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Hour 3 - Philly Meet & Greet · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Talking' bass mall in our number three, a lot of
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Speaker 1: hot stove action from the general manager meetings in Lost Wages, Nevada.
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Speaker 1: That's where we go for hour number three on this Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: the twelfth day of November. A Malard monologue included. In
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Speaker 1: that Malard monologue, you're about to hear what do you
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Speaker 1: make of the family feud between Bryce Harper and Dave
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Speaker 1: Dombrowski in Philadelphia? We have an update update on that. Also,
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Speaker 1: does this statement from the Pirates GM. He's said that
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Speaker 1: Paul Skeens will be on the Pirates in twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: will be a Pirate? Does that end the Paul Skins
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Speaker 1: trade talk before the Hot Stove League even gets going?
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Speaker 1: And should the Dodgers spend big on former Yankees reliever
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Speaker 1: Devin Williams who used to play for the Brewers. Dodgers
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Speaker 1: said to be hot and heavy for Devin Williams. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about that and more right now here. It is
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Speaker 1: our number three. We'll call it a Philly meet and greet.
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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour from Lost Wages, Nevada. We
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Speaker 1: go to sin City, the GM meetings that are going
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Speaker 1: on right now. Yeah, you've been following this. No, it's
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Speaker 1: storyline nine. Overload, overload, all right, So we go now
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Speaker 1: to the Cosmo. It's the Cosmopolitan, a hotel for middle
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Speaker 1: aged women. That is where it makes baseball is only
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Speaker 1: I'm not making this up out. I've been to Cosmopolitan.
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Speaker 1: They've got very a lot of interesting things down, but
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Speaker 1: that's where the GM meetings are. Uh So that is
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Speaker 1: where we go and it's it is just redoncaous. So
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Speaker 1: the inside skinny on this. Philly's executive Dave Dombrowski. Now,
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Speaker 1: I like this guy. Don Browski's been a GM my
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Speaker 1: entire time on the radio. Before I old kid, Dombrowski
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Speaker 1: was an executive in baseball. So Dave Dombrowski, the executive
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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, says that he's had a long conversation with
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Speaker 1: star Bryce Harper, and this a follow up to previous
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Speaker 1: male monologues of days of yore. So I had a
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Speaker 1: conversation with Bryce Harper don Browski recently, but would not
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Speaker 1: go into specifics about what the two discussed. He just said, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we talked. We had a little conversation. That's it. We
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Speaker 1: had a conversation. So this comes after Dombrowski famously questioned
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Speaker 1: if Bryce Harper would ever become truly elite again. Now,
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Speaker 1: Harper had a good season for the Fighting Phils in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, but he was not anywhere near what
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Speaker 1: he had been in his salad days when he had
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Speaker 1: natitude in his blood. Even his early days in Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: and the playoffs, Bryce Harper was futile against the Dodger
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Speaker 1: pitching staff three of fifteen in the playoffs. And if
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Speaker 1: you look at his overall season and you go by
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Speaker 1: the NERD stats, Bryce Harper had an eight forty four ops,
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Speaker 1: which we are told the lowest he's had in almost
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Speaker 1: a decade. I don't think that's good. Oh, you're being
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Speaker 1: such a hit. So that is a good jumping off point,
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Speaker 1: just the conversation, the little pow wow between Dombrowski and
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Speaker 1: Bryce Harper and what so let us discuss the question,
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Speaker 1: what do you make of the family feud, the family
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Speaker 1: feud between Bryce Harper and Dave dom Browski in Philadelphia.
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Speaker 1: We're hearing about it here at the GM meetings in Vegas.
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Speaker 1: So my views on this, I've got Walgreens, African Safari,
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Speaker 1: and Sheboygan and we will combine all of these things
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Speaker 1: together and we're gonna make the gobbagool. We're gonna have
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Speaker 1: the Gobba gool. That's what we're gonna have, all right.
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Speaker 1: So first of all, Hey, I'm here as a talk
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Speaker 1: show host. I support I'd like to represent all the
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Speaker 1: other gas backs and blowhards to do this for a living.
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Speaker 1: We fully support a Philadelphia drama. O rama, give us
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Speaker 1: the soap opera. This sounds to me, based on a
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Speaker 1: minutes long deliberation, it sounds like a game of tug
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Speaker 1: of war. You've got the star player who's got the
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Speaker 1: forever contract. You've got the sizzled baseball executive, the sizzled
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Speaker 1: and grizzled baseball executive. So my diagnosis is that Bryce
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Speaker 1: Harper is having a hard time handling the prescription he
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Speaker 1: got at Walgreens. The medication it's a hard pill to
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Speaker 1: swallow here, and he's got hurt feelings. Dombrowski got into
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Speaker 1: his feels. He's got hurt feelings over is this little dose.
