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Hour 2 - Back in the Saddle · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Holy cow, it's our name bird too. You can go
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Speaker 1: home again. Justin Verlander headed back to Detroit, the longtime
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Speaker 1: starting pitcher in his mid forties. Now we'll play another
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Speaker 1: season in Motown, going back to the team that he
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Speaker 1: spent most of his career with. So Verlander or corner
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Speaker 1: reports will be very valuable as a pitcher in his
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Speaker 1: return to the Tigers. Are you writing the Verlander hype train?
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Speaker 2: True? True? Or waiting for the next train? Let'scuss that.
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Speaker 1: Also, fancy a thought on the Mets possibly starting the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six regular season without Francisco Lindoor.
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Speaker 2: As he's got an injury and.
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Speaker 1: Juan Soto has been demoted by the Mets. He asked
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Speaker 1: for a demotion. We'll talk about that. And how do
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Speaker 1: you view Chris Bryant? What a scam this guy's pulled off.
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Speaker 1: He's going back on the injured list one hundred and
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Speaker 1: eighty two million dollars?
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Speaker 2: How's that?
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Speaker 1: Are I going for the Rockies on Chris Bryant will
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Speaker 1: go there as well?
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Speaker 2: Right now? Settle in.
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Speaker 1: number two back in the saddle again. Welcome in the
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Speaker 1: hour is from Motown. We go to Motown. We'll get
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Speaker 1: back to the football. Some of you guys are on hold,
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Speaker 1: still want to yap about the NFL. That's fine, but
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Speaker 1: we'll go to baseball. Spring training is underway. The flag
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Speaker 1: is up and off to the races now. The Tigers,
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Speaker 1: who last week added a cheating as.
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Speaker 2: One one thousand and two one thousand hole to their.
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Speaker 1: Roster, made another last minute addition as spring training gets
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Speaker 1: underway for the Detroit Tigers in Florida. If you have
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Speaker 1: not heard yet, perhaps not, we've learned that Justin Verlander, yep,
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Speaker 1: that guy, Justin Verlander is returning to Detroit baseball.
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Speaker 2: Agrees to a one year contract thirteen million.
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Speaker 1: It's a Dodger like contract, as eleven million of that
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Speaker 1: contract will be paid in a deferred nature, meaning that
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Speaker 1: that's just like great money for retirement for Justin Verlander.
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Speaker 1: It'll be his twenty first season in the big leagues.
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Speaker 1: He turns forty three in less than two weeks, so
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Speaker 1: later this month, Verlander will be forty three. He's spent
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Speaker 1: his first thirteen seasons with Detroit. He then had his
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Speaker 1: whole reputation Sully by playing with the cheating as one
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Speaker 1: and two, one thousand holes, and then went off to
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Speaker 1: the Giants. And now he's back, and there was a
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Speaker 1: brief stopover elsewhere as well. But from what I'm reading,
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Speaker 1: despite the mileage, some of the baseball pundits.
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Speaker 2: Are telling me that Verlander is going to be a very.
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Speaker 1: Valuable pitcher, very valuable pitcher for the Tigers in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six. So that is a good jumping off point.
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Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question now that the move has
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Speaker 1: been made. Justin Verlander, the report saying a quote very
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Speaker 1: valuable pitcher in his return to the Tigers. Are you
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Speaker 1: writing the Verlander hype train, drew or waiting for the
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Speaker 1: next train?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: So this is not something that's going to scare the
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Speaker 1: other contenders in baseball. I've got Amtrak, Billiards, and Prime stake,
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Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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Speaker 1: we are going to play Connect three and I'm going
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Speaker 1: to win connect three, so number number all right. So
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Speaker 1: this Verlander story, the idea that he's going to be
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Speaker 1: very valuable. That's that's some of the reporting.
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Speaker 2: Very valuable. To tell you.
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Speaker 1: This one lives for me in quantum physics, meaning there
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Speaker 1: are two realities that are there at the same time.
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Speaker 1: They both exist at the same time here, so and
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Speaker 1: both can be true. Both can be true here. From
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Speaker 1: a baseball standpoint, if you think Justin Verlander is going
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Speaker 1: to be the secret sauce for the Tigers to get
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Speaker 1: it done, then you might want to see a doctor
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Speaker 1: because you have no idea what you're talking about. This
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Speaker 1: guy is a side little cup of gravy, is what
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Speaker 1: he is at this point. He's a side dish extra
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Speaker 1: cup of extra cup of gravy. There. You didn't ask
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Speaker 1: for the extra cup of gravy. You don't really even
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Speaker 1: need the extra cup of gravy. But there's the extra
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Speaker 1: cup of gravy. And maybe you can throw that on
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Speaker 1: some fries and make some poutine and then you have
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Speaker 1: poutine fries and that's the way to go, and put
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Speaker 1: some cheese curds on that and that's it.
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Speaker 2: So I'm not buying it. The point is I'm not
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Speaker 2: buying it.
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Speaker 1: You know, Oh you're you're such a schmuck mallor what
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Speaker 1: are you ripping it?
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Speaker 2: Come on? What's Yeah? The Tigers rotation, it's fine, it's good.
