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  Speaker 1: And the story that caught my attention, you kind of
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  Speaker 1: knew it was coming, but it happened. It's from pro
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  Speaker 1: Bouncy Ball, and the guillotine has fallen down, down, down,
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  Speaker 1: down down. Now, the regular season ended on Sunday. There
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  Speaker 1: was nothing basketball wise on Monday, and there's really nothing
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  Speaker 1: until the playoffs start this weekend. And list you're into
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  Speaker 1: the F. Gasey Playing Tournament, which is ridiculous, that will
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  Speaker 1: be going on starting on Tuesday. But the wings of
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  Speaker 1: change howling, and we start out in the Grand Canyon
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  Speaker 1: State where everything under the sun is in play at
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  Speaker 1: this point, everything under the sun. And if you have
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  Speaker 1: not been following the game of musical Chairs, by chance
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  Speaker 1: here maybe not. The Suns decided to whack. They played
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  Speaker 1: whack a mole. They got rid of their coach, Mike Budenhozer.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Bud gone see you later. Persona Mangrada excommunicated from
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  Speaker 1: the team Phoenix, missing the playoffs when everyone gets in
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  Speaker 1: the play suck bag teams getting the playoffs, and the
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  Speaker 1: Suns could even get in the play in tournament, and
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  Speaker 1: so they're out now.
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  Speaker 4: In a prepared.
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  Speaker 1: Statement released by some empty suit for the organization in Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: they said that competing at the highest level remains our goal,
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  Speaker 1: and we failed to meet expectations this season. Our fans
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  Speaker 1: deserve better. Change is needed close quote, which is a
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  Speaker 1: nice way of saying, we have no idea what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: This didn't work, so we'll try something else. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep throwing pasta against the wall until something sticks. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So third consecutive, third consecutive offseason that Matt Ishbia, the
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  Speaker 1: very wealthy owner of the Phoenix pro bouncy ball team,
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  Speaker 1: is in the business of trying to hire a coach,
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss. And before we look ahead, we
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  Speaker 1: must look back. So did Mike Budenhozer get a raw
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  Speaker 1: deal in Phoenix? Only there for one year and was
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  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee when they won the championship. And when you
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  Speaker 1: win a title, you get that tag of having the
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  Speaker 1: championship pedigree and all that, and so that's why the
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  Speaker 1: Suns brought him in and he lasted one year and
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  Speaker 1: then he's kicked out. So I've got tug boat, Beverly Hills,
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  Speaker 1: and Budweiser, and we will combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: every single thing together, and we are going to make
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  Speaker 1: a cactus, which is what the Suns through, Mike Budenholzer
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  Speaker 1: on a cacti is what they did right there, all
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  Speaker 1: the prickly cactus, little parts of it.
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  Speaker 4: Enjoy all that.
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  Speaker 1: So number there we go. So you got to start
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  Speaker 1: up the band. Earlier, I said, numb burn. Well you
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  Speaker 1: know what this is. Okay, you know what season this is?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Somebody's no, no, it's not the number one. Some would
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  Speaker 1: say it's spring, right spring, that time of the year
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. I would say, it's the season
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  Speaker 1: of no as in, uh no. This was not a
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  Speaker 1: raw deal, not a raw deal, not a raw deal. No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: And here's why, all right, this is the opposite of
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  Speaker 1: a raw deal. What this is for Mike Budenholzer is
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  Speaker 1: the American dream. It is the American dream. It is
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  Speaker 1: a sweetheart deal. It is it's a sweetheart deal. Me
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  Speaker 1: explain why. Because he is holding the winning lottery numbers
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  Speaker 1: to the Arizona lottery. He's got him. And he didn't
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  Speaker 1: buy a lottery ticket. He just happened to get the ticket.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow it popped into his hand, it did. Budenholzer accepted
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  Speaker 1: a five year contract for fifty million dead presidents last offseason,
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  Speaker 1: so a year ago, less than a year ago. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he attempted to agree, signed the docu sign there, got
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  Speaker 1: the fifty million.
