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Hour 1 - A Heavenly Move · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: As the fairy godmother sang, bibbidi-boppidi-boo, a new owner for you.
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  Speaker 1: It does help. Here in our number one, how much
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  Speaker 1: better off are the Angels today simply because rich guy
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  Speaker 1: Stan Kroenke is replacing fellow rich guy Artie Marino? We'll
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  Speaker 1: discuss that. Also, what does the future hold for the
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  Speaker 1: Angels now that Stan Kroenke is set to officially take
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  Speaker 1: over the team in 2027? And how are we going
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  Speaker 1: to remember the Artie Marino ownership of the Angels, a
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  Speaker 1: trip down memory lane, that and more. Right now, it's
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  Speaker 1: a little thing we call Hour Number One. A heavenly move. Well,
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  Speaker 1: some would say a heavenly move. Welcome in the beginning
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  Speaker 1: long time to talk. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.
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  Speaker 1: Talk radio. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are together, side by side. Look at that.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to make it through the overnight. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to do it. We're going to go Benny the Bopper
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  Speaker 1: on you. And our lead story. Don't bury the lead,
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  Speaker 1: my man. A story that has been years and years
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  Speaker 1: in the making. I have had many, many. People reach
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  Speaker 1: out to me over the years trying to do some
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  Speaker 1: kind of voodoo boogaloo to get rid of the owner
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  Speaker 1: in Anaheim, and it's not that the witch is dead,
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  Speaker 1: the witch is dead, the witch is dead. However, a
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  Speaker 1: changing of the halo at the Big A, Artie Marino,
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  Speaker 1: Artie Marino exiting kind of. What? Well, the news came out.
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  Speaker 1: If you didn't see it, perhaps not. Artie Marino, longtime
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  Speaker 1: terrible owner of the Anaheim baseball team, is selling the
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  Speaker 1: Angels to the guy that owns the Rams, Stan Kroenke.
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  Speaker 1: And the Angels, the most valuable team ever sold in baseball,
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  Speaker 1: which proves winning doesn't matter. The Halos will be sold
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  Speaker 1: for $ 4 billion. Yikes. Now, Stan Kroenke, the largest independent
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  Speaker 1: landowner in the United States, part of his operation, his
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  Speaker 1: empire of sports and entertainment, they will acquire, we are told,
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  Speaker 1: a controlling stake with a deal expected to close sometime
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  Speaker 1: in early 2027. Of course, keep in mind there's a
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  Speaker 1: work stoppage in baseball that will not impede the The
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  Speaker 1: agreement to sell the Angels, it is pending Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball approval. If you've seen some of the people baseball
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  Speaker 1: has approved as owners, it doesn't seem like the bar
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  Speaker 1: is that high to clear. So Stan should be all right.
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  Speaker 1: Stan the man already owns, as mentioned, the Rams, the
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  Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets, and the Avalanche, the Rapids, some Premier League team,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing. He's got a little bit of this,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of that, and a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Now Kroenke issued a prepared statement. And in that prepared statement,
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  Speaker 1: he claimed that the Angels are, quote, a storied franchise
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  Speaker 1: anchored in a great market and promises a, quote, exciting future.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of empty platitudes in that particular statement from
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  Speaker 1: Marty Marino. But that is a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. How much better off are
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  Speaker 1: the Angels today simply because Stan Kroenke is is going
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  Speaker 1: to replace Artie Marino. We'll keep it simple. So I've
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  Speaker 1: got Greyhound Bus, Buzz Lightyear, and Goodyear Blimp. And we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have some funfetti cake. Because the feedback I've gotten
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  Speaker 1: already from you, who reach out to me and harass
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  Speaker 1: me via the email, you've already let me know that
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  Speaker 1: this is one of the great days in your life
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  Speaker 1: as a sports fan. which is very odd that just
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  Speaker 1: a rich guy buying the team from another rich guy
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  Speaker 1: qualifies as a great day, a wonderful mitzvah. But here
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  Speaker 1: we are. That's how bad the angels have been. So
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  Speaker 1: my first thought on this, I do agree. I get to,
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  Speaker 1: there's no real hyperbole. This is a, it feels like
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  Speaker 1: a liberation day in Anaheim for a sad sack, pathetic franchise.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what the angels have been for years and
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  Speaker 1: years and years and years and years. And the angel fans,
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  Speaker 1: a hearty bunch. Uh, Do I see a parade? See,
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  Speaker 1: if I was doing local radio, I'd set up some
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  Speaker 1: kind of parade. We'd have a parade down Main Street,
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  Speaker 1: USA there. What fun would that be, right? You can
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  Speaker 1: declare yourself born again, born again, fan of the Angels.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And symbolically, you know what
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  Speaker 1: you have to do? Symbolically, you have to attack the
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  Speaker 1: Artie Marino statue. Is there an Artie Marino statue? It
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  Speaker 1: seems like there should be, the way Artie ran the
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  Speaker 1: Angels there. Take your sledgehammers. Get a bulldozer from a
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  Speaker 1: construction site and knock yourself out there. The greatest day
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  Speaker 1: for the Halos since the 2002 World Series against the
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  Speaker 1: Gigantes back many years ago. That's an entire generation. Think
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  Speaker 1: about it. A generation has passed, and the Angels have
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  Speaker 1: been futile on the field. Wild, wild. A generation of
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  Speaker 1: kids have been born, grown up, made it through college,
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  Speaker 1: and the Angels have sucked their whole lives. So I
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  Speaker 1: am Benny Brightside. I am Benny Brightside here. I genuinely
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  Speaker 1: am happy for my friends that like the Angels, the
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  Speaker 1: long-suffering fans of the Halo there. I'm happy for you.