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Speaker 1: Dombrowski gave a little dose of serum truth surum, and
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Speaker 1: Harper's been a delicate little flower, being very sensitive about
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Speaker 1: what's going on. He don't like this, and nobody wants
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Speaker 1: their boss to call them out. And it's Days of
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Speaker 1: Our Lives Meet, the show that people used to watch
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Speaker 1: called Sports Center back in the day. As the Bat turns,
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Speaker 1: As the Bat turns. Anyway, Dombrowski, here's my theory on this.
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Speaker 1: I said this in previous episodes of the show, and
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Speaker 1: I'm going to double down on it right now that
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Speaker 1: Dave Dombrowski, what he's doing here is the classic old
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Speaker 1: school front all off this move. There's a couple of
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Speaker 1: things people do. This is the poke the bear strategy.
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Speaker 1: The poke the bear strategy that you see if the
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Speaker 1: multi million dollar bopper for the fight and Phills is like,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm hungry, I want to, I want I'm
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Speaker 1: upset you upset me? Now, he he could have also
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Speaker 1: done the compliment sandwich, which he kind of did. Dombrowski,
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Speaker 1: and I love the compliment sandwich. When I have a
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Speaker 1: meeting with the boss. I I I When he starts
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Speaker 1: out with the compliment, I know I'm gonna get just
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Speaker 1: absolutely ripped apart the next thing the boss says, and
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Speaker 1: then he'll finish with a compliment. So that's the compliment, Samwich.
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Speaker 1: We've all had that. But in this case, Dombrowski playing
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Speaker 1: baseball shrink, baseball psychologist, Dombrowski trying to get Bryce Harper
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Speaker 1: to go from good to MVP level.
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Speaker 2: Good.
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Speaker 1: Now he wants that jump. So you call out. If
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Speaker 1: you look at the old school baseball playbook, you call
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Speaker 1: out the superstar player publicly, and then you have a
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Speaker 1: nice conversation, nice conversation, good decorum, privately get together. There,
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Speaker 1: classic manipulation. It is either way. Bryce Harper is not
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Speaker 1: going anywhere. He's not he's got a no trade clause.
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Speaker 1: I believe he's got a thirteen year contract. He has
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Speaker 1: been branded. He's got the Philly Fanatic tattoo on his
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a tramp stand, but he's got
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Speaker 1: a tattoo. Got a tattoo there of the of the
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Speaker 1: Philly Fanatic. And you talk about being married to the franchise.
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Speaker 1: I think when you when you start getting tattoos like that,
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Speaker 1: and that's a that's a big move.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, so the twenty twenty six Phillies, we are not
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Speaker 1: even not one new player has been added of note.
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Speaker 1: And already I am ready to declare that the storylines
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Speaker 1: have already been made for the twenty twenty sixth Philadelphia Phillies.
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Speaker 1: It just writes itself. It just it makes for perfect
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Speaker 1: talk radio. You have Bryce Harper comes out and monster mashes.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, he's hitting the ball out of the bank,
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Speaker 1: and oh he dominates again and everyone's happy and all that,
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Speaker 1: and it's he showed Dave Dombrowski, who wears the pants
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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, shoved it down Dombrowski's throat like vegetables to
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Speaker 1: a child. Now there's that in the multiverse. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's multiple outcomes of these stories. So in the multiverse,
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Speaker 1: there's another version where Bryce Harper comes out there and sucks,
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Speaker 1: is just terrible, gets hurt, doesn't play well. Is a
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Speaker 1: falling star. Don't let a falling star fall on you.
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Speaker 1: And if that happens, he's got plausible deniability, Bryce Harper,
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Speaker 1: he simply says, Dave Dombrowski is the reason Bryce is
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Speaker 1: trying too hard. I love that trying to hard. Such
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Speaker 1: a good excuse, trying too hard, and so it it's
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Speaker 1: Dombrowski's fault. Dom Browski broke Bryce Harper. So there's that.
