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  Speaker 1: So lot going on. We are back at it and
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  Speaker 1: I love this story. I absolutely love this story from Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: and it involves someone we talk a lot about on
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  Speaker 1: this show, and we talk talked about this person for
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  Speaker 1: many many years. We are in the doghouse with this
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  Speaker 1: sport because of this particular person. But we'll go to
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  Speaker 1: the locker room drama ol rama in the Delaware Valley.
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  Speaker 1: As we have learned through various reports that the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: Phillies YouTube kid, he was originally the YouTube kid. I
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  Speaker 1: remember seeing clips on the Internet of this guy when
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  Speaker 1: he was in high school in Vegas. But Bryce Harper
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  Speaker 1: stood nose to nows, belly to belly with the clown
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Rob Manfraud. Now this is
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  Speaker 1: during a meeting between the Commissioner of Major League Baseball,
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  Speaker 1: that would be Manfraud and the team last week. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't see this or hear about him. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you missed it. We're told that Bryce Harper ended up
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  Speaker 1: getting in the face of Rob Manford and telling him
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  Speaker 1: to get the f out. E's a Peter saf he said. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he did not say f he said the fun He's
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  Speaker 1: a grown up. He said the fault. We're on radio
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  Speaker 1: after I got kids F word. He said, get the
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  Speaker 1: f out of our clubhouse. He said, if Manford wanted
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the implication of a salary cap, ooh
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  Speaker 1: the boogeyman. Now that confrontation came in a meeting. We
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  Speaker 1: are told that the slimy commissioner of Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: is going around trying to improve communication relationships with every
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  Speaker 1: team and all the players. And the meeting lasted an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Must have been very boring. My god, must have that
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  Speaker 1: been boring? Anyway, they talked for an hour. Manford never
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  Speaker 1: said the words salary cap in quotes. He never said that.
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  Speaker 1: The discussion was about the economics. And that is what
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  Speaker 1: raised the dander of one Bryce Harper, who loves the
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  Speaker 1: Philly fanatic. And I love the Philly fanatics, so I
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  Speaker 1: have that in common with Bryce Harper. So let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question. Philly star a multi time MVP Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Harper going I the eye Mono a mono with Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: Rob Manford over the salary cap. Who's side of you on?
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  Speaker 1: I am in the side now, I'm gonna tell you
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  Speaker 1: who I think you know who's side I'm on. I've
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  Speaker 1: got dog whistle, art of the Covenant and sopranos, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll put all these things together and we are gonna
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  Speaker 1: make the gobba gool is what we're gonna make. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make the gobbagool all right, So hey, listen, I
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  Speaker 1: am on the side of truth, justice and the sports
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  Speaker 1: talk Way, Bryce Harper, Here we go, Pricee, here we go. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: come on now, I love it. I love the visual
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  Speaker 1: in the cartoon bubble over my head. It's great. That
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  Speaker 1: little clown weasel, your little weasel, Rob Manford, all right,
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  Speaker 1: little clown commissioner Major League Baseball. There he goes down
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  Speaker 1: sash chase his way into the Phillies Clubhouse, thinking, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go in there and blow smoke in
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  Speaker 1: that clubhouse and boom boom boom boom boom boom, nose
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  Speaker 1: to nose with Bryce Harper. So good, so good, Bravo
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  Speaker 1: Encore Encore. I say someone had to say, now I
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  Speaker 1: love that. It's Bryce Harper. Rice Harper doesn't need to
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  Speaker 1: do this. He's already got his money. He's already got
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  Speaker 1: the three hundred million dollar contract. Why is he what's
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  Speaker 1: he care? He got his right. Normally, the way this
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  Speaker 1: works is if you get the bag, you don't care
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  Speaker 1: about anyone else. You got yours. You don't go to
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  Speaker 1: each their own, screw everyone else. Right, you got paid.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Do you know how rare it is that
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  Speaker 1: someone gets that kind of wealth to play baseball and
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  Speaker 1: is still out there screaming and barking and saying, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're not doing a salarycap. Normally, you know this, When
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  Speaker 1: you get the bag, you stop caring about the other players.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone who understands basic math, by the way, not just
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  Speaker 1: Mallard mat basic math, understands the cap is cramp like.
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  Speaker 1: No one that knows economics wants the salary cap, and
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  Speaker 1: baseball is the worst thing in the world. Right, you're
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  Speaker 1: just announcing you're an idiot if you say I want
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  Speaker 1: a salary cap, I want the owners to make more money.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you're saying. You're moron, Your dummy is what
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  Speaker 1: you're saying. The salary cap talk is always a dog whistle,
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  Speaker 1: all right, It's a dog whistle for how can we
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  Speaker 1: keep salaries down from the ownership side, but yet convince
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  Speaker 1: dumb people, the fans, the idiots, that we're doing the
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  Speaker 1: right thing for competitive bounds. You realize, with no salary cap,
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  Speaker 1: baseball has more of a competitive bounce than any of
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  Speaker 1: those sports that have salary caps. Hello, what does that say?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: The teams that actually try end up winning have success
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  Speaker 1: in baseball. The problem is not the salary cap. The
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  Speaker 1: problem is the team tams that don't give a crap
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  Speaker 1: about winning. Sacramento or Sacramento of the A. Is that
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  Speaker 1: scumbag John Fisher, the Marlins in Miami, the Pirates, teams
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  Speaker 1: like that. That's the problem. You can win the Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Bay they don't spend any real money playing a minor
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  Speaker 1: league ballpark now because the hurricane took out of their stadium.
