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00:00let's get to this i actually want to play a piece of sound three different hosts had
00:04almost the identical opinion within the last 24 hours about what the duration of lebron's
00:12decision means for their personal interest and their reaction when he finally does make an
00:18announcement here are those three hosts in a cut up i am not waiting on pins and needles the way
00:23i
00:23was i am not sitting here just wanting that type of information needing that type of information
00:29it's like i'm going to be less excited about lebron being here because of this i'm running out of steam
00:33on the caring about where he's going to play we got football practices coming up here we got
00:39baseball that's back in full swing after the all-star break like let's go you can only care
00:44about these things for so long before you go okay either make your decision or you don't like i do
00:49think there is a law of diminishing returns here and he's flirting with not striking while the iron's
00:53hot so you're on camera so no actually i like this okay so the idea here is that if lebron
01:01makes
01:02his decision today they're going to be less excited than if he had made the same decision two weeks ago
01:08your thoughts on that general opinion by three separate hosts on this station if he makes the
01:14decision to come back to cleveland everyone is going to be elated thrilled excited and it's going
01:24to be the same amount as if it took a week for the decision to happen we didn't know how
01:28long this was
01:29going to take i don't think any of us thought it would be this long but guess what he's lebron
01:35james
01:37and he's no stranger to the spotlight he loves the spotlight and why wouldn't he by the way that
01:43spotlight that he owns he doesn't own it that much longer not another five years of owning the
01:49spotlight probably not another three years of owning the spotlight yes does he owe anyone an apology i
01:56guess i guess we all the people out there are like he owes us an apology because we have to
02:01wait and
02:01it's really affecting our lives how is it really we're just waiting it's a topic it's an interesting
02:07topic to talk about i'm not losing sleep over this but am i going to be less excited if he
02:12announces
02:12that he comes back to cleveland today or next week are you kidding me child please child it's lebron james
02:23and whenever he announces if he announces that he is coming back to cleveland ohio the timing of it
02:30doesn't matter it's the fact is he announced he was coming to this back to this town for the storybook
02:38ending i think it's easy to get frustrated right now but this is like when you're at a restaurant
02:43that you really really like and you order a steak and the restaurant service is backed up
02:51and you're sitting there and you are starting to get frustrated in that moment but this is like saying
02:57that then when the steak finally does arrive and you know one thing when that steak arrives it arrives
03:02and it is always good because you've been going to this restaurant for 20 years you're telling me
03:07that you're going to start disliking the taste of that steak that you've always left no you waited for
03:13it we are talking about it every single day i'm sorry for my reaction to that all of that sound
03:20but i'm
03:20i apologize for saying this you're telling me that charting passes in berea is more interesting than
03:27this decision you know i'll do you one better it's like if you want a burger bet and you've been
03:32waiting you've been waiting to be paid off on that burger months for that and you can almost taste the
03:36burger it doesn't matter when the burger gets paid off you just want that burger bet and then you see
03:40that person that good point that lost the burger bet to you that is a good point for the i
03:45mean for
03:45four months now five months six months now he was coming with a burger today i don't know why i
03:51was
03:51convinced that he was coming with a burger i but i was i was convinced he was coming with a
03:54burger
03:54yeah i can taste the irony can't you if the traffic yes i yes yes and will the burger taste
04:00any differently when you do finally get it a sweet sweet burger i will enjoy that burger whenever i do
04:06or don't get it where did you two stand with all of this no we're right where you are yeah
04:09yeah right
04:10where you are uh and kind of shocked and it's it's kind of been a weird thing over the past
04:1324 hours
04:14with the station that that many people on the station would be upset by lebron taking his time now
04:19what i like about this though is that when i i believe i said something akin to that these
04:25opinions were complete and utter buffoonery got some cold shoulders the last 24 hours if we're being
04:30if we're being real clear about it i feel like now that you've said it well now it's on you