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  Speaker 1: You've endured this horrific blight of bad baseball, and you've
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  Speaker 1: been fed a constant diet of fertilizer hoagies. I know
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  Speaker 1: Coop's excited. He dusted off all his angel gear. He's
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  Speaker 1: so excited there. He can wear it again. There's no
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  Speaker 1: longer shame. There's no longer shame in that. And to
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  Speaker 1: go from Artie Marino to Stan Kroenke, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like going from a 1970s Greyhound bus to a Gulfstream jet.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a big-time upgrade there, big-time upgrade. And Kroenke,
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  Speaker 1: who I've known about Stan Kroenke for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: He's been around much older than I am by a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I remember I was talking to a buddy of mine
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  Speaker 1: about this years ago when the Rams were in St. Louis,
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  Speaker 1: the late, great Joe McDonald, legend. And L.A. radio legend
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  Speaker 1: Joe McDonald, he knew Stan Kroenke pretty well. Stan was
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  Speaker 1: not really involved in sports too much back in those days.
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, well, Stan, you got to move the
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  Speaker 1: Rams back to L.A., Stan. He actually did. Now, Joe
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  Speaker 1: died before that happened. But Stan actually bought the Rams
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  Speaker 1: and moved them back to L.A. and the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, listen, here's the deal. The guy's an introvert. Fellow,
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  Speaker 1: I'm an introvert. He's an introvert. So that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: And he lets his money do the talking. And it's
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  Speaker 1: worked out pretty well. And that money's got a big
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  Speaker 1: booming voice. It does. A very shrewd businessman. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: you can be a shrewd businessman when you have unbelievably
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  Speaker 1: huge amounts of money. He's worth around $ 24 billion, give
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  Speaker 1: or take, depending on stock market. And he tapped into
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  Speaker 1: that sweet nectar of Walmart money early on through marriage.
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  Speaker 1: And you would have seem to think that Stan Kroenke
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  Speaker 1: sees the angels as they are. Well, they're undervalued. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's a big market, Southern California, and there's real estate
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  Speaker 1: involved in that. And whether you keep the angels in
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  Speaker 1: Anaheim or you move them somewhere else, you, You love
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  Speaker 1: buying land, and land becomes even more valuable when you
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  Speaker 1: put a baseball stadium in it and put apartments around
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  Speaker 1: it and things like that, develop a shopping center and
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  Speaker 1: hotels and all that stuff. And so it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like what he's done with the Rams at SoFi Stadium
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  Speaker 1: and that whole area in L.A., which is a whole
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  Speaker 1: to-do with all kinds of things going on there. You'd
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  Speaker 1: imagine he'd do the same thing, and he's so rich
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  Speaker 1: that Stan Kroenke, that when this guy takes a bowel movement,
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  Speaker 1: it's $ 4, 500 for one bowel movement. Yeah, it goes to
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  Speaker 1: take a whiz, it's like $ 1, 000. It's pretty crazy there. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, keeping the theme of the hour going here
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  Speaker 1: on the Ben Maller Show. So another angle to this,
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  Speaker 1: what does the future hold? For the angels understand Cronky.