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  Speaker 1: And I know they're having the greatest year, but considering
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  Speaker 1: the amount of money they spend, they find ways. The
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers have been wonderful in recent years. A consistent
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  Speaker 1: playoff contender or playoff team over the last decade or
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  Speaker 1: so they don't spend a ton of money. It can
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  Speaker 1: be done right, and you're not. Really the issue is
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  Speaker 1: like teams that don't want to win, that's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the salarycap. The salary CAP's not going to
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  Speaker 1: fix anything in terms of well competitive bounds. You already
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  Speaker 1: have that right. And the dirty little secret in Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball is that you look around and you see
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  Speaker 1: that the teams that actually put an effort into it
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  Speaker 1: generally find some success. But you can make a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money and have a baseball team that is just
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  Speaker 1: a golden goose without even There's like seven people that
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  Speaker 1: go to Marlins games, and I know one of them,
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  Speaker 1: Marlin's man, and even he doesn't go to many Marlins games,
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  Speaker 1: and he lives in Miami, but he'd rather travel around
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  Speaker 1: the United States and see games in other stadiums that
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  Speaker 1: don't involve the Marlins because the Marlins blow. And yet
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  Speaker 1: the Marlins make money. And you know, the Athletics left Oakland.
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  Speaker 1: They made money in Oakland. Nobody went to the games
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  Speaker 1: in Oakland. Nobody's you know, the Sacramento a minor league ballpark,
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  Speaker 1: it's not anyone there. They're making money because you get
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  Speaker 1: the TV money, you get the national revenue, and in addition,
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  Speaker 1: you get the teams that spend a lot, like the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers and the Mets and teams like that. They cut
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  Speaker 1: your check for not even trying. Right, you can draw
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and seven thousand whatever, it doesn't matter. Put
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  Speaker 1: a crap product, garbage at first base, trash at second,
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  Speaker 1: feces at shortstop, and do do it third and you
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  Speaker 1: will make money. You will absolutely make money. And while
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  Speaker 1: teams that try to win, I think the Dodgers, the Mets,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees, teams like that, they have to pay a
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  Speaker 1: penalty for these other teams and then they just pocket
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  Speaker 1: the money. That's the dirty little secret in baseball. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Rob Manford. He's never going to address that. Why would he?
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  Speaker 1: All right, why would he?
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  Speaker 5: So?
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that Bryce Harper got right in
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  Speaker 1: the face of Rob Manford and just threw it down
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  Speaker 1: right and should have tossed him right out there on
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  Speaker 1: Broad Street is what he should have done. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: second page on this why is the salary cap chatter
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  Speaker 1: which is being cranked up. The labor negotiations will take
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  Speaker 1: place in twenty twenty six, so it's not that far
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  Speaker 1: away the end of the twenty twenty six season, which
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  Speaker 1: means they could be there could be a workstoppas prior
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  Speaker 1: to that, many in baseball are preparing for the nuclear winter.
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  Speaker 1: But why is this salarycab, the chatter in Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball ultimately a nothing burger. Let me explain this to
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  Speaker 1: you like you're five years old. The reason that this
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  Speaker 1: is a nothing burger. In order for there to be
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  Speaker 1: a seracab, you would have to have support of the players.
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  Speaker 1: There is not support of the players. But even if
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  Speaker 1: you could get support of the players, in order for
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  Speaker 1: this to realistically work, you would have to do something
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  Speaker 1: that you will not do. Something you cannot do, something
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  Speaker 1: that you will not do no matter what happens, you
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  Speaker 1: won't do it. And what is that? If you want
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  Speaker 1: to have an honest conversation about a salary cap in
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, the owners would have to open the bucks.
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  Speaker 1: They'd have to open the bucks, the bean counters. That's
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  Speaker 1: never gonna happen, never ever, ever, never. And here's why.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why, and most of us know this, they
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  Speaker 1: are every team in baseball is making a profit. Now,
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  Speaker 1: not every team makes a big profit, Not every team
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  Speaker 1: makes a big profit, but they're making money, boat loads
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  Speaker 1: of money in Major League Baseball. And these owners who
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  Speaker 1: are making money hand over fist while at the same
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  Speaker 1: time pretending like they're bleeding cash and morons. Oh, these
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  Speaker 1: poor teams are losing money. No they're not dummy, No
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  Speaker 1: they're not right. And the books are the holy grip.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard some stuff that I'm not allowed to say
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  Speaker 1: because I don't want to get in trouble with certain people.
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  Speaker 1: But I've heard things over the years involving the books
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  Speaker 1: and the lengths that Major League Baseball has gone to
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  Speaker 1: to make sure the financials don't get out. Some mind
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  Speaker 1: blowing things have passed through my head from people who
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  Speaker 1: work in baseball, the efforts that they have gone to
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  Speaker 1: avoid opening the books. Right, Like, imagine if you peeked
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  Speaker 1: inside John Fisher's financials and realized the Athletics didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to leave Oakland, he was making a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: He just wants to make more money, and so it's
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  Speaker 1: that whole thing. Right, You're more likely to see the
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  Speaker 1: arc of the covenant than you are the financials of
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  Speaker 1: these these owners that cry they don't have any money.