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Speaker 1: They got the top pitcher in baseball, Trek Scoogle just
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Speaker 1: one arbitration, so he's at the very top of the rotation.
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Speaker 1: They added a cheating astro in Framber Valdez. They have
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Speaker 1: Jack Larity, who's a terrible big game pitcher, former Dodger,
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Speaker 1: and he's hanging out there in in Detroit. So they
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Speaker 1: got they got Flarity, Valdez, and scooball all in the rotation.
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Speaker 1: And so that's fine. I mean, those guys will do
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Speaker 1: fine during the regular season, and that's it. And when
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Speaker 1: I look at Verlander, though, like, this guy's like a
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Speaker 1: number five starter, and it's memory lane stuff. He's a
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Speaker 1: number five starter. He's got a lot of miles there,
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Speaker 1: and there's a very good chance and I'm never wrong
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Speaker 1: about this stuff that outside of a couple of random
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Speaker 1: remember me moments this season, he might have one or
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Speaker 1: two starts where he's like, oh man, Verlander still got it.
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Speaker 1: And when it gets all horny, right, you get all excited,
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Speaker 1: and the odds are better, though the Mallard sportsbook odds
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Speaker 1: are better that Verlander will miss not one but two
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Speaker 1: months of the baseball season with injury. The odds are
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Speaker 1: better that that happens. Then he wins ten games. You're
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Speaker 1: such a book. Who cares about wins? It's about the
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Speaker 1: nerd stats? All, Okay, that's just the malle Man. The
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Speaker 1: other part of this, though, is branding. It's all about
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Speaker 1: the branding there, and that is where this is a
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Speaker 1: big time move here, justin Verlander under the branding umbrella
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Speaker 1: for the Tigers becomes priceless. Heartstrings marketing. That's what this is.
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Speaker 1: It's heartstrings marketing. Roll out the nostalgia machine and take
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Speaker 1: it out of the garage and roll it out there.
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Speaker 1: A soft piano, misty eyes right, Oh, Ertilander, he's back
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Speaker 1: in the old English D. He's back.
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Speaker 2: Get the acoustic guitar, childhood flashbacks when you were a
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Speaker 2: little kid, and you watch the Verlander on the mound.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, got that vintage unif they still wear the
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Speaker 1: same old English D on the home uniform, it's the
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Speaker 1: same thing, slow motion fist pumps. You'll leave out the
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Speaker 1: highlights of the Tigers with Verlander choking in the world series.
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Speaker 1: You'll leave those out. But the commercials write themselves. The
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Speaker 1: commercials write themselves. And again, though, to answer the question,
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Speaker 1: am I writing the Justin Verlander hype trained?
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Speaker 2: True? True?
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Speaker 1: No, I'm standing on the platform. I'm going to see
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Speaker 1: what's in the vending machines, and I'm watching the Amtrak
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Speaker 1: nostalgia caboose roll by, and that's where I am on
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Speaker 1: this particular story. But Verlander is not, and has not
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Speaker 1: been for a number of years, a frontline guy. That's
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Speaker 1: how it's supposed to work in your mid forties. Almost
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Speaker 1: at this point, Verlander is a museum exhibit. The Tigers
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Speaker 1: just added a traveling museum exhibit. When I was at
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Speaker 1: the Radio Row thing, we chatted with Jim Gray, and
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Speaker 1: Jim Gray's got a museum in Vegas with Tom Brady,
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Speaker 1: and he might want to put Verlander in that museum. Now,
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Speaker 1: Verlander will sell a lot of merch. They'll sell a
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Speaker 1: lot of merch. Business wise, it's a home run. So
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Speaker 1: the quote Verlander very valuable. He's valuable for the Detroit
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Speaker 1: Tiger's gift shop. He's valuable for that. In terms of
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Speaker 1: on the field. No a number five starter, and ten
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Speaker 1: thousand things would have to go haywire for Verlander to
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Speaker 1: get key starts in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Now page two here as we continue our in depth
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Speaker 1: team coverage talks in baseball this hour, and we head
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Speaker 1: now to Port Saint Lucie, Florida.
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Speaker 2: Not much going on in Port Saint Lucian.
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Speaker 1: Now, I've been there in here, so maybe there's stuff
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Speaker 1: going on there now, But when I was there, sleepy
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Speaker 1: Grapefruit League town.
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Speaker 2: And not a lot going on. Not a lot going
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Speaker 2: on there.
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Speaker 1: So the Metropolitans getting started, the New York Metropolitans, and
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Speaker 1: in classic Mets fashion, they are tripping over themselves, stumblebums.
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Speaker 1: They're stumble bumps here. And as we understand it, the
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Speaker 1: Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor is already hurt, not ready to go.
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Speaker 1: He's got a injured left hand and may may may
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Speaker 1: need surgery. Oh, Lindor has six years and almost two
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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars remaining on his Mega contract. Now in addition,
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Speaker 1: One Soto, the almost eight hundred million dollar man. One
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Speaker 1: Soto will no longer be playing right field for the Mets.
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Speaker 1: They have demoted him. Juan Soto, eight hundred million dollar
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Speaker 1: ball player, has been demoted to left field.