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Speaker 1: There's that part of the story. So either way, the lights,
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Speaker 1: camera action, all that stuff's going on and cue the music,
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Speaker 1: like signs through the hourglass. So are the phillies of
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Speaker 1: our lives there? It is all right? Anyway. Secondly, now
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Speaker 1: more from the GM meetings. Now, one of the names
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Speaker 1: that we talked about a couple weeks back and the
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Speaker 1: player to watch, the player to watch here, that would
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Speaker 1: be the ace in the hole for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Speaker 1: So the great ace debate Ben Cherrington. You probably don't
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Speaker 1: know who that is unless you're a baseball hard. Oh
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Speaker 1: but Ben Cherrington is the general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Speaker 1: What a great job. You're not supposed to win. You
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Speaker 1: paid a lot of money, you have a nice, affordable
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Speaker 1: home in Pittsburgh, nice ballpark to go to every day,
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Speaker 1: and you don't have to get good baseball players because
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Speaker 1: the team doesn't want to win. But that's a great job. Sorryry.
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Speaker 1: Ben Charrington was asked about the snuffalupagus in the room.
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Speaker 1: That would be none other than the Paul Skeins trade rumors.
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Speaker 1: And what did Ben Charrington say? He said, quote he
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Speaker 1: is going to be a pirate in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: Close quote. Okay, question for the Esteemed panel, the question
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Speaker 1: is does this statement by Ben Charrington the Pirates gm
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Speaker 1: end the conversation about Paul Skens, the former LSU star
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Speaker 1: being traded. All right, so on this one, I've got
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Speaker 1: to N plus O as in no and like seriously,
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Speaker 1: come on. That is the baseball general manager dog whistle.
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Speaker 1: That is a dog whistle for Okay, the offers aren't
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Speaker 1: that great, boys. We need better offers. That's what that is.
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Speaker 1: We need better offers. Everyone's got a price. The Pirates
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Speaker 1: have become Baseball's version of a Quickie Mart. They are.
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Speaker 1: You need a late night snack, where you're gonna go
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Speaker 1: Quickie Mark? You had a toilet paper where you're gonna go?
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Speaker 1: Quickie Mart? You need an alcoholic beverage, where are you
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Speaker 1: gonna go? That's right, Quickie Mart. Yeah, that's where you go.
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Speaker 1: And everything's on sale. They're in Pittsburgh too. Everything's on
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Speaker 1: sale to Quickie Mart. It's just wonderful. So this is
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Speaker 1: not over. This is not over by a long shot.
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Speaker 1: You've got the Dodgers, the Yankees, the Red Sox, the
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Speaker 1: Pittsburg Pirates are gonna do business with those. How about
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Speaker 1: the Phillies we just talked about, Dave Dombrowski. All the
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Speaker 1: big money teams, all the big time players. You're not
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Speaker 1: gonna see Tampa Bay or the Sacramento Athletics or something
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Speaker 1: like that. They're not gonna see them go after this guy.
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Speaker 1: But think of this like an African safari, big game hunting,
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Speaker 1: and they say there's the five, the big five, Right,
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Speaker 1: they talk about the Big five, This is really the
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Speaker 1: big six. You've got the lion, You've got the elephant,
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Speaker 1: you've got the cape buffalo, the leopard, you've got the rhino,
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Speaker 1: and you have the bona fide number one starting pitcher.
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Speaker 1: And Paul Skeins is not a leopard, a rhino, a
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Speaker 1: cape buffalo, an elephant, or a lion. He is though
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Speaker 1: that last box. He checks what's in the box. He
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Speaker 1: checks the box. And so this is a supply and
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Speaker 1: demand situation. We all know that there is a supply
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Speaker 1: chain shortage of real aces. The demand is through the roof.
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Speaker 1: Even though they love their bullpens. All these nerd teams
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Speaker 1: love the bullpens and all that stuff. So all it
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Speaker 1: takes is one Godfather offer, right, leave the canoli, take
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Speaker 1: the right handed pitcher. That's all you gotta do. Boom
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Speaker 1: done in. The pirates love conolis, so they would be
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Speaker 1: all about that. They could have a canol race instead
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Speaker 1: of the parogi race. They get to have a wonderful time.
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Speaker 1: And it's the pirates of the team that you beat,
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Speaker 1: and they might beat you. Actually they might beat you
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Speaker 1: in April or May or June. But the trade deadline
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Speaker 1: and this time of the year, the GM meetings and
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Speaker 1: then the real potstove cranks up in December. They're always selling.