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  Speaker 1: They treat the financials in baseball like the nuclear launch codes. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they treat it like. And it is such
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  Speaker 1: a scam. It is such a scam. We need a
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  Speaker 1: cap for parody. We want to have every tream. How
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  Speaker 1: about chance to win. It reminds me of that used
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  Speaker 1: car salesman Bud Selik was going around in the early
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  Speaker 1: two thousands, in the nineties and saying, well, we need
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  Speaker 1: new stadiums in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, so we gonna have
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  Speaker 1: good teams on the field. These teams can win the
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  Speaker 1: World Series if they get those stadiums. They built new stadiums.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what, spoiler alert, The teams blow chunks in Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: and Cincinnati. Right, they suck And they were taught, all
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  Speaker 1: you need is a new stadium. This is the magic
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  Speaker 1: the magic pill. That's all you need, right, that's all
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  Speaker 1: you need. And so come on, it's nonsense. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have it. You don't have it right now. And yet
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  Speaker 1: more teams if you try, if the Reds and Pirates
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  Speaker 1: actually tried, they would actually find a way to make
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  Speaker 1: the postseason. And we know in baseball, just making the
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  Speaker 1: postseasons all you have to do. It's one of those
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  Speaker 1: things It's not like basketball where or even football, where
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  Speaker 1: if you're like a one or two seed, you have
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  Speaker 1: a very good chance of going to the NBA finals
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  Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl. In baseball, it doesn't work that way.
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  Speaker 1: But again, it all goes back. You're not going to
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  Speaker 1: open the books. So no matter how much you said,
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  Speaker 1: we need a show recap and you try to get
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  Speaker 1: the dumb fans behind it, morons, all right, people with
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  Speaker 1: IQ's below thirty, and you say, okay, it doesn't matter, right,
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  Speaker 1: they're sitting on gold mines, these owners and crying poverty. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't doubt that Scott Boris was behind this leak
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  Speaker 1: of the Bryce Harper story that Scott my opinion. Can't
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  Speaker 1: sue me for my opinion that Scott Boris and his
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  Speaker 1: team leaked that story, because why would Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: leak a story about rob Manford getting into a confrontation
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  Speaker 1: with one of the star players in baseball would never
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  Speaker 1: do that. So it had to come from Bryce Harper's camp,
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  Speaker 1: and Scott Morris is his guy. So it makes a
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  Speaker 1: lot of sense. But you look at everything. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they make so much money in baseball, owning the stadium,
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  Speaker 1: the parking lots. A lot of these teams have their
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  Speaker 1: own TV channels. They've monetized everything. Remember, I went to
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  Speaker 1: Wrigley Field when I was doing stuff in another life,
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  Speaker 1: when I did stuff with the Dodgers. We went there
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  Speaker 1: in the nineties, and it was still had the charm
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  Speaker 1: of the old Wrigley Field, the way it had always been.
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  Speaker 1: I went there a couple of years ago, and it
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  Speaker 1: was like downtown Disney. The Cubs had bought all the
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  Speaker 1: property around Wrigley Field, the Cub ownership, and they had
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  Speaker 1: put their own branding on everything and all that, and
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  Speaker 1: so it was a much different experience than it had
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  Speaker 1: been in the mom and pop days. Now final fun
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  Speaker 1: so after the Bryce Harper rob Manford confrontation took place.
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  Speaker 1: After that, a former big league player and now turned
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  Speaker 1: gas bag and shill for Major League Baseball, Mark de Rosa,
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  Speaker 1: who works for Major League Baseball. According to a story
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  Speaker 1: on The Athletic buried behind a paywall, the Old Gray
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  Speaker 1: Lady The New York Times owns The Athletic anyway, Mark
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  Speaker 1: de Rosa, I was reading this story earlier. I just
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  Speaker 1: saw it. So the story says that he warned Mark
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  Speaker 1: de Rosa warned the Philadelphia Phillies players of the commissioner's power.
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  Speaker 1: He warned them. Now, this was taken as a threat,
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  Speaker 1: according to the way the story was reported by Evan Drelik,
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  Speaker 1: who I briefly did a radio show with years ago.
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  Speaker 1: So is that how it sounds to you? Mark de
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  Speaker 1: ross According to this story, Mark de Rosa, who works
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  Speaker 1: for MLB, he warned the players that essentially they're messing
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  Speaker 1: with the wrong guy. You're messing with Rummanford. What are
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  Speaker 1: you doing? All right? So the answer to this, how
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  Speaker 1: does Yes, it sounds like a threat. I would absolutely
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  Speaker 1: take that as a threat. This is Sopranos style, is
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  Speaker 1: what it is. It's organized baseball crime. If you will.
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  Speaker 1: Manford is the mob boss. How long have we talked
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  Speaker 1: about Rob Manford essentially being a mob boss of organized baseball? Right?