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  Speaker 4: Dollar contract, and he's gone after one year. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And unlike most regular jobs, where if you have a
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  Speaker 1: deal and you're done, that's it. You don't get a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of money and you're gone and goodbye. In the
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  Speaker 1: cartoonish world of pro bouncy ball and professional sports, what
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  Speaker 1: happened here in a landlocked state of Arizona. Mike Budenholzer
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  Speaker 1: was given a tugboat. It was a golden tug boat,
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  Speaker 1: and that golden tugboat to escape a sinking franchise, the
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  Speaker 1: Pathetic Suns. And he was given forty million, forty million
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  Speaker 1: to not coach a bunch of Prima donna a whole players,
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  Speaker 1: and that was his gift. Does that sound like he
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  Speaker 1: got a rod? Do you If I said, listen, you
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  Speaker 1: got to put up for one year. You got to
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  Speaker 1: put up with this, We'll get We'll get you forty million,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't have to put up with it anymore
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  Speaker 1: and you can do whatever you want. You're good as
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  Speaker 1: long as you don't trash the team. You get the
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  Speaker 1: forty million done, done, And but wait, there's more, as
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  Speaker 1: every great infomercial says, but wait, there's more. So Additionally,
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  Speaker 1: when he left the Bucks, he had he didn't leave
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  Speaker 1: the Bucks. He got let go by the Bucks. He
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  Speaker 1: had sixteen million that the Bucks owed him approximately, So
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  Speaker 1: that means, based on just buyouts from the Milwaukee and
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  Speaker 1: Phoenix basketball team, Budenholzer, by the time this deals up
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  Speaker 1: in Arizona will have made fifty six million to not
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  Speaker 1: coach pro bouncy ball, fifty six million to sit on
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  Speaker 1: your ass and get hemorrhoids and not coach. Budenholzer is
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  Speaker 1: financially as snug as a bug in the rug.
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  Speaker 4: He is good to go now page two.
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  Speaker 1: So when you have a coaching change in the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: it always goes back to the players. There has never
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  Speaker 1: in the modern era been a coaching change that was
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  Speaker 1: not based on recommendations by the players. It doesn't happen
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  Speaker 1: the players are the ones that drive the bus in
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  Speaker 1: that business, and so which player shoulders the most blame
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  Speaker 1: for Mike Budenholzer not working out there a quick departure
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  Speaker 1: from the Suns. Now, the rumors for the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of months were that it was Kevin Durant, that Durant
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  Speaker 1: was the schmuck and he was the problem. Now we
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  Speaker 1: have a plot twist, and what is the plot twists?
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  Speaker 1: Things thicken up here. So the plot twist is the
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  Speaker 1: whispers indicate that the palace intrigue is not focused on
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. No, no, no, that this was an issue with
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  Speaker 1: Devin Booker. The plot thickens, Yeah, Devin Booker. Supposedly. Now
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  Speaker 1: Budenholzer had issues connecting with the locker room this season,
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  Speaker 1: which is really just some of the players didn't like
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  Speaker 1: the way he was talking. That's how that goes, and
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  Speaker 1: he did not resonate, did not motivate them to go
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  Speaker 1: out there and do things that you were supposed to do,
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  Speaker 1: that you shouldn't need be to be told what to do.
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  Speaker 1: But nonetheless, so apparently his charismatic I said that with
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  Speaker 1: a winking or not. His charismatic approach did not did
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  Speaker 1: not win the room. So Budenholzer's main flaw, the biggest
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  Speaker 1: issue the Komodo dragon in the room for Mike Budenholzer
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  Speaker 1: was his inability to get on the same page with
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  Speaker 1: Devin Booker. And he had the hutzba, as my grandfather
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  Speaker 1: used to say, the hutzpa to try to tell Devin
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  Speaker 1: Booker to.
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  Speaker 4: Ix nay on the talk a just tone it down.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of decibel points. Just tone it down a
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  Speaker 1: little bit and we'll be good to go. And you
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  Speaker 1: would have thought that Mike Budenholzer had said, why don't
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  Speaker 1: we cut off your right foot and that'll make the
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  Speaker 1: team better, And Devin Booker said, I like my right foot.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to.
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  Speaker 1: Get rid of my right foot. I'd like to keep
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  Speaker 1: my right foot, So why don't we not do that?
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  Speaker 1: And then there was a problem. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: And it does remind me that this cartoon image in
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  Speaker 1: my head, it's not a cartoon.
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  Speaker 4: It's actually a real movie.
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  Speaker 1: There's old movie Beverly Hills cop back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: and I think of that when I think of this,
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  Speaker 1: like the coach of the Sons going up to Devin Bookers, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know I'm here. I want to make this thing work.
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  Speaker 1: I just need you to to not talk that much
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  Speaker 1: and kind of tone it down a little bit, be
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  Speaker 1: one of.
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  Speaker 4: The leaders on the team.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then Devin Booker's like the character of
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  Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy in that movie, the old movie Beverly Hills
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  Speaker 1: Cop and he physically physically blocks blocks the ears with
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  Speaker 1: his fingers and says, la.
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  Speaker 4: La la la la la la la la la la
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  Speaker 4: la la la. I'm not here. I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 4: La la la la la la la la la like that,
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  Speaker 4: just like that. Uh, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: And Devin, you are what your record says you are.