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Speaker 1: They're always selling. You can't get whoever you want, they'll
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Speaker 1: trade him. It's baseball's food chain, and they're not very
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Speaker 1: high up on the food chain. And so Ben Sherrington
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Speaker 1: can say whatever he wants when he's getting text messages
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Speaker 1: from Brian Cashman and his nerds, and he's getting messages
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Speaker 1: from Andrew Friedman and his nerds out in la And
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Speaker 1: you know, it's all it takes is one of these guys,
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Speaker 1: whether it's Cashman or Andrew Friedman. We've all seen the movie.
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Speaker 1: Just slide the metaphorical horsehead under the pillow of Ben
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Speaker 1: Cherrington and all of a sudden, he's gonna fold faster
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Speaker 1: than a blackjack dealer at the Cosmo where the GM
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Speaker 1: things are going on right now. So, no, the trade
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Speaker 1: talk is not dead. In fact, the dollars to donuts.
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Speaker 1: I will bet you that there will be a story
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Speaker 1: in the next ten days of so and so has
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Speaker 1: made a massive offer to get Paul Skis and that team.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna name the team right now. It's
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Speaker 1: my favorite team of the off season, the team that
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Speaker 1: every year I say, this is the most interesting team
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Speaker 1: to watch in the hostole vague. You know the name
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Speaker 1: of the team? You think? Do you think I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: say the Dodge. No, I'm not the Dodge. Yankees, not
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Speaker 1: the Yankees, Red So, not the Red Cuck. My favorite team,
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Speaker 1: Mystery Team. I love the Mystery Team. I love when
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Speaker 1: I see Ken Rosenthal say mystery Team. I know that
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Speaker 1: is a ninety nine bull crap, but I love it.
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Speaker 1: I know that's mostly a plant when the insiders say
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Speaker 1: that mostly a plant from the agent, but I'm all
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Speaker 1: about it, all right. Final thought, more from the Cosmo
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Speaker 1: in Vegas where the gms. I'm sure their wives and girlfriends,
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Speaker 1: the wags are having a great time there at the Cosmo.
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Speaker 1: So the back to back reigning World Series champion Doyers,
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Speaker 1: and they've got their Bassett hound out and they're sniffing.
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Speaker 1: They're sniffing. They're trying to find someone in the bullpen
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Speaker 1: who won't embarrass them. In October, the Does won the
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Speaker 1: World Series and they used a bunch of starting pitchers.
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Speaker 1: Their bullpen literally vomited giant chunks of goo, and so
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Speaker 1: they had to go starting pitching in the play and
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Speaker 1: they still won the world It was embarrassing to Milwaukee
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Speaker 1: and Toronto and all these teams. They the Phillies and
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Speaker 1: the Reds might goy. So the name named a watch
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Speaker 1: Devin Williams now Devin Williams, the guy with a cool
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Speaker 1: nickname is a nickname the Airbender. Oh it's a good name,
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Speaker 1: good name, good name. Not a good picture though, that's
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Speaker 1: the uh, not a good picture, not right now? All right?
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Speaker 1: So the question should the Dodgers, who have money to burn.
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Speaker 1: They got all that Japanese money from Otani and all,
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Speaker 1: you know, Yamamoto and all those guys there, they're just
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Speaker 1: raking in the doll from Japan. So should they spend
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Speaker 1: that Japanese currency and bring in Devin Williams. That's the question. So,
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Speaker 1: as the voice of reason, hard pass, hard pass, don't
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Speaker 1: want them. I've been down this road before. Don't want them. Well,
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Speaker 1: people have bad years at baseball. I get that, don't
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Speaker 1: want them on my team. He was nails in Milwaukee,
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Speaker 1: give him that e RA sub two multiple years. But
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Speaker 1: compared to the Yankees and the Dodgers, let's be honest. Here,
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Speaker 1: you're it's like you're performing at the Sheboygan Theater Company.
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Speaker 1: Not that I have anything against the Sheboygan Theater Company,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure, just a wonderful venue where they perform. We
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Speaker 1: saw what happened when you took a guy from the
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Speaker 1: Sheboygan Theater Company and you dropped him into Broadway. It's
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Speaker 1: actually off Broadway in the Bronx. How did that turn out? Wow? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: suddenly he was threatn He was sweating through his jersey
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Speaker 1: on the on the mound, desperately trying to get to
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Speaker 1: that third out. Not good. A Broadway bust. Devin Williams.
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Speaker 1: And as soon as the curtain went up. As soon
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Speaker 1: as the curtain went up, the man forgot the lines.
