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Alley Oop: LYNX COACH CHERYL REEVE SUSPENDED, Minnesota Finals Hopes CRUSHED, Fever SHOCK the Aces
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Ding dong, the links are out. Ding dong the stud buzz, ah, are out of the playoffs. How we feeling, sis?
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I mean, I'm just so disappointed in a team that I thought had all the makings of a championship caliber team. The way they went out was embarrassing. You lose game two when you're up by 20 in the third quarter. That's just sick. You have multiple 13, 16 point leads in game four in an elimination game and you lose by five. We. You do not cover the four and a half, which is either neither here nor there. I wasn't really worried about that, but I kind of was. And, and Nafisa CER injured. Cheryl Reeve not there because she got suspended. The whole thing was a nightmare.
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Yeah, I, I got a question about the suspension of Cheryl Reeves. Like, what are we doing suspending her? I thought we was going to see like what, $33 fine, 45 fine. It's like what happened to the spirit of the rule. Kaylin Clark got fined $200. Shera gotta sit out a whole elimination game just because of what she did. Now what she said after the game was pretty harsh. And you can't necessarily question the establishment in that order, but I don't know, bro. What you think a suspension was necessary?
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Us suspension, Suspension during the playoffs when you know they're about to be in an elimination game. Has to be, has to be done only in the most severe circumstances.
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Yeah.
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Now, now, I don't know. She threatened to put mitts on the ref.
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Okay. Did she really threaten to put mitts on the ref?
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Had to be held back. She's cussing at the fans as she's leaving. Show this. She's, she's having to be held back. Djane is holding a towel to be like, no, nothing to see here. Do not show her. She says.
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That's the funniest one. The, the towel that's the funniest happen all weekend. Dijonay is trying to hold that towel. Like, boy, if you don't put that towel down, whoops. My bad for cussing. But look, do you remember Ja Morant? We didn't want the camera on him. And then the camera was. The other view was like, bro, we see you. That was hilarious.
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Crazy. And then dropped so many F bombs during the press conference, like, she forgot she was going inside of the Le Batard stream. Yeah. I mean, she didn't know she was gonna be on Peacock. So she ends up dropping the F bombs more than I did in last Friday's show. And. And you're calling the establishment, basically, that they're having a conspiracy because they want the league to be more physical, looking for ratings. Yeah, it's pretty severe. I don't think she should have been suspended, but I don't know what should get you suspended.
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Right. I feel like anything short of putting the powers on somebody. Let's see a final. Let's see her suspended for the first five games next year. But this was too important of a spot. Even though Fee was out. I think that Kayla McBride put forth such an effort, bruh. She went so crazy. Courtney, the team put up a great effort in the. In defeat. Salute to Mike. What's not Mike? Tebow the son. Tebow. Tebow. Son. Like, salute, man. They tried their best. Letitia Hyderman. Salute to all the. This was just a. A great series overall, man. From Kalia Copper to versus Courtney, from AT versus Fee to SATU versus the bridge. The bridge has spunk. I ain't know the bridge had that much fun. She was like, satu. Come here. Like, nah. Great series overall.
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Great series. Very physical series. Nate Tibbets. I thought at the end of the game, what will not be discussed is how many dang timeouts he called in a row. He was like, we're not dealing with this. As soon as we get the. Nope, nope. We're gonna set it up again. We're gonna get our offense going. This is too important for y' all to just be freestyling out here.
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Speaking of freestyling, the Indiana Fever right now, they are freestyling right now against the Aces and sir and ma' ams and days. It is working. I would have. I would have never thought that they would have got two to two versus the Aces. They putting them what now? In a deciding game. What is this? 5 pivotal championship on the line. Game 5. Are you impressed with what the fever are doing or are you let down with how the Aces are handling this.