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  Speaker 1: This guy is one of the epic coach killers. In
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  Speaker 1: the end, is very bigger coach kill. We talk about
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  Speaker 1: Lebron James as a coach killer, but Devin Booker not
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  Speaker 1: in a big media market. But Devin Booker, you talk
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  Speaker 1: about toxic. If you're a head coach, holy crap. Oh man,
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  Speaker 1: if you're even in the same room with this guy
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  Speaker 1: as a coach, you're in jeopardy of being fired. With
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  Speaker 1: Devin Booker, my god, it's unreal. The math on this
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  Speaker 1: Seven coaches in ten years and most of the last well,
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  Speaker 1: the last part of that seven years or so, Devin
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  Speaker 1: Booker's been a headliner for the Suns, and so he's
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  Speaker 1: obviously somebody is not easy to work with, and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those things. But your main job as
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  Speaker 1: a coach is just to lick the toes of the
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  Speaker 1: star players. That's how you keep the job. Coaches are
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  Speaker 1: completely irrelevant, yet they make it's such a weird juxtaposition
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, because everyone agrees coaches.
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  Speaker 4: Don't matter, they don't do anything, yet they get.
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  Speaker 1: Paid ten million dollars in some cases more than that
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  Speaker 1: per year, and yet they're easily replaceable.
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  Speaker 4: Like it's not like, well, you get rid of your
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  Speaker 4: top player. It's a big problem.
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  Speaker 1: Every once give rid of the coach, bring some other
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  Speaker 1: nerd in, Like it's the Nuggets at Michael Malone, who
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  Speaker 1: most people thought was a pretty good coach. They hired
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  Speaker 1: this beta Poindexter nerd who's a NEPO baby as the
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  Speaker 1: interim coach, and then we'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, it's like so bizarre that why would you
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  Speaker 1: bother paying them that much. It's like the NFL determined
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  Speaker 1: running backs don't need to get paid a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: so like, only two or three running backs get paid
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  Speaker 1: any money.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone else gets paid peanuts.
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  Speaker 1: It's very bizarre, and congratulations to Matt Ishbia, you have
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  Speaker 1: assembled the worst team that money could buy. NBA version
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  Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns the highest payroll in NBA history this
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  Speaker 1: past season. They totaled out at four hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: two million. How is that possible? Well, the payroll for
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  Speaker 1: the actual player salaries was two hundred nineteen million. And
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  Speaker 1: then because all the cheap, tightwad, small market pathetic owners
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  Speaker 1: complained and said, oh man, it's not fair.
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  Speaker 4: So they put all.
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  Speaker 1: These taxes, these tariffs if you will, on the big
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  Speaker 1: money teams in sports, and so in the NBA. So
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  Speaker 1: they ended up paying one hundred and eighty four million
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  Speaker 1: dollars in luxury tariff penalties, if you will, and they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even make the playing tournament. Mike got all right, now,
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  Speaker 1: final point to the big easy. There were some other changes.
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  Speaker 1: There were other changes in the NBA. The Pelicans, which
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  Speaker 1: is I think a team that's there so the other
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  Speaker 1: teams have someone to play.
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  Speaker 4: They're one of those spam teams. How dumb is that named?
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  Speaker 4: The Pelicans? Anyway? The New Orleans Pelicans. We don't talk
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  Speaker 4: about that much. Why would we? Why would we?
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  Speaker 1: They fired the executive named David Griffin, a media favorite,
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  Speaker 1: a media darling, and he has been given the walking papers.
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  Speaker 4: Get out of here, you're done.
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  Speaker 1: Griffin spent the past six seasons putting bad basketball teams
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  Speaker 1: together as the head of basketball ops in New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: and the Pelicans have said bye bye, You're out of here.
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  Speaker 1: So how much blame does David Griffin does he get
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  Speaker 1: for the New Orleans struggle? So Griffin could write a book,
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  Speaker 1: he's not qualified also to teach a class, like a
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  Speaker 1: web based class on how to keep getting gigs and
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  Speaker 1: not being very good at your job and last a
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  Speaker 1: good amount of time. It's wild right. Griffin failed horse
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  Speaker 1: trading one oh one long ago. He allowed Anthony Davis
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  Speaker 1: to trade himself to the Lakers. That was under the
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  Speaker 1: Griffin watch. And then the winning of the lottery. Will
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  Speaker 1: sometimes be careful what you wish for the New Orleans Pelicans, Remember,
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  Speaker 1: they won the lottery and David Griffin thought that the
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  Speaker 1: team was drafting a thoroughbred that could win the Triple
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  Speaker 1: Crown or at least the Kentucky Derby, and instead they
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  Speaker 1: ended up drafting a player who is much more like
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  Speaker 1: a Budweiser Clydesdale in in Zion Williamson, a Clydesdale with
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  Speaker 1: three legs.