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  Speaker 1: And there you've got Mark de Rosa. Where is he
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  Speaker 1: at here? So you've got Mark de Rosa, who played
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  Speaker 1: a Major League baseball career, now he works from Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball. He's the conciliary, right, He's the fixer, he's
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  Speaker 1: the whisper in this right, and he goes in there
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  Speaker 1: he delivers the message for the mob boss. Is what
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  Speaker 1: he does and he gets his hands dirty and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but not too dirty. Right, Let's not forget who we're
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  Speaker 1: dealing with here, all right, And what kind of power
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  Speaker 1: Rob Manford has. This is the same Rob Manford, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong, correct me, who shielded the cheating Astros after
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  Speaker 1: the biggest cheating scandal in modern times. A team cheated
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  Speaker 1: in the World Series, not just to get to the
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  Speaker 1: World chairs in the world. It was in the MLB
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  Speaker 1: video highlighting the World Series. And what did Rob Manford do?
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  Speaker 1: He let the players walk free? Altboove that punk Bregman
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  Speaker 1: Now with the Red Sox Springer, there's still a few left.
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  Speaker 1: He's in Toronto. I let them all walk free. And
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  Speaker 1: why is that? There's a theory that baseball needed the
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  Speaker 1: business partners in Houston to be happy, and they would
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  Speaker 1: have been upset if those guys had been suspended. There's
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  Speaker 1: one theory that's out there. So if Manford likes you,
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  Speaker 1: if he likes you, he'll protect you like family, just
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  Speaker 1: like a good mob movie, right, your family. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you cross him, what happens if you're crossing Let's see here, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I have an example. Trevor Bauer. Remember Trevor Bauer, Cy
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  Speaker 1: Young winning pitcher Trevor Bauer. Yeah, Trevor Bauer, who I
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  Speaker 1: think right now is sipping some saki in Japan rather
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  Speaker 1: than pitching in Major League Baseball. When starting pitching blows
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  Speaker 1: Rob Manford, commissioner. Now, technically Bauer is allowed back, but
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  Speaker 1: he Bauer did something you're not supposed to do. He
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  Speaker 1: trashed Trevor. Trevor r trashed Rob man for every chance
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  Speaker 1: he got. So now he's in Japan, he's pitching on
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  Speaker 1: dusty mounds in Mexico. He's probably trying to get a
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  Speaker 1: work visa to pitch in Afghanistan at this particular point.
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  Speaker 1: And that's because he messed with Rob Manford. No one
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  Speaker 1: will touch him because Manford don't want him in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: That's the theory, right, And so Manford plays favorites. And
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  Speaker 1: as far as this other guy de Rosa, he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: work for the players anymore. He's a former player. He's
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  Speaker 1: on the payroll for Major League Baseball. Right He's sitting
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  Speaker 1: there at the MLB Network commentating and apparently giving friendly
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  Speaker 1: warnings wink wink, nod nod, like he's reading some kind
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• 22:44
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  Speaker 1: Today is the twenty ninth. The trade deadline is a
• 22:51
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• 22:55
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• 22:59
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• 23:08
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• 23:14
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• 23:16
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• 23:23
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• 23:25
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• 23:28
  Speaker 1: trade deadlines. But this is not about that. We can
• 23:31
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• 23:35
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• 23:39
  Speaker 1: dinger of a story. The All Star closed, not this year,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: but in years past for the Cleveland Guardians. What a
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: dumb name that is? Manuel class A has been put
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: on time out by Major League Baseball for some funny
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: business turn If you believe the reporting, a class A
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: was placed on the non non disciplinary paid leave paid
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: leaf through August thirty, first part of the ongoing Major
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: League Baseball investigation into sports gambling. The plot thickens now
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: for Kimi's going home. The Cleveland Guardians lead Major League
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Baseball in gambling. Congratulations boys, wow, So he's the second
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Guardians pitcher to be caught in the ongoing investigation, which
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: who knows when this is going to end? The Cleveland
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: right hander, the great Luis Ortees so good you had
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: to look him up on Baseball Reference to find out
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: who he is. Anyway, he remains on the non disciplinary
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: paid leave naughty list now. He was originally placed there
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: at July third. That has been extended for orties as
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: well to August thirty first. Nowaday their statement vetted by
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: an army of lawyers. The Guardian said, among other things,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: no additional players or club personnel are expected to be
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: impacted by the investigation. Keep in mind, if you know
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: your weasel words, look at page seventeen of the Weasel Handbook,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and the word expected is a weasel term because you
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: never expect one of your player to get in trouble
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: with gambling. Why would you expect that you never expect
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: a trade to happen? They're unexpected, all right, So let
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: us discuss The question is as follows. Keep this simple,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: sports radio. So what is the most puzzling What is
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: the most puzzling thing about the Guardian's closer, Emmanuel class
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: A being dragged into the gambling web. So I've got
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: dance floor, Hansel and Gretel and Beg's and we will
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together for an original Malard monologue,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: which is as good as milk chocolate covered almonds. One
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: of my favorite snacks. When I don't eat much, but
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: when I do, I like to have a look a
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: few handful or so of those delicious milk chocolate covered almonds.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Manly good. All right, kurklum brain, by the way, I go,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: kurklam brain. All right? So number what number? Number?