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Speaker 2: More on that in a minute.
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Speaker 1: So question, do you fancy a thought? Do you fancy
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Speaker 1: a thought on the Mets possibly starting the regular season
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Speaker 1: without shortstop Francisco Lindor. So okay, So think about this
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Speaker 1: in terms of.
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Speaker 2: Billiards.
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Speaker 1: You ever mess you do, You've played billiards, right, You've
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Speaker 1: messed around with that. So the Mets are on track
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Speaker 1: to not run, They're on track to walk into opening
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Speaker 1: day already behind the eight ball, behind the eight ball,
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Speaker 1: chalk flying everywhere, pockets empty, and.
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Speaker 2: You look at it for Lindor.
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Speaker 1: The hand surgery, which they're saying is they might not
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Speaker 1: need surgery. In my experience, I can count on one
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Speaker 1: hand when a baseball team says someone might need surgery.
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Speaker 1: I can count on one hand the times they don't
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Speaker 1: actually end up getting surgery. So the odds are heavily
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Speaker 1: shifted towards the fact there's gonna be surgery for Francisco Lindor,
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Speaker 1: and that's going to require a six week recovery. And
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Speaker 1: I know you have the World Baseball Classics, so everything's
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Speaker 1: kind of you know, it's messed around.
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Speaker 2: Everything's messed up with the calendar.
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Speaker 1: And that'll be another thing people complain about there, but
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Speaker 1: using not mal or math, but metmth. If Lindor waits
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Speaker 1: to have surgery, we are told he will.
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Speaker 2: So let's look at the calendar.
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Speaker 1: It's early February, and let's say we wait until early
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Speaker 1: March to decide to have surgery. Then you got to
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Speaker 1: schedule the surgery hand surgery, six week recovery, so that
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Speaker 1: means Lindor will be back in the Mets lineup in
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Speaker 1: mid June. If the baseball gods are smiling mid June,
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Speaker 1: it's on.
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Speaker 2: These six weeks. Your math is all messed up.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, I know, I know, because out of an
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Speaker 1: abundance of caution, the Mets are gonna go slow and study,
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Speaker 1: and you know, then he comes back, he's go, well,
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Speaker 1: I gotta have a rehab assignment, got to reboot, got
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Speaker 1: to reboot and all that stuff. And you just can't
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Speaker 1: plug Lindor back in. It's not like an iPhone. You
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Speaker 1: can't just charge him like an iPhone.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no. And then in.
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Speaker 1: My crystal ball, Lindor will come back to the Mets.
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Speaker 1: We'll be batting about one to seventy an the All
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Speaker 1: Star break, it'll be booed at the ballpark there and
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Speaker 1: flushing and because he's gonna have to shake off the rust,
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Speaker 1: right like an etch a sketch. You gotta shake it
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Speaker 1: off and all that stuff. I meanwhile, Juan Soto, this
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Speaker 1: to me is not getting enough attention. This is outstanding.
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Speaker 1: So I realized that Soda has played left field in
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Speaker 1: his career, but the fact that he's one year into
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Speaker 1: his Mets career, they're paying him eight hundred million dollars,
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Speaker 1: and it is a demotion. Left Field is the easier
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Speaker 1: position to play than certainly in that ballpark with the Mets,
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Speaker 1: then right field. So your eight hundred million dollar ballplayer
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Speaker 1: is like, ah, you know, and this is the Mets.
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Speaker 1: You're saying, this is what he wanted, that Juan Soda
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Speaker 1: wanted to play left field.
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Speaker 2: Of course he does. It's the lazy river on defense.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of float around there and collect checks and
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Speaker 1: get ready for your next to bats. So you can
14:44
Speaker 1: stand there and look at five pitches and then walk
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Speaker 1: down to first base and then that's it and get
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Speaker 1: your seven hundred and sixty five million dollars. A good
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Speaker 1: life to get and just ignore the whispers and all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. Also, because there are some locker room and
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Speaker 1: politics involved. Am I going to say this is all karma,
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Speaker 1: that karma's involved in that. Well, it depends on what you
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Speaker 1: believe in that or not. But I do know the
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Speaker 1: whisperers out of Gotham, the whispers out of Gotham have
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Speaker 1: indicated that Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto put pressure on
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Speaker 1: the Mets front office to get rid of guys they
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Speaker 1: didn't like. Brandon Nimmo longtime Met was dispatched this offseason,
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Speaker 1: Jeff McNeil, he's not that good. But they got rid
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Speaker 1: in Peede Alonzo. They did not bring back the polar Bear,
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Speaker 1: Peter Alonzo. So all of those moves, the whispers are
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Speaker 1: were made in relation to the fact that Juan Soto
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Speaker 1: and Francisco Lindor.
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Speaker 2: Didn't want those guys on the team. And so there
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Speaker 2: you go.
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Speaker 1: The Mets looks like they're gonna start with out Lindor
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Speaker 1: and then you got Juan Soto futzing around out there
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Speaker 1: in left field.
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Speaker 2: Now, final point.
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Speaker 1: Is this is next level, next level embezzlement in Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball.