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Speaker 1: He could not remember. There were no teleprompters, could not
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Speaker 1: remember the lines. A guy that had a sub to
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Speaker 1: era and era like one and a half and below
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Speaker 1: year after year for the brew crew at the Sheboygan Theater.
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Speaker 1: There he ends up in New York. His era was
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Speaker 1: almost five four seventy nine, four seventy nine, which used
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Speaker 1: to be the price of a value meal back in
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Speaker 1: the day, not anymore now it's like fifteen bucks. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: uh so I look at everything here, the era, the flop,
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Speaker 1: the fact that he was demoted as the Yankee closer
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Speaker 1: in April, he got the job back, he was demoted again. Now,
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Speaker 1: so the Yankee Stadium's an animal house. Dodger Stadium is
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Speaker 1: pretty crazy these days too. So you go into LA
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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be similar to pitching at Yankee Stadium.
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Speaker 1: And so if you have flop sweat in the Bronx,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have the sweaty palms when you play at
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Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. And the other issue is we've already seen
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Speaker 1: the prototype. We've seen it, right, Tanner Scott. Tanner Scott
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Speaker 1: was a guy. He was a small market assassin. You
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Speaker 1: put that Teal Marlin's uniform on. Man, was he good?
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Speaker 1: That's the resume. He went to the big market, big city. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: not in Kansas anymore. And big market did the belly whopper,
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Speaker 1: not the whopper, the belly whopper and so and it
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Speaker 1: was all yo. With Devin was well, he'll be fine,
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Speaker 1: He'll be fine. They said the same thing with Tanner Scott.
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Speaker 1: He's just trying to jaws to a new team. He's
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Speaker 1: gonna be fine. Everything will be okay, Okay, we're still waiting.
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Speaker 1: He didn't even pitch in the playoffs. He was that bad. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so there you go. And I guarantee it. This guy,
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Speaker 1: Devin Williams second inning of his debut, he will be
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Speaker 1: hyper ventilating. They're gonna have to have a not a
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Speaker 1: pitching change. They're gonna have to have an oxygen tank,
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Speaker 1: go out to the mound. He'll need, if not that,
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Speaker 1: a paper bag at least. So for the Dodgers, they
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Speaker 1: have so much what's the word of that, there's so
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Speaker 1: much hubris over there because they keep winning the World
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Speaker 1: Series that they think they can literally do anything, and
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Speaker 1: they've got money to burn. I just like there's there's
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Speaker 1: other people out there. Devin Williams is not gonna pitch cheap.
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Speaker 1: I would think. I know he's coming off a terrible
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Speaker 1: year and all that stuff, but the guy shows you
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Speaker 1: that he's lacking the big cajones. Didn't he give up
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Speaker 1: a massive home run in the playoffs with the Brewers
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Speaker 1: too is last year in Milwaukee? I think he did.
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Speaker 1: Was he on the mound when? Nah? I think he
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Speaker 1: was on the mound when the Polar Bear hit that
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Speaker 1: home run against the Brewers. I think he was on
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Speaker 1: says that he spent five grand on blank because he
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Speaker 1: five thousand dollars on blank to get out of the league.
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Speaker 1: That is the riddle of the day. What is the answer?
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Speaker 1: And that's the question. What's the answer. This is the
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Speaker 1: five grand. Come, what are you talking about? I see
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Speaker 1: digits on that one hundred thousand minimum. What's wrong with you?
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Speaker 1: Bad job by you? Andy in Line Lakes, Minnesota says
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Speaker 1: the answers, he spent five grand on prune juice. That
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Speaker 1: sounds absolutely lovely, absolutely lovely. What else do we have
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Speaker 1: Josh in Nebraska, who's out delivering the newspaper says Jeff
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Speaker 1: Tue spent that money five thousand dollars on hookers and cocaine. Yeah, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: who else? Miguel on Fire says the answer to the
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars on an Aleuasca retreat. That's what he did.
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Speaker 1: Who else? Page down, page down, far out. Dave says,
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Speaker 1: full of mucha mango. Okay, uh, what else you have?
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Speaker 1: correct answer, So the Mallord Riddle of the day. Former
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Speaker 1: NBA All Star Jeff Tiege says he spent five thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars on lottery tickets trying to win the lottery to
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Speaker 1: get out of the NBA. We still have got to
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Speaker 1: call the show named Sir scratch Off. And that's like
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Speaker 1: something he does on a weekly basis. He buys a
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Speaker 1: bunch of lottery tickets. Thus he's named Sir scratch Off.