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Pressure, I think I feel more impressed by the Fever. A team that has, like, pretty much nobody there in terms of the starters that were there in the beginning of the season. Djana Bonner Shop. She's now on the Mercury. Caitlin Clark's on the bench in street clothes. Sophie Cunningham on the bench in street clothes. Multiple players that filled in in street clothes. So the fact that they had the, like, ability to be resilient. And I tell you what, I said this to my friend when I was texting her. I said, I think Aaliyah Boston, if she wanted to, and they got her the ball like prime. Prime Shaq, she could go to the free throw line 20 times a game.
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Yeah. I mean, she could. They did. Asia did not like that, though. She post game, Asia was like, aaliyah said, I get a special whistle, but she got 13 free throws tonight. That question. I honestly, you just do your work. You got to do your work early and make it different. But Aaliyah did say, I have a special whistle. She shot 13 today. Yeah, yeah. She said, the last game I had a special whistle, which is cool. Do you like that type of discourse after the game from the players? Did she go too far? Was she spot on? Because after a defeat, it's always the most emotional moments. And she spoke, chose to speak out on that. What you thought about that part?
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And she spoke out. The Three Aces players had five fouls and said it was interesting. And. And then when Becky Hammond said, do you mean, she said, yes, I do. So I just think the W's kind of messy in post game pressers. Are they not messy?
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Right, right. And I feel like they. They have the right to be also a little messy right now, going around on the Internet. Chloe. Oh, Bibby, Sophie, Chloe, Bibby, Sophie and Caitlyn. Now, baby, this is a conspiracy now. And maybe we got to push a certain button when I go to conspiracy land, but it's not the greatest of looks that Courtney, Chloe and Sophie, they on the bench, front and center. Sid Airy, Damaris, they gotta have some damn seats. They gotta buy their own tickets to the game. Basically, damn near. Oh, and don't get me started on this. Just Chloe, girl, look, she apologized for this and for the listening audience. Chloe, Chloe posted a picture of a depiction of. Of her, Sophie and Caitlyn at the Atlanta Dream game getting confronted by the cop, telling them to move away. But the way she posted this picture, like it's a civil rights situation that happened. Like, girl, take it down. Salute for you to taking it down and for. For apologizing for how that seemed. But what you think about the. The seating arrangement situation? Can we get Arian in front and center on one of these games, or she got to keep buying her tickets.
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Bibby, big enough player to be there in street clothes on the bench. Harry McDonald was giving them buckets. I think we need to have some sort of production requirement in order to see if you can be a part of the bench mob. Not like it kind of just feels like so all the white girls get to sit on the bench next to.
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See what I'm saying. I'm glad you said it as a Caucasian person, because I. I can't be making those accusations. But I'm just saying it don't. It's not a great look. Indiana fever, keep doing your thing. Try to get these dogs. But let's get the looks of these situations a little better, because it don't. It just don't feel right seeing the sisters on the second row and not helping themselves.
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What you think before we move on, because it was a very resilient win. I thought Odyssey played really well. I thought, obviously Aaliyah played well, even though she's was throwing them both still. But if you post that and you say, I didn't know that there was any racial component to it, do you just. When you hear that, do you just let that slide, or do you think.
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Please, as someone who wants change in the world, I feel like sometimes we got to lend out a couple of extra ounces of patience to folks we want. Like before this year, like when folks used to talk about WNBA and then they wasn't really talking about it in a way that I would prefer. I'm glad you were talking about it, but here, let me bend your ear on how this would make more sense for you to talk about it in this way. So I'm. I'm gonna extend patience to her for not knowing, and so I hope she gets it better. But at the same time, we still got to point out the error and be like, yo, sis, eggs on your face right now. It ain't a good look. Take it down. Let's go ahead and give our sister some patience. She apologized. It better not happen again. Happen again, we on your ass. But right, Like. Like you say before we move on. Before that, Sophie was very vocal about them getting wins against the Aces. They like Aces ain't giving us no credit. Let's say what Aaliyah was in your ass or whatever she said Elena was. Was stopping you. Guarding you. I'm like, look, bro, I don't know how much credit you want from the other team in these scenarios, but I don't. I'm not used to the other team giving a damn about your credit during the playoff series.