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Speaker 2: We go to Denver. We go to Denver.
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Speaker 1: Now, where the weather is cool when the baseball is bad.
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Speaker 1: The baseball is bad. Spring training starting this week. And
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Speaker 1: is it true that Rockies first baseman Chris Bryant has
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Speaker 1: already already landed on the what used to be called
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Speaker 1: the disabled list, but it's not called the injured list?
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Speaker 1: Is it also true that Chris Bryant will miss the
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Speaker 1: first two months of the baseball season?
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Speaker 2: Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding dan ning.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going to be out for at least the
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Speaker 1: first fifty seven games of the upcoming baseball season. Now,
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Speaker 1: you might not know who Chris Bryant is because he
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Speaker 1: used to be good. He's decided he no longer wants
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Speaker 1: to participate in the big leagues, although he still likes
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Speaker 1: those checks direct deposit every couple of weeks. So question,
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Speaker 1: how do you view Chris Bryant and the return on
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Speaker 1: investment the AI that he's providing the Rockies with his
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Speaker 1: latest revelation. So this is this is a horror version
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Speaker 1: of groundhog Day. It's the nightmare version of groundhog Day.
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Speaker 1: And instead of Bill Murray, we get a guy collecting
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Speaker 1: what is it, twenty six million dollars to sit in
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Speaker 1: a whirlpool on a yearly basis or something like that. Bryant,
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Speaker 1: according to the math, this guy used to be a
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Speaker 1: stud with the Cubs, and all my friends in Chicago said, oh,
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Speaker 1: Chris Bryant, Cubbs are set.
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Speaker 2: They got Schwarbs and Chris Bryan and they got Hobby
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Speaker 2: by is it? Oh my god, the Cubs.
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Speaker 1: The only one of those guys that turned out to
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Speaker 1: be legit is Kyle Schwarber, and he wasn't in Chicago
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Speaker 1: very long.
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Speaker 2: Anyway.
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Speaker 1: Back to the point, so if you look at the
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Speaker 1: math on this, I'll go to the numbers here. Chris
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Speaker 1: Bryant has played one hundred and seventy games in four years.
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Speaker 1: That is not a baseball career. That is, it's a
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Speaker 1: part time hobby. It's like, you know, I'm gonna go
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Speaker 1: play golf. Maybe I'll play golf. I don't know, forty
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Speaker 1: times in a year. I might go play golf, right,
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Speaker 1: a couple times a month. It adds up, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe three times a month and all of a sudden, okay,
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Speaker 1: you're over that. So three and a half, I guess
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Speaker 1: would be the number on that. One hundred and eighty
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Speaker 1: two million, one hundred and eighty two million dead presidents
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Speaker 1: the Rockies. They aren't paying for a silver Slugger. They
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Speaker 1: are paying for the world's most expensive tourist. Does he
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Speaker 1: even have to claim residency in Colorado? Chris Bryant at
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Speaker 1: this point, and it's it's not an investment. This is
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Speaker 1: a historical grift by the former cub star Chris Bryan.
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Speaker 1: I know he spent some time briefly with the Giants
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Speaker 1: and then went to Denver, but he didn't come to
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Speaker 1: Colorado to hit home runs. It's pretty clear that Chris
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Speaker 1: Bryan's goal was not to hit home runs. He came
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Speaker 1: to get the golden parachute. And my god, did he
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Speaker 1: get the golden parachute.
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Speaker 3: Here.
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Speaker 2: It's got a nice view there, got a view of
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Speaker 2: the flat irons there in Denver, and cash and checks
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Speaker 2: and laughing and.
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Speaker 1: Gotta be blushing a little bit, right, So he won
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Speaker 1: the lottery because he at one point was deemed pretty good.
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Speaker 2: Chris Bryant.
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Speaker 1: He's I think the math I saw was like over
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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars per plate appearance or something so stupid.
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Speaker 1: It's so stupid, and one hundred thousand or one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty thousand to pop up and walk.
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Speaker 2: To the trainer's room and get some ice.
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Speaker 1: So I said, well, he's been diagnosed with degenerate back issues.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's great, So why doesn't he retire?
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Speaker 1: Well, of course he's not gonna retire because he's he's
19:51
Speaker 1: got the Rockies bent over the barrel, So why would
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Speaker 1: he retire? And the most amazing thing about this is
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Speaker 1: that this is not the greatest scam pulled off in
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, not even close.
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Speaker 2: It's wild.
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Speaker 1: It's like, you know, we believe that Chris Bryant is
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Speaker 1: a kiddie cat. In this case, he's a copycat. He's
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Speaker 1: taking the Anthony Rendon blueprint from Anaheim. He's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: I know I'm not gonna get as much as you.
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Speaker 1: You got like two hundred forty million, but I'm hitting
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Speaker 1: the Rockies for a buck eighty one hundred eighty million dollars.
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Speaker 1: So I got one hundred and eighty two million dollars
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Speaker 1: from these losers in Colorado. I only have to play baseball,
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Speaker 1: and Anthony Rendon's chuckling. I screwed over the Angels more
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Speaker 1: than you did the Rockies. They can have dinner together.
