having the vast

32:24

majority of your gambling content

32:26

be here is this

32:29

no brainer same game parlay

32:31

about player props feels a

32:34

little different and

32:36

from the limited data we

32:38

have about places where gamblings

32:40

become legal what

32:42

folks are betting are parlays

32:45

and player props because

32:47

the upside is higher it feels more fun

32:49

I get all of that we

32:51

have to be honest with the audience

32:55

which is those are in the

32:59

long run guaranteed

33:02

losing wagers now

33:04

that doesn't mean you shouldn't make them it

33:07

does it is it's a

33:10

losing financial proposition to go

33:12

to Dave and Buster's but

33:14

if you spend a hundred bucks and have a

33:16

ton of fun in the afternoon you're not like

33:18

gosh darn it I thought I

33:20

was gonna win money it's like no I

33:23

was paying for my entertainment and

33:25

so I am not saying people shouldn't do

33:27

this or shouldn't be allowed to do that

33:29

I have odd feelings about whether or not

33:31

it should be more brick and mortar and

33:33

playing for the Xbox on the top shelf

33:35

but okay well yeah that

33:37

is a different level of gambling I

33:39

guess sure so maybe Dave and Buster's

33:42

was the wrong example but miniature golf

33:44

or whatever it is yeah

33:48

positioning it as uh this

33:53

is you

33:55

know smart money making is

34:01

Not honest. It's

34:03

just not.

34:09

And the

34:11

reason we do it the way we do

34:13

it on this show, and I'm

34:16

not trying to pat myself on the back, it's

34:18

just how I've always done it, is

34:21

we are picking 5 games a

34:23

week, we are incorporating the

34:26

vig into our plus

34:28

minus, and we are keeping a

34:30

ledger, and we are

34:32

letting you know throughout

34:35

the year and at the end of the year

34:37

where we plus or minus. And

34:39

that way the audience knows

34:42

where we're at, what we're doing, and

34:44

if you remember last year, I forget

34:46

which team it was, but there was, oh it

34:49

was the Jags. My one

34:52

belief in the Jags swung

34:54

my entire year from being plus a

34:56

few thousand to where it ended up

34:58

being minus a few thousand because of

35:01

the way those bets worked and how

35:03

many, and so that, I'm

35:05

not acting as if there is a right or a wrong

35:07

way to do it, but there isn't an honest way to

35:09

do it. And for the

35:12

sports leagues, if you

35:14

are going to have,

35:20

be in bed fully with

35:24

gambling companies that are

35:28

offering more different ways to

35:30

bet on

35:32

individual performance than

35:35

any time ever before, if

35:38

you do all of that, the

35:41

John T. Porter story or something similar

35:43

is inevitable, and

35:46

it will not stop. It will not

35:48

go away and it will not stop. And

35:50

if they're okay with that, they're okay with that. But

35:53

let's not act like we

35:55

couldn't see this coming. Now I don't

35:57

see the story of, NBA

36:00

star big name X You

36:03

know throws a game. I don't

36:06

think that's coming because I don't think

36:08

the financial incentives are there but

36:10

I Guarantee

36:12

you it has already happened in college

36:15

sports multiple times

36:17

and Folks

36:19

just haven't caught it yet and The

36:23

ref stuff would concern me because

36:26

there are real financial incentives there Alright,

36:31

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36:33

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36:35

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36:37

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Get started today. Alright,

38:25

welcome back in What's Right with Nick Right episode

38:27

224. We had some breaking

38:29

news before today's show to Monzaebel and

38:31

the NFL rule change. Let's get into that

38:33

before we get to Legeria Snead. Go ahead.

38:36

Yes, the NFL just changed their kickoff rule.

38:39

What do you think about that? Yep. So,

38:43

tentatively I like it. Let me explain to the

38:45

audience what it is. So you're

38:47

still kicking off from the 35, but

38:51

everything else is wildly different. The

38:54

team that is kicking off will

38:56

now have all other 10 guys

38:58

lined up at

39:00

the opponent's 40. The

39:03

team that is receiving will

39:06

have everyone else except for their return man

39:08

lined up between the 35 and 30. So

39:10

they will be 5 to 10 yards apart.