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: This is not some flotsam and jetsam. This is this
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: is bigger, This is a bigger story here as a
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Yogi bear taught me. Not Yogi bear. Yogi bear taught me,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: you're supposed to be smarter than the average bear. Not
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: so much. We're not talking about some random middle relief
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: pitcher or some fourth or fifth starter. No, no, no,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: no no. At one point in recent years, if you
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: were to pull the executives in Major League Baseball, they
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: would say the top closer in the entire American league,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Emmanuel Classe, top guy in the American league. Right, and
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: if not all of baseball was an all star multiple times.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Covet it around baseball. Expected to be traded this week,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: not anymore, but was expected to be traded. The thing, though,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: that's the most puzzling, is the money factor. Now he's
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: not the highest paid relief pitcher in baseball. However, Class
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: A is on a twenty million dollar contract. So if
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: you get a twenty million dollar contract, you're living pretty
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: high on the hog. Most would say, right. And this
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: is the biggest name that has been caught up in
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: this to this point. And make no mistake, make no mistake,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: this is major League Baseball. They're hitting the dance floor.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: They're out on the dance floor. They're doing a little
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: dance with a devil, is what they're doing. They tore
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: and let me tell you something, Baseball at this point
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: is tore up from the floor up. If you know
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying here, they signed these deals and listen,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I again, I love gambling. I'm a gambler, but even
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I know you're you're messing with some really bad stuff here.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: How far in they've gone. They didn't just go a
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: little bit in. They just put their toe in the water.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: They are all in. Even I someone that bets, I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: do bet. I'm like Pete Rose, I bet on baseball.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Even I'm when I'm watching him blown away by the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: amount of advertising for the for gamming. Listen, I don't
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: mind it. I'm a little amazed that baseball is okay
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: with it. But here we are, and so they took
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the money. And again I'm fine with it. Last a
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: couple of years I did a gambling show, and for
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: years on the radio we did Benny versus the Pennies
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: on TV the last couple of years. But now, of
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: course Baseball, well they're shocked, they're absolutely shocked that players
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: are messing around with prop bets. Give me a break. Well,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: that's what this is about. So page two, So where
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: where did Emmanuel class cross the line with the guardians? See,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: this is the part of the story which is almost
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: unbelievable when you think about how you can track something
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: like this. Now, now we think we know how this
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: was uncovered, but we don't know these cifix We don't
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: know all the intricate details. However, we know that there
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: was a line that was tossed out, unusual betting activity
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: around multiple pitches involving Emmanuel Classe. So Internet sluice have
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: done some digging and they've investigated this, Wes, this doesn't
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: come from baseball. Internet investigators have found what they believe
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: is the smoking gun. What is that? All right? What
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: is the smoking gun? I'm glad you asked. So class
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: A has entered the ninth inning forty times this season,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: forty times. And you know what his waist pitch rate
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: is on first pitches, it's almost twenty percent. According to
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: stat cast, it's seventeen and a half percent. Well, who
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: cares about that, you're a nerd. Let me explain. So
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: seventeen and a half percent of the time Class A
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: comes in and throws garbage, a non competitive pitch, no
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: chance of being a strike, non competitive, not eyhere close
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: to the strike zone. And that is something that stands out.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, one of these things is not like the other.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: The rest of the pitches, the non competitive pitch rate
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: is like around five percent. The first pitch is close
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: to twenty percent, So you can do the mat. It's
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: like it stands out like glitter at a funeral. You
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: don't often see glitter at a funeral, right, and you
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: smell that it's not with the rocks cooking. That would
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: be in game live betting.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I don't do the in game live betting. I don't.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I just yeah, it's not. I think I have some
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: friends of mine that are really invested in in game
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: live betting, and they think I am a donkey for
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: not getting involved in it. They love it like they
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: love having action on multiple pitches or what a batter
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: is going to do a ground ball, fly ball. There's
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: all kinds of different props in game betting that you
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: can do, and if you're unfamiliar with it, if you're
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: not a game live betting has been around for you know, forever.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Now it's mainstream. But you can bet whether a pitch
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: is going to be a ball or a strike in
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: real time, in real time? Now, is it true that
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: the wise guys had inside information on the pattern from
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Emmanuel Class so when he came in out of a bullpen,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: they knew chut chang chut ching to ching. Free money,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: free money, free money, come on down, free money. Now,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: little Birdie tells me that may or may not have
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: inside information. There's a lot of blood at the crime scene,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying. Here a lot of blood.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: And now I'm in the in the old days, back
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: when the mob was involved in this kind of stuff.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Straight up, what they would do is it'd be a
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: phone call to Rodney Dangerfield, the old comedian would say
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Vinnie Boombots. So they'd call Vinnie Boombots and say, hey,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I'd like to bet on that first pitch being a
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: ball These days because of technology, what do you think
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: there is? You think there's text message chains, you think
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: there's social media change, you think there's Venmo transactions, burner
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: phones that aren't really burning, and all that. Major League
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Baseball and the sportsbooks. From what we're hearing, and who