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  Speaker 1: So looking into my crystal ball as a distant relative
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  Speaker 1: of Nostradamus and close personal friend of Nostradamus. The term here,
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  Speaker 1: it's an old TV show, happy days. Yes, happy days
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  Speaker 1: are here again. The Angels actually could sniff a playoff
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  Speaker 1: spot instead of sniffing the worst record in professional baseball,
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  Speaker 1: which is where they have been Going neck and neck
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  Speaker 1: at this point in the season for the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks here. Last couple of months, actually, as the
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  Speaker 1: worst team. It's between them and the Rockies at the
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  Speaker 1: very bottom there. So we see in the crystal ball
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  Speaker 1: Stan Kroenke going full Toy Story. Like, think Buzz Lightyear
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  Speaker 1: with the Angels. To infinity and beyond! To infinity and beyond!
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  Speaker 1: Just like that. So first things first, of course. You
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  Speaker 1: need to do the right thing. And that is in
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  Speaker 1: organizational exorcism. And you have to fumigate the entire franchise.
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  Speaker 1: Anything associated with Artie Marino and this era of the
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  Speaker 1: Angels must be fumigated. It has to happen there. And
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  Speaker 1: the argument has been the Angels are one of those
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  Speaker 1: sleeping giants in terms of the amount of people that
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  Speaker 1: could go to those games, support the team, and that
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  Speaker 1: they are in a place people want to play. Prime
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  Speaker 1: location in Orange County. Mike Trout loves it so much,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't care the Angels haven't won his whole career.
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  Speaker 1: He lives in Laguna Beach. He can go surfing and
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  Speaker 1: golfing and do whatever he wants, and it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody pressures him. There's no real accountability. It's been great.
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  Speaker 1: The surf and turf right there. Hallelujah. And it's a
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  Speaker 1: big market. So Stan Kroenke, he did not all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden become oligarch rich and make money on top
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  Speaker 1: of money. by thinking small. So you figure he's going
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  Speaker 1: to think big there. And there's no seven-year rebuilding plan,
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  Speaker 1: all that bull crap. That's all a scam. The angel's
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  Speaker 1: been pulling that scam. We're building. No, you're not. You're
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  Speaker 1: not building anything. Forget the ceremonial prospect canoodling. There's no
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  Speaker 1: canoodling needed here. Stan Kroenke, I believe he's 79. And
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  Speaker 1: when you're 79, you're not thinking, hey, let's have a
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  Speaker 1: seven-year rebuild. You're in bonus time, and you might as
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  Speaker 1: well enjoy that and lock into bonus time. And so
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  Speaker 1: I think the Angels are– the American League West blows.
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  Speaker 1: So the Angels, I'd give them three years. I think
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  Speaker 1: it should be next time they come back, they should
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  Speaker 1: be a contender. Make a couple of good moves, and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, if you actually are trying, you
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  Speaker 1: can make the plus. There's four slots you have. You
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  Speaker 1: have the division and three wild cards. The bar is
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  Speaker 1: to be 500 in the American League. You're a playoff team.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get to 500? Come on! It should be
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs the next time they play baseball. Whenever
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  Speaker 1: that is. 2028 or 2029 or 2030. They should have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to be a playoff team. At least be
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  Speaker 1: a playoff team. I think at some point here they
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  Speaker 1: win another... And so Stan Kroenke, he has been the
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  Speaker 1: owner of the Rams. They won a championship, the Nuggets championship.
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  Speaker 1: Avalanche have won the Stanley Cup. And even the Premier
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  Speaker 1: League team has won as well. So he's got that
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  Speaker 1: going for him. So good for him. And he's not merely...
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  Speaker 1: You look at Artie Moreno, how bad he is. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that in a second. But Stan Kroenke, not
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  Speaker 1: merely the Angels' new owner. It's like an actual adult
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  Speaker 1: in the room, which they have not had before. It
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  Speaker 1: would appear for some time here. And do not be surprised, though,
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  Speaker 1: if the endgame involves a major real estate deal with
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  Speaker 1: a spectacular stadium development, state-of-the-art, with a giant big A
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  Speaker 1: like they used to have back in the 1970s in
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  Speaker 1: their stadium. They'd do that. Stan Kroenke can fund the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. That's what he did. People don't understand. You
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  Speaker 1: can't get anything built in California because of the People's
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  Speaker 1: Republic and the woke politics in California. But Stan Kroenke's
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  Speaker 1: got so much money, he just built SoFi Stadium. And
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  Speaker 1: with minimal contribution from anyone else, he just put his
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  Speaker 1: money together there. You look at underneath the baseball romance. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's baseball! Still, this is the ultimate rich man's game.