39:15

Alright, and then the return

39:18

man will be somewhere between the

39:20

goal line and the 20. Okay?

39:22

So envision it. The kicker is in the

39:24

normal place. The

39:27

kicking team is moved forward 25 yards

39:30

to the opposing team's 40. The returning team

39:32

is moved all the way back to between

39:34

the 30 and 35, and

39:37

you have one or two return men in between,

39:39

in the red zone essentially, between the goal line and

39:41

the 20. No one can

39:45

move other than the kicker

39:48

until the return man gets the ball

39:50

or the ball hits the ground. Okay?

39:54

Once that happens, go

39:56

play. Go as far as you can.

40:00

are the

40:02

unique angles

40:05

to it. If

40:08

you kick it too short and

40:11

you don't get it too inside

40:13

the 20, the

40:16

receiving team gets the ball at the 40. If

40:19

you kick it too far and

40:22

you kick it into the end zone, the

40:24

receiving team gets the ball at the

40:27

30. So there might

40:29

be some teams that just say, you know what,

40:31

screw this, we're just going to bomb

40:33

this thing into the end zone and give the other team the

40:35

ball at the 30. That probably

40:37

won't happen. There

40:39

will be teams that screw it up and

40:42

you end up getting the ball at the 40,

40:44

they kick it too short. But what's

40:46

mostly going to happen is there's

40:48

going to be a kickoff, it's going

40:50

to land around the 5 to

40:52

10 yard line and then

40:54

you're going to have 10 blockers,

40:57

10 attempted tacklers,

40:59

the return man and the kicker go

41:01

after it. So there will be way,

41:03

way, way more returns. That

41:05

is a guarantee. The

41:07

only potential negative is

41:11

the surprise onside kick is dead

41:13

now. Now if you want to do

41:15

an onside kick, you have to tell people

41:18

and then do the onside kick.

41:20

What I think is good about it is

41:24

the onside

41:28

kick, I think, and

41:30

you guys can look this up and see if I'm wrong,

41:32

goes back to the old onside kick

41:34

formation where you had a better chance

41:36

of receiving it. The one

41:39

that was in place forever before like

41:41

five years ago. So in general, I

41:43

like it. It will

41:45

obviously reward this season's smarter

41:47

teams that figure things out quicker,

41:50

better special teams, things

41:52

like that. And then once one

41:54

or two smart teams figures out the way

41:56

to do it, everyone will copy them. like

42:00

this rule change and I also

42:02

speaking of rule changes then we can move on don't

42:05

really the hip drop tackle uh

42:08

hyperventilation that was happening

42:11

yesterday I think is way over raw

42:14

I think there will be mark

42:16

this for me I'm gonna go ahead and say

42:20

fewer than one hip drop tackle

42:22

penalty a weekend league wide I

42:25

bet there are fewer than 20 called

42:27

over the course of the season players

42:29

will adjust and they're not going to

42:31

call I don't think the

42:33

in between ones all right let's keep

42:36

going to Monte all

42:38

right so some other news uh Lajerius need got sent

42:40

to the titans for a 2025 draft pick or 2025

42:44

third round sorry uh we

42:47

know that you and the chief's kingdom want to

42:49

run it back so you guys get the three

42:51

peep but this was destined to happen can't keep

42:53

all those stars yeah um but doesn't

42:56

this kind of scare you how many more good players

42:58

do you think you can you can lose until you

43:00

start to worry about it so

43:04

I here's the thing

43:07

I was I'm not I

43:11

never thought it was realistic that

43:13

Chris Jones and Sneed were both

43:16

going to be back under

43:18

long-term contracts I did

43:20

start to think that Chris once

43:23

Chris got signed that Sneed might

43:25

play under the tag um

43:29

and obviously you lose an

43:31

excellent player the team gets

43:34

a little bit worse Lajerius

43:37

need is the one who punched out the

43:39

Z flowers fumble in the

43:41

AFC title game he didn't allow

43:43

a single touchdown in coverage in the regular

43:45

season all year he was an excellent player

43:49

he also is sneaky older than people

43:51

think Chris Jones is

43:54

29 Lajerius Sneed is 27 he

43:56

also has dealt with some slight knee issues

44:00

Because of those two factors, giving

44:02

him $20 million a year, Titans Game 19, would not

44:08

have been smart, in my opinion. And

44:10

the Chiefs have shown secondary

44:13

is a spot they believe

44:15

they can draft and develop and they will move

44:17

off guys. Kendall Fuller,

44:20

they let go in free agency for a

44:23

bunch of money. Chavarius Ward, they let go

44:25

in free agency for a bunch of money.