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  Speaker 4: And there you go. What an enigma? What an enigma?
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  Speaker 1: Now, I don't have an issue with them drafting Zion
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  Speaker 1: WM say I would have done the same thing. The
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  Speaker 1: issue is you knew the guy just doesn't have it,
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  Speaker 1: that he's lacking that genis aquah, whatever that is.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't have it.
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  Speaker 1: The guys, he's just not into it and he's never
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  Speaker 1: gonna be that guy. And you signed him to another deal,
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  Speaker 1: you signed him to an extension. When you knew you
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  Speaker 1: had a problem, you doubled down on the problem. And
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  Speaker 1: that's that's malfeasance, is what that is. That's embarrassing. And
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  Speaker 1: drafting Zion Williamson was not again the issue, but the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you tied yourself to that anchor that's the
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  Speaker 1: issue here. And again, Griffin's one of these guys got
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  Speaker 1: much like Darryl Morey in Philadelphia, has got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of opportunities because he's a bit of a carpetbagger.
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  Speaker 4: He's got the good personality and all that he's.
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  Speaker 1: Allows the executive but when you think about his career,
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  Speaker 1: he was in Cleveland for a while, and you tell
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  Speaker 1: me about being the beneficiary of circumstance. He went, he
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  Speaker 1: was the GM. Lebron went back to Cleveland. Does anybody
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  Speaker 1: raise her head? Is anyone in the building here raise
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  Speaker 1: her hand if you think Lebron went back to Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: because David Griffin was the GM, or that was always
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  Speaker 1: Lebron's intention to eventually go back to Cleveland.
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  Speaker 4: And these two things are not related, yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And so now they're going to bring in some other Jabroni,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's Joe Dumars who's the early favorite, or somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: And the first thing that person will do is get
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  Speaker 1: rid of Zion Williamson. They'll be like, all right, this
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  Speaker 1: guy blows. We'll get rid of this guy for pennies
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  Speaker 1: on the dollar and a lot of dollars, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of dollars.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: It is the Ben Mahler Show. And the only reason
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  Speaker 1: they paid Zion Williamson was fomo the fear of missing out.
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  Speaker 1: They were, ah, my god, we got to pay him.
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  Speaker 1: We don't pay him, Oh my god. They had to
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  Speaker 1: pay him anyway, how'd that work out?
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from baseball. Now, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, I have my routine. We are all creatures
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  Speaker 1: of habit and then normally when I'm futxing around getting
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  Speaker 1: ready for the show, got my laptop open, looking around,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm watching some games, and I have all the
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  Speaker 1: games available to me. And there were some really bad gays,
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  Speaker 1: like there were some total no shows in Major League Baseball,
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  Speaker 1: and leading the way the Boston Red Sox, who were
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  Speaker 1: just god off, just god even why they even show
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  Speaker 1: up to the ballpark there in Tampa. Uh so, Ronald
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  Speaker 1: got their tail kicked. There were a bunch of blowouts
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  Speaker 1: all over the place. Philly got swished by the Hgantes,
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  Speaker 1: although that was somewhat closed for a while, somewhat close
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  Speaker 1: for a while. But our lead this hour is not
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  Speaker 1: from those games. It is not a game that was
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  Speaker 1: also lopsided. Some more dirt, some more intel coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the Heartland and involves a red bird that stayed
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  Speaker 1: in the nest. A red bird that stayed in the
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  Speaker 1: nest It was one of the bigger stories of the
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  Speaker 1: baseball offseason, and it has new life because the player
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  Speaker 1: that was going to be traded that rejected the trade.
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  Speaker 1: He moved tumboed the trade and said, no, I'm not going.
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  Speaker 1: There has spoken. If you didn't see this, you have
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  Speaker 1: no idea what I'm talking about. He said, why are
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  Speaker 1: you talking pig Latin? What's wrong with you? Have you
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  Speaker 1: lost your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Let me explain. So, the Cardinals have a third baseman.