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Speaker 1: They can have a nice dinner and trade notes on
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Speaker 1: how they stuck it to professional baseball teams and all that.
20:45
Speaker 1: So Bryant, you look at his situation here. This is
20:49
Speaker 1: like a pension plant. Most people have to get their
20:52
Speaker 1: pension based on like it's like thirty years or something
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Speaker 1: like that. This is seven years, a seven year pension
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Speaker 1: pant plan for Chris Bryant of the Rockies there. And
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Speaker 1: most people also have to wait till they're like sixty
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Speaker 1: five or in their sixties to get that money.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no no.
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Speaker 1: And he's got a nice mountain view. He's retired to
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Speaker 1: the mountains there, Chris Bryant. So it's embarrassing. Is it offensive? Yeah,
21:16
Speaker 1: it's offensive. It's kind of like what Chris Bryan did.
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Speaker 1: It is one of the great grifts. He goes to
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Speaker 1: the Rockies. They take him out, they wind him and
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Speaker 1: dine him. It's kind of like going to that. I
21:27
Speaker 1: guess John Elway's got this big steakhouse and you in Denver,
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Speaker 1: and so you go to Elway's steakhouse there and you're like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: could I have that nice big steak?
21:37
Speaker 2: I want the biggest steak yet. Okay, Sure, we'll give
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Speaker 2: you that.
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Speaker 1: And then the waiter comes over and says, okay, we've
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Speaker 1: got the steak for you, and it's a photo of
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Speaker 1: a Porterhouse steak. I said, well, I wanted to stay. Well,
21:46
Speaker 1: that's a steak. That's a photo of a steak. That's
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Speaker 1: essentially what the Rockies got. Now, I'm not here to
21:52
Speaker 1: make this a sob store. The Rockies suck, They've got
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Speaker 1: bad ownership, they're in competent. Like all that stuff's true.
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Speaker 1: But still Chris Bryant like, no shame in your game.
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell I wish I was wired like Chris
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Speaker 1: Bryan and Anthony Rendon. I would feel so guilty.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how they do it.
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Speaker 1: I would feel like, oh my god, I'm not earning
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Speaker 1: my money and they don't have a care in the world.
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine being wired that way.
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Speaker 2: But they're like that.
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Speaker 1: So it's it's it's crazy. It's like a breach of reality,
22:24
Speaker 1: is what it is here. The only thing gotta do
22:27
Speaker 1: the Rockies, like, listen, I know you can't play baseball.
22:30
Speaker 1: So what we're gonna do is we're gonna have Chris Mant.
22:32
Speaker 1: We're gonna be an orange vest and we're gonna have
22:35
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Speaker 2: We'll have you picked up some trash there.
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Speaker 1: At least you would be doing something to help out
22:42
Speaker 1: not the Colorado Rockies, but the state of Colorado.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't not have George Clooney in it?
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Speaker 1: Well, that was the one twenty years ago. I think
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Speaker 2: There was one.
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Speaker 1: There was one way back in like the sixties that
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Speaker 1: like two forty I believe was his contract and this
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Speaker 1: guy Chris Bryant one hundred and eighty Yeah, late night
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Speaker 1: drug tester says the only reason any team would want
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Speaker 1: Verlander back is to check out his hot wife.
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Speaker 2: That's a late night drug tester. There you go. Is
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Speaker 2: she happy about that that she has to now go
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Speaker 2: to Detroit to watch the Tigers play? She excited?
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Speaker 3: Don't know.
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Speaker 2: I guess they can.
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Speaker 1: They can afford to live in a really, really nice
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Speaker 1: and we'll say a little Paul, who's in Seattle? Hello, Paul, welcome,
27:45
Speaker 1: You're on Fox Sports Radio.
27:46
Speaker 2: It's the Ben Mallers Show.
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Speaker 3: Hey, thank you, tak Hay Lorena.
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Speaker 1: You gotta really you gotta lean into it, man, come on,
27:55
Speaker 1: you got to lean into it like our buddy in Louisiana.
27:57
Speaker 2: Come on.
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Speaker 3: Huh Hi, Okay, my day's better already. So obviously I
28:07
Speaker 3: don't like your your Hawks take, but the Raiders I
28:10
Speaker 3: love your take on it. There's such trash like the
28:13
Speaker 3: Jets literally have more wins in the last four years.
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Speaker 3: And uh, I'm not not worried about losing Kubiak.
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Speaker 7: He's been an offensive corridor twice and did nothing and
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Speaker 7: he would be we didn't even have a great offense,
28:24
Speaker 7: Like if it wasn't for JSN and our line coming
28:27
Speaker 7: together together and getting stable and uh and our running
28:31
Speaker 7: back due like there's nothing there.
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Speaker 3: You can't give that credit to Kubiak.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, they seem too. We found common ground. Look
28:39
Speaker 2: at you, Paul. We found common ground. Now are you
28:41
Speaker 2: going to the there's a parade today? Are you going
28:43
Speaker 2: to the parade?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 6: No, I'm too old for that.
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Speaker 2: You're too old. Yeah, I know.