44:27

Honey Badger, they let go in free

44:29

agency and now Sneed, they traded. Now

44:33

folks are upset that they only

44:35

got a future third. Why

44:37

did they not get more? And

44:40

the answer they didn't get more is because

44:43

of Sneed's contract demands, which he earned

44:45

and I am happy for him. The

44:48

market, people were

44:50

not super excited

44:53

about giving up a premium pick

44:55

and paying Lageria Sneed. And

44:58

so because of that, this was about as

45:00

solid of a return as they were going

45:02

to get. And

45:05

here's why there is a

45:07

tangible benefit to this season. I don't

45:09

know if it's enough to offset losing

45:12

Sneed, but that $20 million

45:14

that you opened up, they still

45:16

need to sign a tackle, they need

45:19

to extend Creed on free, they might

45:21

extend Trey Smith. That

45:23

money you open up right now

45:26

is super valuable, even though

45:28

free agency has passed its first couple of

45:30

phases. So if

45:33

you told me they could only keep one Sneed or

45:35

Chris Jones, I feel like they kept the right one.

45:38

They are going to have to pay

45:40

Trent McDuffie a King's ransom in a

45:42

year. So they are preparing for that.

45:44

And for all those reasons, I'm

45:46

not thrilled about it. But I

45:49

don't think this is a devastating blow

45:51

for Kansas City. And I am super

45:53

happy for Lageria Sneed, who has went

45:56

through massive life tragedies, has never made

45:58

real NFL money. now gets

46:00

paid based on his great work. All

46:02

right, Damanze, what's the next

46:04

one we've got? All right,

46:07

so Dallas is reportedly gonna let Dak's

46:09

contract play out instead of extending him.

46:12

You said you would like that move, but

46:14

it's probably better to have an established quarterback

46:16

to be looking around for one at this

46:18

time, but yeah, despite

46:21

that, hold on, I'm sorry.

46:25

Go ahead. Yeah, no, yeah,

46:27

so what do you think about that move? I'll

46:31

take some notes. Okay,

46:33

oh, that's why you were grabbing

46:35

your notepad. So here's the

46:37

thing, you're fine. The

46:43

Cowboys are in a really rough

46:45

spot. Dak

46:47

Prescott at 60 million a year is

46:50

a disaster. Not having

46:52

a quarterback, obviously, is

46:55

a potential disaster. I

46:58

would not pay

47:00

Dak Prescott top of the market money. I

47:03

would prefer see

47:06

how this year plays out and

47:08

roll the dice. I

47:11

don't know that they're actually gonna have the

47:13

guts to do that, but

47:15

very clearly, Damanze, I

47:21

think we know you cannot win

47:23

a Super Bowl with

47:27

a good-ish

47:29

quarterback paid like a

47:31

great one. You can win

47:33

a Super Bowl with a bad quarterback and a

47:35

great defense. You can win a Super Bowl with

47:37

a young quarterback. You can win a Super Bowl with

47:39

a great quarterback paid like a great one. We

47:41

have never seen under the current salary cap

47:44

construct, a quarterback in

47:46

that eight to 14 range where

47:49

Dak is, eight to 12 range, paid

47:52

like he's the best and

47:55

the team's good enough to get to the Super Bowl. So

47:58

the Cowboys put themselves in this. Position

48:00

by giving Dak the no franchise

48:02

tag no trade clause So

48:04

it's not they're not operating from position of

48:07

strength But what I wonder is if

48:09

they could take the strength back from

48:12

Dak prep if they could Regain

48:14

leverage if they do let this play

48:16

out and then say to

48:18

Dak's agent. Hey, man You

48:20

really want to go from being the quarterback of the

48:22

Dallas Cowboys to the quarterback of the Tennessee Titans? Is

48:26

that what you want to do the quarterback

48:28

of the Dallas Cowboys to the court?