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  Speaker 1: Making a lot of money named Nolan Aernado, and they
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: got him years ago from the Rockies, and he's hit
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: a lot of home runs, a lot of meaningless empty stats.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Team doesn't win in Saint Louis.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: So the Cardinals wanted to unload Nolan Aernado, and they
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: had agreed to a trade and it was all worked out,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: and then Aeronado said I ain't going and he didn't
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: have to go because he had a no trade clause.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Nolan Aernado has.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Now confirmed one of the reasons why he said, not
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: over my dead body am I going to use my
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: no trade clause. I'm not going to Houston. I don't
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: want to play for the cheating as one one thousand
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: two one thousand holes don't want to do it. And
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: he said the reason that he rejected the trade is
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: because the Houston baseball team had traded all star outfielder
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: by the name of Kyle Tucker to the Cups. And
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: he say, an, that's not going to work. You're not
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: trying to win. The quote from Aeronauto. He said, Tucker
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: is one of the best players in the game. He grumbled.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Aeronauto. He said, when you see a team trade.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Him, a ninety nine out of one hundred players would
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: probably be wondering, what does that mean?
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: What does that mean? That's the question I asked myself. Now.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Aeronauto ended up blocking the trade to the cheating a
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: holes in in December, five days, five days after the
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: deal that sent Tucker to the North Side of Chicago
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: had been announced. So let us discuss the question. Cardinals
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: third baseman Nolan Aernado confirming that he said no to
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: play for the cheating Asstros after altfieler Kyle Tucker had
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: been traded away made him a little uncomfortable. So how
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: does that one hit you? How does that one hit you?
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: So I'll go first here, I got Buckey's family guy
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and dodgeball, and we will combine all of these things
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: together and we are going to make toasted ravioli, which
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: is wonderful, delicious, and it's a tradition in Saint louis
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: now much better than the skyline ChIL of Cincinnati. Uh,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: talk about cities that have signature foods. Toasted ravioli, which
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: is the food of Saint louis much much higher up
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: on the big board, not only not a list, a
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: big board of signature dishes known in a certain locations.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: So all right, first of all, I totally get it.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: I totally get it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: You don't need to preach on and on if you're
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: knowing Aeronauda on this the reasoning is on point.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: It is on point here. You're preaching to the choir,
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: is what you're doing on this one.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: And it's essentially if if you're an Aeronauta, you're like, listen,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I'm not a plumber. I don't own a plunger. I
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't want to sit on a
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: clogged toilet. And the Houston baseball team is a clog toilet.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: So why would you sign up when you know if
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: you wait, you're gonna have other options down the line,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: and Aeronauto is I know he didn't go to Ohio State, right,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: He's not.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: He's not a.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Traditional buck guy, but in many ways he is a
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: buck guy, blood guy. He's a buck guy's blood guy
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: because much like the Ohio State Marching Band, he dotted
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the eye on this one.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: The AHHHH.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Franchise is built on a hill of marshmallows, a hill
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: of marshmallows.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: At this point, it is counterfeit.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: They've accomplished nothing, and Aeronado knows that, and he wanted
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: no part of that. And you can't fault the player.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: It's his right. He had a no trade clause and
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: he realized, why would I want to go there? I
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: want nothing to do with that, right. I mean, everything
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: they've done there is that we get a buzzer over here,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: you got a trash can over there, and those little
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: pieces of metal. That's not my words, that's what Rob
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Manford said. He thinks the World Series trophy is just
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: a piece of metal, so it's not worth a warm
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: bucket to spit. It's not worth a warm bucket to spit,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and I get it. Aeronado knows if he plays all
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: right for the Cardinals. He had a home run in
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the game on Monday, and if he plays okay, then
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Aeronauto he'd rather spend a little more time in the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: outhouse that is the Cardinals. But the Cardinals are so bad.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: No one's even going to the games. Even when the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Cardinals were bad, people just go to the games. I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: was watching the Cardinal game and there was like nobody there.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: It was like I thought I was watching the old
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Cleveland Indians back in the day. There was like ten
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: people at the ballpark. Wild They have sucked so long
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and been so bad in Saint Louis now, even the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: greatest fans at baseball they've turned their back on the cars.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: That's the only way you get ownership to make changes
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: is if you just ignore the team. You gotta have apathy,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: and the Cardinal fans are showing apathy. But anyway, listen,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: that's where we are. And if you just wait, if
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: you're Nolan Aeronato, you can hand pick and end up
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: in a better situation. Now turn the page. We head
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to Denver, but not not for nugget Tucks. It's come
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to my attention, It has come to my attention that
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: there is a great thief in the night that is
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: getting no negative publicity, but is one of the great
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: heists of our time in professional sports. And it's going
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: on right under our nose, and it involves those unlovable
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: losers from Colorado who were making some headlines here. If
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: he saw this or not, The Rockies announced they have