04:35dog
04:35well i don't i'm look i think all of the people who made those opinions i respect them very much
04:40kisses sorry you did have the video on we saw what you were doing when ken was making his comments
04:45it's nothing against uh those human beings it's my reaction to their arguments oh we are waiting
04:54with yes yes we have waited for with bated breath for 23 days for him to make a decision and
05:01that is
05:01because you know that if you get lebron james you can win a championship if you do not have lebron
05:07james you cannot you're not you're not wrong this team cannot win a championship without him you're
05:13not wrong i'm not saying that that that as currently constituted right as current as as they are
05:18currently uh excuse me well they're also kind of out of moves too though i mean what are you gonna
05:22do
05:22trade for coming after this and then tell everyone it's different and they're not the only ones you
05:26know there's other teams here that are waiting on on him and there are other teams that if let's just
05:30say he comes to cleveland miami's in a difficult spot i mean i i still to me the this miami
05:37buzz the buzz of last night like okay so he reunites with pat riley and he goes to miami
05:44so i'm trying i think about this number one uh it it's it's interesting him and yannis
05:51but they're really good friends and that's great but they don't have the shooters lebron trains
05:56he trains with him in greece yeah but i but if lebron's not i think a lot of people are
06:00going to
06:01throw a one-year silo if lebron and rich paul is insinuated this is not just one year if this
06:05is two
06:05years and you're going to give uh you're going to give spoh and riley two years to basically figure
06:11it out well i mean you you cover the nba john you know that's a good bet like they're they're
06:17going to sit on their hands and just say all right we don't have shooting we're not going to be
06:19able
06:19to we're not going to make any moves like like you give them you give them a two-year runway
06:22they're
06:23going to do they're going to make changes but they go and get lebron james you are you taking them
06:28over the next yeah no not instantly no by the time the calves are no the heat not instantly no
06:35not instantly like are the heat the heat are third in the east right i think that's probably i think
06:41that's probably fair yeah but this is this goes back to it like when people talk about basketball
06:47situations but this is why rich paul though this is why he said don't worry about it the paper right
06:52now we'll look at the paper in february and again if you give yourself lebron with more than just a
06:55one-year runway you give him a two-year runway then it might not be about this next year winning
07:00a title it's setting everything up for year two in miami to win a title but in that instance you're
07:05you're not in a horrible spot but is rich paul not bluffed before of course he has he not has
07:09he
07:09not said this is what we're doing this is what we're doing this is what we're doing and then the
07:13letter drops of the letter drops of the letter drops of cleveland ohio i was courtside a few years
07:20back i came back for a playoff game and what i experienced is what i remembered and
07:25what i remembered is that you're home you have always been home and you always be my home
07:30and so it is only fitting that i lebron james returned to that house and that you jeff phelps
07:37are excited i don't think that's i think you paraphrased it there at the end but for a minute
07:41it was like sir ian mcclellan reading shakespeare it was just it was that it was poetic i'm heading
07:46to the ballpark shortly and i i cannot wait now tonight i mean i was already excited but the fact
07:52that j ram is back do you think that they uh announced him coming back simply because you're
07:56in town they're like listen we're gonna wait another couple days no but we had to do it for
08:01for our guy john no no he was ready he's i think he's been gearing up he's been been reloading
08:07and
08:08what do we say they had to stay afloat while he was out and they hung in and went exactly
08:15500
08:16while he was out they have stayed afloat and sunday was the best thing that could happen to
08:21this team sunday was the day we will look back on because they played their worst game of the season
08:27in terms of mistakes and i think the manager had a message the last two nights has been what this
08:32team needs to do i'm not saying 13 runs but i thought last night adding on late this team
08:39should win the american league central division and now with the most valuable player back in that
08:45division at the very least if not all the american league i think they get it done well and something
08:49we've debated because i i look at the first six guys if you're healthy and you're going kwan hosie