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  Speaker 1: It's the ultimate rich man's game when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: real estate. And that's what this is about for Stan Kroenke.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, it also means you're going to have some
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  Speaker 1: success on the field. The baseball team attached to the
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  Speaker 1: real estate. All right, last word. Let's now go to
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  Speaker 1: the better story, which is in losing locker room, the
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room. And so the question, how are we
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  Speaker 1: going to remember the Artie Marino ownership of Of the Angels.
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  Speaker 1: What stands out here? It's going to stand the test
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  Speaker 1: of time with Artie Marino. Now, he's not fully leaving,
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  Speaker 1: from what we understand. He'll still be haunting the Angels
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  Speaker 1: as a minority owner of the team. If he was
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  Speaker 1: an NBA person, they'd say he's a minority governor. But
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  Speaker 1: the baseball people haven't gone full woke yet, like the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: So they still call their people that own the team owners.
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  Speaker 1: So a minority owner. So here's how I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: remember Artie Marino as the majority owner of the Angels.
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  Speaker 1: Artie was running his own IHOP. And he loves serving hotcakes,
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  Speaker 1: mistake hotcakes. Stack them high to the sky. Mistake after
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  Speaker 1: mistake after mistake. Now, you've heard of the Midas touch.
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  Speaker 1: I assume you've heard of the Midas touch at some
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  Speaker 1: point here. Artie Marino had the Saddam touch. And it's
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  Speaker 1: really fascinating to see how this all played out over
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  Speaker 1: the years with the Angels. Everything baseball related that this
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  Speaker 1: guy touched. turned upside down, inside out, and completely backwards.
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  Speaker 1: It's fascinating. They signed Josh Hamilton, which would not have
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  Speaker 1: been a problem if he hadn't had a Coke problem
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  Speaker 1: and not Coca-Cola. Okay, so that's one thing. Albert Pujols
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  Speaker 1: arrived with much fanfare in Anaheim, which would have been
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  Speaker 1: a great move. The gold standard with the St. Louis Cardinals,
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  Speaker 1: Prince Albert. And unfortunately, they didn't check the fine print.
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  Speaker 1: His warranty had expired by the time he touched down
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  Speaker 1: at the Big A, which seemed to be a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a problem. Bit of a problem. Then you have
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  Speaker 1: the creme de la creme, the Mona Lisa, Anthony Rendon,
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  Speaker 1: who had the double whammy. Not only did he seem
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  Speaker 1: to hate baseball, he seemed to hate fun. And he
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  Speaker 1: signed him. Because he played well for a month for
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  Speaker 1: the Nationals and they won the World Series. So they
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  Speaker 1: gave him this ridiculous contract to a guy who didn't
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  Speaker 1: like baseball, didn't want to play on the West Coast.
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  Speaker 1: All the boxes you don't want checked, he checked. And so...
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  Speaker 1: It's almost impossible to think about that three in a row,
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  Speaker 1: free agent signing, and then also the fact the Angels
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  Speaker 1: had two of this generation's greatest players, Mike Trout and
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  Speaker 1: Shohei Otani, together for years and couldn't win anything. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't even get bupkis, the Angels, with those two guys
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  Speaker 1: on the team. And Artie also had the gift for gab.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to remember this. One of my favorite quotes
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  Speaker 1: since I've been doing talk radio from an owner was
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  Speaker 1: Artie Marino just this year. and it was just great.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Artie talked about the fans in Anaheim, and he
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  Speaker 1: said the Angel fans don't care about winning. It's rather
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  Speaker 1: odd that an owner would say the fan base doesn't
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  Speaker 1: care about winning, but he said the real housewives of
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  Speaker 1: Orange County, the moms of Orange County, they just want
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  Speaker 1: cheap tickets. They want affordable snacks at the ballpark, and
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  Speaker 1: they want a safe place for their kids to watch baseball.
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  Speaker 1: They don't care about winning. Seems like an odd position
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  Speaker 1: to take, but Artie said it. We're glad he did.
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  Speaker 1: He gave a great quote. However, my favorite Artie Marino story,
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  Speaker 1: my favorite story about Artie Marino is was how thin-skinned
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  Speaker 1: he was. Now, the Angels haven't gotten much media coverage.