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: placed their big free agent pickup a couple of years ago,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Chris Bryant, on a ten day They call it injured list.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: We used to call it d L back in the day,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: disabled list. Then the Wolchsters and Baseball said no, no, no,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: it's injured. It's injured. But they say that he's got
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: a degenerate disc disease. He's got a degenerate problem with
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: his back. That sounds like a problem. Yeah, that sounds
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: sounds like a problem there.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: And I'm not a doctor, but I can play one
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: the radio.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: So what is the word to describe Chris Bryant and
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: his tenure with the Rockies. This guy at one point
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: was on as they say, im polker. He was on
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: the coup with the Cubs. And we talked earlier about
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the Cubs winning the World Series. And it's been almost
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: a decade or So since the Cubs won the World
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Series and they thought they had the next great dynasty,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: and you look at what a bunch of turds most
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: of those guys in the Cubs turned out to be.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: They all made a lot of money, but in terms
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of successful, big time, productive careers, a lot of frauds.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: A lot of frauds. And this is one of these.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: You bet on these young players, and a lot of
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: these guys do not have the longevity do it for
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: a couple of years. Chris Bryant's on that short list.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: But to answer the question, what is your word for
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Chris Bryant's tenure with the Rockies, My word is it's
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: from family guy quagmire. It's a quagmire is what it
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: is here. It's a hot mess. And instead of quagmire,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: how about q Q quiet quitting. That is what Chris
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Bryan has done. And say I just said it. And
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: here's the thing. There's this loser in Anaheim that named
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Anthony Rendon who said the quiet part out by the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: guy hates baseball.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Baseball hates him.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: The Angels are so stupid they gave him like two
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: hundred and forty five million dollars. The guy is a
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: total malcontent, doesn't play, doesn't even pretend like he wants
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: to play.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Just a loser, right. I mean, everything you hate.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: About professional sports is summed up in Anthony Rendolin. And
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the difference between Chris Bryant and Anthony Rendon is a
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: little more money, right, actually a lot more money. But
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the other thing is that Chris Bryant you never hear.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: You don't know whether he hates baseball or anything like that.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: He just doesn't play. He just sucks when he plays,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: and you don't hear about it. And this guy was
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: at breakout star for the Chicago Cubs years ago, and
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: he is currently floating on the lazy river. He might
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: as well be on disability with the With the Rockies
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: at this particular points, he's played about one season, but
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: he's been there three plus years.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: In Colorade, He's played one hundred.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: And seventy games and the Rockies he has a minus
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: one point six war wins above replacement.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Which means the Rockies are tangibly worse with Chris Bryan.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: On the field, all right, And he's in the middle
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: of a year, one hundred and eighty two million dollar
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: contract with the Colorado baseball team. And again, now you
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: crunch the numbers on this, He's now in his fourth
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: year as a member of the Rockies and he has
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: not played over eighty games. He has not passed eighty
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: games in any of those campaigns. And the latest appearance
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: now his one superpower, the one area where Chris Bryant
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: is elite as a Rocky is ending up on what
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: we used to call this able list. This is not
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: his first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth. How
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: about his ninth trip to the injury list since joining
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the Rockies. That is impressive. And oh, by the way,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: but wait, there's more. The Rockies will be paying him
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: eighty one million to sit on his ass and not play.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: And then when he does play, go up there in
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: back two forty four with mediocre numbers across the board,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: You could have gotten a guy out of the Mexican
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: League that would have put up those numbers. But I digress.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: All right, now final thought, we now go to Chicago.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: There was a story that this was sent in actually
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: by listener named Steve, who says he is he's in
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the suburbs of Chicago, but he's up Ladies nocturnal and
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: he listens to our show. So thank you Steve for
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: sending this my way, and we'll give you a couple
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: of minutes on this. So some developments from the Friendly Confines.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: The Cubbies enjoying a West coast trip here early in
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the season, and we learned recently the Cubs tried to
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: sign outfielder Pete crow Armstrong. That's a mouthful, Pete crow
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Armstrong to an extension. They offered him a relatively large extension,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: seventy five million dollars seventy five million dollars. He said, no,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I reject your seventy five million dollars. I don't want
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: your seventy five million. I don't need your seventy five million.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to accept your seventy five million. So instead,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I'm going to counter that offer and I'm going to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: ask for something else where. The offer was not accepted
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: by the Rockies, so they have decided to table the
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: contract talks, which is a polite.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Way of saying we're not paying you. Go away. That's it.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: He's twenty three years old and he's in his third
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: major league season.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: The guy did hit some bombs against the Dodgers over
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the weekend, And how do you digest this was the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: big prize the Cubs got in the Hobby bayas trade.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Another one of those.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Can't miss young Cub players who blows he's terrible anyway,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: how do you digest Pete Krohl Armstrong turning down seventy