48:30

What's another team that might be in

48:33

the quarterback market right now the quarterback the

48:35

New York guys? That's

48:37

what the commander is probably gonna draft to kid it, too

48:40

But is that what you want to do

48:42

or does it make more sense? For

48:45

you to take a Kirk Cousins type of deal

48:48

Which pays you good but not very

48:50

top of the market and continuing quarterback

48:52

for the Cowboys so if they Actually

48:55

can stand true to this to Monza. I

48:58

think it would be a gutsy good move. What

49:00

are you drawing? What are you

49:03

doing? I was just taking

49:05

notes taking everything that you were saying in about

49:07

um You know future

49:09

your quarterbacks and oh you're holding I am

49:11

ready to be a man. Oh I

49:15

get it now. Oh, yes,

49:17

Jerry Jones was doodling. I

49:19

saw Jerry in The

49:23

rundown and I forgot the Jerry

49:25

Jones thing and I was

49:27

like what do they have my guy to Monza doing? Why

49:30

are they having him doodle for no

49:32

reason, but it's because Jerry Jones just

49:34

had pages and pages of doodles When

49:38

he was being interviewed at the owners meetings,

49:40

okay now I understand it speaking

49:42

of things I don't understand the Monza

49:44

JJ McCarthy Yeah,

49:46

so the JJ McCarthy I've trained

49:48

is obviously really crazy right now

49:51

Folks like Jim Harbaugh saying JJ is

49:53

even better than Caleb Williams It's

49:56

really crazy. Some reports are some reports

49:58

are Washington is concerned considering taking him

50:00

as high as number two. All

50:03

it took was that one Zach Wilson pass at

50:06

Pro Day. Which team is

50:08

gonna get sucked in and why is it the

50:10

Giants? I don't know, I

50:12

think he's gonna be gone before the Giants can pick. What

50:15

pick do the Giants ask? Six.

50:19

Listen man, this JJ McCarthy thing,

50:23

I'm willing to open

50:26

up the possibility that I'm wrong, but I do

50:28

not get it. I

50:30

admit, I don't watch a ton

50:34

of college football, but

50:36

last year I did watch a ton

50:39

of Michigan. They were the best

50:41

team in college football. I didn't, so

50:43

did I watch a ton of Drake May

50:45

during the year? No. Did

50:47

I by happenstance watch a ton of JJ

50:49

McCarthy? Yes. And I'm gonna

50:51

act like I get these right every time.

50:53

But at no point watching Michigan play was

50:55

I like, oh, that guy, future

50:58

top five pick. But he

51:00

legitimately could go number two. He

51:03

absolutely could go top three and if

51:05

he doesn't, someone is going

51:07

to trade with either the Cardinals

51:09

or Jim Harbaugh's Chargers to move

51:11

up to number five and get

51:14

him. So I don't get it.

51:16

I flatly do not get it.

51:19

So why? And then the follow up question here

51:21

to Monze is interesting, go ahead. Yeah, why

51:23

if Harbaugh is so high on him, would he

51:25

not just trade Herbert away to

51:28

get a war chest

51:30

and get him? Yeah. So

51:33

I actually thought about this exact thing and

51:36

the answer to that is because of the

51:39

contract, first of all, it would be crazy.

51:42

But let's just say Harbaugh's adamant that he

51:44

thinks JJ McCarthy is the best quarterback in

51:46

the draft, that he's awesome, and

51:48

you would have him obviously super cheap for

51:50

four years. If

51:53

all those things were true, I've

51:55

been trading Justin Herbert for like four first

51:57

round picks, or you can't get four but

51:59

three. first round picks theoretically

52:01

would make sense. The problem

52:04

is the contract Herbert signed

52:07

is untradeable because of how they structured

52:09

it. So because

52:11

of the bonuses

52:13

that have already been paid, right

52:16

now if you were to trade Justin

52:19

Herbert, you would take on

52:21

$95 million in dead cap.