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  Speaker 1: They always complained about that, even when I was around
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  Speaker 1: there a lot back in the day. Oh, we're not
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  Speaker 1: getting the proper amount of attention and the bitch and
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  Speaker 1: moan and all that stuff. So far. Well, there was
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  Speaker 1: a guy named T.J. Simers, the late, great T.J. Simers,
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  Speaker 1: who was a buddy of mine. And T.J. was a rabble-rouser, columnist,
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  Speaker 1: like a real columnist. There's a lot of soft columnists
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  Speaker 1: now that don't really hold anyone accountable. And they go, whee!
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't like that. He was an a-hole. And he
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  Speaker 1: leaned into his inner a-hole. And he would say things
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  Speaker 1: that were accurate. But generally, in polite society, you don't
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  Speaker 1: say these things. And he'd rip the angels all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And he took some shots at Artie Marino, TJ Simers,
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  Speaker 1: in the newspaper. I guess one too many times. I
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  Speaker 1: say that because Artie decided to punish TJ and not
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  Speaker 1: just TJ Simers, the entire media contingent by moving the
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  Speaker 1: main press box where the baseball media sit from the
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  Speaker 1: standard position behind home plate to above the right field
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  Speaker 1: foul pole. You're literally closer to the pearly gates than
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  Speaker 1: you are home plate. You can't even see home plate
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  Speaker 1: without needing some kind of neck massage to turn your neck.
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  Speaker 1: And boy, let me tell you something. Boy, did that
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: work out wonderfully for the Angels, who went from partially
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: invisible to fully invisible for the L.A. media, who did
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: not make the trip down there because you were better off.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: If you're going to cover the Angels, you're better off
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: just watching from the Goodyear blimp and looking down. You
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: had a better view from the Goodyear blimp. Unobstructed. Of course,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the ultimate punchline is Artie wins. Artie wins. Owning a
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: major sports franchise is an idiot-proof piggy bank on steroids.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: It just is. And this is more evidence. Artie Marino
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: turned a purchase of the team. He bought the team.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Let's see. He was terrible loan. He bought the team
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: for $ 184 million in 2003. He is now selling the
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: team for a $ 4 billion valuation. That is nearly 22
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: times the purchase price. What other investment can you have
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: that goes up 22 times in that amount of time?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: 22 times in 20, 24 years or 23 years. So
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: every wrong decision, the thing you were supposed to do,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: you're supposed to zigzag and you get a $ 4 billion
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: pot of gold and you don't even sell the whole team.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: You're still going to be around there and you're going
• 20:28
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• 20:31
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• 20:35
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• 20:39
  Speaker 1: out of town. But he's still going to have a
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: corner office somewhere and he'll still be hiding in the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: shadows and go boo. He's like the poltergeist. He's still
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: going to be hanging out. But Stan Kroenke is now
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: going to be the owner of the Angels. It is
• 20:53
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• 20:58
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• 22:36
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• 22:55
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• 23:01
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• 23:06
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• 23:12
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• 23:19
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• 23:38
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• 23:41
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• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I can picture it now, Anaheim Stadium jam-packed with diehard
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: fans cheering on the Halos for the first time since 2002. Oh,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: look at that. There's Coop. Is that Jeffrey Dahmer? And then, oh,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Ferg Dog's in there. Look at that, Ferg Dog. Oh, yeah, Fergie.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: And then, I see. That's very nice. Here's the odd thing, though.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Unlike every other team that sucks for a long period
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: of time where nobody goes to the games, that hasn't
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: been a thing. That has not been a thing for
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the Angels. It is not. It's not like the people
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: have decided they're not going to go. I stopped going.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Coop stopped going. I would still go. The Angels have,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I think they're over 2 million, 2.3 million or something
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: like that. I get full credit for this happening. My
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: boycott worked. That's right. Because I stopped going to the games.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: The Coop-a-loop. The Angels' attendance is about the same as
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: the Mets' attendance. And the Mets suck also. And the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Mets are in a... bigger city in New York than Anaheim. Uh,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: although that's close, I guess in some ways, but, uh, so,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like they didn't stop going like
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the attendance, the bad attendance would be like the Marlins
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: or Tampa Bay or the, the Royals. That's, that's where, Hey,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: we're not going, we're not going, which is not going
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: to happen. And, uh, that's, that's that. So, uh, what
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: else do we have? Let's see. Page down. Ferg dog
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: says first, Thing Mr. Stan should do is change the
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: name back to the Anaheim Angels. Pretending that the Angels
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: are in L.A. was the dumbest thing on a long
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: list of dumb things Artie has done. Nobody in the O.C.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: wants to be associated with the dumpster fire L.A., especially now.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: So that's the request from Fergdog. Overnight Joe keeping the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: TV station on in New York is the head operator
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: of Overnight Master Control. At W-H-E-C. And Overnight Joe says, Ben,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: so glad my friend Father Steve. He has been an
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Angels fan since I met him in college. He studied
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: communications and had plans to go into morning radio someday.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Now he's a man of the cloth. And I keep
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: TV stations on in the middle of the night. That's
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: from Overnight Joe. There you go. Paul writes in. He says, Benny,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: you are the king of the late night radio. Fred Safford.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Can see the pearly gates now that Stan Kroenke owns