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: knows if we're right, we're hearing that they have the receipts.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: And this again ties back to the original Toronto Raptor
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: player that got banned for life from the NBA because
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: he was futzing around with prop bets, and so they
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: fell down this rabbit hole. They follow the digital paper
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: trail like it's Hansel and Gretel and it's the cost
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: of doing business in Major League Baseball and who's next, Right,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: they let the genie out of the bottle and the
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: second they agreed to go down this avenue and so
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: paid leave pay leave means Major League Baseball is not
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: ready to completely drop the hammer, and they're likely trying
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to decide, like what is the punishment on this because
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: you're not it's this weird gray area, like you can
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: come in and proy a non competitive pitch if you're
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: a manual Class A and be really good. I mean,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: he's been one of the top pitchers in baseball. He's
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: not as good this year. But the argument could be
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: listening is it's not affecting the outcome of the game.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: You're not throwing the game. This is not the Chicago
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Black Sox back in the day. You're just throwing one pitch,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: but you're hurting the gambles. And we always know about gambling.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: They don't mind if you lose money in gambling. If
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: you win money, that's a problem. They'd all like, if
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: you win money, if you lose, they never investigate losers. No, no, no,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: they give you free steak dinners if you lose. If
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: you win, then they start snooping around. They put limits
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: on how much you can win. That's all. It's always men.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: That's all back in the old days. They just take
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: you under the casino with baseball bats and you know,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: so what's going on here. But we'll see how deep
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: the rabbit hole goes here, and we're not quite there yet.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: A Class A being on the list that is a
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: pretty large bombshell. It's a high leverage reliever. But again,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: he's not throwing games. The argument at this point from
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: what we've heard, is not that he's throwing games. He's
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: just throwing random prop bets. And you don't bet that
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: much on a prop bet. But if you think it
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: ends with the two Cleveland Guardian pitchers, I have some
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: beachfront property in beautiful Des Moines, Iowa. I would like
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: to sell you. Yeah, and my realtor there. I have
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: a couple of realtors. In the morning, they'll show you
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: around and the yeah, do a good job. Sure? Why not?
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you have not been paying attention major
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: League Baseball. They are in bed, and they're in bed
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: with the books, and now there are bed bugs starting
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: to bite. The bed bugs are out there biting right now.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Final point where to turn the page? Turn the page?
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Another melancholy goodbye, we go to Chicago. News came out
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: on Monday night. The news came out that Major League
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Baseball the Cubs announcing the Hall of Famer Ryan Sandberg dead.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Died on Monday, age of sixty five. So I want
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: to spend a couple of minutes talking about Ryan Sandberg.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: So what are what are your reflections on the Hall
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: of Famer remembered mostly for the Cubs, right It didn't
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: start with the Cubs. But you remember Ryan Sambery, So
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: what are your reflections on Ryan Sambury. So my memories
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: get I'm not a Cub fan, not a Cup fan,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: but my reflections on Ryan Sandberg. I will remember being
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: a child, a little boy, and turning on WGN, the superstation,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: and being taken to another world like I was, Oh
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: my god. That was back when this thing called cable
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: television was seen as an exotic thing. It's oh man,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: it's crazy. And you'd sit there and there on your
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: or your television was the Cub Baseball Chicago Cub Baseball
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: just appeared right there in your living room. And I
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: lived on the West Coast, so the Cubs games would
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: have to go pretty long, and in those days they did.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I mean these baseball games a go four hours. So
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I'd see the end of the Cub games. If I
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: went to school, if I ditch school, I'd watch the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: whole Cub game. I watched the whole Cub game. So
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: I'd sit there and watch. And it didn't matter where
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: you lived in those days. You didn't ask to watch
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: the Cubs. You likely were not a Cub fan. I wasn't,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: but there they were. You had the Cubs and then
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: you had the Braves on TBS, but you had the
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Cubs on WGN, and every afternoon you'd sit there. If
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: you love baseball growing up and being right in there,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: you'd watch it and you'd see the ivy on the
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: outfield walls at Wrigley, the lunatics and the bleachers. You'd
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: see Harry Carey in the booth with Steve Stone calling
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Cubs Baseballccasionally Harry would even be lucid. He was always sauced,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: always completely sauce, and he had just like this haze
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: of Budweiser. Even as a kid. I like that guy
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: looks drunk and then and then he had that it's
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: like the Beg song. The man in the middle of
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: all that was Ryan Samberg. He was the man in
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  Speaker 1: the middle, slim. He had the sleeves rolled up out
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  Speaker 1: there playing second base and just wasn't about the glitz
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  Speaker 1: and glamour and all that stuff. And he had the
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  Speaker 1: eye black smudged across his face and the cheek bones
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  Speaker 1: and he'd be standing out there at second base, digging
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  Speaker 1: in to the batter's box and hitting under the gap
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  Speaker 1: and was not flashing. I didn't stand out and to
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  Speaker 1: stand out from the crowd, didn't do the things like
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  Speaker 1: Ricky Henderson some of the other guys in that era did,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: But he didn't need to be Ryan Sanmdberg was efficient
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  Speaker 1: and he played a stoic stoic baseball for the for
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs there and fundamentals. Remember the Sandberg game against
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Souiter in nineteen eighty four, But that whole nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty four season for the Cubs, if you're old enough
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  Speaker 1: to remember, that was Cub That was the year of
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  Speaker 1: destiny for the Chicago Cubs until Leon Durham got involved.