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: five million from the Cubs and then off trying to
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: get even more out of him in the Cub said no, so,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: as I learned from Dodgeball back in the day, that
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: is a bold strategy. Cotton is what that is. Let's
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: see if it pays off. We will find out. I'm
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: betting on it won't pay off. Now, Krol Armstrong is
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: so far when you turn about his offense. He did
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: some home runs recently, but you talk about his offense
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and it's a lot of sizzle. His game in general
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: not a lot of steak. Like, not a lot of
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: steak there. He's got some speed, good defensive player, and
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: his bat has been like the band Limp biscuit, just
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of limp, a lot of limp in the
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: bat there. And he's yet to get his sea legs
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: underneath him at this particular point. Does not have that,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and he's making I love how it used to be
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: when you were on a rookie contract. Boy, you really
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: got to get a job selling cars or you know,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: cleaning up trash in the offseason. But this guy's making
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: seven hundred and seventy one thousand dollars as a third
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: year player. So where I come from, that's a good
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: amount of money. Seven hundred thousand dollars. However, it's not
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: seventy five million.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: It's not that. And here's the other thing.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: He's not arbitration eligible till twenty twenty eight, so he's
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: not going to get the big, big, big money until
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: at least twenty twenty eighth.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: That's three more years.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: And if this guy goes out there in bat's two
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: thirty every year and doesn't hit enough, he's not going
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: to get to that point and get the big money.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Seventy five million is generational wealth. He's betting on himself.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: We'll see if it works out. You know, seventy five
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: million with a good investment portfolio of some real estate
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: and some investments in commodities and whatnot, you are set up.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: You're good to go, and generations of your family are
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: good to go. But he's going for the big, big Big,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Big Money.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: This is one Big Ben gets grilled a coopol.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: It was reported a couple of weeks ago that the
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: Chiefs wanted to become a permanent fixture on Christmas Day,
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: much like the Lions and the Cowboys are on Thanksgiving. However,
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: we recently learned that the NFL currently doesn't have any
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: plans to make anyone a permanent host on Christmas. Ben,
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: would you like to see a permanent Christmas team?
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: I would.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I grew up, we all grew up with the Cowboys
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and the Lions on Thanksgiving.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: That's just what you came to know.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: And in the NBA it's always your annoying Lakers and
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: the Celtics usually would play on Christmas. They'd have the
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: high profile teams there every year, and it's just it's
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: part of the circle of life. You know, when the
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: holidays come up, you're going to see at least you
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: know one of the teams is going to be playing there.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I say, why not? The Chiefs have been pretty good.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: They're not gonna be good forever. At some point they'll
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: suck again. But I have no problem with it. Make
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: to me, it makes sense that I have that one
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: signature team that you know, you associate the holiday with.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: I don't see what the problem is.
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: Next, Alex Sar recently just became only the third rookie
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: ever to have one hundred three pointers made, one hundred
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: plus blocks, and one hundred plus assists. Ben, do you
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: think Sarr has locked up Rookie of the Year award?
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: Well not, according to the gambling market.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: According to the gambling market's the odds are not actually
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: in his favor. That the the numbers indicate the gamby
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: market that says, Stephen Castle, the Spurs is the.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: Overwhelming favorite, like he's going to win.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: It, and uh, you know the Hawks are in the
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: playing thing here, the Spurs they've got their own.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: They're also in the plane. But yeah, he's not the favorite.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: Next, there are five teams that have ten percent or
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: more of a chance to land the number one overall
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: pick in the NBA lottery. Yeah, aka the Flag Sweepstakes.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Are the Jazz, Wizards, Hornings, Pelicans, and seventy six ers. Yeah,
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: and if one of them were guaranteed to get the
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: number one pick, Philly's got to be the best landing
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: spot for Flag, right.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Uh, Joe, Now, because Joel Embiad's a hot mess, I'm
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: market wise, Yeah, I feel it. If by the way,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna simulate the lottery right right now, Cooplo, I'm
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: on tankaphon right now, I'm gonna simulate the lottery.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, the Charlotte Hornets have won the lottery.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Oh he's good. I know he's from Maine. But Flag
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: is going to Charlotte.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I've just I've just run, I put I did sim
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: lottery on Tankafon. Send that out, Coop. We are now
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: reporting that they're Charlotte Hornets. The nineteen win Hornets have
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: won the lottery. They've moved up two spots. Philadelphia got
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the second bick. But no, if this guy's the real deal,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I have my questions. But Brooklyn would not be bad. Right,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: They don't have much of a chance. But Brooklyn's in
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the lottery. That's the New York market. Philadelphia something better
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: than Toronto or Utah or San Antonio. There it is
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Malard only third degree how did we know he passed
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the second?
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: I passed the raft, I got a degree. I passed.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: Let's test.