52:28

So you just can't do it. So

52:30

trading Justin Herbert is not

52:32

financially possible. It also would

52:34

be crazy unless you believe J.J. McCarthy is the

52:36

best quarterback in the draft in which case it

52:38

would make sense. But

52:41

if he hadn't been signed to a

52:43

deal yet, it would make sense. If

52:46

he was under the circumstance, too, was under. Where

52:49

it's like, oh, we could trade him and

52:51

then draft our guy, that would be fine. But

52:53

because of the contract Herbert signed, at least according

52:55

to the people at Spotrack, he's not tradable. All

52:57

right, quick break right back, wrap the show with

52:59

a game of freak out or chill out. What's

53:03

right? All

53:07

right, welcome back in. What's right with

53:09

Nick Wright. Real quick, chapter just

53:11

tweeted, the NFL is planning to play another

53:13

game this year on Christmas Day, which is

53:15

on a Wednesday. So a

53:17

Wednesday Christmas Day game is coming. Mark

53:20

me down as someone that says that is a bad idea.

53:24

The NFL is,

53:27

I think, trying

53:29

to grab up too much

53:31

real estate last year because of where

53:33

Christmas fell on the calendar. You

53:36

could, like the day of the week, you

53:39

could justify and explain it because

53:41

I, let me make sure I'm right on this. I

53:43

think last year Christmas was either on

53:45

a Sunday or a Monday, but let me just look I have her in

53:47

front of me. Christmas last

53:50

year was on

53:52

a Monday. No, it was

53:56

on a Monday, but there's usually

53:58

football games on Monday. made sense with

54:00

the schedule all of it. Wednesday

54:02

is the one day football games

54:04

are never played. It's

54:07

gonna be, I don't even know scheduling wise how

54:09

you're gonna do it. And

54:12

putting games on Christmas day, I

54:14

know it'll do a big number.

54:16

I think long term it's

54:18

a bad decision. All right, Damanjay, let's keep going because

54:20

the show's going long. I know that shocks everybody. Go

54:22

ahead. Yeah, Houston is

54:25

now only one game behind the

54:27

Warriors. And Draymond says that he's

54:29

not scared. Steve Curry's already resting,

54:31

Stephanie Curry for the playoffs. Do

54:34

you think that this Curry era will end up ending

54:37

in an 11 seed? Well,

54:40

I don't think that the Curry era is over,

54:42

but I do think the Warriors are gonna miss.

54:46

I think that if you look at what the

54:48

Warriors and, if we're gonna talk

54:50

about why they're gonna miss, you have to

54:52

talk about the fact that Draymond

54:54

Green was suspended for 21 games. And

54:58

how that impacted them. But what

55:00

the Warriors have left, it's

55:03

not a gauntlet by any means, I

55:05

understand that. But here is what the

55:08

Warriors have left on

55:10

their schedule. The following

55:12

four on the road, Miami,

55:15

Orlando, Charlotte, San Antonio.

55:19

Only one guaranteed victory,

55:21

Charlotte. Then

55:23

home for Dallas. Then

55:26

back to Texas for at

55:28

Houston at Dallas. Home

55:31

for Utah. Then at the

55:33

Lakers, at Portland easy.

55:35

Home for New Orleans, home for the

55:37

Jazz. The

55:40

Rockets on the other hand, have

55:43

a slightly tougher schedule, but

55:46

they are rolling. The

55:49

Warriors are, I'd be really worried.