28:48
Speaker 1: I feel the same way. I don't really have any
28:51
Speaker 1: interest in parades. There's too many people there. It's you're
28:54
Speaker 1: all jammed in. And what's the weather going to be?
28:57
Speaker 1: Like is it gonna be rating today or cold? I
28:59
Speaker 1: don't want to say out and that, you know, I
29:01
Speaker 1: don't know.
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Speaker 3: I don't look at the weather because that's just disappointing.
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Speaker 2: Like there, yeah, I got you.
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Speaker 6: It's not gonna be good, but uh yeah, not worried
29:09
Speaker 6: about it.
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Speaker 3: And then it's like the judgment is terrible Tobak, like
29:12
Speaker 3: why would you go on the Raiders? Like stick around
29:14
Speaker 3: on a winning team like learn more and uh and
29:18
Speaker 3: and build up your you know, you're like your credit
29:21
Speaker 3: right and then go somewhere like where you can actually win.
29:24
Speaker 2: It's terrible. It's a starter job. The Raiders are a
29:27
Speaker 2: start like the Jets, the Browns. It's a starter job.
29:30
Speaker 2: You go there, get some experience, and then that's it.
29:33
Speaker 2: I think the odds of this actually working out are
29:36
Speaker 2: not good. I'm getting a lot of blowback.
29:37
Speaker 1: I didn't realize there were that many delusional Raider fans, though,
29:40
Speaker 1: Paul that are.
29:41
Speaker 2: Like, oh, this guy's great, Oh my god, we're set up. Now,
29:45
Speaker 2: come on, what do you do?
29:47
Speaker 8: I don't know what what was uh?
29:48
Speaker 4: What was Pete Carroll doing like that?
29:50
Speaker 3: That was a mind blower? Like what?
29:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, well Pete just well, you know what, Pete
29:55
Speaker 1: got forced out from the Seahawks. Forced him out. He
29:57
Speaker 1: didn't want to you know, it was a power play.
29:58
Speaker 1: They they picked the right guy. They won the Super Bowl,
30:01
Speaker 1: so the catulations they picked the right guy.
30:02
Speaker 3: But I right off into the sunset, don't go to
30:06
Speaker 3: the freaking Raiders.
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Speaker 4: What do you do?
30:07
Speaker 1: You know how much he got paid? BA, He's probably
30:09
Speaker 1: sitting on Hawaii. He's sitting in Hawaii somewhere drinking a
30:11
Speaker 1: cocktail right now. He's like, I'm not worried about it.
30:13
Speaker 1: I got one more fat paycheck.
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Speaker 3: Baby, So there's no integrity, a priceless.
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Speaker 6: Like, don't do that.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's fine financial all right, right, thank you, Paul,
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Speaker 1: the Great Paul, and see out of there.
30:26
Speaker 2: Now here's a blast in the past.
30:28
Speaker 1: Now, I I've always believed doing the Overnight Show as
30:30
Speaker 1: long as I have that there are generations of callers. Now,
30:34
Speaker 1: there are some callers that cross over generations because they're
30:36
Speaker 1: addicted to calling, like Blind Scott and guys like that.
30:39
Speaker 1: And normally what happens is somebody becomes a star caller
30:43
Speaker 1: and they call for a couple of years, and then
30:45
Speaker 1: what happens is the pressure of the fame of being
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Speaker 1: a celebrity caller, the paparazzi and all that stuff, the
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Speaker 1: social media attention and it it's not that easy to
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Speaker 1: be a celebrity caller, and so we lose good foot soldiers.
30:59
Speaker 2: Also, some guy get married.
31:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, that happens, and then we've lost all thirs because
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Speaker 1: they worked the dread to day shift. Well, here's a
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Speaker 1: blast in the past. We welcome in a legend, mister Smooth, Hello,
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Speaker 1: mister Smooth.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, Ben, shout out, Danny T and Good morning
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Speaker 6: to all my fellas across the nation. I had to
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Speaker 6: call you this morning, Ben because Valentine's Day is coming
31:29
Speaker 6: up this weekend and we wanted to be sure that
31:32
Speaker 6: the fellas were ready to take care of their ladies. So, fellas,
31:36
Speaker 6: here's what I want you to do. I want you
31:39
Speaker 6: to go to your local store and buy one of
31:42
Speaker 6: those stuffed Teddy bears, and when you present it to
31:45
Speaker 6: your lady this weekend, here's what I want you to say.
31:49
Speaker 6: Every time you look at this bear, I want you
31:52
Speaker 6: to know that my life would be unbearable without you.
31:56
Speaker 6: I'm mister smooth.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, mister smear. That's a legend right there, the
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Speaker 2: great what pipes? This guy has?
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Speaker 1: Be well, mister Smooth, till next Valentine's Day when you return.
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Speaker 2: There, he goes, it would be a better gift. Money,
32:13
Speaker 2: what money? Cash? A wad of cash would be a
32:16
Speaker 2: better gift. Now I get a vibrator and say you
32:19
Speaker 2: shake me up? All right? Hello, all right, Jola is
32:22
Speaker 2: in Dallas. He's always smiling. Hello, Jola, Wow, Jola, what's
32:27
Speaker 2: going on?