• 34:35
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  Speaker 2: listen live. Now, Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: what it takes to get to the top?
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: Probably not an away? We go time now for Malor's
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Mountain Money? And who do we have here? We've got
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: Li's eeny meanie miney mo. We've got Tyler in Boston.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: Who's gonna play?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Hello?
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: Tyler? Welcome on, Benny? Yeah, what's up? Do you want
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: to play well with me?
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Ben?
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: You got koober Loop? Who do you want to partner
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: up with you? Tyler?
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: All right, Benny, Let's let's take this one.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: All right? We got it? Tyler? Very good? All right?
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second, and then uh let's see therraina
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: picked door number door number one or door number two.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Number two? Okay, fly Scott is uh hey, is this
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Tyler brilliant?
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Boston?
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: I don't think he's brilliant. You're already attacking Tyler. Yeah,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: you're already attacking him. Come on, no fun.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I'm a real Boston and I'm out here building bridges
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: and stuff, so you can get around that.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Look at that. This guy's a real man. I'd like you,
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: bly Scott. Did you fix that?
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Tom Bridge? Man?
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: It took you like five years? All right? I can't
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: you pick number one? She picked him up. She got
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: to play the guy. We gotta play the game. One
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: of the categories hurry up? Hurry up?
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: Are you? This is the Chris Stapleton addition. He turns
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: forty seven today. Categories are tennessee, whiskey, traveler, was it
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: twenty six?
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: And either way?
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Which one you want? Tyler? Traveler? What do you say? Traveler? Yeah,
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: all right, what do you want? Blind Scott? I'll take
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: the other one? All right, So we're gonna go to
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: the bullpen. We hadn't even played yet. Number He hasn't
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: even played. Hurry up, you're wasting time, Anthony. Do you
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: want to play? Yes, sir? All right? What do you want?
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: Tennessee, whiskey? Was it twenty six? Or either way?
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Very good?
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: And Tyler, we're on the board and here we go.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: You picked a traveler. These athletes all played for seven
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: or more teams. Are you ready to go?
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Here we go, first and last name, running back known
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: as he was an MVP for the Minnesota Vikings.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: Beat up a kid, bounced around the na effect. Yes,
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: the Tyler only time.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: He was a center for the Orlando Magic not not shack,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: not won, Yes, that is true, all right. Known as
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Aeric Canada for the Raptors. One of the great slam
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: dunk artists of all time. Yes, mister big shot for
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the Detroit Pistons, though he was picked you know, he
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: was picked by the Celtics.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: Actually a guard. Yes, let's see here.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Senator Michael Jordan drafted him out of high school. Was
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: a disaster, threw a cake when he was with the.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Local No, no, Klawn Brown got all right, go ahead, cool?
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: One hundred points. That's what all right? Anthony? We've got?
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: Was it twenty six? Right, that's the one he chose? Yeah,
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: all right?
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: These athletes all wore or where number twenty six? I
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: need the first and last name, Anthony? All right, forty
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: five seconds, let's begin. He just rushed for over two
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: thousand yards for the Eagles. Yes, this guy was the
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: lead running back for the Steelers, he held out for
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: an entire season. Oh all right, this guy, yes, that's correct,
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: all right, all right, so this guy here, this guy
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: was a defensive back for the Raiders.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Us a bold clue. Hall of Famer.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: No, all right, Litsten Well, hall of fame, third basement
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: for the Red Sox and then the later the Tampa
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: Bay Raised.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: Don't answer, Tyler. Oh that was bad.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: That was that was on me?
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: All right, terrible job. How many points is that? Lore?
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: Thirty thirty? Anthony were back up? Do you want Tennessee
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: whiskey or either way.
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: Whiskey?
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: All right, let's go these athletes cheering for them for you, Jesus,
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: heats were all born in Tennessee. For forty five seconds,
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: let's begin. Current quarterback for the Jaguars, Trevor Lawrence. Yes,
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: he is the center field for the Dodgers. He used
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: to be on the Red Sox, came over to trade, yes, whatever.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: The current The current coach for the Lakers, Garbingham.
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: Oh no, no, I didn't even know the Lakers, all right, No, no, no, no,
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: shut up? What he didn't I need to hear his answer.
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: He's not answering, he's googling.
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: Oh my God, you're cheating. I win the game. You
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: went to the bullpit.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, you cheated by going to the bullet you're disqualified.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: I went job. Anthony, you got a golden take.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: You're a real man out there building a bridge. Tyler,
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: you're a stunt unlike.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: These other losers. The guy's actually out there building a bridge.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Tyler wings. You gotta goal the teck. You gotta goll
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: the teck galled. Anthony gets the golden ticket. Anthony wins.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: Tyler