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Yeah, you want. You want the Aces to be like, you know, credit to the Fever. They've played awesome basketball. Like, they've got multiple players in street clothes, and we didn't even think they would be here when they beat. When they beat the Atlanta Dream. We were shocked, Honestly. We're shocked that we're going back to Vegas for a Game five. So golf claps for the. No. Are you serious? Absolutely effing not. No, I'm not giving you credit. And also, stop hugging me when you're posting me up. Stop reverse hugging me when I get you off me. I get called for the foul, and then you. Oh, please, ref, pick me up. And I love Aaliyah Boston. She's a dog. But you're too good and too skilled.
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To be doing that exactly like Joel Embiid, bruh. Get your ass up, man. You're dominant. You're good enough to get up, bruh. Stop falling. Now look at you, out for falling on your damn hip too long. Moving on. What. What we got in the way of predictions? Because right now, the Phoenix Mercury have slain the dragon. They are waiting for an opponent in the finals. Is it going to be the Aces? Is it going to be the Fever? Do we know? Does it matter what you got, Juju?
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I don't. I don't. I don't know. I'm so scared. I think it's got to be the Aces, but I think it's got to be the Aces just based on championship pedigree.
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Yeah.
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Asia's gonna have a bajillion. The loud. The crowd is gonna be loud.
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It is.
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And they want that home court. They want to go to the finals. They don't want to do all this. They don't come this far just to come this far. But, man, it feels like it's the Mercury's time. Feels like another chip is on the way.
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It's so sad, too, because the Atlanta Dream beat the Mercury. We beat that. Like, we beat the dog stuff out of these folks. Sorry, Dylan. We beat the dog stuff out of these folks every time we played them this year, man. And to see them do this, you gotta take your hat off to em. I'm not gonna reminisce. It hurts a lot. Speaking of peak athletes, now is the part of the show where we Go to our peakest of peak athletes, Ms. Rebecca, in a segment we like to call Bro. We. Bro. Ms. Rebecca went D1. That's what people don't know. Don't. Don't tell them about it, Ms. Rebecca. Just tell them to Google you. Look, Google myself D1 on what D1. Look, you gotta Google. Do your Googles.
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I don't know if he's being serious or not, but 10,000 years ago, I did play D1 sports at Rutgers.
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I was. I was busy.
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She was one of them ones at Rutgers. I wanted to go to Rutgers when I was a little young one.
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She was at Rutgers exactly 10,000 years ago.
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I played field hockey and lacrosse.
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Yes, I played field hockey and I played lacrosse. I also worked for the Waste Management.
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Yeah, and we got rid of Sopranos. You know what I mean? Back in the day. Mama's. Mama's got it.
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And also, if you cross Ms. Rebecca, you sleep with the fishes. Neither here nor there. Welcome, Ms. Rebecca, to a segment we like to call. Boy, stop. Take it away, Ms. Rebecca.
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All right, I got a video for you which is very, you know, let's call it. The Hunger Games has come to the wnba, right?
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Hunger Games, yes.
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And I do not volunteer as tribute the Mockingjay.
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Mocking J Head Ass.
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Because everybody's broken.
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Oh, there we go. Scooter gang. Scooter gang.
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Right. That's sad as hell, man. Ah, damn dj.
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Show that again. Show me that DJ clip again. Or scooting by. No, she. She was coasting. You could tell that leg had just. You know when you have a skateboard and you kick hard and just shoot you forward. That's what she's doing. Sophie was so. I feel like Fee was really in good spirits for being on a scooter. I would be mad as hell missing the mvp. I missed those last two games of the year because I wanted us to be ready for a championship run. Asia gets it over me, and then now I'm on a scooter. Can't even play in an elimination game after. After Alyssa Thomas took my knee out. That was a foul.