32:28
Speaker 4: Going on?
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Speaker 7: Man?
32:29
Speaker 2: What's going on? Your name came up? I was with
32:32
Speaker 2: the Great Rod Parker and we were talking. No, we
32:35
Speaker 2: were mentioned like we have like crossover callers.
32:37
Speaker 1: Like we've got guys that from the odd you're an
32:40
Speaker 1: odd couple guys, a couple other guys that call the show,
32:43
Speaker 1: and like, yeah, we're tossing names out, going back and forth.
32:46
Speaker 2: Your name came up.
32:48
Speaker 8: No, it's funny how you have to talk about baseball
32:51
Speaker 8: to get the paths for the week super Bowl. Man,
32:55
Speaker 8: it's crazy.
32:57
Speaker 2: It was not great, not very memory, not great at all.
32:59
Speaker 8: But now this baseball topics though, this guy that you're
33:02
Speaker 8: talking about, it's crazy that he went.
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Speaker 6: Under the Thank you so much.
33:06
Speaker 8: It's crazy that he went under the microscope because of
33:08
Speaker 8: this day.
33:09
Speaker 6: Uh my guy ran down.
33:11
Speaker 8: But Jacob de Grom is who I wanted to bring up.
33:14
Speaker 8: It's kind of that same deal where this guy, Jacob
33:16
Speaker 8: de gram came into the season, he was injured with
33:19
Speaker 8: the Tommy John I'm looking up his stats and he
33:22
Speaker 8: came back and still perform and he's four or five
33:24
Speaker 8: years older than this guy you're talking about. So it's
33:27
Speaker 8: crazy how it takes people like you and Mike Francesca
33:30
Speaker 8: and uh Chris maddar Russo to.
33:33
Speaker 6: Get it to talk about baseball. Mike you know, Rob Parker.
33:36
Speaker 8: But it's crazy though, because these guys are going into the.
33:38
Speaker 6: Radar, but then an NBA player will do it and
33:40
Speaker 6: then they get ridiculed and.
33:42
Speaker 2: You know, beat it to the ground.
33:43
Speaker 1: No money, um, equal opportunity, Jola, you know, I love
33:46
Speaker 1: to rip everybody. But yeah, Jacob de Gram went two years,
33:49
Speaker 1: he had nine games in two years and then this, yeah,
33:53
Speaker 1: this is last year he made.
33:54
Speaker 2: I think he made thirty starts for the Rangers. He
33:57
Speaker 2: pitched a lot. That's the shit.
33:58
Speaker 6: He's thirty's almost forty.
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Speaker 1: Pretty good, thirty thirty starts is yeah, he's in his
34:02
Speaker 1: late thirties, right, and I think he's like even now
34:06
Speaker 1: when he pitches, he's great. He just doesn't pitch very
34:09
Speaker 1: often normally.
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Speaker 8: No, No, that's I think that's the how baseball's going.
34:15
Speaker 8: But I think nil college basketball, but the graded NBA basketball.
34:21
Speaker 8: I think that because of this load management and NBA,
34:24
Speaker 8: these pitchers just load manage and they don't want to
34:27
Speaker 8: pitch anymore.
34:27
Speaker 1: Because yeah, it's the same, the same dogma like all
34:31
Speaker 1: the sports. It's like load management. Football would do it too,
34:34
Speaker 1: but they only play once a week, so you can't
34:36
Speaker 1: really do it in football.
34:38
Speaker 2: If I bet you they.
34:39
Speaker 1: Played more than once a week, there would be quarterbacks
34:42
Speaker 1: missing games and be like we got.
34:43
Speaker 8: A rest, we got practice.
34:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking of that, how about this. Did you see
34:47
Speaker 2: this story?
34:48
Speaker 1: There's a linebacker Solomon Tullio Poopoo, I believe I butt
34:53
Speaker 1: you're his name anyway, So there's a it's come a lot.
34:58
Speaker 1: He's a linebacker at Monte He was granted a ninth
35:01
Speaker 1: year of eligibility.
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Speaker 6: Oh that's ridiculous.
35:05
Speaker 2: Nine years, nine years now. I looked it up.
35:09
Speaker 1: When you get to the ten year anniversary mark, you're
35:11
Speaker 1: you're supposed to get a ten or aluminum.
35:14
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, nine years.
35:16
Speaker 1: This guy's been in college football nine years playing linebacker.
35:20
Speaker 6: That could be illegal. It should be illegal.
35:22
Speaker 2: You can't be hitting a little kid like that.
35:24
Speaker 6: If you just the street, you get arrested.
35:26
Speaker 2: That's pretty wild. Nine years, Like it's crazy. They said, yeah,
35:30
Speaker 2: come back play again.
35:31
Speaker 8: Hello, man, hey, I listened to gonna get brushed out
35:34
Speaker 8: of the season is over. We could go be normal
35:36
Speaker 8: people that watch. You know what I'm saying.
35:38
Speaker 6: But that wasn't a good season.
35:39
Speaker 1: But that the Super Bowl was just so flat and
35:43
Speaker 1: we didn't you didn't have Lamar Jackson or Mahomes in
35:47
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and Josh Allen choked like.