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the Angels. Elizabeth, this is the big one, my prediction.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: The Angels will be in the World Series within five years. Well,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: there is no juggernaut in the American League. And it
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: seems like the S-1-1-1-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 buzzers and whistles and things like that.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Michael from Tulsa writes in, says, been fascinating monologue about
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the Angels, but the most important thing around here is
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: whether or not Oklahoma will cover the 41.5 point spread
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: against UTEP on Friday. I'm sure that is riveting conversation.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: And they tell you, those that are wise sage gamblers,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: that you lay the points in college and and you
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: take the points in the NFL on these big lines,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I just could not lay 41.5. I would just pass.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: And even though it's the right thing to do, in
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: college it's always been a thing where coaches know you
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: want to keep the boosters happy. The boosters bet a
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: lot of money on these games, and so in order
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: to keep the boosters happy, you've got to run up
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: the score and cover the spread. But you always get
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: those backdoor covers. For example, SC and San Jose State,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: A lot of garbage time points by old Sparty there,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: and that affected the point spread in a large way.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Nature Boy answering the call of the wild says, do
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: you think Stan Kroenke hooked a Walton by telling them
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: he was an injured Niner named Dijon? Oh, that's it.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: That is a great story. I continue to be amazed.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: You women are so impressive to me. If I was
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: embarrassed like that by a woman, I wouldn't go on
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: the internet and be, oh, here's the videos they sent me.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: There's so many women that are like- Isn't that crazy? Right?
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: You've seen the same thing. No, they're clout chasing. They
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: want to bank off the moment. But that's not something
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: to brag about. That's not. There are things to brag
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: about as a woman and a man. This is not
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: one of the things to brag about when we have
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the interweb. Wow, you got catfished. Congratulations. It's not just catfished.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: It's catfished where everyone's got a photo on every team website.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? In the old days, I
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: could see. If this was even in the early 90s,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: you could get away with this. And there might have
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: been people around that I think were doing this kind
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: of thing. They got away with it. But now, come on.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: And then the women are like, oh yeah, I want
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to talk to this guy. Yeah, yeah. I want on
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: a date with him. Come on, dude. Or dudettes, what
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: are you doing? I mean, come on now. Spock's Weed
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: on the Oregon Trail says, great to hear another Ben
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Maller poop value report. Get that man a weekly segment
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: on Fox Business Network, maybe the Maybe it was Stuart Varney. Well,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: that would be fun. He's a legend, TV legend, Stuart Varney.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: That would be a good time. Chip in the Q's
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: writes in, says A-plus on the monologue, Angels fans are
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: still better off than the several generations of Chicago fans
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: who lived and died in the many years between the
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Cubs World Series championships. And while that is true, Chip,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: even in that terrible run of Cubs baseball, they occasionally
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: gave you some false hope. They gave you some false hope.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: A guy named Bart writes it. He says, baseball will
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: never be fixed until there's a salary cap. And now
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a pissing match between the Angels
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: and the Dodgers for the market. Well, they don't need
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: a salary cap. Salary caps are dumb, and you're repeating
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: corporate propaganda from billionaires, so you've just outed yourself. It's
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: a bad job by you. All right, bad job by you.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Trucker Joe says, relax, my Rays are getting a new
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: stadium in Tampa. What's the saying? You build it, they
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: will come. Also, who the F wants to go to St.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Pete all the time? There you go. So Trucker Joe
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: making his point. Let's go to the phones right now.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: And who do we have? Let's see. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Andre, Andre, Andre, who's in the Commonwealth,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: and he's in the leadoff chair. Hello, Andre. Welcome.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: What's going on, Ben? Good to be with you.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: And his dog, Willis. The dog, Willis. I hear Willis.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I hear Willis in the background.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: Willis is also glad to be with you, Ben. Listen,
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: we've got to take a step back in terms of
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: this ownership shift that we're seeing in professional sports. Also,
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: Willis needs some snackaroos. Ben, do you realize, I was
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: just taking a look at it today, you know, in
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: terms of the changing landscape that we're looking at, Steve
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: Ballmer surpassed Bill Gates, okay, on the world's richest, you know,
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: I was saying he's ninth richest human being on the
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: face of the planet. So if he decides to give
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: Kawhi Leonard $ 40, 000, $ 50, 000, $ 67, 000 on the side, who is
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Adam Silver to quibble? Now, I know we're talking apples
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: and oranges. You know, Kroenke coming into baseball, Bomber obviously
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: doing what he's doing with the Clippers. But my perspective
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: on this, it's just a whole new ballgame. These leagues,
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: they're just going top dollar. Whatever happened to the Mara
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: family with the Giants? You know, old time. The Rooney
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: family with... the Steelers. Whatever happened to the Green Bay Packers,
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: owned by the people? It's a collective to do what's
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: in the best interest of the team. It just seems
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: like this ownership situation. Forget all that. Casino Royale, highest bidder.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: Evaluation of the league goes up. Everybody's money goes up.