55:52

Right now, and we'll talk about the Suns in a

55:54

minute, right now I

55:56

think the 9-10 play in game, DeMonday,

56:00

be Sun's Rockets I

56:02

think the Warriors are gonna fall out entirely

56:04

and I think the Suns are gonna keep

56:07

collapsing or keep falling all right next all

56:09

right we're playing freak out or chill out

56:11

uh myself it blew a 30-point lead last

56:13

night against the Hawks yeah I know it's

56:15

just one game but do you think it's

56:17

a time for me to freak out

56:19

or chill out um

56:22

it's just one games so

56:24

go ahead I'm what's your yeah I

56:26

mean they're they're already getting in their

56:28

post postseason function they blew a 30-point

56:30

lead to the Hawks I

56:32

don't I'm not like one of those crazy

56:34

fans that is just like like

56:37

if I'm very realistic it the

56:39

Nuggets are gonna kick your ass if you're gonna do

56:41

stuff like that you blew a 30-point lead to the

56:44

Hawks I mean no I'm just very realistic and I'm

56:46

not gonna do that oh you can beat no dude

56:48

if they're gonna do that type of stuff not gonna

56:50

be I mean they're not even gonna be able to

56:52

get away from the Bucks let them

56:54

on the Denver Knights but uh right so

56:56

that's the problem the problem is I don't

56:59

think you should freak out about one game you had

57:01

one nine in a row uh the

57:05

you took your phone off the gas and

57:07

weren't able to put it back on the

57:09

gas that that's it 30 points is bad

57:11

but that happens but

57:13

I just don't I don't like

57:15

the Celtics as much as I like the Bucks right

57:17

now and there

57:20

is a very real possibility that

57:23

round one Boston

57:25

has to play Miami

57:28

or Philly right

57:30

now the seven eight seed is

57:33

Miami Philly meaning the loser

57:35

of that game would then go into the

57:37

next play-in game and then have to be

57:39

either Chicago or Atlanta to then

57:41

be the the one seed and

57:43

or to put be the eight seed I

57:46

wouldn't love that path at all if I were

57:48

Boston and so I wouldn't freak out about

57:50

last night but would I freak out in general a little

57:52

bit all right next the

57:55

Sun's dropped to the to the play and

57:57

Lucas their number and they need to

57:59

beat LeBron or Steph it's not a long

58:01

shot since it's not a long shot to say

58:03

they could be bouncing the postseason Katie is stuck

58:06

with no outs if you can't make this work

58:08

should Durant freak out or chill out? Freak

58:11

out you just lost to

58:13

the Spurs without Wimpy which is

58:16

a travesty a total travesty

58:18

to lose that game you

58:20

are now if you are Phoenix you

58:24

are in the eighth seed now

58:27

you're a half game out of being

58:29

in the sixth seed you're also the

58:31

only two losses up on the Lakers

58:33

in the nine seed

58:36

and we were talking schedules the

58:39

Suns it's not only that they

58:42

have the hardest remaining schedule in

58:44

the league by far it's

58:47

that they have this

58:49

is what the Suns are about to start

58:52

is the hardest 10 game

58:54

stretch to Monze any

58:57

team has had at any

59:01

point all season here

59:04

are the Suns final 10 at

59:07

Denver at OKC

59:11

at New Orleans home

59:13

for Cleveland home

59:15

for Minnesota home for

59:17

New Orleans home for the

59:19

Clippers at the Clippers

59:22

at the Kings at the

59:24

Timberwolves so you play

59:28

one two three four games

59:30

against the West one two

59:32

three another

59:35

one three four

59:39

games against New Orleans in the Clippers

59:42

and then Cleveland and Sacramento and

59:45

so I think the Suns are going to drop to the

59:47

nine spot and folks

59:51

killed me when I said I didn't like

59:53

the Bradley Beal edition when I said I

59:55

don't buy into it I that

59:57

that using all your chips on getting

59:59

Brad Beal they just keep I've said

1:00:01

it for I'll say it again they

1:00:05

just have a slight

1:00:07

they have Kevin Durant and then

1:00:09

a slightly worse version of Kevin Durant and

1:00:11

Devin Booker and Then a

1:00:14

worse version of Devin Booker and Bradley

1:00:16

Beal. They have the same like archetypal

1:00:18

player just three times

1:00:20

over and The

1:00:23

and they have no moves to make moving forward.

1:00:26

Yeah, I'd be freaking out if I were Durant next

1:00:29

Alright the Clippers have fallen off since ruck

1:00:31

Russ got hurt James Harden went

1:00:33

from closing out on Kawhi to putting in

1:00:35

maxi and a headlock But once

1:00:38

looked like a serious contender now looks like an

1:00:40

unserious team Should the clipper

1:00:42

fans if they exist freak out or

1:00:44

chill out? We

1:00:46

got a freak out If

1:00:49

only someone had warned you this was coming so

1:00:53

James Harden in His

1:00:56

last eight games he's missed two. So it's

1:00:59

the last ten Clippers games in the last

1:01:01

eight games since March

1:01:03

9th He is 13 points

1:01:05

on 39%

1:01:08

from the field and 30% from three.