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Speaker 1: And I find that story for Gayzy or for Gazi.
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Speaker 1: Here's why do you know which money Jeff Teague made
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Speaker 1: in his NBA career? You want to take a guess
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Speaker 1: career earnings of Jeff Tea. Now, he made one All
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Speaker 1: Star game. He was your standard vagabond NBA player, not
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Speaker 1: a bad player, not a great player. He bounced around
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Speaker 1: from team to team, the team and all that stuff,
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Speaker 1: so played a decent amount. What do you think his
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Speaker 1: career earnings were? You got a number in your head there,
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Speaker 1: all right? Jeff Teague played a from nine to twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty so his mat league for five years, he made
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Speaker 1: ninety eight million dollars. So are we supposed to believe
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Speaker 1: a guy make ninety eight million dollars needed to play
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Speaker 1: the lottery so he could retire. Come on, do you
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Speaker 1: smell that?
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Speaker 2: Sorry?
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Speaker 1: What it's bull crap. That's the smell of book crap
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Speaker 1: right there. That's a porta potty. That's the That's what
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Speaker 1: that is. It's a porta potty. Yeah, no, it is,
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Speaker 1: I know, all right. H see what else? Oh, let
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Speaker 1: me let me teary. That's some stuff I was going
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Speaker 1: to get to earlier. I want to get to it
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Speaker 1: right now. So the going into timeout that would be
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Speaker 1: all pro. It's on his resume, all pro defensive back.
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Speaker 1: Who decided, you know what, I don't even though you
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Speaker 1: traded for me and you want me on your team,
29:36
Speaker 1: I don't want to. Jaiir Alexander taking a break. He's
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Speaker 1: going into time out. Jair Alexander taking a step back
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Speaker 1: from football to reassess his future future. Uh yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: he's dune skis. He's playing the He's going to focus
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Speaker 1: on his mental and physical health. This just a few
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Speaker 1: days after the Philadelphia Eagle said we really want you,
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Speaker 1: we need you. He's made two All Pro teams in
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Speaker 1: his career. He has informed Jayi Alexander the Philadelphia Eagles
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Speaker 1: that he is not going to play, that he's he's
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Speaker 1: apparently not right, and he's contemplating retirement, which means he's done.
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Speaker 1: He's done. That's it. The Eagles traded a sixth round Traffe.
30:26
Speaker 1: They didn't give up much. They didn't give much up
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Speaker 1: to get Jaire Alexander. It was a low risk gamble.
30:31
Speaker 1: It's fair to say that that did not work out.
30:34
Speaker 1: Will the NFL broadcasters still kiss the ass of Howie Roseman?
30:41
Speaker 1: Are they still gonna? How is it great? He just
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Speaker 1: traded for a guy that like two weeks later is
30:45
Speaker 1: like I can't play, I'm done, I'm out, or even
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Speaker 1: a week later. I think it was like a week later.
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Speaker 1: So good luck on that. And Antonio Brown, this mugs
30:52
Speaker 1: for you, Antonio Brown. He's back in South Florida. Baby
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Speaker 1: Antonio Brown who was caught by Marshalls in Dubai. Has
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Speaker 1: anyone seen the details on that? Did they actually arrest
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Speaker 1: him in Dubai and then fly him back or did
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Speaker 1: Antonio Brown decide to fly back. I've heard two different
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Speaker 1: versions on that. Anyway. Antonio Brown, he was in New
31:11
Speaker 1: Jersey after he flew back from Dubai, and now he's
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Speaker 1: been transferred and he took a new mug shot to
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Speaker 1: South Florida. He's facing an attempted murder charge. Keep in mind,
31:22
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown did not fire a gun. He did not,
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Speaker 1: But the prosecutor in South Florida is like, hey, well
31:30
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. We have a law here. You don't
31:32
Speaker 1: have to fire the gun, and you can see you
31:35
Speaker 1: get charge with the murder and all that stuff. So
31:37
Speaker 1: that's fairly what happened. Anyway. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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Speaker 1: As we are working our way through the overnight hours
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Speaker 1: and we are going to have the game, we will
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Speaker 1: pause for the cause. I think we've got our contestant
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Speaker 1: to line up. Hold on a second, let me just
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Speaker 1: check you. Oh, let's see this button right here on
31:55
Speaker 1: the phone down and then I'll hit the button. Now, Now,
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Speaker 1: Felex's I can take your calling out, but we have
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Speaker 1: somebody else lined up for Alexis to play the game.