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: Everyone's making more money. And whether or not they're going
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: to care about the team and having the best ball
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: club paying, or they're just going to throw algorithms out there,
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: you know, to, okay, so what is the stat, you know,
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: that's not necessarily in the best interest of actual winning.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: We're going to sweep that under the rug because in theory, right,
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: the money's going up because the team values it. That's
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: where I think it's going. And so I don't know.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: What could happen? Do we need the fandom to kind
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: of push back and say, we're not going to take this?
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: Last point, Ben, I know you got a lot of callers, right?
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: Kroenke comes in. We know that the Angels have been
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: getting outspent by their rival there, the Dodgers, 2-3-4-5-2-1. Is
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: he going to come in like Daddy Warbucks, Mr. Cohen
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: with the Mets? and start making it rain, spending money,
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: so Mike Trout actually has some people around.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Him, right?
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: Get a real bidding war going on here, like the
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Mets and the Yankees, they have a bidding war. So
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: if Kroenke comes in, take some of those. And here's
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: the thing about it, and I know you're going to
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: call it my last, last, last point. See, they always
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: make their money.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Back when they sell the team. One final, final, final point.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: Final, final, final point.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, Lorena.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: They make their money back when they sell the team.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: But they are making money while they own the team.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: They might not be making tons of money, but they're
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: not losing money. And as I was told years ago,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: believe it or not, by Scott Boros, this was when
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: baseball was talking about getting rid of the Montreal Expos
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: and the Minnesota Twins. Bud Selig, the used car salesman,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: was the commissioner of baseball. And they were threatening to
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: cut down two franchises, the Twins and the Expos, and Scott,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I had a casual relationship with him, and he laid
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: it out. He's like, listen, these teams are not losing money,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and it's all for show and all that. But Andre,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: we love you, man. The great Andre, hot ownership take.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: He wants to go back old school with the owners.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Nathan, who traveled all the way
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: from the Sunshine State, made it to Vegas with his
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: lovely lady there, and he was schmoozing at the Mallard
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Meat and Green. Hello, Nathan. Welcome.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Big Ben, thank you. Is it okay if we still
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: talk about the meet and greet? I know it's a
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: sports show.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Well, is it really a sports show, Nathan? Is it
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: really a sports show?
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: So, thank you so much. Meeting you and Coop and everyone.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: And I just.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Loreno's name tag should not say... Queen of Hearts, it
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: should say Queen of Tequila.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Dear God. Really? I didn't notice, Lorraine.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Dear God, what a night. Oh, my goodness.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: I snuck four shots on top of everybody else.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's go, Brandon.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: But I want to thank Big Balls, Bob, for giving
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: us a ride home. I offered him money. He wouldn't
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: take it, so he gave us a ride back to
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: the hotel. No, we were scheduled to leave on Monday,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: but now schedules go on Las Vegas.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, we just got home about four hours ago.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Look at that. It sounds like you and Brandy, the
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: party's continuing with you two kids.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, my.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Still going.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Still going.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: But we're home.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Thank God. But, yeah, Sunday night turned into an amazing,
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: another crazy night. But, oh, great time. Great to meet
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: all you. Thank you for having us. I promise you
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: next time I call, it'll be for a sports show.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Nah, we don't care about that. All right, listen, thank you.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you came. It's a long trip for you guys,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: and it sounds like you had a good time. So
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: be safe. Get some rest. Get some sleep.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: We're still on West Coast time. That's the only reason
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: we're calling in.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: All right. I did love your Patriots shirt, though, that classic,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the old-school logo.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Coop was really nice to me, and I said, I
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: know you're going to hate me because, you know, we
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: whooped the Broncos' ass. So he was really nice.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, he must have been on meds or something.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you. All right, there you go. There's
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Nathan and Brandy. who made their way to Las Vegas
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: and had a great time there. I don't know about
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: whooped their ass. Jared Stidham gave them the game. Calm down.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: You moved on. It's the new season. It's going to
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: kick off next week. NFL. Here's the Who Am I game.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Logan Webb. That's a pitcher. He became the sixth Giants starter.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Since earned runs were first tracked in 1913 to allow
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: nine or more earned runs and not take the loss.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I was the last giant starter to do that. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Logan Webb became the sixth Giants starter since earned runs
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  Speaker 1: were first tracked way back in 1913 to allow nine
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  Speaker 1: or more earned runs and not take the loss. I
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  Speaker 1: was the last to do that. Who am I? The answer.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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  Speaker 1: continue on before we pay off the Insta trivia. Artie
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  Speaker 1: Marino was given a royal goodbye. Angels and Yankees last
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  Speaker 1: night at the Big A. Do we have the audio here?