1:01:10

It's that time of year again Sorry,

1:01:13

I'm a year. Okay. It's just that

1:01:15

time of year And

1:01:18

his post all-star break swoon at this

1:01:20

point You can set your watch to

1:01:22

it and the Clippers aren't good enough

1:01:25

and so the now

1:01:28

there there I Expect

1:01:30

them to stay out of the

1:01:32

play-in and then I expect

1:01:34

them to get rolled in round one either

1:01:37

by Minnesota or Who

1:01:41

could they be playing in round one if

1:01:43

they stay the five they could play New

1:01:45

Orleans They could beat New Orleans I suppose

1:01:48

and then just get annihilated in round two,

1:01:50

but Minnesota would beat them Oklahoma City would

1:01:52

beat them if they fall to the six

1:01:55

Obviously Denver would beat them The

1:01:58

by the way, Lori Ray our

1:02:00

wonderful uh she's

1:02:03

a clip her social media maven she's a

1:02:05

clippers fan she says I exist so to

1:02:07

Monza you all Lori an apology all right

1:02:09

sorry all right things

1:02:12

are looking up for the Lakers 80 is playing

1:02:14

out of his mind D-load just broke

1:02:16

the Lakers single season three-point record it

1:02:19

seems that they are peaking at the right time

1:02:22

should the West freak out or chill out so

1:02:26

let me can I give you my

1:02:28

galaxy brain Lakers take because

1:02:31

listen the West obviously goes through

1:02:33

Denver okay we all know

1:02:35

this I'm gonna give you

1:02:38

my the

1:02:40

whole idea for the Lakers has

1:02:42

been if you're a Lakers fan

1:02:44

like well maybe someone can beat Denver

1:02:46

for us that's

1:02:49

not really a plan right hoping

1:02:51

someone else upsets Denver here's

1:02:54

now sneaky what I'm rooting for Lakers

1:02:59

Denver round one here's

1:03:02

why let me explain what

1:03:06

how is round one different than

1:03:08

all the other rounds the

1:03:11

games are so spread out so

1:03:13

much time between them is

1:03:17

the Lakers only path to beating

1:03:20

Denver LeBron being able to play

1:03:22

like 42 to 44 minutes

1:03:24

a night along with a D yeah

1:03:27

probably now I'm seeing Denver's beating the

1:03:29

Lakers like nine straight games Daniel right now is yelling

1:03:32

in the control room I get all of it Denver

1:03:34

is the far better team but

1:03:37

they can't beat Denver playing them every

1:03:39

other day is

1:03:41

their only hope the

1:03:43

spread out first round where you have

1:03:46

two and sometimes three days between series

1:03:48

maybe now here's what I do think

1:03:50

I do think that the Lakers can beat

1:03:53

anyone in the West in a series other

1:03:55

than Denver and

1:03:57

so the Denver we could have the

1:03:59

same scenario is last year where the

1:04:01

Lakers are the seven and

1:04:03

they played Denver's the one of

1:04:05

the play Denver in the conference

1:04:08

finals like that absolutely could happen

1:04:10

again it's not necessarily what

1:04:12

I'm predicting but I do think the Lakers

1:04:14

are dangerous and the

1:04:16

Lakers as opposed to when

1:04:19

we were talking about tough schedules the

1:04:22

Lakers have a tough one tonight

1:04:24

against Milwaukee that LeBron's probably

1:04:26

gonna miss after that

1:04:29

here's what the Lakers got Memphis

1:04:32

Pacers Brooklyn Toronto

1:04:35

Washington Cleveland

1:04:37

Minnesota Golden State

1:04:39

Memphis New Orleans so

1:04:42

Memphis Brooklyn Toronto Washington Memphis

1:04:44

that's five games you've got

1:04:46

to win could the

1:04:48

Lakers right now because

1:04:52

they want to get out of the nine spot they

1:04:56

let's say Phoenix is gonna go four and

1:04:59

six the rest of the way can

1:05:01

the Lakers go seven and three I think they

1:05:03

can and catch them all

1:05:05

right listen we're not gonna do

1:05:07

listener questions because we the show went too

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need to get a different pair this was

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