32:03
Speaker 1: Is that okay, your America's favorite drag queen caller. I
32:05
Speaker 1: know you want to play the game, but we have
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Speaker 1: somebody else ready to play the game. He's already ready
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Speaker 1: to go here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I.
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Speaker 1: Didn't get on the show that much anymore. Oh, you're
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Speaker 1: on the show right now. You're on the show. What
32:15
Speaker 1: do you have to say? Go ahead? Well, I love
32:19
Speaker 1: that Hello for Alexis. It's unbelievable, America's favorite drag queen caller,
32:25
Speaker 1: a celebrity. I thought you were going to call when
32:27
Speaker 1: the Bills lose. The Bill's lost. Oh, I didn't want
32:31
Speaker 1: to talk about that game. That sucks. I mean, oh
32:34
Speaker 1: my god.
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Speaker 2: I guess Josh Allen was worried about that fine he
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Speaker 2: has to pay.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he's very concerned about that. He has no money,
32:43
Speaker 1: Josh Allen as he has his CASU, no money. He's
32:47
Speaker 1: only loves my three million dollars. He ain't got no money.
32:50
Speaker 1: He lives in a bigger house than that. But anyway,
32:55
Speaker 1: I don't know he sold it. He had a place
32:56
Speaker 1: right in South Orange County and Dana point his offseason
32:59
Speaker 1: home right on the ocean right there. Boom manchard, I
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Speaker 1: know I've been there. You're lying. I am not lying, liar, liar,
33:10
Speaker 1: pants on fire to my dreams. Okay, okay, I know
33:15
Speaker 1: when are you? When are you moving to Louisville.
33:20
Speaker 2: Moved there?
33:22
Speaker 1: You called the show. Remember years ago, You're like, I'm
33:24
Speaker 1: leaving Buffalo, I'm going to Louisville. I think we're living
33:27
Speaker 1: in Rochester. I'm going to Lexington. I thought you were
33:34
Speaker 1: going to Louisville. In All those cities in Kentucky are
33:36
Speaker 1: the same, you know. Yeah?
33:37
Speaker 2: I like the Wildcat.
33:41
Speaker 1: Yeah okay Blue, Yeah, even though they lost last night. Yeah,
33:48
Speaker 1: all right, how many toes do you have now, Flexus?
33:50
Speaker 1: How many toes?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: You're down to six? Really, I think so, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: All right, at one point, Flexus with the seven toed
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Speaker 1: drag queen, do we have to adjust that to the
34:04
Speaker 1: six toad drag queen? Okay, all right, the six toad
34:08
Speaker 1: drag queen? Is it three and is it three and three?
34:11
Speaker 1: Or is it like five and one? Okay, five and one,
34:17
Speaker 1: five and one? Okay, I got you. Well that's unfortunate, Yeah,
34:21
Speaker 1: I got you.
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Speaker 2: All right.
34:23
Speaker 1: Well, we love you for Lexus a terrible call, but
34:25
Speaker 1: we love you anyway, So thank you so much. Okay, Well,
34:31
Speaker 1: I know you all right, all right, I put you
34:33
Speaker 1: on You're not playing the game, but just in case,
34:35
Speaker 1: this guy hangs up, got Max lined up. If Max
34:38
Speaker 1: hangs up, Felexis will get to play. So if you Max,
34:41
Speaker 1: if you don't want to play and you want Flexus
34:42
Speaker 1: to play, this, hang up right now. Otherwise you're gonna
34:44
Speaker 1: you're gonna play the game. That's it all right, straight ahead.
34:48
Speaker 1: We are going to have it too much or not enough.
34:51
Speaker 1: We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1: Too much or not enough already. Alrighty, let's welcome in
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Speaker 1: our combatant from Nashville, where there's a Johnny Cash Museum.
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Speaker 1: We say hello to Max, who's gonna play? Hello? Max? Welcome?
36:15
Speaker 2: Hello man?
36:16
Speaker 1: How are you doing this morning? Max? If I was
36:18
Speaker 1: any better, I'd be Award, but not cam Ward because
36:22
Speaker 1: we asked, you know, just saying yes, I understand completely.
36:28
Speaker 1: All right, what are you up to? What are you
36:29
Speaker 1: up to? Max? And Nashville?