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  Speaker 1: But it was the year of destiny for the Chicago Cubs.
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  Speaker 1: It just that was their time. They won the division.
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  Speaker 1: Sandberg was the MVP of that Cub team and for
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  Speaker 1: the first time any very long time, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was a generation. The Chicago Cubs at that point were
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  Speaker 1: not seen as lovable losers. The Chicago Cubs were contenders.
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  Speaker 1: This was going to be the year they were going
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  Speaker 1: to end the curse of the Billy Goat. And Sandberg
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  Speaker 1: was there, as we said, the man in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: He was quiet, he was study for the Chicago Cubs,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't all about the show biz. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know there's other players were better. Mike Schmidt. You
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  Speaker 1: think of the home runs, he had a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of flare to him, the craziest well, Ricky Henders. But
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  Speaker 1: in the National League, I guess Ozzie Smith doing the
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  Speaker 1: backflips the Wizard of Oz for the Cardinals. But Samberg
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  Speaker 1: was just always there. I remember as a kidd he
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  Speaker 1: what a bunch of gold gloves, and he won ten
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  Speaker 1: gold gloves and was an All Star a bunch of times.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know, maybe one who knows a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of All Star games, bunch of gold gloves, I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember the exact numbers. But he was always there and
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  Speaker 1: had big power and would steal bases, and in that era,
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  Speaker 1: normally he didn't have too much of those kind of
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  Speaker 1: players where they would do both, and so he did both.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: And that was a position in the nineteen eighties where
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  Speaker 1: you were supposed to slap singles if you were a
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  Speaker 1: second baseman and just turned double plays, that was it.
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  Speaker 1: And Sandberg be out there hitting home runs and stealing
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  Speaker 1: bases and doing all that. And then you got the
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  Speaker 1: name not Ryan Ryan, Ryn E, not r Y a n,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: and he was named after a legendary pitcher who was
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: before my time, who pitched for or the I think
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: it was the Cincinnati Reds named Ryan Dern, who was
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the original wild Thing. This guy throw really hard, he
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: wore coke bottled glasses, and nobody knew where the pitch
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  Speaker 1: was going. In fact, one of the iconic baseball characters
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  Speaker 1: was named and was not named after him, but was
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: honored with his legacy. That was Ricky wild Thing Vaughn
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  Speaker 1: in the movie Major League. They actually patterned that character
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: after Ryan Duran, who Ryan Sandberg was named after. And
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: we'd go on and play in the major leagues and
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. So dead at age sixty five, way
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: too young for Ryan Sandberg from cancer. So rest in peace,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Ryan Sandberg as he leaves this mortal coil. Another little
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: brick if you're around my age, another brick of your child.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: We have a lost hulkg and Ozzy Osbourne, the kid
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: from the Cosby Family. Now Samberg, I thought it was
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: only supposed to go in threes. We're getting more here,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: We're getting more than threes? Is it a six pack?
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  Speaker 6: Like?
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Where are we at on this? My god? Anyway, rest
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  Speaker 5: Grilled kupel with Matthew Stafford week to week with back problems.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: Sean McVay recently told reporters that he thinks Jimmy Garoppolo
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: is a starting quarterback. Yeah, Ben, Let's assume the worst
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: and say Jimmy G has to start a number of
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: games for the Rams. How much does that hurt their
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: chances at winning the NFC West.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Well, he has started seven games since the end of
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: the twenty two season for the Raiders, and you did
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: start one game for the Rams. Listen, the Rams are
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: supposed to be more of a defensive team so they
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: can get by in the regular season to ultimately get
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: where they want to go and get to the Super Bowl,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: win the NFC, which they were close to doing last year.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: They have very little chance with Garoppolo. Very little chance
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: with Jimmy G. The Prince Aladdin of the Great Garoppolo. Next.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: Billy Donovan has a losing record in five seasons with
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: the Bulls and has led them to the playoffs one time.
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: Yet the team just signed him to a multi year extension.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: Are you surprised by this?
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: No? And the rumor for a long time was that
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Donovan was going to go back to college, but they
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: college basketball is so effed up and so messed up
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: right now, he's changed his mind. The thing about the
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: bullzelt for a couple of years, they weren't even trying
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: to win. They were fielding non competitive teams, and Billy
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Donovan was coaching teams that they knew going into the year,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: we're going to be terrible. Miss I went with a
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: great college basketball coaches for the Florida Gators back and
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: the day. But he likes the NBA lifestyle. They like him.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: He's considered one of the least the mid mid tier
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: to a little bit better than that NBA coach. And
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: you know he's not going anyway. He's been there. He
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: was in Oklahoma City for five years now, he's been
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: in Chicago. He's been an NBA coach for ten years now,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: I believe, So he's not he's settled into that life. Next.
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: The Texas Rangers are in third place in the Al West,
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: but have been on a tear in July and they
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: actually have the second best run differential in all of
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: the American League. Ben eddin Arlington alluded to it last night. Yeah,
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: do you think the Rangers are being slept on?