08:55de lauder angel bazana and rocchio it's not the dodgers but it's the it like one through six that's
09:02going to be the best guardians lineup i've seen since 2017 2018 maybe well still though giving out three
09:08outs well still seven eight nine is going to be three guys that probably aren't going to do that much
09:12maybe but bailey and hedges have both have both combined to be better yeah you're also expecting
09:17that to continue too though that's the hard part of that i think a lot of people yes hedges now
09:21i
09:21mean the hedges thing is going to have to come back down to earth i i still wonder if the
09:24rocchio
09:24thing is going to come back down to earth at some point i think people penciled in for a final
09:2860 i
09:29don't know that we are uh i don't know what to do with manzardo we've had the worst offense in
09:33the
09:33game in many statistical categories like they have to look markedly better offensively than what they did
09:38for the first 100 but you think about the fact that we're talking about all those different things
09:43offensively and i don't disagree that the offense has left things to be desired at times but they're
09:4754 and 48 there's there's six over and they play the easiest schedule remaining in baseball and they
09:54haven't really played consistently good baseball from any facet of the game outside of like 40 games
09:59from the rotation at the start of the season well that's why they got a lot of things working for
10:03them including the american league not being as good what what i will be very interested in
10:08with this ball club i was thinking about this in 2016 when they made their run and they made their
10:13run who'd they beat they got past the red sox it was the red sox blue jays who had struggled
10:18they
10:18stumbled their way in the postseason if you remember that that that indians team was able to get home
10:22field advantage in that alds because of the way that things finished out between the red sox struggled
10:28the indians had had won a bunch late in the season to get home field then they come off that
10:33and
10:33they get a blue jays team that that was beatable once that once they got past the red sox my
10:38point
10:38is that run in 2016 they started that red sox series short-handed i was starting pitching they
10:47had a couple of guys out there's a there's a reason why he said he would jump in the lake
10:51if they ended
10:51up going to the world series because the pitching wasn't supposed to be anything right but this this
10:55team this offense can only go in one direction and i think the pitching has found a nice groove
11:02and could still kick it up another gear like i want to see if gavin williams can still accelerate
11:09this season the just when i think it's going to happen then he has a hiccup messick's nasty i mean
11:14how confident are you he's great to be able to hand him the ball in a game one that totally
11:20changes
11:21my mindset with this club have you but have you been hurt by gavin at all lately the amount of
11:26home runs he's been allowing the lack of quality starts i mean he's been it's been more up and down
11:31than i think a lot of people want to admit and the pitching has been something we've been relying
11:34on in the first hundred games i don't disagree with that and i think that that's that's a very
11:38real situation for this team is what they do in a game too i mean right now would you go
11:43byby
11:43no i'd still go gavin because of the stuff i think i think listen like i listen it's becoming
11:49more and more debatable though if gavin williams had messick's mindset gavin williams would be one
11:53of the two best pitchers in baseball i don't think it'd be close right i agree with i agree with
11:57that
11:58but i also think byby also is missing something there too like i i think i think both byby and
12:04and
12:04williams have a better claim on pure stuff to be the ace of the staff and i think the reason
12:09they
12:09aren't is because of what messick has and they don't run support also helps i mean let's be real
12:15definitely the other night the moment that they start to and i know that that was their best output
12:19of the season but you just think like we get all ramped up when a pitcher gives up two two
12:26runs in the
12:26first three or four innings this is major league baseball these things can happen but for this team
12:32that's just it their lineup we have yet to see this full lineup together and in
12:39rhythm and that's why i'm optimistic that's why i'm optimistic i think i'm turning you
12:44what do you mean no nick's optimistic oh no i'm like i i think they're making a run i think
12:50they're
12:50going to agree and not just that i think if they add the right bat right-handed power would be
12:55nice
12:56and and probably another arm probably a left-handed multi-inning or at least high leverage guy
