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New technology is ruining the art of slacking off in professional sports

[Easy] dealt with something that I realized during this show, I would absolutely hate about being a professional athlete, which is every practice, every rep is videotaped. I think technology's it's ruining the art of slacking off.

Subjective observation about the impact of film on player work ethic.

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Aug 24, 2022
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Hard Knocks episode three is when you realize you're just ready for real football

That feeling of Hard Knocks episode one is one of the best feelings in the calendar because you're like, we want football. And then you get to episode three and you're like, okay, I wanna play real games.

This is a subjective sentiment about the sports calendar.
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Aug 24, 2022
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The Brooklyn Nets will be a top 4 team in the East if Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving play

I don't know if they'll want, but they were like before Kevin Durant got hurt, they were the one seed last year. I think if Kyrie and Kevin Durant and that's a big if play, they will be a top I don't know what we call it, three, four, four team in the East.

The Nets finished as the 6th seed in the 2022-23 season after a mid-season blow-up where both stars were traded.
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Kevin Durant's staying in Brooklyn signals the end of extreme player empowerment

I just feel like the way that this whole thing went down, it's gonna wake up a lot of different GMs and owners around the league where it's like, oh yeah, you don't actually have to trade somebody just because they ask you to. I think this is like one of those course correction things where the pendulum is gonna swing back away from player empowerment.

While it seemed that way in August, Durant successfully forced a trade to the Suns just months later in February 2023.

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The Rays are playing an exciting brand of baseball

It's a very, very exciting brand of baseball. And I'm gonna miss it when it's over. So I did not wanna sweep, so thank you.

This is a subjective assessment of style and cannot be definitively judged.
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The Cowboys are a bad football team

The Cowboys are a bad football team. And I can't wait for people to start to say like, this is when, look at the schedule. Dallas is gonna put some wins together.

The quality of a team is partly evaluative, though the season's playoff result could test the narrower claim that Dallas is not a serious championship threat.
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Performance-enhancing drug shortages may explain dominant teams falling off

There started to be severe, severe supply chain issues when it came to performance enhancing drugs and peptide shipments coming to the United States. I just think it's interesting.

This speculative causal theory is not established by the transcript or otherwise verifiable from the available context.