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Exactly. It was a foul. And like you say, I. I would be so upset, I would be so mad that I probably would have skipped the game. Salute the FIFA even coming to the game, being out there, man, I would have watched that thing from my hotel room. But Dijonay right behind us. She riding by like, what's the song? All my friends by the damn scooter with the beanie on low. Like, salute to Fee and DJ name. But Fee Fee already got her eyes on that damn unrivaled check. That's coming in very swiftly.
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Yeah, she's getting ready to cheer on Melissa Smith in the finals. That's what she's getting ready to do.
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Ms. Rebecca Westnets.
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All right, I got one more for you that I think we should talk about. So I just. I really need your thoughts on Cheryl Reeve literally yelling at the fan. I mean, she really looks like she gonna take her out right here. Like, she really looks. She really goes after this fan. Here. I'm gonna play this for you right here.
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Hold on. You know, it's hilarious. Ms. Rebecca. When I was watching Ms. Cheryl go crazy, I was like, who does she remind me of? Right? I was. And I thought of Mr. Beckham. Like, wait a second. Are you some candid Ms. Cheryl? Because I would be damned. How the resemblance.
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How out of your mind do you have to be? I think the guy touched your shoulder. I think that's what happened is the fan touched your shoulder. Like, you're all right. Look at him touch your. Yeah. What are you doing touching my shoulder? Touch your shoulder. Don't. Yo, get off me. Come on. You get off me, too.
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And I just. This is my favorite part right here. Every women's sports team needs a good lesbian security guard. Right there.
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You're out. You're out over it.
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You gotta go right now. You're getting a butch. Yeah. Get out of here. You go.
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Go, bruh. Ms. Cheryl was doing Will Ferrell Levels of frustration.
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You can't.
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I'm in a gas of confusion. Don't look at me. You look at me. Who do you think you are? I am. She was mad as hell. I ain't never seen somebody that mad on the court, bro. Like I say, bro, DJ name. You are the star of the year for putting that damn towel up so we couldn't see. Mr. Boy instantly switched to the next angle. Also, we got breaking news. We never have breaking news on the show. Right now we got breaking news. Anthony Davis says that he must wear protective eyewear for the rest of his career, following a mandate from his doctor. Breaking news. Like, the brow is now the goggles.
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The unicorn.
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Will that affect him at all?
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Will he put like one of those glass. What's he gonna do? Cuz it needs to be goggles, right? That's the only thing right do right.
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Well, maybe he wears the Alicia gray goggles. You dig? Like kind of. Kind of slick, but kind of goofy, you know?
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It's gonna change his entire career arc on Getty because you're gonna see photos of Anthony Davis for the rest of his career with those Buck, what was it? Kevin Duckworth goggles. Those Buck Williams goggles. That's who it was. It was Buck Williams back in the day. That's. I didn't know that the skin of paper, bones of glass translated to the cornea. You know what I mean? Like, I didn't know that every square inch of his body was fragile.
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Okay, here we are. I always thought that Anthony Davis looked like Kareem Abdul Jabbar. This adds on to the legends. The legend, the legacy, whatever. What am I saying? Moving on.
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It's a Tuesday. What a show, right?
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Exactly. What a show.
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Man, you never gave your prediction.
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Oh, my prediction is now. At this point, I think the Mercury gonna handle business. Man, they done been through the fire that first round. They had to go through New York. I mean, excuse me, Stew York and that. That's not an easy task. Right. They went through the Links, the number one team, the best team, even without fee. You see what Caleb McBride can do. They did that and now they gonna sit here finna wait for the links. I mean, not the links. The Aces and the Fever. I think it might be quick work.
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I have a question. Is the. If the Mercury win the title, is it the most impressive. Impressive. Is it the most impressive title run in the last five years?
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If they get the Aces? Yes.
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Yes.
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If they have to get the Fever.