36:31
Speaker 2: Driving back to Nashville?
36:33
Speaker 1: Okay? Where you driving from a nice little road trip.
36:35
Speaker 2: I drive a truck.
36:37
Speaker 3: I go from Nashville to Making and then Making Georgia,
36:40
Speaker 3: then back to Nashville each night.
36:41
Speaker 1: Okay, so you have the road down like the back
36:44
Speaker 1: of your hand.
36:44
Speaker 2: There, you have that too much, too much like the
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Speaker 2: back of my hands.
36:48
Speaker 1: I think the truck can do auto pilot to make
36:50
Speaker 1: it all the way through. Oh, that'd be cool, man. God,
36:52
Speaker 1: be careful though that you want to keep the job.
36:54
Speaker 1: You don't want autopilot. I don't want to have a job. Yeah,
36:57
Speaker 1: all right, we'll get that hand. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they haven't gotten it to where they can back
37:02
Speaker 2: puto pilots and back one of these things up yet.
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Speaker 1: Oh good, okay, all right, good, Yeah, we want to
37:06
Speaker 1: keep you guys employed. All right, here we go. Too much?
37:09
Speaker 1: Not enough? Good luck to you, Max on your way
37:12
Speaker 1: back to Nashville. Question number one. The Jaguars led to
37:16
Speaker 1: Texans by nineteen points in the fourth quarter last Sunday loss.
37:20
Speaker 1: They had won their last forty games when leading by
37:24
Speaker 1: nineteen or more points at any point in the game.
37:26
Speaker 1: Is that too much or not enough for Jacksonville? Too much?
37:32
Speaker 1: All right? This is he right? No, Max, that's all right,
37:37
Speaker 1: it's only one quote. Not enough. The Jaguars were fifty
37:40
Speaker 1: three and oh when leading by nineteen or more points
37:42
Speaker 1: at any point in the game. Now they're fifty three
37:45
Speaker 1: and one. Question number two. You gotta get three right, Max.
37:48
Speaker 1: Question number two. Yep. There are twelve players in the
37:51
Speaker 1: NBA that currently have a plus minus of plus one
37:55
Speaker 1: hundred or better. Is that too much or not enough?
38:00
Speaker 1: That is too much all let's find out the answers, No, answers,
38:07
Speaker 1: not enough. There's actually only there's fourteen players with a
38:10
Speaker 1: plus minus of one hundred and more. Nikoli Jokich, better
38:13
Speaker 1: known as the Joker, leads the way with plus one forty.
38:18
Speaker 1: Al Right, so things are not going well right now.
38:20
Speaker 1: But it's not Yeah, it's not over. I wouldn't bet
38:24
Speaker 1: on you, but we've seen it happen. We've seen it happen.
38:27
Speaker 1: All right, Hey, the Dodgers came back in the world,
38:29
Speaker 1: so you can come back. Question number three. Yes, Jamiir
38:32
Speaker 1: Gibbs just became the thirteenth running back in NFL history
38:35
Speaker 1: with four thousand plus scrimmage yards and forty plus total
38:39
Speaker 1: touchdowns in their first three seasons. Is that too much
38:43
Speaker 1: or not enough?
38:46
Speaker 2: Too much?
38:47
Speaker 1: Let's find out. Hey, you're on the board too much.
38:50
Speaker 1: He's only eleventh running back to accomplish that in the
38:52
Speaker 1: first three years. Question number four for Max driving his
38:55
Speaker 1: truck between Georgia and Nashville. Anthony Davis has played in
38:59
Speaker 1: thirty five percent of his Maverick game since joining the
39:02
Speaker 1: team from the Lakers. Is that too much or not
39:05
Speaker 1: enough to stay alive.
39:08
Speaker 2: Too much, Oh you got it right all.
39:10
Speaker 1: Right quickly Lyle Davis by thirty two percent. Last one.
39:12
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor just became the fifth running back to have
39:14
Speaker 1: a game with two hundred and forty plus rushing yards
39:17
Speaker 1: and three plus touchdowns. Too much or not enough? Not enough?
39:22
Speaker 1: You are a winner, Max. You have come back and
39:25
Speaker 1: won the game. You gotta go it, take it. You
39:28
Speaker 1: gotta call it.
39:28
Speaker 2: Dagggg.
39:29
Speaker 3: You gotta goll to day.
39:30
Speaker 1: You what a comeback. So I didn't bet on you, Max,
39:33
Speaker 1: you came back. It made me look bet