13:01i think they could actually be a interesting team in the world series i've not seen this team have
13:08seven good hitters since 2016 and 2017 and where i'm at john i'm a little bit more pessimistic on
13:14it and not that i don't think they'll have a run they'll have a run turn him the american league
13:17is
13:18there you're going to have a chance to be in the playoffs i just don't think you have the at
13:21-bats
13:21to make a deep playoff run it's hard for it's hard for me to put your 30th in slugging percentage
13:26your 29th and run scored like it's yes there's 56 58 games there's six games there's six games over
13:31500 they've been able to do this with one of the it's one of the worst offenses in the sport
13:36it's
13:36incredible that they're able to be six games over 500 with that they're actually that bad because i
13:41don't know and it's it's a lot for let these kids get into a rhythm let them well we have
13:47a limited
13:48sample size and we have seen real flashes from delauder and now bizana and oh by the way
13:55well bizana's my guy john you gotta know that bizana's my guy the steven kwan we've seen the
13:59last two and a half three weeks if that guy's showing up in the in the back stretch of the
14:03season that that adds a different dimension to the lineup that's like someone's ready to have
14:07the conversation okay so so all right so no i don't want to rain on everyone's parade here
14:12but like you're doing a pretty good job of that let's say let's say kwan uh i don't know
14:17that we're penciling in kwan to be what he was over the previous 20 days is just going to be
14:21fact
14:22but like you have rain mac when jay ram went on the uh on the il it's not as if
14:27he was tearing the
14:27cover off the ball people assume it's going to go back to the old form of jay ram i don't
14:31know
14:31that that's necessarily true we're gonna have some peaks and valleys and ups and downs we've seen
14:35delauder take stretches where he just absolutely stinks we've seen bizana go up and down as well like
14:40i think everyone's looking at everyone at the at their apex and the absolute height of what they
14:45could be as a baseball player and that's nice that's great but we're not going to get that for
14:48the next 65 games we're going to get like three guys that play really good and three guys that
14:53kind of struggle at any given time
14:58what sound are you making right now what are you doing this is the national weather service
15:03with a peterson emergency warning jonathan peterson jonathan jan peterson
15:09it's the national weather service with a peterlin emergency warning jonathan peterson is raining on
15:14every parade there we go there we go this is what you do hey no that's fine that's fine when
15:19normally we agree when i'm by phone usually we do usually it's just now that you look at each
15:23other in the eyes little vinegar strokes here now we can't get on the same page how long do we
15:27have
15:27until you're play that again you haven't even answered for minzardo yeah john i don't have one guy
15:33you're basing your whole thing on one guy is that one guy you haven't gave me a seven eight nine
15:37well
15:38also then giving yourself i gave you the one through six and you're getting you gave yourself
15:41the one through six ever you gave yourself the one it's kwan being great is it good for three weeks
15:45this is what i wanted i forgot the four previous years i appreciate you instigating oh now you're
15:50into kwan i'm i'm having the kwanversation stop yourself there are so many ways that this this
15:56this team that is 30th and runs will show you they can be i don't know maybe 25th and runs
16:02and
16:02that's going to be enough how much time until you break that's going to be about three minutes
16:05ago minus 30 seconds yeah uh with training camp starting next week i am here to to say uh that
16:14my gut is telling me that watson is the week one starter can you ask your gut for a second
16:22opinion
16:22yeah yeah i would like to maybe ask like your left foot it has like eight opinions so i i
16:27can ask and
16:28see i'm not saying that that's what i i heard the morning show bring this up i'm not saying that
16:33that's necessarily what i what i would do yeah it's just what you think is going to happen it's what
16:38i'm sensing going into camp is what you two are sensing what i'm sensing is that you did a hell
16:43of
16:43a job you're doing a hell of a job uh congrats on the broadcast and camp everyone's telling me a
16:48hit
16:48you're everyone but we appreciate you buddy it's great to see you and we'll get that burger the next time
16:54thank you and our kids are going to be at progressive field tomorrow so if anyone's around
16:58the game please say hello thank you to the guardians for hosting our 77 campers and their families
17:04tomorrow we appreciate it
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