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Links, you have the defending champ, the number one seed, and the player with four MVPs and multiple championships.
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17 straight wins.
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And 17 straight wins. That's the hardest road that you could get to to win a championship.
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Absolutely. Absolutely. 100. Besides how the heart the road. That was for the Links. Last year they had to beat the New York Liberty and the three referees on the court. That was a hard path, but they didn't get it done.
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So would you take Satu to win Finals MVP at 14:1, yes or no?
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Absolutely not. I'm taking. I'm taking 18, no matter what.
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Taking 18 no matter what.
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Yeah.
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Plus 140 the odds.
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Plus 140. Right. Because she balling.
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She ballin'. She's. She's doing a lot more than ballin'. She's getting very physical. She's doing some other extracurriculars off the court. She's a very spicy player. Juju.
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Yeah, I don't give a damn. I wanted to get to one more video before we got out of here. I have never seen a field storm this damn fast. I know we had the Alley. Ooh. But we got to talk about history, man. The history books right now. No one has ever stormed the field faster than the Virginia football situation. They got the win the other day over Florida State. Look at this catch. What if it was a flag? What if it was holding?
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He. I think they ran over the player. Look at that. The player touches the ball right there. He's still on the field. He just got smashed. He. Is he okay, bro?
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I think my boy is still in the end zone. Like one of them chalk outlines. Chalk outline still on the ground.
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He's still. Oh, he just. No, he just has. Hasn't gotten up yet. Nope.
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What do you think about this field storming? What's your opinion on field storming?
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Well, Juju, I feel like you're asking me this as a setup.
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I'm asking your opinion on Virginia's field storming.
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I like. I like field storming. I think it was good. Why are you asking me?
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Of course you like Phil storming. Ms. Rebecca. Let's see some more fans. We're celebrating that team after their epic win this weekend, Oregon versus Penn State. We had another field storming that didn't go to too popular on Sports center, but it was popular in my household. Roll the tape, Ms. Rebecca, once you can get it. Wait, look at this joker. Look at this joker storming the field, running over football players. She don't give a damn. Look at that look in her eyes. She is possessed. Look at this joke. How does it feel to storm the field and all white out in Penn State by your damn.
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Incredible. No, listen, it was just me. It was literally just me and the rest of the team. As you can see, I hugged the athletic director. Where is he? There he is, the ad right there. That's Matt Renoir, the ad for Oregon. People said that I had a hard time going 15, 20 yards and my cardio needs to be up. But do you know how hard it is to scream full speed and sprint around? It's not easy.
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It's also the opening to Blair Witch Project is what this looks like, right?
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Look, they got that picture right there outside of the stadium. Have you seen this lady worn out for Rs500.
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Oh, my God. Yeah, we started a little let's go Ducks chant as well at the on the end zone. All the fans that were there by the. By the gate. We got him to go. Let's go Ducks. Let's go Ducks. And then I dropped all my stuff out of my bag, my sunglasses, my wallet, my AirPods, the microphone, everything. But guess what? I did not care. I would have. I would have given it all up for a duck win. Such a tremendous time. That's why I'm in Pittsburgh right now. I drove from Pittsburgh to Happy Valley is two and a half hours. Stayed in Clearview, another two and a half hours away from Happy Valley. I did the Lord's work for that storm field Field store.
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Nice. It always makes me happy.
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Did it make it on that did not make it on Sports Center.
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No, I said Sports center ain't covering this field storm and they should be covering this one because that's the most epic field storm versus a one person storming the field. Look at the contract. But like I say, it always made me happy to see my sister happy and thrive and living life, man. Keep killing their ass. And thank y' all for listening.
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We had some alley oop listeners in the chat, so shout out to y'.
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All. Yes, sir. Shout out to everybody, man. Thank y' all for listening. Ms. Rebecca, Mr. Dylan, my boy. Thank you for your service as well. Every week, man. Catch us next time. This Thursday, this Friday, lock in Julian.
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