35:50
Speaker 8: Oh Josh Allen fraudulent.
35:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I gotta go. Thank you, Joela, great
35:57
Speaker 1: Jola there in Dallas. It is the Bad Malor show.
36:00
Speaker 1: Ton Now for the Insta tribum. Justin Verlander got a
36:04
Speaker 1: thirteen million dollar guarantee to return to the Tigers. That
36:07
Speaker 1: raises his on field career earnings to four hundred and
36:11
Speaker 1: twenty two million. He is second all time behind A
36:14
Speaker 1: Rod Blank is the third highest paid player in baseball history,
36:18
Speaker 1: behind Verlander and a Rod.
36:20
Speaker 2: That is the Insta tribute. The answer. We'll get to it,
36:23
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36:25
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36:42
Speaker 1: As we work our way through the overnight reminder, coming
36:44
Speaker 1: up next hour, it'll be the Queen of Hearts with
36:46
Speaker 1: Lorainas So if you have any advice or you need advice,
36:50
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36:54
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Speaker 1: all right time now for the inst to trivia. Justin
37:08
Speaker 1: Verlander got thirteen million dollars, most of it's deferred, but
37:12
Speaker 1: from the Tigers. He's back in Detroit, the starting pitcher.
37:15
Speaker 1: His on field career earnings now worth four hundred twenty
37:19
Speaker 1: two million. He's second all time behind A Rod Blank
37:22
Speaker 1: is the third highest paid player in baseball history on
37:25
Speaker 1: field career salary. Alf the Alien opinter going with the
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Speaker 1: Great Rex Huddler as his answer, Gorman Thomas from Paul.
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Speaker 1: Who else we have Benny the Bopper guest by malarprop
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Speaker 1: by Scrooge and the younger Demo Sloth from the Goonies
37:50
Speaker 1: from JT. The wing Man just outside Knoxville, Tennessee. Taylor Latner,
37:55
Speaker 1: Who's thirty four today? From Late Night Drug tester Cam
37:58
Speaker 1: Akers guests by Shane in des Moines. Who else we
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38:05
Speaker 1: Bob Eucker gets by Andy and Lino Lake Sam Malone
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Speaker 1: from Doc Dan Dak Whitney from Robbie the Mariner fan.
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Speaker 2: What say you rain up, mister t.
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Speaker 1: No, the correct answer would be another Detroit Tiger, Miggie Cabrera,
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Speaker 1: Miguel Cabrera. Three hundred ninety three million for Miguel Cabrera.
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Speaker 2: It's Mallard. How about that?
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Speaker 4: To the third degree, this is when Big Ben gets
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Speaker 4: grilled cooplod.
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Speaker 9: As of right now, teams are only allowed to trade
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Speaker 9: draft picks up to three drafts. In the future, it
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Speaker 9: was reported on Tuesday that there will be a push
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Speaker 9: to increase that number to five. Ben.
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Speaker 2: Should there be any sort of limits.
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Speaker 10: As to what a team can trade, Yeah, there have
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Speaker 10: to be because in the nineteen I think it was
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Speaker 10: the nineteen eighties, the Cleveland Cavaliers owner traded all of
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Speaker 10: their draft picks for years to come, if I remember
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Speaker 10: the story, and so they put all the leagues put
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Speaker 10: rules in because of that.
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Speaker 2: So they they do have to put some guidelines in.
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Speaker 1: I think five years seems fine, and three's two little
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Speaker 1: five seams about right next.
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Speaker 9: Clipper's president Lawrence Frank recently addressed the future of Kawhi Leonard, saying, quote,
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Speaker 9: we definitely see a scenario where he's part of the
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Speaker 9: group going forward, Ben, do you think Kawhi is going
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Speaker 9: to be part of this rebuild?
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Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like it. I don't think he's gonna
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Speaker 1: want to stick around.
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Speaker 2: And although he doesn't.
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Speaker 1: Show any emotion, Kawhi Leonard, so it's hard to get
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Speaker 1: a read on him. He's just always kind of blah.
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Speaker 1: I would say the smart money is he's traded. How
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Speaker 1: about going back to San Antonio? Kawhi goes back to
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Speaker 1: the Spurs. Put that out there, Coop.
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Speaker 9: Next, it was reported on Monday that Lakers gim Rob
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Speaker 9: Polinka could get fired if the Lakers don't make a
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Speaker 9: deep postseason run this year.
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Speaker 2: Then do you think the Lakers will actually get rid
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Speaker 2: of Pelinka? Well, I don't think they're going to go
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Speaker 2: on a playoff run.
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Speaker 1: I do know, having worked in radio, when the boss
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Speaker 1: changes at the radio station, everyone's like, okay, we're time
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Speaker 1: to get a new job. The Lakers were bought by
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Speaker 1: Mark Walter and he's going to run the show, and
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Speaker 1: so he's going to want to put his own person in.
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Speaker 2: So the chances are they going to blow up the
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Speaker 2: whole thing? How do we do do you pass the
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Speaker 2: ten as they went, put.
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Speaker 6: It out of the buck.
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Speaker 1: Put out yes, Ivan, I'm a runner.