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sleeping on the Rangers because they would
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: die if I slept on them. But no, the Rangers
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: are one of those teams in the American League. I
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: don't see anybody invincible. I don't even nationally for that matter.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: To me, it's wide open. Just getting the playoffs and
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: with Bruce Bochie one of the better managers in playoffs,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: they've got absolutely got shot. How do we do pass
• 43:27
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• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Jacob in Delaware, who do you want to partner up with? Jake?
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Have you got me?
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  Speaker 6: Or?
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Coop? Who do you want? You're a loser? And Jay
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, Jay, who do you want to partner up
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: with Jay? Okay, you ain't Loraina? Good, you don't want
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: to team up with Loraina?
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: I was practicing in the break.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: It's bad. It would be entertaining, but unfortunately I'm told
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: you have to play with me. We'd have you play
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: with Eddie, but the company whacked him, so he's not here.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. Here we go. One of
• 44:32
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• 44:33
  Speaker 5: This is the Lori Laughlin edition. She turned sixty one
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: years old today. The categories are the new Kids, Full House,
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  Speaker 5: Hudson Street, and Critical Mass. Jacob, which category do you want?
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Full House?
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Full House? All right? And Jay? How about you pull out?
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: Or do I pick a different one? Yeah?
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: Hudson Street, Critical Mass are the new Kids?
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  Speaker 1: Critical Mass? All right? Okay, go ahead, you're up well
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  Speaker 1: forty five seconds on the clock, right, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, forty five seconds. I need the first and last name, Jacob.
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  Speaker 5: These athletes have lots of children. Forty five seconds. Let's begin.
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  Speaker 5: Current wide receiver for the Dolphins. Yes, this guy was
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: the quarterback for the Rams when they won the Super
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  Speaker 5: Bowl in Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 1: Kurt Warner.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, this guy was the running back for those teams. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: this guy is the current head coach of Michigan basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Uh.
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  Speaker 5: This guy was an MVP for the Angels. His son
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: is now in the Toronto Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Uh, this guy had like fourteen children. He couldn't
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: even remember all their names. He was a cornerback for
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  Speaker 1: the Jets. Uarda Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: This guy has the NBA record for most assists in
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  Speaker 5: a game. He was also a head coach. All right,
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  Speaker 5: we're better.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: No, all right, all right, you didn't get by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Joant Howard no longer the coach of Michigan's No, he's.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and Scott Sky the all right, here we go,
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  Speaker 1: Jay forty, you picked the critical mass. These are big fatties, okay,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: people out of shape? Yes, you ready, Jay, first and
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: last name, all right. I came to the Lakers from
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  Speaker 1: the Mavericks in the trade this year, Luca don Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the big Diesel he's on TNT. Was with Kobe with
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: the Lakers. Yes, the Bambino for the Yankees. Yesh, he
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: just got in the Hall of Fame African American picture
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  Speaker 1: for the Yankees. Played with the Cleveland Indians as well. Yes,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: fat quarterback for the Raiders out of ls. You threw
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: the ball really far? Didn't watch film? Yes, fat running
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: back for the Green Bay Packers bowling ball guy in
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: the two thousands. Last name is like a girl's name. Okay.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: The panda for the Giants third baseman when they were
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: when they're winning the world panda.
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: That Eddie Lacy was the running back that you missed.
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: And Pablo Sandoval the panda.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: What's the score? Sixty? All right?
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: So you're back up, Jay and Ben? Do you want
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: the new kids or Hudson Street?
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Jay kid? All right? These athletes all won Rookie of
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: the Year. You know what that award is? Jay? Yes, sir, okay,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: let's go forty five second on o'clock. We're on our
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: way go. Current running back for the New Orleans Saints
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: right now. He got in a bar fight in Vegas
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: at a casino. Yes, Philadelphia, Philly Starr got into it
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  Speaker 1: with with the commissioner of Major League Baseball. We talked
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: about him. Yes, he won a championship with the Celtics,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: but he came over from the Oh no, that's what incorrect.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: He's currently playing for the Rockets. He starred with Golden State,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: played in Oklahoma City with the Sonics star forward well
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: catcher for the Giants when they won the World Series
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: all those years ago. Yes, Japanese pitcher for the Dodgers
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: in the nineties started a mania with the Well no
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: different first name, a white guy, three point shooter for
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: the Mia Yeah, you got it right, that's good, he
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: got it. All right, we'll give you a Dale Melmo
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: now it counts. Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 6: So he got three of them, right, he got Bryce Harper, Alvanning.
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: That's three seventy. All right, let's let's go Jacob. We've
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: got Hudson Street. These athletes were all born in New Jersey.
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: Are you ready? Let's begin. All right, he's in the
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: star for the Angels. He's like native to the playoffs.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Ones. Yes, this guy is a star on the Knicks.
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: Not Jalen Brunson, the other guy down. Yes, this guy
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: was a quarterback for the Ravens. He won a Super Bowl.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: But he's not that good. No more recently. Yes, uh,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: this guy's a running back for the Colts. Right now.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: He was a bonkers.
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: Yes, this guy was forward for the war years back
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: in the day.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: He shot a free throw underhanded?
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  Speaker 3: Is that enough?
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Did I get it? Lorena, I count it. Loreda, she
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: always even keeping score.
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Doing one job to keep scoring? Lorena I count.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: Then I win.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: If she didn't keep scoring, I won. That's a win
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: for us.