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  Speaker 1: The tarps off section. At the Big A, they let
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  Speaker 1: the owner know that they were in a good mood,
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  Speaker 1: that he was no longer going to own the team
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  Speaker 1: with a nice rhythmic chant. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Goodbye, Arnie!
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  Speaker 1: Goodbye, Arnie! Goodbye, Arnie! Goodbye, Arnie! Goodbye, Artie! All right,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. So that was it. If it was
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  Speaker 1: a little better, we'd save it. We had all these
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  Speaker 1: rhythmic chants that were great, but there it is. A
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  Speaker 1: little rhythmic chanting for you. Artie Marina, a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: men with their shirts off chanting for you. It's either
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  Speaker 1: at a baseball game or a strip club. And also,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Trout spoke. Mike Trout, he actually said something. The
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  Speaker 1: most boring man in baseball asked about the Angel Sale. Says,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you kind of felt that way. He talked
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  Speaker 1: about the Angel Sale. It was needed. No hard feelings
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  Speaker 1: to Artie, but I'm super excited. The guys are excited.
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  Speaker 1: There's a good vibe around the clubhouse, vibe around the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Trout said, of course, the reason he can't attack
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  Speaker 1: Artie Marino is because Artie Marino gave him $ 450 million.
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  Speaker 1: And if somebody paid me $ 450 million, I'd make sure
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  Speaker 1: not to rip him too much. Of course, the Angels
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  Speaker 1: honored Artie Marino with another loss to the Yankees last night.
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  Speaker 1: All right, time now for the payoff on the Who
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  Speaker 1: Am I game. Logan Webb became the sixth starter since
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  Speaker 1: earned runs were first tracked back in 1913 to allow
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  Speaker 1: nine or more earned runs and not take the loss
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  Speaker 1: for the Gigantes.
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  Speaker 2: Who?
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  Speaker 1: I was the last. Who am I? That is the question.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. Does anyone... Know the answer. Pee Wee Herman,
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  Speaker 1: guessed by the Mexican John Dutton. The ostrich ant, the
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  Speaker 1: legendary bus driver in D.C., says the roach behind the
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  Speaker 1: refrigerator is the answer. Robbie's great-grandfather from Scrooge. Look at that.
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  Speaker 1: There's a good photo of Robbie. Statue of Robbie's great-grandfather.
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  Speaker 1: Isaac Washington, the legend. Wrong! Nobody ran a boat better
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  Speaker 1: than Isaac Washington. And there's, look at, Alf is hanging
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  Speaker 1: out with him. Nice photo. The greatest governor in sports.
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  Speaker 1: I don't use the word owner. That's from Fergdog. Very funny.
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  Speaker 1: What else do we have? Giants fastballer Don Cornelius from
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  Speaker 1: the Nature Boy answering the call to the wild. Johnny Five,
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  Speaker 1: the self-aware robot from Mark the Walker around Rochester. Neil
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  Speaker 1: and Fall River. The legend Neil going with Dave Rigetti
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  Speaker 1: is his answer. Page down. Wrong. No, I think that's enough. Lorena,
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  Speaker 1: do you have an answer, Lorena? I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: with Colonel Sanders. No. Sorry. The great Russ Ortiz. Also,
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  Speaker 1: Vita Blue did it among the giant pitchers. Russ Ortiz, though,
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  Speaker 1: was the last before last night.